She gets the lemon juice out by sitting on it.

Presumably they thought snow would really add to the atmosphere, but underestimated how much it would interfere with operations and profitability.

Kinda sad, since he meant well. 🙁

Well it's still open so it's pretty dumb to say it was a monumental failure. It Is actually open around Xmas for drive through light shows

While Lake Arrowhead is in southern CA, it certainly has winter weather so I'm not sure that was the problem.

It's interesting because the concept can obviously work in places with winter (Indiana and New York)

It was a time in America where if you wanted to do something, you woke up out of bed and did it. Now you can't do shit without needing permits "regulations" money, or offending someone.

@@MrWolfSnack you would hope that regulation of theme parks would ensure the safety of children and their families

@@sumlem What I said didn't apply to theme parks. It applies to building anything anymore. There has never been any project again like the Hoover Dam, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate bridge. Any time some big project is proposed that can change the country it's shot down by 100+ different complainers. It's the same reason why Japan has a high speed rail line and we do not. People complaining about hurrdurr my land losing 10 feet of space on a 500 acre property, people complaining about noise, the electrical lines, blablabla this blablabla that.

@@MrWolfSnack Well you certainly don’t want someone to build on the property of a Native American reservation without violating the consent of said landowners. There are benefits and drawbacks to our sensitivity around American construction. On top of that, Japan also has a completely different industrial and socio-political climate than us

@@MrWolfSnack Yknow South Korea here used to have that type of lax construction/property laws about everything, and usually lead to literal hundreds of people getting buried alive or some bridge collapsing because construction companies skimmed on material. There's a fine line between unnessesary bureaucracy and regulated safety, America is still nowhere close to first. A reminder that every safety regulation law is written in blood.

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Gotta introduce the kids to gallows humor some how.

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Two years later we find out how much zuck really traces people

You better watch out.

Humm no joke 👀🥺

Im stuck in the second phase due to an overabundance of childlike innocence in my life

I’d say this is accurate. I am in the third stage

@Vamphaery2 NoLastName 5. Santa

What about the fifth stage: Why is Santa Claus?

Vamphaery2 NoLastName this stage is called existential santa-ism!

The throwaway lines like this always make me laugh.

I weighed 332 in '89, lost down to 190 in the 90's, and never gained it back. I know that don't have anything to do with your comment, but I was a security guard, and done a very good job. Weight don't have anything to do with being successful just will power.

@LiberatetheRepublic4 If you like those, look up How It’s Actually Made, by Huggbees

@@beckyshock3099 you must have been the biggest known security guard at the time! Jk lol, nice progress

True Disney is getting every thing

disney will own everything one day which is sad

@The Last Thing You See Before You Die after they buy the rights to own the earth

@@subsWithnotonevideo eh, I lived a good life, 22 is good enough

@@coocoocavespider Well yeah, Disney is basically a Nazi Corporation. It was supposedly Walts dying wish for the company to always believe in "Mein Furher"

He never existed therefore he had no birth therefore you can't

He was born in October

This channel is strangely good at coming up with memeworthy lines. *COUGH* A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese *COUGH*

sup me Dude, non-Christian writers that lives in the *same century* as Jesus confirmed that he existed. Many of them argued that the miracles his disciples attributed to him were false. They couldn’t argue against claims about him if he never existed. Go read the works of Philo and Josephus, who were contemporary historians.

@@ErikNilsen1337 What does this even have to do with the original comment?

that's so good to hear! after watching this video again i was intrigued by that Santa's Village, i think i'll try and check it out next year!

Same! I went to it every summer between 1993 and 2001, and a few between 2001 and 2009, before any of the really big changes were made (same with Storyland). I can't wait to bring my kids when they're old enough

So glad it's still there. We see brochures for Story Land, but I haven't seen one for Santa's Village in a long while, so I figured it had closed. Is Jellystone still going? I have vague memories as a child driving by - or was that a campground?

My favorite would be the Russian Santa from Rise of the Guardians

Santa-Noir movie when? Or Russian Santa from RotG lol.

@@batmenace15 Fun fact: Both Spider-Verse and Rise of the Guardians have the same director.

@@batmenace15 what about the Santa who fought of the Martians?

Lol

Dude, yes! And that huge creepy ass bunny statue is still there, scared the crap out of my nieces!

Nick Hall never been and it’s only 45 minutes from where I live because I’m scared of how creepy it is. It’s like ghost town

I went when I was about 12 (14 years ago). It’s was actually super busy and they seemed pretty popular, but everything seemed so dated. My mom used to go to the casino near it in Cherokee, NC all the time, so she wanted to take us to Santa’s Land after passing it so many times.

