May 5, 2023 • 25 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast the guys celebrate May the 4th! Could the Galactic Starcruiser get more expeditions, new photopass Magic Shots have arrived and more Star Wars news! Plus new food options for the month of May, Fantasmic closes for refurbishment and lets talk about the giant pink donut.
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From the theme park Capital of theWorld, Florida. This is the Theme
Park Podcast. Wait podcast, Whydoes everything got to be so messy on
this station? Anyway? Here's yourhost, Dickerman, Jimmy Dean, and
Scott Harris. Welcome to the ThemePark Podcast. I am Dickerman. There's
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Jimmy Dean and the Scott Harris promocode Scott Happy May the fourth, gentleman.
Yeah, you record this on Mayfourth, May the fourth be with
you of this is the May aBig a Big Star Wars Day. Yeah,
whenever anybody says to you, happyMay the fourth, you respond with
this is the May That is that. That's a new thing, I guess,
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huh, yeah, it's ever sincethe man this this is this is
a new thing. So it's thisyear. So either it's it's a thing
or we're trying to make it athing. And if you're listening to this
on Friday, Revenge of the Fifthis that what it is? Yeah,
Revenge of the fifth would be Yeah. Is it Revenge of the fifth or
Revenge of the sixth. That's whatI'm trying. That's what I Revenge of
the fifth. As I recall,because I had that Magic band because you
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and I that one year went outto Hollywood Studios, and I think you
got the fourth and I got thefifth. I think that's what it was.
And well I got the fourth andthe fifth. Oh I could help
myself to get the both, allright, I got the fifth, I
had the fifth, and I eventuallysold the fifth. Oh you did?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Isold it for face value. I just
I had. I had buyer's remorseand the and the matter of looking at
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my bank account and saying, whydid I spend thirty five dollars on this?
So apparently it's divided. Some peoplecelebrated as Revenge of the fifth.
Others celebrated is Revenge of the sixth? Why not both? Why not just
do both? Why? There's whynot? You know? And then you
know what? You know what?Also celebrate May twenty fifth. Explain it
to me. That is a verysignificant date in Star Wars history. Okay,
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that's the day. May twenty fifth, nineteen seventy seven is when Star
Wars came out. When it cameout, Okay, it's also May twenty
fifth, eighteen is also when StarWars colon a Star Wars or solo colon
a Star Wars story came out,and that, you know, I feel
like, looking back, that ismore fondly remembered than when it came out.
I remember when it came out andwe went to the theater and we
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went to get tickets. We wereat Universal, I think we were doing
a broadcast that day, and wego to get the tickets and I'm like,
well, do you have any seatsleft? Like yeah, and the
theater was like not even a quarterfull. I think when we went to
see it unopening nights. We alsowent to the preview. I sat next
to you in the preview at ElSimont Solo. Yes, I don't remember
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I remember being there. I rememberthat either. I mean I got the
poster, so I know I remember. I don't remember being there. You
sure it was me? Yes,it wasn't a guy like me, No,
it would have been sat right nextto you. This was back in
a stretch where the three of ussold tons of movies together again, And
you better believe there's a movie inNovember coming out that the three of us
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will be seeing together. Yeah,trailer. They showed the trailer for that.
Yeah. Yeah, you guys wentto Guardians already today. So we're
recording this on Thursday, Like wewere saying, May the fifth. Um,
so you guys already saw the Guardiansand there's the dune trailer in that.
Yes, yes, I don't wantany spoilers. No, I'm gonna
go the trailer recording. Oh no, trailer area. There's a lot of
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sand, uh shallow May Day,Elvis is bald. Yeah, all right,
all those things worth looking forward to. But yeah, if you're a
big Star Wars fan, there's probablysome Star Wars stuff out of the parks.
If you want to go out toDisney this weekend, you might find
some good stuff. They used todo the magic bands. You think they're
doing magic bands again, Yes,they actually do have a magic band.
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Plus that's special for uh May thefourth, okay, all right? And
then um, the the special lightsaberthey came out with. It's the guy
from uh Fallen Calcstus games coming outtoo, right I started out Friday.
Yep, it's good. The firstone was great. Apparently this one's better.
Really yes, well right, it'ssupposed to take place at the same
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time as Obi one. Oh okay, yeah, interesting, So there is
uh, there was I should say, a lightsaber for him it's gone.
Oh yeah, it's all that.There was five thousand of them gone gone,
just gone. People just now isthat resailers or can you only buy
one? And oh it was likea virtual queue thing once you got in
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yeah, yeah, once you getinto park you had to get into a
virtual queue forour doc on dars toget your your Cali lightsaber. Okay.
And then you also think about howthey sold them online on Shop Disney.
They sold them in California and thenthere was a I think they sold them
also in Britain too, on theShop Disney website, which, by the
way, you should be proud ofme and Jimmy. Why would you guys
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do spent zero dollars exactly, zerodollars, zero dollars, not a single
sense. Yeah, we're not likeyou, mister. I'm gonna buy three
Incredi passes and buy three Pirate passesmany of those things. No you have
No, you're right, you don'thave one of them. You have six
of them? Yeah, I don't. I don't have any any passes at
this time. That might change,It could happen. I don't know.
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Disney. Maybe it's Universal, maybeit's Sea World. Maybe it's fun Spot.
Maybe it's Lego Land, maybe it'sthe Pepper Pig Park. Maybe it's
Science Center. We learned something that'strue. I could go educate myself at
the Science Center. Maybe I'll maybeI'll do Lou Gardens who knows, or
buy it like a fun card atDavid Busters. Yeah, that's another thing
too. I actually you know whereI went somewhere this week before we get
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into news. I went Son ofa Gun. You're like, it's a
family show. You get a stopmyself? Hey, hey, would you
would you guys give me the thumbsup on the Patreon We can say whatever
we want. Hey, Um,I went to is it desert Land or
dies Land Land? Desert? Iwent to deezer Land this week because they
have a big pinball art they do, yes, so we did. Uh,
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we did pinball. We found likean old Arcticon, oh or oldest
full Bay. Yeah. So it'sjust a mall again with like seventeen other
things in it. Yeah, there'sthere. It's like a car show place.
