GERMAN PLAYGROUNDS ARE NEXT LEVEL

[@eaglevision993]

As a German, who was a kid once upon a time, I can answer some questions: Do these slides get hot? - Yes, very. And if you burn yourself on a hot summer day well, you learned something important for life: Hot things will burn you. Will you get splinters from all the wood construction? - Yes, and it will be your fault for not looking before you grab something. Again, a lesson learned. Will your parents be able to sue someone? - No, because we have nice signs posed saying: "Benutzung auf eigene Gefahr" which losely translates to " Play stupid games, win stupid prices."

[@jonasbartels1716]

Just gotta say, I love your loose translation xD

[@KingSteven26]

Dont forget: "Kinder haften für Ihre Eltern!"😁

[@katrin428]

@@KingSteven26 nicht eher anders rum ? xD

[@marcovtjev]

(The Irrland ones are with mats, which lessens the problem somewhat)

[@Schirm08]

That’s true 🤣

[@K__a__M__I]

My dad was an architect for the local municipality. As such he built many schools and Kindergärten along with their playgrounds. He once told me "I'm designing playgrounds that _I_ want to jump around on! If it gets adults tempted to play, the kids will have a blast, guaranteed."

[@SpargelLP]

Thats genius!

[@BlueFlash215]

Awesome!

[@Moonchild0]

Sounds like one part of him never grew up, and that's good for the kids!

[@l.p.7960]

You have more options to send father with a kid to a playground

[@NeverMind439]

Sadly, People like that are a dying specime. There are more and more that only think about Profit and less cost, cheaper Material that will be damaged in less than 5 years. So your father never lost his inner Child and he was ABSOLUTELY right. If a Grown up man with his inner Child would love to use that playground, kids definitely would have a blast 😀

[@CobraChicken101]

"Are you training your kids for something? " 😂,... yes LIFE

[@OnkelCthulhu]

ganz genau mein gedanke :D

[@KingSteven26]

❤❤❤

[@RustyDust101]

Ding ding ding, my thoughts exactly.😂

[@AnnetteLudke-je5ll]

That is exactly what I thiught when I heard the question.☺️

[@la-go-xy]

No need for a boot camp! Give them the opportunity and they'll learn while playing and having fun.

[@TheKerberos84]

If you want that your children become independent Adults. Don't monitor them 24/7 and let them take risk.

[@panzervpl9406]

kids often don't learn if you just tell them not to do something, let them learn their way. I didn't stop playing with an outlet even despite my perants telling me not to until I got zapped

[@jameyspielt]

yes.. americans often "helicopter" their kids... worst thing you can do.

[@ReisskIaue]

Well, you can look after them (and should do), but do not "helicopter" over them. Be there, where they can reach you, as soon as they need your help (they will ask for, don't push) and interrupt only in case of acute danger of severe injuries.

[@ThereWasATime]

Yeah take all risks away and watch them fail on our reality and become brave warriors on twitter instead! Oh, you already did, there we go.

[@Lancor84]

While in general I would like to agree, I feel like in today's world your child would easily turn very weird if you let them act free with the internet etc.

[@Siplexus]

Germany: Kids play on these Kind of Playgrounds America: We have to ban Suprise Eggs cause our Kids could die

[@voyance4elle]

(*ban ) best comment :D

[@Meckermaxxe]

This Surprise Egg story is really weird. When I heard it first I thought about a joke. Tbh it is a joke

[@alexanderkupke920]

While selling guns two aisles over...

[@alexanderkupke920]

@@Meckermaxxe Today it is, but the actual law is older than surprise eggs. It seems back than they really had toys that were just dumped into the box with cereals and would float around in your actual cereals. No one imagined chocolate conatining another egg that is almost impossible to swallow accidentially, holding the actual toy. They just never adapted it.

[@olgahein4384]

Not to mention, they banned 'Little Red Riding Hood' from children books, cause an underage girl was carrying a whine bottle around in the woods unsupervised. The problem was the alcohol, if she'd have carried a gun to grandma, it would have been fine.

[@tomrock7019]

Mann manchmal begreifen wir Deutschen nicht wie viele schöne Dinge wir in unserem großartigen Land haben...

[@abwasserpumpe]

Naja, wenn man weiß, das es irgendwo was besseres gibt, erweckt das ein bisschen den Eindruck, als wäre das, was man hat, nicht gut. Man sollte sich vielleicht mehr auf eben dies konzentrieren; was man hat. Es ist immer besser, sich zu überlegen was man im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern hat, statt andersherum.

