American reacts to Tropical Islands (Crazy German water park)
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2023
- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Tropical Islands Resort in a German Blimp Hanger
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Hi Ryan, Germany also has the biggest thermal spa in the world, with a massive water slide area. It's the Therme Erding in Bavaria.
Yesss! Therme Erding is fun af!
@@mrHello420__ Absolutely! My kids always have a blast there.
Yes, you should check this one out, too 👍🏻
True!!!!!
Ja ist auch wirklich sehr erwähnenswert
The blimp actually wasn’t a blimp but more of a zeppelin with steel [edit: aluminum] construction inside as a skeleton to keep the hull in shape. A blimp is more kind of a ballon who keeps his shape by the pressure of the gas inside. And the zeppelin that should have been built in this hangar was very large and was designed to carry large cargo weighing up to 160 metric tons. It was therefore called Cargo Lifter.
I was about to write something similar. The CL160 was planned as a semi-rigid airship. Without such an extensive interior framework as, for example, a Zeppelin - but definitely not a blimp.
@@Otte74 Und? Hast Du die Bilder noch? 😉
i thought blimp was the English word for zeppelin.. ??
@@mrsquid_
A blimp is in German a "Prallluftschiff".
The German word also describes the aircraft aptly:
Prall = Bulging
no steel construction but aluminium
Yes, this thing is huge. For the Americans to compare. Your largest aircraft carrier, the "USS Ford", fits in completely. But then you can still place a Tico-class cruiser to the left and right. And next to that you can place a Burke-class destroyer on either side. In some weather conditions, clouds even form inside. Well, this year we're going on a short vacation again in one of the modern houses there.
I'm from Germany and let me tell you:
I was more than 10 times in the tropical islands resort and every time I love it more. There are every year new attractions like the new "Amazonia" area.
But the best was, is and will be forever the insane rainforest. You can walk there without shoes because the ground is warm and you can see a lot of (mostly never seen before) exotic plants and butterflies and birds. It's so interesting. I can walk around there for hours.
And yes it's not that much environmentally friendly (you need a lot of energy to keep the building and everything inside like the water warm) but it's better than all the visitors (1.1 million) would fly to middle America or Hawaii or Fiji Islands. And often the people visit the resort for only a few days, so they can have vacation more times in a year. That's fantastic!
Greetings 😊 Resi
Ich war einmal dort und es hat gereicht. Viel zu Teuer und überbewertet.
@@Jadxn1903 Kann dir da leider zustimmen. Die ersten drei Tage verbrachten wir in einer Unterkunft außerhalb, danach eine Nacht im Tropical Island. Das Personal war so mittelmäßig freundlich. Die Preise in den Shops sind unverschämt, am letzten Tag war es auf einmal sehr kühl und wir haben in Badeklamotten ziemlich gefroren. Wir vermuteten es lag an der zum Zeitpunkt eher geringen Besucheranzahl.
In einem Restaurant mussten wir (mit zwei hungrigen Kindern) am uns schon zugewiesenen Tisch über 30 Minuten auf eine Bedienung warten, welche erst nach einer Beschwerde unsererseits geschickt wurde.
Am besten gefallen hat mir das große Wasserbecken, wobei die mittlere Insel und das Piratenschiff leider abgesperrt waren.
Das dämlichste war aber, dass uns trotz ersichtlichem Kinderwagen ein Zimmer gegeben wurde, zu dem man aufgrund einer Baustelle nicht mit dem Fahrstuhl hochfahren konnte. Als wir dann um ein anderes Zimmer baten, bekamen wir ein angeblich besseres Premiumzimmer, welches gegen das andere total schäbig aussah und deutlich kleiner war. Natürlich zum gleichen Preis. Das Premium bezog sich angeblich nur darauf, dass sich das Zimmer in der Halle selber, und nicht im Betonblockanbau außen befand (wo man übrigens null Handyempfang hat).
Achso, noch dazu durften wir während eines Probealarms alle zu den Notausgängen hetzen, ich mit der 6 Jährigen, da wir gerade Trinken nachfüllten, und meine Freundin musste alleine mit dem Kleinen inkl. Kinderwagen die Treppen runter, da ich nicht zurück durfte und ein Mitarbeiter mit am Arm packte und mich in die Richtung des Ausgangs zerrte. Es halfen ihr zum Glück andere Gäste dabei den Kinderwagen zu tragen. Einziger Vorteil war, dass sehr viele Leute ihre Handtücher mitnahmen und so danach sehr viele gute Plätze frei waren :D
Fazit: Lohnt nicht.