So the main thing is the guythat bought it is this millionaire billionaire.
I don't know what he is,but he bought it for his auto
museum and he's got all these likecrazy exotic cars. Yeah. Um.
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But in addition to that, there'san arcaden there. There's a big go
cart track in there, there's thejumping thing, the trampoline sort of ropes
course, a ropes course. Butthere's a pinball area where there's like I
think it's like fifty or sixty pinballmachines and you pay by the hour.
You can play all the machines youwant. So we went and played for
an hour out there. It waspretty good. They have classic machines,
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they have new machines, and Ithink it was like twenty bucks for three
of us for an hour pinball.Yeah, oh my god, I know
you love pinball. I wanted totell you then I forgot to tell you
about it, so now I'm tellingyou about it. So yeah, that's
another option. Maybe I'll just goget that. But that's all all a
cart, there's no there's no sortof thing. Yeah, yeah, there
you go. Oh okay, solet's jump into the news. Yeah,
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yeah, we have some actual start. We have some more Star Wars news
too while we're at it. Okay, because we've talked about this Star Wars
Galactic Star Cruiser, the immersive hotelimagineers are teasing maybe we'll get some new
stories on that, because right nowit's only one story. That's right,
We'll tell one story, but there'sa bunch of different tasks that you can
do on the ship. But wedid talk about the opportunity to do some
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different things. Well, I've beenbegging for them to do this with Morning
Falcon Smugglers run right, exactly,And you have an excellent point. That
ride was always designed to be ableto have multiple stories and be mixed up,
almost like when you do Star Tours. It's a video game. Yeah,
just trade it like a video game, even if it's not a random
thing, even if it's like choosewhich adventure you want to do, I'd
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still be cool with that. Yeah, yeah, I could one hundred percent.
I agree with you. And itseems like they have the ability to
do that, they just haven't chosento do that yet. Correct. I
mean Star Tours has what, like, Jimmy, how many different permutations are
there in that ride? I think, oh god, what was it?
It was like fifty or sixty possiblecombinations. Yeah, maybe I'm just I'm
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still looking. I'm still soaking inpermutations right now? Did you get a
word of the day calendar? Youdon't remember permutations, so that literally means
a different amount of possibilities you couldhave. I mean, I like the
word. I want to I wantto type it down on my phone so
I remember to use it at somepoint so I sound smart. You're just
gonna use it tomorrow, Like,Hey, what do you guys think of
the permutations today? What do youguys think of the permutations? Eh,
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it's gonna purposely bring up mathematics justso you can use that. Yeah,
and then somebody's gonna question you onit, and I'm gonna text Scott I
need some help of the permutations thing. I'm lost and I'm in a meeting.
Done um speaking of the star Cruiserhotel Gaya our singer on the ship.
Okay, all right, yeah,see we haven't been there to see
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guys, But you guys haven't paidattention to like the videos on social and
all the bout a single thing aboutit to like go to experience because I've
been invited by Disney to podcast livefrom the hotel for a twenty four hour
marathon broadcast. Well, I wouldlove to be a part of that,
so absolutely were doubt that's there ofus. But but they've released the album
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of her performances. Oh a nicealbum released. H yeah, because she's
singing, she's she's a lounge singerbasically. Yeah, okay, one of
them. One of the songs Quaxium. Okay, Well, and here's the
thing. If there's one thing Iknow about quaxium, gotta keep it cold?
Is that so it's unstable if itgets warm. I don't remember that
Solo taught us that. We justtalked about Solo. Yeah, I need
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to watch it again. It's beena long time. I think you just
gave like Scott like he had likea seizure for a second when you said
that. You know, we watchedSolo, and um, I think I
just need to watch it again.My wife wasn't the biggest fan. I
needed to convince her that it wasbetter than she remembers it actually is.
I rewatched it, and maybe Irewatched at some point last summer. Yeah,
I mean it's got it's got agreat cast. I got the poster
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in my living room right Yeah.Yeah, it's got a good cast and
the kid did finest. I'm justgonna say if we're gonna do like a
movie that's like in between the othermovies of Star Wars movie in between.
Yeah, just let just just justlet actors do them. Do not try
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to d age people. I don'tknow. Yeah, I'm not a huge
once in a while. No,just let Alden Aaron Reich be young Han
Solo. Let Billy Lord be youngPrincess Leia. Let the stand in for
Luke Skywalker be Luke Scotwerker, orjust Cash Stabashian stand the Winter Soldier who
looks exactly like Mark Hambell to dothe role. Yeah, before he gets
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too old to do it exactly.She's gonna h out soon. Now they
can just d h him. Ohyeah, but that's only like a subtle
d that's like a two on thed h Harrison Ford in the New India
Jones movie, that's like a seventeenYeah. I'm really curious to see how
that all goes. Because it looksgood and it's like well received, you're
going to see more of it.The problem is it looks really good in
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the face. The problem is itis still an eighty year old man moving
around this You can't dage his movement. Yes, no, at eighty.
I mean, God, if you'removing at all at Eyther, you're going
good. You're doing good exactly.Yeah, but he doesn't have to move
around. Now. They do oneversion with him, so they get his
you know, capture his at hisperformance, and then they bring in an
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actor who's got the physique of theyou know, the agency's supposed to the
age. Yeah, this is whatthey did in um If you've ever seen
the back behind the scenes of TronLegacy, they show you how they did
it. They had one guy thatlooks so much like m Jeffries, Jeff
Bridges, and then they had JeffBridges and it's like everybody's like in their
Tron suits and Jeff Bridges is upthere with like a Strokes T shirt on
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and a pair of jeans. Andyou know what movie didn't do this,
which also featured daging The Irishman.So they basically just had seventy year old
Robert de Niro trying to move aroundlike twenty five year old Roberts Here.
