Opening Day at Meow Wolf: The Real Unreal! Exploring Grapevine Mills Mall - Rain Forest Cafe 

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Waaaay to go cousin! And thank them for us directly 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

Yes, thank him on behalf of all of us! Meow wolf is always so impressive and over the top creative. I'm an artist my self and I have no idea how these artists come up with these creations. Absolutely breathtaking

iam still a window dresser and i love whats happened here its just incredible , its well jaw dropping well done to the team at meow wolf

My sister did too she did the Jareds bedroom and the brainseed

I know adamthewoo needs to catch up lol 😉. #woohoo 😊

Killing what that was aweful video footage of nothing!

@@darrenabel4613to give credit to Adam he's focusing on his personal health and family and thst means more, Timtracker's also striving

@@Nobody76World 👍😊

4 miles up the road from there is a dead mall. Basically when Grapevine Mills opened in 1997, we immediately started seeing a decline. They tried to update a few things, but it didn’t matter. The only thing keeping that mall alive is the Cinemark, and the Korean Sears. Basically this huge Korean marketplace called Zion Mart. That store is literally the ONLY reason I still visit, and is a mall within a mall, so it still doesn’t help it much, but when you close at 7pm, why visit the mall? The Korean Sears stays open longer than the mall does because they actually have customers.

@@UmmYeahOk Exactly. That's the deal about malls, that a given area/population can only "support" a limited amount of mall. We miss the days when malls seemed abundant, but it was really being "over-malled" and doomed to reach a balance eventually. We had just moved to NRH at the time it blew my mind that there were 2 full malls literally on opposite sides of 820 from each other, with even ridiculously-similar names, North Hills Mall and Northeast Mall. You could almost practically throw a rock from one to the other. Wife 'n I had to practice literally calling them "mall number one" and "mall number two" to keep them separate in our heads. THAT was the apex of absolute, unsustainable over-malling. I really put the resulting mess of them all closing and needing demolition and all the waste at the feet of city developers that not only didn't prevent it but fed into it, pure short-sighted greed, and banks keen to throw loans at it. It's like the city didn't care that this process was going to directly cause the older mall(s) to go under and be become a blight. It was a very big deal when GM's opened, but I remember thinking "what about the malls around here that aren't doing so well? How can they manage to stay in business?" Well, the unimaginable would arrive, and those malls started closing, so beginning the "dead mall era." And I'm totally an 80s kid with as much good memories/appreciation for the "mall life" back then. It's just annoying how the American way of over-doing things runs the very things we love into the ground. I'm glad GM's is doing exceptionally well, but the reason why is because the area competition is long-since dead and gone. And also, from the beginning, it has made a conscious effort to be seen as a tourist destination, not just a local mall. When people vacation to the DFW area, this mall is marketed to them as a place they should come to as much as Six Flags. Just look at the license plates in the parking lot on a weekend. As much as half of them are out-of-state. From day one, that's what gave this mall an edge, but also a "side hussle" they had to maintain. But they did it very well. Meow Wolf dove-tailed right into that perfectly!

@@Cre80s yeah, I’m not sure what they were thinking, both city, banks, and developers. This year I brought my kid to Alley Cats in NRH, and on my way home, decided to visit the abandoned Mountasia before Peppa Pig broke ground. I couldn’t understand why they would have two family fun centers so close to one another. That said, mall 1 and mall 2, I always got Vista Ridge and Valley View confused with one another. I think because they were both Vs. That, and a major road within is named Valley Ridge, which just combines the two, but before Grapevine Mills opened, I remember being sad that they were closing Prestonwood mall, but it was a few blocks to Valley Ridge, and the Galleria was a mere one street over it felt like. Apparently there also used to be a mall on the other side of 635 near those as well. I thought it was odd that the Galleria had three floors but nothing on it. Also, in the early aughts, North Park mall was so dead, they were leasing it as office space. Who’d’ve thought that not only would the Galleria finally get those third floor tenants, but North Park would double in size! I like to go there and see if I can remember where the original 60s brick is. They did a very good job matching it. But really, was it Valley Ridge and Prestonwood that were keeping those two malls down? With Vista Ridge, Grapevine Mills was honestly closer to us. And road conditions back then just made things worse. If it was going to take you an hour to drive from Flower Mound to Lewisville, you might as well drive to Frisco and check out Stonebriar. That was my favorite mall. Why they built Willow Bend so freaking close, or how on earth it even stays open, I’ll never know. It was literally a ghost town when it first opened! Serves Vista Ridge right though. In 1980, Denton opened Golden Triangle Mall. It was a big deal because literally the only mall option involved driving into Dallas. My mom would drive from Denton to North Park Mall to work. So then 8 years later, when the 80s recession had slowed growth of the area, Lewisville opened Vista Ridge, just a few miles south of them. Golden Triangle suffered horribly. I will say though, that being a small one story mall, Golden Triangle has done quiet well for itself finally, at least compared to Vista Ridge. It’s not one I would suggest visiting, but if you’re a local resident, it’s worth it on occasions. They at least have most tenants spots filled. Grapevine Mills, like all Mills at the time, is an outlet mall, so technically different. Yeah they get airport traffic, but you did mention out of state plates, indicating that they drove there. I don’t see too many out of state plates like I used to. In the late 90s, it was an honest game I used to play, Spot the Texas plates. You see that area EXPLODED in growth, so many of those out of state plates were owned by people who just moved there. I used to work at that Rainforest Café, so I know it was sort of a tourist spot, but not really a destination like it is now. Grapevine wasn’t the “Christmas Capital of Texas” yet. Gaylord and Great Wolf weren’t there yet.

I don't understand the decrease in the popularity of malls. I hope they make comeback at some point.

@@laurag9203 i’m only 21, but remember malls here in dallas being a major thing. We still have northpark, but that is the closest thing to an old school mall. even that is falling apart though :/ i could only imagine how fun malls used to be even before i was born

@@CMANGUY Stonebriar Mall in Frisco is alive & thriving, too. But, yeah, a lot of the other local malls died a slow, painful death before finally closing.

@@JustGettinBy1321 that is true, i spent a lot of my time at town east and looking at it now makes me so upset

How cold is it there? In F° please.

@@mr_jake.y8348 it is winter and windy and foggy here it going to rain tonight night.

If you can see Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris, then you are seconds away from death.

You just can't script real life any better....

You must be desperate if you think that's excitement!

Love the Mall Walkers. I needed a good laugh 😃

Great hanging out! You definitely need to visit the other Wolves

I just watched Meow Wolf's documentary last week. Somebody mentioned a project going up in Oregon.

I get it, but as a parent of a special needs child, I wish places didn't do this. Nice of you to pass on the info though.

​@@laurag9203I'm pretty sure if you have a disabled needs adult child they would still let you go in there. They essentially have the mentality of a child still.

@@spookytaco666 they likely wouldn't but they could easily get into legal problems denying someone with extreme disabilities (however people tend to treat them as adults unless the individual doesn't register themselves as one, the days of treating them as kids is gone as it caused more problems).

I thought it was gonna say, "Coming to you LIVE!" And maybe have some compressed air thingy built into the stone to really freak people out, lol.

@@BeeWhistler I like "Our chariot awaits." But you could fill a book with fun Jacob quotes.

Or full 😂

I believe that’s the original first Rainforest Café locations, 1994.

Yeah... that was odd. She watches it but she thinks Peppa is a dude?