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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this a radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman
here there is Jimmy D. Popcorn goes pop pop pop
pop up in your mouth? And Scott Harris, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What's now? We got big bangs of Harry Potter butterbeer
skinny pop courtesy of our show sponsor, Laurencampbell Ridter dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, is literally the size of me. It is a
chip bag.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Like when I looked at her up online, it was
like it said seventeen ounce bag and I was like, oh,
that's probably like normal bag, like a normal bag of chips.
And then I get the bag and I'm like, oh,
she did buy this at Costco.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Popcorn is a lot lighter than chips. It's a gigantic ball. Mike. Yeah,
you literally like you could put au evert human head
in this bag easily. She didn't just buy one, she
bought three. Yeah, one for each of us. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So if you're looking for the skinny pop butter beer popcorn,
I'm looking for us. Well, you can come looking for us,
or just follow the trail back to Differman's house, or
you can just go to Costco and Altamont Springs.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's right. And if you're looking for the goldfish, which
were your favorite last week?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah? I think they're buy two get one free of
publics this week.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So how many of those deals have you bought?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Just one? I think? I mean they just want to
sale today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, So wait, what do you say, buy two get
one free? So you bought six and got three free?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean I will before what's.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The what's the limit that you could buy at once?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have not reached the limit of public somebugos yet,
so I don't know what it is. I think it
might be ten.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so if you bought ten, you'd get five, yeah free,
so you'd have fifteen bags. Oh that's nothing. That's like
a week for you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean we ate one of these last week, like
with ease. I think you can burn through a bag
of goldfish in a couple of minutes. We yeah, like
we this is six ounces? That's funny. Yeah, a little
tiny bag six ounce sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So Scott was not a huge fan. What do you
think of the the skinny pop butter beer?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, like it one. I think it's good. Yeah, it's
so it's it's like a kettle corn and it's got
it's not overbearing, it's not like loaded down. So it's
a it's a light.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Favor of it, and I think that's that's what I expected.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
See, I think a lot of people think it's gonna
be like Crackerjacks when you open his bag, But no,
you gotta remember.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's still skinny pop. It's yeah, so if you want
to make it fat pop, I would say, buy a
bag of those those Hershey's butter beer kisses. Melt those down,
dump them in the bag, stir it all up. Then
you're then you're there in your business.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well see, no, what I actually just did is what
I should have done on my first bite. I took
a handful and did it all at once. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah that's you get more of the taste that way
as oppose to just one at a time.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Because I think with skinny pop and not every piece
is flavored, I think it's like half and half.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Maybe that's probably what happened. Yeah, because that second, that
handful I just did was the greatest thing I've ever done.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, so you got a taste of butterscotch with a
hint of brown butter and caramel flavors.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So the last thing we have of the pockey sticks that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We have to oh yeah, we got to track those
down maybe five below. They sell a lot of pockey
sticks at five below.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
My old combook store.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Have those? I feel like they just make you chase
this stuff around, like it's not all in one place.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Why why would you say that? You say that as
if somebody went to five different public stores in one day.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I still have not seen those Fudds stripes again since
that time. I haven't seen them again.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I didn't see them until they were here a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I looked for them again today, No fudgstripes, not there,
Not in the store. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Last time I was in Public's like two days ago,
it was completely empty of butter beer products. But then
Lauren went today, Yeah, and they had some.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I mean, we also learned the trick as you have
to talk to a manager, and I know that two
of us definitely aren't doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, they put them like, they got them in green,
got some vault in the back for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They just took all the deyoduran out of it and
put the beer in there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, And all you got to do is walk over
to the employee like break room, knock three times and
slide a single dollar bill under the bill.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's a door.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That's it, and then they'll push it back and say
its crinkled.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
All right? Should we get into some theme park business?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I bought a ticket. I bought a ticket to a
theme park.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay, a single ticket, not an annual politic well, because
the annual path doesn't exist yet. Oh, I'm guessing this
is going to be uh epic universe. Yes, so you
bought a ticket? Yep. When are you going?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm going June? June eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
June eighteenth, so a couple months away.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Nineteenth? Sorry nineteenth?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So why choose June? And how difficult was it to
obtain a ticket?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So I chose that it is June teenth. It is
actually a company holiday, so I have that day. I
have that day off, smart for you middle of it.
It's during the week too. I know this is not
a holiday that everybody has off. Yeah, so that's playing
into my mindset as well. Okay, it's still pre super hot.
(05:13):
I know June is hot, but it's not like July August.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's a roll of the dice.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and it's usually not as bad rain wise.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's so if it's gonna be dry during the summer,
it's gonna be June exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that is my thought process. Also, like we talked
about last week, if I if I'm gonna go, I'd
rather go earlier in the opening rather than later on,
because it's only ever gonna get busier the later it gets.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So there are people that are getting to go now
that aren't even employees.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, the team members are. You can bring people.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We need to have more friends. Do we not know
anybody that we know? Multiple people that nobody calls, nobody
will call us.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We know at least two people directly, Yeah, that work
either there or at a third party.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Do we have to beg I mean, do we have
to beg to go? Is that what it is now? Yes? Okay?
