April 24, 2026 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys do another edition of 'Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down' on theme park ride replacements.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park capital of the.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait the podcast? Is this radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station? Anyway, here's your hosts, Dickerman,
Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
and there is Jimmy de Salutations, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Be well, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What do I mean the last week of April? Now
we're almost into May. This is officially summer in Florida.
Summer is like Mayday if we hit May. I don't
know when the official first day of summer is, but
I think we're already there because it's just it's Florida
and it's hot, and that's what happens.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, March twenty first or twenty second summer around there
was the winter Eartist summer art to spring.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
My brain just the screensaver just went over my eyes
and little things bound and around.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're not a weather show. We just know that it May.
It's hot in Florida. So I.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I, for over a decade was the official meteorologist of
the Beat of Sports. So I very.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Much know whether I think we all played meteorologists at
one point in the radio. I mean that you know
Bob has his own radar Taco bubbler. Yes, yeah, that's not.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a proprietary thing.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It is not proprietory, and it is not It is
a thing and it is a technology.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I guess the first day of summer is Sunday, June
twenty first.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's not like that here. Not here. You might as
well just say May first is the first day of
summer here, because this is the time of year. You
go to a theme park, they don't have a ton
of shade, and you need to get as much free
water as you can. You have to drink all day long.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Would you consider it, Like, to me, it's not really
truly summer until it's like eighty six degree at midnight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, it's not really summer until like mid to late July.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay. I mean it's just it's hot. It's hot, okay,
And in May it's hot. June is hot, July is hot,
August it's hot, September's hot. We might get a little
bit of niceness in October.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, for years I considered the first day of
summer to be whatever day Warped Tour was, because that
instinctively was always the hottest day of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Absolute, it was the first.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It was the first time that your virgin skin would
see some of the sun all year.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Long, exactly. And people wonder why I don't go.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Out the amount of burned bodies you would see it
Warped Tour and Earthday Birthday and all these outdoor festivals.
I mean, people just fried, like you're gonna be miserable tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And it happened also at Lake when it was here
in November because it was the sunniest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yep, it's fine, I don't gay sun bird, it's November. Wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Didn't we have one Earthday Birthday where it was like
unseasonably cool out?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think that was a cohed year. I think that
was your coheating. Cambria was there and.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It was just like I remember, being a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They sold so much less beer, and the bathrooms were
the lines for the bathrooms were long as could be
because everybody had to pee because they weren't sweating it out.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's funny. Yeah, Hey, did you know that last year
coheating Cambria and Taking Back Sunday went on a tour
together and they played at the Dome.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Don't rub it in my nose. This is not fair.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Hey, we're just like like two weeks away from taking
Back Sunday Bush Gardens.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I still don't have tickets for that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, there's a little website. They can go on to
Bushgardens dot com and you'll get an option of which
part you want to select, Tampa or Williamsburg. You select Tampa.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I'd rather call somebody and they give me free tickets.
That's the way it's always worked in my life. Wells
having to buy things.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Go through your little rollot X and just start calling numbers.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Okay, call Lucy. I tried.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Should we get into.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I wanted to do this. We we haven't played
this game in a while. I mean, I think that
one member of the show has forgotten that we played
this game. Uh the thumbs up thumbs down on theme
park replacements, so.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Rides it replaced other rides. I remember this game. This
is a good game.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Mm hmm yeah, Like, uh, we can start with Alfred Hitchcock.
The Art of the Movies got replaced by Shrek four d.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, boy, that's I'm gonna say thumbs up for that.
I'm not of Alfred Hitchcock.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm not old, so I don't remember. I never did
the Alfred Hitchcock things.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'm gonna be honest. I don't remember a thing about it.
I just know that, like Alfred Hitchcock was cool, like
the old you know show that he did. But I
don't remember a single thing about the show. I think
I did see it back in the olden days. But
Shrek was pretty awesome, and actually you could see the
three D so well on Shrek as well.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Did I tell you guys, I did Shrek four D
when I was in Japan.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh what No?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, And it was weird because it was all in Japanese,
so really well, well, I shouldn't say like because like
some things were still in some stuff was in English
to like kind of maintain continuity, okay, but like shows
(05:35):
were not they were native language complete. But the crazy
thing is, I think I talked about this when it
comes to like characters. The characters would be speaking you know, Japanese,
but they would sound like they would have the same
affect on their voice like the English versions. So it
(05:57):
was like it was literally like that is Shrek in Japan,
Like it has a little bit of that Irish touch.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I could tell you they did not do that with
the Indiana Jones ride that I went on speaking Japanese.
