 Hey guys, so today's video is a little bit different than what we normally do this week. We have been a little bit light with the videos. I only have three of the regularly scheduled videos for you guys this week, the Monday video which is Monday Mystery which we did over Connie Converse and then we did the book of Jubilee reading and then tomorrow on Friday I have part two of the devil's family coming out for you guys. On Tuesdays and Thursdays and sometimes Saturdays we'll have interviews up for you guys but this is a holiday week here in the United States and so it's been a little bit slower this week because a lot of people are taking time off to be with their families and to celebrate this holiday. I also know that over in Europe you have the soccer or football competition going on and so I know it's a little bit different of a week than what it normally is so I wanted to give you guys just an extra bonus video. This is not a normal video but we normally do. This is not a deep dive. This is just letting you guys kind of have a glimpse into an event, an attraction that might be in your neck of the woods as well. When I first started doing this channel I did a lot of ghost stories and I also had a playlist called Things to Do in Atlanta. I will include that playlist down in the description box below. I've also got old videos of things to do in Georgia so this is kind of like some of the older videos I was doing over a year ago with promoting the city of Atlanta with attractions. Now my niece, my oldest niece, Jacqueline turned seven on the 25th of June. Now I know for most kids who have summer birthdays it's kind of fun because you have a chance to really celebrate with all your little school friends but as we know this last about year and a half has been very complicated for our world and even more so complicated for children because they don't understand what's actually going on. For my niece she just had a new baby little sister, they moved houses, a lot of things have gone on this year for her and so for her birthday this year on her actual birthday on the 25th my mother, my sister Jacqueline, my niece and her little sister, her newborn little sister, May all went for an interactive girls day at Candy Topia. Now I had never heard of Candy Topia until my sister sent me the information. It was fun. It was definitely for kids and as you guys know Georgia is pretty much open. There's not a whole lot of regulations. Atlanta is a little bit of a different story. We do have some uptight people here in Atlanta but most of Georgia is pretty open and Candy Topia was also open as well so if you have kids in the area and you want to get them out of the house this was kind of an interesting fun thing to do to take your kids. It's all these installations and artwork made out of candy and yes they can touch it. They just can't lick it or pick it as they say. Now none of us wore a mask. A lot of people there did have mask on but we obviously did not wear mask and it was totally fine. The staff at Candy Topia was super super nice, super super sweet. I can't speak any highly of how they were. They were amazing and even my little newborn niece did really really well even though it was a very loud and colorful experience and my niece Jacqueline the birthday girl had a lot of fun. So if you're looking for something for your kids to do this was definitely quite quite enjoyable. Now again this is not a deep dive as I will tell you guys later in the episode I'm not planning on doing a deep dive into Candy Topia. It doesn't seem to be like it's something that we really need to do a deep dive into it's not that big or huge it's just it's just a like an amusement themed event for children basically. So next we're going to go over a couple of websites to give you a brief history into the founders of Candy Topia and what Candy Topia is and then at the end we're going to look at some of my footage from my niece's birthday at Candy Topia. Again this is not the typical video we normally do and tomorrow morning you will get another typical video for esoteric Atlanta before today I hope that you enjoy. All right so let's look at a couple of articles regarding Candy Topia. This one is from the Atlanta Jewish Times and it's titled Candy Topia the product of a Jewish imagination. It's sweet, it's interactive, it's playful, it's sensory overload, it's Candy Topia the latest experimental shopping exhibition to hit Atlanta. I wouldn't call it shopping exhibition there is a gift store at the end where you can buy like overpriced candy but in my opinion going to Candy Topia with my niece it's very much just like a playground for kids you know it's really cool too I mean they did a pretty good job in my opinion. It's sweet, it's interactive, it's playful, it's sensory overload, it's Candy Topia again the latest experimental shopping exhibition to hit Atlanta excuse me Candy Topia brings the quite essential childhood fantasy of candy coated world to life. It's located at the Linux marketplace in Buckhead which opened last month so if you're a local in Atlanta you might not actually know what that shopping center is because we call that shopping center here for locals Disco Kroger so it's located right beside the Disco Kroger if you are