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Title: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on May 01, 2012, 07:12:50 PM
http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/09/nara-dreamland-japans-last-abandoned-theme-park/ (http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/09/nara-dreamland-japans-last-abandoned-theme-park/)  :buggedout: :bluesad: :bouncegiggle:

Edit: Here's a video made when it was new:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EZJ4_rvVo&feature=related

And when it wasn't:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M-n7O8bT4A&feature=related

And finally, here's one of it closed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVMnjRUOeg


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Flick James on May 01, 2012, 07:24:01 PM
I'm thinking a Japanese version of Vacation.


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on May 01, 2012, 07:29:27 PM
I'm thinking a Japanese version of Vacation.


That would work when it was open:
http://www.themeparkreview.com/japan2004/nara1.htm (http://www.themeparkreview.com/japan2004/nara1.htm) 
Warning: While this review is okay, some of Theme Park Review's other articals are Not Safe For Work.  :bluesad:

(Actually security is supposed to be pretty tight; it might be funny to see a family chased around an abandoned park by an angry security guard.  Perhaps they were looking for Tokyo Disneyland, requested directions for a Japanese Disneyland, and wound up here.)


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: LilCerberus on May 02, 2012, 10:49:55 AM
I'm thinking one of those frat party movies...

Ocean View Park was a real place, until somebody made a movie about it...

From the land where Fabio collided with a duck! :-D


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Psycho Circus on May 03, 2012, 07:43:26 AM
They should allow the homeless to live in abandoned theme parks.


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Trevor on May 03, 2012, 08:25:41 AM
That place reminds me of the eerie carnival in Something Wicked This Way Comes.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on May 03, 2012, 05:11:27 PM
It had a sister park: Yokohama Dreamland

That park was closed in 2003(?).  They tore it down....to build a prison.   :smile:

Pics here: http://www.rcdb.com/5000.htm (http://www.rcdb.com/5000.htm)

Edit: After further research, I'm not sure what they built there.  They might have built a used car auction site and a school.  A prison sounds funnier though, so it sticks out.


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Chainsawmidget on May 03, 2012, 05:23:02 PM
Something about the idea of a run down abandoned theme park just screams "horror movie" to me. 


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: El Misfit on May 03, 2012, 09:33:39 PM
Nah man, we have to film a comedy there. one with...pure satire!


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: tommex84 on May 06, 2012, 01:18:16 AM
It had a sister park: Yokohama Dreamland

That park was closed in 2003(?).  They tore it down....to build a prison.   :smile:


Here's a movie idea:
Ghosts of the people who died in this park come back and start a zombie like feeding frenzy on the inmates of the new prison.
G.A. Romero should direct it!


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Living_Dead_Girl on May 06, 2012, 05:18:56 AM
It could be a location for a post apocolyptic film? Those pictures made me want to look up abonded houses. Facinating! :)


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on May 07, 2012, 10:19:37 AM
It could be a location for a post apocolyptic film? Those pictures made me want to look up abonded houses. Facinating! :)


If you want the survivors to stumble on Disneyland/World, it would work.

Here's a park which looks like the Apocalypse already happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivhGgy7nSxU




Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on January 16, 2017, 05:14:22 PM
Well, this is a bit sad; Nara Dreamland sold last year, & is being torn down: https://abandonedkansai.com/2016/11/08/nara-dreamland-demolition/ (https://abandonedkansai.com/2016/11/08/nara-dreamland-demolition/)


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on January 17, 2017, 01:17:40 PM
It had a sister park: Yokohama Dreamland

That park was closed in 2003(?).  They tore it down....to build a prison.   :smile:

Pics here: [url]http://www.rcdb.com/5000.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.rcdb.com/5000.htm[/url])

Edit: After further research, I'm not sure what they built there.  They might have built a used car auction site and a school.  A prison sounds funnier though, so it sticks out.


I don't know how up to date this info is, but it looks like the Yokohama College of Pharmacy took it over as a college campus. Building an academic library, classrooms, and labs there. Later adding other structures, amenities, and green spaces.

Though a prison sounds like more fun. And with "It's a Small World (After All)" playing on a continuous loop, it'd be the Prison from Hell. Where even the toughest prisoners fear to go.


Title: Re: Wouldn't this be a good place to film a movie?
Post by: Pacman000 on June 01, 2017, 04:09:09 PM
Nara Dreamland is being/has been torn down.

https://abandonedkansai.com/2016/11/08/nara-dreamland-demolition/ (https://abandonedkansai.com/2016/11/08/nara-dreamland-demolition/)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/arts/japanese-abandoned-theme-park/ (http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/arts/japanese-abandoned-theme-park/)

http://youtu.be/xDE3S6Ygklw (http://youtu.be/xDE3S6Ygklw)

http://youtu.be/HgcKHBxpobY (http://youtu.be/HgcKHBxpobY)

 :bluesad: