April 4, 2025 • 25 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast: Jimmy recaps his trip to Flower and Garden, and runs through all the foods he tried and much more! Then in the news Disney is going full throttle this summer, luggage service is returning and we've got parking prices!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park capital.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Of the World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait podcast, is this.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
On the radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
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 4 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
there is Jimmy D. What's going on, guys in Scott Harris,
it's up.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Uhoo. It's a spooky season.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Hello, Hi, not the spooky season it is? It is It
is nearing Epic Universe season, because that's what everybody should
be talking about. But it is not spooky season. Look
you're looking at me like I'm crazy. Look, Halloween horse.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
But the big deal of twenty twenty five and all
theme parks ain't gonna be Halloween Hornites. It's Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sets and permits are being filed for Halloween Hornites this year.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, well, actually, this weekend's a race. If you're listening
to us on the radio right.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now, you're running.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No know that I am running through the parking lot
of Epcot, breathing like a sea path patient when the
mask is falling off. Yeah, exactly, and like the gurgling
and the and the.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All of that, the springtime surprise this weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Why are you running in Darth Vader mask?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Now? I'm out of shape, so I breathe like Darth
Vader if I run more than five.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Feet, yeah, if I run to the mailbox, I'm like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm like, why are you running to the mailbox.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In case there's something good in the mail Probably because
he's barefoot and the asphalt is very hot.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's true too.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know if you had grass then it wouldn't be
a problem.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Grass to have grass, Why don't you put some grass
seed down?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
M seed growing from seeds hard. It's harder than it looks.
You don't just put it down and it grows. I
can tell you that much.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Buy some sod, Buy some a palette of sod.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Have you priced sod lately? No? Lately, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's not that bad. Well you laying it down yourself,
I mean like thirteen grand width.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thank you refer joining sod talk this week.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
They're thirteen grand with irrigation, not much.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's a it's a flowering garden. Season. It's perfect. You
know it's on ten.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It is. Yeah, there you go see that. Maybe just
steal some grass from.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, do not steal anything, no, no, no, no, you got
to get yourself a cast member. And I don't know
if they still do this, but they used to take
all the picked up animal droppings and they had them
next to cast connection and you could go scoop it
up and spread it on your lawn. But they didn't
provide like bags or anything. You just had to get
this manure into your vehicle and then into your lawn
(02:53):
just like you. Yeah, just understand that, like neighborhood dogs
are going to avoid your house like the plaguecause they're
gonna smell that apex predator like rhino who in your
green green, and your your grass will be greener than
you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He has to have grass for a ticket green. It's
what I'm learning.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
The point I got a weeds. I don't have grass, buddy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean grass. Weeds are a plant.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Mm hmm. They are a plant that is true as
long as you keep it mode and it's green.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
That's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And now we welcome in Tom McCubbin onto the show.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Veteran Launs and Gardens here on Real Radio four point one.
All right, let's get into theme parks. Where should we
start this week?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Scott, Well, one of us went to a park. Yeah, park,
before we started recording.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You got, I texted you pictures from it. I was
at the literally when you guys were talking back and
forth about we need to put more content up. I
was at epcots like the Garden of America's theater, watching
Garden Time. Yeah, the longtime lead singer of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Is that why you went specifically to see the Chicago guy.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, And we haven't those our passes either, so we
were like, we want to go see Chicago ish And
then uh, you know, we wanted to check out Flower
and Garden. They got brand new Orange Bird. They got
more Orange Bird merchandise this year than I've ever seen
them have.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Did you ask about the trash can?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I did see the trash can and I audibly yelled
that's the one.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Point good good because it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Was like right there in front of uh what connections,
right there in front of connections, and I was like,
that's the one I want.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh, the Festival Hall, Communic Core Hall.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, Communic coalre Hall is on the other side.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So before you get into the theme park, canna ask about
the Chicago guy. How was the Chicago guy? Because he's
not the blonde haired guy from like the Karate Kids
song or whatever. But he's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah. Yeah, And and he was the singer and writer
on a couple of other hits in the late eighties,
so he's legitimately the singer. It's just it, uh, you know,
Peter Setara went off to do his own thing, and
now he's fully retired because dude's eighty. Yeah, and then
you know, so and when this guy took over in
like nineteen eighty five, five, I want to say, he
(05:21):
was twenty three or something like that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So was he any goods he how's he holding up?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
His voice is strong? He sounded great. Man.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He's Jason Chef sixty two years old.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, oh, he's he's a child basically, it's a youngster.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah. It's like once they hit their seventies that the
first the vocal corus start to give a little bit
and they can't like I mean, I'm sure he feels
like everything else, Yeah, exactly, you know, and it's just
you know, look, at Kerrie Fisher, which she sounded like
in you know, a New Hope versus you know, the
Force awakens.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Or even in her voice Yeah, Blues Brothers era.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Cigarette there might have been some cigarettes involved with her, but.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean everyone just ages. Everyone ages exactly. Let's go
find some tapes of what you sounded like on the radio.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, I sounded probably the same as I do now,
but give me a couple of years and all sound different.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, because you well you sound different now than when
you were on JARR. Like when you were doing a
JRR break you like did.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
A voice b Yeah, you'd be like what one one
wj r R, Like you had this like like persona
that I felt like you put on and like here
you're just like relaxed, You're just.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'm just me. That's it, You just me. So let's
hear about your visit to Epcott. What was it, Like,
how are the crowds? What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The crowds? I mean, I mean it was a Friday
in the mid afternoon, so there was a line to
get into Epcot. Uh, there was a lot of folks
trying to get in because it was like three or
like three thirty when we got there. And when you
consider that, like park hopping had just started like an
hour and a half before, you really were getting that
influx of folks. And then Chicago was only Chicago Ish
(07:13):
was only about you know, an hour from playing, So
there was a lot of influx for the for the concert.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But big, big audience for the concert.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, oh it was sold out like capacity. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They they like stack these artists to like it's usually
full almost every single time.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they do a nice job. It was a nice job.
