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THEME PARKS AND ATTRACTIONS! Tweetsie Railroad! Knott's Berry Farm! Six Flags! oh yeah I guess those mousey universe guys too - Please stand clear of the doors. Por favor mantengase alejado de las puertas.
apologies to whoever had plans to make a Theme Parks thread but never bothered, the one in deep thoughts eats and is dead because this is more of a multimedia thing and I'm tired of waiting
maybe wife and me were lucky and it was firing on all cylinders but Monsters Unleashed at Epic Universe is fucking great and is really fucking great to the point it makes me rethink the possibilities of Universal doing a ride
also the view from Cabana Bay overlooking Volcano Bay is dank af
I used to work for Dollywood. Nothing truly horrific about the gig it'self, but
1: It really grinds home the reality of living on brokie wages in a tourist trap like Sevier county
2: You'll want to kill the nearest living thing if you ever hear "Jolene" again in your lifetime
3: Snakes. Don't work grounds crew if you're afraid of em.
I used to work for Dollywood. Nothing truly horrific about the gig it'self, but
1: It really grinds home the reality of living on brokie wages in a tourist trap like Sevier county
2: You'll want to kill the nearest living thing if you ever hear "Jolene" again in your lifetime
3: Snakes. Don't work grounds crew if you're afraid of em.
wife is increasingly curious about hitting Dollywood, but she wasn't really feeling the food from some videos she saw
but yeah she's relatively late to the theme park game, iirc she worked at Islands Of Adventure one summer doing hair wraps or something but never really went anywhere in the parks
eventually she got to Disney World since my mom was OG going back to World's Fair small world, I was on big thunder as a fetus, so getting into that family meant it was non-negotiable
we got married in front of Cinderella's Castle
she's legit now, a week or two ago irl buddy was over and we're discussing the parks as he still goes, she grouses how they now that Maelstrom is gone Epcot is ruined forever
buddy and me are nerds for this going back to EPCOT Center, so it we explained that means she's finally become a real theme park nerd, now that she has a ride that's gone and she'll always be mad about
this was some non-cinnamon bread offering, so that may help
I'll try to not bring up it's one of the locations where you can ride the drop ride that killed that ginormous kid on I-Drive but without the death mod installed
I wish Warner wasn't so shit at deal making as they have so many good IPs that could be theme park greats, yet they are trapped with Six Flags which makes theme parks like this:
They didn't even try, they just placed Looney Tunes statues and signs around a bunch of basic rides.
To think, Universal almost got a Gotham City and Metropolis area till Warner pulled out for Six Flags. The concepts look cool, being a Burton inspired take:
In better news, there are rumors from last month that Warner will rectify this and allow DC in Universal. Maybe Universal will finally give up the Marvel rights for it since you know Disney is trying desperately to screw them out of it and the Simpsons.
Cartoon Network is also wasted. Nickelodeon gets a decent Mall Theme Park, all CN ever got was a shitty hotel and I believe a Cruise, other than Six Flags using the branding for a small bit for Hanna Barbera toons. Adventure Time deserved a sick ride, it had all the iconography for one.
I was very surprised to see chatter of ambitions in the past few months of getting Treehouse of Horror into HHN
I was under the impression that Simpsons were even more of a "when not if" than Marvel going away from IOA
but yeah really they're both sort of wasted at Uni, not that I really expect modern Disney to do anything worthwhile either
if anything there's a certain charm of "Marvel Circa 1998" to the whole cheapness of IOA that will just be shit DIE cheapness at Disney when they don't have to one-up another park like that robot Spider-Man at Disneyland
To think, Universal almost got a Gotham City and Metropolis area till Warner pulled out for Six Flags. The concepts look cool, being a Burton inspired take:
TimeWarner owned Six Flags for a while. Probably some sort of long-term contract like how KFC and Taco Bell still serve Pepsi products despite the fact that they spun off what is now Yum! Brands in 1997.
TimeWarner owned Six Flags for a while. Probably some sort of long-term contract like how KFC and Taco Bell still serve Pepsi products despite the fact that they spun off what is now Yum! Brands in 1997.
It's this exactly. Warner wanted to get rid of Six Flags and ended up making a deal with them that they had full rights over Warner's classic toons and DC as part of the split-off. Now Warner is incapable of giving the IP to larger parks, though I think there may be an expiration date which is why DC/Universal is being rumored.
Not sure if CN is part of the deal though. Six Flags kind of terminated them and turned Cartoon Network into Camp Cartoon (now defunct) after some retarded shit about Adult Swim.
there are many positive terms I could use to describe Uni Orlando
"cool" will never be it
I don't know what the fuck they did while building that place, like zombify Osceola himself, then rebury him, then build the park on top of his new extra voodoo injun burial ground, or what. but holy SHIT even for around Millenia and a giant slab of cement Universal is the most godforsaken blighted heat factory I have been in like if that stretch of Fantasyland was the entire fucking property
I was biking outdoors every day not even a half hour up I-4 and I was floored at how fucking unbearably hot it was at Uni when my wife and I went a couple of months ago.
And holy SHIT they only make it worse by refusing to build for Florida
a thousand years ago my folks and I went between when BTTF went in and when T2 3d went in, and as Disney lifers were appalled at the queue for BTTF being exposed to the elements like it was with all of three fans to go around
thirty years later wife and I get in the line for Simpsons and SAME FUCKING UGLY RED CLOSTROPHOBIA RAILS, NO ROOF, SAME THREE FUCKING FANS
