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Episode 165 - Get your Kingda outta my Ka!
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast, Ben and Zach discuss Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure (we recorded this BEFORE the official announcement), Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Disneyland and much more!
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction and Humor
00:00:43
Zach
I'm Zach and get that Kingda out of my car.
00:00:48
Ben
I'm Ben and ma- nah.
00:00:55
Ben
I can't do that one.
00:00:58
Zach
Next.
00:00:59
Ben
Oh shit.
00:01:04
Zach
Well, here we are.
00:01:07
Ben
Yep.
Anxieties and Taking Time
00:01:09
Ben
We, uh, waited a week to record.
00:01:16
Ben
And to sit at home in anxiety about whether or not they're going to get that King to cock credit.
00:01:17
Zach
We figured everybody could use last week to have time to themselves.
00:01:36
Zach
And it looks like many people did make the journey out to Great Adventure.
Rumors and Social Media
00:01:43
Ben
And now just like other things, the information from the sources is very unclear and no one knows what the hell is going on.
00:01:52
Zach
Yep. Although I've been having a shitload of fun with this on our Twitter, to be honest.
00:01:59
Ben
Nice.
00:02:01
Zach
Yeah, like I yeah found an old picture of King DeCon when it was under construction, getting topped off, and I posted it, and I said, oh my god.
Skepticism and Misinformation
00:02:13
Ben
So what was the one with the, the email from the park saying that they have known that it will operate next year or whatever.
00:02:22
Zach
Yeah, um an account, I believe Kitty dot coasters on Instagram sent that to us. And.
00:02:33
Zach
I don't know, they said that's what they got from the park.
00:02:35
Ben
no Okay.
00:02:38
Ben
I mean, I you can't doubt it, but at the same time, like.
00:02:43
Zach
I have no specific reason to disbelieve that, whereas there's definitely people on YouTube who would have financial reason for spreading unsubstantiated rumors that may gain them clicks.
00:02:46
Ben
Right.
00:02:59
Ben
Mm hmm. just like other things going on in the world around that time, which is is's kind of funny. It's like if if you wanted to pull people away from what was going on on Tuesday, all you got to do is say the world's tallest roller coaster slash maybe fastest is going to get demolished. So but it's what was weird about it was like the park was definitely putting something on for it.
00:03:33
Ben
And then like they did an an employee ride night and all that. So like, it's, it's kind of weird,
Speculation on Park's Future
00:03:38
Ben
right? Like it's definitely, maybe it's just a way to conspire YouTubers.
00:03:46
Zach
Well, and can demolition permits were filed for Green Lantern and the parachute drop and Twister.
00:03:47
Ben
Hmm.
00:03:59
Ben
Which makes me wonder, cause there's a whole hotel rumor, right? So that would make sense. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to think. If they did extend King Mikaar do something weird with it. I mean, that'd be cool, but I don't know what they really are going to do. Do you think they're going to work with Intamin?
00:04:26
Zach
Maybe. See, here's the thing is today. Intamin teased that they're going to announce something big at IAPA.
00:04:37
Ben
Oh yeah, I saw that.
00:04:39
Zach
Yeah, so I it's hard to really speculate and say like, oh, I think that's it. But like also goddamn that timing, huh?
00:04:52
Ben
Although Intamin is doing, someone did mention though, the the fast and furious coaster with the cars, the new cars make sense.
00:05:04
Zach
That could be it too, but that also isn't going to open till 2026.
00:05:10
Ben
Oh.
00:05:13
Ben
Even then, though, I don't know, like. Here's the thing, if they do, if they do re-theme, which which like I never really understood, like I got the theme for King Naka, but like for a Stratico, so I always thought the theme was kind of mediocre. Kind of like.
00:05:33
Ben
Like between King Nica, all the East Coast hyper Giga, whatever, like all kind of have dumb themes.
00:05:43
Ben
Like. You know, King Nica theming and then like the colors are cool, though. And then I three or five being themed to a NASCAR driver. Or I guess a nas a NASCAR, a car.
00:06:02
Ben
Because when you see a 305-foot roller coaster, your mind immediately goes to a car.
00:06:07
Ben
But if came to car goes to a car themed, I mean, that'd be cool, I guess.
00:06:13
Zach
It could be. I don't know. I mean, maybe they read the I don't know. I've been. Honestly.
00:06:26
Zach
It's hard to it's like either they're going to do something with it or they're tearing it out at this point because they announced that they're going to share an update on it soon.
Kingda Ka's Uncertain Future
00:06:38
Ben
Yeah.
00:06:40
Zach
So at this point, either it's getting rethemed. I said I thought it'd be funny if they just announced a paint job.
00:06:47
Ben
Yeah.
00:06:49
Zach
That would make me laugh really hard.
00:06:51
Ben
you
00:06:52
Zach
But like I said, I've been having fun trolling on Twitter with this. I want to read through some of these because I think you'll find them entertaining. And any of our listeners who aren't on Twitter may also.
00:07:05
Zach
So I said. That's it. I'm ramping up this King Dica rumor Six Flags Great Adventure will close following the conclusion of the 2024 season.
00:07:19
Ben
First of all, you're going to say election.
00:07:24
Zach
Oh, and then somebody had posted that Lava Bora was confirmed removed because that was, it showed up on our CDB that way. So, on the day after that, that quote unquote final ride, I put breaking our CDB list King to cause operating.
00:07:42
Ben
Nice.
00:07:48
Ben
nice
00:07:52
Zach
I put I'm, I rode top thrill dragster and King to car years old.
00:07:59
Ben
nice
00:08:00
Zach
Yeah.
00:08:08
Zach
There was some emails, like the one that we got sent to us where it was like, you should expect it to open. So I opened my notes app because other people were Photoshopping the emails.
00:08:19
Ben
Nice. Mhm.
00:08:23
Zach
And I just wrote, dear YFCS, thank you for reaching out to Six Flags Great Adventure regarding our King Dica roller coaster. We'd like to tell you that we think your podcast is crap and you are morons. Maybe King Dica is going, maybe it's staying, but why the hell would we tell you? Sincerely, sit on attack.
00:08:54
Zach
So there you go.
Insider Knowledge and Clarification
00:08:57
Ben
I mean, is anyone out there like...
00:09:02
Ben
I mean, I'm actually surprised no one is acting like they are they're in the know. Like normally this time, like normally when this kind of shit goes down, there's always somebody either on Reddit or YouTube that acts like they're, you know, they're in the know or they know people and like no one has come forward about really anything yet.
00:09:22
Ben
Like,
00:09:22
Zach
Well, no, no, no, there's been some YouTubers. That's where all this started from.
