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Ramble #97: A Trip to Japan

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Ramble #97: A Trip to Japan

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OMG Elmo and Cookie Monster standing perfectly still during the US National Anthem is killing me! Lol. Elmo especially looks like an ICE sniper is going to take him for any disloyalty haha

DoctorTargaryen

Does anyone with inside theme park knowledge know why the frozen ride’s flume is painted blue? (it just looks so nice compared to the US disney parks) maybe just bc its brand new. But why don’t they renovate every boat ride and make them pretty like that! I know why. Ok. Nevermind.

Olivia Louise

I'm sure the experience alone of visiting the world's fair was super rewarding but you truly captured the hellscape of shoulder to shoulder, packed, hot and on your feet all day vibe. What a blessing I have of watching it all through your eyes. Thank you

MagicalGirlShame

have you heard of canadian world in hokkaido? it's a small defunct theme park with no rides but it's all dedicated to anne of green gables. to my knowledge it's still operating as a tiny village for visits on select days and some events here and there.

olivia (oliviengren)

20K Leagues Under the Sea was my favorite ride at Disney World as a kid, I wish we got this amazing version to replace it!

Lauren Smith

You should! 🩷 Or read the manga, it's so beautiful and has such a wonderful message about friendship, redemption, and the power of love (as well as the power of friendship between women).

Kat & Kate G.

I'm a fake fan of Spider-Man. My introduction to it was the Raimi movies, and I was obsessed with the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man as a teen. I know a decent amount about the comic book lore but I have never read any of the actual Spider-Man comics. I also am a huge fan of the Spider-Verse movies and I've even cosplayed Spider-Gwen, but have never read the comic series it's based on. A tiny correction around the 55 min mark, I don't believe it's been mentioned, and I loaded a lot of comments. I think Cookie Ann (the dog) is from Hong Kong Disneyland, while Lina Bell (the fox) is from Shanghai Disneyland. I only learned this recently because I had the chance to go to HK Disneyland myself. Hoping to be able to visit DisneySea one day!

trojanteapot

I’m a big fake fan of Sailor Moon. All my friends watched it growing up, but I never did because my parents wouldn’t pay for cable. I’m even thinking of getting a Sailor Moon style tattoo on my back. Never seen an episode!

Kathryn P

Wow, this was such a cool video for me. I worked as a translator at Disney Sea when they worked on the Fantasy Springs and then moved to Osaka for a job at Universal Studios Japan so watching you visit all the familiar places was really fun. Hope you come back again.

Des🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷

Bowser wears four spiked band things! Add it to the list.

Alive_in_tucson

YOUR HOTEL ROOM???? 😭

Jenna Stoddard

I love Donald Duck and I'm always so freaking jealous of the DD merch Tokyo Disney has!!!

Jenna Stoddard

Rick is probably the kirby character that makes me happiest to see. he’s so cute, its crazy, and i used to have a pet hamster with the exact same colours and patterns as rick so everytime i see him i go “awww my cute hamster!!!” im glad hes become the popular pick in the new air riders cus he deserves all the attention in the world

PurpleIsDebeste

oh yeah this is a really good answer, i think the moomins are really cute and i love snuffkin art but my only exposure to the show is watching the opening so i dont actually know anything about them

PurpleIsDebeste

I’m a fake fan of Terry Bogard, the Fatal Fury guy who’s in Smash Bros. I just really like the way he dresses like a trucker, because I like dressing the same way. I bought a replica of his hat because I thought it looked really cool, but never have played a Fatal Fury game.

Mechelle Adams

go in my forest and find my secret job application plaques

PurpleIsDebeste

Man, that 'Together' song is a straight-up vicious earworm. Thank you, Spark!

Michael Newton

I recommended puroland to you ages ago on Twitter so I was so excited when I knew you were finally there! The santa village-esque thing was just a popular aesthetic in Japan back in the 80s-early 90s.

Mariayuri Kumagae

I’m glad I’m not the only poser lmao, I just think Knuckles and Rouge are cute

FreekofNature

I’m getting the impression that Spark-san is like bb8 in that when everyone sees Spark-san they’re like “omg Spark-san, we love you!” and when she isn’t on screen, everyone should be asking “where is Spark-san?”

FreekofNature

The fact that bowser wears like 4 of those thing on his arm and they are being sold by one is wild

Mads

This video brought back memories of my Tokyo Disney trip, but honestly I only remember walking out of the line at Splash Mountain, walking around the castle, and watching the parade lol. Also, still salty that we didn't go to Disney Sea, that's where I wanna go.

Andrea Cervantes

that kirby fish you said was cute is from dreamland 3 for the super nintendo. you should play it. the games are so cool and beautiful, but kirby is nintendo's "kids first videogame" so they aren't too hard and just fun! i'm a fake darksouls fan. i suck at those games, have only beaten 1 of them but i love the art soo much and the idea of being good at them haha also ! great ramble!! long time fan and patreon, and that really reminded me what i find so fascinating about your channel. lowkey nostalgic in some way idk.

Creamer

I'm a fake Sonic fan. I love the Chao and Shadow but I've never played any of the games. My husband is a huuuuuge Sonic fan so I have gotten some knowledge through that and seeing the live action movies.

Natasha

the venn diagram of theme park fans and shoebill stork fans is a circle

ayyydohn

This video was such a treat for me! I usually watch your videos while I’m folding laundry on the weekends. Found some extra things to wash so I could have an excuse to keep watching and thinking “yes, I also have this opinion about theme parks!”

Kim M

I am a fake Disgaea fan (only played a few hours of the first game), but I love Porkmeister from Disgaea 1.

Rubra

COMPASS OF YOUR HEART

Eric MacMillan

😱 when the Spark mascot was revealed on stage between Elmo and Cookie Monster, both of them looking like they were processing a thousand years of trauma in a single moment (Edit having finished the video: I hope you will always spend time on whichever video interests you, and know we will be glad to see it whenever it’s ready! I loved this and I really appreciated the extended footage and commentary.)

Mariam Hale

Just popping in to mention that we have two World Expo ‘67 buildings in Newfoundland at Grand Bank and Grand Falls so some of them have second lives.

Meaghan

I agree. This video was great but it was also clearly a massive amount of effort. My hope was that the Patreon would support main channel videos (which are even higher effort nowadays, though they don't need to be). I would have preferred if this were released as separate smaller videos, ticking off more months and freeing up time for the main channel videos

Ontario Traffic Man

Eevee and vulpix are my favourite Pokémon because they’re cute and I know almost nothing about Pokémon I’ve only played Pokémon snap and not that much, I like bulbasaur too but yeah I only go by how adorable they are and I only know some names of the original lineup I don’t know any new ones haha

Ky

Sonic is so hard, I played it a bit as a kid and just died over and over again

Ky

The way the Beauty and the Beast ride kind of puts you in Belle’s shoes and frames the beast as scary at first really reminds me of the episode of the Where We Parked podcast where they talk about the early Disneyland dark rides where you didn’t see the characters because you were supposed to be the character, and then of course the Snow White ride would be scary because being Snow White would actually be terrifying!! editing to add: having now finished the whole video, I am amazed by the amount of effort that went into this, and it was so incredible to get a peek into the world expo!! I didn't even know that was happening, it's so wild to think that it's all gone now And my fake fan subject is probably pokemon tbh, I've played some pokemon go but none of the other games, but they're just so cute and squishy :)

Logan P

screeched when i saw this i couldnt have asked for a better video

Lebbie

This was so chill and informative, thanks for doing it. I've never seen anything so magical than the Disney Seas part!

Ellis

I'd really like to see Ghosts of the Library in case they ever close it. It's the same tech/development team that made the Mystery Lodge at Knotts Berry Farm, and now the last surviving version of the show

Jenny Nicholson

As an Illinoisan and a person who's visited a few presidential museums: Yes, the Lincoln Presidential Museum is pretty good! There's also a neat place called Lincoln's New Salem, living history kind of place. Recommend them both! I am so excited for the upcoming Obama museum in Chicago.

Clinton Weir

I am a fake fan of Cinnamoroll solely because I won a small plush of him from a claw machine, and every time I look at him I get to relive my moment of triumph.

Simone

What is this revisionism? a human beast during ‘a tale as old as time’? not for me 😂

Janine

Amazing video <3

run_away

Small worlds is a really cute place to visit, when I went it was really busy though but we still had lots of fun. We went joypolis earlier this year (for the Charisma House collab, cringe I know lol) and it had lots of cute little rides and things that meant we didn’t have time to go on the skateboard ride (plus the queue for that was really long). There’s a ride where you walk through a musical forest and answer questions to get your future/personality told, it’s really fun!

Orca

Man, I need to stop being poor and travel. This was sooo fun for me to watch.

Richard Wilson

28:36 Dream Marine spotted !! I love seeing other Lolitas in the wild c:

lexmilkman

“Global Warming, nice.” Lindsay is hilarious.

David A Behlman

I was in Tokyo Disney just this summer (in August, absolutely not recommended as it was the hottest and sweatiest I have ever been in my entire life) and this sure brings me back. It was one of my favorite trips regardless of the heat and exhaustion :)

Lottie Lynn

ahhhhh reminds me of my trip to japan. I love Disney SEAS

Penter James

Having hours of rambles to joyfully binge has gotten me through a very difficult workweek. Thanks a lot!

theearthhoteloperator

thanks for the fun video, Jenny! my fake fan appreciation is for sonic, I tried to play the first game but it just wasn't for me. but sonic and tails are my little guys

c

I'm gonna make it my goal to have SPARK in my spotify wrapped next year. That whole presentation feels so fun but also weirdly ominous maybe bc its the US....Also for being a fake fan, I'm sure many prowrestling fans would argue I'm a fake fan despite the fact I watch a lot of the weekly shows now but I didnt grow up with it and I havent watched a lot of stuff from the golden era of wrestling in the 80s or 90s. Also Im running a film club now and realizing how much of a fake cinephile I am with how much I havent watched but hold opinions on.

Sheren

I visited Puroland a little over a year ago, and I had the same thought you did about the Santa's village feeling. I thought it felt like an old fantasy park with Hello Kitty slapped on at the last minute. I ended up going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why that is, and it's actually kind of true! I'd have to dig again to find it, but I ended up reading an interview with an American who worked on the original building of the park. The person who designed most of the park did not intend it to be a 'Hello Kitty' park. He intended it to be a brand new world with brand new characters, the Puros. The word "Puro" is supposed to be a combination of the words piero (clown) and pure , and the little santa's elf characters you saw are actually the Puros. Little clown characters from another planet. The park was designed to be their town and each of the characters had their own area with the little factories and animatronic forest animals. I hope I'm not misremembering but, when the park's design came back to the CEO of Sanrio he was mad that there was no Hello Kitty and said like, hey slap Hello Kitty in there. And that's why she feels so forced on top of an unrelated park. The official lore is still that we are in Puroland, where Hello Kitty is a visitor (but she's also like...a princess there now?). I think the boat ride originally followed Hello Kitty traveling to Puroland and meeting the Puros. Slowly over time the Puros have almost totally disappeared from the park to be replaced by more recognizable Sanrio characters. It was a fascinating thing to dig into, but there wasn't a lot of info out there.

starf

The first time I went to Disney World was in 2014, and Duffy was everywhere. He was in basically every gift shop and just being pushed by the park in general (I recall there being some kind of Duffy passport?). I was absolutely desperate for a full-sized plush, but my parents firmly refused, and I scraped together whatever money I had to get a tiny magnetic Duffy, which was supposed to be attached to a fridge or something, although I didn't even have a magnetic fridge, it was just the closest to him I could get. We went to International Drive, and there was a huge outlet store for Disney, and they had a whole wall of Duffy. That was my first clue that not everyone loved him as much as I did. But at least I managed to get the full-sized Build-A-Bear version for less than what I paid for my mini Duffy magnet. Not long after that, we were in EPCOT, and there was a character meet and greet with Duffy himself, with literally no one in the queue. My sister forced me to meet him, even though I hate meeting characters, as I just freeze up. There's a picture of eleven-year-old me with Duffy, and every time I see it, I am filled with the awkwardness I felt when it was taken. We were hanging around that area for a while, and I was literally the only person to take a photo with him. Something about that interaction made me no longer want to play with my Duffy bear, as if it was infused with the spirit of my own embarrassment. I donated him to charity when I got home, though I think we still have the magnet, and he pops up every once in a while, presumably to remind me that I so callously discarded his bigger, less functional counterpart (he has very convenient, articulatable magnetic limbs). We went back to Disney World in 2019 and, predictably, he was nowhere to be found. I had a vague understanding that he was more popular elsewhere, but seeing how popular he is in Japan has warmed whatever remains of my eleven-year-old self's heart. And I now also appreciate that I had a pretty rare experience with him (at least in the American parks). All that to say, I'm sorry I was too much of a coward to love you Duffy!

