 Hey everyone, my name is Aaron, and I am the newest member of the amusement insider team right over here on YouTube and on Instagram And Facebook Everyone else you may be asking Aaron. Why are you joining amusement insiders? Who are you? Those are some questions that I'm gonna answer for all of you right now This is part one in a 93 part mini series where I'm explaining why I'm joining the team I'm kidding. This is not gonna take 93 episodes. I'm gonna tell all of you right now I am basically a massive massive lover of theme parks and roller coasters I've always been since I was a little kid. I actually grew up going to Wonderland My mom used to work at the theme park actually selling balloons My dad is a clown and he actually performed at Wonderland when I was a kid So I grew up all the time at the park that's just 15 minutes from my house Every single year to when I was a kid, we would always have a family trip down to Orlando Of course falling in love with Disney and everything I do is Disney. I love Disney I love everything that has to do with just being at theme parks. Not only that I am a huge fan of news and rumors and updates. I love seeing instruction photos and Updates of coasters and projects and lands all over the world being built So hopefully I can share a little bit with all of you Just about news rumors updates and all of that fun Also on all my free time when I'm not doing what I love to do magic, which I'll talk about a little more I am on YouTube watching through every single theme park channel. I can find Looking at Bovs and breakdowns and just history of parks and coasters I love it. If you're watching this video and you have a YouTube channel about rollercoasters and theme parks I've probably seen all your videos. So thank you now I have four loves in my life the first which is quite obvious his theme parks and amusement parks anything that has to Do with going to them or just watching content that has to do with them here online in my free time. I Love roller coasters. I love going. I love planning on it Definitely is one of the four loves of my life. It owns a quarter of my hearts moving on to the second quarter of my hearts We have magic. I am a professional magician and I live I sleep and I am always thinking Magic the third thing that I love is horror movies haunted attractions anything that has to do with anything spooky I love horror. It's awesome. The fourth love of my life is of course My girlfriend Caroline. This is cartoon Caroline and cartoon Aaron as you can tell we loved his name very much Four loves of my life now, I want to tell all of you a little bit about me So when you're watching my videos, you know where all my thoughts and opinions are coming from now I've been in magic my whole life I actually started performing when I was just four years old the reason for that is my dad is a clown I know what a lot of you are thinking you're thinking My dad's a clown too, but no no my dad's a clown. He's like I'm beat-beat clown like a real clown So I actually grew up performing with him Over the past five years. I've actually got to perform in some absolutely amazing places and work on some absolutely Amazing projects. I've got to be a magic consultant on a great show at CBC kids the Thrillusionist I got to bring my family magic show all across Canada performing at tons of festivals here in Toronto Everything from kids vest Toronto to pumpkin vest Toronto to Canada's Wonderland for many many summers to West Edmonton Mall to the Provincial exhibition of New Brunswick Magic all over and two years ago I was actually trying to bring a really cool Horror themed escape room to Toronto and it sort of changed with my partners I work on it with into a show So we created something called the Kill Show and I've performed that at Screamers Which is a massive haunted attraction here in Toronto for the past two years Unfortunately this year we are not gonna be back since there is not looking like too many haunted attractions are gonna be open Which is sad, but we are gonna be bringing that online Virtually this year, but I got to put a whole bunch of crazy gory Horror allusions together into this crazy show and last year Wonderland actually loved the show so much They wanted to bring one of the allusions to their park So I actually got to go into Wonderland build direct and right Show for their haunts, which was called the gallows where we hung someone in a medieval village Every hour or it was every half hour. I don't know. It's crazy. What's happening a lot freaked me out free I Thought it'd be a really cool just so all of you know where all my thoughts and opinions are coming from in future videos If I let you know my top five favorite Dean Parkson top five favorite roller coasters I'm not gonna go deep into any of these. It's sort of just a list that I'm gonna tell you Really quickly and then hopefully in future videos I can go deeper into the coasters and the theme parks and the attractions and dark rides that I really really love But the first you know, let's start from five we'll go from five to number one keeping a more and little mystery But my fifth favorite park that I've been to is actually Thurrup Park in London, England They had some really really cool dark rides there from a Darren Browns ghost train to some really cool roller coasters It was a ton of fun actually when we were there. I said, I was gonna go too deep I guess I'm going a little deep the whole theme park actually had a power outage halfway through the day So they had to shut down the full park. It was a bit crazy But that is my fifth favorite park My fourth favorite park is actually Canada's Wonderland if you can't tell I'm wearing a vintage Canada's Wonderland t-shirt over here I've gone to Wonderland every single year of my life. I have the honour of performing for three kids' fests Which was a week-long festival over a few years. I've performed countless charity events in their theaters I absolutely love Canada's Wonderland everyone who runs the park is fantastic all the people that go to the park are fantastic It's just such a fun really happy place sort of like The other theme parks on this list, especially by number one theme park on this list My number