February 14, 2025 • 25 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys recap all of the festivities from attending MegaCon Orlando 2025 and give some pro-tips for anyone attending conventions in the future. Then they run through some of the food items that will be coming to Epic Universe!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park capital.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
a radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. How are you fellas? And
the man of Many Costumes Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How's how's it going? Happy spooky season?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well it is not yet.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, what do you mean there's a new there's a
new horror movie about to come out?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Is love season?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And there's that movie Heart Eyes, which is like a
Valentine slasher movie.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, all out season for lovers that love Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How many costumes did you wear this past weekend at MegaCon? Go?
Was it three? Three?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I did three this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And you had the classic Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, spider Man on Friday. I had the eleventh Doctor
on Saturday from Doctor Who because I did two meet
and greet pictures and then I was your picture wah
Luigi on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Okay, I didn't, I didn't. I gotta I gotta go
hunt down your wa Luigi photo because I did not
see that one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, I'll sex it to you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So, Scott, you went for four days only dressed for
three On the fourth day, do you like, what do
you wear.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Lude on the fourth day that you don't cosplay?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's it's it's the Thursday, the Thursday, because that's usually
my go pick up credential, walk around, get a little
lay of the land.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This year I was rocking a theme park podcast T
shirt you know, represent the brand? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
How many people stopped you for autographs? You know?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was I had to talk to security about it
because they kept mobbing me. It was a It was
a huge, huge ordeal, Scott.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He's like the Timberlake of our group.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Dickerman, I feel like Curtis earth Walking on the show floor.
Probably got stopped for pictures more than any of us
wherever would and that was only because everybody thought he
was dressed as Kingpin.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
This is yes, I remember that, this is true.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That is that is accurate. Let's do a quick recap
of the megaicun weekend, because you were there all four days.
I made it out one day, then I got sick,
so I sent some people in my stead. I, let's see,
spent way too much money. Mm hmmmm hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Got two meet and greet photos, one with Matt Smith,
one with Billy Piper, so two doctor who people. I
will say this, I went for four days. I'm still
not sure I saw everything there was to offer at
Mega Con.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
There was so much, I mean just I never made
it off the show floor. And I know there's like
multiple levels to see, multip things and all these panels
and these various things, but I never made it off
the show for it. And I guarantee I didn't see
all things. Yeah no, you only saw like twenty five
percent of the show. If you don't leave the show floor, Well,
there you go. That's what I saw twenty five percent.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
There was a point where I'm not even sure I
saw all of the show floor if I'm being honest,
Like that's how I did read out it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Was Yeah, yeah, I mean there was so much to see,
and sometimes you'll see something and then you can never
find it again, like even if you try and come
up with a point of reference, you might never find it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
In Still, luckily we figured out over an artist alley
they've been doing this thing where they tie balloons to
their stand so you can easily spot it, like, oh,
there they are, They're over there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's smart.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And then it was like you'd find a booth and
be like, okay, this is by the lime balloon, so
it's one row over from that. So then you just
have to remember that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, you know, besides you go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I was just gonna say, walking around MEGACN kind of
turns into like when you're in that mirror realm, you
know with Doctor Strange, where things like people like just
the room incepts and like turns and like changes, and
that's why I can never find where I'm going, I.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Swear to God and all kind of it all looks
a little bit the same, and especially like if you
exit the convention center, you might not have any idea
where you are. I'm like, is this nor Southeast? I
have no idea. It is like you stepped into a
portal somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Dickerman, they put big words on the walls.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
No, I get that, But sometimes you walk out like, wait,
where's the dirt lot? I parked in the dirt lot.
Where am I? Where's the dirt that's basically the question.
That's basically the question, Like, there's only so many exits.
But I will say, in regards to displays, my wife
saw her absolute favorite things she's ever seen in the
history of Megicon and maybe in the history of the
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world of this year's event, and that was the never
ending story setup. I knew it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
She We had no idea it was going to be there.
We were just walking along and all of a sudden
she catches a glimpse of foul cor out of the
side of her eyes. She goes, no, and yeah, She's
like how much, And I'm like, it doesn't matter, You're
gonna do this. So yeah, she she did the whole thing. Falcore,
the rock Bier, the go Mark, and the poor horse
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in the swamp of sadness.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I could not believe they had a horse.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I would and you get to be a tray you
that like as a child, Like I'm still paying for
therapy from that scene.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Mm hmmm hmm, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, So that
was that was a big one. So she was she
was head over heels on that one. She was over
the moon to see that. But I thought it was
a great, a great show this year, a lot of
good costumes. Uh did you do any celebrity gawking besides
your official meats?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I tried to. I walked around a little. I walked
around a lot, but I will say the areas that
seemed the busiest was the Dulph Longer and Ella Purnell
corner of Autograph Alley, And I don't know for who
that giant crowd was for.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's it's it's bizarre sometimes, Like I saw his area,
hank Is area had like a very little line, and
I saw somebody it was the guy from Scream and
he had like a giant line. Like this seems Matthew
Willard's world. Yeah, yeah, Matthew Little had this giant line
and Hank's area was kind of hanging out with a
couple of people. Well, this seems odd.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It always. The thing is it always comes in waves.
