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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this a radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. I
am Dickerman. There is the returning Jimmy dun and Scott Harris. No, no,
if you watch the stream, he actually like Godzilla tonight
he has a Godzilla hat on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I don't know what they call those in Japan. I
don't know what their official name is.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm gonna call it a I'm gonna call it a hat.
I'm gonna call it a hat and say that it's
a hat, it's a thing on his head, it's a
it's officially from Japan. Jimmy is returned from an extended
visits to the Land of the Rising Sun. Can we
still call that? Is that still low cast? There?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's what they're flagging. I have so many old wrestling
terms from my child, and I don't know what's acceptable
and what's not acceptable anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, basically, if it's from the w CW W w
F era.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Don't use it, don't use it. Well, I mean the
Great Mood was from the Land of the Rising Sun.
To make sure it was you know, it was okay,
it was good. So we're going to do a pretty
deep dive on this trip because there was a lot
of theme parking involved. There was a Star Wars celebration involved,
there was and a considerable amount of Godzilla. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I could have gone for a little more of Godzilla,
to be honest, but yeah, I needed some more. Yeah,
but you know, there was only so much time and
uh in money, gentlemen, I think I was born on
the wrong continent. Yeah, yeah, I think I was meant
to be in Japan.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
My bigger question is have you looked at your your
credit card statements? Not?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I did look at my credit card statement and it
actually is uh it's oh, it's okay, it's manageable. Okay,
So yeah, I didn't Uh, I did not put myself
into Uh you know, I'm nowhere close to filing for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's good, that's good. Uh. You want to do this
chronologically and and just kind of run down how your
how your trip laid out to try and to recap it.
This is Scott's actually going to be taking notes the
entire show because he is. He is now ready to go.
He's uh, he's got his plane ticket in his in
his cart online, and he's ready for a trip to Japan.
(02:32):
What was Let me ask you this first, So the
trip to Japan? Was this more about a visiting in Japan,
be Star Wars celebration or see something else?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It started as it started as just a trip for celebration. Okay,
when they announced, because what had happened was like two
years ago, they announced in London that it was going
to be in Japan, and we huddled up the you know,
the four core guys that travel the celebration together, and
(03:05):
my buddy John was like, I guess we're going to Japan.
And that's where it was. It was going to be
a guys trip. And then unfortunately we lost Riley over
the summer and with the passing of the dog, that
left Lauren completely free to go to Japan. Yes, so,
and I don't like going to places like like if
I was going to la with allout Lauren, which I
(03:27):
may or may not in twenty seven, it's not that
big a deal because we've been there before, right, but
going to going to a whole nother continent and not
having her with me, I don't know when I'd be
able to get back to Japan that whole you know.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, And there's things she wanted to see and things
she wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Correct and so I don't like traveling without my spouse
if I can avoid it. And yeah, so she came
with and that kind of really expanded the trip.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, I mean looking at some of the recap,
which I'm sure we can share a little bit more
or on our on our socials. We have shared a
little bit, but I'm sure we can share a little
bit more on our socials. The various things you guys
reibled experience there was I was like, I was tired
of myself.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How much walking did you do today?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Every day?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Was like a minimum of seven miles?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I think. Yeah, So did you sleep? Did you sleep
at all? The entire trip?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Sleep was a little difficult because in Japan the beds
are very hard, Yeah, firm beds.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I would gotta luck.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And I'm I'm uh, you know, first world problems with
my temper pedic mattress.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, ye, so yes, So uh, let's start with
your initial flying in Japan. The the first day you
stay at the Godzilla Hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, the hotel Gracery in uh Tokyo. It's in shin Sin, Shinjuku,
which is a part of Tokyo. And yes, Scott's showing
us the bag which is not great for radio. But anyways,
you walk down the main road and there's a big
like this like an archway, but it's like squared and
it says Godzilla Road. Oh okay, and you walk down
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it and then you see Godzilla coming over the top
of the hotel gracery neck right right over like they
have a like a movie theater in the basement of
the hotel, not in the basement, but like in the
ground floor of the hotel. So he's right over like
Paddington Bear coming over the side attacking downtown Tokyo. And
(05:28):
I mean the view from your room was just incredible. Yeah,
I mean Godzila was right there. Yeah, it's what's called
the Godzilla View Room because there's a Godzilla room which
is a penthouse. Well, there's a couple of them, I
think on the top floor I say penthouse, but it's
just the top floor and it is decked out like
Godzilla's pause are coming through, like the room and stuff,
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and there's like props movies in there.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
This would have been the bankruptcy situation had you booked
the penthouse.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
No, because but it was like times the cost of
the room that we spent. So it's like I don't know,
like I'd have to do the conversion and double check
my numbers, but I want to say it would be
like thousand dollars night.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's that's that's that's beyond the Dickerman scale.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah. Well, the the Melthy scale is you shoot for
two hundred dollars or less a night.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, that's a fair it's a fair number of shooting.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, this one, I think we ended up spending a
little bit more just because.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Of what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, and the cool thing is is like the Godzilla
view room is the same price as any other room
in the hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You just got to be able to be the first
to get it, Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And I will say, by far, they had the nicest
toilet and bathroom in all of Japan. Yeah, I mean
they all had the fancy toilets because that's all they
have in Japan, right, and the bathrooms are pretty much
set up the same way where when you like, there's
the main bathroom part and then what would be like,
(06:58):
I guess the tub room.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You open a.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Glass door and the entire room is the shower. I
like that space, and then so the tub is in
there the showers, so the whole thing is a shower.
