I like to think these are all the same party. He keeps going up to different girls and not learning that multi-hour theme park rants don't get you laid. It's like 3:00 am. The girl he's talking to is stoned, not there mentally. The night before he did intense amounts of research.
I'm a Texan, I call 'crisps' chips and I've never even heard of Tayto but yet I've watched a 42 minute video on a theme park based around an Irish potato chips company.
Hi from Boston. Work brought us to Ireland last spring, and I bought some Taytos, if only because I thought the name was amusing. They were pretty alright. Honestly not all that big on the cheese and onion. Thrilled they have salt & vinegar over there, though.
why am I grieving theming based on a chip i’ve never eaten of a park that i’ve never heard of in a country i’ve never been to ? 😭 i’ve known mr tayto for almost one hour and if anything ever happened to him i would kword everyone in this room and then myself 🎩🥔👖
I live in Dublin, and have gone to Tayto park every year since 2011. It’s always been a great day out, but you rarely meet anyone who isn’t Irish there. It’s not a tourist location. It’s not in an easily accessible place and it’s not very big. I feel like it’s almost insulting that they went with a name targeted at audiences abroad rather than here, where the actual demographic is. Most Irish people despise the stereotype of Ireland being all shamrocks and leprechauns. I’m really hopeful that the rebrand won’t be too tourist focused, I’d like to see more Irish mythology and history themed attractions.
My partner went to meet with Largo Foods as part of a job she was doing around the time the Coyles were still involved. Charles Coyle at the time was not running it but was involved in the company so she met him. She found out that because he was the heir to the Tayto brand and was a fierce good lookin man he was locally known as "Prince Tayto". That is probably the closest thing Ireland has to royalty.
Absolutely! Its refreshing to see someone that is going to do more than sit at their computer desk 😂 It's a good foundation to work from aswell. It gives you so much flexibility to organically explore your creativity and develop further as a content creator
As a lifelong resident of Hershey PA, former Hersheypark employee, and avid theme park enthusiast, thank you for throwing the best party I’ve ever attended
So I love how I can hear the music in the background "In the other room" keeping me immersed in the fact we are at a party. What a great concept, and also the video is great in general. The algorithm has deemed you worthy to be on my recommended videos today.
Now I'm bummed about a park I've never been to and craving a snack I've never had. Also I firmly believe the park poll chose purposely bad names so that 'Emerald Park' would be a definite winner and might attract future international tourist.
I didn't know I needed this video today but the RUclips algorithm knows me well. Also I live in Ireland but I went to London just to go to Thorpe Park, Legoland and Chessington, because I think it's fairly easy to get to them and I love Thorpe's coasters
Glad the algorithm led you here! You're totally right, it makes sense for Irish people to travel over for those parks due to the proximity and lack of major alternatives nearby. Thorpe does have a solid coaster line-up!
@Mike From The Party agreed, and on the other hand it doesn't really make sense for people from the UK to travel to Ireland (except for NI) to go to Tayto Park (or Emerald Park) because why would you when you have so many more options in the UK which you don't have to fly for? I feel like only theme park enthusiasts, or maybe families going to Dublin on holiday at a push, would find Tayto Park worth the trip
my whole entire heart goes out to TaytoPark. it seems like such a lovely place. I hope its next stage in life is equally as charming. a free bag of chips?? that's amazing. helluva park. Emerald Park is gonna have a hard time following that up.
your videos are so unique. the way all of it is stuff ive never heard of. the fact it's all at a party. PLUS you have captions? literally insane. im so shocked you don't have even 1k yet. love the vibes i just know you're going places & can't wait to see more ❤️
When you follow a guy to get a light and wind up engaged in an hour long conversation untangling why an Irish potato chip company is unsponsoring a theme park in front of his shrine dedicated to the mascot of said chip company
Really appreciate finding a deep dive into this little Irish park! I'd been to Ireland a few times but hadn't heard of this until my last trip in 2018 for a friend's wedding. I bought my husband some Taytos straight off the plane to welcome him to Ireland and we both were amused by the ads for the park on the back and wished we knew more. We didn't get to the park since we had other plans, but the wedding reception did bust out Tayto sandwiches at around 1 am so we had a representative cultural experience.
As an introvert who never goes to parties, I was thrown off by the party chat roleplay theme of this channel. After watching two videos, I quite like it.