Is that what they want? They want us to beg? Yes,
I gotta. I got a girl I work with. She
she's going. I don't get to go. She's she got
a friend, she's their friends taking her.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
One of these people that has the ability to go
got married and one of the three of us was
invited to their wedding, to a destination wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
At that what you should take it one step further.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I had to fly to Detroit too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And Kevlar wedding if there was one.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
You know, I didn't hear a single gun shot the
whole time I was in Detroit.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, Robert copp is there protecting the streets. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I would love to go. I mean, so regular people
out there listening right now are going. Hey, if anybody
listening right now works at universally, reach.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Out to us. Please if you want to take pity,
you want to take pity on the theme park podcast
if you if you love it, it's sad.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
To be fined. You're not invited when one of our
diehards invites us, it's an OBUs two.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Just message us on Facebook or Instagram or whatever once
they're out there, any of.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
These social medias. If you have the ability, what about
our boy t money?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't know, I don't know. I mean maybe we
could ask.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Exactly I don't talk to these people. The only people
I talked to are YouTube, so it'd be weird if
it comes from me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
True, I've really talked to you and like two other people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He's the social one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, you do have friends, Jimmy. I don't have friends.
I would talk to people I work with and you
guys and Matt and Fritz and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But so, so you asked me how difficult it was
to buy a ticket. I all I did was I
went onto the Universal Orlando website. Yep, I know that,
and I'm like, oh, let me do an epic single day. Uh,
you pick your date and everything, and I look at
the price and like, that seems a little much. It
was like one seventy four or something, so that seems
like much, but maybe that's it. And then I'm like, oh,
(07:57):
I'm an annual passholder. Let me get out of this
going through the pass holder way, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And it was one nice yeah, oh that's a good
discs exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even know regular folks
could buy them as of yet. I thought it was
only pass holder.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Still, we literally talked about it a week ago.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You guys know, I don't retain it for me.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A week ago to like, now, did you yeah, did
you write a note for me?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Like staple it to my shirt?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said it to your face.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's not enough, to be fair, there were cookies. These
very true. It's the early stage. Somebody's to push me
off our I'm when I get to the late stages.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But so, but now my dilema, I know this like
a first world problem. Is I'm thinking about staying at
one of the on property hotels.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, because they weren't that expensive, right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, for the Stellas, it's not. I looked at the
Grand Helios. It was six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ohoh okay, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But the other two was in like I think, what
the one thirty Rangers.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And the reason I'm thinking about is you get early park.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
If you get if it's one thirty, just book it now.
Just just go ahead and do it. Just just just
turn your mic off. Me and Jimmy fill time. Just
let's than a ticket.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
My well, my my my thinking is, well, my thought
process is, yes, I get you get in an hour early,
but I really want to know if you can walk
from this hotel to the park. I know you can't like,
it's not like the Grand Healers for your walk into
it that way? But is it close walking wise? Or
do I still have to like or or get in
(09:33):
my car and drive.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Have you looked at a like a Google overview like
a man?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yes, I have. And the Google overview is from eight
months ago when it's still a cont I mean, it's
still a construction site now. But it's it. That's the thing.
So it's it's it's I mean, I know I can
just book and cancel if I find find out, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If anybody knows while you're inviting us to go to
the park with you, go ahead and message us on
social media at the theme park podcast and tell us that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Jim, I mean, what's the email that we pay for
but don't know how to access?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wait, we don't pay for it anym all right because
we did not? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We all can have invites in that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Look, you guys, we all work in web development. We
don't want to work our email. Oh my god, you
know didn't I make a Gmail for us too? And yeah,
where's the Gmail I sent it to you? Guys? I
have to check back in our chat history. I'm pretty
sure it's the theme Park Podcast. I think I got that.
I think I might have got that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We could legitimately have an invite sitting in that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean maybe we had to advertise how to people
to use it. I mean, yeah, I don't know that
we gave it out. I would hope that people just
simply message us on social media like that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Don't work that way. Invites don't come that way.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
We make it really hard for people to reach out
to us, Like we complain about not getting invited, but
they have no way of inviting us now that we
don't have iHeart accounts. Nobody can I do I have
an iHeart account? Can you just get an alias of
the theme Park Podcast and I Heart?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, let's do that, were yelling.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I can do that in like three I can personally
do that.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Why haven't you because I thought we.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Were paying for like info at theme park podcast dot com.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We did that for a while. It was like a year.
Jim got a year deal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Because I remember this all back and forth about how
SeaWorld has been sending us stuff because we have a
contact there, and then she went, why haven't you guys
responded to any of these?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Wow? Yeah, all fair, all fair. I'm not gonna argue.
It's all fair criticism there. Yes, I agree, Yes, let's
get a Nightheart address and just call it a day.
Speaking of it seems fancy if we have night Heart
address too, right, I mean, we know it's not fancy
because we work there and it's all JANKI but it
still looks cool to.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Speaking of atpic Universe, we have the names of the
parking lot well, all right, Explorer okay, Monsters, Viking.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I want to park in Monster right now? Gamer, Gamer, okay,
Hero and Hero. You know when when Russ Rollins goes,
you know which parking lot is going to park in
Gamer Big parking in the Monster, he probably will last
for a special parking spot just for him. Oh yeah,
that's probably marked out. I mean in the Monster a lot.
I mean, come on, it's right at Bazelli.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Do you think it'll have the logo?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, if they want to do it up, absolutely,
I mean for sure. But it'd be nice to have
your own parking spot at a theme park. How how
baler would you be if you had your own parking
spot at a theme park? I mean you're a big
local personality.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Sure, Bob iiker does, well, I'm sure he does.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, backstage someplace. I want one, like you know, like
when Will Ferrell and Anchorman had his own booth at
the waffle house or whatever. You should have one of those. No,
I mean yes, No.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Have you been reading the reviews of people that have
gone to Epic everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I thought you were going to say waffle house. It's
only glowing. Everything I've seen has been like mind blown.
