December 27, 2024 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys react to the news that permits have been filed for the removal of Hollywood Rip Ride Rock-It. Then they wonder what could replace it: Ghostbusters, Fast and Furious or maybe something else? The conversation will make sense, well kind of.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is this a radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Stickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. Merry Christmas, gentlemen, It's Scott Harris.
What's up. Spooky season? Boys, it's not spooky season. We're
in the rows of the holidays, my friend. This is
this is it. This is the hottest, thickest week of
the year when it comes to holidays at our theme parks.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I just saw a vampire movie twice on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That was a non choice to release on Christmas Day.
I will say that it's.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Doing very well.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay Christmas. You know what.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's actually the perfect thing because I don't know about
you guys, but I have had so much full frontal
Christmas in my face the season that having something that's
counter like number.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's a pala cleans see. On the opposite, I had
very little Christmas. I feel like Christmas like snuck up
and came and went like very quickly for me this year.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I brought up this movie and you had no idea
what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I knew it was some sort of spooky something.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's a vampire movie. It's about the original vampire.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And this isn't like sexy vampires. This is like bloodthirsty
I'm gonna drain your body vampires.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah. I don't watch many, true many of the vampire
I watched True Blood. That was about it. Okay, Yeah, yeah,
don't forget Twilight.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But I know you loved Twilight.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have not seen you were Team Edward. I might
like it if I watched it, but I never saw it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You watched Thirty Days of Night.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I did see that. That's true. That was a good one.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, I watched Renfield actually earlier this year too.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, it's funny you say that because Nicholas Holt is
in Renfield and Nicholas Holt is in Nosferatu.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Okay, so he just needs.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
To do a third one in play Dracula.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay, fair enough. So back to theme parks, yes, and
the holidays. This is, without a doubt the busiest time
of the year. I know, well, the busiest time of
the rest of the year. Yes, I know I've been
out to a theme park. You've been out to a
theme park, James. You were out of theme park too, right, Yes,
so I was at Apricot not too long ago. So
we've all been out to the theme parks during the
(02:14):
heavy season, so we can share our experience there. And
I guess there's a lot of news too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's well it's not there's a lot of news. There's
one really big news store.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, we should probably start with that. You want to
start with that. I mean, it's it's it's the headline,
it's what the people are waiting for, the big story.
The permit is out Hollywood Hollywood Ripride Rocket to be replaced.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I like that ride. We've always liked that, right. I
just mean they're going to restore the firehouse.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, according to the permitting, it involves that building, the firehouse.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Building, Okay, right, So whether.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That means that'll be the new entrance for whatever replaces it,
because the belief is it's going to be a new
roller coaster takes over that spot, Okay, run by Intimate,
who is very familiar with the Universal, and that's Intimates.
It's a roller coaster company. So it would be through them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I always do remember hearing that whoever built rip Red
Rocket and I always liked the ride, but I heard
like they didn't like the builder, wasn't the most thought
of the builder, And like, ah, these guys you know.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Pretty sure, like right after Universal got it, that company
went out of business.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What tells me. What this tells me is I'm old
because I remember when they were opening this ride and
Fritz and I trying to get on before they opened it.
Being you have to wear theme park shorts, definitely had
to wear themes was that a different roller coaster theme
park shorts for that roller coaster specifically that had zippered pockets.
We tried to get on it before they opened it.
And now they're closing the dang thing. I feel very old.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it should be kind of telling when the hurricane.
When when the hurricane came through in October, they took
down the scrim that was on side of it.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They haven't replaced no, So I mean they've never really
updated the music either.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They will remember a few months ago they scaled it back. Oh,
they took like a third of the salt, but they
didn't have many to start with. The secret list when
you can hold down the little logo when it worked.
So the belief is that maybe they because right now
the queue for Ripride Rocket is still kind of in
the middle of Minion's Land.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So it's like, hey, move the entrance back over to
buy where like Jimmy Fallon is to kind of crowd
control a little bit towards the front of the park.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, yeah, and you take a little bit of a
pressure off of the Music Plaza stage MPs.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, yes, the MPs stage. That ride actually is so
kind of old now that I remember the opening video
where they'd have like the two people talking about, you know,
the rock and roll stuff, and they're telling you to
store your items. Hey, put your smokes in a locker room, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Wow, let's bring it in their smokes in the park.
