January 2, 2026 • 24 mins
In the continuing series of things that never happened at the parks, this week on The Theme Park Podcast, the guys discuss rides at the parks that were planned but never came to fruition.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Dickerman, here there is Jimmy t.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hello, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Happy New Years.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We are into a brand new year.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Twenty twenty six seems inconsequential after having years like twenty
twenty and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But you know what, I'll take anything over twenty twenty
At this.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Point when you were a child, did you what did
you think twenty twenty six was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Like flying cars, laser guns, the data pads we kind
of did get, but definitely like flying cars, and you know,
different ways of transporting a lot of robots to a
lot of robots.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I thought I'd be carving a turkey with a lightsaber
at this point. How we don't have those yet is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, because you want to keep your whims. Yeah, yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It does seem like it was a dangerous, not a
very practical weapon like nun chucks. It's not a practical weapon.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Do you think you could trust yourself with nunchucks?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
No, I would definitely just hit hit myself and the
chase with it immediately.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That's not even what you need to be worried about,
because I mean on the head. Yeah, you could, like
can cuss yourself easily with that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's such a stupid weapon.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like as kids were like, this is cool, and like
as adults are like, that's the dumbest weapon available. There
is no dumber weapon than a nun chuck.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I thought about getting you guys ninja stars when I
was on my trip.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just stars are great, yeah, and it just starts
are awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
There's nothing wrong with a ninja star. I wonder if
you can import those.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Well, I thought about it, but then I remember now
injury prone one member of the show is. And then
I also remembered what we used to do when we
worked in an office together, throw stuff at each other.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I can't be trusted, but you know what, I don't
think a ninja star would do that much damage unless
you catch one on the eye, Like, it's not that bad.
What are the movies everybody dies on the hit with
a ninja star, but like it's just a little like
a portion of a knife going into you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No big deal.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Do you remember the Chin Pocomon episode of South Park?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I do not recall that episode.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I must say, where they're doing like a battle and
it's like anime style.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh I kind of remember that actually.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And then there's a ninja star flung in its butters
in the eye. Of course it did, and he spends
the rest of the episode begging for help.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, oh, butters.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Should we should we change the Nina Star podcast to
a theme park show?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So, like, uh, last week on the show, we talked
about theme parks that that never happened.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And we got such good feedback on that because it
was a really I had no idea how interesting that
that show was gonna be because this was the mastermind
of one Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So that ended up being a really interesting show.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And now it's led to rides that never happened.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Park two rides that never happened, And we.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Should start off with one of Jimmy's favorite lands inside
of a theme park, a place that he went to
the origin of on a honeymoon.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Jimmy, do you know what I'm talking about I think
it was just a vacation.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If we're talking about Jurassic Park. Yes, it is my honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
So before it really became a movie, and it was
just a novel.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Right right, because it was a book before it was
a movie.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's one of the few books that I've read multiple times. Actually,
humble brag as well. Universal in Orlando in Japan consider
doing a water based ride, which was cut out of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
At the park.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
They also contemplated doing a jeep ride.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Jeep ride would be cool.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They actually had something like that at Bush Gardens for
a while.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Must Go Faster and the jeep ride was going to
be where Men in Black is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh interesting in.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
The earliest plans for the ride had animatronic dinosaurs to
be covered with a roof, and even a sequence where
a live cast member is eaten by raptors.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Love it, Love it, book it, Let's do it today,
Let's get it started.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
How was this is not a Halloween Hornit's house?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, okay, it's funny you say that, because I want
to say this is two thousand and two or three
they did when they moved Halloween Hornet's two Islands of Adventure.
They had scare zones in Jurassic Park, and they had
the people dressed as trees coming out of the foliage.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, and they also had like dinosaur heads that would
pop out.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It was like weird mutiny dinosaur, which I think is
the basis of the Newest movie.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Maybe they took it from Halloween Hornites, so like, yeah,
we're ot ideas, what do they do in Halloween Hornites
in the early two thousands, let's do that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Let's go over the archives again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I haven't I haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I haven't seen Rebirth, but I know that there's like
a giant mutant dinosaur in it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I believe, Hm, I would love I mean, didn't you
see it?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have not, but I know the dinosaur you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
His head kind of looks like they crossed it between
a dinosaur and like a Volkswagen thing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I saw it. I don't remember it though. Scarto was
in it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So I remember a six slimmed Tirannosaurus called distorus Rex.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Mmm. We're just making stuff up now.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I mean to some people, dinosaurs never existed, so it's
all made up.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I know, I know a person I know a person
that sayes that I know a person that says that
dinosaurs never existed? What do they think?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You're in museums make it's all fake.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
They say it's all phony like the moon landing. Say
it's no, dinosaurs never existed. This is a conspiracy to
sell museum tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, we gotta get people in the museum. Let's make
up a dinosaur el okay. Elsewhere there was going to
be there was talks of an ice age land. Okay,
so this was with like Scrapped and the Wooly Mammoth
guy and sauce was a nice age through tiger.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
This was going to potentially replace Woody Woodpecker's kid Zone.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wait was going to be in the park.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Let me just say something for a second. I loved
the Woody Woodpecker Kids Zone. That was great.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, the troller House coaster Okay, that still exists. It's
just called the troller Coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now I like a better one? Is we Woodpacker? For sure?