Our friend Leah lt went and she said it was
the greatest roller coaster she ever wrote. Was the I
don't remember what, Yeah, Stardust Flyers. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I've heard. I think I've heard that Yellow is
better than green, but Green is the second best roller coaster,
okay of the two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Come on, somebody like somebody Universal has to have like
no friends and they wanted to fight us, Like Universal,
I don't have many friends, but I.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Know this podcast. I should invite these people.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, really selling it, guys.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We'll have an awkward data together. It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's gonna be an awkward dat no matter what.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We're being honest, that's true. If I'm involved.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But I sent you, guys. I sent you guys the
picture of the meet and greet with a hiccup and
toothless Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, and that's gonna be It really is one
of those.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I was I was right. You guys thought I was
wrong about there being an invisible man meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's true, that's true. The toothless is one of those
Boston Dynamic dogs underneath the skin, right, no, no, Scott
says no. Jimmy says, yes, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, it's like it's it's basically this one is like Donkey,
okay from the Shrek Meet and Greet.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm dying for somebody to come let us see one
of those Boston Dynamic dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like the face and everything can move. But that is
the extent of it. It doesn't walk out.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay. The one I saw the overhead video of was walking.
I believe that is for the show.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay, yeah, because there's a there's a How to Train
Your Dragon show that is going and also there's with
these things that fly in the air, also flying dragons.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
M yeah, they're gonna fly through the air. So what's
what's the technology there are they like? Is it like dragon?
They grafted wings onto a lizard? Is it like it
was born the Spider Man that swings. Are they drones?
What do we what are we going on?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, if I learned anything from Game of Thrones, and
as you guys know, I'm a lifelong Game of Thrones person,
is you have to find the eggs and you have
to keep them warm, and then at some point they hatch,
and then you have to find rioters for these dragons,
and usually they need to have the blood of a
certain people in order to ride the dragon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's only from the lame Game of Thrones. Okay, that's
only from House to the Dragon.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm sorry Denaris Targarian, she didn't need to find rather,
she was the rider, but again, a specific person to
ride the dragons. First of her name, Breaker of Change.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, all those things, she's yeah, exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You you get it. You're just like me. Watched every
episode of this.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Sh love Denaris Targarian.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, you know what, And I think her best season
season eight.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Care very little about the House of the Dragon people
though they're all ugly TV people, What is wrong with you?
They're better looking than the three of us put together.
That's fine, that's fine, But when I want TV with this,
I want to see people that look like Khalisi, not
the people on House of the Dragon God even John
Snow good looking kid.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's like four foot nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
As a matter on camera, I all look tall. That
sounds like Derek.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
By the way, do you want some Dickerman news? I
got the Cinnabon has found a new location at CityWalk.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So it's ready to go. Are you gonna maybe you
can get your job back and get us into the
Is that what I have to do.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Here's the thing I have to do, as you guys say,
all of the work on the show.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now I have to get an actual job while you
had it there before, so you've got the experience.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Do you have the experience?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Got? Our backs are just not gonna hold up, I
mean of standing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's selling cinnabons.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I'd eat them all too,
So I'm a shell of a man.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I'm just sorry we were out of cinnabons.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh my god, Let's see what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Test track is a is testing the news?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Test track? So how did they say when we're supposed
to see that back open? Have they given like a
firm date or an idea or the summer twenty twenty
five sometime in twenty twenty five. Yes, unlike SeaWorld, who's
just gonna pop up a new ride. Be like, hey guys,
by the way, we're opening a ride now next week,
sometime in the spring. Today is the first day of spring,
I think too, it is. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Speaking of Epcot, they're opening up an adult only Spaceship
Earth Lounge named G eighty two.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I did see that. That looks pretty cool. Adults. Yeah,
only adults, No, no stinky children. How long until somebody
brings a kid in there? I mean, how are they
gonna Are they gonna really keep an eye on the situation?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes, I mean you need reservations because.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You remember how it was with the strollers. Remember that
they weren't supposed to have them giant strollers. Next day,
giant strollers are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay, But here's the thing, this is a bark like
that is why it's adults only.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, they do a good job at like Trader Sam's.
I can't remember if it's eight or nine o'clock. I
think it might be nine. You have to be twenty
one and up to be in there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
M hm. And they just they sush everybody out. That's
not kick you.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Right now, yep, okay, all right, Well, I mean they're
very polite about it, and they give you an opportunity
to like wrap it up, but you know you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Then I might get Disney passes this year. I might.
I might.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You've been talking about this. You willed all of these
things into existence. You're the one that's supposed to be
taking advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I know it might happen this year. It could happen.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
By the way, spring Break kicked off this week and
I think the most I saw for Guardians of the
Galaxy Cosmic rewind was seventy five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Really that's spring break because I saw people at Sea
World talking about just insane lines like they've never seen before.