They had a posh your coach onset for that movie to be like Bobby,
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that's not how twenty five year oldsstand. Why don't they just like
stick a two buy four down theback of posture correct thing. Yeah,
like a scarecrow up there. Theygot like the spinal tap version of the
Aging Now they just turned it upto eleven for Harrison Ford and Robert De
Niro's He's gonna be in like upcomingMarvel movies now too. Okay, daddy
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is ross Um. Speaking of StarWars, we got some new photo pass
magic shots okay, debuting today.So we got some hollow pucks. So
like you're holding the thing, okay, yeah, so that's it's okay,
you stick your hand out all right. It's gonna look really cool when you're
done. Okay. We got aBocaton him just left. Uh. It
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looks like it's over by the droids, like you know where they have the
section. I know exactly what.You don't hold your hands like that in
front of the sixth ship Fennec okay, oh nice. And then I can't
tell where this is, but it'sgrogu like a wanted poster of grogs.
Nice. Then there is a babeight magic shot in front of the Millennium
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Falcon okay uh. And there isa dark saber that you can wield in
there's like a core like a doorwayover by Ogus Cantina at night where you
can hold one meat. That's cool. It's good. And there's a beat
one magic shot where he's on yourshoulder. That's cool. That one.
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I gotta fine to see. Dowe have an do we get beati Emo?
Anywhere? Can we get em?Yeah? That guy does not look
like come on man, they're justteasing us at this point. I know,
I know, I'm I'm right therewith you. Have him move rut
of the park. He's big enoughto go around, yeah, and just
be sad and like make everybody sadat Disney, Um, the crying babies
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and make them cry even more.You're crying. I see, I know
who you're talking about. The Roman. Yeah, yeah, the Red Lunchbox.
He's great love. Yeah, hemight be like one of my favorite
droids. He is I've never relatedmore to a character in Star Wars.
And his voice sounds so much likeTars to me. But it's a different
but it's not. Yeah, it'slike it's it's a we've talked about.
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It's like a voice I'm that's likejust sounds like it. Yeah. Um.
Also this month it is Asian AmericanPacific, Pacific islid or Heritage Month.
Yeah, you have to be niceto the Rock all month long.
Sad about the Rock this month bigstruggle for me. I'm not gonna lie.
I will say this celebration looks delicious. Oh yeah, you you sent
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some of the pictures of the foods. That's your that's right up your alley.
Yeah. We've got curry chick curryspiced pizza at Epcot. We've got
General So's chicken salad at Epcot,Mongolian beef. These are just at Epcot.
Yeah, jimmy' Jimmy's waiting for youto get to that Polynesian that Polynesian
menu. When you hit that thing, forget it. He's just gonna strap
himself in. We've got boneless,impossible short ribs, ice cream cakes.
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There's there's Korean Bowl there. Yeah, there's gonna be like a crazy amount
of food they're gonna bring out,which you know, it's a big money
maker for them. Yep. Andit's a big attractor for people to come
out to the parks. And thisis at every park. This isn't just
an Upcot Oh, it's a crossproperty. Wow. Yeah, Pizzafari has
stuff. I might there was anitem and and it's escaped me off the
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top of my head. It mighttake me to Disney Springs. Oh hang
on, it looked that good.I am. I am one that avoids
Disney Springs at all costs, eventhough I absolutely love earl of sandwich?
Is it the Korean Bulgaggie hot dog? It does sound good? But no?
Is it the high voltage chicken sandwich? No, that's also sounds good.
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There's some from the pineapple, becauseif it's a pineapple, that's Jimmy
coconut jerk pork sandwich. That's uh, the po poa shrip bull And why
you gotta insult the sandwich? Thelchy martini, Um, mango bobo lemonade
that sounds oh yeah, I likeVietnam's coffee bloom in Japanese mushroom tempora could
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have been that um. And thenthere's a rulade cake filled with cinnamon,
banana, moose and an ube buttercream. That does sound good. I mean
that sounds good. There's a wheredo they sell stuff like this at Disney
Springs, Like just at various hthat's at the Pastry H Baby Wolf Sausage
company, which is a stand boathouse Edison. Okay, so various restaurants,
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Miyamoto, Polite Pig, Splitsville Okay, all right, so it can
be any way. Those pretzels,Wetzels, pretzels. Yeah. I've been
out to Disney Springs a little while. It's it's a little bit. It's
the last couple of times i've beendown there, it's just been bananas.
Yeah, every time I go,it's bananas. So I just I can't
bring myself to make that commitment,you know, to dive into that.
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The last time I went um wasto do two things. One get the
burger with donuts as the buttons.And I was like, oh, there's
a parking lot right there, butyou can't get out there. You can't
get out right there. Yeah,you have to go all the way to
the shopping mall section. Why youcould see your car from the entrance to
this place. Really, you justcan't get And then I want to go
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to the Lego store. Oh yeah, look I didn't buy anything but seventeen
things. Nanda got the up Legoset, which I still ain't I gotta
Oh you got it too, Yeahyou put it deer yet No toying with
us. Now, I have twoLego sets I'm sitting on. One is
beady one, and then the otherone is the uphouse. And it's just
like I'm trying to save her,yes, building Legos because they're so expensive
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and it's and it's you could justknock it out no time. Oh yeah,
if I have to, I haveto be careful and I have to
purposely walk away from it so Ican like stretch it out. Yeah.
I talked to Manda into buying Hurstbecause she had coals catch. I know,
I actually had put her over theedge. I had that Oscar insurance
last year and if you met yourstep goal every day, they wed give
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you a dollar for every day youmet. Okay, and they would just
transfer you a an Amazon gift card. So wow, Oh Jimmy is is
this house? Just shaking his wrist? Just get the steps. He's just
a day, let's go, comeon. Somehow shaking the wrist doesn't work.
Watching have to actually watch too smart. It's like, you know,
you're waving your hand the fitbit.You could get away with it with a
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fitbit, not with the Apple watchman um other Disney news. It's about
fantasmic, but not the big fantasticnews you guys. See you talked about
this last week. The dragon.Yes, yeah, it's so years ago.
