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I made a whole deck of Leviathan for him. How was your week? So- It was horrible. It was horrible. My week was horrible, but my trip was really well until the last day. Yeah, the week went by very slow and there was a lot of aggravation with the car and stuff but that's all getting sorted out, so that's good. Apart from the car issues, my trip was very nice, although I did start getting a little bit homesick to be honest, like on the 6th or 7th day. And obviously I miss Brendan genuinely and I miss everything. So it's nice to be back. But you know, the Dollywood is- Why do you always have to moan when you do things? You know, me and this fabulous girl, we won't say her name just in case, but you know, we were all hanging out and Sirius eating a chocolate from my store and we noticed that when he eats he moans. I want to point something out and I'm going to say it before Brendan says it so he won't be able to say it. I'm going to take that away from him. So we ate a lazy bear today. We ate a salad and we were getting in the cars because the park closed early to come back. A salad? Salad? We- Grab and go. That was a pasta salad. That was a pasta salad. That's not a salad. That's not a salad. That's not a salad. That's not a salad. It's literally- I'll show you tomorrow, it's written in the name. Pasta, salad and big letters. It's not a salad. It's not a salad, Sirius. So we ate a salad. They're going to assume we're working on our diet but today it was absolutely far from. I put extra dressing on it. We ate a salad. It was a pasta salad with chicken and a crap ton of pasta. So no, no, I'm going to call you out now. Thank you for this. Sit down, sit down. Okay, this is my throne now, okay? Wonderland King here. We ate at Lazy Bear Watch, okay? He got a big pork chop, his little macaroni and cheese. I said little and he had like his little bun. He gave a little bit to Matt. He's going to claim that he gave his bun to Matt. I did, actually. And then we had a pasta salad, probably an hour and a half later, two hours later. I was hungry. A pasta salad. They're big this year. Wonderland, we'll talk about the food. I think I forgot to make the thing but we'll talk about that, okay? Wonderland's amazing this year. I have no complaints except for trees. But okay, we leave the park two hours later, not even, like an hour and a half later. Not even. Not even an hour later. An hour later. So he was planning on getting a pizza before the podcast and I said, oh, I'm not hungry anymore. We ate a lot. So like, I'm just going to grab Starbucks on my drive home. He goes, oh, okay. Goes to his car, gets out of his car, knocks like for me to pull down my window. And then like, he forgot a charger. I get the charger. And then he like rolls down his window again to talk and he's like, so like, are you actually not hungry? Cause like, I'm hungry. And then he like went to Chipotle. That's true. I did go to Chipotle. And I know you're going to go get another thing after the podcast. There's chocolate. There's chocolate. Oh my God. Well, how was your week? I think it was good. Do you recall? I'm in this like- It worked a lot. I did work a lot. It worked a lot. And I'll work hard. On me because like I was doing daily updates. So I'd be at work all day all morning. Then I'd go to Wonderland, which is now far from where I work. Whereas before it used to be like a five minute drive. So I'd work all day, eight and a half hours. Go fly the drone. Sometimes I'd have to sit there for two to four hours depending on what was happening just to see and catch things. And then I'd go home, edit. And by the time I was done editing, it would be like 10pm. Go on Sirius Live. And then like that was in repeat for a whole week. So I'm exhausted. But I can't complain because Wonderland's open now and life is great. And now after seeing the park, it's amazing. I sent you a link. Oh. What was that all? What was it? Do you have anything to say about your trip? I had a brain fart there for a second. Yeah. So actually something I was really impressed with. And I know that we've talked about this a lot. And you've talked about this a lot. I don't know if we're going to talk a little bit about it today. But I haven't been to Hershey Park since 2019. And in 2020, when they got Candemonium, they did like a $50 million renovation of the whole front parking lot, the front gate. And they did such an amazing job at the front gate. It looks beautiful. The buildings really look nice. It looks very clean. And it handles a lot of people really well. So I was really impressed with that. Don't spit on me! Help! Son, help! We need a shambles! That's from Pantheon. Oh my God. Oh no. Okay, so you keep going. King's Dominion was pretty bad, to be honest. No I-305. Bush Gardens is good as always. They're a very nice, well-rounded park. I love Carowinds. I love Fury. Fury is one of my favorite roller coasters. Dollywood was fantastic. It has been five years since I've been to Dollywood. And okay, I, and still theming doesn't necessarily do it for me. But when you go to a park like Dollywood, you really understand what good theming can do to the atmosphere. And yeah, it just blew my mind, like all the detail and everything. Which, you know, I think we are going to talk about that later. But that is something that, well, you know, just stay tuned for like an hour. But the theming was impressive at Dollywood. So. So just a warning, this is going to be our biggest podcast, I think. Oh, there's, we're not even done the intro in already 12 minutes. Yeah, guys, you're in here for the long haul. This is a long one. Wonderland is not fucking around this year. Like, they're not, they're not playing. They received all of everyone's negative feedback last year, I think. And Cedar Fair, honestly, I'm the biggest Cedar Fair fanboy there is now. And I already was. Anytime Cedar Fair has something to say, I'm there like, yeah. But now I'm like, I'm drinking your Kool-Aid. You want to charge me a thousand dollars for all season fast lane? I'll pay a thousand dollars for all season fast lane. Because every single thing I hated about Wonderland is a race this year so far. So far. So far. It's really like, you know what? When people say the little things like a little bit of paint there, a little bit of landscaping there, you know, maybe they revitalize a certain attraction or something. If they just do one of that and just paint one area, but do nothing else, you don't notice it. But when you have little thing after little thing after little thing being done, it doesn't turn into a little thing anymore. Like you walk around the park and you're like, oh, that's paint there. Wait a minute. There's paint there's paint. Oh my God. There's like, you know, 40-50 structures now that have been freshly painted and refurbished. And you start thinking like, holy crap, that's half of the park. And just got like, just got redone. So it is quite impressive to be honest to see that much effort being put into Wonderland, especially how in previous seasons we didn't really see that. Almost nowhere. It's like, they just kicked into high gear and it's like Tundra Twister looks beautiful. Vortex looks beautiful. The buildings on International Street look beautiful. You know, Leviathan's all fresh paint. Behemoth had some paint or it was really clean. You know, even Yukon Striker, they'd pressure wash the catwalks and stuff like that. They didn't do that elsewhere. Well, Leviathan's running really good. What, faulted in the morning? What? Oh, sorry. Leviathan doesn't have that problem. Anyways, it looks really good. All these little things combined doesn't make a little thing. In fact, in the park, Brendan asked like, if you had to put a dollar value on everything that was done, do you think it would be the equivalent to a major investment? So we were trying to discuss this at the park because we're going to go over everything in here, but we think that Wonderland might have spent a pretty effin' penny this season. Can I say at least over $15 million in general park improvements? Yeah, like there are ride refurbs that like... The train, well, the one train on Leviathan alone, all the trains, that's a million dollars right there at least. Like it's insane. Hopefully they... So there are changes to that jazm, but I'm not quite sure what they're going to do. But I guess we should get into a bit of this and then we're going to miss some things. What? So with what Jasmine said? Jasmine or... She goes by Jasmine. I'm used to jazm. Sorry, Jasmine. Sorry. I don't think today was a good example of that and I don't think we will get a good example of that until park open because it was a private event, right? So it wasn't as busy as it could have been and everyone there was kind of with a company or organization. So they were following like a certain conduct and stuff. So I think we'll really see that when the park starts opening to the general public. So I see that there's an issue going on with Patreon. If you're a Patreon, you should automatically get linked to Discord. Maybe just explore the Patreon page a little bit. It should be there. Everyone else had no issue doing this. So it should auto give you a link to Discord and which will auto give you the role as well. Even if you go join Discord through the link on the YouTube videos, it's not going to give you the role. So go through Patreon. Snoopies! It looked really good. It looked real good. The drone did zero justice for this ride. Zero. Even higher up park employees were saying they were blowing away when they saw it in person. It's a lot bigger than what I thought it was going to be. Do we actually have any statistics on this ride? Like how long it is? Because I would have to say it's over a thousand feet. It's... It's pretty long for what they're advertising it. Oh yeah. And the buildings are bigger too. And it's just the whole area gives me dollywood vibes. Yeah. Like I'm excited. It's going to be nice. And you know what? It's going to be such a good addition to the kids park. It's like a real serious attraction and no other Cedar Fair kids park has anything remotely like this. So I think that's going to really put us in a different league when you're comparing all the planet Snoopies and stuff in the Cedar Fair chain. Because to be honest, like you got Kings Island, you know, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Wonderland, they're all... I don't want to say cookie cutter. I actually think we have the best kids area, but for some reason Kings Island always wins it. But we definitely now have more of a standout attraction than any of those parks have when it comes to kids rides. So I really hope that takes notice. Adult ERT. That's actually kind of smart. Like if they wanted to give adults... I kind of like that idea. If they were to give adults a chance to ride it, are there mornings from 9 to 10 a.m. that they could do an ERT for adults on this ride? That almost sounds like a great... that sounds like a really good resolution first drop. That does honestly. Like that's amazing. That sounds good. I like that. I know they're not going to do that, but that would be a really good kind of like middle ground. I do want to say I think this is going