Belle

I honestly had no idea that World's Fairs were a thing so thank you! The only time I've heard of one was in the 30's. Somehow it's completely slipped past me

Caitlin Oddy

I'm also a fake fan of Kirby. I've only played smash with him and I tried his newest game. He's so cute but also I just don't care about the games

Jules Hancock

vegetarian/vegan options in japan are soooo limited, even in high-traffic areas like tokyo/osaka/kyoto u__u if you ever go back, vegeproject has a big masterlist/map of veggie restaurants!!!

moon jellyfish

For characters I like but haven't consumed the media of, it used to be Bluey but then I watched the show and really liked it. I guess now the closest thing is pre-breath of the wild Zelda because I really like legend of Zelda but I have never beaten any of the games made before breath of the wild

Sean Ellis

Great video, we must get over there some day! I'm a Badtz Maru fan but have never consumed any media.

bobz

I like how Jenny always calls it "Pandora: The World of Avatar" like she's a paid Disney influencer using the full legal name. Maybe I'm a fake Hades (the game) fan? I don't want to play it, couldn't get through watching a playthrough but I own two shirts because I like the art. I'm too scared to wear them outside because I fear I will meet a guy who will use this as proof that all girls are fake gamers lol

SniperBruceDog

I ADORE Bridget from Guilty Gear. I watched the clips of her story on YouTube, but never played the games or watched the anime. Fake fan, but I love her, she's a trans icon.

Max Kircher

Damn! this video is such a treat!!!!!! Thank you jenny :)

Occa Americana

This was delightful! We were in Japan just a month before you. I did all the planning and opted to skip the Osaka Expo, so it was fun to see what we had missed. Komeda Coffee is absolutely on my list for next time, that melon float sounds amazing!

C Hill

I was just gonna say, honestly

Jodi Hoffman

My fake fan is NiGHTS. I only really know NiGHTS from the sonic games he's in and I've watched videos of his games being played. But I really have no way to play the new game and I tried playing the first one and couldn't get into it. NiGHTS is one of my favorite characters of all time lmao

Scott Carter

This is such a fun video, thanks for sharing your trip!! :D I've always dreamed of going to Japan and seeing snap shots of your trip and all the beautiful theme parks and the expo has me even more hyped! & your merchandise choices were so perfect~

nok

Jenny always there for the merch that gets feedback like “This is too specific/niche/obscure to sell well” but makes it on to the shelf anyway lol I’m a fake fan of Mareep

Evan Samanas

Thank you for taking the extra time to put this video together! How exciting to have been able to go to such cool place with your friends, especially during a World Expo. It was a treat to be able to experience some of it second hand. This video got me excited to start planning my travel for the coming year.

Laura Rodriguez

This video was so fun! Midwest snow and grey days have me so down, your videos are always a great was to escape and enjoy a fun deep dive into anything and everything! Super fun video!

Eva

Now that I have seen the rest, two things. One: imagine working at that USA pavilion and just getting blasted by that song day in day out for the entirety of the expo xD Two: answering the question at the end! I used to have such a character: Hatsune Miku. Knew next to nothing about her but I'd get excited every time I saw her. But I've since become a proper fan and even attended her concerts xD One of which was in 2020 right before the lockdowns started happening

Roxanne Giling

Ah! They went to Sanrio Puroland! I live near there! "extremely mundane part of town" ....I...well....ok, yeah, that's fair. Loved your World's Fair videos. I went there earlier in the year and loved it. My favorite parts were the Commons buildings with all the countries that couldn't afford to make a proper pavilion. They were like food courts of culture. Also: they are making a specific Pokemon Park inside Yomiuri Land theme park (west of Tokyo, close..ish to Sanrio Puroland), with lifesize Poke centers and everything. I went to Yomiuri Land recently and glimpsed some of the buildings and the Pokemon town they were building. It'll be like walking around the game. You'll have to come back to Japan!

Jordan

For those who love that USA Pavilion mascot Spark's song and want to listen to it without a Spotify or Apple Music login, some Japanese poster linked the album for both the Japanese and English versions uploaded to a Spotify knockoff here: https://t.co/wRsNyiVV5e There isn't just one "main" song despite the official accounts calling the song title "Together." There's many versions of the song depending on where you are in what I assume is the walking tour/show of the pavilion. The intro part "Connections" is probably the best, uninterrupted song without long stretches of no singing for scenes to be playing. The vocalist is a Japanese artist with the stage name Sincere and usually has the handle "sincere_tanya" for her socials if you want to look her up.

Willsun

Elmo and Cookie Monster looking like they have returned from war and are seeing through empty patriotic pageantry for the first time.

Neil Dutton

I want more Japanese Eeyore.

Ian Fiebig

🎤👩🏻🧍‍♂️⭐🧍‍♂️

Neosaneo

Let's see what fulfilled and heartwarming surprises Jenny and her friends have in store

Garrett Gilchrist

Is she ... you know ... a Friend of Duffy?

Garrett Gilchrist

This made my boring day a lot better! I felt like I was there with you

Lindsey Keefer

I'm laughing about as loud as you're screaming every time a shark pops out of the water.

Ali Anne

Speaking of Rainforest Cafe, Tracy Tree herself will have to be the character I have the "fakest" fandom for! I don't know her lore, I don't know the names of any of the actresses that voiced her, and I forgot the name of the company that manufactured her long ago, so I can hardly call myself a stan. However, if there's an existing Rainforest Cafe nearby, I will sneak my way into the giftshop so I can briefly pay my respects because she's the one aspect of the chain that my brother and I got the most attached to. I never got to go to FAO Schwarz as a child, so Tracy was , is and will forever be the definitive talking tree animatronic of my childhood, probably even my entire life!

Alice Lastname

Idk if that's the most recent update but she replied to a comment on the ramble master post in August saying that it was still in the works. She doesn't work on videos in a linear way, so we don't know when will it be done. I think the barbie one will probably be out first? But yeah I think she's probably still working on it but prioritizing other videos atm. I'm excited for it too :)

Shamhatty

By that standard, I'd say I'm a fake fan of most parks in general lol

Alice Lastname

loved this video so much! Jenny doing theme park related content is always the best!

Alejandro Escobar

This was such a fun video! I hadn’t seen anything about the World’s Fair before, it was waaaay more crowded than I expected! Really cool though, I liked the jellyfish place best I think. If I’m a fake fan of anything it’s probably camping. I get excited to go camping and have gear for it, but when I do go camping what I like about it is mostly just how much time I have to read😅

Rhiannon Dorough

I wanted to go to the World's Fair but not quite enough to spend the money and vacation days on it, so it was very cool to get this whole rundown of the experience!

Daniel Anderson

I scrubbed through the footage showing all the american national parks and points of interest for anything from Washington state. Why am I slightly devastated that I didn't see anything? I'm sure it was there, the Hoh Rainforest and Mt. Rainier at least, and it just didn't make it into the footage.

Cedar Woods

The characters I was a “fake fan” of were definitely Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) and Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan.) I was always thrilled when they showed up in Marvel movies and stuff. Happy to say I’m a “real fan” now— I read captain Marvel’s 2019 comic run (by Kelly Thompson) and the main Ms Marvel run, and they were both very good!

Hayley Mills

Imagine getting angry about somebody filming a ride malfunction but then being so passive you have to complain online about it sheesh. People need to touch grass and stop licking corporate boot

Snausage

The cut to Spark with Elmo and Cookie Monster standing solemnly to its sides nearly killed me

Perry

It looks almost exactly like the Indian motorcycles logo/brand but even then it's extra weird that it's on a hat in Tokyo Disney??

Elyse

This vlog was such a treat!! Thank you for the extra editing, seeing your trip was delightful!

Elyse

Those Duffys look like cheap knock offs and seem out of place in the park. And it's really disappointing to hear that you got grief from some people. It sounds pretty creepy.

William Palmer

I’m obsessed with the Boo hat omg 😭

Gavin Rodgers

My YT recap told me I was in Jenny's top .6% of viewers lol. anyone else? apparently I watch (rewatched) 116 Jenny vids this year

Mighties

This was everything thank you Jenny 🥹🥹 makes me wonder how many cool vlogs there are that we’ll never see cus they haven’t won the ramble topic 💔💔

Korey

We need the Barbie video Jenny 😭

DnTMilly

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Jack

I loaded a bunch but not all of the comments, but that blue sunfish from Kirby is Kine! I love sunfish so he's one of my favorites. He has a lot of cute animations in Kirby's Dream Land 3! And I'm also a fake fan of the Dragon Quest slimes! I love their similarly vacant stares and big googly eyes, but I've never played a dragon quest

Derek

I am actually crying why was Elmo and Cookie Monster hanging out with spark

Katelyn Benson

Do you have like… a display setup for all your hats? They’re so adorable

Lizzie

tokyo disney looks amazing. Guess Im a fake fun of that, love people talking about it, but doubt I ever go.

Birthe_bird

having worked in staff and guest relations really IS a superpower, you find each other across languages and borders and you just want to be nice to each other. it's cool jenny jenny did you see anything about Taroman in osaka....it was this crazy surrealist tokusatsu movie made by the guy who made the tower of the sun that was havng a release for the end if the expo... i am a fake fan of so many things in that way that my friends call those chracters "blorbo in law" and it's great i'm always happy when i can send my friend a pic of their favorite blue ranger from 1981 Taiyō Sentai Sun Vulcan

heavvymetalqueen

Moonmins are mine; I have quite a lot of moomin stuff but I have never actually watched their stuff, I just like the vibe! Minatures worlds is really good; the evangelian section is really impressive, even if you’ve never seen the show, and it’s in walking distance of teamlabs which is handy!

Ella Wharton

I thought the same thing. Seems like being are being overly angry or judgmental lately, especially when talking about the ride breaking down.

Richard R.

not the mystical super bell!!!!!

Boypretties

There is a fully plant-based Komeda in Ginza, it is called Komeda is □, but unfortunately it has it's own theming and doesn't look like a regular Komeda 😓

AnKo .

Japan seems like a country specifically designed to delight Jenny

Cyrus Potter

That poor poor poor American ambassador guy, oh my gosh, I felt so bad, he was really trying. But man, I LOVE those japanese them parks. Just went to Disneyland, and I just wish we had rides half that fun here. the original park should either be the benchmark, or hold the greatest traditional rides!

Richard R.

You should check out Mascot Minutes Silence on twitter. It’s mostly mascots at English soccer matches trying to look solemn at Remembrance Day events. The giraffes and swans have an advantage because their long necks make it easy to solemnly bow. On the other hand the ones with rictus grins on their giant heads are at an obvious disadvantage

Jem Swagbird

elmo and cookie monster standing dead still (mouth slightly a jar), respectfully listening to the national anthem is a sight

Jeen

Spark for President/Goddess of the United States of America!

