Have you thought about doing a video dissecting Dismaland? Itself a sort of twisted deconstruction of theme parks? Would be interested to hear your take or some more in-depth info. Hope you don't get this too often. I heard about your channel from the podcast Wonderful! and had to check it out. Cheers!

I have a video idea, a park called Indiana beach has closed or is closing it has a long history

Please make one about Out of The Box! Or The Black Cauldron.

Hello Defunctland, you do a lot of Disneyland stuff and things of that nature but i have one for you that is in my own State of Texas, Water Wonderland in Odessa, Texas also known as Hero's Waterworld. it has been abandon for years since the early 2000s opened back in the 1980s i never got to experience the park first hand but when it was opened it was considered a place to go.

Can we just take a moment to recognize the fact that “new theme park-inspired RPG/audio drama” is a thing that has been written by a person.

"Daddy Park" 😘

Name a more iconic duo

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We should have t-shirts with these sayings. Maybe even "Don't use my name" too

@@MsGigglesluv that's a good idea. also "a powerful rat... named charles entertainment cheese"

It's so brilliant, and I can't imagine such a thing happening today.

Don't you just hate it when you go out to have a nice smoke and then you get mugged by a ten foot cricket that shreds your coat? Happens to me way more than it should

@@virtualboygodot8251 but not as much as you deserve I know your secret!

In my town we have an oil pump decorated as Rudolph every Christmas in the mall parking lot.

that dam cricket took a bums jacket put some respek on its name lol

At least they were on good terms.

Right? I thought it was gonna be like Ub Iwerks kind of thing.

That's what I was thinking! Like "Oh no! Disneyland killed his theme park!" But no. Ended on a high note, with his manufacturing company still making coasters.

Yeah, Walt was a shrewd businessman, but when you look into how he operated, you can see that he only played dirty whenever he felt he needed to.

I was really relieved he wasn't screwed over or completely ignored. He kept doing his thing afterwards and was successful doing so. It's the best of both worlds really!

Ghostwriter stop

@@doopiss You have violated the law!

The MetaGamer your stolen goods are now forfeit!

Ghostwriter ha!

Experiences like this can still be found. You just have to look hard enough.

I love it when you get two jokes for the price of one.

LOL...”To all who come to this miserable place...welcome..Divorceland is your land”

“Divorceland: The Single-est Place On Earth”

I’d definitely ride divorceland

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I was waiting for a quote like that once he started that segment. The fact that "Don't use my name" happened first made me laugh so hard.

Actually contributed to the legacy of sexual harassment is what that statement did, dude is not the right kind of “legend”.

@@ragantate3995 how?

@@ragantate3995Ugh, another fragile prick.

Yuuko trying to figure out what he meant, I’m forgetting something.....

@@lostfan29 last video was about a legendary disney party

Ally Pearlmen a legendary *frat* party

Shots fired!!! I love it.

I love it too!

Anon E. Mousse me to

Same

Do you really need any kind of license to design a ride? Seems to me like all you need is a bit of engineering know-how. Sure, inspectors might have to look it over and declare it safe to ride, but there's nothing unsafe about letting anyone *design* a ride. Blueprints never hurt anyone.

@@Shenaldrac Sure, anyone with "a bit of engineering know-how" can design a ride. It takes specialized education to design a ride that will be *safe*, especially over an extended period of time.

I’m actually not sure if there is much oversight. In KS at the schlitterbahn water park a kid was decapitated by a water coaster that was plagued with safety problems in its only 2 years of operation. Regarding the lack of engineering design, one of the designers said “if we actually knew how to do this, and it could be done that easily, it wouldn’t be spectacular.” As a result of the lawsuits from the death they changed the state law so all the states amusement park attractions are to be regularly checked by the state. This is all within the last 5 years mind you. In a leopard ate my face type deal the kid who died was the son of a KS representative. 9 years prior during a legislative hearing, KS lawmakers pressed a schlitterbahn lobbyist on inspection and he said they would prefer to be granted a “Disney exception” which is self regulation and inspection with little oversight from the state.

@@dmcgee3 Never trust anyone to self-regulate. ESPECIALLY anyone who actively asks for that privlidge.

@@Shenaldrac After all, "The laws of safety are written in blood"

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Hilarious. Aren't broken homes so funny

@@RuminatingWizard unfortunately humour is more often than not taken from the suffering of a subject so yes, it is hilarious, as is watching your friend fall flat on the ground after tripping it isn't fun to be the victim but that's the harsh truth of comedy

I think it was Mel brooks that said "If I stub my toe it's a tragedy, if I fall down a man hole and die it's a comedy". But yeah it's a sad thing men have put up with for decades. Nearly no rights to their kids when it comes to divorce. A lot of the laws were in place to protect women, who at the time relied heavily on their husband for financial support and were unlikely to have a job after being a house wife for years. Sadly even with all the changes to the work place the bias towards the mother in divorce court is real.

@@RuminatingWizard the delivery was funny, not the subject matter

Gotta park Daddys somewhere.

Any interest in getting that reel digitized? I'm sure it would find an audience on here and would be a great way to preserve a bit of Kiddieland history...

As someone in film school I’d suggest reaching out to a school near you that might have a film scanner to digitize the reel. If not possible but you’re still interested Costco has done good work digitizing in my experience!

@@gotaminutereviews AGREED! I would love to see that. ESPECIALLY if you can see that cricket 🦗 oil pump!

@@BethAnnMayberry Right? Like I can't find a single photo of that thing.

Dude ... that would make u like 90 years old!!,?!?!??!???!:#*!*!?!,@;,!

