One of my favorite things about this short is how much is left up to the imagination. They begin to imply something horrifying and then move on without elaborating, it's both effectively unnerving and darkly comedic.
I think it's also a lot cooler world-building, kind of like an actual documentary where the people watching should know some of the answers already. Like with the sphere, he says the tricky part was trying to figure out how they would stop the ride without all the people flying over it falling and crashing, and it's not explained at all as if the audience is expected to have seen the rides already and know how it stops.
“the results were a bit too extreme to publish” “aside from one incident where the contraption was placed too close to a building we were fine” this is some FNAF phone guy type alluding
for me something that adds is the fact of hearing music in spanish in the background, bc in LatinAmerica there's this joke where when people from the first world want to try something dangerous, they would come to the region and try it as no one would actually care, it's like asuming to much from a simple bg music, but well
The High Altitude Conveyance really freaked me out the most. It’s so unsettling to see the Ferris wheel abomination stretch up to what looks like forever. This was so cool to watch and see all these freakishly cool park rides as if they were real.
I had so many dreams about rides like these, like a roller coaster that's so high, you can't see the tip of the hill and things like that, even though they are only 1 or 2 i actually remember.
"I mean we had setbacks, but I wouldn't say that it was a mistake. If anything, the mistake is in nature. Gravity is a mistake. We fight the forces that hold us down."
I remember when I was 9 I was OBSESSED with this video. I made drawings of the rides and thought the place was actually real. I would tell all my family about it and tried to convince them that it existed lol. This video has influenced my art style and so much more. I am so glad I found it again!
Right! Makes it even more terrifying that he said it so calmly. Or the other one where he said “there was an unfortunate incident where it was placed too close to a wall”
Yeah the writing in this is sort of like It's really interesting and smart and then they completely destroy it by saying something really vague and stupid and that being the reason why
"Some of our results were too extreme to be published so we shifted our focus to height instead of acceleration" is such a brilliant goddamn line. Can't say "people died because we made them go way too fast," they'll cut the funding!
I'm fascinated by the question of *why* these scenes seem to be creepy or unsettling to most people. It must be some kind of strange version of the uncanny valley effect, but it's weird because they're all machines. Maybe it's the rapid and erratic ways they move that adds a level of life to them that we recognize as not natural? Maybe it's from viewing humans in these unnatural states like floating in the air over a giant sphere. It's a mashup of things that could maybe work just at the edge of logic, but yet at the same time we know can't be possible. I can't really place it, but it's so surreal and really genuinely creepy.
Me too! I love surreal stuff that makes people uncomfortable without even knowing why. I noticed a few things that might have caused some people to feel this. - The blurriness of the faces (Just like in your dreams, the faces of the people in the clips are extremely vague and you can't identify real facial features) - The music and sounds (The volume is fading in and out, screaming can be heard over the music, even though the camera is extremely close to some of the attractions the music still seems very distant much like in many dreams) - The smoothness of the animation (The animation is so smoothly done that it's almost as if it moves slightly slower than it should. This is exactly like in the dreams of most people) Could be totally wrong idk. Just love this kinda stuff!
I mean they look a little dangerous tbh - not just a fast rollercoaster but you'll be deceased if you enter type danger. Also they're intimidatingly large - like there's being scared of riding a roller coaster but these look a bit worse.
I know that the reason for my uneasiness is because I have, like many others in the comments, had dreams about this kind of stuff, and it takes me back to this quasi dream, out of touch with reality side of my brain.
The animation has an amazing uncanny smoothness to it, but what blew my mind is how infinitely large the structures appeared. Like others in the comments I swear I've seen gigantic structures like these in my dreams and they both frighten and fascinate me. Also, when I had only seen the sphereotron I hadn't realized this was fiction yet. The acting is wonderfully convincing.
The sphere is the only one that *doesn't* work. (structural limits of steel aside on the other ones.) It won't lift the chairs over the "equator" above 90° no matter how fast it spins.
The cgi has a perfect mix of being realistic enough to see the detail, but phased out enough to look like irl footage. If it didn't look so whimsical I could've mistaken it for real video.
@@Кубикиикотики I know, but the rides just truly look like something you would see in a dream. As someone who remembers theirs dreams every so often, especially just the bizarre locations that appear in the dream realm. It's weird what our brains cook up while we sleep...
tbf the last time i went to an amusement park they had a MASSIVE ferris wheel, and looking up at it gave me the exact same pit in my stomach the nigh-lovecraftian abomination in this film does. the image of this thing is like a representation of the feeling of the actual thing ...i was 20 at the time btw lmao
they're all so creepy but the catapult absolutely turns my stomach. the way it snakes up so far into the sky is way too organic, it looks like a leviathan monster. it reminds me a lot of what scares people about the deep ocean, living things being so damn big they disappear into the fog
This guy is the sweetest mad scientist I have ever seen. But this fascinates me, just think about how an amusement park might be a laboratory that the subjects willingly walk themselves into. What a cool idea that I hope no one is already using IRL.
@@memer-ub3il (You) just won one internet! No srsly these rides would break under their own weight. No Manmade or natural Material would be able to withstand such forces. Let alone soft, gooey, squishy humans...
what makes this film so creepy is that it feels like a sort of impending threat. you start to get the sense that these machines are some kind of ethereal threat, and they're going to do something bad to the world. its like something wrong is happening right in front of you and you are the only one who can tell
The footage creeps me out because, well, I know all those people riding them would be dead. They'd have died riding those. Cause physics. You watch the clips (with suspense of disbelief) and think "Oh, those people riding that just died."
Omg I been seeing videos shared by this and SO many people believe its real. Common sense would tell you these rides would legit kill you if they were real 😂
notes: 1) vomit path must not interfere with other people's enjoyment of the ride. 2) larger sign about removing piercings. 3) Attendants must double check seat belt security. 4) provide lockers for storage of all lose items. 5) pregnant women should not ride. 6) Who let a guy with a gun on th
I think the most effective part is that you never SEE anything go wrong, but the screams and the otherwordly shapes and the casual implications from the script are so unsettling anyway. It's the most subtle, lingering, beautiful type of horror
A lot of people are calling this dreamlike and I totally agree I always see these kinds of gigantic superstructures in my dreams. The ferris wheel in particular. Lots of dreams where I look up at a building of some kind and it just keeps going and going and going....
Looks like a horror movie where aliens disguise themselves as amusement park rides. Once you're in they feed off your fear to gain strength, then your blood and eventually your soul as you become one with the alien transformers.
Yes exactly idk why but I had a dream of the big speratic ferris wheel too but weird thing is, I've never seen this video...it's a huge deja Vu moment 😯
I think the reason this feels so 'dreamlike' as some people say is the way they talk about really crazy and nonsensical things like it's totally normal. You know how when you dream and you believe everything you're experiencing, and only after you wake up do you slowly realize, "...wait, that was WEIRD" ? That's how watching this feels. Dude will say things like "oh yeah, this one ride was 14 hours long" and "for this ride we catapulted riders like a slingshot", and you just... accept it.
yes! i've never heard anyone else talk about this, but it's true that in most dreams we tend to accept the most bizarre things as completely normal. this is exactly like that indeed.
It has nothing to do with how they talk about it, because there's a 3 minute video of just the ride scenes, without the explanations, and it feels even more dream like.
The dialogue is so dreamlike too but also really eerie if you do listen. Like the guy never mentions but heavily implies that several were injured and possibly killed in these experiments but just glosses over it
Also a lot of the stuff he says literally makes no sense if you really listen to what he's saying and think about it for a bit, like dialogue in dreams. Like look at the Dandelion and tell me in what way it even remotely resembles the prenatal experience of being a baby in the womb while a mother is walking around.
The CGI is very convincing!! When the ride began to wildly spin at 5:45, I almost choked on my damn lemonade I mean, holy crap. Very good work! Now I am certain I shall NEVER set foot on a rollercoaster!
They are all based on real flatrides travelling at German fairgrounds. Only are the videos edited/adjusted with CGI. I'll list all the rides and the real ride they are based on. 'Wedding Cake' = any example of HUSS Breakdance. 2. 'Spherotron" = a standard chairoplane, e.g. made by Zierer. 3. 'Expander' = a basic children ride. 4. 'HAC' = obviously any ferris wheel, in this case they took footage of "Colossus" by German showman Goebel. 5. 'Dandelion' = HUSS Frisbee, in this case the example owned by German showman Robrahn, as of nowadays installed in Riad. 6. 'SPC' = "Power Tower 2" by German showman Schneider. 7. 'Schwingmaschine' = Giant Booster by Fabbri, in this case "Boostermaxxx" by German showman Hoefnagels. Or check other examples of it; "Apollo 13", "XXL Racer",... Look them all up and you'll see
for almost ten years i've watched this clip in awe of everything about it. the visuals, dr. laslowicz's deadpan delivery., the ingenuity of the rides. but mostly, i appreciate the safety, as dr. laslowicz wears his hardhat everywhere outside, even in the taxi; almost like he expects body parts to rain from the sky? as many others have pointed out, there is a dreamlike quality of sehnsucht, the longing for something that never existed that permeates this, much in the way that boards of canada is the soundtrack for a childhood that i never had but i remember so vividly.