So you could walk by at one point in there
the longest line, or they don't because sometimes they'd be hey,
they're about to go to lunch, so they're gonna try
to get through this amount of people first, or they
just came back from lunch or a panel. So it's
always a weird timing thing. But yeah, Matthew Lillard and
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I think it's because he's got the Scream and then
this five Nights at Freddy's thing has like reinvigorated him
and Scooby Doo. So he's got like three really massive
fandoms that all converge and they're all like generational.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, that makes sense. I did see Deadpool's girlfriend. She
is tiny tiny in person.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No you mean no, No, you mean Ben McKenzie's wife.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
She that's from Firefly, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No? Ben mackenzie is Commissioner Gordon from the Gotham TV
show or Ryan Attwood from the o C.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, she was in all those things.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No, he was they're married. Oh, I'm just talking about that.
She was on Gotham. She was also on Gotham.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm just talking about I can't say her name, It's
that's it. Marina Bakern. Yeah she was there, Yes, Vanessa.
She was also in Homeland. I think she was in Firefly,
which unfildly popular. I never saw that. Yeah, I saw
a few. I did. Nobody nobody laid eyes on mel Gibson, right,
he was like he was stuffed behind the curtain.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He was behind the curtains. Danny Glove was behind the curtain,
and I believe Jude Law was also behind the curtain.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I did think Ron Howard was too. It was funny
Ron was, but his daughter wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Daughter and brother were not.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, the brother was there too. Who's his brother, Clint Howard?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know, you know, like when you see a picture
of him like that guy is a character actor from
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, he's in like every Ron Howard movie. He's also
in all of the Austin Powers movies. In the scene
where there's like a rocket ship, he's usually the one
that says it's a huge.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, no, it looks like a huge Yeah. Yeah. Did
you have a favorite costume of the weekend? Besides your own?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Of course, besides my own? Well, I told I talked
last week about the Cattle Con twenty twenty four costume,
which was that the spiritual sequel to the Galaxy's Edge
line starting costume.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yep, yep, that was great.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I saw a Zelda costume, a Zelda related costume which
featured a horse costume in the back of said horse
was on roller skates.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Great, it's great.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The front half, though, had human legs, so there was
somebody in the front half of this horse, and I'm
sorry that person stuck for the entire day. They're stuck
as the front of a horse.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah. There was definitely some over the top,
very creative costumes. My favorite was not either of those, probably,
but we did put that on the Instagram. It was
Leon and Ashley from the game Resident Evil for this
couple dressed exactly like them and I totally I'm like,
oh my god, this is great. So I might be
the only one that was super excited about that, but
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favorite game of all time and they nailed the costumes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I will say we've been going to keep all three
of us been going to conventions for years. The shift
that has happened from the Joker and Harley's m to
then the dead Pools and now it is the Spiders.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Spiders are everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In the Spiders have Deadpool energy.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah they do, they do. The Spiders are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They're loud. You know, if you hear a commotion, nine
times out of five it is a group of Peter
Parker's gathered together.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And you had any of those groups your Spider Man date?
Did you? Did you take part?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
My first year I did, and it was chaos, and
I I don't have that energy to be a part
of that anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I feel like I could do like the the Peter
Parker in Peter B. Parker in the Spider Verse, the
one that not the Peter Porker.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But Peter No, I said, Peter B. Parker, the one
that wears sweatpants.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I like Spider Pig better for him. We could do
that too. We could do both Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right, Well it was It was a good time
as always, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, and we are three hundred and ninety somewhat days
away from next year.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh what are we doing it? We already have a date.
What's the date?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
March nineteen through the twenty second, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay, so a month later month, okay, yeah, by your parking.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now, yeah, biggest pro tip, by your parking advance.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know, I had no problem when we went on Friday.
We parked in the dirt lot, No big deal. Thirty bucks, Okay,
it is what it is. Saturday, forget it. If you
weren't there at six am, you weren't going to park anywhere.
You were out of luck. I can give you a
semi pro tip. If you're an annual passolder for SeaWorld
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Sasha Quatica, you will have to travel via the trolley system.
But if you have a pass for that where which
includes parking, you can park at Aquatico, which would be free,
and then hop on the hop on the bus over
to make a con which I actually had to have
my daughter do on Saturday because there was literally no
parking to be had anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, if you're going on Saturday, either pre pay for
parking or arrive early, or just to.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Get a hotel and just walk over because it's worth
it at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Honestly, that is what I'm considering for next year and
just loading up my car with every possible costume I
would do where?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, where do you think around the convention center? We
could park and just uber to the So what's the
minimum charge for an uber? Like seven dollars?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh, you're gonna get surge pricing, right, They do surge
pricing still, right, So if you if HiT's a zoo
out there, you're definitely gonna you know, hit that surge pricing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The best. The best place I would say is they're
a little bit past the Orlando I right by Universal Boulevard.
