January 9, 2026 • 25 mins
On the first episode of The Theme Park Podcast in the new year they get a run down of all the theme park festivities that Scott had while in Japan.
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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
a radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman, here,
there is Jimmy D. Good evening, gentlemen, and mister Scott Harris.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Happy spooky season?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everyone? It is January. It is not anywhere close to
spooky season.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What do you mean? No, no, no, no, We're entering
the Bone Temple in a week. I don't know what
you're talking about. Primate is out. Primate is out right now,
like get with the picture.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Wait, it's primated sequel to Better Man.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, but it should be okay in.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The eyes of Mark Daniels. It's a prequel to a
Planet of the Apes, because that's a horrible movie.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Phone here on the radio, now you bye? So oh are.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I finished with five hundred and fifty five movies watched
last year, down from the year prior, so I'm a
little disappointed myself.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I think I watched like four movies this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Year, nine ninety nine hours of movie watching.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Jesus, I only watched Deadpool and Wolverine like eighty seven
times this year.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's a good one I watched.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And as of recording, I'm at twenty eight movies watched
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Twenty eight. Yeah, bro, it's eight days. I know how
you watched so many movies.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's when you have no social life.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's very easy you count them and when you're sleeping
at night, when you're in bed, just put a movie
on sae. That's what I'll put that down as one. No,
I don't cheat the system.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Wait do you watch them at one and a half speed?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, but's again, Yeah, you're you're solelying the product.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you watch the entire the entirety of the credits?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yes, well not the end once credits. Once the credits
are on the screen, I log it in letterbox. But
like when I was in Japan, because I went to
Japan recently, I caught the second half of Home Alone
in Japanese, Oh which you want, which was an experience,
And then on one of my flights back I watched
(02:23):
the first half, So then that counts as a whole
viewing a complete new v yes, yes, in two separate languages.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You mentioned Japan. You're back in the States from the
Land of the Rising Sun. You had many theme park experiences,
and people have talked about like Japan's been the big
talk lately. Because I don't know if it's true. I
haven't done the math, but I keep seeing it on
social media. It's cheaper now to fly to Japan, to
go to Disney there than it is to do like
(02:50):
a vacation at our Disney's that's the thing I see.
It is much cheaper to go in Japan. Am I correct? Yes,
I mean wildly. What do we say, it was like
fifty six bucks for a ticket or something like that roughly.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, that's I will say the spoiler alert, not what I.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Paid to go there. Well, I mean you were going
first time ever in Japan, so you did a whole
tour thing which was brilliant. I mean, if you can
do it, do it.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I did the Disney vacation package, which included tickets to
both parks, disney Land and DisneySea, one night hotel at
the Toy Story Hotel, which is the Dickerman rate of hotels. Yeah,
good stuff, no offense, but honestly works out. I will
(03:38):
get to why it worked out. But it also included
a gift which I have over there. Which the gift
that I picked was a Disney vacation package blanket and
a cool container. I really just wanted a container, but
the blanket is also very soft, so win right there.
It included unlimited. You could choose unlimited, sure or popcorn?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, and you went popcorn? Right? Yeah? He told us,
who's gonna go? Pop?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I went, pap You have to choose when you make
the booking.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, so you got choice. How do you make that choice? Well?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That well, in advance, you do a lot of research
and there's a lot of hierarchies of what the flavors are.
They do also have seasonal flavors. Unlimited sodas mm hmmm hmm.
Oh that's good, and then express for basically everything.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And it sounds like it's money well spent.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Unlimited Sodas. Does that come with a souvenir cup?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, No, you just go you present. You get little
like next time I see you guys, all bring them
so I can show you guys. I don't want to
like show them on camera, but like you get little
vouchers of like free popcorn, free chios, and you just
present that at the counter and they go here.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You go, oh, nice, I want that here.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, that would be really great. That would be awesome here.
But you also you get for Fantasy Springs, which is
the new area over at Disney c You had to
pick windows of like what time you're gonna do certain rides.
So that was the only thing. You couldn't just like
walk right in. You had to pick like, you know,
eleven in noon, like da da da da dah. So
(05:11):
that was the only And then you could also pay
extra in the package of like I want like to
reserve like a seat at certain restaurants. I only reserved
to have the breakfast buffet at the Toy Story Hotel,
at the Lotso Cafe. Okay, just so I had, just
so I had breakfast.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Like nice smell like strawberries in there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It did not, But every time I went to return
my tray with my dishes, the guy kept giving me
a lot So sticker. So I have a couple of them,
and I'm like, I'm just trying to be nice because
I can't tell, you know, Jimmy knows is like you
can't tell like, am I supposed to leave it? Do
you come collect? Like? I wasn't able to tell because
(05:54):
some people were doing one way, some people were doing
another way. And I'm like, I'm just gonna go and
be polite and say here you go.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They could do it like they do here and just
throw it on the floor and walk out the other
I was.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Not going to do that, but.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Here pretty sure if you just yell opah, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Mm hmm. So yeah, so that's that is what I did.
