Fantasyland at West Edmonton Mall

[SPS148669]

The kiddy ride by the foodcourt like the Airplanes and Automobile merry go round are still here to this day and in their original forms and paint.

[msbieberlover2000]

Lol wow I never knew it was so different from now

[violinbeauty1]

hey, i didnt know they used to have a zipper here!

or whatever those blue tubes are.

and those car thingies were replaced...

and the swings are bigger....

and more stuff........

lol. i never knew it was so different!

[violinbeauty1]

wow this is WAY different than now

[violinbeauty1]

@digigirl411 oh thats cool!

[violinbeauty1]

@digigirl411

ohhhhhhhhhh you mean the space shot? they still have that i watch it all the time :)

[dsafasdfsdaful]

Oh wait nevermined about the last comment because this is from when it was called fantasyland so actually he is right because it isn't any more bit it used to be so ignore that last comment

[dsafasdfsdaful]

Wait never mined they're right it actually was called that so never mined about the last comment

[dsafasdfsdaful]

It's called galaxy land why do you think there's all the rides that for one have those names and 2 are designed the way they are

[JBPfriends]

It isnt called fantasyland its called galaxyland btw!

[Retrodude1985]

I'm sure going to miss Fantasyland at WEM but it sure is nice to see those rides.

[SPS148669]

Amazing! The the 2 kiddy rides by the food court are still there to this day unchanged. (Airplanes and Automobile-merry-go-round) I went on that ride as a 5 year old kid and now take my 5 year nephew on the exact same ride and I am now 25.

[jessiemorrison]

i remember when they put in the laser tag . it was definitly a great time

[violinbeauty1]

this is way different compared to 2011

[violinbeauty1]

whats drop of doom

[marknetwork]

MORE MORE MORE SEND PICTURES AND MORE VIDEOS this reminds me so much of my childhood!!! Those blue slide things in fantasyland were crazy i vaguely remember them

[animulcrakerz]

The "lake" they had always got algae blooms cuz it was never filtered haha, but now its a little race-way for younger kids with very slow go-karts, They we're supposed to build a haunted house ride that went down into the basement but they never completed it lol. They should really bring the zipper back that ride was good.

[SPS148669]

@animulcrakerz

I believe they built the "Haunted House" ride as part of the the Fantasyland Express instead. It's blurry but in this video you can see the mini-train tunnel portal has a wooden haunted house like entrance and I still remember to this day when I rode as it as a 5 year old there was moving ghosts and skeleton figurines in the tunnel and halloween effect music being play on speakers in the train tunnel but now the haunted tunnel got converted to a cute alien cave.

[lifeMac]

I've heard a lot about the 'Orbitron' at Galaxyland. What exactly was it? And I hate that they removed the Zipper, that's one of my favourite rides. =\

It seems like WEM doesn't put much effort into Galaxyland anymore. The entire 'thrills' half of the park has hardly any theming, the Mall of America gets CRAZY theming done on all their rides, but Galaxyland gets the standard Moser fair flats and they don't bother modifying them.

[mindbender737]

thanks for the vid it brings back memories

i have a vid of galaxyland with some of the old rides i remember the boat ride named perilous pendulum i think that was the name

[mandoirock]

its now galaxy land

[Whit451]

I remember when the old rides were there my younger sister and I once went on the zipper thinking it was just some ferris wheel ride well we were wrong. And that big boaat that went upside down I liked to wtch it bt I don't think I would eve go on it the same with the drop of doom ride.

[XTendEdmonton]

Some great old footage!! ... Thanks for the memories

[BuilderGuyNolimits]

That looks better than what they now call "Galaxyland"! I remember going there about 5 years ago what a stupid theme, lol! I like the cool theme it has at that time, why couldn't thay have renamed like fun world so they could keep that theme! That is a very nice theme, and i liked the lights too. Now its just a fictional world of "Cosmo"... Booh! I have a question when the Mindbender was new was the area dark? Thats what my parents say, & no walkway in the third loop?

[SPS148669]

The planes, mindbender and carousal and train(Steam engine replaced with rocket engine and cars and bridges repainted) are still there. The train tunnel used to be a huanted mine and the lake that the train loop bridge goes over was nice.