Can I sell you what's where Curious George was?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's the Kung Fu Panda show. The dolls, the water
portion still exists mostly okay, but the the soccer ball
the foam at shooting at Soccer Mom's.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
If you, as adults, if you've ever heard this on
the show, if you did as an adults, never went
over to the Curious George area of a theme park
because well, your adults, you missed out on the opportunity
to load up a basket with rubber balls, go upstairs
to this particular area and shoot them. It was supposed
to be for kids shooting each other, but grown men,
particularly on this show, would go and shoot them at
(08:03):
the moms.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
At Soccer mom specifically. Yes, that's what he does. That
is how you guys always said.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It looks like I don't think that's acceptable anymore what
we used to do.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Dec I mean, I like winks and like smiles. Well okay,
I mean, and I'm not an attractive man by any means,
but apparently this was like like moss to the light.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The thing is, I know you miss and I missed
the Fible. I missed.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Fible was great?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, was great?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It was Fible Or was the Camp Jurassic Both? Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Both also Fibill had a little like water ride like yeah,
and Camp Jurassic had that thing you needed to rent
a kid if you wanted to ride it, because only
for kids like a certain size and an adult.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh, the teared on fires, I meant the rope I
met the nets and ropes the nets.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Forget it. Your kids are gone forever. You just leave.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Don't water cannons.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
The water cannons and Camp Jurassic, if they're working, those
things are fantastic.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah, but okay, if you don't want to, I know
you miss it. But they do have really good ice
cream over in the New DreamWorks land.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Okay, yeah, I have not been over to that area yet,
so I have not seen it.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah that that wasn't open during Horonites.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, big surprise, big surprise on that one.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But there were talks of a water ride for ice Age.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm interested in how that would play out, because well,
it was ice. So is it kind of like a
blizzard beach situation where it's like it looks like ice,
but it's water.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
The ride would be set within a massive glacier. Okay,
but that was before Disney bought Fox.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So no, and then yeah, all that changed.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Okay, how about this before the Simpsons? You know what
was discussed?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Tell me smurfs.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Gosh, what an interest rate?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The Simpsons are versus this because the Smurfs, I gotta
be honest, guys, super lame like the original Smurfs, pretty good,
New Smurfs lame. Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It was going to be a suspended dark ride simulating
a flying balloon experience with large Diorama's environmental effects, vignettes
and animatronics.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's the ride. They need to build a disney and
call it the Upride. Do it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, it's exactly it right there. Did you see the
did you see the news that Harrison Ford is allegedly
in talks to play Carl Frederickson.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh, I have not seen this. I am I am interested.
I mean, this is weeks old information now, but.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'm so mad at Lee Low and Stitch because it was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So good and now they're going to just make them
over and over and over again.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Snow White was supposed to be like, we're not going
to do them, and then two months later Stitch out
and makes almost a billion dollars and they're like, hey,
maybe we will do these.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Maybe we will do that. It will just be a
little more careful next time.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Look, they do those remakes to generate money so that
they can do their fun weird projects.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Too, like like like Dickerman's tron Aris.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
We're gonna make this movie that makes a billion dollars
so we can make this other movie loses a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It all works out in the end.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I do think My favorite kind of thing is that,
like that Zutopia two is just eating Mawana tuos lunch.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm looking forward to seeing Zutopia too.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, I am too. I've been dying to see a
sequel since I first watched the first one.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, yeah, that between that Inside Out, Inside Out had
a great sequel, too, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Elsewhere in Theme Parks was another potential replacement for the
Kids Zone.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, Pokemon.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That would have been big. I have no doubt that
would have been big universal property. What are we replacing?
