January 30, 2026 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys discuss the upcoming lineup of guests at MegaCon Orlando and going to the parks amidst the (by Florida standards) cold weather. Then they play a game of thumbs up or thumbs down on ride replacements.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is this all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
he there is Jimmy de Good evening or good day?
And Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What's new?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Frosty, Scott. It's going to be the coldest weekend of
the year, maybe the coldest weekend in years this weekend
at theme parks? How do we feel about crowds, about
attendance and about rides operating at full capacity?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, it is the final weekend for Dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Okay, that's an indoor ride, so they likely won't be
shutting that down due to the cold.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, but I'm just saying like that park is going
to be busy, will be busy because of that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Avoid animal king at mall costs, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The Figman Festival, uh trade barked by me is going
on at Epcot, So.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm going there, I'm going Apcott. I'm going on. Well,
we're recording this on Thursday. There's on Saturday. So if
you're listening on Saturday, I went yesterday. If you're listening
on Thursday, I'm going tomorrow. Yes, perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anyone watching, anyone watching the show. If you see Dickerman
at Epcot, go up and see him, Go up and
say hi, I'm a big fan of the show. He
will buy you one treat.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Do not embarrass me in front of my coworkers. I am.
I am going to be attending a theme park with adults,
real adults, not these two chimps, real adults, and I
don't want to be embarrassed. True. Maybe a margarita if
you catch him in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No celebration, celebrate celebration cake, mickey ear ice cream yep
yep yeah, goofy sour balls.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Do come up to me and say hello, mister Dickerman.
It's a pleasure to see you. And then what like
doth th cap in front of you corporation. Yes, at
the big corporation. I love doing business with you, sir,
up chip, here go goodbye. That's all.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
No, that's all they can say. That's maybe some Joffrey's coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Or one of the giant don'ts they have at Jeoffrey's Coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But really, Scott, you are considering going on Saturday, which
is the cold day, right, Saturday is the cold one
carrot cake from Starbucks. No, it doesn't even count. It's Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Look after what I endured when I went to a
Tokyo Disneyland where it was like sleeting that morning and
then was like in the forties and in the fifties
through most of the day, I am fully prepared for
whatever the weather's going to throw at me.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I learned. I didn't know this prior. You guys probably did,
But like when I was in Tennessee a couple of
years ago, I learned that they shut down the rides
a dolly Wood him it hits like thirty two degrees
because they can't operate the outdoor roller coasters in those temperatures.
So we legit have some coasters in our town that
may not be operating if it's cold enough.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean, this is pure speculation. It doesn't get
cold this like this very often. My guess would be
you might see something involving Hulk or Velocit coaster.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, anything at SeaWorld. I mean, look at all those
outdoor coasters at SeaWorld.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Any of anything at SeaWorld, start US racers over at
Epic Universe, you know, really anything. Pay attention to social
media channels. It hasn't been announced it. My guess is
Volcano Bay probably not gonna be open this weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Probably not gonna be open. Yeah, and I don't know
the hour by hour. We should have probably had a
meteor relogist on the show this week because anybody got
Danny Traynor's number.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I am an accredited meteor I am the official meteorologist
of the Beat of Sports on FM ninety six nine
in the game, So.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I did that too on Ji Rody. I was
an official media elegist too. Because you read the weather
off the internet.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I went to school for it.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No you didn't, okay, I think the guys at the
TV station you just read it out the internet too.
I don't know actually comes up with the original forecast,
but somebody does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, this weekend it is an extreme cold watch.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Wooh, extreme cold oooh. They did say there's like a
slight chance for snow here, So come on, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why because it's a low of twenty four on Sunday, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, and there was something and there was like a
decent chance of like precipitation too.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It was like twenty three or something. Let's do it,
let's do it. Well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, the thing is like the outdoor hockey game is
happening in Tampa this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh well, that works out right because they did a
good weekend. Yeah. Yeah, they picked the perfect weekend actually
for it, to tell you the truth, So do you
think the cold will scare people off though? On I
guess Saturday slash Sunday those are the days. No. No,
I mean you know, if people come here, they're not ready.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
For this, Dickerman, If you come from Wisconsin, this is
like a summer day, exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes, what about US FLORIDIANSUS Florians don't even like to
go outside.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Did you pay attention to the news last weekend of
what was going on in every other state besides Florida?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
There was eighty five here and it was like.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Exactly, Yeah, you know, I think some of those people
are just like, get me out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah. I bet they were looking at down to Florida.
You guys are eighty five right now.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I have a friend, I have a friend in Dallas,
who hasn't had internet for like three days.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah. I got a friend in Nashville and apparently things
were pretty bad in Nashville too, Like, yeah, it wasn't great.
