Flamingo Land - Yorkshire's Best Theme Park?

[@shirleysmith1713]

Been to Flamingo land lots of times with my son & daughter years ago. We always enjoyed our day. Thanks for showing Darren 👍🏻☀️😎

[@lindseykaine-walley6339]

Theme parks are my favourite videos especially abandoned ones but you made this so much fun to watch. Hope you dried off quickly!

[@Teesbrough]

Never knew anything about Flamingoland until my 840 Coastliner bus went past it last Saturday en route from Leeds to Whitby. For the rest of the summer the maximum single fare for the entire journey (including from Leeds, York or Whitby to Flamingoland) is £2. That makes it a real bargain to reach it, with mostly an hourly service from Leeds to Pickering.

[@douglasthompson296]

Cheers Will for the update on the bus route, I once took a Yorkshire rider Leeds to Brid on a Monday, it was ok BUT it doubled up as a school bus for part journey, NOT good 🧐 I'm retired now with a pensioner bus pass so it would be free for me I guess 😎. Cheers DougT

[@tedlym.3390]

I really enjoyed your presentation. Thank you,

[@juliebrooke6099]

The zoo came first ( flamingo park zoo it was called then) with just a few rides and fairground amusements. The ride side of things has extended gradually and has never attempted to be a theme park as such- there is no particular theme. It’s a fairground with big permanent rides. There’s also a campsite ( still there as far as I know) with direct access to the amusement park.

[@ENLSN77]

My one and only visit to the park was over 30 years ago! eeek! I think i was about 14/15. I didn't recognise anything except the pirate ship. We also stayed in a static caravan with the direct access like you say. Vague memories of the zoo.

[@johnakyle5908]

Love Flamingo Land , reminds me of many a holiday to Scarborough when the kids were younger.

[@leash11]

We moved to Bridlington for a year (I am from Blackpool, husband Bradford). We went here for our daughter’s 2nd birthday. Not seen it in 13 years! Thankyou for taking me back!

[@kkrispy2009P]

Great vlog nice seeing Andy and disney mark thanks 4 sharing dude

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Seaside Mark lol you mean Disney Mark

[@kkrispy2009P]

@@Coaster_Crazy thanks did you upload a full vlog 4 the day

[@samgowler]

Laughed way to much at the Ronnie pickerin bit 😂

[@waynecheshire7878]

Great video thank you I really need to get back there lovely to see Andy 🦩

[@AdventureMe]

You should!

[@bowlerwildcatGaming1991]

Flamingo Land I Have Fond Memories Of Going Afew Time With School As End Of Year Trips Back Mid To Late 1990s & Early 2000s

[@shirleylynch7529]

Brilliant. That was great. But I must say rather you than me. I’d be sick. Super fun. Thank you for taking us with you. Filming great. Well done,

[@frankiewilde7791]

Can't beat a quiet day at a theme park. Pity Velocity wasn't running, as thats my favourite ride there. I agree about what you said regarding the lack of theming at Flamingoland. It looks like a bit of a funfair in areas.

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

Hi Darren, great vlog and something different for you ,lovely to see see Andy with you .

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Brilliant!

[@kkrispy2009P]

Hii mark great to see you there and Andy

[@dread7299]

Love your channel and the videos exploring abandoned Yorkshire places. Had an idea for your next one - the old railway tunnels under Scarborough from the 1800s! Those lost tunnels must be filled with history. Your viewers would go mad to explore them with you. You’ve tackled other great Scarborough spots, so the tunnels seem perfect next. Ever thought of checking them out? I’m a Scarborough native and your videos bring back memories. Keep up the great work! Let me know if you want info on the tunnels. I’d love to see you discover what’s down there! Cheers! Mark

[@thomasmann9216]

Better you than me, Darren. I suffer from acrophobia and motion sickness, so I cannot ride coasters or fast spinny rides. It was fun watching you fellows enjoying your day, though.

[@Del-bm]

My family and I love Flamingo Land

[@hollimurray8856]

Bangers of tunes on Sik 🤣 you're down with kids 😂😂 cliffhanger reminds me of the PlayStation at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

[@sampoole9549]

More of this please! 😀 Not been for about 15 years. Looks like they have some good rides. Might have to give it a visit.

[@douglasthompson296]

Well Darren your spoiling us, a mid week vid that's not a shorty 😎 Cheers DougT

[@lynnballington8467]

Hello Darren and Martin and Andy how are you all love your vidio of flamingo land glad that you enjoy going on the rides best wishes take care stay safe xx

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Hi Lynn, thanks for watching :)

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Who’s Martin lol !? You mean Mark

[@DisneyMarkUK]

@@Coaster_Crazy That’s me 😊

[@mikerogers5043]

Love this theme park ride video. Still love all your other history videos. Maybe a new series "Darren suffers theme park rides" 😁

[@ENLSN77]

I think my one and only visit was like 1991. So, the only thing i recognised was the old pirate ship. We stayed in a static caravan too. Back then the first gulf war was kicking off so there were (American) military aircraft daily with the occasional dogfight practice overhead. I remember a monorail and four wheeled cycles. Even back then there was a fairly large roller coaster but my favourite part was the zoo, boating area and miniature railway like Blackpool Zoo and Stanley Park.

