Imagine someone walking to the prison years later and seeing the absolute battleground that was left behind? With a tank and the many bodies left behind. And a corpse with an eyepatch in some sick drip. That would be dope
Even though it obviously fell apart pretty badly, one thing that Fear had over the main show to me (at least till season 6 since it seems they lost their budget in the last two seasons lol) was its constant variety with locations. Somthing as simple as seeing a water park in the apocalypse is nice!
@@jjkilhij9531 Fear lost its show runners after the first 2 seasons I believe and that is why is changed so much such as The Proctors being abandoned, they were to be the main villains and going as far as season 7.
The gates appear dented. If you look at the opening, they appear to have been rammed. Either way, it's a clever location, but the show is ruined by super magical appearing stealth zombies, which the 'writing team' came to rely upon over and over again... It is the zombie in the locked box syndrome.
I am guessing The lone survivor was some kind of Survivalist who couldn't get to his base. If you've seen Practical peppers reality show, you'll see most of these Survivalist peppers have a safe house somewhere far away. He probably ran into abandoned cars on road which kept him from going any further. The water park was probably closed in the early days of the apocalypse. So few if any Walker's where probably there. Looking at the park; he decided it would be a good place to hold out, the tower was an emergency escape plan he setup if anything went wrong. He filled it with supplies and that MG, thinking he could stay up there a few weeks hopefully he'd be able to clear out the horde before he ran out of supplies. The slides were also a prefect escape route. The barricade broke somehow he was Unprepared, got bit ran up there Killed as many walkers as he could before he turned on that platform. He'd sit there until our Characters came and woke him up.
@@Midnight_Tiger29my guess is he was alone, and that woman walker was someone fleeing a horde. She stumbled across the water park fort and one way or another he ended up assisting her to his and her doom.
Always prepared ahead of time 🫡 not just for a zombie apocalypse obviously 😂but having a little emergency pack, small med kit and a firearm while traveling, definitely buffs you up a few levels from the level 1 survivors on day one
one thing i love about apocalypse stories like the walking dead or fallout is seeing how people can take places and structures where people were never meant to live and adapt them into homes, fortress’, etc i always love seeing how people can take those places and make them into homes
@@Cole-by9xsexactly yeah plus it kinda helps portray how differently the perspective of these structures has changed thanks to the end of the world places that once seemingly had no strategic value may be vital arteries for trade or key outposts, a structure meant to only store various consumer goods could be turned into a functional living space and start of a thriving community, and places like houses where people used to live might simply be abandoned or instead turned into something completely different from its original purpose its just a really fun part of apocalyptic fiction to take a structure with a very defined use and instead try to work it into something different, i think its really cool
Splitting hairs, but the word "paranoia" is often used to describe the survivor in the park. Paranoia is unjustified or unwarranted fear; taking precautions against the walking dead who overrun the land or bands of raiders hardly seems unjustified or uwarranted.
I think, rather than a zombie getting up there, that the stethoscope, not rolled up, and very prominent at the top of the medical supplies was a hint that it may have been something as simple as a heart attack. Being alone, there would be no one to assist them, leading to an ignomious death at the top of tower, giving a glimpse to what June could suffer if she continued to push others away. My 2c there, I hope my ramble made sense, love the series man, looking forward to more in the future.
An interesting note about the machine gun is that its an old browning m1919. Those haven't been used by the military for decades, but quite a few exist on the civilian market, meaning this guy must have either brought it with him or found it looting.
@@bluebox87059 True. But even then that specific tank is VERY old. The national guard would have an early Abrams tank probably Edit: never mind the maybe, looked it up the last m60 was retired in 1997 and was removed as a training model in 2005.
@@bluebox87059 Also keep in mind that you can own a tank in the US. Sure it has to be "decommissioned" but a dude with a mechanical background can make that work.
This is the type of stuff us fans want to see in the Tales of The Walking Dead series. Untold stories about stuff from within episodes of TWD and Fear The Walking Dead. This is perfect
The hospital was the best case of environmental storytelling. I just had to know what happened and the flashback of Shane leaving Rick was such a tease.
This was a good learning moment for that survivor girl who saw what happened to solitary survivors even with a premium location like that tower and yet she still tried to run away from the group. Her character was always kind of annoying too
Best guess, probably those variant walkers that can climb got up there. Or maybe because it was early enough in the outbreak walkers could climb and lost that ability over time.
My theory is that it was a solo survivalist but then two people in the minivan seen at 2:04 rammed the gate open whilst trying to escape a horde (it's the only vehicle facing inwards, all others face outwards and i don't think a horde would be enough to take a gate off its hinges like is shown). The survivalist couldn't just watch them get ripped open by walkers so he decided to help them and got them up to his tower, whilst up there it turned out that one of them had been bitten earlier and they turned and attacked the other (they became the two walkers in the tower) and the survivalist fled leaving behind the machinegun.
It could be that while this survivor was busy and not at the tower, other survivor sneaked up but of course they were bit. The survive most likely hid in the boxs after hearing the man that lives there coming. He of course died from the bite in silence and layed there as a walker. But the day the walkers came all that noise he made with the machine gun woke that walker and that is how it got there!
It is hardly plausible. "...of course they were bit..." This is a rather vague and precarious 'of course.' Also, a paranoid lone survivor is highly unlikely to simply go on a stroll leaving his well provisioned and stocked tower base unguarded - what kind of paranoid lone survivor during a zombie apocalypse just ups and leaves his base? I think it is more that the show writers didn't think it through - which would explain the poor quality of so many episodes. They needed a jump scare and just added magical ninja zombies. I call it the 'zombie in a box' screen writing tactic. You have a box, it is locked and looks interesting, so your characters break open the locked box and JUMP SCARE a zombie is in the box. You don't explain how the zombie got in the box, you just congratulate your writing team on engineering another jump scare.
I like ur theory I think its plausible he went out to get even more of his man supplies Since u can probably get endless sunscreen, hats, towels and similar, but i havent seen a wholelot militarygrade weapons and medicial supplies there So on one of his many looting tours some other people got up there and ether where bitten or died of another cause and surprised him Maybe the survivor never got there, explaining why seemingly everything was left He came back, saw a hord of walkers broke into his home, maybe even noticed the stranger in his tower and just turned on his heel right then and there and left, and the z up there was the stranger dying
@@GustavoHeinlein how tf do u think he got the machinegun there?!?!?! Or the all the other supplies He ofc needs to leave and loot and what he gona do to 'defend' while hes gone? Man bro comeon think about it logically
I suspect the vehicle had supplies too. There likely are other escape vehicles too, and even charged car batteries (simply disconnected, but still in place) since this guy seemed to like to prepare.
