The Disney logo always looked look Gisney to me. I pronounced it as gisney, which sounds alot like jizz knee, which also confused me as a kid. I was more confused because i wasn't lysdexic so I thought all signatures had to begin with a backwards letter.
Fun Fact: Chuck E. Cheese's (the character's) official backstory is that he was an orphan, so no one ever celebrated his birthday, and this upset him so much that when he grew up, he made a fun restaurant-arcade for kids to go for their birthdays so no one had to experience party-less childhoods like he did.
Really? I never knew that! In recent news, a girl who worked there threw a young boy a birthday party when no one showed up. She couldn't handle his reaction so all the employees of that location got together and made it special for him. Goes right with the backstory (if that is true)....making her kind act even better.
There's a plaza by my childhood home where the only business left standing is a Chuck E. Cheese's. Like, sure, it outlasted a Blockbuster, who didn't, but it also outlasted a major regional grocery store, a Little Cesar's, a popular local Chinese food restaurant, a Pub 99, a nail salon, and a CVS. When the world ends, Charles will still stand tall.
ayyyyyyy i used to love that little cesars, and the big y used to be the grocery store my parents went to. never thought i would see another person from around these parts in the comments of a youtube video of all places
I was watching this video when my mom came in and started watching it with me. She told me I had a Pooh themed party at Club Disney when I was really little and that it was the worst thing ever. Club Disney had messed up big time from printing the wrong location (TO instead of Covina), to giving my presents away to a different family, and never giving me my cake or Mickey pizza. I don't remember any of this (I was 3-4) but apparently I was devastated since I only had 3 people (all of whom were my cousins) show up to my freaking party due to the printing error sending people to the wrong location. My mom ended up buying each of us one toy from the store to make up for it. She was quite livid after the whole ordeal. She made Club Disney track my presents down to return to me and demanded a refund for all the money she had spent for the party. They found & returned my presents and she got every dime she spent on this disaster of a party refunded to her. They apparently never apologized for any of this. All in all I learned something new from my mom and Defunctland!
5:09 don't forget the soul-zapping static shocks you'd get from the metal bolts holding the tubes together. After crawling through 40 feet of plastic tubes in your socks you were basically Zeus.
OH MY GOD SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS THIS PAIN I used to go on the slides in the McDonald's playlands and they were fun but at the bottom my skin would be covered in goosebumps because of the pure amount of static that's been forced onto my skin from the metal. At least now I know why they did that, I just thought the plastic was evil.
You know, places for kids to "let loose and be themselves" sound really good on paper. But, having worked at one myself, I can tell you it is hell for every single minimum wage worker who has to handle it.
It was hell disguised as heaven when I was a kid. It probably was my first panic attack seeing a gigantic mutant Rat dancing in the dark for no good reason with his other mutated friends. Haunted Houses could learn a thing or two from Chuck E. Cheese.
@@o_o5210 Just discovered a meme that became a big inside joke with my coworkers, titled "Fart Ni Botto" (after how the crop killed the meme text), that depicts a toilet after one of our customers had explosive diarrhea and missed the bowl. Should I imgur it?
at the very least that should pay more than minimum wage. To parents mad this may cost them more money: you really want people who are only being paid for the bare minimum watching your kids? you get what you pay for.
When I was six I legitimately got lost in a McDonalds play place crawl tunnel. I crawled through those colourful, sweat smelling tunnels for what felt like ages (but was probably only a couple of minutes). I could hear other people but I only saw one other kid peaking out from behind a corner only to skitter back when she saw me. I’m not saying I temporarily clipped into a child version of the backrooms, but I think we can all agree that if there existed such a place, one entrance would definitely be inside a McDonalds
I think that was me, were you wearing glasses and a purple striped shirt? What year did this happen to you? LMAO just curious because I distinctly remember "playing hide and seek" with my older sister in one of the play places. After being "the best hider" for like maybe twenty or thirty minutes I gave up and eventually went down the slide. I remember being really mad and asking my sister what happened, she said,"I forgot to go in there!" Also I was extremely shy/ possibly antisocial as a kid... If you were the kid in purple you did look hella lost/confused. If it wasn't you, "I'm sorry kid in a purple striped shirt." 😊😅😂
I got a story like this and I was also about the same age. I was in a Charles Entertainment Cheese establishment for a party or something and I also got lost in those sweat smelling tunnels and whatnot but I remember there being an area with his clear plastic bowl that you could see out of and I got stuck in that area because 1. I couldn’t find a way out and 2. There were too many kids in there. There was this girl that saw me and helped me get out. Anyways I’m almost 14 and I’m proud to say I’m having my party there
As a 1980-born guy, I can relate. Not just for nostalgia's sake. A real course of history can be taught on this era & just of pop culture alone. Pre-millennium anything is fascinating to discover & learn about, especially for those of us who lived it & now wonder, "What was it about this that made us like it so much?"
It's the kind of micromanaging that worked for Walt Disney when Disney was a much smaller, non-international conglomerate. They all want to be Walt Disney but that shit works in the 50s not the 90s.
12:12 Oddly enough, the "Pooh and You Corner" was what we used to call a specific spot in the ball pit at the Chick-Fil-A I worked at, though obviously for reasons unrelated to branding.
I can only assume that the Peter Pan room was actually one of those shadow rooms I've seen at a couple fun houses, where there's a dim room with one or more walls covered in some sort of photosensitive material and a strobe light that flashes once every few minuets. When the flash happens, the photosensitive walls will retain any shadow that got cast on them until the next flash occurs.
9:51 my favorite part of every Defunctland episode i've seen so far is when Kevin says something like "...they could dominate the new market." and the unsaid, 'but you're listening to it on a channel called /Defunct/land, so you know where this is about to go.' gives me such a grin (usually. Sometimes it makes me sad).
yeah but he really milks play time, by playing the full commercial and then playing the same commercial with a voice over, and then playing another full commerical
I forgot Discovery Zone was even a thing...but some memory in the back of my mind is recalling going down that slide that was basically made of rolling pins and climbing through those goddamn net tubes.
@matt yes, somewhat, at least...I don't remember there being an arcade, though, but I was like...5 or 6, and my tiny developing brain was more focused on slides and ballpits rather than video games.
I spent so much time at Club Disney as a kid that I still have dreams about it as an adult, but no one ever knew what I was talking about to the point where I questioned its existence. This seriously just unlocked some childhood memories!
Imagine what you could do in a day if there were no computers, 2 tv channels, freedom. That's what we did. Everything and nothing. You're all so disconnected it's really sad. It's not that far off. If you unplug and socialize with reg folks you got it.
"A kind of terrifying helicopter thing where the mean kids would jump up and down" "The net thing where your feet would get caught" I didn't even KNOW i had ptsd about these things until Kevin said them
I remember back in 2014 or something I was at a Funtopia and some kid wouldn’t let me go down the slide to get out that a worker had to come to push the kid out of the way.
There's an indoor activity center called SuperPark that's basically Discovery Zone for adults! It's more geared towards sports but there's an all-ages ball pit. It's from Finland but they have international locations mostly in Asia and Middle East. Apparently they're a franchise model so let's hope that they'll come to US very soon!
The amount of art Kevin P. puts into these videos absolutely astonishes me. A simple and amusing concept made breathtaking and so informational without the inconvenience of sounding droll brought to life by the creativity and mastery that is Defunctland. I absolutely love the youtube channel and series as a whole. I hope it continues until Kevin can sustain it and I will support him the entire way. Godspeed you magnificent historian.
