What are some other memorable sponsorships you've seen that weren't mentioned here? Let me know in the comments! 😎 Also, who else wants the IRN BRU Revolution back? 🙋♂
I remember a scam Six Flags was doing a few years ago, you get a discount on your ticket if you buy a coke or pepsi, forget the brand, they have the vending machines out there, the soda is way over priced but you'll save money on your ticket, they are sitting there with a bag collecting everyone's soda they just convinced them to buy, because you can't take the soda they just sold you into the park(they didn't tell you this important fact during their sales pitch). So they have garbage bags full of full bottles of soda. I opened mine and dumped it out, they're not gonna resell my soda. Such shady business practices, if you're selling a soda to get a discount on your ticket, let us take the soda in the park. Six Flags has become trash now compared to when I used to go growing up in the 90s.
OMG I made the fanta group! That Fanta sucks post is literally my post 🤣🤣🤣 I'd almost forgot about this hahaha. We actually did get people saying Fanta sucks I was in the park one day and actually heard it from the ride 🤣
Pepsi Max Big One has to be one of the most iconic ride sponsorships ever, the general public to this day still say things like "have you been on Pepsi Max yet", and most enthusiasts still refer to it as PMBO. Also, you missed a biggie from 2002 in the UK, Air at Alton Towers opened with a Cadburys Heroes sponsorship!
So true even just saying the big one alone, still makes me think of Pepsi and I've never even been on the ride or Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it was just through media exposure and adverts so I feel like it worked well as a sponsorship.
When I went to Blackpool I wasn't allowed on Pepsi max... but had ro sit and watch my dad and sister go on it , while I cried. It's on my bucket list as " ride the Pepsi max and the rest of pleasure Beach "
@@chrystpick7741 From what I've heard, it has a great first drop but the rest of the ride's pretty boring. Don't get too excited. Also, from what I've heard, Icon is the best ride in the park, and Valhalla is a great dark ride, so make sure to ride those. Also, I've heard that you should probably skip Infusion, because it is incredibly rough and painful.
Tidal Wave at Thorpe Park was sponsored by Original Source shower gel - the queue line was planted with plants and flowers used in the shower gels, such as mint and lavender. It smelled amazing especially on a hot day when the mint smelled really refreshing.
Six Flags management: Look at all these sponsorships! Employee: There's too many! How many exactly do you want? Six Flags management: Yes Employee: ...understandable, have a great day
Casa de Fritos: We sell authentic Mexican food! Fritos: an American corn chip brand Me: *You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.* Maybe the food wasn't authentic and the Frito Kid was creepy, but it birthed the most recognizable chip brand to date which is quite notable
22:35 this ride is now Influsion at Blackpool, which is known as one of the most uncomfortable rides in the country, especially from a steel coaster, so some would say the Southport name was more appropriate
My favorite coaster sponsorship was when Spinball Whizzer at Alton Towers was sponsored by Sega and got themed to Sonic the Hedgehog We need another Sonic rollercoaster ;-; especially with the franchise being so popular now
Its bad enough to have to wade through all the damn psychological manipulation of the advertising industry today without subjecting us to it on a damn rollercoaster.
I’m all about the UK section, and have so much to say. First up Eddie stobart might be the only uk brand you pronounced correctly :p. Also I love the fact that Neil and Christina Hamilton turned up for a few seconds. One I wished you’d mentioned is imperial leather (a soap brand) sponsoring both Alton towers log flume, and the one I feel is the worst, turning beloved dark ride bubbleworks from a fizzy drink theme to a bubble bath theme.
My dad worked for AT&T, and when we went to Epcot we could skip the line for spaceship Earth and go to a hidden lounge inside Spaceship Earth where they had free drinks for employees and special discounted merch for Spaceship Earth. This was in 1996, so I am not sure if it is still there.
Standing in line for Full Throttle at SFMM when it was plastered with Chick-fil-A signs just felt so out of place, not even talking about them being controversial. During Halloween they would advertise Zombie Takis (10/10) on the line tvs, and sold them in the shops. X2 is has the "Twix right side or left" SFMM also has a Dole pineapple whip stand, which I only found out recently.
Cadbury sponsored AIR when it first opened... Tetley currently sponsor the tea-cups at Thorpe Park Imperial Leather sponsored The Flume at Alton (I think there was also something at Chessie, but I can't think of it right now) Ribena sponsored TWO attractions: The rapids at Thorpe and Ribena Berry Bish Bash at Alton Then there was a massive Cadbury sponsorship of a whole land at Alton.. And then Nickelodeon.. Brands just love to get their sticky hands on anything they can.. this was just off the top of my head!
I remember that takis is a big sponsor for magic mountain! For 2018-2019 tatsu even had big billboards in the ride station promoting the beloved bag of chips lol!