Can't believe that you are one of the only TWD youtubers on the platform. Keep doing a good job and eventually something is gonna give and you will get a huge subscriber dump. You should do an in depth analysis of telltales TWD, people will flock to it for nostalgia alone.
Of course there would be abandoned water parks, roller coasters, malls, cruise ships - making for some outstanding/fun viewing. Was glad to see this water park as a setting.
Great Video about FEAR THE WALKING STUFF..........❤ I love the first seasons....Great locations,great charakters.....I love the idea that the Fear charakters Madison,Nick,Alicia,Troy , Victor and Daniel beeing the Whisperes....😊....TROY and John DORIE was a great charakters i loved too!
And here I thought work was going to be boring! Great video, mate! My own theory; In my opinion the makeshift barricade of vehicles as well as the barricades lining the perimeter and pool seem to indicate that- at some point- a large group of survivors gathered at the water park for protection. Perhaps it was a mix of employees and locals who sought refuge there in the early days of the outbreak, hoping to find relative safety and a safe place to regroup? The entrance/gate is interesting to me because the way it's laid out on the ground looks more like the type of damage you'd see from a vehicle collision- perhaps caused by raiders or another group of desperate survivors- which in turn attracted the ire of the infected, forcing the initial occupants to flee. I'd like to think that the initial survivors left in a hurry in whatever vehicles they still had at their disposal (and that weren't part of the barricade) with either one or two opting to remain behind at the central tower, either to give their friends/families time to escape or because they believed that their superior position and tactical advantage of not only height above ground but also the barricaded perimeter might save them in the long run. Eventually though the remaining survivors up in the eagle's nest would realize that they were stuck, only managing to eliminate one or two walkers at a time from range while attracting even more because of the large-caliber gunfire (.30 and .50 cal machine guns can echo for several metric kilometers, especially near larger bodies of water) which in turn boxed them in. One of the walkers in the tower is dressed in some rather warm knitted wool clothing (or at least that's what it looks like, suggesting they want to stay warm from the cool night winds) so they may have been one of the stranded survivors who slowly perished due to starvation. Perhaps both of them were the only remaining survivors from the original inhabitants that starved and died after being trapped by their own intricate defenses? Perhaps they were two opportunistic scavengers that sought refuge in the tower from an oncoming horde- only to be trapped up high with all sorts of supplies except for actual food and drinkable water? As a military man I'd also like to point out that the large medical crate bears military symbols *and* is stocked with the same supplies a lot of military medical/triage tents and camps would make use of- not to mention the .30 cal which even has a spare barrel (4:00) sitting atop an equipment crate. While the .30 cal isn't in active use with the US military today I wouldn't be surprised if you could find one at a National Guard armory or in the home of a private collector, which might hint to some military presence at the water park or nearby. Realistically though, the number of military crates might suggest that whomever erected the fort in the first place may have been a well-stocked survivor or someone with ties/former ties to the US military as there's at least a truck's worth of supplies still up in that tower. But that's just my theory!
I remember going to this place years ago with my dad and brother sometimes; my cousin too. Pretty cool to see it in a TV series. It's one of those core memories where I remember every ride and all about it!
It maybe possible that the water park is meant to be some sort of makeshift FOB (Forward Operating Base) for the US Military Remnants that are either scattered with some civilians they brought with them. They fortified with whatever they can find and barricaded the stairs to make a sort of Watch Tower on the Slide Tower. Soon the Walkers attacked which left the Remnants or survivors eaten alive unprepared or fled into random directions. One civilian survivor attempted to climb up the slide but was bitten in the leg before he kicked the zombie off him. Unaware of the infection he got from the bite and managed to kill multiple walkers before succumbing to the infection.
i only just watched this scene and with how aggressive on of the walker was trying to push them self's off another to get to them in the circle i recon some of them could have been varitents and they just slowly climbed over the blockage and surprised the person dealing with the rest of the horde.
I love this series so much!!!!! I especially love fear the walking dead areas since it’s from where I am. so whenever I’m watching the show and there’s a background shot it’s like looking outside lol
Hey these videos are super neat man please keep doing this type of stuff. I’ve always thought certain things shown throughout the series are interesting and these theories are a neat way to think about what happened
I actually made a calendar of Walking Dead Universe places through my local CVS when they had a killer deal on a 18 month make it yourself. This place is actually my August picture. It definitely was one of the cooler places featured on Fear The Walking Dead. I think your idea makes sense. This person might have even been a national guard who abandoned their post and fortified this waterpark in means of keeping themselves alive, only for it to all backfire on them and having to leave all those supplies when a herd moved in. I have to say I really love your speculations on these cool scenes that were so prevalent in TWD, I mean sometimes when I rewatch I notice a little note like a shopping list pinned to a fridge when they are raiding for supplies. Those snapshots of the world before, I can't imagine our survivors not getting potentially trapped in nostalgia for a moment.
I love the setting for this story but it always irks me that alicia only takes the shroud of the machine gun for the sake of “character development” :/
@Swell-Films agreed. They should have let her keep her original iconic weapons, which was the balisong knife but unfortunately those two awful reboot showrunner never watched the first three seasons.
@@filipgaecki5480 your pretty mutch disqualifing half the show ftwd made by the new show runners That should show very clearly the problem Since the s1-3 where pretty mutch allaround great
I mean if you look at this place it was one survivor but why did he choose a water park? That’s the real question did the person work there or did he hear on a radio that place was going to be a safe zone but when he got there it was a lie so he decided to make it his own safe zone. There always theory’s about this places in TWD universe.
@@Swell-Films I agree but no they don’t want to do that because they don’t think it’s good enough but here a video you could do the school were Shane and Otis went to get medicine for Carl. Keep up the good work
The best explanation I could give you. Is that the walker that ambushed him? Was somebody that was there with him? Maybe he had been away from. The area for a while. And just came back to stumble on to all of this. But in the panic didn’t notice. His partner had already completely turned. As he ran up towards. The high caliber turret. Remember lurkers, seem like they’re dead. He could’ve been ambushed the same way June was.. Only his partner was dead, unlike June. Who had Alicia? The reason why I think we see. The waterslide incident in the first place. it’s meant to show us what happened to the survivalist. The only explanation I could give you is that he wasn’t there alone. And that he accidentally got tricked by a lurker. And fell down the slide to his death. I highly doubt that high caliber turret. Was there from the start? This could’ve been an operational run, by more than one person.