It so the first time you use it, though, you're like,
I'm shooting water just onto the floor. You know you're not.
It's there's a drain, it's all tile. You're meant to
do that. It just is like I tell you I
(07:22):
want to renovate my bathroom, and I want to They're
living in the future over there. I have determined that
they are living in the future, literally in the future
thirteen hours. So it's like when I the first couple
of days, I was just texting people willing ill and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You'd be texting us when it's like we're going to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, but then he'd be texting like seven o'clock in
the morning too. I'm like, when are you sleeping. It's
it's like midnight text and seven am.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Because I started getting better about it and I knew
the first couple of hours in the morning, I could
I could text people probably up until like ten o'clock
or like eleven o'clock local time, and then on the
other side of that, it was like in the evening,
I could text you guys in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So it's like so that that was like my window
to really text. I was texting throughout the day at first,
and I'm like, oh, I just texted my boss at
four o'clock in the morning picture of me in front
of cherry blossoms.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah. I'm sure they appreciated it still, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh yeah. And it was the tail end of cherry
blossom season, which was really really beautiful to see.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So Godzilla Hotel.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Godzilla Hotels awesome. They had the great merch. They had
this thing in their cafe where they print on the
foam of your drink.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So Lauren got a coffee and it had, you know,
just a cafe. You had a choice between Godzilla or Mathra,
and she chose Godzilla. And then I got the soda
cause it was like a blue soda and like it
was like glowing in the picture. I was like, I
want the glowing drink. It turned out it was just
a light coming through the sod, but you know, it
(09:02):
was still like sugared.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I know, this could be a special light up soda they.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Have marketing, Green marketing.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You should try this dickerment because it was like the
foam on top. It reminded me of a butter beer. Okay, oh,
I like had that butter beer like consistency at the top.
But it was like blue soda flavor. If you've never
had Japanese blue soda, I don't know what it's called.
They just call it soda. Okay, it's delicious, Okay, Yeah,
that's not what they have at Epcot. When you get
(09:27):
the very DoD they have a Japanese soda at Epcot
in the.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Well, they have like the normal flavors. I just don't
know what this blue flavor is.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean I didn't thinking we should upgrade it
Epcot and create the blue.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Stuff like if you like. I bought Hi Chu and
it said cola and then the blue flavor was soda.
Oh okay, So it's like I didn't know how to
find it. Yeah, whatever whatever that is. Yeah, whatever that is,
I'll take more of that. So next morning, hop on
a train to Hiroshima, it's wasn't it a bullet train?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It was a bullet train. Oh, how was it?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The bullet trains are very comfortable, very fast, very fast.
You don't feel Yeah, you don't feel the speed. And
I will tell you if you're on a train in Japan,
you best be ready to get off your stop.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Breaches. Oh yeah, I heard they're like on the nose
like everything is on time and that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Uh there was an eight minute There was one delay
that we suffered, and it was eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Somebody, somebody probably got their job taken away from them.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
No, they show you in the uh in, in the subway,
they have like little screens and they tell you, like
in Japanese, where you're going, and then they show it
to you in English, and they have warnings about why
there could be a delay. I never experienced another delay
beyond that. But the reasons I saw for delays were maintenance,
(10:46):
bamboo fell on the track, somebody's luggage got caught in
the door. Okay, and that.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Was the attack. Godzill attack was not on there at all.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I am very surprised by that. Unfortunately, why well, we're
Fortunately while I was there, no kaijuws attacked and there
were no earthquakes. That's also good. Yes, So you take
the bullet train. You're going to Hiroshima. Yeah, and it's
not Hiroshima because I know, I hear a lot of
Americans say Hiroshma. It's Hiroshima.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay. Hey, I said something right for the first life, finally,
proud of you just heard him say it this.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, it's okay. And another thing I finally settled. It
is not Kobe Steakhouse. It is Kobe really, yeah, it's
Kobe Steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Wow, we've been saying it wrong all along. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I guess we have to go all three of us
into correct some people.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It is it Kobe beef too, do we know? Yeah,
it's kobab And uh, the e at the end it's
pronounced is an a Okay in that situation. So we
get to Hiroshima or Hiroshima, we go off to uh
meo Jima, which is an island. Uh. You know in
Epcot they have the Tory Gate that's like in the
(11:53):
water there.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I went and saw the real one. Oh oh yes,
and much big in real life. Yeah, And so we
took pictures of it from the shore and I was like,
and I see somebody like kayaking through the center of it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Man, I want to be that close to it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I didn't know. At the end of the day, when
the tide goes out, you just walk in the sand.
You walked right up nice and it is way bigger
than the appcot. Yeah, just a hair, just as slightly hair.
