April 29, 2023 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast the guys run through all the Star Wars treats coming for May the 4th! Then in the news new meet and greets are on their way, pickleball continues to take over the world and dinosaurs are making their return to Universal Studios. Plus the guys wonder what a Mickey Mouse movie would look like and Epic Universe will start having more previews.
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From the theme park Capital of theWorld, Orlando, Florida. This is
the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcastradio. Why does everything got to be
so messy on this station? Anyway? Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy
d and Scott Harris. Welcome tothe Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here
(00:24):
there is Jimmy D. What's itgoing on? Fellas? And Scott Harris?
What's up? What's going on?Promo code? Scott? Promo code?
Scott only works at Universal Orlando dotCom, Universal Dash Orlando Dash,
Themepark dot Edu, Forward Slash themeParker thing. That's another thing. All
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those things we come to you fromthree separate locations today. I'm at home.
Jimmy is at the Riviera Resort atthe Wealth Disney World Complex. And
Scott from the iHeartRadio studios. Yeshopefully when barges into the studio while I'm
in here, Jimmy, what areyou doing over at Riviera short today?
Just skipping work? Is that howit works? Now? This is my
(01:10):
work, being a correspondent for Disneyis my work. There we go.
It's not wrong, job cool,very very nice. All right, Well,
I expect you to be able toget us all sorts of new perks
now, so we'll be able toa stay at the Star Wars Hotel,
be get early accessed into the parts, and potentially get access to all of
(01:30):
the new Star Wars food items thatare gonna be coming. As we approached
May the fourth, I didn't sayI was getting paid. He just said
he was there. He's just doingit for free. How do the goodness
of your heart? You know theycould. They're a small company. They
could really use all the volunteerism theycan get. I need some magic in
my life, and most imagine Jimmybeing at like a swim up bar right
(01:52):
now. No, I try togo into pool area because I got a
nice little post over there with like, you know, an outlet, and
don't have a magic band that letsbe in there. So they actually they
have locked in the pools. Nowyou need a magic band for yes,
I don't know. I didn't knowthat. I just thought you had to
be showing one so it looked likeyou were staying there. That was always
(02:13):
my plan, just to go tothe pools and pretend that I was a
guest. You're the reason. You'rethe reason that this has changed. Yeah,
yeah, it's true. I thoughtthem the only one that was on
serious lockdown was the one over atwas it a beach club? The giant
slide there? Well, that giantslide is very attractive, but no,
(02:35):
it's all the pools now slide.Far as I know, this is a
DBC resort, So you really doneed to have like extra layer because these
folks are You got to keep thereal riff raff out there. Yeah,
exactly. Is it true that there'sa picture of Dickerman at every entry point?
No, but there is, andthis is true. There is a
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binder like remember how you wh usedto have that big, giant, thick
binder full of baseball cards when youwere a kid. There's a binder like
that with people's photos of like thetrespass photos. M It's like, how
do you review that? Though?Like they I'm surprised they just don't have
facial recodition to catch them right away, which they might actually, we just
don't know all about now with theuh the ticket system, they know when
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you're coming through and they'll look foryou. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is this is all true.Back to the big slide, Scott,
you're the only ones that's ever writtenthat right among the show members. It's
a fun slide. It's in mytop five slides. I get stuck in
it if I went on it.Occomer Simpson when they had to like crane
him out of there. Yep,send some kids down that'll lodge. Nope,
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all right, well we are approachingme the fourth zone in scott You've
got some breaking news and some newStar Wars items coming to the parks.
Guys. There is a grow Goosesipper cup which includes a choice of fountain
bev fridge, going to be soldbeginning May. Third Wall supplies last limit
too. Look like the cutest cupin the world. It's him with the
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little cup in his hands, withthe little frog poking out of the cup.
All right, and this will besold at the fruit cart, the
turocart, and the lemonade cart Intomorrowlandat Disneyland. Oh what about the rest
of us. Nope, not cominghere. It's the same place that got
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the Fanos sippermunk that we got likethrough of and they sold him at like
some ridiculous place at Disney Springs thatnobody knew about. Yes, for some
reason, the grogu Sipper cup willnot be coming here. Did they get
that figment popcorn bucket that everybody wantedfor a minute, that sold out everywhere?
It was that only in Central Florida. That was only here because we're
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the only park that has figment.Okay, all right, so we do
get exclusive sometimes it's only stuff thatyou like that. Yeah, apparently,
so yes, you get you getthe figment in mister Toad's only in Central
Florida. Over in California they getlike, you know, Thanos Infinity,
Guntlets, Zipper Cup, and nowthe grow Gup. I would love the
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grow Goo Cup. That's the thing. I would absolutely love this. Yeah,
I'm sure you would. But youknow what, you have to go
to California for it. Apparently,maybe they're just gonna like they're so mad
at Florida, like they're gonna sendall the cool stuff to California right now.
Okay, but some stuff that iscoming here. Darth Vader cup Darth
Vader cupcake. All right, that'sthat's fun. But you eat it and
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it's gone, But it doesn't meanit's not good. Still. Wookie cookie,
I've had the Wookie cookie. It'sdelicious. Yeah, the Wookie cookie.