So the way that they do fantasmicat Disneyland, it's like in pseudo
of an open area. It's notlike in its own theater like it is
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here, right, So it's likeright by where like you know, where
we have our paddle boat. It'sbasically in an area like that. Okay,
so one time I met Disneyland atnight and we're trying to get over
to Haunted Mansion, if you like, by walking by sea. Fantasmics going
on that night. The dragon's headfell off. Oh what's going on over
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there? I don't know. Sothey had a dragon that look remarkably like
that in the parade here in Orlando, and its head caught on fire.
Oh geez. Yeah, I needto work on the mechanics of that dragon.
But fantasmic here will also be closedfour refurbishments for the next few weeks.
All right, let's get into somevery very big news that pertains to
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all three of us. Okay,the big pink donut this is at Universal
Orlando. Yes, Homer Simpsons.Yep, lord lad, yeapard lad,
they're increasing the price. What Imean, it was a fair price.
I thought it was a fair price. But what are we what are we
talking here? Ten ninety nine?Whoa, that seems like a jump.
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Well, originally it was eight ninetynine. As of March twenty twenty two,
Okay, then nine ninety nine.Now we're at ten ninety nine.
I feel like before March twenty twentytwo is like six nine. I feel
like prior to that it was eithersix ninety nine or seven ninety nine,
because I remember buying and think asis a pretty good deal. I think
I think even at eleven it's stilla pretty good deal. How much is
a donut these days? This islike a regular donut three Bucks with like
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lays on it, and depending onwhere you go I go, you can
get it. You can get acheap one of Walmart, a little a
little more Public's a little more atCrispy Cream and Duncan. But yeah,
you know, three Bucks is probablya fair assessment of what a price.
Well that's like four donuts, soyou're still coming out good. Yeah,
yeah, I mean it's just youknow, I like the old price I
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have, you know, you gottakeep up an inflation. Unfortunately, I
don't like inflation. I don't likeit either. I don't know. I
don't want to inflation. Here's thething, stop it. I was thinking
about this when I saw this news. I think, one day, big
pink donut eating contest on the show. Ye, I mean, I feel
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like I'd be good at it,but I feel like Scott and then we
have to do the show right afterwards. Scott's like that, like the the
hot dog eating mpion who's like,you know, yadi pounds and he just
knocks back sixty seven hot talks noproblem. Well, if he's Kobayashi in
this situation, I I'm Joey chesno, because I'm only doing this if there's
like some good steaks, because Iknow I'll destroy both of you so well.
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I want I want incentive to play. So like, pink donut is
one thing. I mean, yougotta get it here, But what if
it was just like a dozen,like you know, a dozen dozen.
No, No, that's not thesame. Okay, I'm just saying a
single donut and I could do thatin my sleep. But we're talking the
giant donuts again. Still in mysleep. Other Universal news, Uh,
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they're now accepting external auditions for HalloweenHorror Nights. Okay, so they're actors
for the people that already aren't alreadyemployees for Universal. They can go on
audition. Yeah. I know yearsyears gone by people who had been like
characters for years and years and yearsand they didn't get hired, and they'd
be bitter about it and be upset, which you know, I could understand,
um, but I don't know howthat whole process. And a new
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speculation map has come out for HalloweenHorror Night's thirty two. All right,
what a musical artist Yet not yetpeople have speculated on that. Okay,
So we got last of us UniversalStudios Monsters Paris, okay, Demon Slayer,
the anime, oh that will thatwould probably be big, Like I
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don't get anime, but I knowit's huge. The Exorcist Believer, which
is the new Exorcist movie coming outthis year, makes sense. It's probably
like a promotional partnership Chucky, whichthey announced last year. And then there's
one that has labeled Top Secret,which a lot of people are speculating will
be a Stranger Things House. Buton the speculation map. There is a
castle with a dragon outside of it, which could also be stranger things.
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Okay, I think the music artistthis year will be Justin Bieber. Justin
Bieber. I was gonna say Metallica, and you tie them into stranger things.
That would be cool because they do. I think they have a new
album. They were featured on thelast season. If you really want to
be tortured, though, I feellike Justin Bieber's Away to Go it is
more tortured. I still wish wecould have seen the Billy Eilish house.
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Yeah, I agree. I agree. She's still big. Yes, she's
on a TV show on Amazon now. She smiled yet, Yes she was
at the met Gala like she doessmile. She's so she's doubt she's not
gonna be big much longer she goes. She's a met Gala last year.
That's over downhill from there now.Yep, no, not cool anymore.
Everyone goes to the met Gala.Little Nastexes goes to the met Gala every
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year. Weird, Okay, goodfor him, Like, okay, then
you're saying Jenna or take us holdout. No, you're saying Bargo Robbie
sold out. Billy Eilish. Thiswhole thing was she was just you know,
cool with the kids totally. She'santi established. Here's the thing.
Here's the thing. I don't knowif you know this, but people love
celebrities that go to the met Gala. That's not like a detriment anymore.
I don't know. I don't know. If Kurt Cobain went to the Met
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Gala, I feel like Nirvana wouldhave lost some popularity and they probably would
have gained even more maybe sellouts.He was actually trying to lose popularity.
Basically, you're basically nickelback at thispoint, he tried to make a crappy
album within utero he still liked,so that he would lose fans and he
only gain more fans. And hewas just like, oh my god,
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I can't do anything wrong and Iwant to do wrong. All right,
Well, we're just at the time, So Scott, if people want to
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From the theme park Capital of theWorld, Florida. This is the Theme
Park Podcast. Wait podcast, Whydoes everything got to be so messy on
this station? Anyway? Here's yourhost, Dickerman, Jimmy Dean, and
Scott Harris. Welcome to the ThemePark Podcast. I am Dickerman. There's
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Jimmy Dean and the Scott Harris promocode Scott Happy May the fourth, gentleman.