[@killaknight12]

@@abwasserpumpe die Lebensqualität ist statistisch gesehen ja auch nur in skandinavischen Ländern noch etwas besser, aber das Gras sieht immer grüner aus auf der anderen Seite. Ich ärgere mich eigentlich nur über das teils verschwendete Potenzial von Deutschland.

[@abwasserpumpe]

@@killaknight12 Damit hast du durchaus recht...

[@Guderian2]

Ich hatte bei mir in der Nähe keine solchen tollen Spielplätze. Ich war froh, dass ich einen hatte mit 2 Sandkästen ^^

[@levoGAMES]

@@abwasserpumpe So kann man sich ja alles schön reden; sogar die "Gesundheitsversorgung" in den USA. So nach dem Motto: Wenigstens haben die Zugang zu moderner Medizin. Hat auch nicht jedes Land. Aber prahlen würde man dennoch nicht.

[@Spike0286]

Welcome the Germany. I learned the meaning of gravity on the playground and to know your limits and grip 😂. But unfortunately the government doesn’t invest much to keep them in a good state. And btw: the metal heats up like hell in summer…. Not a lot of fun…. You can make eggs sunny side up in August on the slides..

[@Jocraft2039]

Plastic probably melts 😂

[@yvil4248]

Imagine sliding down an old wooden slide. Ten years later you can still find the splinters in your butt. 😆

[@JenMaxon]

You could do that today here in Frankfurt

[@ingrudmessenger1193]

Teaches you the power of the sun, though.

[@Styxblue]

​@@yvil4248 no wood on top of the slides, only metal. ;)

[@sirhc1528]

Also, when we kids injured ourself, we either visited our normal doc the next day or drove to the hospital to get some stiches. And the most expensive thing of that was the icecream afterwards.

[@aikohikari6587]

Kids in Germany often injure themselves at playgrounds. A broken arm is proof that you lived childhood to the fullest. But mostly we get scratches and bruises. But kids do get scratches and bruises everywhere. So who cares? They need to learn to deal with a bit of pain. The fun they have ans the fact that they overcome fears (eg. of heights) is worth it.

[@thundercat9427]

Yeah, I realized that, when I rewatched Heidi (you know, the amazing old animated show) with a friend. The Amount of times Heidi fell down stuff, or was just so close to death by standing on those cliffs, I had a constant feeling of Fear. But later when she went to frankfurt, where everything was just so clean, safe and boring, I thought "Yeah no, this is not the life for a child. Let them go out, fall down stuff and get dirty! This is how Children are healthy (which is the exact message of the show in fact XD)

[@marcromain64]

Rule of thumb: If 0 < number of torn trousers < number of bandages used < number of doctor visits for play injuries then childhood counts as a success.

[@lapisinfernalis9052]

When I was about 4-5 years old I wanted to climb onto those spiders at 4:06. It turned out that I was a bit too small and slipped off the rope and scratched my chin really hard. I never climbed on them again until I was a lot older (around 13), because I was afraid to slip again and fall off. Then I loved these and I would climb up to the little sitting areas with my friends and chill.

[@flo8517]

Actually now that i think back I remember a lot of broken arms from my classmates from falling down climbing structures on the playground.

[@michaelk.2963]

In Germany there is the TÜV = Technical Inspection Association that checks everything.

[@Faeyeful]

In Germany most children will learn from a young age to take risks (smaller or larger, depending on the family and if you are a country or city child) - and also take the fall and pain for them sometimes. We were always allowed to play alone in the fields with the cows, play in the forest and get muddy, dirty, fall and roll down hills and get impaled my sticks and had to go to the doctor but we learnt from it, went back into the forest, removed the sticks that could hurt us and build a house with them instead the next time. :) Because of all the smaller mistakes you learn to avoid the big ones. When I was 7 we went out alone to play in the woods, was pretty normal here, we just told everyone where we were going and when we would be back. I think every German child (hopefully) remembers the METAL SLIDE burns. XD

[@CSYONFAN-bo1us]

I live near the green playground in Wiesbaden. And to prove it, I can answer any question you have about it, because when I was a child I used to play there every time I went out with my grandfather.😊😊😊

[@Strohhut-Ruffy-1]

As a kid from Germany in Augsburg aka my home town has a cinema called "Cinemaxx" there is a giant silde indoor were the Kids can play untill there allowed to enter the movie room. It was always so much fun😊

[@stefantegethoff5523]

