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Coaster Cray Cray
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I’m Cray Cray for coasters and hopefully you are too!
The History of the American Adventure | The UK's Unluckiest Theme Park
Settled around Ilkeston's Shipley Lake sits an unfinished mix use development, but locals and theme park fans alike remember the lake looking wildly different. They remember a time where the lake was surrounded by rollercoasters, rides, and screams. They remember what once was Britannia Park and later, The American Adventure.
Join me in a deep dive through this parks colourful history. From it's very inception to its ultimate demise, this is the history of the American Adventure Theme Park.
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CHAPTERS:
Intro: 0:00
Chapter 1 An Unlikely Inception: 1:05
Chapter 2 A Full Restart: 4:39
Chapter 3 Losing Identity: 9:09
Chapter 4 Big Plans?: 13:50
Chapter 5 Downfall: 17:19
Chapter 6 Aftermath: 21:38
Ending: 23:38
None of the images, footage, or music belong to me. I credited when I could but I will also credit creators down here!
All credit goes to these users for footage!
@kiphakes
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@ukridesinfo
@themeparkgo
@BocksBob
@RoamingReviewer
@AirtimeThrills
@EuroThemeParkArchive
@paulsmith2050
@nostalgasm498
@CoasterClips
@HoppyTheRobot
@westeffex
@Mark0ne
@Coaster_Crazy
@joasters
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@droneandstuff1
All credit goes to these users for music!
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Join me in a deep dive through this parks colourful history. From it's very inception to its ultimate demise, this is the history of the American Adventure Theme Park.
INSTAGRAM: coaster_cray_cray
CHAPTERS:
Intro: 0:00
Chapter 1 An Unlikely Inception: 1:05
Chapter 2 A Full Restart: 4:39
Chapter 3 Losing Identity: 9:09
Chapter 4 Big Plans?: 13:50
Chapter 5 Downfall: 17:19
Chapter 6 Aftermath: 21:38
Ending: 23:38
None of the images, footage, or music belong to me. I credited when I could but I will also credit creators down here!
All credit goes to these users for footage!
@kiphakes
@psyclonesteve
@johnmacc558
@ukridesinfo
@themeparkgo
@BocksBob
@RoamingReviewer
@AirtimeThrills
@EuroThemeParkArchive
@paulsmith2050
@nostalgasm498
@CoasterClips
@HoppyTheRobot
@westeffex
@Mark0ne
@Coaster_Crazy
@joasters
@derbyshiredrones175
@philbeedrone4212
@droneandstuff1
All credit goes to these users for music!
@andrewh2796
@USF4
@incompetech_kmac
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
#rollercoaster #themepark #abandoned #americanadventure #closed #thrillride #history #coaster #coasters
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Quite a lot of UK parks are talked about, but I discovered an outlier... so I fixed that! Frontierland is the often forgotten defunct park of the UK, despite being a sister park to one of the most well known parks in the world! I thought it was time to bring its history to light. INSTAGRAM: coaster_cray_cray?igsh=MWRidTF3dmt2Z3B1aw & I don't any photos or videos used in this video...
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Our first Funworld POV! This one is of Viper, my B&M Inverted coaster! Whenever I post a coaster as part of my Funworld tour on Instagram, expect to see a POV on here sometime that same day! I hope you guys all have a great rest of your day!
A classic case of "too many cooks spoil the broth".
Too true!
Why Aztec Kingdom, when it was Native American themed?
I believe it was just its own separate area. Either way, those faces did become an iconic part of the park
I was a repeat visitor in the 90s as a kid. I LOVED missile. We couldn't afford the likes of Alton Towers, but always had a great time at the American Adventure.
The park looked like so much fun! Such a shame it went away, I would’ve loved to go at least once. At least Missile is still open in Lowestoft!
I'm so confused. I was born in 1973 and live in the Northwest but have never even heard of this place before.
Hindsight is 20/20! You ain’t the only person who missed it though, I was born the year before the park closed. I never got the opportunity to go either!
This was the one I was waiting for and boy you did not disappoint 😊 brilliant video that brought all my childhood memories flooding back and gave me a little tear to what once was.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Took some time but it finally arrived! Keep an eye out for when I start the next one! 👀
21:05 Fun Fact Runaway train after it's traveling convention actually did a year at Nottingham Goose FAIR 😊
That’s so cool! Hopefully it’ll come back one year!
