Just when Eric blew my mind with “Enter to win car”, Nick one ups it with the mall fountain. Absolutely lost it with these back to backs, and Gav’s escalators was a cherry on top. Well done.
The escalator is a double FU cause the picture he posted the escalator skips a floor. So if you just want to go up one floor you still need to find another escalator.
Andrew and Eric talking about mall staples, leading perfectly into Gavin revealing his next pick, is the best sequence of events I've seen in a F**kface draft yet.
I think it would have been cool to show a collage of everyone’s stores when Eric was listing out everyone’s malls Still a great draft thanks 4 the content gang
Zellers was such a big thing where I lived that we actually had a teddy bear of the mascot, Zeddy, in our kindergarten classroom, and we got the honor of having our picture taken with him when it was our birthday. Best pick.
Suncoast was AMAZING!!!! Geoff's Aladdin's Castle pick really shows that while I am older than him, we are in the same age range. However, I think Eric and Nick win with the car nobody wins and the mall fountain!!! Stellar picks A++++++++++
I love Gavin saying his mall is a list of stores you walk by trying to find the other escalator. It gives me big Matrix vibes, where neo was stuck in that subway station
My mall was opened the same year as I was born (Spotsylvania Towne Center c1981) so it has been interesting/depressing to watch how it has changed from the orange/brown/yellow flower decor -> deco geometric 90's -> curvy and bland w/the worlds stupidest glass doors. There used to be a little statue-of-liberty fountain and a carousel in the middle areas. Now it's being turned into an elderly one-stop-shop for medical offices/services. They are supposed to live in the apartments they are building where Sears was, and just never actually go outside I guess :-D
Gavins mall is so absurd. Its a British department store, the bizarro version of an American department store, an office supply store that I've never in my life seen inside a mall, and annoyingly unpaired escaltors. He doesn't really get how to do the draft and I wouldn't have it any other way.
This is easily my favorite draft yet, certainly the one I can relate to the most. I think Nick's vision is the most consistent with mine, I absolutely had Auntie Anne's at the top of my list. But I have to say, both AMC and Spencer's are classic picks. I'd probably replace Geoff's Camelot Music with a Newbury Comics. Best picks in the draft are easily the car you could enter to win, and the escalator that only goes one way and the other direction is somewhere else.
Were I come from (Iceland) didn't expect to have anything that was in my mall (there are two of them in the whole country 😂) but the car that you can enter to win is still a thing that pops up
In Florida, we used to have Burdines before they were bought by Macy’s. Typical department store fare, BUT the aesthetic of the entrance, ceiling, and walls screamed “Hey this is Florida” in the 80s and 90s. If you wanted your department store in 80s/90s Miami colors, fake palm trees everywhere, painted Florida sunset murals on the ceilings, then Burdines was your place.
As somone who lives where the mall has both Staples and TJMaxx Gavs picks really hit hard. If our mall had a second floor it definitely would have the separated escalators lol
I was so confused and mad with the Falls draft, I was sure I’d hate the quit watching the Rocks-Not-Rocks and Mall drafts half way through too. But nah. The Mall draft sold me on the format. This was so fun and funny.
The fountain that Nick picked is from my mall! The Foothills Mall in Fort Collins, Colorado. It's been torn down and rebuilt, but that is the fountain!
When I was very young we lived far away from my grandparents. Every month my grandma would go to Suncoast and buy a movie and mail it to us with some snacks. We still have dozens of VHS tapes of every kids movie you can think of from the 90s. It was where my brother and I got Pokemon Red and Blue when she took us there to buy them as gifts when we came to visit once - in the Woodbridge Mall in NJ. She passed when I was still a kid, and I think of her every time someone mentions a Suncoast. This really was a wholesome draft.
I grew up in a very rural area, so we had one mall in the one town that anyone within 3 hours would drive to. It’s the most boring looking giant gray block. It’s crazy to see how beautiful their malls look, with fountains and skylights and decorations!
Gavin just casually making a liminal space to rival the Infinite Ikea is something I should have absolutely expected yet it still managed to blindside me.
