February 20, 2025 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys bid a farewell to the virtual queue system for a few rides at Walt Disney World! Then they discuss ticket prices around all the Disney parks around the world, a replacement coming for DisneyQuest and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
here there is Scott Harris, Hello, Hi, and Jimmy D.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I did it backward?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, you threw me off.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I was not prepared one hundred percent. That was my fault.
You know, you know what it is.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're doing a three screen things today. I just went
order because Scott's in the middle.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I was like, I don't I didn't. I have nothing
Quippi prepared. I needed that extra three seconds.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No promo code.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Jimmy Yes, spooky hollowey, scary something.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, just just wrap it ups.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Spooky season. Uh, it is race weekend at Walt Disney World.
We do put out a warning every time there is
a race weekend. Princess Half Marathon this weekend, it will
be insane if you go anywhere near.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The parks aka traffic cone season as well.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So many trying like that traffic cone guy. It's like
one guy. He is a ba billionaire just based on
Bob's races. It's bob barricade, Bob's barricades he's got he's
Bob's barricades. And traffic cones all right, I gotta they
should be in the name.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I got a question for you.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Along with those cones that are everywhere, there are so
porta potties every Oh yeah. If I'm not participating in
the race, I'm just on Disney property and I gotta
go real bad. Is it uncouth to pull off into
the brass?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And yes, you did not earn the right to use
that that port of body.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I say you can use it. I say use it
first in the day, and you're the first one to
ruin it, because you know, whoever reuses it first ruins
it for the rest of everybody else. It was great
until then.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well, I mean it's not like I had taco bell
the night before or something. I mean, it's a madderine.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You look at that thing, funny, it's ruined for the day.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We should we should just say because I think it
was Jimmy, you gave the public service mountain years ago
to not drive over traffic cones, and it's not good
for your vehicle to do so.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Oh my god, circa nineteen ninety six. I four, there's
like cones everywhere, and I was just like, I wonder
would be like a cone. It knocked the headlight out
of my truck. And when I hit when it went
over it, it felt like I rolled over a body.
And then the cone flipped up into the air. Because
(02:42):
it's a real, real dry vehicle. It was just a disaster.
Do not hit the cone. It's funny, but it is not.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So much more damage than you would expect.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Oh my god, Like I'm like, okay, well that was
a twelve hundred dollars moment.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. I don't recommend driving into the water buckets either,
those things.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, just stay on the road just to avoid obstacles
in front of you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's probably for the best, it's for the best. But yeah,
race weekend this weekend, it's it's gonna be nuts out there.
Even if you go late in the day, you'll still
just see all the racers walking around the park. But
early in the morning, forget it. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And here's the thing. You'll see them walking around the
park and they've earned this. They'll be wearing their medals
showing off their achievements. You can hear them coming like
three countries away at EPCOT.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh yeah, talk tolk, just so the public knows. If
they try to use that medal to cut the line,
that's not a real thing.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just telling.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Did you want to let them cut the line because
of their metal like they accomplished something that day?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well that's different, different.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well just before warn a lot of two too's probably
going to be out there this weekend too, A lot
of two twos princess.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh yeah, I mean costumes in general.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's the only time I've ever cosplayed was uh at
a race?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You were you? You were Carl?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh yeah, And I noticed that, uh you know, a
certain foundation shared that picture.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I've heard your picture has been shared all across our
social media channels.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It has, and uh it made its way back to
my team.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh yeah, I know, I heard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh you heard about the photoshop contest too. I didn't
hear that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I just I just heard you're getting used across the
platform regardless of your release at the photo or not.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Oh it it's not my well actually it is my.
Now how does that work when it comes to the
Disney photos in the PhotoPass.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Who owns the rights to those photos? I do not know.
I think you do.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm sure it's probably something in the waiver that you
have to sign when you do that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, yeah, you know, they're waivers.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, forget it. Nobody's reading that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hmm, yeah, I don't know. That's a great question, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Should should we get into our lead story for this
this podcast here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I for one. For once there's actual news related to
you me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Usually it's Jimmy related news, like a new Tiki mug
or something else.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What do we got? What do we got?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Disney World announces the end of virtual cues at Our
Guardians of the Galaxy, Colon, Cosmic Rewind and Tiana's By
You Adventure.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So now you can just get in line.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Now you can just get in line beginning February. This
will end February twenty fifth, So beginning February twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Whoever made this decision, give that individual a RaSE. They
deserve it, Robert I listen to the people. They listen
to the no, don't give him. They listen to the people,
and they're giving us what we want. Just let us
wait in line. For the freaking guardians.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
They're giving specifically you what you want. You have said,
if they do this, you will get an annual pass.