It wasn't great for people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, there were places in like Minneapolis that had exploding trees.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
That happened, floating trees. Yes, that happens in like the North,
like Michigan. I texted Derek to find out what is
going on in trees?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just give up? Like I'm done, goodbye cruel world.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
What happens is, you know, they're full of sap, and
then the sap freezes rapidly, and because it freezes too rapidly,
it expands and it'll make a sound like the tree
is exploding, and it'll blow out the sides of the
you know, the bark and.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Two things I want to bring up. One, a member
of this show was the co host of a gardening
show for thirty years on the radio, and he doesn't
know about exploiting trees.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I do not, And it was not thirty years
and it wasn't a co host, But I did run
that thing for quite some time and learned nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Two can we steer it back? To like theme parks
or the news that was emailed to you.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I thought we were still talking about theme park.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I thought we were still on theme parks. I do
actually have a mail bag question for Scott. Oh god, Okay,
this comes from listener Sue. She's actually a hairess as well.
She wants to know when is early entry stopping for
resort guests.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
My guess is it's a.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Real thing, right, Yeah, they're supposed to it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I thought that we're going to end it at the
top of the year, but I guess they have extended.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, my guess is they're just going to keep it
going because it makes money, Like.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, why not? Yeah, it doesn't hurt anybody, it only
it's only a bone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think they've shrunk it from an hour to thirty
minutes now is is the is the only change that
has happened. But I think that that is a thing
that's going to be continuing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Okay, all right, Well, be mindful this weekend if you're
going out to parks, be mindful. If you're thinking you're
riding roller coasters, take a look at the hour by hour. Uh.
None of us are meteorologists. Regardless of what Scott says,
so don't take our weather information, just take it from
who is there on TV. Because when they're wrong, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But also if you are just just accordingly, be smart,
just accordingly.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Avoid shorts and a tank top and flip blomps, is
what you're saying. Maybe ride ride the h the Jurassic
River Coaster. Wait, that's not open right now. You gotta
ride the uh you gotta ride the one in Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, the Kalahari.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. Or Blue Do's BArch. You
could do Blue Dose Barge. It was barge. You might
as well just swim. It's true. You might as well
just swim, you Deadley do right, you do that one?
You could do any uh the falls, your rips, off falls.
You could do the one at Sea World, the big
one there, Infinity Infinity Falls, Yes, Infinity Falls, that's the one. Yeah,
(08:11):
void all those this weekend because it will be uh,
it'll be a bit chilly out there. I'd be shocked
if it are open. I don't think we've talked about
this yet this year, but it's approaching quicker than I realized. Uh,
Mega con on sale announcing big names. Uh, of course
this is an annual pilgrimage for the theme park podcasts. We're
(08:31):
always out there covering all the excitement. Scott Harris, have
you purchased your John Cena autographed tickets yet? I did
her himself.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The thing is, I did, and then I found out
that like when you do it, you're just standing in
a room by yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Because you can't see him and see him. You can't
see him. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I have an eagle. I have an eagle costume
that I was going to wear.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You're going to be eagly.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I was going to be eagly.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
If you go as Eagerly, I'll go as a vigilant,
which one though, the regular vigilante probably not not the other,
the one in regular world vigilante. Well, I'll go as
Rick Flagg. But again, which senior or jun the dead one? Okay,
(09:19):
so there there you go. No, but John Cena, that's
a big get, Like, that's a that's a big name
to bring in. It's it's a headliner. I would say, right,
there's some bigger names on that card, bigger than John Cena. Yeah,
how many? Alec Baldwin never heard of him? No, he's
a he's a big deal. Alec Baldwin's been in.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
William Shatner has been into space that this is true.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We're talking Captain Kirk here, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But no, legitimately he went to space like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I know. Okay, multiple headliners is what we're saying here
for MegaCon this year, Live Tyler Live.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Tyler's dad saved this planet.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh. Her music used to live at a theme park.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I heard Aerosmith was in town to go to rock
and roller grocer one last time before they shut it, and.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They didn't let him on there. Get lost beat it guys.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well, they were afraid that Keith Richards was just going
to break apart into dust like somebody snapped.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
In the rolling stuff, different badges, Stephen Tyler, Joe Perry.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Uh, the other guy, whoever that is, he was the
other guy. He was the other guy that was here.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Was it Brad Hale or was that the guy from
Fast Times at Richmond High Now I'm not sure anyhow.
Mega Con Live Tyler is going to be there, The
Lovely Live Tyler, Jimmy your girl Ashy Exteen's going to
be there. Local but a gigantic star in the the
creator of our universe. She's awesome. She comes to the
hospital a lot to see the kids. She's a good person,
(10:58):
a good human being. Yeah, and she doesn't charge extra
for bulky items.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's nice to Joe Pantaliano will be there.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Joey Pants. You might know him a cipher from the
first Matrix movie.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay, all right? Yeah, loaded lineups.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
John Diega, Orlando Bloom all four of the Hobbits.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
John Boyega is a pretty big get.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean he was. Finn is is Yeah, is Finn continuing?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Look man, look man, they're just trying to get through
one movie at a time right now.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Okay, what are we doing again? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Mandalorian and grog Goose first up, first on deck.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, all right, maybe Finn will show up in there,
just on an accident. Hey, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Timeline doesn't fit?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
But nope, not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But Star Wars Colon Starfighter, the Ryan Gosling movie I
believe takes place after Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You got a Gosling movie, got Gosling and a Star
Wars movie. You didn't know this? Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We've talked, You've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, but you know, I don't listen to what we
talk about. It goes in one air and out the other.