Glad to finally have an in depth review of the theme park I've only experienced by reading pamphlets in a tourist center lol, I loved the novelty of the theme, especially the 'cheese and onion' and 'salt and vinegar' car parks. I've been fortunate enough to visit Ireland a few times with my parents during the Tayto Park era, but the huge travel cost from Australia meant we were lucky to spend a couple days outside of Galway or Mayo. The whole purpose of the trips was spend as much time with extended family as possible, who understandably had no interest in visiting a potato chip theme park in Meath 😂
As soon as this video landed in my recommended I practically leaped out of my seat bcs I didn’t think anyone would shine a light on this touchstone for our school trips. Really loved the cultural analysis of the Tayto brand itself, and seeing your experience of the park. And also the chicken filet roll bit made me know I could immediately trust you with my life. Looking forward to see more! :) Footnote prawn cocktail is underrated af.
i think tayto just brainwashed me into clicking this video, i was eating tayto and kind of forgot about what i was eating and immediately clicked this video when it showed up 😭😭
I am American but on a brief trip to Ireland, I ate Tayto’s and fell in love (maybe it was Mr. Tayto’s smiling face) so much so that my mom managed to have them shipped to us as a gift a few years later. I proceeded to share them with all my friends who also fell in love (seriously what is it about him?). I am horrified to see that I have missed out on the opportunity to visit this park with Mr. Tayto’s at the helm.
Just wanna say the twisted potatoes are something that's really common throughout the US too! Growing up, I would eat them all the time in county fairs, beach boardwalks, boba shops, etc
this sounds like a super downgraded Six Flags with like no rides. at least that’s my vision of an American equivalent. though Mr Tayto is so cute I wish we had one!
Hey man, thanks for the party invite, glad you took me aside to talk about stuff that we’re both passionate about (theme parks), definitely gotta ring the bell next time your having a party
The cut-in to the park and it being grey, rainy and Mike being completely DRENCHED is so funny to me considering it's in IE. Ofc, what else could the weather be!
Lmao the twisted chip thing is super common in mexico. We called them "espiropapas" (spiral potatoes/spiral chips). I thought you would mention that at some point in the video. Its not branded in anyway and just sold by anyone that has that machine that spirals potatoes.
I went to tayto park last summer, it was a cleansing and pure experience. To enter a building and see tall shelves lined with many teddies of the beloved mr tayto overlooking me from my position like judges, deciding my fate. It activated my fight, flight or freeze mechanism, or was it simply my soul staying put for their ruling? They let me live luckily, but since that day i have been humbled, not once will i regret a second in my mortal coil, i know the before and the after, in it's dear cheese and onion leaden glory, I can't imagine tayto land without such a thing and as you can imagine, the news upset me greatly
i stumbled upon your channel because of the twilight video and my god. these are well researched. and now i want your take on disneyland paris, home of my heart.
You’ve done a lot of homework and are coming out of the gates swinging!!! You know exactly the niche theme park content the people are hungry for 😂 great work!!!
Found your channel recently and i am really enjoying the content very creative format and refreshing twist to the theme park content as someone that consumes and follows so many channels about parks i can appreciate the difference topics i dont see much anywhere else thank you for that
I'm now devastated about a theme park that I didn't know existed, changing... I mean how will I go on knowing I could have gone to Tayto park but it's too late now? Also I want to be friends with Mr. Tayto and read his biography
This is a great video. It answers questions I never knew I had. I was friends with a guy once who was from Ireland, years ago, he told me about this park and how everyone he knew in school wanted to get jobs there in the summer. I mourn the loss of Tayto Park bc the name will always remind me of some guy i knew one time. Its a tragedy that he'll never get to say he worked at Tayto Park.
Like with everyone else, love the style! Definitely a creatively engaging approach to topics I love. Your clear level of research and passion is certainly a bonus, plus a post-credits scene?! Marvellous. Bravo!
@@MikeFromTheParty Iconic. I’ve done a similar thing on some upcoming videos of mine, but outtakes rather than ‘it’s me, Blorko’ (praying you get the reference)
Please do more vids on ireland stuff! Like on funny mascots for sports or other food brands! It’s such good content to put on to learn a new thing or two 😆 Also your intros are so iconic 👏👏
Thank you! Honestly I'm not much of an expert on anything else Irish apart from this and as someone who only lived there 4 years I want to make sure I stay in my lane. But if I have a great idea I wouldn't rule it out...
when i first went to tayto park, they were still doing the factory tour and it was definitely a huge highlight of my trip, i was like 12 at the time and had never been in a factory so it would probably not hold up today but definitely a cool experience. will never stop calling it tayto park though, they can change the name all they like lmao
I’m an American Irish dancer and we are all obsessed with taytos they sell them at competitions and where I dance. When I say we’re obsessed my friends got gifted a box of them for Christmas lol
Hearing you say "chicken fillet roll" and calling Dublin a dump is a better way to convince me that you're Irish than any passport ever could. I'm so glad that someone has made a video about this national institution and its fearless leader, the handsome Mr Tayto, who is way cooler than the Northern Ireland Mr Tayto.
i love this. i love how the entirety of the 50 minute video is technically all happening because of a lighter and all this during a houseparty xd. i love these layers. Subbed!
