This video was originally scheduled for late November, but as Wunderland Kalkar only has a couple of weeks left in its season, I thought I'd rush this out before they close for winter. (And yes, their Covid-precautions were thorough.) Thanks to everyone there, including the ride attendant on the Vertical Swing: I had to ride quite a few times to get all the shots I needed...!

I have been here, it is a cool place, strange but cool.

you're so cool

No way! I live in the village next to it! I can see it when I walk on the rhein ugh would be so cool to meet you there 😔

tom this is really neat. i love your vids. cheers from america friend. ive never watched a video of yours i didnt like. you always have the most interesting stuff on here. alot of us Americans dont kno much about europe and u sho us parts of it that we would never kno unless we came and saw for ourselves. even then the stuff is so obscure tourists would never find these gems. your the best at what u do buddy.😁

Do the hanging gardens of Babylon next

amusement park ride normal people: screaming meanwhile tom: *speaks in history*

Everyone who ever went to Wunderland Kalkar, will remember that music at the carousel

You get to have fun and get superpowers, it’s a win-win /j

Seems interesting, but after they let let AfD (germany far right party) host their meeting there in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic with 500+ people I'm going to boycott them

At 2:12, when the bird appears, I thought this was Tom getting thrown out of the carousel.

This place is like the default place to go on school trips for us Dutchies near the border. Not the best rides but free food definitely makes it worth it

Oh noes .. nuclear bad. Let's just burn some gas and coal instead.

Much more interesting would be an indoor roller coaster inside the reactor building ❤ A roller coaster, which directly rides through the reactor...uuuuuu *-* spectacular

"We want to create a winter landscape out of this nuclear power plant" HMMMM

Tom Scott, making my bucket list longer....

Tom Scott, being swung from a pendulum attached to a satellite at the edge of Earth's atmosphere: So. Last week, I got an email,

People are so stupid. Nuclear power is the safest form of energy production per MW. It is even safer than renewables after accounting for installation and maintenance deaths. Granted, the waste storage problem is a huge deal, but that's not why most people object.

And his name was Groot.

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The motto is "only 3.6 rotgen"

Now they are burning wood pellets and calling it “green energy”

This is some RCT type stuff

plot twist the season didnt continue

When i was a kid i took the tour in the reactor building with my dad. I had no clue what the guide was saying because i didnt spoke German at that time. I wish i could take the tour again. I will probably have to go somewhere else.

Wouldn't the view be even better if the cooling tower wasn't there?

Sad how power stations like these were replaced with coal fire...

Crazy to see tom somewhere i've been. I remember going there once as part of a trip organized by my mom's workplace, i remember we had access to free food and drinks. They had fries sprinkled with paprika powder, really tasty. Rides were cool too.

as cool as this park is, its frustrating that somthing as safe as nuclear power has a bad reputation because of less than 5 accidents, all cause by natural disasters or poor communist saftey protocol

I was there

Imagine if someone started getting headaches in there.

The real problem hear is how stupid the German politicians are for shutting down and stop construction of all of their nuclear powerplants and instead build more coal powerplants. That's what there should really be public outcry about, instead of unfounded fear of nuclear powerplants and their waste, which is far less dangerous than the self-righteous environmentalists and other seemingly uneducated people think it is.

The park is seems like something straight out of Roller Coaster Tycoon

"I should not have looked down." *Tommy Wiseau laugh*

The most expensive theme park.

Another place to go on my list.

bruh

this is crazy... they could have (and paid for) a nuclear powerplant... a clean source of energy.

Imagine all the green energy missed out, on making it into a theme park instead, burning coal to fuel a bunch of attractions.

Dream island be like

I wanna go there now

So, Chernobyl Amusement Park when?

Feburary 22, 12021, mark my words.

This is 100% on my list of places to go if i ever visit Germany

2:12 wait a minute

Heck, I couldn't even go on a standard one of those. There's no way you would get me on that swing.

Tom you're fkn sociopath aren't you?

They need a rig of projectors to project cool visuals on the inside of the tower

Nice, the owner of that place got der Most out of it.

this is so stupid, not the amusement park ofc tho but when people, and historians, look back at us, they will laugh and/or facepalm hard. building a reactor to just return to coal.... it's like using radioactive cancer treatment materials as fun glow in the dark paint, and showing it to all the people with cancer.... we could have tried to cure your situation but nah, lets party until we drown

Next I wanna go to asbestos land

I am living there😍😍😍 Greeting from Germany

Cherknoble

0:47 this shot is really funny for some reason

nuclear power plants arent actually dangerous.....people are still very ignorant

@Lars Damn, that's cool

Wait they're not???