And then on that island they have these deer. And
these deer are not like. These aren't the bowing deer
that everybody's you know that you see like on social
(12:29):
seem like breed and everything, but it's not. You know,
these these ones aren't as uh, I guess, used to humans,
but they are used to humans because the second you
get off the boat, they're just chilling, just hanging out.
They're all over the town.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
They're like kind of domesticated or familiar.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, they're just know that humans are no threat.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And so they don't like they don't take off and run.
You can just walk up to them and pet them
if you want. You're not supposed to. You don't touch them,
you're not supposed to. You're not supposed to feed him either.
And I found out why because they saw some German
tourists feed some French fries to one, and when he
wouldn't give up anymore, the deer started head button them.
That's the way to do, like, I know, you got fries, bro,
come on, give me more? Yeah, come on, that was good,
(13:09):
give me more.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, they're almost like our manatees here. Then said you're
allowed to experience them, but you're not supposed to pet them.
You're not supposed to touch them, and you're certainly not supposed
to feed them or you know, molest the manatees as
they call it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So everything to his managers, I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Just saying, it's the same situation.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, and I don't think the deer are endangered.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
They touch you, it's you know, it's okay, right.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Well, yeah, I actually sat next to one and it
like it like booped me with its nose.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Did he want to come on the podcast? I, you.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Know, very friendly, I offered, and then I when I
said cachi wan bowed to one. A Japanese person left.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Wait wait, did you at least get a picture with
your new friend, your new deer friend.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh oh, so you did the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah. I may have touched one on the way out.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, it touched it just happened to touch you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
No, we went over Oh no, look both ways and
just went there was a there was a German tourist
in the corner judging you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Honestly. Though.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
When we got there, there was like a bunch of
like children of all, you know, a rainbow of different children, uh,
just touching the deer, and nobody got like upset or
came running out.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Like don't touch the deer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So next day head to the the Hiroshima Memorial. It's
it's called Peace Park, and I stood right at with
the hypocenter of the atomic bomb went off?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Heavy? Is it heavy there? Like just a heavy feeling. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Going through the museum was a little bit. They show
you real pictures of what these people's bodies went through,
and you see some of like the relics and that
famous spot on the in front of the bank where
it's just the guy's shadow where he got vaporized instantly
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and he left to cast shadow on the building. They
remodeled that building and they cut that piece out and
it's in the museum now. So I'm like standing in
front of this. I remember seeing it in a textbook
as a child and just like being amazed. And the dome,
the Atomic Dome is what they call it, the a
(15:25):
dome I think now, and it's one of the few
structures that was that close to the Hypo Center, not
the epicenter because they call it hypost Center because the
bomb went off like eighteen Yeah, it detonated like eighteen
hundred feet above the ground and it just came down.
So the majority, not the majority, but like the structure,
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the frame of the building stood and it's in preserved
ruin is what they call and that I think is
the official memorial and standing in front of that. I
remember seeing it as a child and saying I wanted
to see it. Classmates telling me I was an idiot,
never going to go to Japan and see that guy
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that was that was life changing. Yeah, that was yeah,
the horrors of nuclear war.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, I mean it. It changed everybody's life, not just
you know the Japanese, I think the whole world.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, no, I no, I I totally agree. And you
could see why nobody's lit that candle sinse Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So okay, So after that, after Hiroshima, we go over
to Kyoto, and Kyoto is the birthplace of Nintendo. Yes,
and I will give you guys an insider stip. If
you want to go to the Nintendo Museum, you need
to get tick like you have to get in the lottery,
(16:51):
like three months in advance. I did not get into
the lottery. I got went into the lottery. I did
not play it smart, didn't get tickets, and it was
never able to get because they dropped tickets for the
individual days all throughout the lead up the lead up,
and you have to go at what would be seven
am their time, which is six am six pm our time,
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and try to like log in and buy those tickets.
I was ready, had it ready, everything was good to go.
Still could not get a ticket into the Nintendo Museum.
So if you're if you have a traveling party, I
recommend that everybody and your party sign up for a
Nintendo account and everybody try to get tickets because then
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you have more than one person trying to get those
same u and then also don't be such a like
For me, I was like, we had a schedule to
try to keep too, and so I only took like
select because you only can choose three times over the
course of your whatever, and I was very like hard headed.
I was like, no, I'm only going to do these
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three times and this one day, because this is when
we have time for I'm gonna get it. It's gonna
be fine.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I would have been happy to have one of the
because when you sign up, it'll show you, like, what
the how many people have signed up in that same
time slot. If I would have gone with one of
the later ones, I probably would have gone. It would
have been fine. But I had a buddy who went through.
I watched all his videos and I'm mad because it
was really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I don't want to jump too far ahead, but I
don't want to run out of time to talk about this,
so I want to talk about what you did get
to go to, and that was the Disney park there
in Japan. It's is it called Sea Disney.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, they have two parks, kind of like a California
where they have California Adventure and Disneyland. They have Tokyo
Disneyland and then Tokyo Disney Seam h and Disney C
is probably one of the most unique parks of any
of the parks. It's a completely different flavor of Disney
and it actually had a lot of islands of adventure
fuel to it. In my opinion, Yeah, like structurally I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Now, just getting tickets was kind of a unique experience, right,
you had like you had to get them like close to.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, you can only get them like sixty days in advance,
and they're really inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's the crazy part.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, with because the dollar is so strong against again
it was like fifty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So he could afford to pass.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I could, Yeah, you could afford to pass. But when
you only pay fifty nllion dollars to get in, you
don't think anything of it to buy about buying fast food.
