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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Is this a radio?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris Dar and.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here there is
Jimmy D.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Happy birthday, laurencampbellrealter dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
She did just have her birthday, right.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yes, and I forgot to mention it last episode, so.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Well, this is closer to her actual birthday, So happy birthday, Lauren.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Scott Harris of course is here with us as well,
because he is the glue that holds this whole thing together.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What's going on? What's up? Happy spooky season.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
And happy birthday to Lauren.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Don't forget happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Technically in the spooky season, I don't think it is.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, I would say it's the mid June.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, that's speaky summer. Yeah, that's spooky season.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, it's only spooky if you see me at the
pool without a shirt on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I mean finalization bloodline just came out twenty eight years later,
is about to come out. We're in the hardest spooky season.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
There are a lot of horror movies coming out. We
were just discussing twenty eight years later recently.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, I mean, which wants to go?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
So what you call it?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There was a Dangerous Animals just came out, the Shark movie.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I Still Love Sinners. That was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, that came out in April.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Good movie, quality film.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So in the theme park world, you both went to
theme parks. Scott, I know you're going to another theme
park in the coming days, so why don't we start
with you, because tomorrow you've got Epic Universe, which you
can tell us about next week. But in the meantime
you went somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, I went to well, I wouldn't say I went
to a theme park. I parked at a theme park, okay,
And then we ad ventured around on a skyliner.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That kind of counts. That's that counts as going or
I've been when the skyliner.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
But it's too well you would you say, Scott, you
were crawling?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, not really. Actually, well, you mentioned it was hot.
So we found a TikTok video of like this whole
itinerary of things you can do on like one of
the runs of the Skyliner. It's like, hey, let's do this.
These are places never been to.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So okay, you started Hollywoodment Camp.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, started there, uh, then got on the skyliner, went
over to the Art of Animation mm hmm, walked around there.
I'd never been over there before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Jimmy, did we go to the Art of Animation When
we went to Amanda's Skyliner bar crawl?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't remember if that was one of our stops
we did. Actually that's where it concluded. Okay, because all right,
like Art of Animation and what's the uh like a
sports One's Top Century?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh, Disney All Star? Wait is ourn Animation the major
and everybody else front?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, okay, Yeah, we definitely went.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
That's a cool spot. I liked that. That was a
really nice Actually, I was surprised how nice it was there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, it's like their pool bar is awesome. Yeah, it's
themed to Lion King, little Mermaid cars and finding Nemo. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, cool. A lot of cool things to see there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Then bounce over to Pop Century. Got a drink there,
so yeah, I mean we did it. Said there were drinks,
but it's like we shared a drink, got back on
the skyliner, whenever wander around the Riviera, the fancy hotel Okay, yeah,
smelled like it's you ever like be in a place
and it smells fancy.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, it's a nice it's a nice spot over there.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I didn't feel like when I was there, I didn't
feel like it was so much at a Disney property.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Didn't feel as connected for some reason to me, I
don't know why. Might I have just been the.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Scott the Bay Tower, which is connected to the Contemporary,
which is a DVC hotel. You go in there and
it has a distinct smell yep.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yep, they all do yep.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah. Like the Polynesian. I walk into the Polynesians.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Immediate memories immediately because that was where I always still
parking when I would go to Magic Kingdom with my
daughter was a baby.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
The Polynesian, though, actually has like smells of Hawaii, because
like when I was I was like, oh my god,
that's that's exactly how the Polynesian smells.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, and then we're like, all right, let's get on.
Let's the whole impetus was like, Hey, we want to
get some corn dogs at Boardwalk. Okay, So it's like
we walk over to the skyliner not boarding. No, it
was sunny, very sunny, very sunny.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Too hot for skylinering.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We don't know. They just said not boarding. So it's like,
all right, let's go find some shade to go, like
just wait until we can see it go again. And
then we see it goes like all right, let me
let's rush over there, and then stops again, and it's like,
you know, we talked to them. It's like, hey, we
just want to get to Boardwalk and it's like, well,
you can take a bus to Epcot. It's like yeah,
(05:07):
but that isn't actually going to help us. We want
to get to the back of Epcot. Yes, So it's like,
all right, well you could take a bus to Hollywood
Studios and then take a boat over.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Option.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, it's not a bad option.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I mean they could have told you to take a
bus over to either Beach Club or Boardwalk.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Another option that doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, you have to go to teap you know, ticket
and transportation center and transfer, and.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That bus didn't really exist either. So it's very much
a if the skyliner isn't any The crazy thing is
from where we were stuck, we could see the ball. Basically,
it's like on the other side of like an eight
lane highway.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
You're reminding me of things I don't like about Disney.
Don't do this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I really want to go back. It's just one of
those things where it's like if one mode of transportation
doesn't work, like it such a domino effect on everything else.
So we waited for a bus and that took us
back to Hollywood Studios so we could take the boat.
