 Your safety remains seated with your hands, arms, feet and legs inside the train and be sure to watch your kids if any of you folks are wearing hats or glasses, best remove them because this here is the wildest ride in the wilderness! How do I mute it? You can turn all the volume all the way down on your phone. That's what I usually do. Attention, space travelers. All flights have been put in a holding pattern. Travelers in rockets, please remain seated as your flight will continue in a moment. Those travelers awaiting departure, please remain where you are and a host or hostess will direct you. How do partners, for your safety, remain seated with your hands, arms, feet and legs inside the train and be sure to watch your kids if any of you folks are wearing hats or glasses, best remove them because this here is the wildest ride in the wilderness! You can just use them. I don't care. Grace, first things first. I hope you guys don't copyright strike me for that intro. Nice footage, Brendan. I wonder where that came from. That was nice. Hi. This is Grace, obviously. Everyone knows. But for those that don't, why don't you do a little introduction? Yeah, sure. And hello to everybody in the chat. I'm watching here on my phone. So hello to everybody out there. Anyways, yes. I'm Grace. I'm the director of communications at the park. I've been here for about five years now, over five years now. And yeah, I know Brendan and Soria give me a lot more credit than I do, I will say. I'm nothing without the team at the park, all the people in all the departments who helped the park be what it is. So happy to be here and excited to be part of the podcast tonight. Yes, so we're so excited to have you. Thank you so much for doing this, Grace. This is going to be amazing. So I guess for you guys watching, we're going to go through a list of questions that we agreed upon with Grace. And then Grace will also interact with you guys in between those questions. And yeah, it's going to be, it's not going to be your typical like we normally go live for like what three and a half hours. No, this is going to be like an hour max and then it'll be a hard stop just because we got to go to bed and then go to Cedar Point. Yeah, that's exciting. Have you guys done that before? No, no, this is this is something you've always wanted to do. Well, like when I first learned about it. Amazing. Well, if you guys, if you guys see Tony Clark, make sure you say hello for me. We will. Yeah, so how was your week? You know what? I think, how was my week? Did I have anything eventful happen? You went to Chick-fil-A. Every day. Oh, you know what? You know what? I didn't go. I only went for my walk once. You were just there. I saw your TikTok. You went twice. I rolled around in the snow. You rolled around in the snow? What? I think security needs to be made aware. Oh my God. Are you making snow angels in the parking lot? Sorry. No, I definitely am not. What about you? What did you do this week? My mic volume's low. Yeah, that's because I'm trying to turn the mic away from the setup we have right now. If it picks up grace, it'll cause an echo. So the mic's a little turned away from me. Is this better? If it's picking you up good, then that just means it's just because it's angled towards you. But yeah, I guess my week was... Yeah, I guess. The microphone... The old podcast microphone broke yesterday night at 8pm, like, hard broke. So I had to run around. I bought a wire. The wire didn't fix it, so then I knew it broke. So I had to go buy this off of Sketchy Facebook Marketplace as a replacement. So that was eventful. But you know what? It turned out to be pretty awesome. So thank goodness. That's the kind of luck I usually have right before I have to do some massive media event or the trivia night. Something breaks or I didn't realize I needed to learn how to do something on the computer before I did the live Zoom with a thousand people. So yeah, I get that. But my week was good. And I just want to say, I don't know if I'm lagging. I will apologize to everybody who's joining and explain. I'm actually at my house right now. I was supposed to be at the park. That's a long story. I'm not going to get into it, but I'm fighting the bandwidth battle here with my children who are playing video games downstairs. So hopefully this works out. But yeah, it was a good week. I know one of the questions I think is about what we do during off season. And right now we're my team anyways very busy. Planning for events and doing, you know, strategy work across all of our digital marketing channels. And so there's a lot of that happening even though there's the parks covered in snow we're already thinking of July and August. So, yeah, there's no rest for us right now. Imagine we're also thinking about July and August. Okay, all right guys so we're going to start asking some questions because there is quite a bit of them. Some of them have been removed, but we'll keep on. So the first question is with it being the off season yet so much going on at Wonderland. What have you been up to over this extremely long feeling off season. And like I said, I don't know if this is a question about like what's happening at the park across all the departments or if it's just for the marketing team and my group that I work with but I'll talk to all of it. I'm sure with this group you guys are aware that lots happens during the off season but I think among the general public sometimes there's this misconception that it's like the parks closed what are you doing like putting your feet up and you know everybody's taking like four week off seasons that doesn't happen. Many of you may have seen we just recently wrapped up a big hiring week event so all the departments are in busy hiring mode we've got 4000 seasonals that we've got to get on board. And yeah everybody's everybody's looking to get people