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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Is this on radio?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
there is Jimmy T. Good day, gentlemen, and the man
who has just recently returned from an epic adventure. Mister
Scott Harris?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
What's going on? Happy spooky season? Everyone?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's no spooky seasons?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What do you no? No, no, what do you what
do you mean?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Clown in a cornfield comes out this week in theaters.
Next week is Final Destination Bloodlines. What are you talking about?
It isn't spooky season, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I thought since this guy just went to Epic Universe,
he would understand that this is epic season. It's not
spooky season yet. It's a different theme for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Oh you mean you mean where I got to hang
out with the bride or where I got to hang
out with the Invisible Man.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Dickerman.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Well, first of all, I'm admiring my mustache on the
stream and it looks really good. Not great for radio.
But what I wanted to say Dickerman is he's kind
of right. I mean the like he just named off
all those movies that he just talked about, and then
what's the biggest movie in the world right now, Sinners.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So that I enjoyed that. It was a good movie and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, I'm right, I'm right in Central Florida. It is
Epic season. I'm just I'm sticking with it. I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna stop, and I just want to
get into it because finally, a member of this show
was the last one in the state of Florida to
go to Epic Universe. That got Harris.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I mean, anyone can go, any you. Anyone is able
to buy preview tickets now, like if you wanted to go,
you can buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Annual pass holders or anyone, anyone. Okay, all right, well,
I'm gonna you know what, I'm going to base my
decision solely on your view you're about to share with
us right now. We need to just dive into it.
If you don't mind, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What do you want to know about it. How do
you want to do you experience?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do you want to ask me chronologically? I want to
I want to start. I want to start with how
your day began, your first steps into the theme park,
the whole, the whole shebang.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
All right, that's two different things, because chronologically, I woke
up at eight twenty five that morning, I made breakfast,
I got dressed.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now let's talk about let's talk about it. Let's talk
about your initial impressions. You scan your ticket, you'll walk inside.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Well, first of all, I will say, parking lot is
just it gave me Old Universal Studios vibes, really, because
it's just a parking lot. It is not a parking structure.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I didn't even know they had their own parking lot.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Where do you think people are gonna park?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They're gonna just Shelly you from CityWalk. No, I'm so
out of the loop on this.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We talked about the names of the sections.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yeah, that was like a whole like segment on the
show A and B. Those parking garages are already full
with the three parks that they have on that side
of I.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Four mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well I'm happy about this. Now. In two weeks when
we discussed this again them like, holy crap, there's a
parking lot there. I'm going to be so excited.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well, I will say getting there was a new experience
because it's like I'm gonna have to put this into
like GPS, because it's like I've never driven to this
place before and I'm going on new roads that didn't exist.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So it's true epic. It's like Epic Lane or something
like that. We drove by it when they're like, oh
my god, there it is.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
So it's like I'm really trusting ways that would be
completely accurate because I want to get there. But you know,
I was parked in Dragon four oh seven, which you
know easy to remember because you know there's one of
the things.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well they charge you for that parking.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, I'm an annual passolders. I didn't pay for anything.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Okay, Well that's good to know that, Daniel pass holder.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
On whatever day I go Scott, Okay, I'm gonna need
a ride.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
All right, just just to leave the car running in
music on that I like, so I don't pass out
in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Leave to come back and pick me up when I'm done.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But you know, you walk up and had to go
over to guest services to get a thing taken care of.
Actually no, I will say it was raining on Sunday
when I went, so it was a little bit of
all right, let's wait for this thunderstorm, which is we
hadn't had in months to get over with, you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Know, the one thunderstorm we get and like we haven't
had one in like four months that you get in
your Epic Universe day.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which is fine.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean we got there early. Anyways, the park opened
at eleven when we were there. We arrived at ten o'clock,
so we we factored a lot of this into account.
And I will say that the wait for guest services
meant that the turnstile, entrance gate was done by the
time we were the time that we we're done with
what we needed taken care of. So after that, walk
(05:03):
right in and it is truly awe inspiring. The tower,
the Cronos tower is huge. All of it is huge.
All of these things are massive. Like you you look
at the aerial pictures and you're like, well, I've been
a Universal, I've been to Islands of a Venture. It's
like it feels completely different than that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And did it feel like you like entered like like
we've talked about before these worlds. Did it feel like
you've kind of left like where you were and entered
into a whole new world.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yes, And the biggest thing was, you know, it's when
you walk in, it's very much like it kind of
guides you over to the left, which is Super Nintendo Land.
You can go to the right, but it just seems
a little bit easier, just kind of the way things
are laid out a little bit. So it's like, all right,
let's go over to Super Nintendo Land and you walk
(05:57):
into the green tunnel into the pipe.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, you guys don't want to do that right when.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It makes the sound as you're going through it. Yeah,
and you know there's lights, there's it's actually an escalator
because the way that that land is situated, it's very
much like in a bowl. So when you walk in,
you're on the second level. It's like when you go
to the Alsbot Mall and you go on through certain
sections and you're like, oh, I'm on the I'm on
(06:25):
the second floor.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So that is how it is.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And you walk in there and you literally feel like
you've walked into a theme, You've walked into a video game.
