Comments on: Adult playground http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70 these are our EXTRA ideas, for you, for free Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:55:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: nikki jean http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-436 nikki jean Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:25:30 +0000 http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-436 This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. . why won't anyone do this? It'd be the most amazing thing ever. . . This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. . why won’t anyone do this? It’d be the most amazing thing ever. . .

]]> By: Johanna http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-89 Johanna Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:13:19 +0000 http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-89 I love this idea, I always try to find someone with a child so I can go to Chuck-E-Cheese and play in the obstacle course. There aren't many of those in NYC so I'm left without many other options :\ I love this idea, I always try to find someone with a child so I can go to Chuck-E-Cheese and play in the obstacle course. There aren’t many of those in NYC so I’m left without many other options :\

]]> By: michael pulsford http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-82 michael pulsford Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:56:20 +0000 http://logolalia.com/ideafactory/?p=70#comment-82 there used to be a playground like this in a small town called monash, in victoria, australia. i went there as a kid when we went on interstate trips: monash was about 10kms off the main highway. all the rides were made (entirely of steel) by a steel factory across the road which also made sheds and garden equipment. it became a popular tourist attraction and the factory kept churning out weirder and more wonderful rides in response. entry was always free, and all the rides were human- or gravity-powered. the park was big, and you could spend all day there and not get bored. by the time it closed they were getting 200,000 visitors a year. they had giant slides (straight, figure-8, and spiral), giant swings, giant flying foxes, gravity-powered toy trains, parent-powered merry-go-rounds, single-person and three-way see-saws. and these funny gyroscope things: you ran in them like a hamster in a wheel til you got momentum up and then hung on for the ride. the only one i can find a photo of online is one of the wheels, here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjbj/295042992/ it closed in the 1990s when public-liability insurance got too expensive, and later reopened with safer and more boring rides. if i find more photos i might write a little article about it on my website sometime: it was a truly glorious place. there used to be a playground like this in a small town called monash, in victoria, australia. i went there as a kid when we went on interstate trips: monash was about 10kms off the main highway.

all the rides were made (entirely of steel) by a steel factory across the road which also made sheds and garden equipment. it became a popular tourist attraction and the factory kept churning out weirder and more wonderful rides in response. entry was always free, and all the rides were human- or gravity-powered. the park was big, and you could spend all day there and not get bored. by the time it closed they were getting 200,000 visitors a year.

they had giant slides (straight, figure-8, and spiral), giant swings, giant flying foxes, gravity-powered toy trains, parent-powered merry-go-rounds, single-person and three-way see-saws. and these funny gyroscope things: you ran in them like a hamster in a wheel til you got momentum up and then hung on for the ride. the only one i can find a photo of online is one of the wheels, here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjbj/295042992/

it closed in the 1990s when public-liability insurance got too expensive, and later reopened with safer and more boring rides. if i find more photos i might write a little article about it on my website sometime: it was a truly glorious place.

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