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Merry-go-round, bumper cars & spinning teacups are nothing but rusting hunks of metal in abandoned seaside theme park
The theme park featured Britain's first-ever tubular steel roller coaster
A SEASIDE theme park with thrilling rides and other fairground attractions now sits eerily abandoned after failing to stand the test of time.
During its heyday, Ocean Beach amusement park in Rhyl, Wales was a sight to behold - but now is just a deserted piece of land filled with rusting hunks of metal.
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Ocean Beach was first established at Marine Lake in the 1890s but got so popular among the Brits that they had to move the theme park to a bigger location.
In 1954, it was relocated to the west end of the city where thousands of visitors flocked every month to enjoy the fun rides and panoramic views of the coastal cities.
The amusement park boasted some historic rides, including a ghost train, a vintage toy set and the famous jet stream.
It also featured Britain's first ever tubular steel roller coaster, Live reports.
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However, the highlight of the pleasure island was the famous Pepsi-Cola loop which stood tall among all other attractions inside the park.
The site became increasingly popular - and saw a high tide of people visiting to enjoy the popular rides throughout the '70s, '80s - and even '90s.
However, just like other Victorian-Era attractions, Ocean Beach too saw a dramatic decline in its popularity as it entered the modern-day era.
With a decreasing number of visitors, owners of the park were left with no choice but to shut down the park in 2007, after failing to secure a sizeable inventment for new rides.
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Now the park sits eerily abandoned - and most of the rides have been left derelict.
Eerie pictures show the park's once-loved rides including merry-go-round, bumper cars and spinning teacups turning into rusty chunks of metal.
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But it is not the only theme park in the UK to have its doors shut.
Frontierland, in Morecambe, was left to rot in 2000 and has been an eyesore to townspeople ever since.
The Lancashire amusement area had a rich history of over 90 years in service but sadly had to shut down permanently at the beginning of the millennia.
The site lays bare and empty, with the local council now trying to revive it back to its glory days.
Meanwhile, Pleasure Island in Cleethorpes has been shut since 2016.
Dwindling visitor numbers led to the park's decline and eventual closure with rides being sold off.
World’s creepiest abandoned theme park
By Sayan Bose, Foreign News Reporter
ONCE hailed as Japan's own Disneyland, this theme park was left to rot for over a decade with empty rides and crumbling castles painting a horror picture.
Nara Dreamland was supposed to be the country's most popular adventure attraction, but all it could become was an eerily abandoned site filled with rot and dust.
Nara Dreamland was opened in 1961 and was based on the original Disneyland in California, which had opened just six years before.
The theme park was heavily copied from the California-based site - it featured copies of Main Street USA, Sleeping Beauty Castle, Autopia, Matterhorn and Jungle Cruise.
From the above, the layout of the park seemed identical to that of the original Disneyland - even the entrance castle looked the same.
The park also had its own mascots Ran-chan and Dori-chan - just like Disney's Mickey Mouse - which were two children dressed as bearskin guards.
During the initial years, Nara was at the peak of its popularity, attracting over 1.7 million visitors a year.
But after The Walt Disney Company closed a deal to bring its theme park to Japan, things started to fall apart for Nara.
As the Tokyo Disneyland opened its gates in 1983, visitors to Nara slowly began to decrease since most people wanted to visit the original site.
And after Universal Studio opened its theme park next to Tokyo Disneyland in the early 2000s, people forgot Nara completely.
After failing to attract even the most minimal amount of visitors, the ambitious theme park started to crumble down.
By 2004, the park began to decline in quality - stores started to shut down, some attractions began to rust, and service trucks would be left abandoned with no one using them.
Nara finally shut down its gates in 2006 - and was eventually demolished in 2016 for good.
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