to be a top 10 coaster at Wonderland. Yeah, you were saying that. So we're not allowed to ride it, but I agree with him. When you see it in person, it's one, it's a lot taller in person. It's got high elements and then it has sharp elements. Well, look right here. Look right here guys. Look at that curvature there and that little pop. Now, I don't know how fast the train's going to be going over that, but you know, it has that modern day banking where you do some of those really ridiculous sharp turns. So I think that's going to look really nice. That's going to feel really nice. Yeah, and I agree, Mr. Sandwich. They definitely don't. It's not on their priority list. So... What just happened here? Let's keep that off Patreon chat. Let's not post inappropriate images, but... What was this? It was just a nothing. But what was I saying? Oh, yeah, they definitely don't care about adults riding the ride. And also after talking to some higher ups, they needed this ride in there so desperately. Like the kids are expanding at Wonderland from the funnel cakes. But though, like honestly, like it's getting really busy and the kids area needs some investment. And you can tell there's more coming. They've pre-prepped that land off to the event and there's still like some markings and stuff. Like gas lines and stuff. I would love to see an actual, like a smaller version of Lazy Bear, like a nice restaurant in the kids park. Yeah. I think that would do well. I would like to see that pizza-pizza-demo-ish and build like a more professional looking. Yeah. It's so many issues to discuss. Issues! What are the issues? Who's saying issues? Key switches. Um, max speed for this is 31 miles per hour. Yeah, it's a kids ride. You know what? It's a kids ride. It's 10 kilometers an hour faster than Thunder Ride, which is a family ride. Oh, Kimberly, I'm going to ride it on media day and then like, I mean, yeah, cool. If I, even if I, let's say I need to fit first. There's a chance I might not fit on this. Well, if he doesn't fit on this. But what? It's chaperone policy, et cetera. Oh, we're going to talk about all of that. Um, but this is a healthy, so I've been, how long have I been saying? I've been, to my friend group and all that, I've been telling them even before Wonderland started to really increase in season past sales. I said, you know, Wonderland is one of the busier parks. It's going to lead to more investments. Like this is actual, like this isn't me blowing anyone, smoke up anyone's butt. I've genuinely been like Cedar Fair is going to start investing in Wonderland more than any other park, blah, blah, blah. I have been saying that for how many years? Two, three, four? Since like Yukon. Since Yukon. I'm like, just wait, just wait. I can't remember. I kept saying it. Just wait. You'll see. Just wait. You'll see. I'm, I got to stop swearing so much because I know there's, I got to, like, I'm bloody blown away by this year's investments. I wasn't expecting this. Like all those, well, that's the thing, right? Like all those smaller improvements, again, when you think of, okay, whatever park improvements, but the sheer amount that they did. Yeah. Like just the volume of stuff that they, I don't want to say fixed, but the stuff that they redid and repainted and refurbished was incredible. You know what though? Some of it was a long time coming, but they've really like, they, I think they've gone above and beyond expectation. This is more than I think I've seen any American park do in a year too. I call this a park renovation. That's what I'm, that's what I'm calling this year, a park renovation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's definitely there. You can tell they're trying to, it's almost like they're getting, they're changing gears to shift the park to go into a fundamentally different direction. So baga. I'm currently live streaming. Like I can't respond to Patreon messages while I'm doing a podcast. There is an auto system set up on Patreon that will link you to discord. I can't guide you through that while I'm in the middle of a podcast. So you're going to have to wait until after the podcast unfortunately, if you can't figure it out. And that's the last I'm going to respond to that issue there. And can you please stop multi posting about it? Oh, here we go. Who looked it up 804 feet? That's pretty good for a kid's ride. I don't think it's based off of age. It's based off of height. Height. Yeah. 36 inches. But Snoopy's is looking amazing. It's going to be amazing. And I think that every edition Wonderland ads now is going to be heavily themed like these. Well, yeah. Yeah. I guess if that's the route that they're really going down, it would only make sense. Right. Yeah. And remember, we were kind of told two years ago last season, even that like Wonderland is trying to become Canada's Wonderland. They want to, they want to become that destination park even within Canada. And the way to do that is by building beautiful attractions like this. And this was gaining like it was people were drawn to it. Like everyone walking by was like wonder what's getting a new ride? Oh my God. I kept hearing like little tidbits. I felt like I was in roller coaster Tycoon with it. Yeah. Like Disney of the North is what like, I remember they even started calling their employees last year cast members. I'm just trying to see if we're all right. I we can come back to Snoopy's if we're missing anything, but we're about to discuss something really big. This is something I didn't see on the drone. This is something that I didn't expect. Oh, well, that other thing was important too. Dragon Fire. They did a lot of work on it on the trains, on the trains, the trains. I'm not going to say it's butter smooth. No, it's not butter smooth. But compared to what it used to be, it is very nice. It's rideable. It is rideable. It is rideable. Considering its age to it is extremely rideable now. And it's a fun ride. Like, you know, it's short, but it's enjoyable. I would take this easily now over flight deck. I would take it over the bat. Yeah. I would take it over Wild Beast. Can we? Okay. So let's describe it in order. So we get on the train. Okay. I sit gracefully, very gracefully and beautifully into my seat. I had to shield myself like this. It's like when Mount Vizuvius exploded and I was like Pompeii. And I'm like, no. You know, I'm sitting very gracefully in my seat, like a model. You know, the ride option, all that are like, damn. You know, that's what really happened. That's what really happened. That's what really happened. Maintenance was like, damn. The point is the train, we got in the train and we got locked. And that's that. No need to go into it any further. It's been a while since you've... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Professional. Okay. So we're sitting there, right? And they say clear. And then you hear nothing. And the train just starts moving forward. You hear nothing. Like you could hear a whisper. And the train just... You know what the best way to describe it? That is good. That is good. It was like a magnetic break. It felt like a magnetic braking system. Yeah. Like it was... We just move forward and then I'm like, this feels smoother than normal. So I'm like, we're going, we're going. And I'm like, okay, this is like a B&M. You know, we get to the left hill. And you know how before it would like clamp you right before the left hill? It would... This time it was just like... And the train's just like... You know, slows down. And you hit the chain. And you know, then I like... I was like, this feels a little rough how we hit the chain. But then you get actually locked in. And I was like, okay, this feels like an actual coaster now. And we go up the left hill and it felt faster than normal. And then someone else confirmed that it was going faster than normal, the left hill. So they definitely did replacements there. And then it looked like the maintenance shed under the left hill. Was worked on. Was worked on. And then we go through the course. And I'm like, one, it was pulling Gs in the loops. And the loops were very nice. That was like actually forceful. It was pulling Gs. And then the rest of the ride where I normally bang my head a lot in the corkscrews, so just like a one, like, you know, head movement. And then they'll ride, you'd think. And then the mid course worked. The mid course clamped us. But the most important thing is it's not like those jerky motions. It was one fluid motion. Yeah. And the brakes wouldn't like hard stop you. They would slowly clamp down on the train to just like do a little friction. It felt like it was a magnetic braking system. So they clearly put a lot of time and effort into, you know, making sure the braking system works. The lift hills work. The trains, they were beautiful. But we're not done. We're not done. No, we're not. It gets into the final brake run and we come to the slowest, most relaxing stop. Five-star Uber stop I've ever had in my life. Like she was just like a shh. And then you hear nothing. And then you hear the pressure from the little chambers of gas or whatever. What is it? The condensers. The condensers. You hear them release? You hear nothing. And so the train's moving. It was very seamless. The brakes were amazing. Whoever did them, if you're watching, you did a very good job. Can you fix your car? Flight deck needs some attention now. Yes. Oh my God. So we got out of the train again. Very seamless and gorgeous and people were staring. They were asking for our snapchats and everything. And we looked down. The wheels were in mint condition, brand new see-through, which I thought was weird. Is that normal? It might be a new year. They looked like skateboard wheels. Because Arrow's not around. So that's probably a third party company. So they had brand new amazing pristine wheels on them. And the trains looked a little thing. And then I remembered, y'all remember my video where we want to walk in through the woods along Wonderland to get those awesome shots of Snoopy's racing railway? Well, we noticed, if you remember the video, I commented that some of Vortex's from King's Islands trains were missing. The parts and all that. So they obviously used them to work on the bat in Dragonfire. So I'm really curious to ride the bat now. Oh yeah. I didn't even think of it. Because I actually said that was better than the bat, but we didn't ride the bat yet this season. This is closed. Yeah. So I'm telling you right now. One, this is no longer a potential ride removal, I don't think. It doesn't confirm anything, but I would say this confirms that this isn't going to be a ride removal. MedFair will stay MedFair. And the investments will go to Frontier Canada and World Expo. But that's OK, because MedFair has the life. I'm sorry. I want to bring something up now. I personally don't think this, but you did make a comment. And I don't know if you were kind of joking or not, but did you say you think Dragonfire is smoother than Behemoth? Yeah, I did. I wasn't joking. What do you think about that? I personally don't. OK, I will say this. Dragonfire does not have the rattle Behemoth does, but Behemoth still has the obviously smoother transition, so I'm going to give it to Behemoth. But Dragonfire has