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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this on radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there is Jimmy D. Hello, Phyllis, and a very busy
Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Failure, You're a failure. You're just a it's a minute
you you let the people down. You let Walt down
his legacy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wal doesn't care what is walk care?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It was his favorite ride. Everyone knows that Rrip Rip Ride,
Rocket Gone, Trailed Gone.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I mean they didn't waste any time, dude, Universal has
no chill, Like you didn't even get more in the body.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, like the last person got off and some guy
was just up there with a slug camera socket.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Well, did you not off the ride yet?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Did you see the picture?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
They like? The thing is they went all out, like
you know how they have like when you're in the queue,
they have like the avatar for each genre.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The little cartoon animated people. Yeah, but they had like them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
As like characters. You can meet, just like where.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Have live action versions of the characters.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's like you've never had this before.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It was almost sad because you knew they were all
losing their jobs. You guys are all fired. You brought
them in just to show the people that they're being fired.
It was cool they brought him in now that they
did look neat. I mean they had them dressed just
like in the in the thing that the que for
That one always blew my mind with like, hey, lock
up your smokes in the locker. You can't say that
(01:54):
you can't talk about putting your smokes in the locker.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, it was and they gave everyone like remember to
have guitar picks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It was pretty That's what I was hoping for. When
they closed Back to the Future, I was like, I
was like, I want a coin or like something Lorean.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, it's fun. Like when I I was one of
the last people to ride Confrontation and they gave us
a key chain in a stuffed cong like a tiny
guy something.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, I was on.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I think like if it wasn't the last, it was
like the second to last car to ever go through,
and we didn't get anything.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
They gave you nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'm back to the future, legendary ride like that.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I know I would like that was part of it.
Like I didn't expect anything, but I was like so hoping.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, oh, different eras apparently, like.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I had the coin designed in my head and what
it should like a challenge coin. I had it designed
in my head, what it should look like.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Maybe we should have it made.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I now have contact with the people that make those
sorts of things overseas, and they're not as expensive as
you would think.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
They're fairly priced, but we somehow get the scale wrong.
And it's like the giant penny that Batman has in
the bat Cave. It has to be a helicopter to
Jimmy's house.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
There is a language barrier when you order that stuff
from over there, so you have to be very very clear.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
On what you want. When you order that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You're like, yeah, it just seems to be like one
and a half inches, and it somehow becomes like fifteen feet.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, somebody misplaced a decimal points. Yeah exactly, but yeah,
the end of an era, the end of rip Ride
Rocket a ride. I waited to for it to open,
begging universal people to let us on before it open.
Now it's gone.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Bought special shorts for it, I did.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I've had the zippered pockets for it and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I still have pictures on my phone of when you
got stuck on it, you, Matt, Yeah, yeah, that was
fun stuck on their ride. They and they offered him
a medical attention when he got off too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And water stage I was. I was not so advanced
back then. That was quite a few years back. Now,
how often advanced back then?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You should like you, you should have like gone to
Universe the last week wearing your special theme park shorts
is like a big moment.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Just told them let me in because uh, you know,
I I have the shorts. I thought these were this
ride and this ride alone, and so I need to
be on. I have to just carry the shorts because
they do not fit.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Their short short shorts. Warn you one leg in each hole.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, I don't think I can fit one leg
in each howl anymore. Man, it's a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I'm pretty sure you'd have to cut slits up the
side like you're a tie fighter.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And fashion them together.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, and the sides by about four inches. That would
be good to go yeah, no more rip Brod Brocket,
It's it's a sad day. How long you think they're
gonna be tearing this down through Halloween horn nights? You
think it's gonna take a while to get this thing down?
It's big.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So I was just there the other day in the
section that is by the hard rock parts of it
already gone.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And then I've seen pictures that the part that goes
through the fire station by Jimmy Fallon also like parts
of it are gone.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Take it down, just take it down? And what day
is Halloween? Harn it start? It starts in like two weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Right as of recording, it will have started as I recorded.
It starts next week. Next Thursday is the the preview day,
the premium experience day, and then next Friday is the beginning.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Because I'm just wondering if I feel like they could
get that done any amount of time, like not all
of it, like maybe not the like I think they
could get all the track.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Out of it away is what I think.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, I don't know that they're not gonna be able
to take down the tower that had the big drop
and like the you know, the launch areas, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Or the giant pillars in the ground that are made
of like seventeen pounds of concrete.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, Mike, the thing is, I think they're going to
try to get as much as possible. It just weather
is going to dictate a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Of it, Yes, because I've had a lot of rain lately.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
A lot of rain, lightning, wind kind of makes it
a little bit scary.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, anything over twenty miles an hour by like universal rules,
they have to you can't be in a high range. Yeah,
break that nineteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You're good to go.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
One up, buddy, Good luck. So, Scott, you were at
the park this past week. I guess you're at a
couple parks. So what's it looking. Oh, he's got it.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
He's he's got the he has the Passolder Exclusive Universal Studios.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Was it the Coca Cola it's like the Freestyle Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, the Coke Freestyle.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah. Oh we saw that they for Passolder Nights. They
were like, got a new cup and Jim Jimmy sent it.
