@@Nonfiction79 I went to DW with my GF and that was tough enough. I can't imagine doing an entire roadtrip ending at DW with an infant and vlogging it all to boot. That's like superpowers level impressive.
maybe it’s just me but i really enjoy your vlogs more than other coaster youtubers. they’re so uncut & genuine+ sophie’s added commentary is always appreciated. keep them coming!
Wow, faint praise for Cosmic Rewind.... I was so intent on riding it that I bought a lightening lane for the first time in my life and since we also got into the virtual que line I got to ride it twice! It's easily the best dark coaster I've ever ridden and a top 5 coaster of all types.
I’m stuck in bed with Covid and just found your channel. Disney is so sentimental to me and I’m really finding my self super emotional watching another family embrace theme parks the way we did when our kids were growing up. I’m a grammie now and can’t wait to do it all over again with my grandkids, but also absolutely have embraced theme parking as a 52 year old. What a beautiful family, thanks for sharing with this emotional old lady stuck in bed tonight!!
I’m a coaster enthusiast who watches all your videos, but also someone who will choose the Disney parks (TN resident passholder) to casually go visit because of the ability to show up and simply enjoy the atmosphere. It was so refreshing to sit back and watch a Disney Vlog that was just someone enjoying their day instead of someone trying to force a storyline out of a day (guilty on our channel). Though, that Simpsons better than FoP opinion 😅 DESPITE THAT OPINION, thanks for all the awesome work! Content is HARD, and you’re pumping out great stuff! Keep it up!
Honestly I might miss Epcot being the less crowded park. Now that Disney is so crowded and stressful, getting shitfaced around the World Showcase has generally become the highlight of my Disney trips. That, and lapping Mission Space. My cousin works at Epcot so I'm sure I'll be down there to get the credit soon enough but hopefully the park keeps some of its laid back atmosphere.
Seven Dwarfs IS a poor copy of Big Thunder! Thanks for agreeing with me! (Congratulations on getting out of the park WHILE the fireworks were on! Smart family!)
So I would love a video on what your experience with the park reservations, genie plus and lightning lane was like. I hear everything from it’s amazing to it’s garbage and a pain in the butt and makes you stare at your phone all day. Where do you come down on all the new systems you have to deal with? And what was your experience getting into restaurants??
You should definitely do a ranking of your favorite Disney rides (coasters and non-coaster combined). Great vlog! I went in May and instantly loved almost everything there!
This was a fun watch for me as a fan of your channel, coaster enthusiast, and Disney Cast Member that loves Disney Parks. We have a few differing opinions for sure but they're always fun to hear, although The Simpsons being called a better simulator than Flight of Passage was the most offensive to me haha. Cosmic Rewind I have ranked number 8 out of my 109 credits in between Fury 325 and The Beast, I absolutely adore it. One Way or Another is easily the best song with the ride, although I enjoy all the songs a lot except for Disco Inferno. Cosmic Rewind is also drastically better in rows 5-10. Also I love Epcot and the ride's story tying into the park makes me very happy. I could go all day about Disney World though. Excited to see your follow up content on it!
I’m a native Floridian living in Orlando. I love your channel. Thanks for visiting “my” parks, it’s weird after watching so many of your videos of parks I’ve never been to, suddenly I recognize everything. 😂
glad you had fun! Disney is a great place for kids and the coasters are decent for what it is. fun fact there use to be a wild mouse in AK. it was a crossed from Dinosaur and had a cheesy dino theme as well. it got quietly closed for cost during pandemic.
@@AirtimeThrills the theory online is that is had low ridership and was made by a nobody that went out of business ages ago so therefore parts were super hard to get. between the two and the lack of riders in covid time it got closed along with a stich ride that was on its last legs to. the hope is that a replacement will get announced (plus a area refresh) at the D23 expo in sept.
just visited for the first time right before Cosmic Rewind opened🤦♂️. still very fun though! flight of passage and RotR were some of the best experiences of my life!
For rookies you did pretty well. I love how real your videos are they feel so genuine. Looks like you all have fun which in the end is the whole point of going. Until you come home and see your credit card bill.
Great video! It's great you had a good time! It sure rained and thunderstormed there a lot. That's one thing you don't have too worry about at Disneyland. Some of the rides broke down a good bit. I guess that's okay though.
Awesome vid!!! I'm glad you had a blast with the fam! I got that same Kennywood shirt, but mine is Black. Woot Woot! Of all the parks, Epcot is my favorite because I'm an architecture and history nerd and the World Showcase has all that, plus dining. I'm also a fan because my USA soccer Crush, Alex Morgan is famous for her Epcot experience lol, and I like to party like her too! Here's an architecture tidbit. Cinderella's castle looks wat taller than the 189 ft that it is. It's because of a design called "Forced Perspective" which makes smaller objects larger than it appears. In this instance, Disney makes the building look giant by making the top features thinner than the bottom ones. Awesome video!!!
I visited Animal Kingdom during Covid reduced guest admission. We did every attraction by 3:30 PM. I doubt I'll ever go back and wait 60-90 minutes for attractions, or pay the ridiculous up charge for the new fast pass.
I'm a fan of Dinosaur too. It's actually pretty intense. And it seems to be kind of overlooked so the lines aren't the worst. The biggest problem is that since it has a low height limit and involves dinosaurs, little kids go on it and it scares the bejesus out of them.
