The Bizarre, Disturbing World of UK Theme Parks 🇬🇧

This Christmas, I went down a rabbit hole, and I realized that a lot of strange moments and marketing events have happened at UK theme parks. Join me on this journey down said rabbit hole.
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[@ThemeParkCrazy]

Oblivion Durex photo in the thumbnail posted to Reddit by u/SoCalCoaster521 . Original source unknown. Also, I have no intention of shaming people over condom usage/promotion. Safe sex should be promoted and nobody should feel ashamed for talking about the subject. Apologies if the condom segment came across that way; it was more about expressing bewilderment at condoms being used to promote a roller coaster.

[@TrxxshyWasTaken]

YOOO!!

[@odhranpenfold7732]

Thorpe park also sold their own (arguably worse) versions up until 2016. Each “item” had its own tagline. The swarms was “the end is coming”, colossus was “the ultimate screw” and stealths was “hard, fast, and up in seconds”. I wish I was joking, but there are pictures online of these 💀

[@bezoticallyyours83]

​​@@odhranpenfold7732😂

[@bradleywarrington6954]

You are right about the naked record

[@mattsquire2284]

I'm English and the Thorpe park peeing contest made me go what the ... and as for that advert, which i can't remember 🤯.

[@thenebulamoth]

As a british person, I can officially confirm finding demons in our hotel rooms is a completely normal occurrence.

[@RonaldTrumpOfficial]

It’s normal everywhere in the north. London has more funding which allows them to have a priest blessing every corner with greggs.

[@siechamontillado]

You wouldn't believe the number of wailin banshess found in one's bed! Especially on Saturday nights.

[@mizu_the_floatzel]

From the Canadian to the British...... You sir make us Canadian look smarts

[@PassionsDemise]

as someone who works in such hotels, extremely normal.

[@davidhubbard9379]

​@@mizu_the_floatzel I very much doubt that, you can't even write a sentence.

[@maniac7889]

It’s funny how for Americans this is wild, but for Europeans this is pretty tame and just joking around

[@Donyourmom]

Y’all kind of weird ngl but I love it

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The irony is as a British viewer all of this is so standard here, that I presumed that's how rides are advertised everywhere else

[@ThemeParkUk483]

Bro trying to stop people from going to UK themeparks😢😅

[@isthatrubble]

I live in australia and I've never seen an advertisement for a ride at all, only for the parks themselves. so even the concept of an ad for a ride is weird to me

[@billclinton984]

Innit like im so used to weird marketing this feels completely normal 😂

[@gdy2shus]

I wish American advertising was so fum and odd. Ours is so bland and lawyer approved. 🙄

[@paulvickers7441]

As another British couple, we can confirm that we do not mess around when it ‘comes’ to our coasters.. but the oblivion condoms were in fact more mandarin than orange.. this was a major problem in the Surrey area as riots broke out and it wasn’t pretty.

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

What? People left their used protective equipment in front of Surrey?

[@pjw1993]

Merlin is a VERY Marketing driven company. The CEO at the time of all this, Nick Varney, was the Alton Towers Marketing director when Nemesis opened, and his entire ethos was around USPs and driving press coverage for the parks. Alton Towers in particular had a period, about 2007 to the early 2010s, where they were really aggressive with PR stunts, and there were multiple a year. A few others not mentioned here include announcing plans for a ‘Babycoaster’, installing security devices to stop kids wearing lifts to cheat height restrictions, ‘cloud seeding’ to prevent bad weather, developing a ‘guaranteed stay-down breakfast’ for guests in the hotel and finally sticking a load of underwear models on Rita to ‘test bra support’. It was a wild time to be an enthusiast 😂

[@foreverjetspacefella9980]

Don't forget the 'treacherous lift' stunt, the smiler b-movie horror mini-series and the ministry of joy/beornen(I know it'ss not the correct time frame but it works) being unleashed into the streets of london