I'm like, I need this. It is it is plastic.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's my only gripe. I want that to be aluminum.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's the thing. Accidentally dropped it when I get a home,
can't even tell, so and if it was metal, probably
would have damaged my floor, so kind of a lot
about that.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It damages the cup too.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I got quite a few dents in my cup from
dropping it on the floor.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So yeah, my Doug, I don't have it here, my
Doug water bottle. I dropped it like three days after
I got it and put the biggest dent in the
bott of it, and then it wouldn't sit right on
the counter yep, and I had to take it in
the garage with a hammer and try to blacksmith and like.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Ding ding ding, let me put it up. Nope, still
wabbly Ding's.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Tony Stark in the cave. But I went, Yeah, I went.
I went last week and it was basically a scavenger
hunt because I'm like, where is this thing going to be?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And you said so many locations were already sold out.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, and I'm blake quickly. I know they saw him here,
Like I went to Louis, Nope, didn't have them there.
Whenever to Finnigans, didn't have them over there. Didn't think
they'd have them at Finigans. But I'm like, any restaurant,
let me try all of these walk through the Simpsons
didn't have it there, walked in the passholder store, nothing
in there. And then I'm just like, I'm like, and
(08:18):
I also do the thing that annoys some people. I
didn't ask anyone.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay, that's wondering if you ask people, Yeah, cau Jimmy, Well,
Jimmy will ask for me. Jimmy, I'll go and he'll talk,
he'll interact with people. But the difference between like when
I when you go to Sea World, mask somebody something,
you get the blankets of stairs, like, don't ask questions
because they don't know the answer.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Universal. I feel like might be a different situation.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Probably, But I was just like, no, no, no, I got it.
I'm gonna do this. I'm on a mission. I can
figure this out. And then I'm like, wait, by men
in black, they have a Coca Cola free style location
with like six machines. They have to have it in there.
I walk in, there's like two shell full of them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
People don't know how to come over here.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here it is, It's like, why didn't I start here?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I wanted to get this coke merchandise, but I avoided
the coke place until I had been to seventeen other locations.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, it's like I was like any I just assumed
any place that had freestyle machines would have it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You would think, yeah, I mean, you'd think.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But I thought wrong. But yep, finally got it. I
saw pictures pass Aller Knights was going on. They had
a whole bunch of special characters. You could meet Frank
the Pug from in a black Marty or not Marty,
a doc in Einstein with the DeLorean like so all
sorts of fun stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, that was it an actual pug or is it
like a puppet.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I believe it was an actual pug because Einstein is
a real dog.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I liked it. They're bringing the actual canines into this.
Yeah cool, Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I mean I remember back in the day when we
would do like the Halloween Horror Knights tour. At one
point they let us go down in the Men in
Black area down there and we got to wander around,
you know, where they have the coffee and everything in
the tables, which was super neat because you don't traditionally
get to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Jimmy got to do that, and that's when he became
a Harry Potter super fan that day.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yes, that is true, the biggest Harry Potter fan around.
I have my name embroidered in my robe.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What do you guys have embroidered on your robe? I
don't even have a robe. Look at me. I'm barely
a Harry Potter fanta.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I gotta wand I got a wand and I know
what house I am.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I got a wand that I know what house I
am too.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But I also have a Slytherin cardigan, so I'm also
kind of like partly there.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, I've got a Harry Potter shelf in my house.
So you guys are weak. You're weak.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But then, uh, you know, while he was there or
actually I went back, saw more of this staging for
Halloween Hornites, like almost all that stuff is up now.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh gosh, the excitement is building. Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I did see the thirty three vault, which is going
to be the food for the fallout area.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I've seen I've seen that food stand. I've seen
the Clown Cafe, which is the Terrifier one. I've seen
the Wyatt six. I mean I've seen all of them.
Now they're all kind of in the same central Park area.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Got you, but they usually are correct.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, but I mean that perfect segue if we want
to talk about it. The food menu just came out for.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You sent some this week that I'm very excited about
you that. I mean, these are Dickerman centric food items.
I saw you send out. This is this is great?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah? Should I do you want me to start with
the Dickerman items first?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean, I mean you can.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I mean, if you want to give the people what
they want for sure, Well.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Let's start with a let's start with a Dickerman dessert item, okay,
which is the artist palette a Spanish haunting, which is
a artist palette style plate of churos y delicious comes
with Dolta de leche, raspberry cream and Bavarian cream.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I like that Bavarian cream being mixed in there. That's
a wild card.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow, the German guy likes German food.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Then there's the death by cheese stick.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, yes, oh yeah, that is gonna lock you up.