You have gone on record on this podcast saying that
I say that you did.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't recall saying annual pass. Maybe like the Wednesday
after two pass.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do they have that? Well, that don't have the after
the cut after four anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now now that it was too good of a deal,
people would take advantage of it, and they're like, now
we can't do that. You can't sell something for like
one hundred and fifty bucks. Come on seven hundred dollars minimum.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So no more waking up at six thirty in the
morning to try to get a virtual queue.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I hope I at one point can have an annual
pass for Walt Disney World.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Again.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
If I come into some money, perhaps an inheritance, I
will I will maybe jump on that boat.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
All what do you think it would take to get
you to like the what's the amount that would push
you over the top to go.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The amount of money, yeah, or the amount of the
amount of money I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Cover the inheritance. How much different times do you need
to if it covers the pass.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm in seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I was like, I will give you, I will give
you twenty dollars right now.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If we can get if we can get the whole
family covered, we'll do it for twenty one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Everybody's happy.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Does everyone need one? Though?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Maybe you know, if we could share like we do
streaming services, that'd be great. You know we have two
and we split it between the.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Three of us.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well no, no, no, no, no, Or how about that? Does
everyone need the same level?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh no, I'm you know, I'm getting the lowest possible
level that includes free parking, so you know it's a
pirate pass for me. It's going to go above that.
Even if I had a billion dollars, it wouldn't go
above that.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Do they still have the one that is just weekdays? Like? Yeah,
that's what I mean. Like you get the seven day
a week one and then somebody else gets five days.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hm, that's not idea. Yeah, it's still expensive. What's that picture?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This past?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Like five hundred bucks? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I knew you were gonna ask out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's outside of my
price range.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Outside my price range.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, I mean they're giving they're giving you what you
asked for.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is true.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is just like you know, I did end up
going to Sea world Sallow Screen a year after I
wished it into existence. So maybe in the next three
hundred and sixty five days I will make it out
to Ebcot to wait in line for Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Or maybe not.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Maybe you'll just get there early and you'll just get
like walk right on.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That could happen to I mean, you never know what's
gonna happen when this virtual queue goes away. Nobody knows
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It would also require you to wake up early to
do to rope drop like that.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I do that five days a week, and I do
not care for it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
By the way, I just pulled up the uh oh wait,
never mind, that's why doing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
When you worked in radio, what time did you get
up in the morning? Ten?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So what you got up? Yeah, what's I mean? I
mean depends on the job. I guess it depends on
what job I had. Like when I was, you know,
just doing on air afternoons or nights or whatever. Yeah,
ten o'clock I out of bed, rolling to work around noon.
But when you sat next to me for like six
years and worked, I think they made us come in
(09:24):
around nine for a while. That was like a thing.
I remember for a minute they tried to make us
come in for the morning shows, and that didn't fly
for long.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You did not come in at nine. I didn't I
know when you were. You were coming in around like
a ten thirty eleven.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Really no, no, because he would leave it like ten
thirty eleven and go do jiu jitsu.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's well, that's right. I mean he would come at
ten and then leave it ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh no, I would come at ten, I would leave
it eleven thirty. I'd be back by two for me
and my radio show and be gone by five.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, okay, I I over there. I got the monthly
breakdown for the passes because it won't tell me like
just price.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ah G. You can't just buy it straight out anymore.
Now they want you to be a subscription service.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Correct, all right, the Pixie Dust pass after a down
payment of two hundred and five dollars okay, twenty four
dollars twenty four to fifty four.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A month, okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That is the Monday through Friday Pass. Yes, the Pirate
Pass with two hundred and five dollars down payment. Fifty
six dollars and forty nine cents. Oh that's double, but
you get it's it's got the it's got less blackout days.