Was that woody woodpecker or was that Curious George like.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The area itself?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Like it would have been like a whole Pokemon area
with like a Pokemon Snap experience.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Well, you guys, wasn't the Pokemon Go thing?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It was like so big.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
For a minute, Oh, I was on board with that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Wasn't it supposed to be part of the Nintendo Land,
the Pokemon Arena.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, it was gonna be a separate thing.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
And there's still talk of this that, like any kind
of Nintendo stuff might not just be beholden to Epic Universe, right,
you go anywhere, because they're not. There are talks that
maybe each park gets a Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I mean, look at Zelda. Yeah, Zelda is supposed to
be in las.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Maybe you put Pokemon over at Universal Studios u A.
Luigi's mansion would probably make sense over at Epic Universe
because there's already you know, Mario's there, yea, right, just
pop right over there. But you know those are some
that that that that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean Pokemon would have been I think Pokemon
is still gonna happen. I think it's still gonna happen
in some way, shape or form. Maybe not the original
like concept, but it's still gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I got an idea, and I want to I want
to put this out in the shop. I want to
manifest this.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I want to take that arena that they do uh
fear factor and turn that into.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh god, what is that game? Super Mario Bro Super
Smash Brothers.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, oh Super Smash Bros.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Super Smash Brothers.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Uh, Battle Life Show yeah, with like physical people in
the real world and you could hang them from wires
and like do all the like the falling building stunts
and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Well, the kind of funny thing is, is there something
could easily do that's real kind of similar to your idea?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, Wizard's dueling?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh yeah, how did they not come up with that yet?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Because Harry Potter's right next to right next door.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean it's either Wizard's dueling or it's a
quidditch I mean, could be a quidditch field too. Yeah,
Q one hundred percent do quidditch and have the ventors
come in the whole shebang.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Don't we already have a quidditch in one of the rides, but.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Like to do like full on you know, like full
on like quidditch situation.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Have you guys ever watched Quidditch on ESPN eight the Oacho.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They actually did make that real game, right, Yeah, like
people just running with the brooms.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, UCF has a team.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, just because yeah, just because, Yeah, easy for you
to say, because you couldn't hack it as a as
a player.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Look, if you're not going to fly on a broom.
You're gonna look like an idiot running with a broom.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wow, bullying over here.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I mean, come on, like just get the broom in
the air and do it like you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
By the way, another Jurassic park idea that was discussed
a gyrosphere ride.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
So that's a thing that spins and like it spins
one way and yeah, the other part of it goes
in other way?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
The balls that they were they rode in in Jurassic World.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh yes, yes, yes, that would seem like it'd be
limited capacity.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
No, you could do it. It would be a dark ride,
no different.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Than like e t Yeah, I was just hoping for
hamster balls that you could just sit in and roll.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Through, like like what are those zorb things?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Sure, let's do it. I think I saw like the
guy from Data, remember dude, Earthday birthday one.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Year, I could totally say that I think that happened. Okay,
how about this, there were Stephen King theme park rides
that never happened.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Let's go what do we got? What are we talking here?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Which properties? Because there's a million different ways you could
go with that.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
What was discussed.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Was basically kind of just like Stephen King as a whole.
And I remember I talked about this a few weeks ago,
that it should do. It should be a house at Hornits.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh yeah, definitely, there should be a Stephen kinghouse at Horrorites.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And you know, one of the things that was discussed
was details of a shining experience.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Nice. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I mean, there's gosh you could do like a Kujo house.
You could do shining Cey pet cemetery.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean probably not so.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Part way through the experience, writers would pull into an
unload station here the usual instructions.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Stand by me, and they see a dead body.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But the restraints wouldn't lift. Oh ooh, I like this,
and a shining size deluge of blood would flow out
of the exit doors.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Please bring it, bring it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Penny Wise would spring from the control room, and the
riders would hurtle deeper into the Nightmare towards the gift shop.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I mean, I'm all for this. Can we get it done?
