I'm a Texan, I call 'crisps' chips and I've never even heard of Tayto but yet I've watched a 42 minute video on a theme park based around an Irish potato chips company.
Hi from Boston. Work brought us to Ireland last spring, and I bought some Taytos, if only because I thought the name was amusing. They were pretty alright. Honestly not all that big on the cheese and onion. Thrilled they have salt & vinegar over there, though.
Absolutely! Its refreshing to see someone that is going to do more than sit at their computer desk 😂 It's a good foundation to work from aswell. It gives you so much flexibility to organically explore your creativity and develop further as a content creator
I live in Dublin, and have gone to Tayto park every year since 2011. It’s always been a great day out, but you rarely meet anyone who isn’t Irish there. It’s not a tourist location. It’s not in an easily accessible place and it’s not very big. I feel like it’s almost insulting that they went with a name targeted at audiences abroad rather than here, where the actual demographic is. Most Irish people despise the stereotype of Ireland being all shamrocks and leprechauns. I’m really hopeful that the rebrand won’t be too tourist focused, I’d like to see more Irish mythology and history themed attractions.
My partner went to meet with Largo Foods as part of a job she was doing around the time the Coyles were still involved. Charles Coyle at the time was not running it but was involved in the company so she met him. She found out that because he was the heir to the Tayto brand and was a fierce good lookin man he was locally known as "Prince Tayto". That is probably the closest thing Ireland has to royalty.
So I love how I can hear the music in the background "In the other room" keeping me immersed in the fact we are at a party. What a great concept, and also the video is great in general. The algorithm has deemed you worthy to be on my recommended videos today.
As a lifelong resident of Hershey PA, former Hersheypark employee, and avid theme park enthusiast, thank you for throwing the best party I’ve ever attended
why am I grieving theming based on a chip i’ve never eaten of a park that i’ve never heard of in a country i’ve never been to ? 😭 i’ve known mr tayto for almost one hour and if anything ever happened to him i would kword everyone in this room and then myself 🎩🥔👖
I didn't know I needed this video today but the UA-cam algorithm knows me well. Also I live in Ireland but I went to London just to go to Thorpe Park, Legoland and Chessington, because I think it's fairly easy to get to them and I love Thorpe's coasters
Glad the algorithm led you here! You're totally right, it makes sense for Irish people to travel over for those parks due to the proximity and lack of major alternatives nearby. Thorpe does have a solid coaster line-up!
@Mike From The Party agreed, and on the other hand it doesn't really make sense for people from the UK to travel to Ireland (except for NI) to go to Tayto Park (or Emerald Park) because why would you when you have so many more options in the UK which you don't have to fly for? I feel like only theme park enthusiasts, or maybe families going to Dublin on holiday at a push, would find Tayto Park worth the trip
your videos are so unique. the way all of it is stuff ive never heard of. the fact it's all at a party. PLUS you have captions? literally insane. im so shocked you don't have even 1k yet. love the vibes i just know you're going places & can't wait to see more ❤️
my whole entire heart goes out to TaytoPark. it seems like such a lovely place. I hope its next stage in life is equally as charming. a free bag of chips?? that's amazing. helluva park. Emerald Park is gonna have a hard time following that up.
Now I'm bummed about a park I've never been to and craving a snack I've never had. Also I firmly believe the park poll chose purposely bad names so that 'Emerald Park' would be a definite winner and might attract future international tourist.
Really appreciate finding a deep dive into this little Irish park! I'd been to Ireland a few times but hadn't heard of this until my last trip in 2018 for a friend's wedding. I bought my husband some Taytos straight off the plane to welcome him to Ireland and we both were amused by the ads for the park on the back and wished we knew more. We didn't get to the park since we had other plans, but the wedding reception did bust out Tayto sandwiches at around 1 am so we had a representative cultural experience.
As soon as this video landed in my recommended I practically leaped out of my seat bcs I didn’t think anyone would shine a light on this touchstone for our school trips. Really loved the cultural analysis of the Tayto brand itself, and seeing your experience of the park. And also the chicken filet roll bit made me know I could immediately trust you with my life. Looking forward to see more! :) Footnote prawn cocktail is underrated af.
As an introvert who never goes to parties, I was thrown off by the party chat roleplay theme of this channel. After watching two videos, I quite like it.
Hey man, thanks for the party invite, glad you took me aside to talk about stuff that we’re both passionate about (theme parks), definitely gotta ring the bell next time your having a party
When you follow a guy to get a light and wind up engaged in an hour long conversation untangling why an Irish potato chip company is unsponsoring a theme park in front of his shrine dedicated to the mascot of said chip company
Glad to finally have an in depth review of the theme park I've only experienced by reading pamphlets in a tourist center lol, I loved the novelty of the theme, especially the 'cheese and onion' and 'salt and vinegar' car parks. I've been fortunate enough to visit Ireland a few times with my parents during the Tayto Park era, but the huge travel cost from Australia meant we were lucky to spend a couple days outside of Galway or Mayo. The whole purpose of the trips was spend as much time with extended family as possible, who understandably had no interest in visiting a potato chip theme park in Meath 😂
i think tayto just brainwashed me into clicking this video, i was eating tayto and kind of forgot about what i was eating and immediately clicked this video when it showed up 😭😭
You’ve done a lot of homework and are coming out of the gates swinging!!! You know exactly the niche theme park content the people are hungry for 😂 great work!!!
i stumbled upon your channel because of the twilight video and my god. these are well researched. and now i want your take on disneyland paris, home of my heart.