You see nothing else around. You see nothing else except
all of these Mario characters moving.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The music is on point.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It it changes around a little bit, so it's sometimes
it's it's from like Super Mario. Sometimes it's from Super
Mario sixty four. It just kind of it's slowly transitions
between different games and you walk around. There's blocks that
you can hit and you'll get points if you have
a power band. There's just so much stuff going on.
There's like binoculars that you can Yes, what powerband did
(07:05):
you get? I didn't get a power band. When I
go back, I'm gonna get This whole trip was just
I'm gonna try to do as much as I can
while it is still a little bit of a reduced
capacity because during these previews it is a reduced capacity
when I go. When I go back on the nineteenth,
it'll be a little bit more, and when I go
back in June it will be a lot more people
(07:27):
because that is when it is the park has officially opened.
So it was very much like let's let's try to
cram in as many things as we possibly can. Got
in the Yoshi ride was a five minute wait, boom,
let's go do that right now? Wow, and that is
very much like a people move a ride like you're
just kind of it just goes at a constant pace
(07:50):
like kind of like Figment or any of these like
dark rides, but it's like indoor outdoor. All of the
amatronics look real, And I know that's weird to say
for video.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Game characters, right, but it was.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It was.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It was awesome. It was amazing.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
And then went and got some food at there's a
Yoshi stand right next to the entrance of Yoshi's ride
and got a little cow zone that looks like the
red shell from Mario Kart.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, delicious. How was it amazing?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It was.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It was like it was the perfect snack for the
start of the day.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There was.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
There was I Pluat a sausage in there inside of
it as well.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's perfect.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then you know, you walk into like we walked into
a couple of stores and it was just like, this
is going to be very bad for my bank account.
After that, walked to the back of Supernintendo saw the
Donkey Kong ride. At the time that we went back there,
it was not open because it is still a technical preview,
not everything is when we open It did open up
(08:56):
later on in the day, but when we kept looking
at like either two hours or one hundred minutes, so
it was just like, I don't know if we're gonna
be able to make this work. Went back into the
main area when upstairs saw where the Mario Kart Bowser's
Challenge ride is, and it's like that alone looks as
big as the pipe that you walk through the portal
(09:21):
and it's Bowser's face.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Up on the second deck, they have a bunch of
like binocular things.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Like, oh, that's cool. I could look across the thing.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
And then you look through it and it's an augmented
reality experience, so you're looking through it and you can
see caring, you can see people on the other side,
but you can also see flying shells and stuff go by.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Did eventually go do Mario Kart Bowser's Challenge, because I
think it was like a forty five minute wait when
we were about halfway through the line, it jumped up
to one hundred minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I think in total.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
We waited about sixty so we kind of got the
the in between of that that ride is amazing. It's
it's like the super version of you know, the buzz
light ears, the men in blacks, the those kind of
shoot him up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Rides twenty five upgrade. Yeah, I mean think about how
technologies advanced since those rides were made and where we've
come to now.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, And it was you know, you get the I
mean you walk through the queue and it's very immersive
where it's just like you're in Bowser's castle. You're seeing
like all sorts of stuff like racing suits and Bowser's
self help books and all sorts of things like that.
You see his throne, which is obviously massive. Then you
walk a little bit further in and you see like
(10:39):
an assembly mine, assembly line making like the bombs and
stuff like that, and it's it's super cool. I wish
I could own like a giant bomb to have like
standing next to me because it was like three feet tall,
and it's it's you know, you get the Mario hat.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yes, did Bowser speak at all while you were in
the castle and was it Jack?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
No, there was no there, there was nothing like that.
Inside you were saying, marry your hat. So you get
them the hat which you have to like tighten onto
your head, and then that is what clicks on. That's
what the AR goggles click onto the augmented reality you.
So the car itself is for four people, so there's
(11:23):
two and two and so you you steer your car.
But then like when you get in the car, you
have to like pick up the headset to click on
to your your hat and there's a little bit of
like a tutorial before you get on the ride and
on once you first start to kind of like, okay,
(11:44):
this is what the experience is like, and it's very
much where you look and when you hit the buttons,
that's where it's going to fire the shells. Oh, so
you're looking, there's all sorts of stuff happening in the
foreground and right in front of you on the the glos.
