Defunctland: The Awful Wiggles Dark Ride
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2023
- In this minisode, Kevin explores the Wiggly history of the defunct Wiggles dark ride, The Big Red Car Ride, at Dreamworld in Australia.
Special Thanks to ReviewTyme for consulting on the episode!
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Ben Roach, ourworlds.au
Richard Wilson, parkz.com
Dreamworld's Golden Years, / dwgoldenyears
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The Red Coaster Channel, / @theredcoasterchannel
Nzzaney, / @nzzaney
Jodie Guerrero, / @jodieguerrero
Progress City, U.S.A., progresscityusa.com/
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ThemeParkHD, / @themeparkhd
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Dylan TPE, themeparksandentertainment.com
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As an Aussie and born in 1994, I grew up in the peak Wiggles era. They did an 18+ (aus drinking age) tour in Syd a few years back and toured all the local RSLs. Tickets sold out in 30 secs. Literally a bunch of grown adults a bit drunk singing ‘toot toot chugga chugga big red car’ at the top of our lungs. Iconic.
No way! I wish more of our childhood shows would do this 😜
*GULP GULP CHUGGING CHUGGING BIG RED WINE*
I should've told my brother about this as he was the Wiggles fan of the two of us, and he wasn't even 18 at the time but I was.
There was a Wiggles cover band that did this in London, I think. They would play sets at bars and do pub crawls, all while singing songs from both the Wiggles and The Smiths.
I believe they were called The Giggles? (I'm an American who saw it on the Internet like 10+ years ago)
That's so cute
I love that Kevin can deliver lines like "this is a notable moment in Wiggles' lore" completely stone faced
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impressive you saw his face when he rarely shows it. youre clearly a respecter of t he wiggles lore
I mean, after reading dozens of E-mails of people graphically describing their sexual encounters mere feet away from Garfield the cat I think nothing can shake you.
"and now, its time to wiggle"
21:24 the muted audio as the lifeless puppet of Wags slowly descending from the shadows until the silence is broken by yet another Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car is pure gold
Agreed
It feels like a shitpost
TOOT TOOT CHUGGA-
If I saw that dog I probably would’ve shat my heart out my @ss.
I was expecting a fnaf jumpscare.
“But the saxophone playing fish does move back and forth. Which is great.” Took me out. I’m obsessed with his dry humor
I died in that moment. No pulse call the coroner. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*TOOT TOOT*
CHUGGA CHUGGA@@Jax_brix
But isn't dry humor bad...?
"He slides down. Slowly...."
I had just presumed the wiggles were just a bunch of random actors that were hired for a childrens tv show. Mad respect that these guys started this because they wanted too and not because they were forced to for a paycheck.
wanted *to
i'm ashamed to admit, i watched a lot of wiggles.... never made the connection that they're australian. i thought they just talked Funny
Still, three year-old me said, "Shut up and take my money!"
@@mightymeatymech kinda like Australians? :P
Same. No idea of their history
"Nothing makes one face their own mortality more than being a Wiggle" is the rawest line I've heard in my entire life.
The golden line of this vid
Rawest and hardest line in the vid
What is life but Wiggling until we die
Fr tho, that line is one for the hall of fame
same energy as “a powerful rat, named charles entertainment cheese”
Kevin's overuse of _Toot toot, chugga chugga, Big Red Car_ is always funny. It gives us a little peek into the maddening lives of the park attendants who have to sit outside and listen to it every three minutes, day after day after day.
You could not pitch me a more convincing Hell.
Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car
That song is the Australian equivalent to the It's a Small World song. How many people have been driven to madness by it? How many have killed because of it, because I am 100% sure it is a non-zero amount.
@@thesalvager3020 I mean, unless if you were mentally ill and see it as an evil way to torture your victims, then yeah, it would be hell for those who have mentally sane brains. For me, seeing how this can be torture, well, no different from what I've seen with the SAW franchise, and horror movies that repeat the same line as if you're being brainwashed and indoctrinated by the franchise's theme song itself.
"This level of wiggling was simply not sustainable" is by far my favorite line in this video
the ride only moving at 1 mile per hour is one of the funniest things i've ever heard and it genuinely sounds like it could be a gag in a sitcom or something
Why am I suddenly thinking about the Electric Car of the Future featured in the Simpsons?
Kids and parents: (in Plankton's voice) WILL YOU JUST GO ALREADY?!!!!!
Like the long ass stair elevator from Fairly Odd Parents
For comparison, average walking speed is 3 miles per hour. This ride moved noticeably slower than even a leisurely walk.
@@ChloekabanOfficial i thought of that instantly before opening the replies 😭
Their commitment to keeping the ride lore accurate even as it becomes progressively shittier is so funny but also kind of admirable.
I'm just imagining the opposite version where Greg Page wound up dying at some point during the Emma/Lachy/Simon tenure, but the videos were still using Greg.
There are productions and franchises out there with 12 times the budget of the Wiggles yet lack that same kind of consistency.
@FC Mania You're probably right but the Wiggles where not suffering from a lack of resources
It is kinda funny.
Very nice
35:08 life lesson: if a park cannot be trusted to even upkeep simple lights in a dark ride, you cannot trust them to keep you safe in more potentially dangerous rides
Well, it was the timing of the lights that was the problem, not the maintenance of the lights themselves. Still, the accident would have been prevented with better maintenance of the ride and/or investment into a system to automatically monitor the ride and shut it down if the water level dropped too much.
Shoot, I forgot about that! What year did the accident happen again?