The cut-in to the park and it being grey, rainy and Mike being completely DRENCHED is so funny to me considering it's in IE. Ofc, what else could the weather be!
This is a great video. It answers questions I never knew I had. I was friends with a guy once who was from Ireland, years ago, he told me about this park and how everyone he knew in school wanted to get jobs there in the summer. I mourn the loss of Tayto Park bc the name will always remind me of some guy i knew one time. Its a tragedy that he'll never get to say he worked at Tayto Park.
Found your channel recently and i am really enjoying the content very creative format and refreshing twist to the theme park content as someone that consumes and follows so many channels about parks i can appreciate the difference topics i dont see much anywhere else thank you for that
Just wanna say the twisted potatoes are something that's really common throughout the US too! Growing up, I would eat them all the time in county fairs, beach boardwalks, boba shops, etc
Like with everyone else, love the style! Definitely a creatively engaging approach to topics I love. Your clear level of research and passion is certainly a bonus, plus a post-credits scene?! Marvellous. Bravo!
@@MikeFromTheParty Iconic. I’ve done a similar thing on some upcoming videos of mine, but outtakes rather than ‘it’s me, Blorko’ (praying you get the reference)
i love this. i love how the entirety of the 50 minute video is technically all happening because of a lighter and all this during a houseparty xd. i love these layers. Subbed!
I am American but on a brief trip to Ireland, I ate Tayto’s and fell in love (maybe it was Mr. Tayto’s smiling face) so much so that my mom managed to have them shipped to us as a gift a few years later. I proceeded to share them with all my friends who also fell in love (seriously what is it about him?). I am horrified to see that I have missed out on the opportunity to visit this park with Mr. Tayto’s at the helm.
I went to tayto park last summer, it was a cleansing and pure experience. To enter a building and see tall shelves lined with many teddies of the beloved mr tayto overlooking me from my position like judges, deciding my fate. It activated my fight, flight or freeze mechanism, or was it simply my soul staying put for their ruling? They let me live luckily, but since that day i have been humbled, not once will i regret a second in my mortal coil, i know the before and the after, in it's dear cheese and onion leaden glory, I can't imagine tayto land without such a thing and as you can imagine, the news upset me greatly
Lmao the twisted chip thing is super common in mexico. We called them "espiropapas" (spiral potatoes/spiral chips). I thought you would mention that at some point in the video. Its not branded in anyway and just sold by anyone that has that machine that spirals potatoes.
brilliant video, so insightful. i honestly do not know why i have never been recommended any of your work before, i am hear now. looking forward to the next one.
Hearing you say "chicken fillet roll" and calling Dublin a dump is a better way to convince me that you're Irish than any passport ever could. I'm so glad that someone has made a video about this national institution and its fearless leader, the handsome Mr Tayto, who is way cooler than the Northern Ireland Mr Tayto.
Please do more vids on ireland stuff! Like on funny mascots for sports or other food brands! It’s such good content to put on to learn a new thing or two 😆 Also your intros are so iconic 👏👏
Thank you! Honestly I'm not much of an expert on anything else Irish apart from this and as someone who only lived there 4 years I want to make sure I stay in my lane. But if I have a great idea I wouldn't rule it out...
when i first went to tayto park, they were still doing the factory tour and it was definitely a huge highlight of my trip, i was like 12 at the time and had never been in a factory so it would probably not hold up today but definitely a cool experience. will never stop calling it tayto park though, they can change the name all they like lmao
Hearing a UA-camr mention another channel I like is always exciting. Obviously he’d know Defunctland, but it makes the website feel just a little smaller.
I was SO confused when you started talking about Twisted Chip (I wasn't looking at the screen) but THEN I realised you were talking about what we call Chips On A Stick here in Australia, they're only ever really at big carnivals or fairs in a food truck. They're super popular but I've never seen a brick-and-mortar Chips On A Stick store before, one of those would probably disrupt the fabric of the universe in immeasurable ways (also they're the best with chicken salt, any other flavouring is bullshit)
This is delightful. Any chance for a follow up video about the biography? As someone extremely interested in the life stories of extremely niche characters, I'd love to know the details.
So I originally bought the book to include a bit on it but I cut it as I thought it was a tangent too far. Unless this video goes mega viral I probably wouldn't do a video just on it to be honest but I can share a bit with you! The vague vibe is that it's the real story of the Tayto company but retconned to include Mr Tayto, so with real photos but photoshopping him in. In the book Mr Tayto's dad was friends with Joe Murphy and they set up the company together based off Mr Tayto's grandmother's recipe. The book then goes through each decade of Ireland's history since the 50s, sharing Mr Tayto's opinion on everything from rock music to boob jobs. It's a weird read!