Technically, the Hershey chocolate company and Hershey Entertainment and Resorts are independent companies, though they have some partial common ownership. (Hershey does own Chocolate World.) But it's obviously a somewhat different arrangement from a typical sponsorship.
@@steve1w33x Kind of--the Hershey Trust only has a minority share in Hershey, though they wholly own Hershey Entertainment and Resorts. I've always thought it was amazing that there was this separate attraction OUTSIDE Hersheypark with a big, elaborate dark ride that was completely free to ride, and the corporate ownership relations sort of explain it--the chain of Chocolate World attractions, of which that is the original and biggest one, is owned by the Hershey foods company itself rather than by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts. It was built as a less-disruptive, higher-capacity replacement for the old chocolate factory tour, whereas Hersheypark itself was originally a recreational park for Hershey employees. For many years, the candy theming in Hersheypark was kind of low-key--it seemed like they didn't want to do too much of it. And I wonder if that was because they figured that was for Chocolate World, and Hersheypark could do other stuff. But things have changed recently; they've gone all-in with the synergistic candy theming.
Blackpool pleasure beach is the most ridiculously, heavily sponsored theme park I've ever been to. In the years I've been going there's been pepsi, irn bru, playstation, tango, daily Star.. those are the ones I can remember. I can't ever go to pleasure beach without wanting a Pepsi. Jammy gits, lol
I rode it at Blackpool and yeah, my stud earring sliced the side of my head open, there was quite a bit if blood! Glad it wasn't just me! Never wore earrings on a coaster again!
Runaway mine train at sfga is now wrapped with some children's hospital type thing, which honestly makes the train look pretty colorful because of the way its wrapped, I javelin no issues with sponsorships as long as it's not too intrusive
I feel like the M&M stairs at Six Flag New England (my homepark) are so in your face that you forget about all the other branding that's actually inside that park.
Six Flags Magic Mountain also had one of their flume rides sponsored by drinking water brand. From 2001 to 2006, Jet Stream was operating under the name Arrowhead Splashdown and was sponsored by Arrowhead Water (aka Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water) before reverting back to it's original name for the 2007 season.
I grew up in Florida and vaguely remember from middle school field trips in the late 90s that Kumba in Busch Gardens Tampa was sponsored by Mountain Dew. There was Mountain Dew logos hanging around the bridge as you get closer to the entrance. Kumba is after all is Green and Yellow!
Tidal wave at thorpe sponsored by Dr Pepper and oasis in it’s time. The river rapids is sponsored by ribena. Alton towers also had a kids drop tower sponsored by ribena too
I remember when Energizer sponsored Star Tours at Disneyland back in the 2000s. They had posters of the Energizer Bunny going on and on and on in different locations around the galaxy.
Chewits Log Flume, a Arrow Log Flume at the now-defunct Pleasureland Southport (Now Southport Pleasureland) when it was owned by Blackpool Pleasure Beach was sponsored by Chewits Candies, a British type of confectionary. It was originally built in 1969 for the now-defunct Magic Harbor theme park in South Carolina, USA.
In the 90s at Blackpool Pleasure Beach the park was basically sponsored throughout. Food outlets, rides etc because a documentary was filmed there showing a behind the scenes and the day-to-day running of the park. It was shown on prime time TV so attracted a lot of sponsorship money.
Yess finally you uploaded again! I’ve been waiting a bit to watch this so happy I finally can! The other day as well I started binge-watching your videos so happy I have another one now to watch!
about St. Petersburg’s roller coaster, the entire park is sponsored by the same company, there are not one but TWO coasters with the same name (that one that came later just has “2” added in the end of its name), also the logo of the company is on the top of the drop tower and as I remember the owner is somehow connected to it as well
Living near Six Flags Great America I remember the two times (to my memory) of VR experiences. One was on The Demon and the other was on The Giant Drop. I know I rode the Demon (don't recall if I did the drop though), and all I could think about was how worried I was that the VR headset could come lose and go flying off me somehow. But mainly what I always remember in terms of sponsorships in my park are all the signs for Takis and that one section that connects Southwest Territory to County Fair with the Twix Left or Right section.
I don't remember traumatizer being rough 🤔 it was my first ever big coaster! Was always super exited when it finally appeared in the horizon, on our yearly Sunday school trips to Southport! One of my fave coasters ♥
The Coca Cola Rollercoaster was my first looping coaster. I always wondered what happened to it until I discovered the Rollercoaster Database. So got to ride it again a few years back at Pleasurewood Hills in England.
Got into your videos recently and I'm a big fan. I love getting to share them with my friend, we both really love roller coasters (even though i'm scared of riding them)
Hersheypark seems to have dropped all but one sponsorship. Capital Blue Cross used to sponsor the Monorail. Outback and Penn State Health used to sponsor Sidewinder. Amtrak used to sponsor Dry Gulch Railroad and Tiny Tracks. Sunoco gasoline still sponsors the Sports Cars and Classic Cars.