signed up for opening day. And then of course, when people get hired then we got to do the training and orientation and across the departments just like how marketing is doing planning right now. And strategy work for the season. You know so like it's could be little things you know in our safety team is you know stocking up all the first aid kits and you know doing all the fire extinguisher checks and updating the fire plan and you know all the winter maintenance happens on the rides right now. So it's just it's a lot of prep work for the season. I see that there's all kinds of different rides that are in the shop right now. Oh, and the Leviathan sign so you know we have got that in the shop right that's been since the beginning of winterfest I meant to send you guys a picture of this beforehand maybe I can just hold it up to the camera. But so Leviathan the fiberglass team is doing a little bit of restoration restoration some needed TLC on Levi, but actually getting a bit of a color scheme update. There was a study done Cedar Fair did a study on like visual identity and like you know what colors go well. Things to avoid to try to create a guide for parks to use right so they found that where you know if there's too much of a color, it's not necessarily a good thing so Levi is actually getting going to be a bit. I want to say I'm trying to find a picture because it, I'm not going to be able to describe it it's it's like a, it's kind of like a light purple. So, and that doesn't sound good it looks it looks a lot better to see it. This was the, this was the concept picture. See, I don't know if my camera's gonna be able to show. Do you see that. No, it looks great. No, it looks and then I have a picture of it actually in the shop so it might be better let me just find that one too. But anyway that's just like again one of the things that we're working on here. Can you guys see that. I was literally, I was trying to be so, so professional you have no idea. They're ruining it. They're ruining it. I knew right away I was trying to not laugh. And I, I know my serious heart is stopping right now. And I didn't see this for you I'm sure a lot of people were like, what purple. Anyway, sorry I had to, I had to do that. I can tell everyone was being respectful to everyone was like, oh yeah. Did they say that I couldn't even see I had to close it up. I was like, we're going to have to fix that. Now some people, yeah, Caden's getting scared. Yeah. Oh, okay. Shaking again my blood pressure. Anyways, oh, anyway, all good. Still blue. Now it's a good one, Grace. Yes. Sorry about that. Anyway, what's next. What is next? All right. Okay, this was a good one. What's it like walking through Wonderland all alone during the off season? Dream job. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Well, it's just like, you know what it was like because Brendan you drove to the park that one time do you remember what that was that it's like was bizarre when the first, the first time that I that I had to drive through at the park when it was closed across the cobblestone in the middle of the midways where people usually are walking it was just the weirdest thing now I just like we do it all the time but it's kind of similar it's just like it's an eerie feeling but it's very peaceful and I'm out there occasionally in the winter because as you know we're trying to capture content and show everybody what it looks like in the winter with the beautiful snow. Yeah, but I don't know it's, it's nice it's not that I do it all the time anyways because flipping cold. It's a nice option to have and certainly when the weather is a little bit better to be able to go for walks in the park. It really is a unique experience and like yeah in the winter to you guys saw that tick tock with all the, the tracks and we must have all kinds of wildlife like just enjoying that space right now because there's no people around. And some of the pathways do get plowed like the ones that that are used the most you know obviously we have construction happening in the park and stuff and a lot of associates need to get around but there are a lot of midway areas that aren't plowed and it is really cool just seeing all the weird tracks raccoons and I'm sure gophers are hybrid any right now but I know we have those and swans or the geese are still here for some reason. I don't know why they don't know stuff that's like look floor back what are you doing. Anyway, yeah it's really cool it's really cool and the other day actually well not the other day was a few weeks ago, but I went out to go get some snow content and I just wasn't happy with anything that was like ground level because the skies were way and like everything just looks flat you know when it's everything's white and gray and so I just decided to go up to the top of the mountain and like that's weird too to do by yourself. Once upon a time I would never have done that by myself and because I've gotten lost before but just went up there and that was pretty cool just to see everything blanketed in snow and yeah it was really neat. That's so awesome though that you can just decide to go up the mountain. I wasn't sure the doors would be unlocked but it was that one time so and it turned out to be a really great video so. Mild flax, mild flax. How does a dream come true? All right. Oh this one's another one. What's your personal favorite season at Canada's Wonderland? That's hard. I think there are aspects to every season that I love like opening up in the spring just having the excitement, seeing the excitement of the guests coming back. A lot of the season's past folders we've been waiting so patiently through the winters you know it's like everybody's just in a great mood and to get those rides running it's it excites me to no end to see like a coaster like Levi's opening for the first time after a long winter