@@MikeFromTheParty Oh wow, that is more extensive than I thought, thank you! I'm assuming the book never really goes into the moral issues of a potato participating in the business of potato chip consumption? ;) In a perfect world the quirky food based theme park would be the video that really blows up, but I get why your Twilight video is more popular. (I'll admit that I only invested the time in watching this after seeing that one.) As someone who grew up with a dream of going to Hershypark, this content speaks to me!
@@loreescape47 Yes it just totally (and sensibly) side-steps the implied cannibalism. Thank you, this is definitely my favourite I've done but I'm very content it's getting a nice amount of views spilling over from the Twilight one!
I'm now devastated about a theme park that I didn't know existed, changing... I mean how will I go on knowing I could have gone to Tayto park but it's too late now? Also I want to be friends with Mr. Tayto and read his biography
Just gotta say I'm really enjoying your content sir..interesting and your intros make me laugh each time...plus you cover all these topics I have never heard of so cheers to your originality...I love learning about weird amusement park stuff lol and you are a great source..you deserve some major credit for the channel..keep doing what you do!
i will leave here a second part to my comment as I feel like your channel would really fit this type of content/request I am from Portugal and there are two parks from my childhood I never see covered anywhere one ( in Portugal) is closed now for many years and there are basically urban legend to why it closed… i never menage to find any video about this … its still seats there abandoned and intact since the yearly 2000s the other one (Isla Magica in Spain) is the most popular theme park near by… it was so grandiose and amazingly themed… is still pretty good now but as gone down a bit… i would love to see a video covering it up in the style of a typical “ disney history of the park” kind of video… i love seeing those kinds of videos i know is alot to ask for but i feel like it would really suit your channel as so far for what i see u cover so many different topics that aren’t the usual Disney and Universal
this sounds like a super downgraded Six Flags with like no rides. at least that’s my vision of an American equivalent. though Mr Tayto is so cute I wish we had one!
Hahahahaha I did try to expand on it a bit but there is surprisingly little about Thomas Hutchinson online. Even that super pixelated photo I included I really struggled to find!
It might be that I disliked Hersheypark because I worked as a games clerk. The park itself is fine, but the food was the main thing for me. The dessert stands and the Crabfries were great. I only went to Hersheypark on my days off because they used to give you two free tickets every other paycheck or something. The theme park in this video sounds pretty rad, though.
We went there a few weeks after it first opened. There was hardly anything there at the time, the cafe, factory tour, zoo, playground and the climbing wall and the jumping harnessed things. The Native American theming was bigger then and they had people dressed as native Americans walking around chatting to kids and taking photos. We enjoyed it but thought it was doomed to failure as so little there to make you do a return visit. Glad to be proved wrong with how much they have invested into it and usually went every year up until COVID-19.
I visited Tayto Park in 2018 and met the Mr. Tayto mascot while there! I am going to miss the park so much and its a shame that Tayto Park won't be the same anymore :(
awesome video btw, when i went to look at your channel and saw you only had 3 videos and 700 subscribers i was shocked. i feel like i’ve got in on the ground floor for once 👍🏻 i was so engrossed that if my partner said something to me while we were watching i paused it. notifs on, can’t wait for more!
Glad to see attractions from Phantasialand so high in your Top10 Cuelines 😊 The Mystery Castle one scared me the most as a kid, because sometimes actors would lurk in the dark and jump out... Love from Bonn, Germany ❤️
Absolutely adore Phantasialand! I went mid-week so thankfully no actors were lurking to scare me. I'll probably do a video on a ride from there at some point...
@@MikeFromTheParty I don't think they do it anymore.. (Or maybe they do.. So the next time you visit, maybe you'll get the same sense of fear, like i do nowadays 😉) I'll keep an eye out, I'm really curious which one you'll choose 😀 Keep up the good work, i really enjoyed your videos 😊
Emerald Park does have a direct bus where I have no clue what best route is from Heathrow to Thorpe via said transit where it should feel more obvious (they should also be lucky to have two of the nations tallest coasters so close to a major airport). Sure frequency might suck, but the England Island population can be easily justified to make a weekend or "short break" to Dublin and tack the park on. It would be harder for non-enthusiasts in North America or the Europe mainland simply because of where it is unless it comes up in a recommendation list they come across and at that might still pass up the opportunity to focus on historical sights
Omg I paused the Video to read your top 10 queue list, hoping to see at leas on of the Phantasialand Rollercoasters on there... and then there were three haha. Truly a man with taste and reliable opinions 😌
The first time I saw Taytos was in a pub scene in some UK detective/crime show. I wasn't sure if they were real or made up for the show. But thanks to a quick online search I learned that they were real. I can't wait to try them.
@@MikeFromTheParty I mean I’ve been to 99 parks as of last month. I think it’s awesome that most of the UK parks have a spooky/horror theme that we only see here at Halloween. There is a lot more theming than we see in most of the amusement parks here (Excluding Disney/Universal). The queue/pre show thing for The Walking Dead scared the life out of me. The hotels at Chessington and Alton Towers serve some of the best breakfasts in the world! Alton is responsible for the research and development that led to some of my favorite coasters and Nemesis and Smiler make my top 50.
