Ramble: How Disney would ruin defunct rides
It didn't even occur to me until it was too late that they would probably retheme Stitch's Great Escape to Deadpool. He's kind of this generation's "cheeky rascal" character and they would keep the part where Stitch eats a chili dog and then burps on you, and just say it's Deadpool burping on you after a chimichanga (which I believe is one of the unfunny things associated with Deadpool)
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I LOVE dinoland and dinosaur!!
THERE WERE GONNA BE DINOS IN COSMIC?!? We were robbed
Did you try to buy the original carousel figurines during this last D23? They were gorgeous!
I miss big Al’s blood on the saddle
hearing Ellen hates theme parks makes me think of the show's, 'live from Universal Florida' episodes lol
I'm surprised Amy Adams hasn't done anything for disney theme parks. I bet she will if she can
I'm new here and realize this is already a year old, but man what a shame on the King Triton Carousel downgrade! Those sea creatures were gorgeous! I am a huge Toy Story fan but would have been way cooler if they found a way to make rideable versions of Andy's toys like RC, Snake & Robot, Lenny, the Shark with Woody's hat...
honestly pivoting and switching between projects seems like the best way to actually FINISH a project and is something i would be better off implementing in my own projects so i respect it.
Ahhh! I thought Alien Encounter was a fever dream! Because I vaguely remembered this attraction and thought it was so cool, and 10,000% didn't feel like I was at Disney at all. But when I went back much later it was Lilo and Stitch branded, and significantly worse. When I was probably, like 8 years old - I remember some river ride where our guide got MURDERED, turned into a skeleton and the boat was hijacked. What happened to good ol' trauma rides. Haha.
Sometimes I rewatch this video just to imagine a world where Elon got into theme parks...
We need this but Jenny blue skying how she would fix or add to old rides or make new rides for different lands. We also still need a perfect day at Disney for her best friend since we already got the worst day for her worst enemy
oh christ elon musk was a jumpscare
Thank you for explaining the deal with Tom! I’ve only followed theme park stuff this closely for the past 3 years and I’ve watched WDWNT every week and known that a lot of people didn’t like him but I had never seen someone say why. It makes sense that he had a reputation that he seemingly tried to start changing around the time I started watching. I also have never used Twitter so if that’s where most of his outlandish behavior has taken place it makes sense that I haven’t seen it. To me he’s always come off as passionate in a neurodivergent way (same) and while I don’t always agree with his takes I haven’t personally seen him say anything (on YouTube since 2023 or at the Muppetvision event I attended) that reflected the reputation I’ve heard about him.
12:48 I should do this at my uni for accessibility stuff. Steve Biko lift broken - 3 months! Etc. It's so bad how long they take to fix stuff, nevermind all the stuff that isn't accessible in the first place 🥲 Also this is so random but I adore your eyeliner in this video and it looks great and I wish I could do that (I probably could if I got contacts and practiced a lot but effort)
6:43 This is really random but with the terraformed desert thing you mentioned, deserts are really important ecosystems and they're such diverse spaces and are vital for our existence and they're just not pretty in the same way as other things we want to save but they are beautiful. Terraforming them would be a tragedy. Just wanted to say my piece about deserts bc they don't get enough love. It's like how we don't care about insects going extinct as much as bigger/cuter animals but they are very important!! Save our deserts and save our insects <3
im glad you commented this bc i think about it whenever horizons comes up, it's very interesting to me how ''greening the desert''/the idea of terraforming has functioned as a tool of colonization based on assumptions about unfamiliar landscapes. no shade on jenny, just an interesting chance to think about how ideas are presented in utopian scholastic media
This is so specific but rewatching this and having a vivid flashback to being 11 on stitch’s great escape and there’s a part where he burps (?) at you or something and the smell made me really upset and genuinely followed me for the rest of the day. I feel like I can smell it even now
Omg what did it smell like??? I never encountered it
this was pretty good but i would really appreciate if a higher tier member could submit "jenny watches drone footage and larps as a bird for as long as she wants" as a ramble topic
When I was like 6 or 8 I got off my favorite attraction, the laugh floor, and saw stiches great escape with no line and since the building looked similar I begged my Dad to go on it. And there was no one there but my family and it was my absolute favorite thing we did in magic kingdom (other than the laugh floor) and when I found out they got rid of it the next time I went I was actually a bit devastated. So it's wild to know that it actually replaced a objectively cooler more interesting ride.
can you imagine living with the knowledge that you confidently said those things to THE bastion of honest theme park reporting, i'll die wondering if he remembered this encounter after he undoubtedly saw the video........ this guy, the bronycon oc guy, and the flinstones guy form the unholy triad of gatekeepers
We would never be mad when you pivot. My Jennyflix subscription is the best money I spend every month.
Slightly off topic but combining this post and going back to your previous posts on favorite defunct rides and favorite animatronics: 1) Start by saying I am ancient and as a tiny human actually experienced the original Figment Journey Into Imagination, Listen To The Land, and Horizons. I remember having the soundtrack on cassette tape too. One side was Magic Kingdom. The other Epcot. It also had the original Main Street Electrical Parade (the one with the Moog synths) and it being the most joyous song as a kid. 2) Love your lists and know you aware of the defunct Cranium Command and Buzzy from the old Wonders of Life and wondering your thoughts and where it ranks. It was likely the last great new Epcot experience, unless you accept the new Frozen ride, which I can't since they sacrificed Maelstrom. LOL.
Ok this is off topic but I love your bomberman plushies in the background. I used to love the super bomberman 3 game for the snes and especially the kangeroo character you could ride (I used to call it haasje which is Dutch for little hare but I guess it being a kangeroo makes more sense). Have been looking for a plush of it but haven't found it yet so I might have to get creative and make one myself 😅🐇
omg, you just resolved a confusion I've had for over a decade. I visited DW in the 90s and again in the 2000s. On that second visit, I did the Stitch "ride". I was sure I rode it before, but I was sure I couldn't have rode it before, so I just dismissed it as deja vu. I loved Honey I Shrunk the Audience. Universe of Energy too.