and you know I'm going to try to get that on film for you Sariah. But yeah it's and you know we host like for the new rides and stuff we'll have media events and things this year and those are always fun to put together and to host. And just to be able to talk about the park opening up with media and getting it on TV and getting it on radio. That's exciting. The events are fun when the park is like in full bloom you know like because in the spring the trees are all bare. It's not a good time for photos or video. But like the end of June everything's just looking really fantastic and we have such great landscape it's it's nice to see. And I think everybody kind of sighs a little breath of relief when it goes down after Labor Day. And it's just because it's like it's a go go go right throughout the summer. So that's a nice break to have and to switch the flip to Halloween is always exciting but winter fast I think is honestly my favorite favorite term of the year because it's just so magical and I know everything about it is just so positive and it just yeah I don't know there's there's nothing negative about winterfest at all it's and it just it fills your heart like to walk through the park. I'll be honest though by the time Christmas rolls around a little tart of like I'm not playing Christmas music at my house. You get it on the daily at the park but yeah it really is a magical event. Oh that was summed up so well. This summer is very magical. All right. What made you want to work at Canada's Wonderland? Oh well I got really lucky is what it was. I don't know if a lot of people know this but I actually came from journalism. So I've most of my career was in journalism I have done some communications and digital marketing stuff but mostly journalism so I've been a reporter I've been an editor editor in chief I worked in the Middle East for a little while as a reporter. And I was working here in Toronto and I can't I just said Toronto that was wrong Toronto. What am I not from here that was weird. And I think I just I had a some job alert showed up in my inbox for the communication instructor's job. And I just stopped everything I was doing because I was like that that is that's got to be an amazing job. And it was like I had come to the park when I was a kid I you know had seasons passes when I was a teenager you know now that I'm a parent I bring my kids and it's like it's just it's always been a part of my life and to be responsible for the storytelling at the park. Just seemed like an amazing gig right so I just applied for it didn't think that I had a lot of hope because I had a lot of journalism experience but not a lot of communication and marketing experience right and this is I'm this job is part of the marketing team. Ultimately though I discovered a lot of the skills are transferable you know like it does all boil down to storytelling and you know if that's in the written word or if it's with photos or video. You know the PR aspect and dealing with media I just come from media so I was very familiar with this market. So I was lucky and I just it worked out so yeah no complaints. Honestly it like you fit the role so well there's been like even the park history that you can tell there's like an evident difference over the last couple years. Yeah. Oh I love that stuff and I'm sorry that I'm not at the office because I did see on your last podcast somebody asked in the comments about historical stuff. And I was planning to show you guys some things but I don't even think I have stuff here sometimes I do have it at home. Because I brought it all home during covid when we had to do work from home and I brought a scanner home and I was busy digitizing things because that was yeah we were approaching our 40th anniversary and I needed to get things digitized and needed to like research and pull things together which I love doing I love doing it it's like detective work you know piecing things together and usually I do stumble on something that's like oh why is this here. Take this back to the park. But yeah it's a lot of fun. I enjoy it. Yeah that's awesome. And you definitely suit the role really well like. Thank you do a good job. Okay so this one this one is so serious and I feel like I feel like it's best if you ask this question because it's more up your alley which one which one. This number five. Oh number five. Okay Grace okay you know how much Brandon and I love food so on the topic of food is there anything you can share about the 2023 food menu. Food menu I can talk I can let you know about food in general will serve really to our events. There is going to be a shake up with the the taste festivals. So we typically have three with that there will still be three this year in August on the weekends. But countries are changing. I won't tell you what they're changing to or how many but but somewhere between one and three will be changed up so last year we had taste the Caribbean taste of Portugal and taste of Ireland. So we're looking at something different this year. But I think everybody will really enjoy. And what else. We're looking to do some unique food and drink offerings theme to tundra twister. So I'll let your imaginations play with that one what that can be on the theme of a twist. But there yeah that that's always fun when when you have the ability to play with food and get creative like that matched up to a ride so. Yeah. The best of lazy bear lodges returning had such a great strong menu last year and even it opened late in the fall so didn't really have a full run yet so we're going to bring back a lot of that, which I think is positive. And yeah, that's that. That's awesome. I'm excited. I'm very excited. I just want to interrupt just because I'm the moderators are. All right guys so Grace is definitely not going to be able to answer any questions about future rides. She's not going to break