Its counted and is well known as the "biggest indoor water park" but in reality its more like a *"tropical indoor resort".*
--> But Germany is also known for there great (real) water/slide "parks" with many slides like:
*-Galaxy Erding*
*-RULANTICA*
*-Kristall Palm Beach*
*-MIRAMAR*
*-Galaxy Schwarzwald*
*-Aqualand Köln*
*-Center Parcs Allgäu*
Rulantica has some incredible theming, no doubt thanks for their decades of experience with the Europapark.
But many slides? I found it rather lackluster for the price at first NGL. The Outdoor are they added later really added a lot to everything though
@@TheThursty100 for an indoor water park there are many slides. But sadly the effects aren't very impressive.
PS: There also will opening a 8-lane mat-racer-slide soon.
AquaMagis Plettenberg also has some cool slides
@@einflinkeswiesel2695 Yes, but thats the one, he already has reacted to. So i havn't mentioned it.
"Europabad Karlruhe" would also be worth mentioning.
Thanks for the list.
I visited once when I lived in Berlin, it feels much smaller when you are actually there to be honest.
I mean the building is huge, but more in terms of height rather than footprint, but it's still cool none the less.
Also you pay once to get inside, after that you can stay as long as you want, so I and my girlfriend at the time stayed there over night and slept at the artificial beach
how long ago was your trip?
@@tupacshakur5868 Oh right... that was probably over 10 years ago 😅 so things might have changed
Exactly. Same with me
This "kind of campside" you saw at around 4:30min is called Bungalow and pretty common around europe i would say.
I've been there like 15 years ago and I soooo wanna go back there! The Bali village is so cozy 😍 Also there are free flying butterflies all over the place. I hope it never shuts down
Same, and nearly same time ago. ^^ Nice, we even might have passed each other, what a thought. ^^
"this gigantual hangar is huge"
ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor.
i've been there twice (due to corona and not beeing able to fly away for holidays) and it's quite fun, BUT it can be awfully loud with all those people, the airing system and the rushing water... but it's bearable when you have fun.
first time we slept in one of those indoor tents because it was winter and i couldn't fall asleep despite beeing exhausted because of the ventilation noises. the 2nd time we went in summer and rented a big tent on the camping site and it was wonderfull and fun...
they also have an outdoor area with pools, slides and greens for sun bathing and playing.
so it's a nice place but since i'm quite sensible when it comes to noise i prefer open/outdoor places.
Oh, I would like to go there, but now I read that and I can imagine that it might be loud.
Maybe in future they will find a way to cancel the noise. The surface of the building might be to smooth.
Usually in big rooms there are hanging barriers from the ceiling, that the energy of the sound is reduced and there is no echo.
Or there might be the possibility to create "anti-sound". Would be nice if it was quiet there with some "natural" noises.
Been there once a few years ago. It is really really huge! The huge hall was originally built for cargo zeppelins but the company went bankrupt. So they were looking for something to do with that enormous building and I think they made the absolute best of it. It's located about half way between Dresden and Berlin, if you wanna come over and check it out.
I have been there just 3 days ago. My family loved it!😍😍😍
The biggest problem with this attraction is that the investors didn't bother to insulate the dome at all, so it continuously consumes megawatts of heating power (this is not an exaggeration).
are the end doors still operational, might be good to air it out
I've been there once and I can't stress enough how surreal it feels, especially with the constant temperature during night time. Also it starts to 'rain' in the night when humidity condensates on the cold ceiling and drops down.
That hangar was built in 2000 by Cargolifter AG. The Cargolifter project was started in the mid 1990s by the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau / German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) with the intention to build an airship able to transport heavy and bulky plant components like large turbines for hydro power plants in remote regions, large car body presses and so on. The company failed in the end, partly due to project management mistakes (they started with developing the most difficult part, the air crane which should enable the airship to pick up and lower down its cargo without landing - the difficulties they experienced with that ate most of their 300 Mio. Euro assets, while they had still no products in the line which could earn a bit of revenue in the near future, and after the dotcom bubble bursted they couldn't get no fresh money anymore).