00:09:28
Ben
Yeah, like the you so like yeah like they're they're saying, like oh, we know are we have a source that works in the park, and they're saying it's being removed type of thing. Yeah, I guess that's true.
00:09:39
Zach
Yep.
00:09:40
Ben
I actually just wanted to look up, do a quick tribute to King Naka, in case it does go, because I was also thinking too, like I feel like they would learn their lesson with King Naka. So like if you're going to read you any or either King Naka or Dragstar, I feel like King Naka is probably in better shape to like fuck with.
00:10:06
Zach
I don't know. Remember not I remember not that long ago. People complaining about King to cause lunch being rough because the lunch track wasn't like braced, I think.
00:10:19
Ben
Mm Oh, yeah, so which is I think of an issue with top thrill to. With the whatever the clearance of the fins on the LSMs or whatever.
00:10:32
Ben
So they'll probably have to they would probably have to fix that. Also, like. The trim really killed it for me.
00:10:42
Zach
Well, we will see what happens. At this point, we know King Dica will not be around any longer. Whether it gets modified or is closed remains to be seen.
00:10:58
Zach
But I would also like to shout out Marcus Lashok at WGN News in Chicago. for doing the real journalism reaching out to Six Flags Great Adventure as a journalist and getting them to say that they would share an update.
00:11:17
Ben
Okay. Canada fan.com. It's one of the pictures.
00:11:26
Zach
But we shall see what happens.
00:11:29
Ben
I mean, if they do the extension, that would be pretty cool.
00:11:33
Zach
I'd like to see them. doome Do Do a kingdom car.
00:11:43
Zach
Or. What would they call it?
00:11:49
Ben
to King Tu Ka.
00:11:51
Ben
Oh weird, there's also a phone on our CDB of Viper and King Mecan in the same shot.
00:11:58
Zach
Oh wow!
00:12:00
Zach
Kingda II, Electric Booloo.
00:12:04
Zach
What about Queen Da Ka?
00:12:05
Ben
They turn it into like, yeah, I like Queen Nicole. I like, it'd be kind of funny if they did like a, like a fish hook kind of thing.
00:12:20
Zach
Why don't they? OK, so it's the it's six flags and they're the new Cedar Fair. So why don't they just pull a new six flags, right? They'll do a classic six flags move, but with a Cedar Fair name, I propose they call King Dica. The beast.
00:12:41
Ben
Why?
00:12:45
Zach
Because it would be funny as fuck.
00:12:50
Ben
Six Flags starts, yeah, Six Flags starts incorporating like the, the chain wide, like generic names for things. Every part gets a beast.
00:13:02
Ben
So let's see how how fast is the that new Falcon's flight go?
00:13:12
Zach
156,
00:13:13
Ben
I'm curious.
00:13:16
Zach
158.
00:13:20
Ben
So Fallon's flight. Jimmy Fallon's flight. Falcon's flight.
00:13:28
Ben
So, yeah, 155. And King, King Nacagos, 128.
00:13:33
Zach
Okay.
00:13:38
Ben
So, obviously I'm just trying to be funny, but
00:13:52
Ben
so and then faalcon falcon's fires So this is interesting. So RCDB actually has elevation and then they have drop.
00:14:03
Zach
Well, that makes sense because, you know, it could be a giga coaster if the drop is so much or the height. So according to whoever.
00:14:12
Ben
Yeah.
00:14:15
Ben
Okay. So the, yeah, so they're not counting this, like the, uh, uh, wait, hold on, but like I, but okay. So, okay. Yeah. They're not counting. I guess they're not counting the whole drop off the Corey wall down as a drop. They're only counting the top hat part as a drop. I'm guessing.
00:14:42
Zach
Okay.
00:14:44
Ben
I don't know, I guess like, cause if it's, it's, it's an interesting new, you know, it's a new thing for, um, this all be right. Because like we would ever had a, well, what if you have a drop that goes into a downward launch? Is that still technically a drop? Where do you draw the line? Does the drop stop, stop at the start of the launch?
00:15:10
Ben
Does it stop once it, you know, levels out more than 45 degrees? There's some, there's some questions there that need to answers.
00:15:20
Zach
I'm excited to watch a POV of the ride through and also an off ride to watch it cross that hill.
00:15:24
Ben
Yeah.
00:15:29
Ben
yeah so here so here's what i'm wondering and this is like this is like teenage fusy wet dream but so the drop is 519 feet and the speed of falcons on falcons flight 519 feet foot drop and 155 miles per hour
00:15:29
Zach
And when it inevitably valleys at the bottom of it.
00:15:57
Ben
King Naka was 456 feet tall and 128 miles an hour. So if they do the reverse spike thing, is it possible that they try to beat the record? Like, is it possible they went to Intamin and they were like, Hey, here's our plan. We want to remove Green Lantern because of X reason. We're trying to build this hotel, so we'll have some space open.
00:16:26
Ben
and they want to get the record back and they could, it's not hard to shave off. what would that be? Like 17 miles per hour off of the, you know, off of the, off of the launch. So it doesn't exceed or so doesn't go too fast over the the original top hat.
00:16:47
Ben
You know what I mean?
00:16:48
Zach
They've already got trims up there, though.
00:16:52
Ben
True. True. They could add a few more, but like, you know what I mean? I'm not saying obviously like, I, obviously it's still six flags post merger. They don't really have money to do this, but if, I don't know. I mean, maybe that's why it's silent. Maybe this is there. Maybe they're doing like a very last minute kind of decision.
00:17:19
Ben
type of thing. And they're you know seatar Cedar Fair is like, we don't want to work with Intamin. And then Six Flags is like, well, we don't really mind working with Intamin.
00:17:29
Zach
I don't think it would have been that at all. I don't think they want to work with Sam Perla again.
00:17:35
Ben
Oh, right. It's like they've got these, it's kind of like you know they they were in a marriage and then they cheated on their marriage and they found out that the like the new person is like I don't know has has like a weird serial killer fetish and they go back to the original spouse or something it's like that well
00:18:05
Zach
yet just like that yeah I don't know if if you have any concrete evidence about King DeKalb let us know if you have any wild speculation let us know join us on our discord there's a link in the description it's free
00:18:28
Ben
So does a back spike count as a drop?
00:18:32
Zach
Hmm. I'd say so.
00:18:37
Ben
So, but even be would it what this would be even sillier is if they just add the like, uh, extra elevation to the, to the top hat. Here's the thing there. So you, you got, let's see King Naka has, what is it listed as? So they have height and drop. Okay. So 456 feet tall and 418 feet. So.