Yeah, it is. That isthat's like the oatmeal one right,
yeah, yeah, it's kind ofit's kind of like the what's the Little
Debbie snack cake oatmeal cream pie,but like in a Wookie form lightsaber suros
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again right now, we have hadthose and they have a like a just
a paper handle to make them looklike a lightsaber. Right, yeah.
Yeah. They also used it,well, at least in the years past,
they've used colored sprinkles. Yes,and that is that is coming back.
That's cool. Dark Side chocolate creationwhich looks like Darth Maul's head.
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Anything with Darth Maul is gonna sellsthe Darth Maul. You guys remember the
Darth Maul from the Star Wars days. Remember how fun that was? Yah
Darth small, Yeah, that wasgreat. I mean they had so much
merchant there, and I know wehave it all over the park now and
it's like it's not a special,but I had to have that set up
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that they used to have that justmade it like an event. Meanwhile,
over at Disney Springs at the Canaschery, we've got a Queen Amidala chocolate pinata.
How does that work? Is itlike, is it got stuff inside
of it? Yes, it does. It's got ruby chocolate in raspberry bark
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inside like big or is it likea little thing? It looks pretty big.
Okay, it's the size of NataliePortman's head. Whoa, Okay,
it's not that. It's not herhead. I think she's like a tiny
little person. So I don't know. She is short. She's like five
foot but she really that small.Yes, she's pocket sized. H Then
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there's the loyal Astromech swirl Jimmy DullWhip mango served with Hoban Narrow soft serve
in a red velvet cone, withtoasted Graham cracker crumbs chocolate rocks in an
edible baby eight garnish. What goingon there? Yeah, that's uh,
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there's a lot to unpack. I'mgonna need like a dier. I don't
know how I feel about the Hobanarrow soft serve. And it's gonna give
it a little spike and it's Disneyman. It's not gonna be like it's
not gonna be like fresh chilapinos choppedup in your mouth. It's a little
bit in there, just a littlezip. I mean, I'd try it.
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My wife would try that. Iwould try it. Uh. Oh,
And by the way. Disneyland isalso getting an after dark Star Wars
night. Yeah, they're not allowed. Well they didn't it sold out?
Of course it did. Of coursethey sold it out. They saw it
everything there. Though, have wesold out of our annual passes yet here?
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I don't think so. I wouldhave seen. Yeah, that would
have been that would have been aheadline someplace. And it's funny that they
expected or anticipated a sellout on theday that they released them on the twentieth,
but it hasn't been the case ormaterialized or they just said that it
would to get people to buy themas as soon as possible. That is,
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that is entirely possible. That feelslike a universal thing to do.
And remember if you buy them,it does not actually go into effect until
you go into the park for thefirst time. Okay, so you can
buy them now and like not gointo the park until December thirty. First,
Yeah, you actually have like Idon't know how the new passes are,
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but like on the silver passes,you bought them and they were good
for like thirty years, so youhad like that much time to activate your
pass. Correct, if you aregoing out to the park for the first
time, if if I can offerthis. If you are going and you
just got your pass, that doesnot cover your first day of parking.
So if you have multiple individuals,say your family, your husband, your
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wife, your child, if they'reold enough, you can do the drop
off, let them go activate thepasses, then circle back around and save
your thirty six dollars or whatever topark. Yes, yeah, man,
that's a lot of time to savethirty six dollars. Well you gotta save
that money somehow about you. Butthirty six bucks is a decent amount of
money to me, It's very true. I'll pay for the can unions,
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um. Elsewhere. We're getting somenew meet and greds coming to Hollywood Studios.
All right, what are we lookingat? Aerial Little Mermaid? Well,
yeah, she's she's not been atHollywood since they closed down that show.
Right, this is the live actionLittle Mermaid. Okay, so this
is a new Little Mermaid, newLittle Mermaid for the movie. It's gonna
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look like Hallie. Then, yep, that's cool. This is gonna get
confusing after a while because we're gonnahave like the Marble thing where there's like
multiples of different individuals. Well,no, it's it's live action aerial this
park, animated aerial this park.Okay, we're in the multiverse. That's
all I'm saying. We're in themultiverse. Look, all I know is
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I don't know if you guys heard, but we're gonna be getting an animated
version of the live action version ofthe animated version coming soon. I have
no doubt that that will happen.Just keep doing it. What are we
gonna get a live action Mickey Mouse? That's what I want to know.
Look, I just want to know. We got a we got a Mario
movie right now? Which is Imade in right now? We're up to
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eight hundred billion dollars. What arewe getting just a Mickey Mouse animated movie?
What would it be about? Okay, funny you ask. I've done
some research on this. They atI was going to say he lacks substance.
At one point they were toying aroundwith the idea of a Mickey Mouse
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movie. It's a fantastic idea.Have you guys seen The Great Mouse Detective.
No, I don't think I evershaid I'm familiar with that. I
don't think I ever watched it.It was a movie in which Mickey goes
missing in Mini and Donald and Goofygo to the Great Mouse Detective to find
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Mickey, and it ties into It'slike an Avengers level movie where it brings
in all of the characters from allof the different properties that Disney has made.