[@Marmilisedhenry]

As someone who lives in the uk and see adverts for Alton towers every day and it’s wild they even PAINTED the smiler logo on SHEEP

[@rosstaylor7251]

I did the scare hotel rooms at Alton Towers. They had 6 hotel rooms at the end of a corridor for it. Was pretty amazing and funny at the same time. The rooms were "found during renovations when a wall was knocked down"

[@lloydzeroa.k.aforger6990]

WHY IS IT ALWAYS RENOVATIONS. ẄĤƳ

[@user-yu7od4km4y]

Because it’s Merlin’s trademark lol

[@haysieee3757]

Thorpe park also sold... Themed adult prophylactic items. I remember vividly the stealth one saying "hard, fast, over in 18 seconds" on the wrapper.

[@HeyItsMad]

I owned some of those oblivion condoms. Went to the park on a school trip as a teenager and thought it was absolutely peak humour to buy a pack and sneakily pass them around the coach on the way back, to endless childish giggling.

[@lloydzeroa.k.aforger6990]

I imagine they found out and told you off then

[@GerstlauianLoops]

UK thoosie here. There was a time where Oblivion’s queue line TVs and audio had ‘the lord of darkness’ say that people who went on Oblivion would disappear when going through the tunnel. This was eventually removed due to the Smiler incident.

[@smallandsweet7]

Absolutely LOVED the videos that would play in the ride queue for Oblivion. That song is in my head 24/7 I swear. The way the Lord of darkness would be like “are you SURE you even want to ride this? Sometimes people just don’t come back from it” and saying that the Gs could give you brain damage, all sorts 🤣🤣

[@lloydzeroa.k.aforger6990]

You can find it on youtube

[@TheOfficialSmudgy]

This ride is perfectly safe.

[@Davidsteel702]

Th13teen is definitely not a failed coaster. It was just very poorly advertised but it definitely didn’t fail considering its probably the 3rd most popular ride at towers via wait times

[@blueteacup321]

Oh 100%. This coaster is amazing and it's well known and its ridden regularly at alton towers.

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

I'd definitely say the advertising was more of a fail than the coaster itself. Thirteen looks like a fun little ride.

[@WhaddonSnep]

@@ThemeParkCrazy Agreed. Th13teen is a good themed attraction and coaster, but it's biggest cock-up was how heavily it was being promoted spookier than it was. and also dubbed a 'psychocoaster' once. I think another major reason for this was how much Merlin at the time were pushing for a dark aesthetic to their rides around then. 13 released the year after Saw, and two years before The Swarm (another Thorpe Park ride, a wing coaster themed to an insectoid alien race abducting humans whilst causing the end of the world. It also being 'the world's first ride to have an original single for it). One other big thing of note for it, was that Th13teen can be seen as a somewhat poor replacement for the legendary Corkscrew, the park's first coaster, and the first double inversion coaster for the UK and Europe (the first being the still running Revolution at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.). So seeing an original thrill coaster being replace by a family coaster is a huge let down.

[@Davidsteel702]

@@ThemeParkCrazy yeah it really wasn’t marketed great at all but it’s probably the best family coaster I’ve ridden. I know I’m about to get ripped for this but I prefer it to Wickerman

[@namugriff]

Th13teen is best ridden from the back. Gives the best ride experience

[@Anthingll]

The thing to understand with Thorpe Park is it’s not a family park and doesn’t market itself as one. Because Merlin own both Thorpe and Chessington and they are only a few miles apart they concentrate on the family market at Chessington and the teen plus market at Thorpe. This means Thorpe has a totally different vibe than the average theme park.

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

The Banana Boat? And the Teacups ride? And the rafting boats? And their smallest coaster? I almost wanted to think of Silverfish now, tired of thinking late at night? But it is called The Flying Fish... .