This is a genuinely great short film. The 'footage' of the rides evokes a nostalgic, almost dream-like feeling. It reminds me very much of the amusement park scene from Spy Kids 2 or the crazy rollercoasters I would make in Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid.
I want my money back I thought this was a movie I paid 3.99 to watch it on Amazon prime because of tic Tok I should of came to RUclips to watch it for free lol 🤦🏾♀️
Those clips actually look like you were able to film someone's strange, vivid fever dreams. I can't explain it, but they just look EXACTLY how it looks when I have strange, vivid dreams.
this is my favorite kind of surreal horror-- burrows deep into your brain with a visceral dreamlike quality and induces a kind of inexplicable primal fear i dream about theme parks a lot, and in my dreams the rides are usually incredibly large, and would realistically be very dangerous or at least terrifying to be on
Same, however I never dream of being on them... particularly because they're too terrifying to try, but it also leaves me wondering what they look like... well now we have vr so I'm sure someone will build these now
Jipsie Imagine the G-forces some of these rides would create 😂 We're probably talking upwards of 25-30 G's at some points during the ride at 5:39, and that's six times more gravitational force than what would kill a human.
The most amazing part in all of this: Every single of these contraptions has an actual ride at its core. And some of them are just an extreme joy. So I was smiling throughout, knowing how some would feel.
Once you think about it, it also suggests the operators/staff don’t stop the ride to wake you up, or to stop you from going through another cycle. It also suggests that it never shuts down, and that it operates 24/7
Aside from one extender being too close to a building there really wasn't problems on this ride. Haha this cracks me up. I'd seen the videos before, just not with his commentary!
"so we went for height instead. the problem with this was we didn't give them anything to do and with a 14 hr ride people were falling asleep and missing their stop" could you imagine a 14 hr big wheel cycle?😂😂😂😂
When I sleep, sometimes I dream about riding extremely dangerous and scary rides. For some reason, this kind of dreams is VERY scary for me. And this movie gives me the same feelings as the dreams, so 10/10 You did FANTASTIC job, they look VERY realistic.
For me, it's the other way around... I ride impossible and bizarre rides but enjoy them very much and going on and then off them makes me feel invincible in those dreams
@@sinistra7450well, you are more lucky then me. Because in my dreams, there's an accident on the ride almost every time, wich leads to me dying and waking up.
This is absolutely brilliant, a masterpiece. The strangeness of the rides, the realism of the setup, the weird philosophical shenanigans said on this very serious and doctoral tone. Everything is perfect.
Tbh the ferris wheel one is probably the most "realistic" out of all of them, only because it's the only one that wouldn't kill you from excessive g forces lol
It really does look dreamlike, especially how its CG'd on top of normal rides, so they kinda clip into each other. This is still like my favorite sci-fi thing ever
I feel like this should be a horror movie or something where the guy in the hard hat is the main villain trying to kill the riders while an undercover cop tries to stop him before it's too late.
As soon as that impossibly colossal ferris wheel showe up I was struck with an uncanny sense of deja vu. I've seen structures like that in my dreams. Sometimes roller coasters, mostly trams and ski lifts. Winding out about enormous pylons too tall to be real, stretching across mountains that are too big and too small all at once. It feels like it was plucked right out of my subconscious. Terrifying.
So relieved to read that I was not alone with this. I actually had nightmares of comparable rides long before watching this movie. Seldom had something digged so deep into other levels.
1:19 "The difficulty was stopping the rotation without people coming crashing down in the upper levels..." *Quickly moves on without addressing that massive concern*
I thought the first one was real and my mouth was literally agape, by the second cake one I nearly thought it was real until it flipped out. Bear in mind I’m watching this at 2 am with no volume. I have no idea what the fucks going on.
i grew up having this nightmare being lost in a infinity amusement park and thAt ferris wheel is almost identical to what terrified me as a jit. this is awesome!
What I like about the animations is the audio. The cheering really separates the park guests from the viewer, like a sense of, “how do they enjoy this?”
Spherethon: For the spherethon to make riders float, it would need a top speed of 40 MPH, plus, the top level riders, couldn't float upside down, without a sort of "electric machine" to be able to elevate the top row riders upside down, also, how will you get them up there, and since these elevated carousel rides are slow, how will you float, and what restraints will you use. The Wedding Cake: for the wedding cake, the speed of how it would elevate up is 60MPH, with G forces of 4.5, and how quickly it decelerates, restraints would be completely unstable and snap off, launching riders into the air, and plummeting about 40 ft. if it was waist restraints if would slide you out, dislocating and breaking your legs and kneecaps, if that didn't happen the swinging on the final time would be enough to reach 6 G's and launch you out of your seat, killing you on impact. High Altitude Conveyance: like mentioned, the high altitude conveyance takes 14 hours, and waiting another 14 hours for new passengers to board, you would go 28 hours without food or water, which is dangerous for the human body and especially for kids, since you would pretty much um... starve, not to death, but you would start going absolutely bonkers, as the human mind cannot go more than a day without food before it starts to go crazy. The Expander: The expander goes up to 5.3 G's when extending, and for a kids ride... you would um... faint, and plus, since it would use seatbelts, the chord would snap off and fling you 20 feet into the air, causing major injuries when hitting the ground, possibly even, death. Dandelion: The dandelion is a really fun and compact design, although rides like this do exist, the don't have the 2 extra frisbee like seats, also, when the seats are expanding you would hit a max of 2.7 G's final, but how would people board, without waiting a max 4 minutes hanging up there, combined 12 minutes for full boarding ,and an extra 30 seconds for carefully and slowly lowering the frisbee like seats, for a max of 13 minutes and 30 seconds, which could cause a blackout, or even, a red out for hanging upside down for too long Steam Pressure Catapult/SPC: the SPC would hit a max 10 G's, which would kill you in 10 seconds without protection (AS DEMONSTRATED IN TOP GUN MAVERICKS 10G STUNT) plus, the route is connected to the main one, which would snap off the whole disk and send passengers flying, also, where is the track to return, its just a death ride pretty much, also, it would be enough to dislocate all you limbs due to the max speed of about 220 MPH ScwingingMachine: The Schwiningmachine would break your spine, and dislocate both of your arms, then dislocate your ankles, worse yet your eyes would be pushed back by the wind, keeping you blind forever, and since it decelerates so fast, the restraints would break your ribs, although if it was one that goes to your waist it would dismember your torso keeping intact your arms and head, and when hitting the ground fast, you would travel about 140 ft from the ride, and your legs would land somewhere else, to achieve that you would need a WHOPPING 67 G's to pull that off, and astronauts on the Apollo 11 only reached 6.1 G's, on the other side, the rides G forces would destroy the entire ride in just a couple milliseconds, which would launch you out of your seats and kill you instantly. NOT A GOOD WAY TO DIE PEOPLE, NOT A GOOD WAY PS: these are actual facts Edit: I’M NOT CRITICIZING THE FILM I’M JUST TRYING TO GIVE YALL SOME INFO ABOUT THE RIDES Edit 3: Thx for the likes Y’all made my day 😃
I have beef with you! Nah, you’re fine but I do have a response. Obviously these rides could never exist and the g forces alone would mess you up. But don’t you think that stronger seatbelts made to withstand the force already exist with these rides, just as the rides do? Also, I’d assume you can bring food and water onto a 14 hour ride with you. I also feel as if the point of this film was to evoke that creepy, disassociated surrealism a lot of people have described, and to show off some cool ride designs even if they’re death machines. Trying to criticize the rides for their impossibility seems like you’re missing the point. Then again I could be misinterpreting your comment and you’re not criticizing the film but informing people in the comments in which case go off ig 😂 Tldr; a few of your points don’t really hold up to the idea that these rides themselves are advanced technology, and I myself am willing to suspend my disbelief for the fiction.
Watching this gave me a super unsettling feeling, especially as someone who’s scared of heights and is afraid of amusement park rides. It also felt like a nightmare for me, and feels like I’ve had this nightmare before, it’s hard to explain. Especially with the weird movement of the “wedding cake” and the last one, and the size of the third one, made them all feel surreal paired with the mechanical noise.