And you could go every day.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh you can? Or yeah, you can go seven days.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A week, a week Mondays? Can I go? Does Friday
count in the Pixie Dust Pass?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Can I go Monday through Friday?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I just want to make sure because sometimes go to
Friday is too popular.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, you they're all there. You do still have to
make a reservation.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Okay, I mean the price on that's not bad. It's
back to the old days. I mean, you just can't
go on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Tomorrow, Disneyland Tokyo releases their tickets for the day that
I'm gonna go because I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Go to Disney c Oh yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It's gonna be eighty nine yen, which is equivalent of
about fifty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
They know, that's crazy. That's such a great deal for.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
One day, like for one day park And I'm like,
oh my god, I cannot what it used to be?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is this how it used to be? Yeah, yeah, this
is Yeah, I can't wait to see what the experience
is like. As you can compare it, is this the
Disney that is actually run by someone else? Or is
this the one that's still run by Disney Corporation? Do
we know? Because there's one that's like they have all
the this and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It's operated by the Oriental Land Company.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, all right, so I'm curious how that is.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, I've I've watched. I'm not trying to watch too
many videos because I want to be surprised by things
when I like. But I have seen some people talk
about it, and they're like, you're gonna find some ips
that just don't normally appear in Disney parks yep. Like Sindbad,
for instance, is in one of the two Japanese parks.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I never expect to see Night maryon Elm Street here,
but there's Freddy Krueger.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
I don't think it'll be quite like that, but it'll
still be on brand. It'll just be yep, not technically brand.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But yeah, like most of the a lot of the
foreign parks are are like that, like Tokyo is in
Hong Kong is as well.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Okay, all right, well, yeah, we all we'll get the
full report when Jimmy goes to Japan. What is what
is that time that you'll be at Disney and Japan.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
That'll be April twenty first. That's the other thing that's
interesting about Tokyo Disneyland. Tokyo is the only seller tickets, Like,
is it like sixty days out?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
M Yeah, that's not that's not Yeah, that's pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And I have been finding like a lot of things
in Japan are like that, where they just they don't
sell tickets until, you know, like thirty sixty days before
the event. Like one of the things was Nintendo Land
or Nonintended Land. I'm sorry, the Nintendo Museum. I wasn't
able to get tickets, but you had to get in
a lottery, and I had to get in a lottery
in January for April.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh so all right, Well I'm really excited about Guardians
at the Galaxy. Eventually I will get a ticket and
that will go.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
You should. It's a fun ride. Yeah, I've actually only
done it once.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's you can handle it. People.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some people can't do it and they get barf is
right away on that ride, and it's just it's just
dependent on the person like I can get sick on
a ride. Put me on that Harry Potter ride twice
with the broomstick and I'm done for the day. But
the Guardian's right, didn't bother me. But some people they
get up that thing and they're green.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's about But that is because they should have dressed
up like a v from inside out.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
There it is, yes, yes, all right, Well that's exciting news.
I like that piece of news.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's specifically specific news for you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's good. God. Have we mentioned that they got two
new manates at they.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Do have to man I don't know if we mentioned that.
I think we text talked about it on text, but
I don't think we mentioned it right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Again, more news related to you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, where'd they get these manatees. They scoop them up
over at the Blue Springs when they're over there swimming.
When they're all there, there's you know, grab a couple
and nobody's looking.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Probably the water.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I'm just saying it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I don't know their exact story. The origin rescued in
some fashion, that is the nature of there.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Have you thought have you thought about getting a job
either at Epcot or Sea World to work in the
Manatee portion of the park.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
There need to be like a marine biologist, like a
real like I hope Jimmy, I hope Jimmy's going work.
I'm hoping Jimmy's going where I'm going with us.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
When I worked at Discovery Code, that was like the
number one question every kid would ask, like the trainers,
like how do I become a trainer? Do I need
to get an oceanography like And they'd be like, no, Actually,
you need to know more about psychology than you need
to know about actual marine Uh, you know biology, because
you've got to be able to work with the animals
and to train them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, don't need to be trained. They do whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, yeah, but they're still like there's still signals that
you'd give them so that they can do perform, Like
we need you to come in the back area so
we can examine you, and you train ahead of lets
and he comes running.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
That wasn't that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Different idea.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
When I was working at Sea World, they had a
trainer for a day program and that was when they
had Amber and Bach. They were the two brand new
like calves at the time. You got to bottle feed them.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Ah yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
And the way they with the way that you bottle
feed them is they come up like they swim up
to you, and you have your legs.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
In the water.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
They roll over on their backs so they're belly up,
and then you just plug in the bottle right into
the mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's a little bit what like Chubby Boy did. They
did teach Chubby Boy to do that when you would
feed them letuce, you could hold them like a baby
and feed them lettuce. He was the manatee in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
My idea was you just get to walk around in
a manite costume with your heads sticking out, and then
people could throw heads of let us at you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's fine, That's that's where all end up working. Anyhow.
At some point everybody's gonna realize I should just be
walking around in a manateee costume. That's that's my lot.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like did you ever see Tusk with the Kevin and
Smith movie?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, it's that.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yeah, the trailer, the trailer for that movie was enough
for me, Like, no, thank you, I don't need that nightmare.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Do we want some other news?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yes, let's get into some other.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Bad news for Jimmy's one of Jimmy's favorite things at
Disney Springs. I say that because he's the only person
that did the NBA Experience.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh that thing. Yeah, that was like there for a week,
less than a year, it was eight months.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, it's almost like the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Starship Cruiser. Ye.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Well, both of those things got launched right around the
time that you know, there was an outbreak.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So no, no, I mean Star Wars Hotel was like
during COVID, was it?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No, that was like twenty twenty one, twenty two, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I want to say August of twenty nineteen is when
NBA Experience opened or that's when we went for the preview.