And I got to hear the two songs that I
really loved the most from uh Chicago. So and then
from there we went off to go get food and
we went at the Odyssey Building and that's where they
were doing like the the main orange theme like citrus
theme foods. And normally when we go to a stand,
(07:54):
we'll get like one marriage and one food. I ended
up ordering almost the entire menu. It was two things
we didn't get between beverages and food.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Give me that one too.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I just love I just love citrus and that lemon tart,
like you gotta be a tart fan, but it is
spot on good. And then the uh, the I don't know,
I can't. I always script the name of this, but uh,
it's deep fried shrimp and it had like a an
orange sauce and it was fantastic. I can't pronounce the word.
(08:31):
What do you call it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Odyssey Buildings not Tempori?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Is it? Yeah? Timpori because Timpori shrimp would orange sauce
and it was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
How how I don't know?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have no idea how I knew that you a
can't remember a thing. Secondly, you hate every food basically,
although this is fried, so this makes sense why you
would remember it?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He might be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It depends on what what's fried. He wouldn't have fried shrimp.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, I don't like ocean food.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What do you You don't even know ocean food. Have
you tried swordfish?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Have you tried scallops?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Have you tried grouper?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Tuna groupers don't ye, I don't like tuna cod? Is
that what they put in the fish sandwich at McDonald's
filet o fish?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's what they're serving at right outside Rose and Crown.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm pretty sure that's usually fishing. That's usually using fish
and chips up. See, let's all go get some seafood
after this.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Just cod. Just make sure it's extra fried.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Diggerment. You would have loved the fried fish that I
got in England. Like the guy would bring the filet
out from the back. He brings out two filets and
then battery like put them in the whatever, the the
the crust, your battery, the you know, whatever the battery is,
and then a deep fry it right in front of you.
And when I tell you, it was like the size
(10:02):
of when they because they put the fish and then
they put the chips in there. They don't use newspapers anymore,
so they can't wrap them in newspaper, so they just
use butcher paper and it was like a loaf of
bread this guy hands mean it was like eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Did you get the grilled street corn on the cob?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No, we walked past that because that's you know, that
little play area that would used to be like like
if you are in the World Showcase and you're heading
up that little side path past Starbucks and then like
a playground, right yeah, yeah, it used to be a playground.
Now it's like a food area and that's where the
street corn was.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Don't have the playground anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, they moved it, Yeah, moved. Yeah, the playgrounds over
closer to like touch track space.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeaheah, yeah, it's like a wall.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'd go to uh to Ebcat and my daughter would
want to play in that playground. I'm like, we're just
paying you know, hundreds of dollars a year so you
could play it. What is basically a free park. We're
not enjoying the rest of all the high tech rads.
We're just playing on the playground.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean, just take them to like a Disney Springs
at that point.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah mm hm. Like kids love a playground. I'll tell
you what. It doesn't matter where they're at. They love
a playground.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
A little are fun.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, there's no lines. She gets to do what she
wants for a few minutes. You know, it's no waiting,
just like screaming and yelling and enjoyment. So and if
it tires out the children and they still got energy
at the end of the day or whatever, that's perfect.
Just go do that, have fun.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, and you know how you know how great a
slide is?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't does that have a slide?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
They hand slides sometimes it would be hit and miss.
This the playground always changed. Well that's kind of fun, yeah,
but always a different one.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
On the way out, we did go into Communicor Hall
and they do have a nice temporary setup like a
horder culture gallery, you know, a little spike the bee
is in the middle like where the epcot ball was
during Christmas time. And then they got the Farmer's Feast
in there. Have you guys seen what that kitchen looks like.
It looks like Hell's Kitchen, like you know how, like
it's open Hell's kitchen with a stainless steel and everything.