Edit: Whoops, didn't realise it was mentioned in the video. I could have sworn it was 3rd quarter of 2016 as I remember seeing a big ride closed during that time, but I could be confusing Dreamworld with Seaworld.
Ok this aside, no disrespect to the victims, this is truly an awful tragedy but only 1 fatal accident in multiple decades is like... really good numbers compared to like, almost everything in the world. It reminds me of how we are so terrified of sharks who only kill 5 humans per year on the planet, meanwhile humans kill hundreds of thousands of humans.
Well I work at a huge themepark. And lights is not something they care about. They rather focus on keeping the big rides up to date. And if the small ones work okeyish and are safe they see that as enough. Lights, broken speakers, needing a repaint, small disfunctions on the show elements are not something they care about.
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Man, even in recent footage of Anthony with all the new wiggles members, you can just see in his eyes how much fun he’s having, how much he enjoys what he does. I’m glad at least one of them has been able to stay on to instill the band’s original energy to the next generation of cast members.
And the blue wiggle who will more than likely replace him one day: his own daughter!
@@bagofgroceriesI'm very curious what percent of the company each of the OG Wiggles have control of, and then the new members, and like Anthony's daughter for example.
The original wiggles lineup still tours occasionally, hilariously doing mostly 18+ pub shows for adults who grew up with the wiggles. Murray is also still very present in the Australian music scene, and does a lot of TV and radio and even occasionally pops up at music festivals to play guitar with popular rock and punk bands. They actually topped a countdown a few years ago that one of our very popular major radio station does where listeners vote for the best song of the year for covering a Tame Impala song. It cannot be understated how massive the wiggles were and still are in Australia, they’re basically royalty, and I think a big part of that is the fact that they all just seem to be really nice people who love music and care about kids. I think it’s that passion and sincerity that’s always kept them so beloved, in the same way we loved Steve Irwin. I’m not a patriotic person, but I’ll be patriotic about the wiggles god damnit.
@@WAMMO678 excellent comment!!!! I stopped watching many years ago when my kids "aged out", but now I'm enjoying going back and watching every video I can find.
The wiggles origin story is actually surprisingly sweet, dudes just wanted to make some good kids content. I'd always heard about the wiggles band members leaving in passing and assumed that they'd gotten laid off for being too old or something, but the fact that they performed for kids for so many years and eventually had to leave because of health issues is something I did not expect, good for them.
Jeff (purple og wiggle) has the best origin story. The others were childhood teaching students and for their final assignment did children's songs. They needed more band members and I think it was Anthony and Jeff were in a band prior. They called Jeff up and asked if he fancied a short gig, and Jeff replied sure how long do you need me for ... and that was something like 15 years he did it for.
A far better ending then the three stooges
My dad used to tell me that he was the blue wiggle when I was a kid. I used to brag about it until I found out he was messing with me lol.
@@FairieSnuffy By the way, the reason Jeff had the character trait of falling asleep constantly was because he felt he was shy around children.
they've done reunion concerts for adults in recent years with the original members, they truly just want to make people happy and it's so sweet
I really appreciate how much Kevin is risking demonetization for using that "Big Red Car" song so much just to drive home how funny it is that the ride just bluntly clobbers you over the head with it at every opportunity.
Yesss, it was hilarious.
It was so worth it though. It's so fucking funny.
unfortunately now i have the damn song stuck in my head
I'm not sure if Kevin's motivation was "I must accurately convey the experience of this ride" as he goes back to his research notes or "you will ache as I have ached" as his lower eyelid twitches
I live for the dry humor of this channel so much. It's punchy without feeling depressing or bleak.
Just imagine how creepy it would be to explore an abandoned Big Red Car ride and you go to the kitchen and all the drawers and cabinets and doors start opening and closing by themselves.
Hehe, heh, heh. Damn it they know
nah that would still be cool
One Week At Wiggles
toot toot chugga chugga big red car"
5 Minutes In The Big Red Car Ride: a lil' horror game about a children's show
Kevin Perjurer might be the only person who could make me care about a dark ride for children based on a band I don't listen to in a country where I've never been. Hats off.
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if you come to austraila id go to the gold coast. its lovely there but very busy
this is too real.
“In 1974, Longhurst purchased [210 acres] of land, 10 miles from the Gold Coast, per God’s suggestion.” one of the sentences of all time
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God certainly did come down from that mountain, he did.
Yahweh & Son Real Estate Company
Believe it or not most people from the Goldie use Gods suggestion as their main form of decision making. Our Mayor even has a tax payer funded religious advisor 😂.
Just about the most Queensland sentence that could ever be written.
I respect the fact they were open about replacing a member, and why it was he was leaving. They could have just replaced him but they treat their child audience with enough respect to be honest with them. Children are not idiots. They notice things.
Fun fact: a couple years later when Emma (the third yellow wiggle and the first girl wiggle) had to sit out on of their tours due to her endometriosis they played this video at the beginning of every show letting the kids know she wasn’t going to be there cause she wasn’t feeling well and she even when on the news to talk about her endometriosis and spread awareness about it. The wiggle are just really fucking great.
Probably more for the parents than the kids. The Wiggles were _big_ in Aus. My Mum even reported that there were multiple times when I was a kid that she'd find herself accidentally still listening to the Wiggle's cassette tape after she'd already dropped me off at daycare. And she wasn't the only one! If there'd been no comment, the parents would have been at a loss, particularly as to what to say to their kids when their favourite band changed members!
@@Respectable_Username as an Australian who used to watch the wiggles as a little itty baby I'm still listening to fruit salad while I'm in my last year of highschool!