Oh no, he was speaking Japanese. He did not sound
like Harry, not even like I almost want to say
the guy that they got his voice was too deep.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So was that a thumbs up or thumbs down for you, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
As far as Shrek over Alfred Hitchcock, I'm gonna give
it a thumbs up only because I feel like, you know,
just for modern times, and you know, Alfred Hitchcock is classic,
it's you know, it's a wonderful you know, he was
a wonderful director and producer of movies and all that
other good stuff. But it's just, you know, you got
to update with the times. And it's the same thing
with I think we talked about murder she wrote last time.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yes, And you know that was.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
A really great way to visualize or to you know,
show somebody the different jobs that you have in the
movie production or television. I guess in that care because
it was all about the movies back when they opened,
I mean it was very much about production and movies
and being an actual studio.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
By the way, just just copped four k's of Rear Window,
The Birds and.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Psycho, So there you go. There you go, some classic
Hitchcock films.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Got that you should have gotten north By Northwest.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It wasn't. It wasn't, it wasn't available in the sale.
It was three for thirty three dollars and I picked
up six movies, so stacked that deal very well. Okay,
by the way, they're making a murder she wrote movie.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Angela Alansbury's character.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It's Jamie Lee Curtis at tracks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, this was an old murder she wrote, was an
old person show. I can honestly say I never saw
one single second of that show that was for old people.
That was for like super old people, like.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Oh yeah, my grandmother used to watch it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, only old people that show that. Mattlock, So do
you watch it now?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
No, Dickerman, your driver's license would like to disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah. Have you gotten a letter in the mail from
a certain organization that has four letters in it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm not gonna say I think Jimmy's actually a member.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, Well, because of you know, you can't discriminate against
people because of their age. You just have to be
eighteen to be a member of AARP.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You don't mean do you mean discounts you're gonna get
when you officially become a member.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
But now, Dickerman, you get that movie theater discount, that
good discount.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, all those.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're not that far behind me, James, So watch your tongue.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I'm what do you talk about? I'm in my prime?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
All right, here's a trio. Here's a trio one Ghostbusters Spooctacular. Okay,
placed by Twister. Write it out.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I still had a flying cow. It did, and it
also had a flying cow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It also had Bill Paxon Helen Hunt on separate television
screens in the pre.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Showing each other hate each other, could stand each other.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm gonna have to research it and see if that's true, because.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I had that thing. That's one of those things. I've
heard it so much, but I've never seen it in
writing anywhere. And I feel like, now, because people love
Bill Paxton and miss him so much, Helen Hunt would
never admit to it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Now, m you don't think she'll saying it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, No, I told you when I watched the four
hour documentary about Aliens. There was twenty minutes devoted to
Bill Paxson and how everyone loved him. I highly recommend
you watch that documentary.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
By the way, I wonder why she would hate each
other then, like reasonable people.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I just think filming those kind of movies are really difficult.
You have to imagine every day you're getting rained on,
you're in the mud, you're getting wind blown in your
face every.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Day, lying cow coming at.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You every day for three months. Can't be easy.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean, you know what makes it easy, That
big fat paycheck they get for doing the movie. Sorry, sorry,
your life is tough.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't remember Ghostbusters. I don't think I ever went
when it existed, so I can't really weigh in on this.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Jimmy's you Do That one?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I did it twice over, like because the first time
I did it was the first time I came to
Universal Studios from New York, and then I saw it
and it was horrendously bad. And this is back in
the era of Universal where Universal had like this kind
of like they had the playbook to build a ride
and they just laid it out for every single ride
(10:51):
you bring you into a big room and there'd be
like a podium and there would be a human host
that would talk to the crowd and like hype you
up before you went into the next stop, whether it
be the ride or like the seats or whatever it was.
And the first time I saw it was really not good.
And I saw it like two years later and they
(11:12):
had fixed.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
All the problems with it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
They had, you know, they had streamlined some of the
you know, like the comedy before the show and then
the scene that was actually on top of the skyscraper
or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You know, so so much better Twister.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I mean in the beginning when that ride first came out,
they tried to make that cow look real. Yeah, and
that there's no way to make that cow look real.
So when they when they leaned into that and put
in the cow that looked like it was just like
a dairy statue that was flying through the air.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They took it from a Chick fil a billboard.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, yeah, it looked like it was purposely like a
sign that was flying through the air. So you still
got the cow, but you didn't have like the cornball
fake cow look.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So yeah, when we did this this game last, did
we do this with Jimmy Fallon because Fallon means.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, well that's the next because I said this is
a trio one.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Okay, Yeah, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fallon replaces Twister ride it out.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I personally love Jimmy Fallon, but I gotta agree with
some thumbs sound.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That's not a great ride.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's just it's it was just like one of those
if you don't watch his show like a lot, you're
not gonna get a lot of the jokes.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I feel there are.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
A ton of Easter eggs in it, like in that video,
there's so many Easter eggs, and like you said, you
got to be a part of the show to know
like every one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In I think I've said this before, but I can
say it again because new audience and everything. But like
I almost think it was very interesting because like when
SNL had their fiftieth they really changed his store at
the at the exit to selling a lot of SNL merch.