(12:10):
That's exactly what they have there. And they're cooking food
and you can get the not oysters. What were we
talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You can get scallops.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Scallops, that's the one. You can get these beautiful scallops.
So community carass halls banging right now.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You cannot let laurencampbellreiltor dot com ride the guardians ride.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, we went on Living with the Land to check
out because they have special decorations and living in the
land for the festival. So I wanted to see those.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And you wanted to see where your food comes from?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Anybody get off the boat and try and steal.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well. When we first walked up, it was broken, and
I was like, did somebody's kid get out? And they're
just like running around the greenhouse and they're like, oh god, no,
I hope not. No, this is just routine thing. And
then we just they're like, we don't know when it's
going to be back up. We ended up chatting with
these folks for like five minutes, and over the over
their shoulder, I can see the guy going like giving
(13:11):
the symbol to you know what we would call wrap
it up in radio, like the twirling of the finger
based on the same no. They were saying like open
the ride, and so we Laura and I just went
right on and we were like the first people we
get off of that and we go over to check Soren.
Soorn had been down and it just reopened, so we
(13:33):
got jumped onto that. So we spent twenty five minutes
to get on Soren and living with the land at
like seven o'clock at night.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Nice, that's a good win right there. On a Friday
that point, you guys should just said, you know what,
let's celebrate by going having dinner at the rotating restaurants
just upstairs.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We were still so stuffed from and the other thing too.
We got premium parking for free. They parked us right
under anything the monorail, you know how like the tracks
are in that first section. We parked runnerneath the beam.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Nothing better than that, Better than getting a grape parting spot.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, we had like we just like hit gold on
everything when we got to we got to the concert
just as it was starting and it was just a
few seats left. We end up sitting in the third row.
It's like we could not not win on that Friday.
It was great.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Wonderful Sundays or some days are like that. Well, congratulations,
sounds like a successful trip to Epcot.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm finding some stuff on the menu for Dickerman at
Communicore Hall. Okay, grilled asparagus. It's got pancetta, bacon, spring peas, lettuce,
and a soft poached egg.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I mean I had to eat it, but I'm not
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Scallops scallops, absolutely not. Blueberry crumble cake exture. Yeah, grilled
peaches in barata. Yeah, that's a drink.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Actually, do you know what the baranta is that booze?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I don't know. I was asking the.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Question heirloom tomatoes and fresh mozzarella.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now my wife would like that though.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Grilled beef strip loin, yes, Peach cobbler yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Um oh.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They got a bunch of like brunch stuff too.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, what is it? What did they call it? Brunch cat?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Brunch cat? Yeah, I'm all about that.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Smart.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We have against asparagus and none.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I would eat it. I just don't want to pay.
I don't like to pay for stuff I don't love.
Makes your piece if it's on the side. When I
order a steak, yeah, I'll eat it. Sure. How about
a warm I'm going to order.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It a warm corn cookie?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I tried that just because it says cookie in it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah. Absolutely, try anything that's cookie based, sandwich or cookie based.
I mean, get between two pieces of bread. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, have a have a filet of fish sandwich then.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
If that's good cow pie.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, that's disgusting, it's gross. Don't be don't be crash.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Wait. You like donuts, right?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah? I don't usually eat them though, like fitness.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Do you know you? No, I'm like, do you want
a sushi donut?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
No? Oh? Wait, Dickerman, what about frushie in the Japan pavilion.
They have like sushi, but it's made with fruit and
it's like a dessert. Would you have frushie? Yes, it's
actually really good. I had it last year and I
was like, oh, it's so good. And when Laura and
I were walking around Japan, Yeah, and Apcot on Friday,
(16:39):
we're like, we're gonna be here in like a.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Week prepping for like the real thing.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, we're gonna see the real floating gates of whatever
that island is.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, that's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to your trip.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
By the way, the themed funnel cake is peaches and cream.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
It's probably pretty good.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, that does sound good.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Funnel cake with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, peaches, whipped cream,
cobbler crumble in a cinnamon bourbon caramel sauce.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, that sounds great. Actually, is that at the funnel
cake place? Because I only saw cookies and cream on
the menu. When I walk by, it's usually like there's
usually like a little like stanchion or something like.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
No, it's it's usually just like there's a little placard
that says like what the seasonal offering is.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yes, that sounds way better. Than cookies and cream. Cookies
and cream doesn't feel like it goes to a funnel
cake with me. I don't know why this doesn't seem
like it goes together.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Odd, you'd delete it?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, man, it's deleted.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You would stack two on top of each other.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Make a sandwich out of you. Of course? All right?
Should we dive into uh to some further theme park findings.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, there's a really big story.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh. For the first time since twenty nineteen, Walt disney
World pre pandemic pre pandemic, Walt Disney World will be
operating all six of their theme parks at the same time.
