DEAD MALLS OF TEXAS - Valley View Center Mall - Dallas 

everyone gangsta until a photo of your house appears in the collections of liminal spaces

I have found the two Kadomatsu tracks :D "Sea Line" (6:13) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J3xcLmS31FE.html "Night Sight of Port Island" (10:26) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mEINyjLAM1o.html

whats the music 0:01

Oldest view???

As a Hawaii state citizen priced out of paradise recently to Texas outskirts of Dallas near the grassy farm plains with some Hawaiian family I'm curious about this learning about your guys home state. Is this mall of yours still abandoned right now presently? Since this was 2016 that's enough time for something's to change.

I remember when "real world lore" was just called history

@@nuclearpotato4073 lmao

7:45 it's here!

@@nuclearpotato4073 Honestly lore just makes it sound more fun

does anyone got any clue what the song of the mall playing is?

Kane didnt make the map, he made the animations

@ but still someone remaking this mall almost perfectly is awesome

@@spencerk1932Thanks!

@ Didn't know. Well, in that case it's the person who made the map that i have to give credit to. They made a terrifying job (in a good way)

he didnt use any original footage>? its all cgi?

Lmao

In the video it's the exact same thing Kane really put a lot of effort into making the video, I too found this video in the comments of the oldest view after watching Kane's video, now all we can do is wait for MatPat to tell us what the fuck is going on, that video was insane

Damn, y'all Kane fans are really blowing up the comments lol. I'm confused though, Valley View mall has been demolished for awhile so is Kane just uploading old footage he had?? Is he known for seamlessly editing together footage from separate locations to make it seem as if he's in some never ending 'backroom'? I'm not sure if you guys have the answers but it is interesting to see Valley View mall getting some kind of weird 'lore'.

@@zeroxluluHe’s not editing anything actually, he made a render of the whole mall in cgi and made his little cool horror series out of it, it’s pretty awesome!

@@picklericklepicklerickle9512 holy shit really?? That's impressive af, I didn't even notice it was a render.

Buried

How did you get to California?

Dimensionally displaced...

Someone casually just buried an entire mall a mile underground

like every other wednesday

The giant has flower arms. And with good lighting it looks more like a chill guy who's name is probably Charlie or something

lmaoo@@no-ry8sk

@@no-ry8skits penguinz0 lmao

@@10CentWentyperhaps.

lol

Im actually keen on thinking that Kane found inspiration from this video, the editing style in the third part of his series looks alot like yours!

I saw this video right after I saw Kane’s and then looked at the date and legitimately thought I had gone insane

Watching this video after Kane Pixel's video is uncanny.

I know it was in the Parade of Giants for the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in 2012. They paraded a bunch of giant puppets that represented historical figures of the Dallas area, maybe they built that one at your school?

​@@sila829there is actually a stream on windigang channel with kane and it actually show him this video.

I know right, downright scary.

What

@@CocoRoachGAMING Oh you poor sweet summer child

What happened to the mall??

@@hotboi123 it got “demolished” That’s what they want you to believe ;)

Can't speak for the United States, but in my home country in Europe, shopping centers are still well visited and full at the weekends. The mall in my home town got expanded by 2 floors just a few years ago.

Only in the US malls are dying for some reason, everywhere else they're still thriving

@@PDS350 probably because malls were built more or less in cities, now 20-40 years later everyone lives in apartment complexes or suburbs more or less on the outskirts of the cities while the malls have been consumed. Theres no reason to go all the way to the mall if a shop only 5 or less years old has opened up 15 mins closer to where you live. Not to mention that the USA is quite a bit more spread out.

@@mobo_67 Malls cant survive in most of America because online retail killed what little community there was still left in suburbia. It takes way more to drive 30-60 minutes to a mall in suburbia vs just walking or taking the metro to a mall in europe/asia, which is why online retail didn't kill malls everywhere else.

Sorry this comment is late but if you haven't seen Retail Archeology's dead mall/store series you'll love it! I highly recommend it.

Precisely

We're now watching this video for any bit of canon or lore that might exist.

Fucking keep me away from that building 😭

Omg yesss hahaha

​​@@yoojin737 lol, I was so scared that I stopped the video and watched a reaction video of it so I won't be scared when the statue appears 💀

Not as the smart as the redditor who predicted Kane would make a video about this mall with the statue

@@couchman-sw6jy I saw that thread too! Almost kind of creepy how they predicted it. Yeeeah, I guess I didn't really "discover" anything before anyone else. But I'm guessing a lot of people don't know that the "Rolling Giant" is based on a real statue.