Just want to add from a town planner's perspective: we do have different categories of playgrounds for different age groups. Your run-of-the-mill nextdoor playground in a residential area will usually be somewhat smaller and have more standard stuff for smaller children, but still lots of wood, not a lot of plastic (you might find a plastic slide there, sometimes). Then you got the bigger ones for a larger catchment area, maybe a whole borough, sometimes with themed structures like pirate ship climbing towers. And then there are huge adventure playgrounds with sliding towers and stuff, like those in the video

[@tbpat]

4:00 Note that the swings are not just "facing each other", they are linked. So their swing synchronises, and the child here probably does not need to do anything to swing, all the energy comes from the adult swinging on the other side. You have to be very careful, as you have much more energy as an adult as is needed to swing a child. I learned this the first time I used such a swing with my then 4 years old daughter. I was just swinging gently, and her feet almost hit the horizontal bar that linked the two swings above our heads.

[@Kath-Erina]

And another lesson of physics learnt through a playground 😊

[@vidarmonia]

Those swings are so much fun

[@kadjiru]

Hallo liebe Community 😊 Mir wurde dieses Video in Deutschland vorgeschlagen und ich kann alles nur bestätigen. Ich bin als Urenkel meiner 1970 aus der Türkei hergezogenen Oma, hier in Deutschland geboren und bin daher auch auf deutschen Spielplätzen aufgewachsen. In den 90er Jahren wuchs ich sicher und behütet auf. Wir Kinder durften jederzeit alleine auf die Spielplätze gehen und sollten nur bis Sonnenuntergang nach Hause zurück. Die Aufsicht einiger wenig Eltern hat ausgereicht für die vielen Kinder aus der Nachbarschaft. Eltern und Kinder waren gut vernetzt, auch ohne Smartphone!! Mit der Aufsicht wurde sich regelmäßig abgewechselt und es kam nur sehr selten zu Engpässen. Außer das die Spielplätze sicher waren, waren sie sauber und gepflegt. Heute sitzen dort auch viele Jugendliche die wenig Bewusstsein für die Umwelt haben und ihre Partys Woche für Woche dort feiern. Der Staat macht da wenig, weil Personal für die Jugendzentren fehlen und den Kindern und Jugendlichen die Perspektive. Ich habe selbst beim Gartenbauamt einer deutschen Großstadt gearbeitet und daher auch regelmäßig Spielplätze gepflegt. Wir haben auch extra ein Amt die sich nur um den Spielplatzbau kümmern. Es sind sehr sehr hohe Standards einzuhalten damit Kinder nicht zu Schaden kommen. In den Großstädten haben wir viele Parks mit den faszinierendsten Möglichkeiten für Kinder. Kinder sind die Versicherung einer Gesellschaft und sollen eine gesunde körperliche Entwicklung mit viel Bewegung auf dynamischen Spielplätzen erhalten. Dies ist die Aufgabe des Staates und daher sind unsere Spieplätze wirklich jedesmal ein Wunderwerk der Kreativität. Selbst heute als Mitte 30 jähriger habe ich Spaß auf neuen innovativen Spielplätzen. Ich kann jedem nur empfehlen sich auch explizit die öffentlichen Spielplätze anzuschauen bei einem Besuch in Deutschland 😊

[@artaiosangelus8904]

The swings at 4:00 are connected, so you push your child by swinging yourself. Thats genius...

[@Anson_AKB]

8:27 - i would guess that (since this is in germany) the slide goes from 3rd *upper* floor to *ground* floor, instead of from 4th floor to 1st floor :-) and in germany, children already learn at a young age to evaluate risks, and even if they break a bone because they do stupid things, their families won't be bancrupt and sue someone to recover the costs of healthcare, while in the usa everybody would insist on "absolute safety" (which never really can exist) and doesn't allow kids to get experience with real life, also not as pedestrian or on a bicycle in normal traffic or using public transport by themselves, at least not until they suddenly start driving huge cars "the bigger the safer" (only for passengers and not for people outside).

[@DJKLProductions]

In Great Britain, the ground floor is the zeroth floor too.

[@Falco2Itachi]

what is ground floor for us is 1st floor for Americans.

[@maskharat]

"and sue someone to recover the costs of healthcare" your healthcare provider does that, though. When accidents happen you need to fill out a form where and how it happened. If the healthcare provider can find any reason to get their money back from whoever owns the property, they'll sue for the cost. That's why there's signs "use at own risk" everywhere.

[@BlueFlash215]

The playgrounds have natural limitations. If you are to small (and therefore often too weak) you will most likely fall off the climbing part that leads to the next area. You'll get some scratches or even bust your lip but you'll learn quickly. A friend of mine climbed up onto the roof of a playground in the 90s. He fell of (about 5 meters) and broke his arm. He never climbed thst part again.

