I'm from KC and we DEFINITELY call everything THE. The Timberwolf, The Mamba, the Fury Of The Nile! Leaving of the THE would be so un-Kansas City. 😂 Used to be a coaster here called The Orient Express. Rumor is it lives somewhere else now.
The Orient Express was demolished in 2004. The original Zambezi Zinger was dismantled in 1997 and moved to Montenegro, Quindio, Colombia where it is still in operation.
@@tuckersloughmusic sorry not being a Dbagger but it’s was ( Orient Express ) The is rarely used in amusement park/carnival rides Easy to Spot a Mark yammering/ maybe the Gravatron
@@newtonthecomicoptician9344 in Kansas City you'd have trouble finding someone who says "let's go ride Orient Express." The "the" may be wrong, but it goes with the accent. 😂
Are you kidding me? You wasted such an opportunity that I would kill for! I don’t care, if I saw carpetbagger I’d put my anxiety aside so sucks for you man!
Go say hi next time. I'm sure he'd be very flattered to see his fans. Worlds of Fun is my home park and I am so sad I missed seeing him.😢 I bet it was a hot one though.
I saw him at Dollywood back in December. He was really nice and welcoming, and just overall easy to talk to. If you get another chance definitely say hi.
I’m from Missouri and have many found memories of visiting WOF and OOF as a child. I now live in Australia and so happy to see you making a vlog here 🥲 thank you!
I dunno if they still do this, but there used to be a chant before the Mamba starts going, and it says “THE Mamba is about to strike.” So I think the’s are appropriate
Really pretty park, and looks well-taken care of and the flowers and grounds are beautiful, nice to see trees and landscaping. Good variety of rides and shows too!
This is awesome. I’ve been a Kansas City resident all 41 of my years and haven’t been to WOF since I was probably 18. Makes me want to go back and extremely happy to see that a lot of what was there back then is still there. Especially the Viking Voyager
I think the Viking Voyager, the train ride, the French taxi car ride thing, the Flying Dutchman, the bumper cars (maybe, looks re-done), and the Scrambler were all there on opening day. Tivoli, too, though I was ignoring the shows as much as I could back in the 70's. I wonder if the tilt house is still there?
@@ZlothZloth It looks like the Moulin Rouge show in this video is in the same 'theater' that "Stacks of Wax" (Or 'Stax') used to be in so many years ago (late 80s?) at WoF. Do you know? Seeing it in this video gave me flashbacks.
12:34 ok this exhibit is really nicely done, thank you for sharing, I drive by WOF everyday on my way to work, my daughter worked there for 4 years through college, it’s a nice regional park
I live here in Kansas City as well. Had I known I would have loved to come out and hang with you Jacob! You got some local fans here. 😊. Let us know when you come back!
Same I wish I knew he was coming because I have a session pass I haven't used and need to and would love to have hang out with him and give him some of my knowledge that my parents and grandparents have passed down to me of what the park was like back then
I’m from KC and it’s nice to see a video about a KC attraction. The poor bumper cars looked depressing!! Since I’m from KC I’ve been to worlds of fun so many times. I forget that some people have never been :) I wish they would step it up somehow!
Great memories of Worlds of Fun when we visited, when I was a kid in Topeka, back in the 1970s. Happy to see Viking Voyager is still there. I remember the Scream Roller and the Sky Heighs Cable ride. 😃
That look you gave on camera, commenting after riding Cyclone Sam's was priceless. You had a WTF moment while shard your pants look going on there. Can see it in the eyes. Lol! One of my friends had that same look after coming off that ride, so you did well. Actually, while the ride was going on, I was enjoying it so much. My friend on the opposite side of me, I've never seen pure terror and scared look on his face. I guess when you were riding it, they didn't have the lighting bolts displayed with the thunder sounds. That would of been the flashing strobe lights that you didn't get to see to even disorient even more. Love that ride! (The) Mamba is one of my top roller coasters nationwide. The out of seat air time you get along with the track layout is still top notch. Thanks for showing video.
That's my home park! I have pictures that my parents took the year it opened. There's a few rides still in operation in the park since the day it opened.
Carpetbagger! There's a tavern in KC, MO called The Pressed Penny Tavern! It would be perfect for this visit given it's the year of the pressed penny. We are going to KC and have been doing pressed pennies this year since it's been deemed the year of the pressed penny and we are planning on going there when we visit later this month.
I've never been but this park is beautiful, I like the way they built the rides to flow with the natural landscape definitely putting it on my list of future destinations
"""I had a fabulous time ""Jacob. thank you for taking me along, so on to our next journey & safe travels. ''love you'' & I enjoy your video's so very much.
@@amandacoots6501 All I’m really just saying here is that I hope six flags doesn’t turn the cedar fair parks into six flags parks and dump their garbage rides into these places.
This park is my go-to amusement park. I am a season pass holder for many years now. I never thought about "THE" phrase. I love this park so much. There is no need for a map for me. I usually take others on an adventure. The ripcord is the best ride there. Very fun!
I live here in KC and I have a season pass and have for several years and you have seen some things that I haven't so cool. They just built one of the roller-coasters last year. If you go to worlds of fun the oceans of fun is included and you can go between both.