I want to take some emodium when you get home.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Mozzarella cheese sticks served with spicy marin aa sauce.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Delicious.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
What a great what a great thing. And there's no
weird like calamari on it or octopus no delicious, okay,
And the.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Tentacles they have a very fun texture when you when
you're crunching the you know a little sucker things on there.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Then we're talking about good food like cheese sticks.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The the response Lilah's tempered tantrum tendis.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Oh, I was gonna say chicken nuggets, stick and tenders
baby fried chicken tenders with either garlic parmesan with spicy
manner marinera sauce or mesquite barbecue ranch with bourbon barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I like both, but I gotta go with number one.
I mean, chicken tender is the perfect food. There is
no better food on earth than a chicken tender.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And then for the adults, this.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Is only the kids menu. No, this is chicken tenders.
And for grown ups these are There's no better food.
There is everything.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
The Beeria beef walking taco.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay, talk talking to me about because I do like
walking tacos.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Again, served in a bag with Beeria beef, red onions,
scallions consumme and tostitos. Sabrita's salsa verde.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Why they got a runo with two different onions in
there two onions.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean, just ask for it without.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Okay, that's an option. Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Then we have the uh, yum yum deviled eggs from Fallout.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
That sounds so delicious.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Uh they are actually a dessert really, Uh, these are
actually a panacotta dessert style snack. The eggs are a
coconut panacotta stuffed with pineapple whipped ganache and sprinkled with
tajeane seasoning.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Jimmy, I think you and I can agree on this one.
That sounds good.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm surprised you'd like anything with a word like gnash
in it or delicious. Normally you look for words like
hot and dog.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh wait, no, wait, wait, hang on, stop the presses.
I found another Dickerman item. All right, this is the
Terrifier Clown Cafe. Bloody popcorn.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, what have we got going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Popcorn topped with crunchy popcorn, chicken parbigeon cheese, and the
blood sauce is made with pepperoni and marinera.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Sounds great. That sounds great. That's how you do popcorn
right there, buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
All right, how it.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Makes it a full meal? How about your nuggets?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We've got the Friday thirteenth, a low tase, which is
grilled corn still served on the husk, served with a
choice of Kohita cheese into jeane or crunched flaming hot cheetos.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Ooh, that sounds good. I love the husk situation.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I don't like to work for my food usually, so
I'm gonna have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, it's just pulled off onto the back, okay. And
then there is the Wyatt six Huscus Musselman slop.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, that's quite the name.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Sloppy Joe, served with jalapeno bacon, dill pickle chips, and
a cheese sauce.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
That sounds great, minus the dill pickle chips.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
They really, I mean. And then there's you know, the
pizza fries. There's a five nights at Freddy's Cupcake.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
They've listened to the people. They've heard what we want
and they're delivering.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
They heard you, they heard what you were saying.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, they know. I'm the I'm the voice of the people.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
This is what this is what people want. Most people
don't go around the country going to the finest restaurants
to eat their chicken nuggets. Okay, they try what's like
from that area.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm so mad that our preferred cruise line doesn't serve
chicken nuggets anywhere on the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So I mean you bring your own.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It should be available everywhere. Chicken nuggets should be just
a staple food in any place you go. Tenders, Actually,
tenders are more mature than nuggets. I stand corrected.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You wait, Uh, you don't want like dinosaurs or animals.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I will eat them in a pinch, but a tender
is much more refined. Uh does the dinosaur shape improve
the flavor? M M, I mean it makes it more fun.
You don't make the dinosaurs fight when you get the
chicken nuggets. Did you even eat the chicken nuggets eventually?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You're so uncultured?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well this this does sound good. I like these food
options for Halloween corner. I'm gonna have to try and
get out there and sample a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Just take out them. Just uh, press press, can you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Bring out the press batch? Hey? Remember the press.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I need to sample that so I could talk about
it on my podcast in on the by the way, By.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The way, do not do that. Do we do not
condone anyone doing that.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm a member of the press. Give me thinks, what
can I get with this? What does this badge get me?
I just made it at home?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Hang on, what does it need to say?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Or how it only has one press.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
He's gonna be wearing the Fedora with a little press
sign card.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
One. My readers need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I've got audience. It needs to know how these chicken
tenders taste?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
What's your what is your Where do you work for?