Hearing a RUclipsr mention another channel I like is always exciting. Obviously he’d know Defunctland, but it makes the website feel just a little smaller.
i will leave here a second part to my comment as I feel like your channel would really fit this type of content/request I am from Portugal and there are two parks from my childhood I never see covered anywhere one ( in Portugal) is closed now for many years and there are basically urban legend to why it closed… i never menage to find any video about this … its still seats there abandoned and intact since the yearly 2000s the other one (Isla Magica in Spain) is the most popular theme park near by… it was so grandiose and amazingly themed… is still pretty good now but as gone down a bit… i would love to see a video covering it up in the style of a typical “ disney history of the park” kind of video… i love seeing those kinds of videos i know is alot to ask for but i feel like it would really suit your channel as so far for what i see u cover so many different topics that aren’t the usual Disney and Universal
It might be that I disliked Hersheypark because I worked as a games clerk. The park itself is fine, but the food was the main thing for me. The dessert stands and the Crabfries were great. I only went to Hersheypark on my days off because they used to give you two free tickets every other paycheck or something. The theme park in this video sounds pretty rad, though.
I visited Tayto Park in 2018 and met the Mr. Tayto mascot while there! I am going to miss the park so much and its a shame that Tayto Park won't be the same anymore :(
I'm Scottish and one of my friends is Irish and mentioned Tayto Park to me, I owe her an apology because I thought she was taking the p*ss. Love your videos.
brilliant video, so insightful. i honestly do not know why i have never been recommended any of your work before, i am hear now. looking forward to the next one.
@@MikeFromTheParty I mean I’ve been to 99 parks as of last month. I think it’s awesome that most of the UK parks have a spooky/horror theme that we only see here at Halloween. There is a lot more theming than we see in most of the amusement parks here (Excluding Disney/Universal). The queue/pre show thing for The Walking Dead scared the life out of me. The hotels at Chessington and Alton Towers serve some of the best breakfasts in the world! Alton is responsible for the research and development that led to some of my favorite coasters and Nemesis and Smiler make my top 50.
Ok if you've been to so many parks that makes a lot more sense! I love the positive things you have to share - the first time I did that Walking Dead pre-show we were the only ones there and it was so scary walking down that long corridor alone. I do have a couple videos in the pipeline about Thorpe Park...
I missed the part where you were asked for a lighter & so given the backdrop of a house party I thought you were handing the "person" some MDMA for a second lolz Also that second Mr Tayto seems more lie a "Peter Griffin is to Homer Simpson" kind of situation...
Hahahahaha I did try to expand on it a bit but there is surprisingly little about Thomas Hutchinson online. Even that super pixelated photo I included I really struggled to find!
This is delightful. Any chance for a follow up video about the biography? As someone extremely interested in the life stories of extremely niche characters, I'd love to know the details.
So I originally bought the book to include a bit on it but I cut it as I thought it was a tangent too far. Unless this video goes mega viral I probably wouldn't do a video just on it to be honest but I can share a bit with you! The vague vibe is that it's the real story of the Tayto company but retconned to include Mr Tayto, so with real photos but photoshopping him in. In the book Mr Tayto's dad was friends with Joe Murphy and they set up the company together based off Mr Tayto's grandmother's recipe. The book then goes through each decade of Ireland's history since the 50s, sharing Mr Tayto's opinion on everything from rock music to boob jobs. It's a weird read!
@@MikeFromTheParty Oh wow, that is more extensive than I thought, thank you! I'm assuming the book never really goes into the moral issues of a potato participating in the business of potato chip consumption? ;) In a perfect world the quirky food based theme park would be the video that really blows up, but I get why your Twilight video is more popular. (I'll admit that I only invested the time in watching this after seeing that one.) As someone who grew up with a dream of going to Hershypark, this content speaks to me!
@@loreescape47 Yes it just totally (and sensibly) side-steps the implied cannibalism. Thank you, this is definitely my favourite I've done but I'm very content it's getting a nice amount of views spilling over from the Twilight one!
Did you say 16 million? That’s insane. I thought you said 60 million but I had to go back and watch again. 60 million would have been tiny but 16 is crazy.
We went there a few weeks after it first opened. There was hardly anything there at the time, the cafe, factory tour, zoo, playground and the climbing wall and the jumping harnessed things. The Native American theming was bigger then and they had people dressed as native Americans walking around chatting to kids and taking photos. We enjoyed it but thought it was doomed to failure as so little there to make you do a return visit. Glad to be proved wrong with how much they have invested into it and usually went every year up until COVID-19.