I have a bad movie club with friends, so I can't wait for your future suggestions
I actually think Elon Musk and Leslie Jones together would be super funny. Anyone who's seen her on SNL knows LJ is at her best when she has a white boy to play off of comedically. The best part is you know Elon Musk would be completely miserable (because racist)
i had to do condition reporting on archival textiles for a job and the way jenny relays the vibe of the ''maintenance reports'' is electric because the language is exactly how i would describe wear and tear on old clothes and stuff except with more hater energy, as if i had inexplicable beef with the archivists before me/the original owners and wearers it's aspirational really
Alternate history where the Wonders of Life pavilion gets co-opted in the Universe of Energy overhaul and Buzzy is returned to life... as part of a Tesla sponsorship where he's now playing Elon Musk.
prince
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Wow it’s nice to see that defunct Ellen animatronic so I know exactly what I’ll be having nightmares about for the next ten years.
Absolute nightmare Horizon would be sponsored by OpenAI and Microsoft and Oracle
I get the distinct sense that the Elon Tomorrowland AU is the same timeline as Kanye becoming an Evermore investor. I also get the sense that that would end with the two of them getting in an actual fistfight in the ruins.
Why am I learning of this awful change right now, in my sweatpants, in front of my supplements, instead of being tenderly spoken to by a dear friend, over hot tea? 😫 Also, my friend, Tom Bancroft, legendary Disney character designer and animator (like Mushu), worked on the original version of this ride, which was an alien-escape ride. He told me that he recalls thinking this ride was not appropriate for children, though, as an adult, it was awesome. And he was correct. It horrified children and was shut down and redesigned.
Never thought I'd find out today that the good timeline out in the multiverse somewhere is the one where Disney collaborates with Elon Musk to host a Disney World attraction. Truly what could have been.
I LOVED your Halloween tangent within the Tom tangent, thank you for including it XD
Hey Jenny! First comment longtime watcher. I just watched the documentary stolen kingdom which was partially about buzzy. Would love your views on it! Love your videos!!
As soon as you put 2017 and fossil fuel alternative together, I knew it would be Elon Musk and Tesla and as nightmarish as the Elon + Leslie Jones combo would be, you're absolutely right and it would've been awful and horribly aged and also very very funny (for the wrong reasons). Beautifully terrible idea. It's perfect.
Since you’re a fan of Kitchen Cabaret, have you heard of this show called the Big Yummy? It was this food themed animatronic show at a science center in Ohio sponsored by like the USDA and they all sing and perform about food, it’s one of those weird edu-tainment things that’s charming in its own way
What an incredible name
This is the first time I've ever had my disdain for Tom Corless validated. Thank you Jenny
Whenever I'm opening at work now and I notice something that someone has neglected to clean properly (or at all) and I start to get upset I just say "two months of scum!!" And start laughing to myself
Did I miss some drama in the internet horror video comment section? It's gone.
Dang, and I finally figured out my "smug teenager trying to sound like a cool scientist guy" defense for SCP.
I’ve never witnessed anyone else share my fondness for the late King Triton’s carousel. I miss her.
I have never experienced this one irl but as a carousel enthusiast I am with you and Jenny 100%, it was better before they Pixarified it
what beanie baby is that? the rat one on the table
trap the mouse i think
Two months of scum!
"TWO MONTHS OF SCUM" was immediately added to my mental catalogue of favorite quotes from these videos
I believe that in the universe it's Elon and Leslie at Disney, that Elon 100% buys Evermore
This is how I learn Dino land is leaving lol
what rock have you been living under, and is there room for me to join?
I knew immediately when you were talking about how to revamp World of Energy what your angle would be. I could totally see that happening tbh.
I was kind of expecting Elon Musk and Neil DeGrasse Tyson 😅
So many times in this vid I had to put down my crochet and have a good throaty cackle. Ahh, my patreon monies are well spent 🤌🏼
did you finish your project?
never expected to hear jenny say ”labubu” but i am delighted
I liked the CBJ show, granted I have never seen the original, but it's all still country music and I think it's surprisingly funny. Maybe it's just cause I don't have the nostalgia, this was my first time going to disneyworld ever and I was 30 lol I was mostly excited just to see the animatronics. Also they are closing Dinosaur?? Thank goodness I got to ride it, I loved it, I rode it twice while I was there
ICYMI: Jenny posted a second-channel video on Pokémon World Championships that isn't currently linked from Patreon: https://youtu.be/jMqX2CRS43k?feature=shared
Thank you for this!
Take me to the alternative reality of world of energy!
I could sense where she was going with the energy ride and hoping against the odds that she’d pick Neil deGrasse Tyson lol. But he might have been too expensive anyways…
Yeah, when she was running through that concept I figured it would either be Neil or Elon.
Dropping Elon Musk's out of nowhere gagged me to no end
Dinosaur is still open, I think it will be for a few more months at least? Straight up my favorite ride at any theme park ever ngl
The updated Country Bears at WDW is OK. The primary change from a tech point of view was going from Analog to Digital. In theory, with the new digital format, it is much easier to make changes to the show. With that in mind, I was hoping they would seasonally bring back the Country Bears Christmas show, but alas, no. I ask about the Christmas show and the cast members like at me like I'm insane. Oh, and getting rid of "Blood On the Saddle" was criminal.
I may have missed something but when are we allowed to know about the apple pie tree? I feel like it's been mentioned scarcely and I want to know the full scoop but we never got a video or shout out (unless we did and I've missed something huge?)