It's very immersive. It is kind of like a technological achievement.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Now as you're there in the Supernintendo Land and knowing
that you want to experience the entire park and you're
trying to get in as much as you can that
day where you're like I want to see so much more,
but I know I can't stay.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, And luckily, you know, the park was open until nine,
so it was like we had you know, ten hours
inside of this park.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So did that.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I think I got one hundred and thirty three coins,
which was the second highest of my car, So that
was really good. I was really proud of myself with
that performance. Went over to Monster to the Dark Universe
and that's you know, Universal Monsters. The Monsters Unchained I
think was a forty five. It was an hour long
wait and we waited about forty five minutes and it
(12:48):
had single rider, but say no, I want to do
the full queue because I want to get the full
experience and at least the first time. And that ride
is that it's my favorite ride that I have done
at Universe. It is Forbidden Journey on steroids. It is
the same kind of ride mechanism. The animatronics are the
most lifelike things I've ever seen. There is one scene
(13:11):
where you're looking at the Wolfman and he's like crawling
around and it's all done in one continuous thing, like
where he starts and ends up you're moving around him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I don't know how they pull it off.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's some of the things they've done with those both
those Harry Potter rides that already exist. You know, it's
so mind blowing and to see what they can come
up with next, like what you just mentioned right there
is It's magic.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
It was amazing and you know, I would love to
go back and do it again. They have a second
ride there, Curse of the Werewolf, which is we thought
it was like, oh, this is Flight of the Hippogriff,
this is troller coaster. This is one of like, you know,
an all ages roller coaster. First of all, we did
this the last thing that we did at at nine o'clock,
so it was dark and we start going like, oh no,
(14:00):
this is a spinning coaster. Okay, we were not prepared
for that at all, and so we're like spinning, it's dark,
we have no idea where we're going. The car in
front of us was spinning a lot more than we were.
All of a sudden, there is a were wolf that
is starting to attack us. And then we look in
the back and then the the windmill is good like
(14:22):
on fire because it's that time of night where that starts.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So it's like, what is going on right now?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
That sounds like a wonderful experience, but it was.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
It was awesome. I will say this. The street atmosphere
in this park is amazing. You know, in Super Nintendo
they kind of have photo meet and greets with the characters,
but in like the Dark Universe, they just they're kind
of just around. So like I got the picture with uh,
the Invisible Man, my guy, he's just kind of walking around.
Granted he has like an attended with him kind of supervising,
(14:54):
and then they so it's like he just will kind
of start talking to people and mocking them, which she
did to me. And then they have people playing violins
playing music from these classic Monster movies around the park,
around that section of the park, in that portal, So
that was really fun. Winn got a picture with the
(15:16):
bride because she was just out and again kind of
intimidating experience because she starts because I was wearing a
Monster Squad T shirt and she was like, I don't
like the person that's on your shirt. I'm like, well,
I can't do anything about that, Like, well, she doesn't
like Dracula, So I'm like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm sorry, I apology. I would you just like want
me to swap it out? I'll go pick I go,
I will go.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
B seventeen, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
They had a section of creature from the Black Lagoon merchandise.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
And you sent us a picture of you wearing a helmet,
and I was like, he looks like cobra commanders.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You can get a helmet, you can get gloves, and
you can get little footies.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah, when I go back, it's gonna be very bad
for my bank account.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Whenever to how to train your dragon to get food.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
We got some bowls at one point which were pretty good,
and then they had this is gonna be bad for you.
It's basically a cone of garlic bread okay, hollowed out
with the one that we got mac and cheese.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, pork belly.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh that sounds delicious.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
The other one was mac and cheese and goldfish.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's an interesting choice too.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm gonna go back and get that way to go. Yeah,
it was, it was, It was very good.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It sounds like I'm gonna need some pepsid and my
blood pressure medicine.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
And I saw the weight to get a picture with
toothless was about an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, And this is is this is this This isn't
the one that's a Boston Dynamic Star, No.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No, no, this is this is the meat and greet
one where he's like he smiles, Yeah, yeah, there is
another one we saw. We assume he saw them come
out because there a crowd of people.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
So yeah, and I did confirm it. It's not just
for a stage show. The Boston Diamacs dog walks around
the park.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Correct, Okay, that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Saw some of the They have a couple of flying
they have a flying ride and kind of a kid's
coaster which is very reminiscent of seven Dwarves over there.
In addition to the show we didn't do. We didn't
do any of that. Did do the Stardust Racers three times.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Everybody tells me this is the greatest thing around in match.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Okay, first of all, imagine if dueling dragons in Velosa
Coaster had twins.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That sounds insane.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And this is this is.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
The most efficient roller coaster, even more so than Velosa Coaster. Really,
I believe the way I read it is it could
have four cars going at one time, two and two.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And how many how many seats per row is.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
It's ensues We waited the first time, I'm thirty five minutes.
I think it was under that. The next two times
twenty five minutes and you have a choice green or yellow.
I think green is a little bit more intense than yellow.
But this is a true dueling ride. It has flour launches.
It was amazing. It's so it is so good.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Now, as I recall, they they made changes years ago
to dueling dragons because I don't remember what the issue
is wherever, they had to like make some changes. So
I imagine all those thoughts were considered when they made
a new dueling coaster here.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Well, what they did was they have the same kind
of locker system as Velocit coaster.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh that's right. Yeah, so everything comes out.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Everything comes out, and it happens midway through the queue,
just like Velocit coaster.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
So and it is a very efficient system.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that is That is the way to do it.
I think whoever came up with that set up as
far as you know, using that sort of locker system. No,
they're not making five bucks every time you use a locker,
but it makes a lot more sense. It's a lot
more efficient and it's better for the consumer.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Now, Ministry of Magic was open when we were there.
