25,000+ People Showed up To My Largest Type S Night Lights Meet in Long Beach

0:04 Yeah.

0:25 Oh, I'm back again.

0:31 Hey everyone, Larry Shen here.

0:33 That was without a doubt the craziest car meet that I've ever hosted.

0:40 The city of Long Beach gave us some estimated numbers because we

0:44 weren't actually counting how many people

0:46 were walking into the parking structure.

0:49 They said about 25,000.

0:53 I personally think it was more,

0:55 especially when I look at some of my footage and some photos

1:00 and there were just certain moments where I literally could not see the floor.

1:05 It was so many people.

1:07 It was just the ocean of people.

1:09 I just could not believe how many people showed up to support car culture.

1:14 This was a record in so many ways.

1:16 A lot of people loaded in the night before.

1:20 Okay.

1:21 So, people left their cars in the parking structure thinking

1:25 that they would be able to have their cars in the show,

1:30 but instead the cars were going to get towed.

1:32 So, they got all shued away.

1:34 The very next morning, as soon as I woke up, I got a bunch of phone calls,

1:39 people telling me that there were cars lined up at 7:30 a.m.

1:44 already, and this is for technically a 6:00 p.m.

1:48 show.

1:49 We all know that the loadin is a lot earlier.

1:51 And if you show up at 6,

1:53 good luck even finding parking two miles away because I got tagged

1:58 in so many stories of people telling me a they couldn't get off

2:01 the freeway or b they had to park really far away and they

2:06 had to take a scooter all the way in to the show.

2:10 As soon as I arrived,

2:12 I hit the ground running with my team as well as the Formula

2:16 Drift and TYP S team to start loading cars in as fast as possible.

2:21 We were blocking so much traffic in Long

2:23 Beach and we were causing gridlock and I feel

2:27 so bad for the police officers because they were

2:30 really trying their hardest to keep the traffic flowing.

2:33 We hired 15 or so Long Beach police officers to help us

2:38 and unfortunately I feel like it wasn't enough because of how many people came.

2:44 That's something that we'll address later as well.

2:46 I know a lot of you folks were

2:48 complaining that the parking garage got filled early.

2:52 Believe me, there was a lot of learning from this event

2:55 and I'm bummed that we couldn't get everybody in.

2:58 We can never get everybody in.

3:00 The original idea was to start loading cars in at 2, but if we waited till then,

3:06 we would have shut down the entire city of Long Beach.

3:09 It was already bad enough as it was.

3:11 So that's why we loaded in cars as early as possible just to get

3:16 them off the street instead of them

3:18 just wandering around causing a bunch of traffic.

3:30 Oh wow.

3:33 Look at this crazy traffic that we're causing.

3:38 Dude, this is crazy.

3:41 This is a big problem.

3:44 Not good.

3:45 So many cars.

3:50 Uh it's only 12:30.

3:52 People started showing up around 7:30 a.m.

3:55 Some people even try to leave their cars overnight last night,

3:59 but it's just been so nuts.

4:01 I'm beyond grateful that the car community has turned out this way.

4:07 So, we're going to keep loading cars in.

4:08 I'm going to try to get as many as we can in, but it's a challenge for sure.

4:13 Okay, there's some crazy cars that show up, but holy crap.

4:16 Holy death cart.

4:19 Wow.

4:22 Camaro or what's left of it.

4:25 That is the probably one of the wildest things I've seen at one of our meets.

4:32 I love that it has the stock back seats in it, too.

4:39 And this guy is being super rowdy.

4:42 This is so rough because the entire roundabout pretty much this whole

4:48 area is just completely blocked up of all modified cars everywhere you see.

4:56 Damn wild.

5:00 Whoa.

5:00 Is that Chazzy?

5:05 Look at that.

5:09 Listen to it breathe.

5:20 Once the parking structure was full and once it was getting

5:24 to that time period when we had to load in the formula drift cars,

5:28 I did something that I haven't done at a Type S nightlights meet in a while.

5:34 I actually got into my Supra camera car and I drove all

5:39 the way from the aquarium parking lot

5:42 down shoreline to the Formula Drift Paddock.

5:45 The past couple events,

5:46 my team has gone and covered the Formula Drift

5:50 roll in and I look at those shots and I'm

5:52 so jealous that they're able to shoot that and I

5:55 just really want to be a part of that.

5:57 While it was very tough for me to leave the meat location,

6:00 I figured this was really important and I just needed to see this for myself.

6:05 Especially because my good friend Son Kang was leading

6:08 the parade and he's co-hosting the event with me.

6:25 For the past two events, I've missed this.

6:28 And this is honestly one of my favorite things to do.

6:32 One of my favorite things to see because we're get to drive these on the street.

