Strawberry Frosted Mini Wheats are top tier. **EDIT** MY GRANDMA _DID_ TAKE PICTURES!!! Let's goooo!!! twitter.com/ScottsTOL/status/1561727373640359936
Never forget the news anchor who lost his mind, but regained enough sanity to then call out the company for half a box of cereal. The true king of the video 😤✊
I thought cereal adventure would have roller coasters and stuff. But this is.... good too... I mean being... surrounding by grain is always nice and... they have a kix dispenser...plus all the learning...and.. oh hey look at the time
I think the Grain Entrapment simulator sounds very nice. To really ramp it up they should have Paul Bunion yelling at children to stomp the grains down while a suffocating cloud of dust dumps down on them.
I would volunteer at a pretty big County Fair and this was the kind of stuff they had there except it wasn't branded and the people working there actually cared about what they were talking about
I agree. As an American there are often things even I've forgotten about our culture that I remember because of him. I just love keeping the memories alive in some way :)
Yeah a similar thing happened to me but I was watching TV somewhere I was visiting a couple years ago and it was almost time for me to sleep. The only thing I remember from it was a girl talking to Thomas the tank engine and some oddly delicious looking cookies they looked a bit like sugar cookies
I've lived 15 minutes from the Mall of America my entire life so I like forget that it's a special thing and not just like the normal mall that everyone goes to. Always interesting to see other people's perspectives on my local mall lol
To me childhood felt like a fever dream. So when he does mention old things that he is hoping he didn't dream up or make up is pretty relatable to me. I most certainly appreciate what he does. :)
0:36 "Meet you in the Rainforest Cafe in one half hour." I can already hear Ted Nivision cracking a smile on his face, while Eddy Burback has PTSD from the safari fries he's consumed.
Years ago for my birthday, I went to RFC. I remember getting sick there. I had to be taken to the hospital overnight for food poisoning. Not, obviously, a Happy Birthday.
I remember going to Cereal Adventure, too! I was like 4 and I distinctly remember the giant cheerios and crawling in the hive. In fact, I annoyed my older cousin who was tasked to watch me by refusing to leave the hive when it was time to go, giggling all the while. Good times! Thanks for bringing back the memories, Scott!
I'm literally taking a break from making VBS decorations right now. I can attest that those definitely look to be similar in quality. But you know what? At VBS, our favorite cereals don't come to life. So...
I have literally never thought about the rainforest cafe until this past month or two where I have now watched 75% of the youtubers I regularly watch, attend.
When you mentioned the log chute ride, I instantly nodded in recognition. I'm nearby the Twin Cities area too, so I've been on that ride many times as a kid. I remember when Cereal Adventure was a thing too. There's still a box of Cheerios with a picture of me as a kid somewhere in my mother's house
I like how the lady trying to promote the park keep talking about the process of making cereal. As if children would get excited about the grinding of gain.
Cereal adventure actually seemed like it would have been fun as a kid in the same way that a cheaper heavilly commercialized version of the smaller exibits at the Boston Museum of Science were when my school took their annual trip. None of it is overly flashy or exciting but it was all pretty cool. Alot of the attractions seemed like the "we have the boston museum of science at home" version of a lot of the stuff that I experienced there.
Scott feeling bad about making his grandma spend a lot of money on him is how I feel when I look back on memories as a kid. Everybody knows kids just want things and put no thought into how money works or how much things cost. But when I think back to myself doing that, I feel awful lol I remember crying one time because my dad didn’t buy me a dog (that was well over $2000 btw), and thinking back on that, I feel bad for even complaining about it lol like, my dad felt terrible for not being ABLE to get me that dog. And me crying put him in an uncomfortable position where he was forced to break my heart. And honestly, that was on me. That was like 20 years ago, and I feel horrible for the way I acted when I was 5 lol
I love videos like this, videos talking about things i don’t/barely remember. It’s very captivating. Please keep making videos like this Scott, they’re always a good break from the world.
This opened up a core memory for me, Scott. Thank you for this. I went once and showed my cereal box at show and tell. Does anyone else also remember the Flinstones theme park in Custer, SD??? Scott??
I LOVED the Flintstones theme park! I would go there with my sisters and grandparents every summer. We had so much fun. I was heartbroken when I found it it was shut down.
yeah there were 3 of those parks around the country. 2 are completely closed & one is technically closed; it has turned into a bird sanctuary but some of the structures are still there including the dinosaur slide. i think there's videos of them on youtube, at least of the one that's partially open.
Everyone should go watch Scott's skit on his second channel. It's an incredibly well done skit calling out strange but common occurrences in American media whilst being funny.
Scott, I live in the south metropolitan area of St.Paul and I always thought cereal adventure was some fever dream from when I was 5 because I couldn’t quite remember all about it. This video brought back so much nostalgia. Great work as always!
I live in Minneapolis Minnesota and I went here growing up. I have very fond memories of it. A lot of people in this area miss the days of camp snoopy which we think of as more authentic since the creator was from Minnesota. We also have a long history with grain believe it or not😂 nowadays it’s Nickelodeon themed and not as good.
