BC'sVators (Aka by his alias name "Tobey") is one of the major elevator filmers in British Columbia and has filmed since July 28, 2017. He currently is based in the Vancouver area and is currently 17.
Early Life[]
Ever since he was a young self, he was fascinated with elevators and began to ride lots of them across the Lower Mainland. Starting with elevators from Coquitlam Centre, Metropolis at Metrotown and more. Before he started filming, he became interested in watching elevator videos from local elevator filmers but decided to start filming elevators in 2015 and later then starting a channel in 2017.
Filming Career[]
Today, he has filmed over 1000 elevators across the globe from a vintage to a generic/modern. He states that he hates a lot of Richmond and generic elevators because they are too common and boring to film and is getting tired to film. One day, he would like to go everywhere to find anything that's good. His favourite brand is Schindler and his fixture is Schindler MT. He also has Schindler MT parts from 1333 W Broadway and a Westinghouse indicator.
Outside the Elevator Community[]
In addition to outside the community, he is also a transit fan and bus filmer since 2018, after being inspired to film them from his friend Vancity Elevators and is a wrestler at his school.
Places He Has Filmed[]
Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Abbotsford, Coquitlam, Langley, North Vancouver, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Port Moody, White Rock, Pitt Meadows, Whistler, Port Alberni BC and UBC
Seattle, Bellevue, Lynnwood, Everett and Tulalip WA
Taipei, Taiwan
Hong Kong SAR
People He Has Met[]
UpLift Vancouver
Elevators by Daniel
Cameras[]
iPhone 7 (December 2018-present)
iPhone 5s (July 2017-September 2017, phone damaged from water and from October 2017-December 2018)
iPhone 6 (December 2018, temporary camera during that time, borrowed from his mom)
iPad Mini 2 (July 2017-March 2018, fmr. additional camera)
Trivia[]
He is known under the alias name "Tobey", despite not using his actual/legal name, to prevent his parents or personal friends from knowing that he films elevators due to dislikes of the activity from them.
He is the first one to collect Long Bar Schindler MT and is known to be obsessed with the button itself.
He is known to popularize his mascot building and main channel mascot, 1333 W Broadway.
Every March 28 of the year, he prepares a special for his secondary channel mascot, Sakura Haruno from Naruto.
He is dubbed as the "King of Long Bar MT" as he is the first one to collect that type of Schindler MT and "King of Bubble Tea", by his personal friends.
He is one of only 3 people who have both regular and Long Bar Schindler MT, along with Jowevator 3219 and DieselDucy and is also the only elevator filmer who has collected an MT indicator.
2 of his videos have been featured on the Abby News, a local media and newspaper in Abbotsford BC.