Then put your vapes. But so there's there's really in
like two thoughts on what kind of a roller coaster
could replace this. A lot of people now because of
the Firehouse being involved in the permitting of this, is like, hey,
Ghostbusters theme Ecto one roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
They gotta do it. That'd be cool, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So there's that or over in Hollywood. They are doing
a Fast in the Furious No Drifting coaster.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh yeah, they are. It's like it's kind of like Guardians,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But it's cars that are drifting.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, well that could be Ecto one drifting.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I mean it could be.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It could drift Ecto one.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They could drift the Ecto one so that vehicle.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Would not handle well, so it would probably you know,
skate across the ground if you took a hard one.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I've seen all of the Ghostbusters movies, especially
the last two has a lot of drifting of that car. Yeah,
because it has a sixteen year old driving it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But I think that'd be kind of cool you do that,
kind of like their renderings are out for the Fast
and Furious Drifting coaster, and it looks pretty awesome because
it's a little cars that are doing it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
They owe they owe the Fast and the Furious fandom
something good.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He I am that, I am that fandom with.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Such a disappointment.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I can't imagine they have two Fast and the Furious
rides in the same park.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
No, The thing is, so the question is if they're
going to close one, is it just that building that
snake bit or.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, they use that building for Halloween horror nites, so
it is already for three months a year kind of
seasonal as it is.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Make it a permanent haunted house in there. Make it
a permanent haunted house.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Like they used to have a walking Dead one at
Universal City of Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Sure, make it a permanent like horror or something.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Or maybe maybe maybe walk with me here. You make
that building like I don't know, like a a stunt
tacular and it's about a guy that lost his memory, okay,
and his name might be Jason Bourne.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, all right, and then you.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Do like a stunt tacular there.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Okay, and then no, no, no, we do a miniature
monolaurial ride into an earthquake scene. Okay, that way it
matches richter Berger.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean yes, yeah. Could it have like a person
like h Mother Mother Nature as like the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That was actually a very good Christopher walking I'm impressed.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well that was that was the Rocks character's name on
the ride.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I never did that iteration, but that redo of the
ride was pretty good when they redid that disaster.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I never did it though you never did it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
No, the Rock was in it. Christopher Walking was in
and it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't like the Rock.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I know you don't like the Rock, but he's in
the Rock with you. Now they're they're with you on
the Rock. He's in the Fast and the Furious Ride.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I know, don't remind me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You want to Fast and the Furious Ride.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I know, I know he is said, don't remind you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, you move Jason board and then you bring back
T two three Battle Across Time.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I like it. I like it. I'm I I'd love
to see T two back again. That was awesome. That
was a good show.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hey, if they brought back back to the Future, how
amped would you be?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I would love it to just make sure it's an
updated version of it and not like the same, not like,
hey Simpsons, you're out of here. We're putting the Neloreans
back in. I want a whole new thing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Even that. No, yeah, I'd be okay with that, and
people would still like that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But if it was like if you just I know,
we started with with one thing. But if you were
just like, all right, we're gonna re skin the Fast
and Furious Ride, that's it's no way back to the
Future ride where you're going through time because it's projections
all around you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Sure you could just change them up.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah. At one point you're in nineteen fifty five. Before that,
you're with back in the Western Times. Boom, next thing,
you know, you're in the future. Yeah, I mean bounce
around a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Like a star tourist thing. Yeah. It could be done. Yeah,
it could be done.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean, Christopher Lloyd would absolutely be on board with this,
Tom Wilson would absolutely everyone is everyone in the cast
would probably still be on board with this, except Crispin Glover.
He died right, No, it's just he sued the No,
he sued them. I always I just always ask if
people are dead for but you should be like, you
should ask it that way. No, it's he when they
(09:20):
did the whole time travel back to the future too,
they were just going to reuse his footage, but then
it was like, a are you going to pay me
to do that?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah. He's always been a little bit of a trouble
maker for people in Hollywood though.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, I mean here's the thing. That lawsuit ended up
being a landmark thing because it was now, if you're
using my likeness, you have to pay me. Yeah, So
it made sense. I agree, and I think he's still
kind of happy with how his career's gone. Yeah, unless
you're Eric Stolts and that that one kind of stings
a little bit because you thought you're Martin McFly and
they're like, never mind.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, Michael J. Fox says, you know what, I don't
feel like I'm gonna point in my left where I
can do this. Please have Eric Stultz do it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He was a different kind of dress.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Martin McFly, though, you think, yeah, okay, well we're doing
multiverse now, I mean AI too aa use some my eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, everyone says they should make it Back to the
Future four and should be Tom Holland as Martin McFly junior,
Marty Junior, or just I don't know, leave it as
a trilogy and don't make it anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That's another option.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
They're perfect movies.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Leave it as it is exactly, Yeah, leave it as
it is. But the basic headline here is Hollywood, Rep.
Brad Rocket is going away. Something has taken its place,
and we're playing dominoes with the whole rest of the park. Correct, Yes,
I'm going to miss it. How long do you think
we have to ride this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That I think there has to be like a review.
It's in review right now. The deadline of the review
on incurring to this is all because this is filed permits.
So these are these are permits that exist is January
twenty second, twenty twenty five, so that's when permits have
to go through.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, so we got a year to ride this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You've got some you've got some time to ride this.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
And yeah, it's not like the the permit gets approved
and and they just throw a stick of dynamite in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It was exactly. They split up a sign, no ride,
no more riding.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Put the moose out front, get the bullwinkle from.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You just deleted off the map. Yeah, the park map.
Well that's what that's what they would do before. What
do you mean, what are they they're building the veloscty Ghoster.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, there's just a blank space of green.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I want to ride that big red roller coaster. I
don't see a roller coaster. What are you talking about? Yep,
there's nothing there. I remember when I first came to
Universal in like nineteen ninety three, I was like, wait
a second, are you guys supposed to have a Jaws ride,
and they were Everybody's like, I have no idea what
you're talking about. And then I go into gift shop
and there was one item they had, like you know
those little pennants that they you know, you buy the
(11:39):
baseball hort.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
They had one. It was like, you know, six inches
wide and it said Jaws on it. I was like,
wait a second, you guys do have a Jaws ride?