But the line for the boat got so long that
we weren't under the covering at the dock. So it's
(06:16):
just like and it's like, I'm sorry, but this isn't
a complaint because I understand stuff happens. But if you
lose one mode of transportation, you should be doubling all
of the other things. Like if skyliner's down, you should
have twice the amount of boats getting people around.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We've all been there at closing time in Magic Kingdom,
and we know what a nightmare that is. I mean,
I figured by now they would have had maybe some
better things worked out, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's like, I don't know what it was. It wasn't
like rain or anything. It was like it was a
sunny it was a very sunny day. It wasn't windy
or anything, so something must have happened where they weren't
boarding anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Somebody got microwabbed in the skyliners.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's hot. Well, no, here's the thing. Here's the thing
though when it was you couldn't tell that it was
ninety five degrees outside. Legitimately, the breeze coming through was
so nice.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I've always wondered because I know those things. I mean,
if they're stopped, it's hot in there.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, and that's the that's the concern, I bet, because
it may not be hot in near why the skyliner's moving,
but if there was an emergency situation, that could escalate
to be you know, it's like leaving you know, your
dog in the car while you're in target.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But do you remember that the emergency cut does have
water in it inside of each of the pods.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
That's true, that's true. I don't know if they have
enough water, but they do.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But we did eventually make it too boardwalk.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Did you get your corn dog?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So we got two corn dogs and then we went
to Abrica Dabar and ate them there, okay, because we
were like, hey, is it cool if we eat these?
They're like yeah, sure, go ahead, like you're we're ordering drinks.
So it's like and other people were like, where'd you
these from?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Did you at any point go and scream for the
ice cream place to return?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, which is weird because there is an ice cream
place there, but it's just not the same.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
So the same as Ample Hills.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We got the Mexican street dog Jlapino cheddar sausage cornmeal
batter topped with garlic, mayo, corn, kohita cheese, and cilantro.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Wonderful, sound bad?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It was delicious. And then the Golden Dragon all beef
hot dog corn meal with Pinco bread crumbs, served with
saracha mayo in a sweet tie chili.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, it sounds good too. But what was the winner
of those two?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This Mexican treet dog. They were both good, but that
was the clear winner. Want to go back though, because
they have a giant mozzarella stick.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh I have seen this? Yeah have you seen the
poll apart videos? It's like unboxing videos.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, giant mozzarella stick coated in garlic in Italian seasoned
Pinco breadcrumbs.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Almost with a large side of marinera I assume.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But they also yesum, but it also They also have
the pickle Dog, which is an all beef hot dog
wrapped in a dill pickle, fried in cormeal batter, rolled
in Pinco bread crumbs, served with peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I want to take a bite and try it. I
don't know that I want a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
One, exactly. I pushed that stand in the lake. I
want to try. I want to. I want to try
it one day, Scott.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
We'll roll out. Yeah, let's roll out there and we'll
bring a bunch of people and just chop it up
and everybody can have a bite.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But even though we couldn't get ample Hill's creamery, r
I p we stand a legend went over to the
cake bake shop. Okay, so that's new. I don't know
that one, which is the very fancy dessert restaurant. It's
the one you see.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, Oh, ESPN zonees gone gone and they got a
cake shop there now.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, correct, Well there's a restaurant, but there's also a
cake shop next to it. It's all tied into the
same place. All right. We got the pixie fetti birthday cake.
You send us a picture. This looks like a healthy
sized piece of cake. Twenty two dollars. It is pricey,
but it was one of the best cakes I've ever had.
(10:23):
It might be the best frosting I've ever had in
a cake slice.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No, you have the whole cake for that slice.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Slice one slice? One slice?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Was it bigger than your head?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It was a It was a good portion of cake,
cake slice, no burden or nothing in it. Just Nope.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I got that when I got that thing at the
Mexico it was the It was the replica of the
building with the moose and the ice cream, and the
thing was giant like, it was massive. That was like
thirty five bucks twenty two dollars for a single slice.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's a very divisive this this place. But I will
say after trying it, I want to go back and
try with every single their flavor they have. There's a
Neapolitan eleven blueberry a millionaire. There's a kookie dough cake,
which is one that I really want to try.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Go to be a millionaire to try it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There, red velvet carrot cake, raspberry champagne. There's an Oprah cake.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean, at that price, you cannot ever have a miss.