I was concerned there when you saidMickey goes missing. I was thinking,
we're gonna get a winning the Poop, Blood and Honey was gonna be
like crime crime, crime movie,but it was gonna be like an ear
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in the mail. He's got togo find like he goes to Peter in
the Lost Boys and they give himsome clues and then he goes over like
the Jungle Book. Yeah. Imean you're kind of describing that game you
like too. I think Mickey absolutely, or just do an epic Mickey game
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or Kingdom Hearts, Yeah, Martin'swhat I was thinking. Yeah, Kingdom
Hearts was the one I was thinking. Yeah, I mean, Epic Mickey
one and two were fantastic. Idon't know if I played those. Those
were good. They were on thethey were on the Wii. They're good,
they're fun. Oh the Wei,Yeah, I don't. I don't
think I had that. Um Ihad the paintbrush nunchuck for we for that
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game. Yep. Meanwhile, we'regetting some credible characters from The Incredibles are
going to be taking over the PixarPlace at Hollywood Studios as well. Yeah,
Pixmar Place is finally going to reopen. Yep. Edna mode will be
back as part of the experience.Interesting, that's cool. Um, Jimmy,
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you're a big pickle ball player.Correct. I have not retired in
uh South Florida, so no,Well, pickleball is coming to the resorts
at Disney World. Gosh, whatwhat's the big push with pickle ball lately?
I've never played it. Maybe it'ssuper fun. I don't know.
It's a sport that all kind ofage ranges can play, so you're not
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gonna blow out an ACL if you'reIf you go and try and play it
at an advanced age, you stillcould. I mean there's professional pickleball players
and somehow I ended up watching likea volley of a match and it was
crazy, like a cross between howcrazy pink pong is and how less crazy.
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So put that in the middle.Yeah, Okay, I don't even
know if pickleball is, so I'llhave to set the take your word,
but it's coming to the resorts.Yes, yes, it is, uh
bouncing down the street universal. Comcasthas said they've seen a twenty five percent
revenue increase in the first quarter oftwenty twenty three. So this is for
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the parks division. Is that whatwe're talking about? This is all of
Comcast. Okay, all right,that's a lot. It's hard to see
because that is a that is amassive like, you know, they cover
so many different things, things weprobably don't even know ever think of.
Well, thank you Peacock for addingmore subscribers, and thank you to a
little indie flick known as the SuperMario Brothers movie. Yeah that thing.
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That thing did. Okay, theymade it all right. Yeah, and
you know they are open and youknow now they have two parks across the
world that have Super Mario Land,which is getting rave reviews. Do you
think yeah, do you think likethe guys over Epic Universe, they got
people out there, you know,just trying to speed up the work.
Now get this park done quicker.They can open up that section. I
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mean, the thing is they're gettingit up pretty fast, like considering like
all that they're doing and considering that. Remember, for a year that project
was paused. He thought it wasdone. We thought they were just gonna
give up and cancel it. Itwasn't paused. It was canceled for a
year. In Japan. They willbe adding more. They'll be adding the
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Donkey Kong Mine car ride, whichwill be opening next year, which is
the thing that we will also begetting. We will be getting a Donkey
Kong ride here. Do we getthem barrels out of the cart That's what
I want to know. No,I think it's gonna be Donkey Kong Country
related, not the og Donkey Kong. Don't he throw barrels in? Then?
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Didn't donkeykne Country? I don't remember. I do want to play it.
I have found my sixty four games. I just need to for Cure
of sixty four. Yeah, sixtyfour. If you want to bar might
have to, might have to.Yes, it is, Yes, think
you can't kill it. I've seenwe's die. I've seen we used dieing
Nintendo sixty four soldiers on our originalcontrollers and all. Hey man, those
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those actual cartridge games are cartridge consolesjust will last the end of time.
Yeah, I don't know. Youstill have to blow into the Nintendo ones.
That's fine, it still works.That's fine, as long as they
work. Are you blow in thereand then it works? Um? Do
you think we're gonna start seeing thoseMario characters pop up at the park sooner
than later? Though, because theyhave this, this kind of lightning rod.
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They have to. They have tobecause they've started selling merch. They
had a photo op area outside ofthe theater at CityWalk where you could take
a picture inside of a Mario Kart. So it's it's honestly, that's cool.
It's a matter of time. Yeah, yeah, it's it's coming.
And uh, this is I mean, this is them striking when the iron
so hot. They did it withHarry Potter, and another opportunity presents itself
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with the resurgence of Mario. Sinceyou two are how do I want to
phrase this politely plus old Jimmy,he's gonna call it. Oh, he
call us pouch shaped plus say pouchshaped plus fifty No, we're not plus
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do you remember when when do youremember when Islands of Adventure was coming and
they had and they had next toI want to say it was confrontation.
I think it was confrontation at thetime they had the Islands of Adventure preview
center. Yes, when now aqueuefor Mummy? Right it is now the
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Actually I think it's the locker areafor the Mummy. Well no you need
outside no like though the ind No, they don't have an outside locker area.
Now it's an inside locker area.Oh well then yes it is.