the news on a little YouTube channel. That is for the park to announce. So any questions about future rides and all that aren't going to be announced in today's stream. What's this money from our overlord grace thing. What does that mean. Is that I don't even get it. But it's. Oh, okay thank you. Any further. Oh, can't answer that one. Outside of Tundra twister and Snoopy's racing railway. Is there any other new little things not announced that you can share or talk about at this time. I don't know. Sorry, I can't remember. I don't think that there I do to be honest I mean besides events. And entertainment being changed up a little bit that's all going to get announced early August by the way our full events lineup and entertainment offerings for. I have more of a finger on the pulse of what's happening there than I do about any other like construction projects in the park so unfortunately, just not anything else that I can offer this time. All right. What, what are some of the tactics and policies being implemented this season to help navigate the more aggressive clients and phones on rides. So, with the phones on rides I think it's really a continuation of the policies policies that were in place and being enforced pretty strictly last year. We had a bit of awareness campaign on social. And I know that our security and write ups we're doing a great job dealing with any offenders on rides I mean I know you guys certainly videoed. Coasters being stopped on lift hills because somebody had their phone out and if they didn't put it away after an announcement and you'd see right. Somebody going up lift to actually take the phone away. And we hate to have to disrupt a ride obviously but you know safety's got to be paramount so it's a continuation of that and I think in a couple cases people might have been escorted from the park for continual offenses so it's a serious business, you know, very unsafe. I know it's exciting to get POVs and things but that's that's something that has to be done very safely with mounted devices approved by the park so I think it's just really a continuation of that enforcement in the park. And same goes for, like I don't know what you mean by aggressive guests but like line jumping and whatnot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and we always encourage guests wherever you see that happening to notify an associate who's nearby, who can then call security and, and you know address that issue with those guests. So if there's not somebody nearby, please be our ears and our eyes and help help the cause. For sure. I think some of these tips coming in are funny. Oh, I have to keep it keeps closing down on me have to look. Oh, yeah. What's wrong with your hoodie strings. It was tied up it was like bunch like that. So I'm like, I'm going to make it. What's involved in the decision process for choosing what rides to add to Canada's Wonderland. Right. Okay, so I can talk about this one not because I'm a person that is involved in any of this obviously but I've talked to the people who do sit at the table. Who make these kinds of decisions and have influence over that so it's, it's a lot of a lot of different variables. And sorry, this is the one about what rides get added to the park. The decision process behind what rides to add. Yes, okay. So obviously on a bigger picture scale. You know, the park company Cedar Fair has a lot of properties that they've got to take into consideration and they look at the timing of what parks are getting what attractions what years and what parks need the help of a new attraction perhaps to, you know, increase attendance or bring bigger value to the past holders that are there. So that's sort of bigger picture things. And related to those decisions are relationships with manufacturers. RGM has spent a lot of time over his career, building some really great relationships with manufacturers, like knowing the people who run these companies and, you know, being able to calm up on on the phone and talk ideas and stuff which is very impressive. So it's not just relationships, but it's also to looking at the real estate that's available in the park, you know, where do we have a plot of land where that can go. And depending on what space is available how big is it going to be, you know, so those are limitations sometimes, because we got to work with what we've got. But then it's I think also to assessing what we already have. And what is it that we can bring to the park that's going to be unique that's going to get guests excited, you know, is there a gap that needs to be filled is there, you know, perhaps, you know, families might need something new because we haven't had something new in Planet Stupor Kittsville for a while, or I don't know also looking at, you know, what is not offered in our market, we obviously wouldn't put a new ride in that already exists on in Ontario's and bring in that's unique, then we would certainly put priority on that over anything else. So it's a whole host of things. And I'll say that these these decisions are made many, many years out from when things actually show up or even are announced. So, yeah, a lot of things go into the process. Yeah, that's awesome. I have a giant folder I wanted to present to you. I have no ideas. Christmas wonder why should do that every get enthusiasts to pay like $50 to submit Christmas wish list and just burn them. Somebody said that they love my shirt, Jay carrot. Yes, this is my stand up so this is my, I don't know what it is it's like a rainbow 1981. I wore this shirt. I wore this shirt. I have like five of them okay full disclosure so I'm wearing them a lot but during the 40th anniversary online trivia nights that we did this was like my uniform for that so I love it too. Thank you for that. In my leg. No you are my life. Oh yes so how streaming works is the people on YouTube are about 