It's like when you tell me your name, I'm like,
what's your name? I have no idea what your name is.
I just met you. It's gone. Yeah, it's a good
get Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Mega Con coming up middle of March, March nineteenth to
the twenty second at the Orange County Convention Center. Tickets
on sale.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Now, are you gonna go all four days? Scott? Because
you usually have an outfits planned for multiple days.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
As of right now, I am planned for three of
the three and a half of the four days.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Okay, So which day.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Uh, eaglely is one day? Spider Man? Because I spent
so much money on that costume, is one of the days.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Where you gotta use that thing exactly. I'd be like,
you're gonna be like Santa Bill. You're gonna be like
Santa Bill. I'm like ten years on King of the
Hill where your Spider Man costume is all ripped and torn. Me,
I still gotta work, man. They so much for it.
The kids love it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Look. I tell people that there are two reasons that
I stay in the shape that I do.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Spider Man costume.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Spider Man costume is one of them. What's the other reason,
the fact that all my jeans are like skinny jeans
and I wear extra small shirts. I don't want to
have to rebuy my entire wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Look at him to be bragging that he's never had
to rebuy clothes. I got like three different sizes I
keep just in rotation. What size are we this week? Better?
Better go to the box of bigger clothes. We got like,
we got skinny, we got their regular, we got big.
Just rotate them out every couple of months.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've got skinny or super skinny. So those are the two.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just like him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
You know, one day your metabolism is gonna catch up
with you and that Spider Man's gonna have a You're
gonna be Spider Pig with that pork billy.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
This guy's always doing exercise and stuff. He's always going
to spin. What's the other one you do? Pilates? You're
with all the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Chicks I do that. I eat healthy. I've like given
up and was drinking soda completely.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now geez, like, try and make things hard for the
rest of us. Okay, Scott, all right, we don't want
to go to it. We don't want to go to
our classes and eat good food. Done and done.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Hey you guys want to do you guys want to
play a game?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Sure, okay, Jigsaw, Yeah, one of us end up dead.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There underneath your chair, there is a key. The lock
is inside of your arm. The first one to unlock
it win to Lego prize.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, Jimmy might be in for that. Hold you up
like a pumpkin. You open your own key, buddy, You
can't open my key. It's virtual this week.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No, we cheased this game last week. Do not remember
this game?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes? No, this game is fun. I want to play. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
the game is doesn't remember.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The game is thumbs up thumbs down on ride replacements Okay, yes,
it's a good game. We did a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yes, uh yeah. So the way this works is Scott's
gonna name a ride that replaced another ride, So say,
like Simpson's over Back to the Future, we give it
a thumbs up or thumbs down, whether it was at
a replacement or not.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But I'm gonna do the series. I'm gonna do like
first the next. Then some of these have had like
several okay, all right. The Fantastic World of Hannah Barbara
got replaced by Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I'm gonna go thumbs down because I like Hanna Barbara better.
I don't know either, ride though I'm being perfectly honest. Yeah, yeah,
I'm young for that. I don't remember those olden days.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Thumbs down, No, because I remember the beginning. Elroy gets
kidnapped by Dick, Dastardley and Muttley.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You're making names up at this point. I have no
idea where you're going. I do not. It was like
a little dog that would like laugh like, oh he
did that, Like I know that dog. Oh that's the dog. Yes, yeah,
that's Muttley. Yeah, okay, right, I gotta look him up later.
He had like an orange and jav Eater had on
or yes, exactly. I always wondered what that laughing dog was. Okay,
(16:05):
all right, that's the thumbs down for me.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Despicle me Minyon Mayhem replaced Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast big.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Time thumbs up.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Wait, wait, hold on, there was wasn't there a wasn't
it SpongeBob at one point?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, No, it's Jimmy Neutron. There's never been a SpongeBob Brad.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't even know what Jimmy Neutron is.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
He's the boy genius Bighead. Got a little robot dog
named Goddard.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's too busy going to concerts. I don't know what
that is.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I've recently watched the movie like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's fun. Okay, thumbs up Jimmy, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Over there, I would say.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who does love Minions?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Great? And that that that room when you go in
the room is great. I love this setup in that room.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I was gonna say that the new pre show is
like a'll step up even from Hannah Baber. But still,
if you're giving me all three, I'm gonna go Barbera.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ghostbusters Spectacular was replaced by Twister. Write it out.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I'm gonna say thumbs down, but I don't remember Ghostbusters
at all. But Twisters just felt like a footnote and
movie history about Ghostbusters is a legendary. You're giving thumbs up. Yes,
you're up for Twister.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I love that movie.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm torn because I mean I like a flying cloud.
Don't get me wrong, I love a flying cow.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The first time I saw the Ghostbusters Attraction, I was like,
this is really bad. And then I saw it a
second time after they had time to work on it
and make improvements, and it was it was pretty good.