Really? Because it honestly looks way better now, imo (from the pictures and videos I've seen). I've never been, but my brothers have back in the late 90s and they said the mall was really underwhelming and overhyped. Lmao
@@Jhfisibejoso8pkabrvo2is8 We lost much of the charm going from Camp Snoopy to Nickelodeon. But we gained two coasters and a few neat new flat rides plus managed to save the Log Chute, so it's a bit mixed. The biggest ride loss from Camp Snoopy was the simulator theater, which was torn down to be replaced by the park's signature coaster. They've since added in a few new simulator rides - a Soarin'-like ride and some smaller ones - but those are all a seperate upcharge while Snoopy's was part of the main park.
As a Minnesotan who went to MOA soooo many times this video made me feel unreasonably happy. I love your videos so much and it’s awesome to have more Midwest creators showcasing our unique culture LOL ♥️ Keep up the amazing vids!!!
Growing up close to MOA, I can agree with the fear of the animatronics on the log ride. I hide every time I go by babe the blue ox because it randomly sprays water out of its nose and that is horrifying.
They had a rival cereal "theme park" owned by Kellogs in Battle Creek Michigan that we went to in the early 2000's. It was called Cereal City and open in the late 90s I think.
LITERALLY WAS WATCHING OLD VIDEOS THINKING “WHEN WAS SCOTT GONNA UPLOAD AGAIN” AND THEN I SAW THIS !! THANK YOU MR CRAMER FOR BLESSING US YET AGAIN WITH ANOTHER BANGER
A core memory I have is Camp Snoopy turning into Nickelodeon land, top 5 greatest betrayals of all time. Also MOA is amazing, instead of having 100's of different stores, they have like 2 of every major chain. They used to have three whole gamestops in one building, wild stuff.
As someone who has always lived close to the mall of america, when i was a kid i LOVED the cereal adventure. I was so so mad when they got rid of it and turned it into mini golf. We still have out wheaties boxes with our pictures on them. I also have like super vivid memories of the cheerio area!!!
Scott thanks for this! That part at the end of the video where you said it sometimes feels like sharing your work is sending it into the void, I feel that. I guess just wanted to say I love your content, probably seen every video of yours at least twice. This week has been a really rough one, feeling the strugglr vibes really hard. Was treating myself for for finishing it up and sat down to watch something while I ate and seeing you'd posted a new vid made my night! Loved it, laughed out loud several times even tho I'm by myself rn and just,,, all the rambling I guess to say thanks for what you do ♡
as a minnesota native and current resident, i fondly recalled every single attraction you brought up at the beginning… EXCEPT for cereal adventure. i’ve never even heard of it until this video
Watching this video, I was convinced this place must have closed down by now because of, well, lets just say obvious reasons. Then at the end he gets up to visit it and I go "Oh wow, I can't believe its still open after all these years!... Ohhh, yup, well that makes a lot more sense." 😂 Thank for at least trying Scott, it would have been so interesting to see!!
I’m from Minnesota and have vague memories of going to this cereal adventure park as a little kid! I specifically remember taking a slide down into the park and going to a ‘cereal bar’ where they’ll make you a bowl of whatever General Mills cereal you want lol. It was my childhood dream. I can’t believe other people remember this attraction. I thought it was lost to time 😂
RIP Camp Snoopy. Best part of my childhood as a kid growing up in Minneapolis. I also do remember going to Cereal World as a kid after going to a movie at the Mall of America, and I'm pretty sure it was right next to the food court. Looking back, it definitely feels like a weird fever dream from my childhood. But a great one at that!
New Salem Sue and the World's largest Buffalo in Jamestown are two of my favorite stops going through ND! Ive also found the giant pheasant for the first time literally a week ago!
The PBS segment did them dirty, this place was way cooler in my memories, but then again I was probably 10. I went to Cereal Adventure MULTIPLE times as a kid, I freakin loved that place & even made my own custom cereal - I still have the empty customized box in my basement lol. I live about 15 min from MOA and visit often, I forget it’s like a tourist destination and not just my local mall, in fact I worked there for many years as a performer at Nickelodeon Universe (pssst stop asking Squidward to dab, we want to but aren’t allowed anymore 🙃)
@@Goodstitching Honestly, I love the idea. I think the way it could have been executed could have been better. I also had a pillowpet or two, I have no idea where they went. :/
I still have my pillow pet and I love her. It's not unnecessary when it gives you childhood nostalgia! The general Mills capitalist theme park was definitely just a cash grab though lol
This brought back memories for me! My family went to the Mall of America several times when I was growing up, we live in Winnipeg and would often spend time in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Minneapolis. I loved the aquarium and lego land! Rides make me sick but I remember watching my brother do the log ride. I have no memory of cereal though! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
It was crazy to see a familiar place. I've always been 2 hours away from the MoA so every year or so I'll take a trip out there. Sure enough, it looks just the same as the last few trips. But it was cool to be able to point out and identify all of the places I knew!
I did not expect a DefunctLand reference in a Scott Cramer video, but it makes sense. Absolutely one of my favorite RUclips channels out there, every upload is a special occasion.
Dude of course we connect with your content that’s why we’re here! Ive binge watched your channel like a Netflix show haha We appreciate the quality content you provide us!!!