I mean, can we go ahead and revisit these plans?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I would I.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Would love to see it, And I mean Hedge Maze
could be the queue for the house.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean that infinite hallway.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I mean the twins on the the tricycles, the
whole thing.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I I'm just, I just I feel like it's such
an untapped idea or an untapped property.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Stephen King, Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't really tapped into
any of his properties yet. Especially it's hot again because
they have welcomed to darry on my HBO.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Now, well, it's like there's that There was a Castle
Rock TV show, The Long Walk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
M hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
That movie was depressing. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What do you expect?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know what I expected going into that one.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It was just dark.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Should we long walk?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Next time you want to talk about Bignet's.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't get like thirty feet forget?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, how about this? How about this?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
SpongeBob has really been talked about.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's a very popular character. Kids love him still.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And it's surprising that he doesn't really have anything inside
of universal when you can meet him.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah, he's got like there's like a store, right, that's
it's a SpongeBob's store and you can meet him.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's just a store. No, no, uh, you know Krabby Patties.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
No, nothing, Yeah, I don't know why they haven't tapped
into that one better.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Burger King's doing a partnership with SpongeBob to.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Give your because there's the new movie coming out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But I wish I could go to Burger King. But
one of the rides his boating school, SpongeBob boating school.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Because it's a big thing. He keeps trying to get
his driver's license. Oh okay, have you never watched the show?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's been it's been a long time since they seen
any SpongeBob so yeah, not since Bent Terror was on it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know the show is still on.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, no, I've never seen it. Then, my nephew liked
it when he was a child and he's pushing thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You should watch it. It's really good.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Okay, okay, how about this Holidays just happened? Mount Crumpet
roller coaster was talked about Grinch.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Hmm, oh, the Grinch. I mean you have SEUs Land.
I mean it's there.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It would have been behind cat and the hat in
One Fish, Two Fish. It's a whole bunch of land
back there.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's an iconic character. I know.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They would just sometimes shove The Grinch Show back there.
There is a lot of room back there. You could
stick a roller coaster in that spot.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, I don't know why they have That's the thing,
Like that's a land that's never really been tapped into.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Is there is there an issue with Doctor SEUs because
I know, like the rules with both JK and the
Harry Potter Lands and Doctor Seuss for his lands, they
have very specific guidelines they have to follow, you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Know, the the the guys, Aal Estate, Audrey Geislife, I
don't know who's in charge of it now, had a
lot to say, but I don't know if there's ever
been complaints about anything. And they you add some things
here and there, like they've added like the Grinch meet
and greets the Grinch Show. Yeah, I can't imagine that
was part of the original discussions.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I mean maybe it was.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean yeah, I'm sure they just have to get
everything approved, like before they do anything.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's like, hey, we're gonna do this. Is this cool?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And I mean Universal is doing a new Kat and
the Hat movie that comes out this summer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
There hasn't been a good Man now Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Bill Hater animated, We'll see.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I don't think The last one was well received, but
I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Have you ever watched it?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, I didn't say that I have.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
It's one of the most bananas movies I've ever seen. Okay,
like one truly in an unhinged movie?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Is this the Mike Myers one?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
This is the Mike Myers one?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, I just didn't like the way he looked, didn't
like his face.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You should you should check out though, you should.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Check it out elsewhere. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Before Island's Adventure, there was Universal's Cartoon World.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, and it was gonna be like all the cartoons
right ye Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, yep. I don't know
who all who all Universal owns, but they have a
huge listen.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Uh, Doctor Seuss, Doctor Seuss, Loony Tunes, Land.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Oh yeah, bugs, Bunny, I mean Yosemite? Would you Sam
still make it in the sand age or No?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's cut?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So okay, I know they cut the skunk. He's gone,
he's out.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What's my favorite streaming service?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It is?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It is a two by What and what do I
watch every night as I go to bed?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Looney Timothy Sam? Okay, do they still have Yosemite?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They still have the skunk?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
The Pervy Skunk they they have on there, Pepula Pew,
Speedy Gonzalez. All of those characters are still in the rotation.
On these episodes they.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Tried to get rid of poor Speedy. Thank god, Fluffy,
save Speedy Gonzalez. If you guys can't get rid of
this is representation. You cannot get rid of Speedy Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But there was also a DC DC Superhero Island.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Please Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Uh, a Joker Madhouse.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That would have been fun, a.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Gotham a three D movie inside of the Gotham Opera House.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, please bring it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
A bat Wing Flyer roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Can we get the Fortress of Solitude because I really
want the Fortress of Solitude.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Anything is possible these days.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay. By the way, they could have a Crypto meet
and greet would love that.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It already exists.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It's going to be opening up at I want to
say six Flags in Rio odd a Wiley Coyote roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I don't feel like six flics pull things off like
Universal can.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But no, I saw the on ride footage.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, yes, good, yes, solid all right.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Also, by the way, because it's opening later this year.