I was SO confused when you started talking about Twisted Chip (I wasn't looking at the screen) but THEN I realised you were talking about what we call Chips On A Stick here in Australia, they're only ever really at big carnivals or fairs in a food truck. They're super popular but I've never seen a brick-and-mortar Chips On A Stick store before, one of those would probably disrupt the fabric of the universe in immeasurable ways (also they're the best with chicken salt, any other flavouring is bullshit)
The first time I saw Taytos was in a pub scene in some UK detective/crime show. I wasn't sure if they were real or made up for the show. But thanks to a quick online search I learned that they were real. I can't wait to try them.
Ray Coyle's voice sounds like every bag of "Tayto chips" he's every has actually been a canvas bag full of nails and he never noticed that's not what most people eat
I will say as an American, I wouldn't spend a day of any theoretical once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Ireland at a theme park. Not when there are no fewer than three Six Flags parks within 3 hours' drive of where I am right now.
The beginnings are like those TikTok POV videos but if they actually led to something interesting and useful. If I met a guy like this at a party I'd probably be very entertained
I like this channel because it's a social life simulator for attending parties I'd actually enjoy.
Hahahaha I love this description
I know right? I'd personally never go to a party, but I love this kind of conversation
I like to think these are all the same party. He keeps going up to different girls and not learning that multi-hour theme park rants don't get you laid. It's like 3:00 am. The girl he's talking to is stoned, not there mentally. The night before he did intense amounts of research.
Thats so funny bc im watching this stoned 😂😂
Best way to watch documentaries, honestly
Pin=Canon
Idk what you're talking about because this would be the very first guy I talk to. But, maybe your point still stands as I am not a girl
@@njdotson this is about a theme park. You okay
I'm a Texan, I call 'crisps' chips and I've never even heard of Tayto but yet I've watched a 42 minute video on a theme park based around an Irish potato chips company.
Hi from Boston. Work brought us to Ireland last spring, and I bought some Taytos, if only because I thought the name was amusing.
They were pretty alright. Honestly not all that big on the cheese and onion. Thrilled they have salt & vinegar over there, though.
I literally spit out my coffee at "as the park once said about its zoo animals, death is inevitable"
Hahaha, I was very proud of that line after I wrote it
why am I grieving theming based on a chip i’ve never eaten of a park that i’ve never heard of in a country i’ve never been to ? 😭 i’ve known mr tayto for almost one hour and if anything ever happened to him i would kword everyone in this room and then myself 🎩🥔👖
I'm glad you understand how I feel!!
I live in Dublin, and have gone to Tayto park every year since 2011. It’s always been a great day out, but you rarely meet anyone who isn’t Irish there. It’s not a tourist location. It’s not in an easily accessible place and it’s not very big. I feel like it’s almost insulting that they went with a name targeted at audiences abroad rather than here, where the actual demographic is. Most Irish people despise the stereotype of Ireland being all shamrocks and leprechauns. I’m really hopeful that the rebrand won’t be too tourist focused, I’d like to see more Irish mythology and history themed attractions.
My partner went to meet with Largo Foods as part of a job she was doing around the time the Coyles were still involved. Charles Coyle at the time was not running it but was involved in the company so she met him. She found out that because he was the heir to the Tayto brand and was a fierce good lookin man he was locally known as "Prince Tayto".
That is probably the closest thing Ireland has to royalty.
"Prince Tayto" is cracking me up
I honestly really love the theming of this channel, its a really creative addition to the video essay format
I'm glad you like it, I was quite pleased when I came up with the idea!
@@MikeFromThePartyit is an amazing idea, not enough channels will put this much effort into creating a setting
Absolutely!
Its refreshing to see someone that is going to do more than sit at their computer desk 😂
It's a good foundation to work from aswell. It gives you so much flexibility to organically explore your creativity and develop further as a content creator
Just sat and watched an hour documentary about something I glanced through 6 years ago on a wikipedia page. 10/10 would attend ted talk again.
Thank you for watching!
As a lifelong resident of Hershey PA, former Hersheypark employee, and avid theme park enthusiast, thank you for throwing the best party I’ve ever attended
Thank you for coming! I hope to visit Hersheypark one day, it looks really mad (in a good way)
The distant party noises and conversation is such a brilliant touch!
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
Good mix between defunct land and ordinary things. Keep it up!
Thank you! Both excellent channels to be compared to 🙏
I think you’ve really hit on something with the party setting acting as the sort of catalyst for the video. I look forward to your growth!
Thank you, I'm so glad you like the framing device!
So I love how I can hear the music in the background "In the other room" keeping me immersed in the fact we are at a party. What a great concept, and also the video is great in general. The algorithm has deemed you worthy to be on my recommended videos today.