The hangar was planned to house several Cargolifter CL160 Airships (260m length, 65m diameter); it is therefore 360m long, 210m wide and 107m high. It was sold in 2003 to the Malaysian Tanjong trust.
The hangar is so high that it does not need fake clouds. They are for real, as the difference in air pressure and thus temperature is high enough between ground and ceiling for natural clouds to form.
I have been their for a day and it is SOOOOO nice! Feels like you are on vacation really. Sosososo great place!
Plus at nihgt its even better, because you dont see the builidung anymore and you really get the feeling you are somewhere at hte ocean!
You should check out "Therme Erding"
It's the biggest thermal bath complex in the world and has wayyy more slides and stuff.
You mean the Galaxy Waterpark?
@@b3ntastic The slides (Galaxy Waterpark) is a part of the whole complex (Therme Erding)
Ah, Tropical Islands. One of the many amazing theme parks/resorts Germany has to offer. Well worth a visit and overnight stay.
I already visited this, sleeping in these tents in the middle of this forrest is honestly pretty dope
Any mosquitos or flies to worry about?
@@CabinFever52 Nah there is nothing, only the air is pretty filled with water, so you're going to sweat a lot in the night😅
Ryan, guess who invented the marble roller coaster 😅
You should also check out Rulantica, it's not as big as the blimp hangar, but it is one of the most beautiful waterparks in Germany.
Exactly. And next to Rulantica, you have the Europapark
And they didn't even show the outside part of the water park with the awesome Whitewater River. We've visited several times and it's always a blast to be there. Bit expensive though...
keeping a tropic paradise running in Germany sounds pretty expensive ^^ You know our Energy costs xD
I was there in January 2007. It was snowing outside and 20 minutes later I could put on my bikini. A dream. At that time, you only had to pay a one-time entrance fee and could stay as long as you wanted. One man stayed over 200 days. 🤣We stayed 3 days. Apparently this has been changed and you have to pay entrance fee every day anew. Loved it there.
I'm from Germany and it's also my first time hearing of this. I'm as stunned as you are! Definitely need to go there someday :D
It is truly amazing there. You should consider going there for a day or two when you're in the Berlin or Saxony area
Hätte gewettet das kennt jeder in D ...
@@ddog99 ich auch ^^
@@ddog99 Offensichtlich nicht. Ist auch n gutes Stück weit weg.
@@ddog99 nope, höre es zum ersten mal und will hin. Heizen die im moment auch auf 26 grad? Ersnte frage
funfact: Tropical Island has its own operating fire station, in germany we call them "Werksfeuerwehr" wich roughly translates to "Plant fire station" or "Factory fire station"
in former times this was a zeppelin construction hall, but over the years they got some maintenance issues... still a good place to visit once ;-)
Its huge, but expensive and too crowded most days
The story behind the hangar structure itself is crazy on its own. It was originally built to house the "Cargolifter" a project where they wanted to build a giant modern airship for commercial transportation. Only a small scale prototype was built before the company went bust, but there was this hangar...
They made large sections of the walls transparent to let in light when they converted it to the tropical island resort.
Hey Ryan, if you want to see crazy water slides, search up the waterpark "Miramar". It's designed all around different water slides and tons of fun.
Finally something about Brandenburg. Makes me so happy to see it once in a while.
Anyways, they built and outside water park now too, I need to visit again.
Loved it as a kid, they have so much stuff for children to climb on its crazy.
Yep, we have those marble slides...in fact, the longest of its kind in the world is in Cologne.
One of the main reasons Tropical Island exists is the German weather. Three months of autumn with gray skies and no sun, four months of dark winter with little daylight, three months of spring, which is still cold, - and 2 months of summer. (July/August). In the past, summer was often rainy, so you could not go to the beach. The last three years, on the contrary, sometimes so hot and dry (heat waves from Africa) that it was too hot for outdoor activity.
Well I don’t blame Africa for that though! I think it might be called climate emergency.
Rulantika is my favorite of all the water parks I've been to. you have to see it It is part of the europapark and the amusement park and water park are constantly growing with more attractions.
oh, im going there next week. If you like Tropical Island you have to take a look at Zoo Leipzig Gondwanaland. Its also impressive.
