GeminiAir

The reason why most older parks in the UAE are becoming rundown, are the shopping centres. Since big shopping centres began to rise, nobody wanted to go outside parks where there are no AC. As you know the temperatures in the UAE are generally very high from April to October and winter isn't any cold either. Nowadays most shopping centres have some kind of theme park and arcades so no one bothers to visit outdoor parks. I have Emirati friend who's told me the parks like Wonderland and Hili park in Al Ain were full of people in 80s and 90s but not anymore. Hili Fun City is the most saddest theme park I've ever visited. It's 3 years since visiting there and I've heard they renovated it in 2009-2010 so can't know how it looks now but back then, it was nothing but a ghost town. I've been in Wonderland 5 years ago and at that time it wasn't as rundown as shown in your pics. I visited many rides there but yes, there weren't many visitors. Just one school class of girls around 10 years old and few teenage girls. Spinning Coaster didn't exists in Dec 2005 but it was built the next year, I've only seen it from outside as I've only been once in the park. Roto Shake (Knott's Hammerhead) was operating in 2005, I was the only one riding it. Also visited Taga Disco, pink Coaster, Space Shot, karting cars etc. I remember at least 95 % of the rides were operating just 5 years ago. This park has really changed when looking at ur pics. I visited also this ride which is covered under blanket in ur pic.