I work for a theme parkfood dot com?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Don't you pipe it right down?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So? Yeah, that's that's what's going on over at.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This leads to a geo city site. What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh? I haven't thought about geo cities in a minute. Well,
there's young people out there going, what the hell's at
geo cities?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Why are all these leg eight bit gifts?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They're flying? There's flying hamburgers. It's a food blog.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Hello, Why does it say getty images about everything?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Don't worry about We started with roller coasters, and I
just saw today the a couple of trailers for the
rock and Roll theme roller coaster at the other part.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, the concept out just came which just released for
the Muppets re theme of rock and Roller coaster. Coming
next year.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Which will be headlined with the Electric Mayhem, Animal Doctor
Teeth and the rest of the gang.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I like it. I like this theme.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uh G Force Records will still be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And basically the change will be when you go into
that area, it'll be the Electric Mayhem on the screen,
and then there'll be animatronics in front of the board
and there's penguins and then Scooter will be an animatronic
as well.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's neat. I like it.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I like it because the Aerosmith one did look a
little dated. I mean it looked like, you know, nineties,
the band manager and you know, the band being you know.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Three hundred and fifty years old. Now it was time
for an update. Sorry Steven, Sorry Steven Taylor. He used
to call it his roller coaster, but you know, it
was time for an update. So I think the Muppets,
this is a good place for them. They still get honored,
and I think then a really good way. Actually, I
think this is an upgrade. This is an upgrade for
the Muppets.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's totally awesome for them. If you're Muppets fan. And
there's the guitar will still stay on the outside. It'll
just be kind of repainted.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Okay. And Animal is my favorite Muppet, so that's cool.
I'm good with it. That's who's in the trailer that
I saw. This is good. Yeah, So that's that is exciting. Uh,
next year, at some point next year.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Speaking of next year, there's gonna be updated lights through
the caverns of Big Thunder Mountain. Oh okay, also coming
next year.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
When is now?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Wait, I'm a little behind on what's open and what's closed.
Is Big Thunder closed right now?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It is?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yes, Big Thunders closed in buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger spin
just closed.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
But they're making They're gonna make buzz Light. You're better there,
it's coming back. It's not going away. They're just making
it better.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And it's just like all new guns and like it's
gonna be a whole new system.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And nine hundred and ninety nine thousand will no longer
be the top score.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
What are we gonna have? They have room for one more.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
One point five million.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Nobody's ever going to get to that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I mean, I got the nine hundred and ninety nine thousand,
one time because I got stuck and I found one
of those good bonus things.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Nobody's gonna hit that. Somebody will, obviously because people are special.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be pretty cool.
And they also showed I know you were a big
fan of It's Tough to be a bug.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Mm hm, that'll show. Yeah, sure, well.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
That's becoming a Zootopia show.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Okay, all right, Judy Hops.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And the Gang.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yes, and remember how when the queue for that they
had like movie parodies with like bug characters. They're bringing
those back but with animal characters.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Okay, do they Will the seats still buzz you when
you sit down, because that's a weird feeling.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
The bugs leave the theater before you.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, I my guess is a lot. There will be
some similar effects and probably some updated ones.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Okay, all right, that's cool. Yeah, Zuotopia too is coming
this year soon, right this year? Okay, like fifty years
since the last one, and the last one came out. Uh,
my daughter was still little enough that I could buy
her Judy Hops a little hoodie with bunny ears.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And she starts college next week. So there there's that's
how long it's been since Utopia was out. Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In lastly, we've talked about a few weeks ago the
magic of Disney Animation, which we'll be taking over for
launch Bay unless Jimmy has se uh to prevent that
from happening.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We gotta get there on time, Jimmy. We gotta stop them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We to stop them for what it was Walt's favorite thing.
We cannot let this go away.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
He loved to go meet Darth Vader. I mean, come on, but.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The Robin Williams Lost Boy character was part of the
Back to Neverland short that used to show how UH
animation UH came to life mm hm is a part
of the poster UH and will be part of this
new experience.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
That's cool thing cool anyway, Williams, I'm good with. Yeah,
that's awesome. So, but we still lose launch bay then
launch bay, like half a launch bay has been closed.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So and lastly, there's been a new addition to the
Haunted Mansion Q section that is Outdoors Okay, a giant
industrial fan.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
The best edition they've ever added to that QUE because
they did updated a few years back, but this.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Is this is a great update. I was justin Home
Depot two days ago and they have a bunch of
haunted mansion items for Halloween, Like they have like full
on tombstones, a couple of them, and then the the
three hitchhiking ghosts. Oh that'll still like hotcakes this year.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, the thing is because of the rivers of America
being drained and there's construction walls, you don't get as
much of a cross breeze that you used to m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That makes sense. So they busted out one of those
uh big a fans and a big fan. Yeah, I'm
sure the people that are in line in the hot
summer days appreciate.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Thank exactly. You've hire youre undercover Scott.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
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Speaker 2 (24:26):
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From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this on radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there is Jimmy D. Hello, Phyllis, and a very busy
Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Failure, You're a failure. You're just a it's a minute
you you let the people down. You let Walt down
his legacy.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wal doesn't care what is walk care?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It was his favorite ride. Everyone knows that Rrip Rip Ride,
Rocket Gone, Trailed Gone.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I mean they didn't waste any time, dude, Universal has
no chill, Like you didn't even get more in the body.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, like the last person got off and some guy
was just up there with a slug camera socket.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Well, did you not off the ride yet?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Did you see the picture?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
They like? The thing is they went all out, like
you know how they have like when you're in the queue,
they have like the avatar for each genre.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The little cartoon animated people. Yeah, but they had like them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
As like characters. You can meet, just like where.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Have live action versions of the characters.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's like you've never had this before.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It was almost sad because you knew they were all
losing their jobs. You guys are all fired. You brought
them in just to show the people that they're being fired.