Great video as always 👍🏼 I appreciate you sharing your trips and family with us coaster enthusiasts. You have a beautiful family and I enjoy watching your videos for your opinion, tricks and tips for getting through the parks. Thanks you 👍🏼😎👍🏼
I watch every one of your video's Chris... If you want airtime, you have to go to Europe! Try Kondaa, Taron, Untamed, Hyperion, Ride to Happiness and Expedition G-Force ;-) Tron looks great! Love to ride that some day... I've ridden the prototype at Toverland in the Netherlands: Boosterbike! Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland Paris is the best!
Hi Chris, been following you for a couple of years now, along with some other coaster channels, you all are fantastic. I live in Australia so we don't have access to what you have, hence great videos!! Thanks for your in depth videos and rankings, you really know your stuff. Keep up the great work.
Chris, I’m a Disney pro 3x over, and I’ll be making my fourth trip there next year, with my infant son. Also, my name is Christopher so we got that in common too! I’m looking forward to my fourth time. Great video!
Being from Florida you made an excellent decision on Universal and Seaworld/BGT. I have the premier and platinum pass and you will can easily get your money's worth with just a couple of visits. Like the premier pass at Universal, free valet on most days, express pass to all express rides after 4 pm, just using that all in one day is more the pass costs. Valet is 75 after like 4pm and just scanning your pass and paying nothing to valet park is so worth having the pass. At Seaworld/BGT the platinum pass gets a 1 year photo pass, major discounts that literally turn a 30 dollar shirt to just under 20 dollars. The the discounted day passes with the ticket, like 40$ day ticket for friends and even better 4 free day tickets per cycle to bring a friend. Platinum pass also good for every SeaWorld property. Best places in the state with getting the most bang for your buck. Disney I have veered away from just because COVID made it hard to there with reservation times. Before Covid I would just go over for an afternoon on a spur of the moment. I hope the pricing for annual passes is lowered for FL resisdents since the last time I looked.
Sophie has a point about reriding Everest. That's mostly all I did when I went to Animal Kingdom. We went as Pandora was opening, so the rest of the park was quite literally empty. Everest had a 15 mimute wait ALL DAY, with a 5 MINUTE WAIT in the morning! Me and my sister marathoned it all day, breaking for food, bathroom, and to do our fastpasses for Flight of Passage and Navi River Journey (which were both brand new at the time!). I think we got like 25 rides!
Don’t diss Tower of Terror, that’s my favorite ride of all time, the overall experience is so eerie and the drops are full of airtime, it’s also different every time Edit: well actually…Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride ever. I just like creepier themes, that’s why I also love Haunted Mansion at Knoebels
ToT is the best drop ride in the world (Yes, even better than Falcon’s Fury) simply because it’s so unpredictable and the theming makes it more than a drop tower.
The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride in all of Disney World. There's just so much in there, more little details and in-jokes than you can really take in, and I love the way it gradually builds from mere atmospheric spookiness to a wild and goofy ghost party.
I was there this last June for the 50th anniversary. It was awesome getting to ride all the new rides while revisiting some old favorites (my first visit was in 1996 for the 25th Anniversary).
4 parks in 4 days without a break day in there, and you packed in a lot more rides in a day that I ever managed to when I went there, with a baby in tow... all I can say is, I don't know where you find the stamina. The last time I went was in 2017 so a lot of these rides weren't open yet, but of the Disney coasters I've ridden, Everest and Big Thunder are my favorites. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is useful as a gauge of the absolute most intense thing my wife and child will ride--if it's gentler than BTMR they'll do it, otherwise, no sale.
@@AirtimeThrills On our first trip we did 3 parks/3 days (skipped Hollywood Studios, so I ended up missing my only chance to experience the old back half of the park) and we were so dragging by the end of that that it was hard to think. It didn't help that we were in a relatively large extended family group and it was like herding cats, trying to get everyone pointed in the same direction. On our second trip, just my immediate family, we did it as a 5 1/2-day vacation and did no parks on the third day, which we spent chilling in the pool at the resort and poking around Disney Springs. (My daughter insists to this day that that was the best day of the vacation.) That helped a lot. It was key for my feet alone. We got enough of a second wind that we actually went back to Epcot for the last half day. But I think that in general, when I go to theme parks I just can't do stuff with the cadence of your typical theme-park enthusiast. My brain fuzzes out from sensory overload and I go into this sort of GP hypnosis. Having a plan helps. It does complicate things that my family are not thrill-seekers, but my wife naturally doesn't want to be the one escorting the kid *all* day, so I end up having to split off from them and rejoin a lot. Now that kid is a teenager and rather independent, that makes it easier.
...oh, yeah, also, at Disney parks, the thing my kid REALLY likes is the alternate-reality games they have at some of the parks, which involve just burning up hours of time walking around the park looking at things and finding clues. If you're doing that you're not going on a lot of rides.
Aw sweet, bonus footage at 2:20 - I wonder what it will be? [a few seconds later] …dang it. On a side-note, it’s trippy knowing that, back in 2004, a daily ticket to Disney cost $42. The closest I’ve ever gotten to the Disney experience was Disney Springs back in 2021.