Man I wish youtube and you were around 20 years ago.... i was a brand new parent then...and that younger me should have watched this video... I didn't take my kids to these 'amusement attractions' thinking 'no big deal.. my kid won't care.... and then to see how much these things impacted you... make me Regret all the missed opportunities I prevented my kids from experiencing-- so in a long winded way....thank you for posting... these experiences are amazing and hope other find inspiration in enjoying the things around them.... A+ job to Scott's parents!!!
You unlocked such a deep memory for me! My family must have been very into the cereal experience, because I remember going to a Kellogg's play area/museum in battle creek Michigan!
@@amanda6876 Hello fellow Michigander! I'm sorry to say that I think it closed down a while back :( I loved it but I guess not enough parents wanted their kids to get the grain experience!
We had one of these at a Kellogg factory in Michigan. I feel like this is a fever trip. All I remember was that I was going to flatten that cereal before I shoved it into the oven
In Ireland we have a theme park dedicated to the Tayto Man, a giant Crisp/Potato Chip man, legend has it if you bow the knee and sacrifice one of your newborns to him he'll give you the most flavoursome cheese and onion crisps in all the land. But seriously...it's a theme park about crisps hahaha
This brings it all back! I remember going to this with my friend shortly after Camp Snoopy closed (maybe?) and then never hearing about it ever again because Nickelodeon Universe took over. I think I remember playing in the Lucky Charms exhibit, but the memory is pretty vague and I also thought it might’ve been a fake memory… so thank you for digging this up!
I’m rewatching this video after a while of it coming out and I only now realized he made a Jim Gaffigan joke, he’s my favorite comedian and I feel like no one know him 😂 thanks Scott
I loved kix as a small child. There are old photos of 3 year old me being caught on the floor with one fist full of kix that I'm shoving into my mouth and the other in the box to grab more. My mom said she had to keep the kix in a different place than the other cereal because i was always breaking in to it whenever i got out of sight 😂
The fact that you said these look like vacation Bible school decorations brought back such a vivid core memory. I literally hate and love you for that at the same time. I literally went to vacation Bible school in a town that literally my grandpa helped build literally the church was the only thing in the town besides a gas station the church was also my school I went to school in the church basement and every year we would have vacation Bible school on the week of my birthday in June and it made me so angry because I'd have to be at church every day during my birthday week listening to stupid Bible stories i already learned in school at the same place and the decorations were literally always just tissue paper. Like one year we did the Olympics as the theme and we had like the torch that they have for the Olympics, and it was literally just as tissue paper and for the medals, it was literally just cardboard circles with numbers drawn on it attached to a ribbon
I love this. Please make more videos about random amusement parks. Edit: I will happily accompany you to the next closest thing. Not cereal related, but still in the food category and in my area - Hersheypark and Hershey’s Chocolate World!
Scott got me all excited about someday going so cereal adventure land just to kill my dreams when I realized that I will never be able to go 😭 thanks Scott
Interesting that General Mills were in direct competition with Kellogg’s Cereal City USA in the cereal amusement park business. Which Kellogg’s won as it closed in 2007. The only thing I remember was the ability to have a cereal box with your picture printed on it, and punching the Tony the Tiger mascot.
You solved a life-long mystery for me!! I have vague memories of this place but thought it was a dream because I couldn't place it haha! I went to the MoA once when I was 12...apparently the cereal world is the only thing I remember of it
I might actually still have my cereal box. I'll try to dig it up...and create a Twitter to share a picture? I'm assuming that's how I'd share a picture with you? lol
I’m so glad this video exists. My kind of creator tbh I definitely remember cereal adventure, vividly. But I never went there. My dad made sure to tell me every time that it costs EXTRA to go there and isn’t included in Camp Snoopy. But man, I always wanted to go so bad. I even remember being sad when it closed down! I also had that same Cap’n Crunch shirt. My mom and I got one by ordering them from the cereal box. But I have no idea what happened to it.
Hey man, I just found your channel yesterday and I just wanted to say something real quick (probably not what you're thinking lol), even though I'm not sure if you'll see this. But I've binged a lot of your videos in the last 2 days, and I'm loving your content. I'm currently going through the beginning stages of divorce and we have 2 toddlers, and this is her week with them. I've been having a hard time staying optimistic that good relationships exist, and I thoroughly enjoy watching you and your wife interact. It is really great to see just the way you two look at eachother even when the other isn't looking. Besides all that, I've just found a lot of joy watching your content. I know the comment section on other channels can get mean sometimes, but I've been trying to leave nice comments on videos of channels I really enjoy lately to spread some positivity. Life has kind of sucked lately so I'm trying to grab joy when I find it. And your videos have helped. Again, not sure if you'll see this or not, but I wanted to comment anyways. Much love to you and your family.
I literally went here when I was a kid. I wanna say probably between 2002-2003 if it closed in 2003. And I vividly remember making the cereal box. I remember I chose lucky charms, golden grahams, and cheerios as my cereal choices. And I'm not sure if we still have the box but I remember for years we kept the box. That's like my only memory of the Mall of America lol.
Honestly really disappointing they didn’t go all out. Where’s the captain crunch log flume? The Honey Nut Cheerios flying coaster? The lucky charms dive ride? The trix drop tower? The horror themed coco puffs dark ride? Come on put some effort into it cereal people.
