January 17, 2025 • 24 mins
With another round of Disney marathons approaching, our lads on The Theme Park Podcast try to decide what costume things they should do. Then they discuss the return of Up! characters to Animal Kingdom, farewell to DinoLand USA and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wait the podcast is this radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station? Anyway, here's your hosts, Dickerman,
Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
here there is Jimmy D. Good evening, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings travelers.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We are in a great theme park season right now
here in central Florida with this cool weather. If you
like the theme parks in the cool weather, I love
it in the cool weather. I have not been to
a theme park, but in theory, I would love to
go to one right now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I come to Animal Kingdom just Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm curious how the crowds are with the cold and
how the animals are well.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
To be fair, I went with a purpose.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I was heading the Animal Kingdom because they have just
released the banshie Ekron, which is the little flying dragons
from Avatar. They just release the two point zero and
it's wireless and it actually has touch response on the
actual creature.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So did you get you one?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I bought one for a friend, but yes, I got
to play with one while I was in there, and
they do a whole ceremony where they bring you into
like the Little Menagerie and like that, you know, you
know when the Ekron picks you because you pick it,
that kind of thing. It's like a cute little ceremony,
and then they teach you how to use the your
ekron and how they the two banshees, like when you
(01:39):
bring them together, they'll actually interact with each other.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You know. The Avatar fandom is what I don't understand it.
Like I understand that first movie made a ton of money,
but I just don't feel like you see, like the
Harry Potter fans or the Star Wars fans like you
do Avatar. I know Jimmy likes it. Jimmy's a big
Avatar guy, but I don't know anybody else.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's like I love Avatar.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's not as culturally resonant as you know, a Harry Potter,
a Star Wars, a Marvel, And it honestly is probably
because it has two movies.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And there was like fifteen years in between the two.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, like it was a long time that and that's
you know why there I haven't seen the second one,
and I have no like inclination to see it. But
like I saw the first one, I thought it was cool.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Wait, I thought you wanted a second one, as it
was supposed to be seen at a gas station in
that little screen while you're pumping gas.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I watched I sorry, you're right. I watched it in
twenty second intervals.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
While are pumping gas at the gas station, just.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The way Big Jim intends me to see it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it got a hybrid.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He doesn't need much gas exactly. That's that's my problem. Well,
in pictures came out from Avatar, Fire and Ash, which
is coming out later this year.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh Jimmy, you've got to be excited about that. Then.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I know they filmed at least three or four
of them.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Back to back to back to back. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Kids are like eighteen now and they were twelve back then.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Like Zoe Saldania is probably gonna win an Academy Award
this year, and she's gonna also be blue every other year.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Oh what's she gonna win an Academy Award?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
For Amelia Perez, I don't think I know that it's
a Netflix movie.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I watch her in Lions and she's fantastic in that.
That's a good show if you haven't watched it. Back
to your trip to Animal Kingdom, James, since you're the
only one of us that has gone to a theme park,
cooler weather, h you got avatar shotskis, how were the
how are the lines? And were the animals out and
on display or were they shivering in their caves?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
I didn't see any animals as I approached, so there
was none. There really wasn't much to see, like going
around that initial pathway to where you get to the
Tree of Life, didn't stop to see any other animals.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So, oh, you didn't do this fire or anything while
you were there.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I went to Avatar Land.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I went to I went on Flight of Passage, and
when I got on, I had been like tracking the
way times because I knew I was just gonna go
on it if I went to go get this creature,
because I wanted to have like the full experience of
like coming to the park, going on the ride and
then going into the gift shop and buying the ekron
or the bench.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Didn't you didn't want to sully your trip to Pandora
with anything else. You wanted to be a straight Pandora trip.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Well, this was also after and I also went like
in the middle of the day. There was a bit
of a problem with the ride, so it was like
running it limited capacity. But when I got on, it
was supposed to only be fifteen minutes, ended up being
an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh that's a big difference.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, but yeah, it happens. It happens from time to time.
Well I have then. Sorry, I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
The final thing I did in Pandora before I left
the pineapple spring roll.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The pineapple cream cheese spring roll. Oh beautiful. Love that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And the only place you can get that is right
at that little booth right outside where they have the
mech standing up.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, yeah, it's cool Land. It's a cool land over there.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Odd think about Animal Kingdom still completely decked out for Christmas,
Christmas carols on the speakers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I think it's my house still been taking out of
my tree.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, the thing is Dino Land like just closed this
past weekend. Yeah, this past weekend, it is like officially closed.
They I think there were still people there like an
hour and a half after the park closed because they
were waiting in line for some of the rides that
aren't around anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Did people get walled in or are there people walled
in waiting?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I don't believe so, but I'm concrete.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Good for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, it's funny you say you didn't see any animals, Jimmy,
because I have two bits of news for Are you
two specifically us two? Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Kevin has returned to Discovery Island following Dino Lan's phase closure.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh so he's back again?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I What do they do with the costumes when they're
not using them? So you got Kevin sitting around, Carl
sitting around somewhere. And then last year, Jimmy, the race
you did when you did Springtime Surprise, they had a
rustle out there, which I have never seen before. Oh wait, no, no,
you saw him at the clubhouse. I'm at russelling Dougiel Right.