What okay?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Blizzard Beach,
antipolom Lagoon.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yes, all six of their theme sks.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I didn't realize, like during the summer some were still closed,
Like what was closed? Like which like one or two
of the water park.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They would rotate like one would be open, one would
be closed.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Wonder was there a reason? Were they refurbishing or they
just didn't think they had the capacity for it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think it was a combination of the two. I
think it was like, hey, we're gonna re When we
refurb one, we'll have the other and then vice versa.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Okay, I think I have some after three water park
passes somewhere in my house.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And it's also the thirtyth anniversary of Blizzard Beach.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, wow, thirty years. I remember when it was brand
new and my sister went. I didn't go until like
ten years ago, but my sister went when it first opened,
and she was like, it was really fun, but the
Christmas music got kind of annoying after a while.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
This begins May twenty first through September seventh, all six
parks will be open. And there here's the thing. They're
calling them all six theme parks. Yeah, I know they
are doing well.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah. Is this a Disney story or is this like
a WD No.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, no, this is this is Disney themselves saying it.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Okay, And you know why, Yeah, because they got suckered by.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Universals opening their fourth park in about six weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
As long as as long as Disney doesn't start charging
to park at the water parks, because that is a
free parking situation.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
By the way, can I read you some of the
Can I read you the pricing for the Grand Helios Hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yes, this is at Universal basically inside of Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Right, it's behind Epic univer but yes, it has its
own entrance into the park. Yeah, I like this overnight
guest parking. Okay, thirty six dollars per person or thirty
six dollars per night per vehicle.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Doesn't seem outside the realm for them, though, right is that?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, that's somebody that had stayed at at a Universal park.
It's like comparable considering I've stayed at their value resorts.
This is one of their signature resorts. Valet forty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I mean at that point you might as well valet.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Day guest parking. Well, it depends on availability self parking
one oh whoa, all right now, because they're trying to
dissuade people from like I want to park as close
as possible. They want to save that parking for the
(20:46):
guests of the hotel.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm surprised they even let people at all. But hey,
if you're charging one hundred and twenty five bucks, if
someone's crazy enough to pay it, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Zero to five minutes, complimentary, five to thirty minutes, ten
dollars thirty minutes or more fifty dollars. Okay, all right,
and then valet parking is one hundred and twenty dollars
per day per vehicle.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, I mean, you know, five minutes, the five minute
one is too you know, you want to get out
and just take a look real quick, exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You want to see the doors? John, Do you want
to see the doors to the hotel?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, gotta get back to the car. It's four fifty
nine times up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah for real? Back to back to uh Disney though
the hocus Pocus Show see the hocus Pokas Show is
returning to Mickey's not so scary Halloween party spooky seasons here.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I believe, like Jimmy, you could clarify because you were
over there, like not too scary. Like it has kicked.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Off, right, the decorations are already Yeah. See now don't
do that. People are gonna be like, what how old
is this podcast?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Up? No, not yet, not completely, but April I do.
I truly feel like this epic universe thing is kind
of throwing everything off its axis for the remainder of
the year. In a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
No, in a good way. This is a good thing.
We've been saying this. Them opening up is going to
be beneficial for every other park.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I just wonder, like, is the hype the same for
Halloween Hornites? Is the hype the same for not So Scary?
I don't know. Yeah, absolutely, it's going to overshadow everything.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Now, you're dude, two different things, man, two different things.
You're like, You're like, you know, will this steak and
this ice cream? Two different things?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Had me at steak and ice cream elsewhere? Uh? Well,
Disney World's officially announced their luggage airport luggage transfer service, So.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll look you a ride, but they'll take your stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yes, we could fit Scott in a suitcase and get
him in let's say. I mean, it's worth a try,
just to see.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh my god, you were onto something, Dickerman, Because like,
you don't want to travel like in luggage on an airplane.
You don't want to travel like in a box or
something through the mail. But I think being picked up
at the airport would be fine.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, gook a couple of holes in there. Fine, are
you gonna give me food? This is a ride from
the airport to Disney.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Jimmy's talking about like traveling me in luggage.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
No no, no, no no no no no no. I'm saying
you don't want to do that for the airport to
Lake Buenavista.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Why can't I just ride in the car in a seat.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You want to see if a tourist, if they came here,
if they could get a free ride to the parks, like, oh,
we're not encouraging this, noo rides like sixty bucks. I'm
trying to save people money here.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, we need them to spend money to help our
tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
They can spend money at the park.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
No, help fund help fund a baseball stadium in downtown.
