Created: 28 September 2015
That’s right, I started this 3 months before it came out. It was intended from the start as a sequel to my Cologne videos, but an order of magnitude larger in scale.
My entire senior class was scheduled to take a day trip to Disneyland Paris, so I brought along my camera and recorded everything I could think to. I got probably 2-3 hours of footage, but the whole day I was thinking about how I could turn things into bits for the video. A lot of the video arose out of ideas or jokes we had while talking at the park (for instance, I was dared to do make that illuminati joke on the spot, which was before I could have known that you can’t really see the triangle on the cart, dangit).
But I didn’t tell anyone who stars in this video I was making it. I wanted to get it done quick and surprise them, but I quickly realized that would not be happening. It kept getting pushed back further and further until December rolled around and I had to buckle down and commit to finishing it as a Christmas surprise. I ended up working until Christmas Eve to get it done, and then it took all of Christmas morning to render.
As I mention in a comment on the Director’s Cut this version was trimmed significantly in an attempt to make it watchable by someone who doesn’t want to hear my friends and I spout memes (and doesn’t want to watch us meander down a street from the corpse of a broken ride for 10 minutes).