15 seconds behind us. Okay, so when you answer their question they'll get your answer about 15 seconds after you answered it. Okay cool. Well I just got lost. Where are we. Oh, right here number 10. Oh, if you could bring back any defunct ride from Wonderland's past what would it be. Oh, that is a hard one. Flintstones and all that. Oh my goodness. Yeah, a rider in here like, yeah, what, you know, I feel like I had an answer for this one. Oh, no it wasn't called Matterhorn though was it. No it was Baron's Curve. Yes, that was fun. I did that I love that one. I love log flume rides too so Zumba flume was really awesome. Yeah, I think, yeah, oh so loco or orbiter. Yeah. Yeah, I missed that too. That was like, yeah I remember I have memories of riding that as a child and yeah it was a lot of fun. So I'm getting lost in the comments here. Yeah, if you ever want to pause and answer any of them go ahead. What is your favorite of the four coasters that debuted in the park in 1981? Um, I think Dragonfire because that was my first upside-down coaster like it was you know when you have like coasters that are going to live in your memory book as being a milestone and that was my big milestone and it freaked me out like it took me a long time. I don't know I had to really had to work myself up to get on some rides. But yeah, that was awesome not to go to get off topic but Jet Scream scared the living daylights out of me. I bailed on that line. I bailed on that line. I don't know how many times before I finally got on it. Same with the bat. I don't and you know what I think it's just because because it's just the one train. It's like you stand in that line staring at it for so long like and you just build up this anticipation. It's like fear. I don't know. I couldn't get through it. So the bat I bailed on that one a lot when I was younger, but it ended up being amazing. I don't know why I waited so long. Anyway. Awesome. Do you want to read it? Yeah. You read a couple. Okay, Grace. What's your personal favorite ride at Wonderland and why is it Leviathan? Who said that? I was gonna ask you guys if you could take a guess what it would be. It's Yukon. Of course it's Yukon. And the reason being not just because of the ride experience but because like I'm new to this industry. Right. Like before five years ago, I wasn't like I'm not an enthusiast. I'm not like I was just a general park goer. And Yukon Striker was the first ride, the first massive ride that I got to witness, you know, like it from conception to it being open and celebrated in this world record breaking coaster. So that was really cool to see. And you know, we were out there many days during the winter watching the construction of it and actually we had, I don't know if you guys were aware, but we did. The Discovery Channel came and did a documentary on it for their Building Giants series. It was to air in the US. I think it eventually did air in Canada. But if anybody can look that up and watch it, it's really cool. They make it way more sensational than any of whatever was just so you know, but it's like that's the way documentaries work. It's like, oh no, are they ever going to fit that piece in there? Anyway, but I'm getting off topic. So we had, we had the videographer and the producer for that series out, like through most of the winter and the marketing team has to escort them and sort of be with them and stuff. So for that reason, too, we were out a lot watching the progress. And so it was really cool to just see how it worked and how it all got put together and all the hard work of all the trades and getting that thing up and then being able to open it and having a great media day and just the reception for Yukon was amazing. We have, you know, we had media coming from like international outlets coming to to write that thing on its first day. So that is the reason why it will always have a special place in my heart. Yeah. Leave. Why then a close second. That makes me. That's where it belongs. Oh, okie dokie. You sound like Ned Flanders. Let me Ned Flanders on. Okay. He says, he says Yokely dokely. Yokely dokely. Yokely dokely. What's your favorite park outside of Canada's Wonderland. And then the same question, but outside of Cedar Fair. Oh, because I guess you're assuming that my favorite park outside of Kansas Farland is going to be Cedar Park. You know, and to be fair, you know, and I say the reason it's not is not because I don't like our parks because that's not the case, of course, but I haven't been too many. I'm working to catch up. Because like I said, you know, I've been with the company for more than five years now but you know, haven't had a lot of opportunity to get to the sister parks. So we went to Cedar Point. But that was when they were opening steel vengeance. So we went over to help with the media day. The rest of the park was closed for the media day. Got to ride still vengeance a couple times, which was amazing. But yeah, so I didn't get a chance to experience strip point being open. I'm often in Charlotte where our head offices were carowins is. But it's always been closed to because our trips are usually in the off season. So the park is open during the off season so or during our off season and we've got a trip coming up next week actually so I'm hoping to get to carowins and get on some rides which I told you guys about so looking on fury and copperhead strike and a couple others so I'm looking forward to that but besides that I haven't been to any other Cedar Park. I haven't been to any while they've been open so I've got some work to do. My favorite parks otherwise I mean with my limited experience I just got back from Disney. Did Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios. And then I went to SeaWorld's Discovery Cove so not to SeaWorld amusement park but Discovery Cove experience with all the tropical fish and dolphins and stuff. So of those Hollywood Studios was really great. I love the time there. I loved Galaxy's Edge because spent a day I'm a huge Star Wars nerd so that was fun for me and rise the resistance just like blew my mind. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, so I guess I would have to say Hollywood Studios. That makes sense. No universal velocity coaster. No universal I'm going to go to next time because we didn't do it. It was just too much there was like we couldn't fit it in and my kids because the bigger coasters are there. I don't think that they're big enough yet to go on so. Next time. Oakley Doakley. Oh my goodness. Now you're doing it. So Canada's Wonderland decided to bring Frontier Canada to life from its original. Okay, anything with red. Don't ask. I've read on it. No, it doesn't panic for a second. So Canada's Wonderland decided to bring Frontier Canada to life from its original plans. Is there other areas of the park that Cedar Fair and Wonderland would like to bring back for example World Expo. How is that not red. Well, I'm not going to give away, like, you know, any goods or anything but I think it's fair to say in general. Yes, there's a direction to bring some theming back and certainly like it's something that you chip away at, I think, unless you have a big ride like you gone striker where you have an ability to build and do seem big theming with the station and it's sort of that was like, maybe the showpiece of Frontier Canada when we brought that part back. But yeah, I think it's fair to say, you know, just even, I know of little changes that are going to be happening this year, minor ones where that are going to adjust things just adjust a little bit to fit the theming of areas right so it is something that gets Are we dreaming? That's my favorite thing. I'll take that over a coaster any day. Yeah. That's all I have to say about that. Okie dokie. Oakley dokey. It's dead. I apologize. If you could bring any ride from another park to Wonderland, which one would you bring? That's a hard one to because, again, it's like my experience is limited. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. If you are Y325. Oh, I was thinking like something from Hollywood Studios, but I mean, we're talking like blue sky here right. No, I don't. So, sorry, is it from another studio fair park? Any park? This is your personal opinion. Yeah, yeah, let's be clear here. Sometimes I'm speaking just as grace and not Canada's Wonderland, which is the case right now. So don't read any insight into this. This is just me trying to figure out of the experiences I had. What would be cool to have? I mean, it obviously would be very cool to have rise the resistance right in your backyard, but I think those interactive dark rides are really cool. Yeah, so I don't know. I'll leave it at that. Yeah, definitely inside mountains. Oh, this is a good one. What's the naming process for rides, attractions and restaurants at Canada's Wonderland? Yeah, so this is a multifaceted answer as well. It's always a collaboration of a variety of people and obviously if we're talking like, you know, new rides, that's got, you know, corporate involvement and, you know, the park leadership at the table as well. But it's happened where, you know, a broader group is brought in to sort of funnel ideas in just to get the brainstorming process happening. So I can say for Yukon Stryker, you know, I was part of the group that was able to just through name suggestions to the deciding committee in the beginning for them to just get started. And, you know, that obviously involves, you know, understanding what the ride is going to be, obviously, what in terms of its specs and, you know, that Yukon had a dive and the theming that we needed to understand, that Frontier Canada was coming in its theme to the gold rush of the Yukon, what is that? You know, so it's like looking into the stories and looking into the people and the places. We actually did a lot of research into what Frontier Canada was supposed to be when the park first concepted it. And also did some research into the actual historical event, you know, and to see if we could pull some like authentic themes from that authentic names. We were looking up river names and, you know, I don't know, individual names like of the prospectors that were out there, all kinds of history was dug up, just come up with that sort of thing. On a lesser scale for some things like, you know, you know, minor food venues, for example, if I'm asked to help with some of that, one of the best websites is actually, I think it's called relatedwords.org. So if you type in something like you've got some theme like a blizzard or something, and it will output all kinds, not synonyms necessarily, but just like concepts that are kind of the same and it's just a great site to sort of get the wheels turning further. So yeah, it's always a collaboration. I think too, you know, there's a branding consideration in terms of like what's going to fit on the logo and what would that logo look like if we decide to go with this name and, you know, for Lazy Bear Lodge. The inspiration was a wooden sculpture of a sleeping bear, you know, so how do we, you know, come up with a name that makes sense and fits that theme because that's going to be sort of the inspiration piece. So yeah, it's a whole bunch of things that go up to it. That makes sense. I totally thought you guys were watching Sirius TikToks when you came up with the name Lazy Bear. No. I feel like we shouldn't drag Grayson to our insults. That's true, that's true. Okay, I will do this one and you can carry the rest. Oh, I like this one too. Short but sweet. Does Wonderland attend IAPA? Oh. Why? Why did you have that reaction, Brendan? Because I forgot I put that in there. Oh, I know that Cedar Fair is certainly represented. Company leadership does attend