2024 - A Very Strange Year For Theme Parks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- As we come towards the end of 2024, join me as I look back across the year and talk about the highlights and low lights of the theme park year. I talk about everything from new additions at the parks through to surprising closures that we didn't expect. Overall I'd say that 2024 has being a very strange year for theme parks!
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Share your highlights from the 2024 theme park year here in the video comments 😃
Go to be hyperia. No.1 in the world for me easily but I haven't been to many parks. Knocked shambhala off the top and is a really unique and smooth ride.
i think the highlights are all the videos hopefully 2025 can be better with ride openings and the best operations and hyperia fantastic new coaster
My first time going in a proper inverting thrill coaster. I had been on Indiana jones et el temple de peril . But I went to Towers and rode nemesis as my 1st multi inverting rollercoaster . I then when to Thorpe park and went on the swarm which was my no.2 behind nemesis reborn & I am going to go to more parks in 2025. And you gave me confidence to ride them & next year I can ride hyperia as it was shut & I hope you enjoy 2025 especially with the great news !🎉
Gold rush at Drayton manor
Would you be happy to see Hero at Flamingo Land go ?
My husband and I went to Orlando for the first time this year and watched all your videos and wrote down all your tips and tricks! We had a fantastic time, you really helped!! 😁 wishing you both a happy new year and congrats on your baby news!
Thanks for sharing your memories! 😃
Completely agree Shawn.
Best TH-cam channel of 2024 🎉🎉🎉 congrats Shawn, Charlotte & Bump
Thank you so much!
Happy new year and thanks for all the great content in 2024! And I'd say it has been a good year for themeparks in Europe. Great to see independant parks open prototype rides like Voltron in Europapark and Danse Macabre in the Efteling. Both amazing high quality rides with top notch theming, so they were both a great experience!
Thank you so much!
My highlight this year was, oddly, getting stuck on th13teen. It was just amazing being on the lift hill and talking to the staff. Me and my mum even ended up with a private front row ride on rita!!! Amazing year for me!
Thanks for sharing!
This time 2 years ago I was missing Alton Towers and decided to have a nosey on TH-cam to see if I could find anything. Theme park worldwide was the first to appear and I’m so happy that it did🎉 You and Charlotte have made each day much brighter with your enthusiasm for the industry and I cannot wait to go into a third year with you both and the little baby. Sending you all the love for this new year ❤❤
Thank you!
Thank you Shawn and Charlotte for a great year of videos🎉
We love you Shawn and Charlotte and for all the hard work and fun and laughter that goes into your vlogs. Happy New Year to a beautiful little Family
Thank you for your kind words!
Been a great year for me, got over my fear of rollercoasters, found my fearless and met you guys in July, been watching for almost 2 years now!
Thank you!
0:16 Missed the chance to say it’s been a rollercoaster of a year 😂😂
It really has 😂
We didn’t make it to any theme parks this year sadly but loved watching all your updates and vlogs! Thank you for taking us along in 2024 and can’t wait to see where you’re taking us in 2025!
Thank you for joining us!
Thank you two for everything you’ve done, I’ve had quiet a rough year and watching your videos really makes my day amazing,
Thank you two, and 3 soon ❤❤
Thank you!
Congratulations once again for your 2024 videos, it was a fantastic year with lots of amazing videos and fantastic travels, TPW is with no doubt the best theme park related channel. Keep the good work Shawn and Charlotte. All the best for you Shawn, Charlotte and the baby for 2025.
Thank you for your kind words!
I find this was a hell of a year to get into coasters as I got to ride gold rush, the wave, hyperia and nemisis reborn that was all new for 2024 but I've also manage to experiance so many coaster all in this year and thank you for being one of the channel I watched that help me get out there and best of luck to both of you as a recent dad myself you've both got a lot to look forward to
Thank you! We had such a great year!
A very peculiar year for every theme park in the world! What a way to wrap up 2024! As usual a fantastic video, Happy New Year’s Eve and congratulations to you all! ❤🎉
Thank you!