I believe it. I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
This is the beginning of the busy period. Disney, by
the way, had a shareholder meeting today.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh you guys, you your shareholder, right, James? I am
a shareholder, and did you not join it?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was busy, okay, And somebody asked Bob Iger about FIGMNT.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Okay, my guy, Yeah, you're going and quote quote.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm going to ask our creative team to make some
short form videos of Figment. Obviously, he's more popular than
just a walk around character at the parks.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's what he said. Huh, he has no idea, does he.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, this also means that the movie that everyone thought
was gonna happen, that like Seth Rogan was gonna make
clearly isn't happening.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He thinks Figments like Joy from inside out. He has
no idea. It's probably never wanted any anything.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I mean, Joy and Figman have the same meet and
greet area. That makes sense. He also said there's gonna
make a Cocoa two, which you really don't know how
they're gonna pull off.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, and it's not coming out till twenty twenty nine
animated movies.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Dude, this means it got announced and everything is starting
planning today.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But it's also just like, are they gonna kill the
grandmother again?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I don't know, Maybe they'll kill somebody else.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He died in the first movie. It's one of those
movies like you, that's not a movie you make sequels too.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, in my opinion, we didn't get it up to.
There's no up to. I mean they could have done
it up to. Well, the kind of did it up
to with the Dog Doug Days. Yeah, Doug Days. Those
were great. Those are fantastic. Yeah, I want We actually
watched those pretty often on Disney Plus. We'll just because
you can just put them on. Ah, let's put on
some Doug Days. It's having a bad day, put on
Doug Days. Yeah, and it's like bite Si and it's
(20:01):
very very funny. And if you're in love with that
that universe, then it's candy. That's true. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Got announced, and we have the anticipation of Epic Universe,
and we have all the reviews out there, people talking
about how great it is. Obviously we have not been
able to offer our reviews yet, but those will be
coming as soon as we check our messages on social media.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But you know what, this weekend you can go do
You can go to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It kicked off this last week.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Note a note here if you do avoid the parks
for spring break, you're smart. So this weekend it's all over, right,
We're back to normal next week or is that only local?
So does spring break continue to kind of kick around
for the next couple weeks because you got people from
different areas.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, spring break basically will be going on for a
month to six weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
But the hottest, the hottest time is right now because.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's local numb Well, no, I mean it is only
local spring break. Well, it's what counties and there's stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, so there's you know, college and high school are
different exactly. Okay, so spring Bucks or Springbrook spring break
is about four weeks, four to five weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
It's gonna it goes on for a while and then
because I remember when I worked at theme park and
then all of a sudden it just dies. It just
there's like a week, there's like a week pier where
it's like where did everyone go? And then summer and
then two weeks of go bye and then it is
the debt and then it is summer is here.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, you can't. You can't predict it. They have theme
park predictors, they have Crown predictors. You can't truly predict
because it is always it's it's a crapshoot. What do
you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I listened to a podcast about theme parks every week,
and I trust everything that they say on Oh you know,
they do give insider tips sometimes, like what what's the
give Do you have one?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Go on a Tuesday? Go on a Tuesday. Oh, yes,
that's all I can right now. We've I don't have
any great insider tips right now, other than if you're thirsty,
go to the free sodas at Epcot and enjoy the
Beverly Did you uh?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Did you get your invite yet for the new SeaWorld ride?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, I should check my email. I don't know
that I have passholder. Maybe I do have an invite.
I don't know. I'm really out of the loop on
all things. I haven't been a sea World in a
while too. I'm like you, guys, I got an annual
pass and don't go.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
By the way, Jimmy, you didn't believe me when I
said that this is not concept art.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I did not you, and you still don't myself. Because
he said us a picture and of what they released,
of what they they released they released that. I looked
at it and I was like, I don't know. That
kind of looks like it's been touched up in Ai.
So I'm like, m, everything's been touched up in Ai. Now,
it's this is a picture of epic universes. This the
(22:43):
Harry Potter section. Is that what that is? No, No,
that's the monsters. Oh it's the monster Sectyeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's Dark War. It's monsters unchanged.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Because I kept saying that the concept art was no
way that they could possibly like pull it off, and
then he did show an example of the concept art
and then the thing, and it was it's like, it
looks exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
If they get it exactly, if this is real and
it's not AI touched up, this will be the first
time they've actually ever delivered.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, this is what happens. This is what happens when
you release the concept art after a thing has already
started being built.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, then you get a real thing.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well it's my whole thing too, though, is like when
you look at initial concept art, they'll have magical stuff
in there. There's just no way that that's going to
ever exist, right, at least not with today's technology, with.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
These concept artists. You know, be real guys, quick quit
adding you know, magic to this stuff. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, this is what I'm I'm zuoming it. I'm reading
the warnings for the ride.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, so I think Universe it's going to be without
a doubt the biggest thing of twenty twenty five in
Central Florida. There's no doubt about that. There the hype
and the excitement continues to build.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Do I just need to buy you guys tickets so
you guys can come on?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, you just need somebody to invite us and take
us in the early until so we can really.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean, I'm still going to use the ticket that
I bought.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I know, and you should, but I just you know,
if somebody wants to bring us, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or one of us, any of us, I.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Prefer be all three of us.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But okay, well one of us that'll ride Rye All well,
Jimi needs to come too because he needs to tre
all the food.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, you gotta try the food. Ye check out the
monsters area. He can hold our purse while we ride
the Stardust Flyers.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Apparently the only thing is the Ministry of Magic ride
still isn't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Okay, I will be riding Mario Kark one hundred percent. Yes, absolutely,
he wouldn't be riding Mario Kark. All right, Well, Scott,
if people want to get a hold of us on
social media and invite us places, where can they go?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You can follow us on Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and threads at theme Park Podcast. You can watch at
themepark YouTube dot com and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The show comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Realtor
dot com t boga Zebo Studios fortunity for Scott Harris.
