If you don't like Shawn there is something wrong with you. This guy has to be the nicest person on the internet. So wholesome and genuine! :)

Baby Shawn is a legend!

Alton towers is by far the best theme park in the uk, who agrees? 😁🎢🎢

I miss theme parks. When you're in lockdown all you can do is reminisce. Either that or go down massive drops on your scooter or bike.

When it's my birthday my mum has a friend who bakes cakes so when it's our birthdays me and my brother get to design our cake. Last year on my 12th birthday I designed a Alton Towers cake and it looked amazing. It had the logo in the middle then all of the 7 main coasters' logos around the side and then also a Wicker Man statue.

Most kids: excited by everything Shaun as a kid: “the colour change of these board has ruined the theming of this attraction” 😂

I was in my first year of high school on Nemesis opening year for the summer school trip to ATs, we went on Corkscrew first then Nemesis and Thunder Looper. My first roller coaster rides, epic!

Great look back, I was 25 in 94, remember all these rides. My children loved the berry bish bash! I still have an entrance ticket from 1988!! My parents took me first in 1970s, all was there was swans and a large merry go round. You visited for the castle and gardens really. Lovely photos 😀

I’ve never clicked on something so fast. This sounds so fun😅

Awwh i love this, I go to alton towers every year with my sister my parents have been taking me since I was born, in 93, and now as theyre older me and my sister continue the tradition of going every single year and we will with our kids 🥰 its so wonderful to look back on old photos, i want to dig mine out now

A big memory for me and the thing I miss most about Alton Towers is the theming of the ride Air. The music for Air in the queue brings back so many memories! I wish they’d bring it back 😩🤪

You weren’t a 90s kid if you didn’t wear that red, yellow, blue, green coat 😂👍🏼👍🏼

cant beat memories mate very special times I have many myself with my mum and dad. Good Times with us always.

Aww that was so cute.. that was fondly memories of Alton Towers. Thank You Shawn

KZfaq knows how much I love your videos, whenever I go on KZfaq, the first video I see is TPW newest video!

Hi Shawn, must be cool, living so close to a theme park. No wonder you have so many great memories from there.

I might to this when Im like 30 because I have some from 2012 till last year

Places to visit were so much more special back in the day. There was no KZfaq and you couldn’t consume content the way we do now. All you had were a few pictures and memories from your past experience. I still remember queuing up for the monorail watching those 90s TVs playing videos of Nemesis and Oblivion being all excited to see them again with my own eyes. Miss those days

Love the fact you are wearing a thirteen top, ngl thirteen is one of my fave rides there top 3

Aaaawwwww! Baby Shawn is so cute!🤩🤩

I'm 13 and I live about an hour away from alton Towers and I'm going for the first time soon and you went when you were 1 so lucky!

Thanks for sharing. I’ve also been looking back and watching some home videos of me and my family at Walt Disney world back when I was 7 and it makes me wish I could go back, hopefully one day I will be able to 😁

Can't wait to see the chessington ones! That was my childhood park! - amazing video and the old classic videos at the end!

A video like this based on ride photos would be great to watch!

Some amazing memories there. Loved the squirrel nutty ride

Real proud to see how much Alton Towers has changed.

Great video, the pictures look great and you look so happy in the park. Sometimes I really would like if I could go back in time and enjoy just the Efteling and don’t worry about anything else. Great to get an insight in your childhood.

This is why I love taking photos. Looking back on your childhood memories brings everything flooding back. Great photos 👍

How wonderful. It'll always have a place in you're heart for being your local. What lovely memories. Nothing better than going though ride photos

Great video amazing memories for you, and such a fun video to watch. It won't be long until Alton towers reopens with social distance ect, as we ease out of lockdown slowly. Probably looking at the middle of july for phase 3 of cinema's theme park's pubs reopening.

I will always cherish the family videos captured at Alton Towers back in the 2000’s especially early footage of the Waterpark.

Great Scott! I didn't know you invented time travel

I've got tons from drayton manor, and it's not even my home park, I went to thomas land ALOT and I used by basically EVERY ride photos, I have a photo of me on my first roller coaster aswell!

I'm haven't watched you since 2017! It's great to be back! 😃

This is so good! I’ve got lots of photos of me in some of these exact same spots - I’m only four years older than you but I remember 1994 so strangely well and I remember how terrified of Nemesis I was. The music, the look of it, the rumble as it hurtled around the track, I recall thinking it was going to kill my parents when they went on it and crying while my brother stayed with me so my parents could ride! They are the ones who got me obsessed with Alton Towers!