Back in the day when they first installed THE Timberwolf coaster, they had employees (that signed waivers as a part of their new hire packet), test ride the coasters before the park opened for the season….remember riding it 15 or so times in a row. Would just coast into the station and then take off again. Also tested water slides at Oceans of Fun…apparently water was low or something and I got fiberglass in my back lol. Tovili had a high level singing and dancing stage show with real talent. The area with the fountain near the row of shops was the original entrance to the park. The current entrance was the “back entrance” the Cotton Blossom was at that front entrance. The taxi cars used to have a hood that you could reach over the dashboard and pull up…then pull a spring that governed the fuel and your taxi would take off really fast. We accidentally got two taxis stuck together that way lol.
THANK YOU for the visit! I worked there for 4 season from 99-02, but haven't been back since. It was so funny to watch you innocently walk into Cyclone Sam's ride, because ... I knew what was coming 😇
Hi. The panda is a mascot. When I was almost 4 my family went to Worlds of fun. They were all arguing about what they wanted to see and I used the opportunity to seek out where I wanted to see. I got away with it for awhile but the mascots found me and turned me in as a lost child. When the family showed up I acted upset and they all blamed each other for not watching me. in reality I would have gotten punished had they known. They still don't know. I love the Orient express and Mamba. In my adult years when I lived in KC I visited it. Favorite funnel cakes. Back to your visit. Thanks for visiting my area. I wish Peony Park was still open in Omaha Nebraska. That was my favorite childhood park.
I've lived in KC most of my life and I had no idea until just now that WoF was themed after Around the World in 80 Days! I'm so used to seeing you in places I've never been to before so it's a delight to see you on my home turf. I'm 100% with you on adding "the" before roller-coaster names, everybody I know calls it The Mamba, not Mamba
The gorilla was named Gertrude. My first job here in Kansas City was when I was 16. I was "Gertrude the Gorilla " at Worlds of Fun. Nobody had a clue that it was a dude inside. Lol! Fun job, hot, but fun!
When we're there we always use the word THE in front of the coasters name. Also that Diner place was called Coasters for a long time until the last handful of years. It was sorta a 1950's themed with the music and decor inside and they used to have a purple colored 57 Chevy type of car parked out front.
Hi 👋 If you go to Branson Missouri, you’ll be able to get a wax museum and a Ripley’s in the same visit. It’s hot in the summer, I recommend before July first, or after Oct first. Silver Dollar City is a park with actual trees, so it isn’t as hot as other parks.
I say, THE with all rides! I never really thought about it until now. THE orbiter; THE century wheel; LETS GO ON THE zipper. Yeah, I'm a THE person too, apparently 😂
If you think about it, if you can call the ride (using "Mamba" as an example here) "The Coaster, Mamba" Then "The Mamba" should also be correct....but at the same time (using "The Beast" in Ohio as an example here) it sounds a little more awkward to say "The Coaster, The Beast" so, I'm a little torn on this one. I'm a coaster aficionado myself but still find myself saying it however it feels right to say it in the moment.
I grew up at WOF and we all day THE Timberwolf, THE mamba, THE spinning dragons, but the panda thing he was talking about are super old, I remember the 1st time I went there I was back in like 2007 and they used only snoopy never had any reference to the panda Also haven't been since probably 2014ish and am glad to see they've updated and added new stuff
Wonderful video!!! I grew up in this park, with season passes for many years as a teen and adult. I moved away in 2019, so I haven't been there in a few years (it was great seeing it again!). Zambezi Zinger is a reimagining of one of WoF's original coasters (which I haven't been back to ride yet). Oh, and I've never used 'the' in front of ride names. Cyclone Same gives you a lot of bang for your buck! It at least used to have strobe lights. A few of the Planet Snoopy rides are pretty intense also; those nests can go VERY fast! Thanks for sharing your day!
The kids area was Pandamonium back when I was a kid, long before Camp Snoopy came around. The Fjord Fjarlene used to be call the River City Rampage and was near the original entrance to the park. The WOF website refers to the roller coasters The Mamba, The Prowler, The Boomerang. The Zinger is a reimagined version of the original Zambezi Zinger. Man, they sure have slowed the bumper cars down. Lame! I miss the old train show they had. That ride on the train came with a whole wild west train robbery. Ah, Cyclone Sam. If you have to sit 2 to a seat, never sit on the outside! Steelhawk was originally Windseeker from Knots Berry Farm. They couldn't comply with California OSHA requirements for evacuating the ride, so it was sold to Worlds Of Fun where our requirements are less stringent. The Bamboozler was my favorite ride in the park. Glad you had a good time. WOF is a good park with some potential. I'm interested to see what Six Flags brings to the table. When Cedar Fair bought it from Hunt everyone was worried, but it did bring some massive improvements. Maybe this change will finally bring us a launch coaster.
I used to work at worlds of fun. The pandas dog and monkey were the original mascots for the park before they started a partnership with first the berenstain and now Snoopy. The diner used to be called coasters ( I don't know why they changed it) also a fun fact ( or so I've been told ) is the carousel and Zoltar used to be located at Coney Island before it was updated
WOW! I literally live in the KC area and I haven't been to WOF/OoF in YEARS at this point. I appreciate that they've brought back a lot of entertainment options. None of that was happening last time I visited. I worked there for a season and it was miserable. I really am happy to see how cleaned up the place looks. Thank you for this video! With all the care it seems they've put into it lately maybe I should go back at some point.
