I'm from KC and we DEFINITELY call everything THE. The Timberwolf, The Mamba, the Fury Of The Nile! Leaving of the THE would be so un-Kansas City. 😂 Used to be a coaster here called The Orient Express. Rumor is it lives somewhere else now.
The Orient Express was demolished in 2004. The original Zambezi Zinger was dismantled in 1997 and moved to Montenegro, Quindio, Colombia where it is still in operation.
@@tuckersloughmusic sorry not being a Dbagger but it’s was ( Orient Express ) The is rarely used in amusement park/carnival rides Easy to Spot a Mark yammering/ maybe the Gravatron
@@newtonthecomicoptician9344 in Kansas City you'd have trouble finding someone who says "let's go ride Orient Express." The "the" may be wrong, but it goes with the accent. 😂
Are you kidding me? You wasted such an opportunity that I would kill for! I don’t care, if I saw carpetbagger I’d put my anxiety aside so sucks for you man!
Go say hi next time. I'm sure he'd be very flattered to see his fans. Worlds of Fun is my home park and I am so sad I missed seeing him.😢 I bet it was a hot one though.
I saw him at Dollywood back in December. He was really nice and welcoming, and just overall easy to talk to. If you get another chance definitely say hi.
I dunno if they still do this, but there used to be a chant before the Mamba starts going, and it says “THE Mamba is about to strike.” So I think the’s are appropriate
I’m from Missouri and have many found memories of visiting WOF and OOF as a child. I now live in Australia and so happy to see you making a vlog here 🥲 thank you!
This is awesome. I’ve been a Kansas City resident all 41 of my years and haven’t been to WOF since I was probably 18. Makes me want to go back and extremely happy to see that a lot of what was there back then is still there. Especially the Viking Voyager
I think the Viking Voyager, the train ride, the French taxi car ride thing, the Flying Dutchman, the bumper cars (maybe, looks re-done), and the Scrambler were all there on opening day. Tivoli, too, though I was ignoring the shows as much as I could back in the 70's. I wonder if the tilt house is still there?
@@ZlothZloth It looks like the Moulin Rouge show in this video is in the same 'theater' that "Stacks of Wax" (Or 'Stax') used to be in so many years ago (late 80s?) at WoF. Do you know? Seeing it in this video gave me flashbacks.
I've lived in KC most of my life and I had no idea until just now that WoF was themed after Around the World in 80 Days! I'm so used to seeing you in places I've never been to before so it's a delight to see you on my home turf. I'm 100% with you on adding "the" before roller-coaster names, everybody I know calls it The Mamba, not Mamba
Really pretty park, and looks well-taken care of and the flowers and grounds are beautiful, nice to see trees and landscaping. Good variety of rides and shows too!
I live here in Kansas City as well. Had I known I would have loved to come out and hang with you Jacob! You got some local fans here. 😊. Let us know when you come back!
Same I wish I knew he was coming because I have a session pass I haven't used and need to and would love to have hang out with him and give him some of my knowledge that my parents and grandparents have passed down to me of what the park was like back then
Great memories of Worlds of Fun when we visited, when I was a kid in Topeka, back in the 1970s. Happy to see Viking Voyager is still there. I remember the Scream Roller and the Sky Heighs Cable ride. 😃
@@amandacoots6501 All I’m really just saying here is that I hope six flags doesn’t turn the cedar fair parks into six flags parks and dump their garbage rides into these places.
That's my home park! I have pictures that my parents took the year it opened. There's a few rides still in operation in the park since the day it opened.
I've never been but this park is beautiful, I like the way they built the rides to flow with the natural landscape definitely putting it on my list of future destinations
I’m from KC and it’s nice to see a video about a KC attraction. The poor bumper cars looked depressing!! Since I’m from KC I’ve been to worlds of fun so many times. I forget that some people have never been :) I wish they would step it up somehow!
That look you gave on camera, commenting after riding Cyclone Sam's was priceless. You had a WTF moment while shard your pants look going on there. Can see it in the eyes. Lol! One of my friends had that same look after coming off that ride, so you did well. Actually, while the ride was going on, I was enjoying it so much. My friend on the opposite side of me, I've never seen pure terror and scared look on his face. I guess when you were riding it, they didn't have the lighting bolts displayed with the thunder sounds. That would of been the flashing strobe lights that you didn't get to see to even disorient even more. Love that ride! (The) Mamba is one of my top roller coasters nationwide. The out of seat air time you get along with the track layout is still top notch. Thanks for showing video.
This park is my go-to amusement park. I am a season pass holder for many years now. I never thought about "THE" phrase. I love this park so much. There is no need for a map for me. I usually take others on an adventure. The ripcord is the best ride there. Very fun!