My father was the corporate/regional executive chef for Disney Regional / ESPN Zone restaurants from 2001 to around 2009. My father was forced to retire by Disney due to the recession taking its toll. I had no idea when I started watching this video that it would have any connection. I thank you so much for helping me understand just a little more about my father's 21 years with the Walt Disney company!
I thought I was crazy remembering going to a Club Disney when I was small, mostly because no one mentioned it when I was older and all my memories were foggy from childhood. This video explains so much lol
Wryder Christy Yeah. My class went to one on a field trip when i was a kid. It was a bit of a drive then but i drive by the old building sometimes now. The outside has never changed despite it being something completely different now.
I worked at Chuck E Cheese about 7 years ago when I was 16. When you were talking about the Play Place I was reminded about this time when a kid wouldn't come out of the little overlook area. His mom didn't feel comfortable climbing up there so the manager went up to try to get him out. When she gets up there we see her hands slip and her fall on her face. Turns out the kid had taken his full diaper off and wiped his feces all over the tube and she had fallen face first into it. The other manager demanded that either my coworker or I go up and clean it. The three of us walked out and never went back.
I feel bad for everyone in that situation. People just trying to run a children's entertainment place, and parents just wanting their kids to blow off some steam, but some innocent 3 year old had to smear his crap everywhere and ruin it.
Fun fact, a similar experience as a child (Albeit with urine in a playplace instead of feces) inspired an online pal of mine to write an SCP entry. A pretty darn good one too: www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1904 It's also canon to his Burgrr Entries story; and by extension his webcomic Awful Hospital, if you're familiar with either of those...
Why is is that I feel like getting popcorn and a beer anytime your videos pop up on my sub list? Because the presentation is so professional yet easily digestible, it's like a damn documentary series.
I hated the net to get to the slide at McDonald's as a person with cerebral palsy it was very difficult and painful. It was also scary just like it is for other kids.
Not at McDonald’s but Burger King, and I have a brother 20 years younger than me at 4 years old, and he hates the nets too. I think it’s a shared part of the human condition to hate being supported by something that’s not solid.
Your the highest quality creator I have ever seen. The amount of time and effort that goes into each episode is amazing. I love all of the other guests you get to help you make the amazing extras. I loved the intro! Keep being awesome!
TheCoasterCompleater in no way denying that this is one of the best channels. but I have to ask you of you've watched any of Captain Disillusion's videos??
Wow so I'm not crazy. I've been telling people all my adult life that when I was a kid I went to a small indoor Disney amusement park and had a lot of fun exploring the Time Toaster but no one ever believed me, even people I know I went there with. Thank you Kevin for doing the research for this video.
Club Disney was yet another one of Michael Eisner's wild ambitions that ended up bursting into flames, the most infamous example of Eisner becoming too ambitious being California Adventure, while this one was quickly buried into obscurity.
The breadth and depth of your talents is astounding. Particularly your editing skills, you must be one of the most talented video editors in the business. Seriously I don't just mean on RUclips, I mean in the entire media business as a whole. That you make these videos yourself and come out with an end product so well polished and engaging, that puts the efforts of traditional mass media corporations to shame, no joke! Good for you! (And good riddance to them, too!).
@@finnprince2163 I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
@@greenaum I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
DisneyQuest was my first job after highschool. It was such a rad experience and Pleasure Island was such a fucking awesome thing for me through my early 20's. It broke my heart to see them kill off Pleasure Island and eventually DisneyQuest. I legitimately teared up when you mentioned it. They threatened closing it when I worked there in 2005 and it seemed like they had been threatening for years. It made me so happy to see that stubborn bastard hold on for another 12 years before being closed. I still have a Cyberspace Mountain card with 13 loops on it named the Jolly Trolley.
9/10 point deducted because the 90's intro should have had a shot of Eisner tripping in his office and throwing a bunch of papers into the air before falling to the floor off camera, leaving only his secretary in-frame, looking on with a knowing amused smirk on her face, arms akimbo, gentely shaking her head side to side as if to say "Yup, that's my boss!"
No... guess what would happen, guess. I'll tell you. It would be given 2 seasons and then Netflix would cancel it. After which contracts would make it impossible for them to continue on RUclips. Effectively killing your favorite RUclips show.
Disney really is a such a morally grey company. While employing very talented artists, engineers, and people who I think do genuinely care about kids, they are also a giant capitalistic leviathan who now have become the Standard Oil of entertainment. Issues such as low employee pay at their resorts still persist to this day. As someone who was born in Orlando Disney stories always hit close to home for me as what Disney produces truly highlights our society's surreal contradictions.
The goal of any BUSINESS (not charity) is to make money. Period. There is absolutely nothing morally wrong with what Disney does... the issue is that people CHOOSE to consume the garbage they produce. Just look at what they did to Star Wars... UGH!
+Stevie 1. Neither Disney or Bob Iger weren't going to do anything about their workers' low salaries until they were publicly shamed by Bernie Sanders. And 2. it really says everything about our society when people will run and take up for a large impersonal corporation over actual flesh and blood workers. The brainwashing is truly fascinating and scary at the same time. Sure Disney stories are good and they hire very talented and well meaning creatives, but at the end of the day Disney the company only cares about its shareholders and nothing else. They do *not* care about you or your family. Us Americans really do need to step out of our right-wing economic Stockholm Syndrome and learn that large corporations do not need to be defended. Our social and economic systems are broken and Disney's issues are just symptoms of these larger problems.
+Moby Green This consumerist "personal choice" narrative is just flat-out corrosive and the cause of pretty much all of our country's problems. A choice of products is the furthest thing from choosing your own destiny, and fooling people into thinking that buying and selling things is the purest form of freedom has made them way easier to control by those in power. This is the true face of neoliberalism, which really is a form of social darwinism in a clever disguise, and it seeks to turn every aspect of life into a commodity that is to be bought and sold. This comment from a socially right-wing perspective, but this has also taken over too much of the so-called "left" as well. I hope this disgusting greedy ideology crashes like the authoritarian Communist societies because ideas like these are truly Communism's evil reverse image. People are sick and tired of "business" having lordship over their lives and people on the right and center need to understand that.
I was one of those kids that showed up to Discovery Zone for a big party only to find out it was closed. It devastated me because we went there at least once a month for almost 2 years! Wow, I always get hit with some serious nostalgia when I watch these videos. I’ve enjoyed every single one I’ve watched so far and I can’t wait for more. Guaranteed subscriber.
My aunt used to take me to Discovery Zone a lot when I was little. I don't remember it much except the name, but she's told me that we would typically go on Mondays after they cleaned the ball pits (she's a nurse and thus was concerned about hygiene, which isn't unreasonable considering that all kinds of nasty stuff has often been found in those places.) I've heard elsewhere it was a popular place for birthday parties, but I can't recall ever going there for anything like that.
T K If my recollection is correct, I whined and pouted all the way back to the car while my brother cried. Our parents took us to a local playground as a last minute consolation and I spent about 45 minutes scooting slowly on the merry-go-round.
Dude, your content is some of the best on RUclips. You understand how to make content for RUclips viewers with all the particular nuances that viewers appreciate. Inside jokes, pause frames with extra info, really funny commentary. Great stuff.
