The Theme Park Duo Podcast

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! On this Episode of The Theme Park Duo Podcast, The Duo chats all about their Holiday adventures at Knott's Berry (Merry) Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain Holiday in the Park! Both events filling their parks with Holiday cheer and festive foods. These are not your generic Holiday fair as well! Each park brings their special unique twist on how to make the Holidays special for the guests who enter the park. Find out what happened when Nikki and Gabe took a picture with Santa! Also find out what happened when Nikki threw a pie in Gabe's face! All that and more on this episode.    Check out our website: themeparkduo.com Follow us on social media: @themeparkduo Contact us: themeparkduo@gmail.com

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO!   On this Episode, The Duo takes you on a journey to the East Coast to talk about their crazy trip to The Universal Orlando Resort for Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. Also maybe some Disney stops along the way. We talk our favorite moments and our not so favorite moments from our quick vacation to Orlando. Find out what we loved (SPOILER ALERT its probably The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley) and didn't love about our first experience with Universal Studios on the East Coast! Also find out why we ended up crying so much on our trip! Along with our trip report, we talk about the newly renovated and intensified Ghost and Legends Tour aboard The Queen Mary in Long Beach California. Take a tour aboard the famously haunted Queen Mary, but watch out because you will be entering some of the most haunted locations on the ship and you might just have an encoun

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! The Theme Park Duo flew across the country from California all the way to Orlando Florida to attend one of the biggest Halloween events in the country! We got to attend Universal Orlando Resort's Halloween Horror Nights 27! This was such a different experience for us since we are use to HHN Hollywood. One major difference being the original houses they have at the park! Lucky for us, we were able to cross paths with our good friends Rick West and Johanna Atilano from Theme Park Adventure and Midsummer Scream. This was their first visit too so why not bring them on the show to chat about the event! We also talk about Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group's Urban Death! Such a unique and transformative experience that all should experience. On top of that, we chat The Warner Brothers Studio Tour: Horror Made Here. A brand new event for this year matching quailty with that of Knott's Scary Farm and Universal HHN.  This is a

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! The Theme Park Duo visited Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood to see what they have cooked up for this years incredibly scary event. USH HHN is known for their high quality sets, make up, masks and hard core scares. Listen as we recount our visits to USH and here our thoughts on this years HUGE IP houses that include: Insidious, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Ash Vs Evil Dead, Saw and much more! Find out what we loved and what we didn't love as much about this years fun event. Will Jack Torrance get us within the walls of the Overlook Hotel, or will we be grabbed by a demon within The Further? You have to listen to find out!   Check out our website: themeparkduo.com Follow us on social media: @themeparkduo Contact us: themeparkduo@gmail.com

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! Instead of checking out the scariest haunts around, The Duo talks a few of their favorite family friendly alternatives this Halloween season. First they start off at the Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland! We chat about Haunted Mansion Holidays, Space Mountain Ghost Galaxies, Cars Land Haul-o-ween, Guardians of the Galaxy Monsters After Dark and much more! Then we head on over to Knott's Spooky Farm to chat about their fun additions for the holiday. They have a fabulous lay over on the log ride called, Timber Mountain Log Ride Halloween Hootenanny! They also have wonderfully spooky characters roaming around Ghost Town to help give candies to the kids visiting the park. Lastly, we chat about Ghost Train in Griffith Park! A wonderful train ride for the entire family to enjoy that will be sure to get you into the Halloween spirit! All of this and so much more on this episode of The Theme Park Duo Podcast.    Check out our w

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! The Duo once again visits the place in which they had a paranormal encounter, The Queen Mary. But this time, the ghosts manifest in the form of Dark Harbor 2017! The ghouls, goblins, ghosts and specters all come out to play at Queen Mary's Dark Harbor! With 7 mazes, plenty of bars and so much entertainment; Dark Harbor is the biggest it's been in years. One of the more creative haunted events that we visit, Dark Harbor covers all facets of fun Halloween events. Join us as we review the mazes, scare zones, bars, entertainments and overall value of this event! Stay close, you never know what you will run into aboard the Queen Mary. If you don't watch out, we guarantee that someone or something will watch you. Check out our website: themeparkduo.com Follow us on social media: @themeparkduo Contact us: themeparkduo@gmail.com

