mrtickles Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Once a year in Melbourne is the Moomba festival. A combination of water ski jumping on the Yarra river, musical performances, parades and my reason for attending....the sideshow carnival! I was able to visit during one evening and made my way around the rides, the games and all of the delicious food stalls. Enjoy the following snapshot I got of the carnival atmosphere. A quick train ride into Melbourne city and I've arrived at the 4 day Melbourne Moomba Festival. I had never seen this kind of ride at a carnival before, didn't look too much fun either once it started up. Not really the kind of weather to get wet, maybe during the day time instead of the evening. The smaller of two spin and puke rides at Moomba. Plenty of toys to be won on the games area. Your traditional fun house made an appearance. The only coaster at the carnival and it was a wacky worm! This had some serious speed going on! At $15 per ride, there was not much of a queue for this, too pricy! Something for the younger generation. An awesome location for Moomba, right along the Yarra River. Dodgem cars ready paying customers. I finally took up the courage to ride one of these beasts... Speed 2 was insane but so much fun! What a blast! They had a smaller traveling Sky Flyer at Moomba. Airmax 360 doing it's thing. Basically it would spin around as the arms would rise up and down at a violent rate. As night fell, the atmosphere kicked up a gear. The lighting package on Freak Out was amazing! Spin Spin Spin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azza29 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Great report! You were right to skip that traveling log flume - I rode it during last year's Melbourne Show and was drenched! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert425 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 ooo. I love the theming on "Rock & Roll" cars that look like cars! awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert425 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Ok. . I just HAD to go find a video of that in motion: OMG. .does *not* look like fun. AT ALL. Just call it the Whip-lash-vomit-comet [youtu_be] [/youtu_be] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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