It did not open till three o'clock. This is a
ride that is only on virtual queue right now, and
I will say just a pro tip, it is closed
for the upcoming week. Well, they try to get it
ready for opening day. We tried to get a virtual
queue at three and six o'clock. We were unsuccessful both times.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You talked about this being a limited capacity. I don't
want to get too far off what you're talking about here,
but it was how crowded did it feel to you?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It only felt crowded because you know, sometimes rides break
down and you know, waves happened. They only have It's
a new park. There's only so many rides. Like I said,
Donkey Kong was like a two hour wait at one point.
Other rides were like one hundred minutes, so I mean
Bowser Challenge or about like the Mario Kart got up
to about one hundred minutes as well. So it was
it never felt crowded, but it was just like you know,
(19:47):
sometimes it did feel busy.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What day did you go on again?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I went on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I want a Sunday, Okay, yeah, he went on May
the fourth.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I went to May the fourth. I did order a
butter beer crape. This was the only real problem. This
is the only kind of like I was disappointed part
not in the food, but the you. You it's a
it's only sold at a restaurant where you have to
get a table. It's not just you walk up to
a stand or a cart. It's nothing like that. Yeah,
(20:18):
it took me forty minutes to get it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh yeah, that's a little rock.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
And that's from like from the day of the moment
you crossed the threshold, or from like you sat down
and ordered and it took forty minutes to come to
the table.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It took forty minutes from when I got in the
line to enter the restaurant because I had to wait
ten minutes, ten to fifty minutes just to get a table.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh boy, yeah, so especially on a day when you're
trying to cramp so much.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
In exactly the person I was with, she went to
the other Harry Potter restaurant, got got her food ate
and then came to my table and still waited twenty
minutes with me to get my crape.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You're still here waiting for your crapem buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Okay, I will say so greatest thing of this it
is my new favorite butterbeer item. Okay, butter beer with
cream in a butter beer drizzle.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm gonna have to say that was forty minutes well spent.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That it was.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
It's just what I'm trying to when we're trying to
cram a bunch of stuff in.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It was weir.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The last thing I want to do is wait around.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Exactly for a dessert. And I know a bit's a preview.
I know things are like they're just it is what
it is. After we did everything around when the park closed,
we were like, let's just see if we can go
into Nintendo Land just to like wook around. And we
got and we were there's only like eight other people
in that area before they really start like hurting people out.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It is.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It is so cool.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And anytime you're really in any of these portals, you
never feel like you you never really see anything else.
You know, when you're on startup Tracers, you're going around,
you can see the outside world, but you know, that's
a little bit different. When you're in France where the
Harry Potter thing is, you feel like you're in front.
They built a city block inside of there.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And it's it's it was amazing. It was. It was truly.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You know, you start getting emotional when you go into
some of these lands, Like you go into the bathrooms
in Nintendo Land and it's they're playing the underwater music
from from the game.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
How much money did you How much money did you
leave behind?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I only bought food, so I think in total about
like seventy five bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
So there was no souvenirs or like.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
So there was.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
It's just like at the end, I didn't want to
we didn't want to carry things, and at the end
of the night, the store was such like chaos, and
it's like, I know I'm going to go back, so
I'll do my shopping then.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
On your return. Is there something you would do differently
as far as you know, trying to achieve something like, say,
try to get that virtual cue for Ministry of Magic.
Is there is there a strategy you want to shoot for.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There's other restaurant.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I want to try to eat at the Toad Cafe,
which is kind of like the big thing that we
went in there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It was really cool. I'd like to eat.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
There's just a bunch of the other restaurants and do
the rides on how to train your dragon. I didn't
do any of those right, right, and getting power.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Bed for everybody out there is already pro tips. As
far as getting a virtual cue for Ministry of Magic
or it's just the luck of the.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Draw, set an alarm five minutes before they say, because
it isn't a true accurate time. Oh, it could be
a little bit before, a little bit after, and I
think it's like it's like eleven, one, three and six.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So just just keep firing away at your phone trying
to get it correct.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
And if you're going to the party, have everyone try.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yes, that's that's the key. Yeah, not just one person.
Everybody has to try.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
And actually actually the real prote if I will say,
I struggle with motion sickness. I've talked about this on
the podcast I Take Dream. I mean sometimes it doesn't work.
I try ginger Gum game Changer never had a single issue.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, ginger Gum, that's not a bad one. I've done
Jingjin's too. They're like a candy you can buy like
a Walmart. Those are pretty good too, So yeah, keep those,
keep those things in mind. As far as riding roller coasters, ALTA, Yeah,
all right, Well we're just about on time. We just
spent the entire show with our first full review of
Epic Universe. Scott, You're gonna go back next in the
next couple weeks and we'll have another review too.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yep, yeah, the nineteen.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Is this on radio?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
there is Jimmy T. Good day, gentlemen, and the man
who has just recently returned from an epic adventure. Mister
Scott Harris?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
What's going on? Happy spooky season? Everyone?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's no spooky seasons?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What do you no? No, no, what do you what
do you mean?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Clown in a cornfield comes out this week in theaters.