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
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Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this a radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman
here there is Jimmy D. Popcorn goes pop pop pop
pop up in your mouth? And Scott Harris, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What's now? We got big bangs of Harry Potter butterbeer
skinny pop courtesy of our show sponsor, Laurencampbell Ridter dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, is literally the size of me. It is a
chip bag.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Like when I looked at her up online, it was
like it said seventeen ounce bag and I was like, oh,
that's probably like normal bag, like a normal bag of chips.
And then I get the bag and I'm like, oh,
she did buy this at Costco.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Popcorn is a lot lighter than chips. It's a gigantic ball. Mike. Yeah,
you literally like you could put au evert human head
in this bag easily. She didn't just buy one, she
bought three. Yeah, one for each of us. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
So if you're looking for the skinny pop butter beer popcorn,
I'm looking for us. Well, you can come looking for us,
or just follow the trail back to Differman's house, or
you can just go to Costco and Altamont Springs.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's right. And if you're looking for the goldfish, which
were your favorite last week?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah? I think they're buy two get one free of
publics this week.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So how many of those deals have you bought?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Just one? I think? I mean they just want to
sale today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, So wait, what do you say, buy two get
one free? So you bought six and got three free?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean I will before what's.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The what's the limit that you could buy at once?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have not reached the limit of public somebugos yet,
so I don't know what it is. I think it
might be ten.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so if you bought ten, you'd get five, yeah free,
so you'd have fifteen bags. Oh that's nothing. That's like
a week for you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I mean we ate one of these last week, like
with ease. I think you can burn through a bag
of goldfish in a couple of minutes. We yeah, like
we this is six ounces? That's funny. Yeah, a little
tiny bag six ounce sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So Scott was not a huge fan. What do you
think of the the skinny pop butter beer?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, like it one. I think it's good. Yeah, it's
so it's it's like a kettle corn and it's got
it's not overbearing, it's not like loaded down. So it's
a it's a light.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Favor of it, and I think that's that's what I expected.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
See, I think a lot of people think it's gonna
be like Crackerjacks when you open his bag, But no,
you gotta remember.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's still skinny pop. It's yeah, so if you want
to make it fat pop, I would say, buy a
bag of those those Hershey's butter beer kisses. Melt those down,
dump them in the bag, stir it all up. Then
you're then you're there in your business.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well see, no, what I actually just did is what
I should have done on my first bite. I took
a handful and did it all at once. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah that's you get more of the taste that way
as oppose to just one at a time.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Because I think with skinny pop and not every piece
is flavored, I think it's like half and half.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Maybe that's probably what happened. Yeah, because that second, that
handful I just did was the greatest thing I've ever done.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, so you got a taste of butterscotch with a
hint of brown butter and caramel flavors.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So the last thing we have of the pockey sticks that.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We have to oh yeah, we got to track those
down maybe five below. They sell a lot of pockey
sticks at five below.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
My old combook store.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Have those? I feel like they just make you chase
this stuff around, like it's not all in one place.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Why why would you say that? You say that as
if somebody went to five different public stores in one day.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I still have not seen those Fudds stripes again since
that time. I haven't seen them again.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I didn't see them until they were here a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I looked for them again today, No fudgstripes, not there,
Not in the store. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Last time I was in Public's like two days ago,
it was completely empty of butter beer products. But then
Lauren went today, Yeah, and they had some.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I mean, we also learned the trick as you have
to talk to a manager, and I know that two
of us definitely aren't doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, they put them like, they got them in green,
got some vault in the back for some reason.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They just took all the deyoduran out of it and
put the beer in there.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, And all you got to do is walk over
to the employee like break room, knock three times and
slide a single dollar bill under the bill.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's a door.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That's it, and then they'll push it back and say
its crinkled.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
All right? Should we get into some theme park business?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I bought a ticket. I bought a ticket to a
theme park.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay, a single ticket, not an annual politic well, because
the annual path doesn't exist yet. Oh, I'm guessing this
is going to be uh epic universe. Yes, so you
bought a ticket? Yep. When are you going?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm going June? June eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
June eighteenth, so a couple months away.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Nineteenth? Sorry nineteenth?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So why choose June? And how difficult was it to
obtain a ticket?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So I chose that it is June teenth. It is
actually a company holiday, so I have that day. I
have that day off, smart for you middle of it.
It's during the week too. I know this is not
a holiday that everybody has off. Yeah, so that's playing
into my mindset as well. Okay, it's still pre super hot.
(05:13):
I know June is hot, but it's not like July August.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's a roll of the dice.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and it's usually not as bad rain wise.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's so if it's gonna be dry during the summer,
it's gonna be June exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that is my thought process. Also, like we talked
about last week, if I if I'm gonna go, I'd
rather go earlier in the opening rather than later on,
because it's only ever gonna get busier the later it gets.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So there are people that are getting to go now
that aren't even employees.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, the team members are. You can bring people.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We need to have more friends. Do we not know
anybody that we know? Multiple people that nobody calls, nobody
will call us.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We know at least two people directly, Yeah, that work
either there or at a third party.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Do we have to beg I mean, do we have
to beg to go? Is that what it is now? Yes? Okay?