When does something like that get builthere? When does the preview because they
haven't even really announced anything for what'sgoing to be inside of that park,
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So the preview is kind of likejust the drawings and a big kind of
visualization and maybe some video, massivevisualization, like they had animatronics inside of
that thing. Yeah it was,And wasn't it like a giant model too?
Yes? Yeah. So my guessis before they made that the Islands
of Adventure, like you know,welcome center or whatever to preview what it
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was. I want to say thatwas one of those photo spots it want,
you know, to take a picturein front of a green screen.
So what do they have around thetwo parks that would be a similar type
space that they recently took everything outof. Well, there's tribute stores.
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At some point you have to wonderattribute does a Tribute story get turned into
that. Yeah, I would haveto say. So, they've got so
many unused areas in that park too. Remember when you're heading towards I want
to say, it's uh, you'recoming at a Superhero Island. There's a
giant theater there that they don't useanymore. Yeah. Yeah, like people
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say that place it's pretty beat,but that's it's a giant theater that's not
used. And they also just closedown Poseidon's Fury for whatever they're gonna do
there. And they have the SinnbadTheater as well. Oh that's true too,
Yeah, so they have they havea lot of indoor air conditioned spots.
As we head towards summer when youneed indoor cooled spots, well,
the two Lagoon Theater and Sindbad arenot air conditioned. No, those are
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open air. Never mind. SoI brought up tribute stores and Jimmy,
how is your wallet slash of bankaccount doing? For the first time in
my entire life, I am anadult and everything is stable. So a
hint at the upcoming Tribute store atUniversal Studios, Florida. There's a window.
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In this window is a metal ladleOkay, Jimmy, would you freeze
like a reference to an iconic scenefrom a certain dinosaur movie. I know
what you're talking about. Now.We are now approaching the thirtieth anniversary of
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Jurassic Park. Okay, all right, there goes my financial stability. Exactly.
You're gonna you're gonna be actually beable to buy a dinosaur this time.
They've they've mastered it. The dinosaurswill stay small, so they can't
you know, take over the world. But you can't purchase a dinosaur,
James, I will take a trex. Please? What I want?
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What if I want them to growfull size? Uh, you're gonna have
to spy speak to a bioengineer thathas little scruples, very little scruples.
Cool, I'll talk to beat Wongthen, yeah, he's the guy you
want. Or or no, Iwant a full size raptor. I know
what to do. You just dothis, hey, hey, hands out
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like yeah, Brett, Yeah,you think I could throw a saddle on
him like Yoshi? Yes, it'slike walk, Yes, is riding around.
Why couldn't you feel like the WillFerrell did it in Land at the
loss of the t Rex, Soit's possible. I feel like that would
save on a lot of gas.Everyone would get out of your Yeah,
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I think this is better than theelectric car. I'm gonna go with this
bonus. When you're dinosaur dies,he would eventually be a fossil fuel.
There's another option. Yeah, butI mean out there, these things they
live a long time. I don'tlike what is it the t rex from
the first Jurassic Park is the samet rex in all of the sequel movie?
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Is that I didn't see? Sixtyfive million years? There's that?
See? Yeah, so that isan option. So there a lot of
a lot of new um merchandise comingfor Jurassic Park thirtieth anniversary. Likely not
any dinosaurs though, AKA bad newsfor Jimmy's bank accounts. Yes, bad
news for all of all of youraccounts. Are you a Universal passholder currently,
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James, I am intertently not.I'm just you're still You're still a
Universal guy? Right? No,I'm all no. No. That expired
in November and I missed the windowto get on in it last week.
Oh oh, because do you geta discount when you resign up? Is
that how it works? Is therea discount? Um? I think it's
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a marginal amount of a discount.Okay, all right, I'm still I'm
still considering becoming the Universal guy.It might take over your your your Universal
accounts, got it might happen.You should It's it's honestly, it's a
good deal. I mean, andif you really wanted to, I know,
we joke ab spending money. It'salso not a bad deal if you
want to add Volcano Bay to theannual pass structure. This is true,
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This is absolutely true. I meanI looked at the pass prices and I
think I could do the Universal forthe family for about a thousand bucks less
than Disney, which is a lotof money. Yeah, it's a considerable
amount. And honestly, I wouldrecommend that I did not do this,
but uh, Courtney did this.She had the pass to get you express
after four And that's a game changerof a pass, especially when the parks
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are open later during the summer.That is a that is a good one.
That that does increase the price considerablythough, it does, but it
makes your experience that much better.And and with that pass you get one
night of horror nights. Oh boy, that's an off peak night though,
yes, it's an off peak night. Which which usually means like the first
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three weekends. Yeah, well,yeah, who wants to go on a
peak night? We've been there onpeak nights. It's miserable. Yeah.
Thing fun about that. It helpsin knowing that you don't have to pay
for the ticket. It kind ofis like, maybe then I'll spring for
the Express for horror nights. Interestingand Utrey Parking all things to consider.
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Scott, We're just about out oftime. So if people want to find
us on social media for all thelatest breaking news, where can they go?
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From the theme park Capital of theWorld, Orlando, Florida. This is
the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcastradio. Why does everything got to be
so messy on this station? Anyway? Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy
d and Scott Harris. Welcome tothe Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here
(00:24):
there is Jimmy D. What's itgoing on? Fellas? And Scott Harris?