Big fan of your content, not a Big fan of the OU hat lol. Obviously I’m a biased Texas fan though. Either way, great video. Very informative. I’m taking my 7 and 3 year old in September to Disney world for a week. Same trip as your essentially, all four parks. I’d love to hear a more thorough review and tips on Disneyworld as as whole form you. Like I said big fan. Keep it up. Hook’em 🤘🏻lol
I saw the Jungle Book showing of Kite Tails. The kites in both shows are supposed to crash like that during the show. Also, I am kinda surprised you didn't mention the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular over at Disney's Hollywood Studios when you were there.
You definitely missed out not riding Ratatouille, it's incredible! And your Flight of Passage statement is blasphemy lol. I think maybe the long line made your experience not as good. I dk, cause that Simpsons ride doesn't even touch FOP haha. Oh well, still love your content and I'm a Disney fanatic. Did you see the Lion King show in Animal Kingdom?? It's so, so good!!! I was super disappointed in SDMT too, people hyped it up so much. I was like ummm, ok afterwards lol. I love our Small World but you guys have the superior version in Disney Land.
Rock n roller coaster is legitimately great, I loved it my first time and after four years of being away from it I got back on it pretty certain I had overrated it but I had just as much fun the second time. Great choice for a kiddo’s 150th coaster in my opinion
When I rode GOTG Cosmic Rewind, 1st ride The song I got was “One way or Another” and my second ride I got “everyone wants to rule the world”, it’s one of the most rerideable roller coasters in my opinion
You have introduced me to so many top quality parks, I feel disappointed and sad that the disney standards have gone so far downhill, especially for your first family trip.
So you may know this already, but the Patrick from Soarin’ is Patrick Warburton, who does Joe Swanson on Family Guy. He was in a few other Disney works too
glad to see tron testing. maybe it's on track for a 2023 opening. also i hope and pray they dont do the guardian style thing where you have to play the lottery boarding pass system. just let people get in a regular line, and wait. be a shame to go all the way there for that ride, and get told sorry you cant ride b/c our boarding system is full.
You look sooooo tired at the end of this video haha. Summer is obviously an absolutely horrendous time to be in Florida with the oppressive heat, humidity, and constant storms....and you went open to close every day, park after park after park, with a kid and infant in tow. I seriously feel bad for you this trip could not have been fun. At least not being very familiar with WDW it seemed like much of it was new and exciting.
We were really tired at the end of the Magic Kingdom day, especially since I was up til about 4am finishing my vlog that came out that day (the Kings Dominion one) we actually left a little bit early that day because we were so done. We stayed til close for all the other parks though, but we definitely did not get there at opening. We arrived to each park between 11-12. I would have loved to but with the family, sleep and rest was necessary.
Universal Orlando may be next year. Next buy or sell is currently slated for Aug 18 and then I will get back into posting those every 3-4 weeks. This roadtrip has messed with my schedule a little bit since I haven't been able to record.
Yeah, Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom is kind more like Disneyland's Matterhorn, just with a space theme, as it has two sides as well. Due to it's popularity they brought it to Disneyland as well, but made some changes due to lack of space, and well, that park already had the Matterhorn, so it's more it's own ride, than a copy of an existing one, a weird history for sure.
21:44 Toldya! Space Mountain has some great airtime! Also, I work at Magic Kingdom and I have a hard time recommending Seven Dwarfs Mine Train just because there’s so much other stuff to do at that park and the line gets crazy. Like, yeah, it’s a fun ride, but definitely not one I go out of my way to do.
I love your videos and have been watching for a few years but please if you may trade your ou hat for a ok state hat jk but fr in the next year or so can you make another frontier city video
I'm a Disney enthusiast before a coaster enthusiast so this was a very entertaining vlog! You got a lot of great shots that are neglected by most people which was a nice surprise. I found you distinguishing the on-ride theming of Tower of Terror as lacking interesting. Tower of Terror, from an on-ride show perspective, has been embarrassing for quite a long time now. The narration, music, and sound effects have been completely out of sync with the visuals since *2008.* In fact, depending on the day you go, the narration may be way too quiet, garbled, contain static, coming from blown out or muted speakers, or sometimes missing altogether. I love the effect with the hallway dimming into a starry sky, but the window at the end is now projected by an HD projector that is incapable of true black so it has an awkward cheap-looking light square around it, and appears to be a completely different color than the rest of the hallway pre-transition. Audio depicting cables snapping and a thunderstorm during the drop sequence has been MIA for months. Basically, a lot of minuscule things that add up to something much worse than its full potential. They remain unfixed because it's viewed as "good enough" by management. A "they're tourists, whadda they know?" mentality. So I thought you, on your first-ever time at this park, noticing that something was up with the show quality was very interesting since that flies in the face of that mentality. Sorry, I'm a huge nerd about this stuff. It really should be the best ride at the resort, though. If it weren't for the excellent theming in the queue and preshow, I'd share your sentiment completely. Also just to add - Everest isn't my favorite coaster, but it's my all-time favorite _ride!_ At least my avatar says so. (Sorry about the nightmares!)
I am a Disney GP for sure but just comparing ToT to Guardians, which I personally think is an S-Tier Disney ride, it fell so flat for me. Definitely not really up to Disney's standards it seems to me.
