May 2, 2025 • 24 mins
There seems to be more and more theme park news happening these days and on this week episode of The Theme Park Podcast the guys run through all the latest. Disney announces a bunch of deals for tickets/food/hotels and some new lightsabers. Universal has new passsholder benefits and some more Epic Universe news. Oh and they try some candy from Japan along the way!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is this radio?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. I
am Dickerman.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
There is Jimmy Dean, what's going on? Fellas? And Scott Harris?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Hi, Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So we've got a lot of catching up to do
on the show this week. Last week we did a
full well almost a full recap Japan.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We got like halfway through disneylandily, luckily we made it
to the Disney portion before I did.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We did talk about theme parks.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Yes, I did want to show you this guys, because
we didn't get to cover it last week. This is
the monorail toy from Disney c or actually Disneyland or
Tokyo Disney Resort. H It's only three cars, which you know,
the one that you get here is a little bit longer.
This was only fifty dollars. Oh wow, yeah, how much
(01:07):
is ours?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's a lot?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I don't remember what it is now. The price has
definitely gone up since I purchased mine. Yeah, I want
to see that this Christmas around the tree.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Oh yeah, well I'm gonna do this one like on
an inside track and it'll be uh, the Disney World
one on the outside track, and then they'll go different directions.
It's gonna be sweet. But yeah, and their monorail is
like top notch. It's like a subway. Of course it is,
of course. It is like the windows are all mickey
ear shaped, the little handle things all mickey eared shaped,
(01:37):
like pristine inside clean tons of room. Like I feel
like you can only fit like a handful of people
in like a Disney World.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
In cars, yeah, it's like it's like maybe two families.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, now this is like a whole lot more. Yeah,
you could probably fit like I don't know, like a
one hundred people on a car.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And then wow, okay.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
And then the thing that was weird about it is
like their merchandise was really lacking.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's that was striking to me, that they have a
lacking merchandise in Japan of all places.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Well at Universal tons of merchandise, but Universal owns that park.
I'm thinking because this is more of a licensee, Yeah,
licensee like kind of a franchise y kind of situation.
They must not have permission too, because you saw like
the same merchandise in every single shop and then the
only like, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Only thing he's got a he's got a bag down here.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So in the whole twenty thousand leagues of the under
the Sea, the Mystery Island, I think is what you
said it was. This was the only unique product they had.
Oh okay, it's a matchbox car or but it's actually
made by h Takara, which is a famous They made
a bunch of Star Wars toys in the seventies, so
(02:54):
it's like a famous brand. Yeah, yeah, this is the
only item, like you went to, I went to the
only unique thing. Yeah, I went to on the Indiana
Jones ride. They had they love ride vehicles over there
by the way. You could get any ride vehicle in
the entire park as a matchbox car, but that was
all they had.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Well, yeah, before we jump into our news catch up
and I know, Scott, you're out of the park and
you have a trip coming up to Epic Universe. Should
we try some of Jimmy's crazy ki Japan. I mean,
they've been sitting here in front of us for for
like an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now, Yeah, so which one you're gonna start with?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We got lemon, I'm gonna I'm gonna start with lemon
because it's open yea, and lemon's open. Scott's opening his lemons.
So they have weird flavors of candy in Japan.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It's not weird, it's unique.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, they have like eight thousand flavors of kit Kathy.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
They didn't even wait.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I'm just jumping in man, I mean we're here, let's
do it.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It's got a good light flavor. Yeah, they gave it
a green color, like on the package. The lemon has
a green rhine. I know, it's like a Japanese lemon
or something.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Like that was usually like a key line.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah that's a that's a good that's a good flavor. Yeah,
I got that down over there. And what's the other
one's melon?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So is it like?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Are we talking like candleop? I got a candle up
in the picture. Okay, I'm gonna assume it's candlelope. Pop
open this candle ope and see, uh see what we're
doing here. Man, it tastes like candleope. These are Kickcat
bars from Japan.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Oh my god, it really does.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
And this next one, the third and final one, I'm
a little worried about because the first two were really
good and they tasted just like what they're supposed to
m Gickerman, I'm gonna break you off a piece of
with sabi.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't know, I don't know. I got a water here.
I'm kind of scared. Here, grab that, Scott.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
You can have a whole one, because you're an adult.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And I've had with sabi before. I've never had with sabi. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The first one I had with.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Sabbi, the people that I went with did not tell
me what it was, and I ate the whole glob
in one film.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Whoo, the betsashi a wise cream is.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Bad and uh then I chucked my entire drink.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, I was waiting for this thing to be like
scary hot, but it's not. Luckily, No, But it does
taste like wasabi.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
It's almost like I wish was sabby was like this
all the time, you know what I mean? Because I
like the taste of was sabi, but sometimes there's.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Too much, too much cack. Yeah, I had a.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I had so much. I'm not a sushi eater. But
the sushi in Japan is so fresh and so fantastic.