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I rememeber going to a Hooly Doolies concert when i was little and crying when i didnt recognise the performers...
Everyone laughed at me for taking my two year old to see the wiggles concert 16 years ago, saying he’d never remember it. Well I still do as one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. High energy, fun and as a stay at home mom back then, I knew every song.😂❤
What a silly reason to not take your two year old to an event. Why take them anywhere then?!
Plus you never know what's gonna be their first long-term memory... could be 2 or younger :)
@@Ayverie4 you are absolutely right! I stopped taking other people’s advice very early on in my parenting years and I’m so glad I did!!
My dad did the same with me decades ago
my mom did the same with me, and she still says its one of her favorite concerts shes ever been to (and we've been to a lot!) !!
"Which is a shame, because The Wiggles have four different songs about saying goodbye"
Frankly, thats the best joke in this entire video
Let me say as someone who has worked with Greg (original yellow wiggle) who speaks openly about his recent heart attack, I can say that that The Wiggles are genuinely some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. They have only ever wanted to create content and educate children with their needs in mind.
They genuinely care .
I also like the Kratt brothers.
Both unlike the creators of paw patrol & cocomelon.
@@AlexsStopMotionAdventures We do NOT talk about Cocomelon!
@@AlexsStopMotionAdventures what's the lowdown on them ?
Anh doh's brush with fame episode with Anthony is incredible I highly recommend
I can't describe how much I appreciate the deadpan delivery of the phrase "Wiggles lore" every several minutes
Totally ... because you know there is someone going... yup that's right ...
As an American who had the yellow or purple wiggle dude as a sort of rag doll but also came with a voice box, i wish I still had it to see what it’s value is.
I listen to the wiggles for the lore…
I'm going to start a wiki just so that next time someone starts talking to me about Lovecraft or Dark Souls lore I can go on a 38 minute rant about Wiggles lore and link them to it
I appreciate how all of us seem to appreciate The Wiggles in this video. They were great fun for all ages, and they've even done adult only tours. I remember them fondly, because even my Mom would sit down to watch the wiggles with my brother when he was a child.
I fondly remember sitting on the floor helping my three month old (now 20 year old) move like an emu. Good times.
The line "-apparently nothing makes one face their own mortality more than being a Wiggle." is genius.
Did anyone else gain a new respect for The Wiggles through this video? They were extremely productive for their entire career and their origin sounds very respectable
I sure did, and I'm honestly sad now that I didn't watch them more as a kid
What do you mean were? Anthony is still part of the Wiggles, Captain Feathersword is still there too. Its wild. Theres 8 now.
@@carly7522the wiggling never ends
As someone who missed their popularity boom in the US, this video made me go look up their history, and I have a lot of respect for them now. They seem like a very wholesome, talented, hardworking, passionate group. Not just the founders either, but all of the newer members too.
@@carly7522 I thought by the end of this video the original Wiggles had all gone, which would be understandable.
This video didn't really go over all the new Wiggles and I'm not too familiar with them. Considering that they're still going strong I'm sure the new ones are just as hardworking and passionate about teaching kids as the old ones.
hearing the phrase “wiggles lore” over and over and realising every single time that I do in fact know the wiggles lore was kind of a humbling experience
Learned more about the Wiggles than I care to admit. I mean, I know of the group and the show. Yet, well, when they came around. I was a teen and actively tried to avoid such childish stuff as if it were a plague.
In hindsight, thank God I did. @.@ I have the Caillou song burned into my brain. Alongside PJ Masks theme. And does Baby Shark count? No? Fair enough. And this is as an "old" ass adult, lol.
Then, again, I did watch a lot of Blue's Clues, but that show was fire back in the day.
it's kind of bizarre if you've never heard of the wiggles (like me).
God I'm gonna have that "Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car" line stuck in my head for a week just from watching the video. I can't imagine what it was like for parents having their children drag them on the ride over and over lol
This video is the reason I've been listening to that song on a loop for weeks . . . At least it's a fun song.
It was daily, cold, dark, routine, morning hell before driving them 25 miles in -5 F and snow to their pre-school each morning. They are now both finishing college and I still have a love/hate relationship with, ‘The Wiggles.’
I wonder how my father felt when I decided to loop Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy a lot as a kid XDD (Im from the US and surprisingly despite being a kid when the New England Wiggles World was put in, never went there lol)
I completely lost it at the dark ride section. The constant stressing that the ride is slow, with a perfectly cut edit of the same song everytime the car moves to the next crappy section, and the deadpan narration. It's perfect!
As an Australian, I can confirm.
It’s not just you, that door is creepy as all hell.
That door looks like it smokes children
it the stuff of nightmares
It makes me feel funny 😳
I honestly thought that was just for decoration, and honestly thank god I wouldn't wanna be the people who knew it was sentient
Door: "ya like jazz?"
Your persistence in using "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" & cutting it off earlier every time is comedy GENIUS
Was about to point this out, it's like its very own self contained YTP
This is only the second reply?
Don’t you mean “Toot Tooot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red”?
@@taylorberry1735 Don’t you mean “Toot Tooot, Chu-”?
Because if there’s any song to associate with the slow decline of the attraction or even a decent horror experience, it’s that old song “Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car”.
Absolutely deceased when the quote "Somebody's got to do something about this" from John Langhurst came on the screen. Even my Australian husband agrees; quintessential Aussie attitude.
I owned a day care for 17 years. The Wiggles were a big part of my play time for my kiddos. We sang and danced and laughed. My kids loved it. Yes, I also danced. Good exercise. One day one of my kids looked at me as we were dancing and he informed me I don’t dance as good as Greg Wiggle. Funny kids. ❤❤
"This level of wiggling was simply unsustainable." You can tell Kevin had fun writing this one. Great video as always!