I'm glad you enjoyed it 🥳
I’m American and have never heard of Tayto before now but this is a great video and I like the mascot’s design.
Thank you! It's an iconic design for sure
Now I'm bummed about a park I've never been to and craving a snack I've never had. Also I firmly believe the park poll chose purposely bad names so that 'Emerald Park' would be a definite winner and might attract future international tourist.
I definitely think that survey was rigged too!
If parties were filled with people telling me about obscure theme parks... I might actually go to parties.
Fortunately (unfortunately?) for my friends, this isn't far off what I'm like at parties
Imagine being a ghost of king, seeing your castle being turned into a chip factory
God, I'd read that short story
I didn't know I needed this video today but the RUclips algorithm knows me well. Also I live in Ireland but I went to London just to go to Thorpe Park, Legoland and Chessington, because I think it's fairly easy to get to them and I love Thorpe's coasters
Glad the algorithm led you here! You're totally right, it makes sense for Irish people to travel over for those parks due to the proximity and lack of major alternatives nearby. Thorpe does have a solid coaster line-up!
@Mike From The Party agreed, and on the other hand it doesn't really make sense for people from the UK to travel to Ireland (except for NI) to go to Tayto Park (or Emerald Park) because why would you when you have so many more options in the UK which you don't have to fly for? I feel like only theme park enthusiasts, or maybe families going to Dublin on holiday at a push, would find Tayto Park worth the trip
The Romeo and Juliet reference plus second Tato reveal = chef’s kiss
Ahahaha thank you I was very proud of how that turned out
my whole entire heart goes out to TaytoPark. it seems like such a lovely place. I hope its next stage in life is equally as charming.
a free bag of chips?? that's amazing. helluva park. Emerald Park is gonna have a hard time following that up.
It was such a lovely little place. Very curious to go back in a few years and get a sense of the Emerald Park incarnation
your videos are so unique. the way all of it is stuff ive never heard of. the fact it's all at a party. PLUS you have captions? literally insane. im so shocked you don't have even 1k yet. love the vibes i just know you're going places & can't wait to see more ❤️
Thank you, I'm so glad you appreciate them (especially the captions!). You manifested the 1K, literally just crossed it!
@@MikeFromTheParty omg im checking back now and ur past 3k!!! congrats! ur content is great :)
@@celesweet thank you! it's so mad but really exciting
This is a legitimately novel framing device. Love it!
Thank you Rob!
When you follow a guy to get a light and wind up engaged in an hour long conversation untangling why an Irish potato chip company is unsponsoring a theme park in front of his shrine dedicated to the mascot of said chip company
This is probably the closest we'll ever get to having an actual "Potatoland" featured from the newer Mickey Mouse shorts.
I've not watched many of these shorts but saw a video by Storybook Amusement on Potatoland, and immediately thought of Tayto Park!
Really appreciate finding a deep dive into this little Irish park! I'd been to Ireland a few times but hadn't heard of this until my last trip in 2018 for a friend's wedding. I bought my husband some Taytos straight off the plane to welcome him to Ireland and we both were amused by the ads for the park on the back and wished we knew more. We didn't get to the park since we had other plans, but the wedding reception did bust out Tayto sandwiches at around 1 am so we had a representative cultural experience.
Glad you got to experience a tayto sandwich at least!
As an introvert who never goes to parties, I was thrown off by the party chat roleplay theme of this channel. After watching two videos, I quite like it.
Happy someone is addressing this, at least the park is going for a massive expansion
It's going to be so interesting to see the direction the park pivots to in the next few years!
Glad to finally have an in depth review of the theme park I've only experienced by reading pamphlets in a tourist center lol, I loved the novelty of the theme, especially the 'cheese and onion' and 'salt and vinegar' car parks. I've been fortunate enough to visit Ireland a few times with my parents during the Tayto Park era, but the huge travel cost from Australia meant we were lucky to spend a couple days outside of Galway or Mayo. The whole purpose of the trips was spend as much time with extended family as possible, who understandably had no interest in visiting a potato chip theme park in Meath 😂
Totally makes sense when you've there to see family and not nearby! I don't think I ever would have ever been if I wasn't living in Dublin
As soon as this video landed in my recommended I practically leaped out of my seat bcs I didn’t think anyone would shine a light on this touchstone for our school trips. Really loved the cultural analysis of the Tayto brand itself, and seeing your experience of the park. And also the chicken filet roll bit made me know I could immediately trust you with my life. Looking forward to see more! :)
Footnote prawn cocktail is underrated af.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
i think tayto just brainwashed me into clicking this video, i was eating tayto and kind of forgot about what i was eating and immediately clicked this video when it showed up 😭😭
I am American but on a brief trip to Ireland, I ate Tayto’s and fell in love (maybe it was Mr. Tayto’s smiling face) so much so that my mom managed to have them shipped to us as a gift a few years later. I proceeded to share them with all my friends who also fell in love (seriously what is it about him?). I am horrified to see that I have missed out on the opportunity to visit this park with Mr. Tayto’s at the helm.