I love this video. I've been clinging to the mental images for like four years. It's such a solid settle into a sudden uncanny valley per each ride. And I think it's due to the concept that humans innately have a basic understanding of how physics work, even if it's not by name of numbers. they can look at something and go "something about this doesn't seem right." Not to mention they all start out pretty damn plausible (look at the Wedding Cake, for example) and actually based off of real amusement park rides, but then they suddenly and rapidly devolve into unreality. That switch is enough to catch you off-guard. And the scale of everything invokes a fear too on an instinctive level. The "Steam Pressure Catapult" is a fantastic depiction of that scale in conjunction with the physics because it almost looks like it could work in theory until you see the cars launch and actually notice the paths of the tracks and how there seems to be no real way for the cars to change tracks like they're shown to. But at the same time, it makes you sort of question it. High Altitude Conveyance doesn't delve so much into uncanny valley due to the absurdity of the concept, though. Especially when you hear the "14 hour ride" part. That's literally the travel time from Virginia to Florida by car. That one is simultaneously the most feasible and the most ludicrous, even if just by description. And yet, it still feels like it might be possible. At least that's my interpretation of why all of it comes across as dreamlike or almost creepy to some folks. The actual graphics work is outstandingly realistic though. You can only really tell when each one goes from footage to 3DCG fabrication if you know what to look for. It's just subtle enough for most people not to notice it though, and in terms of technical ability that's fantastic and honestly better than I've seen in some Hollywood films. Not even for just an independent filmmaker, this is amazing. This stuff is amazing with a team of people who've been doing this for 30 years. As weirdly pretentious as this sounds, it looks almost like it could be real in a different universe just off-kilter from parallel to this one. One where physics work ever so slightly different, or humans can withstand just a little more extreme physical strain without injury or death. It all looks PLAUSIBLE, just not here. Also apologies for any janky topic-switching. I have severe ADHD (borderline autism?) and my god is this a hell of a lot to take in no matter how many times I watch it. But I also have a special interest in horror and film design so I kind of have a feel for why things have the effect they do.
No worries, I was able to follow you just fine. I think the part where I realized all of it was CG'd was the second to last ride. Up until then I was like is this real? No, but how did they do it? Until I saw the track changing ride in action and it reminded me of a Spy Kids movie. Then I realized it was CGI.
This is an incredible short film. I would love to see more adaptations or renders of different rides like these. The uncanny, nostalgic, terrifying dreamlike feel these rides have to them is incredible, as well as the thought of how maniacally engineered these rides are and how insanely powerful they may be. The horrific scale and seemingly incomprehensibly infinite some of these machines are remind me a lot of Lovecraftian horror, although a mechanical type of Lovecraftian horror.
9 Years later and i still go back to watch this video. Something about the surrealism. It's unsettling but euphoric as well. With the world getting much better with AI and getting farther away from what id consider to be "human" this video hits a little harder now that im older. It was just so very well done. From the CG to the writing and Leslie Barany filled the role perfectly.
i see rides like these in my dreams rarely... this video gives me a weird feeling i cant explain but its how i feel in my dreams when i see stuff thats so incredible and impossible to exist in reality. the ferris wheel is my favorite because it has this feeling of continuous infinity that im kind of obsessed with. amazing video
You mean like rides that you know are so cool, that you wish they existed? If so, I think I know what you mean. I sometimes visit this place that has these rides which have this grandeur of size, and the rides are capable of doing these unpredictable turns, twists, and dives that makes me crave going to amusement parks in the first place.
I'd rather have it made into a VR experience, to see in first person what those rides would do, without the bone-breaking, organ-crushing accelerations that would occur in real life.
Your grandma is dumb lmfao. What's her email? I wanna tell her she's related to a deceased prince but she needs to give me $500 to get the money in the will.
Someone told me to watch this and I thought it was real for a bit, until the wedding cake one- at that point it was too outlandish of a ride. But still very well executed and I love the energy of this video. The last shot of the ride gave me chills.
These rides give me that uncanny valley feeling that I sometimes get in my dreams. The feeling of the unknown, the abyss and something which is majestic but at the same time so alien-like, you cannot comprehend what you're witnessing. I think this is the feeling of mystery, especially the ferris wheel and the shooting attraction with unpredictability.
what really scares me about these rides is that how the presenter guy just so casually talks about these strange, surreal, rides, like theyre completely normal. and the fact that he just throws in little incidents that happened with them like its nothing, i think thats the reason its creepy edit: oh yeah and the fact that some of the rides are literally stretching beyond the limits of comprehension, and that they could freaking kill you
There are very few if any videos that will make you feel the way this one does, the disconcerting physics behind each of these mechanical nightmares feel just so borderline possible yet so impossible at the same time that you can’t help but feel uneasy, just watching this with the mental assumption that there are people on these constructions, especially if you don’t know that the video is just excellently well-edited, is absolutely bonechilling because you can feel their fear. The main three which really get you are the wedding cake and its nightmarish movement almost feeling alive somehow… The steam catapult for its randomly selected boundlessness that goes into the clouds beyond what the camera can visibly sight paired with the horrific speed at which it launches suddenly is enough to give anyone chills just thinking about getting on it. And finally the one at the very end of the video, the one that I call ‘The Trebuchet’ with its absurd and unpredictable hastened spinning motions seemingly so quick that it could have the potential of massacring anyone who chose to go inside gives an extremely uncomforting and awful sense of dread as if you are watching something you weren’t meant to bear witness to. This is just my mental breakdown behind this masterpiece, well done, got me thinking about it to this day after seeing it years ago.
I've watched this video several times throughout the years. Honestly the rides are mesmerizing! I would never ride one, but the design of the rides are so intriguing.
this is… amazing. the way the video starts with odd yet believable contraptions that you could imagine existing in the real world. and then it escalates. the scientist’s described “setbacks” become more and more horrifying to imagine as the rides slowly get bigger and bigger, and you start to question if the screams you hear are screams of joy. it’s like slowly walking into a pool that gets deeper and deeper. at first it’s fine, your feet are touching the ground, the situation is under control. but then you have to crane your neck to keep your face above the surface, and your feet lift off of the ground, and you suddenly realize something is very very wrong.
Yeah, the last one. That's how I found this documentary 🤣 The G forces would be between 120 and 450 on that ride, and that doesn't count the sudden stop when the arms go back in.
The Spherothon at 1:03, High Altitude Conveyance at 2:24, and the Steam Pressure Catapult at 4:22 are the ones that creep me out the most. Truly unnerving.
It's strange, there's an expectation of this to take a sinister twist, but that doesn't occur. At least not in any obvious way. There's some hints of it, he mentions setbacks, has a bit of a "true potential" monologue there at the end, but there's no particular malevolence here. The rides are definitely very creative, very dream-like, it has a bit of "alternate reality" to it. The giant ferris wheel/roller coaster hybrid thing (the one that's 14 hours) is probably my favourite. The others take a moment to show their full unrealism and initially have a more feasible look before showing their true insanity (which might be a strength for some viewers, but for me it's delaying the fun a bit). But the giant 14 hour one just looks mad right out the gate. It really does look like something in a dream world, just the way it towers and bends across the sky. Would love to see this fantasy park revisited in other works, honestly, or a similar type of concept. I'm not sure how best to implement it, but six and a half minutes just feels criminally short.
For those who are interested: The first prototype is a 6 G-Force Vertical Centrifuge. Self destructed in 1978. The first working machine was a 432 seat, 1.6 to 2.1 G-force Spherothon. The second was the Wedding Cake Centrifuge, 96-seat with 2.3 G force. In 1991, ICR shifted it's focus to height. They developed the 2844 seat, 1 G High Altitude Conveyance ride which took 14 hours to complete. Toilets and oxygen masks were later added to deal with the boredom issue. In 1993 ICR created the 18 seat, 1.1 to 3.6 G-force Expander, an interactive ride. This created brain activity. In 1996 the 126 seat, 2.7 G-force Dandelion was created to simulate the prenatal experience of an embryo. In 2003, ICR created the 10,000 horsepower, 172-seat, 9 G Steam Pressure Catapult. The ride also has a level of uncertainty which resulted in riders re-evaluating their own goals and aspirations. The last ride created was 2005's 12 seat, 17 G-force Centriductor Schwinmaschine.
Changes in speed are expressed in multiples of gravitational acceleration, or 'G'. Most of us can withstand up to 4-6G. Fighter pilots can manage up to about 9G for a second or two. But sustained G-forces of even 6G would be fatal.
I feel the reason it’s so uncanny is the eminent sense of danger, one of the rides will collapse but it never does, keeping us in an infinite suspense feeling
I think the weirdest part of this is that if some of the rides were toned down a bit they could be made in real like, like if the dandelion didnt have the seats pop out
One of my favorite things about this short is how much is left up to the imagination. They begin to imply something horrifying and then move on without elaborating, it's both effectively unnerving and darkly comedic.
Yes, they allude to some horrendous event, and then move on. If you notice, the Dr's insanity progresses through the clip.
I think it's also a lot cooler world-building, kind of like an actual documentary where the people watching should know some of the answers already. Like with the sphere, he says the tricky part was trying to figure out how they would stop the ride without all the people flying over it falling and crashing, and it's not explained at all as if the audience is expected to have seen the rides already and know how it stops.