Next week is Final Destination Bloodlines. What are you talking about?
It isn't spooky season, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I thought since this guy just went to Epic Universe,
he would understand that this is epic season. It's not
spooky season yet. It's a different theme for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Oh you mean you mean where I got to hang
out with the bride or where I got to hang
out with the Invisible Man.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Dickerman.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Well, first of all, I'm admiring my mustache on the
stream and it looks really good. Not great for radio.
But what I wanted to say Dickerman is he's kind
of right. I mean the like he just named off
all those movies that he just talked about, and then
what's the biggest movie in the world right now, Sinners.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So that I enjoyed that. It was a good movie and.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, I'm right, I'm right in Central Florida. It is
Epic season. I'm just I'm sticking with it. I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna stop, and I just want to
get into it because finally, a member of this show
was the last one in the state of Florida to
go to Epic Universe. That got Harris.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I mean, anyone can go, any you. Anyone is able
to buy preview tickets now, like if you wanted to go,
you can buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Annual pass holders or anyone, anyone. Okay, all right, well,
I'm gonna you know what, I'm going to base my
decision solely on your view you're about to share with
us right now. We need to just dive into it.
If you don't mind, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What do you want to know about it. How do
you want to do you experience?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do you want to ask me chronologically? I want to
I want to start. I want to start with how
your day began, your first steps into the theme park,
the whole, the whole shebang.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
All right, that's two different things, because chronologically, I woke
up at eight twenty five that morning, I made breakfast,
I got dressed.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now let's talk about let's talk about it. Let's talk
about your initial impressions. You scan your ticket, you'll walk inside.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Well, first of all, I will say, parking lot is
just it gave me Old Universal Studios vibes, really, because
it's just a parking lot. It is not a parking structure.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I didn't even know they had their own parking lot.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Where do you think people are gonna park?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They're gonna just Shelly you from CityWalk. No, I'm so
out of the loop on this.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We talked about the names of the sections.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yeah, that was like a whole like segment on the
show A and B. Those parking garages are already full
with the three parks that they have on that side
of I.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Four mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well I'm happy about this. Now. In two weeks when
we discussed this again them like, holy crap, there's a
parking lot there. I'm going to be so excited.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well, I will say getting there was a new experience
because it's like I'm gonna have to put this into
like GPS, because it's like I've never driven to this
place before and I'm going on new roads that didn't exist.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So it's true epic. It's like Epic Lane or something
like that. We drove by it when they're like, oh
my god, there it is.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
So it's like I'm really trusting ways that would be
completely accurate because I want to get there. But you know,
I was parked in Dragon four oh seven, which you
know easy to remember because you know there's one of
the things.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well they charge you for that parking.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, I'm an annual passolders. I didn't pay for anything.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Okay, Well that's good to know that, Daniel pass holder.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
On whatever day I go Scott, Okay, I'm gonna need
a ride.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
All right, just just to leave the car running in
music on that I like, so I don't pass out
in the car.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Leave to come back and pick me up when I'm done.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But you know, you walk up and had to go
over to guest services to get a thing taken care of.
Actually no, I will say it was raining on Sunday
when I went, so it was a little bit of
all right, let's wait for this thunderstorm, which is we
hadn't had in months to get over with, you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Know, the one thunderstorm we get and like we haven't
had one in like four months that you get in
your Epic Universe day.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which is fine.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean we got there early. Anyways, the park opened
at eleven when we were there. We arrived at ten o'clock,
so we we factored a lot of this into account.
And I will say that the wait for guest services
meant that the turnstile, entrance gate was done by the
time we were the time that we we're done with
what we needed taken care of. So after that, walk
(05:03):
right in and it is truly awe inspiring. The tower,
the Cronos tower is huge. All of it is huge.
All of these things are massive. Like you you look
at the aerial pictures and you're like, well, I've been
a Universal, I've been to Islands of a Venture. It's
like it feels completely different than that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And did it feel like you like entered like like
we've talked about before these worlds. Did it feel like
you've kind of left like where you were and entered
into a whole new world.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yes, And the biggest thing was, you know, it's when
you walk in, it's very much like it kind of
guides you over to the left, which is Super Nintendo Land.
You can go to the right, but it just seems
a little bit easier, just kind of the way things
are laid out a little bit. So it's like, all right,
let's go over to Super Nintendo Land and you walk
(05:57):
into the green tunnel into the pipe.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, you guys don't want to do that right when.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It makes the sound as you're going through it. Yeah,
and you know there's lights, there's it's actually an escalator
because the way that that land is situated, it's very
much like in a bowl. So when you walk in,
you're on the second level. It's like when you go
to the Alsbot Mall and you go on through certain
sections and you're like, oh, I'm on the I'm on
(06:25):
the second floor.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So that is how it is.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And you walk in there and you literally feel like
you've walked into a theme, You've walked into a video game.