There's a wah wah station at Universal in sand Lake,
and there's a strip strip mall over there shopping complex
that has like a chowies, an escape room I think
as like a launch tower. Because we always go to
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Chewi's one night after Megican, it's kind of become like
a tradition. So you could probably park over there and
then uber down because it's only like a couple maybe
a mile down the road.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Or e bike What if we bought e bikes and
we just parked there and took e bikes. I'm sure
there's like they have a bike rack somewhere at the
convention center. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, here's the thing. You could also just park at
Point Orlando's garage and then get a Lime scooter or
whatever they have. They're usually right outside of the garage.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That would used to be my trick with the Point
park at Point Orlando. They have gotten wise to the
mega con crowd.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well they now everyone every everyone at this point now
has gotten Yeah. But when I tried to park at
the dirt lot and it was like, hey, it's full,
but you can wait as people are coming and going,
We're letting people in. And then I was like, oh,
let me go to the Hyatt. Even that was full,
and they were like, you could try Point Orlando, or
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you could try icon Park.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So like even icon Park for the first three levels
they charge for parking. Yeah, it's not until you get
to the fourth level that it's free parking.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
M M guarantee that thing was full. Oh probably, I
mean fourth level and beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I mean, I mean the thing is like, this was
the busy. The weird thing is this was I feel
like the most crowded MegaCon I have ever been to,
But because of how much it was spread out, it
never felt like it inside. Yeah, they just did it's
really good job of like making like there were a
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few bottleneck areas, but it's just like you could kind
of see them coming, so it never felt overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I do have one request for next year, and that
is for our friends in the dirt lot with all
the money they collected for parking this year, Like, can
we get that thing level out or something? Maybe just
fix a few of the giant holes you drive through.
Not a big deal for me, but I saw some
lower vehicles.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I'm like, you guys are out of Look, no, no
swich you want the cheap parking, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, not cheap. It's thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hey, it's still cheaper. Hey. Hey what I paid at
the Hiatt was more than that.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, well, Dickerman, you ever been to the Dayton of
five hundred?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No? No, that doesn't sound like fun to me.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, if you want to park track side, you're looking
at around one hundred bucks, and I bet you there
are people scoffing right now, going, No, it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Now, Yeah, you want to part, you want to go
to a Los Angeles Lakers game, it's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I'm just gonna get an eat ike and write it everywhere.
I'm just gonna have like a two hundred mile range
of that thing and go.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Or or what what we did on Sunday, Uh, because
there were a group of us. Just pay a little
bit extra and have a petticap drop you right off
at the front door.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh yeah, those guys. Those guys are always looking for business.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, maybe you should just become a petticab guy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I probably should. I probably make good money. Yeah, I
just get one of them, one of one of those things. Yeah,
all right, so next year we'll see, Uh, we'll see
them in March. Good time. So as always sent Mega Con.
It seems like an event that continues to grow every year.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, and very quickly they reunited the cast of the
TV show The Flash for the first time since the
show ended. They had I think it was seven known.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
As the Good Flash. That's now known as the Good Flash.
We don't talk about the Other Flash.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I've watched that show. I love that show. They reunited
I think almost every living person minus Henry cavill and
the new guy that has portrayed Superman on stage.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Pretty great, Pretty great there. Yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Was the first comic uh you know convention appearance for
Jude Law.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Who knows to the bookers of Mega Coon, Like, I
don't know who is behind the magic of making that
show come together, but you're right that they should be
given a tip of the hat for the work that
goes in because I imagine that's an incredible feat to
bring all those people together.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, and they crushed it. I mean they were bringing
people in up until I think like three weeks before
for the show. I think that's what Nicholas Holts got
was like a late ad to the show, and he's
in the New Superman movie.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, he's he's the new Superman, right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, Nicholas Holt is the new Lex Luthor.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh okay, I don't know who the new Superman is.
His name is David k That was like nine Superman's ago.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
He's his name is David corn Sweat. He was in Twisters,
he was in Pearl but it literally came down to
him or Nicholas Holt, and one guy got it and
the other guy's playing the villain.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, Well, should we dive into a bit of
theme park news here on this theme park podcast?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, because Universal listened to Dickerman and heard how he
complains that he's always hungry. That's true, and they shared
their first look at the food and drinks coming to
Epic Universe.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This has been a nice trickle for all this information
coming out of Epic Universe. We get a little bit,
it feels like every week. So what do we eat?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, Well, let me get to the thing that you
care about the most and what we have talked about
on the show of if you're going to open a
new land, what new butter beer items did you do?
And they're gonna do butter beer crapes.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That sounds amazing. I'll go ahead and get in line
for that. Now.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Is there a part of France in this new epic universe?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yes, so it's the the It's the Ministry of Magic.