@@asudevil316 You know that weird bit of dead space after the hallway scene and the doors close, before the elevator ascends to the 5th Dimension scene? It’s supposed to be instantaneous, instead there’s this weird often ~5 second pause where riders sit in the dark staring at a closed door with no bgm or narration. That’s a result of the desynced narration and if you rode anytime since 2008 you’ve definitely experienced it.
You should do a video of the different track designs and track design progression of the major manufacturers, namely Vekoma, Intamin (and how B&M basically used Shockwave’s design), and you should cover the “Jetline” coaster in Grona Lund in Swede. What is going on with that track design??
Going to disney as a coaster enthusiast while my family isn't is awesome. The childhood nostalgia helps too. Also, I definitely agree on Flight of Passage and disagree on MK vs Disneyland. Magic Kingdom has always felt far superior to me
Thanks for all the great videos. I’m looking to do a similar trip with my family where we hit multiple Orlando area theme parks. I’m trying to figure our where we would stay and how best to get around. Did you stay on Disney property, off property hotel, VRBO? Rental car? For Busch Gardens and Universal, did you buy 1 day tickets, multi-day tix? What do you recommend? Thanks.
Big props to Chris for doing this entire trip with an infant
Ami will cherish these videos, so good!
And his wife!!!
@@Nonfiction79 I went to DW with my GF and that was tough enough. I can't imagine doing an entire roadtrip ending at DW with an infant and vlogging it all to boot. That's like superpowers level impressive.
She definitely cranked up the difficulty level to the max
@@AirtimeThrills I can imagine! But glad you guys had a great trip!
maybe it’s just me but i really enjoy your vlogs more than other coaster youtubers. they’re so uncut & genuine+ sophie’s added commentary is always appreciated. keep them coming!
Has to be my number 2 favorites behind coaster idiots
Agreed
honestly fr, I want to see way more of these!! I'd donate to a Patreon if he has one
same
So true!
Amy has been a star of the vlog. Sophie is getting more and more comfortable in front of the camera
I remember when Sophie rode her first looping coaster, she grew up so fast!
Yup almost 3 years ago now
@@AirtimeThrills Dang girl has more credits than I do, hahahah.
Wow, faint praise for Cosmic Rewind.... I was so intent on riding it that I bought a lightening lane for the first time in my life and since we also got into the virtual que line I got to ride it twice! It's easily the best dark coaster I've ever ridden and a top 5 coaster of all types.
Chris missed the best dad joke ever.
With Amy at Epcot, he could've said she was speechless after asking her if she liked it
This vlog is giving me crazy nostalgia! I’m really hyped to come back this year and I’m definitely more of a Disney GP than you- trust me
I cant imagine anyone being more disney gp than me
While I have no desire to visit Disney, I enjoyed your showcase of the Walt Disney World complex. I loved the transitions.
I’m stuck in bed with Covid and just found your channel. Disney is so sentimental to me and I’m really finding my self super emotional watching another family embrace theme parks the way we did when our kids were growing up. I’m a grammie now and can’t wait to do it all over again with my grandkids, but also absolutely have embraced theme parking as a 52 year old. What a beautiful family, thanks for sharing with this emotional old lady stuck in bed tonight!!
I’m a coaster enthusiast who watches all your videos, but also someone who will choose the Disney parks (TN resident passholder) to casually go visit because of the ability to show up and simply enjoy the atmosphere. It was so refreshing to sit back and watch a Disney Vlog that was just someone enjoying their day instead of someone trying to force a storyline out of a day (guilty on our channel). Though, that Simpsons better than FoP opinion 😅
DESPITE THAT OPINION, thanks for all the awesome work! Content is HARD, and you’re pumping out great stuff! Keep it up!
I knew as I said Simpsons > FOP I would be burned at the stake for it
Honestly I might miss Epcot being the less crowded park. Now that Disney is so crowded and stressful, getting shitfaced around the World Showcase has generally become the highlight of my Disney trips. That, and lapping Mission Space. My cousin works at Epcot so I'm sure I'll be down there to get the credit soon enough but hopefully the park keeps some of its laid back atmosphere.
Hard to say what the least crowded park was during my 4 day trip. Either Epcot or AK. Both were still slammed
Space Mountain is underrated. It has a surprising amount of airtime for a Disney coaster.
Seven Dwarfs IS a poor copy of Big Thunder! Thanks for agreeing with me! (Congratulations on getting out of the park WHILE the fireworks were on! Smart family!)
So I would love a video on what your experience with the park reservations, genie plus and lightning lane was like. I hear everything from it’s amazing to it’s garbage and a pain in the butt and makes you stare at your phone all day. Where do you come down on all the new systems you have to deal with? And what was your experience getting into restaurants??
Ill talk about this either in its own video or in my park ranking video
It took me half a day to get used to it and yeah it is a lot of phone time trying to figure out ur next move
The thing is even with fastpass+ you still had your face glued to your phone
You should definitely do a ranking of your favorite Disney rides (coasters and non-coaster combined). Great vlog! I went in May and instantly loved almost everything there!
I'm gonna rank the coasters and then the non-coasters in separate videos. I tried to ride all the best stuff at each park but missed a few
Sophie now officially has more credits than me. Awesome job!