"I'm really curios about what would happen to Tayto in the reunification of Ireland" is a question I never thought to wonder
Just wanna say the twisted potatoes are something that's really common throughout the US too! Growing up, I would eat them all the time in county fairs, beach boardwalks, boba shops, etc
This is interesting, I didn't know they were such a big thing!
this sounds like a super downgraded Six Flags with like no rides. at least that’s my vision of an American equivalent. though Mr Tayto is so cute I wish we had one!
Hey man, thanks for the party invite, glad you took me aside to talk about stuff that we’re both passionate about (theme parks), definitely gotta ring the bell next time your having a party
Looking forward to the next party 🎉
@@MikeFromTheParty you bring the coaster facts, I’ll bring the soda
The cut-in to the park and it being grey, rainy and Mike being completely DRENCHED is so funny to me considering it's in IE.
Ofc, what else could the weather be!
Idea: drain loch naigh and build a mega-tayto park sponsored by northern tayto
Genius, balance would be restored
Lmao the twisted chip thing is super common in mexico. We called them "espiropapas" (spiral potatoes/spiral chips). I thought you would mention that at some point in the video. Its not branded in anyway and just sold by anyone that has that machine that spirals potatoes.
I've looked into it since someone else commented and apparently it originated as a snack in Korea. The more you know!
Wonderful video! I'm so glad the RUclips gods led me here. Can't wait to see the content you'll go on to create.
Thank you, I'm glad they brought you here too. I'm excited for what I've got in the pipeline, though I think it will be hard to top this one!
These videos are perfect, sad I’m barely finding out about Tayto Park but thanks for chatting with me at that party Mike.
Thanks for listening 🥳
"Cú Chulainn is well known in Ireland but not so much outside of it" laughs in fate/stay night
Laughs in Shin Megami Tensai.
I went to tayto park last summer, it was a cleansing and pure experience.
To enter a building and see tall shelves lined with many teddies of the beloved mr tayto overlooking me from my position like judges, deciding my fate. It activated my fight, flight or freeze mechanism, or was it simply my soul staying put for their ruling?
They let me live luckily, but since that day i have been humbled, not once will i regret a second in my mortal coil, i know the before and the after, in it's dear cheese and onion leaden glory,
I can't imagine tayto land without such a thing and as you can imagine, the news upset me greatly
💀 💀
i stumbled upon your channel because of the twilight video and my god. these are well researched. and now i want your take on disneyland paris, home of my heart.
Glad you like them! I love Disneyland Paris and I'm writing a video on one of the rides there... but a head's up it's more of a critical take, sorry 😬
You’ve done a lot of homework and are coming out of the gates swinging!!! You know exactly the niche theme park content the people are hungry for 😂 great work!!!
Thank you, I'm so glad people seem to be liking them :)
Im obsessed with this channel so much
Thank you!
Oh look, I found a new RUclips channel to get hooked on. And now I’m heartbroken that I’ll never get to experience Tayto Park.
If only someone told Goofy Potatoland was in Ireland. Would have saved Mickey and Donald all that trouble.
Found your channel recently and i am really enjoying the content
very creative format and refreshing twist to the theme park content
as someone that consumes and follows so many channels about parks i can appreciate the difference topics i dont see much anywhere else
thank you for that
Looks like this party has a snack. And I'm not talking about the crisps
I'm now devastated about a theme park that I didn't know existed, changing... I mean how will I go on knowing I could have gone to Tayto park but it's too late now? Also I want to be friends with Mr. Tayto and read his biography
Tayto Park lives on in our hearts ❤️
That person just be standing there like '🫤 erm can i leave now'
This is a great video. It answers questions I never knew I had. I was friends with a guy once who was from Ireland, years ago, he told me about this park and how everyone he knew in school wanted to get jobs there in the summer. I mourn the loss of Tayto Park bc the name will always remind me of some guy i knew one time. Its a tragedy that he'll never get to say he worked at Tayto Park.
This is a lovely story, shows the power names have in our memory!
Like with everyone else, love the style! Definitely a creatively engaging approach to topics I love. Your clear level of research and passion is certainly a bonus, plus a post-credits scene?! Marvellous. Bravo!