One thing to mention is the variant zombies that don’t really make sense but can totally climb some barriers. Which is why the place is abandoned, the survivor got scared seeing the zombies climb up and decided to leave as once they were surrounded, and ran out of ammo, they’d still be attacked, also there’s a chance the lone survivor died at the section where all the zombies were stuck at the funnel, rain could have washed away the blood as we see all the paint washed away there, as well.
Tragic suvivor stories (Of the aftermath of such) can be seen in all these postapocalyptic movies, series and games, they are "designed" to make us wonder and be saddened...
My best guess at the reason why the two walkers are up in that tower is - there were actually two survivors and the eventually starved to death OR - maybe the survivor was killed by some other survivor - the second walker perhaps. They had a gunfight and the man on the tower was shot - but not in the head as he eventualy turned - but the gunfight lured in a nerby group of zombies. So the women rushed up the slides to the tower, hoping she is safe, only to end up bitten by the guy she killed earlier.
This story made me imagine what I’d do if I was stuck somewhere less blatantly built for survival, or even consider if I could take somewhere not built to be lived in and MAKE it somewhere to survive in. Like, I know we see this waterpark, and we saw the fairgrounds in TWD… but what about a “smaller” amusement park? Or even just portions of a larger one? Like… cedar fair/six flags parks, parts of Disney world/land… as well as more local “amusement parks” that folks from out of state might not know about. Idk, they typically have first aid stations in the parks I named, some have haunt seasons which means they have a variety of props (largely flimsy and useless) as well as sets (typically built more durable, with parts that could theoretically be scavenged from power sources to decorations that are made of real metal. Some have waterparks, which could be similarly useful with various food vending locations and first aid located within for easy access, so you could always just lock up the waterpark section and call the rest a lost cause as the water parks are typically a more manageable size. But there is also the chance to make the entire park APPEAR much more dangerous. If it’s a park that has a haunt then you already have “bodies” you can hang from the rides that are visible from the outside, as well as any zombies you take out. These parks also aren’t impenetrable towards smaller wildlife, such as squirrels, raccoons, opossum, birds, and cats. Worst case these could be food options if necessary. Idk, I definitely think it’s an interesting idea, and I do with we had gotten something like that. Plenty of amusement parks are closed during the “off season” and could have been utilized, as in some regions of the south it still gets a bit too cold to be riding 100mph rides, but not cold enough to be on a roller coaster (or, from what I heard, the rides aren’t built to BE ridden in the cold & doing so can cause damage)
Theory: What if the person was ex military or at least conscripted due to the fact they were able to have a machine gun and they did fortify the place pretty damn good also had made sure to get everything they needed cause if I were in that situation I’d probably realistically just off myself I ain’t living in constant fear of death man but anyways as you said a horde could’ve broken in and overran the lower parts and the survivor would pick them off one by one but due to the fact not many bodies were there and the still loaded gun they decided that what they were doing was pointless and the more they shot the more walkers would’ve come and offed themselves and maybe they had a lover and friend which would explain the two walkers
I think the survivalist either got bit early by a surprise walker encounter, and made their way up and fought for a day or two before succumbing... or, they may have taken in a survivor that was bit (unlikely, this person seemed pretty paranoid)... or the survivor himself had a health condition and maybe had a heart attack or something and died and became a walker, despite the preparations. The stack of medical supplies might imply they were attempting to self-care in the post-apocalyptic world without a doctor. Interestingly, look at the hat on the cartoon dolphin. It is a WW2 German U-boat commander's hat.
Ya know I actually like this as I worked at a pretty popular waterpark here in Texas called Schlitterbahn. Can't deny that I'd myself wondering how I could use the main park as a fortress against the undead. The main section of the park had a long and deep lazy river that went around the whole park and was very well enclosed with fences. Think the only issue was that the main park descended so if you were inside the park you'd have to go up to reach the entrance which means fighting the undead up flights of stairs with a decently wide natural river behind you as you're only way out. There are side gates for Park Service but they are always locked and the only people who had the keys were the park service leads, supervisors and others in high positions, so you'd have to hope they either unlocked them when they fled from the undead inside the park or hope you're Park Service and are lucky enough to have the keys to begin with. I just always find the idea of holding up in an amusement park during the zombie apocalypse interesting.
Hi Ty, Great video once again. Could you done about the Public Works Building in S2 Ep 10, "18 Miles Out"- where Rick and Shane attempt to drop of Randall. It seems like some fight broke out
Maybe the lone survivor saw a living person, maybe already bit, running from a horde and decided to help, leading to the walkers following them in. Managed to get safely up to the tower, but the bitten person they saved (or maybe they had gotten bit while saving the person) ended up turning and biting them or something
Perhaps this was an early indication of the climbing walkers, whether they climbed the place or went up the slide since they did have the ability to grip and the survivor didn't notice them thanks to the sound of the machine gun.
The gate looked like it had been rammed open by a vehicle, I think someone rammed the gate trying to get away from the horde and accidently lead them to the park. I think there was two people that had been part of the park, and they slept in shifts. One person went out for supplies leaving the other to gaurd the park, the dead actually gained access through a spot we didnt see in the show. The remaining person radioed for help while in a gun battle with the zombies and the other person charged in using their vehicle to ram the gates open and rescued their partner and they escaped.
maybe the zombies didn't climb up there, maybe they were a group looking for safety. I'm thinking one of them could have hid a bite while the others stayed on lookout, one taking shots at the walkers below. The person who was bit then turns and start attacking, a few people die in the tower, others try using the slide to escape but end up in that pit?
Survivor met someone, made a bad decision(maybe out of loneliness or just poor thought process and utter desperation due to living in the fucking apocalypse😅) and let them come back to the base, stranger was bitten and turns and bites the survivor, the survivor somehow prevents the now walker from killing him, but isnt able to kill the walker, bam, two walkers in the nest.
You know, even though I know the obvious reason why they wouldn't be able to do this, I still would have loved to seen what would happen during a zombie apocalypse like in The walking Dead for those who are attending a Disney World or Universal studios sized theme park.