I live near the first Club Disney and my kid was small, so we LIVED there!! It was awesome, but they made a few basic mistakes. First, it skewed too young. Most of it was for pre-schoolers (Pooh, princess dress up, etc), which left out too many kids. The computer games were super basic/young (and the computers were usually broken anyways). There was a baby/toddler play zone, and then the climbing structure, which was kinda small - think McDonalds size. Plus, they had miscalculated the main slide and the first week kids got hurt - that’s the reason there was always a worker at the top. Which leads to the biggest problem - it was WAY too reliant on human workers. Parents chilled in the cafe (which had excellent food), and a worker had to be in each semi-separate zone to police bullies etc. They tried to have interactive shows nearly continuously in the little theater, which required skilled entertainers; magicians, comedians, etc. The cafe required cashiers, cooks, busboys. Constant cleaning was needed all over. It was easy to see how the cost of employees was very high. And surprisingly, many times we would be there and there were few customers, especially after the first year or so. Even in an affluent area, there are only so many stay-home moms hanging out with their preschooler in the middle of a weekday. Other people were bothered by the “high” admission charge, as the place just wasn’t that big, but we had a monthly or yearly pass, and I appreciated that there were no tokens to buy, like Chuck E. Cheese had. Overall, it was a class act and very well done, and we really mourned when they closed. Disney admitted it made money, just not “enough” money.
i forgot how Good this episode is... the intro song.... “a powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese”.... “what, too soon?” im laughing at work man edit: four years later and i no longer have the job i had at the time and this video gives me flashbacks to the hell of hotel housekeeping, good times
Woah! I grew up in Thousand Oaks and I've been trying to remember for forever what the disney themed playplace I went to when I was very young was. I have a memory of being at the top of a big slide, where an employee would ask you what disney character you wanted to be, you'd tell them a character, like Ariel for instance, and they'd say over the intercom something like "Ariel is coming down!" as you went down the slide. Maybe it was a precaution against too many kids going down the slide at once, idk. I had no idea there was so few of these places! I feel special now :) Thank you Kevin!! I'm gonna see if my mom and my sister remember anything about Club Disney.
It was actually pretty cool. All the kids movies were over there and placed at a kids height! I would play while my mom picked out her movie and went through the line. She’d have to call me from the door to tell me to stop playing. They also sold fresh popped popcorn on Fridays - it was pretty sweet. Ya’ll have to understand Blockbuster was packed in it’s prime so lines took FOREVER.
"Ten or so were protestors accusing Disney of paying Hatian workers 28 cents an hour to make Pocahontas-themed pajamas." I really wasn't expecting that detailed of an explanation. lmfao
I remember seeing ads for Chuck E Cheese's on TV, even on PBS Kids. I've visited it once or twice in my area when I was a kid, but now I visit Dave and Buster's on occasion.
I had a Discovery Zone a little ways out of town when I was a kid in the late 90's. Every time I could pester my dad to take me there for the day was pure heaven, the enormous plastic tube maze was the epitome of adventure and the dozens of arcade games offered endless entertainment. Places like that really sum up 90's childhood entertainment for me. As a matter of fact, as soon as Defunctland mentioned plastic mazes and ballpits I paused the video and told my wife "that reminds me of Discovery Zone!" I then spent about 10 minutes explaining why it was so wonderful before literally the next section started talking about it.
very 90s. Like lets add to 80s arcades by making games and physical activity then food! It's a great combo and in my brain it still works it's just my how times have changed
My old elementary school was immediately next to a playplace named "Makutu's Island" which was originally going to be a Club Disney, but the plan was shuttered during the closures and it became its own thing. In fact, there's still a pair of footprints belonging to what appears to be Mickey and Donald out front.
Color me surprised, I didn’t expect Club Disney to be a topic, but what a very fitting one to cover! I actually had my 6th birthday party (A Bug’s Life themed) at Club Disney, the West Covina location if I recall correctly! I remember it fondly and how immersive the whole event was for all of us kids. I know I have a VHS recording of that party, complete with footage of exploring The Hundred Acre Wood and Merlin giving us a show. Everything was interactive, and each kid got nicely crafted ant antennae headbands (Flik ones for the boys, Dot ones for the girls, and yours truly the birthday girl got Princess Atta’s with her tiara). One of my favorite birthday memories, it was a shame Club Disney was so short lived.
The discovery zone thing legit happened to me. My mom took me and my brother to the one in our area and we witnessed the sign on the door saying it was closed. And yeah someone was having a birthday party at the time and showed up for it, a whole group of kids was there. Everyone was really upset about it.
Like, how many phone calls would it have taken to let people who had a reservation know for the week it closed? If that's how they treated people, it deserved to go out of business.
Oh goodness not the Rock-a-Fire Explosion... When I was a kid I used to frequent a place called Fun Station USA. It was a pretty sweet arcade and had some indoor rides. They had a Rock-a-Fire explosion show there, and as I got older (around 11) the animatronics began to break down. But instead of, I dunno, getting rid of them, they just placed the broken and old animatronics in random places in the arcade. My day camp was at Fun Station, and one of my counselors asked me to get something from a big utility closet. I walked in to get paper towels or whatever, and BOOM the fucking cheerleader mouse robot was towering over me. I was traumatized.
"In hindsight, this was akin to Radioshack investing in Toys "r" Us" *cue booing noises* "What? Too soon?” Lost it the second I heard the booing noises.
so wild to hear my hometown being a first location for a huge play zone, most people wouldn't think midwest for a starting point of a franchise! love learning all this history behind these long gone places/atrractions, I always look forward to the new videos when they come out c:
This man uttered the name Charles Entertainment Cheese with his whole chest like damn
Power move
@@lShowSpeed5813 Don't you have a Manger to call? 🤨
@@Loscxxo leave Joseph and Mary alone, they got enough on their hands already
The Disney logo always looked look Gisney to me. I pronounced it as gisney, which sounds alot like jizz knee, which also confused me as a kid. I was more confused because i wasn't lysdexic so I thought all signatures had to begin with a backwards letter.
10/10
When your parents call you by your full name:
CHARLES, ENTERTAIMENT, CHEESE!!...
XD!!!!!!!
* Piano intensifies *
thats when you know you fucked up
Chuck E Cheese: I MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MAKE THE PIZZA!
Its not funny because you have a jojo prof picture
Fun Fact: Chuck E. Cheese's (the character's) official backstory is that he was an orphan, so no one ever celebrated his birthday, and this upset him so much that when he grew up, he made a fun restaurant-arcade for kids to go for their birthdays so no one had to experience party-less childhoods like he did.
Surprisingly heart warming.
Really? I never knew that! In recent news, a girl who worked there threw a young boy a birthday party when no one showed up. She couldn't handle his reaction so all the employees of that location got together and made it special for him. Goes right with the backstory (if that is true)....making her kind act even better.
somebody really needs to make a movie on his backstory academy award winning tearjerker right here
Why am i crying in the club rn
The happiest day
There's a plaza by my childhood home where the only business left standing is a Chuck E. Cheese's. Like, sure, it outlasted a Blockbuster, who didn't, but it also outlasted a major regional grocery store, a Little Cesar's, a popular local Chinese food restaurant, a Pub 99, a nail salon, and a CVS. When the world ends, Charles will still stand tall.
This sounds eerily identical to a place by my own childhood home, down to the blockbuster building
@@thebestgirlwithpooeyes9531 The Rat is eternal
@@thebestgirlwithpooeyes9531 All I'll say is that the one I'm describing is in central New England
ayyyyyyy i used to love that little cesars, and the big y used to be the grocery store my parents went to. never thought i would see another person from around these parts in the comments of a youtube video of all places
Charles Entertainment Cheese, after all, is a powerful rat.
a POWERFUL rat
named
-Charles
-Entertainment
-Cheese
Gabby Edgar what time stamp?