I couldn't stop eating it. And there was a moment
where you go around the table and you could somebody
would always make like they'd be talking or eating and
then suddenly they'd freeze and just make this like they
(05:47):
were like, oh, too much was sabi?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, well that was good they did with sabi in
a safe way in that kick cab.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We should take him to a sushi we you, We
should get you to try sushi once.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, No, we.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Can get like Temple where it's fried.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's not sushi.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, but I mean you do, but like a like
a tempora roll.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You want to see a child make a face and
just yes, I sat next to you for years.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's me at a sushi place.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
How are you gonna go?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
How how are you going to Actually, no, we talked
about that. You'll just eat a seven eleven every and no,
they have Kentucky Fried Chicken there too, Well, he said
the seven eleven had.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
You know, I never went into KFC, but I did
eat at McDonald's and that.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, your friend had a Samurai burger.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, everybody who had the Samurai burger was like, mah,
I got the kariaki chicken fileo. I don't know why
they call it like that, but it was fantastic. And
if you go with A five, they have an after
five menu where they double up the protein on all
your sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nice. So I got like a it's like two patties
on the sandwich.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This Samurai burger looks dope.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
They said.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
It was just okay, I'm telling you, the tarioki chicken,
the sandwich flay.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
How are the McDonald's workers in Japan? Were they better
than like what we get here a million times.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Experience?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
And the way they wrap up their drinks was crazy too,
like because we got we always got it to go
and we go eat it in a hotel room and
they would take your drink and then they would put
it like a little plastic bag and then they would
put that into your your to go bag and it
like they had it and they would like loop it
through the arm like the holding part of the bag
and somehow with the technique it all held together.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Compartments or something.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Tell you in the future over.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
There something Most of the things, yes, but it's like
nineteen eighty smoking over there. Yeah, and they love their plastic,
like everything is wrapped in plastic.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well remember him trying to open the Godzilla.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
You buy a T shirt off the shelf, most of
the time it's coming in plastic, like in a plastic bag.
And then like any food you get, everything's individually wrapped
in plastic.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Love blasts vending machine stuff or did you only see
the There are vending machines everywhere for drinks occasionally you
would see and then drinks and ice cream are all
their vending machines.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Like, I didn't see anything goofy. And then you know,
occasionally you would see alcohol in the vending machines. Yeah,
but I didn't see anything goofy likes you know the
rumors that you hear. But there's like food ones, uh,
the food ones. Yes, there was some food ones, but
those were farm for Yeah. When I say there are
vending machines everywhere, like every alley had a vending machine. Yeah,
(08:34):
there's vending machines everywhere. Take credit cards, they do take
U yes, Okay, but like I had a a SECA card,
which is like the Japanese card and you can pay
for everything with that, Like you just and what's great
about the secret card. It works on your phone even
if your phone is dead, as long as it's got
a little bit of juice to it. Yeah, you can
still like that way, you can get in and out
(08:54):
of the subway even if your phone dies. That's because
that's what you use mostly for. All right, Scott, we
got to talk about something.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, we got some news. Should we should we jump
in the news? Should we recap? You went out to
a park.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I did go out to a park.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It be very quick, okay, because really like only one
thing I want to talk about going there. I tried
the butter beer lolly Okay, all right, all right, now
we're talking what's the consistency. It's like a popsicle, Okay, basically,
so it's got butter beer and then it's got like
a hard outer shell on top of it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So it was the outer shell like the foam flavor.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Not reallycotch it was it is, but it's like the
ice cream itself. That's the real butter beer flavor. That's
you want to get to. That you want to get
You want to get through the outer shell to get to.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, if you and I, if the three of
us went and got one, I mind be gone before
you guys turned around.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
No, if no, no, I have thought about this. If
if the three of us went, you would first get
a butter beer, then you would get a butter beer
ice cream to you put in your butter beer as
a float, and then you would use the butter beer
lolly as the boon.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're saying, I mean if we go back and if
we knew another opening of something, and that's an option,
you know, I will.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, the butter beer Lolly will only be around until
May thirty first, because it's only for when butter beer
season is going on.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, all right, so take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Take advantage of it while you can't.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Like McRib yes, wait till next year when it comes back.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Exactly, yes, okay, all right, all right, So that was
what you went to the park for.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I had to go to Guest Services for some stuff,
and I will give them a complete shout out.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
They were very helpful.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They usually are there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know, I'm going to Epic Universe coming up, and
there was just some stuff I had to get taken
care of with my ticket for the preview day.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm going so tremendous, tremendous We're finally going to get
see epic universe through Scott size Jimmy. While you were gone,
so many more people well now now a lot of
soul I know that hasn't been now.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's passle to previous have begun. So and you know,
I've looked at the weights though, I know people that
have gone and have done every single ride.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And it's very you know, you're at the mercy of
it's basically technical previews, like things might not be open
when you're there. It's like it might be open right now,
later on it won't be open. So there's it's a
lot of that.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and past older previews you still have
to buy a ticket.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You have to buy a ticket.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's roughly the same as like a one day ticket, Okay,
but you know, it's very much like you know, I
look periodically on the app and I think the longest
way I ever see is like an hour.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Wow, like the Stardust Racers to the Dueling.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Nine times out of ten I look in it's twenty
minutes is the longest way I've seen?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, yeah, honestly it's probably walk on.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's boy. Yeah, take advantage of it. Now
because it ain't gonna last kids.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, absolutely, it's very much a soft launch kind of situation.
But no, it's also just the I want to know
how late they're, what time they open, the way they
are open, and maximize you a higher.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Day everything you can as many times as you can. Yeah,
it makes absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And also try to have as much food. And what's
the date of your your trip to May fourth four? Oh,
May May the fourth be with you. So I'm not
sure how I'm going to watch all eleven movies and
do Epic Universe that day.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Its gonna be it's gonna be a challenge. It will
be a challenge. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
When I got home, I was like, I need to
I want to go to Disney, And I was like,
I'm going to book May the fourth. May the fourth
is sold out at Hollywood Studios, So you're going to
you can park op as long as there is room
and availability, but you're gonna have to start at another park.