You can't have a cake that's piece of cake that's
slightly stale or just not quite right. You know, you
go to a fast food joint or you go to
any restaurant quick service at Disney, and like, sometimes it's great,
sometimes it's terrible. They can't have an off night. If
you're charging twenty two bucks for a piece of cake,
(11:44):
everything's got to be perfect every single time.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It was delicious. Highly recommend if you want to if
you want to splurge a little bit, highly recommend.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Okay, all right, I mean that's that is a splurge.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I will, I will, I will. I will call that
one a splurge for real. I'm not saying I wouldn't
do it, but yeah I would. I would definitely need
to see, uh, make sure everybody's saying five stars at
all times.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Scott, you've got that KQ eight and Captain Jacksbury treasure
from Alehouse sitting next to in front of you at
the table. Which one are you going to first?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
K eight?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Wow, that's a that's a bold statement.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's gotten pretty expensive too. Ten bucks for a piece
of Camptain jacket's a lot too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, that's because you asked them to like deep fry
it and cover it and other stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I think it basically is when you get it, it
sounds like you had a successful trip out though.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, minus the little delay with the skyliner, in
the fact that it was like ninety five degrees in
the shade, it was it was. It was a very
good day.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I don't like walking outside right now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Jimmy, you seem to be brave enough to go out
and hit a theme park in the dead of summer,
which we do not recommend here on the theme Park podcast.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Where did you go?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Well, you know, Lauren Campbell real to dot COM's birthday,
so we went out to the Jungle of Navigation Company
Limited Skipper Canteen, which is the Jungle Cruise themed restaurant
is right across from the ride.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Is her favorite ride the Jungle Cruise or is it
the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
There's an everan floated at it question, but as as
of today, you know, at noon, it was Jungle Cruise.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It depends on if it's spooky season or not.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, Hanting Mansion was the favorite for a long time,
as you guys know, because I bought her that Duney
and Burke purse, but it kind of shifted towards Jungle
Cruise a few years ago and hasn't really been displaced yet.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, all right, well let's let's hear it. How how
was your visit out there? Was anything broken?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I will tell you that I got in line and
got one of those Kelsey brother recommended spring rolls right
outside of Ventureland. I got the I've had them both both.
I prefer the cheeseburger one because it's got like that
that you know, secrets, the Big Mac secret sauce kind
of dipper for it, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
So that was my guys.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Ever since those Cereal mashups came out. I don't like
their flavors. I can't trust their tastes. I don't even
know what you're talking about. They came out with Cereal
mash ups and it was like dumb. It was like
dumb things together. It was like fruit loops and cheerios.
I'm like, that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, yeah, those are Those are two. Those are those
popular Cereal flavors that exist.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They don't go together. Though they don't go together, it's
like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're both circles. Nah, they are.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't know if that was what it was, but
I when I saw it, I'm like, no, this is
this is incorrect.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You guys need to try again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Go back to you made it sound like it was. Yeah,
we recommend uh frosted flakes in peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Actually I don't know what it was, but it didn't
appeal to me. Yeah, I'm not seeing the I'm sorry. Anyways,
go on. So we go into Jungle Cruise and it's
been Laura and I realized that we've been to the
parks a lot in the last two years. We have
not been a Magic Kingdom proper in two years.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I feel like that happens a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, like and I don't know how that happened, but
you know, we went on Jungle Cruise, and I like
it's starting to come back to me, like all these
updates that they made to the ride that you know,
we hadn't seen yet because we haven't been back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Did you see the backside of water?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We did see the backside of water under the World. Yeah,
Like there used to be a rhino that had his
horn like poking the guy in the tushy as he
was up the pole. They got rid of the rhino.
Now there's a there's three uh hyenas ye, and then
they had rhino was inappropriate. Huh because of the horn.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I think it was just a different animatronic that they
wanted to put in there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I think, yeah, I don't know that there was There
was nothing, just updating. Yeah, exactly, flavor.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Stop being afraid of change at rides.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I know, it's not like change.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Do things we you.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And then on the after you pass through the temple,
there's a sunken like ship and they had a bunch
of u you know, uh, chimpanzees like swinging around on it.
And I was like, okay, this is new too. And
then the trader Sam stand at the end. It's a
little different. They added an elephant to it. Now it's
like a.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Little trunk and heads. A trunk and head still a thing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Uh No. And he hasn't been there for you know,
him personally has not been on display for some time now.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He's got a restaurant, he's got a he's got a
bar maintained well.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
They they said, uh, he said he would be back
in fifteen minutes, and that was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
No, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And then, uh, the other thing that I noticed is, uh,
you know, we did Pirates of the Caribbean, you know,
pretty reliable and then we went over to Haunted Mansion
and I had not seen how they added the hat
Box ghost to the Orlando version of the ride, and
I thought it was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I really learned it right, that's Jared Letto? Correct?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Oh, is that the Jared Letto hat Box Ghost?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, I mean, if you watch that movie, I don't
think you could tell that Jared Letto is in it
until you see the credits. It's Wait Coast a lot
of times.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
How are the lines on the rides you chose?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Anything that was not a roller coaster, with the exception
of Peter Pan was like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, something Peter Pan's always backed up? What's wrong with Peter?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Something weird is happening with the attendance at a lot
of these parks lately.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
And then going on for a couple of years. I
remember July fourth last year, like the park was dead.
It was dead on July fourth.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, Well, it was pretty light and the busiest. The
longest line I saw was like seventy five minutes, and
I want to say that was mind train. Yeah, I
don't think. I don't think Tron got above forty five.
We still had a bunch of stuff that we wanted
to go on, and I mean that kind of a wait.