There's a lot of testing of the Fast and Inferiors
drifting coaster at Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Okay, bring it to Orlando. Get rid of that dump
we have here.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Well, well, I I think we're getting some kind of
a drifting coaster here.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's whether or not what the theme it is?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
All right? Fair enough? File tickets, all right, Scott.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
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Speaker 3 (24:44):
Scott, what time
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Hello there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Dickerman, here there is Jimmy t.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hello, gentlemen, and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Happy New Years.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We are into a brand new year.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Twenty twenty six seems inconsequential after having years like twenty
twenty and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But you know what, I'll take anything over twenty twenty
At this.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Point when you were a child, did you what did
you think twenty twenty six was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Like flying cars, laser guns, the data pads we kind
of did get, but definitely like flying cars, and you know,
different ways of transporting a lot of robots to a
lot of robots.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I thought I'd be carving a turkey with a lightsaber
at this point. How we don't have those yet is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, because you want to keep your whims. Yeah, yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It does seem like it was a dangerous, not a
very practical weapon like nun chucks. It's not a practical weapon.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Do you think you could trust yourself with nunchucks?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
No, I would definitely just hit hit myself and the
chase with it immediately.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That's not even what you need to be worried about,
because I mean on the head. Yeah, you could, like
can cuss yourself easily with that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's such a stupid weapon.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like as kids were like, this is cool, and like
as adults are like, that's the dumbest weapon available. There
is no dumber weapon than a nun chuck.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I thought about getting you guys ninja stars when I
was on my trip.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just stars are great, yeah, and it just starts
are awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
There's nothing wrong with a ninja star. I wonder if
you can import those.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Well, I thought about it, but then I remember now
injury prone one member of the show is. And then
I also remembered what we used to do when we
worked in an office together, throw stuff at each other.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I can't be trusted, but you know what, I don't
think a ninja star would do that much damage unless
you catch one on the eye, Like, it's not that bad.
What are the movies everybody dies on the hit with
a ninja star, but like it's just a little like
a portion of a knife going into you.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No big deal.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Do you remember the Chin Pocomon episode of South Park?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I do not recall that episode.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I must say, where they're doing like a battle and
it's like anime style.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh I kind of remember that actually.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And then there's a ninja star flung in its butters
in the eye. Of course it did, and he spends
the rest of the episode begging for help.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yes, oh, butters.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Should we should we change the Nina Star podcast to
a theme park show?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So, like, uh, last week on the show, we talked
about theme parks that that never happened.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And we got such good feedback on that because it
was a really I had no idea how interesting that
that show was gonna be because this was the mastermind
of one Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So that ended up being a really interesting show.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And now it's led to rides that never happened.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Park two rides that never happened, And we.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Should start off with one of Jimmy's favorite lands inside
of a theme park, a place that he went to
the origin of on a honeymoon.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Jimmy, do you know what I'm talking about I think
it was just a vacation.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
If we're talking about Jurassic Park. Yes, it is my honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
So before it really became a movie, and it was
just a novel.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Right right, because it was a book before it was
a movie.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's one of the few books that I've read multiple times. Actually,
humble brag as well. Universal in Orlando in Japan consider
doing a water based ride, which was cut out of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
At the park.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
They also contemplated doing a jeep ride.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Jeep ride would be cool.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
They actually had something like that at Bush Gardens for
a while.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Must Go Faster and the jeep ride was going to
be where Men in Black is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh interesting in.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
The earliest plans for the ride had animatronic dinosaurs to
be covered with a roof, and even a sequence where
a live cast member is eaten by raptors.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Love it, Love it, book it, Let's do it today,
Let's get it started.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
How was this is not a Halloween Hornit's house?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, okay, it's funny you say that, because I want
to say this is two thousand and two or three
they did when they moved Halloween Hornet's two Islands of Adventure.
They had scare zones in Jurassic Park, and they had
the people dressed as trees coming out of the foliage.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, and they also had like dinosaur heads that would
pop out.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It was like weird mutiny dinosaur, which I think is
the basis of the Newest movie.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Maybe they took it from Halloween Hornites, so like, yeah,
we're ot ideas, what do they do in Halloween Hornites
in the early two thousands, let's do that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Let's go over the archives again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I haven't I haven't.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I haven't seen Rebirth, but I know that there's like
a giant mutant dinosaur in it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I believe, Hm, I would love I mean, didn't you
see it?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have not, but I know the dinosaur you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
His head kind of looks like they crossed it between
a dinosaur and like a Volkswagen thing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I saw it. I don't remember it though. Scarto was
in it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So I remember a six slimmed Tirannosaurus called distorus Rex.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Mmm. We're just making stuff up now.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I mean to some people, dinosaurs never existed, so it's
all made up.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I know, I know a person I know a person
that sayes that I know a person that says that
dinosaurs never existed? What do they think?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You're in museums make it's all fake.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
They say it's all phony like the moon landing. Say
it's no, dinosaurs never existed. This is a conspiracy to
sell museum tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, we gotta get people in the museum. Let's make
up a dinosaur el okay. Elsewhere there was going to
be there was talks of an ice age land. Okay,
so this was with like Scrapped and the Wooly Mammoth
guy and sauce was a nice age through tiger.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
This was going to potentially replace Woody Woodpecker's kid Zone.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wait was going to be in the park.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Let me just say something for a second. I loved
the Woody Woodpecker Kids Zone. That was great.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, the troller House coaster Okay, that still exists. It's
just called the troller Coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now I like a better one? Is we Woodpacker? For sure?