It was cool they brought him in now that they
did look neat. I mean they had them dressed just
like in the in the thing that the que for
That one always blew my mind with like, hey, lock
up your smokes in the locker. You can't say that
(01:54):
you can't talk about putting your smokes in the locker.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, it was and they gave everyone like remember to
have guitar picks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It was pretty That's what I was hoping for. When
they closed Back to the Future, I was like, I
was like, I want a coin or like something Lorean.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, it's fun. Like when I I was one of
the last people to ride Confrontation and they gave us
a key chain in a stuffed cong like a tiny
guy something.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, I was on.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I think like if it wasn't the last, it was
like the second to last car to ever go through,
and we didn't get anything.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
They gave you nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'm back to the future, legendary ride like that.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I know I would like that was part of it.
Like I didn't expect anything, but I was like so hoping.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, oh, different eras apparently, like.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I had the coin designed in my head and what
it should like a challenge coin. I had it designed
in my head, what it should look like.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Maybe we should have it made.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I now have contact with the people that make those
sorts of things overseas, and they're not as expensive as
you would think.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
They're fairly priced, but we somehow get the scale wrong.
And it's like the giant penny that Batman has in
the bat Cave. It has to be a helicopter to
Jimmy's house.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
There is a language barrier when you order that stuff
from over there, so you have to be very very clear.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
On what you want. When you order that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You're like, yeah, it just seems to be like one
and a half inches, and it somehow becomes like fifteen feet.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, somebody misplaced a decimal points. Yeah exactly, but yeah,
the end of an era, the end of rip Ride
Rocket a ride. I waited to for it to open,
begging universal people to let us on before it open.
Now it's gone.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Bought special shorts for it, I did.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I've had the zippered pockets for it and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I still have pictures on my phone of when you
got stuck on it, you, Matt, Yeah, yeah, that was
fun stuck on their ride. They and they offered him
a medical attention when he got off too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And water stage I was. I was not so advanced
back then. That was quite a few years back. Now,
how often advanced back then?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You should like you, you should have like gone to
Universe the last week wearing your special theme park shorts
is like a big moment.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Just told them let me in because uh, you know,
I I have the shorts. I thought these were this
ride and this ride alone, and so I need to
be on. I have to just carry the shorts because
they do not fit.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Their short short shorts. Warn you one leg in each hole.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I mean, I don't think I can fit one leg
in each howl anymore. Man, it's a problem.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I'm pretty sure you'd have to cut slits up the
side like you're a tie fighter.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And fashion them together.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, and the sides by about four inches. That would
be good to go yeah, no more rip Brod Brocket,
It's it's a sad day. How long you think they're
gonna be tearing this down through Halloween horn nights? You
think it's gonna take a while to get this thing down?
It's big.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So I was just there the other day in the
section that is by the hard rock parts of it
already gone.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And then I've seen pictures that the part that goes
through the fire station by Jimmy Fallon also like parts
of it are gone.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Take it down, just take it down? And what day
is Halloween? Harn it start? It starts in like two weeks.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Right as of recording, it will have started as I recorded.
It starts next week. Next Thursday is the the preview day,
the premium experience day, and then next Friday is the beginning.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Because I'm just wondering if I feel like they could
get that done any amount of time, like not all
of it, like maybe not the like I think they
could get all the track.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Out of it away is what I think.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, I don't know that they're not gonna be able
to take down the tower that had the big drop
and like the you know, the launch areas, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Or the giant pillars in the ground that are made
of like seventeen pounds of concrete.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, Mike, the thing is, I think they're going to
try to get as much as possible. It just weather
is going to dictate a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Of it, Yes, because I've had a lot of rain lately.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
A lot of rain, lightning, wind kind of makes it
a little bit scary.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, anything over twenty miles an hour by like universal rules,
they have to you can't be in a high range. Yeah,
break that nineteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You're good to go.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
One up, buddy, Good luck. So, Scott, you were at
the park this past week. I guess you're at a
couple parks. So what's it looking. Oh, he's got it.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
He's he's got the he has the Passolder Exclusive Universal Studios.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Was it the Coca Cola it's like the Freestyle Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, the Coke Freestyle.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah. Oh we saw that they for Passolder Nights. They
were like, got a new cup and Jim Jimmy sent it.
