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Americans might have chucky cheese that apparently has scary animatronics that play bad music and you pay money to win tickets that give you a slide whistle or something but does anyone else here have fond memories of the wonderland that was The Wacky Warehouse?  you could go and eat some wetherspoons quality food and then have a battle on a pair of giant inflatable tomatoes  you were a knight jousting when you clung on to these and tried to bash into your buddy i just woke up from a dream about crawling through the pipes and realized i am now too tall and too old to ever explore such a place again leaving with me a feeling i am sure the germans have a word for anybody got any good Wacky Warehouse stories?
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May 21, 2019 04:38
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we had a place like that called Discovery Zone and my earliest memory of it is somebody telling me that kids peed in the ball pits and not being able to enjoy the ball pits as much after that my only other strong memory of that place is being told I couldn't use this overhanging zipline thingy to kick people
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May 21, 2019 04:45
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+1 for Discovery Zone ball pit pee ennui
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May 21, 2019 04:48
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Cubone posted:we had a place like that called Discovery Zone and my earliest memory of it is somebody telling me that kids peed in the ball pits and not being able to enjoy the ball pits as much after that everyone always says that about ball pits and how they are disgusting swamps of disease because they can't wash the balls but i think if you care about that you're a huge dweeb, put the ball in your mouth and spit it at your friend or just lob them overhand from different sides like you're reenacting trench warfare imo the zipline in the Wacky Warehouse actually ended in the ball pit if i recall right did you discover things in the discovery zone? did it have a discovery channel theme? like dinosaurs on the wall or something or an atmosphere of wanting to wear a pith helmet?
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May 21, 2019 04:51
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Cubone posted:we had a place like that called Discovery Zone and my earliest memory of it is somebody telling me that kids peed in the ball pits and not being able to enjoy the ball pits as much after that
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May 21, 2019 04:52
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FactsAreUseless posted:Hell yeah I remember Discovery Zone, it was a huge lovely disappointment but why? i am desperate for some yank to give a write up about the pros and cons of the discovery zone because it sounds like a strange land to me
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May 21, 2019 04:53
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ulex minor posted:did you discover things in the discovery zone? did it have a discovery channel theme? like dinosaurs on the wall or something or an atmosphere of wanting to wear a pith helmet? but I found this commercial while looking for photos and I laughed at how America in the 90's it is, maybe that will do something for you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN4ZMNT__r0 this is when they were trying to get people to call them "DZ"
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May 21, 2019 05:07
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The peeing in ball pit thing happens all over the world. Sandboxes too. There's apparently something about square depressions that are meant to entertain children that make them want to pee. I never went near any of those loving things when I was a kid. Wasn't taking any chances.
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May 21, 2019 05:11
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Cubone posted:no I think it was just chucky cheese but without pizza or arcade games 'we have the right to express ourselves freely!' wow now i'm on the fence because the Wacky Warehouse never got so philosophical about things...
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May 21, 2019 05:17
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i probably should have posted this at a time when more brit goons would be awake
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May 21, 2019 05:17
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My nephew had a birthday party at a place like this and a kid drank too much soda and ralphed in a tunnel. I'd bet that happens and goes unreported more than not.
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May 21, 2019 06:06
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ulex minor posted:but why?
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May 21, 2019 06:07
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You didn't go to Chuck E Cheese for some lame rear end jungle gym, you went to play arcade games.
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May 21, 2019 06:14
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:You didn't go to Chuck E Cheese for some lame rear end jungle gym, you went to play arcade games.
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May 21, 2019 06:16
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Cubone posted:we had a place like that called Discovery Zone and my earliest memory of it is somebody telling me that kids peed in the ball pits and not being able to enjoy the ball pits as much after that Funny you should say that, I remember this time at Discovery Zone I went down the slide into the ballpit, and some other just pops up right in front of the slide and I just fuckin drilled him right in the chest with both feet. He went down under the balls, and I just walked away.