00:19:09
Ben
What if they did LSMs on the ground? No, that wouldn't that wouldn't make a difference. They'd still have to add a whole hundred foot. I don't know.
00:19:24
Ben
I'm spiraling.
00:19:27
Zach
All right, well, we can move on. I got something. I, uh, I got a trip report.
00:19:35
Ben
Nice, we're out.
00:19:36
Zach
Uh, I spent the weekend at the Disneyland resort, went to Disneyland and Disney's California adventure first visit as a magic key holder.
00:19:50
Zach
And here's the thing, right? We got our magic keys last week cause they went on sale the day after the election, which made me feel very nice when we got them. I felt a lot better after we bought them. but today as of recording, which is Tuesday, November 12th, the sales have been paused.
00:20:14
Ben
Is that normal? Or like, what's the.
00:20:16
Zach
I know last time they were on sale, they were on sale from March to June.
00:20:21
Ben
Huh.
00:20:23
Zach
So they were on sale for six days.
00:20:26
Ben
Do you think they.
00:20:27
Zach
So I'm just very glad we got ours.
00:20:29
Ben
Yeah. Do you think they like.
00:20:32
Ben
Huh. Do you think they just hit the numbers enough and then like.
00:20:37
Zach
It must be because and here's the thing that's surprising, right? And this is corroborated by the most recent fresh break video as of Tuesday, November 12th. They had a sign up at DCA right by the entrance. Advertising magic key sales.
00:20:59
Ben
Okay.
00:20:59
Zach
Like upgrade today's ticket to a magic key.
00:21:05
Zach
So it's it's really interesting that they paused it so soon.
00:21:09
Zach
But all the more glad we got ours and already already working on getting the money for without of them.
00:21:12
Ben
Yeah.
00:21:17
Zach
So we had two days worth of reservations and we used them up. We flew out Friday or Saturday morning bright and early.
00:21:29
Zach
and flew into LAX, which wasn't the greatest. Not a huge fan of LAX.
00:21:35
Ben
Yeah.
00:21:39
Zach
It is fine. You got a rental.
00:21:42
Ben
Yeah.
00:21:45
Zach
You've flown into l and then into and out of LAX, you know.
00:21:49
Ben
Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's just a standard shitty big airport. Like it's fine.
00:21:58
Ben
In and out.
00:22:00
Zach
We had to taxi for about 1215 minutes before we got to the gate.
00:22:06
Ben
Yeah, it's fucking huge.
00:22:06
Zach
Which really sucked. Yeah.
00:22:08
Ben
Yeah.
00:22:10
Zach
And yeah, we got a rental there and we drove over to Anaheim. Got some Randy's donuts on the way. Shouts to Randy's.
00:22:19
Zach
If you're in l LA, especially if you're flying in the, or out of LAX, stop at Randy's, grab a donut. That shit's hot. You ever had Randy's?
00:22:28
Ben
No.
00:22:31
Zach
Do you like donuts?
00:22:34
Ben
Not really.
00:22:35
Zach
Okay.
00:22:35
Ben
Not, not anymore. I'll eat one though. I'll fuck one up. Let's see, Randy's donuts.
00:22:42
Zach
They're really good.
00:22:45
Ben
Is it like voodoo though, that like they grew a lot and now it's like.
00:22:49
Zach
No. It's still like. They're not like specialty donuts, they're just really good.
00:23:01
Ben
Yeah.
00:23:02
Ben
Oh, Randy's. Okay. Okay. i Yeah, i I don't think I've actually had this, but I know the location like I from the picture.
00:23:12
Zach
Yeah, giant donuts on top.
00:23:15
Ben
Yeah.
00:23:16
Zach
Yeah, it's really good. It's the first time I ever tried it. So we stayed a place called the Capri Suites, just a little past Orangewood on Harbor. So it was about a 25 minute walk from the harbor entrance of Disneyland. It's not too bad.
00:23:43
Zach
because the bus, the bus that goes there only runs every 30 minutes. So it's like. You have no idea how long it's going to take for the bus to start or for the bus to get there, so it's just like, fuck it, it'll take a little less time to walk, so let's just walk.
00:24:03
Ben
Yeah, I gotcha.
00:24:05
Zach
Yeah, yeah. Anyway. got in in the morning made some notes let's see here we went through the sleeping beauty castle walkthrough it was really fun it was dark there were some great um what do you call those dioramas some cool effects Walkthroughs are a good use of space in a park.
00:24:31
Zach
I really appreciate them We went to galaxies edge got the blue milk Not great Save the nine bucks No, it it came out when galaxies edge did I had just never tried it and
00:24:42
Ben
Is that new? Okay.
00:24:54
Zach
it's like it's like coconut and rice milk with like citrus fruit but the problem is it's like it's not it's too creamy to be a smoothie but it's not creamy enough to be a milkshake but it's like too citrusy to be a milkshake i don't know it's fine it's just
00:25:17
Zach
It's not great. we'll try the ill try I'll try the green milk next time, let you know. Because I got blue milk and green milk.
00:25:27
Ben
What the hell is the color of green and blue milk?
00:25:30
Zach
The blue milk is bantha milk, I guess.
00:25:35
Zach
Which is a creature from the Star Wars universe.
00:25:39
Ben
Okay.
00:25:40
Zach
I'm not a big Star Wars guy.
00:25:47
Zach
I had to google why it was blue milk anyway. And then I think the scene from the movie where Luke Skywalker actually drinks it, he makes a face like he took a shot of whiskey.
00:26:05
Ben
It's smurf come.
00:26:07
Zach
Yeah, kinda.
00:26:12
Zach
So yeah, I don't know. Save the nine bucks. Get the Tatooine Sunset over at Ronto Roasters instead. Because that shit's fucking amazing. And that's basically just a suicide where it's like a mixture of a bunch of different stuff from the Soda Fountain.
00:26:32
Ben
yeah
00:26:34
Zach
We rode Haunted Mansion Holiday. Awesome, as always.
00:26:37
Ben
Yeah.
00:26:39
Zach
Then, this was the fun part. We got to go through the Magic Key previews for Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
00:26:49
Ben
Oh, wait, that wasn't even hasn't been open yet.
00:26:52
Zach
It is opening Friday. Today, if you're listening to this today, it comes out November 15th. It is opening at Disneyland.
00:27:01
Ben
okay
00:27:03
Zach
so it was it was in soft opening preview mode and and it was awesome I really enjoyed it I think the Splash Mountain people need to shut the fuck up because it's still a really good ride
00:27:17
Ben
Okay. I mean besides like the small details of theming I mean it's still the same like facade, right? It's still like a mountain.