I don't know, it opened like maybe a week later,
so maybe it was yeah, September.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, So what happened to Jimmy d presents the NBA
Experience at Disney Sprinks. Is it going away?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It will be replaced by Level ninety nine in immersive
real world gaming experience.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So they so just an ArKade.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
They took an Arcade away, replaced it with a basketball experience.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And now we're going back to Arcade.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is a franchise. They have a couple locations across
the nation, they've got challenge rooms with like mini games
that you can do.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, this is just the earth healing itself, that's all
it is.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It looks pretty dope, like I'm not gonna lie like,
it looks like I think it almost an Escape Room
meets Disney Quest meets VR meets like, I don't know, guts.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It'll probably do Gang Busters over there, I have to guess.
I mean, Disney Quest's the only problem these questions. Their
games were super dated. That was their their biggest issue.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But it was also kind of the benefit of it
is that it was like, it's what you don't get
at like a Dave and Busters or an Arcade kind
of thing. It was a completely different experience.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Point. I just I'm still mad about the Aladdin thing
because it looks so very cool and you put it
on it was like the dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I didn't have a problem with the Aladdin VR, but
I am missing the astro orbiter.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Oh are you getting to launch soccer balls?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Basically? Yeah, yeah, the astro blaster That's what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Buzz light Year one.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, you drove around and bumper cars and fired, uh.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
To you that when we went like we.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Did yeah, and we decided to each it do it solo,
which was more fun because you could drive aim.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Shoot, I guess, I'm just I guess I'm just just.
I don't remember the bad. I just remember the bad
and that damn Aladdin ride and then the Pirates of
the Caribbean.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Ride or attraction.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Oh, it's teamwork, incredibly fun.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Credit was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That was pretty cool that one. Yeah, I hope they
they just bring it all back. Just bring it all back,
said for that and ride leave it out in the dumpster.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
And the pricing is like it looks like starting out
like twenty nine dollars to like sixty bucks, So it
depends on like dates and time and all those kind
of things.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, well that doesn't sound bad.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, I mean Disney Disney Quest was forty.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Five towards the end.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, so then yeah, it's good pricing.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Oh, just forty five dollars then is not the same
forty five dollars now. Forty five dollars now is like
eighteen bucks back then.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
By the way, speaking of tickets, tickets for the Universal
Horror Unleashed event or experience in Las Vegas. Tickets are
on sale. So when I say, spooky season, spooky seasons here.
This thing's year round, right, yeah, it opens August fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Okay, that's cool. So it's basically like a Halloween Horneites.
It's around year round.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Check that out.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I've never been to Vegas. If I was in Vegas,
i'd do that. I do that in that supermarket thing.
I want to go to that supermarket.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh public nightclub?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh that that thing?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, like the art display.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I don't think they're gonna let you in. Why, I
don't think you're getting in there.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
You think we're supposed to get something like that here
on I drive.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Actually they they canceled that.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Fuck yeah, I think that was around the same time
we were supposed to get an Alamo draft house.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yep, I think that might. Yeah, that was another of
the COVID.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Very quickly, I'll run through these, uh two other stories.
Another Dickerman story. The permits have been greenlit for the
demolition of the River of America.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, all right, so yeah, we're getting ready for Villain's Land,
right and among other things in cars and cars, and
they're taken away wombsas island that's not closed yet though, right, No, but.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
They're taking away water. Yes, yes, somehow just magically.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm concerned about the barrel bridge. Let the engineers work
out the water situation.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Do you want the barrel bridge, yes, like if you
could have it at your house. What if in a
conjunction with that, you also have to take the caves
and that's the only way to get into your house.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You take them, we'll bring it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I really should go back to Magic Kingdom before I
close that, because I loved those caves as a kid.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, those caves are great. The barrel bridge is fun.
It's just that's a great area. It's just it's sad
to see that one go. I know there's progress, but
that's that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's also just a good vantage point. It just looks nice,
like it just it's you. It's just a nice peaceful.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Area and it's vat over sometimes a nightmare, but it's
also just an.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Area you could just go to. Like there's no like
I mean, there's a line to get on the boat,
but it's just like you could just spend time there.
It's like I always say, it's like you need stuff
for like kids to be able to do, and that's
just an area where kids can go run around.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, and just be maniacs, run around them caves and
get lost, play with guns.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, there was like that one cave that took you
up into the in the fort into the fort. Yeah yeah,
and then you would shoot the rifles at the runaway
train as it went by the fort.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yep and then very quickly. We should probably bring this
up for another show. Disney is concerned about the high
price of guests for guests.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh really, they're concerned about that. Yes, okay, they could
do something to fix it. They should use the Japanese model.
To the Japanese model.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Oh, it's a completely different it's a completely different model.
That's that's kind of why it is that way.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Roll it back to twenty ten, give me the prices
ranual past.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Then they would really have to use the reservation system.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
They would all right, well, we're just spout out of time.
So Scott, if people want to find us on social
media for all the latest breaking news, where can they go?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:21):
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will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
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From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
here there is Scott Harris, Hello, Hi, and Jimmy D.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I did it backward?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yeah, you threw me off.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I was not prepared one hundred percent. That was my fault.