Come to think of it, I think I saw multiple billboards advertising Santa's Land when I visited Cherokee and Bryson City.

I used to go there all the time as a kid in the 90s. I remember a Rudolph roller coaster and there was hardly anyone ever there so I could just ride it for an hour if I wanted

Ever heard of Rise of the Guardians?

A bunch of santa’s having a Sword fight to be the One and Only santa

@@finndahuman57 The Holy Santa War - Seven Santas of Seven Classes: Archer, Caster, Saber, Lancer, Berserker, Assassin, and Rider

A sword swinging santa? Maybe we could call it "Santa's Slay".

IxionGames i was literally about to comment the same thing his videos are so unique and interesting to watch

Bruh same. Like i dont comment often but gawd damn this intro is great.

This guy does THE ABSOLUTE MOST and I'm so impressed every single time a new video comes out with its brand new theme and intro.

The intros are my favorite parts..especailly when they have unique intro songs.

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It could also potentially mean something not so advertiser friendly, if you know what I mean ;).

@@andrewreegs6319 Hmm that ain't eggnog haha

You could definitely infer something more sinister from it but to me I think it simply says kids are getting smarter since access to information is so readily available. A kid in the 80s might easily believe that Santa can visit every household in the world in 24 hours, especially if the only source of information they have are their parents and teachers, who want to keep the magic alive. But a kid with access to google can find out how impossible that is in under five seconds. Also, couple that with the fact that 99% of Santa-related Christmas-themed media centers around the fact that adults don’t believe in Santa. It’s a staple of Santa media, that only children believe. Nathan Fielder was so right when he said the biggest desire of any child is to not be seen as a baby. Telling them for over a hundred years that only babies believe in Santa and adults still get presents will wear down on the appeal for sure. Not that I think Santa is the best tradition anyway. The idea of getting presents based on your behavior is fine I guess, but I think it’s weird to teach kids that being well behaved will bring them rewards in life, since they’ll realize around the age of 13-16 that that’s not the case in the real world.

People have stopped lying to their kids so much maybe? If so, I see that as a good thing...

I figured out that there was no "real" Santa by the time I was 5 in 1960. By the time I was 8, some of my classmates and I had to break it to some of our other classmates, who still believed in Santa, that he didn't exist Maybe that wasn't very nice of us, but we felt it was time they knew. So even back then, at least at my school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we didn't believe in Santa until we were on the edge of puberty!

@@Road_Rash Okay Scrooge

​@Road Rash's Redline Resto Rods it's just that kids these days are raised by iPad and phones... they can just google whatever they want... it's more so a sign that parents are relying more on technology to raise their kids than do it thenself

sorry to be that guy, but Koch’s name is pronounced like “cook”, not “coke”

​@@ginzooxdang it, it was too good to be true lol.

"milk the birth of Christ"... As if internet marxists actually cared

I don't think he appreciates you on his meat like that

@@8bitorgy as if you actually know what Marxist means

@@cantthinkofaname5046 the ideology of class warfare

@@8bitorgy and what does Marxism, and the wrong definition you provided, have to do with what defunctland was talking about? He was making fun of business people missing the point of a holiday, not stating his grand communist manifesto

Holiday World gang

I grew up in West Kentucky. I thought of Holiday World as soon as I saw the title! I loved going there, when I was a kid! But, who didn't?

@@gabrieladerre2862 I'm from Western Ky too, We went 5 or 6 times during the summer when I was a kid. I haven't been since 1999 Im sure its changed alot since then.

West KY grown,also lol. Went to Holiday World every summer as a kid. My first memory of it it was still known as Santa Claus Land if I'm not mistaken (I've been around a while lol). I'm...much older now,but I've taken my kids there a few times and they love it. It's really cool to go back and see everything that's changed,grown,and been added to over the years. Tbh I'd rather go back there any time than go to Disneyland/world. Too much nostalgia for me.

Grew up near Santa Claus. Its always weird to see people talk about it

the park itself is still alive and kicking at least as of July 2023: it's also across from an abandoned Walmart and near a seedy thrift store.

Would you know of any examples of things being named due to all these circumstances?

Tym the Slav how about Apple?

@@theorangeofallahpbuh1840 These are some examples I could think of. Most car manufacturers are named after their founders so Ferruccio Lamborghini, Enzo Ferrari, Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche, Cleveland, Ohio was named after General Moses Cleaveland but someone fucked up so now it's Cleveland. Google is just a misspelling of googol. Motorola is a portmanteau of Motorcar and Victrola (an old word for phonograph) as Motorola's first products were car radios.