[@fuck6the6police6]

Yeah, but with our healthcare system, a broken arm doesn't get you in a lot of medical debt and no one sues the municipality for the injury!!! 😅

[@gregorygant4242]

Yep, those playgrounds are very cool but not all kids can get on them each playground has a minimum age requirement for the kids that should get on them. For example you can't put a toddler on some of those big slides and if you do and he gets hurt then it 's your fault as a parent for doing that, you didn't listen to and obey the minimum age requirements stated at the playground !

[@maskharat]

Also a maximum age limit. I so often find myself jealous because I'm too old and are not allowed to play on those :(

[@timchristmann6580]

The first one in Irrland was the one my little son got out of my eyes for a moment ... then I looked up and saw him alone at the top of this tower 😂

[@otisschultz2912]

First You have to know, in Germany we got the TÜV, the tecnical supervision agency. Every playground installation is TÜV approved and save if you follow the rules of prppper usage. For example the slides don't need a roof because they are such steep you can't stand there. In a town nearby there is a wooden tower with slides. In this tower there are obstacles, so adults are not able to follow thier kids. The tower got 10 meter high. The most injuries on playgounds happen in Germany to drunken adults around their 20th at 2 o clock in the morning....

[@otisschultz2912]

And in addition to this I can inform the world: all my three sons learned how to ride a bike on their own in a moment the most careing mother was not watching them. They did it like their father did once upon the time...

[@nomad1337]

I've been to Irrland multiple times with my kids. That Park is the best! Entry is comperatively cheap, food and beverage prices are cheap and I can confirm I also use the slides. They are fun

[@kosta_k_86]

2:19 Yes of course we train our children.....for life

[@TinaS-b9g]

I live in Germany and the first two pictures are on park i once visited during vacation as a kid. It was super fun😂

[@Drake8501]

There are a few Swings for Childreen in Wheelchairs at some Playgrounds ,that is quite cool.

[@StevenPaw209]

Im pretty sure the playground on 7:11 is the playground Tower in the Heide Park Resort in Soltau, Germany. Still standing and pretty much always crowded with children every time I get there. Pretty cool thing

[@moyashisoba]

We also have a lot of water playgrounds, I loved those when I was a kid.

[@reanukeeves5638]

I know somebody who designs playgrounds and he told me that the slides have to be steeper because kids are lighter and if the decline is not enough the kid could be stuck and endanger itself because others would come right after.

[@Panakotta000]

Germany is the biggest exporter of playground equipment in the world for a reason.

[@CatalinaLinal7710]

Wait, really??

[@SoneaT]

I even saw the metal slides on a Korean drama and thought if it was from Germany 😂. Maybe it was.... bc all of the others where plastic so far.

[@SoneaT]

Here in the south is one of the best wooden playground builders..... Cucumaz. If it's wooden, colorful or crazy 🤪 it might be from them.

[@hollerschnigge5133]

Interesting, I didn't know that before.

[@stampcollector74]

You are never to old to use a slide ... if you stop having fun - you are dead! Greatings from Germany. Hugz & kisses - nice reactions that you do. ♥

[@kosta_k_86]

8:20 This is not a joke.....the picture is from a university in Munich

[@AV-we6wo]

Yes, IIRC the slide is in the math department, and of course it's in the form of a parabola 😀

[@CoL_Drake]

"dont they get hot" ... oh boy YES ... yes they do we used to not ahve that much super hot days but whenever it was rly hot you could not touch it it would burn you xD

[@jhdix6731]

We used to have one of those just next to a waterpump (which was part of a sand/mud contraption for smaller children). So on hot days we fetched buckets of water from the pump and pored it down the tube to cool it down a bit before sliding.

[@JTFrezzz25]

You can also find a great slide in the Europapassage (shopping center) in Hamburg.

[@Caddl123]

Im a bit older And i remember in the forrests nearby where i grew up even in the late 70-ties and early 80-ties were so called "Adventure Playgounds" . There were mostly from the forrest workers made constructions like Natural slides (the landscape made the ground the slide was formed in it with wooden or metal. Pirrate boats viking houses and undergrond caves ro crawl through and walk and do smoething with water. Also many narrow digs where kids can play,but when it was raining they were full with water and the kids look like monsters *lol* My father then was a younger tracher he helped to organized them . Now these playgrounds are almost gone. If you look around where they were you can barly imagine whats left. There are now There are now mostly fireplaces and sittin areas around,but you can see still the ground formations what was there 30 years ago.