Hershey is my home park and the only ones I’ve noticed was Sunoco and capital blue cross. I’ve never even noticed the others! And the Sunoco on the cars at least fit with the theming so well I didn’t even realize it was an advertisement
@@joshuaedler7041 Yeah some of them were dropped a long time ago. Others were more recent. Sunoco and Capital Blue Cross were the only two that really went all in on the sponsor that it affected the ride names.
I remember our Arrow corkscrew was sponsored by Coca-Cola for ages, with the sponsorship deal only ending a few years ago. Cadbury also sponsored a few of the kiddie rides back then as well.
As an Englishman I really enjoy hearing some say a name "Eddie Storbart" and apologise "getting it wrong", after butchering all the other English place names. 😂
I remember another sponsored Disney attraction, at California Adventure. There was a tortilla “factory” walk-through attraction, that was, quite obviously, just there to allow Mission tortillas to sponsor something. But you got free tortillas at the end, so that was cool.
The way you pronounced Derbyshire at 19:33 made me laugh, I know it is spelt that way but we pronounce it as Darbyshire as the same way we pronounce Derby as Darby. I'm not saying you should stop calling it that way, but it just made me giggle. Love your content btw.
I’d also like to mention that the famous parachute drop at Coney Island was originally sponsored by LifeSavers. Each parachute was originally colored to match one of the fruit LifeSavers candies.
In my opinion, Disney should consider applying the same practice they had with Dinosaur's sponsorship with their IPs. Have your IPs, but get creative with it. For example, redesign Frozen Ever After with some of the creatures from Frozen 2 and have it be similar to Malestrom in the sense that people will learn some Norse Mythology. Or have Remy's Ratatouille Adventure be a cooking class that turns into an adventure to get back to the kitchen.
My personal favorite was Goliath at magic mountain advertising Monster Hunter 4. It got special trains that resembled the game’s flagship monster Gore Magala.
We have 2 rides here in England at Drayton Manor which have since lost their sponsors. first a flume ride by BEAR GmbH called Stormforce 10, for many years it was sponsored by the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute) and all funds spent in the shop below the rides station went to the RNLI Charity. Second is an Intamin stand up coaster called Shockwave which at launch in 1994 was sponsored by 7UP and called the "7UP Shockwave". It was later sponsored by a gas and electric supplier called npower and renamed the "npower Shockwave" before just being called "Shockwave" as it is today. It is also the only stand up coaster with a Zero G roll too! :)
I will never forget all the Takis advertisements around Medusa at SFDK back in 2013. Signs all over the place, but the trains remained free from any ads. However, Boomerang still has the Twix advertisements on the trains.
Rainbow's End in Auckland, New Zealand used to have the Coca-Cola corkscrew, which is an Arrow Dynamics model. Not sure if it is still sponsored or not.
at six flags discovery kingdom, their boomerang is absolutely COVERED with twix sponsors. all tho, it does look really cool. anyways, my cousin thought it was called twix fron the amount of advertisements around it
Really interesting, other than the big brands - Coca-cola; Pepsi, Mcdonald's, etc, I hadn't heard of most of the American brands. When you read out the UK ones these are very familiar to me but obviously not so to you. I guess you just get so used to brands you forget they can be localised.
I did remember the GM sponsorship on the Test Track at Epcot, but I don't remember any others at Disney World. Then again, it was 2007, and I've forgotten a lot since then. 😂
In my country in the Philippines there is a Vekoma Boomerang Coaster called the Space Shuttle which is still up to this day in an amusement park called Enchanted Kingdom at first it was sponsored by Pepsi Cola (The one I mostly remember off) then I researched and now is sponsored by Coca Cola (not sure if it is still sponsored by the company though)
The "irony" about Fanta sponsorship + colors IS that Fanta is owned by Coca Cola! LOL! I worked 4 Six Flags for seasons. The last year in the Sign Shop (maintenance) . I proudly painted a Fiberglas Coca Cola bottle for a sign on Americana Street. Some Looney Tunes characters. Did concept art w/ sponsors name. Gulf gas stations became Chevron (so after making the Gulf signs) Sighhhh! We had to re-do them as Chevron only 6 months later. There were @ least 50 7hp. gas cars that needed 2 stickers per car repainted & re-logo. Ozarka water was one of the many sponsors of the Arrow Flume we had. I saw soooo many restaurants, sponsors, etc. over those 5 seasons. Great video! During Disney era, you'd get 10 yr. sponsorships. That's a hard commitment now a days. Lucky If you can get 2-5 yrs. now.