I forgot that. You haven't seen Carl Frederickson yet. Never
(06:37):
have I seen Carl in person? That's right?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, So I.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Wonder what the where they sit, what they do. Kevin's
a big one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think we found his Disney Marathon costume.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Kevin, No, Carl, Yes, I need that. I need the cane.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You got the attitude.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Exactly the attitude. He's right whacky in the head with
that game.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, well, let me do my other story. Doug and
Russell meet together at Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's back clubhouse. Oh my gosh, finally telling me I'm
not allowed to get tickets. Maybe this has changed your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
They are at the Wilderness Explorer clubhouse.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I want to go back now. It's been years.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, since like COVID, Right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Since COVID they brought they came back, n they came
back last year separately. Okay, but now they are back together.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
They gotta have Kevin pop in every once in a
while and do a bit, right, there's gotta be a
bit they can put together.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know if he could fit in that area.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh well, maybe Doug can just chase him, you know.
Kevin can walk by and in between shifts and dougle
try and chase him and catch him. And then if
you brought a squirrel to Doug, he would take it
and be very excited. How do you know that?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Squirrel?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
The dug?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I brought one, Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Like a live squore, Like you caught one? Like you're
not supposed to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, I brought a stuffed squirrel dog.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I did see uh the dog character chase a live squirrel.
But once you got to the chain of the like
the little clubhouse, that's where he stopped.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
How tall? How tall? I wonder how tall you have
to be to play Doug because I might like to
play Doug later next.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, you're yeah, you're going to be in one of
the taller characters.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're like, you're you're you're a buzz lightyer, say, I
lose my feet the diabetes.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Am I gonna make it the Dug costume at that point?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Like, I might actually be too tall to be a Doug.
Dang five seven.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think Scott could fit in a dog.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Maybe there's gotta be a website that'll tell you what
characters you be able to play.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It used to east to Yeah, I know, like Winnie
the Pooh was a small one, Goofy was a tall one. Obviously,
I don't know for updated, but yeah, I would, I
would like to play. Well, that's very exciting. That's a
reason alone to go to Animal Kingdom. Now Kevin is
just out ormittently again, just like sometimes roaming around not
guaranteed correct. That's a big one. I don't know how
(09:07):
you get around in that thing. That's a big costume.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, how tall are you?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Six one? You can maybe I'm six. Maybe I'm just six.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
He's like five to nine.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You can be you can be Gaston.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I don't know if I have the body type for Gaston.
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Prince Charming, Uh yeah, Prince Ella still, Prince Eric.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Little pigs, three little three little pigs.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Available, Prince Eric. Mmmmm, Aladdin?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
How about the nut hunchback of Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Uh, Sheriff of Nottingham.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh, here we go, Captain Hook.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He's just pretty in shape for a guy with one hand.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wait, here's one he could do bloo.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, I could do that. Tigger. Actually that's six foot
six foot's the might.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Be six foot? I don't be stunk.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Beast Woody Jafar six two to six four.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh that was a little bigger than bigger than me.
Too small for playing the beast.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Uh, Goofy, Here we go, Goofy. That's all six foot
to six three.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There you go, Goofy. Goofy's in a ride range. I actually,
Goofy's pretty much right for me.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Geppetto it's five eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So yeah, I could pull up you get just a
little bit in Austria porosis.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And you yep.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, good job to have playing a character at a park.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The thing is you'd have to learn the signature, and
I don't trust you to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh forget it. Never mind. Have you guys seen my handwriting?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Your hand?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Mind anyway not to have to write something by hand,
because I don't want anyone to see what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Your handwriting looks like somebody just stepped on in your
hand and now you have to write with it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yep, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well sometimes like for some characters like that, like can't
really like hold a pen, they give them a stamp.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I need Like, oh, you could be big hero, a
six guy that's.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Air conditioned too, that things all blowed up. That's a
good one.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You could be all blowed up.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you do also kind of shuffle like him. Sometimes
we're being honest.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
We don't need any air in the costume. He just
fills it out.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
All right. Time to him getting the costing ready, bring
me the beignets.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Inevitably you're gonna fall and that thing's padded.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So yep, that's true too. It's all gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Is that is that the totality of your trip to
the Animal Kingdom, James? Was that? Was that everything? Other
than you maybe seeing Russell and Doug and missing them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I did not. Yeah, I totally miss him. I wish
I would have known.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But they did have a bunch of new up merchandise
Stickerman and I'm here to tell you now, Uh Animal
Kingdom Lodge. They have an Animal king Lodge and a
Kingdom the up puzzle that's like two sided.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It was like thirty bucks.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Uh huh, it's fifty off and then you get your
twenty percent off of your annual pass, so it's like
twelve dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Can you buy it for me next time you go?