And it's like I almost feel like it should be
(12:59):
an SNEL ride because then.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can do you have a lot more to work with.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, And it's like I feel like there's characters in
that that have gone on to be in movies that
are in the zeitgeist in like I mean, like if
you had like Wayne's World or The Chippendale Dancers or.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Any anything with Chris Farley and Chris Farley, Will Ferrell,
like either of.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That, Adams Adam Sandler, Like, there's just so much that
you could do.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it's true. So let me ask you, guys, let
me ask you something about Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So he probably only does that show for let's say
he retires in five years.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
How quickly do they change that ride over?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, yeah, I mean they're gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I mean you could still keep it thirty Rock on
the outside and the inside, so you could pretty much
put any NBC product into that building.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So the question would Well, the thing is is is
Late Night is such an interesting topic HM in general?
And I think the biggest question is going to be
what happens when Lauren Mike Like I'm getting like way
like a big brain on this, like a lot it's
going to determine be dependent on what happens when Lauren
Michael's retires from doing Saturday Night Live. And the biggest
(14:23):
speculation there's been three names of who will take over
and it is. The top one is Tina Fey.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, that makes sense because she's also.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The one that's kind of heading up SNL UK and
it kind of seems like that might be a trial
run for her. The next has been Seth.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Myers, okay, because those two like that as much as
Tina Fey.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, those the two were those two were head writers
for SNL hmm, so they are very ingrained with the
atmosphere of SNL. And then the third one would be
Jimmy Fallon And if you watched any U of SNL
forty and a lot of the stuff around SNL fifty,
(15:05):
like Jimmy was really involved with like a lot of
stuff and I know, like everyone was involved in that.
But like they opened the musical performance, the two hour
concert with Jimmy Fallon doing Blues Brothers, So I don't know,
it's gonna be very interesting. So like when that happens,
like what the transition is because I mean, like I know,
(15:29):
Late Night isn't what it used to be, but it's
like you only work four nights a week because you
usually tape your the Friday show on one of the
other days and then you can take off a bunch
of time, so I don't know, it's gonna be very
interesting what he decides to do with the next portion
of his career.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, my BET's on Tina Fey. I think Tina Fe
is the way to go, but I guess we'll see.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I feel like Tina Fe's got to be like your
number one draft choice, but I think she's also big
enough to turn that down.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But it's also like I was listening to a podcast
about this, like a lot of it's good because there's
a Lorne Michael's documentary I think opening in theaters like
this week or next week.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Uh yeah, seventeenth it comes out, so that's what Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, And it's like And the thing is, it's like
who they were talking about this, Like who has the
cachet to call up a Taylor Swift and be like, hey,
we want you to host and won't hang up the phone.
Yeah kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Tina got that juice exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I know a question to me, we went.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Off a tangent a bit there. Maybe we should get
back to our rides. No, we're talking this is the
light Night podcast exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Me who has never watched late night television ever either,
except for SNL Right.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I can honestly say that I have worked on the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You have film you that is one hundred percent true impressive, Okay.
I think we've talked about this recently. T two three
D Battle across Time Bourne stentacular.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh, big thumbs down, big thumbs down over here.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I love the intellectual property of Terminator, especially Terminator two.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Mm hmmm. I wish we could get it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Now with the technology that we have now, Like if
you could take Terminator two and use the Bourne uh
the Bourne technology with it, I mean it would maybe.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We'll do it. What's stopping them from doing? What's what's
stopping them from going back and saying we're going to
do tea Terminator, but we're gonna completely revise it. Scott's
got his hand up. But what your question, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
A big gym is busy on Pandora mm hmmm. Still
doing that thing, huh m hmm, although he has it.
He has a movie coming out this year that he
co directed O the Billie Eilish concert movie Avatar Forward.
No he he him and Billie Eilish like co directed
uh her concert movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I have seen the trailer for that thing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, apparently he's a massive like he like went to her.
It was like, I would like to work with you.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
All right, I know where two members of the show
are gonna go with this Back to the Future of
the ride replaced by the Simpsons ride.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I am so torn on that one.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Because I you will love the doughnut.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I love the Simpsons. The Simpsons, like you know, the
first ten seasons of the Simpsons were amazing, and it's
like got this strong rooted thing in my whole family,
from me and my dad to me and my daughter.