Joel Eblin

I went to japan back in may and went to all of these parks, so this was very fun to watch! Also had a pretty similar experience at expo haha. Nearly all the pavilions I went into had mandatory video segments (at the start/end), I thought if people were able to walk through the attractions and the video was just an optional room, the lines would move much faster... but yeah I'm still glad I went! I also went to ghibli park (it has a small museum there too about the 2005 worlds fair) and shima spain. Thanks for the great video : D

Bridget

wow the beauty and the beast ride looks cool, but i worry i would get sick on teacups. i am shocked and delighted that japan loves the country bears :)

Stephanie Oehmen

I think those shadow puppets in the Sinbad ride are a reference to Lotte Reiniger's Adventures of Prince Achmed, the first feature-length animated movie. They certainly look similar! It's a really interesting watch, Reiniger specialized in intricate silhouette puppets with delicate features and lush environments. Fair warning that it Prince Achmed is Do You See This Sh*t Edward Said levels of Orientalist though.

Magistrissa

The singalong tapes were so iconic and I've never heard anyone mention them outside my family! We had the under the sea one and I watched it long before I watched the Disney Little Mermaid (my grandma got us the Golden Films version instead!)

Magistrissa

Same lol. I wonder if it’s simply a question of demographic. Jenny was probably a teen when it came out and the targetted audiance seemed to be kids ~7yo.

Francis Dutil

I'm a new supporter and I've been going through all the exclusive videos (in a massive binge). Anyway, I heard several mentions of a mystery furry video from a few years ago. Does anyone know the most recent update on that, is it in the "grave yard"? I'm a furry so I'm curious :o also good Japan vid Jenny!

Avery Miller

I’m deep in my own Japan trip planning and debating whether I could fit Tokyo Disney into my already chaotic itinerary, and this video just talked me into it. Appreciate all the effort!

Eddie Guers

actually before i forget: for anyone who has been to puroland, was there any monkichi merch? he is my favourite sanrio guy

Ariadne

I know I’ll be sad to see it but I am curious what the mean video is

Ren ☆

i am a fake fan of fei-yen from virtual on. i've never played the games, but i also don't know anyone who has either so it's fine. she's just such a cute robot design

Ariadne

i LOVE rick the hamster from something Kirby related. I've only recently discovered him in the new kirby air ride, but I always choose him he's precious!!!!

maren

I just listened to this while getting a badly impacted wisdom tooth taken out, and am so very grateful that I had your Splash Mountain misadventure to distract me during the worst bits of it!

Callie C

I'm a fake fan of Gritty the NHL Mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers. I am not a Flyers fan, and only just recently started watching Hockey at the lower league levels but I have loved Gritty since his debut in 2018. I have consumed media about him because that's how I found him.

Cat K

Also George Lucas Talk Show. The concept is funny and I like the people involved but it’s just too long and boring to actually watch 😂

Fiona V

I’m a fake fan of Ice Gator from Blizzard Beach. I’ve never been and probably never will because I don’t like water parks, but he’s so cute and I love the whole theme!

Fiona V

Hearing Jenny describe Turtle Talk with Crush as disappointing after watching the multi hour Defunctland documentary on its development was quite the whiplash.

tobo

i own 3 steve harrington funko pops and i literally have only watched half a season of stranger things (and hated it). i don't even buy that many funko pops, and i also don't own any duplicate characters other than steve. but that's my baby boy.

lughosti

the scream i scrumpt when she turned that corner and a man was suddenly “american pie”

Nicolle (MaGoo)

I loved this video and it was time well spent! Thank you! I’m a fake fan of Eevee. I know nothing about her (is she a girl?), but I think she is the best, cutest Pokémon.

Kimberly

Jenny just repeating "this is sick" the whole pooh ride is a vibe... that version looks amazing

Nathaniel Snow

Love these vlog type vids, thank you!

Cafe Equinox

I have these two elf figurines from Lineage II that I pined after for YEARS based on aesthetic and aesthetic alone. Idk anything about the game. From what little I know I think I’d actually hate it. Lol! But I love them so much. Pretty hair and long fantasy mage staffs. Who needs more? Speaking of baby yoda. One of my best friends/coworkers knew how much I complained about his ubiquity in marketing and how Zero percent I was interested in the show, and as a prank, decorated my cubicle to the nines with baby yoda merch. It was SUCH a delightful anti-gift (I mean, it meant my friend knew me well enough to anti gift me. I was honored) that I put the big beanbag plush baby yoda he put in my chair on display at the office. And then my nightmare happened; I was out of office and a client came through and said “oh she likes baby yoda, I’ll have to remember that!” My Boy went into a drawer, never to re-emerge.

Amy Cooper

Full blown ‘Nam flashback vibes “…. We killed a lot of men to get here, Cookie Monster.”

Sarah Dillard

Me and the Philly Phanatic and his brother Slyly. I literally could not tell you what sport they're mascots for, I just think they're adorable. I love that these two professional sport teams decided to give their mascots lore that transcends international borders.

kodieshmodie

omg yes i know what you mean about feeling like a fake fan of a character you just love the design for! for me, i feel that way about ramuda from hypnosis microphone—my friends were super into it for a while, and when i went shopping for gifts for them i came across this character. i love his design because he’s got such cute, fluffy, cotton candy looking hair, but i could not tell you a thing about him beyond the fact that he’s allegedly kinda evil. also i wanted to say that i really really appreciated the extra effort for this video! it definitely felt like a special treat, thank you for all you do!!

starrydewdrops

I’m a fake Batman fan lol. I like the concept and his vibe and I get excited when he’s in things, but I don’t like reading comics and I don’t like most of his movies

Haley Hansen

The national anthem with Spark bopping around between a stoic Elmo and Cookie Monster may have been the most unintentionally funny thing I’ve ever seen

John Oliva

19:01 Wait why does that hat just say "Indian" in cursive???

Colin Clarke

Since tone cannot be conveyed over the internet, I will preface this with: I am saying this to you gently. Song of the South and James Baskett's role in it was always controversial. It was controversial with both black and white audiences/critics from its initial release.

Raye

Can

The Keochinda-Williams Family

i'm so obsessed with the pitcher plant bag, oh my god.....

Milo

"Pokemon: Extremely Stoppable!"

Keith Jacobsen

i’m a fake creature from the black lagoon fan- i think his design is so cute but just do not care about that movie at all

Sterling Desrosiers

Seeing the “magical super bell” clip again brings me so much joy

Parker Nisbett

I am totally in the same boat about the slimes from dragon quest!! I played the Rocket Slime DS game to death as a kid and fell in love with all the different kinds of slimes. What I would give for a steam port of the game and the rest of the Rocket Slime subseries (or even just a good way to play it in english) There is so much cool slime merch out there now but none of it ever seems easy and reasonable to get in the US.

Joshua Young

Major tain stations are just hell in general. My husband had a breakdown in Gare Du Nord because it was absolutely packed to the point where we had to go outside to find a place to sit down because every even remotely flat surface was occupied.

The Moogs

I was a fake Sonic fan before playing the games and becoming a full fledged one

Coaster Conquerer

So you only watch Dead Meat? Lol

Coaster Conquerer

I'm a fake fan of Loona from Helluva Boss. Love her design and aesthetic and just like Jenny I have a plushie of the character I'm a fake fan of. I've only seen like 3 episodes of Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel, went the animation, music and character designs are fantastic and then just lost interest

Coaster Conquerer

LOVE U JENNY, such a great video!! I'm a fake ironic but not ironic fan of Labubus. At first I thought they were so annoying and I hated them. But then I just kept seeing them everywhere. in my darkest moments, labubu was there. watching. waiting. So I just accepted them into my life. I don't own a single one and I know nothing about them. But now whenever I see a Labubu I say LABUBU! and genuinely it gives me a smile. it went from hating them to ironically liking them as a joke to now I think I genuinely like them. I'd never buy one but I enjoy their presence.

Sophie

That Teddy Roosevelt lounge looked amazing!

Chunk Crouton

absolutely worth the extra time and energy, jenny! i am inspired and want to go on the Jaws ride so badly.

Roslyn Potter

I can't think of a character I'm a fake fan of, but the one thing I can think of is that I'm kind of a fake fan of horror movies. I'm very intrigued by them, I'll read synopses or watch recap videos of them, and I enjoy it when they come up in conversation with actual horror fans. But I'm WAY too easily scared and anxious to actually watch them 😅

Delphine

my favourite video EVER!! convinced me to book my flights to japan

Maeve O'Brien

Thank you so much for the ramble Jenny, I absolutely appreciated the effort, this was such a treat!! I don't think I can accurately convey how hard I laughed at Spark bopping along to the national anthem next to an incredibly solemn Elmo. Also as a total bird nerd I adore shoebills, Big Bill is incredible (SUCH a name). Good luck with the video and I hope you have a restful and festive December!!

Alice Parkin

Watching this from Korea, I'll be in Japan next week. Definitely avoid major train stations, esp. in Tokyo, if crowds stress you out. Shinjuku, Shibuya can all be nightmares during rush hour, and I can't imagine trying to navigate them with luggage if you don't know your way. Glad you had someone help you during your shinkansen travel.

Dave Ruff

This video was such a delight to watch!! Thank you so much for all of your work, i can't believe how detailed and entertaining it was!!! Amazing content as per usual!!

Jase Wytaske

was looking forward to the explanation of your eye headband/cuff thing and it did not disappoint lol. also loved employment forest

nel

I guess I would count myself as a fake fan of Mumin. Love the characters and the Scandy earthy wholesomeness they represent but haven't sat down and read/watched anything of theirs.

Christopher E Musgrave

It's so sad growing up with Uncle Remus only be told repeatedly as an adult that your childhood hero was "racist" and the actor's entire legacy erased as a result of overly-sensitive progressive types but aside from that 10/10 quality ramble.

Voidscribe

Jenny never lets me down. This was… needed lol

Gavin Rodgers

PomPomPurin! I love him, he’s just a little guy, I have several plushies, but I do not know his lore.

Jadey Wadey

I love watching breakdowns of the final GoT season, although I've never watched even a single episode of the show.

My Summer Rain

BIG CHALLENGES IN THE SANRIO RIDE 💚💚💚

usedtobeaduchess

Nyehhh another repulsive video, Your Maliciousness

Sebastian Payne

im a little sad to say this but i'm a fake sonic fan! :') i never played the games except for Mario and Sonic at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for the nintendo ds but i feel like that doesn't count. when i was a nanny i watched all the new sonic movies with the kids and started to get really into sonic and then i saw sonic 3 and became OBSESSED with shadow. the other sonic characters are lovely and very cute too but shadow has some kind of special sauce. i had to have the shadow build a bear and now he is like a son to me even though this is all a new interest

Maddy

1:19:05 I laughed so hard I thought I might have a stroke.

Johnathan Reale

Yay loved the video !! Am new to the Patreon so it’s awesome seeing this whole other world :) I’m totally a fake Garfield fan, never really read the comics but I love him as a cultural figure and somewhere in the garage at my mom’s house there is a Garfield plush where he is wearing slippers of his own head

Adelaide Breen

I have now watched this twice, and can say with certainty that I love this type of content, specifically from your channel. Would absolutely love to see more travel vlogs

Karnevale

Crazy idea: what if they also used mops indoors so they don't need to crawl around in the soggy bathroom?

Ontario Traffic Man

If only the Star Wars hotel had seated guests in teacups that wobble around the dining hall

Ontario Traffic Man

Title of your fanfic?

Ontario Traffic Man

Nijntje! Lief klein konijntje

Ontario Traffic Man

Really loved this video! I feel like I'll never get the chance to visit the Tokyo Disney parks (I'm a fake fan of theme parks), so watching your earnest enjoyment of all the elements was really great :)

Georgie Rowe

I thought I'd just be super jealous watching this video but it was so fun I kinda just felt like I was there anyway! Obsessed with your Jaws hand puppet you were walking around with hehe

Meggy

I'm a fake fan of citical roll, I couldn't keep up with the 5 hour episodes but i LOVE the character designs and I'm always happy to see fanart of them

Towers of Hanoi

Omg this video is so wonderful and I’m sure took a long time thank you so much for making this!!!

