Celtworld - Tramore

redmgar

Does anyone remember this attraction in Tramore Co Waterford?
It was a mixture of lasers and celtic mythology. To my 10 year old eye, it was better than Disneyworld.

Deebles McBeebles

Very vaguely but yes! Was only open for 3 years apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtworld

Bob Harris

redmgar wrote: »

Does anyone remember this attraction in Tramore Co Waterford?

Yes, next question.

redmgar

Bob Harris wrote: »

Yes, next question.

bobs in a humour

wmpdd3

Yes and when I tried to tell locals how good the new 'Vikings' attraction is, they all said, is it not just like Celtworld though?


It's not, it's Brilliant.

DrumSteve

Preferred it when it was dinosaurs.

jpm4

I remember it had a severed head that talked to you?

redmgar

I just remember the big giant eye, and you sat in this thing that rotated.

Your Face

Yeah , it was cool.

looksee

An unconscionable amount of money vanished into it and was never accounted for. The tech was pretty good for the time but small things spoiled it - the use of some senior figure in the business's granddaughter in some major role for which she was really unsuited didn't help. The problem was that it was not revisitable - once you had seen it why would you go again?

ToddyDoody

It's so weird that there's no trace left of it whatsoever. It's just grass where it once was.

Anyone have any ideas of what they should have done with it instead?

Sky King

I remember it. Went there on a school trip. Class!

I also remember splash world, which we called slash world due to the urine / water ratio.

redmgar

looksee wrote: »

once you had seen it why would you go again?

Very good point. Maybe in Dublin you would have enough tourists that you wouldn't need to rely on repeat business.

Sky King

Anyone remember the viking tour thing in dublin in 1988

Showin my age now!

They had out of work actors playing the part of vikings if i recall....

EICVD

redmgar wrote: »

Does anyone remember this attraction in Tramore Co Waterford?
It was a mixture of lasers and celtic mythology. To my 10 year old eye, it was better than Disneyworld.

I do, just. I remember a parents hand covering my eye as a giant eye dropped or something

redmgar

yeah the Viking tour. I remember it had a distinctive smell. Supposed to mimic the time, wonder how they created it?

TheValeyard

Lazer tag/ quazar was cool though.

I loved Celtworld!! I went every year

redmgar

Deleted User wrote: »

I loved Celtworld!! I went every year

So twice?:D

topper75

redmgar wrote: »

yeah the Viking tour. I remember it had a distinctive smell. Supposed to mimic the time, wonder how they created it?

Lit actual dried-out viking turds found in Wood Quay on an incense burner?

redmgar

redmgar wrote: »

So twice?:D

Oh! My memories must be a bit skewed. It feels like something I went to a lot.

Sir Osis of Liver.

jpm4 wrote: »

I remember it had a severed head that talked to you?

The severed head fella was quite funny.
I went with wife and kids and he took the living piss out of me...bodyless bastard.

branie2

I was there in 1994

DaeryssaOne

This place had been completely eradicated from my memory until someone above mentioned the revolving theatre and it all came screaming back!

The wikipedia article shows why there's nothing there now, the curse of dunnes stores:

The property was placed on the market with the condition that it could only be used for tourism or leisure activities, which limited its potential sale price...McCloskey developed a robotic dinosaurs exhibit which closed after less than a year...In 2000, Ambient Catering Limited purchased the site and developed a 20,000 square feet music venue named South with a capacity of 2,200 guests, at a cost of €3 million.The venue opened in 2001 but closed soon afterwards.

The site was sold in May 2006 to Volute Properties Limited, who received planning permission for a mixed-use development with Dunnes Stores as anchor tenants.This proposal fell through and the building was demolished in 2008.

looksee

I don't remember dinosaurs, and I had completely forgotten about South.

redmgar

DaeryssaOne wrote: »

This place had been completely eradicated from my memory until someone above mentioned the revolving theatre and it all came screaming back!

Repressed memory

The heads hanging from the tree, must have been some lad hidden somewhere with a microphone! We need to track them down.

Niska

Aye, loved it.

Still have a faux leather Celtworld bookmark somewhere.

greenspurs

topper75 wrote: »

Lit actual dried-out viking turds found in Wood Quay on an incense burner?

Wood Quay ? in Dublin??

Why would they have to bring them down from An Dubh Linn , when they would have plenty from the Vikings that were in Waterford....


(smart, but not wise enough ….)

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yeah , horrible memories of the place.

It scared me beyond belief and instilled in me a lifelong hatred of Celtic mythology.

Edgware

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yeah , horrible memories of the place.

It scared me beyond belief and instilled in me a lifelong hatred of Celtic mythology.

Stop making stuff up to get a reaction. If that ****e scared you then I'd hate to see how you reacted to Bosco