So I as much as I love Back the Future,
I do have to go with the Simpsons because it's special,
(18:47):
that's a personal special. So I still hate the smell
of the freaking baby bottle at the end though, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But just stop get out of here, Nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yep, all right. Uh twenty one thousand Leagues Under the
Sea submarine voyage got replaced by seven Dwarves mind train.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Ooh, I never got to do the twenty thousand Leagues
under the Sea. I don't know how it was. I
heard it was always a long line and broken.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Uh. I don't remember it ever being broken. But yes,
you were correct.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
It was always a long line, and the version that
they still have at Disneyland does not have fast passes
and it always has a long line. It's because the
whole experience, like you're climbing into a submarine and then
you're gonna go through a track. I I think I
clocked it like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's Goodna, Yeah, it's not an easy egress.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Well no, it's just a long ride.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I'm gonna go thumbs up then, because you can
jam some people through that mine train pretty quick, and
that's a fun ride. It's good for the kids too,
because like it's a small coaster that everybody can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It just took twenty years for the ride to be built.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I felt, yeah, all right.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It was a twenty minute submarine ride.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's why this is that. That's just just logistically it
doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Jimmy, did you do did you do it in Japan
at Tokyo Disney c Yes, Okay, that.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Was that one. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Uh So now I can say I've done all three
iterations of it, the original twenty thousand, the Japanese one,
and then the Finding Nemo version they have at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, mister Toad's wild Ride was replaced by the Many
Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Downward s Oh. Dickerman loves the Pooh. I do love Pooh,
and I never rode mister Toad, so I don't have
any sort of emotional connection to it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What is wrong with you? Did you not have a childhood?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah? I'm the only the only one that's been like
on all of these.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know. You know, I didn't go to Disney
as as a young person. I didn't get to go.
We were we couldn't afford Disney. Disney mister Toad's still
in California. And that's a crazy ride.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Because you die at the end.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
No, you're gonna die, and you die like two thirds
of away. Sure, hit by a train and go to hell.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You do.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
There's devils there with pitchforks.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, this does sound nice.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Have you ever watched have you watched the movie? No,
it's a double feature with Headless Horseman on Disney. Plus
it's an animated animated It's like an hour ten minutes for both.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Of them both. I'll pick that up.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Then.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know mister Toad at all.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Highly recommends it's a lot of fun. Okay, extra testreal
Alien Encounter, uh, replaced by Stitches Great Escape, which also
doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, but there was a ride there before that Mission
to Mars. Yes, so you got that's another three way.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, I know nothing about Mission to Mars. I don't
think I was alive. It closed in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I did do the Alien one, though I did missions
many times, and every time we went back to Disney World,
I was like, we gotta go on that one, and.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It was on this one.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
If I'm being emotional, I say I love the Stitch
one just because of the time I had there when
my daughter was little. But the Alien one's awesome. So
I'm gonna go thumbs down. So you're telling me they
leads in the back of your neck.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Legitimately had a xenomorph in Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
It wasn't a xenomorph.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
No, by that, like, was it actually based on alien?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No, okay, your neck. Who's breathed on the back of
your neck? It's an alien. But it wasn't a xenomorph.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, honest, it.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Was because there was a xenomorph at Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Correct, okay.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
There was several actually well too, there was two.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Alien and it looks like it was just inspired by okay,
inspired by aliens. Okay, but like George Lucas worked on it.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It it was it was. It was cool ride.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I remember the commercials scaring me for the ride. I
never I never did the ride. I don't think I
went to the park like when that was open.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I don't know how I went to the park when
that was open, but somehow I rode that ride, and
I don't know when or how.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Probably what I did because you worked in radio.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I went on I think I went on at one time,
and I was like this is I was at a
weird age where it was not so young, but I
was still like.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Afraid, but I couldn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I was afraid to pretend you're not afraid, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Last one, Delta Dream Flight got replaced by Buzz light
Year's Space Ranger.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Spin thumbs up because I don't remember Delta at all,
and I know that was a total sponsorship play.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But I did go on that because I remember the
Delta part. I don't remember another thing about that ride,
so it wasn't that memorable to me. I don't have
a core memory like I do. Mission to march.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I bet.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was all about sponsorships back the day. If they
didn't have a sponsorship, you weren't got ride.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Every single one of those was sponsored. Yep, every single one.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Just like test track now is the only one.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, the otter area in Animal Kingdom is sponsored by Otterbox.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Okay, okay, that's cool. That's interesting. All right, Well, we
are just about out of time, So Scott, if people
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait the podcast? Is this radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station? Anyway, here's your hosts, Dickerman,
Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman here,
and there is Jimmy de Salutations, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Be well, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What do I mean the last week of April? Now
we're almost into May. This is officially summer in Florida.