no rattle. Yeah. So if that rattle bothers you, then Dragonfire probably is the better option. But yeah, I'm excited because I can handle a ride like this now. I used to avoid this, but now I would be like, it's not obviously not, it's still not going to be my like, let's go ride Dragonfire! There's no line. I'd be like, let's go ride Dragonfire. And Saria's going to be like, I'll meet you at Leviathan. Yes! Yes! I'll wave down at him from the break on. But yes, this arrow looks like she will live another day, another year, another decade at Canada's Wonderland. Which is very interesting because Cedar Fair is kind of at a crossroads now with their arrow coasters. We have Dragonfire, Quirk, Screw, there's the one at Carowinds. Every Cedar Fair park pretty much has an arrow. And a lot of rumors say, from what we've been hearing, that Anaconda, King's Dominion, is starting to come up on the chopping block. But it seems like the bigger custom arrow loopers that pull a little more forces and maybe we're neglected a little bit more are out. I think that Cedar Fair in Wonderland might also look at this ride as a good stepping stone coaster for a park like Wonderland. And you know what, it's kind of in an area like under Leviathan, like what really, maybe they figure like, well if we get rid of it, what are we going to do with that area? Remove Leviathan with it. So, yeah. And the paint, the paint was very nice. Again, this was another ride that received a lot of paint and it smells like paint in the station, which I love. Like everything though, guys, like the entire station, the queue, the trains, the op booth, I was looking at all the little crevices and cracks at the bottom where it was all rotted out last year, they fixed all that. So it's not like, you know, two hours just boom, boom, boom, we're done, no, it's like they actually took their time, they looked at what was wrong and they were very meticulous with it. Which you know, that's pretty good. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Jasmine, that's a good point, having some old credits and some new credits. And I really think 2025 is going to blow the envelope at Wonderland. I'm going to hold on to that. I'm going to keep that as like, I think Wonderland's going to push the envelope. Finally, no B&M. You need to shut up. Like, no, no, you need to shut up. You are literally, you drive hours to go ride intense rides. You were the, like, you hated B&Ms. And now out of nowhere, you went Wonderland to get a fourth B&M. Is this, like, do you have some sort of, like, hate crime you hate against, like, the enthusiasts at Wonderland? You don't want us to have, you just... I just want an invert. It was a wing coaster, now it's an invert. Which one is that? I would take a launch wing coaster too. Oh my God, but we have GCI, mock double launch, intimate double launch, anything, anything but B&M. I know. This is an actual lecture. Oh God, it's... You raised this when it comes to ghost days. Okay, onto a little more boring of a subject. Oh, I love her. She's amazing. She is actually a really nice, her working person. Yes, she's amazing. And Jake on Leviathan as well. You know, and there was another person, actually even the whole Leviathan supervisor, Addy, she's amazing. The whole Leviathan team, like, and this is not saying anything to any other teams, but it really seems like Wonderland did really good with just rides in general, just everybody in general, hiring, but there was one guy who was grouping. Yeah, he was so nice. I wish I knew his name. He was nice. Jake was amazing. Yeah. Like... Very fast, very hard work. Yeah. Very hard work. Was waving bye to everyone on the train, hyping everyone up, pre-getting everyone to unbuckle their seatbelts as the train was pulling in. So how do you feel about that? What did we see this morning when we were waiting for Leviathan? They were trying to hype everyone up. Yeah. Like, right here. How do you feel about that? I love it. And I hope that wasn't just because it was a private event. That was my only fear. So I hope we see that. They had the hype mic as you saw, a little megaphone. I would love that to continue because, you know, they were going through the queue lines. I think it's a real thing because they had queues. Yeah. They had a list of queues to say. And honestly, it's there to stay. Okay, perfect. It's my favorite thing I've seen because it literally worked. There were like maybe 12 of us in line at that moment. And people, like it was like, you know, like one of those awkward like hype. But I can imagine when there's a line, how hyped they'll get the crowd. Now could that bite them in the butt? You get the wrong crowd in the line and you start hyping them up. I think though, as time goes on, they're going to know when to do it, when not to do it. Yeah. That's true. Jasmine there. It could be used for multiple scenarios as well. They could use the megaphone. Stop lying, John. But no, it was so cute. And that employee is adorable. Like I hope she's in here. Vanessa, I think Vanessa. Oh my God. I love the Leviathan team this year already. And like I didn't even get to know them all like yet. Leviathan. Yeah. Yukon has such a strong team too. Oh my God. They power stacked Yukon's team. Wonderland again did a really good job. I think this is their best year yet. Staffing-wise it is. Yeah. They are so stacked. They have like 20 workers at Leviathan at one point. They just can't get over them. And the smile. Look at it. Oh, she's so adorable. And you know what? It seems like everyone, and I know it's just the first actual day with gas. Oh my God. Brayden, I might have to ban you if you keep going. Brayden, you might lose your privilege. Maid, watching Patreon chat, please. And I know it's only the first day, but it seems like all the teams are really working cohesively together. Like it seems like, you know, people know what to do and they know how to work with each other, which is really important, so. Yeah. It was funny. It's funny, but it's not funny on a live stream. I might have to remove your... I'm kidding. Okay. Thank you. Um, oh we're talking about Levi that we don't even start we just we we just touched the brim of I just touched our first experience and the people I'm gonna give you the floor the mic okay because what he like they poured money into this coaster I'm telling you this is the fastest if it's ever run okay so okay let's first start with the trains because that's where it all happens as you can see here guys that's train one completely refurbished new wheels new wheel carriers new bogies new chassis new seats new restraints new zero car new everything like they spent so much money in redoing this train completely and it hasn't even run yet so I can only imagine how it's gonna handle but let's talk about the other two trains they've also put a lot of effort into them they like they've they've you know greased all the wheels the whole zero cars were completely cleaned new decals everything like even the magnetic brake fins they were clean they were shining guys they put a lot of time and a lot of effort and just the aesthetic of these trains but you know what it's not only for an aesthetic purpose right like any machine you give your car an oil change it's gonna run better you do any type of maintenance to a machine it's gonna run better and that is clear as day on Leviathan they were running 29 long wheels the wheel heaters and yeah you know Leviathan had some of the best runs that I've ever experienced and I think you've ever experienced today like you know it was solid it was solid air time throughout the whole course it was absolutely fantastic okay we rode the front row okay pause let me explain this story because you don't know it because he's happy in the rain okay okay okay this is how fast it was going Matt who also handles rides better than me okay we're all riding in the front it's it's raining it's pouring it this ride was running so fast this ride was running so fast that I had to call it quits I'm holding I'm trying to protect my face the best I've rode I've rid this ride and rain before two people like I've rid this ride and ride in rain I'm literally screaming in pain like my hands are red dots all over them from the rain my forehead's like getting pelted and Matt and I we get on the brake run and we're like we're done we're not riding against Suria we know that you want to ride this again but we are not riding again that hurt that hurt that's how fast she was running I'm sorry I interrupted no that is okay here's your mic guys guys you know it might hurt but those are the best rides you're ever going to get on it trust me um but no it really is running phenomenally you know the first camel back it's not trimming it's barely trimming the second camel back it is trimming but the train is going so fast that you know it doesn't do anything to affect the ride everyone is working together so well the cycles are good it was two trains so it's going to be interesting to see how it goes with three trains but again you know there was very minimal stacking with two trains trains are constantly moving the wheel heaters were on all the nylons were on it was a fantastic way to open the ride and um yeah it was just I like it was it was honestly today was honestly better than I expected yeah I was fan-grilling what in the first five minutes we so we walked into the front gate and then right away it's like there was I looked the same but there was so yeah I noticed right away I was like well no we had walked past and then I started noticing I'm like it's more colorful I'm like oh my god then I noticed like the the stucco the stucco is that how you call what you call it yeah the stucco mud stucco mud on the buildings and they had designed it so it it's 3d and then I'm like oh my god there's art oh my god there's art they added detail it's not just color it's there's detail like there's flowers there's hearts there's there's lines there's flowers they had flowers fake flowers it looks like a little Italian village and even the the merch displays you know each display oh that's the next subject let's not talk about that I didn't realize we had a whole subject oh that's my fault back to Leviathan Leviathan was running great um it's gonna be really awesome when they get that third train on look at it the new parts look at the wheels you know look at her I want to say guys one of those trains is about a million dollars a train to put that in perspective like a brand new train from B&M in fact there were numbers released for nitro's train because that's an old generation train that train costed six flags like nine hundred thousand dollars so this new generation B&M gigatrain to completely redo is not cheap and they didn't only do that train they did a lot of work to the other train so you can tell Wonderland easily sank over a million dollars just in three trains for Leviathan that like just guys just picture that a million dollars for three trains and it looks like they're gonna do one train a season one complete overhaul refurbishment yeah that or there like I don't know what they're gonna do when they transfer that train on are they gonna take one off that was too long of a process I think if you know that was a good I think