Ok if you've been to so many parks that makes a lot more sense! I love the positive things you have to share - the first time I did that Walking Dead pre-show we were the only ones there and it was so scary walking down that long corridor alone. I do have a couple videos in the pipeline about Thorpe Park...
The beginnings are like those TikTok POV videos but if they actually led to something interesting and useful. If I met a guy like this at a party I'd probably be very entertained
Darned. I wish i went. Now all we got left is the chocolate company park (Hershey) and the tomato sauce company park (delgrossos) which are both in the same state. There was 3 food based amusement parks. Like a nickel it appears one was lost shuffling in the pocket.
Whilst it used to be owned by a beer company, it was sold in 2009. However it still has the rights to the name and I believe it still sells the beer brands of its former owner 🍻
I’m an American Irish dancer and we are all obsessed with taytos they sell them at competitions and where I dance. When I say we’re obsessed my friends got gifted a box of them for Christmas lol
I'm Scottish and one of my friends is Irish and mentioned Tayto Park to me, I owe her an apology because I thought she was taking the p*ss. Love your videos.
I like this channel because it's a social life simulator for attending parties I'd actually enjoy.
Hahahaha I love this description
I know right? I'd personally never go to a party, but I love this kind of conversation
I'm a Texan, I call 'crisps' chips and I've never even heard of Tayto but yet I've watched a 42 minute video on a theme park based around an Irish potato chips company.
Hi from Boston. Work brought us to Ireland last spring, and I bought some Taytos, if only because I thought the name was amusing.
They were pretty alright. Honestly not all that big on the cheese and onion. Thrilled they have salt & vinegar over there, though.
I honestly really love the theming of this channel, its a really creative addition to the video essay format
I'm glad you like it, I was quite pleased when I came up with the idea!
@@MikeFromThePartyit is an amazing idea, not enough channels will put this much effort into creating a setting
Absolutely!
Its refreshing to see someone that is going to do more than sit at their computer desk 😂
It's a good foundation to work from aswell. It gives you so much flexibility to organically explore your creativity and develop further as a content creator
I live in Dublin, and have gone to Tayto park every year since 2011. It’s always been a great day out, but you rarely meet anyone who isn’t Irish there. It’s not a tourist location. It’s not in an easily accessible place and it’s not very big. I feel like it’s almost insulting that they went with a name targeted at audiences abroad rather than here, where the actual demographic is. Most Irish people despise the stereotype of Ireland being all shamrocks and leprechauns. I’m really hopeful that the rebrand won’t be too tourist focused, I’d like to see more Irish mythology and history themed attractions.
Good mix between defunct land and ordinary things. Keep it up!
Thank you! Both excellent channels to be compared to 🙏
My partner went to meet with Largo Foods as part of a job she was doing around the time the Coyles were still involved. Charles Coyle at the time was not running it but was involved in the company so she met him. She found out that because he was the heir to the Tayto brand and was a fierce good lookin man he was locally known as "Prince Tayto".
That is probably the closest thing Ireland has to royalty.
"Prince Tayto" is cracking me up
The distant party noises and conversation is such a brilliant touch!
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
So I love how I can hear the music in the background "In the other room" keeping me immersed in the fact we are at a party. What a great concept, and also the video is great in general. The algorithm has deemed you worthy to be on my recommended videos today.
I'm glad you enjoyed it 🥳
As a lifelong resident of Hershey PA, former Hersheypark employee, and avid theme park enthusiast, thank you for throwing the best party I’ve ever attended
Thank you for coming! I hope to visit Hersheypark one day, it looks really mad (in a good way)
why am I grieving theming based on a chip i’ve never eaten of a park that i’ve never heard of in a country i’ve never been to ? 😭 i’ve known mr tayto for almost one hour and if anything ever happened to him i would kword everyone in this room and then myself 🎩🥔👖
I'm glad you understand how I feel!!
I think you’ve really hit on something with the party setting acting as the sort of catalyst for the video. I look forward to your growth!
Thank you, I'm so glad you like the framing device!
Just sat and watched an hour documentary about something I glanced through 6 years ago on a wikipedia page. 10/10 would attend ted talk again.
Thank you for watching!
I’m American and have never heard of Tayto before now but this is a great video and I like the mascot’s design.
Thank you! It's an iconic design for sure
I didn't know I needed this video today but the UA-cam algorithm knows me well. Also I live in Ireland but I went to London just to go to Thorpe Park, Legoland and Chessington, because I think it's fairly easy to get to them and I love Thorpe's coasters
Glad the algorithm led you here! You're totally right, it makes sense for Irish people to travel over for those parks due to the proximity and lack of major alternatives nearby. Thorpe does have a solid coaster line-up!