Took me two seconds to find this after watching kanes video lol

@@couchman-sw6jyA redittor who finally made a good take.

@@couchman-sw6jylink?

An adorable smile and big hands for bigger hugs

​@@Just_SnowyLook at how kind he gets!

His eyes are so kind!

naw he's just chill like that

Yeah, looking at this video it´s kind of scary just how accurate and well done the mall is. To the degree that it´s barely possible to tell that it isn´t actually real, but everything is a render. The sheer amount of reasearch, tangential details and work that had to have gone into it is awe inspiring. Hell, it´s wild to see that even random stuff like the really large table isn`t just "liminal horror" stuff, but actually was real. It´s at 6:36 Or that the lifting platform jammed into that one doorway was really in the mall.

@@theexchipmunk Wait a second, you're telling me that the mall in the Kane Pixels video is COMPLETELY CGI???

​@@SporquillYeah, he jumped into a discord call with Wendigoon on a livestream, everything in the video was 100% CGI, the dude is just amazingly talented.

@@ssfbob456 I don't believe that, is it really? I thought he recorded from long time ago

@niculaelaurentiu1201 Someone else recorded the real mall, he just based his on that

Finally, someone else who thinks it looks like moist critical. I thought it was just me.

it looks exactly like charlie lol

The Rolling Giant be like : "GET AWAY FROM ME ! EÆEE WHY ARE YOU CHASING ME, ÆEE STOP IT ! GET BACK HERE, SO YOU CAN GET AWAY FROM ME !

Un oh Charlie transform into a giant

​@@ThatGothRailfan21The 5'6 Moist Giant lmao

it's a small world

I have to think that either Kane has been here or that this video (or a similar one) inspired his choice of setting

@@gazehound Simply put: Creepy, old abandoned mall with a giant creepy statue. Both perfect elements for a horror series.

Probably searched for "dead malls" and found this.

Mabye he went there as a kid and was creeped out by the statue

Bro, i have news

It was intentional. I foresaw the Kane video in 2016 and decided to make the video shaky as an Easter egg for the future... Jkjk

Nice one :p

@@zeroxlulu I bet it felt so uncanny to see all those things you used to be around so casually be used for a horror short

​@@zeroxluluHow did you forsee Kane's video if it came out 4 days ago??

@@DeanWright-nn7lshe’s a psychic :)

Same here , He just made a horror video with this mall, pretty cool how he did that

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It is, and it’s interesting to see the liminality of the locations raw, like in video form where it isn’t edited or warped. I think this mall in particular has like a really cool look to it as well, never seen something like it here in Australia yet!

Oops, sorry! I meant Kane not Alex😅

alex pixels and kane kister

Must have been a out of the world experience

Damn

That probably made it so much more scary for you lmao

I have no idea if it was meant this way, but I take his video to mean that you can't just bury a place so many people remember. You can try, but it'll continue existing somewhere, just never exactly how we remember it. An expansion off of liminal space, since many liminal spaces still exist.

You actually made it out of the "backrooms"

Good eye on the Wyatt entrance! That's definitely it. I can't believe how much Kane had to recreate. Insane!

holy shit! how did he model everything so accurately?

when wyatt was staring at the place at 7:50 his camera starts to become more distorted

Hey just a couple more things. The chatterbox cafe (8:10) is that store next to the map room but across from it is (8:13 Beneash Purfume Plus) where wyatt exits from his second encounter with the Giant (after he chases him) and toward the end of the hallway is the entry point from his first move to escape. (where he breaks through the plywood)

The jewelry store at 12:54. It’s the store he came in through.

I can wait 😂😭

That movie is gonna be fucking crazy

Amen!

Why did they move this entire mall halfway across the country and bury it a mile underground? Very strange business plan from those developers

7:30

@@PADARM AHHHHHHHHH

ive got some bad news for you

They see me rollin' they hatin'

I got anxiety when he got closer to the statue 😭

WHAT US IT

idk why, but I always hated that statue as a kid

@@michaelhamgelo3184 I mean it chased Kane Pixels around the mall so…

@@Ambivalence18nah this is crazy. even the old comments sound purposefully generated… Kane really does his research

@@musicnobi I mean the giant rolling art piece was probably creepy enough to inspire the whole series ngl

The fact that this is the mall where I used to go as a kid that is now gone makes it even more terrifying.

Why?

A liminal space video actually brought me to this video lol.

@@kairi4640 Actually, same.