Where is the Jaws ride?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And they were like, was that one of the ones
that opened the park? Was that one of the first
It was already there.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, it was already there, but it was so horrendous
that they kind of like bashed it really quick.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Then they fixed it.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, because if I'm remembering correctly, anytime there was a
problem with the shark, they had to drain the lagoon.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, that's right, I think I do remember you tell
me that story. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I heard this from a guy who worked there, and
I don't know if and he told me the story.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah. I like, it's a good story.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And then what they what the solution was, is they
soldered or they they put it all on the platforms
that could be raised up.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Oh yeah, that's a much better idea. Than draining the
lagood every time the shark breaks. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And then the other thing was like complaints where that
the shark looked too plastically, so they put in a
new shark where it was just like a like a
just a blank hole, and then they would put a
neoprene skin onto it, okay, and then theoprene would give
it more of like a fleshy look.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Exture. Yeah. Yeah, where did the water go when they
when they had drain the lagoon? Yet?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Do you know where they asking I'm asking you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm asking you, guys. There is there some where they place.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, there's a there's I don't know, there's there's like an.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They drain it right to Sea World, the Shamous tank.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, here's the thing. When you when you walk around
Universal Studios, there's a giant lagoon that you could just
put water into.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, I mean sometimes it overflows. I don't know if
you saw the one that as you come over to
Jimmy's house, the one right by the Chick fil A here,
But that thing was like into the highway for a
while after I only.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Ever come here at night. I don't I can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like lanes were shut down I don't know what he's talking.
He's gonna say, you don't know that. I don't even
know what chick FILII.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
When they drained the lagoon, it just went into a
big tub for the Halloween Horror Night's uh cocktail.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Okay, that's good, No good.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
The Park podcast has not contoned that thought.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Somewhere water went something.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It went into the Center Lagoon where they used to
have the Miami Vice stunt show. That was Hogwood.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But how did they get it there? Scott?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know a pipe and a pump.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, all rights.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Learned nothing about like hydrodynamics.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I just want jobs back. Now that we're talking about this,
that sounds like a fun thing to do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Go to Hollywood. It's part of the studio tour.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I still got it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, you can ride that portion of the studio tour.
You could also go to the back draft set. You
go by the uh the psycha of the Bates Motel.
I think it's the Fastes and Furious element. There's a
king calling element.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Hey, we don't have that anymore. We don't have a
backstage tour anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We never like not not to the extent they.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Have no when we had Nickelodeon that was kind of
like their bell cow for that uh huh. And then
it was all MGM Studios that had all the backstage
tour stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Is Nickelodeon still exists or they shut that thing down?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's still it still exists. It's part of Paramount, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yea, it used to be. It's not its own channel.
They didn't they shut down the Disney Channel. No, they know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They haven't shut down any of those channels.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Disney Channels going away though, I've.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Just stayed at a hotel where I was watching the Disney.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Channels goes away January first, No.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Disney Plus. I read it in the news. It has
to be true. Disney Plus. We've already covered this.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But that's not a closing date.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Hey, if Scott forgot something that be great, it'd be
really good for me. Scott forgot something once, Yeah, it'd
be good for me.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Disney Channel has confirmed the channel will remain in the
United States. It's a full schedule of children's programming through
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh, okay, so we got another year of it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Disney Channel will leave across some countries, okay, but not
in the United.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
States in the US. Okay, all right, for the six
people that still left cable, you can still watch this
a channel. Correct.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And you asked about the studio tour and not this
effects anyone. Here you go by, there is King Kong
three sixty three d okay, Jurassic Park right where Dilaposaurus
will spray the guests, the flash flood, earthquake, jaws, Bates Motel,
(15:50):
Baits mansion, I should say, Jupiter's claim, which is from Nope,
oh okay, the Western Side. Yeah, and then the Fast
and Furious Supercharged.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That creepy monkey there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The monkey is not a part.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It was the CGI creature. They have the ladies whose
face gets.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, no, Gordy no.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay. That was the creepiest part about that movie was that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Monkey that that was there. That was the creepiest part,
not the part where they're in the house and it
starts raining blood. This is the monkey or I'm not
going to get into too many other players.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, it was the monkey for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But every should go check that movie on. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's a master it's a good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's a good Jordan Peele has not made a bad movie.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Should we redirect ourselves back into theme park talk.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, well can I you don't want to keep talking
about space dumplings?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Maybe so I brought up at the Minion Land. They
kind of want to move things around. I ate at
the Minion Cafe.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh did you have bananas?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I did not have bananas.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Okay, well, then you didn't need at the Minion Cafe.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I did because a I have a picture of the
food that I got. Okay, all right, I got mac
and cheese. Of course you did with pork belly and
then little minion.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Tots and what's the food review? It was really good,
really good. So you didn't get anything banana? No, you
a banana milkshake that's like a fine Europe. But you
didn't leave the airport.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, here's the thing. I walked in there while drinking
a hot butter beer, so I already had a drink
with me.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, because hot butter beer, as as we've as the
Theme Park Podcast agrees, is the best version of butter beer.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Definitely not. It's not true, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But here's the pro tip. You can mobile order. You
go inside, you get a table, put your table order down.
They bring the food right to you.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I do like that. That is that is a nice
feature because like even Disney, like back in the day,
Remember Jimmy, we do the mobile order and you don't
order the milk kids meal. Yeah, just show up as
an adult and just pick it up and they can't
judge you for it too much because you're just getting
it for your child.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
All over Europe, everywhere you go, they have a QR
code on your table with the table number, and you
just QR code scan it and you order your food
and then somebody just brings it to your table.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
There's no like waitress. Oh oh okay. And there's no
tipping there either, right. They do a surcharge to pay
the stab built. Yeah, but it's it's not a proper tip.
It's only like ten percent. It's fine. It's fine. I
mean those people come over here like, oh my god,
I'm asking for tips at McDonald's. Now, it's bananas. Nobody's
asking for a tip of McDonald's has for tips basically
(18:20):
everywhere else except for McDonald's everywhere. Or should we have
a tip jar for like the podcast? Hey like the show,
tip the show tip the show? When is that a
peloton Pellegrino.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, Peloton is like a subscription service's Prestalon.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I feel like both of you guys just have like
a mental moment.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
We're having a senior moment. What's the what's the company called?