I'm sure if they still have them, can you just go?
I bought it. I bought it. I bought it a
couple of years ago, and a piece was missing and
I don't know if we lost the piece or the
piece was missing out of the box. That's the problem
with a puzzle. You get to the end and a
piece is missing. Did I do this or did they
do this?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Did you know? Did you eat it, did you know?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
But his dog probably ate it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The buddy could buddy probably ate it. If anybody was
eating his.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Buddy, it probably didn't taste good.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, he doesn't care, Julian anything.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Do you want some more Dickerman news?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I do. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The Epcot manates have relocated to a new facility.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They get it. They get an upgrade, a new new tank,
something big.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They've moved to a Disney's focus has shifted to short
term critical care.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh so they're just taking care of manates that are injured.
Then they're releasing them back into the wild.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, these ones that were there, the two that were
there before now at the Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park in
the Panhandle.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, all right. They're beautiful creatures and they do get
run over a lot.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Did you see how many were in Blue Springs Park?
I know we should have gone eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
They're still there.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
There's probably more at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We should do the podcast live from there next week.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Do you want to go this weekend before we watch
the fights?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Am I invited this time?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're invited. Every time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You never tell me. I always learn about it after
the fact.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No, yes, negative false lies. Detected.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We can either go see Manates or we can go
to see the Brutalist. We can go shoot shoot shooting
range or fact.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
In fact, the last time we went to an UFC
card I we invited you, you said you were coming,
and then.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We totally ghost saved your seat.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I even said to Dick around, like do you think
Scott's really gonna come?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And he's like, no, yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I don't remember this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's what you're gonna say after this Saturday too, Possibly
you invite me.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I will probably also say that as well.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Tell me about we're gonna watch We're gonna watch the
fights at my house, so you were welcome to come.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We should all watch Wolfman this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Is that a new wolf Man? Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, it's the Blumhouse one.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh, I had no idea that was coming out Universal Monster.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You like Universal Monsters?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I do. I'm interested. By the way.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
By the way, let me text you guys right now.
Uh bus new bus rap just came out Universal. Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Wait, I thought you were making fun at Disney for
their bus wraps.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, but they didn't make a big deal about it.
There's just happened.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They're just like there here, here it is. I think
Scott sent it to us.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, I sent you, guys two things. You guys conveniently
ignored the first one.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, I look and I laughed at it, and I said, gross,
because I don't like that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You've just said that to yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
In my mind, I said it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I really hope they one day make a T shirt
with that Moon guy on it, because I'm buying fifty
thousand copies.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
For I'm gonna look and I'm gonna do some digging.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's a cool bus.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You want that bus, don't you.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
It's a cool bus. Yeah, I drive that bus.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
There you go. Well, we're about to have the opening
of one of the Epic Universe hotels.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Mm hmm. Yeah that's right. You can go stand there
before the park's even open.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, one of them will be opening soon. The next one,
I think is not for another like six weeks, and
then the other one is like when the park opens.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
That's interesting. I wonder how many people are gonna stay
out there just because it's an opportunity to stay there
before the park opens.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
A lot to see bloggers.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And the thing is it's very reasonably priced.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, we were talking for bucks two hundred bucks, three
hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He was under two hundred six fifty. He was under
two hundred. I want to say he was right.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I would go, I would go, But I hate bloggers.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We are one, buddy, No, I.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Just can't stand blow we are. We are podcasters. We
are not bloggers.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh god, we.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Are not the one in the middle of the ride
with our selfie stick out filming the thing, talking to it.
Ruin and every everyone else's experience.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Selfie sticks aren't really allowed anywhere anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Tell that to the guy on the Oh my god,
Star Wars ride. What they're breaking news, something happened. Scott's
very happy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Jimmy's gonna be very Jimmy is gonna be very happy
as well. With what I was about Bill the Stereo,
Nigel Canning Figment Moon classic T shirt.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh they're making one.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I found one.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You guys are not allowed to buy why we don't
know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
On the Figment ride, there's a point where they show
that the host guy the Moon, and his teeth are
gross and yellow and his face looks weird. And it
always makes me nauseous when I see it, and these
guys love to send.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Me pictures of it and it rocks back and forth.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, I don't. I don't care for that. I don't
like it.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why it's cool, it's an amazing ride. His festival begins tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mm hmm, yeah, that is true. There is a new
festival coming to Epcot. So if you want to go
around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Festival of the Arts. I mean, yes, it should be
called Festival the Figment, but.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Mm hmm yeah, and it opens tomorrow, so go go
get your drinks on. Do you think people really buy
art in large masks there when it's festival? The answer
is just an excuse to go drink.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, people people do, like I've seen, like stuff like
sold out.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh yeah, okay, that's for them.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What you gotta remember though, to Dickerman, is it's not
like Disney selling the art. It's like the artists are
there and it's just a showcase of their art.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Do they have to rent the booth? There's Disney just
give it to them because they're nice. Oh that sure,
it's awful.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I couldn't. I couldn't tell you. I don't know the
ins and outs of that.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I know right.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't even like that. I don't like the work
they did an illustrator either to try and trace that either.