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I just want to stun town. I just want to
stuff Zach Scott into a box.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I mean you could just do just ask me next
time I'm at your house. We can do that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That pelican case I have my cardboard would fit him.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Done. Let's let's do this. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Worried? All right?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, Well we're at about a time. So Scott,
if people want to follow us on social media to
see about luggage tips and theme park news, where can
they go?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
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Speaker 4 (24:34):
The show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
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for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we
will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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From the theme park capital.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Of the World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait podcast, is this.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
On the radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
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 4 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
there is Jimmy D. What's going on, guys in Scott Harris,
it's up.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Uhoo. It's a spooky season.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Hello, Hi, not the spooky season it is? It is It
is nearing Epic Universe season, because that's what everybody should
be talking about. But it is not spooky season. Look
you're looking at me like I'm crazy. Look, Halloween horse.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
But the big deal of twenty twenty five and all
theme parks ain't gonna be Halloween Hornites. It's Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sets and permits are being filed for Halloween Hornites this year.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, well, actually, this weekend's a race. If you're listening
to us on the radio right.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now, you're running.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No know that I am running through the parking lot
of Epcot, breathing like a sea path patient when the
mask is falling off. Yeah, exactly, and like the gurgling
and the and the.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All of that, the springtime surprise this weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Why are you running in Darth Vader mask?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Now? I'm out of shape, so I breathe like Darth
Vader if I run more than five.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Feet, yeah, if I run to the mailbox, I'm like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm like, why are you running to the mailbox.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
In case there's something good in the mail Probably because
he's barefoot and the asphalt is very hot.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's true too.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know if you had grass then it wouldn't be
a problem.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Grass to have grass, Why don't you put some grass
seed down?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
M seed growing from seeds hard. It's harder than it looks.
You don't just put it down and it grows. I
can tell you that much.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Buy some sod, Buy some a palette of sod.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Have you priced sod lately? No? Lately, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's not that bad. Well you laying it down yourself,
I mean like thirteen grand width.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thank you refer joining sod talk this week.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
They're thirteen grand with irrigation, not much.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's a it's a flowering garden. Season. It's perfect. You
know it's on ten.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It is. Yeah, there you go see that. Maybe just
steal some grass from.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, do not steal anything, no, no, no, no, you got
to get yourself a cast member. And I don't know
if they still do this, but they used to take
all the picked up animal droppings and they had them
next to cast connection and you could go scoop it
up and spread it on your lawn. But they didn't
provide like bags or anything. You just had to get
this manure into your vehicle and then into your lawn
(02:53):
just like you. Yeah, just understand that, like neighborhood dogs
are going to avoid your house like the plaguecause they're
gonna smell that apex predator like rhino who in your
green green, and your your grass will be greener than
you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He has to have grass for a ticket green. It's
what I'm learning.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
The point I got a weeds. I don't have grass, buddy.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean grass. Weeds are a plant.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Mm hmm. They are a plant that is true as
long as you keep it mode and it's green.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
That's what I try to do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And now we welcome in Tom McCubbin onto the show.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Veteran Launs and Gardens here on Real Radio four point one.
All right, let's get into theme parks. Where should we
start this week?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Scott, Well, one of us went to a park. Yeah, park,
before we started recording.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You got, I texted you pictures from it. I was
at the literally when you guys were talking back and
forth about we need to put more content up. I
was at epcots like the Garden of America's theater, watching
Garden Time. Yeah, the longtime lead singer of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Is that why you went specifically to see the Chicago guy.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, And we haven't those our passes either, so we
were like, we want to go see Chicago ish And
then uh, you know, we wanted to check out Flower
and Garden. They got brand new Orange Bird. They got
more Orange Bird merchandise this year than I've ever seen
them have.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Did you ask about the trash can?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I did see the trash can and I audibly yelled
that's the one.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Point good good because it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Was like right there in front of uh what connections,
right there in front of connections, and I was like,
that's the one I want.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh, the Festival Hall, Communic Core Hall.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, Communic coalre Hall is on the other side.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So before you get into the theme park, canna ask about
the Chicago guy. How was the Chicago guy? Because he's
not the blonde haired guy from like the Karate Kids
song or whatever. But he's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah. Yeah, And and he was the singer and writer
on a couple of other hits in the late eighties,
so he's legitimately the singer. It's just it, uh, you know,
Peter Setara went off to do his own thing, and
now he's fully retired because dude's eighty. Yeah, and then
you know, so and when this guy took over in
like nineteen eighty five, five, I want to say, he
(05:21):
was twenty three or something like that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So was he any goods he how's he holding up?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
His voice is strong? He sounded great. Man.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He's Jason Chef sixty two years old.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, oh, he's he's a child basically, it's a youngster.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah. It's like once they hit their seventies that the
first the vocal corus start to give a little bit
and they can't like I mean, I'm sure he feels
like everything else, Yeah, exactly, you know, and it's just
you know, look, at Kerrie Fisher, which she sounded like
in you know, a New Hope versus you know, the
Force awakens.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Or even in her voice Yeah, Blues Brothers era.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Cigarette there might have been some cigarettes involved with her, but.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean everyone just ages. Everyone ages exactly. Let's go
find some tapes of what you sounded like on the radio.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Well, I sounded probably the same as I do now,
but give me a couple of years and all sound different.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, because you well you sound different now than when
you were on JARR. Like when you were doing a
JRR break you like did.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
A voice b Yeah, you'd be like what one one
wj r R, Like you had this like like persona
that I felt like you put on and like here
you're just like relaxed, You're just.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'm just me. That's it, You just me. So let's
hear about your visit to Epcott. What was it, Like,
how are the crowds? What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The crowds? I mean, I mean it was a Friday
in the mid afternoon, so there was a line to
get into Epcot. Uh, there was a lot of folks
trying to get in because it was like three or
like three thirty when we got there. And when you
consider that, like park hopping had just started like an
hour and a half before, you really were getting that
influx of folks. And then Chicago was only Chicago Ish
(07:13):
was only about you know, an hour from playing, So
there was a lot of influx for the for the concert.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But big, big audience for the concert.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, oh it was sold out like capacity. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They they like stack these artists to like it's usually
full almost every single time.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they do a nice job. It was a nice job.