[pepsilover889]

i was born in this year 1994 :O....Im 15 Now.. So This Movie Is Old Oh An When I Was Heer At The Mall ...Like 3 months ago this place looksed so difernt!!!....And Had No PLants Diddent Have The Zipper And Only had A Long Thing Of seats For The Mind Bender O_o But Yea

[snakelady2660]

wow that sure has changed, they had the zipper back then! and there are so many plants in there compared to now, great footage thanks for posting :)

[CelebLover12]

AHHHH !! OMG. I love the Zipper ride. :)

<333333333333333333 LOTS OF LOVE.

:]

LOL.

Anyways awesome video !!

[AquaRibbon]

I remember I ALWAYS wanted to go on the 'drop of doom'.....but by the time I was tall enough they had taken it down! *tear*

[tayragirl]

that looks fun!

[newpoo90]

it looks so plain

[bungeecords]

It looks more fun back then.

=(

[icanseeyougoingcrazy]

what year did the MB derail??? What web can i find pictures and articals

[MinkyBoodle44]

june 14, 1986

[austinZsweet]

damn cosmo

[lilkitten29]

I liked it better when it was Fantasy land.

[Bumkinxox]

I miss the disco dynamo :(

[KabaFAN]

Well they had no choice. Disneyland sued West Edmonton Mall due to the fact it was called "Fantasy Land"

[Oilersfan555]

I remeber the Old Carnival games that they used to have!

I loved played the Baseball fast pitch challenge to win something.

What happened to those games?

[strayarc2]

who wants 2 sign a petition 3 bring back da zipper

[fuuucck]

and the PLAYDIUM

[missSara14]

wow... those swings have been there for a century.... (the ride is called swing of the century for a reason, i guess). They probably won't take it down because it costs so much money.... cheepasses

[micr0chip1]

I don't remember any blue tubes (@ 2:20). Were those slides or something?

[LakeNipissing]

Wow, you have a good eye to find this. I never noticed it before. I remember they had balloons and climbing areas for younger kids, but the first time I was there, a year after Fantasyland opened, I was 15, so the Mindbender and Drop of Doom were the main events! Hopefully someone who watches this is a bit younger than me, and may have experienced the kids stuff they had in Fantasyland, so they might be able to help answer!

[guyvonjon]

I remember the blue tubes, they were connected to the area with the cave that had the wizard in it. You went up the fake mountain and there was a moonwalk area with rope ladders above the ball pit. The mountain pass area also has weird little features like a leprechaun on a hole with some gold. Somewhere at the top of the mountain were the blue tube slides. From what I remember as a kid they were a lot of fun.

[LakeNipissing]

Thanks for adding your recollection. That's all thats left, aside from older postcards, and long-lost home videos like the one I made.

[Bumkinxox]

They were wicked awesome slides!!!!!!!!!

[Sweetsoulsister83]

wow it looks so different now that its galaxy land!

[Rawd123]

Thanks for posting this. I was there the other day, trying to remember what it used to look like. :) Does anyone have any video from before the roller coaster area addition?

[Retrodude1985]

WOW I missed going to Fantasyland back in the day before they changed it to Galaxyland

[Lucky4Girl]

Why did they take out the zipper?

[Bumkinxox]

The Zipper was taken down due to mechanical Problems...its one of the only ones thats in a perdement theme park...the ones that travel get alot more downtime and since the fantasy land one ran every day the same part kept wearing out and breaking down...they said they could of moddified but it would not have been as fun so they got rid of it...i wanted to go on so bad but I was to young at the time :(

[Honey2600]

it aint called fantasyland its called GALAXYLAND

[LakeNipissing]

The name was changed from Fantasyland to Galaxyland in 1995. Read some of the older comments for good explanations.

[guitarassjordan]

the reason it did change was because a section of disneyland is called fantasyland :P

[kiellandiskool]

ha ha i went there it was kool hurt my back on the mind bender

[inmyfacehaha]

the mindbender is freakin awesome. ive been on it once. but it rocks

[kerikinz]

i went on this 5 times ina row yesterday =D i said id never go on it 2, and now im addicted LOL

[uploaded113redone]

wow they had a zipper ride in galaxy land those assholes whyd they take it out

[KingR3aper]

no friggin kidding, I never got over that.