I'm like, I need this. It is it is plastic.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's my only gripe. I want that to be aluminum.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's the thing. Accidentally dropped it when I get a home,
can't even tell, so and if it was metal, probably
would have damaged my floor, so kind of a lot
about that.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It damages the cup too.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I got quite a few dents in my cup from
dropping it on the floor.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So yeah, my Doug, I don't have it here, my
Doug water bottle. I dropped it like three days after
I got it and put the biggest dent in the
bott of it, and then it wouldn't sit right on
the counter yep, and I had to take it in
the garage with a hammer and try to blacksmith and like.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Ding ding ding, let me put it up. Nope, still
wabbly Ding's.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Tony Stark in the cave. But I went, Yeah, I went.
I went last week and it was basically a scavenger
hunt because I'm like, where is this thing going to be?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And you said so many locations were already sold out.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, and I'm blake quickly. I know they saw him here,
Like I went to Louis, Nope, didn't have them there.
Whenever to Finnigans, didn't have them over there. Didn't think
they'd have them at Finigans. But I'm like, any restaurant,
let me try all of these walk through the Simpsons
didn't have it there, walked in the passholder store, nothing
in there. And then I'm just like, I'm like, and
(08:18):
I also do the thing that annoys some people. I
didn't ask anyone.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay, that's wondering if you ask people, Yeah, cau Jimmy, Well,
Jimmy will ask for me. Jimmy, I'll go and he'll talk,
he'll interact with people. But the difference between like when
I when you go to Sea World, mask somebody something,
you get the blankets of stairs, like, don't ask questions
because they don't know the answer.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Universal. I feel like might be a different situation.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Probably, But I was just like, no, no, no, I got it.
I'm gonna do this. I'm on a mission. I can
figure this out. And then I'm like, wait, by men
in black, they have a Coca Cola free style location
with like six machines. They have to have it in there.
I walk in, there's like two shell full of them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
People don't know how to come over here.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here it is, It's like, why didn't I start here?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I wanted to get this coke merchandise, but I avoided
the coke place until I had been to seventeen other locations.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, it's like I was like any I just assumed
any place that had freestyle machines would have it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You would think, yeah, I mean, you'd think.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But I thought wrong. But yep, finally got it. I
saw pictures pass Aller Knights was going on. They had
a whole bunch of special characters. You could meet Frank
the Pug from in a black Marty or not Marty,
a doc in Einstein with the DeLorean like so all
sorts of fun stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, that was it an actual pug or is it
like a puppet.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I believe it was an actual pug because Einstein is
a real dog.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I liked it. They're bringing the actual canines into this.
Yeah cool, Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I mean I remember back in the day when we
would do like the Halloween Horror Knights tour. At one
point they let us go down in the Men in
Black area down there and we got to wander around,
you know, where they have the coffee and everything in
the tables, which was super neat because you don't traditionally
get to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Jimmy got to do that, and that's when he became
a Harry Potter super fan that day.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yes, that is true, the biggest Harry Potter fan around.
I have my name embroidered in my robe.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What do you guys have embroidered on your robe? I
don't even have a robe. Look at me. I'm barely
a Harry Potter fanta.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I gotta wand I got a wand and I know
what house I am.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I got a wand that I know what house I
am too.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But I also have a Slytherin cardigan, so I'm also
kind of like partly there.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, I've got a Harry Potter shelf in my house.
So you guys are weak. You're weak.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But then, uh, you know, while he was there or
actually I went back, saw more of this staging for
Halloween Hornites, like almost all that stuff is up now.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh gosh, the excitement is building. Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I did see the thirty three vault, which is going
to be the food for the fallout area.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I've seen I've seen that food stand. I've seen
the Clown Cafe, which is the Terrifier one. I've seen
the Wyatt six. I mean I've seen all of them.
Now they're all kind of in the same central Park area.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Got you, but they usually are correct.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, but I mean that perfect segue if we want
to talk about it. The food menu just came out for.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You sent some this week that I'm very excited about
you that. I mean, these are Dickerman centric food items.
I saw you send out. This is this is great?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah? Should I do you want me to start with
the Dickerman items first?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean, I mean you can.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I mean, if you want to give the people what
they want for sure, Well.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Let's start with a let's start with a Dickerman dessert item, okay,
which is the artist palette a Spanish haunting, which is
a artist palette style plate of churos y delicious comes
with Dolta de leche, raspberry cream and Bavarian cream.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I like that Bavarian cream being mixed in there. That's
a wild card.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Wow, the German guy likes German food.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Then there's the death by cheese stick.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, yes, oh yeah, that is gonna lock you up.
