M&M's World. What's that all about then? We sent our fearless reporter, Andrew Davidson to the centre of London's tourist-verse, to eat chocolate, and maybe survive.
WagonWheel World, Jacobs Club World, Penguin World, Viscount World, Refreshers World, I'm sure there is a Cadbury World in Birmingham but not in London.
It has lots of visitors but I doubt many of them are buying. Probably just freaking out at the prices! I miss the Swiss Centre I was gutted when I found out it was gone.
I like m&m world but I wish I had seen the Swiss centre as my Grandmother was born in Switzerland so would have loved to see some of the products there. I have visited Switzerland twice but not seen where she grew up yet.
I remember being taken to the Swiss Centre as a kid for a treat every now and again. We'd take a drive into town and get to choose cake, which was pretty good cake as I remember. Now there is no cake, just this tacky travesty that now stands on one of the corners of one of London's most iconic focal points. This country is slowly being infected by the worst bits of American culture. Whatever next, a routinely armed Police force?!
Business idea: buy packs of M&Ms for £1.50 from a supermarket, separate them all out into the different colours, stick in sandwich bags and sell for £10 each in Leicester Square.
I went there with my daughter a couple of years ago. Filled one of those bags with various colours of M&Ms and then weighed it to see how much it cost. 😂😂 Left the bag and walked out. Shockingly over-priced.
BB1349 I'd wager at least £4 knowing that place, its more money to fill a bag there then to walk round the corner and buy a standard bag, it makes no sense
Though to be honest you don´t get the variety of tastes in a shop that you can get on this wall. Did it once for a colleague who loves M&Ms when in their New York store, just for the laughs: Try to get a few pieces each of as many different colors as possible, but the price was outside the realm of reason.
cbweb from what I've heard our London store has sod all flavours compared to others, I've not bought any myself the price is awful but I have had a look and really most of it was just different colours rather then being different flavours. I was expecting the wall of sweets to be like the jelly bean factory with millions of flavours I dont particularly care what colour my chocolate is.
If I remember correctly, it was close to £20. 😂😂 They are large bags, but even so! Couldn’t advocate spending that sort of money on the novelty factor. Took kiddie on the London eye instead. And it was cheaper! 👍
I don't get why they have the blue and green characters when they never use them in adverts in the UK? That and why the hell don't we have peanut butter M&M's in the UK???? >:(
Great video! Informative and funny, scrolling through the comments and noticed some classic haters... they gonna hate unfortunately...To be fair the M&M It’s a pretty trippy hangout at 1am
Ah, the classic 'Haters' comment. I actually like M&Ms. I am staring at a packet of peanut ones right now...what I don't like is classic focal points in London going down market and having places like that in them as well as a MacDonalds to put the rancid cherry on top.
On a recent trip to London we stumbled upon the M&M shop. It was raining hard and we needed to go indoors somewhere to get out of the sudden downpour. We only spent a couple of minutes in there. It was more preferable to go back to the torrential storm than to spend any more time in the mausoleum of coloured sugar. It was awful.
Laughed at asking if they were fresh. The t shirts with London monuments covered by the giant 'm' are breathtaking. Anyone wearing that might as well have a shirt that has 'I'm a fucking idiot' written on it.
Andrew, just when I thought I’d watched all your videos, you pop up on this one. 😂😂😂. We are coming from Australia to London and I will certainly not be heading there. (My husband does like the peanut m&m though - I’ll have to buy him some beforehand so he is not tempted).
Been wondering this since I moved. I was walking behind some young ladies who also expressed their incredulity. “LEGO I get, almost everything else here I get. Must M&m”s?!?” Her friend “money. It’s always packed after all”
We don't have M&M World in Singapore but we go have Candylicious, which has practically almost anything M&M can offer within its array of products with its 'dedicated' M&M zone...