This was a fun watch for me as a fan of your channel, coaster enthusiast, and Disney Cast Member that loves Disney Parks. We have a few differing opinions for sure but they're always fun to hear, although The Simpsons being called a better simulator than Flight of Passage was the most offensive to me haha. Cosmic Rewind I have ranked number 8 out of my 109 credits in between Fury 325 and The Beast, I absolutely adore it. One Way or Another is easily the best song with the ride, although I enjoy all the songs a lot except for Disco Inferno. Cosmic Rewind is also drastically better in rows 5-10. Also I love Epcot and the ride's story tying into the park makes me very happy. I could go all day about Disney World though. Excited to see your follow up content on it!
Oh yeah i have 4 videos lined up based on this trip
I’m a native Floridian living in Orlando. I love your channel. Thanks for visiting “my” parks, it’s weird after watching so many of your videos of parks I’ve never been to, suddenly I recognize everything. 😂
glad you had fun! Disney is a great place for kids and the coasters are decent for what it is. fun fact there use to be a wild mouse in AK. it was a crossed from Dinosaur and had a cheesy dino theme as well. it got quietly closed for cost during pandemic.
Yeah i was wondering where that ride was. That whole dino section is kinda weird and out of place
@@AirtimeThrills the theory online is that is had low ridership and was made by a nobody that went out of business ages ago so therefore parts were super hard to get. between the two and the lack of riders in covid time it got closed along with a stich ride that was on its last legs to. the hope is that a replacement will get announced (plus a area refresh) at the D23 expo in sept.
@@AirtimeThrills I never rode it, but it was notoriously bad and generally not missed when they tore it out.
This video was really heart warming and nice to see!!! Sophie reminds me of my niece Ileen and shes becoming a little coaster enthusiasts too!!
Sophie and Amy are beautiful! Glad you all had such an amazing time. Great vlog!
just visited for the first time right before Cosmic Rewind opened🤦♂️. still very fun though! flight of passage and RotR were some of the best experiences of my life!
For rookies you did pretty well. I love how real your videos are they feel so genuine. Looks like you all have fun which in the end is the whole point of going. Until you come home and see your credit card bill.
Hahaha Amy is so cute 🥰 that Bueller comparison made me lol
Great video! It's great you had a good time! It sure rained and thunderstormed there a lot. That's one thing you don't have too worry about at Disneyland. Some of the rides broke down a good bit. I guess that's okay though.
Awesome vid!!! I'm glad you had a blast with the fam! I got that same Kennywood shirt, but mine is Black. Woot Woot!
Of all the parks, Epcot is my favorite because I'm an architecture and history nerd and the World Showcase has all that, plus dining. I'm also a fan because my USA soccer Crush, Alex Morgan is famous for her Epcot experience lol, and I like to party like her too!
Here's an architecture tidbit. Cinderella's castle looks wat taller than the 189 ft that it is. It's because of a design called "Forced Perspective" which makes smaller objects larger than it appears. In this instance, Disney makes the building look giant by making the top features thinner than the bottom ones.
Awesome video!!!
I visited Animal Kingdom during Covid reduced guest admission. We did every attraction by 3:30 PM. I doubt I'll ever go back and wait 60-90 minutes for attractions, or pay the ridiculous up charge for the new fast pass.
People think I'm crazy because I love Dinosaur! That ride scares the crap out of me and it's just so wild
I'm a fan of Dinosaur too. It's actually pretty intense. And it seems to be kind of overlooked so the lines aren't the worst. The biggest problem is that since it has a low height limit and involves dinosaurs, little kids go on it and it scares the bejesus out of them.
I thought it was okay but it's track clone Indiana Jones is just so much better themed IMHO.
I wasnt expecting anything from it so i was thrilled with it
Great video as always 👍🏼 I appreciate you sharing your trips and family with us coaster enthusiasts. You have a beautiful family and I enjoy watching your videos for your opinion, tricks and tips for getting through the parks. Thanks you 👍🏼😎👍🏼
Man, I'm so jealous of how much of a trooper Amy is. My son, who turns 2 in late September, would've been a nightmare lol.
We definitely have to manage her lol...we capture her good moments on camera
I think Disney violated the Geneva Conventions regarding torture when they built It’s A Small World.
85 minutes actually isn’t that bad for Flight of Passage, especially in summer! Wonderful ride!
Back row of Space Mountain has so much ejector airtime!
Dang, we got front 2 seats
I was at Disney World this March, always a fun experience. Fortunately got to ride Splash Mountain many times before the dreaded re-theme.
20:13 the cutest thing I've ever seen
I watch every one of your video's Chris...
If you want airtime, you have to go to Europe! Try Kondaa, Taron, Untamed, Hyperion, Ride to Happiness and Expedition G-Force ;-)
Tron looks great! Love to ride that some day... I've ridden the prototype at Toverland in the Netherlands: Boosterbike!
Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland Paris is the best!
Being a huge Disney parks buff, this was really fun to see you enjoy my favorite parks! Thanks for the fun vlog!
I loved taking my kids to Disney. And I also have the same Zippin Pippin shirt!
Hi Chris, been following you for a couple of years now, along with some other coaster channels, you all are fantastic. I live in Australia so we don't have access to what you have, hence great videos!! Thanks for your in depth videos and rankings, you really know your stuff. Keep up the great work.