That and like the fast passes.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Because like you're paying, you want to do everything.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, because you know that was my one and only
day to go there. So the way they're fast passed.
The system works is they have free pass there's free
rides and then there's like the premium rides that you
have to pay for and if you buy a premium one,
you have to wait an hour or have been on
your ride to book another one.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The free passes it's you have to book one and
then you have to wait two hours to get another
free one.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
So between all of that, we got on every thing
we wanted to get on wasn't very busy.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It was.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It was pretty crowded, but it wasn't nearly like like
when we were in the Hiroshima Museum. It was literally
like shuffling our feet to get through everything because it
was just such an influx of people Disney you could
move around, especially as the day went on later because
it started getting kind of cold.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They didn't feel like more locals. There was a lot
of tourism, a.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Lot of tourists. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of tourists.
And so the main things that I was trying to
get to were the very very unique rides, which where
they have like a Jules Verne area, so they have
a twenty thousand leagues under the sea, completely different than
the one we had here in Orlando, totally different. And
then they also had a journey to the center of
the Earth, which is their test track. Oh oh yes, right,
(20:50):
but instead of the ride vehicle being two rows of three,
it was three rows of two, and where cars and
test track exact ride vehicle. This ride vehicle shaped like
the Nautilus.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh nice, so.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Not gonna you would be proud of me, Dickerman I
wrote it, and it goes up to forty seven miles
an hour, which is pretty fast, and I have to
be honest, I was not happy when it because, like,
you see this really great like like I don't know,
like kaiju kind of like insect, like jewel ridden alien
(21:31):
at the end of the ride, and then your vehicle
takes off and it spins off and starts doing like
a spiral up in the dark.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yea, all right. Did not like that, like being able
to see yeah, ye headlights on this thing.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well yeah, it did head to head the lights, but
for some reason it was off during that part. And
then you come to the top and then it's like
I thought it was gonna be like straight down like
thunder Mountain. It was a drop, a drop, but it
was enough of a drop not to give me like
the sinking stomach y. Yeah, the stomach drop A lot
(22:04):
of people hate. Yes, that's the part I hate the most.
And then after that, I was like, okay, good, I'm
glad I went on that because at first everybody that
was what we did. We first ran in and everybody
went to that ride, okay, and there was six of us,
and I was like, I've already decided I'm not going
on this later on in the day after I'd been
on Indiana Jones and everybody's like, oh, that was just
(22:24):
like the early one. I was like, all right, I'm
going to pay the fear tax. Yeah, and I bought
two fast passes, so me and my buddy Vinco because
he doesn't like drops either. Okay, well he doesn't like
terror or terror yeah yeah, well yeah, everybody else too.
Everybody else went on Tarror Terror, and the two of
us went over there and I wrote it, and I
was like, all right, good, I'm glad I wrote it
(22:45):
because now I can talk about it and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Once in a lifetime experienced. You're never gonna get a
chance to do that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, like all the other rides, you know, for the
most part, you know there's some version of it someplace,
but these two were so unique, and in twenty thousand
leagues I they have like the Nautilus in the water
like that, theming of that, the area is fantastic. It
was my favorite part of the whole park.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mysterious Island.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Mysterious Island. Yes, it was great. We even ate lunch
there and it's I don't know if you would have
done well, Dickerman, because we had a Dickerman in our
traveling party. His name is Mick Ozzie Vader, if you will.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I remember him.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
He was forced to eat Japanese food because he'd been
getting like samurai burger from McDonald's. He'd only get hamburgers
wherever we went, and this was the most adventurous thing
he had eaten. And you know what he enjoyed it?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well? Good, nice. I mean all he got was fried rice.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Well yeah, well, okay, you gotta start somewhere. He got
poored fried rice. And then on top of it, they
had like a it was like a like a some
kind of pork and like a red sauce, and then
they had cubes of like tofu in air. And I
think that's probably where we'd lose you. But he was like, oh,
this is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay. I think we're gonna have to maybe at some
point to a second show, like an off the air show.
Like remember we used to do those picture Park hours
Extra Park hours. I think we're gonna need to do
one for a Wijimmy's trip there. I'm glad we got
Disney in because we're just about out of time, but
there's so much more to get in.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yes, so we'd have to think about doing an extra
park hours. At the theme Parkpodcast dot com, Yes absolutely.
In the meantime, Scott, where can people find us on
social media to see some of those photos from Japan?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You fall us on Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok at the theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You watch the Themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's spoiler.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You got to check out the World's Fair pictures. The
World's Fair was awesome, okay, and it shall come to
you live from the Laurencampbellreal Toro dot com, t BO
Gazebo Studios for Jim d for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman.