And Twister, the Twister ride or experience or whatever you
wanted to call it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I thought it was okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Also there's the fun lore that they didn't really like
each other, and the scene in the pre show they're
filmed separately.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yes, yes, yes, don't know if.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Any of that's true. I mean, I guess you could
ask everyone. Everything I ever see is people love Bill Paxton.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
No, Helen Hunt's gonna be at MegaCon.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We can ask her there, you could.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think now it's kind of been bad taste now
that Bill.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Paxton has a couple questions from her.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But yeah, Bill Paxon is no longer with us, And
I think I've told you you should really check out
The Alien, the five hour documentary about the movie Aliens.
There's a good chunk of that where they talk about
Bill Paxton.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
All right, fair enough. Next on that ride, it's gonna
be Jimmy Fallon right.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yes, where we're going to race through New York, starring
Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hot take from me thumbs down because I didn't. I
liked Ghostbusters in theory better than than Twister, but I
like Twister better than Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, don't care.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, I like Jimmy fell In and I like what
they did with making the building look look like a
little thirty rock.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That was cool. That that is neat.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That is neat walk through, but like the attract, the
ride itself is not great in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, can I say you know what they should do
to it? They should turn it into like an SNL ride,
like kind of the same premise, same ride mechanics.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Just you run through like different characters like yeah, like
when it was Hans and Fronds and like good characters,
the all the eras, all the classics. Yeah, I mean
Goat Boy, Mango.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Stefan. Because the store sells both Jimmy Fallon and SNL merch.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean it's possible. I mean, you know, late night
TV is kind of dead, right, like nobody cares about
that anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Times have changed, depends who you talk to. Yeah, all right.
Earthquake Colon the Big One replaced by Fast and the
Furious Colon Supercharged.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Wait, there was one in between, but.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was the same ride. Disaster was the same ride.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It had a different pre show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It had a different pre show. It had Christopher Walken
and h Dwayne the Rock Johnson whose character was Mother Nature.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And yeah, and the original incarnation they had like they
took you through like a couple of scenes and then
they cut it all together and showed you like a
video at the end.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And you were like you could volunteer to be in it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yes, there was like a yeah, it was a couple
of different scenes.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
There was like a repelling scene, like a rope scene.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, mm hmm, Yes, I like I like that one, obviously.
I think everybody liked it more than The Fast and
the Fears. We don't actually know who thought Fast and
the Furious was a good idea, but that person probably
lost their job, Ben Diesel. Maybe maybe I like those
movies though, I know, but the ride just was not good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All right. Controversial one Jaws was placed by diegon Alley.
But if we're specifically talking ride Harry Potter, the Escape Froger.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Gets you, guys are gonna hate me for this one.
Oh you give a thumbs up too.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
It never worked here. It was always broken, John, it
was always broken here.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I don't agree with that, Like the original version was
always broken, yes, because to get to the the mechanics
of the ride, they had to drain that whole lagoon
and that would take forever, and then the shark was
like plastic and you know, kind of fake looking. When
they did the reno over, like it was like two
or three years. They made it to the platforms where
(21:37):
the shark was would rise under over the water and
then they could work on the mechanics and then they
came in with the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Neoprene. It was like a neoprene uh.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Louter skeleton y Yeah, exactly, so we give it more
of like an organic you know.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah. I mean John's was great. Don't get me wrong.
When Jows worked, it was great. It was a neat ride.
But I mean, Harry Potter a game changer for all
parts of Universal.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I mean I had a lot of fun when I
went to Japan to do it, because I only I
say it never worked when I was a kid. It
was only I only did it one time because it
was always down. So to me, that is my lasting
memory of the ride here.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, I don't feel like I ever saw it down,
but I didn't go to the park a ton. I
know I had an issue with that ride at one point,
but but you know, I never had issues with that.
But did they still shoot the shark in Japan? They're
still okay with guns over there like that?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh you mean the grenade launcher absolutely still is a
part of the ride.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, it wasn't sure. It wasn't sure. Okay, good, last time.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
The only time I ever went on that Jobs ride
where it malfunctioned was the last time, and it was
the day it was closing. We got up to that
scene where the shark like bites the cable and it
gets electrocuted and the shark never comes up. But then
a giant plume of water and lands into my lap
and it was like to day with the temperature.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mm hmm, yeah, freezing. I was he owed all.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Right, confrontation mm hmm. Replaced by The Mummy. I am
so mixed on this.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I am too, But the Mummy is a fun ride.
It's a good coast. They can squeeze people in and
out pretty quick. I'm gonna have to give a thumbs
up for the Mummy. James, you don't like roller coasters.
So you lost a ride here when they took out Confrontation. Yeah,
and I did like when like when the Orlando Magic
were in.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The playoffs they put the horse. Yeah, they put a
jersey on Kong and stuff. I thought that was so cool.
That is fun.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That is fun. This is a great game. We're gonna
have to play another time because we're almost out of
time here, so we're gonna have to We're gonna have
to do an expanded edition of.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
This game and we're not even through universal.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well the thing, Hey, look, we got the holidays are
coming up in December, right, so let's just plant it.
Write this down. Somebody put take a note, take a memo.
We need to remember this for those holiday shows and
out of town. All right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who's going out of the country? Why when do we
need a bank a bunch of shows?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Exactly? All right? I got a cruise coming up in April,
so we'll talk, all right, Scott. If people want to
find us on social media, where can they go.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:23):
Show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell Ripter
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I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
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From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is this all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman,
he there is Jimmy de Good evening or good day?
And Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What's new?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Frosty, Scott. It's going to be the coldest weekend of
the year, maybe the coldest weekend in years this weekend
at theme parks? How do we feel about crowds, about
attendance and about rides operating at full capacity?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, it is the final weekend for Dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Okay, that's an indoor ride, so they likely won't be
shutting that down due to the cold.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, but I'm just saying like that park is going
to be busy, will be busy because of that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Avoid animal king at mall costs, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The Figman Festival, uh trade barked by me is going
on at Epcot, So.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm going there, I'm going Apcott. I'm going on. Well,
we're recording this on Thursday. There's on Saturday. So if
you're listening on Saturday, I went yesterday. If you're listening
on Thursday, I'm going tomorrow. Yes, perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anyone watching, anyone watching the show. If you see Dickerman
at Epcot, go up and see him, Go up and
say hi, I'm a big fan of the show. He
will buy you one treat.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Do not embarrass me in front of my coworkers. I am.
I am going to be attending a theme park with adults,
real adults, not these two chimps, real adults, and I
don't want to be embarrassed. True. Maybe a margarita if
you catch him in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No celebration, celebrate celebration cake, mickey ear ice cream yep
yep yeah, goofy sour balls.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Do come up to me and say hello, mister Dickerman.
It's a pleasure to see you. And then what like
doth th cap in front of you corporation. Yes, at
the big corporation. I love doing business with you, sir,
up chip, here go goodbye. That's all.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
No, that's all they can say. That's maybe some Joffrey's coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Or one of the giant don'ts they have at Jeoffrey's Coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But really, Scott, you are considering going on Saturday, which
is the cold day, right, Saturday is the cold one
carrot cake from Starbucks. No, it doesn't even count. It's Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Look after what I endured when I went to a
Tokyo Disneyland where it was like sleeting that morning and
then was like in the forties and in the fifties
through most of the day, I am fully prepared for
whatever the weather's going to throw at me.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I learned. I didn't know this prior. You guys probably did,
But like when I was in Tennessee a couple of
years ago, I learned that they shut down the rides
a dolly Wood him it hits like thirty two degrees
because they can't operate the outdoor roller coasters in those temperatures.
So we legit have some coasters in our town that
may not be operating if it's cold enough.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean, this is pure speculation. It doesn't get
cold this like this very often. My guess would be
you might see something involving Hulk or Velocit coaster.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, anything at SeaWorld. I mean, look at all those
outdoor coasters at SeaWorld.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Any of anything at SeaWorld, start US racers over at
Epic Universe, you know, really anything. Pay attention to social
media channels. It hasn't been announced it. My guess is
Volcano Bay probably not gonna be open this weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Probably not gonna be open. Yeah, and I don't know
the hour by hour. We should have probably had a
meteor relogist on the show this week because anybody got
Danny Traynor's number.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I am an accredited meteor I am the official meteorologist
of the Beat of Sports on FM ninety six nine
in the game, So.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I did that too on Ji Rody. I was
an official media elegist too. Because you read the weather
off the internet.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I went to school for it.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No you didn't, okay, I think the guys at the
TV station you just read it out the internet too.
I don't know actually comes up with the original forecast,
but somebody does.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, this weekend it is an extreme cold watch.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Wooh, extreme cold oooh. They did say there's like a
slight chance for snow here, So come on, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why because it's a low of twenty four on Sunday, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, and there was something and there was like a
decent chance of like precipitation too.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It was like twenty three or something. Let's do it,
let's do it. Well.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, the thing is like the outdoor hockey game is
happening in Tampa this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh well, that works out right because they did a
good weekend. Yeah. Yeah, they picked the perfect weekend actually
for it, to tell you the truth, So do you
think the cold will scare people off though? On I
guess Saturday slash Sunday those are the days. No. No,
I mean you know, if people come here, they're not ready.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
For this, Dickerman, If you come from Wisconsin, this is
like a summer day, exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes, what about US FLORIDIANSUS Florians don't even like to
go outside.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Did you pay attention to the news last weekend of
what was going on in every other state besides Florida?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
There was eighty five here and it was like.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Exactly, Yeah, you know, I think some of those people
are just like, get me out of here.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah. I bet they were looking at down to Florida.
You guys are eighty five right now.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I have a friend, I have a friend in Dallas,
who hasn't had internet for like three days.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah. I got a friend in Nashville and apparently things
were pretty bad in Nashville too, Like, yeah, it wasn't great.
It wasn't great for people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, there were places in like Minneapolis that had exploding trees.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
That happened, floating trees. Yes, that happens in like the North,
like Michigan. I texted Derek to find out what is
going on in trees?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just give up? Like I'm done, goodbye cruel world.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
What happens is, you know, they're full of sap, and
then the sap freezes rapidly, and because it freezes too rapidly,
it expands and it'll make a sound like the tree
is exploding, and it'll blow out the sides of the
you know, the bark and.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Two things I want to bring up. One, a member
of this show was the co host of a gardening
show for thirty years on the radio, and he doesn't
know about exploiting trees.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I do not, And it was not thirty years
and it wasn't a co host, But I did run
that thing for quite some time and learned nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Two can we steer it back? To like theme parks
or the news that was emailed to you.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I thought we were still talking about theme park.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I thought we were still on theme parks. I do
actually have a mail bag question for Scott. Oh god, Okay,
this comes from listener Sue. She's actually a hairess as well.