Alicia Limon

I’m a fake sonic fan! I have never played a sonic game and didn’t really watch sonic growing up but I love how sonic characters look.

Angelica Nyneave

My understanding is Japanese might dry their own bathroom floors by hand using towels. This is because many Japanese bathrooms are "wet" bathrooms where the shower can spray anywhere in the bathroom (there's a drain in the floor and no designated area to shower.) With this in mind, it makes sense that they also dry their wet stage of excess water using hand powered toweling. They aren't really cleaning the stage per se where they would want to use a mop, they're just soaking up excess water... which is somewhat similar to what they do in "wet" bathrooms. Basically, drying versus cleaning.

Alexander Jhin

This video was so much fun, really appreciate all the work that went into it!! I also cannot believe shoebill storks are real, modern animals.... fell down a whole shoebill stork rabbit hole after this

Cameron Taylor

I did too! The human brain is pretty cool.

Munchy Lunchco

Wow wow wow wow almost three hours of footage!! Thank you so much for filming so much of your trip. I very much want to go to Japan someday, but travelling in general causes me psychic damage, so I'm living vicariously through you right now.

Munchy Lunchco

I’m a fake fan of moomins I think they’re so cute but I’ve never seen it or read it

Georgie

Isn't there no media of Big Challenges? I thought he was just a concept (and our king)

Mizzy

I don't get attached to characters that I haven't loved or engaged with their media! So I don't think I'm a "fake fan" of anything, although last time I was in japan I bought little deer Pokémon charm (idk her name, I don't know Pokémon, my friends wanted to go to the Pokémon center and I wanted to get SOMETHING lol..my big poser claim to fame!)

Mizzy

You made me realize I love Tangled so much because it actually has a nice romance (is it the last Disney with a truly romantic love story??) - a bit sad to see the ride is so short though! I had only seen the lantern room online and didn't realize that was kinda..it.. I'm also definitely a fake pokemon fan. I watched the cartoon as a kid and then played one game, owned a bunch of cards...haven't touched anything else related to pokemon in maybe twenty years. Would still wear a mimikyu hat in a heartbeat though.

Elise

I hate to be the one to tell you this but I believe that alligator in the ride at Puroland was actually Pochi (Badtz-Maru’s pet alligator), not Big Challenges. Obviously the only way to remedy this oversight is to give Big Challenges a dark ride dedicated solely to him, if not an entire section of the park.

Maerose Pepe

I feel like it's impossible to be a fake fan of Untitled Goose Game because really you are being a fan of an entity that is Essence of Goose. Just, the the most goose in the world.

Eddie Farmer

Omg I want to go on that Jaws ride soooo much now! I'm so glad one still exists, I mainly know about it from the old episode of Defunctland about the one in the US. Plus I love the idea of a boat skipper who is just freaking out at the same time the passengers are.

Eddie Farmer

I LOVED this video! Thank you for taking the extra time.

Chu

Was the food court the only thing in the Nepal pavilion? Maybe they had Mount Everest in there and you didn’t see it. Did they at least have Nepalese food or was it a choice between Arby’s and Chik-fil-A?

Louis Z

yep, this is the best ramble, thank you for your service jenny

Matt Silva

Who's that little black plush with the pink spikes? What's her story?

Brando

Maybe that was one of the scenes in the original ride and they replaced it with like the monkey room that smells like bananas

Jenny Nicholson

Me tooo

Shamhatty

Learning to gentle parent yourself is next level maturity and something more of us could really benefit from 😅

freff

I think this has been my favorite Ramble yet!!!

papernautilus

The really funny thing is that the actual sinbad, the sailor stories sinbad is like super dupa and violent and fucked up, and the overall framing of the stoy is super duper.Religious, which I feel like doesn't get that connotation gets completely forgotten, but I guess it's kind of like the little mermaid, which is also super religious.But yeah.It's just such a weird story.I don't even know why it got popular.Because I was like by the end of it.You're like, man this sinbad guy sucks.So bad, if I saw this dude in real life, I would get the heck out of there because he just brings death and misery to anybody that comes around him

Cormano Wild

The actual Sinbad—the sailor tales from A Thousand and One Nights—is all, like, super fucked up. He’s not a marauder; they’re very specific that he’s supposed to be this pious Muslim merchant, the ideal Muslim guy, except he just repeatedly goes gallivanting on incredibly poorly thought-out adventures that inevitably end up with literally everybody other than him brutally dying. And he somehow makes a ton of money at the end of it and gets home, and he’s like, “Inshallah, I’ll never do that again,” and then, like, a year later, he’s like, “But I got bored,” and decides to brutally condemn another couple hundred sailors to horrible deaths because he knows for a fact that he’s the least lucky fucking person who ever lived. And the one that I just specifically remember is: he goes to some island and gets tossed in a tomb by this weird group of tomb enthusiasts who are like, “Yeah, we like to throw people in tombs.” And he’s like, “Well, this sucks. I’m gonna starve to death in this tomb.” And then he’s like, “Oh wait—they’re gonna keep throwing other people into the tomb.” So he just waits by the “drop people here” part of the tomb and then just kills and eats the corpses of the other people they keep throwing in, including specifically women and young brides, so probably children by, you know, islam circa one thousand ad standards. And he does this for an indeterminate amount of time before finally escaping. And then he gets back, and he’s like, “Inshallah, Allah is great.” And I’m like, is He great? Because you just fucking ate, like, twenty-five different innocent women, a bunch of whom were probably teenagers at best. That doesn’t seem like a godly activity to do.

Cormano Wild

thanks for the long video! i really enjoyed this one i think i'd say i'm a fake fan of pokemon. i think pokemon themselves are so adorable and i have a ton of pokemon plushies, but i can't stand the games

alextwt

I imagined you'd be in a tea cup which was constantly positioned behind poles of various kinds to block your view of the animatronics, glad to see that wasn't an issue 🙏

Avery Miller

THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR THIS! What a treat! Thanks for all the extra work!

Noah

i used to get so extremely hype for moomin without ever consuming the books or show/movies and have very recently been reading the english translations of the books i also have never played tamagotchi but am very endeared by pochitchi...

bees r

i love kirby and sanrio kirimichan i don't need to know what their deal is

madeleine lee

i’m a fake duffy fan but i haven’t watched the little shows or books about the friends but i LOVEEE duffy

Caleb Carley

lovedddddd this video

Caleb Carley

- I like how assertively you said you werent going to show any footage of sanrio park and then immediately started showing the footage - I just got back from japan four days ago and bought the exact same dudunsparce pencil case and jaws keychain plush!! I'm a fake fan of a lot of things but suddenly can't think of any off the top of my head. Def Pikmin (love them, never played the games) and Jaws (I loooove the ride and have several pieces of merch, haven't watched the movie) and sailor moon....but I feel like Pikmin and sailor moon are pretty basic picks and maybe liking the ride so much makes me less of a fake fan of jaws? This time I went to universal with the sole focus of doing the apothecary diaries experience and then looping jaws as much as I could until the park closed. But then my friend I was traveling with ended up coming and booking us a bunch of express passes so I only rode jaws once 😭 but at least I got to ride donkey Kong (haven't been to epic yet), and the detective Conan 4d show surprised me! It had live acting elements whereas the chainsaw man one I went to last time was purely screen. Maybe that also makes me a fake detective Conan fan.

Jyn

I love this video!!! I always rewatch your theme park vlog type videos and this will be such a fun and cute one to rewatch. I looooved seeing that sinbad ride, it’s so cutesy and I love that they have a whole Aladdin land there. I’m a fake sorcerer Mickey fan. I collect merch of him, he’s MY Disney character, but I’ve watched fantasia once in my whole life. And the real reason he became my favorite is because of the 2010 movie the sorcerers apprentice starring Jay Baruchel where they recreate the sequence from fantasia including making him wear a similar outfit 💀 such a silly comfort movie and I love how weird and random of a live action remake choice that is

a.g.

OMG THE RETURN OF THE MYSTICAL SUPER BELL !!

Alyssa Pearl

Ahhh! Trump jumpscare

Nicholas Bauer

Intently checking the comments for a translation of the splash mountain breakdown message

Hamboigah

Fake fan of moomin here- I love their designs but have no idea what’s going on in the lore. Having been to joyopolis I’m so sad to find out it used to be sega themed! While I had fun it is a lot of screen rides and I don’t think you missed out on anything

Christine

“Paradise for people who love manul cats” I just found out they exist and I ALREADY love Manul cats Great video I could watch this all day :)

Sam Shaw

Wow this could not have been posted at a better time because my family is planning a trip to Japan and have been debating if we should do Disneyland (since we live in LA) or just Sea.

Moonie

When I saw the pictures of you with the Anna animatronic I had assumed you got to go on some sort of cool backstage tour. :( Sucks to hear that people were so mean about it.

usedtobeaduchess

Jenny, Jenny! This was so exciting to see because I was literally in Japan a month before you were! Partly because of your theme park commentary, I made my first trip to Disney Sea. The whole time I was there I kept thinking about the things you typically highlight as making or breaking a theme park experience, and it was a really helpful lens through which to view the park as someone who doesn't really go to a lot of theme parks. I especially thought of you on the Sinbad ride, which I agree was amazing! I also fell in love with Duffy, and I got the same Duffy ear hat you did XD I also have to call out that I did go to Komeda Coffee! If you end up making it there, you can get a little breakfast set (just like, toast and hardboiled eggs) for the price of a drink, so it's a good place to go if you need a quick breakfast. I also don't know if this is interesting to you, but I also checked out the Ghibli Park while I was there. It's not a traditional theme park, but it was definitely really interesting and great to check out if you're a fan of the studio. The attention to detail in the locations was really cool. You also might find Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo interesting. It's basically, like, Europe themed? But it's one of the more popular theme parks in Japan, so definitely interesting to check out.

Rosie

This is a great video and that’s the problem. It’s too great. It took up too much of Jenny’s time. This is beyond what Jenny should be expected to do here. I submitted the France trip topic in the hope that Jenny would veto it and add travelogue to the list of banned topics. I wish she would do it now and if she doesn’t we should stop submitting topics like this. This can’t be called a ramble video when it’s indistinguishable from the starcruiser video.

Louis Z

I gotta say, I genuinely got a delighted thrill with the ride-alongs, thank you!

Maggie Wauklyn

My character that I adore, but have also consumed virtually no media of is Big Challenges from Sanrio! I love his design and his name so much. He is such a quirky character.

Kotah

2:11:30 Where may I find one of these I can have for myself?

Alice Lastname

Daaang that merch is amazing!!! I had to google it cause I was curious but Bowser has 4 of those things! He's got them on his upper arms too. And that Litwick hat is fantastic! I gasped when I saw it. Groudon is probably not the first pokemon I would think of when going for 'cute' lol I think I would have laughed too but I would totally buy one. Makes me want to go buy some pokemon plushes.

Zack

i think we ALL go to space

Ella Taran

Right there with you, would die for Big Challenges, did not understand what sanrio was for many years

Tall Jeff

Thank you for the long video AND haul at the end! I'm a fake fan of Big Challenges. Not Sanrio or Hello Kitty, just him. Alligators are my favorite animals and he is just so goofy looking. And the fact that there is like, no merch for him makes it all the more intriguing lol

Katie Runyon

It's ironic, but my stan-with-no-context character is 10000% yoshi. I play mario kart with my friends sometimes and I ALWAYS choose yoshi, I love his little voice, and I like how he can be different colors, and that's literally all I know about him. I've never played another mario game, I don't know the lore, I don't know anything, but by gosh if I see him in a window I'm gasping - guaranteed

Allison Hall

Does no one love Cookie Ann? She feels like the most underrated and no one ever talks about her. I feel the highlights are usually the original four of the Duffy and friends. Then there’s Olu Mel and Lina bell.

