The Museum of Failure is a pop up exhibit that first displayed in Sweden and has since moved to Los Angeles California for a limited time . More info can be found on their website www.failuremuse...
I knew after the pressure of making them daily faded away you would come back to it! Thanks for what you do and hope you continue having fun with it!! Love you man!
This scoop just in from our man-on-the-scene reporter Bernard "Just call me Barney" Bunsagger: The so-called government of Portland Oregon has just surpassed, I repeat, has just surpassed its counterpart in Los Angeles (no mean feat, I might add) to win the coveted "Epic Fail 2020 Award". For those keeping track at home, it was the concentration of human feces and used syringes per square block downtown that gave Portland the edge. Go, City of Roses! Take that, City of Angels! Keep trying, City by the Bay! Signed, I grew up in Portland, but I'm quite happy to be living ten time zones away now, in Helsinki, where I ended up mostly because my wife is Finnish. Never in my worst nightmares would I have thought that such a once-beautiful city as Portland, regularly voted one of the most liveable cities in the US, would end up as it has.
Seems to me the Museum of Failure in the U. S. is the House of Representatives. It's a majority of Democrats right now, and Nancy Pelosi is the curator!
There was a guy from the Netherlands who, after the was wanted to publish a book he had found. One publisher called it "Teenage drivel that, even if the context was still irrelevant, would be utterly uninteresting to everyone who tries to read it." The man was, in fact the author's father, but he didn't give up and eventually had the book published where it became a best seller. It has been in print continuously now for nearly 70 years. The book was the Diary of Anne Frank.
yeah including Blockbuster is like including Kodak. They should have had Sega dreamcast and Cybiko and other real failures. The Trump thing is super cringy
Ya, but you got to think about that Blockbuster and Kodak not being around no more or their bad reputation nowadays. Blockbuster didn't do Movies in the mail until it was to late and Kodak didn't see digital cameras being the future until it was to late. So you can say that they are failures nowadays, but not in the past. So, you are both right if you are not talking about the present day times, but instead when those companies were still at the top of their game.
Laserdisc didn't fail. The people failed it. Superior quality compared to VHS. No deterioration after each view although some discs failed to play after a few years from laser rot. Uncompressed high quality audio. Way ahead of VHS. It was out for 20 years before being replaced by DVD in 1997.
Blockbuster became aware of Netflix before they got big and the CEO of Blockbuster refused a proposal to go the same route. He famously said " no one will watch a movie on their computer." That's a huge failure.
the Oreos shouldn't really count. I don't think Nabisco is expecting to produce any of these wild flavors for the long haul. I think part of the fun is the anticipation of a new flavor every few months in the snack aisle.
k re, I totally disagree. Very poor management and shitty employees drove it into the ground. They had a chance to acquire Netflix and decided not to. Doesn't matter anyway. I've always had bad experiences with these drunk clowns. They frequently treated me like they couldn't care less and the assholes wouldn't even accept their own gift cards! Had to throw away a $75 gift card because they refused to let me rent certain titles with it. I'm glad they went under. They are an example of the worst customer service. I think part of it has to do with hiring very immature people. They should have tried raising the minimum working age to 21 since I've only seen high school students in their chains.
@@largol33t1 netflix would not have helped it still would have become an entirely different service and only remained in name, blockbuster was a huge success, everyone knew it everyone used it and indeed technology just put rental stores out of business, if it was only blockbuster all the other small rental stores would still exist, they dont. I think you are basing your opinions on one negative experience or one store lacking in training because I never had a problem with them or the staff here in the UK
Blockbuster wasn't a total failure... Don't think they would have made good netflix owners. Their business model was just too different. Netflix is more of a tech company with some movie production. Blockbuster was a rental retail store. Totally different ball game.
Johnhitbox agreed. Yes they’re almost extinct, but they still had years of success before their downfall. In defense of Blockbuster being a failure though, Netflix gave Blockbuster the chance to buy them but they passed. Big mistake.
It wasn't all video stores, it was Blockbuster. They weren't a huge chain because of good business practices but despite having bad ones and eventually deservedly succumbed to them.
Johnhitbox Video stores were a thing, much like a drive in. No, they were ,none of them failures, just not the best ideas. Some were great ideas whos time was too late, or too soon. The persons that came up with the museum apparently do not understasnd, many great ideas came about because someone never gave up. The person who gives up his dream is the one that fails.