For me, I'd have chosen Macy's on one side of the mall, the fountain (specifically with coins thrown in), gamestop, and probably a small fish aquarium since that's what mine has
39:11 - I just saw the 'after thoughts' in the glass reflection - I haven't thought about that store in YEARS. I think they merged with Claires or something but I used to buy all my accessories there growing up. My (Midwestern small town early 90s mall) mall picks would be : Coach House Gifts, Game Stop, Barnes & Noble, Maurices & Gloria Jeans Coffee.
I love how Nick's childhood mall is the same as mine, I definitely remember Ingram Park Mall, I actually went there recently for the nostalgia and got a tattoo
I find it kind of funny that Eric says "You never know anyone who won it" about the car... Because when I was a teenager, my parents won an SUV from one of those mall car raffles back in the 90's. Pretty sure they're still driving it around.
So Zellers is like the canadian version of 80s/90s kmart? Mine had a lunch counter in the back near the wall of rifles and camping supplies. Was a very old school food counter like you would have seen long long ago in department stores. Later it would just be like a cubical in the front with a popcorn machine and a icee machine... and bags of sandwiches (was a different time lol).
So interesting to hear picks from people who clearly have not been to a good mall in 30 years😂 but a very fun concept if you give people a specific decade to see the nostalgia choices
Sure some individual Yankee candles might smell good on their own, but all together in one place the fumes would combine into a noxious miasma that would permeate everywhere within 200 feet of the store in the mall. I always had to give it a wide berth to avoid being sick.
I feel this is actually one giant mall and each one has a section like vertically or just all of them are just in one mall because collectively that is a very staple and very good mall
One of my favorite things from my mall growing up was this indoor mini golf course whole thing was lit by black light and they had this cool space theming going on.
Nick basically built the heart of MY mall when I was a teen in Wilton NY, so love it, BUT Andrew's Mall seems like the most fun and useful when wasting a day at a mall
Eric, as a SD native, I’m surprised you didn’t frequent UTC and as such remember their dedicated arcade located in the food court overlooking the ice skating rink.
Our mall never left. It’s definitely not near the height of its heyday but it’s still cooking. The AMC and big bowling alley/arcade have brought back some prominence.
I feel like living in edmonton i could go for some big picks. like west edmonton mall has the largest waterpark in canada, an amusement park with a few roller-coaster, a skating rink, a seal show (used to be dolphins when i was younger) and so much more it seem like a joke. There even used to be a decompressioned navy submarine that got turned into a ride that went through a tunnel that was an aquarium
Suncoast has been owned by FYE for a while (maybe 10 years now?), so Cramelot grew up to eat Suncoast. FYE got bought out by a Canadian firm some time during the pandemic, and last I heard from old coworkers at the Omaha location that one might not be around much longer. Raccoon problems.
That picture of the Mall fountain is literally from the mall in my town! That place was as mall as mall could get, sadly it was torn down and replaced with a fancy clean new mall.
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Just when Eric blew my mind with “Enter to win car”, Nick one ups it with the mall fountain. Absolutely lost it with these back to backs, and Gav’s escalators was a cherry on top. Well done.
The other ones they are missing on that same plane of thought are: Santa's Village come holiday season and the guy in the tuxedo playing a piano.
If Geoff started with mall fountain, it would have been rock candy all over again.
Nick is the best representation of a bog standard human. He's so relatable compared to the rest of these lunatics lol
Regulation Guy
That’s what scares me
He should be the one to wear the Tuxedo. A regulation tux on a regulation guy.
He’s a MANIAC on Facejam
@@neonlightillusion He is always a maniac, Face Jam is just where he gets to show it.
This should have gotten an honorable mention: That big funnel thing you put a coin in and watch it slowly circle its way down the hole
This.
I wish i could curl up like sonic the hedgehog and roll down one of those irl
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That was always a Walmart entrance fixture to me more than a mall thing
saw that at a zoo once
As a Canadian I was very happy with Andrew's inclusion of Zellers. Not only the diner, you could also get your hair cut there lol
Shoutout to greggs. I've only been to the UK once but those sausage rolls are delicious and I still think about them sometimes.
As a Brit I’ll have one tomorrow for you
Really expected Andrew to say his last pick is Gavin’s other escalator.