Summer is like Mayday if we hit May. I don't
know when the official first day of summer is, but
I think we're already there because it's just it's Florida
and it's hot, and that's what happens.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, March twenty first or twenty second summer around there
was the winter Eartist summer art to spring.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
My brain just the screensaver just went over my eyes
and little things bound and around.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're not a weather show. We just know that it May.
It's hot in Florida. So I.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I, for over a decade was the official meteorologist of
the Beat of Sports. So I very.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Much know whether I think we all played meteorologists at
one point in the radio. I mean that you know
Bob has his own radar Taco bubbler. Yes, yeah, that's not.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a proprietary thing.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It is not proprietory, and it is not It is
a thing and it is a technology.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I guess the first day of summer is Sunday, June
twenty first.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's not like that here. Not here. You might as
well just say May first is the first day of
summer here, because this is the time of year. You
go to a theme park, they don't have a ton
of shade, and you need to get as much free
water as you can. You have to drink all day long.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Would you consider it, Like, to me, it's not really
truly summer until it's like eighty six degree at midnight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, it's not really summer until like mid to late July.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay. I mean it's just it's hot. It's hot, okay,
And in May it's hot. June is hot, July is hot,
August it's hot, September's hot. We might get a little
bit of niceness in October.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, for years I considered the first day of
summer to be whatever day Warped Tour was, because that
instinctively was always the hottest day of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Absolute, it was the first.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It was the first time that your virgin skin would
see some of the sun all year.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Long, exactly. And people wonder why I don't go.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Out the amount of burned bodies you would see it
Warped Tour and Earthday Birthday and all these outdoor festivals.
I mean, people just fried, like you're gonna be miserable tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And it happened also at Lake when it was here
in November because it was the sunniest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yep, it's fine, I don't gay sun bird, it's November. Wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Didn't we have one Earthday Birthday where it was like
unseasonably cool out?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I think that was a cohed year. I think that
was your coheating. Cambria was there and.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It was just like I remember, being a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They sold so much less beer, and the bathrooms were
the lines for the bathrooms were long as could be
because everybody had to pee because they weren't sweating it out.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's funny. Yeah, Hey, did you know that last year
coheating Cambria and Taking Back Sunday went on a tour
together and they played at the Dome.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Don't rub it in my nose. This is not fair.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Hey, we're just like like two weeks away from taking
Back Sunday Bush Gardens.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I still don't have tickets for that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, there's a little website. They can go on to
Bushgardens dot com and you'll get an option of which
part you want to select, Tampa or Williamsburg. You select Tampa.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I'd rather call somebody and they give me free tickets.
That's the way it's always worked in my life. Wells
having to buy things.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Go through your little rollot X and just start calling numbers.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Okay, call Lucy. I tried.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Should we get into.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I wanted to do this. We we haven't played
this game in a while. I mean, I think that
one member of the show has forgotten that we played
this game. Uh the thumbs up thumbs down on theme
park replacements, so.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Rides it replaced other rides. I remember this game. This
is a good game.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Mm hmm yeah, Like, uh, we can start with Alfred Hitchcock.
The Art of the Movies got replaced by Shrek four d.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, boy, that's I'm gonna say thumbs up for that.
I'm not of Alfred Hitchcock.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm not old, so I don't remember. I never did
the Alfred Hitchcock things.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'm gonna be honest. I don't remember a thing about it.
I just know that, like Alfred Hitchcock was cool, like
the old you know show that he did. But I
don't remember a single thing about the show. I think
I did see it back in the olden days. But
Shrek was pretty awesome, and actually you could see the
three D so well on Shrek as well.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Did I tell you guys, I did Shrek four D
when I was in Japan.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh what No?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, And it was weird because it was all in Japanese,
so really well, well, I shouldn't say like because like
some things were still in some stuff was in English
to like kind of maintain continuity, okay, but like shows
(05:35):
were not they were native language complete. But the crazy
thing is, I think I talked about this when it
comes to like characters. The characters would be speaking you know, Japanese,
but they would sound like they would have the same
affect on their voice like the English versions. So it
(05:57):
was like it was literally like that is Shrek in Japan,
Like it has a little bit of that Irish touch.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I could tell you they did not do that with
the Indiana Jones ride that I went on speaking Japanese.