Lone survivor ran out of food, and water. Knew it was a matter of time before they succumbed, threw themself into the pool at the bottom. Got eaten, but as there was water in the pool at the time, the remains sank to the bottom as the water evaporated.
I reckon they ran out of some essential supply...medicine or water... they tried to go down thru the walkers, and got bit...retreating back to their safe room, where they expired they were the two walkers in the safe room
I think the walker in the tower was the guy who lived there... I think he got bit and turned... and I don't think he was there alone to begin with. I also don't think it was a walker hoard that broke down the fences, but possibly the Vultures or some other rando group. Some of the walker were from that group, some came from the chaos.
Perhaps the survoir got bot while on a supply run which drew the horde to follow, leading them to make a last stand before the infactiom killed them mid battle? Just my own thought of it
I like the story but I think the walkers overran our survivor and as a last ditch effort to protect himself he was somehow able to push the small horde down the slide (which is how they got stuck at the bottom) but while doing so he got bitten and succumb to the virus shortly after (which explains why there was still one walker up there instead of them allll being down at the bottom
Looks like the walkers in the funnel slide had to go down the slide to get there. They could have been alive in the tower and sent down the slide after they were killed. Maybe the last walker in the tower was just a little slow sending a victim down the slide before they turned and got bit.
It could be that the gun jammed and the survivor couldn’t fix it or didn’t think they could fix it before the walkers got up the slides. So the survivor left. That would explain why the gun was still loaded.
the zombies in the tower were the residents who lived in the tower. 1 of them dies for whatever reason. then the other makes dumb sentimental decisions like they always do. then everybody dies.
Amazing video, I really love the environmental story from the walking dead universe. I wish they added more environment story in FTWD, I know a few like the hotel that Strand and Daniel visit in season 3 and when Strand came across his Abigail in season 3. There quite short thoughts
Just a thought you could cover the military walker inside the tank in twd when Rick originally meets glen there’s def a bit of environmental storytelling there
Well I kinda have two theories… So either the person up top got bit/ or was sick and passed. Because I only remember 1 walker imup there with them…. Now my other thought would be possibly that the variant like we seen at the second kingdom with Jerry. Maybe a (climber) got in and got to that person… 😔
A man and a sick woman lived there, while setting up traps he was attacked by walkers, woman shoots and goes down to rescue the man and they flee in the car or she flees alone
One of the things that annoys the hell out of me in the walking dead is that all the guns they find that’s been exposed to the elements for extended periods of time without maintenance or care are pristine and functional. I’m rewatching the main show and I just passed the episode where Rick and Carl fight off the horde that broke through the prison fence while the others were struggling with the flu on the inside. They just had carts of guns and ammo just sitting out there for who knows how long. I get the were there as prep for a potential attack but come on.
I believe the walker got up the water slide tower is by climbing. Even though we see only variant walkers in TWD and Dixon they still exist in the universe.
Fear wasn’t always the best but I loved seeing the start of the apocalypse. Twd did something new by starting already into the apocalypse and I love it but it’s still cool to see later on. Fear also did a lot of cool locations and situations
Imagine someone walking to the prison years later and seeing the absolute battleground that was left behind? With a tank and the many bodies left behind. And a corpse with an eyepatch in some sick drip. That would be dope
Now imagine you being on my bed next to me baby
Governor didn’t die at the prison though he died much later I thought. Correct me if I’m thinking of the wrong character
@Drunkendino34 he died on the field of the prison right in the front after he was stabbed, then shot
@@dawelsh241 yeah ima lil high that’s my bad I completely forgot
@@Drunkendino34 it's all good
Even though it obviously fell apart pretty badly, one thing that Fear had over the main show to me (at least till season 6 since it seems they lost their budget in the last two seasons lol) was its constant variety with locations. Somthing as simple as seeing a water park in the apocalypse is nice!
I fully agree
@@jjkilhij9531 Fear lost its show runners after the first 2 seasons I believe and that is why is changed so much such as The Proctors being abandoned, they were to be the main villains and going as far as season 7.
Good point. They also had some great set locations in the first 3.5 seasons (the ranch, the dam, the baseball stadium)
Literally the locations and settlements were always new and cool I loved it
The gates appear dented.
If you look at the opening, they appear to have been rammed.
Either way, it's a clever location, but the show is ruined by super magical appearing stealth zombies, which the 'writing team' came to rely upon over and over again...
It is the zombie in the locked box syndrome.
I am guessing The lone survivor was some kind of Survivalist who couldn't get to his base. If you've seen Practical peppers reality show, you'll see most of these Survivalist peppers have a safe house somewhere far away. He probably ran into abandoned cars on road which kept him from going any further. The water park was probably closed in the early days of the apocalypse. So few if any Walker's where probably there. Looking at the park; he decided it would be a good place to hold out, the tower was an emergency escape plan he setup if anything went wrong. He filled it with supplies and that MG, thinking he could stay up there a few weeks hopefully he'd be able to clear out the horde before he ran out of supplies. The slides were also a prefect escape route. The barricade broke somehow he was Unprepared, got bit ran up there Killed as many walkers as he could before he turned on that platform. He'd sit there until our Characters came and woke him up.
What about the woman walker? They both had to be up there..
@@The_Time_Change could've been his wife or something
@@Midnight_Tiger29my guess is he was alone, and that woman walker was someone fleeing a horde. She stumbled across the water park fort and one way or another he ended up assisting her to his and her doom.
@@dowaa That's my thought to
Imagine being stuck at a vacation attraction during the zombie apocalypse, only having what you have on your back and no stockpile. That would suck!
Always prepared ahead of time 🫡 not just for a zombie apocalypse obviously 😂but having a little emergency pack, small med kit and a firearm while traveling, definitely buffs you up a few levels from the level 1 survivors on day one
like that girl Rick found outside the prison 🥴😭
@@SamanthaGonzalez-vm3lk Oh! The Irish lady!!