As a kid i always loved Worlds of Fun. I went several times every year. In the last 10 years or so, it's gotten dirtier and less maintained, and there's been more crime. I was in line for Cyclone Sam once when someone outside yelled that someone had a gun. Never heard shots though, so they may have just been trying to empty out the line. I hope they clean it up. It used to be great.
The train ride used to have a spot where you would get waylaid and set upon by train robbers and there would be a shootout. Lots of places for actors to have jobs at WOF.
Yeah, there was a bit of theming stretch until a few years ago - the diner WAS a Coasters and they had the Americana section go all the way to Mamba. The re-theme of the diner to fit into the Africa section makes more sense. This park just needs to have Vekoma rethink an Orient Express to fill in that area of the park and maybe a few more steel thrill and family coasters to bring it back up to the world class park that it was in the 80s and 90s.
Live here in KC and really enjoyed your Mississippi River series (put that Memphis hotel with the ducks on my must visit list after you highlighted it) as well as all of your Theme Park vids. Glad you got the WoF visit in and I probably would have totally geeked out had I seen you in my hometown park! Great content as usual and I really like the look of everything after you switched to that DJI Osmo3 cam. Really good looking video.
Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! I started having back issues at 24 and haven’t been able to go back due to them. We would go all the time when I was younger and go for their Halloween season every year! Very nostalgic place for me!
Looks like you featured a lot of the more gentle rides and casual sections of the park, that tube ride is a lot of fun, the detonator, there's another water ride to the right of that one, I like cyclone sams, the detonator (I might have missed it, would have been near planet snoopy), and the rollercoasters are actually pretty good coasters. You probably would have liked the taxi's they're chill.
Next time you're near Kansas City you should try to stop by Penguin Park on Vivian Road. It's a city park where one of the city employees thought all the traditional playground equipment was pretty lame, so he started making his own. Some of the stuff he built has since been modified (for example, the giant fiberglass penguin the park takes its name from used to have a slide inside it), but some of it is still there. I remember there being a "treadmill" that was a big spinning metal barrel with handholds on either side of it and a kid-sized hamster wheel, but those appear to have been victims of the "stop having fun" brigade. As a kid I loved it when we'd stop in that park. I also liked Memorial Park in Bethany where my great-grandparents lived, which also had a bunch of equipment that looked like some guy who knew how to weld got bored one day and thought "Playground equipment? Sure, I can do that." Nowadays from what I can tell from Google Street View a lot of that is gone and it's all standard off the shelf stuff.
I worked at WOF and OOF between 05 and 09 seasons. It looks the park has been nicely upgraded since then which it desperately needed. Haven’t been back since I left, 4 years was plenty!
Poor Jacob 😂 you can see he's trying not to puke 31:33. Keep up the great work Mr. Carpetbagger ❤. Also I don't mind if you put THE on every ride name 😂😮.
I've lived in KC most of my life, been to Wof/OoF countless times, and I've even worked there before... and I learned a lot from this video. I didn't know a lot of that stuff was even in there. I'll have to check it out next time we go.
30+ years ago, saw Glenn Campbell perform there in a small, amphitheater. Even though there was a small crowd, he put on a show like he was playing at the Palace. Consummate entertainer, he was.
Morning Jacob 🤓📸 you shur do move fast lol your in south Carolina and now in Kansas City Missouri lol thanks for sharing this, have a great day my friend.
40:08 Knott's and Cedar Point have separate gate water parks plus two Schlitterbahn Parks in New Braunfels (which is actually split in 2) and Galveston (in Moody Gardens). Six Flags has a lore more standalone water parks. Hurricane Harbor Concord and Oaxtepec are technically the second gates of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Mexico-the latter being almost being 90mins apart
I loved Worlds of fun as a child, and I never knew that it was based on the book Around the World in 80 days, that's an awesome fact. I am also guilty of "the" when saying the name of a coaster.
Living in KC I've been to WoF many times. The first time was a huge family trip the year the Orient opened. My dad went on it with me after I chickened out the first time. I rode the original Zambezi Zinger (now operating in Columbia) with my grandma with my mother in the seats in front of me and she almost lost her glasses. The original was so fun. Tandem seats (2 to a seat) and no seat belts. The spiral up was more twists, and the drop and camel humps were awesome. Looks like several new rides since the last time I was there, might have to check them out during the Halloween Haunt when it's cooler. I've never seen it that empty before though. Kinda jealous.
Tivoli is pronounced Tiv-oh-Lee. I remember when we had the dolphins. It was a very popular show but it wasn't healthy for them to live their whole lives in the small swim tanks so they got rid of them. There used to be a Western show with train. It was "train robbers". I used to LOVE riding the skyline when I was very little. The Zulu and Zambee Zi Zinger were my all time favorites, with Fury of the Nile in 3rd.
I don't know how the original was pronounced, but the one in Worlds of Fun was definitely TIV-o-lee, and it used to be the "big" musical revue show for Worlds of Fun (Moulin Rouge was smaller and more of a variety show). The original Zambezi Zinger was an amazing ride; it was such a smooth coaster it didn't need restraints and you sat two to a seat, on a bench seat parallel to the track with one person between the legs (or on the lap) of the other. The train was ... kind of hit or miss. Sometimes there would be train robbers (like the ones in Silver Dollar City) and sometimes not. I always thought the WoF train robbery wasn't done as well as the SDC one, so I didn't really miss it when they didn't do it, though it did make the journey out into the middle of a field and back without stopping seem kind of "well, I guess we have to do that because that's where the track goes, but WHY?"