@Mike From The Party agreed, and on the other hand it doesn't really make sense for people from the UK to travel to Ireland (except for NI) to go to Tayto Park (or Emerald Park) because why would you when you have so many more options in the UK which you don't have to fly for? I feel like only theme park enthusiasts, or maybe families going to Dublin on holiday at a push, would find Tayto Park worth the trip
your videos are so unique. the way all of it is stuff ive never heard of. the fact it's all at a party. PLUS you have captions? literally insane. im so shocked you don't have even 1k yet. love the vibes i just know you're going places & can't wait to see more ❤️
Thank you, I'm so glad you appreciate them (especially the captions!). You manifested the 1K, literally just crossed it!
@@MikeFromTheParty omg im checking back now and ur past 3k!!! congrats! ur content is great :)
@@celesweet thank you! it's so mad but really exciting
If parties were filled with people telling me about obscure theme parks... I might actually go to parties.
Fortunately (unfortunately?) for my friends, this isn't far off what I'm like at parties
my whole entire heart goes out to TaytoPark. it seems like such a lovely place. I hope its next stage in life is equally as charming.
a free bag of chips?? that's amazing. helluva park. Emerald Park is gonna have a hard time following that up.
It was such a lovely little place. Very curious to go back in a few years and get a sense of the Emerald Park incarnation
Now I'm bummed about a park I've never been to and craving a snack I've never had. Also I firmly believe the park poll chose purposely bad names so that 'Emerald Park' would be a definite winner and might attract future international tourist.
I definitely think that survey was rigged too!
Really appreciate finding a deep dive into this little Irish park! I'd been to Ireland a few times but hadn't heard of this until my last trip in 2018 for a friend's wedding. I bought my husband some Taytos straight off the plane to welcome him to Ireland and we both were amused by the ads for the park on the back and wished we knew more. We didn't get to the park since we had other plans, but the wedding reception did bust out Tayto sandwiches at around 1 am so we had a representative cultural experience.
Glad you got to experience a tayto sandwich at least!
The Romeo and Juliet reference plus second Tato reveal = chef’s kiss
Ahahaha thank you I was very proud of how that turned out
As soon as this video landed in my recommended I practically leaped out of my seat bcs I didn’t think anyone would shine a light on this touchstone for our school trips. Really loved the cultural analysis of the Tayto brand itself, and seeing your experience of the park. And also the chicken filet roll bit made me know I could immediately trust you with my life. Looking forward to see more! :)
Footnote prawn cocktail is underrated af.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
This is a legitimately novel framing device. Love it!
Thank you Rob!
Imagine being a ghost of king, seeing your castle being turned into a chip factory
God, I'd read that short story
As an introvert who never goes to parties, I was thrown off by the party chat roleplay theme of this channel. After watching two videos, I quite like it.
Hey man, thanks for the party invite, glad you took me aside to talk about stuff that we’re both passionate about (theme parks), definitely gotta ring the bell next time your having a party
Looking forward to the next party 🎉
@@MikeFromTheParty you bring the coaster facts, I’ll bring the soda
This is probably the closest we'll ever get to having an actual "Potatoland" featured from the newer Mickey Mouse shorts.
I've not watched many of these shorts but saw a video by Storybook Amusement on Potatoland, and immediately thought of Tayto Park!
When you follow a guy to get a light and wind up engaged in an hour long conversation untangling why an Irish potato chip company is unsponsoring a theme park in front of his shrine dedicated to the mascot of said chip company
Glad to finally have an in depth review of the theme park I've only experienced by reading pamphlets in a tourist center lol, I loved the novelty of the theme, especially the 'cheese and onion' and 'salt and vinegar' car parks. I've been fortunate enough to visit Ireland a few times with my parents during the Tayto Park era, but the huge travel cost from Australia meant we were lucky to spend a couple days outside of Galway or Mayo. The whole purpose of the trips was spend as much time with extended family as possible, who understandably had no interest in visiting a potato chip theme park in Meath 😂
Totally makes sense when you've there to see family and not nearby! I don't think I ever would have ever been if I wasn't living in Dublin
Happy someone is addressing this, at least the park is going for a massive expansion
It's going to be so interesting to see the direction the park pivots to in the next few years!
i think tayto just brainwashed me into clicking this video, i was eating tayto and kind of forgot about what i was eating and immediately clicked this video when it showed up 😭😭
These videos are perfect, sad I’m barely finding out about Tayto Park but thanks for chatting with me at that party Mike.
Thanks for listening 🥳
You’ve done a lot of homework and are coming out of the gates swinging!!! You know exactly the niche theme park content the people are hungry for 😂 great work!!!
Thank you, I'm so glad people seem to be liking them :)
i stumbled upon your channel because of the twilight video and my god. these are well researched. and now i want your take on disneyland paris, home of my heart.
Glad you like them! I love Disneyland Paris and I'm writing a video on one of the rides there... but a head's up it's more of a critical take, sorry 😬
The cut-in to the park and it being grey, rainy and Mike being completely DRENCHED is so funny to me considering it's in IE.
Ofc, what else could the weather be!
This is a great video. It answers questions I never knew I had. I was friends with a guy once who was from Ireland, years ago, he told me about this park and how everyone he knew in school wanted to get jobs there in the summer. I mourn the loss of Tayto Park bc the name will always remind me of some guy i knew one time. Its a tragedy that he'll never get to say he worked at Tayto Park.
