Aussie World

Aussie World is a family amusement park located behind the Ettamogah Pub in the Australian state of Queensland on the Bruce Highway, Sunshine Coast. It is set in native Australian gardens and trees and themed like an Australian fairground of old.

History

The original creator of the Ettamogah Pub was Ken Maynard, who started drawing the Pub in 1959. It was made famous through his regular cartoons in The Australasian Post.

The Aussie World “Ettamogah Pub” was built in 1989 and the word “Ettamogah” is Aboriginal for ‘place of good drink!’ Now one of Queensland’s leading tourist attractions it stands an impressive 18m in height. It was opened on 24th November 1989, with most of the furniture inside the pub built from trees cleared from the actual site.

Why is there a truck on top of the pub? In the cartoon the theory is the truck was washed up there in the floods of 1946 and none of the regulars could be bothered to get it down. The car is a 1927 Chevy which originally was a 4 door sedan and was converted into a utility in 1947.

In 2005 the rides were updated to their current state including the Wild Mouse Roller Coaster, the Giant Octopus and the Rock n Roll Rebel Dark Ride.

2007 saw renovations to the park begin; these included a complete front entrance upgrade and the erection of two 15½ metre brightly coloured barber poles and a twin-peaked blue and yellow shade entrance.