So I'll be going to Epcot checking in and then
gondoling over the Hollywood Studio.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I mean, yeah, I was kind of like, it's I'm at.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The mercy of like my schedule, but at the same
kind of thing where it's just like, you know, it's
later on in the preview period, so it's like, you know,
maybe more stuff will be open. It's closer than to
the opening date, so hopefully things will be a little
bit more efficient. But also, you know, I think that
day is now sold out, but it's also like more
people would go to Disney. I'm assuming on that right
(13:01):
agnd anyways, absolutely, yeah, good idea.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We can't wait to hear the review. I went to
the World's Fair in Osaka is in Japan, and we
were there on the third day that the place was open.
The Brazil pavilion was not open because they did not
they did not get their permit from the fire from
the fire department.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Whoopsie.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
And then like there was a bunch of pavilions like
the USA pavilion no merchandise.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Ah, what are we doing over there? What do we
got going on? Yeah? Ship?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
And I was a little let down by the USBA
pavilion only because it was all about space.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh okay, and were we just rubbing it in people's
faces like, hey, you guys didn't do it boom No.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
But it's just once you've seen Atlantis Atlantis Pavilion. Like,
if I hadn't been to the Atlantis exhibit at Kenny
Space Center, that would have been impressive. But because I've
seen that, I was.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Like, I've seen the Saturn five.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, yeah, I saw where Ben Affleck sat So yeah
yeah yeah. So should we dive into some news?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah? I have some Star Wars news because it made
the fourth Uh, because Star Wars celebration happened, and Jimmy
Stripp basically two yea.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But good news, guys, what is the good news? Admiral
Akbar is back in season two of Ahsoka.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, there's also that. Okay, the engineers will now have
a pivotal role on Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, the most boring job on Smuggler's Run in the back,
you got to take care of Grogu.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Next year at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Uh,
the ride will be revamped so guests can choose their destination, okay,
and the person that will be choosing the destination is
the engineer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The engineer.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, now you got to worry about who you get,
like it used to be worried about who your pilots
were because you know, there's sometimes a language barrier.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They just don't know what you're doing. You're just crashing
all over the place. Now you're gonna worry about the
engineers picking something lame.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Guests will fly the falcon from Batu to Tattooine. Why
don't we just rethme Galaxy's Hedgee, what.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Are we doing?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We're sticking to this Let's let's uh, let's change the
date like this star date on that. We don't need
this hill.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
From there, they will have the opportunity to choose Coruscant,
Best Spin or Endoor as their next destinations options. Guest
in the engineer position will make the destination. Engineers will
also be able to interact with Grogu.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh you gotta protect Grogu while you're traveling. Well, okay,
the engineers.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Finally it's a good spot now finally, Yeah, because I
mean it really wasn't a good spot before.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Now you had a boring job and you were stuck
in the back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, you're very much just leaning over the entire time.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
And you press one button to attach to the harpoons. Yeah,
the harpoons, and then you're just.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And the rest of the time.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, Well, that's cool. That's a great addition that we've
been waiting for this since this ride came out.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We need to get on shoey mode before they make
this ride change we do. We need six of us,
so we need three more. We need you to buy
a ticket or use the passes.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
That we bought you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
When's the change coming next year?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
When the movie comes, when the mandalorining grew.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
We could pull this off this year. I think I
think it's possible.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
We've been saying that since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I've been wearing down my wife, slowly, just wearing, chipping
away at her.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Eventually we're going to get there.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
We've been saying this. When you had a pass for
that part.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Now we didn't have you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Now, hold on, we never had six people with us
at a time.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I was busy that day.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, see I was.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
I was over at Tower of Terror.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
See's this is what happens. That's what happens. Unless we
keep a leash on this one, and we'll never keep
we'll never find him in the park.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I'm just gonna you know what I'm gonna get. I'm
going to construct one of those eggs that Grogu floats
around and it's just enough scotten there and close it
just wandering off.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Also related to Star Wars, ahead of May fourth, Disney
released a sneak peak of the all new Reclaimed Reforged
lightsaber Hilt coming to Savvy's workshop.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
They're making so much money in these lightsabers. There just
like a license to print money for them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's fun, I mean it is.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And people, how many have you done?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I've only done one, ok, and I'm done. Yeah, when
you do it, it's fun. I mean, it's just it's
an experience. Like we talked about a lot of stuff
in Japan, people come here. This is like, oh, this
is the only time I'm ever gonna get to do this.
Why not, let's just do it and we'll spend the
money in Disney says it's like your ching.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, I got to do it with like four friends
and we're all building lightsabers together. So that for me
was like the unique experience. There's no chance I'm gonna
get four other people to or three other people to
spend you know, two hundred and fifty dollars on a lightsaber.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
But I had to do the experience because I missed
out on Star Cruiser, and I won't make that mistake
ever again.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Dang it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
We we could never have imagined they're just gonna close
Classic Stars for a year.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I was just trying to wear him down, you know.
