I'm trying to identity a dinosaur theme park/attraction on the Gold Coast in the 80s

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ada@piefed.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

Help me out Aussie folk that were around in the 80s. I’m trying to identify a dinosaur theme park on the Gold Coast from that time period.

I have memories as a kid of going to this rather dingy park. It didn’t have much infrastructure at all, but what it did have were giant animatronic dinosaurs. They moved around, and I have vague memories that they were actually being driven/controlled by someone inside the dino. I also remember there was a giant Image back spider that the t-rex battled with…

It wasn’t Dinosaur Island at Sea World, ans this pImageated the seaworld attraction by many years. But other than that, I can’t find any record of it.

I wonder if it wasn’t a permanent setup, but maybe something that moved around the country like a circus?

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Might be a good question for /r/Goldcoast as there are fare more people there then on Lemmy.

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NeedAnotherOne@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There was Tanawah world on the Sunshine Coast was 70’s and a bit of 80’s Will see what I can dig up …gov.au/…/backward-glance-the-sound-of-fun-echoes…

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- ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The one I went to was definitely on the Gold Coast
  
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  - coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I instantly thought of this place, was later called Dino fun park iirc
    
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Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I grew up on the Gold Coast in the 80s. I have no memory of such a place, sorry.

I’ll grant that we were poor and not exactly visiting the theme parks every week, but I’m fairly certain I got to them all at least once.

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TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My google-fu failed on this. But it sounds like fun, especially in 80.

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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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