So let's talk about the experiences at the theme park?
Which is the first one you went to?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The first one I went to was Disney Tokyo Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, is that the big one? Would that be considered
the big one? Like if we consider the Magic King
the big the big one here, would that be that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I mean it's it's got a lot of the same rides.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, yeah, so I that day was kind of arduis.
I was talking about this before we were recording. Got
into the hotel, checked in, drop my baggage off, and
that's when they give you your your packet of all
of your expresses, all of your vouchers, everything like that.
So and then you know, your tickets, and then I
(06:58):
had to get back on the mall because you have
to take the monorail to go back around to the
front of the park. Okay, and I will say this,
I was not having a very good morning. It was
an arduous journey to get there. But the second I
walked into the lobby and I started to hear you've
got a friend in me, I immediately felt better.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There you go. That's the Disney magic exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know, didn't have to carry my bags anymore, was
able to weight, was just lifted, the rain went away,
so yeah, cool. And then straight over to Tokyo Disney.
And I was worried because I wasn't able to get
into that park or like eleven twelve o'clock and I'm like,
oh my god, I'm like wasted like half the day,
(07:47):
Like what.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Am I going toss out on everything? Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But little did I know, because I had Express, my
worries were unfounded.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You were able to get on everything.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I was able to get on every single ride.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
How was the express experience here? Was it pretty Was
it a pretty quick Express? Because you know it can.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It can vary the longest that I think I waited
was for the Beauty and the Beast ride and it
might have been twenty five minutes. Wow, that was the
longest I waited full stop at that park.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wow. That's a really good experience. Yeah it Yeah, did
you have your favorite ride there? Did you go on
Star Tours? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Did Star Tours twice?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did? Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Let me just let me just recap all of the
rides that I did, and I'm gonna try to remember
them in order. Haunted Holiday Mansion was not prepared for
it to be Nightmare before Christmas. That was the first
roude I did.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's nice. That had to blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I've done it before at Disneyland in California, and I'm
still mad that you don't.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do it here. I don't know why they don't do
it here.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know. I've asked multiple people when I have
done broadcast for other radio stations, and I've never been
able to get a straight answer. Then I did Enchanted
Tale of Beautying the Beast and Imagine like the Imagine
ride The Resistance meets Mickey Minnie's Runaway Railway with Beauty
and the Beast. It was the most technologically advanced ride
(09:16):
that I had done that I did that day.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The best way that I can explain.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Tokyo Disney is and I don't want to you don't
want to smirch the name of I.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Don't want to be smirch it. But I have now
been to three Magic Kingdom slash Disneylands, and they're basically
the same parks. You know, they're the they're the main
the marquis. And if I had you rank them of
those three, the one here is three is three based
(09:50):
on the experience that I've had at those at the
three parks.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How dare you? We are the mothership over here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
But you have to remember, and we've talked about this
and you have seen the imagineering doc so you understand
that like things are different over there. They're owned by
a separate company that licenses the Disney brand. So because
of that, they are able to throw tons of resources.
They're not beholden to shareholders and stuff like I mean,
(10:18):
they might be, but things are just done differently there.
It was the most advanced ride I've ever been on
at that that day because the next day is going
to be different, but it was just it was like
a twenty minute ride. The animatronics were amazing. The movement
was all free flowing. The animatronics on the ride were amazing,
(10:40):
The animatronics in the Q were amazing. It was just unbelievable.
You would have thought you went into the cartoon.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I hope we'll get it here then, that's what I'm
hoping for.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I don't know why we don't have it. I don't
know why we don't have a beauty in the Beast ride.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's true. I mean, we got that show that we've
all been in though. Yes, yeah, no, I have a
as I recall, there is a picture of me posted
on social media. Rude of me in that show. Let's
see you got just crop me straight up, crop me
out for a social media picture. Now. Hey, here I
(11:15):
am with my buddy Dickerman. We're being the Nights over here. Nope,
it's just cut him out.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Don't know what you're talking, don't know what you're talking about,
don't remember any of that happening. Let's see what else
did I do? Pooh's Honey Hunt, which is again another
trackless ride, but it's similar to our Winnie the Pooh ride,
but just on steroids.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Wow, I'd like to see an updated Pooh ride I
Love Pooh.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Has like the trippiest scene where he's like dreaming.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's the craziest thing of it. It's like one of
the craziest things.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, all of this stuff you can see
on our social media's, so you can go check out
all of those. Uh, it's a small world was closed.
I think they were changing it to or from their
season version. I think that's what was happening with that.