It's just like, yeah, come on, man, I'm waiting for
that coupon day. Like the guy in Jurassic Park mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah something.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh wait, what do you mean you're closing it?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Office office park, dark dark day, dark day. It's an
office building. Now they're going to be.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Are they hiring for a janitor? Because I think that's
only the only thing I'm qualified.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I mean, we made that joke when it was open
as well.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's true, That's right. We did want to get jomps there.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I mean it's still a possibility.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Epic Universe has announced their operating hours when it opens up.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Fully.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is something I've always I always like to know
because I like to go to parks at night when
at all possible.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
From May twenty second through May thirty first, okay, nine
to nine.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Okay, nine pm, not bad, not bad. I prefer like
an eleven pm ten.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Because like the sun goes down at like eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I want to see the windmill if fully in flames
at night? Yeah, sure too. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Just like Pandora, Like you so rarely get to see
Pandora at night, and that's when it really shines, no
pun intended.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, I would like eleven, you know, ten, eleven,
ten o'clock. Sure, great, eleven o'clock. It's a big bonus.
Midnight now we're partying. Oh yeah, yeah, twenty four hours,
that's a real party.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Oh yeah, you would never getting that again, yeah you yeah,
you'll never see midnight again.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's never come back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
No, we've said though, if that, if they bring.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That back, no, I meant he can't stay up that late.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Well, if they do that again, we need to do.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It one hundred percent. I don't know that they have
full twenty four hours yeah, just never leave. Just will
be the one sleeping on the park.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No sleeping on to stay wait, no sleeping Oh no,
twenty four hours straight. Oh I don't know if I
can handle that.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, my age, that might be lethal. Yeah, oh it's fine.
Hunting people out.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Good thing they've got the like the advent Health people
just to check you out.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
They're gonna need all those race folks like yeah, you
know how they have the little med tense all through
the race.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You don't know because you never ran a race, but
all through the ye by.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
It, sir. This is for runners only. This is not
regular parking.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Also going on at Universal it's the passolder season, So
does that mean well, there's a there's a Jaws related
magnet for passolders, all right? And special tea food items
like a sweet and salty crunchy donut.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Okay, a doughnut dipped in utella with chocolate hazel that icing,
caramel sauce in salt and sugar sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That sounds good. Yeah, I love the salt and slavery.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
There sushi pizza at Cowfish.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
You like pizza?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If you would eat a piece of raw fish if
it didn't taste fishy, would do you think you could
enjoy it?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm too big of a baby. What if it was seared?
I still don't think. I don't even like regular, I
don't like I could barely eat a fish stick.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Let me read the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Barely eat a file fish.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Crispy rice, crusty spicy mayo? Okay, honey salad?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'll have to look it up hauled the pinos, scallions,
eel sauce and sprouts.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Eel sauce.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
That sounds sauce delicious.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No, you is really really good. Yeah it sounds I
promise you. I know it does sound scary and I
wish it had a better name, but it is delicious.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is it made for meals? I don't know that it
has any eel actually in it, ground up.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Eel mush, a Connie salad. It's just it's just it's solid.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it's a fish. It's a it's a raw fish.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It's not it is it is not. It is not
a fish that swims in the water.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What the heck? What other kind of fish doesn't It's
not a fish. It's a crustacean. Oh, it's like a crab.
Crab crap, okay, crab. Have you had crab legs? Oh
my god, you were missing, dude. Crab legs are like
you eat shrimp. Nope, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I know you are such a shock.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
You guys know this all.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Right, I know, but it's news and it's not new,
but it's always such a shock and puzzling.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
How about this. At padd O'Brien's, they got a crawfish poutine.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't do crawfish spicy citrus Mahi mahi sandwich, Nope,
that would be delicious.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That sounds amazing.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You could handle mahi.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I think mahi mahi might like I could. I could
probably handle my I could probably do that.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Man, it's dolphin.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Uh, salmon tune of crispy tacos.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
M you don't like salmon. No, it's good for you.
It's good for you. I don't like food from the ocean.
I don't like ocean.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I actually don't think he would survive going to Japan.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I probably would know he could because he would just
go get chicken nuggets and uh and eat egg salad
sandwiches because.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
He'd kick he'd eat kick cats.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I would find a sumo wrestler and just follow him.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Where they would like two dollars the the egg salad
sandwich is two dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Okay, so the best egg salad sandwich you've ever had.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I was getting two at a time because they would
have different kinds, Like you would have one that had
like uh, they'd be like karaokey chicken on one, and
then they had one sandwich.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I know you would eat because it was just whipped.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Cream and strawberries, white bread and they cut the crust
off just for you.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That sounds great. Guys know what they're doing over there?
Oh my god, Yeah, you're such a child. Oh yes,
you guys know this. It's not it's not new news.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
It's it's sometimes disappointing.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Did you say nude news. It's not new news. It's
not new news.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
By the way, over at Hollywood suit Is, there's a
Mythosphere Mythosore drink.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Okay, what's in the Mythosaur minute?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Made passion fruit, orange and guava juice with a splash
of lime juice, topped with rum rum in blue carousel licoor.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yes please, I'll take two served.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
With the Mythosaur mug.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay. I don't know that I need the mug, but
I want to drink. Probably need the mug. I'm not
collecting any more plastic. I have enough plast from this
last few days for the rest of my life. All right.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Well, we're just about at a time, So Scott, if
people want to find any news we didn't quite get
to this week, where might they find us?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
On social media?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And fall us on Twitter? At Theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
and TikTok at the Theme Park Podcast. You good watch
it themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
And the show comes to you live from the Laurencampbellrealtre
dot com. T Bogas Ebo Studios for jimmyd for Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out of the parks.