@@redactedredacted5370 7:25
Well, their pizza tasted exactly like it was cooked by a rat. So they nailed that. I mean if rats could microwave frozen pizza.
Scott Humphreys Their pizza is delicious gtfo
@@overworkedcna412 Hell nah. Not compared to real pizza.
“A room themed to Peter Pan where guests could see their shadow”
Such a revolutionary concept! I really can't see why this thing failed.
Ikr, some cutting edge shit right there. What a shame.😔
Gotta love the blatant sarcasm here.
Wow, I can see my shadow! 😆
They should’ve patented it, maybe it would have had a better chance without the competition of literally everything else
@@df5295 bruh
"Pooh 'n' You Corner" sounds like a place I'd never want to go to. Ever.
Sounds like a child put on time out for soiling themselves.
@@jeffreytoman5202 while still soiling themselves
I believe it's called prison.
Or as us intellectuals like to call it "The Bathroom"
Sounds like a great alternative to stun amog us
Its like "you ever heard of pooh?" "Who's pooh?" "Poohed n yo corner"
Not even Mickey Mouse could defeat *"the powerful rat"* , who goes by the name:
*C H A R L E S*
*E N T E R T A I N M E N T*
*C H E E S E*
Bwahahaha
Well, Charles did go bankrupt
@@Webb_Studios They’ve cleared their debt, and still have over 500 locations. Don’t worry about Charles.
You didn't have to use mans government name like that
Charles Entertainment Cheese the 3rd man, put respect on his damn name. The first two died in the great war
Why is every single Defunctland like its own movie they're too good
That’s why Defunctland is one of the best RUclips channels.
I think he should make history videos he’d be good at it
I have them all in my Movies I Want To Watch playlist
Its funny how this was made 2 years ago but is the only comment liked by the creator I've seen.
I thought the Chuck E. Cheese rip-off was called defunct land until this comment
"a powerful rat named *biker mice from mars* "
Who have close ties to Renegade Nuns on wheels.
Lol
Snickers
"Why did I have biker mice from mars instead of Zelda?"
@@squirtlecipher8473 Snickers
I was watching this video when my mom came in and started watching it with me. She told me I had a Pooh themed party at Club Disney when I was really little and that it was the worst thing ever. Club Disney had messed up big time from printing the wrong location (TO instead of Covina), to giving my presents away to a different family, and never giving me my cake or Mickey pizza. I don't remember any of this (I was 3-4) but apparently I was devastated since I only had 3 people (all of whom were my cousins) show up to my freaking party due to the printing error sending people to the wrong location. My mom ended up buying each of us one toy from the store to make up for it. She was quite livid after the whole ordeal. She made Club Disney track my presents down to return to me and demanded a refund for all the money she had spent for the party. They found & returned my presents and she got every dime she spent on this disaster of a party refunded to her. They apparently never apologized for any of this.
All in all I learned something new from my mom and Defunctland!
The littlest things make the biggest of mishaps, Funny how life works out that way huh?
I'm not surprised that an establishment run by Disney would end up being a huge mismanaged shitshow.
Your mom was mom’in awesomely! Inspirational to this millennial momma.
I hope Your mom also reduced your exposure to disney crap for the rest of your childhood, treating it like it was nothing special.
Catbug❣️
“Blockbuster buys indoor play area” is the most 90s business deal there could ever be
You commissioned an entire 90's sitcom theme song for this, and that's what I appreciates about you.
yes 100% agrees
Take about 20% off her there Squirely D
Give yer balls a tug
You spelt 'I appreciate' wrong.
@@TealProjects it's a reference to Letterkenny. In that show, one of the main characters has a vocal tick where he unnecessarily pluralizes words.
5:09 don't forget the soul-zapping static shocks you'd get from the metal bolts holding the tubes together. After crawling through 40 feet of plastic tubes in your socks you were basically Zeus.
God the memories.
Im Getting some flashbacks
damn you didn’t have to jumpscare me with violent flashbacks
Oh, the horror!
OH MY GOD SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS THIS PAIN
I used to go on the slides in the McDonald's playlands and they were fun but at the bottom my skin would be covered in goosebumps because of the pure amount of static that's been forced onto my skin from the metal. At least now I know why they did that, I just thought the plastic was evil.
You know, places for kids to "let loose and be themselves" sound really good on paper. But, having worked at one myself, I can tell you it is hell for every single minimum wage worker who has to handle it.
It was hell disguised as heaven when I was a kid. It probably was my first panic attack seeing a gigantic mutant Rat dancing in the dark for no good reason with his other mutated friends. Haunted Houses could learn a thing or two from Chuck E. Cheese.
I can images that
@@o_o5210 Just discovered a meme that became a big inside joke with my coworkers, titled "Fart Ni Botto" (after how the crop killed the meme text), that depicts a toilet after one of our customers had explosive diarrhea and missed the bowl. Should I imgur it?
at the very least that should pay more than minimum wage.
To parents mad this may cost them more money: you really want people who are only being paid for the bare minimum watching your kids? you get what you pay for.
Such is capitalism
When I was six I legitimately got lost in a McDonalds play place crawl tunnel. I crawled through those colourful, sweat smelling tunnels for what felt like ages (but was probably only a couple of minutes). I could hear other people but I only saw one other kid peaking out from behind a corner only to skitter back when she saw me.
I’m not saying I temporarily clipped into a child version of the backrooms, but I think we can all agree that if there existed such a place, one entrance would definitely be inside a McDonalds
I think that was me, were you wearing glasses and a purple striped shirt? What year did this happen to you? LMAO just curious because I distinctly remember "playing hide and seek" with my older sister in one of the play places. After being "the best hider" for like maybe twenty or thirty minutes I gave up and eventually went down the slide. I remember being really mad and asking my sister what happened, she said,"I forgot to go in there!" Also I was extremely shy/ possibly antisocial as a kid... If you were the kid in purple you did look hella lost/confused. If it wasn't you, "I'm sorry kid in a purple striped shirt." 😊😅😂
I got a story like this and I was also about the same age. I was in a Charles Entertainment Cheese establishment for a party or something and I also got lost in those sweat smelling tunnels and whatnot but I remember there being an area with his clear plastic bowl that you could see out of and I got stuck in that area because 1. I couldn’t find a way out and 2. There were too many kids in there. There was this girl that saw me and helped me get out. Anyways I’m almost 14 and I’m proud to say I’m having my party there
The Mickey Macarena is the most 90s thing I’ve ever heard.
Second only to the Bartman in ridiculous dances made my corporations
Up there with Blockbuster Video buying Discovery Zone.
"charles entertainment cheese"
what an absolute chad of a name
Hello sans
Oh my god is that sans from sonic the hedgehog
@@DiagonalTanooki no you idiot it's clearly Sora from all dogs go to heaven
@@trophyish actually I just realized it's cloud from super Mario 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Amigamertv no I’m fairly certain it’s master chief from minecraft
Chuck E. Cheese's is the og "We have Disneyland at home"
Not really. Its an aracade restaurant and disney land is theme park
@@Venom-rr1vg you see, both have mascots and animatronics, so mothers dont see a damn different thing about the two
damn I wanna like the comment but the number is perfect the way it is
@@arekrekas213 The Chuck E Cheese I went to didn't have any animatronics. I didn't even believe they were real, I thought people had made them up.
See that’s true but it doesn’t work because Chuck E. Cheese was actually pretty great lol
Disney really looks at anything successful and immediately:
"WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO!"