This is a lovely story, shows the power names have in our memory!
Found your channel recently and i am really enjoying the content
very creative format and refreshing twist to the theme park content
as someone that consumes and follows so many channels about parks i can appreciate the difference topics i dont see much anywhere else
thank you for that
Im obsessed with this channel so much
Thank you!
This has SO many twists but I was not prepared for Mr Riley 😅
Amazing work!
Only the real ones make it to the Mr Riley reveal 😌 Thank you for watching!
Just wanna say the twisted potatoes are something that's really common throughout the US too! Growing up, I would eat them all the time in county fairs, beach boardwalks, boba shops, etc
This is interesting, I didn't know they were such a big thing!
Wonderful video! I'm so glad the UA-cam gods led me here. Can't wait to see the content you'll go on to create.
Thank you, I'm glad they brought you here too. I'm excited for what I've got in the pipeline, though I think it will be hard to top this one!
Like with everyone else, love the style! Definitely a creatively engaging approach to topics I love. Your clear level of research and passion is certainly a bonus, plus a post-credits scene?! Marvellous. Bravo!
Thank you Mikey! I'll be honest, I included the credits just so I could have that post-credit scene 🇲🇹
@@MikeFromTheParty Iconic. I’ve done a similar thing on some upcoming videos of mine, but outtakes rather than ‘it’s me, Blorko’ (praying you get the reference)
i love this. i love how the entirety of the 50 minute video is technically all happening because of a lighter and all this during a houseparty xd. i love these layers. Subbed!
I am American but on a brief trip to Ireland, I ate Tayto’s and fell in love (maybe it was Mr. Tayto’s smiling face) so much so that my mom managed to have them shipped to us as a gift a few years later. I proceeded to share them with all my friends who also fell in love (seriously what is it about him?). I am horrified to see that I have missed out on the opportunity to visit this park with Mr. Tayto’s at the helm.
I went to tayto park last summer, it was a cleansing and pure experience.
To enter a building and see tall shelves lined with many teddies of the beloved mr tayto overlooking me from my position like judges, deciding my fate. It activated my fight, flight or freeze mechanism, or was it simply my soul staying put for their ruling?
They let me live luckily, but since that day i have been humbled, not once will i regret a second in my mortal coil, i know the before and the after, in it's dear cheese and onion leaden glory,
I can't imagine tayto land without such a thing and as you can imagine, the news upset me greatly
💀 💀
Your videos and vibe are impeccable. So thankful I got in on the ground floor of this party
Thank you for coming 🥳 see you at the next one!
Lmao the twisted chip thing is super common in mexico. We called them "espiropapas" (spiral potatoes/spiral chips). I thought you would mention that at some point in the video. Its not branded in anyway and just sold by anyone that has that machine that spirals potatoes.
I've looked into it since someone else commented and apparently it originated as a snack in Korea. The more you know!
Your channel is undersubbed af... Amazing premise and interesting original topics... Your gonna blow up
"Cú Chulainn is well known in Ireland but not so much outside of it" laughs in fate/stay night
Laughs in Shin Megami Tensai.
I literally spit out my coffee at "as the park once said about its zoo animals, death is inevitable"
I’m genuinely so happy somebody is talking seriously about my very obscure childhood memories
brilliant video, so insightful. i honestly do not know why i have never been recommended any of your work before, i am hear now. looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!!
Oh look, I found a new UA-cam channel to get hooked on. And now I’m heartbroken that I’ll never get to experience Tayto Park.
Hearing you say "chicken fillet roll" and calling Dublin a dump is a better way to convince me that you're Irish than any passport ever could. I'm so glad that someone has made a video about this national institution and its fearless leader, the handsome Mr Tayto, who is way cooler than the Northern Ireland Mr Tayto.
"I'm really curios about what would happen to Tayto in the reunification of Ireland" is a question I never thought to wonder
Please do more vids on ireland stuff! Like on funny mascots for sports or other food brands! It’s such good content to put on to learn a new thing or two 😆 Also your intros are so iconic 👏👏
Thank you! Honestly I'm not much of an expert on anything else Irish apart from this and as someone who only lived there 4 years I want to make sure I stay in my lane. But if I have a great idea I wouldn't rule it out...
Stumbled across the Twilight video and immediately needed to watch the rest of your videos. I love how creative the framing is!
Thank you so much for watching them!!
If only someone told Goofy Potatoland was in Ireland. Would have saved Mickey and Donald all that trouble.
when i first went to tayto park, they were still doing the factory tour and it was definitely a huge highlight of my trip, i was like 12 at the time and had never been in a factory so it would probably not hold up today but definitely a cool experience. will never stop calling it tayto park though, they can change the name all they like lmao
Hearing a UA-camr mention another channel I like is always exciting. Obviously he’d know Defunctland, but it makes the website feel just a little smaller.