Let's see. I did the there's a Pinocchio ride, there's
a snow white ride, which are just like kind of
(12:12):
like old school dark rides, which we we used to have.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we used to have a snow white ride here
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I did Star Tours twice. I got Kashik both times.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, because at the end of.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The night it was like a five minute wait, so
like let me get let me let me do this again.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Sounds like our Star Tours.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But the first time it was like a forty five
minute wait. Like I again, I had express But so yeah, question.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For you, like, is there q exactly the same as ours?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes? Wow, quees the same pre shows the same, just
different language they have. The Actually, the most fun I
had is there's a ride called the Happy Ride with Bamax, which, okay,
is very similar to the Emperor Zurg ride that we
have here. Okay, it's just you know, a spinning ride, Okay,
(13:04):
much smoother, and it's playing like a happy music. So
the whole thing is Bamax wants you to move around
and be happy.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Exercise and be happy and healthy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And so all of the cast members are like chanting
and singing and clapping long like you have no choice
but to be happy while you're on this ride. It
was awesome Space Mountain clothes. Because they're adding another one.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I say, a second Space Mountain.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, heck, you give you that. Yeah. There is a
Roger Rabbit ride which I did. Okay, Roger Rabbit in
Japanese Crazy Experience, Well good, imagine. The weirdest part is
is that it's in Japanese, but it still has the
(13:54):
little touch of the character that you know, it's very recognizable.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Interesting. Interesting that they have a Roger Rabbit ride.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well again, Disneyland in California has a.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Roger Rabbit ride. That's California.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I didn't do Splash Mountain because because the day that
I was there, it was like forty degrees and I'm
just like, I'm not and I'm not a water I'm
not really a water ride person.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You get wet shoes, your day's over, buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Waterproofing your shoes before you go do anything is the
biggest game changer that I can recommend.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm with you on that one.
Let's got the old Zippity Duda.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yep, it is. It is Splash Mountain, it is not
Tiana's by You. Adventure. Pirates of the Caribbean was the
only ride that I did that was still in English.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh they still had an English huh.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I was not prepared for that, but it was complete.
It was that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That was the only ride that I did that was.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Completely in English.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not sure why, but it just was that way.
Big Thunder Mountain was fun, which is always fun because
you get a good vantage point of the park. And
then I did one show because I thought it was
going to be different. I did the Stitch Encounter because
oh my god, Stitch like like, we don't have this anymore.
(15:13):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The same.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, it's have you guys done Turtle Talk with Crush, Yes,
it's that, but with Stitch. Oh, which is cool and fun,
but it because I don't speak the language. Everything is
going over my head. Oh yeah, I'm just I'm a
I'm along for the ride, I'm there for the vibes
and and really I'm just like, please don't talk to me.
(15:39):
Single me out because it's a lot of audience interactions
on that ride.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you wouldn't know if they did, though.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I got pirates questions. Yep, where they we want the
red Head?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Was that in there?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they were still they was still like the old school.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's the old school version.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Ah, yep.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And they did they have the Johnny Depp updates?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yes? Okay, Okay, I know you're gonna ask about popcorn
m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I want to know flavors and ratings.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Let's see because I text somebody about this.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did you buy a popcorn bucket?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay, I thought for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I was like, there's no way he's going to Japan
and not coming home in a pakora.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No. I saw a bunch of them. The only thing
I thought about buying is they have little tweezers that
you could buy.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So you don't see you don't have corn tweezers.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yes, so I did roast beef, honey curry, black pepper,
and caramel and Chinese chili.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What was the best? Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Caramel and Chinese chili were the best.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, all right, I don't want to rush you along,
but I know we've got multiple parks to go through.
So do we want to jump to the next park?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, so we can jump to the next part Tokyo
Disney C. Because of where I stayed, I was able
to use the back entrance to go in through the
New Fantasy Springs experience where they have all of their
new rides. That is where they have and we've talked
about this, like that's the park that has twenty thousand
leagues under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth,
(17:14):
which are both amazing experiences. Jimmy, I was not prepared
for how big the area inside of the volcano was.
It really like blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, that whole inside of the Volcano city section, like
you were so immersed that you don't know, you don't
see any of the outside world.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Correct, Yeah, it was. It truly blew mind. And then
you leave it and you're like, oh, there's the sea,
there's the Pacific over Tokyo Bay. Because it's literally built
along the bay. So that park has a Fantasy Springs
which has a Frozen ride, a Tangled ride, and a
peter Pan Ride.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
How happy were do you ride that Tangled drive?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's the one I want to know about.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It was so amazing. It was the like I've talked about.
The animatronics are like lifelike. It is insane. That ride
was awesome. I'm glad I did it at night. That
was the last like booking that I had because you
had to pick a window, and I'm glad I did
because because it starts outside and goes inside the boat,
(18:12):
and you know, when you do the lanterns like, it
just works.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
A lot better at night.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah. The peter Pan ride was a lot of fun.
It was a three D ride, so that was really cool.