So it's half English half French.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, now the crapes make sense.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But it is a butter beer crepe that includes a
shortbread cookie, Bavarian cream, butterber cream, strawberries, butter beer drizzle,
and a butter beer shortbread cookie.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Let's let's just go get it now, can we? Can
we preorder that? Is there? Is there a mobile app?
Then I get pre order? Now? Will they have butter
beer insulin?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I don't know, but if they, if if somebody could
invent it, I know one person on the show that
would use it.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I do like butter beer in all forms.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Very quickly though. They starting in Celestial Park, which is
like the first hub. Uh, there's a snickerdoodle cookie plate.
There's sea bass, uh tincatsu ramen, which I am all for.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
There is a platter with uh mingo bread and cheese,
uh smoked brisket, smoked rib, pulled pork, cheddar, julapeno sausage,
or herb roasted chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Uh, we've got a pizza restaurant called Pizza Moon.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Over in uh the Wizarding World, there is a ba
begatte sandwich because you know France begettes.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yes, I love begettes.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
There's a Keishe Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's an egg.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Turn of it. Do you like eggs? I do? You
should try some kisha n for eggs. Though.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Over in Super Nintendo World, we've got the Mario Burger.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I saw a picture of the Mario Burger. It looks hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Then there's the Luigi Burger.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Okay, maybe Luigi Burger, now I'm not sure which I saw.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Luigi Burger features grilled chicken topped with basil pesto,
melted Swiss cheese, green peppers, and fresh spinach.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Then there's the Bowser's Fireball Challenge.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Featuring a towering one pound meat ball topped with gouy
mozzarella cheese in a rich mushroom marinara sauce with freshly
fresh partially served with a Bowser inspired puff pastry in
a side of hot sauce.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Y just strain out the mushrooms and I'm in.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And then there's the Yoshi Smoothie Jack.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I mean, you better take another pepsid before you have
that bowser meatball.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Maybe Over in the Isle of Burke, this is the
How to Train Your Dragon, which James texted us. The
animatronic toothless that they have, you.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Can totally tell that there's a Boston Dynamics dog under there.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh that's cool, though, waiting to see one in action.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Well, this is the first time I've ever seen one
of these, you know, these robot dogs that I'm not like,
this is a terminator waiting to like eliminate everybody. You're
just like, oh, it's toothless and that's cool. You can
actually like walk around and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh, look at this cute little dragon.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Put a cute skin on a terrifying dog. It's fine,
there's no way he'll turn on us. Now, he's cute,
exactly exactly over the Isle of Dog over see, he
can get right back up kick him again.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Over in the Isle of Burke there's the thaw Fest Platter,
which is a spread of tender chicken drumsticks with a
barbecue glaze, grilled salmon, and sausage served with carrots, onions
and Nordic fries.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That man, too many things I don't like.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
M Okay, how about this in the dark Universe, We've
got a whole bunch of stuff on steaks.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay, steaks are good.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So fish on a steak which is black and salmon steak,
bird on a steak which is a grilled, dry rubbed
chicken tender loin, or do that bits and pieces, which
is seared and glazed, wild mushroom brisket, meat loaf.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right, I'm in the middle there. I do like
a meat loaf. But when you start throwing mushrooming things
like settle down, I get it. We got Mario, there's mushrooms.
I'm just I'm not in for it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, how about this, the blood orange chicken sandwich. Yes,
I will eat that on a sinister black bun.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Ooh, I like that even more.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Then there's the vegan stuffed cat. Oh try it, Hunters
garlic steak, which is a crispy cheese garlic pretzel.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh that sounds good. Yeah, yeah, I think we had
some good food options there, for sure, Scott.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Did you notice that the one entree that Dickerman wanted
was the one that had a chicken tender on it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, I did, I very much did.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Hello, it's delicious. Who doesn't like a chicken tender anyhow,
everybody likes chicken tenders.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, chicken tenders are great, but there are other things
in the world besides chicken tenders.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, you're an adult allegedly.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Sure, if you say so, I'm just going to tie
you to that chair from clock with orange and just
stuff other foods in you and I'll see how many
you actually like, because I feel like you just have
such a mental block that you're just like, yeah, we're
just gonna be a little child and you just won't
try it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
We're just gonna feed you and not tell you what's
in it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well I did do that. A few weeks ago. I
accidentally ate a part of a fish taco and I
didn't know what it was, and I'm like halfway through
then I looked at it sound I'm like.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, and you liked it. You liked it, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I was unsure. I didn't know what was going on,
but I didn't hate it. But I didn't like it.
But then when I saw fish, I didn't like it anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, fish is good for you.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I don't know that I could be around you without
a woodenspoon, because I'm just gonna be. It's want to
hit you at a wooden spoon every time I hear
you talk about food.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
All right? Well, if you want to get the latest
breaking food news and theme park news, Scott, where can
they head to?