Hey, this was a great review of WDW- refreshing too!! 😀
Hearing you praise Space Mountain made me remember how much fun I had marathoning it 25 times in 3 days back in 2018
Chris, I’m a Disney pro 3x over, and I’ll be making my fourth trip there next year, with my infant son. Also, my name is Christopher so we got that in common too! I’m looking forward to my fourth time. Great video!
What an awesome trip. My family did this exact park order a few months ago.
Any reason for this park order? I based it on the coasters i wanted to ride the most. Cosmic rewind, then everest, then the 2 at HS
@@AirtimeThrills it was my wife’s idea. Our kid has autism so I think she wanted to ease him into the rides.
I was the guy who setup your rider swap at Thunder Mountain! It was a fun surprise.
My first looping coaster was Tower Of Terror at Camelot. I miss that janky old park.
So glad you had a great trip! I completely agree with your Thunder Mountain take, that thing is awesome!!
Great vlog man! Keep up the good work!!
Currently trying to justify doing this while in Florida for 10 weeks, after already purchasing Universal and Seaworld/BGT annual passes🥴
I bought 4 day passes and it turned out to be like 110 each. Not too bad
@@AirtimeThrills Will have to keep that in mind, definitely wanna get on Guardians at the least!
Being from Florida you made an excellent decision on Universal and Seaworld/BGT. I have the premier and platinum pass and you will can easily get your money's worth with just a couple of visits. Like the premier pass at Universal, free valet on most days, express pass to all express rides after 4 pm, just using that all in one day is more the pass costs. Valet is 75 after like 4pm and just scanning your pass and paying nothing to valet park is so worth having the pass. At Seaworld/BGT the platinum pass gets a 1 year photo pass, major discounts that literally turn a 30 dollar shirt to just under 20 dollars. The the discounted day passes with the ticket, like 40$ day ticket for friends and even better 4 free day tickets per cycle to bring a friend. Platinum pass also good for every SeaWorld property. Best places in the state with getting the most bang for your buck. Disney I have veered away from just because COVID made it hard to there with reservation times. Before Covid I would just go over for an afternoon on a spur of the moment. I hope the pricing for annual passes is lowered for FL resisdents since the last time I looked.
@@hunt6811 That’s great to hear, HHN will also be going on too and I also already have a Fun Spot pass!
@@AirtimeThrills 110 per person per day or just per person?
Sophie has a point about reriding Everest. That's mostly all I did when I went to Animal Kingdom. We went as Pandora was opening, so the rest of the park was quite literally empty. Everest had a 15 mimute wait ALL DAY, with a 5 MINUTE WAIT in the morning! Me and my sister marathoned it all day, breaking for food, bathroom, and to do our fastpasses for Flight of Passage and Navi River Journey (which were both brand new at the time!). I think we got like 25 rides!
Been loving the vlogs 🙂 Can’t wait to see more, which parks are in the cards for the near future?
Next trip will be Texas on labor day weekend. Ill at least vlog SFFT
@@AirtimeThrills hopefully this time the wind doesn’t do it’s thing and close everything
Amy's gonna think Fury 325 is lacking forces, I bet you all
Your kiddos are so adorable! I can't wait to take my kiddos to Disney in a couple years! Awesome video!
1:06-The Real Star of the Video Amy
Last September we rode Rise of Resistance 3x in one day without any reservations. Awesome ride.
If you can get your knees up with Space Mountain's odd T-Bar restraints, you can get some classic janky Arrow ejector on some drops and transitions!
Don’t diss Tower of Terror, that’s my favorite ride of all time, the overall experience is so eerie and the drops are full of airtime, it’s also different every time
Edit: well actually…Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride ever. I just like creepier themes, that’s why I also love Haunted Mansion at Knoebels
The Tower of Terror disrespect is atrocious!!! This is one of my absolute favorite rides ever!!!
I think he was comparing it to the rethemed one at Disneyland.
T of T is great, no matter how many times you ride!
@@timwolfers7880 I know, but as much as I love Guardians of the Galaxy, I personally would much rather keep the horror theme
ToT is the best drop ride in the world (Yes, even better than Falcon’s Fury) simply because it’s so unpredictable and the theming makes it more than a drop tower.
The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride in all of Disney World. There's just so much in there, more little details and in-jokes than you can really take in, and I love the way it gradually builds from mere atmospheric spookiness to a wild and goofy ghost party.
I was there this last June for the 50th anniversary. It was awesome getting to ride all the new rides while revisiting some old favorites (my first visit was in 1996 for the 25th Anniversary).
I've been waiting on you to come here in Hope's of saying hello while I'm at work. Mayne next time.
4 parks in 4 days without a break day in there, and you packed in a lot more rides in a day that I ever managed to when I went there, with a baby in tow... all I can say is, I don't know where you find the stamina.
The last time I went was in 2017 so a lot of these rides weren't open yet, but of the Disney coasters I've ridden, Everest and Big Thunder are my favorites. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is useful as a gauge of the absolute most intense thing my wife and child will ride--if it's gentler than BTMR they'll do it, otherwise, no sale.
A break between parks would have been spectacular. There just isnt enough time though
@@AirtimeThrills On our first trip we did 3 parks/3 days (skipped Hollywood Studios, so I ended up missing my only chance to experience the old back half of the park) and we were so dragging by the end of that that it was hard to think. It didn't help that we were in a relatively large extended family group and it was like herding cats, trying to get everyone pointed in the same direction.