Until next week, we'll see it out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
The World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Wait podcast? Is this a radio? Why does everything gotta
be so messy on this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. I
am Dickerman. There is the returning Jimmy dun and Scott Harris. No, no,
if you watch the stream, he actually like Godzilla tonight
he has a Godzilla hat on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I don't know what they call those in Japan. I
don't know what their official name is.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm gonna call it a I'm gonna call it a hat.
I'm gonna call it a hat and say that it's
a hat, it's a thing on his head, it's a
it's officially from Japan. Jimmy is returned from an extended
visits to the Land of the Rising Sun. Can we
still call that? Is that still low cast? There?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's what they're flagging. I have so many old wrestling
terms from my child, and I don't know what's acceptable
and what's not acceptable anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yeah, basically, if it's from the w CW W w
F era.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Don't use it, don't use it. Well, I mean the
Great Mood was from the Land of the Rising Sun.
To make sure it was you know, it was okay,
it was good. So we're going to do a pretty
deep dive on this trip because there was a lot
of theme parking involved. There was a Star Wars celebration involved,
there was and a considerable amount of Godzilla. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I could have gone for a little more of Godzilla,
to be honest, but yeah, I needed some more. Yeah,
but you know, there was only so much time and
uh in money, gentlemen, I think I was born on
the wrong continent. Yeah, yeah, I think I was meant
to be in Japan.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
My bigger question is have you looked at your your
credit card statements? Not?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I did look at my credit card statement and it
actually is uh it's oh, it's okay, it's manageable. Okay,
So yeah, I didn't Uh, I did not put myself
into Uh you know, I'm nowhere close to filing for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's good, that's good. Uh. You want to do this
chronologically and and just kind of run down how your
how your trip laid out to try and to recap it.
This is Scott's actually going to be taking notes the
entire show because he is. He is now ready to go.
He's uh, he's got his plane ticket in his in
his cart online, and he's ready for a trip to Japan.
(02:32):
What was Let me ask you this first, So the
trip to Japan? Was this more about a visiting in Japan,
be Star Wars celebration or see something else?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It started as it started as just a trip for celebration. Okay,
when they announced, because what had happened was like two
years ago, they announced in London that it was going
to be in Japan, and we huddled up the you know,
the four core guys that travel the celebration together, and
(03:05):
my buddy John was like, I guess we're going to Japan.
And that's where it was. It was going to be
a guys trip. And then unfortunately we lost Riley over
the summer and with the passing of the dog, that
left Lauren completely free to go to Japan. Yes, so,
and I don't like going to places like like if
I was going to la with allout Lauren, which I
(03:27):
may or may not in twenty seven, it's not that
big a deal because we've been there before, right, but
going to going to a whole nother continent and not
having her with me, I don't know when I'd be
able to get back to Japan that whole you know.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, And there's things she wanted to see and things
she wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Correct and so I don't like traveling without my spouse
if I can avoid it. And yeah, so she came
with and that kind of really expanded the trip.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, I mean looking at some of the recap,
which I'm sure we can share a little bit more
or on our on our socials. We have shared a
little bit, but I'm sure we can share a little
bit more on our socials. The various things you guys
reibled experience there was I was like, I was tired
of myself.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How much walking did you do today?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Every day?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Was like a minimum of seven miles?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I think. Yeah, So did you sleep? Did you sleep
at all? The entire trip?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Sleep was a little difficult because in Japan the beds
are very hard, Yeah, firm beds.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I would gotta luck.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And I'm I'm uh, you know, first world problems with
my temper pedic mattress.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, ye, so yes, So uh, let's start with
your initial flying in Japan. The the first day you
stay at the Godzilla Hotel.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, the hotel Gracery in uh Tokyo. It's in shin Sin, Shinjuku,
which is a part of Tokyo. And yes, Scott's showing
us the bag which is not great for radio. But anyways,
you walk down the main road and there's a big
like this like an archway, but it's like squared and
it says Godzilla Road. Oh okay, and you walk down
(05:07):
it and then you see Godzilla coming over the top
of the hotel gracery neck right right over like they
have a like a movie theater in the basement of
the hotel, not in the basement, but like in the
ground floor of the hotel. So he's right over like
Paddington Bear coming over the side attacking downtown Tokyo. And
(05:28):
I mean the view from your room was just incredible. Yeah,
I mean Godzila was right there. Yeah, it's what's called
the Godzilla View Room because there's a Godzilla room which
is a penthouse. Well, there's a couple of them, I
think on the top floor I say penthouse, but it's
just the top floor and it is decked out like
Godzilla's pause are coming through, like the room and stuff,
(05:49):
and there's like props movies in there.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
This would have been the bankruptcy situation had you booked
the penthouse.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
No, because but it was like times the cost of
the room that we spent. So it's like I don't know,
like I'd have to do the conversion and double check
my numbers, but I want to say it would be
like thousand dollars night.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's that's that's that's beyond the Dickerman scale.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah. Well, the the Melthy scale is you shoot for
two hundred dollars or less a night.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, that's a fair it's a fair number of shooting.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, this one, I think we ended up spending a
little bit more just because.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Of what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, and the cool thing is is like the Godzilla
view room is the same price as any other room
in the hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You just got to be able to be the first
to get it, Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And I will say, by far, they had the nicest
toilet and bathroom in all of Japan. Yeah, I mean
they all had the fancy toilets because that's all they
have in Japan, right, and the bathrooms are pretty much
set up the same way where when you like, there's
the main bathroom part and then what would be like,
(06:58):
I guess the tub room.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You open a.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Glass door and the entire room is the shower. I
like that space, and then so the tub is in
there the showers, so the whole thing is a shower.