And then the Frozen ride is similar to ours, but
again on steroids. There is an effect where there's a
water fountain going and then Elsa freezes it, and I
still don't understand how it works because it was real
(18:36):
water that then is frozen. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It is Disney magic.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It truly is. Yes, it's the Disney magic. I did
all of the rides at that park. I did all
the rides at the other park.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Which part did you prefer between the two Disney parks Disneyland,
I think yeah, just because it's the magic of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Eight at the Ugly Duckling though in anc Springs, which
was which was really good?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I will say though I did get a churro. I
got the crumberleet churro, which was a mistake. Oh why
because had I known how good that was, I would
have chosen churros and I would have just eaten that
the every meal both days that I met Disney.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Did did the popcorn taste like ash from then on
for the rest of the trip?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, because I kept trying new ones. I will say, though,
because you asked roast beef lowis on the Totem Pole,
I think I had three pieces of that and it was.
But I'm like, I want to try. I want you
to try everything that I can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I was hoping that one was going to be good.
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It was not spoiler narrator voice not So that was fun.
Toy Story Hotel was amazing. Being able to like walk
through the back entrance like.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That's always clutch, you know, act when you go on
that bad back interest that I've got It's great. Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Then other theme park, Nige No Morey was the Godzilla
theme park.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You can zipline into his mouth.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You can zipline yes into it, and you did this.
I did posted video of it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yes. So I had to train train bus to get there.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So it was kind of a it was a journey,
it was, and then once you get there, you then
have to hike about twenty five minutes. And I'm like,
at this point, I'm amped, I'm game. I'm just so excited.
I'm listening to the Godzilla theme just on a loop
on my AirPods, Dona Dona, and I'm just like, let's
go by. It's like Rocky over here. And then and
it's just like am I there yet? That I pull
(20:33):
up like Google Maps, like I'm not even like halfway,
like did I miss like a stop or something. And
then you know, Jimmy gets me the Godzilla hat, so
I'm like wearing that and it's just like all right,
let's go. I get up there and they're like, oh
my god, You're like dressed up. You're like Hawhi's so cute.
And I'm like I'm ready for this. And there's a
whole pre show you have to watch. There's like a
(20:55):
story behind why you're ziplining into his mouth, and I'm like, yeah, cool, cool, cool,
Can I can we go?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Can we go?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Do the thing? And you know, they they asked you,
do you want to zipline into him? Into his mouth
or outside?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm like, then in in.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're going in, So do you even have the other one?
I don't know. Well, in the story there there's a reason,
but I don't know why we would would would choose it?
So you like zipline into it. It's like amazing, And
I'm like, I did I want to like pay seventeen
more tickets to do it over and over again. Yes,
but I didn't because then like once you get off,
(21:31):
then you have like there's other interactive things that you
have to do. Uh, it's part of the story. And
then once I did that, I'm like, you know, it's
really fun. I would highly recommend going because then there's
a museum. There's a Godzilla museum, And literally the day
after I left, they opened up the mathra wing of
the museum. Yeah, the exact next day you have to
(21:54):
come back, and then uh, I spent way too much
money in the gift shop. I got things for you
guys while I was there. Uh so they're so thoughtful.
That was a lot of fun. And then I had
to figure out how do you get back to Osaka,
which was not easy, but I eventually figured it out.
I did not play Frogger to get across the highway.
Last theme park I went to was Universal Japan. Okay, yes,
(22:19):
mainly because my dear friend Bruce is there and his
ride is there.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Finally, Shark and Jaws. You finally, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Had ridden it one other time when it was here,
but you know we don't have it here anymore. Uh
did I buy I bought the picture? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And the thing is we were talking about this, like
nobody dresses up really like I'm wearing a jaw shirt.
You don't see anything. Like the most that you'll see
is like the hat that I'm wearing. Like like like
there's a lot of like hats and stuff like nobody's
they don't really sell merch like T shirts, spirit jerseys,
Like it is a completely different culture there. So because
(23:04):
I looked like there are people that are like, give
me sure, it's like so I can't like it, just
that they just don't have it here. That park, the
Universal Very it's got a lot of anime influence, so
there's a lot of anime rides. I will say, Uh,
Harry Potter was a lot of fun. They have a
lot of similar rise. They have one indoor roller coaster
which was which was really cool. But it's a VR experience,
(23:27):
so you're wearing goggles the entire time while riding, which
means ride is modular. You can change it to be
anything else you want.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So so you had a VR helmet, so it wasn't
augmented reality, it was virtual reaction.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yes, oh yeah, that is true.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, so it was Spy Family before that, it was
Demon Hunter. Every six months they cycle in a new property.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh wow, that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A lot of fun they have. They have stoopy stuff there,
so if you like snoopy, Hell Kitty also recommend it.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
All those things overall. If you had to rate your
favorite theme park between the four things you did, who's
at the top of the heap? Does Togyo Disneyland Toko Disneyland? Yeah, okay,
all right, that's that's a must visit. Then, Okay, how
are we on time are we? We just about out
of time? Just about out of time? Okay, good, I
forgot this so long. I forgot this. Set my timer
(24:23):
all right? Well, Scott. If people want to find us
on social media and see all of your great coverage
from Japan, where can they go?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
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For Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, We'll
see you out at the parks.