Dead Island typa shit
I mean isn't that what happened to the folk at the beach side hotel? In what season 2
one thing i love about apocalypse stories like the walking dead or fallout is seeing how people can take places and structures where people were never meant to live and adapt them into homes, fortress’, etc
i always love seeing how people can take those places and make them into homes
And it kinda feels weird when they stay in a real house
@@Cole-by9xsexactly yeah
plus it kinda helps portray how differently the perspective of these structures has changed thanks to the end of the world
places that once seemingly had no strategic value may be vital arteries for trade or key outposts, a structure meant to only store various consumer goods could be turned into a functional living space and start of a thriving community, and places like houses where people used to live might simply be abandoned or instead turned into something completely different from its original purpose
its just a really fun part of apocalyptic fiction to take a structure with a very defined use and instead try to work it into something different, i think its really cool
Splitting hairs, but the word "paranoia" is often used to describe the survivor in the park. Paranoia is unjustified or unwarranted fear; taking precautions against the walking dead who overrun the land or bands of raiders hardly seems unjustified or uwarranted.
Clearly someone tried going down the slide before the lifeguard gave the OK. Tragic.
DISASTER
7:39 The "you must be this tall to ride this ride" dolphin is wearing a ww2 kreigsmarine officer cap
I think, rather than a zombie getting up there, that the stethoscope, not rolled up, and very prominent at the top of the medical supplies was a hint that it may have been something as simple as a heart attack.
Being alone, there would be no one to assist them, leading to an ignomious death at the top of tower, giving a glimpse to what June could suffer if she continued to push others away.
My 2c there, I hope my ramble made sense, love the series man, looking forward to more in the future.
An interesting note about the machine gun is that its an old browning m1919. Those haven't been used by the military for decades, but quite a few exist on the civilian market, meaning this guy must have either brought it with him or found it looting.
Very unlikely he randomly found it looting, either bought it or knew about and went and grabbed it.
So was the tank in Season 4. Not a tank the US used in a long time. So the machine gun could have been still in use in this timeline
@@cameronhermann9400 It was a National Guard tank, National Guards usually are equipped with older stuff
@@bluebox87059 True. But even then that specific tank is VERY old. The national guard would have an early Abrams tank probably
Edit: never mind the maybe, looked it up the last m60 was retired in 1997 and was removed as a training model in 2005.
@@bluebox87059 Also keep in mind that you can own a tank in the US. Sure it has to be "decommissioned" but a dude with a mechanical background can make that work.
This is like my favourite "settlement" ever thank you so much for covering this place!!
This is the type of stuff us fans want to see in the Tales of The Walking Dead series. Untold stories about stuff from within episodes of TWD and Fear The Walking Dead. This is perfect
I agree❤❤❤
The hospital was the best case of environmental storytelling. I just had to know what happened and the flashback of Shane leaving Rick was such a tease.
This was a good learning moment for that survivor girl who saw what happened to solitary survivors even with a premium location like that tower and yet she still tried to run away from the group. Her character was always kind of annoying too
Best guess, probably those variant walkers that can climb got up there. Or maybe because it was early enough in the outbreak walkers could climb and lost that ability over time.
My theory is that it was a solo survivalist but then two people in the minivan seen at 2:04 rammed the gate open whilst trying to escape a horde (it's the only vehicle facing inwards, all others face outwards and i don't think a horde would be enough to take a gate off its hinges like is shown). The survivalist couldn't just watch them get ripped open by walkers so he decided to help them and got them up to his tower, whilst up there it turned out that one of them had been bitten earlier and they turned and attacked the other (they became the two walkers in the tower) and the survivalist fled leaving behind the machinegun.
One thing that I loved about Fear is where it took place, like LA and Texas!
Thanks so much mate! Mexico is my all time favourite setting from the walking dead universe. Shame they left it behind.
@@Swell-Films Yeah mexico was such a cool setting I loved it
I recon it was a variant walker able to climb since they existed.
It could be that while this survivor was busy and not at the tower, other survivor sneaked up but of course they were bit. The survive most likely hid in the boxs after hearing the man that lives there coming. He of course died from the bite in silence and layed there as a walker. But the day the walkers came all that noise he made with the machine gun woke that walker and that is how it got there!
It is hardly plausible.
"...of course they were bit..."
This is a rather vague and precarious 'of course.' Also, a paranoid lone survivor is highly unlikely to simply go on a stroll leaving his well provisioned and stocked tower base unguarded - what kind of paranoid lone survivor during a zombie apocalypse just ups and leaves his base?
I think it is more that the show writers didn't think it through - which would explain the poor quality of so many episodes. They needed a jump scare and just added magical ninja zombies.
I call it the 'zombie in a box' screen writing tactic.
You have a box, it is locked and looks interesting, so your characters break open the locked box and JUMP SCARE a zombie is in the box.
You don't explain how the zombie got in the box, you just congratulate your writing team on engineering another jump scare.
@@GustavoHeinlein Sorry I meant as like the unknown person hid in a space behide the boxs
I like ur theory
I think its plausible he went out to get even more of his man supplies
Since u can probably get endless sunscreen, hats, towels and similar, but i havent seen a wholelot militarygrade weapons and medicial supplies there
So on one of his many looting tours some other people got up there and ether where bitten or died of another cause and surprised him
Maybe the survivor never got there, explaining why seemingly everything was left
He came back, saw a hord of walkers broke into his home, maybe even noticed the stranger in his tower and just turned on his heel right then and there and left, and the z up there was the stranger dying
@@KleinerGrenadier
Why would a super paranoid lone survivor leave his tower utterly undefended?
@@GustavoHeinlein how tf do u think he got the machinegun there?!?!?! Or the all the other supplies
He ofc needs to leave and loot and what he gona do to 'defend' while hes gone?
Man bro comeon think about it logically
I suspect the vehicle had supplies too. There likely are other escape vehicles too, and even charged car batteries (simply disconnected, but still in place) since this guy seemed to like to prepare.
Can't believe that you are one of the only TWD youtubers on the platform. Keep doing a good job and eventually something is gonna give and you will get a huge subscriber dump. You should do an in depth analysis of telltales TWD, people will flock to it for nostalgia alone.
Hey thanks so much mate! I definitely have plans for the telltale games in the future
@@Swell-Films That's good to hear, and I think when you drop it, if it's anything like this, I'll definitely subscribe!
Seeing this unique settlements was so fun something fear did really well
Only found you recently but absolutely love the channel. You're keeping the Dead, ALIVE!! ❤
Of course there would be abandoned water parks, roller coasters, malls, cruise ships - making for some outstanding/fun viewing. Was glad to see this water park as a setting.