I want to take some emodium when you get home.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Mozzarella cheese sticks served with spicy marin aa sauce.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Delicious.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
What a great what a great thing. And there's no
weird like calamari on it or octopus no delicious, okay,
And the.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Tentacles they have a very fun texture when you when
you're crunching the you know a little sucker things on there.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Then we're talking about good food like cheese sticks.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The the response Lilah's tempered tantrum tendis.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Oh, I was gonna say chicken nuggets, stick and tenders
baby fried chicken tenders with either garlic parmesan with spicy
manner marinera sauce or mesquite barbecue ranch with bourbon barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I like both, but I gotta go with number one.
I mean, chicken tender is the perfect food. There is
no better food on earth than a chicken tender.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And then for the adults, this.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Is only the kids menu. No, this is chicken tenders.
And for grown ups these are There's no better food.
There is everything.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
The Beeria beef walking taco.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay, talk talking to me about because I do like
walking tacos.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Again, served in a bag with Beeria beef, red onions,
scallions consumme and tostitos. Sabrita's salsa verde.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Why they got a runo with two different onions in
there two onions.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I mean, just ask for it without.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Okay, that's an option. Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Then we have the uh, yum yum deviled eggs from Fallout.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
That sounds so delicious.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Uh they are actually a dessert really, Uh, these are
actually a panacotta dessert style snack. The eggs are a
coconut panacotta stuffed with pineapple whipped ganache and sprinkled with
tajeane seasoning.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Jimmy, I think you and I can agree on this one.
That sounds good.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm surprised you'd like anything with a word like gnash
in it or delicious. Normally you look for words like
hot and dog.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh wait, no, wait, wait, hang on, stop the presses.
I found another Dickerman item. All right, this is the
Terrifier Clown Cafe. Bloody popcorn.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
All right, what have we got going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Popcorn topped with crunchy popcorn, chicken parbigeon cheese, and the
blood sauce is made with pepperoni and marinera.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Sounds great. That sounds great. That's how you do popcorn
right there, buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
All right, how it.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Makes it a full meal? How about your nuggets?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We've got the Friday thirteenth, a low tase, which is
grilled corn still served on the husk, served with a
choice of Kohita cheese into jeane or crunched flaming hot cheetos.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Ooh, that sounds good. I love the husk situation.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I don't like to work for my food usually, so
I'm gonna have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, it's just pulled off onto the back, okay. And
then there is the Wyatt six Huscus Musselman slop.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, that's quite the name.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Sloppy Joe, served with jalapeno bacon, dill pickle chips, and
a cheese sauce.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
That sounds great, minus the dill pickle chips.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
They really, I mean. And then there's you know, the
pizza fries. There's a five nights at Freddy's Cupcake.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
They've listened to the people. They've heard what we want
and they're delivering.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
They heard you, they heard what you were saying.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, they know. I'm the I'm the voice of the people.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
This is what this is what people want. Most people
don't go around the country going to the finest restaurants
to eat their chicken nuggets. Okay, they try what's like
from that area.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm so mad that our preferred cruise line doesn't serve
chicken nuggets anywhere on the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So I mean you bring your own.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It should be available everywhere. Chicken nuggets should be just
a staple food in any place you go. Tenders, Actually,
tenders are more mature than nuggets. I stand corrected.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You wait, Uh, you don't want like dinosaurs or animals.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I will eat them in a pinch, but a tender
is much more refined. Uh does the dinosaur shape improve
the flavor? M M, I mean it makes it more fun.
You don't make the dinosaurs fight when you get the
chicken nuggets. Did you even eat the chicken nuggets eventually?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You're so uncultured?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well this this does sound good. I like these food
options for Halloween corner. I'm gonna have to try and
get out there and sample a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Just take out them. Just uh, press press, can you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Bring out the press batch? Hey? Remember the press.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I need to sample that so I could talk about
it on my podcast in on the by the way, By.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The way, do not do that. Do we do not
condone anyone doing that.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm a member of the press. Give me thinks, what
can I get with this? What does this badge get me?
I just made it at home?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Hang on, what does it need to say?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Or how it only has one press.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
He's gonna be wearing the Fedora with a little press
sign card.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
One. My readers need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I've got audience. It needs to know how these chicken
tenders taste?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
What's your what is your Where do you work for?