She wants to know when is early entry stopping for
resort guests.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
My guess is it's a.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Real thing, right, Yeah, they're supposed to it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I thought that we're going to end it at the
top of the year, but I guess they have extended.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, my guess is they're just going to keep it
going because it makes money, Like.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, why not? Yeah, it doesn't hurt anybody, it only
it's only a bone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think they've shrunk it from an hour to thirty
minutes now is is the is the only change that
has happened. But I think that that is a thing
that's going to be continuing.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Okay, all right, Well, be mindful this weekend if you're
going out to parks, be mindful. If you're thinking you're
riding roller coasters, take a look at the hour by hour. Uh.
None of us are meteorologists. Regardless of what Scott says,
so don't take our weather information, just take it from
who is there on TV. Because when they're wrong, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But also if you are just just accordingly, be smart,
just accordingly.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Avoid shorts and a tank top and flip blomps, is
what you're saying. Maybe ride ride the h the Jurassic
River Coaster. Wait, that's not open right now. You gotta
ride the uh you gotta ride the one in Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, the Kalahari.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. Or Blue Do's BArch. You
could do Blue Dose Barge. It was barge. You might
as well just swim. It's true. You might as well
just swim, you Deadley do right, you do that one?
You could do any uh the falls, your rips, off falls.
You could do the one at Sea World, the big
one there, Infinity Infinity Falls, Yes, Infinity Falls, that's the one. Yeah,
(08:11):
void all those this weekend because it will be uh,
it'll be a bit chilly out there. I'd be shocked
if it are open. I don't think we've talked about
this yet this year, but it's approaching quicker than I realized. Uh,
Mega con on sale announcing big names. Uh, of course
this is an annual pilgrimage for the theme park podcasts. We're
(08:31):
always out there covering all the excitement. Scott Harris, have
you purchased your John Cena autographed tickets yet? I did
her himself.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
The thing is, I did, and then I found out
that like when you do it, you're just standing in
a room by yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Because you can't see him and see him. You can't
see him. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I have an eagle. I have an eagle costume
that I was going to wear.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You're going to be eagly.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I was going to be eagly.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
If you go as Eagerly, I'll go as a vigilant,
which one though, the regular vigilante probably not not the other,
the one in regular world vigilante. Well, I'll go as
Rick Flagg. But again, which senior or jun the dead one? Okay,
(09:19):
so there there you go. No, but John Cena, that's
a big get, Like, that's a that's a big name
to bring in. It's it's a headliner. I would say, right,
there's some bigger names on that card, bigger than John Cena. Yeah,
how many? Alec Baldwin never heard of him? No, he's
a he's a big deal. Alec Baldwin's been in.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
William Shatner has been into space that this is true.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We're talking Captain Kirk here, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But no, legitimately he went to space like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I know. Okay, multiple headliners is what we're saying here
for MegaCon this year, Live Tyler Live.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Tyler's dad saved this planet.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh. Her music used to live at a theme park.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I heard Aerosmith was in town to go to rock
and roller grocer one last time before they shut it, and.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They didn't let him on there. Get lost beat it guys.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well, they were afraid that Keith Richards was just going
to break apart into dust like somebody snapped.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
In the rolling stuff, different badges, Stephen Tyler, Joe Perry.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Uh, the other guy, whoever that is, he was the
other guy. He was the other guy that was here.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Was it Brad Hale or was that the guy from
Fast Times at Richmond High Now I'm not sure anyhow.
Mega Con Live Tyler is going to be there, The
Lovely Live Tyler, Jimmy your girl Ashy Exteen's going to
be there. Local but a gigantic star in the the
creator of our universe. She's awesome. She comes to the
hospital a lot to see the kids. She's a good person,
(10:58):
a good human being. Yeah, and she doesn't charge extra
for bulky items.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's nice to Joe Pantaliano will be there.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Joey Pants. You might know him a cipher from the
first Matrix movie.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay, all right? Yeah, loaded lineups.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
John Diega, Orlando Bloom all four of the Hobbits.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
John Boyega is a pretty big get.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean he was. Finn is is Yeah, is Finn continuing?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Look man, look man, they're just trying to get through
one movie at a time right now.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Okay, what are we doing again? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Mandalorian and grog Goose first up, first on deck.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, all right, maybe Finn will show up in there,
just on an accident. Hey, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Timeline doesn't fit?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
But nope, not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But Star Wars Colon Starfighter, the Ryan Gosling movie I
believe takes place after Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You got a Gosling movie, got Gosling and a Star
Wars movie. You didn't know this? Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We've talked, You've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, but you know, I don't listen to what we
talk about. It goes in one air and out the other.
It's like when you tell me your name, I'm like,
what's your name? I have no idea what your name is.