It so the first time you use it, though, you're like,
I'm shooting water just onto the floor. You know you're not.
It's there's a drain, it's all tile. You're meant to
do that. It just is like I tell you I
(07:22):
want to renovate my bathroom, and I want to They're
living in the future over there. I have determined that
they are living in the future, literally in the future
thirteen hours. So it's like when I the first couple
of days, I was just texting people willing ill and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You'd be texting us when it's like we're going to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, but then he'd be texting like seven o'clock in
the morning too. I'm like, when are you sleeping. It's
it's like midnight text and seven am.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Because I started getting better about it and I knew
the first couple of hours in the morning, I could
I could text people probably up until like ten o'clock
or like eleven o'clock local time, and then on the
other side of that, it was like in the evening,
I could text you guys in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So it's like so that that was like my window
to really text. I was texting throughout the day at first,
and I'm like, oh, I just texted my boss at
four o'clock in the morning picture of me in front
of cherry blossoms.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah. I'm sure they appreciated it still, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh yeah. And it was the tail end of cherry
blossom season, which was really really beautiful to see.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So Godzilla Hotel.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Godzilla Hotels awesome. They had the great merch. They had
this thing in their cafe where they print on the
foam of your drink.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Oh I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So Lauren got a coffee and it had, you know,
just a cafe. You had a choice between Godzilla or Mathra,
and she chose Godzilla. And then I got the soda
cause it was like a blue soda and like it
was like glowing in the picture. I was like, I
want the glowing drink. It turned out it was just
a light coming through the sod, but you know, it
(09:02):
was still like sugared.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I know, this could be a special light up soda they.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Have marketing, Green marketing.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You should try this dickerment because it was like the
foam on top. It reminded me of a butter beer. Okay, oh,
I like had that butter beer like consistency at the top.
But it was like blue soda flavor. If you've never
had Japanese blue soda, I don't know what it's called.
They just call it soda. Okay, it's delicious, Okay, Yeah,
that's not what they have at Epcot. When you get
(09:27):
the very DoD they have a Japanese soda at Epcot
in the.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Well, they have like the normal flavors. I just don't
know what this blue flavor is.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean I didn't thinking we should upgrade it
Epcot and create the blue.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Stuff like if you like. I bought Hi Chu and
it said cola and then the blue flavor was soda.
Oh okay, So it's like I didn't know how to
find it. Yeah, whatever whatever that is. Yeah, whatever that is,
I'll take more of that. So next morning, hop on
a train to Hiroshima, it's wasn't it a bullet train?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It was a bullet train. Oh, how was it?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
The bullet trains are very comfortable, very fast, very fast.
You don't feel Yeah, you don't feel the speed. And
I will tell you if you're on a train in Japan,
you best be ready to get off your stop.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Breaches. Oh yeah, I heard they're like on the nose
like everything is on time and that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Uh there was an eight minute There was one delay
that we suffered, and it was eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Somebody, somebody probably got their job taken away from them.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
No, they show you in the uh in, in the subway,
they have like little screens and they tell you, like
in Japanese, where you're going, and then they show it
to you in English, and they have warnings about why
there could be a delay. I never experienced another delay
beyond that. But the reasons I saw for delays were maintenance,
(10:46):
bamboo fell on the track, somebody's luggage got caught in
the door. Okay, and that.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Was the attack. Godzill attack was not on there at all.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I am very surprised by that. Unfortunately, why well, we're
Fortunately while I was there, no kaijuws attacked and there
were no earthquakes. That's also good. Yes, So you take
the bullet train. You're going to Hiroshima. Yeah, and it's
not Hiroshima because I know, I hear a lot of
Americans say Hiroshma. It's Hiroshima.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay. Hey, I said something right for the first life, finally,
proud of you just heard him say it this.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, it's okay. And another thing I finally settled. It
is not Kobe Steakhouse. It is Kobe really, yeah, it's
Kobe Steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Wow, we've been saying it wrong all along. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I guess we have to go all three of us
into correct some people.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It is it Kobe beef too, do we know? Yeah,
it's kobab And uh, the e at the end it's
pronounced is an a Okay in that situation. So we
get to Hiroshima or Hiroshima, we go off to uh
meo Jima, which is an island. Uh. You know in
Epcot they have the Tory Gate that's like in the
(11:53):
water there.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I went and saw the real one. Oh oh yes,
and much big in real life. Yeah, And so we
took pictures of it from the shore and I was like,
and I see somebody like kayaking through the center of it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Man, I want to be that close to it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I didn't know. At the end of the day, when
the tide goes out, you just walk in the sand.
You walked right up nice and it is way bigger
than the appcot. Yeah, just a hair, just as slightly hair.