I’m trying to carefully use watercolours while listening to this but it’s IMPOSSIBLE after losing my mind laughing at ‘two months of SCUM’
I did a recent trip to Disneyland, and the thing that struck me when you mentioned the PeopleMover is how barren Tomorrowland is with rides over there. Like, it's not *absent* of rides, but between Finding Nemo, Autopia, and Astro Orbiter you have three rides that really aren't worth the waits they engender and just aren't to everyone's tastes, and then outside of that? When I went Star Tours was under refurbishment, leaving the only rides I actually cared to do being Buzz Lightyear and Space Mountain. It's just in such a contrast to Magic Kingdom, where you at least still have Carousel of Progress, PeopleMover, and Laugh Floor, two of which are shows and one of which rarely has super long waits, so you're at least always guaranteed to find something to do. But since Disneyland destroyed the PeopleMover track and decided to inexplicably leave both the Tomorrowland Theatre and Innoventions building vacant....you just have, like *nothing* over there if one of the three rides of value go down. In general I think Disneyland has the upper hand over MK, but Tomorrowland is the one area they're getting their ass handed to them by other parks.
you literally only go over there for space mountain. autopia if you're with kids.
jenny my queen! unrelated to this video but you were mentioned on the Theme Park Stop podcast as a short hand for having a bad seat somewhere 😭 their guest said "I got Jenny Nicholson-ed and got sat behind a pole!" just thought you'd want to know you have officially entered the (at least theme park) zeitgeist as a euphemism for getting the worst seat in the house
As soon as you said “scientist” + “2017” I knew it had to be Elon 🥲 but you make a compelling argument for the Elon’s Energy Adventure alternate timeline
Where are the credits?
the credits?
excited to see the bad-movie video! personally i think its crazy that people get mad over what comes out and when lol. and a spiritual successor to the church play video sounds like a banger. goodbye mr tomato 🍅
My first thought upon seeing the Wuthering Heights trailer today was that Jenny would knock commentary on whatever that film ends up being out of the park
The idea that maybe DOGE/all the USAID cuts might never have happened and people’s lives could have been saved from aid overseas as a result of an EPCOT pavilion retheme is a very positive thought
I'm stealing "Two Months of Scum" as a band name
Ugh, Dinosaur being rethemed is the biggest travesty. Idk where I’m going to find animatronic Dino’s anymore 😭
There’s always that one River Adventure ride in Gatlinburg lol
An animatronic bear singing "Kiss the Girl" is nightmare fuel.
Jenny isn't afraid to team up with evil creatures and corporations. The army funded way of waterpark and Elon funded dinosaur ride are milking them for all their worth and I'm here for it.
I LOVED THIS!!! When you said "Disney would need a new sponsor focused on clean energy", I thought to myself, "god this would be the perfect opportunity to say Elon Musk. I really hope she says Elon Musk" and then finally when you said it I started laughing and clapping at the fact I predicted it. I also can't wait to see what this "mystery bad movie" is - I'm honestly more excited to finally learn what it is (and if I've ever heard of it before or if it's super obscure) than I am for the Barbie video (although I am quite excited for that too).
Dino-Rama closed, but Dinosaur the attraction remains open until at least early 2026. (No final date has been announced yet.) So get your rides in, 90s Camp Theme Park Attraction Fans!
With Kitchen Cabaret, I would think that they could go with a Beauty and Beast theme, where the utensils and furniture talk about healthy eating and/or cleaning and sing Be Our Guest
Ewww that guy at the party was so gross 😭
Retro disneyland button-up is drippy Jenny
There is zero way that this would happen, but I would love the alternate version of Ellen's Energy Adventure to have been hosted by the Mythbusters. They both play the comedian and scientist roles fairly well and it would have been so charming I think
On this subject, i wish i lived in an alternate reality where disney didn’t replace the rock and roller coaster in disneyland paris for an ouspace avengers ride with a queue full of screens showing a suspiciously voiced iron man… i wonder where all the fun rock memorabilia in glass casings from the old queue went. They should’ve kept those as like.. tony stark’s rock collection and captain america could have talked about not getting any reference (from a screen of course).
The comment about that guy fighting the video like fish fight their own reflections… 😭😭😭 never change your amazing sense of humor, Jenny
In the middle of the Ellen ride is where I found out that she is gay… My old homophobic grandma came in, saw her, and then turned to child-me and was like “she’s a lesbian, you know” with a disgusted face lol I was like “okay, so?”
don't worry jenny as i go back in time to redirect this timeline onto the elon's universe of energy one, i will make sure that they preserve the california people mover properly
Me when I see Elon Musk after riding the Elon Energy Extravaganza attraction: "Holy shit, it's that guy!"
I love that you can't help yourself and end up imagining an awesome ride experience every time.
Jenny! Feel free to cook those videos as long as neccisary. Also it's no big secret the bad movie you're doing is moonstruck, and honestly it really isn't that bad! Jk, just throwing people off the trail! Keep it up you rogue!
the movie is Casablanca and Jenny has some extremely surprising takes
I love when she starts to blue sky ideas, i could listen to Jenny blue sky all day. I hope one day she makes a reverse video of the worst day at Disney for her worst enemy to bthe best day at Disney
Looking forward to the new bad media video!! I don’t mind the pivoting at all, do whatever makes your work more interesting and fun :)
Does anyone else wish the Space Mountain Fantastic 4 projection thing had been an entire retheme/overlay? I know media tie-ins can date a ride and feel inauthentic but SM desperately needs refurb and it just fits in so well 😭
My Patreon prompt is Jenny and Ted Nivision squash the Barbie beef (that I made up and def does not exist) and make a video about mascots
Who is that?
They closed Dinosaur!?! Noooo. That one animatronic was AMAZING. It looked like it was coming right at you
I went on it shortly before it closed cause it was one of my favorite rides as a kid (and I happen to actually live close enough to just visit) and unfortunately the day I went the carno that comes towards you wasn't working :( A lot of the animatronics were still in decent condition though so really sad to me that they insisted on taking down a perfectly good ride cause its not associated with a popular IP.
Thank you for your toime miss Jenny
Your story about the Disney sycophants trying to save face after you made solid complaints about the experience really highlights the problems we face today. All they care about is doing just enough for you to say you didnt have a miserable time while simultaneously extracting as much money from your pockets as they can. If we cant make these practices illegal we can atleast bully these corporations online.