I was SO confused when you started talking about Twisted Chip (I wasn't looking at the screen) but THEN I realised you were talking about what we call Chips On A Stick here in Australia, they're only ever really at big carnivals or fairs in a food truck. They're super popular but I've never seen a brick-and-mortar Chips On A Stick store before, one of those would probably disrupt the fabric of the universe in immeasurable ways (also they're the best with chicken salt, any other flavouring is bullshit)
This is delightful. Any chance for a follow up video about the biography? As someone extremely interested in the life stories of extremely niche characters, I'd love to know the details.
So I originally bought the book to include a bit on it but I cut it as I thought it was a tangent too far. Unless this video goes mega viral I probably wouldn't do a video just on it to be honest but I can share a bit with you!
The vague vibe is that it's the real story of the Tayto company but retconned to include Mr Tayto, so with real photos but photoshopping him in. In the book Mr Tayto's dad was friends with Joe Murphy and they set up the company together based off Mr Tayto's grandmother's recipe. The book then goes through each decade of Ireland's history since the 50s, sharing Mr Tayto's opinion on everything from rock music to boob jobs. It's a weird read!
@@MikeFromTheParty Oh wow, that is more extensive than I thought, thank you! I'm assuming the book never really goes into the moral issues of a potato participating in the business of potato chip consumption? ;)
In a perfect world the quirky food based theme park would be the video that really blows up, but I get why your Twilight video is more popular. (I'll admit that I only invested the time in watching this after seeing that one.) As someone who grew up with a dream of going to Hershypark, this content speaks to me!
@@loreescape47 Yes it just totally (and sensibly) side-steps the implied cannibalism.
Thank you, this is definitely my favourite I've done but I'm very content it's getting a nice amount of views spilling over from the Twilight one!
I'm now devastated about a theme park that I didn't know existed, changing... I mean how will I go on knowing I could have gone to Tayto park but it's too late now? Also I want to be friends with Mr. Tayto and read his biography
Tayto Park lives on in our hearts ❤️
Glad I stumbled on your channel! Great stuff!
I'm glad you stumbled here too! Thank you for watching ☺
Just gotta say I'm really enjoying your content sir..interesting and your intros make me laugh each time...plus you cover all these topics I have never heard of so cheers to your originality...I love learning about weird amusement park stuff lol and you are a great source..you deserve some major credit for the channel..keep doing what you do!
Thank you so much! Welcome to the party 🥳
I love your style, keep up the good work, mate!
My favourite is the reoccurring and entirely earnest "I'm not a ________ expert"
Hahahahaha well you know what the internet can be like
i will leave here a second part to my comment as I feel like your channel would really fit this type of content/request
I am from Portugal and there are two parks from my childhood I never see covered anywhere
one ( in Portugal) is closed now for many years and there are basically urban legend to why it closed… i never menage to find any video about this … its still seats there abandoned and intact since the yearly 2000s
the other one (Isla Magica in Spain) is the most popular theme park near by… it was so grandiose and amazingly themed… is still pretty good now but as gone down a bit… i would love to see a video covering it up in the style of a typical “ disney history of the park” kind of video… i love seeing those kinds of videos
i know is alot to ask for but i feel like it would really suit your channel as so far for what i see u cover so many different topics that aren’t the usual Disney and Universal
I saw the thumbnail and thought “why is the smiling friends guy so detailed and sad?”
this sounds like a super downgraded Six Flags with like no rides. at least that’s my vision of an American equivalent. though Mr Tayto is so cute I wish we had one!
I'm wicked interested in this framing device of being a captive audience at a party.
It's like it adds a little extra layer of entertainment.
I'm glad you like it 🥳
Why does Mr. Tayto look like he could be Charlie from Smiling Friends’ Brother?
"So anyway he turned the castle he bought into a crisp factory. But now on to the interesting part..."
No no! Go back a minute!
Hahahahaha I did try to expand on it a bit but there is surprisingly little about Thomas Hutchinson online. Even that super pixelated photo I included I really struggled to find!
It might be that I disliked Hersheypark because I worked as a games clerk. The park itself is fine, but the food was the main thing for me. The dessert stands and the Crabfries were great. I only went to Hersheypark on my days off because they used to give you two free tickets every other paycheck or something. The theme park in this video sounds pretty rad, though.
the beginning of this feels exact like every conversation i've ever had at a frat party
We went there a few weeks after it first opened. There was hardly anything there at the time, the cafe, factory tour, zoo, playground and the climbing wall and the jumping harnessed things. The Native American theming was bigger then and they had people dressed as native Americans walking around chatting to kids and taking photos.
We enjoyed it but thought it was doomed to failure as so little there to make you do a return visit.
Glad to be proved wrong with how much they have invested into it and usually went every year up until COVID-19.
I'm loving your videos! Can't wait for the next!
Really appreciate it, thank you!
damn i didn’t know that tayto park died. always seen it on the back of the crisps here in aus
They sell it in Australia??
I visited Tayto Park in 2018 and met the Mr. Tayto mascot while there! I am going to miss the park so much and its a shame that Tayto Park won't be the same anymore :(
I'm so jealous you got to meet him! It will never be the same 😔
I can't believe I became so invested in a crisp themed amusement park.