Great Video about FEAR THE WALKING STUFF..........❤ I love the first seasons....Great locations,great charakters.....I love the idea that the Fear charakters Madison,Nick,Alicia,Troy , Victor and Daniel beeing the Whisperes....😊....TROY and John DORIE was a great charakters i loved too!
Five minutes ago is crazy but I never miss a video. Glad to see you upload again man, I love your videos!
Hey thanks so much for staying tuned!
And here I thought work was going to be boring! Great video, mate!
My own theory;
In my opinion the makeshift barricade of vehicles as well as the barricades lining the perimeter and pool seem to indicate that- at some point- a large group of survivors gathered at the water park for protection. Perhaps it was a mix of employees and locals who sought refuge there in the early days of the outbreak, hoping to find relative safety and a safe place to regroup?
The entrance/gate is interesting to me because the way it's laid out on the ground looks more like the type of damage you'd see from a vehicle collision- perhaps caused by raiders or another group of desperate survivors- which in turn attracted the ire of the infected, forcing the initial occupants to flee.
I'd like to think that the initial survivors left in a hurry in whatever vehicles they still had at their disposal (and that weren't part of the barricade) with either one or two opting to remain behind at the central tower, either to give their friends/families time to escape or because they believed that their superior position and tactical advantage of not only height above ground but also the barricaded perimeter might save them in the long run.
Eventually though the remaining survivors up in the eagle's nest would realize that they were stuck, only managing to eliminate one or two walkers at a time from range while attracting even more because of the large-caliber gunfire (.30 and .50 cal machine guns can echo for several metric kilometers, especially near larger bodies of water) which in turn boxed them in.
One of the walkers in the tower is dressed in some rather warm knitted wool clothing (or at least that's what it looks like, suggesting they want to stay warm from the cool night winds) so they may have been one of the stranded survivors who slowly perished due to starvation.
Perhaps both of them were the only remaining survivors from the original inhabitants that starved and died after being trapped by their own intricate defenses? Perhaps they were two opportunistic scavengers that sought refuge in the tower from an oncoming horde- only to be trapped up high with all sorts of supplies except for actual food and drinkable water?
As a military man I'd also like to point out that the large medical crate bears military symbols *and* is stocked with the same supplies a lot of military medical/triage tents and camps would make use of- not to mention the .30 cal which even has a spare barrel (4:00) sitting atop an equipment crate. While the .30 cal isn't in active use with the US military today I wouldn't be surprised if you could find one at a National Guard armory or in the home of a private collector, which might hint to some military presence at the water park or nearby.
Realistically though, the number of military crates might suggest that whomever erected the fort in the first place may have been a well-stocked survivor or someone with ties/former ties to the US military as there's at least a truck's worth of supplies still up in that tower.
But that's just my theory!
Good theory
Wish we saw more locations like this in the shows. Such an interesting apocalypse hideout
I remember going to this place years ago with my dad and brother sometimes; my cousin too. Pretty cool to see it in a TV series. It's one of those core memories where I remember every ride and all about it!
Your videos got me into twd! I know i am so late to the party but your videos actually intrigued me to the characters and the series so thanks :)
Love to hear it!
Another Banger The Walking Dead Lore Video from you is always good to see👍
Thanks for watching mate!
It maybe possible that the water park is meant to be some sort of makeshift FOB (Forward Operating Base) for the US Military Remnants that are either scattered with some civilians they brought with them. They fortified with whatever they can find and barricaded the stairs to make a sort of Watch Tower on the Slide Tower. Soon the Walkers attacked which left the Remnants or survivors eaten alive unprepared or fled into random directions. One civilian survivor attempted to climb up the slide but was bitten in the leg before he kicked the zombie off him. Unaware of the infection he got from the bite and managed to kill multiple walkers before succumbing to the infection.
i only just watched this scene and with how aggressive on of the walker was trying to push them self's off another to get to them in the circle i recon some of them could have been varitents and they just slowly climbed over the blockage and surprised the person dealing with the rest of the horde.
Love good lore videos. TWD is one franchise I can't get enough lore. You need more subscribers! These videos are great
I love this series so much!!!!! I especially love fear the walking dead areas since it’s from where I am. so whenever I’m watching the show and there’s a background shot it’s like looking outside lol
waterpark with slides has reminded me of left 4 dead 2
"hey whispering oaks! i used to go there as a kid!"
"oh great now we can die there as adults"
Maybe the two walkers were the people living there and there was two but there was only sleeping for one because they alternated sleeping
Ive binged this whole playlist. Love it. Keep it up!❤
Hey these videos are super neat man please keep doing this type of stuff. I’ve always thought certain things shown throughout the series are interesting and these theories are a neat way to think about what happened
I actually made a calendar of Walking Dead Universe places through my local CVS when they had a killer deal on a 18 month make it yourself. This place is actually my August picture. It definitely was one of the cooler places featured on Fear The Walking Dead. I think your idea makes sense. This person might have even been a national guard who abandoned their post and fortified this waterpark in means of keeping themselves alive, only for it to all backfire on them and having to leave all those supplies when a herd moved in. I have to say I really love your speculations on these cool scenes that were so prevalent in TWD, I mean sometimes when I rewatch I notice a little note like a shopping list pinned to a fridge when they are raiding for supplies. Those snapshots of the world before, I can't imagine our survivors not getting potentially trapped in nostalgia for a moment.
Honestly the front gate looks like it was rammed by a vehicle
I love the setting for this story but it always irks me that alicia only takes the shroud of the machine gun for the sake of “character development” :/
I hate how they tried to make it her “iconic” weapon lol
@Swell-Films agreed. They should have let her keep her original iconic weapons, which was the balisong knife but unfortunately those two awful reboot showrunner never watched the first three seasons.
@@Lord_Velvet_yeah they ruined ftwd, i loved the first 3 seasons
@@KleinerGrenadierI wouldn't say so. I loved 4A,5B,S6 and S7. I only hate 4B,5A and S8
@@filipgaecki5480 your pretty mutch disqualifing half the show ftwd made by the new show runners
That should show very clearly the problem
Since the s1-3 where pretty mutch allaround great
I mean if you look at this place it was one survivor but why did he choose a water park? That’s the real question did the person work there or did he hear on a radio that place was going to be a safe zone but when he got there it was a lie so he decided to make it his own safe zone. There always theory’s about this places in TWD universe.