[@fuck6the6police6]

Ich bin im Taunus aufgewachsen, da gab's viele Abenteuerspielplätze 😉👍

[@MalBuch-vk1jw]

Thank you. This inspired me to begin a list in Google maps so that we have nice places to visit with our daughter when travelling. Sometimes we drive six to ten hours and it is always great to have options for a really great and exhausting break somewhere in the middle.

[@EvilGrin]

2nd picture is from the "bouncy castle" at the Archeological Park in Xanten, I just been there a months ago. It's actually nothing more then a giant balloon, but kids like it. I just wished they'd also shown the GIANT ROMAN PLAY FORT right next to it (it's like a normal playground with slides and so on, but designed like a roman military fortification. It looks awesome... Edit: My Bad, this isn't Xanten but an Adventure Park in Kaevelar called "Irrland" (roughly translates to Confusion-Land)

[@TheLolRoflTV]

Dachte schon ganze Zeit es kommt mir irgendwie bekannt vor! War da ein Tag im Ausflug beim Aufenthalt bei der Jugendherberge, vor 11 jahren..

[@hamatoJade]

Im Irrland haben die aber genau das gleiche Ding, auch römisch thematisiert. Bin regelmäßig in beiden Parks, könnte ich jetzt nicht unterscheiden😅

[@Telendil]

There are more of these around so im not sure if this one was in Xanten. I dont remember any Plastic Roman soldiers or a Giant Slide tower to be there. And i even saw one of these things in a corn labyrinthe in the same area a few year ago. So these giant jumping pillows are actually not that rare.

[@EvilGrin]

@@Telendil Yeah, you're right. I was "tricked by the angle, hut and tree line in the background making it look like Xanten, but Google reverse image search revealed it's from "Irrland" in Kaevelar. I'll correct this in my OG post😅

[@roemischer]

We have a huge variety in the size of the playgrounds. There are small ones, with just one or two slides and maybe some swings. But as you saw, there are giant ones that have everything. But they are more rare. And of course everything in between.

[@TheCarlosCobain]

My local play ground (in the "Stellinger Schweiz" in Hamburg, for anyone curious) we had a kind of carousel that was basically just an angled, spinning platform. No bars or handles anywhere. Well, what we did was having the biggest kids spin that thing as hard as possible, while the rest of us where holding onto the brim for dear life. Whoever could hold on the longest was obvioulsy the winner. I remember just FLYING of that thing once, and ending up experiencing having all of the air punched out of my lungs for the fist time. Yeah, it's kind of a miracle that we survived those playgrounds. Where we totally went to play completely unsupervised, by the way.

[@Kiumon-gn6em]

I'm german and I never saw slides this big in places where you can get in for free. A lot of those pictures were probaply from amusement parks.

[@olgahein4384]

Oh yeah, we totally have a thing for slides. In my town we have a movie theater that goes over several floors, and there is a slide from the highest floor to the ground floor. Especially on friday and saturdy nights you often see and hear the visitors use it.

[@Niles_BVB]

America: EVERYTHING MUST BE BIGGER Germany: did you guys forgot about the children?

[@rungsrihoentzsch7271]

As a german kid, yes, these can be dangerous. I once slid down one of these huge slides face first and landed face first on the ground. Did it hurt? Yes. Was I bruised up for the next one to two weeks? Yes. Did I learn my lesson? Yes... I never did that again afterwards.

[@KiRbYs84]

We have annual tickets for Irrland (it's 45 € this year per person). It is like a playground for the whole family. I see parents go down the slides all the time 👍

[@hansmiller664]

"My Childhood is incomplete" got me🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@claire4jj468]

Fun Fact: There is a slide in my cinema. It also like a spiral slide straight down and I love it. You also allowed to use ist as an adult😊

[@dercreat0r327]

tbh most of those metal slides stay cool on the inside bc there are many trees around playgrounds but for slides that dont have trees protecting them from the heat the children can use little sledges to slide own and not get burned

[@edithtide1]

I live in the Netherlands and we also have these kinds of playgrounds, just like Belgium. Irrland - the first image - is a great park. The whole park is crazy fun. I always went there with my own children. Children learn to assess situations and that is always useful. And yes, it's useful to have band-aids on hand just in case, but I've rarely needed them. 😁

[@BlossomxD_]

I have a playground near where I live with a really cool see saw that will not touch the ground and it can spin in a circle like when you spin. It`s in Germany and I really like it

[@viis374]