@@bucket_of_truth maybe the unethical nature of the experiments where exposed and the park was closed, maybe this lead to the man to go crazy
“the results were a bit too extreme to publish”
“aside from one incident where the contraption was placed too close to a building we were fine”
this is some FNAF phone guy type alluding
for me something that adds is the fact of hearing music in spanish in the background, bc in LatinAmerica there's this joke where when people from the first world want to try something dangerous, they would come to the region and try it as no one would actually care, it's like asuming to much from a simple bg music, but well
These clips are the most genuinely dreamlike footage I've ever seen. It's like looking at actual dreams, and it's quite unsettling.
+ElNingyou Incredibly interesting point.
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Agreed, that is a really interesting point of view. Thanks for sharing, that definitely rattled my perspective a bit.
especially the Ferris wheel one... I love how hazy the camera is. Maybe that's why it's so dreamlike ❤
especially the Ferris wheel one... I love how hazy the camera is. Maybe that's why it's so dreamlike ❤
Agreed
Can we just applaud how good the sound design is? Those videos of the rides SOUND exactly like they would if you were there
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Yeah, and if "there" were real. 😂
The High Altitude Conveyance really freaked me out the most. It’s so unsettling to see the Ferris wheel abomination stretch up to what looks like forever. This was so cool to watch and see all these freakishly cool park rides as if they were real.
I did 2 14 hour trips!
There was no beams to support its great height
yeah!
It feels like that weird dream you had
Reminds me of UFO/UAP defying our perceived physical realm.
Whoever managed to put down these dreamlike rides into a visible format amazes me.
It’s real
I agree. It's hard to tell how some of your dreams really feel like, but that video just gives you that feeling, it's honestly amazing.
CGI is great when the right person does it
@@sbrw4316 it's not
@@h.r.c.2829 nah it’s def real
I love how as the video progresses, the scientist being interviewed starts to come across as more and more insane.
Exactly
yep.
They drop the lines perfectly after showing the audience surreal imagery.
And then the last ride, which would obviously kill anyone on it nearly instantly, is shown without any commentary.
Every time he mentions something that would be absolutely horrifying about the ride, and then just kinda brushes it off like it's a minor setback.
These rides are like from a dream, watching this video makes me feel sooo strange, a creepy feeling too. But I can't stop watching it ...
Yes, exactly. I keep coming back to this video because it makes me feel so weird.
Omg I totally agree!!!
I had so many dreams about rides like these, like a roller coaster that's so high, you can't see the tip of the hill and things like that, even though they are only 1 or 2 i actually remember.
Same
Same
"We fight the forces that hold us down. Our whole life is an effort to escape from reality" that actually goes incredibly hard
FOR REAL!!! Love this guy. Love this whole video, SO SO SO COOL. Also very funny because escaping reality in this 100% means dying from the g-forces
"I mean we had setbacks, but I wouldn't say that it was a mistake. If anything, the mistake is in nature. Gravity is a mistake. We fight the forces that hold us down."
I remember when I was 9 I was OBSESSED with this video. I made drawings of the rides and thought the place was actually real. I would tell all my family about it and tried to convince them that it existed lol. This video has influenced my art style and so much more. I am so glad I found it again!
Omg same
SAME 😭
@hrt sgwr its not till, its from the publisher
Yesss same
oh my goodness why did I do the same exact thing wowowow
"For example, when a mother is walking, the baby would KIND OF move around."
Proceeds to simulate that by creating a nightmare machine
Right! Makes it even more terrifying that he said it so calmly. Or the other one where he said “there was an unfortunate incident where it was placed too close to a wall”
@@awakeandascending5340 *CRASH* well he's dead
@@could_possiblybe_thane07echo Think he continued with "Increased Brain Activity" or something like that IE the dude fainted
nah man , they already dead 💀
Yeah the writing in this is sort of like It's really interesting and smart and then they completely destroy it by saying something really vague and stupid and that being the reason why
I want a movie about this, it’s so uncanny and I’ve never been more terrified
djfhhf jdjfb eat ur cereal
Agreed.
It is a movie. None of this is real.
thinkerly1 this isn’t a feature length movie boi
@@djfhhfjdjfb951 Yeah. So what is your point?
"Some of our results were too extreme to be published so we shifted our focus to height instead of acceleration" is such a brilliant goddamn line. Can't say "people died because we made them go way too fast," they'll cut the funding!
I'm fascinated by the question of *why* these scenes seem to be creepy or unsettling to most people. It must be some kind of strange version of the uncanny valley effect, but it's weird because they're all machines. Maybe it's the rapid and erratic ways they move that adds a level of life to them that we recognize as not natural? Maybe it's from viewing humans in these unnatural states like floating in the air over a giant sphere. It's a mashup of things that could maybe work just at the edge of logic, but yet at the same time we know can't be possible. I can't really place it, but it's so surreal and really genuinely creepy.
it's the feeling of the speed, and the impossibility of it. like, imagine you're on the last one.. god
I dont find anything creepy about this at all whatsoever. I was surprised to find so many people actually are.
Me too! I love surreal stuff that makes people uncomfortable without even knowing why. I noticed a few things that might have caused some people to feel this.
- The blurriness of the faces (Just like in your dreams, the faces of the people in the clips are extremely vague and you can't identify real facial features)
- The music and sounds (The volume is fading in and out, screaming can be heard over the music, even though the camera is extremely close to some of the attractions the music still seems very distant much like in many dreams)
- The smoothness of the animation (The animation is so smoothly done that it's almost as if it moves slightly slower than it should. This is exactly like in the dreams of most people)
Could be totally wrong idk. Just love this kinda stuff!
I mean they look a little dangerous tbh - not just a fast rollercoaster but you'll be deceased if you enter type danger. Also they're intimidatingly large - like there's being scared of riding a roller coaster but these look a bit worse.
I know that the reason for my uneasiness is because I have, like many others in the comments, had dreams about this kind of stuff, and it takes me back to this quasi dream, out of touch with reality side of my brain.
The animation has an amazing uncanny smoothness to it, but what blew my mind is how infinitely large the structures appeared. Like others in the comments I swear I've seen gigantic structures like these in my dreams and they both frighten and fascinate me. Also, when I had only seen the sphereotron I hadn't realized this was fiction yet. The acting is wonderfully convincing.
I thought they were real attractions until SPC.
the sphincter-a-tron!
exactly my thoughts!!!!
The sphere is the only one that *doesn't* work. (structural limits of steel aside on the other ones.) It won't lift the chairs over the "equator" above 90° no matter how fast it spins.
The cgi has a perfect mix of being realistic enough to see the detail, but phased out enough to look like irl footage. If it didn't look so whimsical I could've mistaken it for real video.
The CGI is amazing, but incredibly weird, surreal, and creepy at the same time.
it's beautiful..minus "the expander" that one looks half finished.
Charlie Turner it looks just like in a dream... it’s really weird
@@carlhyldborglundstrm9807 oh no no
Notice how sone of them thrust your body around unrealistically, in reality these would kill you
Can you imagine if this stuff was real?
I find it hard to believe these rides aren't real, there's just something so dreamlike and eerie and yet... nostalgic about them
Because Till Nowak is really a professional. And I think, psychologists helped him while creating this.
@@Кубикиикотики I know, but the rides just truly look like something you would see in a dream. As someone who remembers theirs dreams every so often, especially just the bizarre locations that appear in the dream realm. It's weird what our brains cook up while we sleep...
tbf the last time i went to an amusement park they had a MASSIVE ferris wheel, and looking up at it gave me the exact same pit in my stomach the nigh-lovecraftian abomination in this film does. the image of this thing is like a representation of the feeling of the actual thing
...i was 20 at the time btw lmao
Dreamlike... it's because they're unnatural. In dreams, things are distorted versions of real things...
@@griffy9639 I bet you hate coasters
they're all so creepy but the catapult absolutely turns my stomach. the way it snakes up so far into the sky is way too organic, it looks like a leviathan monster. it reminds me a lot of what scares people about the deep ocean, living things being so damn big they disappear into the fog
Ikr and imagine driving to this park and seeing this up in the sky like a huge snake thing. Or how high does it go? Like what?
my jaw dropped, i was in horror
that's the vast, babey
people would literally be flying to heaven
It's called megalophobia
This guy is the sweetest mad scientist I have ever seen.
But this fascinates me, just think about how an amusement park might be a laboratory that the subjects willingly walk themselves into. What a cool idea that I hope no one is already using IRL.
I dunno i get a more "fucked up brain and wanting to convert everyone to what he thinks is perfection" vibe from him
@@shortcatofficial2137 why
The rides are already real.
@@memer-ub3il How???
@@memer-ub3il (You) just won one internet! No srsly these rides would break under their own weight. No Manmade or natural Material would be able to withstand such forces.
Let alone soft, gooey, squishy humans...
As ridiculous as the material is, this guy totally sells it. Not bad.
LMAO right
Some of the stuff he says is wack if you’d listen.