It was a pleasure to meet you both in Sandusky Ohio back in May. What a monumental year for yourselves your family for roller coasters for theme parks!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks for taking us along for the ride
Great to see you!
Happy new year guys and thank you for another year of awesome content. I’ve supported you from the beginning and I’m still here! I’ll never forget meeting you both!
Thank you so much!
Very good year, we had a TPW inspired UK road trip to Chessington, Legoland, across to the Isle of Wight, then Paultons Park and Alton Towers on way home. Also visited Oakwood and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Then made our first theme park trip abroad to the Netherlands to visit Toverland and Efteling. Trying hard to get my 8yrs old son as passionate about coasters as I am, and he has just made over 50 coaster credits, going from being afraid of Accelerator at Drayton Manor 18months ago to riding Icon at Pleasure Beach, Troy and Fenix at Toverland, and Baron 1898 at Efteling.
Thanks for the work you do Shawn/Charlotte, you literally are inspiring us to get out there and keep on riding. All the best.
Thanks for sharing!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🎄 and I wish you a happy new year 🥳
Thank you 🎄 You too!
Brilliant. Love opinion pieces. Please dont be afraid to be critical! More like this please! Happy new year
Thank you!
So my highlight probably was returning to AT after 5 years. It has always been something I've wanted to do and I always said one day, when I had passed my driving test, I would be able to drive to AT and experience this park in a new light. And honestly as much as it got a lot of criticism this year it was truly worth it.
Thanks for sharing your memories!
Great vlog again Shaun 👍Have a great new year ,hope everything goes well with Charlotte and youself with the new arrival , Look forward to some new vlogs in 2025 👍👍
Definitely been an interesting year. From some exciting openings like Nemesis Reborn, Hyperia and Gold Rush. To sad closures like many rides at the Pleasure Beach, The Blade at Towers and of course, Kingda Ka. Not been my favourite year, so I certainly hope it improves for the 2025 season! Things like Epic Universe, the new ride at Towers and of course, Falcon’s Flight really do intrigue me. It’s going to be a very exciting new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 TO YOU GUYS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Although I don’t really use TH-cam anymore, I feel like I should comment here because I used to watch this channel a lot and it really helped me get into theme parks. This year has been super exciting for me, I finally got to fulfill a 5 year long dream of becoming a ride operator, which has been challenging and incredibly eye opening, but also super fun! I have nothing but respect for all ride operators now. I also got the opportunity to visit one of my biggest bucket list parks, Phantasialand, which was so good! Fly is one of my favorite rides of all time. Sadly I haven’t yet had the chance to ride Hyperia, but I have Nemesis Reborn and I think it’s incredible. Admittedly I haven’t been keeping massively up to date with theme park news this year, but Kingda Ka was gutting to hear about. Hopefully 2025 will be a positive year for theme parks!
Thanks for sharing! Here’s to 2025!
I mean for me and theme parks in 2024 this year was the year when I first became an enthusiast and before in 2023 I was terrified of going on any big rides then in 2024 I was just like I don't care anymore and I went on nemesis reborn and then smiler in Easter and from then on I was hooked and I went on hyperia on my 17th birthday in June and after that I properly started researching all of the facts about coasters and different types looking at hopefully going abroad to go to different theme parks I went to Orlando to go to universal and Disney world for the first time and I found your channel as well which is extremely useful in looking at the latest news and tips on how to actually organise trips to other countries t go to different theme parks as well so thanks so much Shawn and Charlotte for basically helping me grow in knowledge about theme parks and how they work ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My favorite highlights for 2024 is I celebrated my 22nd birthday at Universal Studios Hollywood with my mom, my uncle, and myself. We had a great time and we have been on all the rides. I had a great time. I went to Las Vegas with my mom, my grandma, my grandpa, and myself for four days. We walked around the Las Vegas Strip and we drank margaritas. My mom and I have always supported the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Rams. My mom and I watched the Dodgers World Series Champions 2024 and we won and we celebrated.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Shawn. Thank you so much for another great year of videos and content on your channel. Definitely plan to visit Alton Towers in 2025, going to try some new rides as well as old favourites. Wishing you, Charlotte and your families a very happy New Year.!!