6:38 It's just so cool to see these full-on drift cars drive on the street.

6:45 Guys, I need you to follow this car straight.

6:47 Look at this.

6:50 Here we go.

6:52 We got old Smurf here leading the parade.

6:57 Oh, along with its uh brother.

7:01 I'm so excited.

7:02 Thank you so much for doing this.

7:04 This is this is our kind of event.

7:07 Free-for-all.

7:07 That's right.

7:08 And all cars are welcomed.

7:10 It's going to be absolutely epic.

7:12 And plus, people are going to be able

7:13 to see the first seven minutes of the movie, which I'm so excited about.

7:17 I haven't even seen it.

7:19 You haven't seen the first time?

7:20 No, I haven't.

7:21 Well, it's almost done.

7:22 Here we go.

7:23 Almost done.

7:24 All right.

7:24 This is going to be a fun one.

7:26 Wait a minute.

7:27 Hold on.

7:28 Hold on.

7:30 How does How does this work?

7:34 That's fun.

7:35 That's good.

7:36 Good for you guys.

7:38 We're comfortable with ourselves here.

7:40 I see that.

7:41 I see.

7:42 I just want to walk through the whole parade right now.

7:44 So, we got the two tundras leading.

7:46 I gotta like squeeze through here and then got three las my Supra.

7:57 Hey, you got to you got to let people go by, right?

7:59 You're going to let people Okay.

8:00 All right.

8:01 Cool.

8:04 Oh, buddy.

8:05 We got the LZ in his brand new E36.

8:08 Got a Penso friend here.

8:11 Oh, jeez.

8:16 This got crazy, bro.

8:41 That's sick, dude.

8:42 So many people here.

8:46 What a dream.

8:48 This was my dream.

9:06 Heat.

9:26 Heat.

9:31 Crazy.

9:43 This is This is wild, bro.

9:46 It really is a beaver beach now.

9:52 That is unreal.

9:57 I've never seen so many people at a meat before.

10:00 This is the craziest heat, dude.

10:04 Seriously, look at this.

10:07 Look how many people are here.

10:09 What a dream.

10:12 Crazy.

10:13 We got people cosplaying out here.

10:17 It seems like the crowd is just not moving.

10:19 The problem is just too many cars and it's like everybody is

10:24 trying to come and see the cars and all the booths and stuff.

10:35 I knew the meet was going to be crazy because of how many shares

10:39 that we had on the videos that I published on YouTube as well as on Instagram.

10:45 I think total we had over a 100,000 shares,

10:49 which is to be expected when you host anything with Sun Kang.

10:54 But I didn't realize it was going to be this crazy.

10:58 I just could not believe the sea of people

11:02 surrounding Sun and all the formal drift cars.

11:06 It was a powder keg.

11:09 It was unbelievable.

11:11 It just felt like people were going to start

11:13 spilling over because of how many people were there.

11:17 And it just made me so happy and it was a really good reminder

11:20 that car culture is alive and well and you can't do anything to stop it.

11:26 It just has so much momentum.

11:28 If that wasn't crazy enough, we had drift demonstrations lined up.

11:32 So, now we're going to do our first demo.

11:45 This is the perfect time.

11:46 Pink skies, beautiful sunset, Long Beach.

11:49 It doesn't get better than this.

12:13 Heat.

12:13 Heat.

12:18 Heat.

12:37 Heat.

13:08 This is when it got a little crazy to be honest with you.

13:12 We had three demonstrations lined up, but because of how many people were there

13:17 and how badly behaved a lot of people were,

13:22 there were many people watching the drift demonstration that were legitimately

13:28 trying to unalive themselves because they were hanging off the ceiling.

13:32 They were hanging off the facade.

13:35 And with one slip or one misstep,

13:39 they could have fallen many stories down to their death.

13:42 And that was just terrible to see.

13:44 I was glad that people were out there

13:47 wanting to see it and they wanted to support

13:50 the city of Long Beach and support Pens Oil

13:53 and Type S and all the things that we're doing.

13:56 But I was just so bummed that people

13:59 just couldn't contain themselves and they couldn't behave.

14:02 And because of that, the city just shut down

14:07 the demonstrations then and there and they said, "This is it.

14:10 Just one time and then no more because it was just too much.

14:16 Someone was going to get hurt without a doubt." But you know what?

14:19 It was a learning lesson for us.

14:20 After that, somehow I was able to make it back up onto the roof.

14:25 That's when I had a chance to chat with Sun about the Drifter movie.

14:29 He's doing kind of like a world tour

14:30 right now talking about his movie and really

14:33 just pushing this project and I'm just so lucky to be a part of it.

14:37 I'm so lucky that he's willing to help host these incredible meets.

14:43 Around 8:30 p.m.

