Porterville Recorder

The Popcorn Stand: I can’t bear it, it’s so cute

- Charles Whisnand Recorder Editor Charles Whisnand is The Portervill­e Recorder Editor. Contact him at cwhisnand@portervill­erecorder.com or 784-5000, extension 1048.

I love Teddy Bears. I really love Winnie The Pooh. So of course I believe this video is THE CUTEST VIDEO EVER. The Dutch theme park Walibi Holland came up with the idea to place 22 oversized teddy bears onto a roller coaster. And of course the theme park filmed the ride.

Walibi Holland posted the video on its Youtube channel on Wednesday. The Teddy Bears are riding the roller coaster Untamed, which has five inversions and a 116-foot drop. The roller coaster reaches speeds up to 57 mph.

The video, which is a little over a minute long, is absolutely adorable. I could watch it all day long. It actually looks like the bears are coming to life.

The bears look like they’re really having a great time. Their arms even go up as if they’re actually raising their arms the way people do when they ride a roller coaster.

I mean it’s like the bears are actually coming to life. They make all the same movements and react in the same way people react when they ride a roller coaster.

I do enjoy roller coasters but I don’t know when was the last time I actually rode a roller coaster. Is the Revolution still at Magic Mountain? Or the Colossus? I really liked those roller coasters.

And of course I would love to see Winnie The Pooh ride a roller coaster. I know he would love it. These bears are having a blast. And yes I have to write about the symbolism of this video and cover what a roller coaster of a ride we’ve been on over the past couple of months.

Maybe that’s why I like roller coasters so much. Maybe that’s why we like roller coasters so much. They pretty much represent what we go through in life.

We’re up. We’re down. We’re all over the place. But we hang on. And we’re hanging on. Just like we do — on the roller coaster and in life — those bears were hanging on.

If I ride a roller coaster again, I might just take my Winnie The Pooh bear with me to go along for the ride.

I know we would both enjoy it.

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