My hometown park!!! It's a lame park compared to most, but I'm glad it's gotten some love lately. Staffing is a huge issue at WOF. but we are getting a Mattel theme park close here soon.
Used to keep season passes for worlds of fun but didn’t renew this year. We decided to travel more this year. I dont regret the decision but have missed going to the park this year.
Uggh I missed Carpetbagger when he came to my city 🥺 BUT pleeeease come back for our Halloween haunt. WOF has so many haunts and you’ll definitely enjoy it during Spooky szn. Also our city’s other haunts are fun too. Just come back to KC in general 😂
I had flashbacks of being asked to dance with one of the performers in the "Stax of Wax" show at Worlds of Fun, when i was VERY young (80s) because I think it was in the same theater that the 'Moulin rouge' thing is in now.
I have a memory of my grandmother, who passed away on my bday in 2019 bless her soul, she forced me to ride a roller coaster in six flags when I was a bit younger and we called it ,THE roadrunner not roadrunner, I think people are just grammer jocks or something like that
Hilarious, you were all about the old person, chill stuff....shows and trains....avoid most rides but then ride Cyclone Sams....that ride makes me so sick, rode it one of first years open in 1995 or so, got so sick when i was a kid. Outside of the Zulu you picked a hardcore ride.
13:18 Think I'll rep the Halloween thing. Every October, they halloween-ified the park, and my favorite ride, the Fury of the Nile, gets dyed red, and becomes the Blood Nile. If you're ever around, around Halloween, I recommend checking it out at least once. Also, don't forget to check out the downtown Haunted Houses to complete the Spooky Experience.
I’m from there and started going to WOF since around 1978. I cried on the Orient Express. lol! I also will never ride the Mamba ever again-way too scary for me. Also, the “no ‘the’ rule” is totally dumb. Roller coasters are things, not people, so it’s THE Mamba, etc. It is more natural and grammatically correct to say “the”.
I was a costume character escort back in the seventies there 😁 It’s Daniel coin And Sam Panda And Gertrude Gorrilla 😁 Thanks for taking me down memory lane 🌸
There was a hack for the dinner a guy in line shown us that give us free food. As a adult I don't recommend it but when I was 15 it was the greatest thing a person I was waiting in line has ever showed me. I'm sure we got hundreds of dollars of free food in one trip to wof
I'm from KC and we DEFINITELY call everything THE. The Timberwolf, The Mamba, the Fury Of The Nile! Leaving of the THE would be so un-Kansas City. 😂 Used to be a coaster here called The Orient Express. Rumor is it lives somewhere else now.
The Orient Express was demolished in 2004. The original Zambezi Zinger was dismantled in 1997 and moved to Montenegro, Quindio, Colombia where it is still in operation.
@@ericharris3379Zambezi Zinger was my first roller coaster!
The Orient Express was my fave coaster at WoF! I miss it.
@@tuckersloughmusic sorry not being a Dbagger but it’s was ( Orient Express ) The is rarely used in amusement park/carnival rides Easy to Spot a Mark yammering/ maybe the Gravatron
@@newtonthecomicoptician9344 in Kansas City you'd have trouble finding someone who says "let's go ride Orient Express." The "the" may be wrong, but it goes with the accent. 😂
I was also at WOF yesterday.. saw the world famous Carpetbagger from afar but was too star struck to walk up to him lol
Are you kidding me? You wasted such an opportunity that I would kill for! I don’t care, if I saw carpetbagger I’d put my anxiety aside so sucks for you man!
I saw him as well by the carousel.
I probably would have fainted 😅@@jasonnunez6411
Go say hi next time. I'm sure he'd be very flattered to see his fans. Worlds of Fun is my home park and I am so sad I missed seeing him.😢 I bet it was a hot one though.
I saw him at Dollywood back in December. He was really nice and welcoming, and just overall easy to talk to. If you get another chance definitely say hi.
Loved the Orient Express in the 80's! Miss it, along with the old Zabee zee zinger!
Finnish Fling !! was one of the best as well
@@Mantronix6804 So many stories from that ride - I think it might have been the most dangerous ride in the park.
The old Zambeezee Zinger was the best roller coaster ever!
@@dreadfultwerp Naaaah. Orient Express for the terror, Shushboomer (sp!?) for the fun.
yep
I’m from Missouri and have many found memories of visiting WOF and OOF as a child. I now live in Australia and so happy to see you making a vlog here 🥲 thank you!
I live in Kansas City and Worlds Of Fun is my favorite place to go so many rides and so much fun.
Same
I've never seen WOF so quiet! I'm jealous!
I dunno if they still do this, but there used to be a chant before the Mamba starts going, and it says “THE Mamba is about to strike.” So I think the’s are appropriate
Really pretty park, and looks well-taken care of and the flowers and grounds are beautiful, nice to see trees and landscaping. Good variety of rides and shows too!
This is awesome. I’ve been a Kansas City resident all 41 of my years and haven’t been to WOF since I was probably 18. Makes me want to go back and extremely happy to see that a lot of what was there back then is still there. Especially the Viking Voyager
I think the Viking Voyager, the train ride, the French taxi car ride thing, the Flying Dutchman, the bumper cars (maybe, looks re-done), and the Scrambler were all there on opening day. Tivoli, too, though I was ignoring the shows as much as I could back in the 70's. I wonder if the tilt house is still there?