The escalator is a double FU cause the picture he posted the escalator skips a floor. So if you just want to go up one floor you still need to find another escalator.
Andrew and Eric talking about mall staples, leading perfectly into Gavin revealing his next pick, is the best sequence of events I've seen in a F**kface draft yet.
This is probably the most grounded draft so far 😂
No Bath and Body Works????
But as somebody who semi-regularly goes to Mall of America, Gav's separated escalator pick hits hard af
Pretty much all my picks went undrafted. Bath and Body Works, Panda Express/any asian food restaurant, JCPenney and Build a Bear
Regarding the bad AMC A, they could do a "Bad letters" draft, just the worst versions of letters found in Logos, fonts, etc
Im shocked that after the last round pivot to "jokes" no one said "Santa's Workshop". Iconic at all malls.
I think it would have been cool to show a collage of everyone’s stores when Eric was listing out everyone’s malls
Still a great draft thanks 4 the content gang
I love the idea of the snake from snake draft having an engine and a caboose 😂😂😂
Side note, everyone completely forgot about mall Santa...
Yo just wanna say thanks especially to Eric for reading out the full titles of youtube videos they watch to make them possible to find !
No mall Santa? No hot topic? Geoff, Nick, Eric all absolutely rocked this.
Zellers was such a big thing where I lived that we actually had a teddy bear of the mascot, Zeddy, in our kindergarten classroom, and we got the honor of having our picture taken with him when it was our birthday. Best pick.
Just finished a long week of teaching and this is exactly what I need. End of year reports can wait...
Suncoast was AMAZING!!!! Geoff's Aladdin's Castle pick really shows that while I am older than him, we are in the same age range. However, I think Eric and Nick win with the car nobody wins and the mall fountain!!! Stellar picks A++++++++++
I like the idea of this Draft, especially because it could be very plausible if Unifarm can attract enough investors
Unimall, combining the power of the corporation with the fabric of the mall, Unimall
Andrew won. I would've drafted Cinnabon for sure. I'm surprised it didn't get mentioned.
Great American cookie
I love Gavin saying his mall is a list of stores you walk by trying to find the other escalator. It gives me big Matrix vibes, where neo was stuck in that subway station
My mall was opened the same year as I was born (Spotsylvania Towne Center c1981) so it has been interesting/depressing to watch how it has changed from the orange/brown/yellow flower decor -> deco geometric 90's -> curvy and bland w/the worlds stupidest glass doors. There used to be a little statue-of-liberty fountain and a carousel in the middle areas. Now it's being turned into an elderly one-stop-shop for medical offices/services. They are supposed to live in the apartments they are building where Sears was, and just never actually go outside I guess :-D
God I love these, please keep doing more of them
Gavins mall is so absurd. Its a British department store, the bizarro version of an American department store, an office supply store that I've never in my life seen inside a mall, and annoyingly unpaired escaltors. He doesn't really get how to do the draft and I wouldn't have it any other way.
This is easily my favorite draft yet, certainly the one I can relate to the most. I think Nick's vision is the most consistent with mine, I absolutely had Auntie Anne's at the top of my list. But I have to say, both AMC and Spencer's are classic picks. I'd probably replace Geoff's Camelot Music with a Newbury Comics.
Best picks in the draft are easily the car you could enter to win, and the escalator that only goes one way and the other direction is somewhere else.
Eric's final pick really swung it for me.
Autnie Anne's, GameStop, Vans, Hot Topic was my mall experience
Such a gear change from the last draft, so much more chilled and almost wholesome compared to the raw aggression of rocks-not-rocks 😂
Erics misdirection before his last pick was peak comedy
I love this draft because they essentially built the quintessential mall no matter what region/era of mall you grew up with
Nick definitely won this for me. The mall is back, baby!
Were I come from (Iceland) didn't expect to have anything that was in my mall (there are two of them in the whole country 😂) but the car that you can enter to win is still a thing that pops up
As a resident of Indianapolis, It saddens me to know Geoff can't come to our mall anymore. Now I must take a pilgrimage to the sacred Fount.