The first ride on the beast for me was when I was 8 years old. Brought back a lot of good memories watching this. Thanks

Thanks for sharing your memories with us Shawn, brings back some good memories for me too 😁

Those were some neat pictures. It’s so interesting how a park can change so much within a few years. I’ve never been to Alton Towers since I live in America, but I did end up going to Six Flags Over Georgia quite a bit when I was growing up. I remember riding the Dahlonega Minetrain a lot, which is the coaster they got me into coasters. It too, has changed a lot since I first started going there.

When I was younger the first major ride I went on at Alton towers was Hex

I love this!! It's so cool to see how much it has changed throughout the years!!!

Amazing video, I love looking back at old photos. I still have the onride photo from my first ever coaster ride, which was at Legoland Germany. My mom bought it for me and it's such a wonderful memory still. Can't wait for more videos from you to see more of the awesome fashion back then 😉

Love TPW’s vids and when I found this one I couldn’t click fast enough. I was born in 91, and we came as a family to Alton Towers every summer, mid 90’s to early 00’s Alton Towers really was just the most magical place to be ❤️

You as a little kid stood looking up at the Beast is such a cool little preview for this channel and your trips.

Love this video! It unlocked my childhood memories from Alton Towers by looking at the old rides and theming😊

Wow, thanks for this trip down memory lane! I started going in about 1985 (yeah I'm that old 🤣🤣) and it was such a different atmosphere then. You could pet animals at the farm, go to indoor shows such as the ice show and dancing fountains, and there were live shows all round the park. The mississippi show boat had a live band playing, there were parades going around the park and, of course, Henry and Henrietta Hound the alton Towers mascots. Those were the days when they really cared about customer experience rather than just rides and money. I even met Kylie Minogue when she opened the Mouse ride! I still take my kids there but it makes me sad that they don't get the same experience that I used to get.

I remember going to drayton manor every year on my birthday with my dad and those were the best memories that I had of my childhood and I went to thomas land all the time and I remember going on the pirate adventure and it was amazing and I went to dryaton Manor between 2008 to 2012

This is just the sweetest video! ❤

Great memories there! nice of you to share these!

I love watching these 😁 I found your channel a couple of years back when I was just browsing alton towers on KZfaq, I had booked our 1st short break in splash landings I had always wanted to go as a child but my parents wouldn't drive the 2.5 hours 😂. Now I have my own children I wanted to give them the memories I wish I'd had, we had the best time and have booked every year ever since.

Shawn, I loved this, but going back to 94, makes me feel so old. I have a son that was born in 93! I’m 46 and remember my parents taking me to what is now Pleasurewood Hills. The rides were pretty much non existent apart from my memories of doing a drop slide (loved it). Honestly can’t remember much else. I have a photo somewhere It’s amazing to see how much things have come on. From an old gits point of View, well done young man. What a great hobby you have! Keep em coming........👍🏻

I love how you speak about your parents with such love and admiration it’s great

There's nothing better than reminiscing and talking about old visits to theme parks wirh freinds and family. So many great memories where made in these parks. Awsome idea for a vid Shaun. Your channel is streets ahead of any other theme park channel. Awsome work bruv. Keep it up!👏👏👏

So love the vids btw do a history of your theme park memory’s

This is so cool mate. Especially to reflect on something so emotionally resonant

Aww. How lovely of you to share those memories. I love looking at old photos. It’s interesting to see how much the park has changed over time. I remember the Squirrel Nutkin ride going by and those yellow rafts on the rapids.

Yesss! I was just gonna say it would be great to see you reacting like you did to your first video on old VHS footage at the parks!! What a brilliant video, and a great sense of fashion by the way!!!! 😄

my earliest memories of the towers was the coaster they had called the new beast. I was just tall enough to ride

You got me under the stairs to the photo boxes. Our three children are in there mid twenties, will be able to see two of them on MONDAY!! I've kept out loads of photos to share our family attraction moments with them. Will be a little longer for all of us to get together as one lives up country. I cant tell you how much we have missed them. Thanks for sharing :)

Nice one Shaun , 1994 a big year for me .... got married and Nemesis opened 🥳🥳🥳🥳🧱👍🏼

Great video, really good. I can remember the book worm so well

I have really enjoyed this they were amazing your parents took amazing pictures :)

For me ive got the most childhood memories from fantasy island so i still hold that place pretty dear

love this video!!