On our second trip, just my immediate family, we did it as a 5 1/2-day vacation and did no parks on the third day, which we spent chilling in the pool at the resort and poking around Disney Springs. (My daughter insists to this day that that was the best day of the vacation.) That helped a lot. It was key for my feet alone. We got enough of a second wind that we actually went back to Epcot for the last half day.
But I think that in general, when I go to theme parks I just can't do stuff with the cadence of your typical theme-park enthusiast. My brain fuzzes out from sensory overload and I go into this sort of GP hypnosis. Having a plan helps. It does complicate things that my family are not thrill-seekers, but my wife naturally doesn't want to be the one escorting the kid *all* day, so I end up having to split off from them and rejoin a lot. Now that kid is a teenager and rather independent, that makes it easier.
...oh, yeah, also, at Disney parks, the thing my kid REALLY likes is the alternate-reality games they have at some of the parks, which involve just burning up hours of time walking around the park looking at things and finding clues. If you're doing that you're not going on a lot of rides.
Great trip and another quality video. Can’t wait for the Daddy/Daughter ranking list!
Aw sweet, bonus footage at 2:20 - I wonder what it will be? [a few seconds later] …dang it.
On a side-note, it’s trippy knowing that, back in 2004, a daily ticket to Disney cost $42. The closest I’ve ever gotten to the Disney experience was Disney Springs back in 2021.
Big fan of your content, not a Big fan of the OU hat lol. Obviously I’m a biased Texas fan though. Either way, great video. Very informative. I’m taking my 7 and 3 year old in September to Disney world for a week. Same trip as your essentially, all four parks.
I’d love to hear a more thorough review and tips on Disneyworld as as whole form you. Like I said big fan. Keep it up. Hook’em 🤘🏻lol
I saw the Jungle Book showing of Kite Tails. The kites in both shows are supposed to crash like that during the show.
Also, I am kinda surprised you didn't mention the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular over at Disney's Hollywood Studios when you were there.
You definitely missed out not riding Ratatouille, it's incredible! And your Flight of Passage statement is blasphemy lol. I think maybe the long line made your experience not as good. I dk, cause that Simpsons ride doesn't even touch FOP haha. Oh well, still love your content and I'm a Disney fanatic.
Did you see the Lion King show in Animal Kingdom?? It's so, so good!!!
I was super disappointed in SDMT too, people hyped it up so much. I was like ummm, ok afterwards lol. I love our Small World but you guys have the superior version in Disney Land.
Rock n roller coaster is legitimately great, I loved it my first time and after four years of being away from it I got back on it pretty certain I had overrated it but I had just as much fun the second time. Great choice for a kiddo’s 150th coaster in my opinion
Saw your wife finally for a quick sec, She's lovely! Tell her she should make an appearance sometime. Beautiful family!
Why you have to get the small world soundtrack stuck in my head 😭, kidding, great video
I was just on Guardians Of The Galaxy last month and me and my mom loved it.
Yay! So glad y’all had a great trip!
Back row of big thunder yonks you. And has some decent airtime.
21:58: good thing I'm not watching this video right before bed
When I rode GOTG Cosmic Rewind, 1st ride The song I got was “One way or Another” and my second ride I got “everyone wants to rule the world”, it’s one of the most rerideable roller coasters in my opinion
Everybody *wants
I had no idea it was different every time til my wife and sophie got off and said they got Gloria estefan
@@AirtimeThrills conga is the worst I’ve gotten it 9 times now
Listening to this on the way to Kings Island for my 3rd time
Rock n roller coaster was my first looping coaster… my parents said it went upside down only once and it really didnt 😭
Did you wind up doing Test Track? Honestly a top 5 Disney World ride.
Had to skip it because of the wait time, but i did ride it in 2012
Anyone that has ridden Cars in Cali will be disappointed by Test Track, at least I was.
You have introduced me to so many top quality parks, I feel disappointed and sad that the disney standards have gone so far downhill, especially for your first family trip.
When I first subbed Sophie could only ride the kiddie rides and now she has more credits than me haha.
I got “Let it go” stuck in my head, thanks a lot for that! Haha
Looking forward to Sophie’s and your rankings!
So you may know this already, but the Patrick from Soarin’ is Patrick Warburton, who does Joe Swanson on Family Guy. He was in a few other Disney works too
glad to see tron testing. maybe it's on track for a 2023 opening. also i hope and pray they dont do the guardian style thing where you have to play the lottery boarding pass system. just let people get in a regular line, and wait. be a shame to go all the way there for that ride, and get told sorry you cant ride b/c our boarding system is full.
Oh i guarantee you the virtual queue is coming...if you play the game its nice. Just too bad if you dont you may be screwed
You look sooooo tired at the end of this video haha. Summer is obviously an absolutely horrendous time to be in Florida with the oppressive heat, humidity, and constant storms....and you went open to close every day, park after park after park, with a kid and infant in tow. I seriously feel bad for you this trip could not have been fun. At least not being very familiar with WDW it seemed like much of it was new and exciting.