[maxthewax]

onlyreason the got rid of most rides is cuz people died on it

[JeffEckert2007]

only one ride and that was the mindbender

they just like to upgrade so people who go there alot dont get bored

[ghostypopcorn]

I can't belive the ammount of things they got rid of..

[gh2rockergirl]

wtf its called galaxyland not fantasyland

[Bamboo564]

HA! the plane ride was still there!!

[spinner563]

the restraints are a seat belt a bar and a harness that goes on the shoulders

[gabriella159408]

GOT nothing to say haha newfies are better

[gabriella159408]

newfies are better then alberta people

[gabriella159408]

you guys called us stupid because we gets jobs up in albeta b`y thats no fair alberta people are just lazy to get a job

[gabriella159408]

alerbeta people is nothing without newfoundlanders

[ThePwnerPoser1337]

Isent it called galaxyland...

[tomilty59]

this is galaxy land fantasy land is the hotel

[LakeNipissing]

Galaxyland was called Fantasyland before 1995. This resulted in some type of legal issues with Disney, who had rights to the name Fantasyland. I believe WEM even altered the name to "Canada Fantasyland" but still had to change it... Not sure why FLH was able to keep the name.

[tomilty59]

i see i would only be about 5 then and i dont get out to edmonton much anyways

[seanwat]

because its a hotel and not does not have any relations to an amustment park...trust me i work there

[funnyboy213]

didnt the mindbender used to be so dangerous that it only had a bar go over ur knees and that was keeping you in? thats what my dad told me (i was to young to go on it before it changed)

[funnyboy213]

lots of rides there that are old now, wow it looks different and more fun cuz of the zipper

[naxious]

that was so long time ago

[ETHIOmusician4christ]

omg thats wat west edmonton mall looked like 13 years im ahppy i wasnt there then or id hate it more than now

[everydaygamer]

OMG THEY HAD A ZIPPER RIDE!!! now theyre making a new roller coaster that goes there lol

[hacky124]

omg the mindbender is WICKEDLY AWESOME. i thought i'd die =[

[lodeclaw]

I really miss the West Ed back in the day. Lately they seem to be slacking and the mall in general doesn't have the same aesthetic feel it had in the 80s and early 90s. Nice to see the old Fantasy Land. =) Thanks for the upload!

[LakeNipissing]

Lodeclaw, this is kind of how I would sum it up as well. WEM is still very good now overall, but has evolved from the class and quality it was known for when opening, to covering most everything with blue, yellow and purple fiberglass over the last 10 years... I blame 'Cosmo' for this!

[lodeclaw]

I definitely agree with you 100%. Truly, though, it's Disney's fault that Cosmo exists in the first place. WEM went from everyone's fantasy mall to a second rate theme-mall. Although I still love WEM, I'm hoping for positive change in the future.

[seanwat]

the place has changed so much from 1994-2007 it seems more fun back then but i like it now more than ever cause i go on the mindbender lol

[jbrollercoasters]

Isn't it called GALAXYLAND??? Or did they change the name or something recently?

[xonessox]

it used to be fantsyland

it was way better then

[jbrollercoasters]

Didn't that roller coaster come off the track and kill 3 people before? I heard the train like wrapped around a pole or something. I still want to go on it though!! WOW!!!! They ZIPPER indoors? I'm So jealous.

[spennyj33]

thats when it first opened. but its a-ok now.

[xonessox]

it derailed and smashed into a wall actually

3 were killed, one horribly disfigured

when i used to work there they still had the old cart in a storage area

totally morbid

all the staff was creeped out

[LakeNipissing]

Popular Mechanics article 'Killer Roller Coasters' covers the Mindbender crash and has a photo of the derailed car crashed into one of the loop support columns. The cart is crumpled significantly and there is a covered body on the floor below. I agree xonessox - morbid. You can still see where this happened today. All this being said, I have rode the Mindbender many times since then (including backwards recently), and it is a GREAT rollercoaster!

[xonessox]

i know!

and totally safe they do a full maintainance check at least once an hour

and you arent allowed to work on the ride unless you've been employed at galaxyland for at least a year

[SLicKz]

fantasy owned back in the day.

but disney sued them because of the name