I remember Discovery Zone. It's all very vague I was only 3 or 4 when I went but I was there enough to remember going. I loved it. I would go with my friend and my mom then one day it was gone and I graduated to Dave and Buster's but it just wasn't the same as DZ. Then the mall itself got torn down back in 2015.
Man I miss this place so much! So many different things to do and different ways to go all combined in one place it was awesome! Even the arcade area was good. I miss the the thing you hang onto and just zip down and it's a pretty long distance. Too many good memories.
My cousin worked at a Discovery Zone. When we would go to the city to visit she would always get us as many tokens as we wanted. Truly a kid's paradise.
DZ was one of those repressed memories for some reason. Like I remember the place but never could remember the name of the place, until saw that commercial in a "90s collection of commercials" and I was like "OMG I found it!"
Went to several birthdays at DZ. We even had a smaller location inside our local mall. That mall is now an empty, sad building currently up for sale. It was actually featured on the dead malls TH-cam channel. I'm 31, btw.
I remember Discovery zone. I loved that place. I remember the first time I went there the people working there thought that my big sister was my mom. Still get a kick out of it. I miss Discovery zone. Oh well what ya gonna do?
I celebrated many a birthday at DZ!! Haha that place was MY JAM!!! I went to the one in the Roosevelt mall in Philadelphia pa. I miss the 90’s and I miss this place and I miss my childhood. Damn!
i remember going here as a kid they would have events were the boys and girls would yell or scream as loud as they could to see who was louder boys or the girls. and they had a huge meter that could read the decibels to see who the winner is. this place was 100 times better than chuck e cheeses. i miss the the good ole days. im almost 34 now but i was a child then
Dallam Oliver-Lee I remember QZAR, the ultimate arcade hangout in the 90’s. I played so many games there that I didn’t know what a game console was lol. Right there near circuit city, also played games there growing up. Back when parents did shopping and I’d be like...I’ll be in electronics playing game mom and dad. Goodtimes
I could legit go there and play none stop for 10 hrs untill i was FULLY drenched in sweat and exhausted but then i got pizza and ice and i was on cloud 9!
I think a DZ would make a ton of money today just like they did at the beginning in the late 80s-early 90s. They went bankrupt because they expanded to quickly. Easy money management would have avoided the shutdown.
They actually came back! I know they at least had one in Ohio..but they had to shut down last year bc of covid :( At least we still have some visible documented memories from our beloved kid kingdom 💙 th-cam.com/video/FJZWUZYz4ms/w-d-xo.html This was my quarantine project
In metro Detroit, Little Caesars had a few locations called Caesarland, basically same concept as DZ and Chuck E Cheese. Damn I miss growing up in the 90s
DZ was always more fun than going to CEC. I loved the huge ball pit area and roller slides. That huge maze you’d go through punching bags everywhere and tight rope climbing to get out. Indoor playground greatness! I remember right before it went out of business, they had introduced the laser tag special with MIB. Goodtimes. Also mighty morphin power rangers movie sound effects in the place. I remember hearing zordon screaming more phenomenal in the roller slide. Again, the 90’s nostalgia at its peak.
Man, I was lucky as a little kid having 2 near me - and I have some memories of going to one with my preschool (around 1993-4 or so), and a few years later going to another one with my babysitter, and her little sister (almost my age)… the roller slide was one of my favorite things, even if my fingers kept getting pinched in them. 😂😂😂😂
Was just thinking about Discovery Zone and searched for it and found your vid. Those playplaces were so huge! Sucks that they made them so much smaller after they added the Laser Tag stuff, that might have made things even worse.
That was their financial downfall... adding the lazer tag brought in an teen age range demographic.. then you had the younger age range in the play area... parents didnt like the age gap and stopped bringing the young kids, then the teens got older and considered the place "uncool" or "for little kids" and they quit coming. You cant mix those two demographics at a successful business.. you have to pick one or the other. When DZ added lazer tag, it was the biggest mistake they could have made.