I’ve seen those pipes whenever I rode Dinosaur at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and it is quite a fun Easter egg to point out. Say, did you know a McDonald’s sits on the resort property today? It’s just right outside the Disney All Star Resorts complex as you head over there.
Kodak had lots of commercial ad placement in 6 Flags parks. "It's a Kodak moment" at various scenic view points of the park or rides. They were also a sponsor of many rides in the form of on-ride photos.
Imagine seeing oblivion and its dark creepy theme in Google Maps, and then you're pumped to ride when your there... and then you see Fanta ads. Now that's scarier than the ride itself.
I went on infusion (formally traumatizer) and you are 100% right! It is the worst ride I’ve ever been on, it’s even worse than colossus at Thorpe park, even theme park worldwide doesn’t like it, and he likes pretty much everything. Also I’ve been in the big one and it’s extremely disappointing, because of the restraints you don’t get any airtime, making the ride rather boring
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What are some other memorable sponsorships you've seen that weren't mentioned here? Let me know in the comments! 😎
Also, who else wants the IRN BRU Revolution back? 🙋♂
You know this as another SFNE fan, but the M&M steps on the bridge between the parking lot and the park entrance is iconic to me
Yes, bring it back and have them serve 1901 at the Kiosk too
I'll have an Irn Bru.
I do not recall the name, but that log flume sponsored by a soap company was so dumb it was brilliant.
I remember a scam Six Flags was doing a few years ago, you get a discount on your ticket if you buy a coke or pepsi, forget the brand, they have the vending machines out there, the soda is way over priced but you'll save money on your ticket, they are sitting there with a bag collecting everyone's soda they just convinced them to buy, because you can't take the soda they just sold you into the park(they didn't tell you this important fact during their sales pitch). So they have garbage bags full of full bottles of soda. I opened mine and dumped it out, they're not gonna resell my soda. Such shady business practices, if you're selling a soda to get a discount on your ticket, let us take the soda in the park. Six Flags has become trash now compared to when I used to go growing up in the 90s.
OMG I made the fanta group! That Fanta sucks post is literally my post 🤣🤣🤣 I'd almost forgot about this hahaha. We actually did get people saying Fanta sucks I was in the park one day and actually heard it from the ride 🤣
Pepsi Max Big One has to be one of the most iconic ride sponsorships ever, the general public to this day still say things like "have you been on Pepsi Max yet", and most enthusiasts still refer to it as PMBO.
Also, you missed a biggie from 2002 in the UK, Air at Alton Towers opened with a Cadburys Heroes sponsorship!
Plus it was in RCT which was cool. I still call it Pepsi Max Big One
Can't forget that Shockwave at Drayton Manor opened up as the '7-Up Shokwave' either!
So true even just saying the big one alone, still makes me think of Pepsi and I've never even been on the ride or Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it was just through media exposure and adverts so I feel like it worked well as a sponsorship.
When I went to Blackpool I wasn't allowed on Pepsi max... but had ro sit and watch my dad and sister go on it , while I cried.
It's on my bucket list as " ride the Pepsi max and the rest of pleasure Beach "
@@chrystpick7741 From what I've heard, it has a great first drop but the rest of the ride's pretty boring. Don't get too excited.
Also, from what I've heard, Icon is the best ride in the park, and Valhalla is a great dark ride, so make sure to ride those.
Also, I've heard that you should probably skip Infusion, because it is incredibly rough and painful.
The Fanta Oblivion legitimately looked like a Six Flags sponsorship deal.
looks kinda odd for Alton Towers to copy what Six Flags was doing.
YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY GF FANTA LIKE THAT!!!!
IM TELLING
It looked so bad lol
Nothing fits alton’s spooky vibe like fanta
Tidal Wave at Thorpe Park was sponsored by Original Source shower gel - the queue line was planted with plants and flowers used in the shower gels, such as mint and lavender. It smelled amazing especially on a hot day when the mint smelled really refreshing.
Alton towers log flume was imperial leather
Then it was sponsored by Dr Pepper (20idk) and then Oasis (2019)
Ah yes, the Big Three of amusment parks, Disney, Six Flags, and the UK
Alton towers went through a full log flume re-theme to be sponsored by imperial leather , including the logs being giant bath tubs and more ..
Six Flags management: Look at all these sponsorships!
Employee: There's too many! How many exactly do you want?
Six Flags management: Yes
Employee: ...understandable, have a great day
Casa de Fritos: We sell authentic Mexican food!
Fritos: an American corn chip brand
Me: *You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.*
Maybe the food wasn't authentic and the Frito Kid was creepy, but it birthed the most recognizable chip brand to date which is quite notable
Yeah, those IRN-BRU goths are gonna be in my nightmares tonight.