We were really tired at the end of the Magic Kingdom day, especially since I was up til about 4am finishing my vlog that came out that day (the Kings Dominion one) we actually left a little bit early that day because we were so done. We stayed til close for all the other parks though, but we definitely did not get there at opening. We arrived to each park between 11-12. I would have loved to but with the family, sleep and rest was necessary.
Space Mountain is still one of my favorite coasters tbh
I agree, tons of airtime on those drops. For such an old coaster they really nailed the drops on it.
Sophie legit the best part of this channel
You planning to go to Universal Orlando next?
Also, when’s the next Buy Or Sell?
Universal Orlando may be next year. Next buy or sell is currently slated for Aug 18 and then I will get back into posting those every 3-4 weeks. This roadtrip has messed with my schedule a little bit since I haven't been able to record.
okay so every coaster at disney i just love but the biggest soft spot i have.... barnstormer first coaster ever
Yeah, Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom is kind more like Disneyland's Matterhorn, just with a space theme, as it has two sides as well. Due to it's popularity they brought it to Disneyland as well, but made some changes due to lack of space, and well, that park already had the Matterhorn, so it's more it's own ride, than a copy of an existing one, a weird history for sure.
Really interesting
Sweet Kennywood shirt bro! What’s better guardians or Hagrids? I like guardians better but I like those movies a lot more…
21:44 Toldya! Space Mountain has some great airtime!
Also, I work at Magic Kingdom and I have a hard time recommending Seven Dwarfs Mine Train just because there’s so much other stuff to do at that park and the line gets crazy. Like, yeah, it’s a fun ride, but definitely not one I go out of my way to do.
This vlog reminded me why I’ll never go to Disney world during the summer again ever
I love your videos and have been watching for a few years but please if you may trade your ou hat for a ok state hat jk but fr in the next year or so can you make another frontier city video
Hmm another FC video I'll see. Not sure what else to do aside from the one I made 2 years ago. Not like they added anything lol
Love the Kennywood T-shirt!!
I'm a Disney enthusiast before a coaster enthusiast so this was a very entertaining vlog! You got a lot of great shots that are neglected by most people which was a nice surprise.
I found you distinguishing the on-ride theming of Tower of Terror as lacking interesting. Tower of Terror, from an on-ride show perspective, has been embarrassing for quite a long time now. The narration, music, and sound effects have been completely out of sync with the visuals since *2008.* In fact, depending on the day you go, the narration may be way too quiet, garbled, contain static, coming from blown out or muted speakers, or sometimes missing altogether. I love the effect with the hallway dimming into a starry sky, but the window at the end is now projected by an HD projector that is incapable of true black so it has an awkward cheap-looking light square around it, and appears to be a completely different color than the rest of the hallway pre-transition. Audio depicting cables snapping and a thunderstorm during the drop sequence has been MIA for months.
Basically, a lot of minuscule things that add up to something much worse than its full potential. They remain unfixed because it's viewed as "good enough" by management. A "they're tourists, whadda they know?" mentality. So I thought you, on your first-ever time at this park, noticing that something was up with the show quality was very interesting since that flies in the face of that mentality. Sorry, I'm a huge nerd about this stuff. It really should be the best ride at the resort, though. If it weren't for the excellent theming in the queue and preshow, I'd share your sentiment completely.
Also just to add - Everest isn't my favorite coaster, but it's my all-time favorite _ride!_ At least my avatar says so. (Sorry about the nightmares!)
I am a Disney GP for sure but just comparing ToT to Guardians, which I personally think is an S-Tier Disney ride, it fell so flat for me. Definitely not really up to Disney's standards it seems to me.
I have been on ToT over 100 times...only once did the ride not sync properly
@@asudevil316 You know that weird bit of dead space after the hallway scene and the doors close, before the elevator ascends to the 5th Dimension scene? It’s supposed to be instantaneous, instead there’s this weird often ~5 second pause where riders sit in the dark staring at a closed door with no bgm or narration. That’s a result of the desynced narration and if you rode anytime since 2008 you’ve definitely experienced it.
Dinosaur is underrated and also my brother works entry at WDW now
You should do a video of the different track designs and track design progression of the major manufacturers, namely Vekoma, Intamin (and how B&M basically used Shockwave’s design), and you should cover the “Jetline” coaster in Grona Lund in Swede. What is going on with that track design??
Going to disney as a coaster enthusiast while my family isn't is awesome. The childhood nostalgia helps too. Also, I definitely agree on Flight of Passage and disagree on MK vs Disneyland. Magic Kingdom has always felt far superior to me
I've been to WDW for over 15 years now and I'm going back there in 10 days and I am getting PUMPED!
My 7yo daughter LOVED Everest when we did WDW last year.
See, I told you Sophie to get yo daddy in ✔️. What did he do to screw up your Magic Band😁Chris🙄Oh wait, Amy saved the day 🤗
Thanks for all the great videos. I’m looking to do a similar trip with my family where we hit multiple Orlando area theme parks. I’m trying to figure our where we would stay and how best to get around. Did you stay on Disney property, off property hotel, VRBO? Rental car? For Busch Gardens and Universal, did you buy 1 day tickets, multi-day tix? What do you recommend? Thanks.
We drove to florida and stayed off property at the springhill suites. We got 4 day passes for 1 park a day
For busch we have sea world platinum passes. Universal last year we did both parks in 1 day but i wouldn't recommend that