I used to work here it was the best job ...I swear if they never closed I'd probably still work there lol .well maybe lol I'd probably buy one though. That place was great
Now I want to mention this I was born 1991 and I remember there was 2 different phases of discovery zone (what I mean is that they had some things in phase 1 that they removed to add new things in phase 2). In phase 1 it was my preschool years discovery zone was as maybe some remember...which only early 90s kids remember. But they had (before removed for phase 2) a younger infant area where they had a smaller bailout that had tubes that blew air, you would put a ball in and the air would push it through to the top of the ball put and the ball would fall out of a hole. It had the narrow ball pit that had the monkey bars and I guess a zipline (which is show in your video and was removed from my discovery zone to make more room), I was to small to use either one, they removed the pyramids rope climb thing in the middle of big ball pit, on the far end there was a plastic grate climb through area which was a pain because if you were shorter when you were young you had to either jump and pull yourself up or have someone lift you up because it was harder to cook. There was also a slide attached to it snapped like a Z except it was a tube more less because you didn't just slide down it you pushed yourself off and fell on your butt....I never understood it because you couldn't climb up to the top of the creates either). That was basically the phase 1 removals. On phase 2. The old kiddie area was replaced with a laser tag of which was both Godzilla and MIB themed, the narrow ball pit was removed for room as well as the create area to make room for hockey and a karaoke stage. One thing I want to mention to viewers who may or may not remember but behind the big ball pit area there was a creepy dimly lit area where some kids didn't go may be because they were afraid of how dimly lit it was but they had a bounce house area and there were the bungee wire things you had to climb through.
There's a Red Box at the Winn Dixie on Mobile, Hwy. Also There's only one Blockbuster left in Alaska. They shut down the other 2 locations about a month ago.
I'm okay with letting Blockbuster go. It was never going to compete with emerging video streaming, unless maybe it became a combination video/coffee and snack/gift shop like Barnes & Noble, but those already existed. I can never let Discovery Zone go, though. Kids need places like those. There are a couple of indoor playgrounds that still have ball pits - there's one at the Polymer Funhouse at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Indoor water parks like Kalahari will also have arcades with DZ-like play places, but they're small in comparison to what Discovery Zone had at its peak. If I ever manage to get or negotiate the money to start up a Discovery Zone-like place, I'm going to revive it. Not just for 1990's nostalgia, but for pure childhoods.
Aww, bummer, I thought you were going to film the current area of where both Blockbuster and DZ use to be. I used to live in the apartments behind that area when it was called "Lamplighter Apartments", then we moved to a house off Creighton, so DZ and that Blockbuster were a huge part of my summer memories of 90s Pensacola.
GuardianOfMoon damn crack lighter hahaha I lived here in my early 20s before they remodeled it. Place was garbage!!! Our AC broke at least once a week hahahahahaha
more fun, netflix offered blockbuster a dollar figure to purchase the company, and blockbuster laughed saying the business model wouldnt sustain itself
Discovery Zone was LIT!!! waaaaay better than Chuck E. Cheese....waaaaaay better than monkey Joes. It was everything...at the one near my house they had a little zip-line over the ball pit (my personal favorite)
I loved DZ discovery zone....!!!!!!!! XD I remember ssssssoooooooooooooooooo many birthdays at DZ, everyone wanted to be invited no matter who you were!!!!!!! XD I loved the roller slide, the “Tarzan area” as I call it(the handle bars that you held onto and went zip-lining to a huge padded mat!!!! XD ) Does anyone remember the creepy robot mascot?????? Did anyone else find the robot creepy yet cool????? XD ^,..,^\m/)0(
We need DZ more than ever nowadays. Too many damn kids tearing shit up over at Panera Bread and Starbucks or other restaurants not targeted towards kids but parents drag them there anyways.
I'll never get sick of nostalgia! Discovery Zone was my favorite place as a kid! This is my own memory th-cam.com/video/FJZWUZYz4ms/w-d-xo.html It's still one of my favorite memories. I think my video has the only footage currently featured online (other than old commercials) of inside the laser tag arena! Thanks to the handy night vision feature my mom's camera had
Yeah! Screw Chuck E. Cheese! Bring back Discovery Zone and Rolfe! That was my childhood! I could never stand that damn pizza at Chuck E. Cheese, neither!