I'm gonna judge their illustrated.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, you're gonna be soon wearing it, buddy, h ah.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You guys can wear it, and that'll be gross.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh my god, I figured out. Okay, So before the show,
on the pre show, we were discussing the three of
us signing up to do the Disney ten.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
K Springtime Surprise.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, my case enough.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And we all agreed that we're gonna do it, the
three of us. I didn't all agreed that we were
going to do this. I figured it out. I like
Dickerman should dress up as the Moon.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The only way you're getting me on a ten k
is if I'm on one of those scooters.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Like a rascal. That doesn't work that way. You can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
No, you gotta get the one like the people have
in the parks. Just run people down.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You can run it keep you can run a ten
k that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, No I can't. I have a ten k that's
six miles.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, but all you had to you could walk it
at a brisk pace.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I do my hip y'all will have my hip.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
If I can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Walk a mile of my shoes.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Let us know ideas for what Dickerman should what the
three of us should dress up. I will gladly dress up.
I will volunteer to dress up as as figs.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Here isles, but you Cancules is the ten K.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you can dress up as anything. You can dress
up as any characters.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The five K's group. Why don't you stick with the group? Guys,
come on, if.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You can get us into the five K, I'll run.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, nothing done, ten K.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I will say this. I forgot. I went to a
Disney area this weekend. I went to Disney Springs. Oh yeah,
a ton of stuff fifty and forty percent off in
the Marvel and Star Wars sections. Would you buy ooh,
I saw Star Wars mask. I did see the high
end Guardians relics, you know, like the the Cube. Yeah,
(20:40):
that thing they had that because it's normally like one
hundred bucks, and it was fifty percent off. They had
the Cube, the Tesseract, they had Ironman's Arc reactor and
that in a case that was probably the coolest looking one.
But yeah, that was all like fifty and forty percent
off at the at Disney Springs. Find the stuff that
was on sale at first dar Wars was raised lightsabers.
(21:05):
Yeah cool. It was a toy one though it wasn't
like the good one Jimmy. It didn't have one on sale. Yeah,
they did have one on sale. It was like a
double saber. I don't remember who it was, but it
was like it was the real kind, like you like,
But I don't remember who it was Darth Maul. It
wasn't Darth Maul. It was like two sabers. I think
I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Recall Ahsoka Tano.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
No. I shouldn't be trusted to remember things. I just
remember it was a saber of some sort.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I mean, the guy from the Accolade had a lightsaber
that could take a go apart and be two.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It might have been that one. It could have been
that one.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You should watch the episode. It's really good. It's an
amazing episode. It's one of the best fight scenes lightsaber
fight scenes ever.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Okay, it's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
I've I've rewatched that fight scene like a thousand times.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, it's a whole episode is just like mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's it's like a gut runching episode as well.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I was done right one and done on that show unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yes, but there have been talks about bringing those characters
into other parts, into another show, or like they're gonna
use those characters down the line.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It's like when they show up, like when Cleveland Brown
had his own show that he just had to go
back and hang on a family guy again.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What was Cleveland brown show called.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
The Cleveland Show? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I like that show.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, it sounds like us dating a podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, hey, look the r L was available. Still, I
still stand by this decision.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It was. It was a great choice. I just love
what people. So what's your podcast called the theme park Podcast?
What do you talk about?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, theme parks and movies sometimes.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Last bit of news, they've added some new music to
the Universal Studios Music loop, like at the entry point.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh okay, I couldn't tell you what plays there when
you get in there?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
What they what do they?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What do they normally have?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, there's like Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, all right,
Born Identities now in there, okay, Yeah, Shrek, Men of
black Water World, water World, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't e water old songs.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, it's just it's just it's just the music. It's
just like score. There's no like lyrics to them.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay, Well I liked water World.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I was like the one person when it was so
terribly reviewed for years and I watched I'm like, oh,
this is great. Oh can I mention one more thing
before we before we have to wrap up?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Of course, as you said this earlier this week, Mel
Gibson added to mega Con, which is a wild addition.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, well, and Danny Glover, so you can get your
your lead weapon cast to pick.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah. I mean, Gibson's one of the biggest, you know,
movie stars of our generations. So that seemed like a
big one for MegaCon for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's like two hundred something dollars for a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well, I don't blame them, it's Mel Gibson after all.
I just watched Signs the other night. Fantastic. All right, Well, Scott.