Is that what they want? They want us to beg? Yes,
I gotta. I got a girl I work with. She
she's going. I don't get to go. She's she got
a friend, she's their friends taking her.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
One of these people that has the ability to go
got married and one of the three of us was
invited to their wedding, to a destination wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
At that what you should take it one step further.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I had to fly to Detroit too, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And Kevlar wedding if there was one.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
You know, I didn't hear a single gun shot the
whole time I was in Detroit.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, Robert copp is there protecting the streets. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I would love to go. I mean, so regular people
out there listening right now are going. Hey, if anybody
listening right now works at universally, reach.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Out to us. Please if you want to take pity,
you want to take pity on the theme park podcast
if you if you love it, it's sad.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
To be fined. You're not invited when one of our
diehards invites us, it's an OBUs two.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Just message us on Facebook or Instagram or whatever once
they're out there, any of.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
These social medias. If you have the ability, what about
our boy t money?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't know, I don't know. I mean maybe we
could ask.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Exactly I don't talk to these people. The only people
I talked to are YouTube, so it'd be weird if
it comes from me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
True, I've really talked to you and like two other people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He's the social one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, you do have friends, Jimmy. I don't have friends.
I would talk to people I work with and you
guys and Matt and Fritz and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But so, so you asked me how difficult it was
to buy a ticket. I all I did was I
went onto the Universal Orlando website. Yep, I know that,
and I'm like, oh, let me do an epic single day. Uh,
you pick your date and everything, and I look at
the price and like, that seems a little much. It
was like one seventy four or something, so that seems
like much, but maybe that's it. And then I'm like, oh,
(07:57):
I'm an annual passholder. Let me get out of this
going through the pass holder way, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And it was one nice yeah, oh that's a good
discs exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even know regular folks
could buy them as of yet. I thought it was
only pass holder.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Still, we literally talked about it a week ago.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You guys know, I don't retain it for me.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A week ago to like, now, did you yeah, did
you write a note for me?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Like staple it to my shirt?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I said it to your face.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's not enough, to be fair, there were cookies. These
very true. It's the early stage. Somebody's to push me
off our I'm when I get to the late stages.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But so, but now my dilema, I know this like
a first world problem. Is I'm thinking about staying at
one of the on property hotels.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, because they weren't that expensive, right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, for the Stellas, it's not. I looked at the
Grand Helios. It was six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ohoh okay, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But the other two was in like I think, what
the one thirty Rangers.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And the reason I'm thinking about is you get early park.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
If you get if it's one thirty, just book it now.
Just just go ahead and do it. Just just just
turn your mic off. Me and Jimmy fill time. Just
let's than a ticket.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
My well, my my my thinking is, well, my thought
process is, yes, I get you get in an hour early,
but I really want to know if you can walk
from this hotel to the park. I know you can't like,
it's not like the Grand Healers for your walk into
it that way? But is it close walking wise? Or
do I still have to like or or get in
(09:33):
my car and drive.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Have you looked at a like a Google overview like
a man?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yes, I have. And the Google overview is from eight
months ago when it's still a cont I mean, it's
still a construction site now. But it's it. That's the thing.
So it's it's it's I mean, I know I can
just book and cancel if I find find out, all right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If anybody knows while you're inviting us to go to
the park with you, go ahead and message us on
social media at the theme park podcast and tell us that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Jim, I mean, what's the email that we pay for
but don't know how to access?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Wait, we don't pay for it anym all right because
we did not? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
We all can have invites in that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Look, you guys, we all work in web development. We
don't want to work our email. Oh my god, you
know didn't I make a Gmail for us too? And yeah,
where's the Gmail I sent it to you? Guys? I
have to check back in our chat history. I'm pretty
sure it's the theme Park Podcast. I think I got that.
I think I might have got that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We could legitimately have an invite sitting in that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean maybe we had to advertise how to people
to use it. I mean, yeah, I don't know that
we gave it out. I would hope that people just
simply message us on social media like that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Don't work that way. Invites don't come that way.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
We make it really hard for people to reach out
to us, Like we complain about not getting invited, but
they have no way of inviting us now that we
don't have iHeart accounts. Nobody can I do I have
an iHeart account? Can you just get an alias of
the theme Park Podcast and I Heart?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, let's do that, were yelling.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I can do that in like three I can personally
do that.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Why haven't you because I thought we.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Were paying for like info at theme park podcast dot com.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We did that for a while. It was like a year.
Jim got a year deal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Because I remember this all back and forth about how
SeaWorld has been sending us stuff because we have a
contact there, and then she went, why haven't you guys
responded to any of these?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Wow? Yeah, all fair, all fair. I'm not gonna argue.
It's all fair criticism there. Yes, I agree, Yes, let's
get a Nightheart address and just call it a day.
Speaking of it seems fancy if we have night Heart
address too, right, I mean, we know it's not fancy
because we work there and it's all JANKI but it
still looks cool to.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Speaking of atpic Universe, we have the names of the
parking lot well, all right, Explorer okay, Monsters, Viking.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I want to park in Monster right now? Gamer, Gamer, okay,
Hero and Hero. You know when when Russ Rollins goes,
you know which parking lot is going to park in
Gamer Big parking in the Monster, he probably will last
for a special parking spot just for him. Oh yeah,
that's probably marked out. I mean in the Monster a lot.
I mean, come on, it's right at Bazelli.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Do you think it'll have the logo?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, if they want to do it up, absolutely,
I mean for sure. But it'd be nice to have
your own parking spot at a theme park. How how
baler would you be if you had your own parking
spot at a theme park? I mean you're a big
local personality.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Sure, Bob iiker does, well, I'm sure he does.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, backstage someplace. I want one, like you know, like
when Will Ferrell and Anchorman had his own booth at
the waffle house or whatever. You should have one of those. No,
I mean yes, No.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Have you been reading the reviews of people that have
gone to Epic everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I thought you were going to say waffle house. It's
only glowing. Everything I've seen has been like mind blown.