I've only been in there once and it was because I had just saw the queue to get into the Lego store on Leicester Square (which was long as fuck) and considering I was going to be in there for literally five minutes to pick up the set, pay for it and leave I decided that a 30 min queue was too much and decided to wait it out there as it was also hot and they had ac. Plus, it was a perfect vantage point to watch to see when the queue had shortened.
I live in London and I have been there a lot of times but it gets boring because it is basically a really big chocolate shop with merch and nothing else .No slides or stuff like that .Would u go to a shop that only sold beer over and over and over again ? It just gets boring
A little bit of me died and the bit left felt OLD. I have not been for so long that I didn't even KNOW the place was there, killing the home of London fondue. I was puzzled..as I went into the M&M's World in Las Vegas, next to Coca Cola World.. sigh......
It’s certainly a sad statement on the intellectual and cultural curiosity of the traveling public. The tourist experience must be as empty as the calories in the product.
You didn't mention the overpowering sickily smell! It's the biggest attraction of the store for me, for about 2 minutes. Then I walk around for 5 minutes and leave without buying anything :D
I am extremely disappointed that one of these stores are now in London. I always thought of London as being a city with class. There is one (maybe more) in Manhattan. It is almost too kitschy for there also. But belongs more in New York City than in Manhattan. I will have to avoid Leicester Square the next time I am in London.
Hmm no, it's a city with major social issues and inequality. The only "class" is the one linked to social classes and status, and if you happen to be born in the wrong class you'd be stuck for life without a way to change that. That's the main reason that fueled the London riots back in 2011.
@@encalica853 £14 million? Bloody hell, keep the house, I'm going to M&M's world... I should be able to fill at least 10 bags for that and I may even have enough change left over for a really tasteful M&M's Swarovski crystal studded jacket.
I went there once, I'm a londoner i find myself going central less and less, apart from getting the tube to Trafalgar Square for things like Chinese new year I don't really go there, its pointless, crowded expensive, pretty much all the shops are chains you can find elsewhere or online, so last time I went I was wondering about aimlessly trying to remember where japan centre is (now hideously expensive and shadow of its former self so no point going there anymore) and my child dragged me into that M&Ms place, he was very excited I was just deeply confused, i went to where all the sweets were thinking thats got to be the reason its here thry must be really cheap to fill your own bags and have special flavours you can't get elsewhere....but alas no just over priced inferior smarties. I still don't understand why my child was excited, he doesn't even eat M&Ms very often he's more likely to make a bee line for malteesers, haribo etc, now I would actually understand a haribo world more at least they have a lot more variety and a mascot that isn't just Cool Spot with a M painted on it.
We have several of these M&M world stores in the US, and they can be a bit expensive too. Maybe not as bad as London prices, but still bad. M&M's are an American candy, so we have access to all of this stuff this store sells in London anyways. So I'm not sure why Americans waste time at it, if they are there to visit London. But I know folks from all over the world besides Americans do visit the London store as well, since they love M&Ms too. M&Ms are just massively popular all over the world now.
Leicester Square has slowly become a cheap disgrace - somewhere I don't look forward to going to and when I do I walk straight through to somewhere else.
Ironically, it’s actually impossible to buy a normal pack of m&ms in there.
I really want there to be a SMARTIES world directly opposite.
there's a lego store, which is actually kind of entertaining, but not worth the huge queue it normally has
Lic021 I'm a londoner and I've never been to that Lego because of the queue, I don't get it, theres one at Westfield that doesn't have any queues
WagonWheel World, Jacobs Club World, Penguin World, Viscount World, Refreshers World, I'm sure there is a Cadbury World in Birmingham but not in London.
Smarties aren't nearly as good.
Orange smarties are tastier though
It has lots of visitors but I doubt many of them are buying. Probably just freaking out at the prices! I miss the Swiss Centre I was gutted when I found out it was gone.
What was the Swiss centre?
@@s125ish Watch the video. It tells you.
I like m&m world but I wish I had seen the Swiss centre as my Grandmother was born in Switzerland so would have loved to see some of the products there. I have visited Switzerland twice but not seen where she grew up yet.