My wife's sister is a psychologist. I asked her if watching these "Jenny talks about dead Disney rides" videos is healing, wallowing in nostalgia, or just entertainment. She said, "All three. Did she have a take on Horizons?" I should lighten up a little.
Every month i feel like my patreon subscription is worth it but This Month i have never spent my money in a better place, such a good video and i lost my mind with every bullet point
I, for one, welcome the pivot to the Bad Movie video because I've been dying to know what that movie is since it was first mentioned on here YEARS ago.
Right? It doesn't even matter to me which potential future video I'd actually enjoy the most—at this point I just gotta know what the bad movie is!
Ok but what if we're living in the bluesky reality where Ken Brettschneider became a theme park failure instead of a worse alternate reality where he's a second, worse Elon type guy. Maybe we're living in a better world after all
omfg ur so right, i have to be more grateful for the few ways our timeline could be worse lmaoooo
i know the barbie video will come when i need her most
Only just now noticed this new post but honestly, I had such a bad day that it was kind of a huge relief to see this waiting for me when I got home. Your rambles always cheer me up.
Dinosaur the Ride is still open! It's closing soon, but open as of now.
omg the genuine joy over the restuffed Mr. Tomato... secondhand serotonin
also I was dreading the reveal of the "science host" the whole time and of course it was exactly my worst fear. I'm so glad and disappointed Jenny and I are on the same wavelength.
i'm so excited for anything you put out on any timeline you put it out!!! honestly. and i'd much rather something wait until it's done and you feel done.
Loved the video, but I was not prepared to find out that the Honey I Shrunk the Kids ride was not only dead, but they've also built such a soulless replacement over its grave. I hope the ghosts of the thousands of cloned rats haunt that cinema forever.
I can’t believe I’m hearing Jenny slander Atlantis and call Milo freaking Thatch charmless 😭😭😭😭
Leave my man alone!!
Jenny I just need you to know that you can still ride the Dinosaur ride! It is open until the end of this year!
Ok so, in this new timeline, where Elon turns into a theme park geek and buys Evermore, what do we think he does all day? 1. Park his Tesla in front of the hobbit hole. 2. Walk around taking close-ups of the lights. 3. Write himself into the story as the loveable bard who turns out is a homicidal maniac. 4. Walk around all day trying to have people gamble him for his pants.
Just imagine the levels of workplace sexual harassment, though
Please take all the time you need on the Barbie video. Idc that you're taking a break to work on something else. I'm just grateful for whatever videos you produce, and I don't want you to be stressed out. I'm sure you hear more from the people who do want to put pressure on you, but I'm just repping your fans who understand that 4-hour videos take many months to make.
I love how the Universe of Energy segment starts as your attempt to ruin the attraction, but you gradually realize that doing so, in this way, could have saved the world as we know it.
That dude at the Halloween party would've aggravated me no end. I mean *really*, it costs you nothing to be polite! On a lighter note, I like how Jenny posed Skippy for this video. It looks like he's listening intently, his antennae swivelled toward her!
they better not have ruined the country bear jamboree. i loved all the creepy animatronics at disney
I just watched a movie "Two Bits & Pepper" and please you need to watch it. You don't even have to make a video about it I just know you'd love it.
I didn't realize until you started talking about the Skippy Alien Encounter attraction how vividly I remember that experience because I think I was way too young for what that was meant to be and I was sobbing through most of it despite being a kid who loved horror media and haunted houses lol
I loved that scary Alien Encounter ride as an 8 year old that also started crying during it. Then ride it 2 more times that day 😂. When they replaced it with Stitch I was so upset.
Hi! Does anyone know in which ramble video did Jenny talk about Transcendence? Thanks!
Jenny’s favorite and least favorite plot twists of all time, around the 1 hour mark.
Come on, Leslie Jones and Neil Degrasse Tyson would be have killed in 2017.
Yeah, but a lot of attendees would be too racist for that.
Tom Corless? Never heard of him. Sounds like a weirdo *rapidly unsubscribes from WDWNT* *throws Gertie plush I bought from them into the fire*
But honestly if disney just wanted to ruin their parks with IP they would have changed matterhorn to a frozen rollercoaster a long time ago...
If raya and the last dragon made any money and indiana jones lost popularity they could retheme the temple. too bad that movie was really mediocre
i only went on ellen’s energy adventure once and i was pretty young so every time i’m reminded of it i’m shocked by the fact that it wasn’t a weird dream i had. like what do you mean ellen was playing jeopardy and then the screen opened up and i was among the dinosaurs and that was a real thing that happened?
“we need a science person— and remember, it’s 2017” immediately set off an ominous string music cue in my head
and then it WAS I was like "No, she's gonna say Neil DeGrasse Tyson or someone so cringe but harmless I forgot about them, there's no way-"
I love the tomato!! reminded me of me of the animatronic vegetables and fruits in a supermarket called Big Fresh when I was growing up. They had a children’s play area that was a giant animatronic tree with a face but it had like a jolly old man voice and I remember being always too scared to go in the tree with a face because I thought there was a strange old man waiting in there.
now i’m mourning the alternate reality where i didn’t need to know about elon musk and he could’ve just been a corny theme park character
Much like your fake star wars novel pitch, I love the cascade that happened to your world of energy timeline
My conspiracy theory was that the man in the mask who was rude to Jenny at the party WAS Tom Corless all along.
Ngl I half expected that to be the twist
You are 1000000% on the money with Elon Musk, did you see the ‘Tesla diner’ they just opened? It is the EXACT brand of Tomorrowland energy you describe.
He missed the reality where he would find an audience to laugh at his Epic Bacon meme 😞
I am so here for a video on a bad movie! Looking forward to it!