Ha! That's exactly what I thought when he couldn't believe that there are plants and animals in there 😅 Gondwanaland is just like Tropical Islands minus the swimming areas.
4:22
They're called "tinyhomes". They are TECHNICALLY mobile homes, but they're not meant to be moved much. It's just a legal matter. More and more campsites in Germany offer these as an alternative to staying in a tent.
If you want to be a marble you should check out the Sommerrodelbahn. It’s a slide where you sit in and drive through a forest
I am from East Germany and I was there already 2 times! Greetings from Saxony
I was there a couple of times and am going back this summer. It's really fun! Feels like a total different world.
i have never been to this exact water park, but what i can recommend if you come to germany one day, is the therme erding in bavaria. there are 2 areas: a big water park with awesome water slides for the whole family, and also a gigantic thermal spa area, full of saunas and only for adults (nude area). the whole park is very close to munich, so perfect for a trip and 100% worth to spend at least a full day here (maybe even 2)
This is a symbol of what went wrong in Germany the last 30 years. At the beginning of the 90s, Germany was leading in future techs like photovoltaics, wind power, maglev trains or airships. All of these projects were abandoned. China is the world leading power in solar and wind energy, and Japan builds a new maglev Shinkansen that will go at 600 km/h, while Transrapid was never built in Germany because it couldn't be operated on existing rails. Well, and the Cargolifter airship hangar was converted into a water park.
Hi, I myself was actually there2 times already and it is WAY better then it looks on video I must say. Thankyou for the reaction. Have a nice day yall.
I suggested this one, I thought you read my comment but I guess you found it by yourself. I am happy watching your videos. Thank you.🍀🍀🍀
5:17 it is night inside when it is night outside. The park is open till 1am and you can also book accomodation to sleep inside
Almost 50K, congrats
You have to do a video on Erdinger Therme. Galaxy Erding is the biggest water slide park in Europe with over 20 slides
It's great to stand against the glass wall in your swimming trunks in winter at 26°C and watch the snow falling 15cm away...
I was there a couple of years ago! There are actually two balloons, one goes higher up but is "fixed" so it only goes up and down. The other one does not go as high up, but one of the workers holds it by a rope and moves it around as you see the place from above.
I'm from Germany and never heard of it lol. Just went and checked the prices, it's fairly cheap!
Around $50/adult per day + $400 accommodation in those nice houses outside the hanger for 3 days (Fri til Sun and it's for two adults)
If it's your birthday and you only plan to visit during the day, it's literally FREE, I might have to do that!
My sister went there with my nices when they got their "Seepferdchen".
Wie kann man denn noch nie von Tropical Islands gehört haben ;O?
Oder bist du nicht in Deutschland geboren?
There are many options where to sleep, you have those hotelrooms shown in the video (around 150 euro a night) or you can just sleep in one of those tents ( i think its like an extra 10 or 15 bugs on top of the entry fee). They even have like small houses indoor. The nice houses outside are by far the most expensive experience and i would not recommend them unless you stay with familiy for mor than a day. The feeling of sleeping inside this huge thing is cozy as hell.
@@marzok9632 Ja, das ist echt unglaublich ... dachte auch das kennt jeder in D.
Therme Erding might be the place you are looking for when it comes to slides.
I was there once on family vacation. My mum and I went to explore the jungle section. We almost got lost. But we also learned about different trees because they have different tropical trees and Info plates giving facts about the trees.
We also had the marble slides as kids in Germany 😂
I visited that place once, I really loved it.
The pools and slides were great, but to use the balloon or sauna or stay over night, you need to pay more. And my dad said we didn’t have that much money to do all that. So we enjoyed what we got.
But there were to many people for my liking, the waiting time for the slides was very long.
It was a great experience (just like visiting Disney land for example) but I rather go to my local pool where the slides are great too but I don’t have to wait as long and it’s much cheaper so you can go more often.
Hi Ryan, the Tropical Islands is really nice. I‘ve been there several times in the last years as we live nearby. The only thing I never used is the waterslide. Since the slide is not a tube, but open at the top, I am afraid at this height. My son and hubby love the waterslide.
You should check out Rulantica.