they're gonna do it season by season um and this train is not obviously on the track yet because they still need to do their testing on it yeah there might need to do final inspections on the wheels and stuff maybe tighten things maybe grease things um that's another really important thing yes no Wonderland is not playing around this season at all they're not and we were talking to someone um higher up and they were like yeah compared to previous opening years Wonderland is perfectly staffed which is a big advantage in their court so we're gonna notice like you know the park is starting off at like 100 capacity which is really cool um not physically new trains because that would be super expensive but essentially they're like new trains they took major components like the one sitting there is essentially a new train so yeah like the chassis I assume are still the original chassis but you got brand new wheel carriers brand new bogies you know brand new wheels I'm sure there's brand new couplings um brand new seatbacks brand new restraints and lap bars like this is as new as you can get from actually being new and this is going to cost like very similar yeah they're keeping the frames yeah that's essentially the frame of the coaster is essentially like the skeleton of the coaster right yeah and then all the like little organs are being replaced oh bye okay next subject or did we talk about everything I love her um this ride we come back to Leviathan my subject this is what makes a theme park for me look at the details my children look at them look at that oh like I was blown away like like and this is just the beginning this is just the beginning like and this is what I mean when and this is so funny because you know when I don't want to say names anymore just in case like I don't know what they were allowed to tell us and all that but someone really high up at wonderland said you know one of wonderland's biggest flaws is their success and you really see that because what's gonna happen is the park's gonna be super busy this season it's gonna be unbearable like we're super excited but it's gonna be unbearably busy in the summer there's gonna be a lot of problems there's gonna be a lot of learning curves for wonderland I now I especially now have faith in wonderland is going to learn from this season and adjust next season as well okay I think we wonderland has earned that trust especially after last season that they're gonna fix things it's not gonna be overnight it's not gonna be you know tomorrow next year it's gonna be next year they'll fix some core and then you know again but the double-edged sword is you get investments with that high of season past sales oh I think the mic's turned away from me um the you get like hardcore investments they needed to build infrastructure there's things in this video you don't even see they have an upgraded electrical grid over by the HR building that they did they have a new upgraded electrical and plumbing line right next to front gate they're adding another fast lane pickup building at front gate they're upgrading the plumbing over by the wave pool they're upgrading the electrical over by the main behemoth helix like it's insane they have an entire electrical company that's been on property for three to four years now being paid every day even on holidays something's happening there's things happening at wonderland as they get ready to upgrade the park even more and it's really exciting and you can tell talking to the higher ups that there's a lot of buzz now there's a lot of they're more proud like we had people and this is not to rehash anything because I really appreciate this we have people that we didn't necessarily get along with and that maybe we attacked previously like food's employees you know upper management that seemed a lot more proud happy they talked to us like it was a lot it was like a new season it was yeah beginning almost and it felt good and everyone seems super proud of the work that went in that everyone we talked to everyone we talked to refer to the last week so much work went into the park like it was really hard to get it ready like blah blah blah but everyone was proud that they did and compared to the american parks we visited like and then you visited even more than me the wonderland really wonderlands opening and this wasn't even their opening they had more than you know like more stuff open than a lot of the other us parks had opened and they've already been open for a month and a half or didn't even close yeah so i do want to say and i have been just as problematic when it comes to this so this is not me pointing the finger at you as the audience but we have a tendency as enthusiasts to be a little overly passionate when it comes to things about our home park like the lines being longer too many guests in the park long food lineups at prices i would really like us to kind of like view this year as no one was expecting the park to sell as much as they were selling no one was expecting that i can i can promise you they did not expect what they sold this year and cedar fair is trying really hard to prepare for this season and it shows and i mean like i'm i'm really excited like we even heard they're pushing for a may 5th opening of both attractions yeah they're pushing hard they are not giving up on may 5th that's what we were told confidently obviously there's a a chance that tundra twister might not be ready for may 5th um i don't oh okay i was like there's a chance that tundra twister might not be open but the park's pushing they're pushing and the thing with wonderland is is if there's like it's gonna sound cheesy but it's like if there's a will there's a way and if there's like an hour left in the in the operating day they will open the ride yeah that's just wonderland they did that today with uconn striker uconn faulted and it was down for like majority of the day park was closing at four but you know what at two p.m. they opened it up full opening three trains and to be honest a lot of other parks wouldn't have done that they would have been like yeah the ride's done we you know you have leviathan you have behemoth deal with it yeah but that's not wonderland that is not wonderland that is not in wonderland's nature that is not how our park conducts business me on the front row of snoopy's racing railway that's what the zero car is gonna be but i honestly like there is a whole new vibe at wonderland like the customer service elevated the what wouldn't you call like the the painting of everything what's the word the atmosphere of the park enhanced that's a hundred the food we're gonna talk did i add that in here somewhere i feel like i did well well if we don't we'll come back to it the food they have snacks proper snacks they have platters that chicota even deep fried stuff it looks really good we're gonna try it tomorrow yes we are we're gonna get really fat i said get really fat because we're skinny already i have to sit in the right what happened at apples apple oh my okay we wrote i wrote apple that's the wild mouse at king's dominion and i barely fit okay it's a tight bar and i look at the employee and i'm smiling look i fit and the employee rolled her eyes and looked at me as like barely it's really but yeah i just like i think this is amazing and world expo by the way it it is so obvious that world expo is the next investment because they're letting it rot yeah yeah it's showing like the arcade building a world expo is literally like flight text like the building looks like it went through a tsunami or something and then flight text rotting too it's flooded the paint's peeling they disconnected the speakers pay attention people because i haven't made a video about this so if my competition makes a video about this i'm coming for you now i'm kidding um flight deck speakers and electrical around the queue line has all been disconnected from the main park line the water main line has been marked they've done a soil sample at flight deck as well dope i i i don't have anything else to say bell intimate i'm not intimate uh it's gonna be a wing coaster go beat it up but this is like this isn't something that's happening in 2024 2025 in my opinion this is still 20 27 maybe yeah 20 27 20 28 they're just getting ready yeah like when you take a soil sample that's still like years down the line i think that thing the area was flooding and they needed to do something to fix the electrical and they just said no and that's why the speakers are disconnected because you saw it's flooded it's like a swamp back there it is and it's just not one area it's like the whole the whole grounds um and it's not only international street like it's everywhere in the park too that the improvements are done like in the kids park what were you saying the the bridge the kids the planet snoopy bridge yeah it's so they've painted everywhere they enhanced everywhere but world expo but world expo but they did work on swings of the century oh they cut trees that's that rides to stay though yeah so that's why um clockworks that looked really nice yeah so yeah i like honestly like i'm really excited about the future now this is something that is for some reason like i you know how i called tundra twister the clickbait attraction it's really proving itself have you noticed that on tiktok and all that the only thing anyone ever cares about right now is tundra twister people know its name already yeah it's i've never seen the general public know a ride's name the ride advertisement for tundra twister is amazing that is really cool like it was like a blueprint right it was like a blueprint coming to life like it was cool it almost reminded me of like disney imagineering but it showed like a like almost like a blueprint and then in the ride like in blueprint form turned into like pencil drawing yeah was going like the way they animated it was really unique yeah it was so cool like i was like that for cedar fair i was like what and that wasn't the only thing like all the other programs on fun tv were updated and modernized like all the little games they do and the animation was really cool so just on a side note um i didn't the ad was being played inside wonderland right now they might have delayed the ad on actual media right now because it's not ready right and they don't want people complaining that they saw the advertisement and they thought it was open and coming so they might have asked actual media to delay but if that ad that ad i want to hear it was sound because oh it was honestly really good like for i that was i think the best wonderland ad i've ever seen like especially depending on whatever sound they have playing with it or voice over like it has a lot of potential like it reminded me of disney imagineering um but yeah obviously tundra twister is looking a little far behind fingers cross me so that rust stuff i'm thinking it's a part of the design what rust stuff i don't think that's rusted i think that's just paint like you said i almost wonder if that's what it looks like underneath and that's a sticker they peel off oh the gray is a sticker they peel off i almost i i i got a zoom in on that tomorrow with my zoom zoom camera because that's on the other side as well the exact same design almost or maybe