@@ZlothZloth It looks like the Moulin Rouge show in this video is in the same 'theater' that "Stacks of Wax" (Or 'Stax') used to be in so many years ago (late 80s?) at WoF. Do you know? Seeing it in this video gave me flashbacks.
@@Sir4everKcRoyal do they Play Duck Duck (Jacob L.) Loose at the local park 🇺🇸😎👍
05:10 kids talking off camera, "Are dragonflies dangerous?" is the cutest thing I've heard this week!
Was about to comment the same thing. Lol Super precious.
Kc resident born and raised, we say The before the name of the rides.
Fjord Fjarlane used to be in a section of the park called Waterfront, so it was by the water at one point. @9:03
I grew up at wof been going to wof since 73 since it opened, i was 4 when the park opened ❤ i Love Worlds of fun/oceans of fun ❤ Thank you for visting
Cyclones Sam's is my top pick for weirdest ride I have ever been on. Kids love it! Worlds of Fun is a great park.
Rode it once. Made me nauseous. Wouldn't ever ride it again.
The ride isn't that weird tho?
Viking Voyage was one of the originals.
So wonderful seeing Worlds of Fun again. Spent many summers going there in the 80’s and 90’s. Had relatives in St. Joseph
12:34 ok this exhibit is really nicely done, thank you for sharing, I drive by WOF everyday on my way to work, my daughter worked there for 4 years through college, it’s a nice regional park
I live here in Kansas City as well. Had I known I would have loved to come out and hang with you Jacob! You got some local fans here. 😊. Let us know when you come back!
Man I’m kinda upset I missed him 🥺😂
@@chloeroberts4551 me too, I think we would have a blast with Jacob!
i saw him there i was riding prowler and i saw him
Same I wish I knew he was coming because I have a session pass I haven't used and need to and would love to have hang out with him and give him some of my knowledge that my parents and grandparents have passed down to me of what the park was like back then
He came here for work, not to hang out with yall. No offense.
Hey, I live in Kansas City lol!! And yes as it’s stated in its glorious name Worlds of fun Is indeed a lot of fun 😂😂💯💪
Worked there in the summers of 80,81, and 82. Good memories!
I’m from KC and it’s nice to see a video about a KC attraction. The poor bumper cars looked depressing!! Since I’m from KC I’ve been to worlds of fun so many times. I forget that some people have never been :) I wish they would step it up somehow!
What an awesome parrot show, they are beautiful!
Great memories of Worlds of Fun when we visited, when I was a kid in Topeka, back in the 1970s. Happy to see Viking Voyager is still there. I remember the Scream Roller and the Sky Heighs Cable ride. 😃
The cable cars were cool.
That look you gave on camera, commenting after riding Cyclone Sam's was priceless. You had a WTF moment while shard your pants look going on there. Can see it in the eyes. Lol! One of my friends had that same look after coming off that ride, so you did well. Actually, while the ride was going on, I was enjoying it so much. My friend on the opposite side of me, I've never seen pure terror and scared look on his face. I guess when you were riding it, they didn't have the lighting bolts displayed with the thunder sounds. That would of been the flashing strobe lights that you didn't get to see to even disorient even more. Love that ride! (The) Mamba is one of my top roller coasters nationwide. The out of seat air time you get along with the track layout is still top notch. Thanks for showing video.
That's my home park! I have pictures that my parents took the year it opened. There's a few rides still in operation in the park since the day it opened.
Carpetbagger! There's a tavern in KC, MO called The Pressed Penny Tavern! It would be perfect for this visit given it's the year of the pressed penny. We are going to KC and have been doing pressed pennies this year since it's been deemed the year of the pressed penny and we are planning on going there when we visit later this month.
"The" Orient Express was the very first coaster I ever rode way way way back in the day. It started a life time love of coasters.
I've never been but this park is beautiful, I like the way they built the rides to flow with the natural landscape definitely putting it on my list of future destinations
Omg that moulin rouge show looks amazing. I love the movie and musical and seems like it keeps the same vibes.
This was my home park, growing up in Olathe KS in 80s and 90s. I so strongly remember that Chicken Exit sign in the museum!
"""I had a fabulous time ""Jacob. thank you for taking me along, so on to our next journey & safe travels. ''love you'' & I enjoy your video's so very much.
I honestly don’t mind that cedar fair has became six flags,just as long as their parks stay with the same branding and theme/tone,im all satisfied.
Genius financial move for the two companies.
Yes, agreed. If this merger helps these parks stay around for many years to come, then I'm fine with it
I think it will improve with the merger.
@@amandacoots6501 All I’m really just saying here is that I hope six flags doesn’t turn the cedar fair parks into six flags parks and dump their garbage rides into these places.
@@TokenChampion-hz3tl Cedar Fair will be leadership using the Six Flags name, so hopefully see some great things.
This park is my go-to amusement park. I am a season pass holder for many years now. I never thought about "THE" phrase. I love this park so much. There is no need for a map for me. I usually take others on an adventure. The ripcord is the best ride there. Very fun!
Same!
I live here in KC and I have a season pass and have for several years and you have seen some things that I haven't so cool. They just built one of the roller-coasters last year. If you go to worlds of fun the oceans of fun is included and you can go between both.
omg worlds of fun was my childhood!!!