It is a huge water park expansion with Nordic theme from the Europa Park.
In german marbel coasters are called "Kugelbahn"
I had a wooden one with ~100 pieces
This is actually one of the destinations I would most like to go one day...
This structure was originally build as a hangar -as the shelter for the new invention " the super carrier" or as type of "Skycrane" - a giant "blimp" that would carry cargo in the sky - like containerships do on the seas - but unfortunately (?) the project was cancelled and the empty hangar was still there - so some businessmen turned it into this tropical amusement park.
I was there when that hangar was still used for the original reason. Kinda sad that they ran out of money before they could get this project fully running.
Hello ^^
I'm from Germany and wanted to tell you that really love your videos!
One of my favorite water parks in my area is the ,,Therme Erding" btw (:
That hangar was originally built by a company called Cargolifter. They tried to bring back the days of the Zeppelin for cargo shipping. Their goal was to built Zeppelins that could lift up to 160 tons.
But the company was a big desaster from the beginning. Instead of hiring expert engineers they mostly employed young engineers fresh from university and their first prototype later turned out as a standard product of a British blimp manufacturer. Their investors soon got impatient and stopped further funding.
But they did one good thing in their six years that the company was in business. Building the biggest self-supporting building in the world. You can open both of the rounded ends and have planes fly through it.
And just one year after they went bankrupt this water park bought the land and the hangar.
Fun fact: To prevent condensation under the roof and therefore indoor rain and mold the walls have to be constantly blown dry with hot air. So in that way it really is a hot air balloon. Just only a half one that is anchored to the ground.
Went there as a kid for a couple of days, really cool place, would like to visit again
I visited Tropical island once already. ^^ Nice crazy steep and dark waterslide tube! And lit latenight-wizard-lasershow.
Long time ago we've been there with my little daughter. We stayed inside the buildung for one week and slept on benches at the beach. I'm not sure if this is still allowed or if you have to sleep in some accomodation thing. But back then there weren't much of this accomodation (non outside, only a few inside). You had to pay one entrance fee and then 3€ each night (which was 0€ the first year after opening). Sleeping inside a public swimmingpool was just fun with all those people around you.
5:40 we have a couple of these, they're not too steep, slightly wavy and very wide, so this is quite common. due to that unique design you can go a little crazy with how you go down, including getting on your knees and spinning very fast.
stuff like that is definitely what makes the fun factor be similar to a normal slide, even when it looks rather boring on the outside
Oh my I haven’t been to tropical islands in sooo long, probably +10 years
Reminds me to go there again sometimes
My class/year from our university went there to celebrate our graduation for 2 days. Was very nice and you could get lost :D They also have saunas. Can 100% recommend for a (prolonged) weekend.
Tropical Island is really cool.
First time for me to use a sauna.
Umand we even stayed over night.
It's pretty cool, but pricey.
We have those marble things too. I instantly saw the resemblance too :)
thx 4 the video. i was born in the near of ti but never think about to go there. now i m looking for tickets to show it my kids ;)
For watterslides I would search for Therme Erding. It has the most Slides and they are pretty cool, in summer there are some additional ones oppen that aren't closed off in a hall.
Ahw, that is one of the biggest failures in our local and more recent history. (I personally only live an hour away by car. )
They wanted to build zeppelins as a more environmentally friendly means for transportation of cargo over long distance. Unfortunately the zeppelins they could have built there wouldn't have been able to fly high enough to cross any mountains (the alps) and would not have been able to cross huge bodies of water either. There was some sort of scandal involved.. but I'd have to look it up as all of that has happened quite a while ago.
I think that ownership changed a few times before it was finally modeled into the water park/hotel it is today. And before anyone asks, I've never been inside to visit. But my dad is a graduate engineer and went to see it when it was still a construction site in order to oversee some of it as he had done some of the calculations necessary..
these types of videos are so nice
i was there as i was around 10, and all i remember was that they had a lot of bugs crawling around. like not cockroaches or so but large tropical bugs and all
Ryan one day you just have to come to germany with your family...and visit all these places...I´ve been there 3 times and it´s just amazing...my kidslove this place and always want to go back there...and they have not even shown the water slides and the outside aera you can use in the summer as well :D, oh and the "one at a time" thing would not happen here even if someone twists their ankle because the person would not sue the resort because of that (maybe becasue of universal health care they don´t get bancrupt to fis that ankle) and with that give the comapny the possibility to not have to regualte the sliding process, because noone sues them...I love the freedom over here ;), I liove the comparison with the marble toy coaster thing...I had that as kid as well andthe comparison fits :)
I remember that as a German kid, I always saw advertisements for this place on TV and always wanted to go there.