What's up? What's going on?Promo code? Scott? Promo code?
Scott only works at Universal Orlando dotCom, Universal Dash Orlando Dash,
Themepark dot Edu, Forward Slash themeParker thing. That's another thing. All
(00:47):
those things we come to you fromthree separate locations today. I'm at home.
Jimmy is at the Riviera Resort atthe Wealth Disney World Complex. And
Scott from the iHeartRadio studios. Yeshopefully when barges into the studio while I'm
in here, Jimmy, what areyou doing over at Riviera short today?
Just skipping work? Is that howit works? Now? This is my
(01:10):
work, being a correspondent for Disneyis my work. There we go.
It's not wrong, job cool,very very nice. All right, Well,
I expect you to be able toget us all sorts of new perks
now, so we'll be able toa stay at the Star Wars Hotel,
be get early accessed into the parts, and potentially get access to all of
(01:30):
the new Star Wars food items thatare gonna be coming. As we approached
May the fourth, I didn't sayI was getting paid. He just said
he was there. He's just doingit for free. How do the goodness
of your heart? You know theycould. They're a small company. They
could really use all the volunteerism theycan get. I need some magic in
my life, and most imagine Jimmybeing at like a swim up bar right
(01:52):
now. No, I try togo into pool area because I got a
nice little post over there with like, you know, an outlet, and
don't have a magic band that letsbe in there. So they actually they
have locked in the pools. Nowyou need a magic band for yes,
I don't know. I didn't knowthat. I just thought you had to
be showing one so it looked likeyou were staying there. That was always
(02:13):
my plan, just to go tothe pools and pretend that I was a
guest. You're the reason. You'rethe reason that this has changed. Yeah,
yeah, it's true. I thoughtthem the only one that was on
serious lockdown was the one over atwas it a beach club? The giant
slide there? Well, that giantslide is very attractive, but no,
(02:35):
it's all the pools now slide.Far as I know, this is a
DBC resort, So you really doneed to have like extra layer because these
folks are You got to keep thereal riff raff out there. Yeah,
exactly. Is it true that there'sa picture of Dickerman at every entry point?
No, but there is, andthis is true. There is a
(02:58):
binder like remember how you wh usedto have that big, giant, thick
binder full of baseball cards when youwere a kid. There's a binder like
that with people's photos of like thetrespass photos. M It's like, how
do you review that? Though?Like they I'm surprised they just don't have
facial recodition to catch them right away, which they might actually, we just
don't know all about now with theuh the ticket system, they know when
(03:21):
you're coming through and they'll look foryou. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is this is all true.Back to the big slide, Scott,
you're the only ones that's ever writtenthat right among the show members. It's
a fun slide. It's in mytop five slides. I get stuck in
it if I went on it.Occomer Simpson when they had to like crane
him out of there. Yep,send some kids down that'll lodge. Nope,
(03:46):
all right, well we are approachingme the fourth zone in scott You've
got some breaking news and some newStar Wars items coming to the parks.
Guys. There is a grow Goosesipper cup which includes a choice of fountain
bev fridge, going to be soldbeginning May. Third Wall supplies last limit
too. Look like the cutest cupin the world. It's him with the
(04:10):
little cup in his hands, withthe little frog poking out of the cup.
All right, and this will besold at the fruit cart, the
turocart, and the lemonade cart Intomorrowlandat Disneyland. Oh what about the rest
of us. Nope, not cominghere. It's the same place that got
(04:31):
the Fanos sippermunk that we got likethrough of and they sold him at like
some ridiculous place at Disney Springs thatnobody knew about. Yes, for some
reason, the grogu Sipper cup willnot be coming here. Did they get
that figment popcorn bucket that everybody wantedfor a minute, that sold out everywhere?
It was that only in Central Florida. That was only here because we're
(04:51):
the only park that has figment.Okay, all right, so we do
get exclusive sometimes it's only stuff thatyou like that. Yeah, apparently,
so yes, you get you getthe figment in mister Toad's only in Central
Florida. Over in California they getlike, you know, Thanos Infinity,
Guntlets, Zipper Cup, and nowthe grow Gup. I would love the
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grow Goo Cup. That's the thing. I would absolutely love this. Yeah,
I'm sure you would. But youknow what, you have to go
to California for it. Apparently,maybe they're just gonna like they're so mad
at Florida, like they're gonna sendall the cool stuff to California right now.
Okay, but some stuff that iscoming here. Darth Vader cup Darth
Vader cupcake. All right, that'sthat's fun. But you eat it and
(05:34):
it's gone, But it doesn't meanit's not good. Still. Wookie cookie,
I've had the Wookie cookie. It'sdelicious. Yeah, the Wookie cookie.
Yeah, it is. That isthat's like the oatmeal one right,
yeah, yeah, it's kind ofit's kind of like the what's the Little
Debbie snack cake oatmeal cream pie,but like in a Wookie form lightsaber suros
(05:54):
again right now, we have hadthose and they have a like a just
a paper handle to make them looklike a lightsaber. Right, yeah.