Sounds to me like if you can’t handle the wiggling get out of the pit 😂
i notice that too.
Everytime I heard "Wiggles Lore" I chuckled.
I lost it at 'why's she looking at me like that'...
"chu chu chugga chugga big red car" x 100
I like how midway through the ride explanation you just stopped mentioning that they start playing "Big Red Car" but play 2 seconds of it. It really adds comedic value to the whole thing, despite this probably being super annoying to have "Big Red Car" play everytime you trasition to another room.
"Guests in the purple seat are reminded not to sleep through this song."
Now say it with me!
Toot! Toot!
Annoying to the parents perhaps but the ride wasn't made for them. I'm sure the kids loved that it played the Wiggles' iconic song throughout the ride
@@beefax chuga chuga big red car
@@flyaround312 I did, lol. It went to garbage (along with the band itself) when the OG’s left…
3:24 "the elements lifted from Disneyland were given a unique Australian Identity"
-picture of a guy in Ned Kelly combat armor holding up a dude
I was much too old to be interested when the Wiggles were at their peak, and they didn't seem weird enough to pique my interest. I had no idea it was so hardcore being a wiggle. Just saw the footage of Yellow collapsing on stage from cardiac arrest in 2020. These guys are badass!
Oh crap, it happened on stage?? Geez that must have been terrifying for everyone involved- Greg himself, the other Wiggles, the audience and the stagehands alike.
Hope he's doing okay now.
@@gl1tchygreml1n Unless there was another incident I wasn't aware of, he actually collapsed backstage. But his microphone was still on and the crowd could hear him struggling for breath.
The other Wiggles had to go out on stage, tell the crowd that Greg was feeling unwell but would be okay (they didn't know he would be, he was still being treated by a first aider) and continue to sing and dance with happy faces. Hardcore doesn't even begin to describe it!
@@3rdalbumThe show must go on isn't just Freddy Mercury's last hurrah. It's a mantra that any performer worth their salt will embody. If he was actually physically capable of going back out, I can guarantee Greg would have danced and sang on that stage before finally relenting to medical care.
I just knew about them for fringe pop culture but seeing them dancing while being 60 years old is really inspiring
This ride holds mythical status in our family
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Even as an adult, seeing the Wiggles outside their costumes just feels weird.
Yeah like who said you could be out of uniform
@@Shoulderpads-mcgee It’s basically a part of their skin now.
the uniforms are actually living tissue that grows from your skin when you wiggle hard enough.
@@mrlaz9011 when a wiggle retires and passes the mantle down, the shake hands and the shirt transfers to the new wiggle like venom
@@Shoulderpads-mcgee I would’ve assumed one final wiggle would be enough to get it off
The bassline in "big red car" takes legitimate skill to play and only a genuinely talented person could've written it. It's more sonically complex than a significant number of basslines written in the last 10 years.
if the og wiggles were anything, they were incredible musicians
having my musician friends very seriously tell me how talented the wiggles are was an enlightening point in my development
Catch me feverishly typing "toot toot chugga chugga big red car" on a typewriter like Jack Torrance in The Shining
I'm gonna have nightmares with "toot toot chugga chugga big red car" as the soundtrack
“This was a notable moment in Wiggles lore” is an utterly amazing phrase and it was even better hearing Kevin’s narration voice say it
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The Moment I realized Defunctland might be screwing with us.
For some reason I got really cracked up when he said ""The attraction received no big send off, no final rides, not even a true goodbye. Which is a shame, because the Wiggles have four different songs about saying goodbye."
Saw your name and did a double take so hard I nearly broke my neck 😂🤝
That gave me a true laugh out loud. I'm glad the comment section is giving this line the recognition it deserves.
I like how this channel can go from a profound and fantastic deep dive into the origins of the iconic Disney Channel theme to The Wiggles lmao
The tonal whiplash is immense
Oh I know you!
From the gentleman that brought you the midlife crisis of a Disney CEO, the sandwich of the future, a bear talking about stranger danger, and a powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.
How dare you slander the wiggles name
He made a documentary about a line. It’s amazing what this man can do
The perfect timing of the "Toot Toot Chugga Chugga" sound clips is the funniest Kevin has ever been.
I remember taking my 2 kids to a Wiggles concert (with the original crew). It was one of the best performances I have ever seen (yes, as an adult). I have heard about health issues of some the originals and hope that they are in a position where they aren’t pushing themselves to further harm their health.
I totally agree! I took my son when he was two and it was one of the best I’ve ever seen-worth every penny!!
i went to a few wiggles concerts with the og crew as a toddler before they switched over to the group with emma. i remember loving every second of it
The line "This level of Wiggling was simply not sustainable, but Wiggle Mania was showing no signs of stopping." Delivered in the serious documentarian voice really just exemplifies why this channel is so good
That's why he is the best.
@Punkrock Noir malding
@Punkrock Noir your future
the tone of this piece is absolutely singular. there are plenty of niche documentaries, and plenty of mockumentaries, but this concept of being devotedly factual while also hitting humor beats that are so dry they're nearly entirely implied by the editing is something completely its own. Defunctland is inventing a new genre and i cannot get enough.
Yes! Could not agree more. You hit the nail on the head with this bit of analysis.