Oh no, he was speaking Japanese. He did not sound
like Harry, not even like I almost want to say
the guy that they got his voice was too deep.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So was that a thumbs up or thumbs down for you, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
As far as Shrek over Alfred Hitchcock, I'm gonna give
it a thumbs up only because I feel like, you know,
just for modern times, and you know, Alfred Hitchcock is classic,
it's you know, it's a wonderful you know, he was
a wonderful director and producer of movies and all that
other good stuff. But it's just, you know, you got
to update with the times. And it's the same thing
with I think we talked about murder she wrote last time.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yes, And you know that was.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
A really great way to visualize or to you know,
show somebody the different jobs that you have in the
movie production or television. I guess in that care because
it was all about the movies back when they opened,
I mean it was very much about production and movies
and being an actual studio.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
By the way, just just copped four k's of Rear Window,
The Birds and.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Psycho, So there you go. There you go, some classic
Hitchcock films.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Got that you should have gotten north By Northwest.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It wasn't. It wasn't, it wasn't available in the sale.
It was three for thirty three dollars and I picked
up six movies, so stacked that deal very well. Okay,
by the way, they're making a murder she wrote movie.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Angela Alansbury's character.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It's Jamie Lee Curtis at tracks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, this was an old murder she wrote, was an
old person show. I can honestly say I never saw
one single second of that show that was for old people.
That was for like super old people, like.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Oh yeah, my grandmother used to watch it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, only old people that show that. Mattlock, So do
you watch it now?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
No, Dickerman, your driver's license would like to disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah. Have you gotten a letter in the mail from
a certain organization that has four letters in it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm not gonna say I think Jimmy's actually a member.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, Well, because of you know, you can't discriminate against
people because of their age. You just have to be
eighteen to be a member of AARP.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You don't mean do you mean discounts you're gonna get
when you officially become a member.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
But now, Dickerman, you get that movie theater discount, that
good discount.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, all those.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're not that far behind me, James, So watch your tongue.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I'm what do you talk about? I'm in my prime?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
All right, here's a trio. Here's a trio one Ghostbusters Spooctacular. Okay,
placed by Twister. Write it out.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I still had a flying cow. It did, and it
also had a flying cow.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It also had Bill Paxon Helen Hunt on separate television
screens in the pre.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Showing each other hate each other, could stand each other.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm gonna have to research it and see if that's true, because.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I had that thing. That's one of those things. I've
heard it so much, but I've never seen it in
writing anywhere. And I feel like, now, because people love
Bill Paxton and miss him so much, Helen Hunt would
never admit to it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Now, m you don't think she'll saying it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, No, I told you when I watched the four
hour documentary about Aliens. There was twenty minutes devoted to
Bill Paxson and how everyone loved him. I highly recommend
you watch that documentary.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
By the way, I wonder why she would hate each
other then, like reasonable people.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I just think filming those kind of movies are really difficult.
You have to imagine every day you're getting rained on,
you're in the mud, you're getting wind blown in your
face every.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Day, lying cow coming at.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You every day for three months. Can't be easy.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean, you know what makes it easy, That
big fat paycheck they get for doing the movie. Sorry, sorry,
your life is tough.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't remember Ghostbusters. I don't think I ever went
when it existed, so I can't really weigh in on this.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Jimmy's you Do That one?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I did it twice over, like because the first time
I did it was the first time I came to
Universal Studios from New York, and then I saw it
and it was horrendously bad. And this is back in
the era of Universal where Universal had like this kind
of like they had the playbook to build a ride
and they just laid it out for every single ride
(10:51):
you bring you into a big room and there'd be
like a podium and there would be a human host
that would talk to the crowd and like hype you
up before you went into the next stop, whether it
be the ride or like the seats or whatever it was.
And the first time I saw it was really not good.
And I saw it like two years later and they
(11:12):
had fixed.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
All the problems with it.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
They had, you know, they had streamlined some of the
you know, like the comedy before the show and then
the scene that was actually on top of the skyscraper
or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You know, so so much better Twister.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I mean in the beginning when that ride first came out,
they tried to make that cow look real. Yeah, and
that there's no way to make that cow look real.
So when they when they leaned into that and put
in the cow that looked like it was just like
a dairy statue that was flying through the air.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They took it from a Chick fil a billboard.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, yeah, it looked like it was purposely like a
sign that was flying through the air. So you still
got the cow, but you didn't have like the cornball
fake cow look.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So yeah, when we did this this game last, did
we do this with Jimmy Fallon because Fallon means.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, well that's the next because I said this is
a trio one.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Okay, Yeah, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fallon replaces Twister ride it out.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I personally love Jimmy Fallon, but I gotta agree with
some thumbs sound.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That's not a great ride.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's just it's it was just like one of those
if you don't watch his show like a lot, you're
not gonna get a lot of the jokes.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I feel there are.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
A ton of Easter eggs in it, like in that video,
there's so many Easter eggs, and like you said, you
got to be a part of the show to know
like every one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In I think I've said this before, but I can
say it again because new audience and everything. But like
I almost think it was very interesting because like when
SNL had their fiftieth they really changed his store at
the at the exit to selling a lot of SNL merch.