You know, you know what it is.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're doing a three screen things today. I just went
order because Scott's in the middle.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I was like, I don't I didn't. I have nothing
Quippi prepared. I needed that extra three seconds.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
No promo code.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Jimmy Yes, spooky hollowey, scary something.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, just just wrap it ups.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Spooky season. Uh, it is race weekend at Walt Disney World.
We do put out a warning every time there is
a race weekend. Princess Half Marathon this weekend, it will
be insane if you go anywhere near.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The parks aka traffic cone season as well.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So many trying like that traffic cone guy. It's like
one guy. He is a ba billionaire just based on
Bob's races. It's bob barricade, Bob's barricades he's got he's
Bob's barricades. And traffic cones all right, I gotta they
should be in the name.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I got a question for you.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Along with those cones that are everywhere, there are so
porta potties every Oh yeah. If I'm not participating in
the race, I'm just on Disney property and I gotta
go real bad. Is it uncouth to pull off into
the brass?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And yes, you did not earn the right to use
that that port of body.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I say you can use it. I say use it
first in the day, and you're the first one to
ruin it, because you know, whoever reuses it first ruins
it for the rest of everybody else. It was great
until then.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well, I mean it's not like I had taco bell
the night before or something. I mean, it's a madderine.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You look at that thing, funny, it's ruined for the day.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We should we should just say because I think it
was Jimmy, you gave the public service mountain years ago
to not drive over traffic cones, and it's not good
for your vehicle to do so.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Oh my god, circa nineteen ninety six. I four, there's
like cones everywhere, and I was just like, I wonder
would be like a cone. It knocked the headlight out
of my truck. And when I hit when it went
over it, it felt like I rolled over a body.
And then the cone flipped up into the air. Because
(02:42):
it's a real, real dry vehicle. It was just a disaster.
Do not hit the cone. It's funny, but it is not.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So much more damage than you would expect.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Oh my god, Like I'm like, okay, well that was
a twelve hundred dollars moment.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. I don't recommend driving into the water buckets either,
those things.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, just stay on the road just to avoid obstacles
in front of you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's probably for the best, it's for the best. But yeah,
race weekend this weekend, it's it's gonna be nuts out there.
Even if you go late in the day, you'll still
just see all the racers walking around the park. But
early in the morning, forget it. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And here's the thing. You'll see them walking around the
park and they've earned this. They'll be wearing their medals
showing off their achievements. You can hear them coming like
three countries away at EPCOT.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh yeah, talk tolk, just so the public knows. If
they try to use that medal to cut the line,
that's not a real thing.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just telling.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Did you want to let them cut the line because
of their metal like they accomplished something that day?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well that's different, different.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well just before warn a lot of two too's probably
going to be out there this weekend too, A lot
of two twos princess.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh yeah, I mean costumes in general.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's the only time I've ever cosplayed was uh at
a race?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You were you? You were Carl?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh yeah, And I noticed that, uh you know, a
certain foundation shared that picture.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I've heard your picture has been shared all across our
social media channels.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It has, and uh it made its way back to
my team.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh yeah, I know, I heard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh you heard about the photoshop contest too. I didn't
hear that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I just I just heard you're getting used across the
platform regardless of your release at the photo or not.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Oh it it's not my well actually it is my.
Now how does that work when it comes to the
Disney photos in the PhotoPass.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Who owns the rights to those photos? I do not know.
I think you do.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm sure it's probably something in the waiver that you
have to sign when you do that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, yeah, you know, they're waivers.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, forget it. Nobody's reading that thing.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hmm, yeah, I don't know. That's a great question, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Should should we get into our lead story for this
this podcast here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I for one. For once there's actual news related to
you me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Usually it's Jimmy related news, like a new Tiki mug
or something else.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What do we got? What do we got?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Disney World announces the end of virtual cues at Our
Guardians of the Galaxy, Colon, Cosmic Rewind and Tiana's By
You Adventure.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So now you can just get in line.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Now you can just get in line beginning February. This
will end February twenty fifth, So beginning February twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Whoever made this decision, give that individual a RaSE. They
deserve it, Robert I listen to the people. They listen
to the no, don't give him. They listen to the people,
and they're giving us what we want. Just let us
wait in line. For the freaking guardians.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
They're giving specifically you what you want. You have said,
if they do this, you will get an annual pass.