Was not prepared for Jenny's pitch for repairing Elon Musk's life
People need to hire me not only as a theme park consultant but in a personal "benevolent god" role where I plan the ideal life path they're suited for based on their least likeable traits
The Elon frozen face bit was hilarious! I would pay money to see Jenny do a full Elon impression XD
“Maybe the whole time he was watching my video, he was trying to talk over it - like fish trying to fight their own reflection.” This joke is AMAZING. 🤣
My family and I have only ever been to Disney World once, in 1994, when I was 6. We bought a Pictorial Souvenir book that I still have and I'm super glad I kept it. I would read through it all the time and it breaks my heart sometimes to know that they pretty much destroyed every ride and attraction I remember from this book. I know plenty of them were outdated and in need of repairs or updating, but not all of them needed to be outright dismantled! Anyway, the book has photos of Horizons, ExtraTERRORestrials: Alien Encounters, and lots of the other defunct EPCOT and MGM pavilions!
TWO MONTHS OF SCUM
I’m like trying to fall asleep watching this and this line has me laughing audibly in the dark
"Maybe he's trying to talk over it" knocked me out and "Like when fish fight their own reflection" sent me into orbit. That was so brutal that that man's next of kin could press charges. At the ICC!
I would like to imagine the ride having both Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson and then immediately become very dated due to the combination of the 2 weird controversial figures
Elon of course in the charismatic everyman role
The Elon Musk tangent was truly something special.
I gave the most horrified gasp when you said you were looking for a clean energy representative, and it was still worse than I could have possibly imagined. 10/10
Elon Musk buys Evermore instead of Twitter....
Finding out Elon Musk had a cameo in Young Sheldon... it's so awful and also makes so much sense at the same time. I want to laugh and also die.
I just rewatched the Alan Dean Foster treatment video so my first thought for the Energy ride hosts were R2D2 and BB8. 40 minutes if untranslated droid narration.
July 1st: Time is mine to wield. July 29th: Four weeks is the shortest possible period of time.
I sprained my ankle on July 1st and just started being able to walk again this week, I spent the month watching tubi on the couch. We only get about 4-5 months of pleasant weather where I live and I missed one
as if it was a labubu or something….😭
this was a banger, ty
I want a Kerokero Cola
I thought it would be Elon and fully punched the air when you said it Jenny- damn that would be a cursed timeline. Also Leslie jones checks out- but I also think Jimmy Kimmel feels right even if he was too expensive
the sense of foreboding I got when you were describing needing a sponsor related to clean energy and a guy who was both recognizable and associated with science......
I swear Mr. Tomato looks fresh off the vine hard to believe that plush is from the 80s!
It was interesting to hear how Jenny modded her tomato
I don’t know what Transcendence is that Jenny mentioned in the Elon Musk part. She said she’s talked about it before. Can anyone point me to the video?
It's a very weird very bad Johnny Depp sci fi. She discusses it last in her Favorite and Least Favorite Plot Twists video
I wasn’t sure that the fever dream Ellen Degeneres WITH dinosaurs ride was actually real until now. It now makes sense why it’s been stuck in my brain, it took up almost an hour of my life at six years old
LOL, Jenny I bumped into Tom Corless last time I was at Disney. He was exactly how he is on camera, but I will give him credit he was very friendly and down to chat with a stranger so we just gossiped about his arch rivals, Disney Food Blog. Apparently they are extremely fake and dont even eat the food they review, just take a picture with the cupcake and throw it right in the trash, and he has videos to prove it. It was such a highlight of the trip. 😂😂😂
You should’ve told Tommy Boy that it’s not the job of the cameraperson filming the cupcake to write the review so there’d be no reason for them to eat it. Then again there’d be no reason not to eat it. I mean it’s a cupcake. DFB is my only source for Disney news other than Jenny so I’d be curious to know if she likes them or if THEY ARE HER ENEMY!
Excited for the pivot video!
Came for the theme park talk, stayed for the Elon roast.
That was the kindest I've heard anyone talk about Elon in a long time
Listening to Jenny talk about the Extraterrorestial Alien Encounter attraction had me thinking "That sounds an awful lot like the Stitch thing I experienced at Disneyland years ago", only for her to immediately follow up with how it was replaced by the Stitch attraction and think "Oh that makes sense now."
The guy at the halloween party would never have messed with Jenny if he'd recognized the pristine Plo Koon costume I assume she was wearing.
Every animatronic should be designed with a D-mode that just involves a disaffected teen dressed in black shaking it lazily.
I have never related to you more than I have in this video. We should have gotten the Atlantis re-theme and Wdwnt is awful.
Jenny not believing in the Indiana Jones dinosaurs hit me the same way as listening to the Hadestown soundtrack and getting to the part of Doubt Comes In where Orpheus sings "I used to see the way the world could be/but now the way it is is all I see." 😔
why is poor Jenny cursed to constantly encounter weird rude fans of things she also likes? 😭 no but seriously, that 'fish fighting its own reflection' line was so casually scathing, I'm obsessed with it lmao
I cannot stress enough how much ExtraTerrorestrial horrified me as a child and how BADLY I want to ride it again
It was so scary that my sister and I left at the beginning, I think right after the alien "escapes." Now I wish I could experience it!
What a fun video! She has such insight into so many alternate timelines and I am pressing my face to the glass that separates ours from them like a grubby Dickensian orphan coveting a Christmas goose.
I strongly relate to constantly pivoting between different projects and the dread that sets in when you realize how long it's been since your last upload.
This. And the (self-imposed) pressure to follow a successful video up with a similarly high-effort video rather than the low-effort videos I also would have made otherwise
Jenny’s description of Tom Corless tearing into the skyliner gondola survival kit “like it’s a labubu” FRIED ME like I had real tears coming out of my eyes
“Maybe after the cancellation, they could’ve gotten Ellen for the ride. ‘We want that mean, inexpensive lady to come be in Epcot.’”