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Speaker 1 (24:44):
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From the theme park capital.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
a radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. How are you fellas? And
the man of Many Costumes Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How's how's it going? Happy spooky season?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well it is not yet.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, what do you mean there's a new there's a
new horror movie about to come out?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Is love season?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And there's that movie Heart Eyes, which is like a
Valentine slasher movie.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Well, all out season for lovers that love Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How many costumes did you wear this past weekend at MegaCon? Go?
Was it three? Three?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I did three this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And you had the classic Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, spider Man on Friday. I had the eleventh Doctor
on Saturday from Doctor Who because I did two meet
and greet pictures and then I was your picture wah
Luigi on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Okay, I didn't, I didn't. I gotta I gotta go
hunt down your wa Luigi photo because I did not
see that one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, I'll sex it to you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So, Scott, you went for four days only dressed for
three On the fourth day, do you like, what do
you wear.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Lude on the fourth day that you don't cosplay?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's it's it's the Thursday, the Thursday, because that's usually
my go pick up credential, walk around, get a little
lay of the land.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This year I was rocking a theme park podcast T
shirt you know, represent the brand? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
How many people stopped you for autographs? You know?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was I had to talk to security about it
because they kept mobbing me. It was a It was
a huge, huge ordeal, Scott.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He's like the Timberlake of our group.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Dickerman, I feel like Curtis earth Walking on the show floor.
Probably got stopped for pictures more than any of us
wherever would and that was only because everybody thought he
was dressed as Kingpin.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
This is yes, I remember that, this is true.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That is that is accurate. Let's do a quick recap
of the megaicun weekend, because you were there all four days.
I made it out one day, then I got sick,
so I sent some people in my stead. I, let's see,
spent way too much money. Mm hmmmm hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Got two meet and greet photos, one with Matt Smith,
one with Billy Piper, so two doctor who people. I
will say this, I went for four days. I'm still
not sure I saw everything there was to offer at
Mega Con.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
There was so much, I mean just I never made
it off the show floor. And I know there's like
multiple levels to see, multip things and all these panels
and these various things, but I never made it off
the show for it. And I guarantee I didn't see
all things. Yeah no, you only saw like twenty five
percent of the show. If you don't leave the show floor, Well,
there you go. That's what I saw twenty five percent.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
There was a point where I'm not even sure I
saw all of the show floor if I'm being honest,
Like that's how I did read out it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Was Yeah, yeah, I mean there was so much to see,
and sometimes you'll see something and then you can never
find it again, like even if you try and come
up with a point of reference, you might never find it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
In Still, luckily we figured out over an artist alley
they've been doing this thing where they tie balloons to
their stand so you can easily spot it, like, oh,
there they are, They're over there.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's smart.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And then it was like you'd find a booth and
be like, okay, this is by the lime balloon, so
it's one row over from that. So then you just
have to remember that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, you know, besides you go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I was just gonna say, walking around MEGACN kind of
turns into like when you're in that mirror realm, you
know with Doctor Strange, where things like people like just
the room incepts and like turns and like changes, and
that's why I can never find where I'm going, I.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Swear to God and all kind of it all looks
a little bit the same, and especially like if you
exit the convention center, you might not have any idea
where you are. I'm like, is this nor Southeast? I
have no idea. It is like you stepped into a
portal somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Dickerman, they put big words on the walls.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
No, I get that, But sometimes you walk out like, wait,
where's the dirt lot? I parked in the dirt lot.
Where am I? Where's the dirt that's basically the question.
That's basically the question, Like, there's only so many exits.
But I will say, in regards to displays, my wife
saw her absolute favorite things she's ever seen in the
history of Megicon and maybe in the history of the
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world of this year's event, and that was the never
ending story setup. I knew it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
She We had no idea it was going to be there.
We were just walking along and all of a sudden
she catches a glimpse of foul cor out of the
side of her eyes. She goes, no, and yeah, She's
like how much, And I'm like, it doesn't matter, You're
gonna do this. So yeah, she she did the whole thing. Falcore,
the rock Bier, the go Mark, and the poor horse
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in the swamp of sadness.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I could not believe they had a horse.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I would and you get to be a tray you
that like as a child, Like I'm still paying for
therapy from that scene.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Mm hmmm hmm, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, So that
was that was a big one. So she was she
was head over heels on that one. She was over
the moon to see that. But I thought it was
a great, a great show this year, a lot of
good costumes. Uh did you do any celebrity gawking besides
your official meats?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I tried to. I walked around a little. I walked
around a lot, but I will say the areas that
seemed the busiest was the Dulph Longer and Ella Purnell
corner of Autograph Alley, And I don't know for who
that giant crowd was for.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
It's it's it's bizarre sometimes, Like I saw his area,
hank Is area had like a very little line, and
I saw somebody it was the guy from Scream and
he had like a giant line. Like this seems Matthew
Willard's world. Yeah, yeah, Matthew Little had this giant line
and Hank's area was kind of hanging out with a
couple of people. Well, this seems odd.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It always. The thing is it always comes in waves.