native Atlantean you'll know which Kroger I'm talking about. We have two specific Krogers in Atlanta one is Disco Kroger which is in Buckhead, Buckhead for those who are not from Atlanta is like our Beverly Hills of Atlanta it's really close to like the governor's mansion and then we have what we call I can't say the word on YouTube M-U-R-D-E-R Kroger which is closer to the Beltline right beside Ponce City Market and those two locations most people from this of city know exactly where that is so Candy Topia it's located in the old world market that used to be right beside the Kroger there World Market House that has now moved to another location so that's the center that they're using for Candy Topia it's the old world market right beside Kroger in the Disco Kroger parking lot in Buckhead. Candy Topia is appealing for both kids and adults who appreciate the sweeter side of life said Jackie Sorkin a global candy artist she created the exhibition with co-founders Zach Hartog an events production designer expert and John Goodman a retail veteran I watched Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory and was raised on the movie and the principles in the movie of dream big and be a good person Sorkin said you can be a little crazy and your dreams can come true I watched so much I made it come true for myself and sorry if you hear my dog walking around so that's Jackie that's the woman who is the artist who created Candy Topia and it does it does remind you a lot especially in the beginning of what Willy Wonka was like and I believe I know from what I understand this is a touring exhibition if they were to actually just be centered in cities and not tour I think they could make it even better and make it even even more like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Candy Topia Atlanta features all the popular attractions from its locations in New York San Francisco Los Angeles and Miami with new addition for Atlanta visitors there are candy portraits of real housewives of Atlanta's Neenie Leeks and Zem excuse me Zem Zolziak a candy portrait tribute to Ray Charles and a giant candy coated Georgia Peach there were cities he wanted to go to Atlanta was on the top of our list Goodman said the exhibition includes more than a dozen of rooms of candy made installations including a marshmallow swing pool with half a million foam marshmallows and craft jet-punch puffed marshmallow samples an underwater themed room with candy covered sea creatures creature excuse me a rainbow room with flying unicorn pigs confetti explosions and a truly twisted sour bright collars gummy samplers and yes they did have the marshmallow pit my knees to play in it um you have to have socks so it might seem weird for our friends watching from colder climates but here in Atlanta in the summertime most of us wear flip flops because it's so damn high outside your feet start sweating so if you are from Atlanta and you want to go to Candy Topia if you want to play in the marshmallow pit you do have to bring socks to play in the marshmallow pit celebrities such as Drew Barrymore Gwyneth Paltrowl Jessica Beale Bruce Willis Adam Sandler Kevin Durant Josh Jamel Christina Aguilera James Corden Wiz Khalifi Hilary Duff Alessandra Ambrosia have all visited the mini theme park it's the most magical place at Goodman former CEO of Charlotte Ruse and Wet Seal he got involved with the project I've ever seen the candy portions done by Sorkin and her team after running the numbers he felt like it was his destiny it's just the most magical place we just bring happiness to people for an hour or so and you can't stop smiling he said it's all ages and by the time we will get to the third room they can't stop smiling each location is blessed by rabbi Zalman Seneer I don't know if I'm saying that right executive director of Manicham educational foundation again don't know if I'm saying that right it offers kosher candy an important part of the experience Goodman said in the New York City Candy Topia includes a kosher table with chocolates and taffy he plans to welcome the Hasidic community in Atlanta after receiving such great feedback in New York City every holiday like Huron and Hasidic communities was there the community really embraced us and had fun Goodman said the rabbi showed me pictures of himself and his family and it was really special we do have a Jewish community here in Atlanta but it's not as big as communities like in New York but we do have one here in Atlanta for sure Sorcan is the daughter of immigrants her father is an Argentinian Russian Jew and her mother is Mexican both hard-working immigrants with often led to Sorcan being home alone I was a typical latch kid she said she comforted herself with food early on and by the time she was 12 she was enrolled at Camp Penbrook in Pennsylvania a weight loss camp for teens when she attended the camp Sorcan finally felt that she belonged she said there there she began to cultivate a healthier relationship with food and with herself now she's dedicated to bringing sweetness to as many people as possible candy was taken away from me as a kid and I loved it so much now that I have turned candy into a life for me she said the feeling the same feeling of belonging I had at camp Penbrook