Speaker 1 (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 (00:10):
Is this radio?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. I
am Dickerman.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
There is Jimmy Dean, what's going on? Fellas? And Scott Harris?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Hi, Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So we've got a lot of catching up to do
on the show this week. Last week we did a
full well almost a full recap Japan.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We got like halfway through disneylandily, luckily we made it
to the Disney portion before I did.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We did talk about theme parks.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Yes, I did want to show you this guys, because
we didn't get to cover it last week. This is
the monorail toy from Disney c or actually Disneyland or
Tokyo Disney Resort. H It's only three cars, which you know,
the one that you get here is a little bit longer.
This was only fifty dollars. Oh wow, yeah, how much
(01:07):
is ours?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's a lot?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I don't remember what it is now. The price has
definitely gone up since I purchased mine. Yeah, I want
to see that this Christmas around the tree.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Oh yeah, well I'm gonna do this one like on
an inside track and it'll be uh, the Disney World
one on the outside track, and then they'll go different directions.
It's gonna be sweet. But yeah, and their monorail is
like top notch. It's like a subway. Of course it is,
of course. It is like the windows are all mickey
ear shaped, the little handle things all mickey eared shaped,
(01:37):
like pristine inside clean tons of room. Like I feel
like you can only fit like a handful of people
in like a Disney World.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
In cars, yeah, it's like it's like maybe two families.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, now this is like a whole lot more. Yeah,
you could probably fit like I don't know, like a
one hundred people on a car.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And then wow, okay.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
And then the thing that was weird about it is
like their merchandise was really lacking.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's that was striking to me, that they have a
lacking merchandise in Japan of all places.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Well at Universal tons of merchandise, but Universal owns that park.
I'm thinking because this is more of a licensee, Yeah,
licensee like kind of a franchise y kind of situation.
They must not have permission too, because you saw like
the same merchandise in every single shop and then the
only like, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Only thing he's got a he's got a bag down here.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So in the whole twenty thousand leagues of the under
the Sea, the Mystery Island, I think is what you
said it was. This was the only unique product they had.
Oh okay, it's a matchbox car or but it's actually
made by h Takara, which is a famous They made
a bunch of Star Wars toys in the seventies, so
(02:54):
it's like a famous brand. Yeah, yeah, this is the
only item, like you went to, I went to the
only unique thing. Yeah, I went to on the Indiana
Jones ride. They had they love ride vehicles over there
by the way. You could get any ride vehicle in
the entire park as a matchbox car, but that was
all they had.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Well, yeah, before we jump into our news catch up
and I know, Scott, you're out of the park and
you have a trip coming up to Epic Universe. Should
we try some of Jimmy's crazy ki Japan. I mean,
they've been sitting here in front of us for for
like an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now, Yeah, so which one you're gonna start with?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We got lemon, I'm gonna I'm gonna start with lemon
because it's open yea, and lemon's open. Scott's opening his lemons.
So they have weird flavors of candy in Japan.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It's not weird, it's unique.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, they have like eight thousand flavors of kit Kathy.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
They didn't even wait.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I'm just jumping in man, I mean we're here, let's
do it.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It's got a good light flavor. Yeah, they gave it
a green color, like on the package. The lemon has
a green rhine. I know, it's like a Japanese lemon
or something.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Like that was usually like a key line.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah that's a that's a good that's a good flavor. Yeah,
I got that down over there. And what's the other
one's melon?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So is it like?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Are we talking like candleop? I got a candle up
in the picture. Okay, I'm gonna assume it's candlelope. Pop
open this candle ope and see, uh see what we're
doing here. Man, it tastes like candleope. These are Kickcat
bars from Japan.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Oh my god, it really does.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
And this next one, the third and final one, I'm
a little worried about because the first two were really
good and they tasted just like what they're supposed to
m Gickerman, I'm gonna break you off a piece of
with sabi.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I don't know, I don't know. I got a water here.
I'm kind of scared. Here, grab that, Scott.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
You can have a whole one, because you're an adult.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And I've had with sabi before. I've never had with sabi. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The first one I had with.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Sabbi, the people that I went with did not tell
me what it was, and I ate the whole glob
in one film.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Whoo, the betsashi a wise cream is.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Bad and uh then I chucked my entire drink.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, I was waiting for this thing to be like
scary hot, but it's not. Luckily, No, But it does
taste like wasabi.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
It's almost like I wish was sabby was like this
all the time, you know what I mean? Because I
like the taste of was sabi, but sometimes there's.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Too much, too much cack. Yeah, I had a.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I had so much. I'm not a sushi eater. But
the sushi in Japan is so fresh and so fantastic.