Ulysses S. Grant’s real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he arrived at West Point the registrar had made a major typo on his application. Rather than go through the slog of fixing the problem, he changed his name

@@joshuaridgway4 lol. One of the greatest generals of American history sporting high introvert energy.

Ethan Sloan incorrect.

@Zachary Rugar If you're Christian, which some of us aren't. ;)

@@Sammakko7 dont insult him, dude

@Zachary Rugar, i wont epricent your reply

He's definitely improved as time as progressed.

Same! I miss it and Indiana :(

Still a great park overall. Definitely spoiled having it as my home park, the first time I went to a different park as a kid I was outraged that it’s water park cost an extra entry to get into xD. Splashin safari is free with admission to Hw.

@@cellochel1582 who would miss indiana? you in prison or something?

I actually live about 10-15 miles away from Santa Claus, Indiana, so I'm able to go to Holiday World at least once every year, especially since I've been able to go there constantly ever since I was a baby. ^^

I knew it used to be Santa Claus Land! I said that to someone a long time ago and they said I was nuts 🙃

Yes he seems to be the one everyone tries to blame even though he brought some of the best things to Disneyland and the movies like the little mermaid and so on

@@supme7558 he also took alot of those things away again.

Mike Eisner was responsible for the death of the politician

sup me people are always remembered for their misdeeds or good deeds, he did a lot of good but he did a lot of bad so that’s how he’s remembered

I got some "Murder, She Wrote" vibes from the opening. Abandoned, He wrote.

Take notes, Beta64!

@@LikaLaruku we need to trademark, stat!

Same. I remember going every summer when I was younger. I still enjoy going now that I'm older. It's always worth a trip.

I only went with my school once but I used to go there a lot as a kid. Mom's credit union had discounted tickets for local theme parks and Holiday World was our favorites. I don't know bout y'all but it doesn't feel like summer until all the McDonald's has the Holiday World coupons on the counters.

That sounds so painful

Complete with an "after-hours, empty jazz club" rendition of "Oh, Christmas Tree".

I used to go there as well. According to their website, they're still open.

Thank you so much for your great videos! You get some awesome shots of some really unique places!

Hey Ike your videos 2

Go to holiday world first. Just... Just trust me. It's seriously the cleanest happiest place on earth.

@@Defunctland not too far from Santa Claus AZ is Bedrock City AZ a few minutes NW of Flagstaff. However Bedrock City / Flinststone AZ is still active. Maybe less so due to Covid, but not dead like Santa Claus.

Santa's Enchanted Forest in Miami should probably not be on your list... It's more of a fair than an actual amusement park, since it's seasonal, operating on land that's usually just a normal park. They dig out the rides and displays every year around Christmas, and MAN can you tell that they've been sitting in dusty warehouses... it basically only looks decent in the dark. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but not worth its own trip.

And still a lot of holiday-themed rides (not just Christmas anymore).

This is very true

Some of my favorite childhood memories!!! Especially because Indiana doesn’t have much to offer😂

Kay

don't forget free drinks and free sunscreen!

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yeah, video essays absolutely dominated youtube this year, it's weird that I don't see any videos talking about it. it seems every recommended feed has at least two video essays in itthese days.

samseriesinc Recommendations are tailored to each user independently. What you noticed is literally sampling bias. If you spend time watching video essays, then KZfaq recommends then to you more.

@@vinceo5296 Bullshit. How come my retarded girlfriend gets recommended the exact same things that I watch independently of her on my own time? Google is listening to my iphone and shit i need to move into the desert

samseriesinc You call your girlfriend retarded? Lmao

I live 15min from the Dundee Santa's village and it is open most days starting in May and through the summer and on weekends for September-October. They even opened a water park, Santa Springs, in 2019 although I have not been to that section of the park.

@@Stracy7289 The water park has some cool slides, though other than those there is not much that isn't for little kids.

I've been thinking that since I first discovered these videos. Yours is the first comment I've seen that mentioned it. I guess it's only funny to some people but I think it's hilarious. Perjurer. LOL

@@purplehz97 thought the same! lololol

A great way to get out of jury duty

I can only wonder what kind of people his ancestors were to get his family stuck with THAT name.

It makes me laugh every time his name pops up at the beginning of the video

Ah, Santa's magic.

So it’s like a holiday version of the original action park in New Jersey.

Why would anyone go ...

Yes lmaoo

It's the true Miami Holiday Experience

I go every year multiple times and i still never got to ride that damn thing

i rode it once when i was 11 with my brother and NEVER AGAIN did i get on that thing. that new metal coaster is MUCH much better

Oof I agree! I rode it twice while it was open and going up that ride was always terrifying

I was always too scared to ride it, that elevator just sketched me out 😂. Now we have Thunderbird, it’s pretty okay, good B&M coaster, a bit tame though.