22:35 this ride is now Influsion at Blackpool, which is known as one of the most uncomfortable rides in the country, especially from a steel coaster, so some would say the Southport name was more appropriate
It never occurred to me that Lucozade didn't exist outside of the UK, but it makes sense since we don't have Gatorade here
Poundland sells Gatorade lol
@@krazium4886 that's interesting they don't in the one near me
Wonder if Gatorade have the equivalent of the Lucozade glucose tablets
Honestly for anyone that lives in the uk,Gatorade (at least the orange one) literally tastes like super watery lucosade
Along with Ribena, Lucozade is a cure all.
My favorite coaster sponsorship was when Spinball Whizzer at Alton Towers was sponsored by Sega and got themed to Sonic the Hedgehog
We need another Sonic rollercoaster ;-; especially with the franchise being so popular now
My favourite was log flume and going round in Imperial Leather baths. Well apart from the giant duck.
You can still see a dr eggman sticker on the ride today
@@katashworth41 my favourite! 🤣 the duck quacked so loud!!
Its bad enough to have to wade through all the damn psychological manipulation of the advertising industry today without subjecting us to it on a damn rollercoaster.
I’m all about the UK section, and have so much to say. First up Eddie stobart might be the only uk brand you pronounced correctly :p. Also I love the fact that Neil and Christina Hamilton turned up for a few seconds. One I wished you’d mentioned is imperial leather (a soap brand) sponsoring both Alton towers log flume, and the one I feel is the worst, turning beloved dark ride bubbleworks from a fizzy drink theme to a bubble bath theme.
My dad worked for AT&T, and when we went to Epcot we could skip the line for spaceship Earth and go to a hidden lounge inside Spaceship Earth where they had free drinks for employees and special discounted merch for Spaceship Earth. This was in 1996, so I am not sure if it is still there.
Standing in line for Full Throttle at SFMM when it was plastered with Chick-fil-A signs just felt so out of place, not even talking about them being controversial.
During Halloween they would advertise Zombie Takis (10/10) on the line tvs, and sold them in the shops.
X2 is has the "Twix right side or left"
SFMM also has a Dole pineapple whip stand, which I only found out recently.
Cadbury sponsored AIR when it first opened...
Tetley currently sponsor the tea-cups at Thorpe Park
Imperial Leather sponsored The Flume at Alton (I think there was also something at Chessie, but I can't think of it right now)
Ribena sponsored TWO attractions: The rapids at Thorpe and Ribena Berry Bish Bash at Alton
Then there was a massive Cadbury sponsorship of a whole land at Alton.. And then Nickelodeon..
Brands just love to get their sticky hands on anything they can.. this was just off the top of my head!
The one at chessington was bubbleworks, but I think it got removed in 2016.
@@WhipEquip ahh, yes. I thought that was the other but couldn't recall if it was ever sponsored by ribena...
The tea cups stopped being sponsored. Chessington had a Ribena ride, it was the Treetop Hoppers but they had a different name.
Seeing this while shoving my face with Cadbury chocolate is so mentally fulfilling
I remember Dragon Falls at Chessington was sponsored by Juicy Drop Pop before it was rethemed
I remember that takis is a big sponsor for magic mountain! For 2018-2019 tatsu even had big billboards in the ride station promoting the beloved bag of chips lol!
Technically, the Hershey chocolate company and Hershey Entertainment and Resorts are independent companies, though they have some partial common ownership. (Hershey does own Chocolate World.) But it's obviously a somewhat different arrangement from a typical sponsorship.
Both are subsidiaries of the Hershey Trust Company, so even though they are independent from each other they are owned by the same parent company.
@@steve1w33x Kind of--the Hershey Trust only has a minority share in Hershey, though they wholly own Hershey Entertainment and Resorts.
I've always thought it was amazing that there was this separate attraction OUTSIDE Hersheypark with a big, elaborate dark ride that was completely free to ride, and the corporate ownership relations sort of explain it--the chain of Chocolate World attractions, of which that is the original and biggest one, is owned by the Hershey foods company itself rather than by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts. It was built as a less-disruptive, higher-capacity replacement for the old chocolate factory tour, whereas Hersheypark itself was originally a recreational park for Hershey employees.
For many years, the candy theming in Hersheypark was kind of low-key--it seemed like they didn't want to do too much of it. And I wonder if that was because they figured that was for Chocolate World, and Hersheypark could do other stuff. But things have changed recently; they've gone all-in with the synergistic candy theming.
Shoutout to Pampers for willing to sponsor the *lost parents and infant care center*
Blackpool pleasure beach is the most ridiculously, heavily sponsored theme park I've ever been to. In the years I've been going there's been pepsi, irn bru, playstation, tango, daily Star.. those are the ones I can remember. I can't ever go to pleasure beach without wanting a Pepsi. Jammy gits, lol
I can’t even express how painful the traumatizer was 🤣. It smashed my earrings into my head! It’s no better now at Blackpool!