If people I want to find the latest breaking news,
including additions to megacn and various theme parks around the world,
where can they go?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
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Speaker 3 (24:13):
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will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wait the podcast is this radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station? Anyway, here's your hosts, Dickerman,
Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
here there is Jimmy D. Good evening, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings travelers.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We are in a great theme park season right now
here in central Florida with this cool weather. If you
like the theme parks in the cool weather, I love
it in the cool weather. I have not been to
a theme park, but in theory, I would love to
go to one right now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I come to Animal Kingdom just Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm curious how the crowds are with the cold and
how the animals are well.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
To be fair, I went with a purpose.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I was heading the Animal Kingdom because they have just
released the banshie Ekron, which is the little flying dragons
from Avatar. They just release the two point zero and
it's wireless and it actually has touch response on the
actual creature.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So did you get you one?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I bought one for a friend, but yes, I got
to play with one while I was in there, and
they do a whole ceremony where they bring you into
like the Little Menagerie and like that, you know, you
know when the Ekron picks you because you pick it,
that kind of thing. It's like a cute little ceremony,
and then they teach you how to use the your
ekron and how they the two banshees, like when you
(01:39):
bring them together, they'll actually interact with each other.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You know. The Avatar fandom is what I don't understand it.
Like I understand that first movie made a ton of money,
but I just don't feel like you see, like the
Harry Potter fans or the Star Wars fans like you
do Avatar. I know Jimmy likes it. Jimmy's a big
Avatar guy, but I don't know anybody else.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's like I love Avatar.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's not as culturally resonant as you know, a Harry Potter,
a Star Wars, a Marvel, And it honestly is probably
because it has two movies.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And there was like fifteen years in between the two.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, like it was a long time that and that's
you know why there I haven't seen the second one,
and I have no like inclination to see it. But
like I saw the first one, I thought it was cool.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Wait, I thought you wanted a second one, as it
was supposed to be seen at a gas station in
that little screen while you're pumping gas.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I watched I sorry, you're right. I watched it in
twenty second intervals.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
While are pumping gas at the gas station, just.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The way Big Jim intends me to see it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it got a hybrid.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He doesn't need much gas exactly. That's that's my problem. Well,
in pictures came out from Avatar, Fire and Ash, which
is coming out later this year.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh Jimmy, you've got to be excited about that. Then.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I know they filmed at least three or four
of them.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Back to back to back to back. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Kids are like eighteen now and they were twelve back then.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Like Zoe Saldania is probably gonna win an Academy Award
this year, and she's gonna also be blue every other year.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Oh what's she gonna win an Academy Award?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
For Amelia Perez, I don't think I know that it's
a Netflix movie.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I watch her in Lions and she's fantastic in that.
That's a good show if you haven't watched it. Back
to your trip to Animal Kingdom, James, since you're the
only one of us that has gone to a theme park,
cooler weather, h you got avatar shotskis, how were the
how are the lines? And were the animals out and
on display or were they shivering in their caves?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
I didn't see any animals as I approached, so there
was none. There really wasn't much to see, like going
around that initial pathway to where you get to the
Tree of Life, didn't stop to see any other animals.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So, oh, you didn't do this fire or anything while
you were there.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I went to Avatar Land.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I went to I went on Flight of Passage, and
when I got on, I had been like tracking the
way times because I knew I was just gonna go
on it if I went to go get this creature,
because I wanted to have like the full experience of
like coming to the park, going on the ride and
then going into the gift shop and buying the ekron
or the bench.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Didn't you didn't want to sully your trip to Pandora
with anything else. You wanted to be a straight Pandora trip.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Well, this was also after and I also went like
in the middle of the day. There was a bit
of a problem with the ride, so it was like
running it limited capacity. But when I got on, it
was supposed to only be fifteen minutes, ended up being
an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh that's a big difference.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, but yeah, it happens. It happens from time to time.
Well I have then. Sorry, I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
The final thing I did in Pandora before I left
the pineapple spring roll.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The pineapple cream cheese spring roll. Oh beautiful. Love that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And the only place you can get that is right
at that little booth right outside where they have the
mech standing up.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, yeah, it's cool Land. It's a cool land over there.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Odd think about Animal Kingdom still completely decked out for Christmas,
Christmas carols on the speakers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I think it's my house still been taking out of
my tree.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, the thing is Dino Land like just closed this
past weekend. Yeah, this past weekend, it is like officially closed.
They I think there were still people there like an
hour and a half after the park closed because they
were waiting in line for some of the rides that
aren't around anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Did people get walled in or are there people walled
in waiting?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I don't believe so, but I'm concrete.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Good for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, it's funny you say you didn't see any animals, Jimmy,
because I have two bits of news for Are you
two specifically us two? Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Kevin has returned to Discovery Island following Dino Lan's phase closure.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh so he's back again?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I What do they do with the costumes when they're
not using them? So you got Kevin sitting around, Carl
sitting around somewhere. And then last year, Jimmy, the race
you did when you did Springtime Surprise, they had a
rustle out there, which I have never seen before. Oh wait, no, no,
you saw him at the clubhouse. I'm at russelling Dougiel Right.