Yeah, you record this on Mayfourth, May the fourth be with
you of this is the May aBig a Big Star Wars Day. Yeah,
whenever anybody says to you, happyMay the fourth, you respond with
this is the May That is that. That's a new thing, I guess,
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huh, yeah, it's ever sincethe man this this is this is
a new thing. So it's thisyear. So either it's it's a thing
or we're trying to make it athing. And if you're listening to this
on Friday, Revenge of the Fifthis that what it is? Yeah,
Revenge of the fifth would be Yeah. Is it Revenge of the fifth or
Revenge of the sixth. That's whatI'm trying. That's what I Revenge of
the fifth. As I recall,because I had that Magic band because you
(01:07):
and I that one year went outto Hollywood Studios, and I think you
got the fourth and I got thefifth. I think that's what it was.
And well I got the fourth andthe fifth. Oh I could help
myself to get the both, allright, I got the fifth, I
had the fifth, and I eventuallysold the fifth. Oh you did?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Isold it for face value. I just
I had. I had buyer's remorseand the and the matter of looking at
(01:29):
my bank account and saying, whydid I spend thirty five dollars on this?
So apparently it's divided. Some peoplecelebrated as Revenge of the fifth.
Others celebrated is Revenge of the sixth? Why not both? Why not just
do both? Why? There's whynot? You know? And then you
know what? You know what?Also celebrate May twenty fifth. Explain it
to me. That is a verysignificant date in Star Wars history. Okay,
(01:53):
that's the day. May twenty fifth, nineteen seventy seven is when Star
Wars came out. When it cameout, Okay, it's also May twenty
fifth, eighteen is also when StarWars colon a Star Wars or solo colon
a Star Wars story came out,and that, you know, I feel
like, looking back, that ismore fondly remembered than when it came out.
I remember when it came out andwe went to the theater and we
(02:13):
went to get tickets. We wereat Universal, I think we were doing
a broadcast that day, and wego to get the tickets and I'm like,
well, do you have any seatsleft? Like yeah, and the
theater was like not even a quarterfull. I think when we went to
see it unopening nights. We alsowent to the preview. I sat next
to you in the preview at ElSimont Solo. Yes, I don't remember
(02:37):
I remember being there. I rememberthat either. I mean I got the
poster, so I know I remember. I don't remember being there. You
sure it was me? Yes,it wasn't a guy like me, No,
it would have been sat right nextto you. This was back in
a stretch where the three of ussold tons of movies together again, And
you better believe there's a movie inNovember coming out that the three of us
(02:59):
will be seeing together. Yeah,trailer. They showed the trailer for that.
Yeah. Yeah, you guys wentto Guardians already today. So we're
recording this on Thursday, Like wewere saying, May the fifth. Um,
so you guys already saw the Guardiansand there's the dune trailer in that.
Yes, yes, I don't wantany spoilers. No, I'm gonna
go the trailer recording. Oh no, trailer area. There's a lot of
(03:21):
sand, uh shallow May Day,Elvis is bald. Yeah, all right,
all those things worth looking forward to. But yeah, if you're a
big Star Wars fan, there's probablysome Star Wars stuff out of the parks.
If you want to go out toDisney this weekend, you might find
some good stuff. They used todo the magic bands. You think they're
doing magic bands again, Yes,they actually do have a magic band.
(03:43):
Plus that's special for uh May thefourth, okay, all right? And
then um, the the special lightsaberthey came out with. It's the guy
from uh Fallen Calcstus games coming outtoo, right I started out Friday.
Yep, it's good. The firstone was great. Apparently this one's better.
Really yes, well right, it'ssupposed to take place at the same
(04:06):
time as Obi one. Oh okay, yeah, interesting, So there is
uh, there was I should say, a lightsaber for him it's gone.
Oh yeah, it's all that.There was five thousand of them gone gone,
just gone. People just now isthat resailers or can you only buy
one? And oh it was likea virtual queue thing once you got in
(04:26):
yeah, yeah, once you getinto park you had to get into a
virtual queue forour doc on dars toget your your Cali lightsaber. Okay.
And then you also think about howthey sold them online on Shop Disney.
They sold them in California and thenthere was a I think they sold them
also in Britain too, on theShop Disney website, which, by the
way, you should be proud ofme and Jimmy. Why would you guys
(04:46):
do spent zero dollars exactly, zerodollars, zero dollars, not a single
sense. Yeah, we're not likeyou, mister. I'm gonna buy three
Incredi passes and buy three Pirate passesmany of those things. No you have
No, you're right, you don'thave one of them. You have six
of them? Yeah, I don't. I don't have any any passes at
this time. That might change,It could happen. I don't know.
(05:09):
Disney. Maybe it's Universal, maybeit's Sea World. Maybe it's fun Spot.
Maybe it's Lego Land, maybe it'sthe Pepper Pig Park. Maybe it's
Science Center. We learned something that'strue. I could go educate myself at
the Science Center. Maybe I'll maybeI'll do Lou Gardens who knows, or
buy it like a fun card atDavid Busters. Yeah, that's another thing
too. I actually you know whereI went somewhere this week before we get
(05:30):
into news. I went Son ofa Gun. You're like, it's a
family show. You get a stopmyself? Hey, hey, would you
would you guys give me the thumbsup on the Patreon We can say whatever
we want. Hey, Um,I went to is it desert Land or
dies Land Land? Desert? Iwent to deezer Land this week because they
have a big pinball art they do, yes, so we did. Uh,
(05:54):
we did pinball. We found likean old Arcticon, oh or oldest
full Bay. Yeah. So it'sjust a mall again with like seventeen other
things in it. Yeah, there'sthere. It's like a car show place.
So the main thing is the guythat bought it is this millionaire billionaire.
I don't know what he is,but he bought it for his auto
museum and he's got all these likecrazy exotic cars. Yeah. Um.
(06:17):
But in addition to that, there'san arcaden there. There's a big go
cart track in there, there's thejumping thing, the trampoline sort of ropes
course, a ropes course. Butthere's a pinball area where there's like I
think it's like fifty or sixty pinballmachines and you pay by the hour.