I rode it at Blackpool and yeah, my stud earring sliced the side of my head open, there was quite a bit if blood! Glad it wasn't just me! Never wore earrings on a coaster again!
I once went on traumatiser 6 times in a row in 1999 when I was 12 🤣 I wouldnt even ride it once now and its one to miss at BPB.
I think it is infusion at Blackpool pleasure beach now and it is one of those painful coaster layouts
@@Noperison yes it is! Still as painful as ever
I been on Infusion in 2019
That thing almost sliced my head off.
Runaway mine train at sfga is now wrapped with some children's hospital type thing, which honestly makes the train look pretty colorful because of the way its wrapped, I javelin no issues with sponsorships as long as it's not too intrusive
It does, I believe great adventure got those trains around 2019, and they’ve been like that since
I agree. It actually doesn’t look all that bad.
I feel like the M&M stairs at Six Flag New England (my homepark) are so in your face that you forget about all the other branding that's actually inside that park.
Six Flags Magic Mountain also had one of their flume rides sponsored by drinking water brand. From 2001 to 2006, Jet Stream was operating under the name Arrowhead Splashdown and was sponsored by Arrowhead Water (aka Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water) before reverting back to it's original name for the 2007 season.
I grew up in Florida and vaguely remember from middle school field trips in the late 90s that Kumba in Busch Gardens Tampa was sponsored by Mountain Dew. There was Mountain Dew logos hanging around the bridge as you get closer to the entrance. Kumba is after all is Green and Yellow!
What was with 90s UK coasters and being branded with soft drinks?
7-up shockwave?
Pepsi max big one?
Irn bru revolution?
FANTA OBLIVION?!
And now we have the sugar tax so that will forever be a strange 90s thing like Global Hypercolor shirts.
Tidal wave at thorpe sponsored by Dr Pepper and oasis in it’s time. The river rapids is sponsored by ribena. Alton towers also had a kids drop tower sponsored by ribena too
TraumaTIZER?
I remember when Energizer sponsored Star Tours at Disneyland back in the 2000s. They had posters of the Energizer Bunny going on and on and on in different locations around the galaxy.
9:11
The condiments is an adorable yet subtle way of advertising and I love it
1:25 with the handshake reminds me of making deals in Theme Park for MS DOS 🤣 counting down those biscuits
This video was so fascinating. I love deep dives into stuff like this
Chewits Log Flume, a Arrow Log Flume at the now-defunct Pleasureland Southport (Now Southport Pleasureland) when it was owned by Blackpool Pleasure Beach was sponsored by Chewits Candies, a British type of confectionary. It was originally built in 1969 for the now-defunct Magic Harbor theme park in South Carolina, USA.
In the 90s at Blackpool Pleasure Beach the park was basically sponsored throughout. Food outlets, rides etc because a documentary was filmed there showing a behind the scenes and the day-to-day running of the park. It was shown on prime time TV so attracted a lot of sponsorship money.
Yess finally you uploaded again! I’ve been waiting a bit to watch this so happy I finally can! The other day as well I started binge-watching your videos so happy I have another one now to watch!
about St. Petersburg’s roller coaster, the entire park is sponsored by the same company, there are not one but TWO coasters with the same name (that one that came later just has “2” added in the end of its name), also the logo of the company is on the top of the drop tower and as I remember the owner is somehow connected to it as well
The Pepsi max coaster at Blackpool was iconic, one of the main reasons people I know went there :3
Love these videos! You never really get to hear about these things when it comes to roller coasters. Thx bro!
Living near Six Flags Great America I remember the two times (to my memory) of VR experiences. One was on The Demon and the other was on The Giant Drop. I know I rode the Demon (don't recall if I did the drop though), and all I could think about was how worried I was that the VR headset could come lose and go flying off me somehow. But mainly what I always remember in terms of sponsorships in my park are all the signs for Takis and that one section that connects Southwest Territory to County Fair with the Twix Left or Right section.
Outstanding video. Miss your content!
So weird how the unusual sponsors are on the best coaster
Love the vids
I don't remember traumatizer being rough 🤔 it was my first ever big coaster! Was always super exited when it finally appeared in the horizon, on our yearly Sunday school trips to Southport! One of my fave coasters ♥
Something I think would be funny is if the Pandemonium rides with Twix cars were called Candymonium.
lol
El toro should've had a dodge ram sponsorship change my mind
The Coca Cola Rollercoaster was my first looping coaster. I always wondered what happened to it until I discovered the Rollercoaster Database. So got to ride it again a few years back at Pleasurewood Hills in England.
I was too young and short for it 😢 it looked great though!
Got into your videos recently and I'm a big fan. I love getting to share them with my friend, we both really love roller coasters (even though i'm scared of riding them)
Six Flags is the king of sponsorships let's be honest
Cedar Point’s long-gone Mill Race log flume ride was also briefly renamed Nestea plunge for a few years.