I know! I clutched my hands to my heart when I heard that🥰

This guy understood how to develop relationships with the people. Making efforts in the right places to give people the best experience he could rather than plugging for everyones money at every possible turn. A business man with a heart if you will.

Mad respect for the community love.

sending the cards and balloons to the kids had me 🥺

Today: "give us your information so we can send you a birthday greeting, and also sell your data, thanks."

I’ve been watching that and yeah, it’s not really as informative. Some really cool old footage in the early episodes and interviews, but i was expecting to see more about actual imagineering...not just Disney history

@@creekkid42 after a few episodes it is basically the same. They needed a new thing they invented something new and built it. And because it is made by Disney everything went perfectly and even when it didn't go good it was just a small speed bump

True!

@Harlock1776 I wish they did. Better than anything else, really! Well that and The Disney Family Album!

@Harlock1776 Four artists paint a tree is something I'd watch time to time with the sleeping beauty dvd.

“This is divorceland”

But also in a way it was nice they had that. It sounds like a place they could go and not feel out of place (since lots of single dads took their kids there) and have a fun day with their kids who they probably didn't get to see much since this is long before more equal shared custody would be the norm.

You think seeing it was depressing, you shoulda' tried living it. (Or better that you didn't)

Yes is was, and then Kevin went and penned an original song about it at the end of the episode to really drive the knife in deep. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING!

@@ironwolf56 You know before the fifties, for over a thousand years if the parents divorced, they automatically stayed with the dad, right? That the mother automatically getting the kids was a brief blip on the radar between the 50s and the 90s of a single century in hundreds of years of English common-law where children were property that belonged to the father.

Hey, kids! I'm Kenny Kidney!

My favourite ride is the bathtub full of ice. ...wait

i never got the reference until now

Walt Kidney

huh so that's where extra body parts go

l.a. has a lot of history. and a lot of is not in a good light. check the history of griffith park and dodger stadium.

cmdraftbrn Anaheim has some weird sports history; The Angels are technically called “The Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim” and they started with Gene Autry (I believe ->) and Disney was a owner for them and for the NHL team Ducks

I was thinking "Hey, new channel name.''

He can't answer - he might perjurer himself.

@@zembryoz BOOOOOOOOOoh who am I kidding. That's some solid single dad joke action right there.

It sounds so funny 🤣

I know the term from Left for Dead 2

it's just a more fun version of Child Area

@@anthonycabello1205 "Do I look like some kind of queer to you?"

Ha! No.

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Michael Eisner I lived in the apartments right next to it! That spot was my Disney before I could afford to go to FL!

Michael Eisner I live two neighborhoods over from Coney Island, so I get to see the parachute jump every time I drive on the highway.

Think you Eider for telling us that

No, just guys always looking to do something sexual without consent.

Omg I pretty much just posted the same comment before seeing yours haha! Melrose Kiddieland was the best, sucked to see it close after so long.

Tiffany McLaughlin Awh! Yeah!! ❤️

My area had one as well that's currently a shopping center. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5uJateS1r-5m6M.html

YOOO I LOVED KIDDIELAND AS A KID I REMEMBER WHEN IT CLOSED AND EVERYTHING

My Kiddieland 💔 www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.cbslocal.com/2010/11/16/costco-set-to-open-on-kiddieland-site/amp/ It’s a Costco now :(

WeirdoTZero I still have my idea for a video game spinoff, D3FUNCTSTATI0N

Put that shit on a belt/ironic tee

It is actually. Theme parks are one of the most underrated places to pick up women for any man with some semblance of confidence. I've picked up more women at Disneyland than any club, bar, concert, or festival combined. Plenty of lonely millennial and gen z women by themselves just waiting to be scooped up at a "kiddy theme park."

Bunch of pervs who don’t self restraint.

Can’t say anywhere in history that females have done the same thing. Females are historically targeted by males focused on sexual activity no matter how they get it, back in the 40’s half of the dudes took it without a mirage of amusement park rides…

I know. HORRIBLE STEREOTYPES.

Well, keep in mind racism was a hot button issue in the day. They claimed that probably because they hated seeing Blacks & Asians in popular media in the day. Trust me, the same stood for music

Like I've said in the Wild Disney Party video: Things were different back then. Usually in the worst ways.

No shock, look how they are portrayed in the movies at that time.

Marcus Blackwell yeah no shit

*SON?!?!?!*

Wouldn't mind one on Cedar Point, though I don't think it has any connections to Disney anyway.

I really hope they’ll cover Fantasy Island. It was my childhood park.

@Neonpastel 80 Interesting. I suppose Cedar Fair itself (the parent company of Cedar Point) might be an interesting one to talk about as well.

I think the current season is entirely centered around linking everything to the origin of Disneyland, though I do hope that the season after will take a little break from having an overarching theme and go back to exploring the history of single rides like the one you mentioned.

kaitie648 or Indiana Beach would work too

The fact that it got taken out by an oil company and then replaced with a mall seems way too on the nose

Maybe because back then there wasn’t a reliance for theme and amusement parks to have to revolve around IPs. You could go on a ride and enjoy it

I think it's more the wholesome ones are the ones we remember now. Walt opened his park precisely because there were a lot of skeezy broken down nasty tourist traps back in the day

@@melskunk Exactly, There are 1000s of Kiddlelands across the country back in the day. But we only remember the good ones. The bad ones get sued, go out of business, and forgotten so it's easy to forget they weren't all passionately driven childhood dreams.

It sounds up there with "Cats in the Cradle".

But “this place is great to pick up women” FOH!

Bring back Journey into Imagination... You ruined it into the ground...

Also create some new stuff instead of just buying every profitable IP under the Sun, this is the OPPOSITE of what Walt would have wanted!

LEAVE

It's Second Bob

Do you still make 2D movies?