And it's like I almost feel like it should be
(12:59):
an SNEL ride because then.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can do you have a lot more to work with.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, And it's like I feel like there's characters in
that that have gone on to be in movies that
are in the zeitgeist in like I mean, like if
you had like Wayne's World or The Chippendale Dancers or.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Any anything with Chris Farley and Chris Farley, Will Ferrell,
like either of.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That, Adams Adam Sandler, Like, there's just so much that
you could do.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it's true. So let me ask you, guys, let
me ask you something about Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So he probably only does that show for let's say
he retires in five years.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
How quickly do they change that ride over?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, yeah, I mean they're gonna have to.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I mean you could still keep it thirty Rock on
the outside and the inside, so you could pretty much
put any NBC product into that building.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So the question would Well, the thing is is is
Late Night is such an interesting topic HM in general?
And I think the biggest question is going to be
what happens when Lauren Mike Like I'm getting like way
like a big brain on this, like a lot it's
going to determine be dependent on what happens when Lauren
Michael's retires from doing Saturday Night Live. And the biggest
(14:23):
speculation there's been three names of who will take over
and it is. The top one is Tina Fey.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, that makes sense because she's also.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
The one that's kind of heading up SNL UK and
it kind of seems like that might be a trial
run for her. The next has been Seth.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Myers, okay, because those two like that as much as
Tina Fey.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, those the two were those two were head writers
for SNL hmm, so they are very ingrained with the
atmosphere of SNL. And then the third one would be
Jimmy Fallon And if you watched any U of SNL
forty and a lot of the stuff around SNL fifty,
(15:05):
like Jimmy was really involved with like a lot of
stuff and I know, like everyone was involved in that.
But like they opened the musical performance, the two hour
concert with Jimmy Fallon doing Blues Brothers, So I don't know,
it's gonna be very interesting. So like when that happens,
like what the transition is because I mean, like I know,
(15:29):
Late Night isn't what it used to be, but it's
like you only work four nights a week because you
usually tape your the Friday show on one of the
other days and then you can take off a bunch
of time, so I don't know, it's gonna be very
interesting what he decides to do with the next portion
of his career.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, my BET's on Tina Fey. I think Tina Fe
is the way to go, but I guess we'll see.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I feel like Tina Fe's got to be like your
number one draft choice, but I think she's also big
enough to turn that down.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But it's also like I was listening to a podcast
about this, like a lot of it's good because there's
a Lorne Michael's documentary I think opening in theaters like
this week or next week.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Uh yeah, seventeenth it comes out, so that's what Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, And it's like And the thing is, it's like
who they were talking about this, Like who has the
cachet to call up a Taylor Swift and be like, hey,
we want you to host and won't hang up the phone.
Yeah kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Tina got that juice exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I know a question to me, we went.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Off a tangent a bit there. Maybe we should get
back to our rides. No, we're talking this is the
light Night podcast exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Me who has never watched late night television ever either,
except for SNL Right.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I can honestly say that I have worked on the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You have film you that is one hundred percent true impressive, Okay.
I think we've talked about this recently. T two three
D Battle across Time Bourne stentacular.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh, big thumbs down, big thumbs down over here.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I love the intellectual property of Terminator, especially Terminator two.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Mm hmmm. I wish we could get it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Now with the technology that we have now, Like if
you could take Terminator two and use the Bourne uh
the Bourne technology with it, I mean it would maybe.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We'll do it. What's stopping them from doing? What's what's
stopping them from going back and saying we're going to
do tea Terminator, but we're gonna completely revise it. Scott's
got his hand up. But what your question, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
A big gym is busy on Pandora mm hmmm. Still
doing that thing, huh m hmm, although he has it.
He has a movie coming out this year that he
co directed O the Billie Eilish concert movie Avatar Forward.
No he he him and Billie Eilish like co directed
uh her concert movie.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I have seen the trailer for that thing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, apparently he's a massive like he like went to her.
It was like, I would like to work with you.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
All right, I know where two members of the show
are gonna go with this Back to the Future of
the ride replaced by the Simpsons ride.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I am so torn on that one.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Because I you will love the doughnut.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I love the Simpsons. The Simpsons, like you know, the
first ten seasons of the Simpsons were amazing, and it's
like got this strong rooted thing in my whole family,
from me and my dad to me and my daughter.
