PNE Playland Review, Vancouver Amusement Park | Should You Visit During the PNE Fair?
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Күн бұрынPlayland is an amusement park in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Located at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), this park features a classic wooden roller coaster and a handful of flat rides. This video reviews the park during the main season and during the PNE Fair, discussing if you should visit during the latter.
Video Credits
Cats and Dogs 2 (Warner Bros.)
Classic Coaster Off-Ride (Airtime Thrills)- • Classic Coaster at Was...
Coaster Off-Ride (Airtime Thrills)- • Coaster at PNE Playlan...
Coaster POV (X COASTER)- • Coaster at PNE Playlan...
Final Destination 3 (New Line Cinema)
Fright Nights (PNE Playland)- • Fright Nights at Playland
PNE Fair (PNE Playland)- • PNE Fair 2023
Senzafiato POV (Patrick Carnahan)- • Senzafiato Miragica On...
The Flash (CW)
ThunderVolt Rendering (PNE Playland)- • Zamperla / Playland La...
Background Music
Upbeat Event Corporate by Infraction [No Copyright Music] Searching- • Upbeat Event Corporate...
@ll7868 6 күн бұрын
I used to go there throughout the 80s all the time, sometimes 3 or 4 days in a row. The last time I was at the PNE was in 1994, I had just moved to Winnipeg for work during the NHL playoffs, watched the Canucks take out the Flames in Game 7 at the Calgary bus station, but I went back to Vancouver to see a Prong/Sepultura/Pantera concert at the PNE in August, it was a great show, it was the last time I rode the old wooden coaster too.
@CanobieCoaster 17 сағат бұрын
Nice!
@ll7868 17 сағат бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster Back then you had to pay 25 cents for 5 minutes of tv time in a bus station/airport, that game went into double OT, it took more than an entire roll of quarters to watch, a roll is $10. Now we have cell phones and bus stations/airports have free wi-fi. I feel ripped off.
@gavitron0610 25 күн бұрын
I live in Vancouver and the learning support class in my high school goes to play land every year. This year was my second time and the wooden coaster was actually working this time. I totally recommend coming here if you live nearby. 9.5/10 from my limited experiences
@CanobieCoaster 24 күн бұрын
Glad you got on Coaster!
@manpreetnarag9265 3 ай бұрын
Good video. Loved it 👍
@CanobieCoaster 3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@SRBAnimate 7 ай бұрын
Hopefully Western Canada gets new and better coasters now that Mindbender is gone
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
ThunderVolt is a start.
@SRBAnimate 7 ай бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster definitely, we get a real launch coaster for once, not including Backlot
@ll7868 6 күн бұрын
Anyone remember the time Duncan McLeod fought Roddy Piper on the wooden coaster in an episode of Highlander? My buddy Jay was one of the caterers who made sammiches and fetched coffee for the actors and crew when they filmed it.
@CanobieCoaster 3 күн бұрын
I don't know that one.
@ll7868 3 күн бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster Highlander: The Series was filmed all over Greater Vancouver, that episode was called "Epitaph For Tommy" Season 2 Episode 10 from 1993. Playland looked a lot different 31 years ago, last time I was there was 1994 with Jay, we were there to see a Prong/Sepultura/Pantera concert. Lots of locations are gone/changed now, Tessa's art studio in the first 2 seasons was in Blood Alley in Gastown is still there but Duncan's dojo was near Alexander St & Columbia St overlooking the trains near where the pump station is was demolished, there's a new condo/apartment building there now. The scene of Richie jumping his motorcycle out a window of a rotting warehouse in Season 3 is The Shipyards Night Market in North Van now. In 30 years you'll look back on your 2024 video and think about how much has changed.
