African Lion Safari commercial [1981]
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The African Lion Safari Park opened in 1968 at Warragamba, NSW and it was closed in 1991.
It was the last of the Bullens safari parks to close.
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ahhh the memories!
African Lion Safari - El Caballo Blanco - Old Sydney Town - Australia's Wonderland - Bullens Animal World.
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@tlelover91 a bear and lions got out cos they didnot upgrade the park and they had shoot dead the bear and lions and there are still animals from the park learking around that area.
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How did they train the animals to robot dance at the conclusion of the commercial?
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loved this place as a kid.........new the person who owned the land we got free tickets.
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"It's scary, but nobody cares!" ???
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I went here when i was a kid, cant beleive they closed it.... Sydney MAJORLY lacks things like this !
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This is my childhood in one advert. My family also went to Paradise Gardens. Love those days.
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If you Google Marsh road Silverdale in Syd you can still see the roads in the park where it use to be
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@tlelover91 it closed down because a lion and a bear got out and the had to shoot them
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There was a running gag at the time 'free entry to poms on pushbikes'...
These parks began to suffer when the animal activists - and the Greens - started campaigning against the way these animals were being used. I remember the bloke who owned Bullen's appearing on the Ray Martin midday show trying to drum up support to keep the park open. Basically once you'd been once or twice that was it, you didnt go back. The overseas tourists rarely heard about these parks too - no promotion abroad.
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@GrubcoTV3 the insurance would have cost them a lot of money.
i'd never heard of this place before... and i dont live too far from warragamba dam... when did it close down??? why did it close down???
it seems so awesome
tlelover91 3 years ago
No idea when it closed... 90s I think. I guess it didn't make enough money.
GrubcoTV3 3 years ago