Markiplier's You're Welcome Tour Dallas Texas Review

    Let me just start this off with a quick 'note/rant': purchase the VIP tickets, you'll have a massively better time at the show. Now onto what happened and if it was rad.

  Walking up to the venue, which was Southside Ballroom in Dallas in this case, I couldn't help notice the demographic of the line that wrapped around the block. The people that came to Markiplier's You're Welcome Tour were different, but definitely belonged to sub-groups. There were the teens with colored hair and their enthused parents, mid-twenty somethings that had no shame in being there [like myself], and then a subgroup, of what I could only call gamer-boys; like they play video games and that is all.

   Once in, we were handed a paper fan with a red side and a green side with Markiplier's signature mustached 'M'. I knew exactly was this little fan was for, but most people appreciated it for the core value of it being a fan. I'm saying it was hot in there, and due to the overwhelmingly amount of heated body odor, the free fan was awesome.

   It was packed, as expected and the VIP folks got prime seating in the middle of the room, with actual chairs. While the GA scrubs had to stand in and around them with not so amazing views, as you can see above. I was a GA scrub, obviously.

  The show started on time at 7:30PM and the audience was amazed by a ridiculously on brand introduction animated video of the stars: Markiplier, Ethan, Tyler, Wade and Bob. After the video you see Markiplier stage right with Dan, the maestro. At this point, I'm like 'what are they going to do, I'm stoked'! Then it all hit me, at once, like a brick, a brick that I wanted to immediately upgrade. Audience members from the VIP section were brought on stage to make decisions and be apart of the show. The first chosen VIP audience members chose a briefcase which would decide what run of the show Dallas would see. Dallas chose 'Horror'. The next game was 'Five Nights at Freddy's'-esq, with 2 more randomly chosen VIP members battling it out for a date with Markiplier. Soon followed several other improv games with the whole cast involving VIP audience members. The fan with the 2 sides came into play when deciding winners of the games, with red being one person or team and green being the other.

   My favorite game was the dance off, where Tyler and Markiplier chose 4 people each from the VIP tank and had their picks 'show them moves'. Mark and Tyler then had a dance battle with the moves to music genres chosen by the giant projected spinner, spun by Bob. By vote of the audience, Tyler won.

   Let's talk about tech now. There was one single tech issue that was driving me crazy, and then one that was expected. The bad was the ever so often black out of the projector, in the middle of important scenes. The expected was the face mics, they would move due to the physical activity of cast members and this made it hard to hear some of the cast.

  The last part of the show was what everyone came for, gaming! Mark and the cast split into teams. One side Mark and 4 VIP members, and the other side was Wade, Bob, Ethan, Tyler and 1 VIP member. The teams played the Nintendo Switch game 'Wizard'. It was hilarious to watch, and you know how I said the projector cut out? WELL IT CUT OUT DURING THE DUEL. This was annoying, but what are you going to do? Like all the other VIP members that participated in the games, as they left the stage they all got hugs from Mark and 'mistake bottles', with Mark's signature 'M' printed upside down.

   After everyone said their good-byes on stage, Dan played them off and people started to leave. As per usual of any show, this was a fake-out ending. Everyone came back out and did a Q + A with VIP members asking questions and the cast answering.

  Merch wise, it was a slim spread. Two shirts for $30 each, and a poster at $15 each. Their merch table did accept cards. I did not buy the merch, because it wasn't what I would personally wear. I was hoping for the classic mustache, but no.

  Overall: I had fun, but I would have had more fun if I sprang for VIP, as you can tell. VIP also got a meet and greet, and a swag bag.

  I hope this helps if you are planning on seeing Mark and the gang in other cities, let me know if you had fun too!

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