And then on that island they have these deer. And
these deer are not like. These aren't the bowing deer
that everybody's you know that you see like on social
(12:29):
seem like breed and everything, but it's not. You know,
these these ones aren't as uh, I guess, used to humans,
but they are used to humans because the second you
get off the boat, they're just chilling, just hanging out.
They're all over the town.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
They're like kind of domesticated or familiar.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, they're just know that humans are no threat.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And so they don't like they don't take off and run.
You can just walk up to them and pet them
if you want. You're not supposed to. You don't touch them,
you're not supposed to. You're not supposed to feed him either.
And I found out why because they saw some German
tourists feed some French fries to one, and when he
wouldn't give up anymore, the deer started head button them.
That's the way to do, like, I know, you got fries, bro,
come on, give me more? Yeah, come on, that was good,
(13:09):
give me more.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, they're almost like our manatees here. Then said you're
allowed to experience them, but you're not supposed to pet them.
You're not supposed to touch them, and you're certainly not supposed
to feed them or you know, molest the manatees as
they call it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So everything to his managers, I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Just saying, it's the same situation.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, and I don't think the deer are endangered.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
They touch you, it's you know, it's okay, right.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Well, yeah, I actually sat next to one and it
like it like booped me with its nose.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Did he want to come on the podcast? I, you.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Know, very friendly, I offered, and then I when I
said cachi wan bowed to one. A Japanese person left.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Wait wait, did you at least get a picture with
your new friend, your new deer friend.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh oh, so you did the right thing.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah. I may have touched one on the way out.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, it touched it just happened to touch you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
No, we went over Oh no, look both ways and
just went there was a there was a German tourist
in the corner judging you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Honestly. Though.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
When we got there, there was like a bunch of
like children of all, you know, a rainbow of different children, uh,
just touching the deer, and nobody got like upset or
came running out.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Like don't touch the deer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So next day head to the the Hiroshima Memorial. It's
it's called Peace Park, and I stood right at with
the hypocenter of the atomic bomb went off?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Heavy? Is it heavy there? Like just a heavy feeling. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Going through the museum was a little bit. They show
you real pictures of what these people's bodies went through,
and you see some of like the relics and that
famous spot on the in front of the bank where
it's just the guy's shadow where he got vaporized instantly
(15:05):
and he left to cast shadow on the building. They
remodeled that building and they cut that piece out and
it's in the museum now. So I'm like standing in
front of this. I remember seeing it in a textbook
as a child and just like being amazed. And the dome,
the Atomic Dome is what they call it, the a
(15:25):
dome I think now, and it's one of the few
structures that was that close to the Hypo Center, not
the epicenter because they call it hypost Center because the
bomb went off like eighteen Yeah, it detonated like eighteen
hundred feet above the ground and it just came down.
So the majority, not the majority, but like the structure,
(15:46):
the frame of the building stood and it's in preserved
ruin is what they call and that I think is
the official memorial and standing in front of that. I
remember seeing it as a child and saying I wanted
to see it. Classmates telling me I was an idiot,
never going to go to Japan and see that guy
(16:06):
that was that was life changing. Yeah, that was yeah,
the horrors of nuclear war.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, I mean it. It changed everybody's life, not just
you know the Japanese, I think the whole world.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, no, I no, I I totally agree. And you
could see why nobody's lit that candle sinse Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So okay, So after that, after Hiroshima, we go over
to Kyoto, and Kyoto is the birthplace of Nintendo. Yes,
and I will give you guys an insider stip. If
you want to go to the Nintendo Museum, you need
to get tick like you have to get in the lottery,
(16:51):
like three months in advance. I did not get into
the lottery. I got went into the lottery. I did
not play it smart, didn't get tickets, and it was
never able to get because they dropped tickets for the
individual days all throughout the lead up the lead up,
and you have to go at what would be seven
am their time, which is six am six pm our time,
(17:15):
and try to like log in and buy those tickets.
I was ready, had it ready, everything was good to go.
Still could not get a ticket into the Nintendo Museum.
So if you're if you have a traveling party, I
recommend that everybody and your party sign up for a
Nintendo account and everybody try to get tickets because then
(17:36):
you have more than one person trying to get those
same u and then also don't be such a like
For me, I was like, we had a schedule to
try to keep too, and so I only took like
select because you only can choose three times over the
course of your whatever, and I was very like hard headed.
I was like, no, I'm only going to do these
(17:57):
three times and this one day, because this is when
we have time for I'm gonna get it. It's gonna
be fine.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Now.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I would have been happy to have one of the
because when you sign up, it'll show you, like, what
the how many people have signed up in that same
time slot. If I would have gone with one of
the later ones, I probably would have gone. It would
have been fine. But I had a buddy who went through.
I watched all his videos and I'm mad because it
was really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I don't want to jump too far ahead, but I
don't want to run out of time to talk about this,
so I want to talk about what you did get
to go to, and that was the Disney park there
in Japan. It's is it called Sea Disney.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, they have two parks, kind of like a California
where they have California Adventure and Disneyland. They have Tokyo
Disneyland and then Tokyo Disney Seam h and Disney C
is probably one of the most unique parks of any
of the parks. It's a completely different flavor of Disney
and it actually had a lot of islands of adventure
fuel to it. In my opinion, Yeah, like structurally I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Now, just getting tickets was kind of a unique experience, right,
you had like you had to get them like close to.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, you can only get them like sixty days in advance,
and they're really inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's the crazy part.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, with because the dollar is so strong against again
it was like fifty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So he could afford to pass.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I could, Yeah, you could afford to pass. But when
you only pay fifty nllion dollars to get in, you
don't think anything of it to buy about buying fast food.