As soon as I saw the title I was like, here comes the rant about great adventure 🤣🤣🤣 and I was right
Hersheypark seems to have dropped all but one sponsorship.
Capital Blue Cross used to sponsor the Monorail.
Outback and Penn State Health used to sponsor Sidewinder.
Amtrak used to sponsor Dry Gulch Railroad and Tiny Tracks.
Sunoco gasoline still sponsors the Sports Cars and Classic Cars.
Hershey is my home park and the only ones I’ve noticed was Sunoco and capital blue cross. I’ve never even noticed the others! And the Sunoco on the cars at least fit with the theming so well I didn’t even realize it was an advertisement
@@joshuaedler7041 Yeah some of them were dropped a long time ago. Others were more recent. Sunoco and Capital Blue Cross were the only two that really went all in on the sponsor that it affected the ride names.
Before it was torn down, Giant Wheel was sponsored by Giant Food Stores (since renamed The Giant Company).
@@mpf1947 Yup. I wanted to mention the ones whose rides were still around.
I remember our Arrow corkscrew was sponsored by Coca-Cola for ages, with the sponsorship deal only ending a few years ago. Cadbury also sponsored a few of the kiddie rides back then as well.
In the UK, Morecambe and Southport were both owned by Blackpool Pleasure Beach... Hense all the branding deals. Polos are 'lifesavers' in America?
As an Englishman I really enjoy hearing some say a name "Eddie Storbart" and apologise "getting it wrong", after butchering all the other English place names. 😂
Great video. You could add in the Flume at Alton Towers, one of the weirdest sponsorships with a giant duck
You know what shocks me? The fact the the one and only SEGA sponsored a ROLLER COASTER. That is absolutely insane.
Not really, because sonic makes sense as a rollercoaster.
I remember another sponsored Disney attraction, at California Adventure. There was a tortilla “factory” walk-through attraction, that was, quite obviously, just there to allow Mission tortillas to sponsor something. But you got free tortillas at the end, so that was cool.
Awesome as usual! Keep up the great work!
The video just came out you haven't seen the whole thing
@@CoasterNerd I know. I'm just being nice :)
@@YeetCat I know I just think first comments are funny. Also sorry not trying to be rude lol 🙃
@@CoasterNerd it's ok!
The way you pronounced Derbyshire at 19:33 made me laugh, I know it is spelt that way but we pronounce it as Darbyshire as the same way we pronounce Derby as Darby.
I'm not saying you should stop calling it that way, but it just made me giggle.
Love your content btw.
29:38 The iron bru revalotion ad thanks for this
I’d also like to mention that the famous parachute drop at Coney Island was originally sponsored by LifeSavers. Each parachute was originally colored to match one of the fruit LifeSavers candies.
Great video 👍. The Fanta vandalism of Oblivion was an absolute disgrace 😅
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Great research! We counted 72 Chick-FilA ads on the queue and ride vehicles for Full Throtle at Magic Mountain. 72 distinctly different ads-insane.
I miss the log flume at alton towers, sponsored by imperial leather.
They literally made the ride themed to Bath time and the cars were bath tubs!
Here for Blackpool pleasure Beach. Been there so many times
Love your Videos so much! Some of these are so funny! One of your best videos!
In my opinion, Disney should consider applying the same practice they had with Dinosaur's sponsorship with their IPs. Have your IPs, but get creative with it. For example, redesign Frozen Ever After with some of the creatures from Frozen 2 and have it be similar to Malestrom in the sense that people will learn some Norse Mythology. Or have Remy's Ratatouille Adventure be a cooking class that turns into an adventure to get back to the kitchen.
Ah yes the Playstation, being a kid obsessed with gaming at that time that was the coolest thing to me.
My favourite sponsorship is probably the “say ahh” coke bottle you can see from griffon at bush gardens
What an extremely interesting & unique subject for a video. Fantastic stuff - your research is rivaled by none.
My personal favorite was Goliath at magic mountain advertising Monster Hunter 4. It got special trains that resembled the game’s flagship monster Gore Magala.
what year was that? thats incredible
@@reg1m0nz83 2014
We have 2 rides here in England at Drayton Manor which have since lost their sponsors. first a flume ride by BEAR GmbH called Stormforce 10, for many years it was sponsored by the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute) and all funds spent in the shop below the rides station went to the RNLI Charity. Second is an Intamin stand up coaster called Shockwave which at launch in 1994 was sponsored by 7UP and called the "7UP Shockwave". It was later sponsored by a gas and electric supplier called npower and renamed the "npower Shockwave" before just being called "Shockwave" as it is today. It is also the only stand up coaster with a Zero G roll too! :)
I will never forget all the Takis advertisements around Medusa at SFDK back in 2013. Signs all over the place, but the trains remained free from any ads.
