Australian Amusement Fanatics

The annual Fisher's Ghost festival in Campbelltown is coming up in the coming weeks running from the 4th - 14th November. The carnival runs on the weekends with the following times:

Fridays (5 and 12 November): 6pm to 10.30pm
Saturdays (6 and 13 November): 2pm to 10.30pm
Sundays (7 and 14 November): 2pm to 9.30pm
Location: Bradbury Oval, Campbelltown

The contract has been handed over again this year to a different company with them being O'Neill Combined Shows. No idea how Joyland's lost the contract, they did a great job last year with a fantastic layout, rides, variety of different attractions, games etc and how professional they made the carnival look. But some good rides heading there this year with some never seen before at the festival. Lineup being:

No Limit
Space Roller
Fear
Love Express
Wave Swinger
Gravitron
Trabant
Circus Fun Factory
Kids Rides
Games
Food Canteens

Really suprised to not see Ranger on the lineup, I'm guessing it'll end up showing up. And will be interesting to see Fear, see if all the problems have been sorted out. Great to have both Mondial machines there aswell.
I'll be heading down one of the Saturdays so expect photos and videos.

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Thats really odd that Joyland's aren't doing this years festival, i thought they had a multi year contract to do it??
Anyway looks like a good line up so far.
I'll be there on one of the weekends for sure..

Noooo Space Roller must not be coming to Ballarat this year its on the last week of the festival and limit looks like it won't be doing Dandenong.

trust... Rainbow doesnt get set up...

Sadly it wasn't there for the 2008 Fishers Ghost when O'Neills ran it, so I don't see this year being any different.

I will be there riding spaceroller all day Will get pics too.

Your lucky you can ride space roller all day I hope it returns next year to ballarat but I doubt it

can rainbow please get sold now, its actually just a waste it sitting in a yard, when it could be getting used and making money

Ocs fun is set up for this years fishers ghost
2010 looks unbelievable when ur driving by the
red yellow purple colours stand right out .
The new fear roller coaster is set up as well as no
limit wave swinger space roller and lots of
other rides
fishers ghost will be on for two weeks at cambelltown
hope every one comes and has a look
I will try to put some pics up when I can

Very impressive line up IMO

Boy am I green with envy about not being able to attend this event!

I look forward to the reviews as usual. I hope the roller coaster is behaving itself and that you guys are enjoying it. It's quite an experience!

Welcome back Ben

I was down at the carnival on Sunday, got some vids and pics which I'll put up in the next few days

Got a chance to head down and check out th carnival on Sunday, pretty warm day, shame Pirate's Revenge or O'Neill's Adventure Island weren't there, would've been a good day for either one. But yes O'Neill's were given the contract this year which meant they bought on alot of their attractions plus a few other operators. Got to see some of O'Neill's other rides before which I'd never seen which included the Love Express (looked a bit dodgey), Trabant and Gravitron and their Dodgem Track which looked a tad rough.

Their usual big name rides were there including Ranger, Fear which has had no problems during the time of the carnival which is good news. Also Wave Swinger and the Wacky Worm coaster but of course minus their major staple attraction being the Rainbow which I saw driving home as I went past their property. Was great to see both No Limit and Space Roller coming up to Sydney and going off route from their normal Victorian run. Got a few photos and a few videos aswell:

Love Express:





Gravitron:



Wacky Worm:



Ranger:











Wave Swinger:







Trabant:





No Limit:









Fear:









Space Roller:









Just waiting for one more video to upload and I'll post the links for those. May head down again tomorrow night, not sure yet. Anyway enjoy!

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Here are the links to my videos. Ran out of battery to get any of the Space Roller which was a bummer. And take note of the Fear video, far out that thing is so rough!

No Limit onride: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j57DutOd9pI

No Limit offride: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FuvhabSx4

Ranger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvZZvGEAtM

Fear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRky72rXlc

Enjoy!

Cheers
Top Gunner14

Great pix, thanks mate.... makes me soo angry that almost all of O'Neills major rides got set up except Rainbow.... Is this actually serious?
I dont understand anymore. Can we officially say goodbye to the HUSS RAINBOW in Australia now?

it may aswell be in a scrap metal yard

Thanks for the pics and review Top Gunner!

I'm really happy to see Fear operating problem free (touch wood) after it's early issues.

Cheers

Jaffa23

Great as usual TG!

Yeah Fear is totally rough and very disorientating but overall I think it is a good ride which will probably be back at RES next year if it continues to operate normally. I haven't ridden that Trabant for years but I remember it being a good and pretty fast ride.

Nice photos Topgunner. Went over last night to have a look around and take some photos.
Not real crowded though, last years carnival was a lot better i thought..

I went out to the show on saturday night, was packed. Got on:

No limit x1
Fear x1
Waveswinger x1
Spaceroller x7 (ofcourse..)

Didn't really get a heap of photos of anything other than spaceroller, but if your a fan of the roller you should like this





































countdown begins until I see my baby again..... 5 months!

Great night shots there paulie

Nice shots TG - good to see the lurv express, and fear operating. I like that angled shot showing the track curving

ps. any video of the Trabant operating?

Thanks guys. Naa no video of the Trabant, my camera's battery died just after I got off No Limit. Was gonna get an onride of Space Roller but didn't