Phantasialand (vlog edition)

Noooo, you skipped my favorite, Talocan! :(

Talocan

as a german, can confirm the french fry love

Calysto

The Wuze lore is so underrated! Like how the Winja's Fear and Force coasters represent a ritual the women go through, and how the society is rather matriarchal :)

meadowstream

I'm super late but this is my home park (one hour away) and I am SO SO SO excited to finally watch it!!!!! I have been to this park since I was a kid (2007), almost yearly, and got to witness its evolution and I love this park dearly, with how much care goes into every attraction and theming! I believe I was there shortly before or after you were, and man, what i would have given to meet my favorite YouTuber and fellow theme park enthusiast there T_T Anyways, I haven't watched the video yet but I'm so excited to see you witness the park for yourself for the first time. I'm also caught up with any lore of attractions or themed areas, so I'm excited to see your reactions <3

meadowstream

Hey so this is super late and I don’t know if anyone’s gonna see this, but the Würmling express is my favorite thing in Phantasialand and I actually read up on the lore behind it!! So the Wuze (the people of wuze town) actually worship birds, so feeding the baby birds is a sacred ritual to them. They use the Würmling express as a mode of transportation to deliver worms to the bird houses you can see along the track. Wuze town has a ton of really cute lore I love that land!

cookie 9028

Delightful! Thank you for sharing this!

Ella M

Very, very late to the party, but such a fun vlog! Phantasialand is such a great park, with some spectacular coasters and quite the immersive theming. Always makes for very intense visits. Regarding Taron, if you ever visit PHL again: DO. NOT. SKIP. TARON! Best coaster I've ever ridden! It just goes so fast, throws you around a bunch, it's simply great fun and doesn't pull as many G-forces as Black Mamba does. Absolute favorite of mine, that coaster alone is reason enough to make that 2.5 hour trip.

They actually ceased their collab with Nordstream II, I went in september and it was gone (finally! But the took wayyy too long in my opinion). I remember even funnier times, when Bluefire was "powered by Gazprom". What a shame it has such a bad sponsoring history, as it's my favorite ride there.

Really interesting thing happened while i was 'watching' this — i put it on as background noise as i laid down to take a nap, but i think i was in this weird middle ground between consciousness and sleep where i could still hear the audio while i was sleeping. so my brain like filled in the blanks and made up visuals in my dream based on your narration. I especially remember the wako bato ride as this glittering ice cave that they let you go into to film even though it was closed down (as my dream interpreted it), and you were walking knee deep in the water that submerged the tracks of the ride and there were like, little display windows with whimsical little scenes behind glass embedded in the ice walls. it was really interesting to revisit this video when i was awake to see what the park actually looked like in comparison. brains are weird and cool.

I feel that and you probably indeed made the right choice. I did my trip in 2019 and crammed in one too many things. (I wanted to hit Berlin, Munich, and EuropaPark/Baden Baden, and I naively thought German trains would be like Japanese trains in terms of speed/never late-ness. (Spoilers: no trains are like Japanese trains.) So I what I thought would be 4-5 hour half-days between regions turned into 8+ hour full-days.) But I also can't think in hindsight what I would've dropped, so... :shrugs: That said, if you do hit it in 2023, I'd recommend staying a night or two in nearby Freiburg for its amazing gutters of all things. (Not even trolling: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/09/the-bachle-of-freiburg-mediaeval.html)

Omg you were the neighbor who made them destroy wakobato

Jenny Nicholson

I was seriously considering it for this past trip! But since the main focus was efteling, the trip was already quite long, and it was such a large park it didn't seem realistic to add it on, which in hindsight I think was definitely the right call. I'm tentatively eyeballing it for a 2023 trip if I can secure filming permission; they're opening a new restaurant where the seats move so that'd be of interest to me (again would need filming permission for that since the website specifically says it's verboten)

Jenny Nicholson

I'm a late panda, but if you're ever in Germany again and haven't gone already, I'd check out Europa-Park. It has that baked-in "sounds lame" premise of essentially being European Epcot IN Europe, but the theming is great and the rides are a good mix of Disney + Six Flags. Also, the EuroMir (Russian-themed rollercoaster) background soundtrack is literally the best music in all of human existence. It's got "underrated experience = walking through Space Mountain's line" vibes. Also also, their highest-speed roller coaster was named Nordstrom after the gas pipeline... not sure if it's still called that or not.

i live next to phantasialand and i have a good camera, if you need footage i can take it for you haha

I could do without the mayo but a meal of just french fries sounds like my kinda place

Narcissa Deville

The cutest one

Daveed Ben dov

Which dragon will you swear fealty to

Jenny Nicholson

I keep thinking "Into the bowels of Wuze Town" sounds like it should be a chapter title in some fantasy novel.

Rushka Unverricht

I went to Phantasialand about twenty years ago on a school trip. Watching this makes me realise that I don't remember anything about it at all, other than the fact that there were literally no queues for the rides, so much so you could just stay on and ride them again if you wanted.

Eating hot chips (fries) as a meal in Australia is pretty popular (as well as them being a side). Tomato/BBQ sauce is popular, so is gravy. Vinegar is popular up north.

OrangeFlavouredPineapple

Ooh another park to add to the bucket list! As a Brit, your bemusement at fries/chips as a main is very funny to me, I didn't think it was that weird 😂

Libby Williams

I love your vlogs Jenny!

Leticia

Yay! I’m going there soon, in April!

Daveed Ben dov

I am one of those people that gets seasick but i still love watching these in smaller chunks!! thank you for posting :)

MW

Madhouse is actually the name of the ride model from Vekoma for that type of ride, though they've been around for a long long time. I've ridden them at Six Flags Great Adventure and Dutch Wonderland.

Jill Morris