You can play all the machines youwant. So we went and played for
an hour out there. It waspretty good. They have classic machines,
(06:38):
they have new machines, and Ithink it was like twenty bucks for three
of us for an hour pinball.Yeah, oh my god, I know
you love pinball. I wanted totell you then I forgot to tell you
about it, so now I'm tellingyou about it. So yeah, that's
another option. Maybe I'll just goget that. But that's all all a
cart, there's no there's no sortof thing. Yeah, yeah, there
you go. Oh okay, solet's jump into the news. Yeah,
(07:00):
yeah, we have some actual start. We have some more Star Wars news
too while we're at it. Okay, because we've talked about this Star Wars
Galactic Star Cruiser, the immersive hotelimagineers are teasing maybe we'll get some new
stories on that, because right nowit's only one story. That's right,
We'll tell one story, but there'sa bunch of different tasks that you can
do on the ship. But wedid talk about the opportunity to do some
(07:24):
different things. Well, I've beenbegging for them to do this with Morning
Falcon Smugglers run right, exactly,And you have an excellent point. That
ride was always designed to be ableto have multiple stories and be mixed up,
almost like when you do Star Tours. It's a video game. Yeah,
just trade it like a video game, even if it's not a random
thing, even if it's like choosewhich adventure you want to do, I'd
(07:45):
still be cool with that. Yeah, yeah, I could one hundred percent.
I agree with you. And itseems like they have the ability to
do that, they just haven't chosento do that yet. Correct. I
mean Star Tours has what, like, Jimmy, how many different permutations are
there in that ride? I think, oh god, what was it?
It was like fifty or sixty possiblecombinations. Yeah, maybe I'm just I'm
(08:05):
still looking. I'm still soaking inpermutations right now? Did you get a
word of the day calendar? Youdon't remember permutations, so that literally means
a different amount of possibilities you couldhave. I mean, I like the
word. I want to I wantto type it down on my phone so
I remember to use it at somepoint so I sound smart. You're just
gonna use it tomorrow, Like,Hey, what do you guys think of
the permutations today? What do youguys think of the permutations? Eh,
(08:28):
it's gonna purposely bring up mathematics justso you can use that. Yeah,
and then somebody's gonna question you onit, and I'm gonna text Scott I
need some help of the permutations thing. I'm lost and I'm in a meeting.
Done um speaking of the star Cruiserhotel Gaya our singer on the ship.
Okay, all right, yeah,see we haven't been there to see
(08:50):
guys, But you guys haven't paidattention to like the videos on social and
all the bout a single thing aboutit to like go to experience because I've
been invited by Disney to podcast livefrom the hotel for a twenty four hour
marathon broadcast. Well, I wouldlove to be a part of that,
so absolutely were doubt that's there ofus. But but they've released the album
(09:11):
of her performances. Oh a nicealbum released. H yeah, because she's
singing, she's she's a lounge singerbasically. Yeah, okay, one of
them. One of the songs Quaxium. Okay, Well, and here's the
thing. If there's one thing Iknow about quaxium, gotta keep it cold?
Is that so it's unstable if itgets warm. I don't remember that
Solo taught us that. We justtalked about Solo. Yeah, I need
(09:33):
to watch it again. It's beena long time. I think you just
gave like Scott like he had likea seizure for a second when you said
that. You know, we watchedSolo, and um, I think I
just need to watch it again.My wife wasn't the biggest fan. I
needed to convince her that it wasbetter than she remembers it actually is.
I rewatched it, and maybe Irewatched at some point last summer. Yeah,
I mean it's got it's got agreat cast. I got the poster
(09:54):
in my living room right Yeah.Yeah, it's got a good cast and
the kid did finest. I'm justgonna say if we're gonna do like a
movie that's like in between the othermovies of Star Wars movie in between.
Yeah, just let just just justlet actors do them. Do not try
(10:15):
to d age people. I don'tknow. Yeah, I'm not a huge
once in a while. No,just let Alden Aaron Reich be young Han
Solo. Let Billy Lord be youngPrincess Leia. Let the stand in for
Luke Skywalker be Luke Scotwerker, orjust Cash Stabashian stand the Winter Soldier who
looks exactly like Mark Hambell to dothe role. Yeah, before he gets
(10:37):
too old to do it exactly.She's gonna h out soon. Now they
can just d h him. Ohyeah, but that's only like a subtle
d that's like a two on thed h Harrison Ford in the New India
Jones movie, that's like a seventeenYeah. I'm really curious to see how
that all goes. Because it looksgood and it's like well received, you're
going to see more of it.The problem is it looks really good in
(10:58):
the face. The problem is itis still an eighty year old man moving
around this You can't dage his movement. Yes, no, at eighty.
I mean, God, if you'removing at all at Eyther, you're going
good. You're doing good exactly.Yeah, but he doesn't have to move
around. Now. They do oneversion with him, so they get his
you know, capture his at hisperformance, and then they bring in an
(11:22):
actor who's got the physique of theyou know, the agency's supposed to the
age. Yeah, this is whatthey did in um If you've ever seen
the back behind the scenes of TronLegacy, they show you how they did
it. They had one guy thatlooks so much like m Jeffries, Jeff
Bridges, and then they had JeffBridges and it's like everybody's like in their
Tron suits and Jeff Bridges is upthere with like a Strokes T shirt on
(11:43):
and a pair of jeans. Andyou know what movie didn't do this,
which also featured daging The Irishman.So they basically just had seventy year old
Robert de Niro trying to move aroundlike twenty five year old Roberts Here.