00:27:29
Ben
The ride is still the same.
00:27:29
Zach
Yeah, it's so like the physical log flume is still the same.
00:27:35
Ben
Yeah.
00:27:35
Zach
The track layouts are all still the same.
00:27:39
Zach
They changed out the scenes.
00:27:42
Zach
And here's the deal, right? Rian and I watched Song of the South a couple of days ago.
00:27:49
Ben
Yeah.
00:27:50
Zach
which they really hit all the beats on that for Splash Mountain and also Jesus Christ that fucking movie but that was all a mistake building that ride themed around that was all a mistake then and
00:28:05
Ben
Yeah.
00:28:08
Zach
Oh, yeah. yo But given that they had the great bones and of this ride, they did a fantastic job. And the portion where the America sings animatronics were on the boat in the finale scene like the finale scene now. Is incredible. They put some of the brand new super fluid motion animatronics in there.
00:28:37
Zach
And it man, it's beautiful. It's great.
00:28:43
Ben
what Are logs the same?
00:28:47
Zach
Yeah, logs are the same. Disneyland, they're still single file seating, five seats.
00:28:58
Ben
Yeah.
00:29:00
Zach
And there was a dad with two kids in the back of our lawn and the kids were fucking crying.
00:29:10
Ben
classic yeah
00:29:13
Zach
Yeah, they didn't like the drops, I don't think. I was trying to be like more excited to help them feel encouraged, but they were like, they were like crying. And I was like, Oh no.
00:29:32
Zach
Yeah. Tiana's was awesome. but I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to being able to ride the one that, uh, magic kingdom, hopefully soon.
00:29:45
Zach
We wore ponchos that helped a lot. I'm pretty sure it was in winter mode.
00:29:51
Zach
The only part that got me fairly wet was, I don't know what you call it now, the shrink down part, the frog part. It used to be called the laughing place. But that portion where you do the drop and then come back up and then drop and splash that fucking part always.
00:30:15
Zach
Although when I last rode Splash Mountain at Disneyland in August of 2022, that part soaked me all the way through. Like I felt like a level of soaked, like, like it penetrated my skin.
00:30:33
Ben
Yeah.
00:30:36
Zach
So it wasn't that bad. So I think it must've been in like winter mode.
00:30:42
Zach
anyway super fun to get on there really love that got our picture on the ride because photo pass is included with our magic keys so really dug that and the picture is great and I filmed like half a POV but again going into the shrink down frog laughing place scene This wall of water came up and like hit my phone directly.
00:31:09
Zach
And I was like, all right, I think that's the end of that.
00:31:09
Ben
Yeah.
00:31:13
Ben
You have a new, what's your iPhone?
00:31:16
Zach
Twelve pro max.
00:31:17
Ben
Oh, it's it's waterproof.
00:31:19
Zach
Yeah, it is. But I was like, I was more concerned about dropping it.
00:31:23
Ben
Yeah.
00:31:24
Zach
Like it getting wet and slippery.
00:31:27
Zach
Because that's before the big drop.
00:31:32
Zach
And I know the outer box is good, but I don't think it's that good.
00:31:36
Ben
Well, just the, well, you know, just the phone itself without a case is waterproof.
00:31:42
Zach
Yeah, the water wasn't the super concerning part. It was more about like I said, I didn't have a great grip on it. Because I don't have like a gimbal or anything. I was literally just holding it.
00:31:55
Ben
Yeah.
00:31:57
Zach
So I was like, oh no, fuck this. I'm going to bail.
00:32:03
Zach
Let's see, we went to DC. We had reservations for the Magic Key Terrace. That was really fun. Glad they have that. If you decide to go to Disneyland, Ben. Let me know, because we'll we'll make reservations for that.
00:32:22
Ben
the how So reservations are still a thing. How soon advanced do you need a notice, typically?
00:32:33
Zach
So like if you're just going to buy tickets, those are date based now. So you'll get a reservation with the day that you select the ticket for.
00:32:44
Ben
Oh, gotcha.
00:32:47
Zach
I have to make advanced reservations for us because that's how the annual passes fucking work.
00:32:53
Ben
yeah what's all
00:32:56
Zach
But they also have the magic key terrace, which is like a pass holder lounge. But apparently you only need one pass holder to get up there.
00:33:06
Zach
It's in Disney's California Adventure and has a really nice view because it's upstairs at the Golden Vine winery.
00:33:17
Ben
What do you get free shit?
00:33:20
Zach
No, no free shit. They got like. Light fair and drinks to purchase. But they have a they have a mint julep cocktail. Man, it's fucking good.
00:33:33
Ben
$20.
00:33:36
Zach
Yeah, it was like 18 bucks. Hey, magic key discount, 15 percent off. but
00:33:46
Zach
Yeah, ah we we split tomato soup, ah cauliflower steak and each got a mint julep. She was good. We saw Mickey's mixed magic on Small World on Saturday. Because the fireworks didn't happen. Because there was wind in the sky.
00:34:12
Ben
hu Yeah.
00:34:13
Zach
Yeah, I didn't know they canceled the firework part for that. So they only did the projection show. So we just kind of walked back around a small world and caught it on there. And that was really cool. Especially because Small World was closed.
00:34:30
Zach
because they're doing the holiday overlay. And as far as I understand it, that should be open as of today on the day of upload Friday, November 15th.
00:34:44
Zach
we went on pirates in row one was very fun. Although there was like an absurd amount of water in the seats. So both of us got like our asses soaked ridiculously.
00:35:02
Zach
And it was like pretty cold. It was like in the low fifties.
00:35:07
Ben
yeah
00:35:09
Zach
So like. I lost the feeling in my ass cheeks.
00:35:15
Zach
After walking back to the hotel and it was all cold in my ass.
00:35:19
Ben
Yeah it's like, that's piss.
00:35:22
Zach
Yeah, it was not.
00:35:25
Zach
great but it was like the people behind us too it was like it was like as if nobody hit was on the ride before us but we saw people get off so i i don't know so then we found a spot to watch fantastic outside of pirates
00:35:35
Ben
Yeah.
00:35:47
Zach
and And we were standing there and Rhian's like, I think they're going to ask us to move. So she found a cast member and asked them about like where we could go to watch the show.
00:36:00
Zach
And they walked us over to the reserved seating area and let us watch Fantasmic from the reserved seating area.
00:36:08
Ben
Nice.
00:36:09
Zach
It was so dope.
00:36:12
Zach
Have you ever seen Fantasmic?
00:36:14
Ben
Now, I don't even know what it is.