across different departments like the heads of foods, the heads of the Ryan experiences and but I couldn't tell you personally actually if there are Wonderland Associates that go. I'm sure that there are, there have been times that they have but I just couldn't, I couldn't tell you definitively. Awesome. What number? A couple in the red. I was at the IAPA one. Oh, perfect. All right. No, this. Okay. We're down to our last two. If you, oh, this is a really intense question. If you had any budget over the next five years, what would your personal, again, keyword personal for everyone in here, ideas of investments look like? Yes. So, well, I think this is where I'm going to really disappoint your audience because I'm not going to go for big coasters and I'm actually throwing rides and stuff. Sorry, guys, you know, satisfying guests and making sure that they're having the best day is not just about, you know, getting on them on the biggest coasters all the time, but it's also all the infrastructure around them. You know, and the experiences that they have in those in between moments, you know, so there's always infrastructure improvements that you could make. But in terms of rides and I'm going to, this is me talking as myself, but also as a parent. So again, this is not going to probably apply to a lot of your audience on here. I would love to see. I was actually kind of just fascinated by some of the old site plans that we've seen where it showed that there was supposed to be a restaurant inside the mountain, which is really cool. And there's a massive space in there. And I mean, if we're pretending that this is like blue sky and like there's no logistical challenges and that space is available. It'd be really cool to do like a dark ride in there. That's like a walk through, but an interactive experience, something that keeps people moving through constantly. And maybe the interaction is like with your phone, you're able to interact with devices or creatures that are in there. My kids, you know, had a great time when we went to Great Wolf Lodge and they have the wands, you know, where you like flick the wands at things and stuff happens. And they love to just sort of run on their own and discover things on their own. That sense of freedom is, I don't know, they just thrive on that. When we were at Magic Kingdom, not to keep bringing up Disney, but I was just there. You know, I had to, I got the Genie Plus and did all the lightning lanes and stuff, but in booking our rides, they were all stacked in like the afternoon and into the evening. So we had to like fill time. So we spent the entire morning in Adventureland in Frontierland. And my kids loved the Swiss Family Treehouse, which is just an experience that you just walk through and there's cool things happening like the water conveyor and like the little rooms you can look at. And they thought it was just amazing. Like there's seven and 10. Okay, so it's like some perspective in this. And then the other thing was Tom Sawyer's Island. I don't know if you guys have ever been. You take a little raft over to this island that's got like a fortress and it's, but it's yours to explore. You can run wherever you want. I didn't even see any cast members on this island. There's tunnels to explore that are like pitch dark. Like the kids were all over the place. You could shoot cannons from the top of the cannon or from the top of the fortress. And we were there early enough that we had the place to ourselves. And again, that sense of like just being able to be free and like we just let them run and it was great. So something sort of similar where it's something for guests to explore. And like there's something maybe new every time that they come if certainly if there's an interactive feature with it if it's on your phones or if it's with something that you purchased the park. I think, I think people want to be part of a narrative, you know, it's to be part of the ride not just a passive passenger in a ride where you just sit and experience it but you just maybe actually get to influence the narrative or something. I think that would be super cool. That was a very long answer. No, no, that was a really good detail answer. Yeah, that reminds me of Cedar Point's new thing, the Adventure Island thing. I forgot what it's called. Oh yeah, Adventure Park? No, no, no. It's a storyline and they have like theme characters. Right, I'll have to try that sometime. Okay, so I don't know if you got an update on this last question in Reddit says, I'll see if I can get it. I did, I did, I mean it's not very extensive but ask away. Okay, awesome. For some of the older attractions slash aging ones like this one, does Wonderland build any of the parts in-house now especially for rides with manufacturers that are no longer around? Yeah, so I had to talk, obviously again, I'm only a font of knowledge when I ask other people for answers. Yeah, so I had a chat with Peter Spitzer yesterday. He's our director of maintenance and construction. I asked him and he said yes to a point. So we have where we need parts for things where the manufacturer is no longer around. We often get it manufactured but it's just manufactured locally. So we will still get a company in Ontario to do that for us, like examples being like upholstery on, you know, on seats maybe. I had some other examples that I wrote down that they don't have with me right now but there are fewer cases though, but it does happen where we might manufacture something in-house. We have an engineer who has to design those pieces and it has to be signed off by an engineer in order for us to do that ourselves. But in the most cases it's local manufacturers who are doing that for us. Awesome, that's cool. That's more intense than I thought. They always say Wonderland is like a mini city. It totally is. It continues to impress me year to year. It's the