[@jimmysnailshoes]

We went to flamingoland last year, we drenched but it was the hottest day of the year

[@christelbraune4530]

Oh man, das war ja verrückt!!!!alles hintereinander. seit ihr schnell getrocknet?? Ich finde es auch total Irre aber würde niemals einsteigen 😱🫣 Danke Darren 💞 das war großartig 👍👍👋

[@davidnorman7761]

Darren superb content .an expensive day out at flamingo land changed over the years for the better rides wise but also priced to match.what was it like being in proper Yorkshire with real Yorkshire folk

[@catherineclark4484]

Loved this vlog

[@philrob1978]

Great stuff Darren, nice to see you out and about with some of the other KZbinrs I follow! Flamingo Land is my local park I guess, since I live on Tyneside, like Mark actually, maybe one day I could cadge a lift off him down there, since I've not rode "Sik" yet! "Hero" should be razed to the ground - an horrendous machine, I've no idea why people go on it after the first time!

[@leonbero1974]

14:10 10/10 smooth and free.

[@wrichard11]

The power of gravity!

[@dcallan812]

great video 2x👍 We went to Flamingo Land most years and stayed in our caravan for a week. The zoo had a monkey that used to hang from his cage and pee on people or throw number 2s out into the crowed. 🤣😂

[@OutandAboutWithDavid]

4:30 Darren, di you get to ride on the front seats? 8:05 Been there, not to Ronnie Pickering for afternoon Tea at 3pm. 19:55 So Yorkshire with Gravy. Can not believe to just binned them. Great you had a good time gents. Thank you.

[@frogandspanner]

I visited Flamingo Park Zoo when it first opened. There were no rides in those days.

[@martinmarsola6477]

If I were 15 years younger, I would try these! Instead, I’ll watch your group. See you on the next, Darren. Enjoy the trip. 😊

[@danielbooth2982]

What a fantastic video, absolutely brilliant collaboration here as well and glad you got onto the kiddie coaster. Mark is a funny guy 😂

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lizsavagar2860]

What a giggle watching you lot, loved it!

[@DisneyMarkUK]

We had such a fab day :)

[@garrick3727]

The last time I went to Flamingo Land, which was a really long time ago, it was just some land. With Flamingos. Actually, I'm not even sure about the latter. I remember having ice cream, and walking around on the land, but that's about it.

[@mousecharger]

Still never been. It looks really good 👍 really enjoyed watching this

[@imansfield]

I’ve got some footage of colossus on opening day on my channel. It’s interesting to compare the two rides as they were when first built.

[@CoasterAlt]

I’d love to see more theme park content on your channel. A lot of UK parks have some rich history, especially Alton Towers which I can’t believe you haven’t already covered! The past and present images and your way of editing would really compliment a video of all the changes to the theme park era of the grounds and you could do a whole series about the gardens and towers ruins

[@AdventureMe]

I'm working on it. Don't worry. Merlin are a bit uptight though. That's why I haven't yet.

[@CoasterAlt]

@@AdventureMe That’s great news! Fingers crossed Merlin will come round

[@juliec70]

Love flamingo land , so funny couldn't stop laughing 😂 great vlog 😊

[@andysingingkellett]

Love your channel mate it’s totally brill.

[@AdventureMe]

Cheers bud

[@jeffdayman8183]

Hope your physiotherapy goes well after your ride on hero! I was definitely living vicariously through your camera for that one. My back thanks you! Cheers.

[@AdventureMe]

I need surgery I think

[@jeffdayman8183]

@@AdventureMe 😆 get well soon!

[@robmoon23]

Just down the road from me 😁

[@alistairhorsey6025]

Are we likely to see a history video like Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

[@AdventureMe]

I thought about it. But not sure there's lots to say. It's not that old really.

[@lordatkinson2046]

27:28 and flamingo land to that seriously there rebuilding the main drop only at 30 feet though but still a shock from a park the removes everything that breaks

[@UKThemeParks]

I got caught out with the chest mount last year, amount of injuries since SIK was installed apparently. Venom isn't a bad drop tower although can't believe you went back to Hero 🤣 Love Andy BTW!

[@AdventureMe]

I had to endure it for the viewers. It was actually quite funny riding with Andy.