00:36:17
Zach
It's a nighttime spectacular.
00:36:20
Ben
So it's not part of the fireworks.
00:36:22
Zach
There's like, it's not like the castle fireworks. It's a separate nighttime show.
00:36:28
Ben
Okay.
00:36:29
Zach
It's got Mickey and a bunch of portions from movies and it's really good.
00:36:39
Zach
There's some pyro and
00:36:42
Zach
At Disneyland, they used the Mark Twain riverboat as part of the show, which is cool. And afterwards we got to see them parking or like taking away. There's there's a couple portions of the show where they have these boats that have a stage on top of them.
00:37:03
Zach
So the driver of the boat is all obscured.
00:37:07
Zach
It just kind of looks like a floating stage. And it just, you know, goes around while the they're doing the dance routines. There's a couple of them. We got to watch them driving them around the rivers of America to the point where they park at. next day we had reservations for DCA when in the morning got a margarita and a churro.
00:37:07
Ben
Mm-hmm Okay
00:37:33
Zach
Then we went over to Disneyland went on the train we spotted where they park those boats Super interesting. They have a very obscured Garage door type of thing in the back there. It was really interesting to see that Took the monorail
00:37:53
Zach
i'm I'm losing track of the order of things we did. We didn't do a ton of rides on Sunday. It was only the monorail and the train.
00:38:03
Zach
Monorail was cool. I had never done that at Disneyland before. We went from downtown Disney to Disneyland. They make you get off. You can't just ride it continuously.
00:38:16
Ben
where does Where does that all go?
00:38:19
Zach
I don't think it makes a stop at Disney's California Adventure, it it but it is Downtown Disney, Disneyland, and the Disneyland Hotel.
00:38:32
Ben
Okay.
00:38:33
Zach
We checked out the Grand Californian Hotel, looked really nice.
00:38:40
Zach
Looks super nice. Would love to stay there at some point. Because they got that dedicated entrance there in Grizzly Peak.
00:38:50
Ben
Yeah.
00:38:52
Zach
Then we got to catch mixed magic, Mickey's mixed magic on Sunday night with the fireworks. I really enjoyed it. They basically take a couple old Disney songs and then made like EDM remixes of all of them.
00:39:12
Zach
Yeah, I dug it. It was cool.
00:39:16
Ben
Yeah.
00:39:17
Zach
Other than they like pretty much all had the same exact tempo.
00:39:22
Zach
It was like a very consistent. I'm going to guess like 125 beats a minute. The entire time.
00:39:28
Ben
yeah
00:39:31
Zach
Yeah. We tried the caramel apple churro. That was really good.
00:39:38
Ben
Is that a holiday thing?
00:39:40
Zach
It it was a.
00:39:42
Zach
Halloween thing, but they still had it because the holiday stuff doesn't officially start until this Friday, November 15.
00:39:54
Ben
Yeah.
00:39:55
Zach
So they still had that.
00:39:56
Ben
And I mean, they're. Yeah, and I mean, like there's like that fall theme crossover of foods, it's like.
00:40:04
Ben
Thanksgiving ambiguous kind of.
00:40:07
Zach
Yeah, yeah. And it was delicious because it had like a caramel apple sauce, which was heavier on the apple. And I appreciated that it was actually like a caramel apple.
00:40:22
Zach
Yeah, no, it was a it was a great time.
00:40:28
Ben
Is it is this a busy time of year for Disney?
00:40:32
Zach
It wasn't too bad. It was a lot busier, surprisingly, on Sunday than Saturday.
00:40:40
Ben
Yeah.
00:40:41
Zach
But I think Sundays and Mondays are busier now.
00:40:47
Ben
Well, it's almost like it almost is that it's like that psychology of people were like, Oh, we won't go Saturday. It's busy. So we'll go Sunday and we'll outsmart everybody.
00:40:58
Ben
But then everybody goes on Sunday.
00:41:01
Zach
Yeah, I think you're right, which is why Mondays are busy now too.
00:41:02
Ben
Kind of vibe.
00:41:08
Zach
So, I mean...
00:41:09
Ben
Yes, Cedar Point, like I guess it's not the same because it's the opposite, but like when I worked at Cedar Point, the best days to go were Fridays and Sundays. Those are the least busy days of the week.
00:41:24
Ben
And then like Mondays and Tuesdays were like Saturday level slammed.
00:41:31
Zach
Yeah, that's not surprising. I've heard recently that Wednesdays are the best for Disneyland, but that's probably true across the board.
00:41:43
Ben
Yeah, because it's like you either you got either got people doing the week or they're doing the weekend. or doing like a three day weekend kind of thing. Yeah, that make that makes sense.
00:41:56
Zach
But yeah, I'd recommend if you're if you're planning a Disneyland trip soon. Friday, Saturday is a much better way to go if you can.
00:41:56
Ben
Ski.
00:42:08
Ben
I mean, I'm definitely due for a Disney visit.
00:42:14
Ben
I guess I think I like about Disneyland over Disney World is like, I don't feel like I need to plan out like a five day itinerary to like, enjoy it. I feel like I could pop it.
00:42:25
Zach
No, definitely not.
00:42:27
Ben
Like I feel like Disneyland is still manageable to where if I only had one day, like I would be fine and feel satisfied.
00:42:36
Zach
Yeah, when was the last time you were at Disneyland?
00:42:39
Ben
Disneyland was literally when we were there.
00:42:43
Zach
Oh my god, dude.
00:42:46
Zach
You have to go to Disneyland.
00:42:49
Ben
Yeah.
00:42:51
Ben
Southern California is like a it's been a while. It's crazy.
00:42:54
Zach
and
00:42:55
Ben
I've actually I think it's been since like.
00:42:56
Zach
And... Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:42:58
Ben
I just I think it's been like probably
00:43:02
Ben
I got to think about that. Maybe like 2017 was the last time I was down there, like for parks. I know that's not true. Was there a reason? I don't know. It's, I gotta go back. I'll do it. I'll do it sometime soon. I feel like this winter is a good time like an impromptu Southern California.
00:43:22
Zach
Hell yeah. And I suppose I owe all of our very early on listeners ah somewhat of an apology.
00:43:34
Zach
Because I'm pretty sure when we started this five years ago, we we were we were firmly on the not Disney side of things.
00:43:45
Zach
And Maya, how the turntables have...
00:43:51
Ben
I mean, there's definitely still over a preference of Disneyland over Disney World.
00:43:57
Zach
Definitely. Although now I feel like I really want to go to Disney World.