Can I sell you what's where Curious George was?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's the Kung Fu Panda show. The dolls, the water
portion still exists mostly okay, but the the soccer ball
the foam at shooting at Soccer Mom's.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
If you, as adults, if you've ever heard this on
the show, if you did as an adults, never went
over to the Curious George area of a theme park
because well, your adults, you missed out on the opportunity
to load up a basket with rubber balls, go upstairs
to this particular area and shoot them. It was supposed
to be for kids shooting each other, but grown men,
particularly on this show, would go and shoot them at
(08:03):
the moms.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
At Soccer mom specifically. Yes, that's what he does. That
is how you guys always said.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It looks like I don't think that's acceptable anymore what
we used to do.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Dec I mean, I like winks and like smiles. Well okay,
I mean, and I'm not an attractive man by any means,
but apparently this was like like moss to the light.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The thing is, I know you miss and I missed
the Fible. I missed.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Fible was great?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, was great?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It was Fible Or was the Camp Jurassic Both? Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Both also Fibill had a little like water ride like yeah,
and Camp Jurassic had that thing you needed to rent
a kid if you wanted to ride it, because only
for kids like a certain size and an adult.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh, the teared on fires, I meant the rope I
met the nets and ropes the nets.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Forget it. Your kids are gone forever. You just leave.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Don't water cannons.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
The water cannons and Camp Jurassic, if they're working, those
things are fantastic.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah, but okay, if you don't want to, I know
you miss it. But they do have really good ice
cream over in the New DreamWorks land.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Okay, yeah, I have not been over to that area yet,
so I have not seen it.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah that that wasn't open during Horonites.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, big surprise, big surprise on that one.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But there were talks of a water ride for ice Age.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm interested in how that would play out, because well,
it was ice. So is it kind of like a
blizzard beach situation where it's like it looks like ice,
but it's water.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
The ride would be set within a massive glacier. Okay,
but that was before Disney bought Fox.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So no, and then yeah, all that changed.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Okay, how about this before the Simpsons? You know what
was discussed?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Tell me smurfs.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Gosh, what an interest rate?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The Simpsons are versus this because the Smurfs, I gotta
be honest, guys, super lame like the original Smurfs, pretty good,
New Smurfs lame. Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
It was going to be a suspended dark ride simulating
a flying balloon experience with large Diorama's environmental effects, vignettes
and animatronics.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's the ride. They need to build a disney and
call it the Upride. Do it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, it's exactly it right there. Did you see the
did you see the news that Harrison Ford is allegedly
in talks to play Carl Frederickson.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh, I have not seen this. I am I am interested.
I mean, this is weeks old information now, but.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'm so mad at Lee Low and Stitch because it was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So good and now they're going to just make them
over and over and over again.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Snow White was supposed to be like, we're not going
to do them, and then two months later Stitch out
and makes almost a billion dollars and they're like, hey,
maybe we will do these.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Maybe we will do that. It will just be a
little more careful next time.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Look, they do those remakes to generate money so that
they can do their fun weird projects.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Too, like like like Dickerman's tron Aris.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
We're gonna make this movie that makes a billion dollars
so we can make this other movie loses a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It all works out in the end.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I do think My favorite kind of thing is that,
like that Zutopia two is just eating Mawana tuos lunch.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm looking forward to seeing Zutopia too.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Yeah, I am too. I've been dying to see a
sequel since I first watched the first one.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, yeah, that between that Inside Out, Inside Out had
a great sequel, too, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Elsewhere in Theme Parks was another potential replacement for the
Kids Zone.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, Pokemon.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That would have been big. I have no doubt that
would have been big universal property. What are we replacing?