Thank you!
Thank you for bringing us with you
Into my 10th year of watching the channel now and still haven't met either of you. I have met Lee though and spoken to a couple of the old crew. You were the first people I came across on my first Florida visit back in 2015. And prior to that I started watching your tips as if I remember rightly Shawn 2014 was your first year in FLorida? (am I right)
Looking back to this year I have to say I was sorely disappointed by Alton Towers organisation and operations. I didn't go to Thorpe or Blackpool. I am planning my first trip to Europa park for 2025 though. I am hoping that this year the UK parks will focus on staffing levels and bear in mind people's experiences are important especially if they have travelled far and spent a lot.
I'm happy that Drayton have finally gone in the right direction of being a family park which I always said it should.
Let's hope there are no more ride shut downs and at least a couple of good announcements, particularly regarding Universal.
Thank you so much for watching, we really appreciate it!
Highlight for me going to Florida for the first time in over 10 years and riding VelociCoaster for the first time (I cried 😂). Going to PortAventura World as well, going to these places wouldn’t feel possible without this channel. Wishing you both all the best for 2025 🤩
Thank you!
Hope you had a great them park in 2024 I know it's not been the best year but you still had fun
Incredible video as always Brandon! My theme park highlights from 2024 have to be the new Gold Rush family thrill coaster at Drayton Manor, Nemesis Inferno at Alton Towers and Danse Macabre at Efteling.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Been to Orlando and Anaheim for the first time this year. It was amazing!!!! Of course a lot to Efteling. Holiday reunion in toverland. And been to Europapark where I met you Guys!!! What a year it has been. Next year a china trip to Disney and universal is plant. Cant wait. And visting portaventura for the first time. Lets get it!!! And mabyyy a uk trip to the major parks. Neven been to them. 😁😁Congrats on the baby! And so cool to see the disney travel year. Time flies Greetjngs from the netherlands 🙌🏻🙌🏻🔥
A fantastic year for videos 😊😊thank you ❤❤
Thank you!
Nemesis: Reborn and Hyperia are definitely the highlights of the year ultimately. We lost Kingda Ka without warning, other rides announced their closure, Towers lost three flat rides, Drayton opened a new coaster at the cost of their best flat rides, Shockwave lost it’s accolade of being the UK’s only stand up coaster, and Rip Ride Rocket is due to be removed. Hopefully 2025 will be a year of positive change and expansion (Toxicator is already exciting enough).
What about voltron?
Thanks for sharing!
I remember hiding in the bathrooms at school watching the live hyperia testing! It took ages! Now leaving school and getting to ride it was amazing!
Shawn gave a great new year pal
2024 has been a strange year in general.
Not just Theme parks.
At least 2025 will be the most AMBITIOUS year in world history.
Let’s hope so!
Great review. Sad to see The Blade go, especially as that is where my family and I bumped in to you and Charlotte about 3 years ago! Happy new year anyway 🎉
It’ll be missed!
Always love the honesty of TPWW ❤ What would we do without you. 😊
Thank you!
Happy new year to you both
Thank you!
My top highlight was doing an East Coast Road trip doing Hersheypark and Great Adventure. The big highlight of the trip was doing Kingda Ka and I got it in with three months to spare before it closed. Long Live The King.
Amazing!
2024 has been the best theme park year for me, met so many friends, done so many new rides, parks and events and overcome my fear of scaremazes!
Amazing!
Happy New Year
Big love guys ❤❤
Thank you!
My 2024 for theme parks was going to my favourite park: Alton Towers, twice! Although availability was poor, I still had a great time both times I was there. In 2025 I wanna go to Europa Park, I'm seeing my cousin next year and she lives in Germany so hopefully im going there!
My favourite highlights of this year was the opening of nemesis reborn, and Hyperia too and also the fireworks were amazing at alton towers, but my favourite this year was my first ever visit to phantasialand and that place was amazing my favourite rides were taron, fly, black mamba and also there water rides were amazing
Really hope ride availability will get better next season, will miss river caves at BPB if its not open by March (fingers crossed it is) nostalgic ride for me, could you do a video about all the investments happening in the parks and what to look forward to next season
I loved getting my first rides on Icon and The Big One! :)
My favourite part this year on this channel is when shawn was covered in snow 😂 and my highlight for me in theme parks is when i got stuck on wickerman 😂
Thank you!
