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There's just something about the image of a playground that's been abandoned and neglected: chipped paint, rusted or partially decayed metal frames, overgrown sandbox, empty swings swaying ominously in the breeze, the conspicuous absence of the normal [[Playground Song|sounds]] of children playing and laughing. Everything seems empty and broken, in contrast to the usual cheerful feeling that a place where children gather is supposed to invoke. The scene may be creepy, or just forlorn.
Sometimes this is used to illustrate the nostalgic longing for a disappeared childhood and the [[Growing Up Sucks|pain of growing up]], or the loss of innocence. Other times the Abandoned Playground is home to a [[Creepy Child]] humming an [[Ironic Nursery Tune]], or haunted by [[Undead Child|ghost children]], either [[Stringy
This could also include playgrounds that aren't actually abandoned, just empty. Visiting a place like this after hours when all the children have gone home can be equally strange and unsettling.
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* Prypiat has a few that can be seen in documentaries. (But that comes with the whole "city of creepy abandoned stuff" thing.)
* Not sure if a theme park counts, but Six Flags New Orleans. It closed in 2005 to prepare for Hurricane Katrina and never reopened. It's ''creepy as fuck'' and unfortunately it's due to be torn down in...who the hell knows when.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JwgmPEIDQ River Country], the first water park at Walt Disney World Resort was closed in 2001 and currently sits abandoned but thanks to being really close to the other Disney parks and hotels in Orlando is visable for other locations. Abandoned for various reasons that inculding high levels of a potentally dangerous amoeba in the lake water that was used in the park, a law that protects tourists from local unfiltered lake water, and a large drop in attendance thanks to being pitted against the larger Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach water parks. Dispite being closed for several years the lights are still on, the music still plays, and the plumbing still works, there's abandoned furniture and clothing and toys laying around, the slides and stairs are overgrown with vegetation to the point of being barely visible, and the man made river and pools are stagment and/or nearly evaporated. Incredibly frightening if you find pictures people have taken of inside the buildings.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpyfW4LxaZ0&feature=watch_response Water Wonderland] near Odessa, Texas.
* [http://www.forgottenoh.com/Chippewa/chippewa.html Chippewa Lake Amusement Park] was a very well known abandoned park in the American Midwest. When the park was closed in 1978 all of the still functional rides and buildings were simply left on the property untouched and unmaintained for 31 years. Time took it's course and the everything soon broke down and were overgrown by plants and trees. The buildings became dilapidated and most burned down and or collapsed from fire damage in the mid-2000's. However, many rides and a single building (the hamburger stand) continued to stand in varying states of decay. Most famously the [http://www.forgottenoh.com/Chippewa/chpwa-ro-ferris1.jpg Ferris Wheel] and [http://www.forgottenoh.com/Chippewa/chpwa-ro-bigdip1.jpg Roller] [http://www.forgottenoh.com/Chippewa/chpwa-ro-mouse3.jpg Coasters] which had trees growing in and through them.
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