I would just like to say, that I would like to dedicate this film to my late father Brian Carter who worked at Derbyshire County Council Reclamation Department, at the time when Shipley Wood , just changed to Britannia. And I can remember going down to see Shipley Wood just before the changes. Many thanks for the Happy Memories. Simon Carter
That’s so lovely. I hope I did you and your father proud with this look back on the park.
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray Hi , just to let you know, that you did my dad very proud. And I'm very pleased as well, and thank you. All the Best. Simon
Can you imagine if it got the b&m and CCI coasters the place would have been amazing
Oh it would definitely be a major player if those coasters made it to reality. They would’ve been the start of many new rides!
It’s such a shame it went. I went to the site a few months ago and there is now nothing left. Great video as well
I would’ve loved to visit this park! Maybe one day I’ll get to see the site. Despite there not being a park, I’m sure there’s still some enjoyment out there at Shipley lake, nature itself is lovely!
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray it’s an amazing plave
this was a really interesting watch! loved it!!
Thanks dude! There will be more to come!
Nice video :D
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Amazing video!!
Thank you!!
Such a well researched video! Love stuff like this. Keep it up
@@CoasterChicken thank you so much for the kind words! Don’t worry, I intend on making more videos!
Spent many a time as a kid with my younger brother and parents walking around Frontierland and Morecambe prom' every Summer as we waited to pick the Heysham/Belfast overnight ferry
Nicely put together video. I hate seeing parks die like this
Thank you so much, there is another on the way! So do I, it’s such a shame this place closed because I feel it would be such a fun little place to visit. Sadly though, I do feel the park would close either way if it survived into Amanda Thompson’s reign. Maybe they can bring life into the park again when Eden Project is built but I’m not too hopeful.
You'll love Rhyl then cos they 100% bulldozed it out of existence!
Can you do mr marvel’s in Scarborough?
I’ll add it to my list!
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray thanks. Btw it opened in 1984 and closed in 2002
Who can remember texas tornado with the backwards train ride 😂
Me! But I was so young I was too scared to go backwards 😂 now I wish I could do it
no Country Bears?
This one comes to my mind every now & then. I was only there once maybe twice, but it was around the time I was getting interested in roller coasters. This was the early 80s. I was definitely on the Texas Tornado & Mine Train. Sad to see it's demise.
I would’ve loved to have visited! It’s a shame the park went away!
I loved going here as a child, then one day I went (probably the year 2000) and almost all of it was fenced off with no access. The only rides operating where a hanful of travelling rides and i can remember just the log flume starting up (possibly for the last time) years later I learnt the history of the park. Years of neglect to Morecambe by the Lancaster City Council, the closure of the bubbles fun pool, the ending of the Morecambe illuminations, the disaster of Blobby Land, the derilict Midland hotel and the general lack of serious investment in the town the BPB company decided to pull the plug, starting in 1998 closing the back section of the park and at the end of 1999 closing the rest leaving only a small section operating in the 2000 season, after that season the park was abandoned with everything either demolished in situ or rides removed to other parks across the country. The polo tower survived until around 2017/2018 as it served as mobile phone mast. The log flume concrete section still survives, and that's about it! Fun fact for many years, the litter bins at Southport pleasureland used to have bands around them, saying Morecambe Pleasure Park. Obviously, these disappeared when that park closed!
It’s a shame the park went away. It coulda been a nice small “permanent fair” type of place. At least the memories are there
@Coaster_Cray_Cray yes it could of been a Southport type park, but sadly at the time Morecambe was seen as finished and there was no investment forth coming. Lancaster City Council had simply given up on Morecambe. Southport had people with vision and was able to have a much better outcome and now a successful operation even though it literally had to rise from the rubble....
@@niallh8129 let’s hope the Eden project changes things!
11:45 I'm 100% certain that's me on the waltzer trying to spin it
@@jonnymingham3119 that’s so cool! Hope that’s made your day!
I visited here 2 or 3 times a year from the late 80s up until its closure. The council should have stepped in to try save the park.
It’s a shame, it could’ve been a nice little day park if it survived. I’d go there!
Does anyone remember the Hard Luck Bears animatronic show that operated at the park?
God I remember going on stampede as a small child. Cyclone also had a backwards train at one point.
How did Stampede feel like to ride? From what I heard, it wasn’t the smoothest coaster out there!