The silence of the dog sliding down the slide, only to be interrupted by the car song had me rolling.
kevin has always been able to do such extremely subtle moments of humor that still end up being absurdly funny
My favorite defunctland series is the Jim Henson mini documentaries. They are so well put together and just so good. I couldn’t get enough when I watched them last year. I cried so much at the end😭
@@claireem8197 dude i remember watching that and actually sobbing at the end. i've never even been that into the muppets
I was a kid when Greg resigned from The Wiggles and I remember thinking how weird it would be for him to be gone. My mom had told me about it and I was like a “But he’s one of The Wiggles, they can’t just replace him” Always love these videos, I’m big into theme park history so it’s always very interesting. I’d completely forgotten about the water ride incident, now that is a grizzly story…
It’s shocking how much Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared vibes this ride has
"Nothing makes a man face his own mortality like being a Wiggle" is the kind of unusual and powerful sentence that keeps me coming back to Defunctland for all these years.
honorable mention for me would be “Freedomland is where Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty made Yankee Doodle Dandy”
It’s up there with “A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese”
Comparing the speed of the the Wiggles dark ride to the Formula Rossa is a very underrated joke in this video and definitely gave me a good laugh
They're both red cars after all
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Wags sliding down comically slow is killing me 💀
[slow, silent dog animatronic sliding down slide]
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*TOOT TOOT CHUGGA-*
Hearing "Fruit Salad" just brought me back to childhood. Thank you for reminding me of the Wiggles, i loves them as a kid in the early 2000s
*Y U M M Y Y U M M Y*
i too grew up with the wiggles. #AskHOTWHEELSTODIECASTBIGREDCAR.
"why she lookin at me like that" caught me so extremely off guard. I've been watching this show for five years and that's just....... not a tone of voice I would typically associate with Mr. Perjurer. Incredible, 10/10.
28:55 so everyone can experience the full discomfort
It would be like Mr. Rodgers telling King Friday to shut your mouth. lol
I think my favourite Wiggles fact is that whenever they posed with children, they created their signature finger gun wiggling so that they never had to physically touch children to avoid any backlash.
Not just avoiding physical contact but also so their hands were always completely visible in pictures so no one could accuse them of secretly touching outside of frame.
That's really smart of them. It apparently didn't stop people though.
I honestly find it sad that anyone who is remotely famous basically has to avoid hugging or putting their arms around fans, all because so many people have either been wrongly accused of assault or have actually assaulted someone. It sucks to have that fear, both for the celeb and their fans.
My fav Wiggles story is how they were boarding a plane and the airline had printed Jeff's last name as Fart and not Fatt. When they were called up for boarding the agent read out their names "Mr Cook, Mr Page, Mr Field, Mr... Jeff." and Jeff was all "Mr what? Mr what?" and the agent couldn't say it. He apparently has the boarding pass framed in his house.
I know I wouldn't want to spend all day touching random germy children whose boundaries I'm not familiar with lol. Feels weird to frame this action as a means to "avoid backlash" when there are a host of good reasons not to put your hands on strangers that don't amount to "I need to cover my ass"
What's always surprising to me is how these theme parks would have to pay millions in fines... which is a multitude more than paying for normal routine maintenance. I can't believe these dark rides are so hard to re-design after years to actually work better.
I'm here for a rewatch after learning that Adam Connover has never heard of The Wiggles (great podcast! I was excited for the collaboration!). The deadpan delivery and serious recounting of The Wiggles lore in this video is amazing through the lens of someone who has never heard of them. I still don't know how he missed Wiggles-mania!
Mad shoutout to the Wiggles for regearing from a 90's post-punk band and then becoming like the most renowned children's music band of the 2000's. Hell of a turnaround.
I feel like it's a surprisingly common theme for punk bands! The Aquabats are the people who made Yo Gabba Gabba, which had bands including JImmy Eat World and My Chemical Romance as guests. They Might Be Giants doesn't *really* count as punk but they only just separated their spotify profiles so you don't have them on shuffle going from the FLOOD album to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themesong LOL
@@CoolattasLab The Aquabats had their own show that I used to watch when I was younger. I was really surprised to learn that they were a real band lol
@@ToraVanguard2004 Same! I only learnt they were a real band about a month ago. I loved their show when I was in primary school.
Though it does feel a touch ironic that a band that followed in the steps of Midnight Oil, a band who had a song about the destruction of SE Queensland heritage in a song titled "Dreamworld", went on to have a ride there.
@@delusion5867 Lol the citv/cbbc days, what a time that was
As someone who grew up watching The Wiggles in the 2000’s, hearing they once had a dark ride is both surprising and on brand for The Wiggles at that time.
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@@Jedimattc Report them, don't reply to them, I know it's for a "joke" but still. Bots will be bots.
I don't know how it would be "on brand" but okay. It is a children's show I know, but what are you getting at? Is there a darker side to The Wiggles than what is on the surface? Could this be something worth investigating like say a channel called, Blameitonjorge, or say Night Mind even? That'd be interesting and I would watch it too. I saw the Wiggles in the same era, I remember when they replaced some of the crew, I stopped watching it after that and also, I was well passed moving on then as I was a bit older anyways. I remember the songs but only one comes to mind every time I think back, Fruit Salad, Yummy Yummy. That was also a backmasking era as well, "Stairway to Heaven", "Fruit Salad" and many many more like "Another one Bites the Dust" and Ozzy's "Iron Man." I was but a wee lad back then I am a fully grown adult now exploring the AOL internet at the time what a waste of time that was, Dial up. Jeeze was it utter trash. I know I say "lad" and Bri'ish terms at times THAT is just to keep things vague and ambiguous. Remember anyone can be anyone on the internet or over the phone like in the movie, "Boiler Room."