[@coastingalong]

it has the same vibe as any other american amusement park it’s really no different

[@maxb4085]

​@@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663While they do have some rides for younger guests their main demographic is still thrill seekers and older guests. Like Chessington still has rides for quite young guests but is mainly in the middle ground of the 3 southern Merlin parks be ahse you have LegoLand which caters for those young guests. Also the fact you do get alot of guests who bring their little kids along and get annoyed when they can't get on the bigger rides they do need some rides to go on but even then certain guests get annoyed there isn't enough for young guests, coming from someone who used to work at Thorpe Park. Also the fact is while it is a lids ride my time working on the Flying Fish, a good 50-60% of the guests were teens or older (not including parents with small children).

[@emilyrockett1774]

@@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663 The Swarm, Stealth, Colossus, Saw, Nemesis Inferno, Hyperia, Samurai, Vortex, Zodiac, Detonator, Rush. Thorpe Park is clearly targeting thrill seekers with the sheer number of thrill rides they have compared to other UK theme parks. Only Alton Towers can compare, but they have 1 less thrill rollercoaster and no thrill flat rides worth talking about.

[@Scrofar]

Your utter bewilderment and baffled voice over some of these was so funny, I'm also just as shocked (as an American) at the boldness of some of these promotional choices! 😂😂Cultural differences in this kind of stuff is so interesting but ultimately WILD!

[@jakeanthonyjames]

I can confirm the Johnnys were a real thing but not just at Alton towers. They had them at Thorpe park. In particular Stealth had some that said “hard fast and up in a second” Saw had ones that said “let the game begin” And colossus had ones that said “the ultimate screw”

[@CedarpawAnimations]

the ultimate WHAT????

[@JayRblxtp]

during smilers marketing missions they spray painted the smiler logo onto sheep before the ride opened absolutely love your videos btw

[@JustinParksandRides]

I can confirm they were actually handing out the Orange Flavoured Durex during the opening month or so on Oblivion, I got a few packs that day as I believe they started charging for them after the initial launch 😂 Plus, some of that urine was mine 🤣, I did my bit to contribute but after several Coca Cola refills I could have filled more than just one of those little pots. Also, if you’ve ever done a drugs test then you’ll know how difficult it is to not spill any, and as the portable booths were all over the park there wasn’t anywhere to wash your hands afterwards 😮😮

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

They had no sinks nearby?! Yuck.

[@danielward4868]

Nemesis Inferno still has the world record certificate in the station to this day. It is seen as funny over here but is definitely weird. Around the late 2000s to early 2010s, Merlin Entertainments exclusively built dark themes on their coasters which they probably should have avoided for 13, although the drop track is the best I have experienced.

[@razoalm13]

What the actual heck? 😨 This is wild. What a marketing campaign trip the employees must have had. Makes me wonder what kind of conversations were held in creating and publishing a Durex sponsorship for a a thrill ride. 😅 I 100% agree with you. "Impressive." 😩🤣

[@DrethenHyena]

This was so interesting to see! I'm British and never really realised that what I grew up seeing here was so unique to here I guess. To me, I think the marketing here is a play on shock factor a lot of the time. These theme parks (especially Alton Towers) play on the "anything can happen, prepare for the unexpected" trope, and the juxtaposition of some of this advertising is just an extension of that. I will say that Alton Towers also seems to struggle a bit with balancing its more extreme rides with the height limits placed on the park by surrounding town and city planning permits, which has led to some of its creative development (and I think one of the reasons for Oblivion going underground to get the full height of the drop(?)). Regardless, loved the video and can't wait to experience some 6 flags TX later this year :D

[@Colaholiker]

I don't know how the first "most naked people on a coaster" record came to be. But I know how subsequent ones happened. They said "We can't allow for any other country to steal this record from us", and so they one-upped the previous record. Not that anyone else would have attempted to break it to begin with... But in that instance, the term "dangling coaster" (shoutout to who once went under the name "GP2Enthusiast") gets a wholly new meaning... 😏

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

It's certainly one record that Six Flags Qiddiya will never break.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Lol

[@Interfacement]

One of the marketing ploys for Th13teen was a rumour that only 16-55 year old people could ride it and they would have to sign a waiver form to ride it! 😂 Obviously that never happened though.