Steven Reyes

To answer the q: I'm a fake Doctor Who fan. I learned references and watched a few episodes in college. I never clarify and just let it go when it comes up in conversation.

Hannah Valentine

So excited to see another vlog! Thank you!

Sophie!

Thank you for the vid Jenny! The ending made me wonder if Japanese tourists in the US are often disappointed by our relatively weak stuffed animal/merch game lol

Jarrod B

Wow, this video is so exciting for me! Sometimes I go back to watch the videos on the parks and merch from germany/the netherlands, and I feel like this video is an exciting spiritual successor to those for me! Out of everything at tokyo disneyland that's exciting, I couldn't bring myself to get spoiled on the beauty and the beast ride, even for this. It's always so fun to see stuff from these trips!

Derek LaCombe

Oh yeah like we're going to be upset at a well edited, narrated and shot Disney video from Jenny! The World's Fair section was incredible; as someone who went to 1974's at 4 and remembers nothing, seeing Osaka's and getting the feeling of what they are like was very cool and jealousy inducing :) Surprised but I guess I shouldn't have been about the attendance and crowds for the last two weeks of it. Great for the Expo, not so much for the attendees.

Brian Tatosky

Watched in 30 min "episodes". Thank you for the long form content. Yes, that was worth it. I think the strongest way I'm a "fake fan" involves the anime characters that my niece cosplays. She does a bunch of stuff from anime I don't watch. Naturally, I love the characters anyway, and freak out whenever I see them. But I don't know much about them. Likewise, she doesn't know that much about mine.

Darren Pierce

So appreciative of the time and effort put into editing the vlog! I hope you don’t feel obligated to rush the new video, the monthly ramble output more than makes up for the delay

Aragog's 7th leg

why u hate scp, scp 2025

ChessQuestionMark

The word for Shoebill Stork in Japanese is "Hashibirokou" which should have directly translated to Wide Bill Stork but tbh Big Bill feels like a better name for the guy

Miyu T

Holy crap I was in Japan this past October too! Cool coincidence

theLeftoverBits

Oh, and I think I'm a fake Hello Kitty / Sanrio fan. I've never partaken in any of the media or lore, not once.

freff

I'm a fake fan of Untitled Goose Game. I love it so much. I have not played it, but I did dress as the goose for Halloween one year.

Sawyer Brown

This was so fun! I haven't been to a theme park in like well over a decade, I live in scandinavia with little to nothing to speak of on that front, so I actually had no idea animatronics can move like that now—amazing! Loved beauty and the beast especially. Also thank you for giving a proper show and tell of the gift shop haul. The pitcher plant shoulder bag has me green with envy! Happy holidays everyone 🪻🍄

freff

lovely video to have on today while doing chores :) I will probably never be able to travel to japan so it's nice to live vicariously through this

Aiden

It brings me sooo much joy to see you gush about the Sinbad ride. I went to DisneySea while I was in Japan (also in October!) and the Sinbad ride was my favorite. While I was riding it I kept thinking about how this was a ride I bet Jenny would love.

Michael

Just a small suggestion but every time I watch one of these videos I'm like: "Could I possibly afford this in my lifetime?" and I also wonder how much prices might vary abroad, so I'd love if you could give some rough estimates of how much money you spent. I understand that it might be a lot of work and it's okay if it's not feasible but if possible, that would be a cool addition to make. Thanks for the video as always!

Lupus Cairo

Definitely check out Kamakura if you ever get to go back. I got to spend a few months near there for work. They have the giant Buddha, a Ghibli store, and lots of neat shops. You can even get a jam filled tart of the Buddha's face and matcha ice cream

Christian Howard

They do the illusion well! I think it's clever how when you load, they have a little river of water under the vehicles. Then when the subs depart and swoop down out of sight, your brain says, they're getting dunked under that water

Jenny Nicholson

It is so ironic to me that the USA's world fair song is TOGETHER, in stark contrast to its individualism. Poland's most left wing party is called "together" in polish

Piotrrr

I love how Jenny’s vibe at a theme park is like a parent trying to keep the energy positive for their child when things go wrong. Like “Wow we’re in Arendelle! Oh the work lights are on, how cool! Hi Anna!”

Mandi Schmidt

Did a first time visit to Tokyo Disney land and sea in the spring so this was SUCH a fun watch! But also—I was COMPLETELY FOOLED BY 20,000 LEAGUES. IT'S DRY?? It broke down while we were riding it (complete darkness) and I genuinely had a little anxiety being like "uh oh I can't understand what's happening and we're trapped underwater teehee" so hearing Jenny say "so that's why it's not totally terrifying to be stuck underwater with 6 strangers" was both eye-opening and validating.

Jenna Rogalski

Before you showed the Aussie pavillion, I was trying to think what we would showcase at something like this, and my best guess was 'The Great Barrier Reef and a Bunnings sausage sizzle'. So I was half right.

Mouldy Media

yes

Jylee

As someone who has played multiple dragon quest games, (I, IV, VIII, IX, IX), that's probably the preferred way to enjoy the series.

Account

I’m a fake avatar fan 😩 I have seen the first movie one time and have little to no interest in way of water or the new one. But I’m a HUGE fan of the theme park and love the merch from it!!

Margaret Rose Smith

You're intended to watch 6 minutes a day over the course of the month between videos

Jenny Nicholson

I see videos like this and think "it's three hours! When will I have time to watch that?" and then watch it anyway. So I guess the answer is always "sooner than I think". For the fake fan thing, I have a tendency to come across a cool action figure and want it, but I can't allow myself to not know what it's really about, so I watch/read the source material anyway. So I'm a fake fake fan, is what I'm saying.

Terry Flora

Absolutely loved this video; could have chilled out with Vacation Jenny even longer. After Expo 67 in Montreal, my province bought two of the pavilions and had them reassembled here. Like you, I feel pretty frustrated by the thought of how much from the Expos/World's Fairs goes to waste; it feels pretty special that those two pavilions still stand and were given new purpose in communities in rural Canada that wouldn't have otherwise boasted such unique architecture (One operates as a museum and the other as an event theatre).

Jill

There's a Star Trek TOS episode called "The Mark of Gideon" about an overpopulated planet, where people just mill around in circles amongst other people endlessly. Your Expo video was starting to give me that vibe.

Darren Pierce

Who's your favourite officer and why is it Moody?

Jill

OMG the Duffy papel picado is so CUTEEE

Polly Flores

Looks super fun!!! Really appreciative that you shared it with us 🙏 Its incredibly impressive the amount of detail and the overall quality of design work that went into those parks! The sinbad ride is so cute!

David Bleek

I don’t want spoilers for Disneyland Tokyo can someone tell me if she rode the Shinkansen after all?

Alex the Naysayer

I am definitely a sham fan of Donkey Kong, whom I LOVE deeply but I only ever interacted with him on Mario Kart. He is my go-to character and DK jungle is my favorite track, but never in my life have I played an original Donkey Kong game. I almost teared up when I saw the DK Jungle part of the video, especially those drum enemies and I don’t even know what they’re called! And the music?? I think I would die if I was there in person.

Juno What

ST LOUIS MENTION

ashlen

Any time I see footage of Jenny at any event, she’s always so invested: laughing, screaming, singing… and then I think about the people who saw the Star Wars Hotel video and accused her of not playing along lol Not a Fake Fan of any character that I can think of, but when I saw Wicked 2 I had to accept that I’m a Fake Ariana Fan haha

S G Matthews

I think I feel the same way Jenny does about Dragonquest slimes but about specifically all of the dessert themed Pokémon. I’m not gonna play the new games but I think they’re all insanely cute

Like The Witch

your hat storage situation must be extremely robust

genevieve but cooler

Having found out that my dream trip to Japan might now never happen because of a medication issue, I was so grateful to see this pop up in my notifications. Being able to see places I probably will never visit was really lovely. Thanks, Jenny ❤️

Semantic Poetry

Thank you so much for making this video! I loved it :) I don't know if I'll ever be able to go to Japan and it was so fun to go to the places I would want to visit through your vlog! I like all your videos, and I truly don't care if you announce a video and then it takes longer than planned cause they're all great anyway, you make every topic interesting and funny!

Lala

An excellent video

Alex

I couldn't watch it all in one sitting, only saw the theme park parts so far, but bloody hell, I've always known the Tokyo disney parks to be peak but this is really making me wanna go ;_; Also, ugh, the twitter mob at it again, huh >.>

Roxanne Giling

Sesame place in Philly and San Diego sell the slimey plush just like those, big eyes and all, i think you can find them online too!

Alex

I went on the jaws ride back when it was still open in the Orlando park, and I was so sure I wouldn't be scared by any of it because I knew the shark wasn't real, but when you're actually in the boat and the shark is coming at you it's genuinely terrifying

Erin Nye

this is my fav video you've ever posted ohmygod more in depth theme park or niche event vlogs please

rhizzo

Was pointing at the screen like the Leo meme when I saw the plush of your omurice in the Kirby Cafe gift shop, I'm so happy you got a plush of the meal you ate!! That's so cute! Also I was excited to see Hangyodon in the second ride in Sanrio Puroland, he's my fake fan character (if you can be that for a Sanrio mascot) because literally all I know about him is he's an adorable ugly fish creature with an octopus friend and he's so funny. He's also really not very popular in the US so I'm excited every time I find merch of him here!

David

This was lovely, and it sounded like so much fun. A good trip takes so much time, effort, and honestly luck, and I'm delighted for you that it worked out well!

Claraby

Catching up on Jeopardy, and one of the clues from last Thursday was about the Japanese World Expo, and because of this video I was able to get it right!

Michael Tice

this was absolutely worth my one dollar jenny please take your time and do what you think is best.

Brittany Long

Kingdom Hearts mentioned! What do you call it when you're a fan of something, but over the course of 20 years, that thing becomes unrecognizable? Does that make you a fake fan?

Sqand

Such a great video thank u Jenny!!! Also sooooo happy u included the haul at the end <3

Cat

I'm a fake fan of miffy. I love that little rabbit but only vaguely have a sense of who she is.

Will Reed 🦭

Honestly I feel like such a fake fan of any of the Pokemon I like. I know they're like just Guys and a lot of them don't have extensive lore, but every time I walk into a Pokemon center and buy merch, having played maybe a single Pokemon game, I feel a little like a fake fan. I honestly have engaged with Pokemon merch more than actual media atp. Japan merch game is just too good! Doesn't help I have like 5 "favorites" that rotate every few months too.. (Mimikyu, Mew, Dragonite, Marshadow, and Substitute Pokemon Doll my beloved).

Maggie

I have the giant plush!!! I got him at a convention for $50 and he's my best friend. you will find him someday I believe in u

Austin F

This has greatly intensified my desire to go to Japan purely for hyper specific merch. Especially because I'm a "fake fan" of Pikmin and I loooooove all the merch they have, they're so cute ! I paid my friend to get me the exact same bulborb coin purse and the Pikmin keychain plushies when they visited so I could stuff it's greedy little mouth with them

Fábio Viveiros

My character that I'm a fake fan of is Lobo, from DC comics. It's not even just that I haven't gotten around to looking up media with him in it; I actively avoid stuff that he's in, and I hate what I've seen of his comics and cartoons and everything. There are two Superman things that he appears in that I like, and he's the worst part of both of them. He's just the cringiest version of a gen-X nerd's idea of a cool/edgy badass character, and he's never funny. But I really like his design, especially the old Simon Bisley comic book covers. He just looks like he SHOULD be a really fun character. So, I try to ignore all of his actual media and just enjoy the version that lives in my head.