Can't wait until Disney starts making consoles to compete with... *Sees Disney Quest* oh 😐😐
Disney is basically a mom in the Eisner era, says that they have it at home/park and it's absolutely not what they claimed it to be
"So what are you in school for?"
Oh I'm a history major.
"Ooh cool! What time period do you like?"
80's and 90's America.
"...……."
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As a 1980-born guy, I can relate. Not just for nostalgia's sake. A real course of history can be taught on this era & just of pop culture alone. Pre-millennium anything is fascinating to discover & learn about, especially for those of us who lived it & now wonder, "What was it about this that made us like it so much?"
Yea and people were less PC and annoying then
@@oooh19 i smoke fat doinks
“O you mean the pinnacle of human civilization?”
I can’t believe how many times I rewinded this video to listen to “a powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.”
*Giorno's Theme plays in the backround as he appears*
Keeping the likes at 666
7:29
"A room where guests could see their own shadow." WOAH
VandelayOfficial it was so cool I remember this experience as a child 😭
I think I know what that is and it's less stupid than it sounds
Kind of
VandelayOfficial lmao
@@Spookyscaryskellies now THAT is something I would pay to see
The fact that Eisner was concerned with the furniture makes me both disturbed by his micromanagement and impressed buy how much he cares
It's the kind of micromanaging that worked for Walt Disney when Disney was a much smaller, non-international conglomerate. They all want to be Walt Disney but that shit works in the 50s not the 90s.
@@alice88wa as well as the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s unfortunately
A Powerful Rat Named Charles Entertainment Cheese
A Powerful Rat Named -Charles Entertainment- *Biggie* Cheese
Someone stop him he's too strong
IT'S NO USE!!!!
CK16 Striker *stares at you with big blinking eyes*
"My name...is Charles E. Rat, and together, we can make this Zone a better place."
Back to Eisner’s special business technique: Jealousy
Midnight Owl then made 2 movies and a cartoon out of it
@@primusvsunicron1 actually the team was founded beciase of the movies
Jordan Barboza
What’s Iger’s Hissatsu Waza?
And pettiness!
for over a year my best friend had me in her phone under "charles entertainment cheese" with the picture of the original costume so thank u for this
I want to know why did she had you as chuck e cheese in her contancts
@@josephochoa9861 don't worry about it
@@raediant3307 alright than
@@raediant3307 no I want to know
No problem, it's all yours my friend! Take it!
THIS IS WHERE THE MEME IS FROM
“A powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese”
(7:29)
12:12 Oddly enough, the "Pooh and You Corner" was what we used to call a specific spot in the ball pit at the Chick-Fil-A I worked at, though obviously for reasons unrelated to branding.
*oh*
Oh *g o d*
@@peachtea7269 God can not save you from the "Pooh and You Corner"
now that Winnie the Pooh is no longer copyrighted, you can call it that again! :D
@@SireneKalypso I mean the Disney version is in their power but the original story is no longer theirs so anyone can run with it
HIS MIDDLE NAME IS ENTERTAINMENT???
IMMINOSUS his parents must have hated him
Has Anyone Seen Owen Grady? Lmfao
IMMINOSUS I wonder which of his family members was named “Entertainment”
Yes, his name was Michael Entertainment Eisner.
Has Anyone Seen Owen Grady? He’s an orphan. He has no parents.
I love that among the Chuck E Cheese mascots, all of them are giant talking animals or bizarre creatures, but then one of them is just an Italian guy.
Isn't that included in 'bizarre creature'?
I can only assume that the Peter Pan room was actually one of those shadow rooms I've seen at a couple fun houses, where there's a dim room with one or more walls covered in some sort of photosensitive material and a strobe light that flashes once every few minuets. When the flash happens, the photosensitive walls will retain any shadow that got cast on them until the next flash occurs.
Here is a brief summary of Defunctland videos, as a whole:
_Timmy's Dad voice_ "EISENERRRRR"
This comment needs more likes.
TigirlakaLaserwolf6 And here is a brief summary of this video: CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE
And this is where my Disney stock certificate would be...IF I HAD ONE!
“That fucker Michael Eisner,”
7:29
c h a r l e s
e n t e r t a i n m e n t
c h e e s e
then he was canceled
Lol so wrong
He your uncle?
Aiden Barsimantov probably for being too damn creepy
That's his real name ya know
Can we take a moment to appreciate the opening song?
Good shit my dude
3:16 For anybody looking for the song :)
I love that drum sample.
A more accurate spoof of the "Full House" theme than "Too Many Cooks," that's for sure!
Mousetv watch your profanity! For the one hundred and twenty two TIMES!!!!
what is that god damn song called i wanna be able to listen to it on its own
9:51 my favorite part of every Defunctland episode i've seen so far is when Kevin says something like "...they could dominate the new market." and the unsaid, 'but you're listening to it on a channel called /Defunct/land, so you know where this is about to go.' gives me such a grin (usually. Sometimes it makes me sad).
I like that no kid could leave Club Disney with a different adult than they came in with.
They had the same system at Chuck E Cheese, at least by the time kid me was going there in the 2000s/2010s
that is a very good idea
would stop anyone from trying to recreate the five nights lore at the very least
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Sadly most of the lore happened INSIDE the pizzeria.
Love the one you’re With.
I love these videos. I can tell just how much time and effort was put into all of these and I love them all, including Defunct TV
one of the few youtube channels were I watch every video uploaded
yeah but he really milks play time, by playing the full commercial and then playing the same commercial with a voice over, and then playing another full commerical
I feel like this could end up turning into a tv show
x13years I like the nostalgic commercials, usually it irritating when channels don't get to the point, but it seems to work very well here
The knowledge that Chuckie Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese has made me be reborn
His name is Chuck E Cheese, which makes the full one a lot more obvious than chuckie.
And Mickey”s real name Is Michael Theodore Mouse
"watched tv for 3 days straight" he was in that photo physically but not mentally. dude was gone.
so he truly was a "couch potato"
My god. For youtuber with only about 300k subscribers, This is insanely high quality. Keep up with the good work :)
Mr. Mouses meanwhile fortnite youtubers shit out effortless content on the daily and get millions of subs
"Only"
Just visualize what 300,000 people looks like for a second.
Keep in mind that Defunctland has been growing extremely quickly.
Jayfive276 yeah but a lot of others RUclipsrs have a lot more subscribers for a lot less effort
I totally agree Bbistheman. Most of the kids these days watch mindless fortnite content from clickbait Ali-a
Ah, Discovery Zone. The original early-90s PvP battle royale arena.
No reward at the end, only pure and endless pain
I forgot Discovery Zone was even a thing...but some memory in the back of my mind is recalling going down that slide that was basically made of rolling pins and climbing through those goddamn net tubes.
@matt yes, somewhat, at least...I don't remember there being an arcade, though, but I was like...5 or 6, and my tiny developing brain was more focused on slides and ballpits rather than video games.
DZ!!
matt True - at least we couldn’t go to school w it.
I spent so much time at Club Disney as a kid that I still have dreams about it as an adult, but no one ever knew what I was talking about to the point where I questioned its existence. This seriously just unlocked some childhood memories!
As someone born in 2001, the '90s sounds like a simultaneously utopian and dystopian fever dream.
Same
Imagine what you could do in a day if there were no computers, 2 tv channels, freedom. That's what we did.
Everything and nothing. You're all so disconnected it's really sad. It's not that far off. If you unplug and socialize with reg folks you got it.
Oh yeah, and there's no proof of stupid shit we did lol you post it online damn
Living in the moment, we never knew what we had.
