The Museum Of Failure in Downtown Los Angeles

welcome everyone Adam the whoo here coming to you from downtown Los Angeles and directly in front of me is a pop-up museum that is traveling around the globe and it is currently here in LA for a short time in fact about a week or so ago they were going to close their temporary closure date they have extended it giving myself and the carpetbagger the ability to check it out so we're gonna go inside see what's happening the hashtag and slogan you can see it there at the bottom come fail with us and to gain entry you have to make your way up this this ramp located inside the a and D Museum which is short for architecture and design there it is extended until February 18th 2018 so still open for a short while starting in Sweden dr. Samuel West who is fascinated by intervention and the seemingly binary relationship with failure wanted to put something together and show that not only failures are a negative thing but a positive thing and that will be the premise of our adventure the first item we come to is the Etzel not considered a sparkling success by cart manufacturers but by today's standards a classic and every time I think of the movie Peggy Sue got married I think of this car an example of what I was mentioning a moment ago Henry Ford stated it's the opportunity to begin again only this time more wisely giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat that's words to live by and I wonder if the person who created the plastic bicycle if they took that to heart seriously that's made of plastic a section has been designated as the confessional and you can write what you feel was something that was considered a failure this person 1998 Godzilla movie featuring Ferris Bueller it's true Matthew Broderick was in that film around the same time as the VHS generation there was a comparable cassette tape known as the Betamax and VHS did win out over beta until DVDs and blu-rays came along but I remember having a few items that would fit in a Betamax player one of them was a movie starring this bad boy and the DeLorean was a failed motor vehicle and most people now remember it from the film Back to the Future Fenton Teddy dun dun dun dun so not a pop-culture failure but on the assembly line not a success of course we all know the Oreo company those delicious cookies that you dip in milk but there hasn't always been one flavour exactly in fact they dabbled around with peanut butter cinnamon buns even red velvet and the letter in front signifies what happened dr. Don some people might not realize that Jim Nabors who played Gomer Pyle was quite an eloquent singer he had a great voice but what is even more fascinating is what's next to his vinyl LP the sound Berger a portable record player wonder how difficult it was to replace the needles on that thing for a few decades these candies were on the market ayes AIDS and of course a lot of that changed in the 1980s when the epidemic sweeps the nation and that name was no longer synonymous with tasty treats what have we here oh yes oh yes I love the power glove it's so bad here's a couple of interesting items when it comes to food Colgate made a beef lasagna I wonder if that thought that fought tooth decay possibly and teach your kids to eat right oh Jays tastes just like oranges created to be a competition for Barbie Little Miss no-name was put out on the shelves little did anyone realize how creepy was going to be to own one of these and to stare deeply into its eyes as you tried to doze off no sweet dreams for you this is skipper the peculiar thing about this item is that you would take her arm and as you rotated it she would grow her body her upper torso would mature it would mature rapidly and then you would twist the arm back and she would go back to being a younger female while we're on the subject of technology to play movies the laserdisc came out around the same time as the VHS they were supposed to take over how VHS were so popular the laserdisc were going to be the wave of the future I recently watched one of these items and the quality on a laserdisc isn't much better than a VHS definitely not DVD or blu-ray quality but it was cool it was like a record but it played movies at this point in time we all have heard of IKEA they sell some very hip furniture but there was an era where they sold recliners loveseat couches made out of air this is air this is basically just like an air mattress but when you look at it from a distance it looks like a regular piece of furniture until you sit inside and you think what the heck just happened I think video stores in general into any display in this museum but they have chosen blockbuster which pretty much was one of the biggest ones it is nearly impossible to find an open franchise blockbuster currently there might be one or two but most of them have been converted the storefronts and facades into other businesses this next one's a a real weird one this bite you see in this fat free chocolate cake was not from a human but from imaginary character hostess had this brainstormed idea to sell fat free tiny chocolate cakes and they thought the only selling point would to make it as if they were so popular that people were already eating them so that's how it looked when you opened the box this did not this did not go over too well and quickly was discontinued this taught us that when you eat ketchup you want it to be the traditional red color if you try to do purple or blue or green they will not sell this was fairly recent enough for me to even remember it vividly thinking I don't know if I want to dip my fries in purple ketchup I've always had an infatuation with new coke the backstory on this is coca-cola classic that we know and love today didn't always have the word classic at the end because in 1985 they created this concoction and slated it New Coke immediately the public rejected it rebuked it they wanted it as far away from their mouths as