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! The Duo takes you through the terrors and scares that await you at Knott's Scary Farm, the longest running Halloween event around! One of our favorite haunts ever, it's easy to gush about this event. But, not only is it just The Duo, we brought Ted Dougherty on the show. Author of A Picture History Knott's Scary Farm Halloween Haunt and owner of Ultimatehaunt.com, Ted is the perfect person to chat Knott's Scary Farm! Here you will find maze and scare zone reviews as well as just the over all value of this incredible event! This episode is filled with scares, frights, fun, sliders, monsters and just about everything that goes bump in the night and the FOG! The most haunting Halloween event in Southern California, Knott's Scary Farm, returns with unimaginable scares and innovative thrills for its 45th season. The fully transformed park will feature 13 uniquely haunted mazes and attractions, including the return of Elvira, M

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER AND iHEART RADIO! Welcome to this SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EDITION of The Theme Park Duo Podcast! On this weeks episode we chat everything Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest. With more days to get scared than every before, there is no reason to miss out on Fright Fest. Located in Valencia California, not to far away from Los Angeles; Fright Fest boasts 7 mazes, 6 Scares Zones and 2 Shows!. Not to mentioned that you get to ride some world class roller coasters in the dark like: Twisted Colossus, Batman, X2, and Full Throttle. With so much to do at this years events, hear what we thought about all the scary happenings! Check out our website: themeparkduo.com Check our our social media: @THEMEPARKDUO Contact us: themeparkduo@gmail.com

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! One this Disney centric episode, we are joined by Rich Stork of The One Little Spark Podcast to chat Main Street USA in our BRAND NEW segment Coast to Coast Battle! We compare and contrast the Main Street USA at Disneyland California to the Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom in Florida! Find out what we think rocks and what we think sinks to the bottle of this non stop opinion fuel conversation! Along with that, we have the Theme Park Bulletin! We chat about Shanghai Disneyland and their conversion to a completely digital Fast Pass system, T2:3D Battle Across Time closing over at Universal Studios Florida and the current event of Hurricane Irma which is passing through Florida! Don't miss a beat of this weeks crazy episode! Check out our website: themeparkduo.com Check our our social media: @THEMEPARKDUO Subscribe to The One Little Spark Podcast  

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! Knott's invited The Duo to the Knott's Scary Farm Announcement event and we got the scoop on all the spooky details that await everyone this coming Halloween season! We also got incredible interviews with Jon Cooke, Daniel Miller (Maze Designers) and Ken Parks the Director of Entertainment at Knott's Berry Farm! In this episode we share our thoughts about the ALL NEW MAZES as well as the returning mazes for Knott's Scary Farm 2017! The most haunting Halloween event in Southern California, Knott's Scary Farm, returns with unimaginable scares and innovative thrills for its 45th season. The fully transformed park will feature 13 uniquely haunted mazes and attractions, including the return of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for her last performance as she bids farewell to the Scary Farm crowds with an all-new show. Knott's Scary Farm is back for 25 horrifying nights from September 21 – October 31. This year's Knott's Scary Farm experience ha

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES, GOOGLE PLAY, STITCHER, iHEART RADIO AND SPOTIFY!  Change always happens at theme parks. The only change that seems to really bother people are the changes that are done in order to be more politically correct. Currently in the world we live in, being politically correct seems to be more and more important and it has started to permeate into the theme park world. With changes coming to Pirates of the Caribbean, the conversation has grown louder and louder. On this show, we brought on Doug Barnes from The Season Pass Podcast to talk about the PC culture in theme parks. We talk not only about Disneyland, but Knott's Berry Farm, Halloween Horror Nights and Haunts! It should be a polarizing yet interesting episode! Along with this comes a heaping helping of theme park news in the Theme Park Bulletin! We talk Hangtime at Knott's Berry Farm, Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point, RailBlazer at California's Great America, Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City and Twisted Timber

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! Come listen to The Duo as they do a much more personal episode. How theme parks were in their lives growing up, how it impacted them, how they met and eventually got married! It's a whirl wind of stories this episode, but not short of theme park news. We hit the Theme Park Bulletin with the news of Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster announcement from Six Flags! The worlds first single rail coaster coming out of RMC (Rocky Mountain Construction) and debuting at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. We also talk about the drastic changes to Fantasmic, the re-opening of The Rivers of America, Disneyland Railroad and many other smaller attractions at Disneyland California, and lastly cover the teasing Knott's has been doing over the past weeks about their major announcement coming up on the new attraction coming to Boardwalk. Lastly we hit everyone's favorite complaining segment, Park Peeves! Check out our Website: themeparkduo.com    Follow us on social