Come on, pelgreno?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Now you just can't remember because we messed him up?
Pants alone?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
The thing where they could get Tony Money's his show
Proton that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's like Peloton, Like I told you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Tom Patreon? It's basically the same thing. Yeah, eyebrows, hash Browns,
it's all the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I got the Fredonia Festival of Mac and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cheese, okay, and it was good. It was very good.
Was it just craft?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No, it wasn't okay good because it had white cheddar
cheese on top of it and it's pretzel shell pasta shells.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But they had I thought about getting this the El
Macho Nacho hat what? Yeah, I didn't get that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Was it a real hat? I think it's a hat
that you could like eat like in the movie. I think,
oh my god, let's go back there right now and
buy it. Do you want me to? I could pull
up a picture. I want this so much. I imagine
it's like a smaller version of the one like I've
seen it. You can't wear it. It's I'm gonna throw
a fit. I've never seen one of those real left
only seen it in movies.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Like it's like, did I just sell you on getting
a universal pass?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I mean you might, you might, right there, Dickerman the Edge.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Six days ago, I saw a guy in a construction hat,
two beers on either side with the straw.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I've seen those. Those are those are a thing, But
the nacho hats harder to find. I mean it's you know,
it's a perishable item. Plus you got your food and
his hair, which is kind of gross. But but it's
gonna be like a sombrero. That's like holding the hat, right,
Oh yeah, that's great. It is much smaller than, you
know than maybe Skatka wear that, but it's still fun.
Yeah it's a little it's a little hat, but it
(20:24):
is fun. I like that little party hat. You could
wear the hat while you eat another set.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, it's kind of like the kitchen sink is not
actually a kitchen sink, that's true. Yeah, it's more of
a you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Know, what are we going back there to each have
our own kitchen sink and see who can finish it first.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You want Jimmy and I to die? I mean you
want you just give us Monjo Manjaro, Now you know
what it is. We were joking about the show but
being replacing you guys. Anyways, bon Jovi is nov I
don't know. I just heard Jaro Manjaro.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Grief selfies are the best, is what I've been told.
So that's what he's going for. Yes, all right, so
very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Get that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh and be aware of when parade starts. You don't get.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Trapped by parade? Yes, yes? So how credit was the park? Really?
It was very very crowdy. I was at Seawell I
think the same night on a Friday, and it wasn't
that bad. We went around like even like we went
to that manitar area, which you guys know I'm always
gonna go to jumpy Boy. We were the only ones there.
No one else was the thirst breaker. I did I
(21:30):
did not, actually I did not. Figure.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't know how will they how will they know
that you care about them?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
How will they know you are their king? I'm not sure?
But I did have some food there at chicken and waffles,
which was good, and a strawberry and cream bignet that
almost sounds healthy for strawberry and cream cheese. It was good.
It was covered in strawberries and cream cheese. It was
really good.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's like the healthiest thing I've ever heard you talk
about eating.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You had, I had fruit something. I mean. I don't
believe the strawberries in the form they came in still
qualify as strawberries, much like a Maraschino cherry. I believe
they'd been processed in such a way they're no longer
technically strawberries, but they had the strawberry flavor.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It was the chicken from Chicken pile A.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
No, the Chick fil A is not open there, but
it was. It was pretty good. It was a hot
honey chicken on a waffle. Somebody have a brown bag
I could breathe in, Jimmy and I will say this.
I will say one more thing is a SeaWorld pass holder.
I experienced these things as a cheapo because they give
you free money all the time. I had thirty bucks
and zeerral bucks to spend.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Did you do any rides while you were there?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, not a single one. We went through the shark encounter.
Uh huh. My child rode rides and we walked around.
You didn't do any rides. No, we walked around any food?
Was there an act? Was there? Christmas trees? There was
Christmas trees. We went through. Uh, we went through. Saw
all the animals and the wild Arctic and all the Christmas.
Now there's a lot of Christmas stuff to see there.
They do a great Christmas there. There's no pictures.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Did you get a picture with Santa?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
No? The line was too long. Oh, line was too.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You weren't like I've got Storm and Breaker let me in.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, I didn't. I didn't even bother. But yeah, it was.
It was a good time.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
By the way, when I was at Universal or Islands Adventure,
three hour wait for the Grinch.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Geez, it wasn't that long for Santa. Santa, not that.
I mean, you're waiting three hours see the Gringe. That
guy is stealing your presence, brings you the present, well
he brings them back. Yeah, he does bring them back,
but I mean Santa initially delivers them. So I mean
it's true he's the one. So yeah, Sea World not
so bad during the holidays. I can't guarantee it's gonna
be like that over the next couple of days. It
might be completely insane, So good luck to anybody going
(23:40):
out to any parks.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Not easy to do.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Actually headed to four Willderness Campgrounds.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's right, you're going tomorrow. All right, well, pretty good.
We'll look for a full report on that following that trip.
But Scott, if people want to follow us on social media,
get all the latest breaking news, maybe even some pictures
from Jimmy's trip to Fort Wilderness. Where can they go?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You follow us on Twitter, Theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok and threads at the Theme Park Podcast, or you can
watch the themepark YouTube dot com and.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The show comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Realtor
dot com, TBO, the Zebo studios for Jimmy, for Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, We'll see you out
at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This has been the Theme Park Podcast. Follow the show
on Facebook and Instagram at the Theme Park Podcast. To
catch up on previous episodes, check out the themeparkpodcast dot
com the iHeartRadio app for Apple podcasts,
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is this a radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Stickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. Merry Christmas, gentlemen, It's Scott Harris.