None of what he says makes much sense lol
this is the first time i watched it a and thought it was real until the 14 hour ride
Bob Javis when I was younger and seen this video, I was like where are these parks!!?? I need to go there! Lol
what makes this film so creepy is that it feels like a sort of impending threat. you start to get the sense that these machines are some kind of ethereal threat, and they're going to do something bad to the world. its like something wrong is happening right in front of you and you are the only one who can tell
"its like something wrong is happening right in front of you and you are the only one who can tell"
Yesss definitely this!
Like a creepy alternate reality and he's the main character villain and you've stepped out of a simulation but are the only one who knows about it
yeesss u put it into words perfectly and the dreamlike structure makes it even weirder because like it feels real in a weird way
The footage creeps me out because, well, I know all those people riding them would be dead. They'd have died riding those. Cause physics. You watch the clips (with suspense of disbelief) and think "Oh, those people riding that just died."
Amazing that after five years, clips from this pop up on social media and people believe they're real.
Yup, I just had to explain to my friend that the last ride isn't real. She shared a clip of it lol
Omg I been seeing videos shared by this and SO many people believe its real. Common sense would tell you these rides would legit kill you if they were real 😂
Some people even go so far as to say they’ve been on them
I know of only three people who believed these are real. Two of them are devoted christians. Connection>?
Son of Hal its impossible to believe
i was like ‘oh the wedding cake doesn’t look crazy bad’ and then THAT happened
It actually panicked me
the wedding cake was so scary to me
YEAH I THOUGHT IT BROKE AND STARTED SPINNING AROUND
I only had one question how tf do you get in the upper seats ??
@@mircolaufer4796 yeah..
I can just imagine this guy going on the wildest rides with a hard hat and his sheet, taking notes while everyone else is screaming in panic.
Guy: tell me what thoughts are going through your head right now.
Rider: *screams* AAAAAHHHHH!!!
Guy: *writes it down in his notes*
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 best comment
@@epicty3607 Guy's note reads: *readjusting.. key... goals...*
notes:
1) vomit path must not interfere with other people's enjoyment of the ride.
2) larger sign about removing piercings.
3) Attendants must double check seat belt security.
4) provide lockers for storage of all lose items.
5) pregnant women should not ride.
6) Who let a guy with a gun on th
And walks around with hard hat when no one else does at a amusement part, at night.
I think the most effective part is that you never SEE anything go wrong, but the screams and the otherwordly shapes and the casual implications from the script are so unsettling anyway. It's the most subtle, lingering, beautiful type of horror
He really did say:"gravity is a mistake."
"Out of reality"
This prove that he knows what he is actually doing something everyone is scared of
Watch his face when he says "gravity is a mistake". He almost cracked up.
I wanted to like the comment but the number of likes is perfect for the subject, so take this answer as a like
@@terens_yixuan5001 what was it? 666?
What do you think he is doing?
@@supranova565 IT WAAAS😂😂😂
A lot of people are calling this dreamlike and I totally agree I always see these kinds of gigantic superstructures in my dreams. The ferris wheel in particular. Lots of dreams where I look up at a building of some kind and it just keeps going and going and going....
Looks like a horror movie where aliens disguise themselves as amusement park rides. Once you're in they feed off your fear to gain strength, then your blood and eventually your soul as you become one with the alien transformers.
Yes exactly idk why but I had a dream of the big speratic ferris wheel too but weird thing is, I've never seen this video...it's a huge deja Vu moment 😯
Alice in Wonderland syndrom
OMG you using Emilia's phoro. I wonder how you know her
Snake Boy, I have dreams that I’m a floating pig eating sand, so...
I think the reason this feels so 'dreamlike' as some people say is the way they talk about really crazy and nonsensical things like it's totally normal. You know how when you dream and you believe everything you're experiencing, and only after you wake up do you slowly realize, "...wait, that was WEIRD" ? That's how watching this feels. Dude will say things like "oh yeah, this one ride was 14 hours long" and "for this ride we catapulted riders like a slingshot", and you just... accept it.
yes! i've never heard anyone else talk about this, but it's true that in most dreams we tend to accept the most bizarre things as completely normal. this is exactly like that indeed.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense!
It has nothing to do with how they talk about it, because there's a 3 minute video of just the ride scenes, without the explanations, and it feels even more dream like.
The dialogue is so dreamlike too but also really eerie if you do listen. Like the guy never mentions but heavily implies that several were injured and possibly killed in these experiments but just glosses over it
Also a lot of the stuff he says literally makes no sense if you really listen to what he's saying and think about it for a bit, like dialogue in dreams. Like look at the Dandelion and tell me in what way it even remotely resembles the prenatal experience of being a baby in the womb while a mother is walking around.
The CGI is very convincing!! When the ride began to wildly spin at 5:45, I almost choked on my damn lemonade
I mean, holy crap. Very good work!
Now I am certain I shall NEVER set foot on a rollercoaster!
Modern rollercoasters are incredibly safe. Don't let this horror film repel you from a good time!
The yeet machine
They are all based on real flatrides travelling at German fairgrounds. Only are the videos edited/adjusted with CGI. I'll list all the rides and the real ride they are based on. 'Wedding Cake' = any example of HUSS Breakdance. 2. 'Spherotron" = a standard chairoplane, e.g. made by Zierer. 3. 'Expander' = a basic children ride. 4. 'HAC' = obviously any ferris wheel, in this case they took footage of "Colossus" by German showman Goebel. 5. 'Dandelion' = HUSS Frisbee, in this case the example owned by German showman Robrahn, as of nowadays installed in Riad. 6. 'SPC' = "Power Tower 2" by German showman Schneider. 7. 'Schwingmaschine' = Giant Booster by Fabbri, in this case "Boostermaxxx" by German showman Hoefnagels. Or check other examples of it; "Apollo 13", "XXL Racer",...
Look them all up and you'll see
"Some people get on and not realize it's a 14-hour ride"
MR.BONES Wild Ride 🤣
nahhhh that would be an actual real life nightmare holy shit💀💀💀💀
Falling asleep and having to do it AGAIN
@@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHsthat would make it a 28 hour long ride
@@TinPanMan_REAL better hope you don’t get hungry. or need the bathroom
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS!
for almost ten years i've watched this clip in awe of everything about it. the visuals, dr. laslowicz's deadpan delivery., the ingenuity of the rides. but mostly, i appreciate the safety, as dr. laslowicz wears his hardhat everywhere outside, even in the taxi; almost like he expects body parts to rain from the sky?
as many others have pointed out, there is a dreamlike quality of sehnsucht, the longing for something that never existed that permeates this, much in the way that boards of canada is the soundtrack for a childhood that i never had but i remember so vividly.
Hey Saturday Sun
Whoa... Instantly thought of Dandelion from BoC Geogaddi when I saw it yep definitely a connection
This is a genuinely great short film. The 'footage' of the rides evokes a nostalgic, almost dream-like feeling. It reminds me very much of the amusement park scene from Spy Kids 2 or the crazy rollercoasters I would make in Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid.
Reminded me of spy kids 2 as well
Is the footage real or was it animated?
@Lid Lid it‘s animated :)
I want my money back I thought this was a movie I paid 3.99 to watch it on Amazon prime because of tic Tok I should of came to RUclips to watch it for free lol 🤦🏾♀️
@@Jasmine_887 LOL
Those clips actually look like you were able to film someone's strange, vivid fever dreams. I can't explain it, but they just look EXACTLY how it looks when I have strange, vivid dreams.
I think bc it looks real but with the phyics a bit off
That last one looks straight out of a horror movie
That would launch you out into space!
I don't think ppl can survive that.
All of them look straight out of a horror movie
that thing would pull like 1000 gs and if it was timed wrong it would absolutely destroy the ground and ride
I'm scared of rollercoasters, and I believe the color would launch out of me when the ride becomes a glorified Mach 5 trebuchet
this is my favorite kind of surreal horror-- burrows deep into your brain with a visceral dreamlike quality and induces a kind of inexplicable primal fear
i dream about theme parks a lot, and in my dreams the rides are usually incredibly large, and would realistically be very dangerous or at least terrifying to be on
Same, however I never dream of being on them... particularly because they're too terrifying to try, but it also leaves me wondering what they look like... well now we have vr so I'm sure someone will build these now
I'm reasonably certain these are real attractions of amusement parks in the violet edges of the paragrey.
@@NXTangl for a second there I thought you were speaking literally
YES
Me too of giant rollercoasters and in the dream I never go on them lol
It has been 6 years, and still yet I find these "rides" unironically posted on facebook by moms lol.
Jipsie yeah. People fall for the dumbest shit. Sadly, the majority of the the videos posted are blurry so you can’t really tell
My mom showed me one today and said "look how terrible these look" and i rolled my eyes so hard
I love correcting those people. It breaks their hearts when I tell them it’s not real 😂😂🤷🏼♀️
Jipsie Imagine the G-forces some of these rides would create 😂 We're probably talking upwards of 25-30 G's at some points during the ride at 5:39, and that's six times more gravitational force than what would kill a human.
