 Picture this, amusement insiders, you pull up to Canada's Wonderland for the spring opening weekend. And looming over Splashworks is an absolutely massive RMC, standing in the place of the mighty Canadian minibuster. How do you feel about this? Let's talk about it. So in this video, I want to make a case for RMC minibuster. I know it's probably never going to happen, but let's just ignore that. Let's just put that aside for a second and talk about it because your girl likes to dream. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jasmine. I used to go as Jasmine on YouTube and my channel these days is called Jasmine Dreams. So you'll notice in my segment here on Amusement Insiders, there's going to be a lot of dreams, opinions, ideas. We're here to just talk. We're here to put our brains off in space and think about what could be, what should be, what we want to be, and then talk about it. So we're going to have some awesome discussions about various topics around Canada's Wonderland as well as other theme parks. But I have some really hot topics around Wonderland and a couple other Canadian parks that I want to start off with. And today, if you guys have seen me in the live streams and the podcast, you will know I have very strong opinions about this particular topic. Okay? Minibuster is a Canadian treasure. All right. Love it or hate it in its current state. That isn't a Canadian icon right there. And I just feel it would be completely wrong for Canada's Wonderland to exist without some iteration of Minibuster. Now, pardon me while I scratch my eye. I also feel it is just wrong to have Minibuster and not have it be a wooden coaster. That is just the legacy of Minibuster, okay? Now, do I think that what I want is what Wonderland and Cedar Fair are going to do? Not really, but we're going to talk about it anyways because we're here to dream with Jasmine Dreams. I don't know what we're going to call this segment. Feel free to throw some suggestions down below. It may be a week or two before your suggestions come into play, though, because I've recorded a few of these in advance. So it is what it is. All right, let's get into it. Minibuster. Here we go. Now, I am not going to get deep into Minibuster's history in this video. For those of you who have been following Amusement Insiders long enough, you'll know that I used to do write history videos and I have done a whole video on Minibuster's history in the past. So maybe Brennan can put a card here somewhere where you guys can click or like a link in the description or something. But go watch that video if you want the full history of Minibuster. Because when you know the full history of Minibuster, I think you'll have a greater understanding for why I don't want it to go away, okay? There's only five coasters that opened with this park and Minibuster is the most iconic of them, if we're being honest. I have a special place in my heart for all of them. But we can't get rid of Minibuster, okay? We can't do that. It's illegal. I just made it illegal. Just now. Anyways, with that said, Minibuster did open May 23rd, 1981, with Canada's Wonderland on its grand opening day. So I don't know how many times I need to say this in one video. I've probably already crossed that limit, but this is an iconic ride. This is a historic ride for this park. But I will be the first to admit this ride is not in the best shape. She's seen better days, you guys. And on top of that, Splashworks really honestly deserves more than what it has been for a long time now. And there's a lot of potential in Splashworks. So there is a general redesign of that whole part of the park necessary as it is. And I think this is just an opportunity for something big, like a ground up RMC. Yes, I am not talking about a conversion here. I think Minibuster deserves a ground up. So it would have to be a new iteration of Minibuster. It obviously would not be the original. Maybe they can use a few planks of wood and be like, the original Minibuster is in there somewhere. But I just don't think it's worth it or cost wise, smart, or given the condition of Minibuster, safety wise, smart to make it a conversion. But I think a ground up RMC would be wild and to follow a similar layout to Minibuster to follow a similar pathway, have it somewhat interact with Splash. All of that could make for a really sweet ride. You guys, come on. I know I can't be the only one thinking this. I know somebody in the comments is going to be on my side here. Okay, ground up RMC Minibuster. It's a solid idea. That's pretty much the video. Not going to lie. That's pretty much the video. Okay, lies. It's not the whole video. Here are some of my more detailed and nuanced aspects to this thought and my justifications. So Splashworks deserves its own entrance. Splashworks, if Cedar Fair was smart, would have a separate ticket price. Do I want this personally? No, I love being able to wander in and just go into Splashworks as well if I feel like it. However, business wise, it's a smart idea. You like, you come on. That said, if Splashworks has its own gate on that side of the park where Splashworks is, and it's now separately ticketed, imagine what kind of incentive it would be. If like, you're a 12, 13 year old and you roll up to Wonderland with your parents and they're like, we're just going to the Splashpark today guys and looming over the Splashpark, flying over it every couple of minutes is this RMC Minibuster and you pull up and you're like, I don't want to just go to the Splashpark. I want to go on the big roller coaster too. Like, sure, you're going to pull up and you're going to see all the other rides in the, in the, what's the word I'm looking for, in the park skyline. You're going to pull up and you are going to see all those other rides in the park skyline. But a lot of those you've been seeing for years now, a lot of those you've experienced, whatever it is that's going to pull people out of just being a Splashpark's only ticket purchase and into being a two-parks ticket purchase has got to be big. It's got to be worth the money and it's got to be something very different from everything else that