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May 21, 2019 06:23
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I sometimes wonder where I could take my kid for this kind of experience, and I don't think they have them now. All the running around and climbing and being on junky equipment is probably a zillion lawsuits waiting to happen. It's a shame. What is wrong with discount indoor plastic amusement parks? They probably spray some disinfectant on things once in a while...right? I am beginning to think the only reason Chuck E. Cheese is still around is that they sell beer and don't have anything but gambling games. Nothing too physical. It's like Vegas for kids. That and Dave and Busters.
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May 21, 2019 06:37
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:The peeing in ball pit thing happens all over the world. Sandboxes too. There's apparently something about square depressions that are meant to entertain children that make them want to pee. I never went near any of those loving things when I was a kid. Wasn't taking any chances. i was always leery of sandboxes on account of all the cat poo poo
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May 21, 2019 07:07
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:The peeing in ball pit thing happens all over the world. Sandboxes too. There's apparently something about square depressions that are meant to entertain children that make them want to pee. I never went near any of those loving things when I was a kid. Wasn't taking any chances. You sound like you had a nice carefree childhood. Anyway, I recently went to a vacation park with my kid and the last day we discovered that there also was a sort of discovery zone/wacky warehouse. They had a zone where they had like his setup with air pressure that allowed you to shoot foam balls at each other. Like, gating guns that you had to fill with foam balls and you could fire them at the other side. And giant containers you could fill and once in a while the air pressure would come on and blow everything in the air. It was a really cool idea, and I'd loved it as a kid, but man. The sound was deafening. All those kids mashing all the buttons at the same time, a constant barrage of 'pfffffttt' but really loud.
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May 21, 2019 07:58
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shut up blegum posted:You sound like you had a nice carefree childhood. My niece had a birthday party 2 years ago at a place like this called i think Wacky Tacky and me and another adult there decided we were gonna be the gatling gun operators and just pelted the kids over and over with the nerf balls. A good time was had by all.
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May 21, 2019 08:17
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Zartosht posted:Funny you should say that, I remember this time at Discovery Zone I went down the slide into the ballpit, and some other just pops up right in front of the slide and I just fuckin drilled him right in the chest with both feet. He went down under the balls, and I just walked away.
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May 21, 2019 08:39
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There's a museum in St. Louis that's like discovery zone except it's DZ on crack, meth, and steroids all at the same time and they have after hours where kids aren't allowed and they sell beer. Look at this fuckin place 
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May 21, 2019 08:41
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We had a DZ and a couple other similar places in the city when I was a kid, my dad used to dump us to run around on weekends while he gooned around with his latest gadget. They all closed because maintaining the equipment and carrying liability insurance gets expensive in a hurry.
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May 21, 2019 09:52
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ulex minor posted:Americans might have chucky cheese that apparently has scary animatronics that play bad music and you pay money to win tickets that give you a slide whistle or something but does anyone else here have fond memories of the wonderland that was The Wacky Warehouse? I think this might be related to "Leaps and Bounds", which was some sort of test market thing in Chicago circa 1992~ or so put on by McDonald's in some sort of attempt to see if they could super size the "Playplace" idea. As far as I know it only lasted for like 2 years and never went anywhere after that but it made Discovery Zones look like a kiddy pool compared to Leaps and Bounds full-size water park. It was this giant warehouse-like building that was full of tubes like the picture you posted. Parents sat at tables in a big room off to the side watching TV or along benches outside of the tube complex. Rope domes 3 stories up only accessable by seemingly miles of tubes, lots of ziplines and rope bridges. Made for 9-11 year olds, exactly our age when we went there. Memories of things like this hit me the hardest when it comes to nostalgia. Such a wonderful care-free youth I had  Found this: http://www.kendrickdevelopment.com/--leaps--bounds.html EDIT I guess it was more than just the one, neat. KakerMix fucked around with this message at 10:02 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 09:52
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ulex minor posted:Americans might have chucky cheese that apparently has scary animatronics that play bad music and you pay money to win tickets that give you a slide whistle or something but does anyone else here have fond memories of the wonderland that was The Wacky Warehouse? i remember the day nursery i went to was adjoined to a Wacky Warehouse and everyone was always asking if we could go in there and one (1) time they let us. i didn't like it. too tall and scary
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May 21, 2019 10:00
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these images do conjure memories of an ancient time though
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May 21, 2019 10:01
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Did you ever have a head on collision on the slide because you got half way down the pipe only to discover some kid had decided to try climbing up it.