I was there as a kid . It was so awesome !
I was there like 6 years ago, it was an amazing experience!
We've been there 6 or 7 times now. Usually when they offer special discounts (normal prices are just too much ^^). It's impressive driving towards it.
We slept once inside, but usually we stay outside, as it is a lot cheaper.
Actually they forgot to mention the outside area that is awesome too, it has a stationary surfing wave
My last time at Tropical Island was end of 2021 a friend of mine had some coupons for free entry and 10 free cocktails, we had a blast and all we payed for from the 250€ bill at the end was 20€ for food.
I was there once and since then, they've added a lot of stuff. All that greenery, for example, wasn't there yet when I was there, at least not in that amount.
Never been there but there are many Reports about it.
Have you checked out the Indoor Ski hall in Neuss?
You should also look at the Gondwanaland at Zoo Leipzig its basically the same but as a zoo
The Cargo Lifter project was an idea to build a huge airship to transport up to 200t of cargo directly to the target-place. Looked nice in the first place but building that is to expensive and it never took off. Afterwards it looked more like an investor scam than a real project. The fact that they finished the hangar is actually surprising and that it could be used for this kind of resort even more.
There is another huge resort using a very expensive nuclear power station that never went into operation. It's called "Wunderland Kalkar".
This is when recycling goes big in Germany.
I´ve been there twice. The first time when the company Cargolifter tried to build gigantic air ships there and the second time when it already was "Tropical Island". I was impressed both times.
I didn't have a marble coaster?! But ...
1. There was a store on my way home from school. They had a huge one, but not with marbles, but little penguins, that slided down. Sometimes i was allowed to play with it.
And 2. We had easter egg rolling. At easter we would go to a little hill and roll the eggs down the hill, whos egg was first, won. Because this hill was used since years for that, there were gullies. And we builded longer paths with bork and many other things. It was fun.
I have been in this one, outside of Berlin, two times, last time we stayed overnight.
It's a must see places.
God damm i love Tropical islands it was always so fun to go to this place
Hi, 👋 was there with my husband and child several times. Shame the didn't mentioned the kids place. And yes this are real trees and animals. If you ever visit book the evening buffet (you have to book it in advance when booking your room) and use the refill cups.
Greetings from Germany
Marble coasters are called Klickerbahn in German. Yepp, we had them a loooong time ago.
Edit: or Murmelbahn (marble train or track). Aaaand you guessed it, it was invented by a German. 😂
I think it is called hangar, the place where a blimp is hanged.
I didn’t even know we had this in Germany.. I guess I have to visit it some day.
you should watch the official trailer of the new Europa-Park waterpark "Rulantica"! In my opinion, it's way more beautiful than this. Or, as others mentioned, the Therme Erding is also worth a look. :)
You have to look for "Palm Beach in Stein" or the "Therme Erding" both are in Bavaria
Marbelscoasters, Carrera and Hot Wheels slingshots where my childhood xD i had a hotwheels Track that i could attach to a Bed or Shelf to use the Momentum and gravity . No cables no Batteries . The higher i attached it the faster the cars went . Those where the days ...
After opening there was a cartoon on a famous satirical magazine saying "Now in brazil - Eisenhüttenstadt Island"
You used to be able to rent the whole place as a location for filming, photoshoots and the like, but a few years ago a German horror movie was shot there and they went so overboard with the motion picture blood that "a significant part" of the beach had to be replaced. Since then they pretty much don't rent the place out anymore.
Thanks, Ryan, that's not even that far away :) Never heard of it.
I didn‘t realise until now that tropical islands is so crazy to people. I‘ve been there as a child a few times and also like 4 years ago.
I used to be there, it's fantastic! The best of it: it is open 24 hrs!
I´ve done private pilot´s training from an airfield in 44km distance and you can easily spot that humongous thing 😀