you already have written that may make you say, oh, we're just going to get a day ticket one day this year and then we'll get a Splash ticket another day this year. We'll only come twice because then we can, you know, we've done everything. If they put in this coaster that's worth riding because I've been on, I've been on an RMC now. I can actually speak from experience now. I was still advocating for this like a year ago, but now I can advocate for it with experience. You cannot just ride an RMC one time and fully get the experience. Like, you're not even fully in it. You're like, whoa, what's going on for like a big chunk of the ride? So if you want a really re-rideable ride, a really exciting ride, a really thrilling ride that's going to make people feel like I have to spend this money to experience this and then when they go on it one time, they're going to come up and say, I have to go on that again. I only remember the first half because I kind of like blacked out. This is the ride. This is the one. This is this is like a big draw and there's not that many of them out there. Like it will get people to cross the border. And I want to talk about why ground up and how it could still pay homage to Mindbuster. So ground up. I mean, some of you guys have talked to me about this again in the chat during the podcast. It's a great time to argue with me about things. Why a conversion would not be a great idea for Mindbuster? There are many reasons and I would love for those of you who have more information on rides and engineering than I do to sound off on that in the comments. But my reasoning is because it would give them a lot more freedom to play with the layout because currently to try to retrac or redesign Mindbuster in any way along the current layout. There's a lot of challenges. It goes straight through the middle of Splashworks and that may not be what's best for Splashworks in the long run. But we could still have a ride that interacts with Splashworks. Maybe goes around the perimeter of it kind of plays over the entrance to it that goes in between it and the park. There's a lot of options that are opened up when you look at doing a ground up rather than a conversion. But I still think having a ride called Mindbuster, whether it's another iteration of the mighty Canadian Mindbuster or whether it's like Mindbuster's Revenge or some other take on Mindbuster. It's like the ghost of Mindbuster, something. It's a perfect fit for a final addition to Frontier Canada. You cannot deny that. Frontier Canada, like the one thing that would truly cap off Frontier Canada would be a badass version of Mindbuster, like a really rockin' version of Mindbuster. Two, my second justification for a ground up RMC on this case is the wood element. RMCs have come a long way, all right? I know they have a reputation for a lot of things, but they've come a long way and they're these days significantly more reliable than they were in their earlier days. And I think that's going to improve with everyone that we see. And so you have something that is a lot more impressive than the current iteration of Mindbuster that we have. And on top of that, you have something that is able to eat up potentially a lot more people than the current iteration of Mindbuster that we have. Okay, I'm just going to skip to my main thing, which is in a park where you only have a couple of wooden coasters and they're both to the point where it's like not great, like they kind of got to go. And your last major thrilling roller coaster additions have all been kind of same-same in like a few ways. Like they're all BNMs. They all have a very similar feel. There's a lot of people you could, like GP, you could go in and just do like a, you know, a TikTok interview and be like, what's the difference between Behemoth and Leviathan? And they'd be like, one is blue. So you need something that's not, that doesn't feel the same as everything else we've been getting. And you could argue that any steel coaster is not going to have that effect. It's just going to be another steel coaster. It could look a lot different. It could be, you know, inverted or flying style instead of more traditional style, but it's still going to give like another steel coaster. You know what I mean? Wooden coasters are just a very different species of coaster. They're a totally different type of experience and they can be amazing when done well. And even old historic wooden coasters can be amazing when maintained well. I just think ours are past that point. And so we have to do something kind of modern with them that fits Wonderland. And I don't know if going with all wood for both of the two big ones, big ones. I say that like they're big. We're talking about mine buster and wild beast here. Come on. But my, what I'm trying to get at is one of them I think we should keep as a traditional wood coaster and the other one should be a hybrid because a hybrid I just think is a really good fit for Wonderland's crowd. People, if they saw an RMC especially, especially all this talk we've been having about the specific type of crowd that Wonderland gets, how we can't do the chaperone policy because there's so many of that like thrill-seeking age group of teens and young 20-somethings in the park. Those are the people that would want an RMC. Okay, those are the people. So I think we have the right demographic for it to be a real crowd-eater and to get a lot of those people off the pathways and to get them to stop, you know, doing stupid stuff and wasting time and they can spend time standing in line for RMC mine buster instead. They just, do let it just eat them up. That said, do I think RMC mine buster is what we have coming? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Me and Wonderland are on two very different pages. We might be in different books altogether but I think if they did redo mine buster and let me just go into, let me just, sorry, let's back up a second. I did not script this video. I used to script my videos, you guys. I didn't script this one. So you're getting unscripted Jasmine right now. This is gonna be a wild series. I don't know where this is going. I wanna talk about why it would be blasphemy for them to get rid of mine buster when we now have Frontier Canada, okay? We finally got Frontier Canada, okay? Mine buster was the only part of the original plan for Frontier Canada that we did get, okay? If they get rid of the only part of the original Frontier Canada when we finally get the full Frontier Canada, I'm gonna lose it, okay? I'm gonna come in there with a picket sign and stand in front of the former mine buster's place spot location and strike, okay? I'm going to fly from Florida to Vaughn to Mississauga, I guess, and drive to Vaughn and I'm going to pick it until they listen to me because like I said, I did the ride history videos thing. I did the park history thing. Please go back and watch them because I actually spend a significant amount of time on them but it would just be such a mess for them to finally do Frontier Canada justice and then remove the only original part of it that we ever did get before it came to be. The only part of it that even survived the Paramount era. We cannot lose mine buster guys, okay? But we can give it a new version, a new life. We can modernize it. We can give it a backstory. I'm fighting for mine buster, okay? And yes, there is a dragon fire video, okay? If you know me, you're not even a little bit surprised about that, okay? So there's my spiel about the history and don't fuck with it, don't fuck with it, don't fuck with it. I'll come for you. Okay, this video is a disaster but closing chapter is what I think Wonderland is actually going to do. One, just keep retracting mine buster until the end of time and like replacing bits and pieces as needed which would make me so sad. You guys went to all this trouble to make Frontier Canada the amazingly themed part of the park that it is, the icon that we always deserved. And then you don't do justice, fix up, re-theme, fully redo the one original part of Frontier Canada that we did get that deserves the second life that she has put in all of these years to earn. All these years, she deserves better. Justice for mine buster. Okay, okay. Now, I don't think Wonderland is going to do what I think they should do but I think they might give us something more like Seven Dwarfs' Mine Train at Disney World which would be really cool but then we'd be down to only one proper wooden coaster like adult-sized wooden coaster at the park and it's a really bad one. So I don't think that's the right solution either and I know that all of the markers that we're seeing for the 2024 and or 2025 edition are all in the Whitewater area so it makes a lot more sense that we're probably going to get that mine themed ride in the form of like a big long... I'm trying to avoid swearing in this video guys. I'm really struggling. I swear a lot. Anyways, I think we're more likely to get a really long and themed log flume ride or I don't know, a water coaster would be really cool. I would be fine with that but regardless of what we get over in that area I just think it would be wrong to do what they've done with Frontier Canada. The amazing work that they've done with Frontier Canada and not do justice to Mindbuster. So what do I think is going to happen more likely? Is they're just going to let Mindbuster limp along for several more years and they're going to give us something else in the Whitewater area. So it's probably going to be like I said, a log flume type ride or I think a coaster like I said that's like Seven Dwarves Mine Train style which I believe that's a Vakoma, right? Yeah, it's a Vakoma. I should have these things memorized but my brain is mush, okay? I'm a millennial. Have pity. Yeah, I think that's more likely something like that or something like what Brendan's been talking about like a mock spinner or something, you know, a little bit more cookie cutter. I really want a super custom ground-up hybrid RMC woody type of Mindbuster. And that's my rant for today. So I hope you enjoy. Please share your comments below on what you think about this, what you think about Frontier Canada, what should be Frontier Canada's final addition, what do we deserve and what do you think Wonderland is actually going to do and what other topics do you want to hear me dream and speculate about in future videos and get you guys all mad and riled up in the comments? Let me know. See you soon. Bye. Also, I just realized I made it through that whole rant video, whatever you want to call this and didn't give any of you context as to who I like really am. So for those of you who haven't been around Amusement Insiders long enough to see my old series and to chat with me back when I used to be on Discord a lot more, I will be on Discord more now that I'm doing this series. I've just been having some social anxiety lately, all right? So be nice and I'll come back. But for those of you who don't know me or remember me, like I said at the beginning, I used to go by, you're interrupting again. Sorry, that was my husband coming home and interrupting my recording. He's going to interrupt again. But for those who don't know slash remember, I used to make ride history videos here on Amusement Insiders and I have my own channel. As I mentioned, Jasmine Dreams is what it is these days. And on that channel, I post a lot of theme park vlogs and other theme park and travel related content mostly captured with vintage and weird camera lenses. So I've been friends with Brendan since 2018 and yeah, started out my my vlogs and stuff at Canada's Wonderland and then have kind of like moved a number of times since then. And these days I'm in Florida. So I do mostly theme park content that's based here in Florida. So largely Disney and Universal to come. I actually went to school for tourism and travel. So I studied theme parks, amusement parks, tourism destinations, like Brendan. I spent a ridiculous amount of time listening to investor calls and doing boring stuff like that for funsies, doing research for funsies, basically millennial things, that's all. Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this video and I will see you next time for another rant to get you all angry in the comments. Okay, bye.