You have gone on record on this podcast saying that
I say that you did.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't recall saying annual pass. Maybe like the Wednesday
after two pass.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do they have that? Well, that don't have the after
the cut after four anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now now that it was too good of a deal,
people would take advantage of it, and they're like, now
we can't do that. You can't sell something for like
one hundred and fifty bucks. Come on seven hundred dollars minimum.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So no more waking up at six thirty in the
morning to try to get a virtual queue.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I hope I at one point can have an annual
pass for Walt Disney World.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Again.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
If I come into some money, perhaps an inheritance, I
will I will maybe jump on that boat.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
All what do you think it would take to get
you to like the what's the amount that would push
you over the top to go.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The amount of money, yeah, or the amount of the
amount of money I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Cover the inheritance. How much different times do you need
to if it covers the pass.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm in seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I was like, I will give you, I will give
you twenty dollars right now.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If we can get if we can get the whole
family covered, we'll do it for twenty one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Everybody's happy.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Does everyone need one? Though?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Maybe you know, if we could share like we do
streaming services, that'd be great. You know we have two
and we split it between the.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Three of us.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well no, no, no, no, no, Or how about that? Does
everyone need the same level?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh no, I'm you know, I'm getting the lowest possible
level that includes free parking, so you know it's a
pirate pass for me. It's going to go above that.
Even if I had a billion dollars, it wouldn't go
above that.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Do they still have the one that is just weekdays? Like? Yeah,
that's what I mean. Like you get the seven day
a week one and then somebody else gets five days.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hm, that's not idea. Yeah, it's still expensive. What's that picture?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
This past?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Like five hundred bucks? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I knew you were gonna ask out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's outside of my
price range.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Outside my price range.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, I mean they're giving they're giving you what you
asked for.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is true.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is just like you know, I did end up
going to Sea world Sallow Screen a year after I
wished it into existence. So maybe in the next three
hundred and sixty five days I will make it out
to Ebcot to wait in line for Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Or maybe not.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Maybe you'll just get there early and you'll just get
like walk right on.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That could happen to I mean, you never know what's
gonna happen when this virtual queue goes away. Nobody knows
what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It would also require you to wake up early to
do to rope drop like that.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I do that five days a week, and I do
not care for it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
By the way, I just pulled up the uh oh wait,
never mind, that's why doing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
When you worked in radio, what time did you get
up in the morning? Ten?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So what you got up? Yeah, what's I mean? I
mean depends on the job. I guess it depends on
what job I had. Like when I was, you know,
just doing on air afternoons or nights or whatever. Yeah,
ten o'clock I out of bed, rolling to work around noon.
But when you sat next to me for like six
years and worked, I think they made us come in
(09:24):
around nine for a while. That was like a thing.
I remember for a minute they tried to make us
come in for the morning shows, and that didn't fly
for long.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You did not come in at nine. I didn't I
know when you were. You were coming in around like
a ten thirty eleven.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Really no, no, because he would leave it like ten
thirty eleven and go do jiu jitsu.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's well, that's right. I mean he would come at
ten and then leave it ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh no, I would come at ten, I would leave
it eleven thirty. I'd be back by two for me
and my radio show and be gone by five.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, okay, I I over there. I got the monthly
breakdown for the passes because it won't tell me like
just price.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ah G. You can't just buy it straight out anymore.
Now they want you to be a subscription service.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Correct, all right, the Pixie Dust pass after a down
payment of two hundred and five dollars okay, twenty four
dollars twenty four to fifty four.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A month, okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That is the Monday through Friday Pass. Yes, the Pirate
Pass with two hundred and five dollars down payment. Fifty
six dollars and forty nine cents. Oh that's double, but
you get it's it's got the it's got less blackout days.
And you could go every day.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Uh you can? Or yeah, you can go seven days.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A week, a week Mondays? Can I go? Does Friday
count in the Pixie Dust Pass?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Can I go Monday through Friday?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I just want to make sure because sometimes go to
Friday is too popular.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, you they're all there. You do still have to
make a reservation.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Okay, I mean the price on that's not bad. It's
back to the old days. I mean, you just can't
go on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Tomorrow, Disneyland Tokyo releases their tickets for the day that
I'm gonna go because I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Go to Disney c Oh yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It's gonna be eighty nine yen, which is equivalent of
about fifty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
They know, that's crazy. That's such a great deal for.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
One day, like for one day park And I'm like,
oh my god, I cannot what it used to be?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is this how it used to be? Yeah, yeah, this
is Yeah, I can't wait to see what the experience
is like. As you can compare it, is this the
Disney that is actually run by someone else? Or is
this the one that's still run by Disney Corporation? Do
we know? Because there's one that's like they have all
the this and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It's operated by the Oriental Land Company.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, all right, so I'm curious how that is.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, I've I've watched. I'm not trying to watch too
many videos because I want to be surprised by things
when I like. But I have seen some people talk
about it, and they're like, you're gonna find some ips
that just don't normally appear in Disney parks yep. Like Sindbad,
for instance, is in one of the two Japanese parks.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I never expect to see Night maryon Elm Street here,
but there's Freddy Krueger.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
I don't think it'll be quite like that, but it'll
still be on brand. It'll just be yep, not technically brand.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But yeah, like most of the a lot of the
foreign parks are are like that, like Tokyo is in
Hong Kong is as well.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Okay, all right, well, yeah, we all we'll get the
full report when Jimmy goes to Japan. What is what
is that time that you'll be at Disney and Japan.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
That'll be April twenty first. That's the other thing that's
interesting about Tokyo Disneyland. Tokyo is the only seller tickets, Like,
is it like sixty days out?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
M Yeah, that's not that's not Yeah, that's pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And I have been finding like a lot of things
in Japan are like that, where they just they don't
sell tickets until, you know, like thirty sixty days before
the event. Like one of the things was Nintendo Land
or Nonintended Land. I'm sorry, the Nintendo Museum. I wasn't
able to get tickets, but you had to get in
a lottery, and I had to get in a lottery
in January for April.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh so all right, Well I'm really excited about Guardians
at the Galaxy. Eventually I will get a ticket and
that will go.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
You should. It's a fun ride. Yeah, I've actually only
done it once.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's you can handle it. People.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some people can't do it and they get barf is
right away on that ride, and it's just it's just
dependent on the person like I can get sick on
a ride. Put me on that Harry Potter ride twice
with the broomstick and I'm done for the day. But
the Guardian's right, didn't bother me. But some people they
get up that thing and they're green.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's about But that is because they should have dressed
up like a v from inside out.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
There it is, yes, yes, all right, Well that's exciting news.