[@J3ssAkar1n3ko]

I rode on 13 at the age of 14 Coincidence aint it?

[@thameslinkrail4038]

When you talked about the Thorpe Park rabbit hole, I thought you were going on to their 2016 "count the snow bunnies" advert which showed ten seconds of cute bunnies then a jump scare which scared all the small children. This was to advertise Derren Brown's Ghost Train and I recall the advert being banned by the UK regulator.

[@CedarpawAnimations]

Talk about RABBIT hole!

[@sueshaw84]

What about the time Alton decided to spray some sheep in a random field with Smiler logos? Also, while Oblivion had 'dont look down', Air (the B&M Flier) had 'assume the position' which is by far worse!

[@Never2old.]

Merry Christmas, Christmas day here in the UK I was on the backwards riding event on Shockwave, it was a bit uncomfortable but definitely a unique experience, I still have the ride photo in my random theme park collection 😁

[@XParks]

Thorpe Park also had a period where they sold a range of ride themed condoms featuring various slogans. For example Stealth's read "hard, fast and up in seconds" 😂 Alton Towers also had Oblivion underpants at one point during the rides early days.

[@melodyabcdefghijklmnopqrst1663]

Free underpants are always a good idea... .

[@stratosphericozone2645]

UK marketing can really take the piss sometimes!

[@coasterinc1987]

the towers horror hotel room was also done at port Aventura with their hotel burn... i was there in el paso so had a great view of this extra building they put in, watching people run out screaming to their patio and then being told to get back in... was hilarious

[@Midgard_Gamer]

Fun marketing fact; When The Smiler was announced, Alton Towers thought it would be a good idea to spray paint the logo onto the wool of local sheep. Don't see how they thought this would be effective but welcome to the wonderful world of UK theme parks I guess!

[@nikkiLush2987]

Really like the unscripted video style for subjects like this, you come across really well :) Also no need to worry about the 'oblivion item' section, UK enthusiasts talk about it the same and find it hilarious and strange! Merry Christmas

[@porridgebowl]

There’s an advert for Nemesis Inferno featuring the graphic image of someone’s foot melting off. Also, there’s a hotel room at Thorpe park themed to the Swarm, with grim images of an alien apocalypse. Delightful stuff.

[@original_demonic]

I do want to also specify that the nudity record was beaten at night, during a scheduled closed event. This is confirmed with Grand National, and although I don’t think it was the case for Green Scream, they did it to raise money for Southend Hospital. Oh and the people that did the Grand National record have been doing things like this for over 60 years. They have weekend stuff nearly every week, and one annual weekend trip since 2007, where they took the record in 2019. They’ve also been to Alton towers where they reserved the place and had activities such as swimming and socialising for a weekend, and did so in 2022. Honestly, the organisation which did this is amazing, and although not being called BN until 2010, has been running in a much smaller form since 1891!

[@bobbydebobadibob1261]

"takin the piss" is a Great British past-time.. everyone here knows how to do it

[@mrknots]

Yo ive worked at hotels - a scare actor absolutely could get the wrong room in that hotel situation. Not to mention the hallway interactions and screams that would distrub guests that didnt want a scare room. That said... thats some intense stuff... pretty awesome - id do it

[@rae17]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the initial online advertisements for the Alton Towers coaster Rita, where they made it seem as if it was a uhhhh ~woman offering her services~ to put it in a friendly way

[@TheOfficialSmudgy]

The website was “Riderita”, which I agree, sounds very dodgy lol

[@DeathMetalDerf]

That was a fantastic video. What a great Christmas present! Happy holidays to all to matter what you celebrate!