Yeah. They also used it,well, at least in the years past,
they've used colored sprinkles. Yes,and that is that is coming back.
That's cool. Dark Side chocolate creationwhich looks like Darth Maul's head.
(06:17):
Anything with Darth Maul is gonna sellsthe Darth Maul. You guys remember the
Darth Maul from the Star Wars days. Remember how fun that was? Yah
Darth small, Yeah, that wasgreat. I mean they had so much
merchant there, and I know wehave it all over the park now and
it's like it's not a special,but I had to have that set up
(06:38):
that they used to have that justmade it like an event. Meanwhile,
over at Disney Springs at the Canaschery, we've got a Queen Amidala chocolate pinata.
How does that work? Is itlike, is it got stuff inside
of it? Yes, it does. It's got ruby chocolate in raspberry bark
(07:00):
inside like big or is it likea little thing? It looks pretty big.
Okay, it's the size of NataliePortman's head. Whoa, Okay,
it's not that. It's not herhead. I think she's like a tiny
little person. So I don't know. She is short. She's like five
foot but she really that small.Yes, she's pocket sized. H Then
(07:24):
there's the loyal Astromech swirl Jimmy DullWhip mango served with Hoban Narrow soft serve
in a red velvet cone, withtoasted Graham cracker crumbs chocolate rocks in an
edible baby eight garnish. What goingon there? Yeah, that's uh,
(07:46):
there's a lot to unpack. I'mgonna need like a dier. I don't
know how I feel about the Hobanarrow soft serve. And it's gonna give
it a little spike and it's Disneyman. It's not gonna be like it's
not gonna be like fresh chilapinos choppedup in your mouth. It's a little
bit in there, just a littlezip. I mean, I'd try it.
(08:09):
My wife would try that. Iwould try it. Uh. Oh,
And by the way. Disneyland isalso getting an after dark Star Wars
night. Yeah, they're not allowed. Well they didn't it sold out?
Of course it did. Of coursethey sold it out. They saw it
everything there. Though, have wesold out of our annual passes yet here?
(08:30):
I don't think so. I wouldhave seen. Yeah, that would
have been that would have been aheadline someplace. And it's funny that they
expected or anticipated a sellout on theday that they released them on the twentieth,
but it hasn't been the case ormaterialized or they just said that it
would to get people to buy themas as soon as possible. That is,
(08:54):
that is entirely possible. That feelslike a universal thing to do.
And remember if you buy them,it does not actually go into effect until
you go into the park for thefirst time. Okay, so you can
buy them now and like not gointo the park until December thirty. First,
Yeah, you actually have like Idon't know how the new passes are,
(09:15):
but like on the silver passes,you bought them and they were good
for like thirty years, so youhad like that much time to activate your
pass. Correct, if you aregoing out to the park for the first
time, if if I can offerthis. If you are going and you
just got your pass, that doesnot cover your first day of parking.
So if you have multiple individuals,say your family, your husband, your
(09:37):
wife, your child, if they'reold enough, you can do the drop
off, let them go activate thepasses, then circle back around and save
your thirty six dollars or whatever topark. Yes, yeah, man,
that's a lot of time to savethirty six dollars. Well you gotta save
that money somehow about you. Butthirty six bucks is a decent amount of
money to me, It's very true. I'll pay for the can unions,
(10:01):
um. Elsewhere. We're getting somenew meet and greds coming to Hollywood Studios.
All right, what are we lookingat? Aerial Little Mermaid? Well,
yeah, she's she's not been atHollywood since they closed down that show.
Right, this is the live actionLittle Mermaid. Okay, so this
is a new Little Mermaid, newLittle Mermaid for the movie. It's gonna
(10:22):
look like Hallie. Then, yep, that's cool. This is gonna get
confusing after a while because we're gonnahave like the Marble thing where there's like
multiples of different individuals. Well,no, it's it's live action aerial this
park, animated aerial this park.Okay, we're in the multiverse. That's
all I'm saying. We're in themultiverse. Look, all I know is
(10:45):
I don't know if you guys heard, but we're gonna be getting an animated
version of the live action version ofthe animated version coming soon. I have
no doubt that that will happen.Just keep doing it. What are we
gonna get a live action Mickey Mouse? That's what I want to know.
Look, I just want to know. We got a we got a Mario
movie right now? Which is Imade in right now? We're up to
(11:09):
eight hundred billion dollars. What arewe getting just a Mickey Mouse animated movie?
What would it be about? Okay, funny you ask. I've done
some research on this. They atI was going to say he lacks substance.
At one point they were toying aroundwith the idea of a Mickey Mouse
(11:31):
movie. It's a fantastic idea.Have you guys seen The Great Mouse Detective.
No, I don't think I evershaid I'm familiar with that. I
don't think I ever watched it.It was a movie in which Mickey goes
missing in Mini and Donald and Goofygo to the Great Mouse Detective to find
(11:52):
Mickey, and it ties into It'slike an Avengers level movie where it brings
in all of the characters from allof the different properties that Disney has made.