I worked at WOF and OOF between 05 and 09 seasons. It looks the park has been nicely upgraded since then which it desperately needed. Haven’t been back since I left, 4 years was plenty!
THANK YOU for the visit! I worked there for 4 season from 99-02, but haven't been back since. It was so funny to watch you innocently walk into Cyclone Sam's ride, because ... I knew what was coming 😇
Carpetbagger! There's a tavern in KC, MO called The Pressed Penny Tavern! It would be perfect for this visit given it's the year of the pressed penny. We are going to KC and have been doing pressed pennies this year since it's been deemed the year of the pressed penny and we are planning on going there when we visit later this month.
The gorilla was named Gertrude. My first job here in Kansas City was when I was 16. I was "Gertrude the Gorilla " at Worlds of Fun. Nobody had a clue that it was a dude inside. Lol! Fun job, hot, but fun!
"""I had a fabulous time ""Jacob. thank you for taking me along, so on to our next journey & safe travels. ''love you'' & I enjoy your video's so very much.
Hi. The panda is a mascot. When I was almost 4 my family went to Worlds of fun. They were all arguing about what they wanted to see and I used the opportunity to seek out where I wanted to see. I got away with it for awhile but the mascots found me and turned me in as a lost child. When the family showed up I acted upset and they all blamed each other for not watching me. in reality I would have gotten punished had they known. They still don't know. I love the Orient express and Mamba. In my adult years when I lived in KC I visited it. Favorite funnel cakes. Back to your visit. Thanks for visiting my area. I wish Peony Park was still open in Omaha Nebraska. That was my favorite childhood park.
Hi 👋 If you go to Branson Missouri, you’ll be able to get a wax museum and a Ripley’s in the same visit. It’s hot in the summer, I recommend before July first, or after Oct first. Silver Dollar City is a park with actual trees, so it isn’t as hot as other parks.
I say, THE with all rides! I never really thought about it until now. THE orbiter; THE century wheel; LETS GO ON THE zipper. Yeah, I'm a THE person too, apparently 😂
If you think about it, if you can call the ride (using "Mamba" as an example here) "The Coaster, Mamba" Then "The Mamba" should also be correct....but at the same time (using "The Beast" in Ohio as an example here) it sounds a little more awkward to say "The Coaster, The Beast" so, I'm a little torn on this one. I'm a coaster aficionado myself but still find myself saying it however it feels right to say it in the moment.
I grew up at WOF and we all day THE Timberwolf, THE mamba, THE spinning dragons, but the panda thing he was talking about are super old, I remember the 1st time I went there I was back in like 2007 and they used only snoopy never had any reference to the panda Also haven't been since probably 2014ish and am glad to see they've updated and added new stuff
Wonderful video!!! I grew up in this park, with season passes for many years as a teen and adult. I moved away in 2019, so I haven't been there in a few years (it was great seeing it again!). Zambezi Zinger is a reimagining of one of WoF's original coasters (which I haven't been back to ride yet). Oh, and I've never used 'the' in front of ride names. Cyclone Same gives you a lot of bang for your buck! It at least used to have strobe lights. A few of the Planet Snoopy rides are pretty intense also; those nests can go VERY fast! Thanks for sharing your day!
I live here in KC and I have a season pass and have for several years and you have seen some things that I haven't so cool. They just built one of the roller-coasters last year. If you go to worlds of fun the oceans of fun is included and you can go between both.
I’m from there and started going to WOF since around 1978. I cried on the Orient Express. lol! I also will never ride the Mamba ever again-way too scary for me. Also, the “no ‘the’ rule” is totally dumb. Roller coasters are things, not people, so it’s THE Mamba, etc. It is more natural and grammatically correct to say “the”.
Uggh I missed Carpetbagger when he came to my city 🥺 BUT pleeeease come back for our Halloween haunt. WOF has so many haunts and you’ll definitely enjoy it during Spooky szn. Also our city’s other haunts are fun too. Just come back to KC in general 😂
When we're there we always use the word THE in front of the coasters name. Also that Diner place was called Coasters for a long time until the last handful of years. It was sorta a 1950's themed with the music and decor inside and they used to have a purple colored 57 Chevy type of car parked out front.
I've lived in KC most of my life, been to Wof/OoF countless times, and I've even worked there before... and I learned a lot from this video. I didn't know a lot of that stuff was even in there. I'll have to check it out next time we go.
Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! I started having back issues at 24 and haven’t been able to go back due to them. We would go all the time when I was younger and go for their Halloween season every year! Very nostalgic place for me!