that's just how they wanted that's awkward if that's how they wanted to like i maybe it'll make more sense when you're up more close um but like honestly like she's big very tall she's big like you can see it from almost anywhere in the park yeah cameras don't do her justice she is amazing like i'm super excited i almost wonder if it's gonna have the problem that those giant discoveries had where the legs wobble because there's so much forces and stuff being thrown around you know what i'm talking about because she's skinny in the legs hopefully though they've they've i'm no i'm sure they've they've figured that out i hope she's built like you what i know it's built like cyclone she's the same better than cyclone but i'm excited so okay i have a question for you um where do you think the op booth is going what do you think is going on with that we were looking today we were like op booth anywhere hi it has to be on top of that other building right it's gotta be on top because they have to have a view of the ride right because they need to be able to see and if it's underneath they can't see like if you thought some people are like oh maybe it's already built underneath no they need an optimal view of the ride and there's like no other connection yeah there's no other connections anywhere for any electrical or anything so it has to be there yeah um they're hoping for may 5th still i'm telling you right now is a prototype ride with commissioning testing and training we'll be lucky if it's may 5th we'll be like that's like early early may up until like victoria day we i think like may 24 is like the thing but you know what like i always say in wonderland fashion like this thing might be open tomorrow i'm not actually but wonderland has a tendency to just like just like slap it together and boom there you go out of nowhere just be like yeah we're open we're good um um another question for you about this ride what do you think about the queue not this is like this is not meant to be criticizing just genuinely discussion because obviously you know you say that this is such a clickbait attraction it's gonna be a popular ride but if you look at the queue the queue is almost half the size of cycle yeah so maybe they're gonna have to have extended queue and and maybe they're just thinking you know in five years the ride won't be as popular okay so i have a lot to say about that so business wise and cedar fir conference call wise there's this thing in the theme park industry that they always discuss and it's queue lines water parks and um like areas where people just stand and do nothing they don't like them theme parks hate queue lines a lot um so one yes the queue line is super small for tundra twister and it's not going to be able to handle the crowds at all that ride will not that line it's not ready it's it's not ready but yes virtual queues is something theme parks are all trying to get on because they want guests in the midway but that also doesn't work at a park weekend it's wondering because queue lines are their capacity but in the theme park mindset the business mindset a theme park and a company that runs a theme park wants you in the midway they want you walking around the midway buying the pop buying the food playing the games doing the upcharge attractions that's what makes a theme park money so they are building queue lines a lot smaller now probably to keep people out on the midways they don't want a lot of people like if they could have a thousand people waiting in line instead of three thousand that's that's two thousand extra people paying to get a hot dog or an icy or a starbucks drink um so that's like that's like what they talk about on conference calls so that's like my only thing that can explain the small thing i i don't know if that's necessarily the reason but that's my business world side of it no yeah that that does make sense from like a business standpoint my other only concern though and this is not this is not anything fault but that area in the summer this area right here what we're looking at is going to be a zoo you're going to have the 7 p.m. like that's an area to avoid guys at like between like five and eight don't go there because you have the water park tundra twister uconn striker you have the drink stands you have the food you have washrooms all in an area that's smaller than leviathan's plaza so i however it's not the park's fault though like there's nothing they're not done frontier canada's got 2024 and 2025 left in it and we there's i'm not talking about this yet i'm not i'll talk to you after i saw something on the drone there's something in that area that tells me for sure we're getting a launch coaster in 2025 i'll tell you after the podcast i can't reveal it yet i don't want anyone seeing it because this is something only i saw i haven't seen anyone post about it so if you post on your story after this podcast then i know you're copying my content and you know who i'm talking about but there's something somewhere that if it's there if it is what i think it is then it's a launch coaster coming in 2025 and there's probably a midway in that area so i could see them opening up just past the building there opening up a midway and we're pushing the surface road back so that's my understanding like you know what i mean like wonderland right now it's going to be it's going to be a horrible year in that area but in 2024 they might open it up a bit and put another building back there okay yeah that's my that's my guess that's my my guess because yes it's like a it's like a little tiny pathway there um will tundra have a lighting package that's a good question so when it gets closer to the gondolas the orange yellow thing there i thought was going to be a lighting package but i can definitely tell now it's not i thought that was going to be like glowing like almost because in the animation it was a little more thing but now that you see it right there it's just caging i mean it's hard to tell if it has a lighting package because the gondolas are all covered up right but i can't see it having oh i guess it could have yeah the little bulbs i wonder what needs to move away from the bulbs and switch to leds like wind seeker and i hate like like shockwave and like like i'm it looks very carnival-esque but phoenix gamer can you please stop spamming discord is on the bottom of every youtube video i've ever posted but it won't give you access to the chat by the way you have to be a patreon um yeah i mean that's that's all i really have to say about tundra twist here again my drone footage does not do it justice even though i have the best legal drone footage there is out there legal and legal it's still best even if it was legal um potatoes with wings i'll fight both of you at the same time over the lighting oh i love the carnival lighting well then you might like what cedar fair might have planned for all the action zones at cedar fair parks because apparently they're going down the old carnival route yay we might be safe because that's where our world expo but from what i'm hearing cedar fair has already a um a plan whipped up for the action zones at all their parks that caro ones already has like caro ones has a carnival zone what is that because that's what the plan is it's like blue ridge carnival yeah it's like the lights over top like the addison bulbs yeah like i would prefer that over action zones so i wouldn't be upset um but that's that's the plan they have whipped up for a lot of action zones they actually stole it from cga i think not stole it but that it was the thing my my actual personal favorite kings are cedar fair area at the moment is jungle x oh yeah just just for the lighting aspects like obviously there's not i really like the bob said closer that was a lot more fun than i thought i know they i i just think i like the the sound of like all the animals and stuff yes background that's cool wonderland i know someone's in here from wonderland that makes decisions themed music please i'm sick of listening to taylor swift in med fair while i ride leviathan a sea monster could you imagine in front of your candle like in the evenings they had like every now and then a wolf would howl or something or like you heard owls or like sawmill noises or just something like that like really rustic mountain noises you know maybe the growl of a bear whenever you go near lazy bear you know or snoring or something that would be cool okay so there are a few subjects we'll have to talk about after this but to our last scene that i made i had to make this in an hour less than an hour less than an hour so we'll talk about some things we miss like the food what are those teenagers up to that have me in such disgust they're fighting over a vape it's probably happened at wonderland oh man okay the chaperone policy uh this is a touchy subject i'm gonna piss off a lot of people i think i'm i'm i'm a little bit on the fence about this i i tried doing a little bit of research a couple of days ago to figure this out like what i honestly think i'm a bit on the fence but i'm leaning towards more of one side now and i think we may be a little bit opposing so well you know what what do you think no let's start with you explain what you think and i'll counter it i think um i think wonderland should enact measures that you know deal with certain situations like when there's line jumping phones out on rides or fights i don't think just a blanket chaperone policy is the best approach at the moment like i think that they should think about removing people from the park confiscating season passes stuff like that because wonderland has that legal right when you buy a season pass you agree to their terms and conditions and their terms and conditions are very explicit saying that if you break any park policy and you can be ejected from the park without refund i feel like wonderland does not use that enough now that i think that should be the first step however you know if things continue and get worse than last year i think a chaperone policy would inevitably be a good temporary solution until they can get more of a control of it because having that happen day after day is unacceptable so i get the thinking that a lot of you have i get it we're frustrated everyone's frustrated this is a debate guys this is gonna be a debate this is gonna be probably half an hour because um so what i hate about the chaperone policy is it's passing on blame and blanket statementing an entire generation of youth um for example we were at the park today and i don't think we saw a single misbehaving teenager or youth at the park there were two like what looked like 14 year old fans that came up and said hi and they were you know adorable and they were well behaved and all that and that's what really got me thinking because of the inappropriate disgusting vaughn teenagers that are misbehaving we're gonna punish all of the teenagers because of that instead of upping our security working with a police force adding more security cameras banning season passes that misbehave that is what i think businesses should be doing not passing on the blame to an entire generation it would bother me knowing now that i've seen well behaving teenagers get punished so not everyone comes from