Ah fancy seeing you here
@@Jericho_399 indeed sir good to see you
Woah, I’m here too! The boys are back! We going on a roadtrip to a waterpark or…
This is seriously the kind of thing tales of twd should have covered
@@Swell-Films I agree but no they don’t want to do that because they don’t think it’s good enough but here a video you could do the school were Shane and Otis went to get medicine for Carl. Keep up the good work
0:53 why is that dolphin wearing that 😭😭
A sailor's hat? I don't understand why that's funny?..
@@Cole-by9xsit’s actually something else…
@@asa3666 My brother in Christ it's just a sailor hat
@@andruwowen8485 actually it’s a German officer hat from ww2
@@asa3666 I was going to argue about that but i checked and noticed the similarities.
The best explanation I could give you. Is that the walker that ambushed him? Was somebody that was there with him? Maybe he had been away from. The area for a while. And just came back to stumble on to all of this. But in the panic didn’t notice. His partner had already completely turned. As he ran up towards. The high caliber turret. Remember lurkers, seem like they’re dead. He could’ve been ambushed the same way June was.. Only his partner was dead, unlike June. Who had Alicia? The reason why I think we see. The waterslide incident in the first place. it’s meant to show us what happened to the survivalist. The only explanation I could give you is that he wasn’t there alone. And that he accidentally got tricked by a lurker. And fell down the slide to his death. I highly doubt that high caliber turret. Was there from the start? This could’ve been an operational run, by more than one person.
I definitely think that’s a possibility aswell
One thing to mention is the variant zombies that don’t really
make sense but can totally climb some barriers. Which is why the place is abandoned, the survivor got scared seeing the zombies climb up and decided to leave as once they were surrounded, and ran out of ammo, they’d still be attacked, also there’s a chance the lone survivor died at the section where all the zombies were stuck at the funnel, rain could have washed away the blood as we see all the paint washed away there, as well.
Love these analysis videos keep going!
Tragic suvivor stories (Of the aftermath of such) can be seen in all these postapocalyptic movies, series and games, they are "designed" to make us wonder and be saddened...
My best guess at the reason why the two walkers are up in that tower is - there were actually two survivors and the eventually starved to death OR - maybe the survivor was killed by some other survivor - the second walker perhaps. They had a gunfight and the man on the tower was shot - but not in the head as he eventualy turned - but the gunfight lured in a nerby group of zombies. So the women rushed up the slides to the tower, hoping she is safe, only to end up bitten by the guy she killed earlier.
THEY RAN OUT OF FOOD The survivor ran out of food and starved to death.
This story made me imagine what I’d do if I was stuck somewhere less blatantly built for survival, or even consider if I could take somewhere not built to be lived in and MAKE it somewhere to survive in.
Like, I know we see this waterpark, and we saw the fairgrounds in TWD… but what about a “smaller” amusement park? Or even just portions of a larger one?
Like… cedar fair/six flags parks, parts of Disney world/land… as well as more local “amusement parks” that folks from out of state might not know about.
Idk, they typically have first aid stations in the parks I named, some have haunt seasons which means they have a variety of props (largely flimsy and useless) as well as sets (typically built more durable, with parts that could theoretically be scavenged from power sources to decorations that are made of real metal.
Some have waterparks, which could be similarly useful with various food vending locations and first aid located within for easy access, so you could always just lock up the waterpark section and call the rest a lost cause as the water parks are typically a more manageable size.
But there is also the chance to make the entire park APPEAR much more dangerous. If it’s a park that has a haunt then you already have “bodies” you can hang from the rides that are visible from the outside, as well as any zombies you take out.
These parks also aren’t impenetrable towards smaller wildlife, such as squirrels, raccoons, opossum, birds, and cats. Worst case these could be food options if necessary.
Idk, I definitely think it’s an interesting idea, and I do with we had gotten something like that. Plenty of amusement parks are closed during the “off season” and could have been utilized, as in some regions of the south it still gets a bit too cold to be riding 100mph rides, but not cold enough to be on a roller coaster (or, from what I heard, the rides aren’t built to BE ridden in the cold & doing so can cause damage)
Theory: What if the person was ex military or at least conscripted due to the fact they were able to have a machine gun and they did fortify the place pretty damn good also had made sure to get everything they needed cause if I were in that situation I’d probably realistically just off myself I ain’t living in constant fear of death man but anyways as you said a horde could’ve broken in and overran the lower parts and the survivor would pick them off one by one but due to the fact not many bodies were there and the still loaded gun they decided that what they were doing was pointless and the more they shot the more walkers would’ve come and offed themselves and maybe they had a lover and friend which would explain the two walkers
I think the survivalist either got bit early by a surprise walker encounter, and made their way up and fought for a day or two before succumbing... or, they may have taken in a survivor that was bit (unlikely, this person seemed pretty paranoid)... or the survivor himself had a health condition and maybe had a heart attack or something and died and became a walker, despite the preparations. The stack of medical supplies might imply they were attempting to self-care in the post-apocalyptic world without a doctor.
Interestingly, look at the hat on the cartoon dolphin. It is a WW2 German U-boat commander's hat.
I'm not exactly the smartest, but even I realize that the survivor was bitten and went to die in the comfort of his last strength.
Or the lone wolf didn't know that the bite turns you and took in some survivers that were bitten.
@@johnkonig865 maybe
Yo Im Not Gon Lie Keep Doing These Bro I Mess With TWD Alot But Too Lazy To Do This Myself And You Been Going Crazy😂
Thanks!
Hey thank you so much! That’s very kind!
Ya know I actually like this as I worked at a pretty popular waterpark here in Texas called Schlitterbahn. Can't deny that I'd myself wondering how I could use the main park as a fortress against the undead. The main section of the park had a long and deep lazy river that went around the whole park and was very well enclosed with fences. Think the only issue was that the main park descended so if you were inside the park you'd have to go up to reach the entrance which means fighting the undead up flights of stairs with a decently wide natural river behind you as you're only way out. There are side gates for Park Service but they are always locked and the only people who had the keys were the park service leads, supervisors and others in high positions, so you'd have to hope they either unlocked them when they fled from the undead inside the park or hope you're Park Service and are lucky enough to have the keys to begin with. I just always find the idea of holding up in an amusement park during the zombie apocalypse interesting.