I couldn't stop eating it. And there was a moment
where you go around the table and you could somebody
would always make like they'd be talking or eating and
then suddenly they'd freeze and just make this like they
(05:47):
were like, oh, too much was sabi?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, well that was good they did with sabi in
a safe way in that kick cab.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We should take him to a sushi we you, We
should get you to try sushi once.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, No, we.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Can get like Temple where it's fried.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's not sushi.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, but I mean you do, but like a like
a tempora roll.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You want to see a child make a face and
just yes, I sat next to you for years.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's me at a sushi place.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
How are you gonna go?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
How how are you going to Actually, no, we talked
about that. You'll just eat a seven eleven every and no,
they have Kentucky Fried Chicken there too, Well, he said
the seven eleven had.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
You know, I never went into KFC, but I did
eat at McDonald's and that.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, your friend had a Samurai burger.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, everybody who had the Samurai burger was like, mah,
I got the kariaki chicken fileo. I don't know why
they call it like that, but it was fantastic. And
if you go with A five, they have an after
five menu where they double up the protein on all
your sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nice. So I got like a it's like two patties
on the sandwich.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This Samurai burger looks dope.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
They said.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
It was just okay, I'm telling you, the tarioki chicken,
the sandwich flay.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
How are the McDonald's workers in Japan? Were they better
than like what we get here a million times.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Experience?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
And the way they wrap up their drinks was crazy too,
like because we got we always got it to go
and we go eat it in a hotel room and
they would take your drink and then they would put
it like a little plastic bag and then they would
put that into your your to go bag and it
like they had it and they would like loop it
through the arm like the holding part of the bag
and somehow with the technique it all held together.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Compartments or something.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Tell you in the future over.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
There something Most of the things, yes, but it's like
nineteen eighty smoking over there. Yeah, and they love their plastic,
like everything is wrapped in plastic.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well remember him trying to open the Godzilla.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
You buy a T shirt off the shelf, most of
the time it's coming in plastic, like in a plastic bag.
And then like any food you get, everything's individually wrapped
in plastic.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Love blasts vending machine stuff or did you only see
the There are vending machines everywhere for drinks occasionally you
would see and then drinks and ice cream are all
their vending machines.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Like, I didn't see anything goofy. And then you know,
occasionally you would see alcohol in the vending machines. Yeah,
but I didn't see anything goofy likes you know the
rumors that you hear. But there's like food ones, uh,
the food ones. Yes, there was some food ones, but
those were farm for Yeah. When I say there are
vending machines everywhere, like every alley had a vending machine. Yeah,
(08:34):
there's vending machines everywhere. Take credit cards, they do take
U yes, Okay, but like I had a a SECA card,
which is like the Japanese card and you can pay
for everything with that, Like you just and what's great
about the secret card. It works on your phone even
if your phone is dead, as long as it's got
a little bit of juice to it. Yeah, you can
still like that way, you can get in and out
(08:54):
of the subway even if your phone dies. That's because
that's what you use mostly for. All right, Scott, we
got to talk about something.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, we got some news. Should we should we jump
in the news? Should we recap? You went out to
a park.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I did go out to a park.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It be very quick, okay, because really like only one
thing I want to talk about going there. I tried
the butter beer lolly Okay, all right, all right, now
we're talking what's the consistency. It's like a popsicle, Okay, basically,
so it's got butter beer and then it's got like
a hard outer shell on top of it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So it was the outer shell like the foam flavor.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Not reallycotch it was it is, but it's like the
ice cream itself. That's the real butter beer flavor. That's
you want to get to. That you want to get
You want to get through the outer shell to get to.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, if you and I, if the three of
us went and got one, I mind be gone before
you guys turned around.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
No, if no, no, I have thought about this. If
if the three of us went, you would first get
a butter beer, then you would get a butter beer
ice cream to you put in your butter beer as
a float, and then you would use the butter beer
lolly as the boon.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're saying, I mean if we go back and if
we knew another opening of something, and that's an option,
you know, I will.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, the butter beer Lolly will only be around until
May thirty first, because it's only for when butter beer
season is going on.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, all right, so take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Take advantage of it while you can't.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Like McRib yes, wait till next year when it comes back.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Exactly, yes, okay, all right, all right, So that was
what you went to the park for.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I had to go to Guest Services for some stuff,
and I will give them a complete shout out.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
They were very helpful.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They usually are there.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know, I'm going to Epic Universe coming up, and
there was just some stuff I had to get taken
care of with my ticket for the preview day.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm going so tremendous, tremendous We're finally going to get
see epic universe through Scott size Jimmy. While you were gone,
so many more people well now now a lot of
soul I know that hasn't been now.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's passle to previous have begun. So and you know,
I've looked at the weights though, I know people that
have gone and have done every single ride.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And it's very you know, you're at the mercy of
it's basically technical previews, like things might not be open
when you're there. It's like it might be open right now,
later on it won't be open. So there's it's a
lot of that.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and past older previews you still have
to buy a ticket.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You have to buy a ticket.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's roughly the same as like a one day ticket, Okay,
but you know, it's very much like you know, I
look periodically on the app and I think the longest
way I ever see is like an hour.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Wow, like the Stardust Racers to the Dueling.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Nine times out of ten I look in it's twenty
minutes is the longest way I've seen?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, yeah, honestly it's probably walk on.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's boy. Yeah, take advantage of it. Now
because it ain't gonna last kids.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, absolutely, it's very much a soft launch kind of situation.
But no, it's also just the I want to know
how late they're, what time they open, the way they
are open, and maximize you a higher.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Day everything you can as many times as you can. Yeah,
it makes absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And also try to have as much food. And what's
the date of your your trip to May fourth four? Oh,
May May the fourth be with you. So I'm not
sure how I'm going to watch all eleven movies and
do Epic Universe that day.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Its gonna be it's gonna be a challenge. It will
be a challenge. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
When I got home, I was like, I need to
I want to go to Disney, And I was like,
I'm going to book May the fourth. May the fourth
is sold out at Hollywood Studios, So you're going to
you can park op as long as there is room
and availability, but you're gonna have to start at another park.