In Florida, we used to have Burdines before they were bought by Macy’s.
Typical department store fare, BUT the aesthetic of the entrance, ceiling, and walls screamed “Hey this is Florida” in the 80s and 90s. If you wanted your department store in 80s/90s Miami colors, fake palm trees everywhere, painted Florida sunset murals on the ceilings, then Burdines was your place.
As somone who lives where the mall has both Staples and TJMaxx Gavs picks really hit hard. If our mall had a second floor it definitely would have the separated escalators lol
This has been the best draft yet I’m dying laughing constantly
I was so confused and mad with the Falls draft, I was sure I’d hate the quit watching the Rocks-Not-Rocks and Mall drafts half way through too. But nah. The Mall draft sold me on the format. This was so fun and funny.
The fountain that Nick picked is from my mall! The Foothills Mall in Fort Collins, Colorado. It's been torn down and rebuilt, but that is the fountain!
I was so ready for Andy to pick New York Fries in the lead up to Zellers
3:00 best Nick laugh ever 😂😂😂😂
honestly that car pick was amazing
Loving the Bentall Centre picture for Gav's escalator pick. Spent many hours there as a kid and adult!
When I was first listening to this, I was imagining the Bentalls Centre. I was surprised to see this picture here too!
When I was very young we lived far away from my grandparents. Every month my grandma would go to Suncoast and buy a movie and mail it to us with some snacks. We still have dozens of VHS tapes of every kids movie you can think of from the 90s. It was where my brother and I got Pokemon Red and Blue when she took us there to buy them as gifts when we came to visit once - in the Woodbridge Mall in NJ. She passed when I was still a kid, and I think of her every time someone mentions a Suncoast. This really was a wholesome draft.
I grew up in a very rural area, so we had one mall in the one town that anyone within 3 hours would drive to. It’s the most boring looking giant gray block. It’s crazy to see how beautiful their malls look, with fountains and skylights and decorations!
I became a comment leaver to say I love Gavins first pick and i think he wins based on that alone
Gavin just casually making a liminal space to rival the Infinite Ikea is something I should have absolutely expected yet it still managed to blindside me.
Gavin, purely for the escalator
Watched this atleast 20 times soo far. I LOVE these drafts
That randomizer 5x had me crying 😂
For me, I'd have chosen Macy's on one side of the mall, the fountain (specifically with coins thrown in), gamestop, and probably a small fish aquarium since that's what mine has
I feel like Gavin's staples is a good way to get people to come in for something boring and stick around for other stuff.
Geoff and Nick's are the top winners in my book.
39:11 - I just saw the 'after thoughts' in the glass reflection - I haven't thought about that store in YEARS. I think they merged with Claires or something but I used to buy all my accessories there growing up.
My (Midwestern small town early 90s mall) mall picks would be : Coach House Gifts, Game Stop, Barnes & Noble, Maurices & Gloria Jeans Coffee.
The only 2 things that was missed from the Board that would help encapsulate the mall for me as a Gen Xer is a Bar and Grill and Foot Locker.
Geoff made my day with Orange Julius as his first pic, I'm in my 30s and it was my first thought as well.
I love how Nick's childhood mall is the same as mine, I definitely remember Ingram Park Mall, I actually went there recently for the nostalgia and got a tattoo
It's got to be Nick's mall. Auntie Anne's by the fountain is prime middle/highschool date.
I find it kind of funny that Eric says "You never know anyone who won it" about the car... Because when I was a teenager, my parents won an SUV from one of those mall car raffles back in the 90's. Pretty sure they're still driving it around.
What an incredible fact to associate with Auntie Anne's!! Andrew nailed the first pick after protesting the draft order 😂 love this
Sbarro is the quintessential mall food place (or Cinnabon) to me.
Gavin. There are 893 Yankee Candle shops in the UK mate.
OHMYGOD Mall fountain was such a GREAT pick
Nick's got a great Joker laugh.
So Zellers is like the canadian version of 80s/90s kmart? Mine had a lunch counter in the back near the wall of rifles and camping supplies. Was a very old school food counter like you would have seen long long ago in department stores. Later it would just be like a cubical in the front with a popcorn machine and a icee machine... and bags of sandwiches (was a different time lol).