is what makes candy topia this incredible place where everybody belongs I love I love that through candy which is my medium we've created this incredible place we have a lightning in a bottle and this is magic we've captured okay so there's that article on it and I haven't done any deep dives into candy topia as far as visits if it's like deep state run or anything like that I don't really plan on looking that deeply into candy topia for those kind of things um because it's not everywhere and it's it's not a huge exhibition so um so before anybody asks I just haven't even I'm sure there's some ties to some of the various people but um yeah I'm just unless something happens with candy topia where it becomes a huge issue I'll look into it but as far as that this is just something for fun that's here in Atlanta that people can do all right so this is from our favorite news agency obviously that's the sarcastic joke CNN CNN's headquarters is located here in Atlanta so they've titled this article candy topia is a weird and wonderful candy wonderland all right Atlanta wants to hang out with Cardi B not really put about the lens a legendary Marilyn Monroe or famous Mona Lisa the painting that is imagine being in the same room as all three and imagine if that room was adjacent to a giant aquarium in a larger than life garden with exotic wildlife with Narnia like doors of wonder that lead into rainbow tunnels headed to the clouds where unicorn unicorn pig farts confetti I have a video of that unicorn pig farting confetti that will play after this at the end of this episode the distant roar of the cannon fire sounds the background expect in the wacky world the cannon balls are marshmallows and everything and everyone is made of candy welcome to candy topia Jackie Sorkin co-founder and co-creator of candy topia calls the sweet creation an incredible candy wonderland where everything runs on candy and you'll see we have my niece took a picture in front of the sphinx here and so this had hundreds of hours approximately 317 hours and 7800 pieces of candy later the sphinx looms large at candy topia candy topia an immersive experience thinks of itself as a mini theme park a place where you can come to escape the world sorkin says it's really just the magical place that runs on sugar and candy and you lose your mind here it's a place to have fun the inspiration for candy topia comes from surprise surprise willy wonka and the different room house of their a variety of experiences no oompa limpas guys no oompa limpas all right where do we go okay there's a garden of eden esk interactive space containing giant flowers sporting unique candy theme smells a tiger and a kimono dragon dragon excuse me made entirely of jelly beans and a canopy of sounds coming from the four sound installations the mini theme park pays homage to game of thrones Marilyn Monroe Cardi B Mona Lisa and of course willy wonka other famous celebrities are featured as well the twist however is that they're all made from hundreds of grams of candy and sugar including the interacted in ornate centerpiece a sphinx so here's the aquarium y'all see all of this with the videos i took with my niece hundreds of thousands of pieces of candy were used to create the 3d models explained sorkin excuse me liquorice jelly beans gummy bears gum drops these are all manipulated to create the pop up art we look at candy in a completely different way it's art for us says sorkin the sweet experience includes illusions of tunnels green screens that serve as a backdrop for photos and a candy aquarium with sharks fish and a life-size diver every room is an instagrammable sugary sweet experience in a candy coated photo opportunity for kids and adults of all ages you know i started creating my candy art pregnant and broke out of my garage said sorkin i mean it can't be more cliched in that the principles of the willy wonka movie you know the dream big mentality never give up crazy ideas let people think you're nuts and keep going anyway that really struck a chord with me when i was a kid the chord was led to a full fledged sympathy of vibrant rainbow colors and candy on display at candy topia during the four month run the pop-up currently in atlanta has vowed that wow visitors in san francisco new york and minnesota's mall of america check the website for location information i will include a website link in the description box below so you can see if it's coming to a city near you if you go have your smartphone ready and your sweet tooth primed oh and make sure to watch out for the not so discreet confetti attacks around the unicorn farm pigs and try not to get caught in the crossfires of the marshmallow cannonballs it sounds bizarre that's okay it's sort of the whole idea it's just so weird to sorkin and it makes everyone smile all right so without further ado we will now go to the video that i took with my seven-year-old niece jacklyn for her birthday you used to be six yesterday you were six today you're seven and candy connoisseurs of all ages welcome to candy topia now before you begin your tour let's go over a few important rules to make sure your journey is truly delectable feel free to tell me my name is mr. fricky and i would be doing a rule of candy so here's today