@@TruBluYahoo CED seems largely considered worse quality than VHS. Laserdisk was around in the early 80s, it lasted a surprisingly long time, ending up with high definition capability (albeit so did VHS/D-VHS, with very similar capacity to blueray!).
RIP Blockbuster, even though I couldn't afford to go to your store when I was younger. I still wished I had the money to gaze upon all of the new releases you provided. You always had the most up to date movies and cool cardboard cutouts of movies. Lost but not forgotten. OMG, I forgot all about Orbitz!!!!
Failing has to occur in order to learn and or grow. My regret is not watching you more than a year. You sparked my interest to explore and I could have been exploring for years. You have made my life more exciting. Thanks.
My mom used to use Ayds. I found them in her closet, assumed she was hoarding candy, and ate several in one go. It was summer time but I got to spend the entire day inside while my friends were out playing because I didn't dare stray too far from the nearest toilet. Hard lesson learned. lol
Hey Adam!! This was a really cool museum tour. Thanks for showing us around. I liked seeing what the failed items are of the past. The world of Coke museum in Atlanta tells a good history of the 2 type of cokes the classic and new. I hope this pop up museum comes to Georgia so I could tour it. Love you Adam!!
Thank you for the tour! My producing partner and I designed the exhibit for Dr. West and SEE Entertainment. Little Miss No Name was one of my childhood toys that I included in the LA museum - she's creepy but I still own her to this day. I really enjoyed your tour!
This museum seems great - I am a 20 year old college drop out (hoping to return some day as I have dwarfism so a college degree will help me as far as getting any job) and I feel like in HS when I graduated there were 4 paths college, work force, armed forces and failure. People talking like this exhibit would have helped me feel okay with it a lot faster than I have. I always try to remember at my age, JK Rowling wasn't successful and Walt Disney was fired from a job for not being creative enough. Bet the guy who fired Walt was kicking himself.
YOU LEFT OUT A FEW THINGS FROM YOUR LIST... TRADE OR TECHNICAL SCHOOL AND SELF EMPLOYMENT... MY AUNT SYLVIA, WHO WAS A MILLIONAIRE, USED TO TELL ME ALL THE TIME THAT J C PENNEY DIDN'T BECOME SUCCESSFUL UNTIL HE WAS 65 YEARS OLD...
@Colorado Strong I'd imagine it's because skill-based employment (the type which requires a degree or certification) places less emphasis on public perceptions of an individual than do jobs in hospitality or the service sector. I know from experience- being short and looking young- that employers in those sectors often pay and promote based on superficial judgments rather than actual competence; that what you are capable of doing does not matter so much as what it's assumed a person is capable or incapable of doing. In a skill-based job, you're being hired because it's known already that you are qualified for the job.
I personally liked the Columbian coke in my 20s .Now i like old recipe coke made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup you can get at most Mexican stores in glass bottles
Another great video from Adam the woo. Glad to see you vlogging again they're getting better A lot better. Please show your support to the fish sandwich thank you
When our museum almost shut down they decided to travel from place to place with the museum items on a train. A small admittance fee. They ended up saved from having to close down and now get awesome displays in that people are truly interested in like Egyptian displays, with the historical narration at the push of a button. Very cool.
Go Kermit Sewer side huh? Trump is a president world leaders actually take seriously. After 8 years of backsliding Obama and his administration gutting out and selling the country to China, daddy's home and everyone's scared of the consequences again.
I don't think Blockbuster should be in 'The Museum of Failure' it only failed due to the popularity of on demand tv and movies. It was ok for many years. That said had they merged into that market they would still be here, so maybe it does.
NO way. Their employees are the worst of any brand I've encountered and it wasn't just ONE store. It was at a majority of them. They deserved to go under. The way they treated customers was despicable. Complaining to the manager got nowhere. Oh, and $3.25 to rent a movie for a measly two nights? Their local competitor offered FIVE nights for $1.99 and even had 2 for 1 rentals after 8pm on Tuesdays! Blockbuster NEVER offered deals like that.
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COOL Vlog Adam! I remember the purple ketchup, it was weird! I've been wanting to go to that museum, great job on covering all the interesting failures! Awesome!
Awesome. I'm going to show this to my students. I am a shop teacher in New Jersey and I value failure highly. In fact my grading policy is called A+ for failure.
I'm old enough to remember New Coke. The problem wasn't that it tasted bad, tasted like Coke but was sweeter, like a fountain drink where the syrup/carbonated water balance was tweaked more toward the syrup. If it were introduced as a soft drink under another name no one would complain about the taste. The problem was that it wasn't Coke and people who preferred the taste of Coke over the sweeter Pepsi were upset that the original was no longer available. I personally think it was a change made in the switch from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. I don't know that for a fact, but I thunk that was around the same time.