00:44:03
Ben
Yeah, I mean like I wanted to like there's stuff I want to like it just. It feels so impossible like I'm like the thought of it is so overwhelming. I would just like if I could go for four days and have someone plan it for me. That's. You know. That'd be fine, but.
00:44:24
Ben
I don't even know where to start like a what I go to Disney dot.com and then like I just. ah ah It's it's ah ah it seems super overwhelming. Like I'm going to see if I'm actually going to see how good their user experience is. So if I go to Disney World dot com.
00:44:47
Ben
I spelled Disney wrong.
00:44:51
Ben
So there's tickets, places to say, things to do, shop. So like, is there a portal where I can do all of the check? Like, let's see. So I can get tickets, but what if I want to like stay at the resort and then I know, but like, there's so many options, like.
00:45:07
Zach
They have packages.
00:45:15
Ben
deluxe villas, resort hotels, moderate resort hotels, value resort hotels and campgrounds.
00:45:22
Ben
Let's see what like a.
00:45:24
Ben
See what a good old moderate resort hotel is. So.
00:45:31
Ben
The Caribbean Beach Resort.
00:45:32
Zach
The Riviera.
00:45:35
Ben
The French corridor. Port Orleans.
00:45:42
Ben
Let's do the beach feeling beach vibes. And I'm going to go on for 20. So I want to be there from the 18th to the for adults.
00:45:58
Ben
If I start entering my credit card info, like please, uh, let me know.
00:46:04
Zach
Just make sure you read it out loud for the listeners.
00:46:04
Ben
Don't let me, don't let me do it.
00:46:10
Ben
Okay. Save up to 25% on rooms early 2025.
00:46:16
Ben
So it's $466 a in a, in a preferred room.
00:46:22
Zach
Yep.
00:46:24
Ben
Water or pool view? I definitely want a pool view. I love how it says water or pool. ah
00:46:33
Ben
It's like, I thought I was getting a water view. It's like, yeah, it is water. pool You know, it's a pool view. Okay.
00:46:40
Zach
There's water in the pool. No, there's not. It's under construction.
00:46:47
Ben
Okay. So 4 47 in the night. I'm guessing this includes park tickets.
00:46:53
Zach
Nope.
00:46:54
Ben
Oh God. Okay. So somehow my total is already up to $4,000. Jesus Christ.
00:47:03
Ben
Okay. So now there's theme park reservation requirements. So if I, so just getting a hotel required, getting a hotel doesn't even get me a reservation.
00:47:13
Ben
Let's see, view availability. So I have to go to another website to check to make sure that I can input in the dates. It doesn't default your dates. And this is just checking your reservation or your your date. Okay. So apparently it's all, it's all, it's all green. Okay. So I got to close this webpage, go to this one. Okay. So I want to go four days, $4,216.
00:47:42
Ben
And then I'm guessing that I want the park hopper plus include same date, include same day admission to all four theme parks, plus visits to water park.
00:47:50
Zach
Nah, you don't need that.
00:47:57
Ben
So just the park, uh, park hopper.
00:47:59
Zach
Nah, you don't need that.
00:48:03
Ben
Okay. So just one park per day.
00:48:05
Zach
Well, unless you want to spend the extra like.
00:48:09
Zach
70 or whatever it is a day.
00:48:09
Ben
yeah Yeah, it's a hundred dollars a ticket. But see, here's what's here's what's frustrating about this, like thinking about this. It's like, what if I get there and I can't get a reservation for a ride? I really want to ride. Right. And then, like, I have to use up one of my tickets for the park, the same park on the second day just to get that ride.
00:48:33
Zach
What ride are you concerned about?
00:48:36
Ben
I don't know. Like, let's say I wanted to ride like guardians and then aren't those not valid on some though
00:48:43
Zach
If you can't get the virtual queue at, I think it's eight, maybe it's seven, then they do another one, I think at noon or one. And if you can't get either of those, then they do sell an individual attraction pass.
00:49:03
Zach
What?
00:49:05
Ben
I would say I was I was there's all these like weird rules about like oh well this ride is only lightning and this one's lightly in lane but not lightly in lane plus this one is quick
00:49:15
Zach
Yeah, exactly. So you can buy a single pass for your Guardians. So you don't need Lightning Lane. Multipass.
00:49:32
Zach
or a Premier Pass. Premier Pass will work, but you don't need to spend that much money. You don't need multi-pass. You can get an individual for Guardians.
00:49:46
Ben
Okay.
00:49:47
Ben
So, okay, it wants me to add a dining plan. So.
00:49:52
Zach
I mean, you can, but those those if you, if you want to save money, then you have to make sure you're picking what you're using your credits on very specifically.
00:50:08
Ben
Okay, so yeah, it looks like it adds $500 with the dining plan with the quick service dining plan and I'm assuming this is like not great stuff like this is just like you know fries pretzels pizza sticks like
00:50:22
Zach
Yeah, it's quick service. You might get a little more variety, but yeah, burgers, fries, chicken fingers.
00:50:36
Ben
I love on the, there's the Disney dining plan, which is an extra thousand dollars.
00:50:43
Zach
Well, that includes table service.
00:50:44
Ben
So yeah, a table service, one table service meal, one quick service meal, one snack, one resort refillable drink or mug, and then redeem your meals for special dining experiences.
00:51:01
Ben
Okay. So that's only.
00:51:03
Ben
okay so it's it's a lot more expensive but you get one table service meal okay okay so now they got the add-ons the memory maker so
00:51:09
Zach
But like I said, if you want to actually save money on the dining plan or even break even, you have to very strategically use your credits.
00:51:28
Zach
Photos.
00:51:32
Ben
It is $185, which I guess for four people, unlimited downloads, I feel like that's probably, fuck it. Let's add the memory maker.
00:51:51
Ben
And then let's see ground transportation. route Okay. That's just a rental car travel protection. I feel like that's probably a good idea depending on how much it costs. So $380.
00:52:08
Ben
Yeah. Fuck it. That's probably a good idea.
00:52:14
Ben
Okay. So the end of the day requires a $580 deposit and the total is $4,700 to go and stay at the Disney's Caribbean beach resort and four day admissions and memory maker.
00:52:35
Ben
Okay. That wasn't too bad.
00:52:39
Ben
Do you want to go to Disney?
00:52:42
Zach
Yeah, but I think we can do it cheaper than that.
00:52:49
Ben
well
00:52:49
Zach
Look up, look up how much it would be like on Airbnb. To rent a vacation house at Margaritaville. And I'm pretty sure that's in Orlando.
00:53:06
Ben
margaritoville
00:53:10
Zach
Wasted away again, Margarita Vell.