That and like the fast passes.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Because like you're paying, you want to do everything.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, because you know that was my one and only
day to go there. So the way they're fast passed.
The system works is they have free pass there's free
rides and then there's like the premium rides that you
have to pay for and if you buy a premium one,
you have to wait an hour or have been on
your ride to book another one.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The free passes it's you have to book one and
then you have to wait two hours to get another
free one.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
So between all of that, we got on every thing
we wanted to get on wasn't very busy.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It was.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
It was pretty crowded, but it wasn't nearly like like
when we were in the Hiroshima Museum. It was literally
like shuffling our feet to get through everything because it
was just such an influx of people Disney you could
move around, especially as the day went on later because
it started getting kind of cold.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They didn't feel like more locals. There was a lot
of tourism, a.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Lot of tourists. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of tourists.
And so the main things that I was trying to
get to were the very very unique rides, which where
they have like a Jules Verne area, so they have
a twenty thousand leagues under the sea, completely different than
the one we had here in Orlando, totally different. And
then they also had a journey to the center of
the Earth, which is their test track. Oh oh yes, right,
(20:50):
but instead of the ride vehicle being two rows of three,
it was three rows of two, and where cars and
test track exact ride vehicle. This ride vehicle shaped like
the Nautilus.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh nice, so.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Not gonna you would be proud of me, Dickerman I
wrote it, and it goes up to forty seven miles
an hour, which is pretty fast, and I have to
be honest, I was not happy when it because, like,
you see this really great like like I don't know,
like kaiju kind of like insect, like jewel ridden alien
(21:31):
at the end of the ride, and then your vehicle
takes off and it spins off and starts doing like
a spiral up in the dark.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yea, all right. Did not like that, like being able
to see yeah, ye headlights on this thing.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well yeah, it did head to head the lights, but
for some reason it was off during that part. And
then you come to the top and then it's like
I thought it was gonna be like straight down like
thunder Mountain. It was a drop, a drop, but it
was enough of a drop not to give me like
the sinking stomach y. Yeah, the stomach drop A lot
(22:04):
of people hate. Yes, that's the part I hate the most.
And then after that, I was like, okay, good, I'm
glad I went on that because at first everybody that
was what we did. We first ran in and everybody
went to that ride, okay, and there was six of us,
and I was like, I've already decided I'm not going
on this later on in the day after I'd been
on Indiana Jones and everybody's like, oh, that was just
(22:24):
like the early one. I was like, all right, I'm
going to pay the fear tax. Yeah, and I bought
two fast passes, so me and my buddy Vinco because
he doesn't like drops either. Okay, well he doesn't like
terror or terror yeah yeah, well yeah, everybody else too.
Everybody else went on Tarror Terror, and the two of
us went over there and I wrote it, and I
was like, all right, good, I'm glad I wrote it
(22:45):
because now I can talk about it and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Once in a lifetime experienced. You're never gonna get a
chance to do that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, like all the other rides, you know, for the
most part, you know there's some version of it someplace,
but these two were so unique, and in twenty thousand
leagues I they have like the Nautilus in the water
like that, theming of that, the area is fantastic. It
was my favorite part of the whole park.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mysterious Island.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Mysterious Island. Yes, it was great. We even ate lunch
there and it's I don't know if you would have
done well, Dickerman, because we had a Dickerman in our
traveling party. His name is Mick Ozzie Vader, if you will.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I remember him.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
He was forced to eat Japanese food because he'd been
getting like samurai burger from McDonald's. He'd only get hamburgers
wherever we went, and this was the most adventurous thing
he had eaten. And you know what he enjoyed it?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well? Good, nice. I mean all he got was fried rice.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Well yeah, well, okay, you gotta start somewhere. He got
poored fried rice. And then on top of it, they
had like a it was like a like a some
kind of pork and like a red sauce, and then
they had cubes of like tofu in air. And I
think that's probably where we'd lose you. But he was like, oh,
this is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay. I think we're gonna have to maybe at some
point to a second show, like an off the air show.
Like remember we used to do those picture Park hours
Extra Park hours. I think we're gonna need to do
one for a Wijimmy's trip there. I'm glad we got
Disney in because we're just about out of time, but
there's so much more to get in.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yes, so we'd have to think about doing an extra
park hours. At the theme Parkpodcast dot com, Yes absolutely.
In the meantime, Scott, where can people find us on
social media to see some of those photos from Japan?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You fall us on Twitter at theme Park Show, Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok at the theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You watch the Themepark YouTube dot com.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's spoiler.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You got to check out the World's Fair pictures. The
World's Fair was awesome, okay, and it shall come to
you live from the Laurencampbellreal Toro dot com, t BO
Gazebo Studios for Jim d for Scott Harris, I am Dickerman.
Until next week, we'll see it out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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