14:45 the fire marshall shut us down because too many

14:48 people were on the top floor of the parking structure,

14:51 meaning they didn't let anybody else

14:53 in and they would just let everybody naturally disperse.

14:59 It took a good 2 hours for everybody to leave.

15:02 So from 8:30 to 10:30, people were just constantly leaving.

15:07 Cars were leaving.

15:08 It was chaos.

15:10 But I'm just glad that it happened.

15:12 And I'm glad nobody got hurt.

15:14 I'm so sorry for everybody that had to wait in so much traffic to get out.

15:19 I got so many DMs from people telling me that they had

15:22 to wait 3 hours to get out of not our parking structure,

15:28 but the neighboring parking structures, which sucks so much,

15:33 but we just want to host these really

15:35 fun and cool events for everybody to come enjoy.

15:40 And for a moment there it was absolutely wonderful.

15:43 It was beautiful.

16:01 Heat.

16:13 Heat.

16:41 Heat.

16:41 Heat.

17:14 Let's talk about the missteps We didn't intend to ever do it at the aquarium,

17:20 and I don't think we'll ever do it at that aquarium parking lot ever again.

17:24 The reason why we did it there is because the Queen Mary,

17:28 as I mentioned in my previous video, was under construction.

17:32 My idea was to hold a meet there again and modify

17:37 a couple things so we could potentially fit more cars,

17:40 more vendors, and we just streamline it a little better.

17:44 But unfortunately, we just couldn't do that.

17:46 So, we had to hold it somewhere else.

17:49 And we wanted to reserve the 400 garage,

17:53 which is next to the formula drift paddock for the October event.

17:57 So, we figured, let's mix it up.

18:00 Let's do something different.

18:01 Plus, we can do a drift demonstration at the aquarium parking lot.

18:05 So, I figured let's just try it.

18:07 In the end of the day, it was really difficult,

18:09 especially because the aquarium was open during the day

18:14 and we weren't able to clear the lot until way later.

18:17 A lot of people were complaining that some

18:19 of the bottom floors had a lot of room left.

18:23 But if you can imagine, we already had a problem and we already had

18:28 to shut it down due to safety at 8:30.

18:32 If we filled the entire thing, who knows what would have happened.

18:36 I want to do these fun events.

18:38 I want to show the world how awesome car culture is,

18:42 but I also want to do it safely.

18:44 I want it to be a family event.

18:47 I don't want it just to be a bunch

18:49 of dudes hanging around crazy cars making pops and bangs.

18:54 I want it to be something that's very inclusive for everybody.

18:58 And that's honestly what we had.

19:04 Oh no.

19:17 And so if we're going to make a movie about drift culture,

19:21 about drifting, the hatachio, the corona,

19:25 I just want to thank the city of Long Beach again

19:28 so much for partnering up with us for this wonderful event.

19:32 So many people told me they came from out of country

19:36 across the US and they just stayed for Taip nightlights, which honestly sucks.

19:42 I feel like if you come out all

19:44 the way to Southern California for Types Nightlights,

19:47 stay the rest of the weekend and enjoy Formula Drift.

19:51 This is supposed to be a Formula Drift preme.

19:54 So, it's to kind of get a preview of the Formula Drift cars.

19:59 It's just a way to gather with like-minded people for fun.

20:03 Of course, I also wanted to thank TY S for believing

20:06 in me and trusting me to host these incredible events.

20:11 Penso, ST Suspension, and of course,

20:13 Toyota Gazu Racing for their continued support.

20:17 Without sponsors like them,

20:20 we wouldn't be able to host these incredible events for everybody.

20:24 So, what's next?

20:25 I don't know.

20:26 It's been so crazy thinking about what this potentially could be

20:32 or what could have gone wrong or how we can improve.

20:36 There's so many things I've thought about.

20:39 One of the things I've said time and time again is that I

20:42 love that we can do something for the community that is free,

20:47 but now as we've seen, it could get dangerous pretty quickly.

20:53 So, we've been toying with the idea of maybe charging like a nominal fee,

20:58 something small, and then maybe giving something in return,

21:01 like a t-shirt or something where it's still very good value,

21:05 and it's not for us really to make money.

21:08 It's more to limit the crowd in order for it to be safe for everybody.

21:13 That way, we can hire more security guards.

21:16 That way, we can hire more police.

21:18 We can have more bathrooms.

21:20 That way we can handle the crowd.

21:23 It's just something that I'm toying with.

21:25 I don't know what we're actually going to do because we've obviously

21:29 tapped into something great and it's something that we want to continue doing.

21:33 So, I hope you folks who came enjoyed it.

21:37 I hope you enjoy this sort of content.

21:40 Thank you so much for watching.

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22:08 Heat.

22:22 Heat.