Oh my gosh, this unlocked some memories of visiting Cereal Adventure as a kid on my trip to the Mall of America! I was mainly at Camp Snoopy but I vividly remember the Lucky and Trix Rabbit statues! Wow! I loved the knockoff ghostbusters ride at Camp Snoopy!
Bro. I love you for this Mary-Kate & Ashley intro. Haha. I’ve seen them all too, a billion times. I watched them when i was like, 7… i’m 32. And i still sometimes get the songs stuck in my head out of no where
These are the best videos! I love videos about stuff 27 others RUclipsrs haven't made, not that I don't still watch those too, but I love the unique videos
As someone who grew up going to MSP for vacation and Doctors appointments I loved it so much I moved here 6 months ago, after 13 years of saying I was going to live here. I am living for the MoA nostalgia
Strawberry Frosted Mini Wheats are top tier.
**EDIT** MY GRANDMA _DID_ TAKE PICTURES!!! Let's goooo!!! twitter.com/ScottsTOL/status/1561727373640359936
Oh yeah
Strawberry
I disagree but I respect your opinion
Blueberry tho
NO BLUEBERRY
If you listen closely when Scott was at the Rainforest Cafe, you can hear Eddy Burback screaming in agony
And Ted laughing at him
Hey I understood this reference lmao
I was waiting for the cameo
and ted screaming in insanity
"WHY AM I HERE
WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE" 😂
Man, I would’ve KILLED to be surrounded by grain like that growing up. When I was a kid you could really only have grain on one side of you
this is like a Ken M comment
My number 1 dream :( My number 2 dream is to walk on the dough
the inside
Yeah, I mean sure, we've all tried spreading the grain on the floor and rolling around on it, but it's just not the same.
@@puddintamer2298 my family was too poor to afford grains for rolling :(
If those giant mascots fell on someone it could really cause some injuries. It might even be a cereal killer.
I’m calling the cops for that pun
@@ScottCramer I'm calling your mom.
Two pun sin a row
@@ScottCramer Easy there, *frosted* tips. Don’t gotta be a *flaky* old man for a pun.
Never forget the news anchor who lost his mind, but regained enough sanity to then call out the company for half a box of cereal. The true king of the video
😤✊
Can't blame him, it was the real thing!
I thought cereal adventure would have roller coasters and stuff. But this is.... good too... I mean being... surrounding by grain is always nice and... they have a kix dispenser...plus all the learning...and.. oh hey look at the time
It simulates accurately what it would be like to be trapped under a disintegrating roller coaster made of grain. Close to having a roller coaster.
I think the Grain Entrapment simulator sounds very nice. To really ramp it up they should have Paul Bunion yelling at children to stomp the grains down while a suffocating cloud of dust dumps down on them.
lol
@@surestar74 the indoor log ride looked dope tho ngl
I would volunteer at a pretty big County Fair and this was the kind of stuff they had there except it wasn't branded and the people working there actually cared about what they were talking about
scott’s videos honestly share lots about the “quirky” side of american culture which i find fun. thanks scott, from a non-american
I agree. As an American there are often things even I've forgotten about our culture that I remember because of him. I just love keeping the memories alive in some way :)
I remember going here on a field trip as a kid BUT I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FEVER DREAM BC NOBODY ELSE REMEMBERED THIS PLACE I FEEL SO VALIDATED
Yeah a similar thing happened to me but I was watching TV somewhere I was visiting a couple years ago and it was almost time for me to sleep. The only thing I remember from it was a girl talking to Thomas the tank engine and some oddly delicious looking cookies they looked a bit like sugar cookies
Lol
@@lylelylecrocodile2538 There use to be an older version of Thomas the Train with real people. I remember that.
Well idk if it’s a good or bad thing that this actually exists
Same here lol
"Basically it's where your favorite cereals come to life."
*Starts by learning about grains*
Did they lie?
I’m really happy Scott had fun :)
How many Joel’s do you have?
If he cloned himself he could enjoy it twice as much. That would be insaneo style.
Yay he went to the Rainforest Cafe!!
I wonder what his thoughts are on the rainforest cafe
@@DreadZep Yeah me too.
"The kids love being surrounded by the grain" sounds like it's straight out of one of the Children of the Corn movies 😶
I was thinking that too!🤣
Big “the children yearn for the mines” energy- or for For Your Attraction fans, big “tourists want to see the Orca.”
Scott reliving his nostalgia at the end of the video and acting like a kid is absolutely the sweetest thing I have seen all week
Me too! I was actually smiling ear to ear and feeling so happy for him. It even made me want to go. I love malls lmao
Thank you so much for the shoutout 🤩 I'm so happy that you saw it and didn't hate it!!!
I've lived 15 minutes from the Mall of America my entire life so I like forget that it's a special thing and not just like the normal mall that everyone goes to. Always interesting to see other people's perspectives on my local mall lol
Same! Everyone is always excited to go when they visit, and it just feels like a slightly bigger mall to me
Same with me, i've never really thought im going to the biggest mall in the U.S, ive always just though of it as "the mall".