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From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
a radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman, here,
there is Jimmy D. Good evening, gentlemen, and mister Scott Harris.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Happy spooky season?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everyone? It is January. It is not anywhere close to
spooky season.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What do you mean? No, no, no, no, We're entering
the Bone Temple in a week. I don't know what
you're talking about. Primate is out. Primate is out right now,
like get with the picture.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Wait, it's primated sequel to Better Man.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, but it should be okay in.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The eyes of Mark Daniels. It's a prequel to a
Planet of the Apes, because that's a horrible movie.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Phone here on the radio, now you bye? So oh are.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I finished with five hundred and fifty five movies watched
last year, down from the year prior, so I'm a
little disappointed myself.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I think I watched like four movies this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Year, nine ninety nine hours of movie watching.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Jesus, I only watched Deadpool and Wolverine like eighty seven
times this year.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's a good one I watched.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And as of recording, I'm at twenty eight movies watched
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Twenty eight. Yeah, bro, it's eight days. I know how
you watched so many movies.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's when you have no social life.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's very easy you count them and when you're sleeping
at night, when you're in bed, just put a movie
on sae. That's what I'll put that down as one. No,
I don't cheat the system.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Wait do you watch them at one and a half speed?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, but's again, Yeah, you're you're solelying the product.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you watch the entire the entirety of the credits?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yes, well not the end once credits. Once the credits
are on the screen, I log it in letterbox. But
like when I was in Japan, because I went to
Japan recently, I caught the second half of Home Alone
in Japanese, Oh which you want, which was an experience,
And then on one of my flights back I watched
(02:23):
the first half, So then that counts as a whole
viewing a complete new v yes, yes, in two separate languages.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You mentioned Japan. You're back in the States from the
Land of the Rising Sun. You had many theme park experiences,
and people have talked about like Japan's been the big
talk lately. Because I don't know if it's true. I
haven't done the math, but I keep seeing it on
social media. It's cheaper now to fly to Japan, to
go to Disney there than it is to do like
(02:50):
a vacation at our Disney's that's the thing I see.
It is much cheaper to go in Japan. Am I correct? Yes,
I mean wildly. What do we say, it was like
fifty six bucks for a ticket or something like that roughly.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, that's I will say the spoiler alert, not what I.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Paid to go there. Well, I mean you were going
first time ever in Japan, so you did a whole
tour thing which was brilliant. I mean, if you can
do it, do it.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I did the Disney vacation package, which included tickets to
both parks, disney Land and DisneySea, one night hotel at
the Toy Story Hotel, which is the Dickerman rate of hotels. Yeah,
good stuff, no offense, but honestly works out. I will
(03:38):
get to why it worked out. But it also included
a gift which I have over there. Which the gift
that I picked was a Disney vacation package blanket and
a cool container. I really just wanted a container, but
the blanket is also very soft, so win right there.
It included unlimited. You could choose unlimited, sure or popcorn?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, and you went popcorn? Right? Yeah? He told us,
who's gonna go? Pop?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I went, pap You have to choose when you make
the booking.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, so you got choice. How do you make that choice? Well?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That well, in advance, you do a lot of research
and there's a lot of hierarchies of what the flavors are.
They do also have seasonal flavors. Unlimited sodas mm hmmm hmm.
Oh that's good, and then express for basically everything.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And it sounds like it's money well spent.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Unlimited Sodas. Does that come with a souvenir cup?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No, No, you just go you present. You get little
like next time I see you guys, all bring them
so I can show you guys. I don't want to
like show them on camera, but like you get little
vouchers of like free popcorn, free chios, and you just
present that at the counter and they go here.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You go, oh, nice, I want that here.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, that would be really great. That would be awesome here.
But you also you get for Fantasy Springs, which is
the new area over at Disney c You had to
pick windows of like what time you're gonna do certain rides.
So that was the only thing. You couldn't just like
walk right in. You had to pick like, you know,
eleven in noon, like da da da da dah. So
(05:11):
that was the only And then you could also pay
extra in the package of like I want like to
reserve like a seat at certain restaurants. I only reserved
to have the breakfast buffet at the Toy Story Hotel,
at the Lotso Cafe. Okay, just so I had, just
so I had breakfast.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Like nice smell like strawberries in there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It did not, But every time I went to return
my tray with my dishes, the guy kept giving me
a lot So sticker. So I have a couple of them,
and I'm like, I'm just trying to be nice because
I can't tell, you know, Jimmy knows is like you
can't tell like, am I supposed to leave it? Do
you come collect? Like? I wasn't able to tell because
(05:54):
some people were doing one way, some people were doing
another way. And I'm like, I'm just gonna go and
be polite and say here you go.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They could do it like they do here and just
throw it on the floor and walk out the other
I was.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Not going to do that, but.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Here pretty sure if you just yell opah, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Mm hmm. So yeah, so that's that is what I did.
So let's talk about the experiences at the theme park?