5:43 the car couldn't believe the abandonment she did so wouldn't start because it was mad
Hi Ty, Great video once again. Could you done about the Public Works Building in S2 Ep 10, "18 Miles Out"- where Rick and Shane attempt to drop of Randall. It seems like some fight broke out
Absolutely! I intend to cover that one in the next couple weeks
One area for sleeping can just mean only one person was asleep at a time. Isn't 101 in survival, always having a lookout...
Keep em coming =)
Maybe the lone survivor saw a living person, maybe already bit, running from a horde and decided to help, leading to the walkers following them in. Managed to get safely up to the tower, but the bitten person they saved (or maybe they had gotten bit while saving the person) ended up turning and biting them or something
This video is amazing, more of these please ❤❤❤
Perhaps this was an early indication of the climbing walkers, whether they climbed the place or went up the slide since they did have the ability to grip and the survivor didn't notice them thanks to the sound of the machine gun.
Pluse it is the back story of a realy cool weapon. Never realized it was the barrel guard off a machine gun.
The gate looked like it had been rammed open by a vehicle, I think someone rammed the gate trying to get away from the horde and accidently lead them to the park. I think there was two people that had been part of the park, and they slept in shifts. One person went out for supplies leaving the other to gaurd the park, the dead actually gained access through a spot we didnt see in the show. The remaining person radioed for help while in a gun battle with the zombies and the other person charged in using their vehicle to ram the gates open and rescued their partner and they escaped.
maybe the zombies didn't climb up there, maybe they were a group looking for safety. I'm thinking one of them could have hid a bite while the others stayed on lookout, one taking shots at the walkers below. The person who was bit then turns and start attacking, a few people die in the tower, others try using the slide to escape but end up in that pit?
Survivor met someone, made a bad decision(maybe out of loneliness or just poor thought process and utter desperation due to living in the fucking apocalypse😅) and let them come back to the base, stranger was bitten and turns and bites the survivor, the survivor somehow prevents the now walker from killing him, but isnt able to kill the walker, bam, two walkers in the nest.
I just love these videos.
Don't forget there are variant walkers, explains why they stormed the waterslides
You know, even though I know the obvious reason why they wouldn't be able to do this, I still would have loved to seen what would happen during a zombie apocalypse like in The walking Dead for those who are attending a Disney World or Universal studios sized theme park.
Excellent Video & Thank you, Weekend Waterpark Plans Cancelled‼️
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Lone survivor ran out of food, and water. Knew it was a matter of time before they succumbed, threw themself into the pool at the bottom. Got eaten, but as there was water in the pool at the time, the remains sank to the bottom as the water evaporated.
I like your videos!! I really like to think in behind stories! I would like to watch about the enchained zombies on Daryl Dixon series ❤❤❤
I reckon they ran out of some essential supply...medicine or water...
they tried to go down thru the walkers, and got bit...retreating back to their safe room, where they expired
they were the two walkers in the safe room
My impulsive thought: Clear the park and have some goddamn fun
I think the walker in the tower was the guy who lived there... I think he got bit and turned... and I don't think he was there alone to begin with. I also don't think it was a walker hoard that broke down the fences, but possibly the Vultures or some other rando group. Some of the walker were from that group, some came from the chaos.
Another banger video!
Perhaps the survoir got bot while on a supply run which drew the horde to follow, leading them to make a last stand before the infactiom killed them mid battle? Just my own thought of it
The person held up there probably worked there before the fall
I like the story but I think the walkers overran our survivor and as a last ditch effort to protect himself he was somehow able to push the small horde down the slide (which is how they got stuck at the bottom) but while doing so he got bitten and succumb to the virus shortly after (which explains why there was still one walker up there instead of them allll being down at the bottom
Looks like the walkers in the funnel slide had to go down the slide to get there. They could have been alive in the tower and sent down the slide after they were killed. Maybe the last walker in the tower was just a little slow sending a victim down the slide before they turned and got bit.
It could be that the gun jammed and the survivor couldn’t fix it or didn’t think they could fix it before the walkers got up the slides. So the survivor left. That would explain why the gun was still loaded.
the zombies in the tower were the residents who lived in the tower. 1 of them dies for whatever reason. then the other makes dumb sentimental decisions like they always do. then everybody dies.
Really the thing with survival is you need people you do blend with
Amazing video, I really love the environmental story from the walking dead universe. I wish they added more environment story in FTWD, I know a few like the hotel that Strand and Daniel visit in season 3 and when Strand came across his Abigail in season 3. There quite short thoughts
Also plz more content like this i love theses
Maybe the walkers on the tower where the survivors and had just suffered bites during the attack.
Why does every tv show makes Texas look like it's all desert when it's a very diverse biome?
It’s probably cheaper to film in the barren areas lol
Just a thought you could cover the military walker inside the tank in twd when Rick originally meets glen there’s def a bit of environmental storytelling there
i always wondered where the walkers came from in the sewers below Alexdranda in season 6. With Aaron and Maggie trying to make it through the sewer.
Well I kinda have two theories… So either the person up top got bit/ or was sick and passed. Because I only remember 1 walker imup there with them….
Now my other thought would be possibly that the variant like we seen at the second kingdom with Jerry.
Maybe a (climber) got in and got to that person… 😔
A man and a sick woman lived there, while setting up traps he was attacked by walkers, woman shoots and goes down to rescue the man and they flee in the car or she flees alone
One of the things that annoys the hell out of me in the walking dead is that all the guns they find that’s been exposed to the elements for extended periods of time without maintenance or care are pristine and functional. I’m rewatching the main show and I just passed the episode where Rick and Carl fight off the horde that broke through the prison fence while the others were struggling with the flu on the inside. They just had carts of guns and ammo just sitting out there for who knows how long. I get the were there as prep for a potential attack but come on.
Me at the 0:53 mark 😳
Possibly the wlakers thst got up were varients maybe climbers that msnage to climb pass ir sround rhe barricade in the stairs
Could've been one of those climbing zombies that got the survivor in his tower
I believe the walker got up the water slide tower is by climbing. Even though we see only variant walkers in TWD and Dixon they still exist in the universe.
Could be possible! Wish they actually fleshed out the variants
@@Swell-Films Me too. They have so much potential
Fear wasn’t always the best but I loved seeing the start of the apocalypse. Twd did something new by starting already into the apocalypse and I love it but it’s still cool to see later on. Fear also did a lot of cool locations and situations
i think there were climbers that got up there, you can't go up the slides without holding the sides
Interesting theory. I wish amc explored them more so we could know how long they’ve been around in the timeline