So you could walk by at one point in there
the longest line, or they don't because sometimes they'd be hey,
they're about to go to lunch, so they're gonna try
to get through this amount of people first, or they
just came back from lunch or a panel. So it's
always a weird timing thing. But yeah, Matthew Lillard and
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I think it's because he's got the Scream and then
this five Nights at Freddy's thing has like reinvigorated him
and Scooby Doo. So he's got like three really massive
fandoms that all converge and they're all like generational.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, that makes sense. I did see Deadpool's girlfriend. She
is tiny tiny in person.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No you mean no, No, you mean Ben McKenzie's wife.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
She that's from Firefly, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No? Ben mackenzie is Commissioner Gordon from the Gotham TV
show or Ryan Attwood from the o C.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, she was in all those things.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No, he was they're married. Oh, I'm just talking about that.
She was on Gotham. She was also on Gotham.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm just talking about I can't say her name, It's
that's it. Marina Bakern. Yeah she was there, Yes, Vanessa.
She was also in Homeland. I think she was in Firefly,
which unfildly popular. I never saw that. Yeah, I saw
a few. I did. Nobody nobody laid eyes on mel Gibson, right,
he was like he was stuffed behind the curtain.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He was behind the curtains. Danny Glove was behind the curtain,
and I believe Jude Law was also behind the curtain.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I did think Ron Howard was too. It was funny
Ron was, but his daughter wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Daughter and brother were not.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, the brother was there too. Who's his brother, Clint Howard?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know, you know, like when you see a picture
of him like that guy is a character actor from
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, he's in like every Ron Howard movie. He's also
in all of the Austin Powers movies. In the scene
where there's like a rocket ship, he's usually the one
that says it's a huge.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, no, it looks like a huge Yeah. Yeah. Did
you have a favorite costume of the weekend? Besides your own?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Of course, besides my own? Well, I told I talked
last week about the Cattle Con twenty twenty four costume,
which was that the spiritual sequel to the Galaxy's Edge
line starting costume.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yep, yep, that was great.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I saw a Zelda costume, a Zelda related costume which
featured a horse costume in the back of said horse
was on roller skates.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Great, it's great.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The front half, though, had human legs, so there was
somebody in the front half of this horse, and I'm
sorry that person stuck for the entire day. They're stuck
as the front of a horse.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah. There was definitely some over the top,
very creative costumes. My favorite was not either of those, probably,
but we did put that on the Instagram. It was
Leon and Ashley from the game Resident Evil for this
couple dressed exactly like them and I totally I'm like,
oh my god, this is great. So I might be
the only one that was super excited about that, but
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favorite game of all time and they nailed the costumes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I will say we've been going to keep all three
of us been going to conventions for years. The shift
that has happened from the Joker and Harley's m to
then the dead Pools and now it is the Spiders.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Spiders are everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In the Spiders have Deadpool energy.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah they do, they do. The Spiders are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They're loud. You know, if you hear a commotion, nine
times out of five it is a group of Peter
Parker's gathered together.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And you had any of those groups your Spider Man date?
Did you? Did you take part?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
My first year I did, and it was chaos, and
I I don't have that energy to be a part
of that anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I feel like I could do like the the Peter
Parker in Peter B. Parker in the Spider Verse, the
one that not the Peter Porker.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But Peter No, I said, Peter B. Parker, the one
that wears sweatpants.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I like Spider Pig better for him. We could do
that too. We could do both Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
All right, Well it was It was a good time
as always, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, and we are three hundred and ninety somewhat days
away from next year.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh what are we doing it? We already have a date.
What's the date?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
March nineteen through the twenty second, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay, so a month later month, okay, yeah, by your parking.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now, yeah, biggest pro tip, by your parking advance.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know, I had no problem when we went on Friday.
We parked in the dirt lot, No big deal. Thirty bucks, Okay,
it is what it is. Saturday, forget it. If you
weren't there at six am, you weren't going to park anywhere.
You were out of luck. I can give you a
semi pro tip. If you're an annual passolder for SeaWorld
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Sasha Quatica, you will have to travel via the trolley system.
But if you have a pass for that where which
includes parking, you can park at Aquatico, which would be free,
and then hop on the hop on the bus over
to make a con which I actually had to have
my daughter do on Saturday because there was literally no
parking to be had anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, if you're going on Saturday, either pre pay for
parking or arrive early, or just to.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Get a hotel and just walk over because it's worth
it at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Honestly, that is what I'm considering for next year and
just loading up my car with every possible costume I
would do where?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, where do you think around the convention center? We
could park and just uber to the So what's the
minimum charge for an uber? Like seven dollars?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh, you're gonna get surge pricing, right, They do surge
pricing still, right, So if you if HiT's a zoo
out there, you're definitely gonna you know, hit that surge pricing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The best. The best place I would say is they're
a little bit past the Orlando I right by Universal Boulevard.