Great video Shawn. So interesting to see why alton towers is a big part of where you are today. Keep up the hard work during lockdown

Another great video Shawn 👍🏻

100 times with his parents? Goodness Me! I’ve been 11 times. In the meantime, make sure you and Shawn stay alert.😊

My first memories of Alton towers was when nemmy first opened, I wasn’t tall enough to ride but I remember going on the haunted house (Duel)and being terrified, we were in the extension and it was on a 45/1 hour queue 😳

Hello Shawn, It was good to see you take a look back at your memories and have a chance to reminisce all about your old and fond memories that you had at Alton Towers. It's a great video throughout and I truly enjoyed it throughout. Take care. Cheers Peter :)

Absolute legend

1994 opening year was my first ride on nemesis at the age of 8 years old! It was my first upside down ride and I felt very grown up going on it 🤣🤣 god I feel so old now. I have an on ride photo somewhere at my parents house. My dad used to take me once a year but as it’s 3 hours away it was quite the trip, I still continue to take my children once a year so they can try and create the same memories x

Really nice seeing these photos Shawn. Brings back memories of my first visit. I think I was about 10. UGG LAND was also my favourite themed area.

Can't beat the old ball pit! Great vid once again mate

Wonderful!!

I have some old photos from Thomas land/drayton manor of myself when i was 5 or so (2013-14 sometime) i vaguely remember sitting at the front on the bertie the bus ride, and also riding the troublesome trucks coaster over and over again. I also remember going on the ferris wheel and getting really scared at the top. My sister also has a keychain from 2017-18 sometime at the top of apocalpse, i’m just slumped down waiting for the drop. Additionally she had this hilarious photo off storm force 10 where we were both completely soaked with our eyes closed. The last time I went to drayton manor was in 2020 for my 12th birthday and i haven’t been since. Although drayton manor is a much smaller park than alton towers and my memories are much more recent then yours, I guess drayton manor was my alton towers for my earlier years and it got me into roller coasters and theme parks!

Haha! I used to watch rides wishing was big enough to go on. Space Mountain in Paris was always one I really wanted to go in.

Thanks theme park world wide ❤

As soon as this video finished I had to go through all my old photos of me and my family at Disneyland. And I swear I had the same yellow, blue, green, and red jacket when I was a kid!

This is so funny love this vid ❤️👍

I like how you're doing these original, unique videos Shawn, Thanks!

I have so many too

It's scary how fast time goes, seems like you have had alot of fun memories

One of ur best vids

So awesome that you're going through memories, that's something I'm doing too! Also, hi! It's been a while since I have commented on a TPW vid

Lovely pics, I have a few of the Thunder Looper, new Beast (not Viper!), Energizer and the old yellow and green Black Hole tent!

Watching this video got me thinking about all the changes that have happened to Alton towers over the years. But really made me think what is going to happen to the park in the future and where will they build next

Hi Shawn I love looking at your old photos, when you were Childhood at Alton Towers, but I'm still 10 years older than you.

cant wait to see the park reviews back, cant wait for my euro road trip to walibi land, europa park and energylandia.

Awwww good memories

great vlog Shawn brings back some great memories i remember you up loading a short what seemed to be camcorder footage of you when you were a child of the old flume at Alton towers but cant seem to find it anywhere unfortunately

3:00 I remember going into the playground area in Alton Towers back in 2000, I was 5 then. As I wasn't so sure about theme parks at the time, that was the only part of Alton Towers I actually enjoyed. I can't it's been 20 years since my first ever visit to Alton Towers.

Aww bless him Wish I still had photos... I'm 47 now so that would be some looking back now. The new pirate ship in its original location next to break dance ECT.. 🙂

Shawn hasn't changed a bit!

I could cry watching this I think I'm only a year or two older than you (first ever spoke to you back in the msn days!) I've got so many similar photos to you, we stayed in the Alton towers Hotel the year it first opened and also splash landings and I remember it only being hotel guests! Living in Scotland we weren't there half as much as you though. Do you remember when there was lots of characters walking around the theme park? I'll need to find away to send you some of my pictures so funny just how similar they are!

Awww you look like you’re wearing a shell suit in that first pic. I’d have had something similar but much older 😂

That first picture is so cute! 😆 it would be really cool if you went around the park when operations return to normal and try to recreate some of these pictures!

3:36 that’s actually Viper at Lightwater Valley

i'm 45 now and i got loads of pictures when i was young from blackpool on the donkeys and the pleasure beach fun house, got loads of pictures

What a brilliant video

Love Alton Towers

thats cool! and actually i don't.. have any.. i don't think because im 10 years old but my 1st time going to alton towers was in 2013 opening month of smiler!