What's up. Spooky season? Boys, it's not spooky season. We're
in the rows of the holidays, my friend. This is
this is it. This is the hottest, thickest week of
the year when it comes to holidays at our theme parks.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I just saw a vampire movie twice on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That was a non choice to release on Christmas Day.
I will say that it's.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Doing very well.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay Christmas. You know what.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's actually the perfect thing because I don't know about
you guys, but I have had so much full frontal
Christmas in my face the season that having something that's
counter like number.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's a pala cleans see. On the opposite, I had
very little Christmas. I feel like Christmas like snuck up
and came and went like very quickly for me this year.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I brought up this movie and you had no idea
what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I knew it was some sort of spooky something.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's a vampire movie. It's about the original vampire.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And this isn't like sexy vampires. This is like bloodthirsty
I'm gonna drain your body vampires.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah. I don't watch many, true many of the vampire
I watched True Blood. That was about it. Okay, Yeah, yeah,
don't forget Twilight.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But I know you loved Twilight.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have not seen you were Team Edward. I might
like it if I watched it, but I never saw it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You watched Thirty Days of Night.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I did see that. That's true. That was a good one.
That is true.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, I watched Renfield actually earlier this year too.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, it's funny you say that because Nicholas Holt is
in Renfield and Nicholas Holt is in Nosferatu.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Okay, so he just needs.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
To do a third one in play Dracula.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay, fair enough. So back to theme parks, yes, and
the holidays. This is, without a doubt the busiest time
of the year. I know, well, the busiest time of
the rest of the year. Yes, I know I've been
out to a theme park. You've been out to a
theme park, James. You were out of theme park too, right, Yes,
so I was at Apricot not too long ago. So
we've all been out to the theme parks during the
(02:14):
heavy season, so we can share our experience there. And
I guess there's a lot of news too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's well it's not there's a lot of news. There's
one really big news store.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, we should probably start with that. You want to
start with that. I mean, it's it's it's the headline,
it's what the people are waiting for, the big story.
The permit is out Hollywood Hollywood Ripride Rocket to be replaced.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I like that ride. We've always liked that, right. I
just mean they're going to restore the firehouse.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, according to the permitting, it involves that building, the firehouse.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Building, Okay, right, So whether.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That means that'll be the new entrance for whatever replaces it,
because the belief is it's going to be a new
roller coaster takes over that spot, Okay, run by Intimate,
who is very familiar with the Universal, and that's Intimates.
It's a roller coaster company. So it would be through them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I always do remember hearing that whoever built rip Red
Rocket and I always liked the ride, but I heard
like they didn't like the builder, wasn't the most thought
of the builder, And like, ah, these guys you know.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Pretty sure, like right after Universal got it, that company
went out of business.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What tells me. What this tells me is I'm old
because I remember when they were opening this ride and
Fritz and I trying to get on before they opened it.
Being you have to wear theme park shorts, definitely had
to wear themes was that a different roller coaster theme
park shorts for that roller coaster specifically that had zippered pockets.
We tried to get on it before they opened it.
And now they're closing the dang thing. I feel very old.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it should be kind of telling when the hurricane.
When when the hurricane came through in October, they took
down the scrim that was on side of it.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They haven't replaced no, So I mean they've never really
updated the music either.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They will remember a few months ago they scaled it back. Oh,
they took like a third of the salt, but they
didn't have many to start with. The secret list when
you can hold down the little logo when it worked.
So the belief is that maybe they because right now
the queue for Ripride Rocket is still kind of in
the middle of Minion's Land.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So it's like, hey, move the entrance back over to
buy where like Jimmy Fallon is to kind of crowd
control a little bit towards the front of the park.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, yeah, and you take a little bit of a
pressure off of the Music Plaza stage MPs.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, yes, the MPs stage. That ride actually is so
kind of old now that I remember the opening video
where they'd have like the two people talking about, you know,
the rock and roll stuff, and they're telling you to
store your items. Hey, put your smokes in a locker room, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Wow, let's bring it in their smokes in the park.