My hometown park!!! It's a lame park compared to most, but I'm glad it's gotten some love lately. Staffing is a huge issue at WOF. but we are getting a Mattel theme park close here soon.
Morning Jacob 🤓📸 you shur do move fast lol your in south Carolina and now in Kansas City Missouri lol thanks for sharing this, have a great day my friend.
WOW! I literally live in the KC area and I haven't been to WOF/OoF in YEARS at this point. I appreciate that they've brought back a lot of entertainment options. None of that was happening last time I visited. I worked there for a season and it was miserable. I really am happy to see how cleaned up the place looks. Thank you for this video! With all the care it seems they've put into it lately maybe I should go back at some point.
Yeah, there was a bit of theming stretch until a few years ago - the diner WAS a Coasters and they had the Americana section go all the way to Mamba. The re-theme of the diner to fit into the Africa section makes more sense. This park just needs to have Vekoma rethink an Orient Express to fill in that area of the park and maybe a few more steel thrill and family coasters to bring it back up to the world class park that it was in the 80s and 90s.
Live here in KC and really enjoyed your Mississippi River series (put that Memphis hotel with the ducks on my must visit list after you highlighted it) as well as all of your Theme Park vids. Glad you got the WoF visit in and I probably would have totally geeked out had I seen you in my hometown park! Great content as usual and I really like the look of everything after you switched to that DJI Osmo3 cam. Really good looking video.
I used to work at worlds of fun. The pandas dog and monkey were the original mascots for the park before they started a partnership with first the berenstain and now Snoopy. The diner used to be called coasters ( I don't know why they changed it) also a fun fact ( or so I've been told ) is the carousel and Zoltar used to be located at Coney Island before it was updated
Looks like you featured a lot of the more gentle rides and casual sections of the park, that tube ride is a lot of fun, the detonator, there's another water ride to the right of that one, I like cyclone sams, the detonator (I might have missed it, would have been near planet snoopy), and the rollercoasters are actually pretty good coasters. You probably would have liked the taxi's they're chill.
The train ride used to have a spot where you would get waylaid and set upon by train robbers and there would be a shootout. Lots of places for actors to have jobs at WOF.
I have a memory of my grandmother, who passed away on my bday in 2019 bless her soul, she forced me to ride a roller coaster in six flags when I was a bit younger and we called it ,THE roadrunner not roadrunner, I think people are just grammer jocks or something like that
I loved Worlds of fun as a child, and I never knew that it was based on the book Around the World in 80 days, that's an awesome fact. I am also guilty of "the" when saying the name of a coaster.
Used to keep season passes for worlds of fun but didn’t renew this year. We decided to travel more this year. I dont regret the decision but have missed going to the park this year.
To answer your question on "The" actraction names. Yes, the average family in Europe puts "The" in front of the attraction name. It is kind of an automatism, and because if you don't people would ask "What attraction name" ? i guess none of us belongs to the group of hard-core rollercoaster lovers. Otherwise: what a very nice and clean park. Hope it stays that way during the merger of the branches of the new owner tree!
Tivoli is pronounced Tiv-oh-Lee. I remember when we had the dolphins. It was a very popular show but it wasn't healthy for them to live their whole lives in the small swim tanks so they got rid of them. There used to be a Western show with train. It was "train robbers". I used to LOVE riding the skyline when I was very little. The Zulu and Zambee Zi Zinger were my all time favorites, with Fury of the Nile in 3rd.
I don't know how the original was pronounced, but the one in Worlds of Fun was definitely TIV-o-lee, and it used to be the "big" musical revue show for Worlds of Fun (Moulin Rouge was smaller and more of a variety show). The original Zambezi Zinger was an amazing ride; it was such a smooth coaster it didn't need restraints and you sat two to a seat, on a bench seat parallel to the track with one person between the legs (or on the lap) of the other. The train was ... kind of hit or miss. Sometimes there would be train robbers (like the ones in Silver Dollar City) and sometimes not. I always thought the WoF train robbery wasn't done as well as the SDC one, so I didn't really miss it when they didn't do it, though it did make the journey out into the middle of a field and back without stopping seem kind of "well, I guess we have to do that because that's where the track goes, but WHY?"
I was a costume character escort back in the seventies there 😁 It’s Daniel coin And Sam Panda And Gertrude Gorrilla 😁 Thanks for taking me down memory lane 🌸
30+ years ago, saw Glenn Campbell perform there in a small, amphitheater. Even though there was a small crowd, he put on a show like he was playing at the Palace. Consummate entertainer, he was.
Well I certainly hope Cedar Fair will put some effort into improving Six Flags locations. I'm from St. Louis and the Six Flags here needs a LOT of love and care put into it.