It would be a great video, if the audio levels were not all over the place... :(
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Agreed,
It's like constantly switching between Scotty Kilmer and Magibon videos...
I’ve never understood the appeal of M&Ms World. I’m not even from London and I can’t stand the sight of it.
M&M world should be called “ everything that’s wrong with the” world
M&M Morbidobesity&Milddissapointment
geoff looks different in this one... and the reporters disgust is probably the equivalent of... you guessed it... a 15 storey building!!
WHY DO PEOPLE DISLIKE THIS MASTERPIECE OF A VIDEO!?
The most vial corner of London surely is Bank station, followed by all of the Wetherspoons pubs
If you turn on captions, it says "Eminem's World". 0:27 Will the real Geoff Marshall please stand up. :)
That'd be an amazing store!
#BringBackGeoff
Geoff is a very busy man, but he does still make videos for us! More coming soon.
I remember being taken to the Swiss Centre as a kid for a treat every now and again. We'd take a drive into town and get to choose cake, which was pretty good cake as I remember. Now there is no cake, just this tacky travesty that now stands on one of the corners of one of London's most iconic focal points. This country is slowly being infected by the worst bits of American culture. Whatever next, a routinely armed Police force?!
Mate I just eat the M&M's from the pick and mix for free
Literally only reason I’ll even bother stepping foot in der
that swiss centre sounds nice. i pass that clock everyday and always wondered y its there
I loved this video and the editing style! Would love to see more of this kind of thing.
they are overly price. you're literally paying for the "m" and not the chocolate itself.
Petition to replace m&ms world with smarties world
I'm surprised that London hasn't got a coke-a-cola world
Business idea: buy packs of M&Ms for £1.50 from a supermarket, separate them all out into the different colours, stick in sandwich bags and sell for £10 each in Leicester Square.
As a kid I always wanted to go to M&Ms world.
Give this guy a raise
I went there with my daughter a couple of years ago.
Filled one of those bags with various colours of M&Ms and then weighed it to see how much it cost. 😂😂
Left the bag and walked out.
Shockingly over-priced.
How much was it?
BB1349 I'd wager at least £4 knowing that place, its more money to fill a bag there then to walk round the corner and buy a standard bag, it makes no sense
Though to be honest you don´t get the variety of tastes in a shop that you can get on this wall. Did it once for a colleague who loves M&Ms when in their New York store, just for the laughs: Try to get a few pieces each of as many different colors as possible, but the price was outside the realm of reason.
cbweb from what I've heard our London store has sod all flavours compared to others, I've not bought any myself the price is awful but I have had a look and really most of it was just different colours rather then being different flavours.
I was expecting the wall of sweets to be like the jelly bean factory with millions of flavours I dont particularly care what colour my chocolate is.
If I remember correctly, it was close to £20. 😂😂
They are large bags, but even so! Couldn’t advocate spending that sort of money on the novelty factor.
Took kiddie on the London eye instead. And it was cheaper! 👍
What a video! Was not expecting that!
I don't get why they have the blue and green characters when they never use them in adverts in the UK?
That and why the hell don't we have peanut butter M&M's in the UK???? >:(
Larry Bundy Jr I’ve been seeing it pop up more and more in local shops like Budgens (admittedly in the overpriced ‘American Candy’ section)
Because *NANNY STATE*
I literally have to hold my breath going past that place, in the summer, I'll even go the long way into leicester square to avoid going past it
I worked across the street from the Swiss Centre, those bells were loud
Great video! Informative and funny, scrolling through the comments and noticed some classic haters... they gonna hate unfortunately...To be fair the M&M It’s a pretty trippy hangout at 1am
Cheers Matt - it's a trippy place alright!
Ah, the classic 'Haters' comment. I actually like M&Ms. I am staring at a packet of peanut ones right now...what I don't like is classic focal points in London going down market and having places like that in them as well as a MacDonalds to put the rancid cherry on top.
If you are a tourist visiting London, the Lego store opposite is way better
This was much funnier, much more entertaining than I was expecting!