So I as much as I love Back the Future,
I do have to go with the Simpsons because it's special,
(18:47):
that's a personal special. So I still hate the smell
of the freaking baby bottle at the end though, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But just stop get out of here, Nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yep, all right. Uh twenty one thousand Leagues Under the
Sea submarine voyage got replaced by seven Dwarves mind train.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Ooh, I never got to do the twenty thousand Leagues
under the Sea. I don't know how it was. I
heard it was always a long line and broken.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Uh. I don't remember it ever being broken. But yes,
you were correct.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
It was always a long line, and the version that
they still have at Disneyland does not have fast passes
and it always has a long line. It's because the
whole experience, like you're climbing into a submarine and then
you're gonna go through a track. I I think I
clocked it like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's Goodna, Yeah, it's not an easy egress.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Well no, it's just a long ride.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I'm gonna go thumbs up then, because you can
jam some people through that mine train pretty quick, and
that's a fun ride. It's good for the kids too,
because like it's a small coaster that everybody can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It just took twenty years for the ride to be built.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I felt, yeah, all right.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It was a twenty minute submarine ride.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's why this is that. That's just just logistically it
doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Jimmy, did you do did you do it in Japan
at Tokyo Disney c Yes, Okay, that.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Was that one. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Uh So now I can say I've done all three
iterations of it, the original twenty thousand, the Japanese one,
and then the Finding Nemo version they have at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, mister Toad's wild Ride was replaced by the Many
Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Downward s Oh. Dickerman loves the Pooh. I do love Pooh,
and I never rode mister Toad, so I don't have
any sort of emotional connection to it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
What is wrong with you? Did you not have a childhood?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah? I'm the only the only one that's been like
on all of these.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know. You know, I didn't go to Disney
as as a young person. I didn't get to go.
We were we couldn't afford Disney. Disney mister Toad's still
in California. And that's a crazy ride.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Because you die at the end.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
No, you're gonna die, and you die like two thirds
of away. Sure, hit by a train and go to hell.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You do.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
There's devils there with pitchforks.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, this does sound nice.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Have you ever watched have you watched the movie? No,
it's a double feature with Headless Horseman on Disney. Plus
it's an animated animated It's like an hour ten minutes for both.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Of them both. I'll pick that up.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Then.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know mister Toad at all.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Highly recommends it's a lot of fun. Okay, extra testreal
Alien Encounter, uh, replaced by Stitches Great Escape, which also
doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, but there was a ride there before that Mission
to Mars. Yes, so you got that's another three way.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, I know nothing about Mission to Mars. I don't
think I was alive. It closed in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I did do the Alien one, though I did missions
many times, and every time we went back to Disney World,
I was like, we gotta go on that one, and.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It was on this one.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
If I'm being emotional, I say I love the Stitch
one just because of the time I had there when
my daughter was little. But the Alien one's awesome. So
I'm gonna go thumbs down. So you're telling me they
leads in the back of your neck.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Legitimately had a xenomorph in Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
It wasn't a xenomorph.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
No, by that, like, was it actually based on alien?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No, okay, your neck. Who's breathed on the back of
your neck? It's an alien. But it wasn't a xenomorph.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, honest, it.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Was because there was a xenomorph at Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Correct, okay.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
There was several actually well too, there was two.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Alien and it looks like it was just inspired by okay,
inspired by aliens. Okay, but like George Lucas worked on it.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It it was it was. It was cool ride.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I remember the commercials scaring me for the ride. I
never I never did the ride. I don't think I
went to the park like when that was open.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I don't know how I went to the park when
that was open, but somehow I rode that ride, and
I don't know when or how.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Probably what I did because you worked in radio.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I went on I think I went on at one time,
and I was like this is I was at a
weird age where it was not so young, but I
was still like.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Afraid, but I couldn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I was afraid to pretend you're not afraid, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Last one, Delta Dream Flight got replaced by Buzz light
Year's Space Ranger.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Spin thumbs up because I don't remember Delta at all,
and I know that was a total sponsorship play.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But I did go on that because I remember the
Delta part. I don't remember another thing about that ride,
so it wasn't that memorable to me. I don't have
a core memory like I do. Mission to march.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I bet.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was all about sponsorships back the day. If they
didn't have a sponsorship, you weren't got ride.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Every single one of those was sponsored. Yep, every single one.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Just like test track now is the only one.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, the otter area in Animal Kingdom is sponsored by Otterbox.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Okay, okay, that's cool. That's interesting. All right, Well, we
are just about out of time, So Scott, if people
want to check us out on social media, can you
give them directions?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
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am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you out
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Speaker 3 (24:42):
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