I’m 20 years old German but I still loving going to playgrounds Though we only go in the night because it’s kinda embarrassing. I wish it was more socially accepted because it’s actually a fun way to exercise

[@sanchowpanchow9921]

I'm 35 German and if I see a cool playground, have the time and the mood I don't care what other may think about me and just enjoy it lol 😂

[@LetsPokeHD]

There really are a lot of playgrounds in Germany, both outdoor and indoor. We also have large parks with several large playgrounds, such as Maximilian Park in Hamm. And then we also have Schloss Dankern in Dankern, which has an amusement park with several outdoor playgrounds and an indoor playground, as well as a complete vacation complex with a swimming pool, a lake with a water ski facility, a trampoline park, a go-kart track and a motorcross track. There are also several vacation homes.

[@yinduyun]

There is a multiplex cinema in Bremen that has 10 theaters with the entrances spread across 4 floors, and from the very top floor to the bottom (which is below outside ground level) you can take stairs, elevators or a slide

[@thehummer67]

The Cinemaxx in Germany often have a slide in the stairwell ;-)

[@kosta_k_86]

8:48 The consumption of alcohol and other drugs is prohibited on the playground.......but if in doubt, the German mothers will teach you that.....they rarely understand fun

[@realulli]

They do. Fun for children at the playground. We don't need to have drunk adults stumbling around the playground. Also, the various devices are sized and calculated for children and their weight. While parents accompanying their kid are unlikely to cause damage, a bunch of drunk guys might.

[@user-cx6kt3ku2f]

In Frankfurt there is a big park with a giant wooden play castle that has like a courtyard in the middle. I used to celebrate birthdays there with my friends and years later I went there again because someone decided to have a rave inside of the playground thingy and you had to climb up to the first floor for the wardrobe and the second floor for the bar. It was so cool.

[@Phil-xq8gp]

I used to visit the first one a lot when I was younger. It is a very cool park for kids. It's not free, but this place is so huge that it's completely impossible to do everything in one day

[@OLBarbok]

I got so many burns from my skin rubbing against those slides and from the sun baking them in the summer heat. I even tested it by cooking an egg on one! Plus, I was always getting splinters from the wood. I definitely learned the lesson: "mess around and find out." And yes, those slides do get hot enough to cook an egg! Not to mention the ones that mess up your limbs from jumping off high areas and not rolling off properly or other kids going into the slides right after and annihilating your back because they are impatient little brats. A lot of our playgrounds around all of germany are built by the same company as well.

[@Panakotta000]

In the Technical Museum Sinsheim, you can find multiple slides that go out from multiple old air planes. One even goes through the roof of the museum it self and ends in the lobby of it.

[@piaWerner-n7w]

Actually in Germany we also have slides in some cinemas

[@lapisinfernalis9052]

When I was a child I really preferred the metal slides to the plastic ones (usually they were at a McDonalds). I did not fancy getting electrocuted multiple times a ride. For the metal slides you just needed to watch out that no bare skin touched the metal.

[@michaelk.2963]

8:13 There is a slide at the Technical University in Munich. Sometimes engineers are just big children playing.

[@crok7227]

Dude check out Ketteler Hof in Germany! This is another level.

[@chaos235]

want to recommend the same! take a look at that park, its all those you saw in this video combined and in themes. check out the "Sommerrodelbahn" in particular!

[@charlotteice5704]

Yep, we went there in preschool and it was great.

[@xXEvoIuTioNXx]

Im Ketteler Hof war ich so oft. Ich komme aus Haltern.

[@xXEvoIuTioNXx]

​@@charlotteice5704I come from Haltern and every year all hell breaks loose at the Ketteler Hof.

[@Montgomery_official]

Childhood

[@voyance4elle]

OMG I didn't know about these slides in a University - I would love that!!! Also it would probably save costs for electricity because you don't have to use an elevator to go down (although probably most ppl would use stairs anyway). Plus how fun that would be ofc :D

[@steemlenn8797]

Since it's a science institute the slides are of course constructed like the graph of a formula so you can feel the math when you give yourself to gravity.

[@max_yt6955]

We in Germany know that all things that are disigned for our Kids are safe to use and u can only hardly die on them. Are the slides Hot? Yes ! Do the kids get hurt from the wood or the slides? Yes! do we watch our Kids always? No! Are they falling down from stuff? Yes! And they learn from it. And have fun while doing it

[@chrissteudtner848]

We're regularly at Playground at Altmühlsee. It's great, cause you have all the swings and slides, but what's even better: there's a shallow stream running thru the Playground, so during summer the kids can play in the water as well. There's even a small bar selling drinks, coffee, icecream and sweets right there. And just across the hill (like 30m) there's the lake beach.