Ah, but what was its nameplate capacity?

1:52 now thats a big ass shelf

Nice.

Is Tom recording with a 360 camera and positioning it in production?

2:03 isnt that a drop tower thing on there?? did it used to be a drop tower ride?!?!

I went there once as a child and I still think it's a bit of an odd place but cool nonetheless. They had really good fries there. Half the people there were German and the other half were Dutch, it seemed. It feels very unpolished if you've ever been to a bigger amusement park but it has its own charm. Good to see it still exists.

this is so crazy tom thank you so much for this incredible video

WAGE GAP

The cooling tower is also massive climbing wall, all the way to the top. I crap my pants just thinking of it.

"I should not have looked down"...I felt that.

1:42 I guess you could name it 'Nuklear Winter'

Is it just me or do I get anxious when Tom is inside the cooler tower and that I have meglaphobia?

this was released one day before my 18th birthday

30 feet up, attached to a little seat on a rope, being spun at 2G, Scott just calmly talking

marcel vos runs this theme park and you can not tell me otherwise

You won’t catch me at any swing ride. I get motion sicknesses. Your welcome to put me on it but you will Need to pay me.

What a waste of resources. Nuclear energy is cleaner than petrol or diesel which emits harmfull gases which kill people more than a nuclear powerplant would kill.I mean a lot more. See the video of In a nutshell?

Tom makes rides look easy

It's so sad that we aren't using nuclear power. Coal is so much more dangerous

realizing Tom actually knows the term Hyper Coaster 👁 👄 👁

0:49 **camera off** Tom: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh heelllllpppp

Now do the nuclear power plant inside an old theme park

bruh

im scared the production quality will one day disappointed me as I can't help but raise my expectations when I see gorgeous production. 2:13 what falling

No one's going to talk about Groot being the General Manager?

Those Germans sure don't like to let unused buildings go to waste. They also have the world's biggest indoor waterpark, built inside a never-used blimp hangar.

No "the" before Ukraine, please.

0:24 Scully?

What a waste

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parallel universe in DARK.

Why did Scully open a theme park?

they should put go-carts in the reactor building...

If that were a movie, I would not have believed it. My definition is ‘bizarre’

I`ve never been there, but from where I live in the netherlands to my father also in the netherlands, the shorter driving route through germany made me see it every time xD

Nice vid. But this never ment to be a nucleair powerplant, but a "enrichment" plant , for nuclear fuel. Thats a big different.

-Сhernobyl is just like Disneyland, couse you can spot a 2m tall mice here. -my dad.

"I should have not have looked down" hahaha, best comment! I felt that hahaha

Offfft the mention of hyper coasters 👀👀👀 theme park fan by any chance?

Thing is, this isn't the only amusement park at a nuclear power plant, in Meppen, Germany there is Funpark Meppen, a theme park dedicated to motorsports (as it is located next to Racepark Meppen) in the shadows of a huge nuclear tower which unlike Wunderland Kalkar, has its tower still in use.

get the nuclear reactor park a giga !!!!!

"public protest and political problems" is a very polite formulation. It's an euphemism. No, it's a shame that we have buried this technology here in Germany due to ideological narrow-mindedness. However, as a substitute, some children now have an oversized playground.

Title correction... “I visit NukaWorld”

0:34 Is that an airplane engine?!?

@Jose Luis Delisau Monroy bruh, i know 😂

A turbine engine

This sounds like something that would fit in the fallout series

"of the shelf" damn thats one big shelf

Came from netherlands With family and friends. Was so much fun. We went some Times

Fun fact: There's a gigantic coal mine in Germany which was created relatively recently to fuel coal power plants. Why? Because environmental activists shut down all the nuclear power plants, forcing energy companies to switch to more environmentally unfriendly coal power. Thanks, environmental activists.

Refuse to believe Han Groot Obbing is a real name

i have to say that the big rollercoaster really sucks but for the rest its a great time

i went here on a school trip isnt it named kalkar

Ironic how Germany wanted to reduce carbon emissions, but cancelled nuclear in favour of wind, which caused them more emissions than if they went fully nuclear.