a safe home not everyone comes from a home where both parents or a parent has weekends off or days off that can take them to the park not everyone has siblings that can take them to the park no one not everyone has a 21 year old plus person in their life that can take them to a park so what that policy is going to do is really and i know this is this is this is a little drastic and this is a little dramatic dramatized but i don't know i feel for the families the the the people who aren't middle class and upper class that maybe had wonderland as their safe place like let's say they have an abusive home or whatever and that 14 year old is able to somehow go to wonderland on weekends that 15 16 now they can't and they don't have the same privilege of having a family that has weekends off or whatever that can take them yeah it will fix the problem like a band-aid it'll mean no more big fights in action zone in front of behemoth or leviathan but it also means there are people that will lose out and i hate that like i hate it actually bothers me and he knows this can i air our conversation the other day yeah so i'm a i'm really big on meeting in the middle like that's my that's my whole mindset if i hate you or we're in a really big fight if you ever reach out to me he can vouch for this i will always meet in the middle i could despise you in a moment but if you are a bigger person and you reach out to me i will always have a conversation and it'll always in the most part get resolved the other day he reached out to me because last year i didn't handle tiktok that well like it bothered me having people push us yell at us and all that and this year he said you know if the same thing happens i'll delete my tiktok and i shut him down immediately i was like absolutely not i was like because that is selfish i was like that is not meeting in the middle we are friends we are best friends we're like brothers so if something like that happens we should meet in the middle we'll talk about it we'll find a resolution together that both of us benefit from that's how it should work and i believe the same thing with wonderland and these other parks that's how it should work wonderland or these parks have a problem they have misbehaving teens wonderland i'm going to make a whole video on this i don't want to touch on the entire subject but wonderland does it right so far i think i think they obviously have area they should ban people permanently and they don't they it seems like they give them a one-year ban burp but um essentially what was i talking about sorry this worked me up i i think that wonderland needs to find better solutions and i'm talking about wonderland but they haven't introduced a chaperone policy so this isn't actually at wonderland i think that wonderland's going to handle this the proper way and actually come up with proper solutions our head of security is really good our previous one was really good too so i think wonderland is leagues ahead we have inappropriate teens but wonderland has a really good relationship with the orc regional police and i think we're not going to use the chaperone policy i really don't i'm going to get a proper answer for you guys tomorrow at 11 am i'm going to get a real answer i emailed the park i didn't get an answer but i have a meeting with the park tomorrow at 11 am so maybe that they're just say like oh we'll tell them at 11 am tomorrow so i'll get a real answer for you guys tomorrow at 11 am but it pisses me off seeing innocent teenagers and i thought about it and i was like there are a lot more innocent teenagers than you think and i'm someone that hates teenagers okay i was working at my store the last week and my patio furniture and broad daylight was getting stolen by a bunch of misbehaving teenagers and broad daylight running across the street with our patio furniture okay we had to chase them down teens suck nowadays but not all of them think about our friend group there are a lot of younger teenagers that sometimes suck but for the most part behave yeah and i never after my dad passed away i always went to wonderland alone before i even hit the age of 18 and i to think that person my mom would never take me she hated the amusement park she was always busy she had four kids she couldn't take me that's not about putting blame on her i had to take myself and there are a lot of people like that and to think that i would miss out on that my siblings wouldn't take me either and i had three other siblings so there are people that will not be able to attend wonderland this year if that policy gets introduced and i just want you to think about those people before you and you are right to be selfish in this moment too this isn't me saying you have no right to feel this way because yes when you go to a park that you're paying a pretty penny for and your trip is interfered by teenagers it sucks and you have every right to be upset about that but we can't pass blame on to an entire generation and i have done that too i have done that last year i hate teenagers i used to say i hate them all i hate them all they should have just banned them all because it was a really shitty season but then like when you take a step back and you really think about it it like i think like i wouldn't be able to go to wonderland between the age of 16 and 18 right now some of them every parks is different but there are the two fans they were definitely below they were 14 or younger and they were they were just there they were just there enjoying their day they had their little nap sacks not causing anything wonderland and these other parks just need to do better at security they do they need to ban them like you are not allowed in the park ever again you line jumped multiple times i don't think someone should be banned for one line jumping i think that's i think that's overreacting but like filming on the ride you filmed on the ride we have strict policies against that you have a one-year ban for filming the ride i think a one-year ban for filming the ride is good and they keep a record if that person doesn't next season three-year ban then five-year you know what i mean yeah you started a fight ban forever don't ever come back here like those are those things yes they could do fingerprint entry like disney that would make bans easy exactly yes you would need an adult to enter the park if this policy is introduced and there are a lot of you that would not be able to go as often if that was the case and it would benefit us adults if that was the case too and guys you really need to open your eyes that is selfish yes the park would be less busy it would be a lot better of a place yes it would but this isn't the kind of community we live in where we step on other people as a generation like this is what i hate you could look at any population you could look at any race you could look at any religion any group of people any country and find a generalized negative thing about that group of people and apply some sort of punishment against them and it might fix some things but you're punishing a whole group of people for something that is not the whole group of people's problems and i thought that's what we as a community didn't do that's what we strive to not do but that's literally what we're about to do maybe and a lot of us are in favor of that for selfish ish reasons but again i do understand the selfishness so i know i'm pissing people off but like you have to think about the innocent people that are about to be affected yeah yeah that's that is a hundred percent true like oh it bothers me because i know i'm pissing so many people off but it is the park's responsibility not the teenager's responsibility to fix this problem the park's responsibility in a chaperone policy is not the answer that is where i disagree with you it is the teenager's responsibility to fix this problem it is their responsibility to conduct themselves properly in society but that's never gonna be that's never gonna be resolved this is this is caused because of we i can't talk about that but i don't want to start a whole other debate well we didn't have these problems five years ago yes this is because of it's like you know you got the tiktok you got the vapes you got the entitlement and um you know it's a whole you can you can really boil it down like it's a whole it's the system right i think i think covid i think the school system has failed a lot of the youth but i i do think that it is the teenager's responsibility to conduct themselves properly and they have to now deal with any potential consequence that comes with them now i don't want to see a chaperone policy because that would really suck for the kids and for the good people but i personally do not think wonderland does a good job of enforcing rules at the moment to the strict standards that i think they should be um wonderland has a great security team and wonderland does a fantastic job of breaking up fights and dealing with things in the moment but it's too many slaps on the wrist i don't think wonderland does a good job of um of of kicking people out of removing people from the park you filmed on a ride once you're out of the park for the season you know you caused a fight we'll get your regional police involved we'll press charges even caught graffiti i think people who are graffiti you can legally press charges on them you know like i'm not saying to do that every time but but i i don't think wonderland in the past has done a good job with trying to mitigate that so i don't want a chaperone policy i would much prefer to see one wonderland deal with these um isolated issues a little bit better but i don't know i personally if there was a chaperone policy just because things got really bad let's say in june july in the summer you know i wouldn't necessarily be opposed to that adam you know that's wait wait wait adam i think he might be the kid that approached us adam what were we eating when you approached were we eating where were we sitting when you approached us because we might be talking about you where were we sitting when you approached us i like that but and the other thing is too with today that was a ticketed event where 95 percent of the the teenagers there were with a parent guardian or an older figure so when you're around like a parent you're gonna act a lot different than when you're not with a parent versus like in the summer adam we were talking about today we we got approached today at the park i think the best examples are going to come from saturdays in may like when the park opens to the public because then we're really going to see who's coming to the park and and what they're doing i get it like guys i really get it i get it it's frustrating i hated his audience last year with a passion i hated the way they just shoved us aside and called us names and all that but there are innocent people like it's like it's it's literally like i don't know if i can talk about that let's say a country was invading another country right and it was the government's decision but not the people's decision do we destroy the entire country because the government's decision as if you guys had to vote on that would you nuke an entire country to save yourself like from the invasion or would you go to war instead