The needles on the portable record player were simplicity in itself to replace. By the mid to late eighties, stylus' were contained in a plastic unit which clipped into the front of the arm. They did their job well and fidelity was great at the time. Some upmarket record players had proprietary fittings but the most common used by many brands was that red one pictured. You can still get them
LaserDiscs don't belong in that museum. Unlike RCA's SelectaVision discs (a much better choice for the museum), they were on the market for over a decade and were very popular with those who could afford them. When higher definition laserdiscs were released in the form of DVDs, the technology forced the retirement of videotape. It's also a little unfair to pick on Blockbuster and video stores because they were wildly popular, but it was too expensive to convert to the new technologies. Like Kodak, they did what they needed to do at the time. However, I remember stocking Ayds in our drug store. Even before the 1980's, the brand didn't sell very well.
Kodak absolutely did not do what they needed to do at the time. They literally invented the digital camera but sat on it in fear of losing business, until other companies.... went digital. I would put them in the museum as well.
Wow. Using someone's vlog about a museum as your own "special" little political platform. How low-classy. Dude, get your fat ass up, walk away from your TV set, and get a life!
Steffen Rosmus How about President Trumps Re-Election. Going to be funny watching all those leftist cry and scream. But I guess the biggest question is what is the demonrats going to blame their failure on this time?? Because we all know they can NEVER be wrong.
I think the only Blockbuster Videos are up in Alaska. Although I did hear on the radio recently that one here in Texas finally closed, the last remaining one in Texas supposedly. I was so upset, I didn't even know there was one down here! I would've made the trip otherwise.
I was saddened when I heard that. Be lucky that store lasted through two decades of brainless idiots who actually think today that Blockbuster WAS a failure. They only think this because they didn't have as much fun as we did growing up with that franchise around.
Mr. Woo, thank you for posting these wonderful vlogs. I'm learning so much. Your LA cemetery episode is great and also I enjoyed the MLK museum and motel. And thanks for your hard work.
I remember seeing this place on the news......with all the post it notes of failures. I specifically remeber one note said "I sold weed to a narc" LMFAO 😂
Deep Digger Dan red velvet is a non flavor. It is vanilla with a little bit of chocolate and red food coloring....I call red velvet a farce food. The only reason people eat red velvet anything is because of the cream cheese icing.
hey, i actually helped (in an odd way) this museum get their virtual boy! i had been interested in this project since it started in sweden, and i emailed before their launch. they didn’t have one yet, but my email prompted the curator to check ebay and he found one at a decent price! i think i still have the email exchange. it’s only a little thing, but this popped up in my feed and i was reminded of how i helped in a very small way.
Thanks for the video, that was a surprisingly enjoyable virtual museum visit. I'd take a few people to go see that if it came to my town. More cool museum visits please.
The Sound Burger was not a failure, in fact the design has been widely copied in the last 10 years due to it's popularity! Calling those Oreo flavors a fail is quite disingenuous, you can still find many of those in stores.
thanks for making this video. seeing how they are trying really hard to put a damper on POTUS, I am glad that I didn't have to waste 15 dollars to see this exihibit. I hope they included this exhibit in the exhibit.
Museum of failure is a "fail" they let you record the exhibit. now i dont gotta spend $15 entry. or go search the place out and travel there. thanks :)
Some of these are just examples of obsolescence rather than failure. For example, laserdisc was around for about 25 years and was the high end choice for videophiles. Quality was actually much better than VHS and pioneered the use of letterboxing, anamorphic widescreen, digital surround sound and the inclusion of the extra features (like audio commentary, deleted scenes, etc) we now enjoy on DVD and Blu ray.
"Museum of Failure". Sounds like that should be Mexifornia's new catch phrase. Put it on a billboard out in the NV desert as you cross into the state!!
You know car failures are special. So many people probably have a favourite one in the long list of lemon-car-types over the years, since cars are so much a part of the fabric of our lives. It's also just so important to have safe cars and car products and that's a piece of the car failure story. There could be an entire quite wonderful Museum of Failed Cars. Some poor student I heard of particularly hated having the widely hated Hyundai Pony.
The Museum of Failure should list themselves! Most of these 'failures' came down to the end of life of a product and some were actually successes (eg laserdisk, which lasted longer than DVD did and were initially less expensive than VHS).