The way I knew it was gonna be elon musk
Can someone tell me what the sexual themes of the country bear jamboree are 😭😭how do they casually insert that into their song this is news to me
Girl bears sing "all the guys that turn me on turn me down" and they play around with the meaning of the word "swinger" for the girl bear on the swing. One of the boy bears says he's gonna visit her.
Man, Jenny handled that rude guy at the Halloween party so well, I might have gotten too flustered to gracefully walk away when she did. I can’t fathom being so openly dismissive and condescending of someone, let alone another adult. Also not trying to blow smoke, but genuinely how the hell did that guy claim to be a theme park fan and not recognize Jenny, if he knew anything about theme parks he would know to take your opinion very seriously. But regardless of him recognizing you, man he gives me the ick! The image of him arguing with his own reflection like a fish hitting himself made me laugh out loud. Thank you Jenny
Somebody give Jenny a time machine! She can save us from Elon Musk!
I went to the original Extraterrestrial Alien Encounter, we went in completely blind with no idea what to expect and it definitely scared me as a kid. Very nostalgic to hear about it again, disappointing to hear they had turned it into a Stitch tie-in
Tom Corliss, the Scotty Kilmer of theme parks
one of my favourite things you do Jenny is when you roast somebody in such a matter-of-fact manner that it almost doesn't even come across as roasting, yet is so brutally scathing. you describing Elon Musk's lack of public speaking skills was perfect hahaha
also i'm extremely excited for the Barbie video but completely understand the need to pivot/take time away from it!! i know it'll be worth the wait, plus gives me more time to catch up on the ones i haven't seen in preparation lol
In this alternate Elon-centric timeline I can’t help but wonder what’s happening to Buzzy since this would be a year before the theft. I guess he would just be happily in the archives? Maybe he would make some guest appearances on backstage tours alongside Mr. Dairy Goods. And they could repurpose the big arm he’s on for the finale lab scene and throw a dinosaur on it
Buzzy becomes the de facto US President after purchasing the 2024 election with his inherited emerald-mine-slavery wealth and is only ousted after he gets trolled on Diablo IV, people set fire to his glued-together cars, and when he finally does go missing he claims to have been kidnapped by an attractive and clever genius named Adrian Buzzmann some events are stable across timelines
I love the tomato plush he’s excellent 🍅💖
Don't forget that Extra Terrorestrial wouldn't have survived the Jeffrey Jones problem without recasting reshooting the intro video material.
Thanks for the ramble Jenny!! This one was so much fun, I always love hearing you talk about theme parks (even though I've barely ever been to any!). Really glad you can look after yourself by pivoting to a different project for a bit, it's so creatively miserable when you're forced to grind away at something you just need a break from. Hope everything goes well for you in August!!
PS that party story is hilarious, obsessed with this mask-wearing Starcruiser reputation vigilante, in a movie of your life it would turn out to be someone like Ken Bretschneider
‘Like when fish try to fight their own reflection’ is so savage. I’m obsessed.
It made me laugh out loud I love Jenny
The line “I just blue skied our whole world” took me out, this video had so many moments that made me laugh loudly, did not expect have the turns this made
I thought we were gonna go Neil Degrasse Tyson as the Bill Nye replacement but Elon Musk is significantly more cursed. (also if they went with Neil they would absolutly swap the comedian to be like Kate Mckinnon)
that tom corless rant spoke to my soul i complain about that evil man at anyone who will hear it thank u
Tell me more how he’s evil! I must know
Jenny coming in clutch. I was super nervous about my surgery, and just an hour before it, you post this video. (It was just on my toe but it was my first surgery where I had to be awake.) Distracted myself the whole time listening to this and it helped, lol
I hope your surgery went well I’m so sorry you’re going through that stress. My dad also got surgery yesterday, the anticipation is really rough. Jenny truly always in clutch
Now I need a dimension travel fanfic where Jenny is sent to an alternate universe to fulfill some epic quest but all she wants to do is go on theme park rides that don't exist back home...
I also rode rocket rods twice!!
How was it?
Amazing tangent game
My god think of the Jenny content that could haven been mined from Elon Bretschneider project
Mismanages Kanye having a panic attack but in an even weirder way
excruciating breakdowns of bad obscure media i've never seen is honestly one of my favorite of your channel genres (forcing my family to watch the hallmark channel video to general extreme confusion) but i'll watch anything. truly.
I neeeeeeeeeed Jenny's lipstick, it looks so perfect, does anyone know what brand/shade she uses?
I'm always team stain/tint over lipstick because I don't like having to touch it up. So basically I line with Laura Geller waterproof liner, slather on Colourpop Just A Tint which is like a big crayon of lip tint, let it sit while doing my makeup then blot it off. And it stays all day. Unfortunately it lowkey seems like colourpop is discontinuing Just A Tint. I ordered a bunch but have yet to find a good replacement. You can still get a couple (good) shades on the website but it literally doesn't even come up unless you search it by name, that's how almost-discontinued it is
My partner, not a joke, went nose blind for over 10 years because of Stitch’s burp in Stitch’s Great Escape. She still can barely smell. It caused lasting physiological harm to her. She saw the description and told me I had to comment this.
This sounds like my worst nightmare fr
I’d like to believe that rude mask guy at the party was actually Tom Corless doing a throwing his voice to say something nice about himself type thing
Bwahahahah this made me giggle
The Leslie Jones and Elon Musk ride is amazing like what would they do when...you know
JENNY LABUBU MENTION
I have only been to walt disney world once when I was 8 but I got to go on ExtraTerrorestrial and it was so god damn cool! one of the biggest highlights for me even 25 years later. one of the effects was spraying hot mist on your neck so it felt like the monster was right behind you. would honestly be a really good candidate for that 4DX movie theater stuff, they should bring it back
Alien Encounter scared the hell out of me as a kid, I distinctly remember sobbing to my mom that I wanted to home (not just back to the hotel, but HOME.) I even went on it a second time a few years later like "I won't be scared this time, I know it's all fake!" and still ended up crying xD Honestly 10/10 on environmental horror.