You see nothing else around. You see nothing else except
all of these Mario characters moving.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The music is on point.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It it changes around a little bit, so it's sometimes
it's it's from like Super Mario. Sometimes it's from Super
Mario sixty four. It just kind of it's slowly transitions
between different games and you walk around. There's blocks that
you can hit and you'll get points if you have
a power band. There's just so much stuff going on.
There's like binoculars that you can Yes, what powerband did
(07:05):
you get? I didn't get a power band. When I
go back, I'm gonna get This whole trip was just
I'm gonna try to do as much as I can
while it is still a little bit of a reduced
capacity because during these previews it is a reduced capacity
when I go. When I go back on the nineteenth,
it'll be a little bit more, and when I go
back in June it will be a lot more people
(07:27):
because that is when it is the park has officially opened.
So it was very much like let's let's try to
cram in as many things as we possibly can. Got
in the Yoshi ride was a five minute wait, boom,
let's go do that right now? Wow, and that is
very much like a people move a ride like you're
just kind of it just goes at a constant pace
(07:50):
like kind of like Figment or any of these like
dark rides, but it's like indoor outdoor. All of the
amatronics look real, And I know that's weird to say
for video.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Game characters, right, but it was.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It was.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It was awesome. It was amazing.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
And then went and got some food at there's a
Yoshi stand right next to the entrance of Yoshi's ride
and got a little cow zone that looks like the
red shell from Mario Kart.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, delicious. How was it amazing?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It was.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It was like it was the perfect snack for the
start of the day.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There was.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
There was I Pluat a sausage in there inside of
it as well.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's perfect.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then you know, you walk into like we walked into
a couple of stores and it was just like, this
is going to be very bad for my bank account.
After that, walked to the back of Supernintendo saw the
Donkey Kong ride. At the time that we went back there,
it was not open because it is still a technical preview,
not everything is when we open It did open up
(08:56):
later on in the day, but when we kept looking
at like either two hours or one hundred minutes, so
it was just like, I don't know if we're gonna
be able to make this work. Went back into the
main area when upstairs saw where the Mario Kart Bowser's
Challenge ride is, and it's like that alone looks as
big as the pipe that you walk through the portal
(09:21):
and it's Bowser's face.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Up on the second deck, they have a bunch of
like binocular things.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Like, oh, that's cool. I could look across the thing.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
And then you look through it and it's an augmented
reality experience, so you're looking through it and you can
see caring, you can see people on the other side,
but you can also see flying shells and stuff go by.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Did eventually go do Mario Kart Bowser's Challenge, because I
think it was like a forty five minute wait when
we were about halfway through the line, it jumped up
to one hundred minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I think in total.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
We waited about sixty so we kind of got the
the in between of that that ride is amazing. It's
it's like the super version of you know, the buzz
light ears, the men in blacks, the those kind of
shoot him up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Rides twenty five upgrade. Yeah, I mean think about how
technologies advanced since those rides were made and where we've
come to now.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, And it was you know, you get the I
mean you walk through the queue and it's very immersive
where it's just like you're in Bowser's castle. You're seeing
like all sorts of stuff like racing suits and Bowser's
self help books and all sorts of things like that.
You see his throne, which is obviously massive. Then you
walk a little bit further in and you see like
(10:39):
an assembly mine, assembly line making like the bombs and
stuff like that, and it's it's super cool. I wish
I could own like a giant bomb to have like
standing next to me because it was like three feet tall,
and it's it's you know, you get the Mario hat.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yes, did Bowser speak at all while you were in
the castle and was it Jack?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
No, there was no there, there was nothing like that.
Inside you were saying, marry your hat. So you get
them the hat which you have to like tighten onto
your head, and then that is what clicks on. That's
what the AR goggles click onto the augmented reality you.
So the car itself is for four people, so there's
(11:23):
two and two and so you you steer your car.
But then like when you get in the car, you
have to like pick up the headset to click on
to your your hat and there's a little bit of
like a tutorial before you get on the ride and
on once you first start to kind of like, okay,
(11:44):
this is what the experience is like, and it's very
much where you look and when you hit the buttons,
that's where it's going to fire the shells. Oh, so
you're looking, there's all sorts of stuff happening in the
foreground and right in front of you on the the glos.