[@UKThemeParks]

@@AdventureMe He is funny had many a ride with him

[@kkrispy2009P]

Hi hi Adam

[@Lifeisbettersober]

Great video

[@UKFunfairsTV]

Great video, Flamingo land is a bucket list park for me to visit, I live in Yorkshire yet still never been 😂👍🏻

[@AdventureMe]

You should!

[@jetsons101]

Darren, when and if you make it here to Knott's Berry Farm, we will be in the front seat on Ghostrider. Mumbo Jumbo looks like a blast of a coaster, the first drop looks great. A bad day on a rollercoaster is better than a great day at work. Queston: What was the first roller coaster to use a tubular steel track, no using google. Thanks for posting such a fun watch, wish I was there.

[@AdventureMe]

The Matterhorn one at Disneyland wasn't it.

[@jetsons101]

​@@AdventureMe This is what's on Wikipedia: In 1959, the Disneyland theme park introduced a new design breakthrough in roller coasters with the Matterhorn Bobsleds. This was the first roller coaster to use a tubular steel track. And today it is the world's oldest operating tubular steel roller coaster. But just because its online doesn't mean is correct........... What info do you know?????? Have a great day.

[@ericgeorge5483]

Awesome, cheers guys. Almost embarrasing that as a Yorkshireman living only about 40 minutes away I've not been to Flamingoland for yonks; not since my kids were small to be exact and putting it into context, Magnum Force, which was awful, dog rough and the Bullet which was fabulous fun were still operating, as was the completely enclosed coaster (can't remember its name so help me out) so its a very long time ago. great video, thanks again.

[@AdventureMe]

It was called Thunder Mountain I think.

[@ericgeorge5483]

@@AdventureMe Ha, yes it was and I remember it being fab fun too!!

[@JDSlots]

Went for a few days last week. Some good rides there. Velocity was closed last week as well

[@kkrispy2009P]

Hi hi jd

[@JDSlots]

@@kkrispy2009P Alright Kkrispy

[@Andrewjg_89]

Have you been to Pleasurewood Hills theme park in Lowestoft. I went there when I was a young kid and living in Norfolk at the time and some of the rides were so amazing.

[@AdventureMe]

I haven't since I was a nipper. Need another visit.

[@Cobalt-Jester]

@11:30 Is it better than the Odyssey at Skegness? I know it used to be the tallest SLC in the world. Not sure about that now. Parks all over the world keep throwing up bigger and faster rides. When I went on it was the tallest. At the time it was one of the smoothest SLC I'd been on. It's failings is because it's so tall you don't get much of intense ride. Take Nemesis for example. It's not very high at all but because it's built low into the soundings it gives you a more exhilarating experience. It is the same with Infusion. When it was at Southport it was built quite low. At Blackpool it's standing on stilts above 3 feet of water that's only there half the time.

[@AdventureMe]

Still the tallest SLC. Odyssey is a lot rougher in my opinion. But it has a better layout.

[@louive5680]

Velocity has been closed over a month now. It stalled on the 17th april on our visit and according to the website it never opened 🤣

[@PeterNancarrow]

23:30 Spiral lift hill is the best part of the ride!

[@groovydonkey]

Highly entertaining and funny, as well as some great POV's. Like the ear stud and thumb ring too👍👍👍😄😄😄

[@AdventureMe]

You are very alert. I must say.

[@groovydonkey]

@@AdventureMe I don't miss much....lol

[@epicwaltzervlogzuk]

Great vlog mate 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@epicwaltzervlogzuk]

@@AdventureMe you welcome

[@juliebrooke6099]

It’s good that they insist on a chest harness and check that it’s secure- can’t risk someone getting injured by a falling camera. Better than just banning filming on the rides which would be another option.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes that's true

[@kittyfanyeahGD]

my home park! also isnt that the only theme park in yorkshire apart from maybe lightwater valley? (its gone downhill has the valley though)

[@AdventureMe]

That was my tongue in cheek joke. Defo the best in Yorkshire lol.

[@jacquelinefilby1842]

I think a lot of us have been spoiled by the US parks!

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

*Flaming 'O'.*

[@MrKrisKuba]

Sik looks very decent, however I don’t think it can rival the infamous potential death trap rides we used to make in your back yard! 😂 We did well working with skateboards, these days I think we’d have either been using drone cars and VR headsets to have people ride them or be making full VR ones. Between those rides and shifting perfumes made from flowers to the women round our street I think we showed the early signs of entrepreneurship we’d later go into…proper Bo I tell thee! Ha ha Well presented videos mate, keep it up!

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah that is so true. We had a great ride line up lol. Even a cable car lol.

[@David-R-Hall]

SIK was in storage at Hopi Hari in Brazil and Movie Animation Park Studios in Malaysia, so you were correct on both counts Darren Loved the vlog, as always 👍🏻 Andy described Hero as ‘awkward and uncomfortable’, sounds just like me 🤣🤣🤣

[@AdventureMe]

I knew I'd heard Brazil and Malaysia in the mix.