And I got to hear the two songs that I
really loved the most from uh Chicago. So and then
from there we went off to go get food and
we went at the Odyssey Building and that's where they
were doing like the the main orange theme like citrus
theme foods. And normally when we go to a stand,
(07:54):
we'll get like one marriage and one food. I ended
up ordering almost the entire menu. It was two things
we didn't get between beverages and food.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Give me that one too.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I just love I just love citrus and that lemon tart,
like you gotta be a tart fan, but it is
spot on good. And then the uh, the I don't know,
I can't. I always script the name of this, but uh,
it's deep fried shrimp and it had like a an
orange sauce and it was fantastic. I can't pronounce the word.
(08:31):
What do you call it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Odyssey Buildings not Tempori?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Is it? Yeah? Timpori because Timpori shrimp would orange sauce
and it was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
How how I don't know?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have no idea how I knew that you a
can't remember a thing. Secondly, you hate every food basically,
although this is fried, so this makes sense why you
would remember it?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He might be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It depends on what what's fried. He wouldn't have fried shrimp.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, I don't like ocean food.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What do you You don't even know ocean food. Have
you tried swordfish?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Have you tried scallops?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Have you tried grouper?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Tuna groupers don't ye, I don't like tuna cod? Is
that what they put in the fish sandwich at McDonald's
filet o fish?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's what they're serving at right outside Rose and Crown.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm pretty sure that's usually fishing. That's usually using fish
and chips up. See, let's all go get some seafood
after this.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Just cod. Just make sure it's extra fried.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Diggerment. You would have loved the fried fish that I
got in England. Like the guy would bring the filet
out from the back. He brings out two filets and
then battery like put them in the whatever, the the
the crust, your battery, the you know, whatever the battery is,
and then a deep fry it right in front of you.
And when I tell you, it was like the size
(10:02):
of when they because they put the fish and then
they put the chips in there. They don't use newspapers anymore,
so they can't wrap them in newspaper, so they just
use butcher paper and it was like a loaf of
bread this guy hands mean it was like eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Did you get the grilled street corn on the cob?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
No, we walked past that because that's you know, that
little play area that would used to be like like
if you are in the World Showcase and you're heading
up that little side path past Starbucks and then like
a playground, right yeah, yeah, it used to be a playground.
Now it's like a food area and that's where the
street corn was.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Don't have the playground anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, they moved it, Yeah, moved. Yeah, the playgrounds over
closer to like touch track space.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeaheah, yeah, it's like a wall.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We'd go to uh to Ebcat and my daughter would
want to play in that playground. I'm like, we're just
paying you know, hundreds of dollars a year so you
could play it. What is basically a free park. We're
not enjoying the rest of all the high tech rads.
We're just playing on the playground.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean, just take them to like a Disney Springs
at that point.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah mm hm. Like kids love a playground. I'll tell
you what. It doesn't matter where they're at. They love
a playground.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
A little are fun.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, there's no lines. She gets to do what she
wants for a few minutes. You know, it's no waiting,
just like screaming and yelling and enjoyment. So and if
it tires out the children and they still got energy
at the end of the day or whatever, that's perfect.
Just go do that, have fun.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, and you know how you know how great a
slide is?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't does that have a slide?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
They hand slides sometimes it would be hit and miss.
This the playground always changed. Well that's kind of fun, yeah,
but always a different one.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
On the way out, we did go into Communicor Hall
and they do have a nice temporary setup like a
horder culture gallery, you know, a little spike the bee
is in the middle like where the epcot ball was
during Christmas time. And then they got the Farmer's Feast
in there. Have you guys seen what that kitchen looks like.
It looks like Hell's Kitchen, like you know how, like
it's open Hell's kitchen with a stainless steel and everything.
(12:10):
That's exactly what they have there. And they're cooking food
and you can get the not oysters. What were we
talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You can get scallops.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Scallops, that's the one. You can get these beautiful scallops.