That's nothing for Tron. So we were like, we're gonna
(18:08):
go do it. We just ran out of time before
we could.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wait.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
If you done Tron, Jimmy, are you are you willing
to ride Tron?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But I am willing to go into the gift shop
and leave money there.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Okay, that's good, that's fair enough. Yes, so good day.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't you can't predict these steam park wait times anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
There used to be an ebb and flow too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
We used to know the fall would be quieter, the
period between spring and summer quieter.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Now you never know, no, but there's still the reliable
of knowing, like, hey, it's rained, it's later in the day,
it's going to die down a little bit.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
True.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
True, even though the park was pretty light, we were
leaving like at nine o'clock and the fireworks were starting
at nine to twenty. So this is already like the
build up of people like and they let you like
hang out in the middle of main Street now to
watch the fireworks. And all I could think about when
we believing the park is like, how is there not
like an Expressway to just get out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
It's always a nightmare to get out of Magic Kings.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Experience in the world is leaving that park bridge.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
No, I'm not even just I'm not even just talking
about that, Scott. But do you know how like when
Epcot was under construction with the whole center part and
they had like multiple ways to get in the Yeah,
I wish those exits were still there, like and like
have a way to like open up the park so
that everybody can get out faster.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It's a nightmare that. That is the one thing I
hate about Magic Kingdams leaving It's so hard. It's such
a challenge.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you know what though, normally, like I've timed it before,
and there's been a bunch of times where I timed
it was like a fifty minute experience to go from
like frontier Land to your car, and this time it
was like twenty minutes. It was really, you know, it
was fairly easy to get through.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Sometimes you catch it right. Sometimes you catch it just
right and it's golden.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Other times you're stuck in a nightmare loop for an
hour and a you never notice.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You're watching two rounds of fireworks.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yes, Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I have been at Magic Kingdom and been at the
fireworks and seeing the monorail go down, so yeah, I
know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yes, all right, well it sounds like a successful birthday
trip out there. Yes, that was more Campbell dot Com
had a good time.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah she did. And the food at that at the
Skipper's canteen is pretty spot on.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Ok, all right, that's that is what I have not
done yet. It's it's a little on the price heier
side from Magic Kingdom, right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I got taste like chicken because it is, and it
was like nineteen dollars for the entree.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. Seems about avers then, I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Oh, but they have they have a drink and I
sent you guys pictures of it. It is orange dull
whip and then some other stuff that they mix it
and make it a milkshake essentially, and fantastic.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You got that, of course you got that?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Of course. Well I'm glad I did because like everybody
was so and there was no opportunity for me to
get dull Whip otherwise. Plus I had already gotten the
spring roll, you know, so it's like you know, full Balan.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, all right, all right, well we we should probably
dive into a touch of news, should we not, Scott Harris,
because we don't have a ton of time left.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, I can run through this very quickly. Well, speaking
of Magic Kingdom, they're doing two days of fourth July
fireworks July third and fourth.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Okay, this is more fireworks Disney.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's going to Disneys Celebrate America a Fourth of July
concert in the Sky.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
See, they're trying to bring the people outcause people didn't
go last year.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They just they did. The thing is like it gets
busy at night at the parks because people want to
see fireworks.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
During the day.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It was it, Yeah, because usually during the day people
just like want to do stuff with their family.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Okay, well I'd go to the parks with my family
if I had passes.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, then you could buy them. They are readily available.
Speaking of Disney, we now have an opening date for
Test Track, which is July twenty second.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Okay, so how much do you think are we gonna
see changed on test trackers are going to be exactly
the same.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So my my guess is they're gonna do a thing
where you kind of a zigzag like down the road
again this I think these are like off the Dome.
There's gonna be a thing where you go really fast
then stop.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Okay, that's testing the breaks. Sure.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then there's gonna be a thing where you go into
a place and it's really hot and then it'll be
really cold, okay, and then at some point you'll be
outside and you'll be going really fast.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That that sounds like it sounds like a great ride.
I mean again, they closed, but it sounds like a
great ride.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I don't. I mean again, I don't know if they'll
be able to pull off these creative ideas. But that's
just a hypothesis for for what it'll be like.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I wish I wish you could hear an eyroll, I
really do.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Next month, we'll seebe maybe it's gonna come back. It's
gonna have like a ton of cool changes.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Here's gonna be completely different from the last iteration, because
the last iteration was kind of like very tron esque
without calling e tron. And then this time they're going
to go into a bunch of safety features that are
on modern cars, and then it's going to have like
you know, so it's going to go back to original
closer to the original version of it, but like a
(23:23):
little bit uh souped up, Well, you know, freshened up.
You probably won't have the same kinds of like you know,
we're gonna do the to do the cold test.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know, one of their big tests was the automatic
breaking and like, well we all have that now.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Very quickly though, It's sorry, it's I have this wrong.