@@cococoffee2305 lol. What's even more ironic is this happens to be a mall I used to go to as a kid. I just find it all ironic the timing etc.

@@kairi4640 Haha. Idk if I’ve been there, but I used to live in Dallas when I was small.

@@cococoffee2305 aww okay. 🤗 I've lived in this area most of my life now basically lol.

Grew up in this mall it was the little brother to the galleria Mall sadly so they close it down

Kane didn't invent liminal spaces, "normal" abandoned mall pictures have gained attention for at least a decade and then one picture was so popular people started making fan movies out of it, The Backrooms.

@@1i1x i don't get how the liminal space trend got mixed with the backrooms. but the fact that people just sharing creepy nostalgic images with each other somehow warping into the backrooms lore is probably the best way to describe the backrooms lore

@@Sockren Because, The Backrooms is a liminal space creepypasta, and that trend solely got Kane famous, who knows if he really "knows what he is doing" I think he is pretty much making what fans want, with a team. Don't take me wrong, Kane's cinematic and Blender talent is amazing, I love the movies! But OP comment seems a bit like Kane invent this genre so, just in case, I point the genre out for anyone who is interested for more.

No he used actual film. He filmed it 2 months before it's demolition

Didn’t the place 2 months before closing looked vandalized?

@@Darkaxelgaming-tt7ipit’s sarcasm

Me as well.

Same

Thanks to kane

Huh?

Cultured 😎

THANK YOU

Thanks man, Shazam was failing me on every song

What song is that?

Sea Line 'Rie'

what was that thing’s deal? never understood it honestly. i just wanted to buy some shoes and i got chased out the store

That thing got pushed by a couple of jocks one night….and now the poor thing is broken…..

dude that rolling giant gave me straight up nightmares when I saw it as a kid! I remember that it chased me once lol never went to the place again! kind of miss it though wish it was still around!

It ran over my grandma when I was 7 😔

Lol

Lmao if only you knew

Do not watch the Oldest View from Kane, you would just get even.more creeps from that mall.

The 1st thing I notice about it is that it looks so 80s.

@badcreator7023 I've seen it, my sister's really into backrooms lore. It's mad creepy in person, but really sick skates spots though. Abandoned malls are perfect for skateboarding.

My boy dosnt know the full gravity of this video lmao

Same… and the closure of video clubs…

@@dumboy2881 bruh. I was not talking about the rolling giant. Just nostalgic

Anyone know the music that plays at 1:50 plz

@@kage-Da4333 shazam gave me At Seventeen - Muzak Orchestra.

In Eastern Europe they are quite popular. That's because people here did not have malls until the fall of communism in 1990; so here they're still a new thing.

@@vladivf That sounds nice. Where I’m from our mall was still fairly popular until Covid, and then many of the stores closed and now everybody mostly just shops online.

Malls are pretty much still a thing here in Auckland, New Zealand

​​@@vladivfno, but malls originated IN Europe. The oldest mall in the world, built in 1861 is the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II In Italy and is still bustling to this day. The real reason why malls are dead is because of changing times. People no longer have a real reason to go to malls. Food? Order online. Clothes? Order online. Entertainment? Video games exist. Malls also suffer from a lot of rivalry from other malls and those that aren't strategically placed often suffer and end up dead and demolished. This is especially true for America where everything from schools to fast food restaurants are miles away. It's just not worth it to drive a while to go to a mall, unless it's close to you. As for eastern Europe, malls will probably never go out of fashion as long as you don't adapt to a car centric approach where everything is miles away in the middle of nowhere.

@@9a_23_tyrantqiu7 I'm not sure I understand this paragraph: "As for eastern Europe, malls will probably never go out of fashion as long as you don't adapt to a car centric approach where everything is miles away in the middle of nowhere." Eastern Europe is very much car centric. Everyone owns a car. But here nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere because there are no jobs there.

not all heros...you know the rest

It’s demolished:/

@@branzeirr4l216 well shi-

I thought this too. Even the style of music seems the same

I mean he had to use this footage specifically when he designed the mall in CGI, right? He had to.

@@Seegtease impressively enough he also used blueprints for the actual mall itself which is insane

Still is a bit creepy to me tbh. 🤣

wheres the picture of the one with low lighting, i cant find it

@@vammy_ 17:34 in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N63pQGhvK4M.html

this is exactly what i was thinking! haha

Wouldn't be fun if that thing starts chasing you around

1 day before the upload. insane

This crap was insane in the video

Me!The fact that this is an actual mall is horrifying...