My exact thought process as I was making this video
@@MikeFromTheParty It definitely worked.
awesome video btw, when i went to look at your channel and saw you only had 3 videos and 700 subscribers i was shocked. i feel like i’ve got in on the ground floor for once 👍🏻 i was so engrossed that if my partner said something to me while we were watching i paused it. notifs on, can’t wait for more!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Welcome to the party 👯♀️
Glad to see attractions from Phantasialand so high in your Top10 Cuelines 😊 The Mystery Castle one scared me the most as a kid, because sometimes actors would lurk in the dark and jump out...
Love from Bonn, Germany ❤️
Absolutely adore Phantasialand! I went mid-week so thankfully no actors were lurking to scare me. I'll probably do a video on a ride from there at some point...
@@MikeFromTheParty I don't think they do it anymore.. (Or maybe they do.. So the next time you visit, maybe you'll get the same sense of fear, like i do nowadays 😉)
I'll keep an eye out, I'm really curious which one you'll choose 😀
Keep up the good work, i really enjoyed your videos 😊
Next time I speak to my Irish friend I'll casually name him Mr. Tayto to see whether he picks up on it or not LMAO
Emerald Park does have a direct bus where I have no clue what best route is from Heathrow to Thorpe via said transit where it should feel more obvious (they should also be lucky to have two of the nations tallest coasters so close to a major airport). Sure frequency might suck, but the England Island population can be easily justified to make a weekend or "short break" to Dublin and tack the park on. It would be harder for non-enthusiasts in North America or the Europe mainland simply because of where it is unless it comes up in a recommendation list they come across and at that might still pass up the opportunity to focus on historical sights
Looks like this party has a snack. And I'm not talking about the crisps
Omg I paused the Video to read your top 10 queue list, hoping to see at leas on of the Phantasialand Rollercoasters on there... and then there were three haha. Truly a man with taste and reliable opinions 😌
They had impeccable queue lines, what can I say. Though I went on a quiet day so didn't get to fully appreciate them!
Finally a house party I would actually enjoy!!!
The best kind!
Bruh I need a detailed video rant on your top 10 European theme park queue lines! I can tell by this video that you clearly have great taste with this
Ahahaha will definitely consider it
The first time I saw Taytos was in a pub scene in some UK detective/crime show. I wasn't sure if they were real or made up for the show. But thanks to a quick online search I learned that they were real. I can't wait to try them.
Idea: drain loch naigh and build a mega-tayto park sponsored by northern tayto
Genius, balance would be restored
Free Stayto Park would win any day
Lol-I’ve been to both Thorpe and Chessington and I’m from Orlando.
This is so funny to me. What did you think of them?
@@MikeFromTheParty I mean I’ve been to 99 parks as of last month. I think it’s awesome that most of the UK parks have a spooky/horror theme that we only see here at Halloween. There is a lot more theming than we see in most of the amusement parks here (Excluding Disney/Universal). The queue/pre show thing for The Walking Dead scared the life out of me. The hotels at Chessington and Alton Towers serve some of the best breakfasts in the world! Alton is responsible for the research and development that led to some of my favorite coasters and Nemesis and Smiler make my top 50.
Ok if you've been to so many parks that makes a lot more sense! I love the positive things you have to share - the first time I did that Walking Dead pre-show we were the only ones there and it was so scary walking down that long corridor alone. I do have a couple videos in the pipeline about Thorpe Park...
Love this video. Fed in my fixation of obscure theme parks. 🙂
The beginnings are like those TikTok POV videos but if they actually led to something interesting and useful. If I met a guy like this at a party I'd probably be very entertained
That's exactly what inspired the intros!
Oh my dear lord if they opened one in the south here in America it would be Tater Park and I’m living for it. 😂😂😂
Darned. I wish i went. Now all we got left is the chocolate company park (Hershey) and the tomato sauce company park (delgrossos) which are both in the same state. There was 3 food based amusement parks. Like a nickel it appears one was lost shuffling in the pocket.
Did not know about delgrossos! let me look it up
@@MikeFromTheParty they are a smaller park on 2 sides of the highway, but a Italian themed water park is worth it
i did not know that busch gardens was named after the beer. i went there last year and i don’t remember seeing any of the beer’s branding anywhere
Whilst it used to be owned by a beer company, it was sold in 2009. However it still has the rights to the name and I believe it still sells the beer brands of its former owner 🍻
I'm sorry, but watching this I cannot get Father Teds "Tunnel of Goats" 'ride' outta my head. lol
I’m an American Irish dancer and we are all obsessed with taytos they sell them at competitions and where I dance. When I say we’re obsessed my friends got gifted a box of them for Christmas lol
I'm Scottish and one of my friends is Irish and mentioned Tayto Park to me, I owe her an apology because I thought she was taking the p*ss.
Love your videos.
It definitely sounds like something made up ahahaha
No idea why the algorithm suggested your video, but i'm glad i'm here
I have no idea why either, but I'm glad too :)
Would love to see you do something one Efteling ! I live really close and even worked there. Always enjoy outsider views on the park :)
I adore Efteling! I have an idea for a video so hopefully will get to it soon...
“Death is inevitable” is FUCKING CRAZY 😭