Thank you Mikey! I'll be honest, I included the credits just so I could have that post-credit scene 🇲🇹
@@MikeFromTheParty Iconic. I’ve done a similar thing on some upcoming videos of mine, but outtakes rather than ‘it’s me, Blorko’ (praying you get the reference)
Please do more vids on ireland stuff! Like on funny mascots for sports or other food brands! It’s such good content to put on to learn a new thing or two 😆 Also your intros are so iconic 👏👏
Thank you! Honestly I'm not much of an expert on anything else Irish apart from this and as someone who only lived there 4 years I want to make sure I stay in my lane. But if I have a great idea I wouldn't rule it out...
“Death is inevitable” is FUCKING CRAZY 😭
Your videos and vibe are impeccable. So thankful I got in on the ground floor of this party
Thank you for coming 🥳 see you at the next one!
I’m genuinely so happy somebody is talking seriously about my very obscure childhood memories
This has SO many twists but I was not prepared for Mr Riley 😅
Amazing work!
Only the real ones make it to the Mr Riley reveal 😌 Thank you for watching!
when i first went to tayto park, they were still doing the factory tour and it was definitely a huge highlight of my trip, i was like 12 at the time and had never been in a factory so it would probably not hold up today but definitely a cool experience. will never stop calling it tayto park though, they can change the name all they like lmao
Why does Mr. Tayto look like he could be Charlie from Smiling Friends’ Brother?
The ending was crazy omg
I'm wicked interested in this framing device of being a captive audience at a party.
It's like it adds a little extra layer of entertainment.
I'm glad you like it 🥳
Glad I stumbled on your channel! Great stuff!
I'm glad you stumbled here too! Thank you for watching ☺
I’m an American Irish dancer and we are all obsessed with taytos they sell them at competitions and where I dance. When I say we’re obsessed my friends got gifted a box of them for Christmas lol
I saw the thumbnail and thought “why is the smiling friends guy so detailed and sad?”
damn i didn’t know that tayto park died. always seen it on the back of the crisps here in aus
They sell it in Australia??
Finally a house party I would actually enjoy!!!
The best kind!
Hearing you say "chicken fillet roll" and calling Dublin a dump is a better way to convince me that you're Irish than any passport ever could. I'm so glad that someone has made a video about this national institution and its fearless leader, the handsome Mr Tayto, who is way cooler than the Northern Ireland Mr Tayto.
i love this. i love how the entirety of the 50 minute video is technically all happening because of a lighter and all this during a houseparty xd. i love these layers. Subbed!
After reunification the two Mr. Taytos would obviously get married.
Your channel is undersubbed af... Amazing premise and interesting original topics... Your gonna blow up
Love this video. Fed in my fixation of obscure theme parks. 🙂
Hearing a RUclipsr mention another channel I like is always exciting. Obviously he’d know Defunctland, but it makes the website feel just a little smaller.
i will leave here a second part to my comment as I feel like your channel would really fit this type of content/request
I am from Portugal and there are two parks from my childhood I never see covered anywhere
one ( in Portugal) is closed now for many years and there are basically urban legend to why it closed… i never menage to find any video about this … its still seats there abandoned and intact since the yearly 2000s
the other one (Isla Magica in Spain) is the most popular theme park near by… it was so grandiose and amazingly themed… is still pretty good now but as gone down a bit… i would love to see a video covering it up in the style of a typical “ disney history of the park” kind of video… i love seeing those kinds of videos
i know is alot to ask for but i feel like it would really suit your channel as so far for what i see u cover so many different topics that aren’t the usual Disney and Universal
It might be that I disliked Hersheypark because I worked as a games clerk. The park itself is fine, but the food was the main thing for me. The dessert stands and the Crabfries were great. I only went to Hersheypark on my days off because they used to give you two free tickets every other paycheck or something. The theme park in this video sounds pretty rad, though.
I visited Tayto Park in 2018 and met the Mr. Tayto mascot while there! I am going to miss the park so much and its a shame that Tayto Park won't be the same anymore :(
I'm so jealous you got to meet him! It will never be the same 😔
I'm Scottish and one of my friends is Irish and mentioned Tayto Park to me, I owe her an apology because I thought she was taking the p*ss.
Love your videos.
It definitely sounds like something made up ahahaha
Oh my dear lord if they opened one in the south here in America it would be Tater Park and I’m living for it. 😂😂😂
great, now i am sad over the loss of something i never knew existed
Stumbled across the Twilight video and immediately needed to watch the rest of your videos. I love how creative the framing is!
Thank you so much for watching them!!
brilliant video, so insightful. i honestly do not know why i have never been recommended any of your work before, i am hear now. looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!!
Lol-I’ve been to both Thorpe and Chessington and I’m from Orlando.
This is so funny to me. What did you think of them?
