and their families around Australia in a double-decker bus. Leyland Brothers World theme park, bankruptcy and split Although the continued success of their films and television series made the brothers wealthy, they made efforts to spread out their business interests by investing in property and looked to leverage their name in the hospitality and tourism sector. In November 1990 the Leyland brothers opened the Leyland Brothers World theme park at North Arm Cove on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. The park contained amusement rides, a playground, a roadhouse and a 1/40 scale replica of Uluru along with other attractions, as a well as a bush camp with a capacity to host 144 guests. Despite an estimated annual attendance of about 400,000 people, in July 1992 BDO Nelson was appointed receiver and manager of the park when the Leylands failed to meet their loan commitments to the Commonwealth Bank. In a 1997 article in The Sunday Age, Mike Leyland said that the initial $1 million loan had blown out due to rain during construction and was further compounded by a 27% interest rate. The theme park was sold to new owners in November 1992 for $800,000, and as of continues to operate as the Great Aussie Bush Camp. The brothers went bankrupt. The failure of Leyland Brothers World led to a personal and professional rift between the two brothers and they went their separate ways, dissolving their 31 year filmmaking partnership. In 2015, Mal Leyland told Australian Story that "in hindsight, Leyland Brothers World was a huge mistake, the biggest mistake we ever made." Contrary to media speculation that they weren't on speaking terms, in the years afterwards the brothers still saw each other regularly, and even shared information about their new independent television projects on rival networks. Later life After the 1992 bankruptcy, Mike and his second wife Margie ran a New Lambton video store and worked for the park's new owner. In 1997 Mike sold part of his Tea Gardens property to fund the production of a far-north Queensland film for Channel Seven. Mike and his wife Margie later signed a contract with Seven for a further 12 one-hour documentaries, the first of which aired in 1998 in The World Around Us slot. The series of documentaries were later released on DVD under the title Travel All Over The Countryside. On 14 September 2009, Mike Leyland died