That’s great good job
That original Chuck E. Cheese mascot is terrifying omg
he was like a Rodent Mafioso, I see that and imagine he sounds like Joe Pesci.
I can see how FNAF came to be now.
Lucas Butterfield It looks like it's catchphrase would be "Hey kids, wanna die!?"
Charles has never ceased to be creepy.
Yea I think the new one is a better idea
"A kind of terrifying helicopter thing where the mean kids would jump up and down"
"The net thing where your feet would get caught"
I didn't even KNOW i had ptsd about these things until Kevin said them
I remember back in 2014 or something I was at a Funtopia and some kid wouldn’t let me go down the slide to get out that a worker had to come to push the kid out of the way.
@@TankEngine_12 How old are you?
Vomit
Disinfectant
Vomit
Disinfectant
@ジェーミー because the kid probably shouldn’t be on RUclips unsupervised
@@Bass_Goat53 lol
a powerful rat, named charles entertainment cheese.
Jordan what time is it at?
7:28
And don’t you forget it!
Hey shister
wtf is ur profile pic
I want an adult version of Discovery Zone. I remember going as a kid in the 90’s and that place was A M A Z I N G.
It sounds great, but my old bones would be so mad at me the next day. But it would be worth it!
There was a Discovery Zone in my hometown and I never got to go :( I was so bummed when they closed down.
The nostalgia I feel for these places is so intense
There's an indoor activity center called SuperPark that's basically Discovery Zone for adults! It's more geared towards sports but there's an all-ages ball pit.
It's from Finland but they have international locations mostly in Asia and Middle East. Apparently they're a franchise model so let's hope that they'll come to US very soon!
The amount of art Kevin P. puts into these videos absolutely astonishes me. A simple and amusing concept made breathtaking and so informational without the inconvenience of sounding droll brought to life by the creativity and mastery that is Defunctland. I absolutely love the youtube channel and series as a whole. I hope it continues until Kevin can sustain it and I will support him the entire way. Godspeed you magnificent historian.
"poohrobics" sounds like an exercise routine for when you're having colon issues.
0p
Hu
I thought it was a potty training class or something.
Thank you for the laugh 😂😂
I only have Colin issues while playing Changed.
My father was the corporate/regional executive chef for Disney Regional / ESPN Zone restaurants from 2001 to around 2009. My father was forced to retire by Disney due to the recession taking its toll. I had no idea when I started watching this video that it would have any connection. I thank you so much for helping me understand just a little more about my father's 21 years with the Walt Disney company!
I thought I was crazy remembering going to a Club Disney when I was small, mostly because no one mentioned it when I was older and all my memories were foggy from childhood. This video explains so much lol
Wryder Christy Yeah. My class went to one on a field trip when i was a kid. It was a bit of a drive then but i drive by the old building sometimes now. The outside has never changed despite it being something completely different now.
I worked at Chuck E Cheese about 7 years ago when I was 16. When you were talking about the Play Place I was reminded about this time when a kid wouldn't come out of the little overlook area. His mom didn't feel comfortable climbing up there so the manager went up to try to get him out. When she gets up there we see her hands slip and her fall on her face. Turns out the kid had taken his full diaper off and wiped his feces all over the tube and she had fallen face first into it. The other manager demanded that either my coworker or I go up and clean it. The three of us walked out and never went back.
I feel bad for everyone in that situation. People just trying to run a children's entertainment place, and parents just wanting their kids to blow off some steam, but some innocent 3 year old had to smear his crap everywhere and ruin it.
That’s just, nasty. I just hope when I can get a job next May I’m not stuck working at a job like that.
It was the first real job I had, as in not mowing lawns or something of that nature. Definitely didn't set the bar very high.
Fun fact, a similar experience as a child (Albeit with urine in a playplace instead of feces) inspired an online pal of mine to write an SCP entry. A pretty darn good one too: www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1904
It's also canon to his Burgrr Entries story; and by extension his webcomic Awful Hospital, if you're familiar with either of those...
Excuse me, but
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thank you...
“A powerful rat named Charles entertainment cheese”
Everything about this makes me die of laughter
"Pooh and You Corner"
He is talking about the honey bear, he is talking about the honey bear, he is talking about the honey bear...
Y'all were so caught up with Charles Entertainment Cheese, you all forgot the real treat:
A Swing Themed Tarzan
Glampyra Nicr
i dont get it
ash ツ which comment, theirs or mine?
Cracked egg theirs but I figured it out
@@atomichares I haven't :(
Why is is that I feel like getting popcorn and a beer anytime your videos pop up on my sub list? Because the presentation is so professional yet easily digestible, it's like a damn documentary series.
CanterlotCrusader
The hot tub is on and my bong is ready. Different stripes, same gallop.
Fletcha Conway I'm with this guy
"A room themed after Peter Pan where guests could see their shadow"
Uhhh... I mean, I can usually see my shadow
You people get shadows?
@@HanMestov Did you pay god the DLC before you were born?
@@Dantethedemonkiller I paid the collector was by some guy called Lucifer. But I think he was a swell guy.
@@HanMestov oh shit dude. That sucks. He seemed so trustworthy
@@Dantethedemonkiller ikr? He had a great character. He was charming and persuasive too
I hated the net to get to the slide at McDonald's as a person with cerebral palsy it was very difficult and painful. It was also scary just like it is for other kids.
I have CP too and also hated this
Not at McDonald’s but Burger King, and I have a brother 20 years younger than me at 4 years old, and he hates the nets too. I think it’s a shared part of the human condition to hate being supported by something that’s not solid.
I have CP too and one time, I got stuck in the ball pit at McDonald's and my mom had to come and rescue me.
Your the highest quality creator I have ever seen. The amount of time and effort that goes into each episode is amazing. I love all of the other guests you get to help you make the amazing extras. I loved the intro! Keep being awesome!
Totally agree
TheCoasterCompleater in no way denying that this is one of the best channels. but I have to ask you of you've watched any of Captain Disillusion's videos??
The intro was good, but the Full House intro parody has been done death on RUclips.
Kris O'Korra - Well, they change it in every video, so you'll never have to see it again.
Nice to see you’re broadening your horizons outside of theme parks and rides. It’d be cool to see one on DisneyQuest
DuncasterWood lets make this happen
That sounds so awesome. I miss DisneyQuest. Even though stuff never worked, it was a nice place to be.
That’s The Next Episode I Believe
iirc he said on pan's podcast sometime later this year he's gonna make a big episode on disneyquest, almost movie length iirc.
He should do one on the Rock afire explosion
Would you Rather:
Have a Cartoony Mouse be your company mascot
*Or*
*Have a Realistic sewer Rat Serve you questionable Pizza at a child casino.*
Wait what
*Welcome to Chuck E. Cheese.... Where a Kid can be a Kid....*
@@congratsyoufoundmychannel1098 *Forever*
The latter... but only if the rat is training four turtles that are also ninjas that are named after Renaissance artists.
@@Masterge77 you forgot mutants. You now have four regular ninja trained turtles. Which are able to walk slightly faster and wear colored headbands.
Wow so I'm not crazy. I've been telling people all my adult life that when I was a kid I went to a small indoor Disney amusement park and had a lot of fun exploring the Time Toaster but no one ever believed me, even people I know I went there with. Thank you Kevin for doing the research for this video.
Club Disney was yet another one of Michael Eisner's wild ambitions that ended up bursting into flames, the most infamous example of Eisner becoming too ambitious being California Adventure, while this one was quickly buried into obscurity.
