Dreamworld

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History of DisneyWorld

DreamWorld was originally built to attract tourists (man- made) attraction. Some of the attractions in the DreamWorld logo never existed in the park e.g. generic log ride hut, paddle steamer, single loop coaster, main entrance building, wooden style coaster and train pictured.

DreamWorld takes up of approximately 30 hectares of a 104 hectare site, allowing the area to be expanded in the future. In a flight between Hawaii and Japan, John Longhurst thought of building a theme park now known as DreamWorld. Longhurst was a man from simple background, he worked as a truck operator and mechanic later became a successful lawn mower manufacturer, and then he graduated as a builder and boat maker. He is the father of Australian water-ski champion and two times Bathurst 1000 winner Tony Longhurst, bought 85 hectares of land in Coomera and started to build his dream; a family theme park using only 30 hectares at first ...

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DreamWorld was opened in 15 December 1981 by the head of Government of that time Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and with the park mascot Kenny Koala. It took Longhurst 7 years to build this theme park and to see his dream come true. Due to heavy rainfall thunderbolt wasn't built but was laying in pieces over the ride area. The park had 220 employees and the trading hours were from Tuesday- Thursday 10.00am - 5.00pm. The media described DreamWorld as Australia's answer to Disneyland. DreamWorld attracted about 250000 guests within the first 4 months of being in the operation and it was estimated ...

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