Back in the day when they first installed THE Timberwolf coaster, they had employees (that signed waivers as a part of their new hire packet), test ride the coasters before the park opened for the season….remember riding it 15 or so times in a row. Would just coast into the station and then take off again. Also tested water slides at Oceans of Fun…apparently water was low or something and I got fiberglass in my back lol.
Tovili had a high level singing and dancing stage show with real talent.
The area with the fountain near the row of shops was the original entrance to the park. The current entrance was the “back entrance” the Cotton Blossom was at that front entrance.
The taxi cars used to have a hood that you could reach over the dashboard and pull up…then pull a spring that governed the fuel and your taxi would take off really fast. We accidentally got two taxis stuck together that way lol.
THANK YOU for the visit! I worked there for 4 season from 99-02, but haven't been back since. It was so funny to watch you innocently walk into Cyclone Sam's ride, because ... I knew what was coming 😇
I grew up in KC! Loved watching this.
Hi. The panda is a mascot. When I was almost 4 my family went to Worlds of fun. They were all arguing about what they wanted to see and I used the opportunity to seek out where I wanted to see. I got away with it for awhile but the mascots found me and turned me in as a lost child. When the family showed up I acted upset and they all blamed each other for not watching me. in reality I would have gotten punished had they known. They still don't know. I love the Orient express and Mamba. In my adult years when I lived in KC I visited it. Favorite funnel cakes. Back to your visit. Thanks for visiting my area. I wish Peony Park was still open in Omaha Nebraska. That was my favorite childhood park.
FINALLY!!!!!! YOU DID IT!!! Worlds of Fun!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
I've lived in KC most of my life and I had no idea until just now that WoF was themed after Around the World in 80 Days! I'm so used to seeing you in places I've never been to before so it's a delight to see you on my home turf. I'm 100% with you on adding "the" before roller-coaster names, everybody I know calls it The Mamba, not Mamba
I had no idea until seeing this video that WOF was themed after Around the World in 80 Days. I have been going there my whole life. 😂
The gorilla was named Gertrude. My first job here in Kansas City was when I was 16. I was "Gertrude the Gorilla " at Worlds of Fun. Nobody had a clue that it was a dude inside. Lol! Fun job, hot, but fun!
When we're there we always use the word THE in front of the coasters name.
Also that Diner place was called Coasters for a long time until the last handful of years. It was sorta a 1950's themed with the music and decor inside and they used to have a purple colored 57 Chevy type of car parked out front.
10:00 I live in Kansas City. Maybe it's a midwest thing, but everyone I know has always said "the" before the name of the ride.
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If you go to Branson Missouri, you’ll be able to get a wax museum and a Ripley’s in the same visit.
It’s hot in the summer, I recommend before July first, or after Oct first.
Silver Dollar City is a park with actual trees, so it isn’t as hot as other parks.
I say, THE with all rides! I never really thought about it until now. THE orbiter; THE century wheel; LETS GO ON THE zipper. Yeah, I'm a THE person too, apparently 😂
If you think about it, if you can call the ride (using "Mamba" as an example here) "The Coaster, Mamba" Then "The Mamba" should also be correct....but at the same time (using "The Beast" in Ohio as an example here) it sounds a little more awkward to say "The Coaster, The Beast" so, I'm a little torn on this one. I'm a coaster aficionado myself but still find myself saying it however it feels right to say it in the moment.
I grew up at WOF and we all day THE Timberwolf, THE mamba, THE spinning dragons, but the panda thing he was talking about are super old, I remember the 1st time I went there I was back in like 2007 and they used only snoopy never had any reference to the panda
Also haven't been since probably 2014ish and am glad to see they've updated and added new stuff
Awesome video! Brought back so many memories when I was a lil bad ass kid lol..
Wonderful video!!! I grew up in this park, with season passes for many years as a teen and adult. I moved away in 2019, so I haven't been there in a few years (it was great seeing it again!). Zambezi Zinger is a reimagining of one of WoF's original coasters (which I haven't been back to ride yet). Oh, and I've never used 'the' in front of ride names. Cyclone Same gives you a lot of bang for your buck! It at least used to have strobe lights. A few of the Planet Snoopy rides are pretty intense also; those nests can go VERY fast! Thanks for sharing your day!
The kids area was Pandamonium back when I was a kid, long before Camp Snoopy came around.
The Fjord Fjarlene used to be call the River City Rampage and was near the original entrance to the park.
The WOF website refers to the roller coasters The Mamba, The Prowler, The Boomerang.
The Zinger is a reimagined version of the original Zambezi Zinger.
Man, they sure have slowed the bumper cars down. Lame!
I miss the old train show they had. That ride on the train came with a whole wild west train robbery.
Ah, Cyclone Sam. If you have to sit 2 to a seat, never sit on the outside!
Steelhawk was originally Windseeker from Knots Berry Farm. They couldn't comply with California OSHA requirements for evacuating the ride, so it was sold to Worlds Of Fun where our requirements are less stringent.
The Bamboozler was my favorite ride in the park.
Glad you had a good time. WOF is a good park with some potential. I'm interested to see what Six Flags brings to the table. When Cedar Fair bought it from Hunt everyone was worried, but it did bring some massive improvements. Maybe this change will finally bring us a launch coaster.