three favorite theme park is Cedar Point keeping it in the Cedar Fair family. I absolutely love Cedar Point I'm so so devastated that I can't go to Wonderland and Cedar Point this summer my girlfriend She hasn't got to go on steel vengeance yet when she goes on steel vengeance, that's my little smile will be even bigger I love Cedar Point some absolutely amazing rides Steel vengeance just makes the park even better. I loved it before they even had it I have a little model of it over here That is my number three favorite park. My number two favorite park is Universal Studios Orlando I'm gonna group it in with Islands of Adventure Because honestly I would put either of them up there I do like Islands of Adventure a little more. I haven't got to go on the new hygrids Magical creature motorbike motorbike adventure yet And the new Jurassic world Velocicoster that's coming out soon is just gonna make the park insane So I can't wait to go on both of those two rides hopefully next year in 2021 but even without those Absolutely amazing mix of thrill rides and dark rides and just the best. I love Universal Studios. I could go there all the time My number one is not too far down the street from Universal Studios Just like I did grouping the two Universal parks together. I am gonna group all four Disney parks together I love Disney world. I said at the beginning I'm a massive Disney fan and I really am we actually had our tickets planned to go for the opening week of Halloween Hornites this year and we were gonna spend four days in Disney and we bought those tickets for the park Months ago before even the pandemic started. We're devastated. We can't go right now. I love Disney I love all of the theme parks there. They just get better and better. I'm so excited to go to Galaxy's Edge In Hollywood Studios and the new Mickey Minnie ride there. I'm so excited to be back Those are my top five favorite theme parks. I Love theme parks My top five favorite coasters In the world that I've been on number five is Manta at Sea World Orlando Let me also just say that this list may change if I would to think about this on a different day This is just what I would rank them right now It's a fantastic coaster. It's a B&M flyer Which means you lay down and you're facing the ground as you go through this coaster My number four is revenge of the mummy at Universal Studios Orlando It is a super cool awesome mix of a dark ride and a roller coaster. I love it I love the false ending in it. It is a great ride I was thinking what is my favorite coaster probably right now in Disney and Universal It's really close between a few but right now I would give it to revenge of the mummy My number three favorite roller coaster takes us right back to Canada's Wonderland. It is my favorite coaster in the park. It is Leviathan Now when Leviathan opened, which is a B&M giga coaster, which means it's over 300 feet tall The park already had a B&M hyper coaster Which means it's over 200 feet tall called behemoth and I still like behemoth more than Leviathan for the first couple years Was open but just over the past couple summers. I just really fell in love with the ride I think you feel all the airtime a whole lot more. It's just a fantastic roller coaster my number two Favorite roller coaster takes us to cedar point in sandusky, Ohio to maverick Man, I love that ride. It is absolutely crazy now. My dad doesn't like going on many roller coasters anymore But he will always go on maverick What a crazy ride you get thrown out of your seat through this thing For what feels like the whole ride it is A blast if you have not seen maverick before go check out a pov Which means point of view Check that out on youtube just look up maverick pov at cedar point and do the same thing for this number one ride coming up Crazy roller coasters amazing the number one roller coaster is not too far from maverick. It's a full Two-minute walk away. It is steel vengeance steel vengeance At cedar point in sandusky, Ohio Wow, what an amazing ride When I got off this ride it I was so blown away. I called everyone I knew that like roller coasters and I was telling him how amazing this ride was There's nothing I have been on that compares to this at all. It is so much fun. It is so smooth You feel zero pain on this ride and it has more airtime than any other roller coaster in the world Which means you are out of your seat For more time than any other roller coaster in the world It has like the world's fastest airtime hill. There's a whole bunch of crazy world records It is an absolutely amazing Roller coaster it's a hybrid coaster by rmc. Wow So amazing those are my top five favorite roller coasters Now at this point you might be wondering what content you're going to see for me going forward What type of videos am I going to make ultimately it is up to all of you What do you guys want to see now hopefully when everything gets back to normal? I can show you guys a whole bunch of really really cool videos of the fairs and festivals I traveled to and all the way behind the scenes with the other entertainers there I'm going to make sure they all perform some really cool stuff special for the youtube. I will make them with friendship That will hopefully be a whole lot of fun. We do have some virtual shows coming up in some cool Virtual theaters we're doing so maybe I'll share some behind the scenes of that Let me know if you guys want to see some magic If you guys want to see me talk about some news If you want me to do like a weekly or monthly news and rumor Worldwide team park a roller coaster update. Let me know. Thank you all so much for hanging out with me virtually today My name is erin matthews and make sure to follow me on instagram at erin matthews magic So I can update all of you when I have some videos and some new things coming out I'm so excited to bring all of you some new videos in the future Please let me know in the comments below what all of you guys want to see What kind of videos do you want from me and from brandon and krega? I know they have a whole bunch of amazing ideas to bring all of you soon I'm so excited to see all the amazing things to come from amusement insiders Till I see you all in the future Bye. Bye