@Fox_on_a_Rollercoaster 7 ай бұрын
It still throws me off a bit when the KMG pendelum rides get called a "Frisbee" since I always have to think about the old traveling Huss Frisbee's. But that's me I guess. I rode 4 different KMG XXL models and I love them. While the G-forces aren't the strongest in the world, most people probably think they're more than strong enough. Ever since I rode those I get bored of the Freak Out's or Afterburners. I'm glad they choose a Starflyer from Funtime. The ride experience of their towers are my favorite. The Hell's gat Top Spin looks like it could go on our german fairs and it would fit perfectly. The Enterprise rides are always good family rides. Perfect to invert without having too much forces.
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
I love the XXL model.
@micoasters 7 ай бұрын
My parents all rode the corkscrew, but when it operated as the screamer at boblo island
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Cool!
@MrSRArter 7 ай бұрын
I was in Vancouver during the first week of October, though I didn't go to Playland nor did know what days or hours they were open during October.
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Their website is a bit confusing to read.
@spyklej4910 6 ай бұрын
there are parking restrictions around the area, where a permit is required on the vehicle. this restriction is when the P.N.E is going on
@CanobieCoaster 6 ай бұрын
Thanks for clarifying!
@rollingcoasterscanada7317 7 ай бұрын
I wish I got a chance to ride Coaster before it got seatbelt. I’m a massive fan of Phoenix at Knobles for I probably would have loved it without the seatbelts.(Through I would still probably really like it with the seat belts, just not as much).
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
I'm glad I got on the coaster in its prime.
@Dionysus999 Ай бұрын
ThunderVolt is said to open next month. im so hyped
@CanobieCoaster Ай бұрын
Nice!
@ScottyMania313 7 ай бұрын
I love the scenery of this park and area of Canada, it reminds me of a Carly Rae Jepson music video - minus the wretched music. The Pacific West of Canada and US is just awe-inspiring. So Beautiful. Also, I definitely enjoy rides on the Enterprise. I was deathly afraid of Witches Wheel at C. Point as a kid, but once I rode it, I discovered that it is a very calm and relaxing ride and breeze. I could nap on that thing.
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
It is a beautiful area.
@m.hoffman2889 7 ай бұрын
they really have a KMG XXL pendulum ride?? I love those, I mainly know them from travelleling fairs in Germany
@micoasters 7 ай бұрын
Wade shows (a carnival provider in Florida) is gonna start traveling with them in 2024, there is also one in Carolina
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Yes they do!
@panzerofthelake7661 7 ай бұрын
The seatbelts unfortunately make it almost impossible to get airtime, as they come really tight and don’t budge, however there is a solution as you can hold the seatbelt at it’s max length the whole ride and get the full package like before
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing what the seatbelts are like.
@urbex_coasters 7 ай бұрын
Dammit. So you can't control the tightness to render them "might as well not be there" like you can on rides like Skyliner and Jack Rabbit and they instead tighten like car seat belts?
@panzerofthelake7661 7 ай бұрын
@@urbex_coastersyea they do unfortunately, and like when car seatbelts tighten and don’t come loose. but they are pretty easy to hold at max length, and that is basically what the experience was like without them from what I can tell
@urbex_coasters 7 ай бұрын
@@panzerofthelake7661 Are they attatched to ride mechanisms? For example I have gotten away with riding Steel Force with no seat belt and just the lapbar, undoing the seatbelt as soon as it leaves the station and it has no censor to force you to put it on (part of why I hold that ride in higher reguards than a lot of enthusiasts I think). Is it like Steel Force? ie there but not enforced by censors?
@panzerofthelake7661 7 ай бұрын
@@urbex_coastersas far as I know it isn’t, as it’s an older ride, but I never tried undoing my seatbelt during the ride so idk, holding it at the base worked fine for me
@Magromancer 2 ай бұрын
I’m currently on my way there for the opening day of Playland, fingers crossed I’ve lost enough weight to get onto The Beast, as for the seatbelts on Coaster, I found absolutely no difference between it with or without the seatbelts, I still got insane airtime and the seatbelt didn’t lock at all.