I work for a theme parkfood dot com?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Don't you pipe it right down?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So? Yeah, that's that's what's going on over at.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This leads to a geo city site. What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh? I haven't thought about geo cities in a minute. Well,
there's young people out there going, what the hell's at
geo cities?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Why are all these leg eight bit gifts?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They're flying? There's flying hamburgers. It's a food blog.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Hello, Why does it say getty images about everything?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Don't worry about We started with roller coasters, and I
just saw today the a couple of trailers for the
rock and Roll theme roller coaster at the other part.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, the concept out just came which just released for
the Muppets re theme of rock and Roller coaster. Coming
next year.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Which will be headlined with the Electric Mayhem, Animal Doctor
Teeth and the rest of the gang.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I like it. I like this theme.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uh G Force Records will still be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And basically the change will be when you go into
that area, it'll be the Electric Mayhem on the screen,
and then there'll be animatronics in front of the board
and there's penguins and then Scooter will be an animatronic
as well.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's neat. I like it.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I like it because the Aerosmith one did look a
little dated. I mean it looked like, you know, nineties,
the band manager and you know, the band being you know.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Three hundred and fifty years old. Now it was time
for an update. Sorry Steven, Sorry Steven Taylor. He used
to call it his roller coaster, but you know, it
was time for an update. So I think the Muppets,
this is a good place for them. They still get honored,
and I think then a really good way. Actually, I
think this is an upgrade. This is an upgrade for
the Muppets.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's totally awesome for them. If you're Muppets fan. And
there's the guitar will still stay on the outside. It'll
just be kind of repainted.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Okay. And Animal is my favorite Muppet, so that's cool.
I'm good with it. That's who's in the trailer that
I saw. This is good. Yeah, So that's that is exciting. Uh,
next year, at some point next year.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Speaking of next year, there's gonna be updated lights through
the caverns of Big Thunder Mountain. Oh okay, also coming
next year.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
When is now?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Wait, I'm a little behind on what's open and what's closed.
Is Big Thunder closed right now?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It is?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yes, Big Thunders closed in buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger spin
just closed.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
But they're making They're gonna make buzz Light. You're better there,
it's coming back. It's not going away. They're just making
it better.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And it's just like all new guns and like it's
gonna be a whole new system.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's gonna be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And nine hundred and ninety nine thousand will no longer
be the top score.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
What are we gonna have? They have room for one more.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
One point five million.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Nobody's ever going to get to that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I mean, I got the nine hundred and ninety nine thousand,
one time because I got stuck and I found one
of those good bonus things.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Nobody's gonna hit that. Somebody will, obviously because people are special.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be pretty cool.
And they also showed I know you were a big
fan of It's Tough to be a bug.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Mm hm, that'll show. Yeah, sure, well.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
That's becoming a Zootopia show.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Okay, all right, Judy Hops.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And the Gang.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yes, and remember how when the queue for that they
had like movie parodies with like bug characters. They're bringing
those back but with animal characters.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Okay, do they Will the seats still buzz you when
you sit down, because that's a weird feeling.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
The bugs leave the theater before you.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, I my guess is a lot. There will be
some similar effects and probably some updated ones.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Okay, all right, that's cool. Yeah, Zuotopia too is coming
this year soon, right this year? Okay, like fifty years
since the last one, and the last one came out. Uh,
my daughter was still little enough that I could buy
her Judy Hops a little hoodie with bunny ears.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And she starts college next week. So there there's that's
how long it's been since Utopia was out. Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
In lastly, we've talked about a few weeks ago the
magic of Disney Animation, which we'll be taking over for
launch Bay unless Jimmy has se uh to prevent that
from happening.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We gotta get there on time, Jimmy. We gotta stop them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We to stop them for what it was Walt's favorite thing.
We cannot let this go away.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
He loved to go meet Darth Vader. I mean, come on, but.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The Robin Williams Lost Boy character was part of the
Back to Neverland short that used to show how UH
animation UH came to life mm hm is a part
of the poster UH and will be part of this
new experience.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
That's cool thing cool anyway, Williams, I'm good with. Yeah,
that's awesome. So, but we still lose launch bay then
launch bay, like half a launch bay has been closed.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So and lastly, there's been a new addition to the
Haunted Mansion Q section that is Outdoors Okay, a giant
industrial fan.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
The best edition they've ever added to that QUE because
they did updated a few years back, but this.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Is this is a great update. I was justin Home
Depot two days ago and they have a bunch of
haunted mansion items for Halloween, Like they have like full
on tombstones, a couple of them, and then the the
three hitchhiking ghosts. Oh that'll still like hotcakes this year.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, the thing is because of the rivers of America
being drained and there's construction walls, you don't get as
much of a cross breeze that you used to m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That makes sense. So they busted out one of those
uh big a fans and a big fan. Yeah, I'm
sure the people that are in line in the hot
summer days appreciate.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Thank exactly. You've hire youre undercover Scott.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
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news or just keep up with us, where can they go?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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Speaker 4 (24:15):
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For Scott Harris, I am Dickerman. Until next week, we
will see you out at the parks.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
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