You just made the ten year old in painfully jealous lol
Are they still doing alright? Every Mall around me has or is closing. But these are probably tiny compared to Mall of America.
“Special”
I admire Scott’s fearlessness about filming silly things by himself in public, I could never
I think his wife was there as well, I would guess by some of the shots where he’s not holding the camera :)
@@hommefataltaemin I thought about that, but I think he just set it up so he could film hands-free in those cases. Either way :)
@@bigups62 16:46
Scott please advise
Gotta love it when Scott covers the most random things he can think of
Next up reading my fans adresses
he gotta keep us on our toes
and doesn't have to steal other peoples' video ideas...
To me childhood felt like a fever dream. So when he does mention old things that he is hoping he didn't dream up or make up is pretty relatable to me. I most certainly appreciate what he does. :)
Being "surrounded by grain" is actually one of my deepest fears. So yeah, I'll probably pass 🤣🤣
@@MrDj232 I was actually thinking getting buried alive in a grain silo (happens a lot to farmers) but funnily enough, I am also gluten intolerant 😂
@@thePrplMonkey ya that would suck
Worse then quicksand
Now gold in a big money bin
That is a dream
GRAIN ENGULFMENT: the Ride.
0:36
"Meet you in the Rainforest Cafe in one half hour."
I can already hear Ted Nivision cracking a smile on his face, while Eddy Burback has PTSD from the safari fries he's consumed.
One half hour
I was thinking the same thing the whole time
Years ago for my birthday, I went to RFC. I remember getting sick there. I had to be taken to the hospital overnight for food poisoning. Not, obviously, a Happy Birthday.
Really
Fried
Chicken
I remember going to Cereal Adventure, too! I was like 4 and I distinctly remember the giant cheerios and crawling in the hive. In fact, I annoyed my older cousin who was tasked to watch me by refusing to leave the hive when it was time to go, giggling all the while. Good times! Thanks for bringing back the memories, Scott!
"SOMEBODY GET DEFUNCTLAND ON THIS!" The battle cry of the masses.
I'm literally taking a break from making VBS decorations right now. I can attest that those definitely look to be similar in quality. But you know what? At VBS, our favorite cereals don't come to life. So...
This is so funny
What's your guys's theme this year? Superheroes? Wild West?
@@pdxdonut Our VBS did an underwater theme. Every. Single. Year.
Art. I got to live out some childhood goals and make giant art supplies like Art Attack.
@@ExcludedShadow I feel that, I think ours was tropical. 🏝️
I have literally never thought about the rainforest cafe until this past month or two where I have now watched 75% of the youtubers I regularly watch, attend.
I think the universe is telling you it's time to go there.
@@elegantdisarray I would have to drive 5 hours to vegas, but I'm almost down.
I was thinking the same thing!
@@abbykraczek4153 driving 5 hours is a long easier than a cross-country road-trip
@@iOysterZ That’s a fair point.
When you mentioned the log chute ride, I instantly nodded in recognition. I'm nearby the Twin Cities area too, so I've been on that ride many times as a kid.
I remember when Cereal Adventure was a thing too. There's still a box of Cheerios with a picture of me as a kid somewhere in my mother's house
I like how the lady trying to promote the park keep talking about the process of making cereal. As if children would get excited about the grinding of gain.
That really grinds my grain...
I'm with Scott, the kids are turning the wheel bc it's colorful and it's there
As an adult, I wanted to turn it lol
Hell only a select few ADULTS will get excited by the process of grain
i love how scott is wearing the same shirt at the mall, implying that he went to the mall immediately after he finished recording
Cereal adventure actually seemed like it would have been fun as a kid in the same way that a cheaper heavilly commercialized version of the smaller exibits at the Boston Museum of Science were when my school took their annual trip. None of it is overly flashy or exciting but it was all pretty cool. Alot of the attractions seemed like the "we have the boston museum of science at home" version of a lot of the stuff that I experienced there.
Ugh the museum of Science is amazing. Would’ve loved to go on a field trip there for school
Scott: *pleasantly enjoying his time at Mall of America*
Eddy Burback: *gut wrenching screams in Rainforest Cafe*
Scott feeling bad about making his grandma spend a lot of money on him is how I feel when I look back on memories as a kid. Everybody knows kids just want things and put no thought into how money works or how much things cost. But when I think back to myself doing that, I feel awful lol I remember crying one time because my dad didn’t buy me a dog (that was well over $2000 btw), and thinking back on that, I feel bad for even complaining about it lol like, my dad felt terrible for not being ABLE to get me that dog. And me crying put him in an uncomfortable position where he was forced to break my heart. And honestly, that was on me. That was like 20 years ago, and I feel horrible for the way I acted when I was 5 lol
I love videos like this, videos talking about things i don’t/barely remember. It’s very captivating. Please keep making videos like this Scott, they’re always a good break from the world.
This opened up a core memory for me, Scott. Thank you for this. I went once and showed my cereal box at show and tell.
Does anyone else also remember the Flinstones theme park in Custer, SD??? Scott??