Steven Clark

not the mystical superbell 😭

Sasha

Jenny: so I'm giving myself a strict order not to make life difficult for myself and add more footage *cuts to extensive footage*

Sasha

Thank you for the extra long video, your Gruesomeness! Really making me want to go to Japan even more now! Those Disney rides look so gorgeous and honestly with how (relatively) cheap the tickets are, it might be almost the same cost as going to Disneyland for me.

Sen

This was great! Thank you for the time and effort it took.

Benjamin A.

I am so obsessed with plushie, mini or toy spiders but I am TERRIFIED of them in real life (and I live in Australia so this is a valid fear). I always tell people I love spiders for gifts but they don’t understand the nuance that I don’t actually like real life spiders at all…

Hannah Rowbottom

This was an excellent video, very engaging and fun watch! I'd say I'm a fake fan of Seshi from Delicious in Dungeon, he's a cute dwarf who can cook but I've yet to actually watch or read his source material. I could also say I'm a fake fan of the mascot characters for Shima Spain Village in Japan, since I've never been to the park myself. But the characters are all so cute and I love that they get different seasonal outfits for their walk around suits.

Colin

I am angry about this video because I watched it instead of working and now it’s 1am… Which is to say, great video! Thanks for going the extra mile

Alex

Please know that as a Finn, this is an affront to me and my whole country /s

Ella M

answer to end of video question: slimey from sesame street! watched sesame street infrequently as a kid but i’ve recently latched onto slimey and my ultimate quest is getting a slimey plush like jenny’s

slimeyfan123

Jenny this is one of my favorite videos like ever thank you for the time you spent editing it! I was laughing to the point of tears at the slow zoom at the awkwardly dancing spark costume as someone sings a very patriotic song. Also why in the world are cookie monster and elmo there this only gets better.

Rosemary

Kinda more localized I guess but some of my favorite pokemon designs that I am always ranking at the top of lists and have some merch of are from the Sun/Moon games and I have not managed to play those games for more than a couple hours. Like fletchling, oricorio, alolan marowak, shiinotic, drampa, and ESPECIALLY RIBOMBEE are in my top 50 pokemon and I am always so happy to see them and announce how much I love them

moli

Add on for a side tangent, but I'm constantly checking the jurassic park merch when I'm at the parks even though I hardly ever see anything I like, and they came out with a shoulder character of the baby dino from the new movie. It is cute, it moves and makes a noise when you pet it, but its made of hard plastic, so you'd be walking around with an awkwardly heavy plastic dino on your shoulder attached with a magnet that needs 3 AA batteries to function, for $60. I have no idea what they were thinking. They have like two walls of the shop filled with this thing and they've been up for months at this point. I don't think anyone is buying them. I still pet them anytime I'm in there but now most of them don't work cause the batteries are dead. Universal did release a regular shoulder plush of Toothless, but far as I could tell it was an extremely limited release that sold out immediately, so there aren't very many out there, and yet I've still seen them a few times in the parks. There is interest when they do it properly, they would just really rather people buy the $60 ones.

Celozon

I love all the weird random merch they have in Japan, and just in general always seems to be better quality than anything comparable in the US. Its so fun to see the Iago shoulder plush! I mostly go to the Universal parks now but it feels like shoulder character/plush here are few and far between, and all magnets instead of clips (less sturdy imo), or have moving parts so they cost like $60. I feel like more people would buy and wear them if there were ever any available in the stores at a reasonable price, but I hardly ever see any.

Celozon

I'm going to Tokyo in a few weeks, my first time in Japan. This is auspicious. The 3 hour watch begins.

Joe Bloe

I went to Tokyo Disney Sea in April, and we waited to get in at park open and I RUSHED to the Sinbad ride because you had talked about it in your animatronics top 10 a long time ago and I remembered how impressive you said it was. There was absolutely no line, nobody else wanted to get on it. BUT I did because you said it was cool, and it was! Then we waited for almost 2 hours in line for Peter Pan not knowing what it was and it broke down immediately and we were walked off the ride. Can confirm, it was just basically a big gray room with screens everywhere. And I was asked not to film the ride exit by a cast member, not that there was much to see. I still had a really good time and want to go back. My fake stan character is Bub and Bob from Bust a Move. I remember it from a Bust a Move arcade from my childhood that I never played because my parents wouldn't give me quarters, so I just watched the attract over and over.

Tama Hero

Gargoyles is great! I have Demona / Brooklyn figurines on display in my room

Will0798

I have an pretty obscure character for my answer: Yuki MIzuhara from Yakyū-kyō no Uta, she's from a baseball anime from the late 70's, as far as I'm aware there is no English dub or sub for this series available online unfortunately. The series was based on a manga which also got a live action movie and show adaption as well

Will0798

Hype to play Super Investment Banker Bros.

Ted Koutz

I JUST rewatched the VPD video so when that clip played all all about stood up and cheered

Allison

I’m a fake fan of Moomin! I have some moom merch, but I have yet to delve into the comics or shows. Love that little guy and his friends, though.

Koda Spruce

is jenny's friend who was wearing the bowser stuff during the USJ segment single....

Carlos

Absolutely wonderful video your nastiness

Nerdy Bird

If I'm a "fake fan" of anything, it'd probably be Game of Thrones. I saw the first episode when it premiered way back, but never watched anything but clips after that. I gained intimate but incomplete knowledge of events as they unfolded through the years via podcasts, YouTube videos, memes, and family/friends who were into the books and show. I've had Game of Thrones dreams featuring my brain's vague understanding of the characters. I know how the show ended and didn't think twice about consuming all the spoilery reaction content I could because I have never had a desire to actually watch/read any of it for real. I guess I just like hearing people talk about it, and yeah, I'll admit, a lot of that is people bemoaning the last season. It's just funny. Second place goes to Final Fantasy. Never played a single one of the games, but that music is very nice.

Captain Langosta AKA The Yellow Dart AKA Kyle

Ok that star song slaps though

Bibble Bonito

this is the exact style of travel vlog i love 🥰 everything looks so cute!!

Neosaneo

no one: elmo, spark, and cookie monster: 🧍⭐️🧍

Elijah Sorensen

this IS america

a. sharp

Not the US giving the World Expo Reflections of China @1:45:32 … it’s all full circle really

Allison Furlong

i watched Gargoyles as a kid and now couldn’t tell you a single thing about it. but i have my Demona toy still and i love her and ride for her!

Ryan Johansen

I love collecting gundam models, but I have never in my life consumed any of its media. I just like cool plastic robots

Joseph

I feel like I do have a go to answer for a character I stan that I know nothing about but for some reason I can't remember it at all right now, maybe because I am a fake fan. I guess I can go with Keroppi since I don't really follow any Sanrio thing, I just like him.

Ryan Coomes

I really like Domo-kun, the square, brown Japanese mascot guy. I don't really know much about him but his design is very cute.

Matt Eib

At the end of the video when Jenny is thinking of a question for the comments, I was so stressed out looking at the runtime thinking "Hurry up Jenny, the video is going to end", like she wasn't fully in control of when it ends.

Shammy

and on top of it all, ''code ms paint crash bandicoot tshirts that make you immune to damage'' wasn't even a career option for the game 😤😤😤🙄🙄🙄

a. sharp

the ai shit all over the pavilions is so sickening to me 😭 god help us all

a. sharp

the way my face fell at “we wanted to ride it twice, but that didn’t end up happening 😔…” and perked up at “…because we rode it THREE TIMES! 🥳” you’d think /i/ got to ride it three times. that’s how immersive this video was…

god’s favorite sacrificial lamb

That's the correct backstory, yes. And then Minnie ended up with Shellie Mae so that Duffy had a friend. Source: I'm a former CM, and we briefly had Duffy at Epcot.

Aaron Reese

The flavored popcorn looks suspiciously like the mochi 😉

Nicholas Bauer

Check out the comics! You don't need any prior knowledge of the games.

Aaron Reese

The Donald hat looks way too much like Uncle Dolan!!

Aaron Reese

Jenny I needed this video, thank you 🫶🏻

Gabi

the ominous spark american anthem with blacked out elmo & cookie monster is a standout feature from this vlog

Eva

by the way this is not at all sarcastic, i just felt funny using the word immersed lol

a. sharp

the concept of duffy graffiti in fake venice….

god’s favorite sacrificial lamb

I’m a fake fan of theme parks, I’ve never been to one but I especially love your more vlog-style videos about them!

Tash

I loved this so much. I think I had a big, dumb smile on my face the whole time I was watching. Thank you!

Venture

Yesss I thought so too!

Tash

I guess I am a fake fan of Lightyear, I bought an expensive premium figure of the Buzz character specifically from Lightyear with the orange space suit which I assume he wears at some point in the movie but I wouldn't know because I never bothered to watch the film. It looks almost nothing like the Toy Story character, and I'm not a fan of that either (but I have seen them at least). Its the most scene specific and expensive thing I've ever bought just because I think it looks super cool

K2

excellent video your high horribleness

Ella Taran

That moment killed me as well. And Trump’s worst offense? Not addressing Spark.

David A Behlman

Last video!

David A Behlman

the my melody of horror and anguish

slimeyfan123

As someone who's been living in Japan for a decade this video felt like it was made for me :D The bad luck it takes for two rides to kind of break down on you at Disney is incredible. It's upsetting that people overreacted to your video of the ride out of order, but unfortunately it's to be expected considering there's a very strong anti-foreigner/tourist sentiment going on in the country (which is amplified online). I hope you were able to enjoy your time at the parks either way! When I heard you were thinking of going to the Expo, I was like "she's not going to love how there's a long line to get into everything." I went around the start of summer which was probably even HOTTER and I don't think I would've survived without a handheld fan and UV umbrella. Overall, it felt like a Japanese-tailored experience as the country as a whole is more willing to put up with waiting in long lines, blazing heat or no.

thelatter11

The bio for Spark is giving big LLM vibes ngl

rissalikelisa

Not a character, but I’m a fake fan of Magic the Gathering. I don’t play the game and don’t have any interest in playing it, but when they started making series of cards from other IPs like Lord of the Rings, the last Airbender, and Spiderman, I started collecting them. I just think they’re neat.

Eric MacMillan

I love "Macy's from miracle on 34th street"

lucia

I'm so glad this topic won, it was definitely "eating good", your reactions to all the sights and sounds are so much fun! I'm a fake/elitist fan for stuff that gets adapted from books/comics/etc. "Welcome to Derry is okay but they're really deviating from the original" - me who read the book a week ago

Barca

I don't care if this ramble pushed the bad movie vid back a little bit it. It was so chill I could've watched another 3 hours of vacation footage as long as Jenny was narrating 😎 I hate admitting this especially here, but I love Slowpoke despite not knowing much about Pokémon 😞 Growing up I watched the cartoons a little and tried playing the games but just couldn't get into them. I have clothing of Slowpoke but want the giant plush lol.

Luis

Really loved getting to hear more about Tokyo Disney from you! It's a dream trip of mine but I keep not being able to take it. I'm curious if you (or anyone reading this has such a link) could share that list of all the Tokyo Disney restaurant vegetarian options? It's really hard to find that information online. I did that kind of research years ago when I was meant to take a trip there a few years ago, cancelled it due to being laid off, and now that information I'd found is outdated.

SweetAlissum

Sonic is mine, I love him but I can't get into the games lol

j

Porgs! I have absolutely no interest in watching Star Wars but I love porgs (just because of how funny Jenny's porg video was).

sorrentocircle

in the form of a slam poem

Austin F

felicia from dark stalkers is my kirby :3

Hana

Not to be pedantic, but I believe it was Minnie who made Duffy to give to Mickey so that he wouldn't be lonely on his travels.

Rik Panganiban

why does spark in english lowkey sound like jenny 💫

Sarah

CORRECT. I loved it much more than I expected!