[@cedarflags]

9:24 The TV when my parents walk in.

[@neleolifelive]

This video tells probably more of the US standards than the UK ones. I’m from the Netherlands and found none of them really disturbing or bizarre. And the last one is just great! It’s all about fun and being safe, isn’t it? 😉

[@Colaholiker]

German guy here, and I couldn't agree more. They are creative, but not disturbing... 😂

[@triple7marc]

A urine smelling contest isn’t bizarre? Or roller coaster-branded condoms?

[@neleolifelive]

Urine a bit, condoms absolutely not. Talking about condoms should be normal. Using them is normal.

[@triple7marc]

@@neleolifelive Talking about and using condoms is normal. Using them as roller coaster marketing is not 🤣

[@neleolifelive]

Why not? So Fanta is ok, but durex not? It’s a product that people use, so it needs marketing. And fun and pleasure are for rollercoasters and making love. So it makes perfect sense 😉

[@DatScharger64]

Phantasialand has created a small flashgame to promote Black Mamba back then. In it, you had to shoot black mambas (the snakes) coming at you, complete with blood and points, ending when too many got to you. It was fun for five seconds. To this day, I don't know what the hell they were thinking. The game didn't even reference the coaster at all, unless featuring its namesake counts as a reference.

[@Harryongorillatag]

There was a tv show hosted at Thorpe park called ‘ scream if you know the answer’

[@TheParkLifeKid]

I run the Twitter account! Feeling honoured to have this vid made and yeah the UK has some weird park moments. Shout out to the snickers Stealth sponsorship also which is kinda shocking.

[@Justcountingstars_]

I did one of the Th13teen scare rooms in 2010 (your footage is from that year, not 2008!) and had the tap trick pulled on me. I asked my friend if they had left the tap on… and found that girl behind the shower curtain!! There was an entire corridor designated for scare rooms, so that other guests wouldn’t be disturbed and so that guests who paid extra for the scare rooms were together. The actors would go from room to room until 12am (or until you chickened out and put the door on the sign!). One of the craziest nights in the hotel… and I’ve had a lot of them there 😂 In other years they used to smash mugs, wreck the room interiors and then during closed season they would refurbish the rooms. You missed the Thorpe Park “putting your arms up is banned due to BO (body odour)”. I’m sure if you google it, you’ll find some news sources. There are definitely other weird ones, I just can’t think of them 😆

[@tinypizza4278]

The best market campaign we’ve had for a rollercoaster in the UK is definitely the one for the updated version of Nemesis that opens this year that started with the head of a fictional Private military company called the Phalanx, who were previously featured in the somewhat short lived mini drop tower Nemesis: sub terra and (I think) the scare maze Sub Species, high jacking the park’s 2022 fireworks display. Where at the end of the display’s final night the head of this company showed up on video basically saying there was something wrong with Nemesis while people who had won a competition to be the last riders were being escorted up to the ride as test subjects and the video ended with this person saying “Goodbye, Nemesis”. Once people got up to the Nemesis side of Forbidden valley there was various actors dressed as soldiers and scientists in hazmat suits who were inspecting the area, there various tents dotted around where actors would walk out with samples or looking like they’d been injured by something. After that people who had signed up for updates on Nemesis received various emails and videos that were meant to look like they had been leaked from someone who worked for the Phalanx that showed what was going on “behind the scenes” including the new track, which in the story of the ride is a cage holding the Nemesis monster down, being transported by an armoured convoy. They also did various things throughout last season as well such as opening a viewing platform and reopening Nemesis: sub terra which had an opening ceremony hosted by the guy from the video from the previous year’s fireworks video. After this various videos and emails kept getting sent out including one where the head of the phalanx is visiting their base at Alton towers and is dragged away and likely killed off screen presumably by Nemesis. This part marketing has recently come to an end with the park announcing the rides new logo and name “Nemesis reborn”

[@peterreed9817]

I remember the Thirteen waiver rumour. What a mad time, but that’s what makes UK coasters so awesome. Most of our coasters have their own theme or identity which just adds to what makes them so special

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

I'm guessing the dedication to theming and identity is why there was so much outrage over the Fanta Oblivion.