They had a posh your coach onset for that movie to be like Bobby,
(12:05):
that's not how twenty five year oldsstand. Why don't they just like
stick a two buy four down theback of posture correct thing. Yeah,
like a scarecrow up there. Theygot like the spinal tap version of the
Aging Now they just turned it upto eleven for Harrison Ford and Robert De
Niro's He's gonna be in like upcomingMarvel movies now too. Okay, daddy
(12:26):
is ross Um. Speaking of StarWars, we got some new photo pass
magic shots okay, debuting today.So we got some hollow pucks. So
like you're holding the thing, okay, yeah, so that's it's okay,
you stick your hand out all right. It's gonna look really cool when you're
done. Okay. We got aBocaton him just left. Uh. It
(12:48):
looks like it's over by the droids, like you know where they have the
section. I know exactly what.You don't hold your hands like that in
front of the sixth ship Fennec okay, oh nice. And then I can't
tell where this is, but it'sgrogu like a wanted poster of grogs.
Nice. Then there is a babeight magic shot in front of the Millennium
(13:09):
Falcon okay uh. And there isa dark saber that you can wield in
there's like a core like a doorwayover by Ogus Cantina at night where you
can hold one meat. That's cool. It's good. And there's a beat
one magic shot where he's on yourshoulder. That's cool. That one.
(13:30):
I gotta fine to see. Dowe have an do we get beati Emo?
Anywhere? Can we get em?Yeah? That guy does not look
like come on man, they're justteasing us at this point. I know,
I know, I'm I'm right therewith you. Have him move rut
of the park. He's big enoughto go around, yeah, and just
be sad and like make everybody sadat Disney, Um, the crying babies
(13:52):
and make them cry even more.You're crying. I see, I know
who you're talking about. The Roman. Yeah, yeah, the Red Lunchbox.
He's great love. Yeah, hemight be like one of my favorite
droids. He is I've never relatedmore to a character in Star Wars.
And his voice sounds so much likeTars to me. But it's a different
but it's not. Yeah, it'slike it's it's a we've talked about.
(14:13):
It's like a voice I'm that's likejust sounds like it. Yeah. Um.
Also this month it is Asian AmericanPacific, Pacific islid or Heritage Month.
Yeah, you have to be niceto the Rock all month long.
Sad about the Rock this month bigstruggle for me. I'm not gonna lie.
I will say this celebration looks delicious. Oh yeah, you you sent
(14:33):
some of the pictures of the foods. That's your that's right up your alley.
Yeah. We've got curry chick curryspiced pizza at Epcot. We've got
General So's chicken salad at Epcot,Mongolian beef. These are just at Epcot.
Yeah, jimmy' Jimmy's waiting for youto get to that Polynesian that Polynesian
menu. When you hit that thing, forget it. He's just gonna strap
himself in. We've got boneless,impossible short ribs, ice cream cakes.
(15:01):
There's there's Korean Bowl there. Yeah, there's gonna be like a crazy amount
of food they're gonna bring out,which you know, it's a big money
maker for them. Yep. Andit's a big attractor for people to come
out to the parks. And thisis at every park. This isn't just
an Upcot Oh, it's a crossproperty. Wow. Yeah, Pizzafari has
stuff. I might there was anitem and and it's escaped me off the
(15:22):
top of my head. It mighttake me to Disney Springs. Oh hang
on, it looked that good.I am. I am one that avoids
Disney Springs at all costs, eventhough I absolutely love earl of sandwich?
Is it the Korean Bulgaggie hot dog? It does sound good? But no?
Is it the high voltage chicken sandwich? No, that's also sounds good.
(15:43):
There's some from the pineapple, becauseif it's a pineapple, that's Jimmy
coconut jerk pork sandwich. That's uh, the po poa shrip bull And why
you gotta insult the sandwich? Thelchy martini, Um, mango bobo lemonade
that sounds oh yeah, I likeVietnam's coffee bloom in Japanese mushroom tempora could
(16:07):
have been that um. And thenthere's a rulade cake filled with cinnamon,
banana, moose and an ube buttercream. That does sound good. I mean
that sounds good. There's a wheredo they sell stuff like this at Disney
Springs, Like just at various hthat's at the Pastry H Baby Wolf Sausage
company, which is a stand boathouse Edison. Okay, so various restaurants,
(16:30):
Miyamoto, Polite Pig, Splitsville Okay, all right, so it can
be any way. Those pretzels,Wetzels, pretzels. Yeah. I've been
out to Disney Springs a little while. It's it's a little bit. It's
the last couple of times i've beendown there, it's just been bananas.
Yeah, every time I go,it's bananas. So I just I can't
bring myself to make that commitment,you know, to dive into that.
(16:51):
The last time I went um wasto do two things. One get the
burger with donuts as the buttons.And I was like, oh, there's
a parking lot right there, butyou can't get out there. You can't
get out right there. Yeah,you have to go all the way to
the shopping mall section. Why youcould see your car from the entrance to
this place. Really, you justcan't get And then I want to go
(17:15):
to the Lego store. Oh yeah, look I didn't buy anything but seventeen
things. Nanda got the up Legoset, which I still ain't I gotta
Oh you got it too, Yeahyou put it deer yet No toying with
us. Now, I have twoLego sets I'm sitting on. One is
beady one, and then the otherone is the uphouse. And it's just
like I'm trying to save her,yes, building Legos because they're so expensive
(17:37):
and it's and it's you could justknock it out no time. Oh yeah,
if I have to, I haveto be careful and I have to
purposely walk away from it so Ican like stretch it out. Yeah.
I talked to Manda into buying Hurstbecause she had coals catch. I know,
I actually had put her over theedge. I had that Oscar insurance
last year and if you met yourstep goal every day, they wed give
(18:00):
you a dollar for every day youmet. Okay, and they would just
transfer you a an Amazon gift card. So wow, Oh Jimmy is is
this house? Just shaking his wrist? Just get the steps. He's just
a day, let's go, comeon. Somehow shaking the wrist doesn't work.
Watching have to actually watch too smart. It's like, you know,
you're waving your hand the fitbit.You could get away with it with a
(18:22):
fitbit, not with the Apple watchman um other Disney news. It's about
fantasmic, but not the big fantasticnews you guys. See you talked about
this last week. The dragon.Yes, yeah, it's so years ago.