Rik Panganiban

next month's ramble should be an apology video to the Japanese theme park twitter

IHateBerwald

I love these longer videos! Thank you this was a delight to watch!

Blair!!!

dang what on earth is going on near my melody???

slimeyfan123

just want to say Small Worlds is awesome and worth going

Tim

This may just be me favorite video ever, so I say time well spent! I'm so in love with that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride that I was looking up ticket and hotel prices. I need to go on that thing at least fifty times.

Katrina Kaufman

Incredible patreon video. This is also very helpful for planning my own visit to Disney Sea next year!

Allison Otting

farewell! hope you come back one day❤️

The Wizard Sprinkle

why is everyone calling Jenny your nastiness 😭

Adelina

People are overly sensitive when it comes to Japan. If you're negative, you hate japan. If you're positive, you're covering up japan's problems. It's been this way for ages, the nuisance influencers have only given these people more ammunition. So don't take it seriously. I'm glad it seems you had fun overall.

Lauren N

WHICH DUFFY!!?!?

slimeyfan123

Oh my god the shot of the lineup of Spark slowly swaying between a motionless Elmo and Cookie Monster while the Star Spangled Banner plays is the funniest and most baffling thing I've ever seen

K2

Something that I wanted to do but didn't have time for when I was in Tokyo was the "Immersive Fort" in Odaiba (not far from Joypolis). It looks like a sleep no more style place but with several different vignettes you can take part in or move through. The second I saw it I thought "oh I wonder if this is something Jenny would like" since I was in the middle of binging the 'nevermore saga' for the third time. I was able to go to Joypolis when I was there, the halfpipe ride you referred to IS quite fun (if a bit disorientating).

Alphajack

Im absolutely dying at the cookie monster and elmo and the big fat star and their dead eyes with the Star Spangled Banner playing I love how miyaku miyaku is like ... the perfect 2025 worlds fair mascot, juat a palatable lil Akira flesh monster. Just like AI haha I am a serial fake fan. Idk, I love hearing about other peoples fandoms or hobbies but feel no need to get into anything in depth myself, so I just end up being a casual fan of many things. I prefer listening to other people tell me about how passionate they are lol

Scrum Diddely Umptious

I got a Baby Yoda shoulder plush at Disneyland Paris, only to have her Ruthlessness call me basic in the last second. 😩🤣

Junior

I do hope the Barbie video isn’t dead. I was super excited for that ranking. 🥺

Junior

my sister and I went to japan in 2019. This video brought back a lot of memories of that trip. I loved the end where you showed off all the merch!!

Mary Rooney

Thanks to The Simpsons, I call it the "Wo--d F-ir"

David Ozab

Miku Hatsune. I started getting excited about the figurine designs but I know only the premise of the character. Hashtag fakefan lol

Faye

It was nice of Kevin to provide a prequel to Jenny's Star Wars Land and Star Wars Hotel videos

Ontario Traffic Man

Plush toy of a Shoebill Stork is delightfully deranged, 10/10, those things are evil in the best possible way.

L Woods

I'm 100% a fake fan of Orko from Masters of the Universe. I've never watched any version of the show, but he's a funny little wizard guy!

0011

I've sorta ended up a fake fan of whatever my kids get into, namely Kirby & Pompompurin (though I grew up liking other Sanrio characters, like Chococat).

Sierra Thomander

"I sat there thinking everyone hated me" "Aw, Jenny, I still like you." 5 minutes later... "Turtle Talk with Crush is Lame." "Where do I get my pitchfork?"

Scott Schweinfurth

That definitely isn't my vision of the World's Fair but I also guess it's good there's no high-profile murder

Maddie

every Evermore video flashing through my brain like a sleeper agent being activated when Jenny said "I felt like I'd only scratched the surface (of DisneySea)".

Neil Dutton

Despite the name, Mickey's Halloween Party isn't just an after-hours event, it's the name of the all-day special stuff around the park on those days. People are allowed to wear costumes all day in the US park on Mickey's Halloween Party days, and there are various trick-or-treat stations set up around the park with free candy for kids. I've gone more than once and everyone was in costume during the day. I think they don't allow it all year because in April or whatever people would probably only dress up as Disney characters, which causes confusion for guests about who the actual character is, but in October tons of people dress up and not just as Disney characters so maybe it's less confusing? Not sure.

B Ren

I feel like the wiggling plants in the journey to the centre of the earth ride are about to tell me their names are magdal orbidon and tikli

Euphrasie Cullen

They look traumatized

Ontario Traffic Man

The people standing on stage, unmoving, while the national anthem is sung... Only Spark bobbing left and right...

Silky

Next time you visit Tokyo, you do not need to visit Asakusa, in case anyone mentions that. The pitcher plant purse is off the charts! Along with the Jaws' tourist plush. I'll have to visit to get one.

Paschal & Di

This was absolutely worth the editing time! Great video!

Madi Stoller

I was in the Navy, catch me never going on a cruise, absolutely not, the sea is death on all sides I've done all the emergency training there is no way im getting on a boat that big. Its also gross and everyone gets sick the second anyone else does. Space was limited on mine and yet its worth noting 1 whole big inside bench compartment area was just de-lousing stuff for like crabs, fleas, and other mites. And i know the toilet systems break constantly and grey water is pure filth. No thank you ive already been ankle deep in every fluid known to man and beast I dont need to pay for the privilege At 54:54 i saw the list: Tijuana, Quebec, Toronto, Atlanta, Chicago, New York. And im like.... 🤔🤔🤔 what could possibly be 10$, 30, 50$ and has that theme lol Im sorry you got cancelled on twitter for an imaginary scenario lol this is why I dont have social media, I feel like people are feral on there and I am way too easy to bully. I don't fear the ocean, but I do fear public scrutiny.. yarr

Scrum Diddely Umptious

I love Naranjito from the '82 FIFA World Cup! I wasn't even alive back then, but i found out about him a few years ago and boy, what a perfect lil guy! Also, I was very attached to the characters of final fantasy vii's characters purely via cultural osmosis. I ended up playing the game, but it took me a few years to get to it. Great video, the jaws ride was amazing!

Susana Vieira

great video, i love when you do travel vlogs :)

Jessie

Wow, such a long video! Thank you for editing in all the clips! I was at the Osaka expo in September and was so curious how you felt about it after seeing on twitter you went. I was suprised when you said most of the pavilions were about going to space and AI because that wasn't my experience at all. We only got into three of them (which felt really bad at the time but seems to be pretty average): Germany (sustainable cities), Spain (water) and Thailand (wellness and medicine). I think if every pavilion I went to was about AI, I would have been even more disappointed than I already was.

Linn

"I didn't get to ride it twice : ( - because I rode it three times!! :D :D" genuinely made me crack up and smile so much. I really appreciate u and your jokes jenny. I hope whenever things get bad you can remember the beautiful duffy stage show when you were feeling sad and how there will always be joy on the other side <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Occa Americana

WHY ARE ELMO AND THE COOKIE MONSTER STANDING SO STILL. THEY LOOK LIKE GAURDS TRAINED TO KILL. this whole pavillion seems so weird in its vibe lmao

static

52:00 for the INDOOR (kelp) FOREST

Matthew Gilson

Oh also I just booked flights for my first trip to Disneyworld and I got even more pumped seeing your excitement about the theme parks on your trip!

Mary Dedrick

also i love the fake food models they use in japanese restaurants they bring me such joy and even more so when it's whimsical silly themed food 🥹🥹

kelly m

I am SO here for the Duffy content, oh my gosh!! I remember friends in Japan sending me Duffy keychains and stuff in the early 20teens and had no idea what they were; I was trying to be subtle begging for scraps of information but didn't want to seem like I was out of the loop. I remember my friend thought they were a thing in the American parks too. Luckily they explained them to me eventually! I wish I knew where those are now, because it had to be right after they were introduced! They're so cute and fun! For the record, Gelatoni and Shellie May are my personal faves

Essie

It makes me sad that you mention earlier in the video feeling like everyone hates you. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be being a woman on the internet, but you should take heart in the fact that I truly believe random strangers do not help unlikable, unkind people! Throughout this video, you mention people going out of their way to help you and I have to imagine that is because you are a kind, warm person (which really comes through in your videos to me)!

Mary Dedrick

Thank you so much for inserting the footage at the end even though it was time consuming! It's amazing to see those extra things, i loved the sanrio things! Appreciate your hard work

jess

I am so glad you got to ride Jaws, your Nastiness!!

Spublii

The way I LAUGHED at the reveal of Spark having a Myer-Briggs Test

FauxRetro

it was so cool seeing all the people in egl fashion at the parks 🥰💖

kelly m

Noooo you dont get it people HAVE to defend the disney corporation from this scary women or NO ONE WILLLLL

static

Japanese twitter users shadowboxing a theoritcal version of you breaking and entering is incredibly funny. The 'cause *I* respect disney' thing genuinley made me loose my mind lmfao

static

Just finished the video and to be honest, I feel like there are a lot of topics/niches that I'm not a fan of but know a lot about through my favorite YouTubers, like I become a vicarious fan (e.g. I haven't really been to theme parks, but can chat with my friends and customers who enjoy them because of your and Defunctland's content!) But an opposite example is the Titanic. It's one of my special interests and I often forget that other people don't know so much about it. I got this card game called S.O.S. Titanic and in it, you play as the officers on the ship. First time playing, I asked my friends who their favorite officer was so they could play him and no one had an opinion because no one knew any of the officers by name, much less by personality lol. But I appreciated the game all the same, felt like it was made for me.

Lindsay

This video could have been several Patreon exclusive videos: - Tokyo Disneyland - DisneySea - Universal Osaka - World Expo - Other smaller parks and experiences

Ontario Traffic Man

Yes Corn Palace mention! When I was a kid my family would drive from the West Coast to the Midwest (where all my aunts and uncles lived) every year and we always stopped at the Corn Palace and Wall Drug along the way.

Monica McFadden

That was one grumpy Hyrax.

Michael Hickey

Thank you, your Wickedness, for this vlog! I was in Japan in 2023 and decided to go to Disney Sea—last minute, by myself—but I lost my train card. My friend who spoke Japanese was off visiting a friend in another city, and I got lost in the Tokyo station. I was scared it was a sign from the universe not to go (silly me) so I bailed and went back to our hotel. This video makes me feel like I was there! 😊 (We did get to go to Disneyland Paris this year, so that made up for it—very lucky!)

Junior

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF THE SUPER BELLLLLLLLLLLL

Olivia Louise

Anytime I mention Jenny to nerds, it's 80% "OMG I LOVE HER" and 20% "Who?" but never gotten a negative vibe.

Darren Pierce

Even fake Figment fans are appreciated and needed

Darren Pierce

This is great fun but man making a living from being known on the internet sounds exhausting

Lizzie

I’ve always dreamed of going to that beauty and the beast ride for the Belle animatronics now you tell me it reminds you of symbolica? That’s simply too good to be true

Marina Nania

It's bleak that AI was such a feature at the world's fair. I know that's The Thing™ of the moment, but still. And the irony you pointed out of the USA pavilion celebrating so much stuff that is currently being dismantled, demonized, or cut...

Lindsay

You should play some mainline Kirby games; they're all pretty great. My fake fan franchise though is Banjo-Kazooie. I love the art style and the goofy characters, and I do play as them in Smash Bros, but I've never played any of the Banjo-Kazooie games.

Aleks Howes

i am that exact fake fan with figment, i love that guym love to see him i go "omg figment!" but truly could tell you next to nothing about journey into imagination and have never been to any disney park. i just think hes neat.

Sgt Sweetcheeks

Happy birthday!

Jenny Nicholson

I also got to go to the World Expo this year! One of my favorite sections was the Myaku-Myaku House, which had a very lengthy, unnecessarily detailed explanation of the character’s lore. I love that despite some shortcomings of the Expo (long wait times, reservation system, lack of shade), Myaku-Myaku is pretty universally loved. Was crazy seeing Myaku-Myaku merch/art/clothes/posters/sodas around every corner in Osaka!

