PNE Playland Review, Vancouver Amusement Park | Should You Visit During the PNE Fair?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Playland is an amusement park in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Located at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), this park features a classic wooden roller coaster and a handful of flat rides. This video reviews the park during the main season and during the PNE Fair, discussing if you should visit during the latter.
Video Credits
Cats and Dogs 2 (Warner Bros.)
Classic Coaster Off-Ride (Airtime Thrills)- • Classic Coaster at Was...
Coaster Off-Ride (Airtime Thrills)- • Coaster at PNE Playlan...
Coaster POV (X COASTER)- • Coaster at PNE Playlan...
Final Destination 3 (New Line Cinema)
Fright Nights (PNE Playland)- • Fright Nights at Playland
PNE Fair (PNE Playland)- • PNE Fair 2023
Senzafiato POV (Patrick Carnahan)- • Senzafiato Miragica On...
The Flash (CW)
ThunderVolt Rendering (PNE Playland)- • Zamperla / Playland La...
Background Music
Upbeat Event Corporate by Infraction [No Copyright Music] Searching- • Upbeat Event Corporate...
I live in Vancouver and the learning support class in my high school goes to play land every year. This year was my second time and the wooden coaster was actually working this time. I totally recommend coming here if you live nearby. 9.5/10 from my limited experiences
Glad you got on Coaster!
Good video. Loved it 👍
Thanks!
Hopefully Western Canada gets new and better coasters now that Mindbender is gone
ThunderVolt is a start.
@@CanobieCoaster definitely, we get a real launch coaster for once, not including Backlot
I know it’s technically not Canada but there is also always silverwood
ThunderVolt is said to open next month. im so hyped
Nice!
My parents all rode the corkscrew, but when it operated as the screamer at boblo island
Cool!
It still throws me off a bit when the KMG pendelum rides get called a "Frisbee" since I always have to think about the old traveling Huss Frisbee's. But that's me I guess.
I rode 4 different KMG XXL models and I love them. While the G-forces aren't the strongest in the world, most people probably think they're more than strong enough. Ever since I rode those I get bored of the Freak Out's or Afterburners.
I'm glad they choose a Starflyer from Funtime. The ride experience of their towers are my favorite.
The Hell's gat Top Spin looks like it could go on our german fairs and it would fit perfectly.
The Enterprise rides are always good family rides. Perfect to invert without having too much forces.
I love the XXL model.
I was in Vancouver during the first week of October, though I didn't go to Playland nor did know what days or hours they were open during October.
Their website is a bit confusing to read.
there are parking restrictions around the area, where a permit is required on the vehicle. this restriction is when the P.N.E is going on
Thanks for clarifying!
My home park 👍
Nice!
same!
The seatbelts unfortunately make it almost impossible to get airtime, as they come really tight and don’t budge, however there is a solution as you can hold the seatbelt at it’s max length the whole ride and get the full package like before
Thanks for sharing what the seatbelts are like.
Dammit. So you can't control the tightness to render them "might as well not be there" like you can on rides like Skyliner and Jack Rabbit and they instead tighten like car seat belts?
@@urbex_coastersyea they do unfortunately, and like when car seatbelts tighten and don’t come loose. but they are pretty easy to hold at max length, and that is basically what the experience was like without them from what I can tell
@@panzerofthelake7661 Are they attatched to ride mechanisms? For example I have gotten away with riding Steel Force with no seat belt and just the lapbar, undoing the seatbelt as soon as it leaves the station and it has no censor to force you to put it on (part of why I hold that ride in higher reguards than a lot of enthusiasts I think). Is it like Steel Force? ie there but not enforced by censors?
@@urbex_coastersas far as I know it isn’t, as it’s an older ride, but I never tried undoing my seatbelt during the ride so idk, holding it at the base worked fine for me
I’m currently on my way there for the opening day of Playland, fingers crossed I’ve lost enough weight to get onto The Beast, as for the seatbelts on Coaster, I found absolutely no difference between it with or without the seatbelts, I still got insane airtime and the seatbelt didn’t lock at all.