That story where that guy at the party tried pushing you out of the way and constantly cut you off about something you actually experienced and he didn’t…oh my god
(meme of the guy clenching his fists in the corner of a party) They don't know how much I have thought about and can say about the Galactic Starcruiser
"But you're actually a fool" - Wow, Jenny's coming after all the Left Door fans out here!
I haven't felt this profoundly disappointed that a ride was canceled before, man an Atlantis Expedition ride where you go through the submarine ride then get off & EXPLORE ATLANTIS, OMG that sounds legendary!! I still don't understand how Atlantis was such a box office flop, it's one of my all time favorite Disney films.
I’m no expert, but I believe Atlantis’ failure at the box office was mostly due to it being steampunk. It just truly seems like the most niche of markets to me, like even the most successful attempts of it breaking into the mainstream only stay as their own thing. Maybe when society as a whole decides they’re done with tech bro culture, some creatives will be able to be inspired enough to breed new life into the sub-genre.
I was so certain you were going to say Neil DeGrasse Tyson that when you said Elon Musk I physically recoiled
I thought about Tyson too, but I was CERTAIN that the sponsor was going to be Elon Musk, so he'd probably have to be one of the presenters.
Keep on trucking on whatever projects bring you joy. Looking forward to whatever you talk about next. Whether it be barbie, [mystery bad film], or whatever else you're itching to talk about.
Was not anticipating Elon Musk fanfic but I ain't mad about it
this is how I learn they messed with the country bear jamboree 😔
this video is me slowly realizing how many rides I thought were still alive are gone now :(
Me: Who is the 2017 equivalent of Bill Nye? Surely Neil DeGrass Tyson. Jenny: Elon Musk. me: I could not have predicted that.
I am at the part where you’re discussing a new host for the car dinosaur show and if you’re about to say what I think you’re about to say it’s gonna be one of your most cursed ideas of all time
Jesus Christ
pivoting is the way
In the Universe of Energy with Elon Musk I think the ride vehicles should be replaced with cybertrucks and each car has a 0.5% chance of spontaneously combusting. Alternatively they could revamp Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln by replacing Lincoln with Elon Musk and the whole time his animatronic is awkwardly gesticulating with his arms and periodically pausing to stare at the audience like this 😐
I have no else to tell but I bought a lil 'Olu Mel from my trip to Tokyo DisneySea last week, he's amazing. I think they're celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Duffy and his friends so there may have been some exclusive items.
Congrats! I'm a Cookie Ann person myself. But they are all very cute.
I’m very excited to finally learn what this mysterious bad movie is.
elon musk section was sorely needed content thanks jenny
I have a Popple from the 80's(got him when I was four) and he's soft and cuddly and I don't think stuffed with that material you described.
Elon is an excellent choice if you want to ruin pretty much anything.
In the alternate timeline where Elon worked with Disney on a universe of energy update we could have possibly gotten an autopia referb with electric cars. A better timeline for autopia and us all, oh well lol.
The guy at the party was wearing a mask, which is why Jenny doesn’t know which blonde Disney actress he was
I remember when I first found out about the Extraterrorrestrial ride through the For Your Amusement + defunctland episode and being like oh skippy! I know skippy! Jenny Nicholson has a skippy! And then that excitement being turned to pure horror as I learnt the handbag alien himself was deep fried and discombobulated painfully in the preshow of this ride. Great throw back hahaha
This ramble made me sad that we live in a world where the Leslie Jones/Elon Musk attraction doesn't exist 😞 it's just too funny not to be real lol.
I know I am the last person to point this out, but if you are looking for the Jenny Nicholson of physics, you should check out Angela Collier. Her Jenny energy is shockingly similar (in all the right ways), and she even does numbered lists! XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtyGK7TdCs
I wasn’t aware there was a right way to have shockingly similar Jenny energy. She’s inspired more clones than Jango Fett. The sincerest form of flattery I suppose.
That Sarlack pit would be everything I would live for if it were in reality! But I do appreciate how we are all coming to terms with the fact that no matter how many cool ideas we can personally come up with for a badass Disney attraction, the sad reality would be that Disney would act like Disney over it and make it less badass.
Your mine train through nature’s wonderland retheme is too beautiful to live :,| even in a universe where the stars aligned I do not trust the current management to deliver (as you detail). It would have even provided an excuse to bring back a reskinned conestoga fry wagon, as an Easter egg. What a world. I hope the lucky bastards in that better-fated universe appreciate what they have. But they probably don’t 😔 ik I would have been one of those change-allergic people bitter about them overhauling a beloved classic to insert IP, even if the ride itself sounds awesome. They just have such a history of messing with things, and then breaking them. Also, I wonder what sort of park Elon Brett Schneider would end up building, and how it would fail/devolve as a project.
I was not expecting this video to include "Elon Musk's Universe of Energy, Sponsored by Tesla" which completely alters the course of world history
Tomato of Theseus
if you gradually mispronounce every vowel because you identify as a Br*tish... is it still the same word??? 🤔
Country bear jamboree is way better than you give it credit for. It’s just as absurd as before
That was Tom in the mask
So the guy who was rude to you at a party had a mask on... so we can't prove For Sure that you weren't talking to Tom Corless himself
Man, I wish my parents took me to ride both Countdown to Extinction and Extra Terrorestrial: Alien Encounter during the Millennium holiday trip! They weren’t prudes, they just weren’t made aware of them at all cause YouTube (and wider fandoms for either) didn’t exist yet. Like, how does an attraction have a history where two of my favorite comedic actors (Tim Curry and Phil Hartman) play two different versions of the same role, and I never even get to see it? Such a bummer!
ExtraTERRORestrial was one of the most fun surprises when I went in 2001. But I can see it being too intense for what the average Magic Kingdom visitor would expect to find in that park. I think if they would have put it in MGM instead, and themed it to the Aliens franchise, it might still be here today.
I hope the movie is Ratz!, and if not I think you would really enjoy Ratz!
Love it. Thanks Jenny!