The most amazing part in all of this: Every single of these contraptions has an actual ride at its core. And some of them are just an extreme joy. So I was smiling throughout, knowing how some would feel.
Yeah!! All of them but the 14 hour one would be so fun if they didn’t kill you
" *What people didn't understand was that the ride was 14 hour long* "..
Well, i can sleep twice then
where will you poo and pee? what and when will you eat. it is a whole other hell or purgatory than the other rides.
@@dagonvaldez2878 there is probably a ride for that too.
Once you think about it, it also suggests the operators/staff don’t stop the ride to wake you up, or to stop you from going through another cycle.
It also suggests that it never shuts down, and that it operates 24/7
I love this video. The actor deadpans his way through the whole thing. "We had some setbacks. I wouldn't call them mistakes. Gravity is a mistake."
Aside from one extender being too close to a building there really wasn't problems on this ride.
Haha this cracks me up. I'd seen the videos before, just not with his commentary!
I like how he completely glosses over the spinning problem when the ride stops and the people on top have to get down
"so we went for height instead. the problem with this was we didn't give them anything to do and with a 14 hr ride people were falling asleep and missing their stop" could you imagine a 14 hr big wheel cycle?😂😂😂😂
@@BarryGGould 14 hours.... i saw no toilets on that ride :P so funny
Aprillfools lmaoooooo
1:23 I like how he didn't have a solution for people on top and just glosses over it.
yeah that was one of the funniest bits
When I sleep, sometimes I dream about riding extremely dangerous and scary rides. For some reason, this kind of dreams is VERY scary for me.
And this movie gives me the same feelings as the dreams, so 10/10
You did FANTASTIC job, they look VERY realistic.
You’re really seeing your dreams on youtube, what a gigachad
For me, it's the other way around... I ride impossible and bizarre rides but enjoy them very much and going on and then off them makes me feel invincible in those dreams
i have those dreams too! 😮
@@sinistra7450well, you are more lucky then me. Because in my dreams, there's an accident on the ride almost every time, wich leads to me dying and waking up.
This is absolutely brilliant, a masterpiece. The strangeness of the rides, the realism of the setup, the weird philosophical shenanigans said on this very serious and doctoral tone. Everything is perfect.
Tbh the ferris wheel one is probably the most "realistic" out of all of them, only because it's the only one that wouldn't kill you from excessive g forces lol
watching this gave me so much anxiety... this is incredibly well done and felt surreal.. i felt a very strong, bizarre sense of deja vu while watching
surreal dark and dreamlike?
Yea wonder why so many of us feel this it’s bizarre
it's stylized to feel familiar, and very intentionally couched not quite within reach of reality. super effectively places it in the uncanny valley
Yup same my anxiety just hit me with a giant murder machine (aka any of those rides)
especially the ferris wheel thingy. The first time I saw this video, it felt very unsettling but fascinating at the same time
It really does look dreamlike, especially how its CG'd on top of normal rides, so they kinda clip into each other. This is still like my favorite sci-fi thing ever
Where does it clip?
"we're using only ten thousand horsepower now..."
The hydraulic launch motor for the Kingda Ka at six flags Great Adventure (that I've ridden) peaks at just over twenty thousand horsepower.
Air force pilot:
Im outta here...
🤣
Honestly. Haha
*horsepower*
it's so unsettling and the atmosphere is just not quite right.... like a nightmare. Very cleverly done!
Sophia I yeah it’s the rubbery feel that gets me
Very true, the way it was filmed it really does seem like a strange nightmare video.
I feel like this should be a horror movie or something where the guy in the hard hat is the main villain trying to kill the riders while an undercover cop tries to stop him before it's too late.
As soon as that impossibly colossal ferris wheel showe up I was struck with an uncanny sense of deja vu. I've seen structures like that in my dreams. Sometimes roller coasters, mostly trams and ski lifts. Winding out about enormous pylons too tall to be real, stretching across mountains that are too big and too small all at once. It feels like it was plucked right out of my subconscious. Terrifying.
I agree that’s the one that makes me feel weird this short film is powerful lol I keep watching it definitely feels like a dream or deja vu moment
imagine how long it takes to board it
Same, it just feels so nostalgic and eerie... as if I actually rode on it, but I know I didn't...
It's creepy to see the amount of ppl who felt this. Was the first thought/feeling I had when viewing this
So relieved to read that I was not alone with this. I actually had nightmares of comparable rides long before watching this movie. Seldom had something digged so deep into other levels.
1:19
"The difficulty was stopping the rotation without people coming crashing down in the upper levels..."
*Quickly moves on without addressing that massive concern*
i don't think he considered it a concern tbh
0:59 Spherothon
1:49 Wedding Cake I
2:09 Wedding Cake II
2:22 High Altitude Conveyance
3:10 Expander
3:45 Dandelion
4:22 Catapult
5:39 the real one.
The one at 5:39 isn't real lol.
It was a joke...
Super Hydra the dandelion and expander look safe
@@Milan-wg2ro doesn't like look very safe but tell me if it is why hasn't it been released yet?
Damn why you are such an asshole to others because they are wrong. Btw you are the one who doesn't understand jokes so who is the moron or the idiot?
The clips look so realistic my god...
I know right?
Yeah it's scary
they look so fake wym
I thought the first one was real and my mouth was literally agape, by the second cake one I nearly thought it was real until it flipped out. Bear in mind I’m watching this at 2 am with no volume. I have no idea what the fucks going on.
@@extremelyreligiousdolphin750 the guy is talking absolutely nonsense about park rides simulating what it's like being a fetus 😂
i grew up having this nightmare being lost in a infinity amusement park and thAt ferris wheel is almost identical to what terrified me as a jit. this is awesome!
YESSS that ferris wheel looks surreal
What's a jit,
@@darvon906 a yungin
@@darvon906 a luh boy
@@darvon906 flawda jit
What I like about the animations is the audio. The cheering really separates the park guests from the viewer, like a sense of, “how do they enjoy this?”
I have never seen anything as terrifying as the wedding cake.
readjustment of goals and life aspirations
What about the last one.
Said every guy ever, even before this video came out.
4:24
the wedding cake looks the okayest one. That big ferris wheel is terrifying tho
Spherethon: For the spherethon to make riders float, it would need a top speed of 40 MPH, plus, the top level riders, couldn't float upside down, without a sort of "electric machine" to be able to elevate the top row riders upside down, also, how will you get them up there, and since these elevated carousel rides are slow, how will you float, and what restraints will you use.
The Wedding Cake: for the wedding cake, the speed of how it would elevate up is 60MPH, with G forces of 4.5, and how quickly it decelerates, restraints would be completely unstable and snap off, launching riders into the air, and plummeting about 40 ft. if it was waist restraints if would slide you out, dislocating and breaking your legs and kneecaps, if that didn't happen the swinging on the final time would be enough to reach 6 G's and launch you out of your seat, killing you on impact.
High Altitude Conveyance: like mentioned, the high altitude conveyance takes 14 hours, and waiting another 14 hours for new passengers to board, you would go 28 hours without food or water, which is dangerous for the human body and especially for kids, since you would pretty much um... starve, not to death, but you would start going absolutely bonkers, as the human mind cannot go more than a day without food before it starts to go crazy.
The Expander: The expander goes up to 5.3 G's when extending, and for a kids ride... you would um... faint, and plus, since it would use seatbelts, the chord would snap off and fling you 20 feet into the air, causing major injuries when hitting the ground, possibly even, death.
Dandelion: The dandelion is a really fun and compact design, although rides like this do exist, the don't have the 2 extra frisbee like seats, also, when the seats are expanding you would hit a max of 2.7 G's final, but how would people board, without waiting a max 4 minutes hanging up there, combined 12 minutes for full boarding ,and an extra 30 seconds for carefully and slowly lowering the frisbee like seats, for a max of 13 minutes and 30 seconds, which could cause a blackout, or even, a red out for hanging upside down for too long
Steam Pressure Catapult/SPC: the SPC would hit a max 10 G's, which would kill you in 10 seconds without protection (AS DEMONSTRATED IN TOP GUN MAVERICKS 10G STUNT) plus, the route is connected to the main one, which would snap off the whole disk and send passengers flying, also, where is the track to return, its just a death ride pretty much, also, it would be enough to dislocate all you limbs due to the max speed of about 220 MPH
ScwingingMachine: The Schwiningmachine would break your spine, and dislocate both of your arms, then dislocate your ankles, worse yet your eyes would be pushed back by the wind, keeping you blind forever, and since it decelerates so fast, the restraints would break your ribs, although if it was one that goes to your waist it would dismember your torso keeping intact your arms and head, and when hitting the ground fast, you would travel about 140 ft from the ride, and your legs would land somewhere else, to achieve that you would need a WHOPPING 67 G's to pull that off, and astronauts on the Apollo 11 only reached 6.1 G's, on the other side, the rides G forces would destroy the entire ride in just a couple milliseconds, which would launch you out of your seats and kill you instantly.