I was concerned there when you saidMickey goes missing. I was thinking,
we're gonna get a winning the Poop, Blood and Honey was gonna be
like crime crime, crime movie,but it was gonna be like an ear
(12:16):
in the mail. He's got togo find like he goes to Peter in
the Lost Boys and they give himsome clues and then he goes over like
the Jungle Book. Yeah. Imean you're kind of describing that game you
like too. I think Mickey absolutely, or just do an epic Mickey game
(12:37):
or Kingdom Hearts, Yeah, Martin'swhat I was thinking. Yeah, Kingdom
Hearts was the one I was thinking. Yeah, I mean, Epic Mickey
one and two were fantastic. Idon't know if I played those. Those
were good. They were on thethey were on the Wii. They're good,
they're fun. Oh the Wei,Yeah, I don't. I don't
think I had that. Um Ihad the paintbrush nunchuck for we for that
(12:58):
game. Yep. Meanwhile, we'regetting some credible characters from The Incredibles are
going to be taking over the PixarPlace at Hollywood Studios as well. Yeah,
Pixmar Place is finally going to reopen. Yep. Edna mode will be
back as part of the experience.Interesting, that's cool. Um, Jimmy,
(13:22):
you're a big pickle ball player.Correct. I have not retired in
uh South Florida, so no,Well, pickleball is coming to the resorts
at Disney World. Gosh, whatwhat's the big push with pickle ball lately?
I've never played it. Maybe it'ssuper fun. I don't know.
It's a sport that all kind ofage ranges can play, so you're not
(13:46):
gonna blow out an ACL if you'reIf you go and try and play it
at an advanced age, you stillcould. I mean there's professional pickleball players
and somehow I ended up watching likea volley of a match and it was
crazy, like a cross between howcrazy pink pong is and how less crazy.
(14:13):
So put that in the middle.Yeah, Okay, I don't even
know if pickleball is, so I'llhave to set the take your word,
but it's coming to the resorts.Yes, yes, it is, uh
bouncing down the street universal. Comcasthas said they've seen a twenty five percent
revenue increase in the first quarter oftwenty twenty three. So this is for
(14:35):
the parks division. Is that whatwe're talking about? This is all of
Comcast. Okay, all right,that's a lot. It's hard to see
because that is a that is amassive like, you know, they cover
so many different things, things weprobably don't even know ever think of.
Well, thank you Peacock for addingmore subscribers, and thank you to a
little indie flick known as the SuperMario Brothers movie. Yeah that thing.
(14:56):
That thing did. Okay, theymade it all right. Yeah, and
you know they are open and youknow now they have two parks across the
world that have Super Mario Land,which is getting rave reviews. Do you
think yeah, do you think likethe guys over Epic Universe, they got
people out there, you know,just trying to speed up the work.
Now get this park done quicker.They can open up that section. I
(15:20):
mean, the thing is they're gettingit up pretty fast, like considering like
all that they're doing and considering that. Remember, for a year that project
was paused. He thought it wasdone. We thought they were just gonna
give up and cancel it. Itwasn't paused. It was canceled for a
year. In Japan. They willbe adding more. They'll be adding the
(15:41):
Donkey Kong Mine car ride, whichwill be opening next year, which is
the thing that we will also begetting. We will be getting a Donkey
Kong ride here. Do we getthem barrels out of the cart That's what
I want to know. No,I think it's gonna be Donkey Kong Country
related, not the og Donkey Kong. Don't he throw barrels in? Then?
(16:02):
Didn't donkeykne Country? I don't remember. I do want to play it.
I have found my sixty four games. I just need to for Cure
of sixty four. Yeah, sixtyfour. If you want to bar might
have to, might have to.Yes, it is, Yes, think
you can't kill it. I've seenwe's die. I've seen we used dieing
Nintendo sixty four soldiers on our originalcontrollers and all. Hey man, those
(16:26):
those actual cartridge games are cartridge consolesjust will last the end of time.
Yeah, I don't know. Youstill have to blow into the Nintendo ones.
That's fine, it still works.That's fine, as long as they
work. Are you blow in thereand then it works? Um? Do
you think we're gonna start seeing thoseMario characters pop up at the park sooner
than later? Though, because theyhave this, this kind of lightning rod.
(16:48):
They have to. They have tobecause they've started selling merch. They
had a photo op area outside ofthe theater at CityWalk where you could take
a picture inside of a Mario Kart. So it's it's honestly, that's cool.
It's a matter of time. Yeah, yeah, it's it's coming.
And uh, this is I mean, this is them striking when the iron
so hot. They did it withHarry Potter, and another opportunity presents itself
(17:11):
with the resurgence of Mario. Sinceyou two are how do I want to
phrase this politely plus old Jimmy,he's gonna call it. Oh, he
call us pouch shaped plus say pouchshaped plus fifty No, we're not plus
(17:33):
do you remember when when do youremember when Islands of Adventure was coming and
they had and they had next toI want to say it was confrontation.
I think it was confrontation at thetime they had the Islands of Adventure preview
center. Yes, when now aqueuefor Mummy? Right it is now the
(17:56):
Actually I think it's the locker areafor the Mummy. Well no you need
outside no like though the ind No, they don't have an outside locker area.
Now it's an inside locker area.Oh well then yes it is.