for less consequences i feel like that's not like a good way but like i don't know i just feel like we're i feel like we're using the most extreme possible solution for something we're talking about going to an amusement park that's not every park though aren't some parks all day that was one park that has the four pm rule yeah i think that was king's dominion nobody goes there anyway mr sammich let me be dramatic ew um can i get one of my mods banning daniel 00 he's a creep he's the one that stalks krega can we get daniel 00 banned from the chat remove uh no i'll have a mod do it because i'll know thank you um i think it's going to be interesting to come back to this conversation in june july no it's king's dominion it might even be king's island too i don't know i know like i disagree with everyone i'll get an answer for you guys tomorrow i don't think wonderland's going to implement it there's a reason i delayed my video by the way like because i'm pretty confident that wonderland won't do it but then when every other park started announcing it i was like is this a cedar fair decision i think wonderland definitely doesn't want to do it i i can't see i don't i can't see wonderland doing it but i think they're gonna make up their mind after their opening weekend and it also does depend on my crowds too right like it's a wild enough i know i'm dramatic i'm sorry i'm sorry i know this is kind of a touchy like a sensitive subject so i know cedar point just said they aren't implementing it they said a hard no well the thing with cedar point is though because they're so isolated on the peninsula you you need to be almost a certain age to go there like you need to drive to get there wow someone called me out for my metaphors who's calling you guys it's no no no not in a bad way not in a bad way i was saying wow because anyone who dates me they get to know that i use a lot of metaphors just to describe things i always get i always get made fun of for how i use metaphors like in a relationship when i'm trying to like describe how i'm feeling i'll always use metaphors layout glitch what happened oh i think we're good yeah i agree with that adults can be just as bad if not worse yes like i do understand it like i said i understand it from everyone's angle but i just especially after meeting the kids we met today i can't i can't be in favor of a chaperone policy i can't and just thinking about myself i never would have been able to come to wonderland between 16 and 18 but you have to remember two things were different when we were that age no but it's still the same it's the it's the same thing because my my person the person i was between 16 18 is someone right now that's what i'm trying to get at that there's someone like me right now that this would affect and that's what bothers me extreme by yourself on the left side of the park is gonna get a reno in five years extreme twist so i don't answer all those kinds of questions when i want to share information i'll share information if i don't share information i either don't know or i'm saving it for like a video you are allowed at 16 i know but like i still don't i don't support it oh i like Caleb's thing i think the solution would be to turn away every teen wearing the plaid pj pants how about the nike uh sweater and the haircuts yeah oh this is a tricky one so mr sandwich i think that's a little bit kids can't see certain movies without their parents i'm i'm hard on my answer i can't be convinced otherwise but i don't i'm just thinking of the poor families like that i'm thinking of like the people who come from nothing whose parents work two jobs or work all day um and the kid like there are 14 year olds that work by the way my store is mostly 14 to 16 year old employees and they are all amazing workers who i can't see misbehaving in any sort of situation who all have jobs who all work hard in school and they do things alone like again we're literally judging an entire generation off of yeah maybe 50 percent of them are terrible and yeah maybe wonderland gets a lot of that 50 of the population but again it's wonderland's responsibility to ban these people um and that's not i don't think wonderland has done a good job at mitigating that at all i think their security team is absolutely fucking amazing that they are they are a hundred percent amazing but they don't implement consequences properly so line jumping is not something the park can actively prevent okay sorry mr sandwich this isn't me attacking you by the way i i get like i hate line jumpers too but i hate how we expect the park to be able to manage every single line jumping situation it bothers me when people expect the basically what you're asking the park to do is to have like a drone or a security personnel at every single queue line in the park more than one because some queue lines that go by then have multiple angles you are expecting the park to manage these queue lines like like a jail and like have these search towers that are like hey you to the back of the line they can't guys they can't like you cannot expect that it is also like you have to stand up for yourself too like you can tell the guest no i don't know like i'm also biased because you know me i'm like if it's one person whatever like i'm the worst person i am the worst person when it comes to line jumping so my opinion i know i have different opinion oh okay i think if you are caught line jumping in if it's not like a good reason if it's pig if you're caught line jumping in the reason is because my friends are up there you should be removed from the line yes i agree remove from the line yeah if you're like if there's extenuating circumstances it's a hot day you want to go get a drink that's fine you want to go get a bathroom wonderland was good at that last year they're not perfect they can't be perfect i don't just out of all the other parks though i don't think they're strict enough on some in on enforcing some of those rules they were like kind of at the start but lift stopping the leviathan's lift hill for a phone and then put your phone away and then having no consequence after lift stopping the ride is not a consequence that's just something that happens but if there's no consequence that follows up with that there's no incentive to not do it again now if there's security there or if they say you know stand to the side you know obviously maybe they can't do it with everyone but if they say now give us your season pass you're gone for the year which would be in wonderlands that would be their right to do that um you know there's even plaques saying if you have your phone on the ride and someone gets hurt you can be charged criminally yeah i agree with that yeah they don't need drones they just need the drones is a joke the drone battery would only last like 30 minutes and then it would fall what about someone like us oh we get so they're too big we need two drones they turn these theme parks into roller coaster tycoon this giant claw just like throws you in like like labarge uh posted out win seeker it is what that that criminal offense it is a criminal offense and you can be federally charged but it's the same principle as like when you're in a classroom and the teacher has such a good view of the classroom okay when i was in school people would cheat on tests all the time with like it written on your hand with a piece of paper not everything's going to get caught we can't expect the park to have it micromanaged to the point where they're like literally like this giant room of cameras and they're like serious vaping hahahaha brendan's filming over a fence like it's it can't be like that like it it never will be like that um but yes they do need to do a better job i'm not saying like i will say our park is the worst for line jumping though out of any other park it also comes down to our busyness and even when it's not the client hell and that's all all like i i truthfully don't want a shop room policy i just want there to be consequences when it's reasonable yeah you know start making a few examples and then hopefully people start realizing like oh my god is taking a 20 second tiktok on leviathan worth losing my season pass we weren't thrown into a cattle pen the only problem is wonderland will never be able to introduce the um the virtual queue especially with the amount of season passes sold if we weren't thrown into a cattle pen well i think people key switches people have to take self-accountability um are you still going to do podcast during the summer yes we will we'll find a time that works too like we might not be able to do the hangouts anymore once the park opens because we'll come home and we'll do a late podcast on a saturday night and then it'll be like 11 p.m to 12 a.m maybe like we'll figure something out i have a feeling our podcasts are gonna get longer because now with the park open there's a lot more to talk about yeah um and just anyone how about this give us questions about the shed this seems like a really touchy subject it dies but i like this because if we sat here and agreed about the chaperone policy and that's it i'm not meant i'm not trying to be argumentative i'm not trying to know no this is i asked him to take before he we were a lot more maybe like an hour ago we're a lot more on the the same page ish like you were like in the middle and i was hardcore on this side but then you you i was like i was like syria take the other side so this is good and then you actually took the other side without being um we will talk about the food too but do you guys have any questions about the chaperone policy or statements like like debate needs debate syria like like throw some like attack me attack my point of view i'm this is a debate make me think critically i'm not saying yeah i know like this is not to be offensive or anything either so syria doesn't have any things anymore yeah i'm i'm not so we're done with that i have this thing someone made this for me a friend slash fan made me this it's burned wood it's ucon it's my uh ucon striker merch way better than wonderland that is better than wonderland merge come on it doesn't matter what it was on that is cool that is very that is good ucon merge i had that designed hire me on mr sandwich has a question for you oh god okay mr sandwich is smart so this is gonna be hard um question for me everyone else is there in any age you would say a parent should be required to enter what age and why so that's good because that's critical because then i have an age and this is gonna make me sound hypocritical obviously that's up to each individual family my younger sister who has a kid taught me this because i'm the kind of parent that would be like watching over my kid at all times which sounds a bit critical right now i used to i when i babysit my younger sister my younger sister's daughter i would literally like not let her do anything because i was afraid she'd bump her head or anything and i was so scared whereas my younger sister she's the freestyle parenting type mom if she bumps her head they'll go to the hospital and i'm like oh my goodness so i don't know where i was going with that that's a random rant from brendan but um i i was saying any every parent's different but i would say 14 and up should be