It's test track presented by General Motors, of.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Course it is. Yes, General it is going to keep
that sponsorship.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I just wanted to bring bring back.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
In kind you know, they get gmc GM vehicles and
then they have it on the test track sponsorship.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Just bring back the chaotic crash test dummy like shit
that test track one point zero had. That was awesome.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I did like that very quickly. Jason's coming to hallween Hornite. Sorry,
the Jason universe is coming to halleen Hornites.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So this is all Jason movies, potentially everything, potentially yes,
any iteration of Jason could be there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yes, and maybe all of them. Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
All right, Well, well, Scott Harris, if people want to
find us on social media to get more late breaking news,
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Speaker 2 (24:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Is this a radio?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris Dar and.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here there is
Jimmy D.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Happy birthday, laurencampbellrealter dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
She did just have her birthday, right.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yes, and I forgot to mention it last episode, so.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Well, this is closer to her actual birthday, So happy birthday, Lauren.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Scott Harris of course is here with us as well,
because he is the glue that holds this whole thing together.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What's going on? What's up? Happy spooky season.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
And happy birthday to Lauren.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Don't forget happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Technically in the spooky season, I don't think it is.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, I would say it's the mid June.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, that's speaky summer. Yeah, that's spooky season.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, it's only spooky if you see me at the
pool without a shirt on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I mean finalization bloodline just came out twenty eight years later,
is about to come out. We're in the hardest spooky season.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
There are a lot of horror movies coming out. We
were just discussing twenty eight years later recently.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, I mean, which wants to go?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
So what you call it?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There was a Dangerous Animals just came out, the Shark movie.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I Still Love Sinners. That was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, that came out in April.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Good movie, quality film.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So in the theme park world, you both went to
theme parks. Scott, I know you're going to another theme
park in the coming days, so why don't we start
with you, because tomorrow you've got Epic Universe, which you
can tell us about next week. But in the meantime
you went somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, I went to well, I wouldn't say I went
to a theme park. I parked at a theme park, okay,
And then we ad ventured around on a skyliner.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That kind of counts. That's that counts as going or
I've been when the skyliner.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
But it's too well you would you say, Scott, you
were crawling?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, not really. Actually, well, you mentioned it was hot.
So we found a TikTok video of like this whole
itinerary of things you can do on like one of
the runs of the Skyliner. It's like, hey, let's do this.
These are places never been to.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So okay, you started Hollywoodment Camp.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, started there, uh, then got on the skyliner, went
over to the Art of Animation mm hmm, walked around there.
I'd never been over there before.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Jimmy, did we go to the Art of Animation When
we went to Amanda's Skyliner bar crawl?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't remember if that was one of our stops
we did. Actually that's where it concluded. Okay, because all right,
like Art of Animation and what's the uh like a
sports One's Top Century?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh, Disney All Star? Wait is ourn Animation the major
and everybody else front?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, okay, Yeah, we definitely went.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
That's a cool spot. I liked that. That was a
really nice Actually, I was surprised how nice it was there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, it's like their pool bar is awesome. Yeah, it's
themed to Lion King, little Mermaid cars and finding Nemo. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, cool. A lot of cool things to see there.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Then bounce over to Pop Century. Got a drink there,
so yeah, I mean we did it. Said there were drinks,
but it's like we shared a drink, got back on
the skyliner, whenever wander around the Riviera, the fancy hotel Okay, yeah,
smelled like it's you ever like be in a place
and it smells fancy.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, it's a nice it's a nice spot over there.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I didn't feel like when I was there, I didn't
feel like it was so much at a Disney property.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Didn't feel as connected for some reason to me, I
don't know why. Might I have just been the.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Scott the Bay Tower, which is connected to the Contemporary,
which is a DVC hotel. You go in there and
it has a distinct smell yep.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yep, they all do yep.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah. Like the Polynesian. I walk into the Polynesians.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Immediate memories immediately because that was where I always still
parking when I would go to Magic Kingdom with my
daughter was a baby.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
The Polynesian, though, actually has like smells of Hawaii, because
like when I was I was like, oh my god,
that's that's exactly how the Polynesian smells.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, and then we're like, all right, let's get on.
Let's the whole impetus was like, Hey, we want to
get some corn dogs at Boardwalk. Okay, So it's like
we walk over to the skyliner not boarding. No, it
was sunny, very sunny, very sunny.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Too hot for skylinering.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We don't know. They just said not boarding. So it's like,
all right, let's go find some shade to go, like
just wait until we can see it go again. And
then we see it goes like all right, let me
let's rush over there, and then stops again, and it's like,
you know, we talked to them. It's like, hey, we
just want to get to Boardwalk and it's like, well,
you can take a bus to Epcot. It's like yeah,
(05:07):
but that isn't actually going to help us. We want
to get to the back of Epcot. Yes, So it's like,
all right, well you could take a bus to Hollywood
Studios and then take a boat over.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Option.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, it's not a bad option.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I mean they could have told you to take a
bus over to either Beach Club or Boardwalk.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Another option that doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, you have to go to teap you know, ticket
and transportation center and transfer, and.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That bus didn't really exist either. So it's very much
a if the skyliner isn't any The crazy thing is
from where we were stuck, we could see the ball. Basically,
it's like on the other side of like an eight
lane highway.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
You're reminding me of things I don't like about Disney.
Don't do this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I really want to go back. It's just one of
those things where it's like if one mode of transportation
doesn't work, like it such a domino effect on everything else.
So we waited for a bus and that took us
back to Hollywood Studios so we could take the boat.