I just met you. It's gone. Yeah, it's a good
get Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Mega Con coming up middle of March, March nineteenth to
the twenty second at the Orange County Convention Center. Tickets
on sale.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Now, are you gonna go all four days? Scott? Because
you usually have an outfits planned for multiple days.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
As of right now, I am planned for three of
the three and a half of the four days.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Okay, So which day.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Uh, eaglely is one day? Spider Man? Because I spent
so much money on that costume, is one of the days.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Where you gotta use that thing exactly. I'd be like,
you're gonna be like Santa Bill. You're gonna be like
Santa Bill. I'm like ten years on King of the
Hill where your Spider Man costume is all ripped and torn. Me,
I still gotta work, man. They so much for it.
The kids love it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Look. I tell people that there are two reasons that
I stay in the shape that I do.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Spider Man costume.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Spider Man costume is one of them. What's the other reason,
the fact that all my jeans are like skinny jeans
and I wear extra small shirts. I don't want to
have to rebuy my entire wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Look at him to be bragging that he's never had
to rebuy clothes. I got like three different sizes I
keep just in rotation. What size are we this week? Better?
Better go to the box of bigger clothes. We got like,
we got skinny, we got their regular, we got big.
Just rotate them out every couple of months.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've got skinny or super skinny. So those are the two.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just like him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
You know, one day your metabolism is gonna catch up
with you and that Spider Man's gonna have a You're
gonna be Spider Pig with that pork billy.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
This guy's always doing exercise and stuff. He's always going
to spin. What's the other one you do? Pilates? You're
with all the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Chicks I do that. I eat healthy. I've like given
up and was drinking soda completely.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now geez, like, try and make things hard for the
rest of us. Okay, Scott, all right, we don't want
to go to it. We don't want to go to
our classes and eat good food. Done and done.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Hey you guys want to do you guys want to
play a game?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Sure, okay, Jigsaw, Yeah, one of us end up dead.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There underneath your chair, there is a key. The lock
is inside of your arm. The first one to unlock
it win to Lego prize.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, Jimmy might be in for that. Hold you up
like a pumpkin. You open your own key, buddy, You
can't open my key. It's virtual this week.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No, we cheased this game last week. Do not remember
this game?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes? No, this game is fun. I want to play. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
the game is doesn't remember.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The game is thumbs up thumbs down on ride replacements Okay, yes,
it's a good game. We did a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yes, uh yeah. So the way this works is Scott's
gonna name a ride that replaced another ride, So say,
like Simpson's over Back to the Future, we give it
a thumbs up or thumbs down, whether it was at
a replacement or not.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But I'm gonna do the series. I'm gonna do like
first the next. Then some of these have had like
several okay, all right. The Fantastic World of Hannah Barbara
got replaced by Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I'm gonna go thumbs down because I like Hanna Barbara better.
I don't know either, ride though I'm being perfectly honest. Yeah, yeah,
I'm young for that. I don't remember those olden days.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Thumbs down, No, because I remember the beginning. Elroy gets
kidnapped by Dick, Dastardley and Muttley.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You're making names up at this point. I have no
idea where you're going. I do not. It was like
a little dog that would like laugh like, oh he
did that, Like I know that dog. Oh that's the dog. Yes, yeah,
that's Muttley. Yeah, okay, right, I gotta look him up later.
He had like an orange and jav Eater had on
or yes, exactly. I always wondered what that laughing dog was. Okay,
(16:05):
all right, that's the thumbs down for me.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Despicle me Minyon Mayhem replaced Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast big.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Time thumbs up.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Wait, wait, hold on, there was wasn't there a wasn't
it SpongeBob at one point?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, No, it's Jimmy Neutron. There's never been a SpongeBob Brad.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't even know what Jimmy Neutron is.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
He's the boy genius Bighead. Got a little robot dog
named Goddard.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's too busy going to concerts. I don't know what
that is.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I've recently watched the movie like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's fun. Okay, thumbs up Jimmy, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Over there, I would say.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who does love Minions?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Great? And that that that room when you go in
the room is great. I love this setup in that room.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I was gonna say that the new pre show is
like a'll step up even from Hannah Baber. But still,
if you're giving me all three, I'm gonna go Barbera.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ghostbusters Spectacular was replaced by Twister. Write it out.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I'm gonna say thumbs down, but I don't remember Ghostbusters
at all. But Twisters just felt like a footnote and
movie history about Ghostbusters is a legendary. You're giving thumbs up. Yes,
you're up for Twister.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I love that movie.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm torn because I mean I like a flying cloud.
Don't get me wrong, I love a flying cow.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The first time I saw the Ghostbusters Attraction, I was like,
this is really bad. And then I saw it a
second time after they had time to work on it
and make improvements, and it was it was pretty good.
And Twister, the Twister ride or experience or whatever you
wanted to call it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I thought it was okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Also there's the fun lore that they didn't really like
each other, and the scene in the pre show they're
filmed separately.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yes, yes, yes, don't know if.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Any of that's true. I mean, I guess you could
ask everyone. Everything I ever see is people love Bill Paxton.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
No, Helen Hunt's gonna be at MegaCon.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We can ask her there, you could.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think now it's kind of been bad taste now
that Bill.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Paxton has a couple questions from her.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But yeah, Bill Paxon is no longer with us, And
I think I've told you you should really check out
The Alien, the five hour documentary about the movie Aliens.