[@Sharrendan]

I remember how I was literally flying out of these tubes, landing on the ground when I was young. 😅

[@hamatoJade]

I live next to Irrland in Kevelaer and the entrance is super cheap. The park is incredible and huge, there is also a Cornfield - labyrinth and you can see and cuddle some monkeys and kangaroos. They also have old airplanes and water playgrounds, a real farm where you can pet goats and so on and many themed playgrounds. One day is not enough and the adults love it too. I think the entrance is like 7€ per day, and a whole season ticket for a family of 4 is like 60€ I think, my brother has one

[@intubungamer6173]

I actually have played on the last one as a kid. Its in the "Heide Park" (a local theme park, like six flags in the US).

[@babelwabel170]

TUM Slide is awesome, we even do high scores, but the mensa trays are no longer allowed XD

[@mapau9750]

One thing that makes setting up challenging playgrounds easier in Germany than in the US - besides a different parenting concept - may also be the health insurance side. Each child is of course under the full general health insurance coverage of their family. Plus, the community setting up the playground has has probably an extra accident insurance for the playground. So there won’t be any lawsuits for huge compensations if a child is injured.

[@DemonBlockDash]

Glad I did grow up in Germany It has the 1th 2th best Europe waterparks Cool playgrounds And the best Europe themepark

[@HarveyHirdHarmonics]

When I was a kid, we visited a little park with a huge slide. It was an old-fashioned one, just a ladder up and a long slope in one direction. But (at least to my child eyes) it was gigantic. I never went up there, I was too afraid. My older brother had a blast though. I assume that slide might be long gone now. I also don't remember where it was.

[@marlenezarah6501]

At this point I feel like I should start making videos just for Ryan to react to them. I grew up very close to the longest tunnel slide im Europe, which is 190m long and goes down a hill that you have to walk up first. It takes about 20 minutes to get up there. Only kids over the age of 8 and adults are allowed to go dow the slide. Now I live near a really cool playground which is made for Kids and Adults and I work at an old castle. There are so many places around me that I would love to see his Reaction to.

[@sergiolentini8587]

The walls at german playgrounds are thicker than american house walls😂😂

[@kokoloko8423]

Haha, Irrland started out as a little cornmaze but kept expanding until it turned into this huge outdoor playground park with kettcar tracks, a big maze, tons of slides and water slides, animals, bbq places, airplanes, huge trampolines and so on - it's not free and you only get in over the age of I believe 14 or 16 if you''re there as a parent or with your family. Surreal seeing my village's main attraction on here.

[@worldlyemo2290]

These things do come with a minimum age usually. But also, they are great for kids to learn about taking risks. If it’s up high, kids don‘t usually decide to just jump off. They are not stupid when it comes to that. Same goes for toddlers. But then again, for preventing worst cases, like i said, we do have minimum age.

[@dasgeheimnis7291]

Hey, I'm from Germany and since you're so excited about our slides, I'd like to suggest a few theme parks to you so that you can get to know us a little better. The first would be the smallest one I'll tell you about, but you can be sure that every child in the north of Germany has at least heard of it. Namely the "Hansa Park" which is right on the Baltic Sea and is a leisure and family park. The "Heide Park" is the next theme park that I want to be close to you and which (I don't know if this is still current but I don't think anything has changed) has the largest wooden roller coaster in the world. Of course, if you don't know it yet, you can't miss "Europa Park". It is the largest leisure/theme park in Germany and the third strongest theme park in Europe. But the one that often lags behind is "Phantasialand", which is the second most visited theme park in Germany. Of course, it also has more spectacular theme areas. I won't write something like "Legoland" because I think it belongs in the same category as "Disney Land" and there are several of them. But if you don't know it, it's highly recommended I think you'll understand well what theme parks are for us, more than just a simple playground :D (I hope that was all quite understandable because I wrote it using Google translator)

[@roboticdem0n]

Sometimes we also put slides in Malls and cinema's

[@ravanpee1325]

All the playgrounds are certified by the German TÜV

[@arnepeters49]

Irrland is like a amusment park, but with no rollerkosters and mechanicel rides. There are Waterslides, normal slides and klimbing shit*. *you will probably die if you fall of😂😂

[@NatasDuVall]

"Get a beer, go to the playground." Yeah, you wouldn't even stand out between all the parents with their beers in their hands. :D

[@groundloss]

"Our kids" know we let them "injure themselve": this is called playing/learning/growing. But of course you have to minize serious risks and make sure they understand the severity of them. I learned "oven is hot" by *ouch* and thus i realized when my parents warn me of a danger, they mean it, but if the yell at me, its immediate (dont poke your fingers into an electric outlet, little one).