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray I was very young and from what I remember it was a good ride and yeah smooth. The ride op rode with us but lounged across the back seat as we lapped it again and again. 😆
@@StoneAgeProductionsAdventure sounds like a right laugh! Thats what parks like Frontierland are about, it’s a shame it didn’t survive into the 21st century. I feel it would still be a fun way out today
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray Yeah, I was gutted when they announced it was closing. Many fond memories of visiting there, Southport and Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Let’s hope its future replacement will bring some sort of joy to the world. Anything is better than how it’s been left for the last 24 years
Still walk past when i visit three times a year. Was sad when they started knocking it down in 1999. Child hood park gone
It’s a shame it’s gone. Hopefully the site will house something new eventually! I hope a nature walk to compliment Eden Project, maybe with art spaces throughout to replace the artist wall!
@Coaster_Cray_Cray I think the fair that occupies the old bubbles fun pool will go there. Another attraction that clossed when frontierland went. I dont like how aldi is on the promenade just doesn't fit in.
Hopefully that fair will become a bit more permanent, more like the current Southport Pleasureland! May be wishful thinking but it would be nice for the Frontierland site to be used for a park again. Morecambe ain’t what it used to be, that’s for sure!
@Coaster_Cray_Cray definitely I could talk all day about frontierland and pleasureland. I'm glad Norman Wallace saved pleasureland and they have something
@@Adzcantsing if you’d ever like to discuss Frontierland, feel free to contact me on Instagram. I’d love to learn more! The link to my instagram is in the description!
I spent many hours there as a child before the rebrand. It's sad to see that now Morecambe has nothing in the way of tourism to bring the families in.
It’s sad what the place has become. We can only hope the Eden Project will bring enough people in for the town to finally redevelop Frontierland. I’m sure that area being an eyesore isn’t doing much for the Eden Project site down the road
No mention of the Jet Star 2 that resided @ the park for 1 year! (1981)
@@owenjohn1192 I’m so sorry! I couldn’t find much information about it! It would’ve been nice for it to stay around for more than a year however! It would’ve complimented the park well leading into the 90’s!
@@Coaster_Cray_Cray RCDB?
@@owenjohn1192 unfortunately there isn’t much information on there either! There is a link to a photo however! I wouldn’t have liked to have speculated what happened to the ride as I wanted to make the video more educational rather than speculative, and I couldn’t find a specific reason as to why it was removed. I can only assume it was for the same reason as the Ferris wheel. Either way this was my first time making a video like this, so I know I can improve. I just hope you liked the video besides this omission!
Frontierland was my childhood! Great vid, very nostalgic and quite sad in parts Also, pretty sure Texas Tornado used to run a backwards train occasionally, unless I've made that up..
Thank you for the input!! I really appreciate it! I remember reading somewhere that one of Texas Tornado’s trains had a backward facing front car! Very unique for a British coaster!
Loved this ❤️ should do one on American adventure next. I miss that park 😢
@@FairGround7Delorean I would love to do a video on The American Adventure! Time ticks, we’ll see where the future takes us!
Or Action Park. The most infamous park ever 😅
I’ll add it to the list! That place is quite infamous so making a video on that would be lots of fun!
I loved American adventure aswell I went to go to the park in 2004 and it was closed I didn't read about it online b4 hand I just thought it was shut as was a week day A few years ago I looked it up cuz I wanted to go and found out it had changed to houses and sounds silly but I cried it was a part of my childhood lost and i wanted to take my kids, it was such a fun park I have the best memories from early 90s
I still have a t-towel from Frontierland that has the price sticker on it and a baseball cap and pin badges never used or opened. My lasting memories of the place include sailing past residents' lounge windows on your log-flume boat as they stared at you and you at them! (a surreal experience for the rider). Racing through the trees on the Texas Tornado and crossing the promenade on your Skyride gondola - your feet seemingly millimeters from the passing double-decker buses and lorries.
Sounds like a blast! I wish I could’ve visited, but unfortunately time took the park before I was born. Those memories sound so precious, and I’d love to see that t-towel!
That’s amazing, still got my Frontier Fred plush from the early 1990s, there’s not even any photographs of him on google. Talk about rare!
@PeterPumpkinEater75 that’s incredible! I didn’t find anything out about Frontier Fred when doing my research! Very rare indeed!!
My mother and father used to take both my sisters and me here pritty much every other weekend in the summers of 86-90, the wooden coaster was by far the best ride there, by the early 90's the park seemed to start to look run down and grotty. the stampede was horrid i remember the cars having sand bags in them.
It’s sad this park went extinct, it did seem to be a nice charming park (despite not looking the best). It’s awesome you had so many opportunities to visit Frontierland, I’m sure those memories are cherished!
Mack rides launch coaster ohne Mackrides Züge?
love all of these minecraft theme parks you have been making :D
That looks so cool!