I went to chessington in august and it was amazing,best park I’ve ever been to
Awesome!
Fav highlights!! Going on swarm for the first time!! (Pass out lol + fainted after Oop..) I STILL GO ON IT HEHE
Hi There, I totally agree it has been a very mixed year in Theme Parks and I hope that things will be a lot more consistent next year. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Cheers Peter :)
Let’s hope so!
I wish you happy new year
My highlight has definitely got to be Hyperia and The first day of Scarefest, Hyperia is a amazing coaster and i cant wait to go back on it and the first day of scarefest was great as i got to go on one of my favorite coasters in the UK The Smiler at night
Definitely a crazy year with both Top Thrill 2 and Hyperia closing directly after opening day. Although at least Thorpe Park was able to eventually get Hyperia open, not so much with TT2 at Cedar Point.
As you and Charlotte know that I have enjoyed Nemesis Reborn, this year. And as we know, Nemesis Sub Terra closed at the end of 2015 as I think it was for 8 years due to the crash of The Smiler.
My personal highlights are Nemesis Reborn and also visiting Europa Park and Port Aventura / Ferrari Land for the first time.
Highlight for me taking my stepson to Alton towers and pleasure beach on the roller coasters and followed by legoland Windsor and Chessington he’s excited to do more and more great content over the year all the best for 2025 and little patter of tiny feet in the summer 🎉💕💙
Danse Macabre was definitely my highlight and I’m travelling tonight to spend new year’s eve at Efteling! Happy New Year to you and Charlotte (and baby Sanbrooke)! 🎉
Amazing ride!
Memories theme park worldwide 2024
Happy New Year into 2025 it's going to be Epic
Oh yes!
Good job my friend from Rome Georgia 😊😊
My Highlight of 2024 Was Me And My Dad at Thorpe Park riding on the Swarm and Hyperia
Great video as always Shawn
I went on kingda ka on the last day, didn’t even know it was the last time
Happy New Year Bring on 2025s vlogs
Formula Rossa's closure was incredibly frustrating for me. Planned a Dubai trip in February for my Wife and I. Luckily I hadn't bought the Park tickets yet, as was able to pivot into a trip to Motiongate Dubai. But to go to that part of the world and not get on the fastest coaster in the world was heartbreaking.
We're in two minds about going to Qiddiya for Falcon's Flight, but who knows.
Sorry to hear that!
Great vlog Shawn
I’d love Hyperia if it was smoother. I was gutted that my first two rides felt like I was driving through gravel but loved every one of your vlogs and look forward to 2025!!
Going to Belgium next year, might get to go on Ride to Happiness, get to cross smth on my bucket list :D
Pleasure meeting you this year at Nickelodeon Universe!
Keep on riding!
Great to see you!
The mugs look amazing. You should put them in colour order it would make it pop more.
Thank you, I have them in order of theme park and size!
Hope Charlotte is okay bless her❤
I’d love to go to theme parks as a job like you do
It’s great fun 🤩
Awesome Video
It somehow feels like lots of cool things happened but also nothing happened at the same time, very strange year but hoping 2025 is greater!
Hopefully so!
My favourite highlights from this year is the opening day of Hyperia and Nemesis Reborn VIP event.
Amazing!
Good Video ideas for next year: An updated version of your top coasters in the world OR Charlotte's top coasters in the world
On the way 🤩
My Highlight was riding Megafobia and Speed for the first time at Oakwood
I think even from a manufacturer pov. Mack has won this year 100%. The stryker coaster is fantastic. the wacky elements they tried on hyperia worked out great. They have stardust racers and the other stryker soon too. Intamin with gold rush has alot of potential to become something insane. Even vekoma in a way.