No mention of Great American Cookies. I've never bought a cookie there, but i always see it!
Glasgow has a Yankee candle store in the mall/shopping centre. Plenty of Greggs too
So interesting to hear picks from people who clearly have not been to a good mall in 30 years😂 but a very fun concept if you give people a specific decade to see the nostalgia choices
Sure some individual Yankee candles might smell good on their own, but all together in one place the fumes would combine into a noxious miasma that would permeate everywhere within 200 feet of the store in the mall. I always had to give it a wide berth to avoid being sick.
I feel this is actually one giant mall and each one has a section like vertically or just all of them are just in one mall because collectively that is a very staple and very good mall
I would have Spencers, Wetzel's pretzels, Gamestop, and JC Penny at the top of my draft board
Honorable Mention. The Coin Vortex
Geoff's second pic put him as a winner immediately. I grew up in a late 90s mall that was stuck in the 80s, and he's got the immediate vibe 10/10
Every pick, I was waiting for Aladdin's Castle. Thanks bro
Zellers was an amazing pick by Andrew, especially to bring it to the attention of non-Canucks
This podcast is absolutely legendary!
One of my favorite things from my mall growing up was this indoor mini golf course whole thing was lit by black light and they had this cool space theming going on.
My nearest mall has a Zellers popup shop in the Bay. great pick!
When I moved to Florida,the mall near me had no GameStop and it made it not feel like a mall to me.
I love these so much
Now what we need is a font draft. See who gets the best text fonts
i love this channel so much
Nick basically built the heart of MY mall when I was a teen in Wilton NY, so love it, BUT Andrew's Mall seems like the most fun and useful when wasting a day at a mall
The Draft just needs to be a reoccurring thing as long as f**kface is around. I'm excited by the thought of a wall draft now.
C'mon Gavin, you need a Marks and Spencers! Need those Percy Pigs!
Also grew up in SA and I was SHOCKED to see Ingram Park Mall in this episode for like 5 seconds until I remembered that Nick is from SA
An Orange Julius and a pretzel were my go to mall snacks back in the 90s
Eric, as a SD native, I’m surprised you didn’t frequent UTC and as such remember their dedicated arcade located in the food court overlooking the ice skating rink.
oh yeah, Mall Target had the little short order grill you could get a breakfast or popcorn or pretzels...
Been waiting for this. Bout time slackers.
Santa, an undrafted free-agent, still waiting to be signed.
My mall picks (I’m more of an experience/vibe guy than a things guy):
Fountain
Carousel
AMC
Barnes & Nobel
Rainforest Cafe
Rainforest Cafe is a stellar pick and I'm upset I didn't think of it
Our mall never left. It’s definitely not near the height of its heyday but it’s still cooking. The AMC and big bowling alley/arcade have brought back some prominence.
I feel like living in edmonton i could go for some big picks. like west edmonton mall has the largest waterpark in canada, an amusement park with a few roller-coaster, a skating rink, a seal show (used to be dolphins when i was younger) and so much more it seem like a joke. There even used to be a decompressioned navy submarine that got turned into a ride that went through a tunnel that was an aquarium
Im loving the drafts
Let's gooo Mall Draft 2023!!!!
Yooo shout out beaumont parkdale mall, had no idea I was stepping into history at 1/3 of the last remaining suncoasts
Suncoast has been owned by FYE for a while (maybe 10 years now?), so Cramelot grew up to eat Suncoast. FYE got bought out by a Canadian firm some time during the pandemic, and last I heard from old coworkers at the Omaha location that one might not be around much longer. Raccoon problems.
That picture of the Mall fountain is literally from the mall in my town! That place was as mall as mall could get, sadly it was torn down and replaced with a fancy clean new mall.
No shot that picture of Staples was at Merle Hay in Des Moines. It has since closed and is a Ross now.
Honestly all these malls should be merged into an Omega Mall because these are all bangers
Fun fact the local mall closest to me is the "Goochland Town Center" and their small mall train is the "GOOCHLAND EXPRESS"
WOT NO ..... Footlocker 😱