possible and it took the company the Coke Company a couple years to rejuvenate the general consensus that coca-cola was a beautiful and tasty thing and new coke is now a thing of the past I wish they still made this just so I could do a taste ask us I want to remember how bad it really was back in 2011 the big company which is best known for raisers cigarette lighters and ballpoint pens designed one specifically for females the BIC for her and this states that some of the reviews on Amazon are funnier than anything they can come up with one reviewer wrote these pens make me feel so feminine and desirable I can barely keep the men away my husband has started to take fencing lessons just to keep just to keep the minnow I remember these lifesavers holes you could eat the insides like doughnut holes but the lifesaver version it makes sense but it just really didn't take take off unofficially they were pretty much there are pretty much tic tacs there it is Trump the game which was basically just a version of Monopoly came out and the late 80s didn't do well and then he released it in 2004 when The Apprentice became a hit the game however was not a hit do not pass go do not collect $200 I'll just leave this one here it's called a shared girlfriend created by someone in the adult industry and you rinse I'll just like I'll just let you read it you just you can just [Music] you can just read what the shared girlfriend that's just weird looking over some of the other some of the other things people have written down through here oh that's that's not good but I'm noticing this one dating Logan Paul fixing a lamp when I was seven years old and flipping on the switch to test it out got got shocked breaking up with my ex-fiance dyeing my hair at the park spun out smashing in my helmet this was not written by kylo Ren if you look closely this item called the groove stick is basically one drumstick at the front and then it splits off into two like a wishbone I've always wanted to be a drummer so if I guess if I if I pick that up and split it in to my wish might come true and I could actually have I could I could play the drums that's what I need I need that I need the Guru stick are you even comprehending what that is because I'm I'm having a hard time figuring that out I don't know why you would want your drumsticks to be connected come on man it's cool come on it's cool it just accept it wonder how much that caught what I watch it was when it came out I wonder what was the price on it you think I check on eBay listed on Time magazine's 50 worst inventions of all time the hula chair while you were sitting here either at work or watching TV this would work on your abs you could you could have a workout by doing nothing sitting here you would have a six-pack in your abs in no time I don't know why that didn't work I'd pay a couple bucks for that I'd sit in that bag I can just I could use a little toning use a little toning down there one thing's for sure people are in here as a business model this museum is kind of successful nearly two years after the Kindle e-reader came out Barnes and Noble decided to release their own that was slightly better it was waterproof where the other one wasn't but after two years of the general population getting used to the Kindle Barnes and Noble took a massive loss hundreds of millions of dollars and a lot of these just sitting on shelves and in backrooms wham wham wham wham all at all this is a pretty cool place size-wise it's just one big room not a huge huge multi level experience but worth checking out $15 is the admission price to check out the museum a failure at least for a very very limited time as soon this place will be erased from existence this person's regret is they had an internship and they weren't able to go and have an audition that could have gotten them a role on Breaking Bad that's one that that's that could be a regret as well there are a lot people are just pulling out their heart and soul here on this wall that's gonna do it from downtown Los Angeles I think the best thing we can take away from this experience as if you do not try you will not fail but you also might not succeed to be successful at what your endeavors are sometimes you fail not everyone has a thousand percent bath hundred percent thousand not everyone has a perfect batting average the museum of failure taught me always go for your goals even if they are not if they don't come to fruition they've beneficial way what did you learn trying is the first step towards failure you heard it here straight from the carpetbaggers mouth do not fail to hit the thumbs up nor go watch the carpetbaggers channel because he will have a very similar video let's just be honest we feel basically the same exact thing also do not fail to put your hand halfway in front of the camera while I start my stick right there the hand vlog

Channel: TheDailyWoo

Views: 700,724

Rating: 4.8080564 out of 5

Keywords: museum of failure, museum, of, failure, los angeles, downtown, betamax, colgate lasagna, delorean, weird, strange, unusual, oreos, laserdisk, adamthewoo, adam the woo, adam, the, woo, art, LA, california, vlog, thedailywoo, new coke, power glove, sound burger, growing up skipper, groove stick, bic for her

Id: eQ7bE9IrfEs

Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 12 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/ThePanth]

I love Adam the Woo. He does a good job of showcasing some the the stuff that is off the beaten path.

[u/meowiemom19]

I LOVE that "New Coke" was in this museum. That is the #1 biggest fail in Coca Colas history. My step-mom used to clean for a woman that was one of the owners of the Coca Cola plant in Atlanta Georgia, so it was always Coke for us. I remember the "New" Coke it was hideous! I should hope that the recipe was burnt never to be seen or tried again. There should be notes in the lab of ingredients to NEVER be tried in a recipe. That shit was horrible!!