Which is the first one you went to?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The first one I went to was Disney Tokyo Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, is that the big one? Would that be considered
the big one? Like if we consider the Magic King
the big the big one here, would that be that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I mean it's it's got a lot of the same rides.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, yeah, so I that day was kind of arduis.
I was talking about this before we were recording. Got
into the hotel, checked in, drop my baggage off, and
that's when they give you your your packet of all
of your expresses, all of your vouchers, everything like that.
So and then you know, your tickets, and then I
(06:58):
had to get back on the mall because you have
to take the monorail to go back around to the
front of the park. Okay, and I will say this,
I was not having a very good morning. It was
an arduous journey to get there. But the second I
walked into the lobby and I started to hear you've
got a friend in me, I immediately felt better.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
There you go. That's the Disney magic exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know, didn't have to carry my bags anymore, was
able to weight, was just lifted, the rain went away,
so yeah, cool. And then straight over to Tokyo Disney.
And I was worried because I wasn't able to get
into that park or like eleven twelve o'clock and I'm like,
oh my god, I'm like wasted like half the day,
(07:47):
Like what.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Am I going toss out on everything? Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But little did I know, because I had Express, my
worries were unfounded.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You were able to get on everything.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I was able to get on every single ride.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
How was the express experience here? Was it pretty Was
it a pretty quick Express? Because you know it can.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It can vary the longest that I think I waited
was for the Beauty and the Beast ride and it
might have been twenty five minutes. Wow, that was the
longest I waited full stop at that park.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wow. That's a really good experience. Yeah it Yeah, did
you have your favorite ride there? Did you go on
Star Tours? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Did Star Tours twice?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did? Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Let me just let me just recap all of the
rides that I did, and I'm gonna try to remember
them in order. Haunted Holiday Mansion was not prepared for
it to be Nightmare before Christmas. That was the first
roude I did.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's nice. That had to blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I've done it before at Disneyland in California, and I'm
still mad that you don't.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do it here. I don't know why they don't do
it here.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know. I've asked multiple people when I have
done broadcast for other radio stations, and I've never been
able to get a straight answer. Then I did Enchanted
Tale of Beautying the Beast and Imagine like the Imagine
ride The Resistance meets Mickey Minnie's Runaway Railway with Beauty
and the Beast. It was the most technologically advanced ride
(09:16):
that I had done that I did that day.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The best way that I can explain.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Tokyo Disney is and I don't want to you don't
want to smirch the name of I.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Don't want to be smirch it. But I have now
been to three Magic Kingdom slash Disneylands, and they're basically
the same parks. You know, they're the they're the main
the marquis. And if I had you rank them of
those three, the one here is three is three based
(09:50):
on the experience that I've had at those at the
three parks.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How dare you? We are the mothership over here.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
But you have to remember, and we've talked about this
and you have seen the imagineering doc so you understand
that like things are different over there. They're owned by
a separate company that licenses the Disney brand. So because
of that, they are able to throw tons of resources.
They're not beholden to shareholders and stuff like I mean,
(10:18):
they might be, but things are just done differently there.
It was the most advanced ride I've ever been on
at that that day because the next day is going
to be different, but it was just it was like
a twenty minute ride. The animatronics were amazing. The movement
was all free flowing. The animatronics on the ride were amazing,
(10:40):
The animatronics in the Q were amazing. It was just unbelievable.
You would have thought you went into the cartoon.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I hope we'll get it here then, that's what I'm
hoping for.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I don't know why we don't have it. I don't
know why we don't have a beauty in the Beast ride.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's true. I mean, we got that show that we've
all been in though. Yes, yeah, no, I have a
as I recall, there is a picture of me posted
on social media. Rude of me in that show. Let's
see you got just crop me straight up, crop me
out for a social media picture. Now. Hey, here I
(11:15):
am with my buddy Dickerman. We're being the Nights over here. Nope,
it's just cut him out.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Don't know what you're talking, don't know what you're talking about,
don't remember any of that happening. Let's see what else
did I do? Pooh's Honey Hunt, which is again another
trackless ride, but it's similar to our Winnie the Pooh ride,
but just on steroids.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Wow, I'd like to see an updated Pooh ride I
Love Pooh.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Has like the trippiest scene where he's like dreaming.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's the craziest thing of it. It's like one of
the craziest things.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, all of this stuff you can see
on our social media's, so you can go check out
all of those. Uh, it's a small world was closed.
I think they were changing it to or from their
season version. I think that's what was happening with that.