I forgot that. You haven't seen Carl Frederickson yet. Never
(06:37):
have I seen Carl in person? That's right?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, So I.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Wonder what the where they sit, what they do. Kevin's
a big one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I think we found his Disney Marathon costume.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Kevin, No, Carl, Yes, I need that. I need the cane.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You got the attitude.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Exactly the attitude. He's right whacky in the head with
that game.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, well, let me do my other story. Doug and
Russell meet together at Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's back clubhouse. Oh my gosh, finally telling me I'm
not allowed to get tickets. Maybe this has changed your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
They are at the Wilderness Explorer clubhouse.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I want to go back now. It's been years.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, since like COVID, Right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Since COVID they brought they came back, n they came
back last year separately. Okay, but now they are back together.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
They gotta have Kevin pop in every once in a
while and do a bit, right, there's gotta be a
bit they can put together.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know if he could fit in that area.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh well, maybe Doug can just chase him, you know.
Kevin can walk by and in between shifts and dougle
try and chase him and catch him. And then if
you brought a squirrel to Doug, he would take it
and be very excited. How do you know that?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Squirrel?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
The dug?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I brought one, Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Like a live squore, Like you caught one? Like you're
not supposed to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, I brought a stuffed squirrel dog.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I did see uh the dog character chase a live squirrel.
But once you got to the chain of the like
the little clubhouse, that's where he stopped.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
How tall? How tall? I wonder how tall you have
to be to play Doug because I might like to
play Doug later next.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, you're yeah, you're going to be in one of
the taller characters.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're like, you're you're you're a buzz lightyer, say, I
lose my feet the diabetes.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Am I gonna make it the Dug costume at that point?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Like, I might actually be too tall to be a Doug.
Dang five seven.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think Scott could fit in a dog.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Maybe there's gotta be a website that'll tell you what
characters you be able to play.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It used to east to Yeah, I know, like Winnie
the Pooh was a small one, Goofy was a tall one. Obviously,
I don't know for updated, but yeah, I would, I
would like to play. Well, that's very exciting. That's a
reason alone to go to Animal Kingdom. Now Kevin is
just out ormittently again, just like sometimes roaming around not
guaranteed correct. That's a big one. I don't know how
(09:07):
you get around in that thing. That's a big costume.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
All right, how tall are you?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Six one? You can maybe I'm six. Maybe I'm just six.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
He's like five to nine.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You can be you can be Gaston.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I don't know if I have the body type for Gaston.
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Prince Charming, Uh yeah, Prince Ella still, Prince Eric.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Little pigs, three little three little pigs.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Available, Prince Eric. Mmmmm, Aladdin?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
How about the nut hunchback of Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Uh, Sheriff of Nottingham.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh, here we go, Captain Hook.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He's just pretty in shape for a guy with one hand.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wait, here's one he could do bloo.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, I could do that. Tigger. Actually that's six foot
six foot's the might.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Be six foot? I don't be stunk.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Beast Woody Jafar six two to six four.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh that was a little bigger than bigger than me.
Too small for playing the beast.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Uh, Goofy, Here we go, Goofy. That's all six foot
to six three.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There you go, Goofy. Goofy's in a ride range. I actually,
Goofy's pretty much right for me.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Geppetto it's five eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So yeah, I could pull up you get just a
little bit in Austria porosis.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And you yep.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, good job to have playing a character at a park.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The thing is you'd have to learn the signature, and
I don't trust you to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh forget it. Never mind. Have you guys seen my handwriting?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Your hand?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Mind anyway not to have to write something by hand,
because I don't want anyone to see what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Your handwriting looks like somebody just stepped on in your
hand and now you have to write with it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yep, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well sometimes like for some characters like that, like can't
really like hold a pen, they give them a stamp.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I need Like, oh, you could be big hero, a
six guy that's.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Air conditioned too, that things all blowed up. That's a
good one.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You could be all blowed up.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you do also kind of shuffle like him. Sometimes
we're being honest.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
We don't need any air in the costume. He just
fills it out.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
All right. Time to him getting the costing ready, bring
me the beignets.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Inevitably you're gonna fall and that thing's padded.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So yep, that's true too. It's all gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Is that is that the totality of your trip to
the Animal Kingdom, James? Was that? Was that everything? Other
than you maybe seeing Russell and Doug and missing them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I did not. Yeah, I totally miss him. I wish
I would have known.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But they did have a bunch of new up merchandise
Stickerman and I'm here to tell you now, Uh Animal
Kingdom Lodge. They have an Animal king Lodge and a
Kingdom the up puzzle that's like two sided.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It was like thirty bucks.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Uh huh, it's fifty off and then you get your
twenty percent off of your annual pass, so it's like
twelve dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Can you buy it for me next time you go?
I'm sure if they still have them, can you just go?