But the line for the boat got so long that
we weren't under the covering at the dock. So it's
(06:16):
just like and it's like, I'm sorry, but this isn't
a complaint because I understand stuff happens. But if you
lose one mode of transportation, you should be doubling all
of the other things. Like if skyliner's down, you should
have twice the amount of boats getting people around.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We've all been there at closing time in Magic Kingdom,
and we know what a nightmare that is. I mean,
I figured by now they would have had maybe some
better things worked out, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's like, I don't know what it was. It wasn't
like rain or anything. It was like it was a
sunny it was a very sunny day. It wasn't windy
or anything, so something must have happened where they weren't
boarding anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Somebody got microwabbed in the skyliners.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's hot. Well, no, here's the thing. Here's the thing
though when it was you couldn't tell that it was
ninety five degrees outside. Legitimately, the breeze coming through was
so nice.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I've always wondered because I know those things. I mean,
if they're stopped, it's hot in there.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, and that's the that's the concern, I bet, because
it may not be hot in near why the skyliner's moving,
but if there was an emergency situation, that could escalate
to be you know, it's like leaving you know, your
dog in the car while you're in target.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But do you remember that the emergency cut does have
water in it inside of each of the pods.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
That's true, that's true. I don't know if they have
enough water, but they do.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But we did eventually make it too boardwalk.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Did you get your corn dog?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So we got two corn dogs and then we went
to Abrica Dabar and ate them there, okay, because we
were like, hey, is it cool if we eat these?
They're like yeah, sure, go ahead, like you're we're ordering drinks.
So it's like and other people were like, where'd you
these from?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Did you at any point go and scream for the
ice cream place to return?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, which is weird because there is an ice cream
place there, but it's just not the same.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
So the same as Ample Hills.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We got the Mexican street dog Jlapino cheddar sausage cornmeal
batter topped with garlic, mayo, corn, kohita cheese, and cilantro.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Wonderful, sound bad?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It was delicious. And then the Golden Dragon all beef
hot dog corn meal with Pinco bread crumbs, served with
saracha mayo in a sweet tie chili.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, it sounds good too. But what was the winner
of those two?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This Mexican treet dog. They were both good, but that
was the clear winner. Want to go back though, because
they have a giant mozzarella stick.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh I have seen this? Yeah have you seen the
poll apart videos? It's like unboxing videos.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, giant mozzarella stick coated in garlic in Italian seasoned
Pinco breadcrumbs.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Almost with a large side of marinera I assume.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But they also yesum, but it also They also have
the pickle Dog, which is an all beef hot dog
wrapped in a dill pickle, fried in cormeal batter, rolled
in Pinco bread crumbs, served with peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I want to take a bite and try it. I
don't know that I want a whole.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
One, exactly. I pushed that stand in the lake. I
want to try. I want to. I want to try
it one day, Scott.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
We'll roll out. Yeah, let's roll out there and we'll
bring a bunch of people and just chop it up
and everybody can have a bite.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But even though we couldn't get ample Hill's creamery, r
I p we stand a legend went over to the
cake bake shop. Okay, so that's new. I don't know
that one, which is the very fancy dessert restaurant. It's
the one you see.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, Oh, ESPN zonees gone gone and they got a
cake shop there now.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, correct, Well there's a restaurant, but there's also a
cake shop next to it. It's all tied into the
same place. All right. We got the pixie fetti birthday cake.
You send us a picture. This looks like a healthy
sized piece of cake. Twenty two dollars. It is pricey,
but it was one of the best cakes I've ever had.
(10:23):
It might be the best frosting I've ever had in
a cake slice.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
No, you have the whole cake for that slice.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Slice one slice? One slice?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Was it bigger than your head?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It was a It was a good portion of cake,
cake slice, no burden or nothing in it. Just Nope.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I got that when I got that thing at the
Mexico it was the It was the replica of the
building with the moose and the ice cream, and the
thing was giant like, it was massive. That was like
thirty five bucks twenty two dollars for a single slice.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's a very divisive this this place. But I will
say after trying it, I want to go back and
try with every single their flavor they have. There's a
Neapolitan eleven blueberry a millionaire. There's a kookie dough cake,
which is one that I really want to try.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Go to be a millionaire to try it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
There, red velvet carrot cake, raspberry champagne. There's an Oprah cake.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean, at that price, you cannot ever have a miss.