@@MikeFromTheParty I mean I’ve been to 99 parks as of last month. I think it’s awesome that most of the UK parks have a spooky/horror theme that we only see here at Halloween. There is a lot more theming than we see in most of the amusement parks here (Excluding Disney/Universal). The queue/pre show thing for The Walking Dead scared the life out of me. The hotels at Chessington and Alton Towers serve some of the best breakfasts in the world! Alton is responsible for the research and development that led to some of my favorite coasters and Nemesis and Smiler make my top 50.
Ok if you've been to so many parks that makes a lot more sense! I love the positive things you have to share - the first time I did that Walking Dead pre-show we were the only ones there and it was so scary walking down that long corridor alone. I do have a couple videos in the pipeline about Thorpe Park...
No idea why the algorithm suggested your video, but i'm glad i'm here
I have no idea why either, but I'm glad too :)
I can't believe I became so invested in a crisp themed amusement park.
My exact thought process as I was making this video
@@MikeFromTheParty It definitely worked.
I'm sorry, but watching this I cannot get Father Teds "Tunnel of Goats" 'ride' outta my head. lol
the beginning of this feels exact like every conversation i've ever had at a frat party
I missed the part where you were asked for a lighter & so given the backdrop of a house party I thought you were handing the "person" some MDMA for a second lolz
Also that second Mr Tayto seems more lie a "Peter Griffin is to Homer Simpson" kind of situation...
"So anyway he turned the castle he bought into a crisp factory. But now on to the interesting part..."
No no! Go back a minute!
Hahahahaha I did try to expand on it a bit but there is surprisingly little about Thomas Hutchinson online. Even that super pixelated photo I included I really struggled to find!
This is delightful. Any chance for a follow up video about the biography? As someone extremely interested in the life stories of extremely niche characters, I'd love to know the details.
So I originally bought the book to include a bit on it but I cut it as I thought it was a tangent too far. Unless this video goes mega viral I probably wouldn't do a video just on it to be honest but I can share a bit with you!
The vague vibe is that it's the real story of the Tayto company but retconned to include Mr Tayto, so with real photos but photoshopping him in. In the book Mr Tayto's dad was friends with Joe Murphy and they set up the company together based off Mr Tayto's grandmother's recipe. The book then goes through each decade of Ireland's history since the 50s, sharing Mr Tayto's opinion on everything from rock music to boob jobs. It's a weird read!
@@MikeFromTheParty Oh wow, that is more extensive than I thought, thank you! I'm assuming the book never really goes into the moral issues of a potato participating in the business of potato chip consumption? ;)
In a perfect world the quirky food based theme park would be the video that really blows up, but I get why your Twilight video is more popular. (I'll admit that I only invested the time in watching this after seeing that one.) As someone who grew up with a dream of going to Hershypark, this content speaks to me!
@@loreescape47 Yes it just totally (and sensibly) side-steps the implied cannibalism.
Thank you, this is definitely my favourite I've done but I'm very content it's getting a nice amount of views spilling over from the Twilight one!
Did you say 16 million? That’s insane. I thought you said 60 million but I had to go back and watch again. 60 million would have been tiny but 16 is crazy.
We went there a few weeks after it first opened. There was hardly anything there at the time, the cafe, factory tour, zoo, playground and the climbing wall and the jumping harnessed things. The Native American theming was bigger then and they had people dressed as native Americans walking around chatting to kids and taking photos.
We enjoyed it but thought it was doomed to failure as so little there to make you do a return visit.
Glad to be proved wrong with how much they have invested into it and usually went every year up until COVID-19.
R.I.P Tayto Park, Hello Emerald Park
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I was SO confused when you started talking about Twisted Chip (I wasn't looking at the screen) but THEN I realised you were talking about what we call Chips On A Stick here in Australia, they're only ever really at big carnivals or fairs in a food truck. They're super popular but I've never seen a brick-and-mortar Chips On A Stick store before, one of those would probably disrupt the fabric of the universe in immeasurable ways (also they're the best with chicken salt, any other flavouring is bullshit)
The first time I saw Taytos was in a pub scene in some UK detective/crime show. I wasn't sure if they were real or made up for the show. But thanks to a quick online search I learned that they were real. I can't wait to try them.
Ray Coyle's voice sounds like every bag of "Tayto chips" he's every has actually been a canvas bag full of nails and he never noticed that's not what most people eat
I love your style, keep up the good work, mate!
My favourite is the reoccurring and entirely earnest "I'm not a ________ expert"
Hahahahaha well you know what the internet can be like
I will say as an American, I wouldn't spend a day of any theoretical once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Ireland at a theme park. Not when there are no fewer than three Six Flags parks within 3 hours' drive of where I am right now.
Irish only gang where you at lads🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🍺☘️
The beginnings are like those TikTok POV videos but if they actually led to something interesting and useful. If I met a guy like this at a party I'd probably be very entertained
That's exactly what inspired the intros!