Great video. Living in Branson, we are only 4 hours away and we have to make plans to go back to World's of Fun again.
Thank you for another fun day!
KC area native here, so many trips to WOF growing up. Then i went to DW and it lost all appeal😅 Haven't been back in almost 20 years.
I used to work at worlds of fun. The pandas dog and monkey were the original mascots for the park before they started a partnership with first the berenstain and now Snoopy. The diner used to be called coasters ( I don't know why they changed it) also a fun fact ( or so I've been told ) is the carousel and Zoltar used to be located at Coney Island before it was updated
WOW! I literally live in the KC area and I haven't been to WOF/OoF in YEARS at this point. I appreciate that they've brought back a lot of entertainment options. None of that was happening last time I visited. I worked there for a season and it was miserable. I really am happy to see how cleaned up the place looks. Thank you for this video! With all the care it seems they've put into it lately maybe I should go back at some point.
I started visiting in the 70s. It is remarkable how many of the rides have been there since.
As a kid i always loved Worlds of Fun. I went several times every year. In the last 10 years or so, it's gotten dirtier and less maintained, and there's been more crime. I was in line for Cyclone Sam once when someone outside yelled that someone had a gun. Never heard shots though, so they may have just been trying to empty out the line. I hope they clean it up. It used to be great.
The train ride used to have a spot where you would get waylaid and set upon by train robbers and there would be a shootout. Lots of places for actors to have jobs at WOF.
I remember that, it was so awesome 💥
Yeah, there was a bit of theming stretch until a few years ago - the diner WAS a Coasters and they had the Americana section go all the way to Mamba. The re-theme of the diner to fit into the Africa section makes more sense. This park just needs to have Vekoma rethink an Orient Express to fill in that area of the park and maybe a few more steel thrill and family coasters to bring it back up to the world class park that it was in the 80s and 90s.
Aw man, I just missed you! I live in KC! And fun note, before it was camp Snoopy the kids area was called Pandamonium, hence the panda character
Loved the video, Jacob. Till the next one, take care my friend and as always safe travels.
My aunt lives right next to wof and I used to live bye the wof water tower this makes me happy
And my cousin also works there
Live here in KC and really enjoyed your Mississippi River series (put that Memphis hotel with the ducks on my must visit list after you highlighted it) as well as all of your Theme Park vids. Glad you got the WoF visit in and I probably would have totally geeked out had I seen you in my hometown park! Great content as usual and I really like the look of everything after you switched to that DJI Osmo3 cam. Really good looking video.
Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! I started having back issues at 24 and haven’t been able to go back due to them. We would go all the time when I was younger and go for their Halloween season every year! Very nostalgic place for me!
I think it's great that you make these little trips. I watched the entire video....been wanting to go to WOF, my old childhood favorite place.
This brought back some memories. Thanks for posting this video.
Looks like you featured a lot of the more gentle rides and casual sections of the park, that tube ride is a lot of fun, the detonator, there's another water ride to the right of that one, I like cyclone sams, the detonator (I might have missed it, would have been near planet snoopy), and the rollercoasters are actually pretty good coasters. You probably would have liked the taxi's they're chill.
Next time you're near Kansas City you should try to stop by Penguin Park on Vivian Road. It's a city park where one of the city employees thought all the traditional playground equipment was pretty lame, so he started making his own. Some of the stuff he built has since been modified (for example, the giant fiberglass penguin the park takes its name from used to have a slide inside it), but some of it is still there. I remember there being a "treadmill" that was a big spinning metal barrel with handholds on either side of it and a kid-sized hamster wheel, but those appear to have been victims of the "stop having fun" brigade. As a kid I loved it when we'd stop in that park. I also liked Memorial Park in Bethany where my great-grandparents lived, which also had a bunch of equipment that looked like some guy who knew how to weld got bored one day and thought "Playground equipment? Sure, I can do that." Nowadays from what I can tell from Google Street View a lot of that is gone and it's all standard off the shelf stuff.
I worked at WOF and OOF between 05 and 09 seasons. It looks the park has been nicely upgraded since then which it desperately needed. Haven’t been back since I left, 4 years was plenty!
Poor Jacob 😂 you can see he's trying not to puke 31:33. Keep up the great work Mr. Carpetbagger ❤. Also I don't mind if you put THE on every ride name 😂😮.
I've lived in KC most of my life, been to Wof/OoF countless times, and I've even worked there before... and I learned a lot from this video. I didn't know a lot of that stuff was even in there. I'll have to check it out next time we go.
Good luck getting around all of our flooding in the Midwest!!
Use to work here... its so surreal to know you are/were in my neck of the woods.
30+ years ago, saw Glenn Campbell perform there in a small, amphitheater. Even though there was a small crowd, he put on a show like he was playing at the Palace. Consummate entertainer, he was.
The Forum...saw many shows there too
@@kimberlyfoust2815 That’s what it was called, I couldn’t remember, thanks for that info!
My brother and party saw Tanya Tucker there..Probably 1993 0r 4.
Call it what ever you want to CB. Love your Chanel.
Morning Jacob 🤓📸 you shur do move fast lol your in south Carolina and now in Kansas City Missouri lol thanks for sharing this, have a great day my friend.