I don't even know if it's ambition necessarily, It's just kinda dumb. Bad pricing, lofty goals, and too much emphasis on short term over long term.
At least some of the ideas mentioned as announced and cancelled came back in some form.
The breadth and depth of your talents is astounding. Particularly your editing skills, you must be one of the most talented video editors in the business. Seriously I don't just mean on RUclips, I mean in the entire media business as a whole. That you make these videos yourself and come out with an end product so well polished and engaging, that puts the efforts of traditional mass media corporations to shame, no joke! Good for you! (And good riddance to them, too!).
*thicc*
I’ve seen that Charles Entertainment Cheese bit all over and it never fails to make me laugh. I’m proud to know it came from a Defunctland video
It’s his official name you dumbass
@@finnprince2163 I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
@@morgansheepman2403 It really IS Chuck's official name, apparently.
@@greenaum I'd explain that the quote "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese" got passed around the internet, but I'm afraid the knowledge would slide off your smooth brain.
@@idoodooo3988 Yeah, I wasn't aware, and didn't care, and actually, I still don't. But it's still his real name. Have fun with your Tiktok maymays!
DisneyQuest was my first job after highschool. It was such a rad experience and Pleasure Island was such a fucking awesome thing for me through my early 20's. It broke my heart to see them kill off Pleasure Island and eventually DisneyQuest. I legitimately teared up when you mentioned it. They threatened closing it when I worked there in 2005 and it seemed like they had been threatening for years. It made me so happy to see that stubborn bastard hold on for another 12 years before being closed. I still have a Cyberspace Mountain card with 13 loops on it named the Jolly Trolley.
Rat vs. Mouse
Battle for the Rodent King
i think rat
Winner: Porcupine
rat is more resistant, mouse sees new york sewer and cries
Cat wins either way
@@Harperion hamter
9/10 point deducted because the 90's intro should have had a shot of Eisner tripping in his office and throwing a bunch of papers into the air before falling to the floor off camera, leaving only his secretary in-frame, looking on with a knowing amused smirk on her face, arms akimbo, gentely shaking her head side to side as if to say "Yup, that's my boss!"
Nor did it have Beast his servanttrying to keep Steve Urkel out of the studio.
Not WASPy enough.
Walt Disney "Its kind of fun to do the impossible"
Micheal Eisner: "Its kind of fun to rip off other companies ideas"
Bob Eiger: It's kind of fun to make almost nothing but remakes.
Your 90s show intro was absolutely on point!
AYE NETFLIX WHEN U GONNA GIVE DEFUNCTLAND ITS OWN NETFLIX SERIES?!
Now where do I get the WACKY EFFECTS!!
No... guess what would happen, guess.
I'll tell you. It would be given 2 seasons and then Netflix would cancel it. After which contracts would make it impossible for them to continue on RUclips. Effectively killing your favorite RUclips show.
I could see this being a hit on Amazon Prime, they have some stuff like this already.
Netflix is shit only conformist normies watch it
@Dodonpachi257
_My man_
Disney really is a such a morally grey company. While employing very talented artists, engineers, and people who I think do genuinely care about kids, they are also a giant capitalistic leviathan who now have become the Standard Oil of entertainment. Issues such as low employee pay at their resorts still persist to this day. As someone who was born in Orlando Disney stories always hit close to home for me as what Disney produces truly highlights our society's surreal contradictions.
They are going to increase the pay sooo....
Disney isn't THAT bad.
The goal of any BUSINESS (not charity) is to make money. Period. There is absolutely nothing morally wrong with what Disney does... the issue is that people CHOOSE to consume the garbage they produce. Just look at what they did to Star Wars... UGH!
Well said Justin.
+Stevie 1. Neither Disney or Bob Iger weren't going to do anything about their workers' low salaries until they were publicly shamed by Bernie Sanders. And 2. it really says everything about our society when people will run and take up for a large impersonal corporation over actual flesh and blood workers. The brainwashing is truly fascinating and scary at the same time. Sure Disney stories are good and they hire very talented and well meaning creatives, but at the end of the day Disney the company only cares about its shareholders and nothing else. They do *not* care about you or your family. Us Americans really do need to step out of our right-wing economic Stockholm Syndrome and learn that large corporations do not need to be defended. Our social and economic systems are broken and Disney's issues are just symptoms of these larger problems.
+Moby Green This consumerist "personal choice" narrative is just flat-out corrosive and the cause of pretty much all of our country's problems. A choice of products is the furthest thing from choosing your own destiny, and fooling people into thinking that buying and selling things is the purest form of freedom has made them way easier to control by those in power. This is the true face of neoliberalism, which really is a form of social darwinism in a clever disguise, and it seeks to turn every aspect of life into a commodity that is to be bought and sold. This comment from a socially right-wing perspective, but this has also taken over too much of the so-called "left" as well. I hope this disgusting greedy ideology crashes like the authoritarian Communist societies because ideas like these are truly Communism's evil reverse image. People are sick and tired of "business" having lordship over their lives and people on the right and center need to understand that.
I was one of those kids that showed up to Discovery Zone for a big party only to find out it was closed. It devastated me because we went there at least once a month for almost 2 years! Wow, I always get hit with some serious nostalgia when I watch these videos. I’ve enjoyed every single one I’ve watched so far and I can’t wait for more. Guaranteed subscriber.
JediAnn Solo that sounds horrible. What was your reaction?
My aunt used to take me to Discovery Zone a lot when I was little. I don't remember it much except the name, but she's told me that we would typically go on Mondays after they cleaned the ball pits (she's a nurse and thus was concerned about hygiene, which isn't unreasonable considering that all kinds of nasty stuff has often been found in those places.) I've heard elsewhere it was a popular place for birthday parties, but I can't recall ever going there for anything like that.
I believe I had my party there... on the day it closed. Last event before it all shut down.
that is so sad! I hope you still had a good birthday though.
T K If my recollection is correct, I whined and pouted all the way back to the car while my brother cried. Our parents took us to a local playground as a last minute consolation and I spent about 45 minutes scooting slowly on the merry-go-round.
Dude, your content is some of the best on RUclips. You understand how to make content for RUclips viewers with all the particular nuances that viewers appreciate. Inside jokes, pause frames with extra info, really funny commentary. Great stuff.
Him: says Hercules
Me : HONEY YOU MEAN HUNKULES .
🤣
damn right 😳
Oooh hoo hoo!
Lol I remember that from a YTP.
Herculad
I live near the first Club Disney and my kid was small, so we LIVED there!! It was awesome, but they made a few basic mistakes. First, it skewed too young. Most of it was for pre-schoolers (Pooh, princess dress up, etc), which left out too many kids. The computer games were super basic/young (and the computers were usually broken anyways). There was a baby/toddler play zone, and then the climbing structure, which was kinda small - think McDonalds size. Plus, they had miscalculated the main slide and the first week kids got hurt - that’s the reason there was always a worker at the top. Which leads to the biggest problem - it was WAY too reliant on human workers. Parents chilled in the cafe (which had excellent food), and a worker had to be in each semi-separate zone to police bullies etc. They tried to have interactive shows nearly continuously in the little theater, which required skilled entertainers; magicians, comedians, etc. The cafe required cashiers, cooks, busboys. Constant cleaning was needed all over. It was easy to see how the cost of employees was very high. And surprisingly, many times we would be there and there were few customers, especially after the first year or so. Even in an affluent area, there are only so many stay-home moms hanging out with their preschooler in the middle of a weekday. Other people were bothered by the “high” admission charge, as the place just wasn’t that big, but we had a monthly or yearly pass, and I appreciated that there were no tokens to buy, like Chuck E. Cheese had. Overall, it was a class act and very well done, and we really mourned when they closed. Disney admitted it made money, just not “enough” money.