NOT A GOOD WAY TO DIE PEOPLE, NOT A GOOD WAY
PS: these are actual facts
Edit: I’M NOT CRITICIZING THE FILM I’M JUST TRYING TO GIVE YALL SOME INFO ABOUT THE RIDES
Edit 3: Thx for the likes Y’all made my day 😃
rule of 3. you can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. survivalists and old boy scouts know this.
@@dagonvaldez2878 seems legit. ill euthanize myself on these rides.
This was informative and terrifying. Thank you 😅
I have beef with you! Nah, you’re fine but I do have a response. Obviously these rides could never exist and the g forces alone would mess you up. But don’t you think that stronger seatbelts made to withstand the force already exist with these rides, just as the rides do? Also, I’d assume you can bring food and water onto a 14 hour ride with you. I also feel as if the point of this film was to evoke that creepy, disassociated surrealism a lot of people have described, and to show off some cool ride designs even if they’re death machines. Trying to criticize the rides for their impossibility seems like you’re missing the point.
Then again I could be misinterpreting your comment and you’re not criticizing the film but informing people in the comments in which case go off ig 😂
Tldr; a few of your points don’t really hold up to the idea that these rides themselves are advanced technology, and I myself am willing to suspend my disbelief for the fiction.
@@dagonvaldez2878 Yes, but I’m pretty sure Boy Scouts would avoid this place at all costs
Watching this gave me a super unsettling feeling, especially as someone who’s scared of heights and is afraid of amusement park rides. It also felt like a nightmare for me, and feels like I’ve had this nightmare before, it’s hard to explain. Especially with the weird movement of the “wedding cake” and the last one, and the size of the third one, made them all feel surreal paired with the mechanical noise.
Still seeing clips from this on fake social media pages at least once a month. The gullibility of people will always astound me
I love this video. I've been clinging to the mental images for like four years. It's such a solid settle into a sudden uncanny valley per each ride. And I think it's due to the concept that humans innately have a basic understanding of how physics work, even if it's not by name of numbers. they can look at something and go "something about this doesn't seem right." Not to mention they all start out pretty damn plausible (look at the Wedding Cake, for example) and actually based off of real amusement park rides, but then they suddenly and rapidly devolve into unreality. That switch is enough to catch you off-guard.
And the scale of everything invokes a fear too on an instinctive level. The "Steam Pressure Catapult" is a fantastic depiction of that scale in conjunction with the physics because it almost looks like it could work in theory until you see the cars launch and actually notice the paths of the tracks and how there seems to be no real way for the cars to change tracks like they're shown to. But at the same time, it makes you sort of question it.
High Altitude Conveyance doesn't delve so much into uncanny valley due to the absurdity of the concept, though. Especially when you hear the "14 hour ride" part. That's literally the travel time from Virginia to Florida by car. That one is simultaneously the most feasible and the most ludicrous, even if just by description. And yet, it still feels like it might be possible.
At least that's my interpretation of why all of it comes across as dreamlike or almost creepy to some folks. The actual graphics work is outstandingly realistic though. You can only really tell when each one goes from footage to 3DCG fabrication if you know what to look for. It's just subtle enough for most people not to notice it though, and in terms of technical ability that's fantastic and honestly better than I've seen in some Hollywood films. Not even for just an independent filmmaker, this is amazing. This stuff is amazing with a team of people who've been doing this for 30 years. As weirdly pretentious as this sounds, it looks almost like it could be real in a different universe just off-kilter from parallel to this one. One where physics work ever so slightly different, or humans can withstand just a little more extreme physical strain without injury or death. It all looks PLAUSIBLE, just not here.
Also apologies for any janky topic-switching. I have severe ADHD (borderline autism?) and my god is this a hell of a lot to take in no matter how many times I watch it. But I also have a special interest in horror and film design so I kind of have a feel for why things have the effect they do.
Thank your for the analysis!
i also thought this kinda looked like it was from a parallel universe with slightly different physical constants.
No worries, I was able to follow you just fine.
I think the part where I realized all of it was CG'd was the second to last ride. Up until then I was like is this real? No, but how did they do it? Until I saw the track changing ride in action and it reminded me of a Spy Kids movie. Then I realized it was CGI.
My mind is still reeling from this video, and your comment is a mental digestivo 🤌
I know this is a year old, but this is one of the best RUclips comments I've ever read. You should seriously consider going into video making.
Someone give this guy an Oscar. Probably the 10th time I’ve seen this.
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I always come back at least once a year to view it
I fully dont understand the point of this experiment can you explain ?
This is an incredible short film. I would love to see more adaptations or renders of different rides like these. The uncanny, nostalgic, terrifying dreamlike feel these rides have to them is incredible, as well as the thought of how maniacally engineered these rides are and how insanely powerful they may be.
The horrific scale and seemingly incomprehensibly infinite some of these machines are remind me a lot of Lovecraftian horror, although a mechanical type of Lovecraftian horror.
I know, literally everyone is saying the rides are super dreamlike lol
9 Years later and i still go back to watch this video. Something about the surrealism. It's unsettling but euphoric as well.
With the world getting much better with AI and getting farther away from what id consider to be "human" this video hits a little harder now that im older.
It was just so very well done. From the CG to the writing and Leslie Barany filled the role perfectly.
i see rides like these in my dreams rarely... this video gives me a weird feeling i cant explain but its how i feel in my dreams when i see stuff thats so incredible and impossible to exist in reality. the ferris wheel is my favorite because it has this feeling of continuous infinity that im kind of obsessed with. amazing video
Maya Elzaim that’s pretty cool
Thot u were over 18 I love you're username
I’ve had dreams like this too!
Happens to me top, bro. This is creapy
You mean like rides that you know are so cool, that you wish they existed?
If so, I think I know what you mean. I sometimes visit this place that has these rides which have this grandeur of size, and the rides are capable of doing these unpredictable turns, twists, and dives that makes me crave going to amusement parks in the first place.
"Gravity is a mistake!" gets me every time.
This should be made into a movie.
Wait, are they real or fake
@@nimpbl3494 But, that would be nice
AyesCrystal apparently our bodies aren't wired for such extreme. Maybe future humans can,if we still exist that is.
I'd rather have it made into a VR experience, to see in first person what those rides would do, without the bone-breaking, organ-crushing accelerations that would occur in real life.
DevilMaster Yup.
5:25 "Gravity is a mistake."
As somebody who tends to stumble and fall a lot, I wholeheartedly agree.
Curse you, Newton!
I showed this to my grandma and she believed everything and asked me if I would go on the rides. She never doubted it until I told her in the credits.
Arquidesis Studio I did the same but I showed her the more believable ones first
r/sbeve
Your grandma is dumb lmfao. What's her email? I wanna tell her she's related to a deceased prince but she needs to give me $500 to get the money in the will.
@@madelinebitts2766
really...
I love that he has a hard hat on the whole time they’re at the parks.
I don't know why, buy everytime I watch this, the ride scenes remind me of weird dream like sequences...
Someone told me to watch this and I thought it was real for a bit, until the wedding cake one- at that point it was too outlandish of a ride. But still very well executed and I love the energy of this video. The last shot of the ride gave me chills.
There was something distinctly Eldritch about the larger ones, especially the height and multiple path ones
You mean you beleived the sphere one. They litterly say we had trouble stopping the ride and just move on😂
@@coocoo3336the difference os that the sphere looks real while the wedding cake is clearly cgi
@@marcxworld5708none of them look real
This is a great idea for a horror movie. Very clever
Laurie Racline yo lets make this happen. We need a producer and a lotta money
I’ll help
Yes! Like a billionaire madman hell bent on creating these rides, no matter the cost.
Cloverfield
These rides give me that uncanny valley feeling that I sometimes get in my dreams. The feeling of the unknown, the abyss and something which is majestic but at the same time so alien-like, you cannot comprehend what you're witnessing. I think this is the feeling of mystery, especially the ferris wheel and the shooting attraction with unpredictability.
YESSS that ferris wheel
what really scares me about these rides is that how the presenter guy just so casually talks about these strange, surreal, rides, like theyre completely normal. and the fact that he just throws in little incidents that happened with them like its nothing, i think thats the reason its creepy
edit: oh yeah and the fact that some of the rides are literally stretching beyond the limits of comprehension, and that they could freaking kill you
It's a MOCKUMENTARY. It's suppose to be serious and funny at the same time.
There are very few if any videos that will make you feel the way this one does, the disconcerting physics behind each of these mechanical nightmares feel just so borderline possible yet so impossible at the same time that you can’t help but feel uneasy, just watching this with the mental assumption that there are people on these constructions, especially if you don’t know that the video is just excellently well-edited, is absolutely bonechilling because you can feel their fear.