I read that the coaster isn't even open so none of the roller coasters are operating :/// I don't think Playland is worth it anymore ngl, they keep getting rid of more rides
@@flocky1 yeah the new coaster isn’t open until June or July, I am glad they got rid of Corkscrew as it just wasn’t that good of a coaster and it was too rough. I wish they had listened to me though and got the Giant Frisbee from HUSS instead of The Beast as that one is taller and faster and can have up to 50 people on it per ride cycle, instead of 20 on The Beast.
@@Magromancer Coaster was running today, opened a couple hours after everything else. I went for the first time and it was running incredibly well. Some of those hills are nutty.
@@wade7488 most definitely, it looks like a really unassuming coaster but once you get on it, it really shows just how good it really is, even with the seatbelts.
Best of luck riding Beast!
I wish I got a chance to ride Coaster before it got seatbelt. I’m a massive fan of Phoenix at Knobles for I probably would have loved it without the seatbelts.(Through I would still probably really like it with the seat belts, just not as much).
I'm glad I got on the coaster in its prime.
I love the scenery of this park and area of Canada, it reminds me of a Carly Rae Jepson music video - minus the wretched music.
The Pacific West of Canada and US is just awe-inspiring. So Beautiful.
Also, I definitely enjoy rides on the Enterprise. I was deathly afraid of Witches Wheel at C. Point as a kid, but once I rode it, I discovered that it is a very calm and relaxing ride and breeze. I could nap on that thing.
It is a beautiful area.
they really have a KMG XXL pendulum ride?? I love those, I mainly know them from travelleling fairs in Germany
Wade shows (a carnival provider in Florida) is gonna start traveling with them in 2024, there is also one in Carolina
Yes they do!
i rember riding coaster when i was younger and i had the same expericen where i was thrown all about do to my size. i still wil not go back on
It has belts now.
@@CanobieCoaster that’s good. Still not going on
i wish they had a inverting roller coaster
The park used to have a Vekoma Corkscrew
@@dustmybroom288 i know im saying i hope the get a new inverting coaster
Me too.
If you can control the seatbelt tightness I say it probably doesn't effect Coaster. Some may know how much I rave about Skyliner, I think some of y'all are reflexively tightening the seatbelt rather than having it so loose it might as well not be there like I have. PNE Playland will be my home park this season, I am super excited for Coaster and I think Senzafia2 (I'm gonna keep calling it that, stylizing it like Tonnerre 2 Zues is just too perfect) will likely be the best ride Zamperla has ever built (which isn't saying much, but I do think it looks like a genuinely good ride).
I haven't seen much about how tight the belts are, but a few comments said they can be tight if you don't hold them.
It’s not elevator it’s HELLavator!
Yes it is, sorry if the name sounded off when I said it.
@@CanobieCoaster not that it’s in the sections you called it elevator
This is sad looking
I enjoy the park.
@@CanobieCoaster I just dont get how all of western Canada doesnt have a real theme park
Playland is a miserable waste of time during the PNE. If you're there for the PNE, then you shouldn't be there for Playland in my opinion. It's just not a good enough park to warrant the excessive line-ups. On the other hand, Coaster should be a target of any serious coaster enthusiast... at least before the seatbelts. I don't know about now, though. It was the lack of restraint that provided this old woody's hype. Where do you go NOW, when you want to literally be ejected from the back car? Having your butt thrown a foot into the air, while your thighs slam into the buzz bar to keep you in the car was absolutely ridiculous, and 90% of the coasters charm. Now that this thing has seatbelts, I can't really see any more honorable mentions on the Golden Ticket Awards coming its way, which is really unfortunate.
"If you're planning a coaster road trip to the PNW..." made me laugh. But yeah... avoid the PNE at all costs.
The main reason I went to the PNE was because it was the only time of year I could experience this park and the Washington State Fair on the same trip.
@@CanobieCoaster
Yeah I get it. And kudos to you for spending your time and money to visit these little parks.