It's very immersive. It is kind of like a technological achievement.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Now as you're there in the Supernintendo Land and knowing
that you want to experience the entire park and you're
trying to get in as much as you can that
day where you're like I want to see so much more,
but I know I can't stay.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, And luckily, you know, the park was open until nine,
so it was like we had you know, ten hours
inside of this park.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So did that.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I think I got one hundred and thirty three coins,
which was the second highest of my car, So that
was really good. I was really proud of myself with
that performance. Went over to Monster to the Dark Universe
and that's you know, Universal Monsters. The Monsters Unchained I
think was a forty five. It was an hour long
wait and we waited about forty five minutes and it
(12:48):
had single rider, but say no, I want to do
the full queue because I want to get the full
experience and at least the first time. And that ride
is that it's my favorite ride that I have done
at Universe. It is Forbidden Journey on steroids. It is
the same kind of ride mechanism. The animatronics are the
most lifelike things I've ever seen. There is one scene
(13:11):
where you're looking at the Wolfman and he's like crawling
around and it's all done in one continuous thing, like
where he starts and ends up you're moving around him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I don't know how they pull it off.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's some of the things they've done with those both
those Harry Potter rides that already exist. You know, it's
so mind blowing and to see what they can come
up with next, like what you just mentioned right there
is It's magic.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
It was amazing and you know, I would love to
go back and do it again. They have a second
ride there, Curse of the Werewolf, which is we thought
it was like, oh, this is Flight of the Hippogriff,
this is troller coaster. This is one of like, you know,
an all ages roller coaster. First of all, we did
this the last thing that we did at at nine o'clock,
so it was dark and we start going like, oh no,
(14:00):
this is a spinning coaster. Okay, we were not prepared
for that at all, and so we're like spinning, it's dark,
we have no idea where we're going. The car in
front of us was spinning a lot more than we were.
All of a sudden, there is a were wolf that
is starting to attack us. And then we look in
the back and then the the windmill is good like
(14:22):
on fire because it's that time of night where that starts.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So it's like, what is going on right now?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
That sounds like a wonderful experience, but it was.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
It was awesome. I will say this. The street atmosphere
in this park is amazing. You know, in Super Nintendo
they kind of have photo meet and greets with the characters,
but in like the Dark Universe, they just they're kind
of just around. So like I got the picture with uh,
the Invisible Man, my guy, he's just kind of walking around.
Granted he has like an attended with him kind of supervising,
(14:54):
and then they so it's like he just will kind
of start talking to people and mocking them, which she
did to me. And then they have people playing violins
playing music from these classic Monster movies around the park,
around that section of the park, in that portal, So
that was really fun. Winn got a picture with the
(15:16):
bride because she was just out and again kind of
intimidating experience because she starts because I was wearing a
Monster Squad T shirt and she was like, I don't
like the person that's on your shirt. I'm like, well,
I can't do anything about that, Like, well, she doesn't
like Dracula, So I'm like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm sorry, I apology. I would you just like want
me to swap it out? I'll go pick I go,
I will go.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
B seventeen, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
They had a section of creature from the Black Lagoon merchandise.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
And you sent us a picture of you wearing a helmet,
and I was like, he looks like cobra commanders.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You can get a helmet, you can get gloves, and
you can get little footies.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah, when I go back, it's gonna be very bad
for my bank account.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Whenever to how to train your dragon to get food.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
We got some bowls at one point which were pretty good,
and then they had this is gonna be bad for you.
It's basically a cone of garlic bread okay, hollowed out
with the one that we got mac and cheese.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, pork belly.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh that sounds delicious.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
The other one was mac and cheese and goldfish.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's an interesting choice too.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm gonna go back and get that way to go. Yeah,
it was, it was, It was very good.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It sounds like I'm gonna need some pepsid and my
blood pressure medicine.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
And I saw the weight to get a picture with
toothless was about an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, And this is is this is this This isn't
the one that's a Boston Dynamic Star, No.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
No, no, this is this is the meat and greet
one where he's like he smiles, Yeah, yeah, there is
another one we saw. We assume he saw them come
out because there a crowd of people.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
So yeah, and I did confirm it. It's not just
for a stage show. The Boston Diamacs dog walks around
the park.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Correct, Okay, that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Saw some of the They have a couple of flying
they have a flying ride and kind of a kid's
coaster which is very reminiscent of seven Dwarves over there.
In addition to the show we didn't do. We didn't
do any of that. Did do the Stardust Racers three times.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Everybody tells me this is the greatest thing around in match.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Okay, first of all, imagine if dueling dragons in Velosa
Coaster had twins.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That sounds insane.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And this is this is.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
The most efficient roller coaster, even more so than Velosa Coaster. Really,
I believe the way I read it is it could
have four cars going at one time, two and two.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And how many how many seats per row is.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
It's ensues We waited the first time, I'm thirty five minutes.
I think it was under that. The next two times
twenty five minutes and you have a choice green or yellow.
I think green is a little bit more intense than yellow.
But this is a true dueling ride. It has flour launches.
It was amazing. It's so it is so good.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Now, as I recall, they they made changes years ago
to dueling dragons because I don't remember what the issue
is wherever, they had to like make some changes. So
I imagine all those thoughts were considered when they made
a new dueling coaster here.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Well, what they did was they have the same kind
of locker system as Velocit coaster.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh that's right. Yeah, so everything comes out.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Everything comes out, and it happens midway through the queue,
just like Velocit coaster.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
So and it is a very efficient system.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that is That is the way to do it.
I think whoever came up with that set up as
far as you know, using that sort of locker system. No,
they're not making five bucks every time you use a locker,
but it makes a lot more sense. It's a lot
more efficient and it's better for the consumer.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Now, Ministry of Magic was open when we were there.