I LOVED the Flintstones theme park! I would go there with my sisters and grandparents every summer. We had so much fun. I was heartbroken when I found it it was shut down.
yeah there were 3 of those parks around the country. 2 are completely closed & one is technically closed; it has turned into a bird sanctuary but some of the structures are still there including the dinosaur slide. i think there's videos of them on youtube, at least of the one that's partially open.
“Meet you at the Rainforest Cafe” gave me flashbacks to Eddy and Ted’s videos
Even though he didn’t get to see cereal adventure one last time, it was worth it to see the smile on his face. And the fear from Paul Bunyan.
Everyone should go watch Scott's skit on his second channel. It's an incredibly well done skit calling out strange but common occurrences in American media whilst being funny.
Scott, I live in the south metropolitan area of St.Paul and I always thought cereal adventure was some fever dream from when I was 5 because I couldn’t quite remember all about it. This video brought back so much nostalgia. Great work as always!
I live in Minneapolis Minnesota and I went here growing up. I have very fond memories of it. A lot of people in this area miss the days of camp snoopy which we think of as more authentic since the creator was from Minnesota. We also have a long history with grain believe it or not😂 nowadays it’s Nickelodeon themed and not as good.
rip Camp Snoopy, everyone from Wisconsin and Minnesota grew up there
Press F to pay respects to Camp Snoopy.
F
Really? Because it honestly looks way better now, imo (from the pictures and videos I've seen).
I've never been, but my brothers have back in the late 90s and they said the mall was really underwhelming and overhyped. Lmao
@@Jhfisibejoso8pkabrvo2is8 We lost much of the charm going from Camp Snoopy to Nickelodeon.
But we gained two coasters and a few neat new flat rides plus managed to save the Log Chute, so it's a bit mixed.
The biggest ride loss from Camp Snoopy was the simulator theater, which was torn down to be replaced by the park's signature coaster.
They've since added in a few new simulator rides - a Soarin'-like ride and some smaller ones - but those are all a seperate upcharge while Snoopy's was part of the main park.
This video gives me that warm childhood feeling of being surrounded by the grain. ❤️
Me: Scott you need to take us to cereal adventure...
Scott: *Tries to take us to Cereal Adventure*
Me: Thank you for trying scott
And suddenly, I understand the thing about "going to the mall". The malls I've visited in Australia are just, you know, shops.
As a Minnesotan who went to MOA soooo many times this video made me feel unreasonably happy. I love your videos so much and it’s awesome to have more Midwest creators showcasing our unique culture LOL ♥️ Keep up the amazing vids!!!
Growing up close to MOA, I can agree with the fear of the animatronics on the log ride. I hide every time I go by babe the blue ox because it randomly sprays water out of its nose and that is horrifying.
I wish I could go back to those days… when we were surrounded by the grain, not a care in the world
They had a rival cereal "theme park" owned by Kellogs in Battle Creek Michigan that we went to in the early 2000's. It was called Cereal City and open in the late 90s I think.
LITERALLY WAS WATCHING OLD VIDEOS THINKING “WHEN WAS SCOTT GONNA UPLOAD AGAIN” AND THEN I SAW THIS !! THANK YOU MR CRAMER FOR BLESSING US YET AGAIN WITH ANOTHER BANGER
A core memory I have is Camp Snoopy turning into Nickelodeon land, top 5 greatest betrayals of all time. Also MOA is amazing, instead of having 100's of different stores, they have like 2 of every major chain. They used to have three whole gamestops in one building, wild stuff.
love this channel so much and i love how he just makes everything 10x funnier lol
As someone who has always lived close to the mall of america, when i was a kid i LOVED the cereal adventure. I was so so mad when they got rid of it and turned it into mini golf. We still have out wheaties boxes with our pictures on them. I also have like super vivid memories of the cheerio area!!!
I just love that so much of this channel is Scott reliving childhood memories with us.
Scott thanks for this! That part at the end of the video where you said it sometimes feels like sharing your work is sending it into the void, I feel that. I guess just wanted to say I love your content, probably seen every video of yours at least twice. This week has been a really rough one, feeling the strugglr vibes really hard. Was treating myself for for finishing it up and sat down to watch something while I ate and seeing you'd posted a new vid made my night! Loved it, laughed out loud several times even tho I'm by myself rn and just,,, all the rambling I guess to say thanks for what you do ♡
I did a vlog in the Mall of America before seeing the Game Grumps live and I went to the Crayola store. It was cool. They love their themed stores.
as a minnesota native and current resident, i fondly recalled every single attraction you brought up at the beginning… EXCEPT for cereal adventure. i’ve never even heard of it until this video
congrats on 700k, scott! so well deserved--you always bring such a unique & innovative flair to the commentary genre
Watching this video, I was convinced this place must have closed down by now because of, well, lets just say obvious reasons. Then at the end he gets up to visit it and I go "Oh wow, I can't believe its still open after all these years!... Ohhh, yup, well that makes a lot more sense." 😂
Thank for at least trying Scott, it would have been so interesting to see!!
Shoutouts to scottys grandma for being a champ and giving her grandkids a nice day 20 yrs ago :)
I’m from Minnesota and have vague memories of going to this cereal adventure park as a little kid! I specifically remember taking a slide down into the park and going to a ‘cereal bar’ where they’ll make you a bowl of whatever General Mills cereal you want lol. It was my childhood dream. I can’t believe other people remember this attraction. I thought it was lost to time 😂
It was nice of Scott to take us on a road trip at the end, even if cereal land wasn’t there.