"There are no rules at discovery zone kid"
I shit myself at discovery zone as a kid my dad threw my underwear in the top of the toilet when we left so ya no rules
I remember Discovery Zone. It's all very vague I was only 3 or 4 when I went but I was there enough to remember going. I loved it. I would go with my friend and my mom then one day it was gone and I graduated to Dave and Buster's but it just wasn't the same as DZ. Then the mall itself got torn down back in 2015.
Man I miss this place so much! So many different things to do and different ways to go all combined in one place it was awesome! Even the arcade area was good. I miss the the thing you hang onto and just zip down and it's a pretty long distance. Too many good memories.
I was born in 97 and sadly never got the chance to enjoy dz but I did hear all about how much fun it was from my mom and sister
It was a lot of fun! Im sure you would have loved it.
Ughhh my heart sank reading this. I’m so sorry.
I freaking loved Discovery Zone! I’m 34 years old and would still spend the day there if I could. 😆
I miss it!
My cousin worked at a Discovery Zone. When we would go to the city to visit she would always get us as many tokens as we wanted. Truly a kid's paradise.
I remember‼️ I had an awesome birthday party there‼️ it was amazing‼️rip dz
DZ was one of those repressed memories for some reason. Like I remember the place but never could remember the name of the place, until saw that commercial in a "90s collection of commercials" and I was like "OMG I found it!"
I would leave this place exhausted, and felt like my life as a kid was accomplished 😎🤘🏻
Went to several birthdays at DZ. We even had a smaller location inside our local mall.
That mall is now an empty, sad building currently up for sale. It was actually featured on the dead malls TH-cam channel.
I'm 31, btw.
I came here because of the new Discovery Zone location that opened in an Ohio mall last month.
I would go to Discovery Zone every single weekend. I loved it so much, and still love it. I wish they would make an adult version.
Yes! Complete with a fully stocked bar!
I never get tired of nostalgia, fuck this decade.
I remember Discovery zone. I loved that place. I remember the first time I went there the people working there thought that my big sister was my mom. Still get a kick out of it. I miss Discovery zone. Oh well what ya gonna do?
I celebrated many a birthday at DZ!! Haha that place was MY JAM!!! I went to the one in the Roosevelt mall in Philadelphia pa. I miss the 90’s and I miss this place and I miss my childhood. Damn!
Aw yeah! It's the best! I know nostalgia is kind if played out right now, but I do miss this place as a kid.
DemonicBurntPie2007. I'm from Philly and I used to go to that DZ too!!! Damn, I'm bout to turn 29 in August 2019! DZ over Chuckie Cheese's any day!!!
Dz was the 🐐 in 95. As a kid. This was the best place I’ve ever been
i remember going here as a kid they would have events were the boys and girls would yell or scream as loud as they could to see who was louder boys or the girls. and they had a huge meter that could read the decibels to see who the winner is. this place was 100 times better than chuck e cheeses. i miss the the good ole days. im almost 34 now but i was a child then
I miss the old Discovery Zone in Pensacola at Airport Blvd and N 9th Ave. I use to go there as a kid. I also miss QZAR Laser Tag off of Davis Hwy.
Dallam Oliver-Lee qzar was the shit!!!!!
Dallam Oliver-Lee
I remember QZAR, the ultimate arcade hangout in the 90’s.
I played so many games there that I didn’t know what a game console was lol.
Right there near circuit city, also played games there growing up.
Back when parents did shopping and I’d be like...I’ll be in electronics playing game mom and dad.
Goodtimes
We still have a QZAR here in Tampa.
I could legit go there and play none stop for 10 hrs untill i was FULLY drenched in sweat and exhausted but then i got pizza and ice and i was on cloud 9!
I think a DZ would make a ton of money today just like they did at the beginning in the late 80s-early 90s. They went bankrupt because they expanded to quickly. Easy money management would have avoided the shutdown.
I couldn't agree more sweetheart!!! ❤️
They actually came back! I know they at least had one in Ohio..but they had to shut down last year bc of covid :(
At least we still have some visible documented memories from our beloved kid kingdom 💙
th-cam.com/video/FJZWUZYz4ms/w-d-xo.html
This was my quarantine project
In metro Detroit, Little Caesars had a few locations called Caesarland, basically same concept as DZ and Chuck E Cheese. Damn I miss growing up in the 90s
I loved DZ as a child
DZ was always more fun than going to CEC.