Our friend Leah lt went and she said it was
the greatest roller coaster she ever wrote. Was the I
don't remember what, Yeah, Stardust Flyers. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, I've heard. I think I've heard that Yellow is
better than green, but Green is the second best roller coaster,
okay of the two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Come on, somebody like somebody Universal has to have like
no friends and they wanted to fight us, Like Universal,
I don't have many friends, but I.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Know this podcast. I should invite these people.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, really selling it, guys.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We'll have an awkward data together. It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's gonna be an awkward dat no matter what.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
We're being honest, that's true. If I'm involved.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But I sent you, guys. I sent you guys the
picture of the meet and greet with a hiccup and
toothless Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, and that's gonna be It really is one
of those.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I was I was right. You guys thought I was
wrong about there being an invisible man meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's true, that's true. The toothless is one of those
Boston Dynamic dogs underneath the skin, right, no, no, Scott
says no. Jimmy says, yes, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, it's like it's it's basically this one is like Donkey,
okay from the Shrek Meet and Greet.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm dying for somebody to come let us see one
of those Boston Dynamic dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like the face and everything can move. But that is
the extent of it. It doesn't walk out.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay. The one I saw the overhead video of was walking.
I believe that is for the show.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay, yeah, because there's a there's a How to Train
Your Dragon show that is going and also there's with
these things that fly in the air, also flying dragons.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
M yeah, they're gonna fly through the air. So what's
what's the technology there are they like? Is it like dragon?
They grafted wings onto a lizard? Is it like it
was born the Spider Man that swings. Are they drones?
What do we what are we going on?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, if I learned anything from Game of Thrones, and
as you guys know, I'm a lifelong Game of Thrones person,
is you have to find the eggs and you have
to keep them warm, and then at some point they hatch,
and then you have to find rioters for these dragons,
and usually they need to have the blood of a
certain people in order to ride the dragon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's only from the lame Game of Thrones. Okay, that's
only from House to the Dragon.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm sorry Denaris Targarian, she didn't need to find rather,
she was the rider, but again, a specific person to
ride the dragons. First of her name, Breaker of Change.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, all those things, she's yeah, exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You you get it. You're just like me. Watched every
episode of this.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Sh love Denaris Targarian.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, you know what, And I think her best season
season eight.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Care very little about the House of the Dragon people
though they're all ugly TV people, What is wrong with you?
They're better looking than the three of us put together.
That's fine, that's fine, But when I want TV with this,
I want to see people that look like Khalisi, not
the people on House of the Dragon God even John
Snow good looking kid.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's like four foot nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
As a matter on camera, I all look tall. That
sounds like Derek.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
By the way, do you want some Dickerman news? I
got the Cinnabon has found a new location at CityWalk.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So it's ready to go. Are you gonna maybe you
can get your job back and get us into the
Is that what I have to do.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Here's the thing I have to do, as you guys say,
all of the work on the show.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now I have to get an actual job while you
had it there before, so you've got the experience.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Do you have the experience?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Got? Our backs are just not gonna hold up, I
mean of standing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's selling cinnabons.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I'd eat them all too,
So I'm a shell of a man.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I'm just sorry we were out of cinnabons.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh my god, Let's see what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Test track is a is testing the news?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Test track? So how did they say when we're supposed
to see that back open? Have they given like a
firm date or an idea or the summer twenty twenty
five sometime in twenty twenty five. Yes, unlike SeaWorld, who's
just gonna pop up a new ride. Be like, hey guys,
by the way, we're opening a ride now next week,
sometime in the spring. Today is the first day of spring,
I think too, it is. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Speaking of Epcot, they're opening up an adult only Spaceship
Earth Lounge named G eighty two.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I did see that. That looks pretty cool. Adults. Yeah,
only adults, No, no stinky children. How long until somebody
brings a kid in there? I mean, how are they
gonna Are they gonna really keep an eye on the situation?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes, I mean you need reservations because.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You remember how it was with the strollers. Remember that
they weren't supposed to have them giant strollers. Next day,
giant strollers are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay, But here's the thing, this is a bark like
that is why it's adults only.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, they do a good job at like Trader Sam's.
I can't remember if it's eight or nine o'clock. I
think it might be nine. You have to be twenty
one and up to be in there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
M hm. And they just they sush everybody out. That's
not kick you.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Right now, yep, okay, all right, Well, I mean they're
very polite about it, and they give you an opportunity
to like wrap it up, but you know you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Then I might get Disney passes this year. I might.
I might.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You've been talking about this. You willed all of these
things into existence. You're the one that's supposed to be
taking advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I know it might happen this year. It could happen.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
By the way, spring Break kicked off this week and
I think the most I saw for Guardians of the
Galaxy Cosmic rewind was seventy five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Really that's spring break because I saw people at Sea
World talking about just insane lines like they've never seen before.