things that I don't even, it's like it'll all just be mentioning something. It's like oh we can totally all do that right now. It's like really incredible. We have people who do that. That's so cool. That's it for questions. We have like eight minutes guys, like seven minutes to ask some questions to Grace right now. Remember she can't answer anything about even like 2023, 2024. Yeah, that's the thing about me being in, you know, communications and being public relations, spokesperson. I have to also be the censor so we can't talk about the future. You'll just have to stay tuned and see what happens. Yeah, and I did see a whole bunch of questions roll by but we haven't had a chance to jump on these. Yeah, so re-ask them if you can guys. Oh, here they all come. Oh my goodness. Okay, slow down guys. So Mr. Excellent, you said the event announcement is in August. Did you mean April? Did I say August? Yes. So I meant at the beginning of April, a couple of weeks before we open is usually when we have our announcement about all the events and the entertainment lineups for the summer. So we will all the dates will be there. Web pages will be up. That will be something to look out for. Oh, Jonathan asking about giving back to the community. Our charitable programs is also something that's part of my portfolio. And we've had a very long standing relationship with sick kids. And so you guys would have seen last year we just we used to have the charity ducks. Last year we just started doing the wish trees. Those are that's going to be coming back again this year and actually probably for a longer run than we had last year so people will be able to purchase these ribbons and write a wish on it. We also have some sort of contest element and all those post-its are going to go to sick kids but that's that's like a cause that is very near and dear to our hearts. Anywhere we can help children and families we work with give kids the world and make a wish Canada and helping kids enjoy a day at the park. So yes, I agree giving back to the community is very important and we look to do that wherever we can. That was a good question. What else we got here? Wonderland does a lot more though than people even realize like they even allow training of York regional police and firefighters and all that on their on their grounds right if I'm not mistaken. Yep, occasionally. It's not very often but yes, that's true. What else we got here favorite memory at the park that had to be. I think it was on strikers media day like that was just it was it was a crazy day running around you know we had all kinds of people doing interviews. We had Sophie from BNM. Present Sophie Bollinger then yeah. Anyway, she was there. Yeah, it was just a lot of fun breakfast television came up it came out. Everybody's been talking about dinner retiring from breakfast television she came and showed up in a chicken suit, and they did a whole skit about her being too chicken to get on. So it was a lot of fun. What else we got here. I'll have that you guys are keep keep reminding everybody I can't answer questions about the future. Connor's asking if I like you can striker. You must have missed the part before. We're running salt in the world. I maybe he just joined. I do love you can striker. I'm scrolling backwards now. Did you find a question. Yeah, if you could go to any other department and see her fair where would you go GM. Another department at Wonderland like if you could work at any other department of Wonderland what would you want to work. Where would you want to work. You know I'm always impressed by the work that happens in the creative services team. I don't think that I have the skills to do any of the work there but designing scare zones and coming up with like all kinds of cool installations. That's that's I love having creative spaces like that and being surrounded by creative people. So that must be a lot of fun to do. So I think I would really enjoy that if I had the skills to do that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. What are you guys looking forward to the most at chill out. I am like freaking out. This is something I've always wanted to do. I told Brandon I'm going to cry when we get there like grace we're guys we're going to get to go inside a Mavericks launch tunnel. Millennium forces tunnel we're going to get to stand inside like in between the track we can weave our bodies in between that old intimate. It's wide enough for us. Like that's so so so cool in my opinion. Like that is a dream that is like a childhood dream come true just to be that close to those rides you know. Yeah. I'm most looking forward to that. What about you. I'm probably just going to film your reaction the whole time. I'm just going to make funny talks and it's going to be nice to see all the work that they've done like on their new boardwalk and stuff like how they've opened it up how they want to revitalize it. Because they claim that they wanted to kind of bring that back to life because there used to be a boardwalk a long long time ago and then it just got consumed by rides and rides and rides. So now they want to open that area up again. So that'd be kind of cool to see how they're doing that. Yeah. I'm excited. Yeah. On the food. Well, I feel like we've stolen enough of your time. You have a whole family. Please. It was my pleasure. Don't worry. And the kids are not missing me. They're playing their fortnight in the box. So they're fine. But have a great time. That's your point. That's going to be amazing. I'll be watching for that content online. And yeah, I hope. The my answers were somewhat interesting to your audience. I'm happy to join. And it was great seeing everybody's comments in here. So. Yeah, no, it was awesome. Thank you for this. Yeah, no problem. All right. Well, bye guys. Bye everybody. Thank you everybody. We open up soon enough.