Let's see. I did the there's a Pinocchio ride, there's
a snow white ride, which are just like kind of
(12:12):
like old school dark rides, which we we used to have.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we used to have a snow white ride here
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I did Star Tours twice. I got Kashik both times.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, because at the end of.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The night it was like a five minute wait, so
like let me get let me let me do this again.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Sounds like our Star Tours.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But the first time it was like a forty five
minute wait. Like I again, I had express But so yeah, question.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
For you, like, is there q exactly the same as ours?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes? Wow, quees the same pre shows the same, just
different language they have. The Actually, the most fun I
had is there's a ride called the Happy Ride with Bamax, which, okay,
is very similar to the Emperor Zurg ride that we
have here. Okay, it's just you know, a spinning ride, Okay,
(13:04):
much smoother, and it's playing like a happy music. So
the whole thing is Bamax wants you to move around
and be happy.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Exercise and be happy and healthy.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And so all of the cast members are like chanting
and singing and clapping long like you have no choice
but to be happy while you're on this ride. It
was awesome Space Mountain clothes. Because they're adding another one.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I say, a second Space Mountain.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, heck, you give you that. Yeah. There is a
Roger Rabbit ride which I did. Okay, Roger Rabbit in
Japanese Crazy Experience, Well good, imagine. The weirdest part is
is that it's in Japanese, but it still has the
(13:54):
little touch of the character that you know, it's very recognizable.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Interesting. Interesting that they have a Roger Rabbit ride.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well again, Disneyland in California has a.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Roger Rabbit ride. That's California.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I didn't do Splash Mountain because because the day that
I was there, it was like forty degrees and I'm
just like, I'm not and I'm not a water I'm
not really a water ride person.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You get wet shoes, your day's over, buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Waterproofing your shoes before you go do anything is the
biggest game changer that I can recommend.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm with you on that one.
Let's got the old Zippity Duda.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yep, it is. It is Splash Mountain, it is not
Tiana's by You. Adventure. Pirates of the Caribbean was the
only ride that I did that was still in English.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh they still had an English huh.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I was not prepared for that, but it was complete.
It was that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That was the only ride that I did that was.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Completely in English.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not sure why, but it just was that way.
Big Thunder Mountain was fun, which is always fun because
you get a good vantage point of the park. And
then I did one show because I thought it was
going to be different. I did the Stitch Encounter because
oh my god, Stitch like like, we don't have this anymore.
(15:13):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The same.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, it's have you guys done Turtle Talk with Crush, Yes,
it's that, but with Stitch. Oh, which is cool and fun,
but it because I don't speak the language. Everything is
going over my head. Oh yeah, I'm just I'm a
I'm along for the ride, I'm there for the vibes
and and really I'm just like, please don't talk to me.
(15:39):
Single me out because it's a lot of audience interactions
on that ride.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you wouldn't know if they did, though.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I got pirates questions. Yep, where they we want the
red Head?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Was that in there?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they were still they was still like the old school.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's the old school version.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Ah, yep.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And they did they have the Johnny Depp updates?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yes? Okay, Okay, I know you're gonna ask about popcorn
m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I want to know flavors and ratings.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Let's see because I text somebody about this.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did you buy a popcorn bucket?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay, I thought for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I was like, there's no way he's going to Japan
and not coming home in a pakora.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No. I saw a bunch of them. The only thing
I thought about buying is they have little tweezers that
you could buy.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So you don't see you don't have corn tweezers.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yes, so I did roast beef, honey curry, black pepper,
and caramel and Chinese chili.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What was the best? Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Caramel and Chinese chili were the best.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, all right, I don't want to rush you along,
but I know we've got multiple parks to go through.
So do we want to jump to the next park?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, so we can jump to the next part Tokyo
Disney C. Because of where I stayed, I was able
to use the back entrance to go in through the
New Fantasy Springs experience where they have all of their
new rides. That is where they have and we've talked
about this, like that's the park that has twenty thousand
leagues under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth,
(17:14):
which are both amazing experiences. Jimmy, I was not prepared
for how big the area inside of the volcano was.
It really like blew my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, that whole inside of the Volcano city section, like
you were so immersed that you don't know, you don't
see any of the outside world.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Correct, Yeah, it was. It truly blew mind. And then
you leave it and you're like, oh, there's the sea,
there's the Pacific over Tokyo Bay. Because it's literally built
along the bay. So that park has a Fantasy Springs
which has a Frozen ride, a Tangled ride, and a
peter Pan Ride.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
How happy were do you ride that Tangled drive?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's the one I want to know about.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It was so amazing. It was the like I've talked about.
The animatronics are like lifelike. It is insane. That ride
was awesome. I'm glad I did it at night. That
was the last like booking that I had because you
had to pick a window, and I'm glad I did
because because it starts outside and goes inside the boat,
(18:12):
and you know, when you do the lanterns like, it
just works.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
A lot better at night.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah. The peter Pan ride was a lot of fun.
It was a three D ride, so that was really cool.
And then the Frozen ride is similar to ours, but
again on steroids. There is an effect where there's a
water fountain going and then Elsa freezes it, and I
still don't understand how it works because it was real
(18:36):
water that then is frozen. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It is Disney magic.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It truly is. Yes, it's the Disney magic. I did
all of the rides at that park. I did all
the rides at the other park.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Which part did you prefer between the two Disney parks Disneyland,
I think yeah, just because it's the magic of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Eight at the Ugly Duckling though in anc Springs, which
was which was really good?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I will say though I did get a churro. I
got the crumberleet churro, which was a mistake. Oh why
because had I known how good that was, I would
have chosen churros and I would have just eaten that
the every meal both days that I met Disney.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Did did the popcorn taste like ash from then on
for the rest of the trip?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, because I kept trying new ones. I will say, though,
because you asked roast beef lowis on the Totem Pole,
I think I had three pieces of that and it was.