You can't have a cake that's piece of cake that's
slightly stale or just not quite right. You know, you
go to a fast food joint or you go to
any restaurant quick service at Disney, and like, sometimes it's great,
sometimes it's terrible. They can't have an off night. If
you're charging twenty two bucks for a piece of cake,
(11:44):
everything's got to be perfect every single time.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It was delicious. Highly recommend if you want to if
you want to splurge a little bit, highly recommend.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Okay, all right, I mean that's that is a splurge.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I will, I will, I will. I will call that
one a splurge for real. I'm not saying I wouldn't
do it, but yeah I would. I would definitely need
to see, uh, make sure everybody's saying five stars at
all times.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Scott, you've got that KQ eight and Captain Jacksbury treasure
from Alehouse sitting next to in front of you at
the table. Which one are you going to first?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
K eight?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Wow, that's a that's a bold statement.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's gotten pretty expensive too. Ten bucks for a piece
of Camptain jacket's a lot too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, that's because you asked them to like deep fry
it and cover it and other stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I think it basically is when you get it, it
sounds like you had a successful trip out though.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, minus the little delay with the skyliner, in
the fact that it was like ninety five degrees in
the shade, it was it was. It was a very
good day.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I don't like walking outside right now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Jimmy, you seem to be brave enough to go out
and hit a theme park in the dead of summer,
which we do not recommend here on the theme Park podcast.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Where did you go?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Well, you know, Lauren Campbell real to dot COM's birthday,
so we went out to the Jungle of Navigation Company
Limited Skipper Canteen, which is the Jungle Cruise themed restaurant
is right across from the ride.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Is her favorite ride the Jungle Cruise or is it
the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
There's an everan floated at it question, but as as
of today, you know, at noon, it was Jungle Cruise.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It depends on if it's spooky season or not.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, Hanting Mansion was the favorite for a long time,
as you guys know, because I bought her that Duney
and Burke purse, but it kind of shifted towards Jungle
Cruise a few years ago and hasn't really been displaced yet.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, all right, well let's let's hear it. How how
was your visit out there? Was anything broken?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I will tell you that I got in line and
got one of those Kelsey brother recommended spring rolls right
outside of Ventureland. I got the I've had them both both.
I prefer the cheeseburger one because it's got like that
that you know, secrets, the Big Mac secret sauce kind
of dipper for it, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
So that was my guys.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Ever since those Cereal mashups came out. I don't like
their flavors. I can't trust their tastes. I don't even
know what you're talking about. They came out with Cereal
mash ups and it was like dumb. It was like
dumb things together. It was like fruit loops and cheerios.
I'm like, that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, yeah, those are Those are two. Those are those
popular Cereal flavors that exist.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They don't go together. Though they don't go together, it's
like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're both circles. Nah, they are.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't know if that was what it was, but
I when I saw it, I'm like, no, this is
this is incorrect.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You guys need to try again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Go back to you made it sound like it was. Yeah,
we recommend uh frosted flakes in peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Actually I don't know what it was, but it didn't
appeal to me. Yeah, I'm not seeing the I'm sorry. Anyways,
go on. So we go into Jungle Cruise and it's
been Laura and I realized that we've been to the
parks a lot in the last two years. We have
not been a Magic Kingdom proper in two years.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I feel like that happens a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, like and I don't know how that happened, but
you know, we went on Jungle Cruise, and I like
it's starting to come back to me, like all these
updates that they made to the ride that you know,
we hadn't seen yet because we haven't been back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Did you see the backside of water?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We did see the backside of water under the World. Yeah,
Like there used to be a rhino that had his
horn like poking the guy in the tushy as he
was up the pole. They got rid of the rhino.
Now there's a there's three uh hyenas ye, and then
they had rhino was inappropriate. Huh because of the horn.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I think it was just a different animatronic that they
wanted to put in there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I think, yeah, I don't know that there was There
was nothing, just updating. Yeah, exactly, flavor.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Stop being afraid of change at rides.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I know, it's not like change.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Do things we you.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And then on the after you pass through the temple,
there's a sunken like ship and they had a bunch
of u you know, uh, chimpanzees like swinging around on it.
And I was like, okay, this is new too. And
then the trader Sam stand at the end. It's a
little different. They added an elephant to it. Now it's
like a.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Little trunk and heads. A trunk and head still a thing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Uh No. And he hasn't been there for you know,
him personally has not been on display for some time now.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He's got a restaurant, he's got a he's got a
bar maintained well.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
They they said, uh, he said he would be back
in fifteen minutes, and that was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
No, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And then, uh, the other thing that I noticed is, uh,
you know, we did Pirates of the Caribbean, you know,
pretty reliable and then we went over to Haunted Mansion
and I had not seen how they added the hat
Box ghost to the Orlando version of the ride, and
I thought it was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I really learned it right, that's Jared Letto? Correct?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Oh, is that the Jared Letto hat Box Ghost?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, I mean, if you watch that movie, I don't
think you could tell that Jared Letto is in it
until you see the credits. It's Wait Coast a lot
of times.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
How are the lines on the rides you chose?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Anything that was not a roller coaster, with the exception
of Peter Pan was like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, something Peter Pan's always backed up? What's wrong with Peter?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Something weird is happening with the attendance at a lot
of these parks lately.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
And then going on for a couple of years. I
remember July fourth last year, like the park was dead.
It was dead on July fourth.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, Well, it was pretty light and the busiest. The
longest line I saw was like seventy five minutes, and
I want to say that was mind train. Yeah, I
don't think. I don't think Tron got above forty five.
We still had a bunch of stuff that we wanted
to go on, and I mean that kind of a wait.