I believe it. I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
This is the beginning of the busy period. Disney, by
the way, had a shareholder meeting today.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh you guys, you your shareholder, right, James? I am
a shareholder, and did you not join it?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was busy, okay, And somebody asked Bob Iger about FIGMNT.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Okay, my guy, Yeah, you're going and quote quote.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm going to ask our creative team to make some
short form videos of Figment. Obviously, he's more popular than
just a walk around character at the parks.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's what he said. Huh, he has no idea, does he.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, this also means that the movie that everyone thought
was gonna happen, that like Seth Rogan was gonna make
clearly isn't happening.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He thinks Figments like Joy from inside out. He has
no idea. It's probably never wanted any anything.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I mean, Joy and Figman have the same meet and
greet area. That makes sense. He also said there's gonna
make a Cocoa two, which you really don't know how
they're gonna pull off.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, and it's not coming out till twenty twenty nine
animated movies.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Dude, this means it got announced and everything is starting
planning today.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But it's also just like, are they gonna kill the
grandmother again?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I don't know, Maybe they'll kill somebody else.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He died in the first movie. It's one of those
movies like you, that's not a movie you make sequels too.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, in my opinion, we didn't get it up to.
There's no up to. I mean they could have done
it up to. Well, the kind of did it up
to with the Dog Doug Days. Yeah, Doug Days. Those
were great. Those are fantastic. Yeah, I want We actually
watched those pretty often on Disney Plus. We'll just because
you can just put them on. Ah, let's put on
some Doug Days. It's having a bad day, put on
Doug Days. Yeah, and it's like bite Si and it's
(20:01):
very very funny. And if you're in love with that
that universe, then it's candy. That's true. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Got announced, and we have the anticipation of Epic Universe,
and we have all the reviews out there, people talking
about how great it is. Obviously we have not been
able to offer our reviews yet, but those will be
coming as soon as we check our messages on social media.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But you know what, this weekend you can go do
You can go to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It kicked off this last week.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Note a note here if you do avoid the parks
for spring break, you're smart. So this weekend it's all over, right,
We're back to normal next week or is that only local?
So does spring break continue to kind of kick around
for the next couple weeks because you got people from
different areas.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, spring break basically will be going on for a
month to six weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
But the hottest, the hottest time is right now because.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's local numb Well, no, I mean it is only
local spring break. Well, it's what counties and there's stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, so there's you know, college and high school are
different exactly. Okay, so spring Bucks or Springbrook spring break
is about four weeks, four to five weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
It's gonna it goes on for a while and then
because I remember when I worked at theme park and
then all of a sudden it just dies. It just
there's like a week, there's like a week pier where
it's like where did everyone go? And then summer and
then two weeks of go bye and then it is
the debt and then it is summer is here.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, you can't. You can't predict it. They have theme
park predictors, they have Crown predictors. You can't truly predict
because it is always it's it's a crapshoot. What do
you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I listened to a podcast about theme parks every week,
and I trust everything that they say on Oh you know,
they do give insider tips sometimes, like what what's the
give Do you have one?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Go on a Tuesday? Go on a Tuesday. Oh, yes,
that's all I can right now. We've I don't have
any great insider tips right now, other than if you're thirsty,
go to the free sodas at Epcot and enjoy the
Beverly Did you uh?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Did you get your invite yet for the new SeaWorld ride?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, I should check my email. I don't know
that I have passholder. Maybe I do have an invite.
I don't know. I'm really out of the loop on
all things. I haven't been a sea World in a
while too. I'm like you, guys, I got an annual
pass and don't go.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
By the way, Jimmy, you didn't believe me when I
said that this is not concept art.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I did not you, and you still don't myself. Because
he said us a picture and of what they released,
of what they they released they released that. I looked
at it and I was like, I don't know. That
kind of looks like it's been touched up in Ai.
So I'm like, m, everything's been touched up in Ai. Now,
it's this is a picture of epic universes. This the
(22:43):
Harry Potter section. Is that what that is? No, No,
that's the monsters. Oh it's the monster Sectyeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's Dark War. It's monsters unchanged.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Because I kept saying that the concept art was no
way that they could possibly like pull it off, and
then he did show an example of the concept art
and then the thing, and it was it's like, it
looks exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
If they get it exactly, if this is real and
it's not AI touched up, this will be the first
time they've actually ever delivered.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, this is what happens. This is what happens when
you release the concept art after a thing has already
started being built.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, then you get a real thing.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well it's my whole thing too, though, is like when
you look at initial concept art, they'll have magical stuff
in there. There's just no way that that's going to
ever exist, right, at least not with today's technology, with.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
These concept artists. You know, be real guys, quick quit
adding you know, magic to this stuff. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, this is what I'm I'm zuoming it. I'm reading
the warnings for the ride.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, so I think Universe it's going to be without
a doubt the biggest thing of twenty twenty five in
Central Florida. There's no doubt about that. There the hype
and the excitement continues to build.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Do I just need to buy you guys tickets so
you guys can come on?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, you just need somebody to invite us and take
us in the early until so we can really.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean, I'm still going to use the ticket that
I bought.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I know, and you should, but I just you know,
if somebody wants to bring us, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or one of us, any of us, I.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Prefer be all three of us.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But okay, well one of us that'll ride Rye All well,
Jimi needs to come too because he needs to tre
all the food.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, you gotta try the food. Ye check out the
monsters area. He can hold our purse while we ride
the Stardust Flyers.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Apparently the only thing is the Ministry of Magic ride
still isn't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Okay, I will be riding Mario Kark one hundred percent. Yes, absolutely,
he wouldn't be riding Mario Kark. All right, Well, Scott,
if people want to get a hold of us on
social media and invite us places, where can they go?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You can follow us on Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and threads at theme Park Podcast. You can watch at
themepark YouTube dot com and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
The show comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Realtor
dot com t boga Zebo Studios fortunity for Scott Harris.
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
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Speaker 3 (25:00):
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