40:08 Knott's and Cedar Point have separate gate water parks plus two Schlitterbahn Parks in New Braunfels (which is actually split in 2) and Galveston (in Moody Gardens). Six Flags has a lore more standalone water parks. Hurricane Harbor Concord and Oaxtepec are technically the second gates of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Mexico-the latter being almost being 90mins apart
I loved Worlds of fun as a child, and I never knew that it was based on the book Around the World in 80 days, that's an awesome fact. I am also guilty of "the" when saying the name of a coaster.
Thank you so much for visting & doing a video on worlds of fun❤❤❤
Living in KC I've been to WoF many times. The first time was a huge family trip the year the Orient opened. My dad went on it with me after I chickened out the first time. I rode the original Zambezi Zinger (now operating in Columbia) with my grandma with my mother in the seats in front of me and she almost lost her glasses. The original was so fun. Tandem seats (2 to a seat) and no seat belts. The spiral up was more twists, and the drop and camel humps were awesome. Looks like several new rides since the last time I was there, might have to check them out during the Halloween Haunt when it's cooler. I've never seen it that empty before though. Kinda jealous.
Tivoli is pronounced Tiv-oh-Lee.
I remember when we had the dolphins. It was a very popular show but it wasn't healthy for them to live their whole lives in the small swim tanks so they got rid of them.
There used to be a Western show with train. It was "train robbers".
I used to LOVE riding the skyline when I was very little. The Zulu and Zambee Zi Zinger were my all time favorites, with Fury of the Nile in 3rd.
I don't know how the original was pronounced, but the one in Worlds of Fun was definitely TIV-o-lee, and it used to be the "big" musical revue show for Worlds of Fun (Moulin Rouge was smaller and more of a variety show). The original Zambezi Zinger was an amazing ride; it was such a smooth coaster it didn't need restraints and you sat two to a seat, on a bench seat parallel to the track with one person between the legs (or on the lap) of the other. The train was ... kind of hit or miss. Sometimes there would be train robbers (like the ones in Silver Dollar City) and sometimes not. I always thought the WoF train robbery wasn't done as well as the SDC one, so I didn't really miss it when they didn't do it, though it did make the journey out into the middle of a field and back without stopping seem kind of "well, I guess we have to do that because that's where the track goes, but WHY?"
Haven't been there in years lived a couple blocks away for 20 years was always a fun time
Just went there last weekend. Definitely worth it to me.
My hometown park!!! It's a lame park compared to most, but I'm glad it's gotten some love lately. Staffing is a huge issue at WOF. but we are getting a Mattel theme park close here soon.
Great video Jacob! Nothing is better than eating my dessert watching a Carpetbagger video. 😊😊
Used to keep season passes for worlds of fun but didn’t renew this year. We decided to travel more this year. I dont regret the decision but have missed going to the park this year.
Good job making it to all the parks!!! Glad you had a really awesome day. : )
Uggh I missed Carpetbagger when he came to my city 🥺 BUT pleeeease come back for our Halloween haunt. WOF has so many haunts and you’ll definitely enjoy it during Spooky szn. Also our city’s other haunts are fun too. Just come back to KC in general 😂
Love this video carpetbagger.
The Carousel was moved here from Geauga Lake when that park closed in 2007.
15:10 I love the parrot show. I love macaws so much.
I had flashbacks of being asked to dance with one of the performers in the "Stax of Wax" show at Worlds of Fun, when i was VERY young (80s) because I think it was in the same theater that the 'Moulin rouge' thing is in now.
Yes it was! Went to see the show a lot when I worked there.
I have a memory of my grandmother, who passed away on my bday in 2019 bless her soul, she forced me to ride a roller coaster in six flags when I was a bit younger and we called it ,THE roadrunner not roadrunner, I think people are just grammer jocks or something like that
Hilarious, you were all about the old person, chill stuff....shows and trains....avoid most rides but then ride Cyclone Sams....that ride makes me so sick, rode it one of first years open in 1995 or so, got so sick when i was a kid. Outside of the Zulu you picked a hardcore ride.
13:18 Think I'll rep the Halloween thing. Every October, they halloween-ified the park, and my favorite ride, the Fury of the Nile, gets dyed red, and becomes the Blood Nile. If you're ever around, around Halloween, I recommend checking it out at least once. Also, don't forget to check out the downtown Haunted Houses to complete the Spooky Experience.
they stopped dying the nile about 10 years back, they've scaled down the haunt stuff in recent years, unfortunately
I say you call the coasters whatever you want.
I’m from there and started going to WOF since around 1978. I cried on the Orient Express. lol! I also will never ride the Mamba ever again-way too scary for me. Also, the “no ‘the’ rule” is totally dumb. Roller coasters are things, not people, so it’s THE Mamba, etc. It is more natural and grammatically correct to say “the”.
I did the Mamba once. I’m with you-never again.
I was a costume character escort back in the seventies there 😁
It’s Daniel coin
And Sam Panda
And Gertrude Gorrilla 😁
Thanks for taking me down memory lane 🌸
I love and hour north of worlds of fun. When you got here and they were closed do you have a Clark Griswald moment? Lol
There was a hack for the dinner a guy in line shown us that give us free food. As a adult I don't recommend it but when I was 15 it was the greatest thing a person I was waiting in line has ever showed me. I'm sure we got hundreds of dollars of free food in one trip to wof
33:00 Cyborg at Six Flags New England has a similar ride (the vehicle is the newer version, but its basically the same on paper)