Lost it at “Charles Entertainment Cheese “
Same
*Biggie* Cheese
me too
more like hid because it was so creepy
"Pooh-robics" sounds like an exercise routine for the severely constipated
*a powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese*
_s m i l e a m e r i c a_
i forgot how Good this episode is... the intro song.... “a powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese”.... “what, too soon?” im laughing at work man
edit: four years later and i no longer have the job i had at the time and this video gives me flashbacks to the hell of hotel housekeeping, good times
Ah yes, ball pits. The most nauseatingly euphoric utopian hell that one will ever have the blissful displeasure of experiencing.
Goldenglare_thewindeater this is doublethink at its finest
Will the real Entertainment Cheese please stand up
IDK, I went to birthday places for my birthdays during childhood, and I never experienced what Kevin said about those places.
Rest in peace Disney Quest, I'll always remember that spiral staircase that triggered my motion sickness somehow
Pretty sure Disney Quest went to hell
The intro tune has to stay. It's perfect for this show. Cancel all your plans....It's Defuctland!!!
Woah! I grew up in Thousand Oaks and I've been trying to remember for forever what the disney themed playplace I went to when I was very young was. I have a memory of being at the top of a big slide, where an employee would ask you what disney character you wanted to be, you'd tell them a character, like Ariel for instance, and they'd say over the intercom something like "Ariel is coming down!" as you went down the slide. Maybe it was a precaution against too many kids going down the slide at once, idk. I had no idea there was so few of these places! I feel special now :) Thank you Kevin!! I'm gonna see if my mom and my sister remember anything about Club Disney.
I remember at the San Bernardino Club Disney that the slide would make the Goofy scream when you went down.
That's honestly awesome and terrifying.
Blockbuster running a children's play place? The 90s were weird man
Andrew Brandenburg Blockbluster already felt like a play place. RIP Blockbuster.
Ahh but it was a good weird I miss the 90s
It was actually pretty cool. All the kids movies were over there and placed at a kids height! I would play while my mom picked out her movie and went through the line. She’d have to call me from the door to tell me to stop playing. They also sold fresh popped popcorn on Fridays - it was pretty sweet.
Ya’ll have to understand Blockbuster was packed in it’s prime so lines took FOREVER.
"Ten or so were protestors accusing Disney of paying Hatian workers 28 cents an hour to make Pocahontas-themed pajamas."
I really wasn't expecting that detailed of an explanation. lmfao
I remember seeing ads for Chuck E Cheese's on TV, even on PBS Kids. I've visited it once or twice in my area when I was a kid, but now I visit Dave and Buster's on occasion.
Dave and Busters is the stuff. I like the things they have to offer.
@Cec arcade mode tv Gordon Mate, fun dip costs 75 points...
Do you know how many points you need to play per game. One and Dave and busters. 75
Dave and Busters, at least the one back in Illinois I visited is a bit of a shell of its old self, same thing with the gameworks property out there.
I had a Discovery Zone a little ways out of town when I was a kid in the late 90's. Every time I could pester my dad to take me there for the day was pure heaven, the enormous plastic tube maze was the epitome of adventure and the dozens of arcade games offered endless entertainment. Places like that really sum up 90's childhood entertainment for me. As a matter of fact, as soon as Defunctland mentioned plastic mazes and ballpits I paused the video and told my wife "that reminds me of Discovery Zone!" I then spent about 10 minutes explaining why it was so wonderful before literally the next section started talking about it.
I wish DZ would come back. We had one near me when I was real little.
very 90s. Like lets add to 80s arcades by making games and physical activity then food! It's a great combo and in my brain it still works it's just my how times have changed
..... who wrote and performed the theme song??
yeah, i was wondering that as well
its in the credits
its listed in the credits
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My old elementary school was immediately next to a playplace named "Makutu's Island" which was originally going to be a Club Disney, but the plan was shuttered during the closures and it became its own thing. In fact, there's still a pair of footprints belonging to what appears to be Mickey and Donald out front.
7:29 Make that a ONCE-powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese.
You fool, you dare assume a mere bankruptcy can stop the RAT?
Mortal, Chuck E. survived two bankruptcy! Bankruptcy is a fool to kill the powerful rat
I’m right here though
Color me surprised, I didn’t expect Club Disney to be a topic, but what a very fitting one to cover! I actually had my 6th birthday party (A Bug’s Life themed) at Club Disney, the West Covina location if I recall correctly! I remember it fondly and how immersive the whole event was for all of us kids. I know I have a VHS recording of that party, complete with footage of exploring The Hundred Acre Wood and Merlin giving us a show. Everything was interactive, and each kid got nicely crafted ant antennae headbands (Flik ones for the boys, Dot ones for the girls, and yours truly the birthday girl got Princess Atta’s with her tiara). One of my favorite birthday memories, it was a shame Club Disney was so short lived.
Katie Lewis I’ll try to find it in my family video archive 😄
Please upload the video if you ever come across it lol I kinda want to relive the memories of going there as a kid lol
How funny my family has a home video of one of my sisters parties there and it included the Hundred Acre Wood area and Merlin show as well!
TheAbbeyRoadie I use to work at that location
I've lived in West Covina for a while and I didn't even know we had one. Where was it?
Vomit, disinfectant, vomit, disinfectant
Gold
Sad, but oh so true. Although there was probably some other things in there based on the smell.
Hilarious
Lucas Butterfield he forgot to mention the piss!
I hade to pause the video at the near end of the list just to say “vomit, disinfectant” again.
The discovery zone thing legit happened to me. My mom took me and my brother to the one in our area and we witnessed the sign on the door saying it was closed. And yeah someone was having a birthday party at the time and showed up for it, a whole group of kids was there. Everyone was really upset about it.
Like, how many phone calls would it have taken to let people who had a reservation know for the week it closed? If that's how they treated people, it deserved to go out of business.
I remember that DZ "I don't think so" commercial making me murderously angry as a kid. Even now I feel instant rage at being reminded it exists.
It certainly filled me with rage just seeing it once here so I can relate
Oh goodness not the Rock-a-Fire Explosion...
When I was a kid I used to frequent a place called Fun Station USA. It was a pretty sweet arcade and had some indoor rides. They had a Rock-a-Fire explosion show there, and as I got older (around 11) the animatronics began to break down. But instead of, I dunno, getting rid of them, they just placed the broken and old animatronics in random places in the arcade.
My day camp was at Fun Station, and one of my counselors asked me to get something from a big utility closet. I walked in to get paper towels or whatever, and BOOM the fucking cheerleader mouse robot was towering over me. I was traumatized.
Dam where was this I use to go to fun station all the time as a kid o only thought there was one
Scott Cawthon got FBAF from shit like this.
There was a Fun Station USA on Staten Island (where I'm from). I went there a million times but I never saw a Rock-A-Fire Explosion.
That's FNAF shit right there
@@sharpmusic4668 I am also from Staten Island. That's where I saw it! It was in the party room.
"In hindsight, this was akin to Radioshack investing in Toys "r" Us"
*cue booing noises*
"What? Too soon?”
Lost it the second I heard the booing noises.
so wild to hear my hometown being a first location for a huge play zone, most people wouldn't think midwest for a starting point of a franchise! love learning all this history behind these long gone places/atrractions, I always look forward to the new videos when they come out c:
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