The biggest flop this year has to be b&m. Their fall off is crazy. Even from nemesis reborn to like rapterra or even penguin trek looks terrible. Atleast nemesis was still smooth. Heard phoenix rising, iron menace and penguin trek were genuinely rough. Very strange
very good video update Shawn from As we come towards the end of 2024, join me as I look back across the year and talk about the highlights and low lights of the theme park year. I talk about everything from new additions at the parks through to surprising closures that we didn't expect. Overall I'd say that 2024 has being a very strange year for theme parks!keep news the good videos coming on the channel, Shawn. 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I think the strangest has to be Top Thrill 2. A world class ride that only operated for 3 weeks.
Sadly so!
Great summary, even though I think Na Fianna Force could have been mentioned too.
Great ride!
I must be the only human in the uk who didn’t find Hyperia anything special, give me The Swarm any day! I’m soooooooo glad Nemesis wasn’t scrapped, for me it’s still the best coaster in the uk!
Nemesis is a beautiful ride!
The biggest marketing fail that was truly shocking has to go to Lighwater Valley for closing The Ultimate. 1000s would have gone to ride that for the last time.
It was very sad to see it removed!
@ have you seen the new 2026 theme park message called fantasy falls?
Happy new year . I know you not filming but be lovely for you just to let us know how the park is for new year 😊
Thank you!
4:15 is that true? I heard Nemesis has the same trains, just heavily refurbished - apparently the cross bracing seen on the "new" train hasn't been produced by B&M since 1997. That's just what I heard I don't actually know
The trains are new!
I will now knock on the door of every house in a ten minute radius of Alton Towers just to meet you. You are the best TH-camr on TH-cam, you interact with your fans, and share your passion with the world. You got me into theme parks, and I don’t plan on leaving the community anytime soon. Hats off to you Shawn, for 2024’s sake ❤
Edit: my mum wanted to ride the skyrider at legoland, and only got to ride it once in may, so was gutted to hear this as she likes slow rides a lot. So sad to hear about kingda ka. RIP
Thank you so much. We really appreciate your support!
@ThemeParkWorldwide your welcome, of all the people, you deserve it :)
Same
so out of 10 what would everyone rate this year? i’d give it an 8. would be 9 but i think availability has been appalling this year. went to alton towers in may and queued for 3 hours in the rain for nemesis reborn as it was shut. I think if a lot of the major theme parks sorted reliability this couldve been an amazing year
I’d say 7!
Hey. Any updates about falcons flight? And will you be going ?
Huge love dear
Video on the way today 😃
Biggest disappointment for me this year was the tunnel in the curse at Alton manor being broken. One plus was being able to ride Hex for the first time was pretty cool.
Let’s hope that it’s fixed soon!
Happy new year to you Shawn & Charlotte, thanks for all the great content, one question Shswn... if you could put Kinda Ka (forgive if spelt wrong) into 1 uk park, which one and why? ❤❤❤
Thank you! Blackpool all the way!
@ThemeParkWorldwide agreed think the top hat where grand prix's helix wss would look epic ❤️❤️❤️❤️
What do you think about the Grand Prix being knocked down at Blackpool? Should be room for something new to go there
It’ll be missed!
How cool😊
Try having another USA trip with wrath of rakshasa, quantum accelerator and sirens curse as well as flash.
Looking forward to plenty more trips coming up in 2025 and beyond!
@ThemeParkWorldwide clues?
Amazonia at Bellewaerde should be re opening at the beginning of the 2025 season
Looking forward to it!
Big question Sean I’m wondering if coasters are being built to quickly now like new houses getting built and already having so many problems but still could be from lockdown not as many staff checking all features and safety issues ride checks I do realise they need open quite quick so they can make money back from tourists but does seem strange that’s a lot of new rides are having major problems
Don’t worry, rides are very safe. It’s just unfortunate that many rides had issues last year. Here’s to 2025!
What's your favourite theme park of this year, Shawn, and which is your favourite ride of this year?
It’s hard to say, however I loved the Asia trip we did!
@ThemeParkWorldwide I love it when you reply to my comments, Shawn! I declare you my theme park sidekick!!