Defunctland: The History of Cedar Fair’s Berenstain Bear Country

38 thoughts on “Defunctland: The History of Cedar Fair’s Berenstain Bear Country”

1. CORRECTION: I misspoke, Valleyfair is in Minnesota, not Michigan. Apologies.

2. Definitely getting some justified vibes from your awesome soundtrack to this episode.

3. I’d love to see some sort of data on how many beloved characters in global media are bears vs other animals. It seems like humans really really identify with them for some reason.

4. I misheard Janice’s name the first time and spent the first 3 minutes thinking the authors were a gay couple and just didn’t notice that it was 1923

5. They brought this stuff to worlds of fun when I was a kid.

6. So the chance of being mauled by a near is 1 in 2.1 million, and the current US population is ~332 million. Which means that, logically, every single day, roughly 157 people are mauled.

7. Wow I learned to read on the bearenstein bear books

8. Everyone else talks about how they remembered the Berenstain Bears being spelled differently. I'm just shocked looking back at how Aggressively Christian a lot of those books are.

9. Stop it!! Stop saying Berenstain! It’s Berenstien! 😱

10. Im glad to see other people remember this. Im also glad to see other people having trouble with their older family members not remembering this and not believing us. Spooky tree slide and the bears costumes terrified me. I miss my childhood.

11. My father was a principal and he banned all Berenstain Bear books from his school because he hated that the father was "so stupid."

12. BERESTEINS, BERESTEINS, BERESTEINS!!!!!!!!!!

13. Thank you for the avalanche run reference. Quite the song for that episode

14. Why am I even slightly surprised they went for the "bear-y" joke? That fruit is hanging so low it's in a ditch under the tree.

15. I vividly remember playing in the Berenstain Bear house and the dinosaur pit at Cedar Point. I was born in '94 so that must have been in '98. Great video as always!

16. I went to the Cedar Park Ohio Berenstain Bears Attraction. I remember the spooky tree in the spooky woods with yellow glowing eyes. It freaked me out, I wouldn't go near it. The telephones at the attraction I went to had actual people on the other end of the line. I know that because I was yelling into the phones, and the person on the other end left her booth or wherever she was to tell me to stop yelling into the phones.

17. Ironic

    They removed the Indians but kept the land

18. was super nostalgic for all the books and then i saw “bearanstein bears and the big question”. i… don’t remember that one. quite possibly my parents skipped out on it wow what a subject matter for the bears on bikes to tackle

19. Going to the Berenstain Bear area at Valleyfair when I was kid was seriously so fun, I remember it so fondly. Even now, going back to Valleyfair as an adult, I think the most fun I ever had in the park was in that

20. Papa – Jim
    Mama – Martha
    Sister – Sarah
    Brother – Lionel

    These were the names I gave the bears because I didn't like their names when I was younger

21. I got lost at the Berenstain Bear Country in Valleyfair. Was a fun time. Didn't know I was lost.

22. I own all berenstain bears books

23. The disaster transport riff during the avalanche run bit was golden.

24. I used to watch The Bernstein Bears on PBS Kids, and enjoyed the books when I was little. My favorite book is Count Their Blessings

25. Didn’t know they were still making them. Thought Peanuts was less in with kids in later years as well.

26. god i was the biggest berenstain fan as a kid

27. Bear Country is, objectively, the best area in any park ever made for anything.

28. Bernstein

29. Its "Berenstein" not "Berenstain"

30. Randy West My Childhood at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 1980's / 1990's Berenstain Bears at Cedar Point Mascots EST. 1985-1998.

31. funniest book in the series I never knew about. the big question. the bears have become christian.

32. Bear country was replaced by Planet Snoopy, Camp Snoopy is in another part of the park

33. I have a very large collection of the books and I remember reading them in kindergarten and first grade and having them read at bedtime and in daycare.love them

34. berenstein.

35. I definitely remember going to Berenstain Bear Country as a kid at Cedar Point. Some great memories there :).

36. I can't believe it…

    you managed to do an entire video on the Berenstain bears with out once mentioning the mandela effect…

    I'm impressed

37. but michigan's adventure is in michigan.

38. I grew up in northern Ohio and would go to Cedar point quite a bit. As a kid, this was one of my favorite things to do! Im so excited that you covered this! It was pure magic! This was always kind of the break time for our parents, so they would eat and relax and my cousins and I would have a blast running around in here. It was absolutely incredible as a kid and was really ahead of its time as far as feeling so immersive. The colors, the detail, the overall feeling…..especially now being older, feels completely made up in my mind. Those memories are as fresh in my mind as they were the day I made them, and think that says a lot about how impactful it was on my mind and imagination. Man… Cedar Point. One of my favorite places on the planet. From my earliest memories of the bears and the pirate ride, choosing what color Gemini we were going to ride, to building up the guts to finally ride The Magnum when I was tall enough, getting on The Raptor for the first time and kicking the sky as many times as I could in a day………to a cool break above the water on the Iron Dragon, feeling the uncomfortableness of The Mantis, having The Mean Streak beat you up, even though The Corkscrew already did. Cedar point is a truly magical place, I even met a girl on the beach at Hotel Breakers when I was 14…. a whole summer love that lasted a lifetime which all wrapped up into two days. Im so fortunate to have all these memories at this one place. All my memories there feel like a Wonder Years episode………..Look at me…..a regular Kevin Arnold.
    PS
    You should cover The Skeloton Train Ride from Cedar Point, it was always really fun

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