Defunctland

And electricity was one of the main things.

There's a wonderful web series called Defunctland, that really heavily details the history of the American amusement park and kind of goes into all of the minutia of this.

And I really recommend it.

It's quite a lot of viewing.

this seems great.

I've got to ask, you know about Defunctland, right? Have you seen Defunctland before?

Yes.

He, he refers back-

Yeah

... to Defunctland as, like, quite, uh...

He, he's very good at citing his sources, and he quite often sends you to a Defunctland video for more information.

Hell yeah.

And there was a, I can't remember the...

it might have been Defunctland, but I don't think so.

There's a YouTube video out there that's like an hour and 30 minutes long, and they talk about this, quote-unquote, "fake theme park." And they essentially use these triangles and circles to show you visually what...

and this was back when it was FastPass, what FastPass does, like how FastPass works, and, you know, if, if the standby line and the FastPass line interact, this is how they interact.

So we got the fast pass.

But because of Defunctland, everyone knows that the reason why shit moves slow is because of the introduction of a fast pass.

Yeah.

Like if fast passes didn't exist, the line would just move.

Tell me more.

There's this really, really great series on YouTube by the YouTuber Defunctland, who I love, uh, that makes these documentaries a lot of the time about, like, Disney history, specifically, like, theme park history sometimes, but also gets into, like, entertainment history.

Um, and, and he made, like, a multi-part series on the life of Jim Henson, like the life and works of Jim Henson and The Muppets and stuff like "The Dark Crystal" and "The Labyrinth" and gets, like, into all of it.

And, and also Jim Henson's, like, personal life and his relationships.

And he died fairly young, and so it's, like, his whole life story.

Uh, so I really recommend that.

Just look up Defunctland, Jim Henson, you'll find it.

Um, but yeah, it's so interesting.

And so I definitely draw a lot from what Walt and the company does.

Me and the kids have been huge fans of a content creator on YouTube, Kevin Perger, who does Defunctland.

I don't know if you're familiar with him or not, but he's done a ton of stuff about defunct theme park rides and all sorts of nonsense stories and tells a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff about Walt Disney World.

And one of my very favorite episodes, and I think I looked back at this recently with the kids, and he's telling the story of how Walt did the deal to get on like ABC and tell the story of Disneyland before the movie would come on or whatever.

It's a living puppet.

If you've seen Defunctland's whole video, it is definitely part of this whole living character initiative.

For as long as this land went, and for all the things that closed, this... attraction was still so popular with not just young kids, but adults.

Like it's a fun prank to try to get someone to sit.