When does something like that get builthere? When does the preview because they
haven't even really announced anything for what'sgoing to be inside of that park,
(18:19):
So the preview is kind of likejust the drawings and a big kind of
visualization and maybe some video, massivevisualization, like they had animatronics inside of
that thing. Yeah it was,And wasn't it like a giant model too?
Yes? Yeah. So my guessis before they made that the Islands
of Adventure, like you know,welcome center or whatever to preview what it
(18:42):
was. I want to say thatwas one of those photo spots it want,
you know, to take a picturein front of a green screen.
So what do they have around thetwo parks that would be a similar type
space that they recently took everything outof. Well, there's tribute stores.
(19:03):
At some point you have to wonderattribute does a Tribute story get turned into
that. Yeah, I would haveto say. So, they've got so
many unused areas in that park too. Remember when you're heading towards I want
to say, it's uh, you'recoming at a Superhero Island. There's a
giant theater there that they don't useanymore. Yeah. Yeah, like people
(19:25):
say that place it's pretty beat,but that's it's a giant theater that's not
used. And they also just closedown Poseidon's Fury for whatever they're gonna do
there. And they have the SinnbadTheater as well. Oh that's true too,
Yeah, so they have they havea lot of indoor air conditioned spots.
As we head towards summer when youneed indoor cooled spots, well,
the two Lagoon Theater and Sindbad arenot air conditioned. No, those are
(19:49):
open air. Never mind. SoI brought up tribute stores and Jimmy,
how is your wallet slash of bankaccount doing? For the first time in
my entire life, I am anadult and everything is stable. So a
hint at the upcoming Tribute store atUniversal Studios, Florida. There's a window.
(20:12):
In this window is a metal ladleOkay, Jimmy, would you freeze
like a reference to an iconic scenefrom a certain dinosaur movie. I know
what you're talking about. Now.We are now approaching the thirtieth anniversary of
(20:36):
Jurassic Park. Okay, all right, there goes my financial stability. Exactly.
You're gonna you're gonna be actually beable to buy a dinosaur this time.
They've they've mastered it. The dinosaurswill stay small, so they can't
you know, take over the world. But you can't purchase a dinosaur,
James, I will take a trex. Please? What I want?
(20:57):
What if I want them to growfull size? Uh, you're gonna have
to spy speak to a bioengineer thathas little scruples, very little scruples.
Cool, I'll talk to beat Wongthen, yeah, he's the guy you
want. Or or no, Iwant a full size raptor. I know
what to do. You just dothis, hey, hey, hands out
(21:19):
like yeah, Brett, Yeah,you think I could throw a saddle on
him like Yoshi? Yes, it'slike walk, Yes, is riding around.
Why couldn't you feel like the WillFerrell did it in Land at the
loss of the t Rex, Soit's possible. I feel like that would
save on a lot of gas.Everyone would get out of your Yeah,
(21:40):
I think this is better than theelectric car. I'm gonna go with this
bonus. When you're dinosaur dies,he would eventually be a fossil fuel.
There's another option. Yeah, butI mean out there, these things they
live a long time. I don'tlike what is it the t rex from
the first Jurassic Park is the samet rex in all of the sequel movie?
(22:00):
Is that I didn't see? Sixtyfive million years? There's that?
See? Yeah, so that isan option. So there a lot of
a lot of new um merchandise comingfor Jurassic Park thirtieth anniversary. Likely not
any dinosaurs though, AKA bad newsfor Jimmy's bank accounts. Yes, bad
news for all of all of youraccounts. Are you a Universal passholder currently,
(22:22):
James, I am intertently not.I'm just you're still You're still a
Universal guy? Right? No,I'm all no. No. That expired
in November and I missed the windowto get on in it last week.
Oh oh, because do you geta discount when you resign up? Is
that how it works? Is therea discount? Um? I think it's
(22:44):
a marginal amount of a discount.Okay, all right, I'm still I'm
still considering becoming the Universal guy.It might take over your your your Universal
accounts, got it might happen.You should It's it's honestly, it's a
good deal. I mean, andif you really wanted to, I know,
we joke ab spending money. It'salso not a bad deal if you
want to add Volcano Bay to theannual pass structure. This is true,
(23:07):
This is absolutely true. I meanI looked at the pass prices and I
think I could do the Universal forthe family for about a thousand bucks less
than Disney, which is a lotof money. Yeah, it's a considerable
amount. And honestly, I wouldrecommend that I did not do this,
but uh, Courtney did this.She had the pass to get you express
after four And that's a game changerof a pass, especially when the parks
(23:30):
are open later during the summer.That is a that is a good one.
That that does increase the price considerablythough, it does, but it
makes your experience that much better.And and with that pass you get one
night of horror nights. Oh boy, that's an off peak night though,
yes, it's an off peak night. Which which usually means like the first
(23:52):
three weekends. Yeah, well,yeah, who wants to go on a
peak night? We've been there onpeak nights. It's miserable. Yeah.
Thing fun about that. It helpsin knowing that you don't have to pay
for the ticket. It kind ofis like, maybe then I'll spring for
the Express for horror nights. Interestingand Utrey Parking all things to consider.
(24:12):
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