The baby at the end of this commercial for old Sydney town is my son. My husband and I went there for the day and I remember the a tv crew approach me and asked whether they could film him because he was always smiling and laughing. Still does today he's 35 now. We loved going there it was such a good day. Sad that its not there anymore

“I wanna go back to old Sydney town”...... Yeah don’t we all. Just get us a time machine

OMG, I used to love this ad. I remember when my primary school announced an excursion here in the early 80s. I was so excited and when we got there, so intrigued by it all.

OMG we so need this place back!

ahhh the memories! African Lion Safari - El Caballo Blanco - Old Sydney Town - Australia's Wonderland - Bullens Animal World. All the theme parks are now in Queensland ,....

Been closed since 2003 and in 2014 a fire destroyed a large chunk of it. Today i checked it out just down the road from the Gosford Reptile Park. It's all fenced off and everything's falling apart, shame.

So many good memories went there in 1988 was about 9 years old. It was fun and the picnics were awesome. Shame the place is closed now.

Jesus, haven't seen that ad in 30 years. OST was a great place, I went heaps. When we went as kids in the 70s it was all very serious, but I remember going in the late 80s and the "re-enactments" were mainly double-entendres that wouldn't have been out of place in "Are You Being Served". They should open it up again, but no doubt they couldn't do it without acknowledging "the original inhabitants"!

Oh I wanna go back to retro Cronulla Sharks jerseys.

By the time I got there (in the 1990s) it was run down and there weren't any actors walking around. I seem to remember most of the buildings being closed as well. I'd heard so many good things and was sooo disappointed.

Great memories as a kid. I miss all our old fun parks. 💯

I really miss this theme park :( I had many memories of this place. I've been lucky enough to go more than one to this place. I remember when I went with my school as an excursion and one of the many attractions was the schools class room and there was a teacher that would ask you maths questions and he would slam the table if you got it wrong Hahaha. Also I enjoy the cats of 9 tales show and was that whipping real? It looked real with all the blood dripping from his back sure made me believe it

It would probably be cancelled these days if it still existed,

RIP Old Sydney Town. Brings back memories.

Thanks for posting this. I loved this place! I remember the song well too.

I loved Old Sydney Town so much we used to go at least once a year in primary school w my afterschool/holiday centre (mid 90-late 90's) so diassapointed it's closed. OST & Sussanah Place were my favourite places to go as a child. I liked how they showed you the life of the average person / child. -3 -3

Childhood memory lane cheers. Just missing Sydney wonderland advertisement straight after that 1 lol

I was an extra in one of these productions. All I can remember is being chased by giant rats in the dockyard area.

They used this place in the second season of "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers". Due to delays in shooting the movie, which was shot in Australia, two sets of three part episodes were partially filmed down there. The first one, "The Wedding" was used for the Rangers' trip. The second, "Return of the Green Ranger" used a lot of Sydney and Old Sydney town.

Such a pity that it closed. Ballarat's 'Sovereign Hill' history-based theme park is still going strong; why couldn't Old Sydney Town work????

Old Sydney Town was created in 1975 but then in 2003, there was a fire accident.But later, the fire stopped in 2014 and Old Sydney Town got abandoned forever.

"I Wanna Go Back To Early Times (Old Sydney Town)" LYRICS: They sailed out here in chains on ships that have hanging for steel and bread. And the reason that we're here today is those who went ahead. Woah......I wanna go back to early times! Go back in history. I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town to find out why I'm me. I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town. I'm an Australian. I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town to where it all began. The fight in the sky, and the damn and the light. I wanna go back to see The women and men who, way back then, started my history! How did they live? How did they die? I wanna go back to see The women and men who, way back then, started my history! Oh! I wanna go back to early times! Old Sydney Town's the way! I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town. There's change in every day! I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town to see where we began. I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town...'cuz I'm an Australian.

Went there as a kid for school excursion, must say was something different and cool

This place scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!

I went there on a school excursion back in Year 3 which happened to be 1988.

Memories....

i remember once going when i was 4 and i had a runny nose. one of the police laughed at me in front of everyone and said, "that girls got a booger." good times...

@JKoscheck wipped with those leaves too? hahah mad memories

Same here I went in year 4 which was in 1997 and also being left handed they yelled at me, But I guess the actor that was playing the teacher wasnt expecting me to just change hands willy nilly it's good knowing how to write with both hands but even my family finds it strange I write left handed but do everything else right handed, they just look at me with a blank look you can see the cogs turning as there trying to figure out how the hell I do it (I dont even know)

My attempt at lyrics below. Good for a sing-along! Lyrics They sailed out here in chains, On ships that have hangin' for stealin' bread, And the reason that we're here today Is those that went ahead.... Ohhhh, I wanna go back to early times, Go back in history I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town To find out why I'm me I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town, I'm an Australian I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town To where it all began. The fightin', the skitin', The damn and delight I wanna go back to see The women, the men, who way back then Started my history. How did they live? How did they die? I wanna go back to see The women, the men, who way back then Started my history I wanna go back to early times, Old Sydney Town's the way I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town, It's changin' every day I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town, To see where we began I wanna go back to Old Sydney Town, 'Cause I'm an Australian

@samarajanemoore It was like that today as well, what a shame...

Wonderland was awesome, shame they closed that.

ohh, i only found out they closed this place down years ago. i remember going there for a school excursion in primary school and being yelled at in the classroom for my writing not being straight enough, lol.

I'm in the ad and recognise many of the faces. Sadly severally have passed away; the others have dispersed. I have no isea who the baby is.

Historically accurate.

Hi Grubco, quick question - we are trying to track down the baby at the end of this ad as we think they must be early 30's by now. We're using any means we can, I wondered if you might have any leads for us? Did you get this ad from a network? Or do you know anyone involved in making the ad etc? Thanks

Just think if they did something like this now you would have to have boats with people throwing the kids overboard, Throwing there passports overboard, or showing demo's on how to make there boats breakdown. You could of had a building display but that would have been for the first show only as it would have been burnt to the ground. I think as growing up as kids we had the better times with all these different things out there.

just another in along list of tourist attractions near sydney to bite the dust

do you have the African Safari World ad?

I recently visited the remnants of this place. I was nearly in tears. Overgrown and ugly

More staff than customers.

Looked like they had fake street fights too

I just delivereda package to old Sydney town theatre is still a blonde that lives on the property that looks after the joint shame really seems the land is owned by overseas interests

Hey everyone the austrailiana pionner village, is open

How the hell did this place close?.

Loved that place as a child...Would love to see it reopened...though I'm sure that would cause some sort of race related outrage... being that in trying to keep it historically correct, certain races nor religions weren't here back in "the day" :/

Wouldn't doubt that they sold it to somewhere like Malaysia. When the Japanese bought Australia's Wonderland it went downhill from there and Hanna Barbara Land was closed shortly after. Pitty both these wonderful parks are no more. I was fortunate to experience them but sadly my son won't :-(

Aah this was a wonderful place. Shame, like everyhting else, the govt decided to stop funding and let the place rot.

One of the first places I went to on an school excursion when I first arrived in Australia as a young boy. The othet historical attraction was 'Australiana Village' near Wallacia if I'm not mistaken. These places would now be considered 'culturally insensitive' in the eyes of the politically correct mob if they existed today. What a shame!

very based beat slaps

Political correctness killed Old Sydney Town . Think about it

Thanks for so much for posting. We would very much love to see the TV commercial for Magic Kingdom in Lansvale, it featured the song 'Magic' by the band 'Pilot'.