So I'll be going to Epcot checking in and then
gondoling over the Hollywood Studio.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I mean, yeah, I was kind of like, it's I'm at.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The mercy of like my schedule, but at the same
kind of thing where it's just like, you know, it's
later on in the preview period, so it's like, you know,
maybe more stuff will be open. It's closer than to
the opening date, so hopefully things will be a little
bit more efficient. But also, you know, I think that
day is now sold out, but it's also like more
people would go to Disney. I'm assuming on that right
(13:01):
agnd anyways, absolutely, yeah, good idea.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We can't wait to hear the review. I went to
the World's Fair in Osaka is in Japan, and we
were there on the third day that the place was open.
The Brazil pavilion was not open because they did not
they did not get their permit from the fire from
the fire department.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Whoopsie.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
And then like there was a bunch of pavilions like
the USA pavilion no merchandise.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Ah, what are we doing over there? What do we
got going on? Yeah? Ship?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
And I was a little let down by the USBA
pavilion only because it was all about space.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh okay, and were we just rubbing it in people's
faces like, hey, you guys didn't do it boom No.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
But it's just once you've seen Atlantis Atlantis Pavilion. Like,
if I hadn't been to the Atlantis exhibit at Kenny
Space Center, that would have been impressive. But because I've
seen that, I was.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Like, I've seen the Saturn five.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, yeah, I saw where Ben Affleck sat So yeah
yeah yeah. So should we dive into some news?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah? I have some Star Wars news because it made
the fourth Uh, because Star Wars celebration happened, and Jimmy
Stripp basically two yea.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But good news, guys, what is the good news? Admiral
Akbar is back in season two of Ahsoka.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, there's also that. Okay, the engineers will now have
a pivotal role on Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, the most boring job on Smuggler's Run in the back,
you got to take care of Grogu.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Next year at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Uh,
the ride will be revamped so guests can choose their destination, okay,
and the person that will be choosing the destination is
the engineer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
The engineer.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, now you got to worry about who you get,
like it used to be worried about who your pilots
were because you know, there's sometimes a language barrier.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They just don't know what you're doing. You're just crashing
all over the place. Now you're gonna worry about the
engineers picking something lame.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Guests will fly the falcon from Batu to Tattooine. Why
don't we just rethme Galaxy's Hedgee, what.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Are we doing?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We're sticking to this Let's let's uh, let's change the
date like this star date on that. We don't need
this hill.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
From there, they will have the opportunity to choose Coruscant,
Best Spin or Endoor as their next destinations options. Guest
in the engineer position will make the destination. Engineers will
also be able to interact with Grogu.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh you gotta protect Grogu while you're traveling. Well, okay,
the engineers.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Finally it's a good spot now finally, Yeah, because I
mean it really wasn't a good spot before.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Now you had a boring job and you were stuck
in the back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, you're very much just leaning over the entire time.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
And you press one button to attach to the harpoons. Yeah,
the harpoons, and then you're just.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And the rest of the time.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, Well, that's cool. That's a great addition that we've
been waiting for this since this ride came out.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We need to get on shoey mode before they make
this ride change we do. We need six of us,
so we need three more. We need you to buy
a ticket or use the passes.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
That we bought you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
When's the change coming next year?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
When the movie comes, when the mandalorining grew.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
We could pull this off this year. I think I
think it's possible.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
We've been saying that since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I've been wearing down my wife, slowly, just wearing, chipping
away at her.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Eventually we're going to get there.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
We've been saying this. When you had a pass for
that part.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Now we didn't have you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Now, hold on, we never had six people with us
at a time.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I was busy that day.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, see I was.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
I was over at Tower of Terror.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
See's this is what happens. That's what happens. Unless we
keep a leash on this one, and we'll never keep
we'll never find him in the park.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I'm just gonna you know what I'm gonna get. I'm
going to construct one of those eggs that Grogu floats
around and it's just enough scotten there and close it
just wandering off.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Also related to Star Wars, ahead of May fourth, Disney
released a sneak peak of the all new Reclaimed Reforged
lightsaber Hilt coming to Savvy's workshop.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
They're making so much money in these lightsabers. There just
like a license to print money for them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's fun, I mean it is.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And people, how many have you done?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I've only done one, ok, and I'm done. Yeah, when
you do it, it's fun. I mean, it's just it's
an experience. Like we talked about a lot of stuff
in Japan, people come here. This is like, oh, this
is the only time I'm ever gonna get to do this.
Why not, let's just do it and we'll spend the
money in Disney says it's like your ching.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, I got to do it with like four friends
and we're all building lightsabers together. So that for me
was like the unique experience. There's no chance I'm gonna
get four other people to or three other people to
spend you know, two hundred and fifty dollars on a lightsaber.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
But I had to do the experience because I missed
out on Star Cruiser, and I won't make that mistake
ever again.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Dang it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
We we could never have imagined they're just gonna close
Classic Stars for a year.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I was just trying to wear him down, you know.