[@Kathy9586]

I remember a department store with a slide when I was little. The slide took you straight to the toy department. It called Kaufring oder Ringkaufhaus.

[@TheOneBerlin]

Die Kommentare sind nun deutsches Staatgebiet 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

[@herrhartmann3036]

There is a giant (adult sized) tube slide in one of our local cinemas. It starts at the top floor (4th), winds through the stairwell and lobby, and ends in the basement.

[@FlashFoxBox]

7:14 was probably the one in Heide Park Resort, but its an old photo. The observation tower in the background dosn't exist anymore. But the playground still stands. Visited the park yesterday :D The one slide in the background, that ony goes staight has some sort of conveyor rollers (like the ones, when you send back beverage crates or parcels in a post office)

[@mandybose9334]

Ich habe die Rutsche mit den Rollen geliebt als Kind, hatte aber gleichzeitig Angst, dass die Rollen mich "einsaugen" 😂😂

[@robinsmit9603]

@@mandybose9334 Yes it is. I was so often there 😆

[@MLGF0X]

In germany we also have slides in cinmeas ;)

[@lordgrimfirst09]

yoúve gotta see the ginormous labyrinth made outta bushes!!! its also in the same park as the first and second picture!

[@Tharmorteos]

it's called "risk compensation" if you think you're safe or you feel safe, you'll be willing to take more risks. i think there was a study that showed that children who play on "safe" playgrounds injure themselves more often because they think nothing can happen to them, while kids who play on european playgrounds are being more careful because they know if they mess up, they will injure themselves. so U.S. kids aren't trying to kill themselves. instead they just think they're invincible because of the safety measures everybody takes ^^'

[@Lorvay]

When I was smaller I used to go to a wildlife park and once you have gotten through all the animal reservoirs (which was cool in the first place) there was a huge playground area.... We had multiple slides .... one started on top of a huge tree which you first had to climb and then next to it was a Wild West Fort where you could play cowboy. Then there was that thingy in it where you could create a lot of mud .... you could pump a water from the ground and let it go down to different sand-boxes over a system of pipes and levers. Not to forget the small kid-sized baggers. I spent a great deal of my childhood there.

[@wolfsdream499]

1:01 in Germany we say: Bisschen Schwund is immer🤷‍♀️ Translates roughly to: There're a few losses anytime 😅

[@ElShailen]

Funny thing, this slide tower at 7:15 is in Heidepark, an themepark near Soltau. Was there last week and stand in front of this tower, that thing is just huge.

[@dschanriihl9043]

I remember our local playground got rebuilt when I was 10/11. The 80s suburban playground went and a beast made out of wood came. We kids were allowed to help with minor works and planing. In the 2a after building it all there were several "improvements" to prevent kids from climbing onto the castle roof. We just got better. At the time there were 3 such projects in my part of town: the normal playground, the free bikepark and the adventure path out in the fields.

[@Only_Kiki_37]

I'm from Germany and the Playground at 5:51 is very near where I live its in a park and it was my Childhood. It was always so much fun and the best as a kid. And by the way I never really hurt me there, but I learned one thing its very complicated to get dow there with a dress or shorts because when its hot and your sweaty you always get stuck and have to give yourself some speed again which takes the fun a little bit away.

[@sgoldkuh]

2:15 Yes, we're training our children: Balance, muscles, self-confidence, independence, social abilities, ... Indeed wood is preferred, because it's a natural material

[@LETMino85]

Now I wanna see some US playgrounds!

[@janistrippe8966]

I am from Medebach and when I saw the playground from there I was really happy. I think it is a very cool playground for almost every age. You really should go there sometime!

[@gehtdichnixan3200]

in speyer technical museum they have alot of airplanes and other exibits some of them mounted ontop of huge posts like a huge 747 you can check out if you dont whant to climb the ladder down again ... well there is a slide

[@robstershadille2047]

You got the negative point of our metal slides! They are getting REALLY hot in the summer, so hot that you can burn yourself...but as everything that would kill us, we learned that pretty fast ^^

[@plutoniumlollie9574]

Oh, nostalgia... This reminds me of how much fun I had with my friends back in the days. I loved the swings, climbing things like a monkey and doing the obstacle course that looked like a military training ground and trying to balance on a seesaw. We always had such a blast, when we stopped at the playground on our drunk walk home after clubbing 🥰