RIP Camp Snoopy. Best part of my childhood as a kid growing up in Minneapolis. I also do remember going to Cereal World as a kid after going to a movie at the Mall of America, and I'm pretty sure it was right next to the food court. Looking back, it definitely feels like a weird fever dream from my childhood. But a great one at that!
This literally just looks like there prepping kids to work in cereal warehouses 😂
Oh my god the references to Defunctland made my heart so happy I LOVE that channel
That "big pheasant" is actually a prairie-chicken - a much more interesting bird that a pheasant.
New Salem Sue and the World's largest Buffalo in Jamestown are two of my favorite stops going through ND! Ive also found the giant pheasant for the first time literally a week ago!
Theme parks inside a shopping centre! So crazy to see as an Australian haha
The PBS segment did them dirty, this place was way cooler in my memories, but then again I was probably 10. I went to Cereal Adventure MULTIPLE times as a kid, I freakin loved that place & even made my own custom cereal - I still have the empty customized box in my basement lol. I live about 15 min from MOA and visit often, I forget it’s like a tourist destination and not just my local mall, in fact I worked there for many years as a performer at Nickelodeon Universe (pssst stop asking Squidward to dab, we want to but aren’t allowed anymore 🙃)
This cereal theme park is probably the most unnecessary thing ever.
And I owned a pillow pet as a kid.
I mean, you're here so I don't think the theme park is that unnecessary
@@Goodstitching Honestly, I love the idea. I think the way it could have been executed could have been better.
I also had a pillowpet or two, I have no idea where they went. :/
I still have my pillow pet and I love her. It's not unnecessary when it gives you childhood nostalgia! The general Mills capitalist theme park was definitely just a cash grab though lol
Defunctland references were not expected, but highly welcome. Currently awaiting the most ambitious crossover event of Scott and Kevin.
This takes “cereal killer” to a whole new level
Oh no hide the Cheerios
The trix rabbit is at it again lol
This brought back memories for me! My family went to the Mall of America several times when I was growing up, we live in Winnipeg and would often spend time in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Minneapolis. I loved the aquarium and lego land! Rides make me sick but I remember watching my brother do the log ride. I have no memory of cereal though! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
It was crazy to see a familiar place. I've always been 2 hours away from the MoA so every year or so I'll take a trip out there. Sure enough, it looks just the same as the last few trips. But it was cool to be able to point out and identify all of the places I knew!
Couldn't they find a more interesting spokesperson to hype up cereal adventure?
Also, I love your shirt 🎉
Your mustache gives me "retired cop dad grilling dogs at a home bbq" vibes. Love it.
I did not expect a DefunctLand reference in a Scott Cramer video, but it makes sense. Absolutely one of my favorite RUclips channels out there, every upload is a special occasion.
Dude of course we connect with your content that’s why we’re here! Ive binge watched your channel like a Netflix show haha We appreciate the quality content you provide us!!!
Man I wish youtube and you were around 20 years ago.... i was a brand new parent then...and that younger me should have watched this video... I didn't take my kids to these 'amusement attractions' thinking 'no big deal.. my kid won't care.... and then to see how much these things impacted you... make me Regret all the missed opportunities I prevented my kids from experiencing-- so in a long winded way....thank you for posting... these experiences are amazing and hope other find inspiration in enjoying the things around them.... A+ job to Scott's parents!!!
You unlocked such a deep memory for me!
My family must have been very into the cereal experience, because I remember going to a Kellogg's play area/museum in battle creek Michigan!
Oh lord I need to see if that Kellogg’s place is still open so I can take my kids! As a michigander, I’m so ashamed that I never went as a child 🥺😭
@@amanda6876 Hello fellow Michigander! I'm sorry to say that I think it closed down a while back :(
I loved it but I guess not enough parents wanted their kids to get the grain experience!
We had one of these at a Kellogg factory in Michigan. I feel like this is a fever trip. All I remember was that I was going to flatten that cereal before I shoved it into the oven
In Ireland we have a theme park dedicated to the Tayto Man, a giant Crisp/Potato Chip man, legend has it if you bow the knee and sacrifice one of your newborns to him he'll give you the most flavoursome cheese and onion crisps in all the land. But seriously...it's a theme park about crisps hahaha
This brings it all back! I remember going to this with my friend shortly after Camp Snoopy closed (maybe?) and then never hearing about it ever again because Nickelodeon Universe took over. I think I remember playing in the Lucky Charms exhibit, but the memory is pretty vague and I also thought it might’ve been a fake memory… so thank you for digging this up!
It’s weird since King’s Island used to have Nickelodeon Universe but now it has Camp Snoopy. They switched places.
Scott you are THE most American culture RUclipsr. Please never stop blessing us with oddly specific nostalgia.
I’m rewatching this video after a while of it coming out and I only now realized he made a Jim Gaffigan joke, he’s my favorite comedian and I feel like no one know him 😂 thanks Scott
Coco puffs, Kix, & Golden Grahams sounds like a good combination?
Lady, who has ever enjoyed Kix?