Was that woody woodpecker or was that Curious George like.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The area itself?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Like it would have been like a whole Pokemon area
with like a Pokemon Snap experience.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Well, you guys, wasn't the Pokemon Go thing?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It was like so big.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
For a minute, Oh, I was on board with that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Wasn't it supposed to be part of the Nintendo Land,
the Pokemon Arena.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, it was gonna be a separate thing.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
And there's still talk of this that, like any kind
of Nintendo stuff might not just be beholden to Epic Universe, right,
you go anywhere, because they're not. There are talks that
maybe each park gets a Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I mean, look at Zelda. Yeah, Zelda is supposed to
be in las.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Maybe you put Pokemon over at Universal Studios u A.
Luigi's mansion would probably make sense over at Epic Universe
because there's already you know, Mario's there, yea, right, just
pop right over there. But you know those are some
that that that that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean Pokemon would have been I think Pokemon
is still gonna happen. I think it's still gonna happen
in some way, shape or form. Maybe not the original
like concept, but it's still gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I got an idea, and I want to I want
to put this out in the shop. I want to
manifest this.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I want to take that arena that they do uh
fear factor and turn that into.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh god, what is that game? Super Mario Bro Super
Smash Brothers.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, oh Super Smash Bros.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Super Smash Brothers.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Uh, Battle Life Show yeah, with like physical people in
the real world and you could hang them from wires
and like do all the like the falling building stunts
and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Well, the kind of funny thing is, is there something
could easily do that's real kind of similar to your idea?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, Wizard's dueling?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh yeah, how did they not come up with that yet?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Because Harry Potter's right next to right next door.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean it's either Wizard's dueling or it's a
quidditch I mean, could be a quidditch field too. Yeah,
Q one hundred percent do quidditch and have the ventors
come in the whole shebang.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Don't we already have a quidditch in one of the rides, but.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Like to do like full on you know, like full
on like quidditch situation.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Have you guys ever watched Quidditch on ESPN eight the Oacho.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
They actually did make that real game, right, Yeah, like
people just running with the brooms.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, UCF has a team.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, just because yeah, just because, Yeah, easy for you
to say, because you couldn't hack it as a as
a player.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Look, if you're not going to fly on a broom.
You're gonna look like an idiot running with a broom.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wow, bullying over here.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I mean, come on, like just get the broom in
the air and do it like you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
By the way, another Jurassic park idea that was discussed
a gyrosphere ride.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
So that's a thing that spins and like it spins
one way and yeah, the other part of it goes
in other way?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
The balls that they were they rode in in Jurassic World.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh yes, yes, yes, that would seem like it'd be
limited capacity.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
No, you could do it. It would be a dark ride,
no different.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Than like e t Yeah, I was just hoping for
hamster balls that you could just sit in and roll.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Through, like like what are those zorb things?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Sure, let's do it. I think I saw like the
guy from Data, remember dude, Earthday birthday one.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Year, I could totally say that I think that happened. Okay,
how about this, there were Stephen King theme park rides
that never happened.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Let's go what do we got? What are we talking here?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Which properties? Because there's a million different ways you could
go with that.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Uh so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
What was discussed.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Was basically kind of just like Stephen King as a whole.
And I remember I talked about this a few weeks ago,
that it should do. It should be a house at Hornits.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh yeah, definitely, there should be a Stephen kinghouse at Horrorites.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And you know, one of the things that was discussed
was details of a shining experience.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Nice. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I mean, there's gosh you could do like a Kujo house.
You could do shining Cey pet cemetery.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean probably not so.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Part way through the experience, writers would pull into an
unload station here the usual instructions.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Stand by me, and they see a dead body.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But the restraints wouldn't lift. Oh ooh, I like this,
and a shining size deluge of blood would flow out
of the exit doors.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Please bring it, bring it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Penny Wise would spring from the control room, and the
riders would hurtle deeper into the Nightmare towards the gift shop.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I mean, I'm all for this. Can we get it done?