I bought it. I bought it. I bought it a
couple of years ago, and a piece was missing and
I don't know if we lost the piece or the
piece was missing out of the box. That's the problem
with a puzzle. You get to the end and a
piece is missing. Did I do this or did they
do this?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Did you know? Did you eat it, did you know?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
But his dog probably ate it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The buddy could buddy probably ate it. If anybody was
eating his.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Buddy, it probably didn't taste good.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, he doesn't care, Julian anything.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Do you want some more Dickerman news?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I do. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The Epcot manates have relocated to a new facility.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They get it. They get an upgrade, a new new tank,
something big.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They've moved to a Disney's focus has shifted to short
term critical care.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh so they're just taking care of manates that are injured.
Then they're releasing them back into the wild.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, these ones that were there, the two that were
there before now at the Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park in
the Panhandle.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, all right. They're beautiful creatures and they do get
run over a lot.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Did you see how many were in Blue Springs Park?
I know we should have gone eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
They're still there.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
There's probably more at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We should do the podcast live from there next week.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Do you want to go this weekend before we watch
the fights?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Am I invited this time?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're invited. Every time.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You never tell me. I always learn about it after
the fact.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No, yes, negative false lies. Detected.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We can either go see Manates or we can go
to see the Brutalist. We can go shoot shoot shooting
range or fact.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
In fact, the last time we went to an UFC
card I we invited you, you said you were coming,
and then.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We totally ghost saved your seat.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I even said to Dick around, like do you think
Scott's really gonna come?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And he's like, no, yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I don't remember this.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's what you're gonna say after this Saturday too, Possibly
you invite me.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I will probably also say that as well.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Tell me about we're gonna watch We're gonna watch the
fights at my house, so you were welcome to come.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We should all watch Wolfman this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Is that a new wolf Man? Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes, it's the Blumhouse one.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh, I had no idea that was coming out Universal Monster.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You like Universal Monsters?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I do. I'm interested. By the way.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
By the way, let me text you guys right now.
Uh bus new bus rap just came out Universal. Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Wait, I thought you were making fun at Disney for
their bus wraps.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, but they didn't make a big deal about it.
There's just happened.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They're just like there here, here it is. I think
Scott sent it to us.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, I sent you, guys two things. You guys conveniently
ignored the first one.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, I look and I laughed at it, and I said, gross,
because I don't like that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You've just said that to yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
In my mind, I said it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I really hope they one day make a T shirt
with that Moon guy on it, because I'm buying fifty
thousand copies.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
For I'm gonna look and I'm gonna do some digging.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's a cool bus.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You want that bus, don't you.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
It's a cool bus. Yeah, I drive that bus.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
There you go. Well, we're about to have the opening
of one of the Epic Universe hotels.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Mm hmm. Yeah that's right. You can go stand there
before the park's even open.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, one of them will be opening soon. The next one,
I think is not for another like six weeks, and
then the other one is like when the park opens.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
That's interesting. I wonder how many people are gonna stay
out there just because it's an opportunity to stay there
before the park opens.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
A lot to see bloggers.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And the thing is it's very reasonably priced.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, we were talking for bucks two hundred bucks, three
hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He was under two hundred six fifty. He was under
two hundred. I want to say he was right.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I would go, I would go, But I hate bloggers.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We are one, buddy, No, I.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Just can't stand blow we are. We are podcasters. We
are not bloggers.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh god, we.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Are not the one in the middle of the ride
with our selfie stick out filming the thing, talking to it.
Ruin and every everyone else's experience.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Selfie sticks aren't really allowed anywhere anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Tell that to the guy on the Oh my god,
Star Wars ride. What they're breaking news, something happened. Scott's
very happy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Jimmy's gonna be very Jimmy is gonna be very happy
as well. With what I was about Bill the Stereo,
Nigel Canning Figment Moon classic T shirt.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh they're making one.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I found one.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You guys are not allowed to buy why we don't
know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
On the Figment ride, there's a point where they show
that the host guy the Moon, and his teeth are
gross and yellow and his face looks weird. And it
always makes me nauseous when I see it, and these
guys love to send.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Me pictures of it and it rocks back and forth.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, I don't. I don't care for that. I don't
like it.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Why it's cool, it's an amazing ride. His festival begins tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mm hmm, yeah, that is true. There is a new
festival coming to Epcot. So if you want to go
around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Festival of the Arts. I mean, yes, it should be
called Festival the Figment, but.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Mm hmm yeah, and it opens tomorrow, so go go
get your drinks on. Do you think people really buy
art in large masks there when it's festival? The answer
is just an excuse to go drink.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, people people do, like I've seen, like stuff like
sold out.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh yeah, okay, that's for them.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What you gotta remember though, to Dickerman, is it's not
like Disney selling the art. It's like the artists are
there and it's just a showcase of their art.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Do they have to rent the booth? There's Disney just
give it to them because they're nice. Oh that sure,
it's awful.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I couldn't. I couldn't tell you. I don't know the
ins and outs of that.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I know right.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't even like that. I don't like the work
they did an illustrator either to try and trace that either.