Why thank you!
On a recent trip to London we stumbled upon the M&M shop. It was raining hard and we needed to go indoors somewhere to get out of the sudden downpour.
We only spent a couple of minutes in there. It was more preferable to go back to the torrential storm than to spend any more time in the mausoleum of coloured sugar. It was awful.
Laughed at asking if they were fresh.
The t shirts with London monuments covered by the giant 'm' are breathtaking. Anyone wearing that might as well have a shirt that has 'I'm a fucking idiot' written on it.
Its a joke how they get away selling the m&ms at inflated prices compared to supermarkets
Good call on the Smarties
is it just about the specific location? because everyone seems to be fine with the one in new york.
Andrew, just when I thought I’d watched all your videos, you pop up on this one. 😂😂😂. We are coming from Australia to London and I will certainly not be heading there. (My husband does like the peanut m&m though - I’ll have to buy him some beforehand so he is not tempted).
I went to M&M's world earlier today then got this video recommended to me, it KNEW!!!
Been wondering this since I moved. I was walking behind some young ladies who also expressed their incredulity. “LEGO I get, almost everything else here I get. Must M&m”s?!?”
Her friend “money. It’s always packed after all”
I miss the Swiss Centre.
i miss its cozy little cinema
FYI 5 million people would fit into 625,000 Routemasters (If every bus had at least 1 wheelchair user. If not then 57472 Routemasters)
Thank you Andrew. This place is basically Satan's Butthole, only less fun, as I'd quite like to have a "Satan's Butthole" mug.
I’ve been to London twice and i always end up going to this store only by mistake idk how
Being Canadian, Smarties are my favourite as well!
I remember finally going to m&m world last year and was so disappointed seeing a bunch of people doing the cha cha slide on the ground floor
We don't have M&M World in Singapore but we go have Candylicious, which has practically almost anything M&M can offer within its array of products with its 'dedicated' M&M zone...
this is amazing
I used to work in Piccadilly Circus and it baffled me.
I’ve walked past there a million times but never actually gone inside
'Multicolored obese Disneyland'
I've only been in there once and it was because I had just saw the queue to get into the Lego store on Leicester Square (which was long as fuck) and considering I was going to be in there for literally five minutes to pick up the set, pay for it and leave I decided that a 30 min queue was too much and decided to wait it out there as it was also hot and they had ac. Plus, it was a perfect vantage point to watch to see when the queue had shortened.
I mean at least in Berlin there was some effort in terms of a more local product with them having a dedicated Ritters Sport store.
This is the last non-train video I watch here
It’s enough to fill 62,500 double decker buses
I live in London and I have been there a lot of times but it gets boring because it is basically a really big chocolate shop with merch and nothing else .No slides or stuff like that .Would u go to a shop that only sold beer over and over and over again ? It just gets boring
A little bit of me died and the bit left felt OLD. I have not been for so long that I didn't even KNOW the place was there, killing the home of London fondue. I was puzzled..as I went into the M&M's World in Las Vegas, next to Coca Cola World.. sigh......
I like eating M&Ms but I get them a lot cheaper in my local Asda!
Went in there with my young Nephew we left after two minutes as the overpowering smell was too much for both of us.
how will M and Ms be affected by Brexit?
Hopefully they will be sent back to where they came from.... Obesity land
It’s certainly a sad statement on the intellectual and cultural curiosity of the traveling public. The tourist experience must be as empty as the calories in the product.
You didn't mention the overpowering sickily smell! It's the biggest attraction of the store for me, for about 2 minutes. Then I walk around for 5 minutes and leave without buying anything :D
We did!
Somewhere to get out of the rain!
I am extremely disappointed that one of these stores are now in London. I always thought of London as being a city with class. There is one (maybe more) in Manhattan. It is almost too kitschy for there also. But belongs more in New York City than in Manhattan. I will have to avoid Leicester Square the next time I am in London.