I mean, can we go ahead and revisit these plans?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I would I.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Would love to see it, And I mean Hedge Maze
could be the queue for the house.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean that infinite hallway.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I mean the twins on the the tricycles, the
whole thing.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I I'm just, I just I feel like it's such
an untapped idea or an untapped property.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Stephen King, Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't really tapped into
any of his properties yet. Especially it's hot again because
they have welcomed to darry on my HBO.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Now, well, it's like there's that There was a Castle
Rock TV show, The Long Walk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
M hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
That movie was depressing. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
What do you expect?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know what I expected going into that one.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It was just dark.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Should we long walk?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Next time you want to talk about Bignet's.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't get like thirty feet forget?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, how about this? How about this?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
SpongeBob has really been talked about.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's a very popular character. Kids love him still.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And it's surprising that he doesn't really have anything inside
of universal when you can meet him.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah, he's got like there's like a store, right, that's
it's a SpongeBob's store and you can meet him.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's just a store. No, no, uh, you know Krabby Patties.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
No, nothing, Yeah, I don't know why they haven't tapped
into that one better.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Burger King's doing a partnership with SpongeBob to.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Give your because there's the new movie coming out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But I wish I could go to Burger King. But
one of the rides his boating school, SpongeBob boating school.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Because it's a big thing. He keeps trying to get
his driver's license. Oh okay, have you never watched the show?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's been it's been a long time since they seen
any SpongeBob so yeah, not since Bent Terror was on it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know the show is still on.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, no, I've never seen it. Then, my nephew liked
it when he was a child and he's pushing thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You should watch it. It's really good.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Okay, okay, how about this Holidays just happened? Mount Crumpet
roller coaster was talked about Grinch.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Hmm, oh, the Grinch. I mean you have SEUs Land.
I mean it's there.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It would have been behind cat and the hat in
One Fish, Two Fish. It's a whole bunch of land
back there.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's an iconic character. I know.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They would just sometimes shove The Grinch Show back there.
There is a lot of room back there. You could
stick a roller coaster in that spot.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, I don't know why they have That's the thing,
Like that's a land that's never really been tapped into.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Is there is there an issue with Doctor SEUs because
I know, like the rules with both JK and the
Harry Potter Lands and Doctor Seuss for his lands, they
have very specific guidelines they have to follow, you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Know, the the the guys, Aal Estate, Audrey Geislife, I
don't know who's in charge of it now, had a
lot to say, but I don't know if there's ever
been complaints about anything. And they you add some things
here and there, like they've added like the Grinch meet
and greets the Grinch Show. Yeah, I can't imagine that
was part of the original discussions.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I mean maybe it was.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean yeah, I'm sure they just have to get
everything approved, like before they do anything.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's like, hey, we're gonna do this. Is this cool?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And I mean Universal is doing a new Kat and
the Hat movie that comes out this summer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
There hasn't been a good Man now Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Bill Hater animated, We'll see.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I don't think The last one was well received, but
I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Have you ever watched it?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, I didn't say that I have.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
It's one of the most bananas movies I've ever seen. Okay,
like one truly in an unhinged movie?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Is this the Mike Myers one?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
This is the Mike Myers one?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, I just didn't like the way he looked, didn't
like his face.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You should you should check out though, you should.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Check it out elsewhere. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Before Island's Adventure, there was Universal's Cartoon World.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, and it was gonna be like all the cartoons
right ye Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, yep. I don't know
who all who all Universal owns, but they have a
huge listen.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Uh, Doctor Seuss, Doctor Seuss, Loony Tunes, Land.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Oh yeah, bugs, Bunny, I mean Yosemite? Would you Sam
still make it in the sand age or No?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's cut?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So okay, I know they cut the skunk. He's gone,
he's out.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What's my favorite streaming service?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It is?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It is a two by What and what do I
watch every night as I go to bed?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Looney Timothy Sam? Okay, do they still have Yosemite?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They still have the skunk?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
The Pervy Skunk they they have on there, Pepula Pew,
Speedy Gonzalez. All of those characters are still in the rotation.
On these episodes they.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Tried to get rid of poor Speedy. Thank god, Fluffy,
save Speedy Gonzalez. If you guys can't get rid of
this is representation. You cannot get rid of Speedy Gonzalez.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But there was also a DC DC Superhero Island.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Please Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Uh, a Joker Madhouse.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That would have been fun, a.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Gotham a three D movie inside of the Gotham Opera House.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, please bring it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
A bat Wing Flyer roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Can we get the Fortress of Solitude because I really
want the Fortress of Solitude.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Anything is possible these days.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay. By the way, they could have a Crypto meet
and greet would love that.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It already exists.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It's going to be opening up at I want to
say six Flags in Rio odd a Wiley Coyote roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I don't feel like six flics pull things off like
Universal can.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But no, I saw the on ride footage.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, yes, good, yes, solid all right.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Also, by the way, because it's opening later this year.
There's a lot of testing of the Fast and Inferiors
drifting coaster at Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Okay, bring it to Orlando. Get rid of that dump
we have here.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Well, well, I I think we're getting some kind of
a drifting coaster here.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's whether or not what the theme it is?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
All right? Fair enough? File tickets, all right, Scott.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
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