I like that piece of news.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's specifically specific news for you.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's good. God. Have we mentioned that they got two
new manates at they.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Do have to man I don't know if we mentioned that.
I think we text talked about it on text, but
I don't think we mentioned it right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Again, more news related to you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, where'd they get these manatees. They scoop them up
over at the Blue Springs when they're over there swimming.
When they're all there, there's you know, grab a couple
and nobody's looking.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Probably the water.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I'm just saying it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I don't know their exact story. The origin rescued in
some fashion, that is the nature of there.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Have you thought have you thought about getting a job
either at Epcot or Sea World to work in the
Manatee portion of the park.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
There need to be like a marine biologist, like a
real like I hope Jimmy, I hope Jimmy's going work.
I'm hoping Jimmy's going where I'm going with us.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
When I worked at Discovery Code, that was like the
number one question every kid would ask, like the trainers,
like how do I become a trainer? Do I need
to get an oceanography like And they'd be like, no, Actually,
you need to know more about psychology than you need
to know about actual marine Uh, you know biology, because
you've got to be able to work with the animals
and to train them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, don't need to be trained. They do whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, yeah, but they're still like there's still signals that
you'd give them so that they can do perform, Like
we need you to come in the back area so
we can examine you, and you train ahead of lets
and he comes running.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
That wasn't that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Different idea.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
When I was working at Sea World, they had a
trainer for a day program and that was when they
had Amber and Bach. They were the two brand new
like calves at the time. You got to bottle feed them.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Ah yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
And the way they with the way that you bottle
feed them is they come up like they swim up
to you, and you have your legs.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
In the water.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
They roll over on their backs so they're belly up,
and then you just plug in the bottle right into
the mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's a little bit what like Chubby Boy did. They
did teach Chubby Boy to do that when you would
feed them letuce, you could hold them like a baby
and feed them lettuce. He was the manatee in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
My idea was you just get to walk around in
a manite costume with your heads sticking out, and then
people could throw heads of let us at you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's fine, That's that's where all end up working. Anyhow.
At some point everybody's gonna realize I should just be
walking around in a manateee costume. That's that's my lot.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like did you ever see Tusk with the Kevin and
Smith movie?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, it's that.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yeah, the trailer, the trailer for that movie was enough
for me, Like, no, thank you, I don't need that nightmare.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Do we want some other news?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yes, let's get into some other.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Bad news for Jimmy's one of Jimmy's favorite things at
Disney Springs. I say that because he's the only person
that did the NBA Experience.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh that thing. Yeah, that was like there for a week,
less than a year, it was eight months.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, it's almost like the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Starship Cruiser. Ye.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Well, both of those things got launched right around the
time that you know, there was an outbreak.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So no, no, I mean Star Wars Hotel was like
during COVID, was it?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No, that was like twenty twenty one, twenty two, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I want to say August of twenty nineteen is when
NBA Experience opened or that's when we went for the preview.
I don't know, it opened like maybe a week later,
so maybe it was yeah, September.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, So what happened to Jimmy d presents the NBA
Experience at Disney Sprinks. Is it going away?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
It will be replaced by Level ninety nine in immersive
real world gaming experience.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So they so just an ArKade.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
They took an Arcade away, replaced it with a basketball experience.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And now we're going back to Arcade.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This is a franchise. They have a couple locations across
the nation, they've got challenge rooms with like mini games
that you can do.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Okay, this is just the earth healing itself, that's all
it is.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
It looks pretty dope, like I'm not gonna lie like,
it looks like I think it almost an Escape Room
meets Disney Quest meets VR meets like, I don't know, guts.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It'll probably do Gang Busters over there, I have to guess.