Hmm no, it's a city with major social issues and inequality. The only "class" is the one linked to social classes and status, and if you happen to be born in the wrong class you'd be stuck for life without a way to change that.
That's the main reason that fueled the London riots back in 2011.
Your channel better be good, I want to know a lot about the history of London.
We hope we live up to your expectations!
I went to m&ms world in Las Vegas and the prices weren’t nearly as terrifying as in London. Mars did an oopsie.
I'd forgotten about the bloody Swiss Centre!
2:30 I have on of those
I go to Leicester Square every other weekend night, that shop is annoying and it's the least london place in London.
Great thumbnail! 😂
Tourists in London are like sheep, and the city is like a farm. Simple.
Just wait until brexit goes through. We have seen nothing yet. People will visit to look at how poor people live.
@@common_c3nts well, the super rich are loving London at the moment - houses are £14,000,000 instead of £20,000,000
@@encalica853 £14 million? Bloody hell, keep the house, I'm going to M&M's world... I should be able to fill at least 10 bags for that and I may even have enough change left over for a really tasteful M&M's Swarovski crystal studded jacket.
@@tonetoobtwo 👏
You mean people just do what they find fun, and you should let them.
this vid is like mad Extra😂
Haha, great video
ive been there a few times
Damn I wanna eat some m&ms now
nice ideas in the editing of the video..apart from the audio editing. my ears hurt a bit now XD
Went in here once, never again.
the swiss centre was better
What’s this guys name and where in Scotland is he from ?
I went there once, I'm a londoner i find myself going central less and less, apart from getting the tube to Trafalgar Square for things like Chinese new year I don't really go there, its pointless, crowded expensive, pretty much all the shops are chains you can find elsewhere or online, so last time I went I was wondering about aimlessly trying to remember where japan centre is (now hideously expensive and shadow of its former self so no point going there anymore) and my child dragged me into that M&Ms place, he was very excited I was just deeply confused, i went to where all the sweets were thinking thats got to be the reason its here thry must be really cheap to fill your own bags and have special flavours you can't get elsewhere....but alas no just over priced inferior smarties. I still don't understand why my child was excited, he doesn't even eat M&Ms very often he's more likely to make a bee line for malteesers, haribo etc, now I would actually understand a haribo world more at least they have a lot more variety and a mascot that isn't just Cool Spot with a M painted on it.
Go to the one in Times Square . They have a wall of m&ms that’s as big as New York City.
I agree the level of sound is shocking on here
Leicester Square is my idea of hell.
I only went in once to see how expensive it was. Didn’t see anything in the margin of that Swarovski jacket though.
U r right:)
I was there last summer
I'd like to see a "Haribo world", maybe less garish and not as overpriced.
Right now, sounds like Raeight Noe
We have several of these M&M world stores in the US, and they can be a bit expensive too. Maybe not as bad as London prices, but still bad. M&M's are an American candy, so we have access to all of this stuff this store sells in London anyways. So I'm not sure why Americans waste time at it, if they are there to visit London. But I know folks from all over the world besides Americans do visit the London store as well, since they love M&Ms too. M&Ms are just massively popular all over the world now.
You go there for the experience
Why is this in my recommendations 😂🤨
Here's a tip for ya. If you buy a small cup of M&Ms for £7.99, take it back over and over again and get free chocolate :)
Tourists love it
The kindest thing I can say about it is that it doesn't smell as bad as the Hershey shop in Times Square, New York.
Why the Glasgow Uni Accent? Why?
twg is opp , great video
And now there are American candy stores everywhere!
Lol the Smarties are Swiss (by Nestlé), but yeah i'm so patriotic eating Smarties..
For M&M's
Leicester Square has slowly become a cheap disgrace - somewhere I don't look forward to going to and when I do I walk straight through to somewhere else.
I’m glad someone has mentioned the smell...it’s nasty like gone off chocolate, also as mentioned those m&ms look old and melty; avoid
The guy sounds like Gordon Chree
It’s not even that bad it was quite fun as a little child