It's just like, yeah, come on, man, I'm waiting for
that coupon day. Like the guy in Jurassic Park mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah something.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh wait, what do you mean you're closing it?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Office office park, dark dark day, dark day. It's an
office building. Now they're going to be.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Are they hiring for a janitor? Because I think that's
only the only thing I'm qualified.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I mean, we made that joke when it was open
as well.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's true, That's right. We did want to get jomps there.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I mean it's still a possibility.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Epic Universe has announced their operating hours when it opens up.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Fully.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is something I've always I always like to know
because I like to go to parks at night when
at all possible.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
From May twenty second through May thirty first, okay, nine
to nine.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Okay, nine pm, not bad, not bad. I prefer like
an eleven pm ten.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Because like the sun goes down at like eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I want to see the windmill if fully in flames
at night? Yeah, sure too. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Just like Pandora, Like you so rarely get to see
Pandora at night, and that's when it really shines, no
pun intended.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, I would like eleven, you know, ten, eleven,
ten o'clock. Sure, great, eleven o'clock. It's a big bonus.
Midnight now we're partying. Oh yeah, yeah, twenty four hours,
that's a real party.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Oh yeah, you would never getting that again, yeah you yeah,
you'll never see midnight again.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's never come back. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
No, we've said though, if that, if they bring.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That back, no, I meant he can't stay up that late.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Well, if they do that again, we need to do.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It one hundred percent. I don't know that they have
full twenty four hours yeah, just never leave. Just will
be the one sleeping on the park.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No sleeping on to stay wait, no sleeping Oh no,
twenty four hours straight. Oh I don't know if I
can handle that.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, my age, that might be lethal. Yeah, oh it's fine.
Hunting people out.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Good thing they've got the like the advent Health people
just to check you out.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
They're gonna need all those race folks like yeah, you
know how they have the little med tense all through
the race.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You don't know because you never ran a race, but
all through the ye by.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
It, sir. This is for runners only. This is not
regular parking.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Also going on at Universal it's the passolder season, So
does that mean well, there's a there's a Jaws related
magnet for passolders, all right? And special tea food items
like a sweet and salty crunchy donut.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Okay, a doughnut dipped in utella with chocolate hazel that icing,
caramel sauce in salt and sugar sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That sounds good. Yeah, I love the salt and slavery.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
There sushi pizza at Cowfish.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
You like pizza?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If you would eat a piece of raw fish if
it didn't taste fishy, would do you think you could
enjoy it?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm too big of a baby. What if it was seared?
I still don't think. I don't even like regular, I
don't like I could barely eat a fish stick.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Let me read the ingredients.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Barely eat a file fish.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Crispy rice, crusty spicy mayo? Okay, honey salad?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'll have to look it up hauled the pinos, scallions,
eel sauce and sprouts.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Eel sauce.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
That sounds sauce delicious.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No, you is really really good. Yeah it sounds I
promise you. I know it does sound scary and I
wish it had a better name, but it is delicious.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is it made for meals? I don't know that it
has any eel actually in it, ground up.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Eel mush, a Connie salad. It's just it's just it's solid.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it's a fish. It's a it's a raw fish.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It's not it is it is not. It is not
a fish that swims in the water.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What the heck? What other kind of fish doesn't It's
not a fish. It's a crustacean. Oh, it's like a crab.
Crab crap, okay, crab. Have you had crab legs? Oh
my god, you were missing, dude. Crab legs are like
you eat shrimp. Nope, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I know you are such a shock.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
You guys know this all.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Right, I know, but it's news and it's not new,
but it's always such a shock and puzzling.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
How about this. At padd O'Brien's, they got a crawfish poutine.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I don't do crawfish spicy citrus Mahi mahi sandwich, Nope,
that would be delicious.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That sounds amazing.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You could handle mahi.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I think mahi mahi might like I could. I could
probably handle my I could probably do that.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Man, it's dolphin.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Uh, salmon tune of crispy tacos.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
M you don't like salmon. No, it's good for you.
It's good for you. I don't like food from the ocean.
I don't like ocean.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I actually don't think he would survive going to Japan.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I probably would know he could because he would just
go get chicken nuggets and uh and eat egg salad
sandwiches because.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
He'd kick he'd eat kick cats.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I would find a sumo wrestler and just follow him.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Where they would like two dollars the the egg salad
sandwich is two dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Okay, so the best egg salad sandwich you've ever had.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I was getting two at a time because they would
have different kinds, Like you would have one that had
like uh, they'd be like karaokey chicken on one, and
then they had one sandwich.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I know you would eat because it was just whipped.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Cream and strawberries, white bread and they cut the crust
off just for you.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That sounds great. Guys know what they're doing over there?
Oh my god, Yeah, you're such a child. Oh yes,
you guys know this. It's not it's not new news.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
It's it's sometimes disappointing.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Did you say nude news. It's not new news. It's
not new news.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
By the way, over at Hollywood suit Is, there's a
Mythosphere Mythosore drink.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Okay, what's in the Mythosaur minute?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Made passion fruit, orange and guava juice with a splash
of lime juice, topped with rum rum in blue carousel licoor.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yes please, I'll take two served.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
With the Mythosaur mug.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay. I don't know that I need the mug, but
I want to drink. Probably need the mug. I'm not
collecting any more plastic. I have enough plast from this
last few days for the rest of my life. All right.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Well, we're just about at a time, So Scott, if
people want to find any news we didn't quite get
to this week, where might they find us?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
On social media?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And fall us on Twitter? At Theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
and TikTok at the Theme Park Podcast. You good watch
it themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
And the show comes to you live from the Laurencampbellrealtre
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I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out of the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
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