I'm gonna judge their illustrated.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, you're gonna be soon wearing it, buddy, h ah.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You guys can wear it, and that'll be gross.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh my god, I figured out. Okay, So before the show,
on the pre show, we were discussing the three of
us signing up to do the Disney ten.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
K Springtime Surprise.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, my case enough.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And we all agreed that we're gonna do it, the
three of us. I didn't all agreed that we were
going to do this. I figured it out. I like
Dickerman should dress up as the Moon.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The only way you're getting me on a ten k
is if I'm on one of those scooters.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Like a rascal. That doesn't work that way. You can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
No, you gotta get the one like the people have
in the parks. Just run people down.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You can run it keep you can run a ten
k that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, No I can't. I have a ten k that's
six miles.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, but all you had to you could walk it
at a brisk pace.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I do my hip y'all will have my hip.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
If I can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Walk a mile of my shoes.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Let us know ideas for what Dickerman should what the
three of us should dress up. I will gladly dress up.
I will volunteer to dress up as as figs.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Here isles, but you Cancules is the ten K.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you can dress up as anything. You can dress
up as any characters.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The five K's group. Why don't you stick with the group? Guys,
come on, if.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You can get us into the five K, I'll run.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, nothing done, ten K.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I will say this. I forgot. I went to a
Disney area this weekend. I went to Disney Springs. Oh yeah,
a ton of stuff fifty and forty percent off in
the Marvel and Star Wars sections. Would you buy ooh,
I saw Star Wars mask. I did see the high
end Guardians relics, you know, like the the Cube. Yeah,
(20:40):
that thing they had that because it's normally like one
hundred bucks, and it was fifty percent off. They had
the Cube, the Tesseract, they had Ironman's Arc reactor and
that in a case that was probably the coolest looking one.
But yeah, that was all like fifty and forty percent
off at the at Disney Springs. Find the stuff that
was on sale at first dar Wars was raised lightsabers.
(21:05):
Yeah cool. It was a toy one though it wasn't
like the good one Jimmy. It didn't have one on sale. Yeah,
they did have one on sale. It was like a
double saber. I don't remember who it was, but it
was like it was the real kind, like you like,
But I don't remember who it was Darth Maul. It
wasn't Darth Maul. It was like two sabers. I think
I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Recall Ahsoka Tano.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
No. I shouldn't be trusted to remember things. I just
remember it was a saber of some sort.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I mean, the guy from the Accolade had a lightsaber
that could take a go apart and be two.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It might have been that one. It could have been
that one.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You should watch the episode. It's really good. It's an
amazing episode. It's one of the best fight scenes lightsaber
fight scenes ever.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Okay, it's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
I've I've rewatched that fight scene like a thousand times.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, it's a whole episode is just like mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's it's like a gut runching episode as well.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I was done right one and done on that show unfortunately.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yes, but there have been talks about bringing those characters
into other parts, into another show, or like they're gonna
use those characters down the line.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It's like when they show up, like when Cleveland Brown
had his own show that he just had to go
back and hang on a family guy again.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What was Cleveland brown show called.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
The Cleveland Show? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I like that show.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, it sounds like us dating a podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, hey, look the r L was available. Still, I
still stand by this decision.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It was. It was a great choice. I just love
what people. So what's your podcast called the theme park Podcast?
What do you talk about?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, theme parks and movies sometimes.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Last bit of news, they've added some new music to
the Universal Studios Music loop, like at the entry point.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh okay, I couldn't tell you what plays there when
you get in there?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
What they what do they?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What do they normally have?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, there's like Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, all right,
Born Identities now in there, okay, Yeah, Shrek, Men of
black Water World, water World, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't e water old songs.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, it's just it's just it's just the music. It's
just like score. There's no like lyrics to them.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay, Well I liked water World.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I was like the one person when it was so
terribly reviewed for years and I watched I'm like, oh,
this is great. Oh can I mention one more thing
before we before we have to wrap up?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Of course, as you said this earlier this week, Mel
Gibson added to mega Con, which is a wild addition.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, well, and Danny Glover, so you can get your
your lead weapon cast to pick.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah. I mean, Gibson's one of the biggest, you know,
movie stars of our generations. So that seemed like a
big one for MegaCon for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's like two hundred something dollars for a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well, I don't blame them, it's Mel Gibson after all.
I just watched Signs the other night. Fantastic. All right, Well, Scott.
If people I want to find the latest breaking news,
including additions to megacn and various theme parks around the world,
where can they go?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You can follow us on Twitter, theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and threads at the Theme Park Podcast. You can watch
at the themepark YouTube dot com, and.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
The show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
Realtre dot com. T book is Ebo Studios for JIMMYD
for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we
will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This has been the theme Park Podcast. Follow the show
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