There's a wah wah station at Universal in sand Lake,
and there's a strip strip mall over there shopping complex
that has like a chowies, an escape room I think
as like a launch tower. Because we always go to
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Chewi's one night after Megican, it's kind of become like
a tradition. So you could probably park over there and
then uber down because it's only like a couple maybe
a mile down the road.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Or e bike What if we bought e bikes and
we just parked there and took e bikes. I'm sure
there's like they have a bike rack somewhere at the
convention center. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, here's the thing. You could also just park at
Point Orlando's garage and then get a Lime scooter or
whatever they have. They're usually right outside of the garage.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That would used to be my trick with the Point
park at Point Orlando. They have gotten wise to the
mega con crowd.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well they now everyone every everyone at this point now
has gotten Yeah. But when I tried to park at
the dirt lot and it was like, hey, it's full,
but you can wait as people are coming and going,
We're letting people in. And then I was like, oh,
let me go to the Hyatt. Even that was full,
and they were like, you could try Point Orlando, or
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you could try icon Park.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
So like even icon Park for the first three levels
they charge for parking. Yeah, it's not until you get
to the fourth level that it's free parking.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
M M guarantee that thing was full. Oh probably, I
mean fourth level and beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I mean, I mean the thing is like, this was
the busy. The weird thing is this was I feel
like the most crowded MegaCon I have ever been to,
But because of how much it was spread out, it
never felt like it inside. Yeah, they just did it's
really good job of like making like there were a
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few bottleneck areas, but it's just like you could kind
of see them coming, so it never felt overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I do have one request for next year, and that
is for our friends in the dirt lot with all
the money they collected for parking this year, Like, can
we get that thing level out or something? Maybe just
fix a few of the giant holes you drive through.
Not a big deal for me, but I saw some
lower vehicles.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I'm like, you guys are out of Look, no, no
swich you want the cheap parking, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, not cheap. It's thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hey, it's still cheaper. Hey. Hey what I paid at
the Hiatt was more than that.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, well, Dickerman, you ever been to the Dayton of
five hundred?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No? No, that doesn't sound like fun to me.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, if you want to park track side, you're looking
at around one hundred bucks, and I bet you there
are people scoffing right now, going, No, it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Now, Yeah, you want to part, you want to go
to a Los Angeles Lakers game, it's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I'm just gonna get an eat ike and write it everywhere.
I'm just gonna have like a two hundred mile range
of that thing and go.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Or or what what we did on Sunday, Uh, because
there were a group of us. Just pay a little
bit extra and have a petticap drop you right off
at the front door.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh yeah, those guys. Those guys are always looking for business.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, maybe you should just become a petticab guy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I probably should. I probably make good money. Yeah, I
just get one of them, one of one of those things. Yeah,
all right, so next year we'll see, Uh, we'll see
them in March. Good time. So as always sent Mega Con.
It seems like an event that continues to grow every year.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, and very quickly they reunited the cast of the
TV show The Flash for the first time since the
show ended. They had I think it was seven known.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
As the Good Flash. That's now known as the Good Flash.
We don't talk about the Other Flash.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I've watched that show. I love that show. They reunited
I think almost every living person minus Henry cavill and
the new guy that has portrayed Superman on stage.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Pretty great, Pretty great there. Yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Was the first comic uh you know convention appearance for
Jude Law.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Who knows to the bookers of Mega Coon, Like, I
don't know who is behind the magic of making that
show come together, but you're right that they should be
given a tip of the hat for the work that
goes in because I imagine that's an incredible feat to
bring all those people together.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, and they crushed it. I mean they were bringing
people in up until I think like three weeks before
for the show. I think that's what Nicholas Holts got
was like a late ad to the show, and he's
in the New Superman movie.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, he's he's the new Superman, right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, Nicholas Holt is the new Lex Luthor.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh okay, I don't know who the new Superman is.
His name is David k That was like nine Superman's ago.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
He's his name is David corn Sweat. He was in Twisters,
he was in Pearl but it literally came down to
him or Nicholas Holt, and one guy got it and
the other guy's playing the villain.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, Well, should we dive into a bit of
theme park news here on this theme park podcast?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, because Universal listened to Dickerman and heard how he
complains that he's always hungry. That's true, and they shared
their first look at the food and drinks coming to
Epic Universe.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This has been a nice trickle for all this information
coming out of Epic Universe. We get a little bit,
it feels like every week. So what do we eat?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, Well, let me get to the thing that you
care about the most and what we have talked about
on the show of if you're going to open a
new land, what new butter beer items did you do?
And they're gonna do butter beer crapes.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That sounds amazing. I'll go ahead and get in line
for that. Now.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Is there a part of France in this new epic universe?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yes, so it's the the It's the Ministry of Magic.
So it's half English half French.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, now the crapes make sense.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But it is a butter beer crepe that includes a
shortbread cookie, Bavarian cream, butterber cream, strawberries, butter beer drizzle,
and a butter beer shortbread cookie.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Let's let's just go get it now, can we? Can
we preorder that? Is there? Is there a mobile app?