However, Boomerang still has the Twix advertisements on the trains.
Oh man, you unlocked a hidden memory! I'm pretty sure one of those Indiana Jones decoder cards still 3xists somewhere at my parents' house.
El Toro shouldve had a Ford Torus ad or something, missed opportunity
Rainbow's End in Auckland, New Zealand used to have the Coca-Cola corkscrew, which is an Arrow Dynamics model. Not sure if it is still sponsored or not.
It's soo funny how if you don't live in the uk you won't know any of the brands, but if you do you recognise ALL OF THEM 🤣🤣
i hated working on Ninja at six flags st louis during the vr thing
major pain in the ass
Even Disney has sponsored rides... Exxon, United Technologies, RCA, Fed EX, kodak, Nestle, Kraft, AT&T, GM, Chevy and on and on.
The fantasy Island KitKat coster has since been painted twice! Think it's green and purple atm
at six flags discovery kingdom, their boomerang is absolutely COVERED with twix sponsors. all tho, it does look really cool. anyways, my cousin thought it was called twix fron the amount of advertisements around it
Really interesting, other than the big brands - Coca-cola; Pepsi, Mcdonald's, etc, I hadn't heard of most of the American brands. When you read out the UK ones these are very familiar to me but obviously not so to you. I guess you just get so used to brands you forget they can be localised.
THATS AWESOME AND IM SO EXCITED FOR THE VIDEO
Incredible research, the amount of mispronounciations when you went to the UK was crazy though from Norfolk to Lucozade.
I don't see the point of pointing it out when he addresses it in the video.
I remember when Jet Stream at magic mountain was known as “Arrowhead Splashdown”
Didn't Kingada Ka, literally the world's tallest coaster, have an advertisement of a hair saloon guy on the front of the train once?
I did remember the GM sponsorship on the Test Track at Epcot, but I don't remember any others at Disney World. Then again, it was 2007, and I've forgotten a lot since then. 😂
If Theme Park Crazy sponsored a ride, what would you pick and how would you theme it?
I believe The Traumatizer from Southport is now Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and it is rough as hell a real boneshaker.
In my country in the Philippines there is a Vekoma Boomerang Coaster called the Space Shuttle which is still up to this day in an amusement park called Enchanted Kingdom at first it was sponsored by Pepsi Cola (The one I mostly remember off) then I researched and now is sponsored by Coca Cola (not sure if it is still sponsored by the company though)
Thanks for the upload!
The "irony" about Fanta sponsorship + colors IS that Fanta is owned by Coca Cola! LOL! I worked 4 Six Flags for seasons. The last year in the Sign Shop (maintenance) . I proudly painted a Fiberglas Coca Cola bottle for a sign on Americana Street. Some Looney Tunes characters. Did concept art w/ sponsors name. Gulf gas stations became Chevron (so after making the Gulf signs) Sighhhh! We had to re-do them as Chevron only 6 months later. There were @ least 50 7hp. gas cars that needed 2 stickers per car repainted & re-logo. Ozarka water was one of the many sponsors of the Arrow Flume we had. I saw soooo many restaurants, sponsors, etc. over those 5 seasons. Great video! During Disney era, you'd get 10 yr. sponsorships. That's a hard commitment now a days. Lucky If you can get 2-5 yrs. now.
My favorite was Monsanto's travels through inner space at Disney land in the 60's and 70' s.
Have you heard about Fønix in Fårup Sommerland? It placement is in Denmark, near blokhus. It is 40 meters high, and have the worlds first stall loop.
I’ve seen those pipes whenever I rode Dinosaur at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and it is quite a fun Easter egg to point out. Say, did you know a McDonald’s sits on the resort property today? It’s just right outside the Disney All Star Resorts complex as you head over there.
I LOVE IT CAN U DO MORE OF THIS PLEASE
I know panamoium at six flags stl was the the Tony Hawk Big Spin for a while and American Thunder was Evil Knivvle for some time
Kodak had lots of commercial ad placement in 6 Flags parks. "It's a Kodak moment" at various scenic view points of the park or rides.
They were also a sponsor of many rides in the form of on-ride photos.
Imagine seeing oblivion and its dark creepy theme in Google Maps, and then you're pumped to ride when your there... and then you see Fanta ads. Now that's scarier than the ride itself.
I went on infusion (formally traumatizer) and you are 100% right! It is the worst ride I’ve ever been on, it’s even worse than colossus at Thorpe park, even theme park worldwide doesn’t like it, and he likes pretty much everything. Also I’ve been in the big one and it’s extremely disappointing, because of the restraints you don’t get any airtime, making the ride rather boring
That's to do with Arrows track profiling of it's triangular hills more than anything. I blame Ron Toomer and his wire coat hangers 😂