Honestly same LMAO, I'm not surprised but slightly envious that I did not get to go to it as I live in the US LMAO
the wigga or wigger?
As a gold coaster born and bred in late 2000s, witnessing the wiggles last appearance before handing over the skivvies to Emma, Simon, and Lachlan, I must say the only reason I’m sad to see the big red car ride gone is because of pure nostalgia, before river rapids disaster, before Covid, before it was abc land. Those were the days
Defunctland: "A theme-park would never create mascot costumes to represent four human men."
Me: "Oh no."
Video: *Full-Screen Nightmare Masks.*
My Mind is Scarred for life.
Something that’s so heartwarming to me about the Wiggles is that these guys just loved doing it. When they were past the point where they could retire (being damn near 60+) and be comfortable off The Wiggles money for the rest of their lives, they kept making music and gushing about how this was, is, and will always be a project from the heart. It’s great, and a huge reason I think they did so well.
Apparently they're still having a tight grasp on the land down under
The wiggling never stops
@@malif1279 May The Wiggling™️ never end 🥂
They loved the attention and money, being cult leaders.
@@7eyesopenwide168 at least they loved what they put effort into creating. Can't say your mother feels the same about you
@@nicoleb695DAMN. That was savage.
I love the tone of the video. You openly drag how terrible the ride was, while successfully illustrating how it was still endearing and beloved by the fans. Its very apparent how much you enjoy these outliers of culture, relics that have their time and then go away. There are a lot of great rides, a ton of rides that are OK, but only a few can be truly, spectacularly, memorably bad, and this is what you love to highlight. Seeing your passion makes the videos enjoyable for us as well.
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i just couldn't believe that they would decide to light a permanent attraction like that with festoon light strings, like it was the old school maze of mirrors tent at the show
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Also because I can't help myself:
*I loved it when Wiggles said "It's wigglin' time" and then wiggled all over the room*
I grew up going to this park a lot. This ride was, to a kid, one of the most relaxing rides. We would love all the little mistakes, like watching Wags the dog going back up the slide as you moved into the next room. The lines were always insane, and in the Queensland heat it became horrific but it was worth it for us kids.
the repeated (and maddening) big red car theme throughout this video is so funny, it’s really like the australian equivalent of it’s a small world
Did you notice it got shorter with each repetition? I fully expected the last clip to just be "toot"
I’m a 30 year old American and I can honestly say that I had no idea The Wiggles were THIS popular. Hell, the first time I actually sat down and watched The Wiggles on television was when I was babysitting my nieces and nephews when I was in college. They all seem like genuine dudes who just wanted to entertain kids for a living. Very admirable.
Oh good gracious. At the height of Wigglemania, their concerts were respectable-budget affairs even by the standards of adult rock concerts. They had a supporting cast of a couple dozen backup dancers, acrobats, and aerialists ... Murray was rigged to wires that lifted him up into the air during "Play Your Guitar With Murray", others flew during "Eagle Rock", and they had an entire aerial rig that supported at least 4, maybe more, acrobats above the stage. They've played Madison Square Garden and sold it out. It was a great time to be a Wiggles fan, because it was just crazy that a kids' musical group was that successful.
When I moved to Australia, I got to learn that they're kind of embedded in the national consciousness because they've been around for like TWO generations of kids now, and most people think they're cool. When they had the big line-up change after the 3 originals retired, the new crew played small venues like a local shopping mall, a tiny pavilion at the state fair, and a city Apple Store to get used to performing. Their cover of a pop song actually was the number 1 voted song of the "Top 100" one year recently.
@@randomcommenterfromdownund8949 The best thing is that the original Wiggles are still performing and packing out arenas and festivals for audiences that grew up with them.
Yeah, I was never really into them as a kid, but I used to love Bananas in Pajamas and I had a plushie of one of them that would play their theme song when you squeezed his hand.
yeah mate they're huge. im a 24 year old Aussie. went to two shows of theirs as a tiny child according to my mum, and last year went their adult only og wiggle tour. it was for people that would have been children when they first started.
I’m a 24 year old American and the wiggles were my life as a preschooler
I know you don't have a lot of jokes in the script but honestly your sense of comedic timing with some of the editing choices is impeccable.
"This level of Wiggling was simply not sustainable" absolutely chilling
As an Australian it's fascinating hearing you explain The Wiggles in such a methodical and external perspective. It's great. It makes sense. I've just never had someone explain The Wiggles back to me before in such a matter of fact way because everyone here just automatically knows about them from birth before they even learn to recognise their own parents.
Phew. Brainwashing at its finest. 🐑
Hey, some of us Yanks also grew up with them (like me). However, not everyone knows their story, and I had forgotten some of the side characters and big hits until seeing this video. I wonder if Australians are reminded of them more often as they get older.
I’m from California, growing up in the late 90s early 2000s and to this day still get full wiggles songs stuck in my head randomly. Specifically the swimming at the pool one “na na, na na na na na na, nANANANANA NA NA”. I remember seeing them perform at universal studios in hollywood, and getting my vhs signed by Murray who i had a huge crush on as a child lmao
As an Aussie myself, my first words were in fact “Hot potato”.
Oh, the wiggles are very popular all around the world tho
As someone whose first word was literally "Wiggles", I wholeheartedly approve.
Toot toot, chugga chugga, my Wiggly brethren.
toot toot chugga chugga, my wiggly brethren.