I mean, Disney Quest's the only problem these questions. Their
games were super dated. That was their their biggest issue.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But it was also kind of the benefit of it
is that it was like, it's what you don't get
at like a Dave and Busters or an Arcade kind
of thing. It was a completely different experience.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Point. I just I'm still mad about the Aladdin thing
because it looks so very cool and you put it
on it was like the dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I didn't have a problem with the Aladdin VR, but
I am missing the astro orbiter.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Oh are you getting to launch soccer balls?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Basically? Yeah, yeah, the astro blaster That's what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Buzz light Year one.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, you drove around and bumper cars and fired, uh.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
To you that when we went like we.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Did yeah, and we decided to each it do it solo,
which was more fun because you could drive aim.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Shoot, I guess, I'm just I guess I'm just just.
I don't remember the bad. I just remember the bad
and that damn Aladdin ride and then the Pirates of
the Caribbean.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Ride or attraction.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Oh, it's teamwork, incredibly fun.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Credit was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That was pretty cool that one. Yeah, I hope they
they just bring it all back. Just bring it all back,
said for that and ride leave it out in the dumpster.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
And the pricing is like it looks like starting out
like twenty nine dollars to like sixty bucks, So it
depends on like dates and time and all those kind
of things.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, well that doesn't sound bad.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, I mean Disney Disney Quest was forty.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Five towards the end.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, so then yeah, it's good pricing.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Oh, just forty five dollars then is not the same
forty five dollars now. Forty five dollars now is like
eighteen bucks back then.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
By the way, speaking of tickets, tickets for the Universal
Horror Unleashed event or experience in Las Vegas. Tickets are
on sale. So when I say, spooky season, spooky seasons here.
This thing's year round, right, yeah, it opens August fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Okay, that's cool. So it's basically like a Halloween Horneites.
It's around year round.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Check that out.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I've never been to Vegas. If I was in Vegas,
i'd do that. I do that in that supermarket thing.
I want to go to that supermarket.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh public nightclub?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh that that thing?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, like the art display.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I don't think they're gonna let you in. Why, I
don't think you're getting in there.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
You think we're supposed to get something like that here
on I drive.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Actually they they canceled that.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Fuck yeah, I think that was around the same time
we were supposed to get an Alamo draft house.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yep, I think that might. Yeah, that was another of
the COVID.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Very quickly, I'll run through these, uh two other stories.
Another Dickerman story. The permits have been greenlit for the
demolition of the River of America.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, all right, so yeah, we're getting ready for Villain's Land,
right and among other things in cars and cars, and
they're taken away wombsas island that's not closed yet though, right, No, but.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
They're taking away water. Yes, yes, somehow just magically.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm concerned about the barrel bridge. Let the engineers work
out the water situation.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Do you want the barrel bridge, yes, like if you
could have it at your house. What if in a
conjunction with that, you also have to take the caves
and that's the only way to get into your house.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You take them, we'll bring it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I really should go back to Magic Kingdom before I
close that, because I loved those caves as a kid.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, those caves are great. The barrel bridge is fun.
It's just that's a great area. It's just it's sad
to see that one go. I know there's progress, but
that's that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's also just a good vantage point. It just looks nice,
like it just it's you. It's just a nice peaceful.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Area and it's vat over sometimes a nightmare, but it's
also just an.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Area you could just go to. Like there's no like
I mean, there's a line to get on the boat,
but it's just like you could just spend time there.
It's like I always say, it's like you need stuff
for like kids to be able to do, and that's
just an area where kids can go run around.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, and just be maniacs, run around them caves and
get lost, play with guns.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, there was like that one cave that took you
up into the in the fort into the fort. Yeah yeah,
and then you would shoot the rifles at the runaway
train as it went by the fort.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yep and then very quickly. We should probably bring this
up for another show. Disney is concerned about the high
price of guests for guests.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh really, they're concerned about that. Yes, okay, they could
do something to fix it. They should use the Japanese model.
To the Japanese model.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Oh, it's a completely different it's a completely different model.
That's that's kind of why it is that way.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Roll it back to twenty ten, give me the prices
ranual past.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Then they would really have to use the reservation system.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
They would all right, well, we're just spout out of time.
So Scott, if people want to find us on social
media for all the latest breaking news, where can they go?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
You'd follow us on Twitter at Theme Park Show, Facebook,
Instagram and TikTok and thread at the Theme Park Podcast.
You can watch the themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
And this show traditionally comes to you live from the
Laurencampbell Realtre dot com, t Bogus Zebo Studios for timd
for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we
will see you out at the parks.
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