The Voyage is definitely my favorite roller coaster in the park, and I always make it a priority to go on the ride at least once every time I visit Holiday World. ^^

I remember Santa's Village at Arrowhead! It was a great place but yeah....a little scary

I'll bet it was scarier in the seventies

the new one is beautiful. but i do miss exploring it when it was abandoned . still have some amazing photos of it in decay

i live in arrowhead, but never have been to santa’s village 🤭

Me too. I liked that place a lot.

That's why it takes a while to release episodes. The space between them would be considerably shorter if the team did consist of 20+ persons.

History channel has to compete with the internet for ratings, so its degenerated heavily to put up content which is less focused. It's like a slower version of what happened to The Learning Channel

At least since History has now become almost completely "reality"-based.

I don't think he appreciates you on his meat like that

Haha I go there so often you've probably run my ride before

Miles Lucas This channel is so expansive it has lore

PointDelta every time I watch this channel I wonder why it is not so popular. It troubles me how something so professionally made and interesting isn’t as rewarded on this site

I watch it on my Xbox. It’s like watching a documentary, a really great one!

Defunctland, Lemmino and Ahoy are the holy Trinity of youtube documentarians

@@ajsollecito4236 Defunctland is popular when compared with its peers of theme park history channels. It's an esoteric topic with a limited audience, but this channel has about four times the subscribers of other major players in the space. That's an achievement!

I used to go there when I visited extended family. Now I need to learn its history...

Stop, your killing my childhood, KILLING IT

Yeah I live there and recently they added like twice as much to the santa clause house so they are still thriving

Its 2:30 AM but I had to finish watching this~ Great video and Merry Christmas, Kevin!

I don't think he appreciates you on his meat like that

I live just minutes away from Holiday World. Growing up in the late 60s, early 70s, going to Santa Claus Land was always an adventure!

Live just down the road in Louisville. What a great place; has a lot of the values I wish Disney still had.

@@danielvandersall6756 It had the title "cleanest park in America" for a good reason. Pat Koch was always out working her ass off keeping the place clean and nice back when I went, which as baffling given that it's a pretty big park. I've heard that there was a significant dip in quality whenever another company had stepped in following Will Koch's death, with the treatment of employees reaching an all-time low. Looking it up, though, it looks like the Koch family has wrangled control back of the park, so I'm wondering if things will improve from here.

Fr, I a bunch of people I knew growing up went there so often, I was confused when no one else knew the place existed lol. I have since moved to the other end of the US, so it's fun wearing my Holiday World hoodie and having people ask, "the frick is Santa Claus, Indiana?"

Same here!

I passed that Statue every time I went back and forth to college. It was really cool to hear about my home state and the theme park I visited so much as a child.

I love going to holiday world!! It’s so fun😭😭😭

Holiday world is by far the cleanest and nicest theme park. I live 30 mins from Kentucky kingdom but I would much rather drive the two hours to Holiday World!! Plus free sodas

Kady Mcawesome free sodas?!!

I went to the NH Santa’s Village when I was a kid in the 1990s (it’s the “G” one in the video. I also went to Santa’s Land in VT when I was little and also visited last year.

It's a great park

"Okay, let's compromise. You can build as many houses there as you want, but they have to be North-Pole-themed and their residents have to dress as Mr. or Mrs. Claus or elves throughout November and December."

@@PrezVeto So, the original concept for EPCOT with the inevitable weird-ass covenants. ;)

There’s one in BC, Canada as well!

there's one in oregon too! It's been running for at least a couple decades as I went when I was a toddler and it's still there even now with me in my 20s

There's one in washington! Its advertised as more of a wild waves, but it's also a enchanted village

There’s a super creepy one in Oregon, half of the attractions don’t work, all of the staff are children, yet it’s so fascinating

​@@calliope1868 Sounds like the one in central NY, it's now mostly a water park as well - that's how it's stayed in business - but the original Enchanted Forest part of the attraction is still there for people to picnic in the shade when they need to take a break from all the water slides with some *mostly* un-creepy fairy tale dioramas and the old-school attractions like the petting zoo and carnival rides. (some of them are definitely creepy tho!)

This comment was extremely prescient and so was the video 😂

Glad to see ya ain't got no beef with me! Merry Christmas, and thank you for this mighty fine gift

He did mention it! I went to that one too when I was a kid. We would go to Santa Cruz then Santa’s Village the next day.

He mentioned it during Exhibit D, I believe.