[@colettemikaelson160]

did you do the little see saw coaster on stratosphere? x - scream I think its called? that thing looks crazy lol

[@AdventureMe]

Yes I did. Wasn't too bad that. It was the other one.

[@aoilpe]

Hi Does this SLC also have a little head-bang at the transition into the helix at the end ?

[@AdventureMe]

Yes a little one

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Great fun ...if you do it hahaha 😂❤

[@AdventureMe]

Always!

[@RobertJames-sw6np]

Hi when are you coming back to fromlimgo land them park

[@AdventureMe]

Hopefully in the summer

[@nathansmiddy]

Unless you even forgot to press play for it not to record? Plus do you ever plan on working for Flamingo Land? Just I am trying to work as a ride host, though I am a bit unsure if they will let me or not.

[@AdventureMe]

No, too far for me to travel to for work or I would have.

[@dizzydevil547]

Darren is this an old vid you never posted? only asking as you mention SIK as the new ride for 2021! LOVE my coasters but don't ride them that much now (would still do the woodies at Blackpool) but don't do steel ones that often with the Gs as I blacked out when riding Nemesis at Alton Towers a few yrs ago and felt quite ill afterward! so don't take the chance these days, especially at 52 and having a major stroke at 48 and a mini one at 49! ( im fully recovered by the way) woodies im ok with as you don't pull the massive g forces lol BUT I do have to admit I miss the adrenaline rush that you get off the bigger steel coasters!

[@AdventureMe]

No this was filmed on Wednesday this week.

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Sik opened last year in 2022 lol Darren got his dates mixed up

[@trevorgibson8563]

Another great show but less of the yelling haha

[@stationhouse5866]

👍😊

[@_matty95wink26]

I have never been to flamingo land

[@Fashioncashlol]

Same

[@kkrispy2009P]

You need to go hl

[@jennifers8223]

which theme park do you go too the must and which theme park is close to were you live drayton manor and alton towers are the two close theme parks to me in buxton

[@AdventureMe]

Flamingo Land is my closest now. Then probably Blackpool Pleasure Beach

[@ondrav3705]

id love a video like that from Alton towers too, or maybe even Blackpool, I know you got videos about the park, but video about the rides including PoV is missing

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah I'd love to. Only both those parks don't allow on ride filming

[@ondrav3705]

@@AdventureMe Thats why. Shame. I know there is a lot of other videos, but I like your take on Flamingo, so other might be good too.

[@Kevin-qz3bq]

andy has some brylcreem on his hair :-) it never moves

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Gel and hairspray lol

[@Kevin-qz3bq]

@@Coaster_Crazy yeah andy seen a few of your videos the hair never misses a beat (even upside down) LOL

[@NormanWallis-h5r]

Southport Pleasureland has allowed dogs and to take in your own food for the last 16 years

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Hi Norman, we will be back at Southport sometime soon

[@NormanWallis-h5r]

@@Coaster_Crazy yes as soon as possible. New coasters being negotiated and the rocket expecting the new undercarriage anytime now

[@leonbero1974]

4:10 sorry typo 🤙🏼sik

[@Fleetwoodphil1]

Ah!! So my Patreon money goes towards having a jolly with your mates. I’m just jealous, my back stops me going on rides like those, so I enjoyed them second hand. Question. Do you prefer the front seats or back seats. I’ve seen riders at BPB queue for the back.

[@AdventureMe]

I always like both for different reasons. On Sik I preferred the front.

[@lorraine6573]

Was this filmed in 2021?

[@AdventureMe]

No. This week

[@UnitedSpotlight]

I agree with what you say about Flamingo Land it actually has pretty good rides but the theming etc isnt anywhere near the quality of say Alton Towers, its like they spend all there budget on rides and not theming which is fair enough really your there for rides. but the views around the park etc arnt great and you dont feel like your moving through diffrent areas of the park its like its all one

[@RobertJames-sw6np]

I have a frend who work at the park

[@jacquelinefilby1842]

I had to stop watching😅😂. I can’t handle roller coasters or even some regular North Yorkshire roads😊

[@cliffcook3993]

To be fair theres not much compitition in yorkshire for theme parks.

[@AdventureMe]

Exactly lol

[@leedsmarshall1178]

Who are ya 🤣🤣🗣

[@imansfield]

Havent ridden SIK yet but it looks so much better and faster than Collossus! Sik is a terrrible name tho. Just makes me think of vomit.

[@metroytse6173]

I just dont get why people go on water rides yet are scared to get wet!!....poncy poncho's!!

[@jennifers8223]

I didn't you like roller coasters and rides

[@an04ker]

Great video but your mates so annoying

[@Coaster_Crazy]

Haha thanks 😂