It did not open till three o'clock. This is a
ride that is only on virtual queue right now, and
I will say just a pro tip, it is closed
for the upcoming week. Well, they try to get it
ready for opening day. We tried to get a virtual
queue at three and six o'clock. We were unsuccessful both times.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You talked about this being a limited capacity. I don't
want to get too far off what you're talking about here,
but it was how crowded did it feel to you?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
It only felt crowded because you know, sometimes rides break
down and you know, waves happened. They only have It's
a new park. There's only so many rides. Like I said,
Donkey Kong was like a two hour wait at one point.
Other rides were like one hundred minutes, so I mean
Bowser Challenge or about like the Mario Kart got up
to about one hundred minutes as well. So it was
it never felt crowded, but it was just like you know,
(19:47):
sometimes it did feel busy.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What day did you go on again?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I went on a Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I want a Sunday, Okay, yeah, he went on May
the fourth.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I went to May the fourth. I did order a
butter beer crape. This was the only real problem. This
is the only kind of like I was disappointed part
not in the food, but the you. You it's a
it's only sold at a restaurant where you have to
get a table. It's not just you walk up to
a stand or a cart. It's nothing like that. Yeah,
(20:18):
it took me forty minutes to get it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh yeah, that's a little rock.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
And that's from like from the day of the moment
you crossed the threshold, or from like you sat down
and ordered and it took forty minutes to come to
the table.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It took forty minutes from when I got in the
line to enter the restaurant because I had to wait
ten minutes, ten to fifty minutes just to get a table.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh boy, yeah, so especially on a day when you're
trying to cramp so much.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
In exactly the person I was with, she went to
the other Harry Potter restaurant, got got her food ate
and then came to my table and still waited twenty
minutes with me to get my crape.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You're still here waiting for your crapem buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Okay, I will say so greatest thing of this it
is my new favorite butterbeer item. Okay, butter beer with
cream in a butter beer drizzle.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm gonna have to say that was forty minutes well spent.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
That it was.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
It's just what I'm trying to when we're trying to
cram a bunch of stuff in.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It was weir.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The last thing I want to do is wait around.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Exactly for a dessert. And I know a bit's a preview.
I know things are like they're just it is what
it is. After we did everything around when the park closed,
we were like, let's just see if we can go
into Nintendo Land just to like wook around. And we
got and we were there's only like eight other people
in that area before they really start like hurting people out.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It is.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It is so cool.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And anytime you're really in any of these portals, you
never feel like you you never really see anything else.
You know, when you're on startup Tracers, you're going around,
you can see the outside world, but you know, that's
a little bit different. When you're in France where the
Harry Potter thing is, you feel like you're in front.
They built a city block inside of there.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And it's it's it was amazing. It was. It was truly.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You know, you start getting emotional when you go into
some of these lands, Like you go into the bathrooms
in Nintendo Land and it's they're playing the underwater music
from from the game.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
How much money did you How much money did you
leave behind?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I only bought food, so I think in total about
like seventy five bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
So there was no souvenirs or like.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
So there was.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
It's just like at the end, I didn't want to
we didn't want to carry things, and at the end
of the night, the store was such like chaos, and
it's like, I know I'm going to go back, so
I'll do my shopping then.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
On your return. Is there something you would do differently
as far as you know, trying to achieve something like, say,
try to get that virtual cue for Ministry of Magic.
Is there is there a strategy you want to shoot for.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There's other restaurant.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I want to try to eat at the Toad Cafe,
which is kind of like the big thing that we
went in there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It was really cool. I'd like to eat.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
There's just a bunch of the other restaurants and do
the rides on how to train your dragon. I didn't
do any of those right, right, and getting power.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Bed for everybody out there is already pro tips. As
far as getting a virtual cue for Ministry of Magic
or it's just the luck of the.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Draw, set an alarm five minutes before they say, because
it isn't a true accurate time. Oh, it could be
a little bit before, a little bit after, and I
think it's like it's like eleven, one, three and six.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So just just keep firing away at your phone trying
to get it correct.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
And if you're going to the party, have everyone try.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yes, that's that's the key. Yeah, not just one person.
Everybody has to try.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
And actually actually the real prote if I will say,
I struggle with motion sickness. I've talked about this on
the podcast I Take Dream. I mean sometimes it doesn't work.
I try ginger Gum game Changer never had a single issue.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, ginger Gum, that's not a bad one. I've done
Jingjin's too. They're like a candy you can buy like
a Walmart. Those are pretty good too, So yeah, keep those,
keep those things in mind. As far as riding roller coasters, ALTA, Yeah,
all right, Well we're just about on time. We just
spent the entire show with our first full review of
Epic Universe. Scott, You're gonna go back next in the
next couple weeks and we'll have another review too.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yep, yeah, the nineteen.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If you want to get all the latest breaking theme
park news, Scott, where can people go?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
You follows on Twitter at theme Parks, You have Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok at the theme Park Podcast. You watch the themepark
YouTube dot com, and the.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Realtor
dot com, t beol Gazebo Studios forgivity. For Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
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