Wiggle on, mate
Got kicked out of a wiggles concert for crowd killing, told those kids if they couldn’t handle some slam dancing while fruit salad was playing they need to get out the pit still a 10/10 concert Wiggles for life
i must say, as a kid this was epic. theres still some new wiggle memorabilia in the park but its like a ghost town now
18:06 I love the completely still zoom without any explanation except... just... to look.
The most impressive thing about the Wiggles, they went some 30 or so years without a major scandal other than the replacement of band members. Seriously there is something wrong with most the people who get into Children's Entertainment. So many child shows turn out to be deeply dirty.
What about Emma and Lachy's divorce?
@@18haylo I wouldn’t consider that a scandal since it didn’t really change anything for the band and wasn’t some big controversy.
@@18haylo More of a bump in the road then a game changer. Watching it back, it was probably the softest divorce someone could've gone through. Very remarkable and respectable for both of them.
real i remember being like 5 and going to a wiggles show and being super pissed that it was some random guy and not greg bc the American episodes still featured greg
ngl as an american who never heard of the wiggles before, I was waiting for the ball to drop that one of them turned out to be a pedophile. Idk if it reflects poorly on me or society. I just...dunno. Fuck, man. Why's it gotta be like that? I'm gonna go lay down and cry.
I went on this ride during a school trip. Mid way through the ride stopped and the lights turned off while we were in front of henry and for the next 30 minutes it was just henry making mechanical clicking sounds swaying back and forth until we decided to walk out of the ride as the attendants went on their lunch break. 10/10
o_o
ngl that sounds like some Five Nights at Freddy's creepypasta. Or whatever that newer thing is, the one with the tall blue guy. Fuzzy Wuzzy or something? IDK I haven't played any of these games.
Suprised nobody tried to touch the animatronics on the way out, lmao.
I would've started crying
@@PenguinLord10 I think it’s called poppy playtime but I really relate to the tone of this comment, honestly I am surprised I even remembered what it was called
As an Australian who was born around in 93 during the peak of popularity of the wiggles. I still remember this dark ride and I only went on the Red car ride once. I can't remember how old I was. But once I went on it, the big ride was completely pitch dark as hell! And yes it was at dreamworld.
I'm so proud of the yellow wiggle's transition. You love to see it
If that happened in America Ben Shapiro would make a 50 minute video essay about feminism destroying America or smthn idk I've never watched a Ben Shapiro video.
@@qwertydavid8070 It did happen in America the wiggles are just as big if not bigger in America than Australia. Its not that big of a deal because it wasn't by force like other things that actually make people upset.
Very funny
Isn't it his kid?
Defunctland casually returning after 5 months feels like a holiday event, glad to see you back safe & sound
It's almost like Internet Historian or JonTron.
It’s Walter
woah i just saw you in little joels comments its crazy i didnt know bryan cranston liked similar youtubers to me
How the hell are you literally everywhere. This video isn't even remotely similar to some of the other videos I've seen you comment under
Well… it seems Heisenberg has become the new Justin Y. You’re literally everywhere
The human wiggles costume reveal was the single most horrifying realization ive ever seen in any video ever I think it broke me
*TOOT TOOT CHUGGA CHUGGA*
TOOT TOOT BIG RED CAR
FRUIT SALAD, YUMMY YUMMY
I wonder if that is scarier than the puppets
@@crimsondynamo615 None of us has the courage to find out
“There was never a better time….to wiggle.” Gotta be one of the coldest send offs ive ever heard
"And almost impressively, the cars moved even slower..."
I absolutely died of laughter at this point. This is like the Australian version of Superstar Limo, only *much more entertaining(ly bad)*. Chapeau, Kevin!
I love how the lighting issues make it look like a Phasmophobia ghost hunt.
I lowkey wanna see this as a Phasmophobia level now.
Know how ghosts can move mannequins? Imagine a ghost moving Henry or Dorothy directly behind you-
I wish there was a “it-seems-friendly-and-for-kids-at-first-but-then-it’s-scary” ride based on this one.
"This was a notable moment in Wiggles lore."
Absolutely brilliant
😂
Same energy as Kevin referring to the hands in Oobi as a “species”.
Just saw your interview on Adam Conover’s channel, loved it. The whole The Wiggles thing was hilarious-it’s why I came to watch this (wicked sweet) deep dive. And I kept thinking “you don’t have kids, do you Adam?“
it's 3am, I'm running a high fever, and I'm watching a historical analysis of a Wiggles dark ride. this video is honestly exactly what I needed
Kevin lamenting the glacial pace of Big Red Car before immediately cutting to Formula Rossa going 150 miles an hour had me in stitches. The man is a comedic genius.
To be fair if you're moving 1 mph on a coaster that's probably bad. If you're going a buck fifty at any point during a dark ride that's definitely bad.
i mean, he is comparing a big red car to another big red car, it's completely fair.
Agreed, this had me in TEARS. Kevin is astoundingly funny
Tears? Seriously.
I was just confused by him using the fastest coaster in the world for comparison. I think I'm failing at humor.
I'd never heard of turtlenecks being called 'skivvies' before; I've always heard the word used to refer to underwear (e.g. "strip down to your skivvies"). So at first I was REALLY confused about this children's performance group that was performing almost nude.
It’s like how ‘fanny’ is slang for butt here in the US but means ‘vagina’ in the UK.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one! I was confused as well!
In australia it was pretty normal to wear a thin turtleneck under your clothes, especially for kids in the 70's and 80's, so that's probably why the word migrated to all turtlenecks
@@DeliciousHotShmoze "AUNT FANNYYY!"
fanny was originally a pet name for Frances, kinda like how dick was originally a shorthand for richard.