I loved the huge ball pit area and roller slides.
That huge maze you’d go through punching bags everywhere and tight rope climbing to get out.
Indoor playground greatness!
I remember right before it went out of business, they had introduced the laser tag special with MIB. Goodtimes.
Also mighty morphin power rangers movie sound effects in the place.
I remember hearing zordon screaming more phenomenal in the roller slide.
Again, the 90’s nostalgia at its peak.
Memories! This place just popped in my head! I turn 30 in 2019.
I loved discovery zone ! My parents got mad at me when it was time to leave cuz i would hide in the play zone lol
Bob McAss same here i remember distcovery zone
You could easily hide an adult in their ball pits!
Man, I was lucky as a little kid having 2 near me - and I have some memories of going to one with my preschool (around 1993-4 or so), and a few years later going to another one with my babysitter, and her little sister (almost my age)… the roller slide was one of my favorite things, even if my fingers kept getting pinched in them. 😂😂😂😂
Was just thinking about Discovery Zone and searched for it and found your vid. Those playplaces were so huge! Sucks that they made them so much smaller after they added the Laser Tag stuff, that might have made things even worse.
That was their financial downfall... adding the lazer tag brought in an teen age range demographic.. then you had the younger age range in the play area... parents didnt like the age gap and stopped bringing the young kids, then the teens got older and considered the place "uncool" or "for little kids" and they quit coming. You cant mix those two demographics at a successful business.. you have to pick one or the other. When DZ added lazer tag, it was the biggest mistake they could have made.
Discovery Zone was THE BESTTTTTTTTTTTTT. I heard some one opened one up in Jersey I think. Maybe another state but look into it.
I loved dz. Even after getting a skin infection I wanted to go back lol I'm 36 and I would still go in
This video brought back so many memorys
I remember being a 6 year old child, searching for the top of the giant rainbow slide. The entire day I looked and sadly... I never found it.
Dude my wife and I are falling over laughing at the Nostalgia part hahhaahahaha
Haha! I thought you would enjoy that!
2000s kids as well
Lol. Dope video bro. I LOVED DISCOVERY ZONE!!! Way better than Charles E. Cheese. And Blockbuster was my DragonBall Z supplier too. 🤣 Great Vid.
I used to work here it was the best job ...I swear if they never closed I'd probably still work there lol .well maybe lol I'd probably buy one though. That place was great
This makes me so happy.
I miss DZ so much. I was so sad when they shut down.
wkdq.com/discovery-zone-is-making-a-comeback-this-month/
Chuckie Cheese is still open because of 80's parents trying to relive they're childhood
90s* parents. Trust me. Nobody who was young in the 80s liked Chuck E. Cheese. They all liked Rolfe and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland!
Good video brother.
Preach
Now I want to mention this I was born 1991 and I remember there was 2 different phases of discovery zone (what I mean is that they had some things in phase 1 that they removed to add new things in phase 2). In phase 1 it was my preschool years discovery zone was as maybe some remember...which only early 90s kids remember. But they had (before removed for phase 2) a younger infant area where they had a smaller bailout that had tubes that blew air, you would put a ball in and the air would push it through to the top of the ball put and the ball would fall out of a hole. It had the narrow ball pit that had the monkey bars and I guess a zipline (which is show in your video and was removed from my discovery zone to make more room), I was to small to use either one, they removed the pyramids rope climb thing in the middle of big ball pit, on the far end there was a plastic grate climb through area which was a pain because if you were shorter when you were young you had to either jump and pull yourself up or have someone lift you up because it was harder to cook. There was also a slide attached to it snapped like a Z except it was a tube more less because you didn't just slide down it you pushed yourself off and fell on your butt....I never understood it because you couldn't climb up to the top of the creates either). That was basically the phase 1 removals. On phase 2. The old kiddie area was replaced with a laser tag of which was both Godzilla and MIB themed, the narrow ball pit was removed for room as well as the create area to make room for hockey and a karaoke stage. One thing I want to mention to viewers who may or may not remember but behind the big ball pit area there was a creepy dimly lit area where some kids didn't go may be because they were afraid of how dimly lit it was but they had a bounce house area and there were the bungee wire things you had to climb through.