Then put your vapes. But so there's there's really in
like two thoughts on what kind of a roller coaster
could replace this. A lot of people now because of
the Firehouse being involved in the permitting of this, is like, hey,
Ghostbusters theme Ecto one roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
They gotta do it. That'd be cool, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So there's that or over in Hollywood. They are doing
a Fast in the Furious No Drifting coaster.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh yeah, they are. It's like it's kind of like Guardians,
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But it's cars that are drifting.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, well that could be Ecto one drifting.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I mean it could be.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It could drift Ecto one.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
They could drift the Ecto one so that vehicle.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Would not handle well, so it would probably you know,
skate across the ground if you took a hard one.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I've seen all of the Ghostbusters movies, especially
the last two has a lot of drifting of that car. Yeah,
because it has a sixteen year old driving it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But I think that'd be kind of cool you do that,
kind of like their renderings are out for the Fast
and Furious Drifting coaster, and it looks pretty awesome because
it's a little cars that are doing it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
They owe they owe the Fast and the Furious fandom
something good.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He I am that, I am that fandom with.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Such a disappointment.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I can't imagine they have two Fast and the Furious
rides in the same park.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
No.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
No, The thing is, so the question is if they're
going to close one, is it just that building that
snake bit or.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, they use that building for Halloween horror nites, so
it is already for three months a year kind of
seasonal as it is.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Make it a permanent haunted house in there. Make it
a permanent haunted house.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Like they used to have a walking Dead one at
Universal City of Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Sure, make it a permanent like horror or something.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Or maybe maybe maybe walk with me here. You make
that building like I don't know, like a a stunt
tacular and it's about a guy that lost his memory, okay,
and his name might be Jason Bourne.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, all right, and then you.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Do like a stunt tacular there.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Okay, and then no, no, no, we do a miniature
monolaurial ride into an earthquake scene. Okay, that way it
matches richter Berger.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean yes, yeah. Could it have like a person
like h Mother Mother Nature as like the.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That was actually a very good Christopher walking I'm impressed.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well that was that was the Rocks character's name on
the ride.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I never did that iteration, but that redo of the
ride was pretty good when they redid that disaster.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I never did it though you never did it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
No, the Rock was in it. Christopher Walking was in
and it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't like the Rock.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I know you don't like the Rock, but he's in
the Rock with you. Now they're they're with you on
the Rock. He's in the Fast and the Furious Ride.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I know, don't remind me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You want to Fast and the Furious Ride.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I know, I know he is said, don't remind you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, you move Jason board and then you bring back
T two three Battle Across Time.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I like it. I like it. I'm I I'd love
to see T two back again. That was awesome. That
was a good show.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hey, if they brought back back to the Future, how
amped would you be?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I would love it to just make sure it's an
updated version of it and not like the same, not like,
hey Simpsons, you're out of here. We're putting the Neloreans
back in. I want a whole new thing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Even that. No, yeah, I'd be okay with that, and
people would still like that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But if it was like if you just I know,
we started with with one thing. But if you were
just like, all right, we're gonna re skin the Fast
and Furious Ride, that's it's no way back to the
Future ride where you're going through time because it's projections
all around you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Sure you could just change them up.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah. At one point you're in nineteen fifty five. Before that,
you're with back in the Western Times. Boom, next thing,
you know, you're in the future. Yeah, I mean bounce
around a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Like a star tourist thing. Yeah. It could be done. Yeah,
it could be done.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I mean, Christopher Lloyd would absolutely be on board with this,
Tom Wilson would absolutely everyone is everyone in the cast
would probably still be on board with this, except Crispin Glover.
He died right, No, it's just he sued the No,
he sued them. I always I just always ask if
people are dead for but you should be like, you
should ask it that way. No, it's he when they
(09:20):
did the whole time travel back to the future too,
they were just going to reuse his footage, but then
it was like, a are you going to pay me
to do that?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah. He's always been a little bit of a trouble
maker for people in Hollywood though.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, I mean here's the thing. That lawsuit ended up
being a landmark thing because it was now, if you're
using my likeness, you have to pay me. Yeah, So
it made sense. I agree, and I think he's still
kind of happy with how his career's gone. Yeah, unless
you're Eric Stolts and that that one kind of stings
a little bit because you thought you're Martin McFly and
they're like, never mind.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, Michael J. Fox says, you know what, I don't
feel like I'm gonna point in my left where I
can do this. Please have Eric Stultz do it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He was a different kind of dress.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Martin McFly, though, you think, yeah, okay, well we're doing
multiverse now, I mean AI too aa use some my eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, everyone says they should make it Back to the
Future four and should be Tom Holland as Martin McFly junior,
Marty Junior, or just I don't know, leave it as
a trilogy and don't make it anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That's another option.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
They're perfect movies.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Leave it as it is exactly, Yeah, leave it as
it is. But the basic headline here is Hollywood, Rep.
Brad Rocket is going away. Something has taken its place,
and we're playing dominoes with the whole rest of the park. Correct, Yes,
I'm going to miss it. How long do you think
we have to ride this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That I think there has to be like a review.
It's in review right now. The deadline of the review
on incurring to this is all because this is filed permits.
So these are these are permits that exist is January
twenty second, twenty twenty five, so that's when permits have
to go through.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, so we got a year to ride this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You've got some you've got some time to ride this.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
And yeah, it's not like the the permit gets approved
and and they just throw a stick of dynamite in.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It was exactly. They split up a sign, no ride,
no more riding.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Put the moose out front, get the bullwinkle from.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You just deleted off the map. Yeah, the park map.
Well that's what that's what they would do before. What
do you mean, what are they they're building the veloscty Ghoster.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, there's just a blank space of green.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I want to ride that big red roller coaster. I
don't see a roller coaster. What are you talking about? Yep,
there's nothing there. I remember when I first came to
Universal in like nineteen ninety three, I was like, wait
a second, are you guys supposed to have a Jaws ride,
and they were Everybody's like, I have no idea what
you're talking about. And then I go into gift shop
and there was one item they had, like you know
those little pennants that they you know, you buy the
(11:39):
baseball hort.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
They had one. It was like, you know, six inches
wide and it said Jaws on it. I was like,
wait a second, you guys do have a Jaws ride?
Where is the Jaws ride?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And they were like, was that one of the ones
that opened the park? Was that one of the first
It was already there.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, it was already there, but it was so horrendous
that they kind of like bashed it really quick.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Then they fixed it.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, because if I'm remembering correctly, anytime there was a
problem with the shark, they had to drain the lagoon.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, that's right, I think I do remember you tell
me that story. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I heard this from a guy who worked there, and
I don't know if and he told me the story.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah. I like, it's a good story.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
And then what they what the solution was, is they
soldered or they they put it all on the platforms
that could be raised up.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Oh yeah, that's a much better idea. Than draining the
lagood every time the shark breaks. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And then the other thing was like complaints where that
the shark looked too plastically, so they put in a
new shark where it was just like a like a
just a blank hole, and then they would put a
neoprene skin onto it, okay, and then theoprene would give
it more of like a fleshy look.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Exture. Yeah. Yeah, where did the water go when they
when they had drain the lagoon? Yet?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Do you know where they asking I'm asking you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'm asking you, guys. There is there some where they place.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, there's a there's I don't know, there's there's like an.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They drain it right to Sea World, the Shamous tank.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, here's the thing. When you when you walk around
Universal Studios, there's a giant lagoon that you could just
put water into.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, I mean sometimes it overflows. I don't know if
you saw the one that as you come over to
Jimmy's house, the one right by the Chick fil A here,
But that thing was like into the highway for a
while after I only.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Ever come here at night. I don't I can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like lanes were shut down I don't know what he's talking.