@flocky1 2 ай бұрын
I read that the coaster isn't even open so none of the roller coasters are operating :/// I don't think Playland is worth it anymore ngl, they keep getting rid of more rides
@Magromancer 2 ай бұрын
@@flocky1 yeah the new coaster isn’t open until June or July, I am glad they got rid of Corkscrew as it just wasn’t that good of a coaster and it was too rough. I wish they had listened to me though and got the Giant Frisbee from HUSS instead of The Beast as that one is taller and faster and can have up to 50 people on it per ride cycle, instead of 20 on The Beast.
@wade7488 Ай бұрын
@@Magromancer Coaster was running today, opened a couple hours after everything else. I went for the first time and it was running incredibly well. Some of those hills are nutty.
@Magromancer Ай бұрын
@@wade7488 most definitely, it looks like a really unassuming coaster but once you get on it, it really shows just how good it really is, even with the seatbelts.
@CanobieCoaster Ай бұрын
Best of luck riding Beast!
@AlexBalango 7 ай бұрын
My home park 👍
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Nice!
@fiction2437 Ай бұрын
same!
@urbex_coasters 7 ай бұрын
If you can control the seatbelt tightness I say it probably doesn't effect Coaster. Some may know how much I rave about Skyliner, I think some of y'all are reflexively tightening the seatbelt rather than having it so loose it might as well not be there like I have. PNE Playland will be my home park this season, I am super excited for Coaster and I think Senzafia2 (I'm gonna keep calling it that, stylizing it like Tonnerre 2 Zues is just too perfect) will likely be the best ride Zamperla has ever built (which isn't saying much, but I do think it looks like a genuinely good ride).
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
I haven't seen much about how tight the belts are, but a few comments said they can be tight if you don't hold them.
@ameliaphelps9658 3 ай бұрын
i rember riding coaster when i was younger and i had the same expericen where i was thrown all about do to my size. i still wil not go back on
@CanobieCoaster 3 ай бұрын
It has belts now.
@ameliaphelps9658 3 ай бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster that’s good. Still not going on
@EthansSports 7 ай бұрын
i wish they had a inverting roller coaster
@dustmybroom288 7 ай бұрын
The park used to have a Vekoma Corkscrew
@EthansSports 7 ай бұрын
@@dustmybroom288 i know im saying i hope the get a new inverting coaster
@CanobieCoaster 7 ай бұрын
Me too.
@Sonicspeedboyz 4 ай бұрын
It’s not elevator it’s HELLavator!
@CanobieCoaster 4 ай бұрын
Yes it is, sorry if the name sounded off when I said it.
@Sonicspeedboyz 4 ай бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster not that it’s in the sections you called it elevator
@dmarshall9927 25 күн бұрын
This is sad looking
@CanobieCoaster 25 күн бұрын
I enjoy the park.
@dmarshall9927 25 күн бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster I just dont get how all of western Canada doesnt have a real theme park
@Sonicspeedboyz 5 күн бұрын
@@dmarshall9927it’s pretty good
@fattymcbastard6536 5 ай бұрын
Playland is a miserable waste of time during the PNE. If you're there for the PNE, then you shouldn't be there for Playland in my opinion. It's just not a good enough park to warrant the excessive line-ups. On the other hand, Coaster should be a target of any serious coaster enthusiast... at least before the seatbelts. I don't know about now, though. It was the lack of restraint that provided this old woody's hype. Where do you go NOW, when you want to literally be ejected from the back car? Having your butt thrown a foot into the air, while your thighs slam into the buzz bar to keep you in the car was absolutely ridiculous, and 90% of the coasters charm. Now that this thing has seatbelts, I can't really see any more honorable mentions on the Golden Ticket Awards coming its way, which is really unfortunate. "If you're planning a coaster road trip to the PNW..." made me laugh. But yeah... avoid the PNE at all costs.
@CanobieCoaster 5 ай бұрын
The main reason I went to the PNE was because it was the only time of year I could experience this park and the Washington State Fair on the same trip.
@fattymcbastard6536 5 ай бұрын
@@CanobieCoaster Yeah I get it. And kudos to you for spending your time and money to visit these little parks.
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