Humans are dirty as hell.
My kids grew up with the wiggles… This was one of the most well put together, informative, nostalgic, heartwarming documentary, I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you so much for such a wonderful video!
I remember riding the Big Red Car ride so much as a child (2007 - 2009) and I did notice myself that the ride was failing a lot more as the years went on...
Can we take a moment to appreciate the, if you'll pardon my phrasing, gigachad energy of John Longhurst? Dude wanted his own theme park, he did the bulldozing his own damn self, and then he shamelessly and fearlessly ripped off Disney as much as he possibly could, arguably also improving much of it with the Australian stuff.
I'm sure there's a milkshake duck twist to this guy somewhere cuz there's gotta be, but right now I'm just in sheer awe at this absolute unit.
Dude must have been insanely rich too, either that or really good at making connections. Kevin made it sound like he was just some dude, but there must be more to the story of how he came by the means to do this.
yeah I'm surprised Disney didn't try to get his ass over the copying but maybe the Disney of the past wasn't powerful enough or didn't care enough. I'm sure the Disney of today wouldn't let someone do that.
the milkshake duck twist is that it kept scratching itself while drinking the milkshakes. somebody’s gotta do something about this
@@stevethepocket He had other interests, such as owning (or at least being part of) a large shopping mall near Brisbane.
"Sorry Disney, but if my theme park is a rip-off of Disney World, why does my park have soul and your park is soulless?"
The history in these episodes are always so interesting that the sudden dry humor sprinkled in is almost like a jumpscare
So many dry jokes that leave me going "wait..? Huh..? Oh he's joking!" Guy's humour is genius
I laughed so hard when he compared the speed of the wiggle ride to the formula 1 coaster, I was afraid I woke up the whole house
@Bigga Nigga better to have good videos every few months than shit videos every minute
The human mascots were nightmare fuel
19:46 … the wiggles then tell the riders that they would like to play a game
‘Hello, child. In front of you there is a microphone. If you do not sing the lyrics to the song being played correctly, your parent will be killed off.’
I spilled my drink @@thomasawl, omg
I like how kevin sounds more and more disappointed as he describes the ride. Its so funny. When he shows wags sliding down and completely cuts all the audio to show how slow hes really going, henry not moving his arms when he is told to and the saxophone playing fish moves back and forth, which kevin gives his approval by saying in a monotone voice that it is “great”, to returning to the loading area extremely slowly. I love how informative he is and how funny he is at the same time. Also that zoom on flora door looking very unsettling at the beginning was great. Keep it up kevin!
Edit: lol i kept calling him patrick. My brain kept turning on and off. I didnt know i did that until i saw the replies lmao
this ride looks depressing
The editing for the constant "Big Red Car" reprises was the icing on the cake.
Who's Patrick?
the zoom broke me
The name of the Defunctland curator is Kevin, not Patrick.
I went to dreamworld on a school field trip a month after the accident, it was so empty it was surreal. Ride operators would come out and ask you if you could go on rides because they didn't have enough people to balance them out. The character actors just dropped their character and would talk to you about their life.
"Kid, life is a swirling pit of despair. You wanna go on this little airplane?"
That sounds like it was kind of interesting.
I wonder if the same happened to Alton Towers after the Smiler incident
@@Ihartwalrusguy I think Alton Towers came bounding back
In the months following the accident, it was unnerving to see the completely empty carparks whenever we passed by Dreamworld on the highway.
I swear I could listen to this guy talk about my defunct relationship with my parents for an hour and still enjoy it
I couldn't stand these guys back in the day (you can tell I'm not a parent lol) yet I understood they actually taught the kids some good things such as healthy eating and being respectful.
This was actually an interesting deep dive.
Respect for this documentary mate.
Not standing them means you could be a parent. They teach good things, but hearing those songs a million times makes you hate them.
As a little kid who went on this ride over 50 times, I never seemed to notice how run down this ride was. It was still a magic experience to ride and was always the highlight of the day.
Kids either don't notice that stuff or they're terrified of it. Glad you weren't the latter.
Right I loved the wiggles ride, I was, however, terrified of the Bermuda triangle ride at sea world and the Looney tunes ride at movie world 😂
That's a lot of "TOOT TOOT CHUGGA CHUGGA"
Poor Eddie…. 😞
The magic was inside you all along.
the complete silence at 21:24 killed me, like how underwhelming the sliding sequence is coupled with the fact a ride themed after a very musical show felt the need to make it completely silent here has me DYING
and then there's the toot toot chugga chugga jumpscare
I doubt the actual ride was silent for that but, the fact that he slides down AFTER the song instead of partway through it is... a strange decision
Haha im the 420th like
Also nice karkat pfp mine is my fantroll lmao ^^
@@TehSlanYeah, but it makes it funny
@@TehSlan It wasn't. I got to experience the ride back in the day and from what I remember, it was to a wags the dog song.
I loved the Wiggles as a little girl. Captain FeatherSword was my favorite character.
Wiggles, Steve Irwin, Big Kev.
Aussie legends and icons.
"This level of Wiggling was simply not sustainable, but Wigglemania was showing no signs of stopping"
I come for the theme park history and stay for Kevin's writing lol
It's honestly the completely straight delivery that sells it
@@iamspotpanda I usually hate dry emotionless straight reading style voiceovers on UA-cam videos (Chills, Behind the Meme, etc), but Kevin’s work is the one major exception. It makes the occasional jokes snuck in hit so much harder
@Bigga Nigga *insert the possibly-misattributed Miyamoto quote here*
Hulk Hogan.