Doug C

At about an hour in, you spoke about getting "cancelled"- speaking as a fan who is more interested in your unique perspective rather than specific content, I had not heard a single negative thing about you. I know the negative voices tend to speak louder than the positive ones... but I hope you are buoyed by the fact that all of us who support you here don't care about that!

Karnevale

Another wonderful video, thank you! Looks like you had a great trip! I have a friend who went to Japan over the summer and she brought me back the opposite of your shark with a dinosaur hat, the dinosaur with the shark hat! Holding a drink and a turkey leg. I'm a boring person who doesn't really have any characters that I'm obsessed with. Except Godzilla. But I know a lot about Godzilla.

Michael Tice

I object to Jenny's Rapunzel slander, but I'm horrified that Mother Gothel and I've Got a Dream aren't in the Tangled ride. Because the park designed the ride to span the movie's story, how could these storylines be ignored? Imagine how cool it would be for Mother Gothel to sneak alongside the boats, staying in the background, until a center-stage confrontation with Rapunzel after the lanterns. P.S. Thanks for the blog, Jenny.

lrw789

This is so stupid but I have a thing for cutie pie characters that are literal demons or war criminals like Pochita from Chainsaw Man and Chopper from Star Wars Rebels, even though I know nothing about their media.

Kyra B

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B Hair

I did find this video awesome and was glad you spent a lot of time on it. Thank you so much for sharing so many details of your trip, it is very much appreciated.

Amanda Hall

the way i cheered seeing the 3 hour runtime… christmas came a month early this year

Lizzie :3

i just got back from japan ! also went for an event, but ours was a convention called "design festa" which is a HUUUUGEEE artist alley. that's it, just thousands of tables selling original art- clothing, jewelry, accessories, toys, decor, paintings, you name it. another event i think you'd enjoy jenny, just for whimsical shopping from the japanese artists. it happens twice a year if it happens to be on your next trip!

simrell

totally worth it to spend 2 weeks on this video!! absolutely loved it 😁

Aya Duisheeva

Splash Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland just self censors whenever they load up Americans

Kevin

Hii! This will be my last month signing up because I'm foreign so the price is higher for me lol. So I just wanted to say your YouTube videos really helped shape my view on art and the world in general and so thank you !! I really enjoy the way you discuss the use of themes in media and the way you analyse and see the world around you, it's truly unique and it helped me try to understand things better and to think more critically. You and other creators such as big Joel and emmiereads shaped a part of who I am that I'm really fond of. Also I'm a woman so it makes me happy to watch content made by other women, specially when most of the ytbrs I watched growing up were men. I'm sorry people are hostile to you on Twitter, it's completely unnecessary to be this vicious. Hope you're well, can't wait to see your next video!!

Shamhatty

Yesss, I got a Jenny video on my 24th Bday <3

Enzo Tavian

I love the FNAF characters so much especially Glamrock Bonnie, I think he is so so cute, but I have never been able to get into the games.

~Ash~

Not a character but I love the persona 4 and 5 music but I'm not a fan of the games. I tried playing persona 4 and got maybe a quarter of the way through and stopped playing, but the music is so good! So I'll still listen to it from time to time.

billythedoor

one more thing: the giant AI head on the right looks SO much like andross, the villain from star fox. so in the future, he certainly will betray humanity, and also i guess everyone will be furries

Austin F

I feel blessed

Alexandria Ritz

To answer your question at the end, a mascot I love even though I have never consumed his media is Toro Inoue, Sony Cat! I didn't have a PlayStation growing up so I never actually got to play his games, but I think the mascot is so adorable and weird looking. It's a shame he's not really a thing outside of Japan!

elle

for the longest time my character i loved but knew nothing about was the creature from the black lagoon but i FINALLY watched that movie last year (enchanting, truly) so now it's probably just that i'm obsessed with rapidash but don't engage with pokemon on my own like. at all.

zanna

I remember being at Disney sea hearing people screaming most of the day. Didn’t realize it was the journey to the center of the earth until I was screaming at the drop.

Rudy Gardea

The editing on this video is insane, ty for the banger!! The My Melody hat looks so cute !!!

elle

Thank you for blessing us with a 3 hour video your nastiness!

Danny Young

To be fair I've heard horrible things about trying to do it without the vacation package that comes with the 3 fastpasses a day. The tokyo parks are infamous for terrible lines. Doesn't help that the app is literally unusable - only one of us could open it without it crashing

Jenny Nicholson

I'm about an hour in and I'm realizing how unbelievably cursed my own trip to Disneysea was last year. Late October, unbelievably crowded, didn't know the thing about Duffy drops meaning the stores became reservation only so THAT was a disappointment, there wasn't a night show in the harbor that day, etc. I'd be happy to go back and try again but I feel like all my friends were really soured and cynical about the Disneysea experience. Boooo.

Vee Hoffman

Never ride with Nicholson. I would almost be afraid to ride on an airplane with her.

Rudy Gardea

Thank you for the vid, Jenny! 💛

Maddie Arnautov

first the tarragon in the battlefront ii invite, then the pod from pandora, now a voodoo doll in tokyo disney… what about vlogging makes jenny such a magnet for curses?

Chris Oakley

I'm like that about Doraemon

Bryan

The way I, a Chicagoan, would travel to Japan just to get the tiny version of the Chicago popcorn

Isaac Jordan

also casey's little drum walk at 1:26:08 was cute. your theme park friend group seems really fun ngl

Austin F

YES 3 hour trip ramble!!!! Jenny you are the best

Zoe Konigsberg

Did Your Nastiness finally get to go to Disneysea?!

Ryan Chin

Devastated that my group didn’t make time for Jaws when we went, I have such fond memories of the Orlando version before it closed

Charles Hettrick

Excited to watch! I just got back from a Japan trip and saw the Henn Na Hotel that's staffed by animatronic dinosaurs! It'd be very up your alley.

Jamin Shih

also i'm wondering what people thought about the new defunctland video! it was so jenny relevant w unpacking how the lack of free-roaming droids, etc. comes down to the megacorp split between imagineering, operations, and PR. It also reminded me a lot of Jenny's experiences with customer service vs. marketing departments during the droid fiasco. anyway it's even more interesting with how the oriental land company seems to operate completely differently.

a. sharp

World Expo at 1:32:21 (I have no self restraint)

Ontario Traffic Man

your terribleness i am SO glad you were able to spend time iMmErSeD in a culture that matches your enthusiasm for theme park silliness in the era of peak cost cutting and minimalism <3

a. sharp

the reasons people find to get outraged on twitter are so weird. i'm pretty sure disney will survive a youtuber taking a picture of their ride

Austin F

it cheered me up so much just now to see a new ramble, and nearly 3 hours!!! I’m sooo happy thank you Your Nastiness

Katey Sheppy

Note to self: Universal studios section starts at 1:15:20

Ontario Traffic Man

Cookie monster and elmo solemnly standing at Spark's side as her bodyguards 😭

Timo Wimo

I looked this up because I didn't know what you meant regarding the name of Lotte World. For other people wondering: Lotte is the name of one of South Korea's biggest chaebols, that is a corporate conglomerate controlled by one family. Chaebols are very powerful. Much can be said about their cultural and political influence, but I'm far from qualified to go deeper. But I thought your comment on this was really interesting and I think I get what you mean now. It feels... emblematic? And bittersweet, for art to have to be connected to tycoons instead of standing for itself. Thank you for mentioning this, I think it's really interesting.

Silky

This was such a fun video! I especially love your love of the 20,000 Leagues ride

Dr. Chunk

time well spent!

AKL

Well now I'm sad that the Sinbad ride was out of order when I was there. It looks so cool! Also my friend and I ended up paying for the fast pass for Journey to the centre of the earth.

Danielle

Wow so I didn’t even know Jenny went to Japan recently what a fun video! Yay!!

Ky

“I wanted to ride it twice, but that didn’t end up happening…… because I rode it THREE TIMES!!” Had me so geeked. Never been so excited for someone else to go on a ride!!

Katherine

three-hour japan video... i could cry.... thank you so much jenny for my life

sam

glad i'm not the only one who has this stuck in their head at least once a week

sam

At 1:12:30 the fake chirping, probably attracted the crickets

Stera

Good lord, I can't believe that this is a Patreon exclusive video. It's extremely engaging and a fascinating watch. I rarely think of Patreon as a value proposition, but this video was more than worth my month's patronage. Thanks, Jenny. :)

Reed

Love it

Luis Alfonso Obregon

Yeah. Japan is just as bad as the US about restaurants having mascots that are the same species being served. Often those mascots are wearing chef's hats, which is even worse 😶

Darren Pierce

Idk the main dish at the Little Mermaid part of Disney sea being crab is so dark to me

Chris

A Sebastian-themed restaurant with zero veg menu items seems like a missed opportunity.

Kimberly

Stained glass is such a good use of screens in a ride. Normally screens suck because they're obviously 2D and emitting light, but stained glass is 2D and light-emitting anyway!

Ontario Traffic Man

Jenny talking about being afraid of the ocean was a real missed opportunity to talk about big big big big water

Katherine Evans

Been stressing about a work thing and for some reason watching a park afficionado be charmed by solid ride design and handiwork has chilled me out significantly. Thanks!

Lyiam Galo

I went to Disney Tokyo on Nov 1st, they still had the Halloween decorations up. I really liked the giant Halloween Town Mickey Pumpkin

Jessica A Hernandez Jaimes

Oh it is VERY IMPORTANT to know which Duffy friend you chose!

Theme Park Review

So happy to see a new post! We’ve been curious what your Japan trip was like. Also, I’ve commented this before, but I’ve been very curious how the parks in Korea from my childhood has evolved. One of them is completely indoors. It’s called Adventure. And Lotte World was an outdoor one whose theme I never quite got. But the name says so much about Korean culture, I feel. To me quite sad, knowing what beautiful actual creativity and art Koreans make. Anyway, so excited to watch this! Bonsoir, from a Anaheim neighbor living in Paris.

Tayen

The Stranger Things finale can wait. I'm watching a three-hour Jenny video.

Richard Lyth

I didnt know how much I love Beauty and the Beast! Just seeing your ride footage made me cry. Now i need to go to japan :) the animatronics look amazing and the atmosphere looks so good! I was honestly shocked at how good the stuff they added was compared to the frozen ride.

Rosemary

Yippie!!!!

Chuck

this ramble...that's what I wanted

Luis

I haven't even clicked the video but the sheer endorphins seeing the name of the title and length of the video, I can NOT wait to settle in for a cozy listen 🥰

Delphine

Never know when a newborn will be watching the video

Jenny Nicholson

“I think it’s really cool when a land is inside” by this point Jenny I think we know you like indoor outdoor spaces 🤣

Alli

Jenny I want that HEADBAND!!!

Charlotte Guerry

First time partaking a vote, happy to see this won! Now I know how I'll spend the evening! :)

Fredrik Bermhed

When I suggested this topic, a vlog style video was exactly what I was hoping for but I thought that might require an unreasonable amount of editing for a ramble. Thanks for putting in the effort Jenny, you spoil us!

Eric MacMillan

Jenny refusing to recognize the nomenclature of the Bureau International des Expositions causing an international diplomatic incident.

Neil Dutton

Ahh this is perfect timing! I’m going to Jollywood Nights tomorrow and I was just trying to explain to my friends who Duffy is haha

Jillian B.

My November needed this, thank youuu!!!!!

Yana

ohhhh im totally watching this while I work on my project, thank you jenny

Maya Kulick

just got the notif for this on the 2nd to last day of myy japan trip can’t wait to watch this on the flight home

leahmaybe

three hours oh jenny you spoil us

Nicky

YESSSS

Chris Gonzales


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