So community carass halls banging right now.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You cannot let laurencampbellreiltor dot com ride the guardians ride.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, we went on Living with the Land to check
out because they have special decorations and living in the
land for the festival. So I wanted to see those.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And you wanted to see where your food comes from?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Anybody get off the boat and try and steal.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well. When we first walked up, it was broken, and
I was like, did somebody's kid get out? And they're
just like running around the greenhouse and they're like, oh god, no,
I hope not. No, this is just routine thing. And
then we just they're like, we don't know when it's
going to be back up. We ended up chatting with
these folks for like five minutes, and over the over
their shoulder, I can see the guy going like giving
(13:11):
the symbol to you know what we would call wrap
it up in radio, like the twirling of the finger
based on the same no. They were saying like open
the ride, and so we Laura and I just went
right on and we were like the first people we
get off of that and we go over to check Soren.
Soorn had been down and it just reopened, so we
(13:33):
got jumped onto that. So we spent twenty five minutes
to get on Soren and living with the land at
like seven o'clock at night.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Nice, that's a good win right there. On a Friday
that point, you guys should just said, you know what,
let's celebrate by going having dinner at the rotating restaurants
just upstairs.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
We were still so stuffed from and the other thing too.
We got premium parking for free. They parked us right
under anything the monorail, you know how like the tracks
are in that first section. We parked runnerneath the beam.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Nothing better than that, Better than getting a grape parting spot.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, we had like we just like hit gold on
everything when we got to we got to the concert
just as it was starting and it was just a
few seats left. We end up sitting in the third row.
It's like we could not not win on that Friday.
It was great.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Wonderful Sundays or some days are like that. Well, congratulations,
sounds like a successful trip to Epcot.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm finding some stuff on the menu for Dickerman at
Communicore Hall. Okay, grilled asparagus. It's got pancetta, bacon, spring peas, lettuce,
and a soft poached egg.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I mean I had to eat it, but I'm not
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Scallops scallops, absolutely not. Blueberry crumble cake exture. Yeah, grilled
peaches in barata. Yeah, that's a drink.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Actually, do you know what the baranta is that booze?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I don't know. I was asking the.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Question heirloom tomatoes and fresh mozzarella.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now my wife would like that though.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Grilled beef strip loin, yes, Peach cobbler yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Um oh.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They got a bunch of like brunch stuff too.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, what is it? What did they call it? Brunch cat?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Brunch cat? Yeah, I'm all about that.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Smart.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We have against asparagus and none.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I would eat it. I just don't want to pay.
I don't like to pay for stuff I don't love.
Makes your piece if it's on the side. When I
order a steak, yeah, I'll eat it. Sure. How about
a warm I'm going to order.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It a warm corn cookie?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I tried that just because it says cookie in it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah. Absolutely, try anything that's cookie based, sandwich or cookie based.
I mean, get between two pieces of bread. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, have a have a filet of fish sandwich then.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
If that's good cow pie.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, that's disgusting, it's gross. Don't be don't be crash.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Wait. You like donuts, right?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah? I don't usually eat them though, like fitness.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Do you know you? No, I'm like, do you want
a sushi donut?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
No? Oh? Wait, Dickerman, what about frushie in the Japan pavilion.
They have like sushi, but it's made with fruit and
it's like a dessert. Would you have frushie? Yes, it's
actually really good. I had it last year and I
was like, oh, it's so good. And when Laura and
I were walking around Japan, Yeah, and Apcot on Friday,
(16:39):
we're like, we're gonna be here in like a.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Week prepping for like the real thing.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, we're gonna see the real floating gates of whatever
that island is.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, that's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to your trip.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
By the way, the themed funnel cake is peaches and cream.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
It's probably pretty good.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, that does sound good.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Funnel cake with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, peaches, whipped cream,
cobbler crumble in a cinnamon bourbon caramel sauce.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, that sounds great. Actually, is that at the funnel
cake place? Because I only saw cookies and cream on
the menu. When I walk by, it's usually like there's
usually like a little like stanchion or something like.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
No, it's it's usually just like there's a little placard
that says like what the seasonal offering is.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yes, that sounds way better. Than cookies and cream. Cookies
and cream doesn't feel like it goes to a funnel
cake with me. I don't know why this doesn't seem
like it goes together.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Odd, you'd delete it?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, man, it's deleted.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You would stack two on top of each other.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Make a sandwich out of you. Of course? All right?
Should we dive into uh to some further theme park findings.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, there's a really big story.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh. For the first time since twenty nineteen, Walt disney
World pre pandemic pre pandemic, Walt Disney World will be
operating all six of their theme parks at the same time.