So the way that they do fantasmicat Disneyland, it's like in pseudo
of an open area. It's notlike in its own theater like it is
(18:45):
here, right, So it's likeright by where like you know, where
we have our paddle boat. It'sbasically in an area like that. Okay,
so one time I met Disneyland atnight and we're trying to get over
to Haunted Mansion, if you like, by walking by sea. Fantasmics going
on that night. The dragon's headfell off. Oh what's going on over
(19:07):
there? I don't know. Sothey had a dragon that look remarkably like
that in the parade here in Orlando, and its head caught on fire.
Oh geez. Yeah, I needto work on the mechanics of that dragon.
But fantasmic here will also be closedfour refurbishments for the next few weeks.
All right, let's get into somevery very big news that pertains to
(19:27):
all three of us. Okay,the big pink donut this is at Universal
Orlando. Yes, Homer Simpsons.Yep, lord lad, yeapard lad,
they're increasing the price. What Imean, it was a fair price.
I thought it was a fair price. But what are we what are we
talking here? Ten ninety nine?Whoa, that seems like a jump.
(19:49):
Well, originally it was eight ninetynine. As of March twenty twenty two,
Okay, then nine ninety nine.Now we're at ten ninety nine.
I feel like before March twenty twentytwo is like six nine. I feel
like prior to that it was eithersix ninety nine or seven ninety nine,
because I remember buying and think asis a pretty good deal. I think
I think even at eleven it's stilla pretty good deal. How much is
a donut these days? This islike a regular donut three Bucks with like
(20:12):
lays on it, and depending onwhere you go I go, you can
get it. You can get acheap one of Walmart, a little a
little more Public's a little more atCrispy Cream and Duncan. But yeah,
you know, three Bucks is probablya fair assessment of what a price.
Well that's like four donuts, soyou're still coming out good. Yeah,
yeah, I mean it's just youknow, I like the old price I
(20:32):
have, you know, you gottakeep up an inflation. Unfortunately, I
don't like inflation. I don't likeit either. I don't know. I
don't want to inflation. Here's thething, stop it. I was thinking
about this when I saw this news. I think, one day, big
pink donut eating contest on the show. Ye, I mean, I feel
(20:52):
like I'd be good at it,but I feel like Scott and then we
have to do the show right afterwards. Scott's like that, like the the
hot dog eating mpion who's like,you know, yadi pounds and he just
knocks back sixty seven hot talks noproblem. Well, if he's Kobayashi in
this situation, I I'm Joey chesno, because I'm only doing this if there's
like some good steaks, because Iknow I'll destroy both of you so well.
(21:17):
I want I want incentive to play. So like, pink donut is
one thing. I mean, yougotta get it here, But what if
it was just like a dozen,like you know, a dozen dozen.
No, No, that's not thesame. Okay, I'm just saying a
single donut and I could do thatin my sleep. But we're talking the
giant donuts again. Still in mysleep. Other Universal news, Uh,
(21:38):
they're now accepting external auditions for HalloweenHorror Nights. Okay, so they're actors
for the people that already aren't alreadyemployees for Universal. They can go on
audition. Yeah. I know yearsyears gone by people who had been like
characters for years and years and yearsand they didn't get hired, and they'd
be bitter about it and be upset, which you know, I could understand,
um, but I don't know howthat whole process. And a new
(22:00):
speculation map has come out for HalloweenHorror Night's thirty two. All right,
what a musical artist Yet not yetpeople have speculated on that. Okay,
So we got last of us UniversalStudios Monsters Paris, okay, Demon Slayer,
the anime, oh that will thatwould probably be big, Like I
(22:22):
don't get anime, but I knowit's huge. The Exorcist Believer, which
is the new Exorcist movie coming outthis year, makes sense. It's probably
like a promotional partnership Chucky, whichthey announced last year. And then there's
one that has labeled Top Secret,which a lot of people are speculating will
be a Stranger Things House. Buton the speculation map. There is a
castle with a dragon outside of it, which could also be stranger things.
(22:47):
Okay, I think the music artistthis year will be Justin Bieber. Justin
Bieber. I was gonna say Metallica, and you tie them into stranger things.
That would be cool because they do. I think they have a new
album. They were featured on thelast season. If you really want to
be tortured, though, I feellike Justin Bieber's Away to Go it is
more tortured. I still wish wecould have seen the Billy Eilish house.
(23:10):
Yeah, I agree. I agree. She's still big. Yes, she's
on a TV show on Amazon now. She smiled yet, Yes she was
at the met Gala like she doessmile. She's so she's doubt she's not
gonna be big much longer she goes. She's a met Gala last year.
That's over downhill from there now.Yep, no, not cool anymore.
Everyone goes to the met Gala.Little Nastexes goes to the met Gala every
(23:32):
year. Weird, Okay, goodfor him, Like, okay, then
you're saying Jenna or take us holdout. No, you're saying Bargo Robbie
sold out. Billy Eilish. Thiswhole thing was she was just you know,
cool with the kids totally. She'santi established. Here's the thing.
Here's the thing. I don't knowif you know this, but people love
celebrities that go to the met Gala. That's not like a detriment anymore.
I don't know. I don't know. If Kurt Cobain went to the Met
(23:53):
Gala, I feel like Nirvana wouldhave lost some popularity and they probably would
have gained even more maybe sellouts.He was actually trying to lose popularity.
Basically, you're basically nickelback at thispoint, he tried to make a crappy
album within utero he still liked,so that he would lose fans and he
only gain more fans. And hewas just like, oh my god,
(24:15):
I can't do anything wrong and Iwant to do wrong. All right,
Well, we're just at the time, So Scott, if people want to
find us on social media to getup the latest breaking news, where can
they go. You can follow uson Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook,
Instagram and TikTok at the theme Parkpodcast, or watch at the theme
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(24:36):
this weekend, stay all the waythrough the credits. All right, there
you go. For Jimmy d ForScott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until
next time, we will see youout at the parks. This has been
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