[@peterreed9817]

@@ThemeParkCrazy probably.. weirdly even as someone who goes to the park every single year I must have erased the Fanta sponsorship from my mind (that and I didn’t ride oblivion until about 6 years ago)

[@martint6819]

Brilliant to see the 'Guinness World Record for the most naked riders on a rollercoaster' included in this video. The world record still stands to this day... 195 of 'us'... yeah... 'us'... I'm one of them... lol

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

Awesome! How was it? Sounds like a real challenge in 10c weather!

[@martint6819]

@@ThemeParkCrazy lol... We did it on an early Saturday evening in March 2019... and if you know anything about the weather here in the UK, especially in March... all I'll say was... it was a tad nippy and most of us guys that did it didn't look our best... lol BUT, saying that... I'd do it again tomorrow if I could, everyone had such a laugh and the atmosphere was so upbeat... certainly a memory that will stay with me 😄

[@ballbag]

Didn't you have an event in the waterpark opposite the pleasure beach afterwards with naked kids running about?

[@martint6819]

@@ballbag Nah, I went to no swim. Why are you asking me that? Pissed off, you didn't get an invite?

[@swagmasterio69420]

I love your channel Also the Thorpe park ad was disturbing

[@Galistia]

The long moan at 9:44 is the vile one that made me really cringe lol.

[@Shannondionleelee]

Me, a Brit: this is going to feature 13 isn’t it?

[@Ash-pt6ih]

I don't think it was a direct ad for a theme park but I think it was for a type cheese in a sandwich and it was this elderly couple that then went a roller coaster and the guy said at the end " what sort of cheese was that" 😂

[@LittleLilu]

I had to go look it up cos i couldn't remember what the hell it was for. It was Specsavers, they sat down on Infusion thinking it was a bench 😂

[@Ash-pt6ih]

@@LittleLilu omg yeah 🤣

[@troythejust]

Fantastic video seriously ❤ thank you

[@firasabueida8424]

@ThemeParkCrazy I would love to see an updated video on your top 25 favorite roller coasters you’ve ever written. It’s been two years since you’ve done a video like this, and several new roller coasters have come out, so I would love to know where your opinion stands on your favorite roller coasters. Love your videos and keep up the great work!

[@matsuspeaks]

personally, i have an extreme phobia of demons/spirits that have a particular look as seen in a couple of famous horror films, (i even had to look away as long as that frame/clip was on screen) so seeing THAT in my shower would absolutely ruin my entire trip, could potentially lead to an injured scare actor and i might never bathe again. smh, good lord.... great video though, very silly! merry christmas and happy new year!!

[@dannecid6194]

Well noone would force you to pay the extra money and sign the waiver to experience it. The people who decided to do it knew well what they are getting themselves into.

[@lloydzeroa.k.aforger6990]

​@@dannecid6194could be worse. *SMILER ZOMBIES*

[@nargilblue]

The center part of Alton towers park is a large wooded valley with many nooks and cranies and very little supervision, they play the "If you go down in the woods today" song a lot especially round scarefest, supplying 'rain jackets' on site is not the stupidest idea they've ever had, we'll leave that for the fanta sponsorship

[@Jayrojo115]

Whoever thought the saw ride urine stunt was bad… then the oblivion Durex came up and all I could think was WTF were they thinking 😅

[@redfailhawk]

...I now know a record I want to help set. I'm a nevernude but riding a coaster in the buck sounds hilariously awesome.