What okay?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Blizzard Beach,
antipolom Lagoon.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yes, all six of their theme sks.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I didn't realize, like during the summer some were still closed,
Like what was closed? Like which like one or two
of the water park.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They would rotate like one would be open, one would
be closed.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Wonder was there a reason? Were they refurbishing or they
just didn't think they had the capacity for it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I think it was a combination of the two. I
think it was like, hey, we're gonna re When we
refurb one, we'll have the other and then vice versa.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Okay, I think I have some after three water park
passes somewhere in my house.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And it's also the thirtyth anniversary of Blizzard Beach.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, wow, thirty years. I remember when it was brand
new and my sister went. I didn't go until like
ten years ago, but my sister went when it first opened,
and she was like, it was really fun, but the
Christmas music got kind of annoying after a while.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
This begins May twenty first through September seventh, all six
parks will be open. And there here's the thing. They're
calling them all six theme parks. Yeah, I know they
are doing well.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah. Is this a Disney story or is this like
a WD No.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, no, this is this is Disney themselves saying it.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Okay, And you know why, Yeah, because they got suckered by.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Universals opening their fourth park in about six weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
As long as as long as Disney doesn't start charging
to park at the water parks, because that is a
free parking situation.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
By the way, can I read you some of the
Can I read you the pricing for the Grand Helios Hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yes, this is at Universal basically inside of Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Right, it's behind Epic univer but yes, it has its
own entrance into the park. Yeah, I like this overnight
guest parking. Okay, thirty six dollars per person or thirty
six dollars per night per vehicle.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Doesn't seem outside the realm for them, though, right is that?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, that's somebody that had stayed at at a Universal park.
It's like comparable considering I've stayed at their value resorts.
This is one of their signature resorts. Valet forty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I mean at that point you might as well valet.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Day guest parking. Well, it depends on availability self parking
one oh whoa, all right now, because they're trying to
dissuade people from like I want to park as close
as possible. They want to save that parking for the
(20:46):
guests of the hotel.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm surprised they even let people at all. But hey,
if you're charging one hundred and twenty five bucks, if
someone's crazy enough to pay it, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Zero to five minutes, complimentary, five to thirty minutes, ten
dollars thirty minutes or more fifty dollars. Okay, all right,
and then valet parking is one hundred and twenty dollars
per day per vehicle.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, I mean, you know, five minutes, the five minute
one is too you know, you want to get out
and just take a look real quick, exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You want to see the doors? John, Do you want
to see the doors to the hotel?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, gotta get back to the car. It's four fifty
nine times up.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah for real? Back to back to uh Disney though
the hocus Pocus Show see the hocus Pokas Show is
returning to Mickey's not so scary Halloween party spooky seasons here.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I believe, like Jimmy, you could clarify because you were
over there, like not too scary. Like it has kicked.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Off, right, the decorations are already Yeah. See now don't
do that. People are gonna be like, what how old
is this podcast?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Up? No, not yet, not completely, but April I do.
I truly feel like this epic universe thing is kind
of throwing everything off its axis for the remainder of
the year. In a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
No, in a good way. This is a good thing.
We've been saying this. Them opening up is going to
be beneficial for every other park.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I just wonder, like, is the hype the same for
Halloween Hornites? Is the hype the same for not So Scary?
I don't know. Yeah, absolutely, it's going to overshadow everything.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Now, you're dude, two different things, man, two different things.
You're like, You're like, you know, will this steak and
this ice cream? Two different things?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Had me at steak and ice cream elsewhere? Uh? Well,
Disney World's officially announced their luggage airport luggage transfer service, So.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll look you a ride, but they'll take your stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yes, we could fit Scott in a suitcase and get
him in let's say. I mean, it's worth a try,
just to see.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh my god, you were onto something, Dickerman, Because like,
you don't want to travel like in luggage on an airplane.
You don't want to travel like in a box or
something through the mail. But I think being picked up
at the airport would be fine.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, gook a couple of holes in there. Fine, are
you gonna give me food? This is a ride from
the airport to Disney.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Jimmy's talking about like traveling me in luggage.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
No no, no, no no no no no no. I'm saying
you don't want to do that for the airport to
Lake Buenavista.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Why can't I just ride in the car in a seat.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You want to see if a tourist, if they came here,
if they could get a free ride to the parks, like, oh,
we're not encouraging this, noo rides like sixty bucks. I'm
trying to save people money here.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, we need them to spend money to help our
tax dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
They can spend money at the park.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
No, help fund help fund a baseball stadium in downtown.
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I just want to stun town. I just want to
stuff Zach Scott into a box.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I mean you could just do just ask me next
time I'm at your house. We can do that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That pelican case I have my cardboard would fit him.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Done. Let's let's do this. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Worried? All right?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, Well we're at about a time. So Scott,
if people want to follow us on social media to
see about luggage tips and theme park news, where can
they go?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You can follow us on Twitter at theme park show, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and threads at the theme Park Podcast, watch the themepark
YouTube dot com, and.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
The show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
Realtor dot com, t boga Zebo Studios for Jimmy Y
for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we
will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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