00:53:16
Ben
margaritaville marijuanaville for four twenty it
00:53:19
Zach
I love that place.
00:53:28
Zach
Yup.
00:53:30
Ben
is on a sunday so Lord's Day.
00:53:42
Ben
So it's like 200 a night.
00:53:44
Ben
It's not bad.
00:53:46
Zach
And that's for a house there.
00:53:48
Ben
It's they're like townhomes.
00:53:51
Zach
Yeah, yeah, how many bedrooms?
00:53:52
Ben
slash, four for four people. So two bedroom.
00:53:56
Zach
Two beds, yeah.
00:53:57
Ben
Yeah. With a little pool.
00:54:00
Zach
See, there you go.
00:54:03
Zach
Because you stay there and rent one of them.
00:54:06
Ben
Yeah. It's not a bad idea. yeah
00:54:10
Ben
How far away is that from Disney, like drive-wise?
00:54:13
Zach
20 minutes, 25 minutes, depending on the park.
00:54:18
Ben
Yeah. Okay. Well, it feels a little more accessible than I originally thought. That's cool.
00:54:30
Zach
Yeah, I don't think I don't think staying on site is necessarily the move.
00:54:37
Ben
Yeah.
00:54:37
Zach
at Disney. It can be depending on what type of trip you want to do. But I think for value, you get a much better value. Like I said, renting out a one of those houses at Margaritaville.
00:54:59
Zach
That's what Rhiannon I did in 2020.
00:55:04
Ben
Yeah, it's not bad. Cool.
00:55:07
Zach
yeah
00:55:14
Ben
Oh, God, I have a there's a tab open. And this is actually kind of funny. It's sad, but like it's pretty funny. Given the history of this place.
00:55:26
Zach
Yeah What is it?
00:55:29
Ben
OK. Park News, 11-9. According to the local news in Canada, another beluga whale has died at Marine Land this week.
00:55:42
Zach
Oh god.
00:55:44
Ben
So, it's funny how they say this week. like And then it goes on, it says, while death is part of the, quote, circle of life,
00:55:55
Ben
This is apparently the fifth whale to die at the park over the past year.
00:56:00
Zach
Holy shit.
00:56:01
Ben
An investigation into the park has apparently also determined that the deaths are not due to quality quality issues. It says quality twice.
00:56:14
Zach
i Think they need some quality quality control
00:56:20
Ben
2024 in general has been an interesting one for the park with rumors spreading rampant at the start of the year that the park might not open at all, only for it to be open for a relatively short season from late June through early September. At the time, it was also stated that the park was prepping for a strategic evolution and redevelopment plan that will occur under new ownership, but no but nothing more was ever announced. Also the park sale. Can't talk.
00:56:48
Ben
Also announce about the possible sale of the park.
00:56:57
Ben
I mean, that place is sketch.
00:56:57
Zach
Yeah, definitely.
00:57:01
Zach
It seemed like so empty.
00:57:05
Ben
Mm hmm.
00:57:06
Zach
Like there was this big portions of land where there was nothing.
00:57:14
Ben
Yeah, it was like you're walking through like a so just like a state park with a like a like on a path. And then they would walk and they're like, oh, there's a ride there, I guess.
00:57:29
Zach
yeah right and then it'd be nothing for a long while and it's like oh shit there's dragon mountain
00:57:38
Ben
Yeah, it took it took a while to find it because it wasn't easy to find.
00:57:45
Ben
Yeah, I mean Dragon Mountain was pretty good, but That's crazy And then Ayapa Ayapa I'm just going through these headlines. So what's the what the instrument thing is on?
00:58:05
Ben
a
00:58:11
Ben
No, I hate this website.
00:58:16
Ben
Another beluga whale died. That's crazy.
00:58:21
Zach
That is ridiculous.
00:58:24
Ben
Is there anything else going on? Like, isn't there? Oh, yeah. Six Flags was saying that they would potentially close parks. Which.
00:58:32
Zach
But then they said they're not going to close parks.
00:58:39
Ben
I have a feeling I have a I have a weird feeling if like they're having some internal political struggles like within the company as a merger. Cause it seems like you, you hear a conflicting thing about conflicting things about the company all the time. Like King Nikas getting removed. No, it's not. Yes, it is. We're closing parks. No, we're not.
00:59:01
Zach
Yeah, right?
00:59:03
Ben
So I don't know, but the things that everyone was super optimistic about, like originally with the merger. about how like, Oh no, this is a great thing for the company and this is going to lead to better operations and better things. And it's like, it seems like we have closed rides, rumored closed parks, rides not opening rides being removed. So here's that.
00:59:33
Zach
Yeah, I. I don't think it's great.
00:59:41
Ben
Did you see, oh, did you see the RCDB link I put in the, in the chat?
00:59:47
Zach
Yeah, what is that?
00:59:48
Ben
I don't know. It's like a, it's a coaster, but it's like for children only, I think.
00:59:58
Zach
Yeah, that's really weird. It's like in a fucking cornfield.
01:00:08
Zach
Human powered roller coaster.
01:00:15
Zach
Wild.
01:00:16
Zach
So where is this?
01:00:17
Ben
I it's in Germany.
01:00:21
Zach
Yup, interesting. That's really weird. Isn't that weird? I love gold.
01:00:36
Ben
I'm just digging through now. The wild moose has yet to sell.
01:00:40
Zach
Yup.
01:00:43
Zach
Nobody wants that shit.
01:00:48
Ben
Those new train designs are like, not great. How come every time a manufacturer makes a new train, they like all kind of look the same?
01:01:00
Ben
Like these these new RMC trains look exactly like timber liners.
01:01:06
Zach
They're like, they're not the limber tiners. And they were they're a completely original idea.
01:01:16
Ben
Is it just mirrored? Does RMC not have a great company image?
01:01:20
Zach
Did you ever watch that documentary about them?
01:01:25
Zach
I mean, TLDR Fred seems like a kook.
01:01:34
Ben
I mean I get like the brands of roller coaster designs aren't that or like companies aren't that important but like
01:01:42
Ben
mock like mock has good marketing i like their logo i like their all their you know all their stuff rmc still feels very aero yeah
01:02:07
Zach
The first degree to engineer. Do you remember that from the arrow documentary?
01:02:22
Ben
a lot of because it was what was the backstory of that like a Disney Oh Right
01:02:29
Zach
It's like Ron Toomer was the first engineer there that had a college degree.
01:02:42
Ben
Yeah, that's about right. It's via the give, give a percentage of whether it came to cause closing.
01:02:53
Ben
Really?
01:02:54
Zach
Yeah.