Then I get pre order? Now? Will they have butter
beer insulin?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I don't know, but if they, if if somebody could
invent it, I know one person on the show that
would use it.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I do like butter beer in all forms.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Very quickly though. They starting in Celestial Park, which is
like the first hub. Uh, there's a snickerdoodle cookie plate.
There's sea bass, uh tincatsu ramen, which I am all for.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
There is a platter with uh mingo bread and cheese,
uh smoked brisket, smoked rib, pulled pork, cheddar, julapeno sausage,
or herb roasted chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Uh, we've got a pizza restaurant called Pizza Moon.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Over in uh the Wizarding World, there is a ba
begatte sandwich because you know France begettes.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yes, I love begettes.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
There's a Keishe Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's an egg.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Turn of it. Do you like eggs? I do? You
should try some kisha n for eggs. Though.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Over in Super Nintendo World, we've got the Mario Burger.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I saw a picture of the Mario Burger. It looks hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Then there's the Luigi Burger.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Okay, maybe Luigi Burger, now I'm not sure which I saw.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Luigi Burger features grilled chicken topped with basil pesto,
melted Swiss cheese, green peppers, and fresh spinach.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Then there's the Bowser's Fireball Challenge.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Featuring a towering one pound meat ball topped with gouy
mozzarella cheese in a rich mushroom marinara sauce with freshly
fresh partially served with a Bowser inspired puff pastry in
a side of hot sauce.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Y just strain out the mushrooms and I'm in.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And then there's the Yoshi Smoothie Jack.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I mean, you better take another pepsid before you have
that bowser meatball.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Maybe Over in the Isle of Burke, this is the
How to Train Your Dragon, which James texted us. The
animatronic toothless that they have, you.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Can totally tell that there's a Boston Dynamics dog under there.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh that's cool, though, waiting to see one in action.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Well, this is the first time I've ever seen one
of these, you know, these robot dogs that I'm not like,
this is a terminator waiting to like eliminate everybody. You're
just like, oh, it's toothless and that's cool. You can
actually like walk around and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh, look at this cute little dragon.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Put a cute skin on a terrifying dog. It's fine,
there's no way he'll turn on us. Now, he's cute,
exactly exactly over the Isle of Dog over see, he
can get right back up kick him again.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Over in the Isle of Burke there's the thaw Fest Platter,
which is a spread of tender chicken drumsticks with a
barbecue glaze, grilled salmon, and sausage served with carrots, onions
and Nordic fries.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That man, too many things I don't like.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
M Okay, how about this in the dark Universe, We've
got a whole bunch of stuff on steaks.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay, steaks are good.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So fish on a steak which is black and salmon steak,
bird on a steak which is a grilled, dry rubbed
chicken tender loin, or do that bits and pieces, which
is seared and glazed, wild mushroom brisket, meat loaf.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
All right, I'm in the middle there. I do like
a meat loaf. But when you start throwing mushrooming things
like settle down, I get it. We got Mario, there's mushrooms.
I'm just I'm not in for it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, how about this, the blood orange chicken sandwich. Yes,
I will eat that on a sinister black bun.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Ooh, I like that even more.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Then there's the vegan stuffed cat. Oh try it, Hunters
garlic steak, which is a crispy cheese garlic pretzel.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Oh that sounds good. Yeah, yeah, I think we had
some good food options there, for sure, Scott.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Did you notice that the one entree that Dickerman wanted
was the one that had a chicken tender on it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes, I did, I very much did.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Hello, it's delicious. Who doesn't like a chicken tender anyhow,
everybody likes chicken tenders.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, chicken tenders are great, but there are other things
in the world besides chicken tenders.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, you're an adult allegedly.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Sure, if you say so, I'm just going to tie
you to that chair from clock with orange and just
stuff other foods in you and I'll see how many
you actually like, because I feel like you just have
such a mental block that you're just like, yeah, we're
just gonna be a little child and you just won't
try it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
We're just gonna feed you and not tell you what's
in it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well I did do that. A few weeks ago. I
accidentally ate a part of a fish taco and I
didn't know what it was, and I'm like halfway through
then I looked at it sound I'm like.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, and you liked it. You liked it, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I was unsure. I didn't know what was going on,
but I didn't hate it. But I didn't like it.
But then when I saw fish, I didn't like it anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, fish is good for you.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I don't know that I could be around you without
a woodenspoon, because I'm just gonna be. It's want to
hit you at a wooden spoon every time I hear
you talk about food.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
All right? Well, if you want to get the latest
breaking food news and theme park news, Scott, where can
they head to?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You can follow us on Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook,
Instagram and TikTok and threads at theme Park Podcast. You'd
watch it the themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And the show traditionally comes to you line from the
Laurencampbellreal dot com, t boga Zebo Studios for GMBD for
Scott airis I am Dickerman Until next week, We will
see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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