[@Coasters_And_Coffee_mush]

Can confirm that all of this is completely normal in the uk

[@acidalex420]

What a wonderful Christmas gift, Merry Christmas from the UK 🫶🏼

[@wickedsickfunkyfreshroller2037]

That ad is wild

[@brennanorca3630]

Hahaha probably my favorite video yet, would love to see this as a series I laughed my butt off

[@ellie9457]

Merry Christmas, would love to see a failed coasters video for 13, I remember being too scared to go through the que when I was young 😂

[@86wellacre]

I’m British and I thought when Saw the ride opened it was so weird because that movie is actually pretty disturbing at times. I didn’t think it was an IP that lent well to an attraction apart from Halloween Horror Nights.

[@jackbluepirate87]

In 2010, Alton Towers banned sex from all its hotels

[@boopsbucket]

I LOVE this unscripted style! Pleeaaase do more! ❤

[@AnotherSwissYoutubeUser]

We need a more detailed Video about "crazy ass moments in Themeparks" history

[@kingomnom8317]

Green Scream advertises its former record outside its entrance

[@alphawinnergx9127]

Your best video ! I hope there's gonna be an episode two for non UK facts, and shoutout to 1066 for even cracking your poll !

[@AdonisHolland]

In Philadelphia, PA every august there is a naked bike ride in middle of down town so I could see a Naked Coaster ride happening

[@NoahCoasterNerd]

Funny enough Alton Towers isn't even the only European park to have sold park branded condoms at one point, Walibi Holland used to also have them in the gift shop for years with the slogan "Hard Gaan" (going fast) on it. It's always kinda funny telling Americans this fact and then watching their shock haha

[@CedarpawAnimations]

Ah yes, The C O N D O M O F T H E A B Y S S.

[@rideexpedition]

Every holes a goal 🤷‍♂️ Even the 120ft ones 😭😂

[@Georgie94]

"Don't look down"

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

Riding a rollercoaster...naked. Two words: Wind. Burn.

[@bretton_woods]

We may not have the fastest, longest, tallest, most thrilling coasters, but a lot of that is down to restrictions in height (alton towers) or space (blackpool pleasure beach...and pretty much everywhere else TBH). Only Flamingo Land doesn't have those problems, but that park is in the middle of nowhere, at least as middle of nowhere as you can get in this country. Hence, we have to make up for it with all the crazy OTT advertising.

[@ashleyjiscool]

As a British person, I can say chessington was clean when I went there

[@sophiegellender]

Talking of creepy adverts, the whole campaign for The Smiler was something else. I don’t mind it but going on this video it probably is something people from elsewhere might be surprised at 😆

[@themeparkgeek8545]

As a British person this seems normal. Thorpe park also did condoms for each ride

[@Georgie94]

I think I read something it was a thing with Durex they also sold individual ones for a £1 or something to promote the use of them and I belive they did for quite a while I don't know now

[@the_dungeoneer]

Yup, as someone from the UK, I remembered some of it as I started going to the scarefests around 2003 I think, I don't find it shocking at all, just amusing, all a bit of fun!

[@LoonyToony]

Okay, as a UK Theme Park Enthusiast, I knew some of the stuff like the most People in a coaster with nothing on and Fourteen lol, but a bunch I never knew and I found all of this very funny to know.

[@oneplusfourfourteen]

you missed alton towers painting a flock of sheep with the smiler logo, you missed the renaming of rita to camilla, you missed how oddly weird/good galactica/galacticas history is, the darkness of spinball whizzers promotion, the creepynes of the wickermans stuff and thats just at alton towers

[@FluffyDuck6413]

On Christmas Eve, this man made a video of the UK! Rule, britania!

[@ThemeParkCrazy]

I've also noticed that the UK goes all out on Christmas celebrations, so I figured a video like this would be a nice Christmas gift :).