01:02:56
Ben
They're just going to rip it out.
01:02:59
Zach
I don't know. That's the thing is, I don't know. I would have said I'm not so sure until this morning when Marcus Leshock said, well, shared that he heard back from the park, that they would be sharing an update about King de Ka soon.
01:03:19
Ben
Yeah, because I was thinking about Six Flags and IAPA, but like Six Flags has never really had a presence at IAPA though, have they?
01:03:27
Zach
Yeah, sure, they have.
01:03:29
Ben
But have they announced like major coasters at IAPA?
01:03:33
Ben
Before like, is that is that something they do?
01:03:36
Zach
I don't think they announce them there, but they might give more details.
01:03:40
Ben
Okay.
01:03:42
Ben
Will it play baby? I'm ready to go.
01:03:47
Zach
What if they pull the six flags and it becomes top thrill too?
01:03:51
Ben
That would be pretty funny.
01:03:56
Zach
Every part gets their own top thrill too.
01:03:58
Ben
End beast.
01:04:01
Zach
And beast.
01:04:04
Ben
Batman the ride becomes the beast.
01:04:12
Ben
Well...
01:04:12
Zach
Yeah, I'm with you.
01:04:13
Ben
I
01:04:15
Zach
We got anything else?
01:04:17
Ben
don't think so. It's pretty slow other than the King D'Kasha.
01:04:21
Zach
I mean that's been kinda consuming at all. I guess we could talk about briefly that Green Lantern is officially closing. We kinda talked about that.
01:04:29
Ben
Yeah. And I keep seeing memes about it going to great escape.
01:04:35
Zach
I don't know what's up with that.
01:04:38
Ben
That'd be pretty funny.
01:04:41
Zach
I'm all for it. Also, I want to see Canobals built King Dica.
01:04:49
Ben
Or, uh,
01:04:49
Zach
I mean, if Great Adventure is getting rid of it, you're right down the street.
01:04:55
Ben
Gene Staples, they buy, but they just buy like part of the, or they buy the whole ride, but they only put like part of it up.
01:04:57
Zach
Right, Indiana Beach. Just the bunny hill.
01:05:05
Ben
Yeah.
01:05:08
Ben
We're like just the trough of the top hat to the bunny Hill. So it just rocks back and forth.
01:05:14
Ben
They just have like, they just like win shit up, like part of the way up and then they have a roll back and forth. Takes up like the whole park length.
01:05:26
Zach
Yeah, the bunny hills just going over the whole boardwalk.
01:05:31
Ben
ah
01:05:35
Ben
Yeah. King Naka basically like the footprint of King Naka is basically the entirety of Indiana beach.
01:05:42
Zach
Pretty much. Which is why I think it'd be perfect there.
01:05:48
Ben
Yeah, that'd be, uh, be fun.
01:05:52
Zach
you'd be able to see it for miles around.
01:05:54
Ben
Yeah. I don't know. I want to know what the fuck is going on. B and M's and then like, I don't want to go over it again, but the whole B and M rattle thing. Nathan was just mentioning to you how like, um, Dollywood.
01:06:13
Ben
Wild Eagle had like a pretty crazy rattle.
01:06:17
Zach
It's unfortunate to hear.
01:06:20
Ben
Even though there was some POV of what was it? It was like a newer B&M. I don't remember. I don't know. It was just like a video, but like you could see the whole train like kerchunking. And like, you know, the camera was like getting jostled around I don't know I don't know what the fuck is going on no it's just been like a shitty
01:06:48
Zach
Well, hug a B and&M today.
01:06:52
Zach
They need it. Well, you got anything else Ben?
01:07:00
Ben
Long week. I feel like everyone else is probably feeling the same way.
01:07:06
Zach
yeah probably hopefully this made you feel a little less shitty everybody pray for Ka pray for an end of its misery foot tall roller coaster
01:07:09
Ben
I hope for King Dica. Pray for King Dica. It rises again.
01:07:24
Ben
Maybe that's why they're delaying the announcement because they're going to announce something big.
01:07:34
Ben
They could easily break that record. They could do this. I mean, it's very unbrand for Six Flags to build a spike that the train does not fully reach the top of.
01:07:46
Ben
So.
01:07:46
Zach
just to claim the tallest.
01:07:48
Ben
Yeah. Oh, yeah. They'll add a radio antenna tower to it and shit. Make it like 600 feet.
01:07:54
Zach
I mean, they technically they had um that opportunity already.
01:07:59
Ben
Yeah, true.
01:08:01
Zach
They were like, do we make it 500? No.
01:08:06
Ben
They're closing it to add a taller radio tower and like, ah ah and I like it to add an actual like antenna to it.
01:08:14
Ben
Or, or they do like a Mr.
01:08:14
Zach
i Could see it Turn the top head upside down
01:08:17
Ben
Freeze kind of thing.
01:08:22
Ben
Well, I mean, they could do that too. I was thinking like you just kind of add this the spike is like in the center of the top hat and then you have like a giant overbank or like a moment or dive loop or some shit.
01:08:37
Zach
and that'd be pretty sweet
01:08:39
Ben
if I have a feeling they would go the dive loop route if I had to guess.
01:08:47
Zach
Well, I guess it remains to be seen. Hopefully they don't announce it before this gets uploaded, making us look like idiots.
01:08:57
Ben
It's always fun to have those little like time capsule moments.
01:09:04
Zach
Right. and I feel like we record this now and then like Thursday night, there's going to be a big announcement.
01:09:10
Ben
Mm hmm.
01:09:12
Zach
Although now that I said that, it's going to be nothing on Friday.
01:09:16
Ben
Yeah. It's nice to have those dated. I mean, yeah, hopefully. I mean, that's the thing. Like if you if you put it out into existence, it'll maybe it'll surprise us.
01:09:28
Zach
Well, we shall see. But yeah, I'm getting a little tired.
01:09:39
Ben
Yeah, for sure.
01:09:39
Zach
time to get some sleep. Thank you all so much for listening. We always appreciate it. So good. Ride a coaster, go to a park. Think happy thoughts.
01:09:56
Ben
if Go to a theme park instead of going to your awkward Thanksgiving dinner.
01:10:04
Zach
Yeah, do that.
01:10:09
Zach
And went if you have to go to Thanksgiving dinner, then answer every question as if it was, why do you feel that your favorite coaster is overrated? Or not feel that way?
01:10:25
Zach
I don't know. Shit, you got anything else?
01:10:31
Zach
All right, well, then will talk to all y'all very soon. And until next time, your favorite coaster sucks.
01:10:39
Ben
favorite coaster sucks