The professional parents of today would never allow kids to go to a place like that
There's a Red Box at the Winn Dixie on Mobile, Hwy. Also There's only one Blockbuster left in Alaska. They shut down the other 2 locations about a month ago.
I'm okay with letting Blockbuster go. It was never going to compete with emerging video streaming, unless maybe it became a combination video/coffee and snack/gift shop like Barnes & Noble, but those already existed. I can never let Discovery Zone go, though. Kids need places like those. There are a couple of indoor playgrounds that still have ball pits - there's one at the Polymer Funhouse at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Indoor water parks like Kalahari will also have arcades with DZ-like play places, but they're small in comparison to what Discovery Zone had at its peak. If I ever manage to get or negotiate the money to start up a Discovery Zone-like place, I'm going to revive it. Not just for 1990's nostalgia, but for pure childhoods.
Fuck that! I liked Blockbuster, too! Fuck is this Netflix and Redbox bullshit?! Bring back Blockbuster!!!
Aww, bummer, I thought you were going to film the current area of where both Blockbuster and DZ use to be. I used to live in the apartments behind that area when it was called "Lamplighter Apartments", then we moved to a house off Creighton, so DZ and that Blockbuster were a huge part of my summer memories of 90s Pensacola.
GuardianOfMoon damn crack lighter hahaha I lived here in my early 20s before they remodeled it. Place was garbage!!! Our AC broke at least once a week hahahahahaha
I miss DZ so bad!! I still pass the building and die a little inside!
more fun, netflix offered blockbuster a dollar figure to purchase the company, and blockbuster laughed saying the business model wouldnt sustain itself
Discovery Zone was LIT!!! waaaaay better than Chuck E. Cheese....waaaaaay better than monkey Joes. It was everything...at the one near my house they had a little zip-line over the ball pit (my personal favorite)
That place was way better than Rat cheese 🙄
I loved DZ discovery zone....!!!!!!!! XD I remember ssssssoooooooooooooooooo many birthdays at DZ, everyone wanted to be invited no matter who you were!!!!!!! XD I loved the roller slide, the “Tarzan area” as I call it(the handle bars that you held onto and went zip-lining to a huge padded mat!!!! XD )
Does anyone remember the creepy robot mascot??????
Did anyone else find the robot creepy yet cool????? XD
^,..,^\m/)0(
Fun-believable
I wish our kids had somewhere as fun they even made chuckecheese boring they took all the fun out of everything. Poor kids
We need DZ more than ever nowadays. Too many damn kids tearing shit up over at Panera Bread and Starbucks or other restaurants not targeted towards kids but parents drag them there anyways.
the rainbow slide idk why you didn't mention it lol that was one of the best things about DZ
Blockbuster ruined my best childhood memory including themselves. trash management
I'll never get sick of nostalgia!
Discovery Zone was my favorite place as a kid! This is my own memory
th-cam.com/video/FJZWUZYz4ms/w-d-xo.html
It's still one of my favorite memories.
I think my video has the only footage currently featured online (other than old commercials) of inside the laser tag arena! Thanks to the handy night vision feature my mom's camera had
Yeah! Screw Chuck E. Cheese! Bring back Discovery Zone and Rolfe! That was my childhood! I could never stand that damn pizza at Chuck E. Cheese, neither!
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(1800)2824-FUN is now a roadside assistance line.....Shame.
leaps & bounds> discovery zone
F chuck e cheese
What do you mean you don't see any redboxs mate? They are literally at every single Walmart in town.
Oh! I don't go to walmart so I wouldn't know.
Don't blame ya lol
I hate Redbox!! Bring back Blockbuster!
You've done it. Take my nostalgic sub, you clever son of bitch.
I love you so much.
Dude check my channel. We went to Chuck E. Cheese here in Pensacola before they removed the robots!
Btw I miss dz as well. Great place.
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