[@Luka-DervinEmporium]

As a person based in the UK and have been to Alton several times I can confirm 13 was a massive failure but the biggest issue is that Alton has it is restricted on how high the roller coasters can be built to. They can only be built as high as the tree line so it really does stun and limits what the theme park can do so when they can they will build the track underneath to make up for the high limits. Kinda disappointed as Alton could have higher and more interesting rides if it wasn't for these restrictions. I just hope universal studios will definitely be making their park in Bedford as they won't be restricted like Alton is and will be far more themed and interactive compared to Alton.

[@thet00nedl00n]

The whole Oblivion Durex promotion reminds me of when the old N64 game "Conker's Bad Fur Day" came out. Apparently, during conventions, they also made and gave away condoms embedded with Conker's face on it.

[@artisdmb]

This video was legit so much weirder than I had ever anticipated this list to be ahahahahahahaha

[@kpsonicdude]

Merry Christmas Theme Park Crazy!

[@Komicklepto]

Nice to see you giving some recognition to our theme parks and our somewhat dark senses of humour. Are you aware of UK-based KZbinr Expedition Themepark? Would you consider doing a Crossover episode with him? BTW the naked roller-coaster thing is permitted because in the UK it's not actually against the law to be naked in public. We have much more relaxed public indecency laws compared with the Puritan-ruled United States.

[@landonmj7263]

Imagine entering to the bathroom to see THAT in the mirror! 7:20

[@wrestlingandamusementparkl7789]

First off alot of that is interesting. First one was funny was the Fanta one. The Thorpe park commercial made it seem like something differnt then a family park. Also for the condoms well I have no words. Reason why parks here in the us can’t do that is due to sponsorships, etc

[@bdschannel4733]

The Thorpe Park add is freaking awesome! And super original!

[@MrScaryPasta]

😂 That last ad! OMFG! Definitely not the kinda commercial you want for a theme park; mainly one aimed at families. 😅

[@ballyhigh11]

Pretty sure it was an online only advert, and thus targeted at adults who wouldn't be offended by it.

[@hahahaha-qx9nj]

As some from the UK. The US can have our advertising if we can have your coasters. We are stuck with people complaining how coasters ruin the skyline, which is why we barely have any tall coasters. Also, investment in our theme parks suck!

[@lauravturner]

I love being in Britain as a coaster enthusiast. Though it's not as crazy as piss sampling and nude riding; I feel like the decision of using spray painted talking sheep for marketing The Smiler (when the rest of The Smiler's marketing was about a brain washing facility that looks like 'We happy few' collided with The Joker's laughing gas,) is still a pretty bizarre choice that we should talk about more.

[@dhillonlovesrollercoasters]

Also at the Thorpe park years ago, they had a “say no to BO” promotion

[@lauravturner]

I wonder how Americans would feel if they had seen the Th13teen trailers that were on between kids shows when it first got opened. Like, Alton always goes out of it's way to be freaky af with it's advertising. Oblivion and The Smiler had some creepy ads too. They were iconic and I can never hear Mountain King without thinking of those ads.

[@oked2011]

9:24 THIS EPISODE OF BLUEY IS CALLED WHAT THE FU-

[@re0473]

There wasn't only just the oblivion condoms there were stealth ones too which said "hard fast and up in seconds" on them

[@towersguyswheelgateadventures]

galactica is a flying coaster and one of the tunnels was supposed to be really well themed but we got a few slabs of concrete and some mattresses

[@landonmj7263]

That was a great transition at the end of the Thorpe Park ad!

[@landonmj7263]

Also the random "Ahh!" in the Thorpe Park ad sounded like the Roblox sound that replaced "Oof!"

[@willedits2821]

They also did Air condoms too! Along with Oblivion deodorant 😂

[@coasterinc1987]

and stealth, hard fast and up in seconds

[@mariahvasa2310]

Id love to see more indepth video's of the rides you said failed, they seem very interesting 🤔 ❤

[@Dz3therook]

These truly were crazy ass moments in theme park history

[@steelcurtain187]

This was a good one 😅

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Hope you had a good Christmas