He's gonna say, you don't know that. I don't even
know what chick FILII.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
When they drained the lagoon, it just went into a
big tub for the Halloween Horror Night's uh cocktail.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Okay, that's good, No good.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
The Park podcast has not contoned that thought.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Somewhere water went something.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It went into the Center Lagoon where they used to
have the Miami Vice stunt show. That was Hogwood.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But how did they get it there? Scott?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't know a pipe and a pump.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, all rights.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Learned nothing about like hydrodynamics.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I just want jobs back. Now that we're talking about this,
that sounds like a fun thing to do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Go to Hollywood. It's part of the studio tour.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I still got it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, you can ride that portion of the studio tour.
You could also go to the back draft set. You
go by the uh the psycha of the Bates Motel.
I think it's the Fastes and Furious element. There's a
king calling element.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Hey, we don't have that anymore. We don't have a
backstage tour anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We never like not not to the extent they.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Have no when we had Nickelodeon that was kind of
like their bell cow for that uh huh. And then
it was all MGM Studios that had all the backstage
tour stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Is Nickelodeon still exists or they shut that thing down?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's still it still exists. It's part of Paramount, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yea, it used to be. It's not its own channel.
They didn't they shut down the Disney Channel. No, they know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They haven't shut down any of those channels.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Disney Channels going away though, I've.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Just stayed at a hotel where I was watching the Disney.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Channels goes away January first, No.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Disney Plus. I read it in the news. It has
to be true. Disney Plus. We've already covered this.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But that's not a closing date.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Hey, if Scott forgot something that be great, it'd be
really good for me. Scott forgot something once, Yeah, it'd
be good for me.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Disney Channel has confirmed the channel will remain in the
United States. It's a full schedule of children's programming through
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh, okay, so we got another year of it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Disney Channel will leave across some countries, okay, but not
in the United.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
States in the US. Okay, all right, for the six
people that still left cable, you can still watch this
a channel. Correct.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And you asked about the studio tour and not this
effects anyone. Here you go by, there is King Kong
three sixty three d okay, Jurassic Park right where Dilaposaurus
will spray the guests, the flash flood, earthquake, jaws, Bates Motel,
(15:50):
Baits mansion, I should say, Jupiter's claim, which is from Nope,
oh okay, the Western Side. Yeah, and then the Fast
and Furious Supercharged.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That creepy monkey there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The monkey is not a part.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
It was the CGI creature. They have the ladies whose
face gets.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, no, Gordy no.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay. That was the creepiest part about that movie was that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Monkey that that was there. That was the creepiest part,
not the part where they're in the house and it
starts raining blood. This is the monkey or I'm not
going to get into too many other players.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, it was the monkey for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But every should go check that movie on. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's a master it's a good movie.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's a good Jordan Peele has not made a bad movie.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Should we redirect ourselves back into theme park talk.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, well can I you don't want to keep talking
about space dumplings?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Maybe so I brought up at the Minion Land. They
kind of want to move things around. I ate at
the Minion Cafe.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh did you have bananas?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I did not have bananas.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Okay, well, then you didn't need at the Minion Cafe.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I did because a I have a picture of the
food that I got. Okay, all right, I got mac
and cheese. Of course you did with pork belly and
then little minion.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Tots and what's the food review? It was really good,
really good. So you didn't get anything banana? No, you
a banana milkshake that's like a fine Europe. But you
didn't leave the airport.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, here's the thing. I walked in there while drinking
a hot butter beer, so I already had a drink
with me.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, because hot butter beer, as as we've as the
Theme Park Podcast agrees, is the best version of butter beer.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Definitely not. It's not true, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
But here's the pro tip. You can mobile order. You
go inside, you get a table, put your table order down.
They bring the food right to you.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I do like that. That is that is a nice
feature because like even Disney, like back in the day,
Remember Jimmy, we do the mobile order and you don't
order the milk kids meal. Yeah, just show up as
an adult and just pick it up and they can't
judge you for it too much because you're just getting
it for your child.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
All over Europe, everywhere you go, they have a QR
code on your table with the table number, and you
just QR code scan it and you order your food
and then somebody just brings it to your table.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
There's no like waitress. Oh oh okay. And there's no
tipping there either, right. They do a surcharge to pay
the stab built. Yeah, but it's it's not a proper tip.
It's only like ten percent. It's fine. It's fine. I
mean those people come over here like, oh my god,
I'm asking for tips at McDonald's. Now, it's bananas. Nobody's
asking for a tip of McDonald's has for tips basically
(18:20):
everywhere else except for McDonald's everywhere. Or should we have
a tip jar for like the podcast? Hey like the show,
tip the show tip the show? When is that a
peloton Pellegrino.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, Peloton is like a subscription service's Prestalon.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I feel like both of you guys just have like
a mental moment.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
We're having a senior moment. What's the what's the company called?
Come on, pelgreno?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Now you just can't remember because we messed him up?