That's nothing for Tron. So we were like, we're gonna
(18:08):
go do it. We just ran out of time before
we could.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wait.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
If you done Tron, Jimmy, are you are you willing
to ride Tron?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But I am willing to go into the gift shop
and leave money there.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Okay, that's good, that's fair enough. Yes, so good day.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't you can't predict these steam park wait times anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
There used to be an ebb and flow too.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
We used to know the fall would be quieter, the
period between spring and summer quieter.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Now you never know, no, but there's still the reliable
of knowing, like, hey, it's rained, it's later in the day,
it's going to die down a little bit.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
True.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
True, even though the park was pretty light, we were
leaving like at nine o'clock and the fireworks were starting
at nine to twenty. So this is already like the
build up of people like and they let you like
hang out in the middle of main Street now to
watch the fireworks. And all I could think about when
we believing the park is like, how is there not
like an Expressway to just get out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
It's always a nightmare to get out of Magic Kings.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Experience in the world is leaving that park bridge.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
No, I'm not even just I'm not even just talking
about that, Scott. But do you know how like when
Epcot was under construction with the whole center part and
they had like multiple ways to get in the Yeah,
I wish those exits were still there, like and like
have a way to like open up the park so
that everybody can get out faster.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It's a nightmare that. That is the one thing I
hate about Magic Kingdams leaving It's so hard. It's such
a challenge.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you know what though, normally, like I've timed it before,
and there's been a bunch of times where I timed
it was like a fifty minute experience to go from
like frontier Land to your car, and this time it
was like twenty minutes. It was really, you know, it
was fairly easy to get through.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Sometimes you catch it right. Sometimes you catch it just
right and it's golden.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Other times you're stuck in a nightmare loop for an
hour and a you never notice.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You're watching two rounds of fireworks.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yes, Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I have been at Magic Kingdom and been at the
fireworks and seeing the monorail go down, so yeah, I
know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yes, all right, well it sounds like a successful birthday
trip out there. Yes, that was more Campbell dot Com
had a good time.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah she did. And the food at that at the
Skipper's canteen is pretty spot on.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Ok, all right, that's that is what I have not
done yet. It's it's a little on the price heier
side from Magic Kingdom, right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I got taste like chicken because it is, and it
was like nineteen dollars for the entree.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. Seems about avers then, I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Oh, but they have they have a drink and I
sent you guys pictures of it. It is orange dull
whip and then some other stuff that they mix it
and make it a milkshake essentially, and fantastic.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You got that, of course you got that?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Of course. Well I'm glad I did because like everybody
was so and there was no opportunity for me to
get dull Whip otherwise. Plus I had already gotten the
spring roll, you know, so it's like you know, full Balan.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, all right, all right, well we we should probably
dive into a touch of news, should we not, Scott Harris,
because we don't have a ton of time left.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, I can run through this very quickly. Well, speaking
of Magic Kingdom, they're doing two days of fourth July
fireworks July third and fourth.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Okay, this is more fireworks Disney.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's going to Disneys Celebrate America a Fourth of July
concert in the Sky.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
See, they're trying to bring the people outcause people didn't
go last year.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They just they did. The thing is like it gets
busy at night at the parks because people want to
see fireworks.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
During the day.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It was it, Yeah, because usually during the day people
just like want to do stuff with their family.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Okay, well I'd go to the parks with my family
if I had passes.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, then you could buy them. They are readily available.
Speaking of Disney, we now have an opening date for
Test Track, which is July twenty second.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Okay, so how much do you think are we gonna
see changed on test trackers are going to be exactly
the same.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So my my guess is they're gonna do a thing
where you kind of a zigzag like down the road
again this I think these are like off the Dome.
There's gonna be a thing where you go really fast
then stop.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Okay, that's testing the breaks. Sure.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then there's gonna be a thing where you go into
a place and it's really hot and then it'll be
really cold, okay, and then at some point you'll be
outside and you'll be going really fast.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That that sounds like it sounds like a great ride.
I mean again, they closed, but it sounds like a
great ride.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I don't. I mean again, I don't know if they'll
be able to pull off these creative ideas. But that's
just a hypothesis for for what it'll be like.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I wish I wish you could hear an eyroll, I
really do.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Next month, we'll seebe maybe it's gonna come back. It's
gonna have like a ton of cool changes.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Here's gonna be completely different from the last iteration, because
the last iteration was kind of like very tron esque
without calling e tron. And then this time they're going
to go into a bunch of safety features that are
on modern cars, and then it's going to have like
you know, so it's going to go back to original
closer to the original version of it, but like a
(23:23):
little bit uh souped up, Well, you know, freshened up.
You probably won't have the same kinds of like you know,
we're gonna do the to do the cold test.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know, one of their big tests was the automatic
breaking and like, well we all have that now.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Very quickly though, It's sorry, it's I have this wrong.
It's test track presented by General Motors, of.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Course it is. Yes, General it is going to keep
that sponsorship.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I just wanted to bring bring back.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
In kind you know, they get gmc GM vehicles and
then they have it on the test track sponsorship.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Just bring back the chaotic crash test dummy like shit
that test track one point zero had. That was awesome.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I did like that very quickly. Jason's coming to hallween Hornite. Sorry,
the Jason universe is coming to halleen Hornites.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So this is all Jason movies, potentially everything, potentially yes,
any iteration of Jason could be there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yes, and maybe all of them. Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
All right, Well, well, Scott Harris, if people want to
find us on social media to get more late breaking news,
where can they go?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Youve FoST on Twitter, Theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok
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themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And so Trudition comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
Realtor dot com, t boga Zebo Studio, Sports Emity for
Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will
see you out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
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