There's a good chunk of that where they talk about
Bill Paxton.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
All right, fair enough. Next on that ride, it's gonna
be Jimmy Fallon right.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yes, where we're going to race through New York, starring
Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hot take from me thumbs down because I didn't. I
liked Ghostbusters in theory better than than Twister, but I
like Twister better than Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, don't care.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, I like Jimmy fell In and I like what
they did with making the building look look like a
little thirty rock.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That was cool. That that is neat.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That is neat walk through, but like the attract, the
ride itself is not great in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, can I say you know what they should do
to it? They should turn it into like an SNL ride,
like kind of the same premise, same ride mechanics.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Just you run through like different characters like yeah, like
when it was Hans and Fronds and like good characters,
the all the eras, all the classics. Yeah, I mean
Goat Boy, Mango.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Stefan. Because the store sells both Jimmy Fallon and SNL merch.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean it's possible. I mean, you know, late night
TV is kind of dead, right, like nobody cares about
that anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Times have changed, depends who you talk to. Yeah, all right.
Earthquake Colon the Big One replaced by Fast and the
Furious Colon Supercharged.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Wait, there was one in between, but.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It was the same ride. Disaster was the same ride.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It had a different pre show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It had a different pre show. It had Christopher Walken
and h Dwayne the Rock Johnson whose character was Mother Nature.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And yeah, and the original incarnation they had like they
took you through like a couple of scenes and then
they cut it all together and showed you like a
video at the end.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And you were like you could volunteer to be in it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yes, there was like a yeah, it was a couple
of different scenes.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
There was like a repelling scene, like a rope scene.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, mm hmm, Yes, I like I like that one, obviously.
I think everybody liked it more than The Fast and
the Fears. We don't actually know who thought Fast and
the Furious was a good idea, but that person probably
lost their job, Ben Diesel. Maybe maybe I like those
movies though, I know, but the ride just was not good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All right. Controversial one Jaws was placed by diegon Alley.
But if we're specifically talking ride Harry Potter, the Escape Froger.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Gets you, guys are gonna hate me for this one.
Oh you give a thumbs up too.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
It never worked here. It was always broken, John, it
was always broken here.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I don't agree with that, Like the original version was
always broken, yes, because to get to the the mechanics
of the ride, they had to drain that whole lagoon
and that would take forever, and then the shark was
like plastic and you know, kind of fake looking. When
they did the reno over, like it was like two
or three years. They made it to the platforms where
(21:37):
the shark was would rise under over the water and
then they could work on the mechanics and then they
came in with the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Neoprene. It was like a neoprene uh.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Louter skeleton y Yeah, exactly, so we give it more
of like an organic you know.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah. I mean John's was great. Don't get me wrong.
When Jows worked, it was great. It was a neat ride.
But I mean, Harry Potter a game changer for all
parts of Universal.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I mean I had a lot of fun when I
went to Japan to do it, because I only I
say it never worked when I was a kid. It
was only I only did it one time because it
was always down. So to me, that is my lasting
memory of the ride here.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, I don't feel like I ever saw it down,
but I didn't go to the park a ton. I
know I had an issue with that ride at one point,
but but you know, I never had issues with that.
But did they still shoot the shark in Japan? They're
still okay with guns over there like that?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh you mean the grenade launcher absolutely still is a
part of the ride.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, it wasn't sure. It wasn't sure. Okay, good, last time.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
The only time I ever went on that Jobs ride
where it malfunctioned was the last time, and it was
the day it was closing. We got up to that
scene where the shark like bites the cable and it
gets electrocuted and the shark never comes up. But then
a giant plume of water and lands into my lap
and it was like to day with the temperature.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mm hmm, yeah, freezing. I was he owed all.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Right, confrontation mm hmm. Replaced by The Mummy. I am
so mixed on this.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I am too, But the Mummy is a fun ride.
It's a good coast. They can squeeze people in and
out pretty quick. I'm gonna have to give a thumbs
up for the Mummy. James, you don't like roller coasters.
So you lost a ride here when they took out Confrontation. Yeah,
and I did like when like when the Orlando Magic
were in.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The playoffs they put the horse. Yeah, they put a
jersey on Kong and stuff. I thought that was so cool.
That is fun.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That is fun. This is a great game. We're gonna
have to play another time because we're almost out of
time here, so we're gonna have to We're gonna have
to do an expanded edition of.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
This game and we're not even through universal.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well the thing, Hey, look, we got the holidays are
coming up in December, right, so let's just plant it.
Write this down. Somebody put take a note, take a memo.
We need to remember this for those holiday shows and
out of town. All right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Who's going out of the country? Why when do we
need a bank a bunch of shows?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Exactly? All right? I got a cruise coming up in April,
so we'll talk, all right, Scott. If people want to
find us on social media, where can they go.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
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Speaker 3 (24:23):
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I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
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