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May 21, 2019 10:17
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one of my friends lost several front teeth because his seventeen year old cousin came down one of those giant tube slides behind him and booted him straight in the back of the head, which caused a serious dental travesty that wasn't in the Wacky Warehouse though, that was at the playhouse at a local themepark
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May 21, 2019 10:26
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KakerMix posted:I think this might be related to "Leaps and Bounds", which was some sort of test market thing in Chicago circa 1992~ or so put on by McDonald's in some sort of attempt to see if they could super size the "Playplace" idea. As far as I know it only lasted for like 2 years and never went anywhere after that but it made Discovery Zones look like a kiddy pool compared to Leaps and Bounds full-size water park. Where I grew up, there was a Leaps and Bounds, and a while after that a Discovery Zone came in, and it became, like, a status thing. When both were competing it became uncool if God forbid you had your party at Leaps and Bounds. 
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May 21, 2019 10:36
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Loved these types of places as a kid. It did irk me though when you had to watch what you were doing because some dweeb parent had to slowly escort their infant around who is clearly too little for the play area. How dare people get in the way of my playtime!
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May 21, 2019 10:49
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go-in dz at discovery zone, bitch.
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May 21, 2019 11:05
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OP there's a place in Leicester called Twin Lakes which is a small theme park aimed at kids. In one of the massive warehouses they have on the site they have a massive 4/5 storey tall play area like this, it's pretty dope. If you're anywhere nearby steal a relative's child and go play...
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May 21, 2019 12:21
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ulex minor posted:Americans might have chucky cheese that apparently has scary animatronics that play bad music and you pay money to win tickets that give you a slide whistle or something but does anyone else here have fond memories of the wonderland that was The Wacky Warehouse? I think the Germans call it "suckstubeolden"
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May 21, 2019 12:32
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He'll yeah these places were awesome. They also included a large near totally dark room with glow in the dark skeletons on punch bags. Oh and don't forget the near vertical slide that you ride down on a doormat. Something like this 
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May 21, 2019 12:56
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Sponge Baathist posted:There's a museum in St. Louis that's like discovery zone except it's DZ on crack, meth, and steroids all at the same time and they have after hours where kids aren't allowed and they sell beer. Was about to mention this. I went and there was some woman hysterical that she'd lost her kid. You seriously need to put a tracking device on them as it's like a labyrinth with many tunnels adults are too big to fit through. Also, this place has destroyed more kneecaps than a mafia enforcer.
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May 21, 2019 13:20
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Looks similar to a place called Kid's Play.
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May 21, 2019 13:51
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Leaps and Bounds was superior to DZ, but it didn't last long
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May 21, 2019 14:12
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Cubone posted:we had a place like that called Discovery Zone and my earliest memory of it is somebody telling me that kids peed in the ball pits and not being able to enjoy the ball pits as much after that Well, I read somewhere that pee is stored in the balls.
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May 21, 2019 15:24
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We had one of these near where I lived as a kid, I think it was called Child's Play or something like that. I remember it had one of those enclosed plastic slides with little metal fastenings every so often to join the slide segments together, and if you touched any of the metal fastenings with your skin you'd get a static shock.
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May 21, 2019 17:18
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I do not remember Wacky Warehouse but I do remember the Wacky Racers
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May 21, 2019 17:43
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FactsAreUseless posted:Hell yeah I remember Discovery Zone, it was a huge lovely disappointment Takes one to know one then!
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