I loved kix as a small child. There are old photos of 3 year old me being caught on the floor with one fist full of kix that I'm shoving into my mouth and the other in the box to grab more. My mom said she had to keep the kix in a different place than the other cereal because i was always breaking in to it whenever i got out of sight 😂
The fact that you said these look like vacation Bible school decorations brought back such a vivid core memory. I literally hate and love you for that at the same time. I literally went to vacation Bible school in a town that literally my grandpa helped build literally the church was the only thing in the town besides a gas station the church was also my school I went to school in the church basement and every year we would have vacation Bible school on the week of my birthday in June and it made me so angry because I'd have to be at church every day during my birthday week listening to stupid Bible stories i already learned in school at the same place and the decorations were literally always just tissue paper. Like one year we did the Olympics as the theme and we had like the torch that they have for the Olympics, and it was literally just as tissue paper and for the medals, it was literally just cardboard circles with numbers drawn on it attached to a ribbon
I feel like some companies in the 90s had so much money that they didn’t know what to do with it.
I love this. Please make more videos about random amusement parks.
Edit: I will happily accompany you to the next closest thing. Not cereal related, but still in the food category and in my area - Hersheypark and Hershey’s Chocolate World!
Scott got me all excited about someday going so cereal adventure land just to kill my dreams when I realized that I will never be able to go 😭 thanks Scott
Interesting that General Mills were in direct competition with Kellogg’s Cereal City USA in the cereal amusement park business. Which Kellogg’s won as it closed in 2007.
The only thing I remember was the ability to have a cereal box with your picture printed on it, and punching the Tony the Tiger mascot.
Imagine a cereal theme park in today's world, the Internet would break.
You solved a life-long mystery for me!! I have vague memories of this place but thought it was a dream because I couldn't place it haha! I went to the MoA once when I was 12...apparently the cereal world is the only thing I remember of it
I might actually still have my cereal box. I'll try to dig it up...and create a Twitter to share a picture? I'm assuming that's how I'd share a picture with you? lol
I appreciate your knowledge of Jim Gaffigan jokes Scott
I’m so glad this video exists. My kind of creator tbh
I definitely remember cereal adventure, vividly. But I never went there. My dad made sure to tell me every time that it costs EXTRA to go there and isn’t included in Camp Snoopy. But man, I always wanted to go so bad. I even remember being sad when it closed down!
I also had that same Cap’n Crunch shirt. My mom and I got one by ordering them from the cereal box. But I have no idea what happened to it.
Magic Spoon missed their opportunity to advertise their “grain free ~cereal~” !
Hey man, I just found your channel yesterday and I just wanted to say something real quick (probably not what you're thinking lol), even though I'm not sure if you'll see this. But I've binged a lot of your videos in the last 2 days, and I'm loving your content. I'm currently going through the beginning stages of divorce and we have 2 toddlers, and this is her week with them. I've been having a hard time staying optimistic that good relationships exist, and I thoroughly enjoy watching you and your wife interact. It is really great to see just the way you two look at eachother even when the other isn't looking. Besides all that, I've just found a lot of joy watching your content. I know the comment section on other channels can get mean sometimes, but I've been trying to leave nice comments on videos of channels I really enjoy lately to spread some positivity. Life has kind of sucked lately so I'm trying to grab joy when I find it. And your videos have helped. Again, not sure if you'll see this or not, but I wanted to comment anyways. Much love to you and your family.
When the world needed him most, he returned.
I literally went here when I was a kid. I wanna say probably between 2002-2003 if it closed in 2003. And I vividly remember making the cereal box. I remember I chose lucky charms, golden grahams, and cheerios as my cereal choices. And I'm not sure if we still have the box but I remember for years we kept the box. That's like my only memory of the Mall of America lol.
Honestly really disappointing they didn’t go all out. Where’s the captain crunch log flume? The Honey Nut Cheerios flying coaster? The lucky charms dive ride? The trix drop tower? The horror themed coco puffs dark ride? Come on put some effort into it cereal people.
I've noticed a massive jump in quality. Been watching for a year or two. Love you man. Keep going!!!
Scott drove 4 hours to be surrounded by the grain - and didn’t even get to 😔
Oh my gosh, this unlocked some memories of visiting Cereal Adventure as a kid on my trip to the Mall of America! I was mainly at Camp Snoopy but I vividly remember the Lucky and Trix Rabbit statues! Wow! I loved the knockoff ghostbusters ride at Camp Snoopy!
Scott has the best vibes from all the youtubers and that is a FACT
Bro. I love you for this Mary-Kate & Ashley intro. Haha. I’ve seen them all too, a billion times. I watched them when i was like, 7… i’m 32. And i still sometimes get the songs stuck in my head out of no where
Scott’s videos are getting more and more random and niche, I think we should start to get concerned
These are the videos I love for 😈
No, no, I think we should see where this goes
Or get really excited
These are the best videos! I love videos about stuff 27 others RUclipsrs haven't made, not that I don't still watch those too, but I love the unique videos
As someone who grew up going to MSP for vacation and Doctors appointments I loved it so much I moved here 6 months ago, after 13 years of saying I was going to live here. I am living for the MoA nostalgia