allowed to come to the park alone and under 14 should come with a chaperone serially don't mean oh cool could they give people a discount if they entered with a chaperone why would they give them a discount if they entered with a chaperone yeah that that doesn't make sense do you think the child required policy should be to apply to all the kids rides why pretty much it is because you need yeah you need an adult to ride yeah set up to her my room's a mess not sponsored um very good question hi sir what happens if you line jump at the phone um the teen's misbehaving should be punished reasonably and the good teen should be let go yes the shield on myth stick timbers will fit at the end of the ride of you come perfect oh the shed right it would i think wonderland needs to explore these these and yeah it's something to do while yours my kids act up we going home that yeah see that's how parents should behave um i'm not saying we need virtual q a different q layout could easily make it harder for guests to line jump by magnitudes take behemoths last portion of the q for example you cannot have q lines designed like that key switches you would have no room for rides if you had just a single q that didn't have the and then there's also something else too you have to remember if there is god forbidden emergency how easy is it to evacuate that q yeah right so you can't build eight-foot walls and keep people imprisoned if there's a fire then people need a way to get out um yeah no and like wonderland is a park that's hard on land the hunt excuse wait what excuse do you remember them if there are no two q segments touching each other it'll be much harder to line jump no that's not actually went most line jumping in my they happen to us today even they just brushed past you and then you're the problem when when they bump in yeah how many times have you been on the viathan this year already nine times this year how many kilometers of q lines do you think canada's wonderland has three four maybe and then have the q line built like a tan parking garage stapled once this is jake this is very true hi mods can we have jake no i'm kidding i'm kidding okay this is getting kind of like a q and a now yeah um okay so let's talk about the food i i didn't build a a thing so the food at wonderland how would you say lazy bear food was compared to last year okay honest like i i i want to try more stuff tomorrow so from what i tried right now being completely honest um the mac and cheese was a little bit different not in a bad way not necessarily in a good way the pork chop now this is what i'm most excited about so the pork chop was introduced as a winterfest menu item and in my opinion it's the best thing that wonderland has ever put on the dining plan it is something where if you go to kelsey's and you get that you'll be like oh my god i'm getting this at kelsey's like this is good uh the quality was fantastic it was cooked perfectly the sauce goes with it perfectly um the meat is very nice and tender which for pork that can be a difficult thing because pork is easy to dry out right because pork is one of those meats you have to cook fully through so a lot of people just overcook it and becomes dry but no the pork chop had tenderness it had flavor it had juices the grizzle was nicely charred um it was cooked to perfection for for an amusement park item this was this was top this was top tier amusement park food 100 the pork chop that is all i tried today while in the salad the salad was okay but um the pork chop was fantastic the corn bread was i thought it was a little dry um again the mac and cheese was a little bit different not saying in a good or bad way it was just a little bit different so overall from the meal that i had at lazy bear i was quite impressed with the entree with the main it was very nice very flavorful very well cooked that's all nice and all but waffle fries we haven't tried them yet though it doesn't matter you can't screw up french oh wonderland did last year what's happening it just it just got out of zoom it's out of focus what happened no no brandon i think it's out of focus yeah you got to get it back in focus how did that happen what happened turn on autofocus focus auto are you on camera control yeah look focus auto something how it's picking up something else we have to get its control there's a ghost he disconnected turn camera off then on again yeah try that you can't really turn it off we unplug it there's something wrong with it though it's like do you see that i oh it's because there's something on the camera okay guys give me a second we're gonna go to technical difficulties for a sec may i have your attention please remain seated this ride has stopped temporarily and will resume motion at any time please remain seated for your own safety thank you the wicker man is currently experiencing a delay and we have ceased our ritual we apologize for any inconvenience but we are still assessing the interruption if you have just entered our territory or at the start of your journey along the queue line we advise you to leave the woods and try other rides and attractions ladies and gentlemen your attention please for technical reasons our adventure has been temporarily interrupted we hope to be back in operation very soon please remain seated thank you ladies and gentlemen your attention please we regret that our adventure cannot continue at this time please follow instructions from our cast members to leave the attraction thank you may i have your attention please remain seated this ride has stopped temporarily and will resume motion at any time please remain seated for your own safety thank you the wicker man is currently experiencing a delay and we have seen we're back i don't know what it had fingerprints all over it i guess it kind of and it finally focused on the fingerprint yeah i can't hear you is it working now focused better now guys is no audio working yes yes yes yes perfect perfect focus is a bit off okay now you're just being picky this is good in my opinion yeah guys i think it's gonna have to be like this for us the stream there's no fixing it's autofocus and it's super clean now too yeah i think it's fine yeah wait can you talk for us that we were talking about what we're yeah well guys what were we talking about um food food okay so the the pork chop was great now i really don't want to judge any other food before we try it there's a lot of things we got to try but by flying canoes it was the previous place it was like muskoca brewery where you could get the burgers and stuff now they have like platters where you can get samosas deep-fried pickles um i can't remember exactly what else they had but they had like sample platters they had corn dogs it actually looked really good and um like brendon said there was the waffle fries wonderland was advertising corn ribs i'm sure we'll get more of that so it seems like that they definitely are they they acknowledge you know maybe they lacked a bit in um food selection so they are working towards that and based off just what we saw at the park today and what's on wonderland's website and hopefully what's to come it looks like they are doing a complete 360 not only that though like you look like a criminal you know when they like when they capture the shot of the person walking into the building that's they look up at the camera um but not only the food it seems like the morale of the food department and everyone there's a more there's more not only friendliness there's more um i don't know what's what's the right word there's there's more passion behind what they're doing so that's really exciting to see i think this is gonna be one of wonderland's strongest food years yeah yeah 100 um it's gonna be interesting like really cool to see exactly what they have there's a new camera fun starting what they have in store for the entire season yeah no i'm super excited um i really want to try some of these snacks the snack plant seems like it's becoming quite the popular thing yeah they're advertising that quite a bit it would be cool to see that and you can only buy it daily that it would be cool as an add-on yeah not the 800 pork shops at lazy bear um what's the snack plan so a snack plan is something you can buy for the day i don't know the full details of it because i've never done one maybe we'll maybe we'll try it tomorrow yeah maybe we'll we'll do a review of it tomorrow yeah we'll buy one to share between two of us let's do it may fifth is set to be the official opening all right was there any other topics that i said we would talk about we just talked about food being amazing dragonfire the paint leviathan's awesome leviathan's awesome i wanted to say um i personally like behemoth more than uconn but we rode behemoth once today and it was very underwhelming you said you'd go back to levi um jake subpar that works out no i'm kidding he's amazing what if i'm not that hungry behemoth news behemoth sucks no it's trimming it's rattly um it does the same element over and over again so yeah it's one of the most boring rides in the park uh in terms of the big three i actually do like uconn better than behemoth especially now it's to me it's just it's rattly it's repetitive and it's trimmed i still like behemoth more but the pine trees i know that is sad that is sad mind buster news it's very rough very rough i think there's a bigger problem with wild beast guys but i don't want to even begin to speculate what happened but just think el toro where the train where in my my video from two days ago or yesterday i don't know which one it was the wild beast valide video it shouldn't have valide there it should not have valide there that's not a valley place so if you if i were to speculate i wouldn't speculate i think we all know what happened no it wasn't the first drop that's where it normally that's where it should that's where it should valley it did it right before the fan curve um which yeah someone in here said it it's so yes i did say that and i think that wonderland has been the best staffed it's ever been both um great personalities and energy and hard working a hard working like so i think it benefited i think it's a great thing i loved my visit at wonderland i loved all the employees i didn't have a single bad experience um it was very courteous yeah so over the vaughn teenagers being hired i think whoever they hired this season is a better option a better option i think it's great i do i agreed i that's a that's an honest review agreed all right should be open for season pass preview but obviously at like any machine there can always be mechanical malfunctions that are unexpected it did the name of your podcast wait what do you oh the name of the podcast that's my that's my prediction um he was mad oh hi tea um so i guess we might end this and do a hangout yeah are you are you up for a hangout it's 952 yeah okay we'll go we'll go into the just shoot the shit yeah it's we're back in the groove guys regular regular day of business all right so we'll end this we'll go eat some little bit of snacks um and we'll be back in five minutes for the hangout session there's a hundred and fifty of you right now after an hour and fifty minutes guys you okay it's saturday what's going on okay see you soon