But I'm like, I want to try. I want you
to try everything that I can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I was hoping that one was going to be good.
It was.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It was not spoiler narrator voice not So that was fun.
Toy Story Hotel was amazing. Being able to like walk
through the back entrance like.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That's always clutch, you know, act when you go on
that bad back interest that I've got It's great. Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Then other theme park, Nige No Morey was the Godzilla
theme park.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You can zipline into his mouth.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You can zipline yes into it, and you did this.
I did posted video of it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yes. So I had to train train bus to get there.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So it was kind of a it was a journey,
it was, and then once you get there, you then
have to hike about twenty five minutes. And I'm like,
at this point, I'm amped, I'm game. I'm just so excited.
I'm listening to the Godzilla theme just on a loop
on my AirPods, Dona Dona, and I'm just like, let's
go by. It's like Rocky over here. And then and
it's just like am I there yet? That I pull
(20:33):
up like Google Maps, like I'm not even like halfway,
like did I miss like a stop or something. And
then you know, Jimmy gets me the Godzilla hat, so
I'm like wearing that and it's just like all right,
let's go. I get up there and they're like, oh
my god, You're like dressed up. You're like Hawhi's so cute.
And I'm like I'm ready for this. And there's a
whole pre show you have to watch. There's like a
(20:55):
story behind why you're ziplining into his mouth, and I'm like, yeah, cool, cool, cool,
Can I can we go?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Can we go?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Do the thing? And you know, they they asked you,
do you want to zipline into him? Into his mouth
or outside?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm like, then in in.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're going in, So do you even have the other one?
I don't know. Well, in the story there there's a reason,
but I don't know why we would would would choose it?
So you like zipline into it. It's like amazing, And
I'm like, I did I want to like pay seventeen
more tickets to do it over and over again. Yes,
but I didn't because then like once you get off,
(21:31):
then you have like there's other interactive things that you
have to do. Uh, it's part of the story. And
then once I did that, I'm like, you know, it's
really fun. I would highly recommend going because then there's
a museum. There's a Godzilla museum, And literally the day
after I left, they opened up the mathra wing of
the museum. Yeah, the exact next day you have to
(21:54):
come back, and then uh, I spent way too much
money in the gift shop. I got things for you
guys while I was there. Uh so they're so thoughtful.
That was a lot of fun. And then I had
to figure out how do you get back to Osaka,
which was not easy, but I eventually figured it out.
I did not play Frogger to get across the highway.
Last theme park I went to was Universal Japan. Okay, yes,
(22:19):
mainly because my dear friend Bruce is there and his
ride is there.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Finally, Shark and Jaws. You finally, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Had ridden it one other time when it was here,
but you know we don't have it here anymore. Uh
did I buy I bought the picture? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And the thing is we were talking about this, like
nobody dresses up really like I'm wearing a jaw shirt.
You don't see anything. Like the most that you'll see
is like the hat that I'm wearing. Like like like
there's a lot of like hats and stuff like nobody's
they don't really sell merch like T shirts, spirit jerseys,
Like it is a completely different culture there. So because
(23:04):
I looked like there are people that are like, give
me sure, it's like so I can't like it, just
that they just don't have it here. That park, the
Universal Very it's got a lot of anime influence, so
there's a lot of anime rides. I will say, Uh,
Harry Potter was a lot of fun. They have a
lot of similar rise. They have one indoor roller coaster
which was which was really cool. But it's a VR experience,
(23:27):
so you're wearing goggles the entire time while riding, which
means ride is modular. You can change it to be
anything else you want.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So so you had a VR helmet, so it wasn't
augmented reality, it was virtual reaction.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yes, oh yeah, that is true.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, so it was Spy Family before that, it was
Demon Hunter. Every six months they cycle in a new property.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Oh wow, that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A lot of fun they have. They have stoopy stuff there,
so if you like snoopy, Hell Kitty also recommend it.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
All those things overall. If you had to rate your
favorite theme park between the four things you did, who's
at the top of the heap? Does Togyo Disneyland Toko Disneyland? Yeah, okay,
all right, that's that's a must visit. Then, Okay, how
are we on time are we? We just about out
of time? Just about out of time? Okay, good, I
forgot this so long. I forgot this. Set my timer
(24:23):
all right? Well, Scott. If people want to find us
on social media and see all of your great coverage
from Japan, where can they go?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Follow us on Twitter, Theme Parks Show, Facebook, Instagram, and
TikTok at the Theme Park Podcast. You watch Themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And the show traditionally comes to you live from the
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For Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, We'll
see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
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