Pants alone?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
The thing where they could get Tony Money's his show
Proton that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's like Peloton, Like I told you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Tom Patreon? It's basically the same thing. Yeah, eyebrows, hash Browns,
it's all the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I got the Fredonia Festival of Mac and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cheese, okay, and it was good. It was very good.
Was it just craft?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
No, it wasn't okay good because it had white cheddar
cheese on top of it and it's pretzel shell pasta shells.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But they had I thought about getting this the El
Macho Nacho hat what? Yeah, I didn't get that.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Was it a real hat? I think it's a hat
that you could like eat like in the movie. I think,
oh my god, let's go back there right now and
buy it. Do you want me to? I could pull
up a picture. I want this so much. I imagine
it's like a smaller version of the one like I've
seen it. You can't wear it. It's I'm gonna throw
a fit. I've never seen one of those real left
only seen it in movies.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Like it's like, did I just sell you on getting
a universal pass?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I mean you might, you might, right there, Dickerman the Edge.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Six days ago, I saw a guy in a construction hat,
two beers on either side with the straw.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I've seen those. Those are those are a thing, But
the nacho hats harder to find. I mean it's you know,
it's a perishable item. Plus you got your food and
his hair, which is kind of gross. But but it's
gonna be like a sombrero. That's like holding the hat, right,
Oh yeah, that's great. It is much smaller than, you
know than maybe Skatka wear that, but it's still fun.
Yeah it's a little it's a little hat, but it
(20:24):
is fun. I like that little party hat. You could
wear the hat while you eat another set.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, it's kind of like the kitchen sink is not
actually a kitchen sink, that's true. Yeah, it's more of
a you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Know, what are we going back there to each have
our own kitchen sink and see who can finish it first.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
You want Jimmy and I to die? I mean you
want you just give us Monjo Manjaro, Now you know
what it is. We were joking about the show but
being replacing you guys. Anyways, bon Jovi is nov I
don't know. I just heard Jaro Manjaro.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Grief selfies are the best, is what I've been told.
So that's what he's going for. Yes, all right, so
very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Get that.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh and be aware of when parade starts. You don't get.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Trapped by parade? Yes, yes? So how credit was the park? Really?
It was very very crowdy. I was at Seawell I
think the same night on a Friday, and it wasn't
that bad. We went around like even like we went
to that manitar area, which you guys know I'm always
gonna go to jumpy Boy. We were the only ones there.
No one else was the thirst breaker. I did I
(21:30):
did not, actually I did not. Figure.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't know how will they how will they know
that you care about them?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
How will they know you are their king? I'm not sure?
But I did have some food there at chicken and waffles,
which was good, and a strawberry and cream bignet that
almost sounds healthy for strawberry and cream cheese. It was good.
It was covered in strawberries and cream cheese. It was
really good.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's like the healthiest thing I've ever heard you talk
about eating.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You had, I had fruit something. I mean. I don't
believe the strawberries in the form they came in still
qualify as strawberries, much like a Maraschino cherry. I believe
they'd been processed in such a way they're no longer
technically strawberries, but they had the strawberry flavor.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It was the chicken from Chicken pile A.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
No, the Chick fil A is not open there, but
it was. It was pretty good. It was a hot
honey chicken on a waffle. Somebody have a brown bag
I could breathe in, Jimmy and I will say this.
I will say one more thing is a SeaWorld pass holder.
I experienced these things as a cheapo because they give
you free money all the time. I had thirty bucks
and zeerral bucks to spend.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Did you do any rides while you were there?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, not a single one. We went through the shark encounter.
Uh huh. My child rode rides and we walked around.
You didn't do any rides. No, we walked around any food?
Was there an act? Was there? Christmas trees? There was
Christmas trees. We went through. Uh, we went through. Saw
all the animals and the wild Arctic and all the Christmas.
Now there's a lot of Christmas stuff to see there.
They do a great Christmas there. There's no pictures.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Did you get a picture with Santa?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
No? The line was too long. Oh, line was too.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You weren't like I've got Storm and Breaker let me in.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, I didn't. I didn't even bother. But yeah, it was.
It was a good time.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
By the way, when I was at Universal or Islands Adventure,
three hour wait for the Grinch.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Geez, it wasn't that long for Santa. Santa, not that.
I mean, you're waiting three hours see the Gringe. That
guy is stealing your presence, brings you the present, well
he brings them back. Yeah, he does bring them back,
but I mean Santa initially delivers them. So I mean
it's true he's the one. So yeah, Sea World not
so bad during the holidays. I can't guarantee it's gonna
be like that over the next couple of days. It
might be completely insane, So good luck to anybody going
(23:40):
out to any parks.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Not easy to do.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Actually headed to four Willderness Campgrounds.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
That's right, you're going tomorrow. All right, well, pretty good.
We'll look for a full report on that following that trip.
But Scott, if people want to follow us on social media,
get all the latest breaking news, maybe even some pictures
from Jimmy's trip to Fort Wilderness. Where can they go?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You follow us on Twitter, Theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok and threads at the Theme Park Podcast, or you can
watch the themepark YouTube dot com and.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The show comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Realtor
dot com, TBO, the Zebo studios for Jimmy, for Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, We'll see you out
at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This has been the Theme Park Podcast. Follow the show
on Facebook and Instagram at the Theme Park Podcast. To
catch up on previous episodes, check out the themeparkpodcast dot
com the iHeartRadio app for Apple podcasts,
The Theme Park Podcast News
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
40s and Free Agents: NFL Draft Season
Daniel Jeremiah of Move the Sticks and Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Daily join forces to break down every team's needs this offseason.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.