I LOVED and continue to love Lilo and Stitch. I have been to Disney World twice in life, both times as a young child. I remember 2 things: 1. Haunted Mansion is an Excellent ride. 2. The burp Stitch does in that ride where they pump a smell into the seat right in your face was so disgusting, so foul, my entire family felt genuinely ill and I couldn't watch the film for over a year. 6/10 experience.
They're taking out the animatronic dinos at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle in a month 😔 They're 40 years old, but that's part of their charm!
Are they looking for a buyer
I can't believe Jenny came up with the perfect foolproof way Disney could have fixed Musk. Or not like, fixed, but occupied him, similarly to how when I was a kid my parents would give me a new toy when we had to take a long car ride. I wonder what the timeline is like where Musk & Kanye bought Evermore together... Anyway, I fully don't mind pivots and delays because I know whatever comes next will be good and fun as usual. And that takes time! And in the mean time we get a video on here every month anyway.
I have a horrific, nearly Lovecraftian-in-its-terror vision of what the M+K Evermore collab might look like and I actually am uncertain if I can even describe it here the best way I can put it is, um, "Live Action Wolfenstein Experience, Sans Satire"
You posted this AS I was listening to your's and Defunctland's podcast episode. Really weird!! Get out of my head Jenny!!
1. Given how much I loved the submarine ride as a kid, going on the Finding Nemo version wounded me. My niece also judged me for having liked that ride once. 2. Big Al should sing Hellfire from Hunchback to recapture the joy of a big bear with a guitar he half knows how to play showing up to sing "There... was... BLOOD ON THE SAND" 3. The only fate I can think of worse for a favourite attraction than "Half-assed screen-based Cliff's Notes edition of a movie" is "Cleared for the line infrastructure for a different ride." The thing about this July is that it felt like it was six days long. If this bad movie review is at all similar to The Church Play Cinematic Universe, I'm all the way in for it.
cannot get over elons energy adventure that's so good
The way I audibly winced when she said the scientist would be Elon Musk, but she's right, it makes sense
I knew EXACTLY where the Ellen redesign thing was going and I was dreading it throughout the whole lead-up to it
I'm glad that you've found something to work on that doesn't burn you out! I'm excited to hear about the movie.
The Bug’s Life attraction in California Adventure absolutely HORRIFIED me as a kid. When you brought up the 4D effects in Alien Adventure I had to pause the video to rant to my boyfriend about how nightmarish Bug’s Life was to 7 year old me. What imagineer thought that massive bug exterminators should spray Raid on the audience?? I think I was so inconsolable we had to leave the park early. Needless to say, when you brought up that it was defunct, I cheered.
I went to that when I was a kid, but I was so young that I don't really remember my reaction to it beyond "not liking it", but I'm not sure that I freaked out about it, even though I was a sensitive autistic child. I just remember it being unpleasant and boring, not triggering.
Small note: the ride Dinosaur is still open! You have until the end of this year to ride it! :D
FYI - Dinosaur is still open. Until next year. One of my most anticipated rides, when I go in the fall for the first time.
Wait really, but they closed dinoland and did the closing merch and everything...
Hey, I was wondering if that furry adjacent video is still in the works? It’s a topic I have a personal investment in since I work at a hotel in Pittsburgh (not the Wyndham 😬) and interacted with a lot of the furries. They were all super kind, and as far as I know, Pittsburgh really loves when they come in. Still excited for the Barbie/bad movie videos!
we dont mind u pivoting!! work on whatever u feel is best :)
Find someone who loves you like Jenny loves Kitchen Kabaret
Everyone needs someone to cut them open and rip their insides out
I appreciate the dry savageness with which you treat the mansplainers and mulvihills (and MUSKS why do all these huckster names start with MU) of the world. Thinking about dumb mansplainy fish fighting their own reflection is going to make me laugh all week.
That was the perfect metaphor
I wish she would do a video ranking North Atlantic Costal Fish
This embarrassing oversight would not have happened if you all had voted for 🐟 tier 🐟 ranking 🐟 fish 🐟!!!
The alien experience was truly terrifying but it was also awesome!
I think that Atlantis has its good moments, but unfortunately a lot of the characters are more gimmicky than fully-realized. I like the villain though. Totally agree with you that the visuals are really cool regardless of the movie quality!
that shirt is so cool do I want one in a BIG MAN size
Saw alien encounter when I was 12 with my dad. We did not expect that experience and I was terrified. You felt air on the back of your neck and water was sprayed for sure though I thought it was supposed to be like it's drool.. Lots of strobing and the seats bucked back and forth as the alien was simulated to move around
Still pissed Disneyland removed Country Bear Jamboree all those years ago. Was a annual passholder in the 90s until 2001, not coincidentally. I am finally making my first trip to WDW soon and I just learned they changed the Country Bear. So, now, I am not sure I even want to go.
Just in time for my drive home! Perfect!
Jenny, someday you have to check out Wizard Quest in the Wisconsin Dells! I was so amazed by this place as a child. It's like MagiQuest but SO MUCH MORE! Plus The Dells is such a strange tourist place that I think you'd have fun exploring all aspects of it, not just the waterparks.
YEAHHHH! THEME PARK VIDEO! i know what im tuning into on my drive home :D
yay! more theme park content, so glad to see it, your insights into them are so unique and you clearly have a lot of passion for the subject
Theme Park content! Theme Park content!
omg jenny! have you ever heard of /been to Storybook Land in new jersey? i've been meaning to drop a comment about this for the longest.
Yes! The animatronics there are so delightful!
Jenny Nicholson and Elliot Roberts videos on the same day!
This is a brilliant idea for a video!! Half of these ideas would probably get funding cut anyway.
Yay! New Nicholson video. Patreon’s video player is one of the few my work hasn’t blocked yet so I’m always glad to get new content here to watch.
ANOTHER theme park ramble 😤😤😤 (this comment’s a joke)
HELL YEAH LETS GO