The main three which really get you are the wedding cake and its nightmarish movement almost feeling alive somehow…
The steam catapult for its randomly selected boundlessness that goes into the clouds beyond what the camera can visibly sight paired with the horrific speed at which it launches suddenly is enough to give anyone chills just thinking about getting on it.
And finally the one at the very end of the video, the one that I call ‘The Trebuchet’ with its absurd and unpredictable hastened spinning motions seemingly so quick that it could have the potential of massacring anyone who chose to go inside gives an extremely uncomforting and awful sense of dread as if you are watching something you weren’t meant to bear witness to.
This is just my mental breakdown behind this masterpiece, well done, got me thinking about it to this day after seeing it years ago.
It really ain't that deep yo 💀
@@gwnbenif you don’t want an analysis on art don’t go to an art film’s comment section??
@@demonyckscreations9990 nerd
Haha, 2:30, the people didnt realize it was 14 hours. Some of them have fallen asleep and missed their stops. And had to go another 14 hours. LMAO
2 day long ride yay
@@camousv6688 lol try again
Lol so stupid hahaha
Hahaha!! That’s hilarious!!!
I guess you'd be out of luck when you had to go to the bathroom. I don't see any little porta-potties up there.
That last one seems like a good way to fling satellites into space.
02:16 "Some of the test results were a little too extreme"
Ya Think???
Cuz people were all dead after the ride
That part was disturbing!
😂😂😂😂
fcfhkmelb it's fake human dumbass..it's a satire
LaTone Jean plz tell me it joking..U know how fake this is hopefully
The wedding cakes phase, The ferris wheels design, the Catapult makes me feeling like I'm living in a dreamcore or something if I was in that ride.
The Ferris wheel is very Dr Seuss
Ugh the dandelion one had the freakiest music tho. Honestly, you gotta give credit to the editors. It’s looks so real
Indi ikr
Wait a minute. They're not real?
@cor n ?
Indi I think the last one had weird music I really felt like I was looking at a dream
I've watched this video several times throughout the years. Honestly the rides are mesmerizing! I would never ride one, but the design of the rides are so intriguing.
The way these things move makes me so fascinated. It kinda looks alien.
this is… amazing. the way the video starts with odd yet believable contraptions that you could imagine existing in the real world. and then it escalates. the scientist’s described “setbacks” become more and more horrifying to imagine as the rides slowly get bigger and bigger, and you start to question if the screams you hear are screams of joy.
it’s like slowly walking into a pool that gets deeper and deeper. at first it’s fine, your feet are touching the ground, the situation is under control. but then you have to crane your neck to keep your face above the surface, and your feet lift off of the ground, and you suddenly realize something is very very wrong.
That last ride tho, seems terrifying, like you’re a ball someone’s about to throw
This video reminds me of the opening of Spy Kids 2.
I was not expecting to see you here.
He told people he watches a lot of things.
Ikr!
AttackingTucans That freaking Juggler man, gave me nightmares as a kid. Especially the laugh. *Shudder*
Interesting finding you here! The internet can be a small place...
anybody else not creeped out? it's fascinating. captivating. i wanna see more!
Yea me too
Same i want an entire netflix series about this
same
Your not alone
I'm both somewhat disturbed but fascinated, so nope
I've spent literal YEARS looking for this. I remember when it was black and white and just the rides itself. This is genius.
4:45 “...which in many people, resulted in readjustment of key goals”.
goals such as how to make it off this ride with all my limbs and organs intact
Ngl your name and profile picture is more cursed than this video
Apparently a clip from this film is now going around on Facebook purporting to be a real ride...
Yeah, the last one. That's how I found this documentary 🤣
The G forces would be between 120 and 450 on that ride, and that doesn't count the sudden stop when the arms go back in.
*Max Strater* There's been a video circulating for well over a year showing clips of these rides, labelling them as the world's most terrifying.
The ones circulating for 6 years? Thanks for alerting everyone.
That's wonderful
It did show some of the rides are real from 2003 if you watch the video carefully.the last 2 I ain't so sure
The Spherothon at 1:03, High Altitude Conveyance at 2:24, and the Steam Pressure Catapult at 4:22 are the ones that creep me out the most. Truly unnerving.
Not the one at the end with clearly lethal g forces?
I think it’s just the fear of seeing things that appears really big
@@OMGPrezzi thats called megalophobia
for me it is wedding cake, high altitude converyance and steam pressure catapult
The Steam Pressure Catapult reminds me of Willy Wonka’s elevator from the Johnny Depp movie. Lol
It's strange, there's an expectation of this to take a sinister twist, but that doesn't occur. At least not in any obvious way. There's some hints of it, he mentions setbacks, has a bit of a "true potential" monologue there at the end, but there's no particular malevolence here. The rides are definitely very creative, very dream-like, it has a bit of "alternate reality" to it. The giant ferris wheel/roller coaster hybrid thing (the one that's 14 hours) is probably my favourite. The others take a moment to show their full unrealism and initially have a more feasible look before showing their true insanity (which might be a strength for some viewers, but for me it's delaying the fun a bit). But the giant 14 hour one just looks mad right out the gate. It really does look like something in a dream world, just the way it towers and bends across the sky.
Would love to see this fantasy park revisited in other works, honestly, or a similar type of concept. I'm not sure how best to implement it, but six and a half minutes just feels criminally short.
Ha hahaha! “Except people didn’t realize the ride was 14 hours long” 😂
where can I find more unsettling projects/
mock-umentary's like this ?
You might enjoy this, a tv special from Australia in the early 90s.
ruclips.net/video/gHU5LJeAL9w/видео.html
@@raksh9 wow thank you for linking this, this was fantastic.
@@Zovi_ You're very welcome. Imagine seeing it on TV and soaking it all up to the end, like I did years ago. It was so well done.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/
I am also interested, so I'm just gonna leave this here.
"Gravity is a mistake" ... Genius
fuck
Dibley Studios Sorry this is fake:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centrifuge_Brain_Project
Without Gravity, no car would've been able to drive. But that could've led to Fifth Element vehicles lol
I come back to this video at least once a year. So terrifying. The artists of this project are so so so talented.
Am I the only one who is reay creeped out by this? Imagine if these rides were real...
yea i figured
No, I find it quite creepy/dark... But I'm strangely fascinated by it even though I know it's fake.
I'm fascinated yet bored thinking about the 14 hour ride... Hahahaha...
NO THESE ARE REAL THERE IN JAPAN
Galvanic Diamond Never mind im just brain dead today LOL
"...Resulted in readjustment of key goals and life aspirations" haha, best line
Not the first time Captain Disillusion has pointed me towards some gold. Incredible video!
Believe it or not, I’ve just now discovered this-the funniest and most interesting thing on RUclips. What a masterpiece.
The artists who put this together hit every note inside us masterfully.
We were the experiment for sure.😶
If Satan made an amusement park
lol
Is this a real place
Dang
66 likes by now.
True
For those who are interested:
The first prototype is a 6 G-Force Vertical Centrifuge. Self destructed in 1978.
The first working machine was a 432 seat, 1.6 to 2.1 G-force Spherothon.
The second was the Wedding Cake Centrifuge, 96-seat with 2.3 G force.
In 1991, ICR shifted it's focus to height. They developed the 2844 seat, 1 G High Altitude Conveyance ride which took 14 hours to complete. Toilets and oxygen masks were later added to deal with the boredom issue.
In 1993 ICR created the 18 seat, 1.1 to 3.6 G-force Expander, an interactive ride. This created brain activity.
In 1996 the 126 seat, 2.7 G-force Dandelion was created to simulate the prenatal experience of an embryo.
In 2003, ICR created the 10,000 horsepower, 172-seat, 9 G Steam Pressure Catapult. The ride also has a level of uncertainty which resulted in riders re-evaluating their own goals and aspirations.
The last ride created was 2005's 12 seat, 17 G-force Centriductor Schwinmaschine.
Changes in speed are expressed in multiples of gravitational acceleration, or 'G'. Most of us can withstand up to 4-6G. Fighter pilots can manage up to about 9G for a second or two. But sustained G-forces of even 6G would be fatal.
I feel the reason it’s so uncanny is the eminent sense of danger, one of the rides will collapse but it never does, keeping us in an infinite suspense feeling
I think the weirdest part of this is that if some of the rides were toned down a bit they could be made in real like, like if the dandelion didnt have the seats pop out
A bit late but... I live in vianna and there are literally toned down versions off all of them
@@anormalhuman6456 *even the steam pressure catapult?*
@@could_possiblybe_thane07echo well SPC is just the jumping machines buf FASTER and LONGER
@@尾切再生 oh ok
original rides:
sphereothon = wave swinger
wedding cake = crazy dance
expander = unknown children's ride (possibly zamperla)
h.a.c = ferris wheel
schwingmashine = booster (kmg)
spc = drop tower
dandelion = pendulum (multiple manufactuers)