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! This past weekend, The Duo made their way to Long Beach to attend the Midsummer Scream Halloween Festival! This is the number one location for those who need Halloween to come early! During one weekend in Summer, Halloween fans of all walks of life come together to celebrate the holiday we all love; as well as hear all the new things in store for their favorite haunts. For this episode, we have another on location episode. We covered: Knott's Scary Farm, Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights, Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest, Queen Mary's Dark Harbor, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Creation and Knott 45th Retrospective! We are also joined by a long line of guests: Rick West of Theme Park Adventure, Mark Silverman (The Voice of Rod Serling on Tower of Terror), Doug Barnes of The Season Pass Podcast, Mark Wing and Zach Moore of Six Flags Magic Mountain, James H. Carter II of Foolish Mortals Doc and The Creepy Kingdom

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! This past weekend, The Duo made their way to Anaheim Convention Center to enjoy the 2017 D23 Expo! The D23 Expo is the one stop shop for all things Disney for all the Disney fans. Whether its cartoons on Disney XD or Theme Parks, D23 has you covered. We spent the entire weekend at D23 and wanted to share our adventures with everyone! You will hear us talk about the different panels we attended, who we met, who we saw and what our over all thoughts were on the Expo itself. It was a long and tiring weekend but we wouldn't change it for the world. Stay tuned because this episode promises to be a Disney packed episode! Check out our Website: themeparkduo.com     Follow us on social media: @themeparkduo Contact us: themeparkduo@gmail.com  

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! We all do it! We dream of attractions that do not exist and we dream big! What if they had a Mary Poppins ride or a Wreck It Ralph ride? Well this is exactly what we do in this weeks episode! We are joined by Brandon Hawkins of TheHappiestBlogOnEarth.net to discuss what Disney Properties would create amazing themed attractions in the Disney Parks! We go to some main stream movies to some obscure 80's Sunday Night Movies! It is an episode that is sure to make you cheer with joy because of nostalgic memories with these beloved movies! To celebrate Episode 10, we are debuting a brand new segment, PARK PEEVES! In this new segment we will talk about particular things people do at theme parks that annoy us to no extent! Also for the Theme Park Bulletin, we talk about the shocking news that Disney will be removing the Auction scene from Pirates of the Caribbean, the drama behind the Hall of Presidents and President Donald Trump, and the openi

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! We have a double dose of trip reports for everyone today! The Duo went to Sea World San Diego to check out their brand new area Ocean Explorer, rode its main attraction Submarine Quest, saw the BRAND NEW Orca Encounter show, got a back stage tour with a close encounter with a Dolphin and Sea Lion, and rose their big rides Manta (roller coaster) and Journey to Atlantis! In The Duo's second trip, they visited Disney California Adventure park to ride Guardians of the Galaxy Mission: Breakout for the first time. Hear their thoughts and problems with the fun new additions to Hollywood Land at The Disneyland Resort. Also on this episode, The Duo is joined by Brian Saeger of skywalkingadventure.com to chat about the theme park news! They chat about Universal Studios and their announcement of Super Nintendo World, Universal Studios Hollywood getting a Voodoo Donuts, Universal Studios Hollywood's new DreamWorks Theatre attraction replacing Shre

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! We always end each episode with "There is always a great big beautiful tomorrow" because of our bright future ahead of all of us. But what a fitting thing to say with this weeks topic of the future of theme parks. Where are theme parks headed? What types of new technology will be implemented to make us feel like we are enveloped in fantastic worlds? Will there be media? Will it be practical? Will it incorporate Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality? We try to figure out all these answers, but our opinions might surprise you! We are joined by Rick West of Theme Park Adventure and Midsummer Scream to talk about where we see the theme park industry headed. We talk about Universal Studios Flordia's Volcano Bay and their new Tapu Tapu virtual line system, Jimmy Fallon: Race Through New York, Star Wars Land and many many more! In our Haunting Headlines section, we discuss the unfortunate news of the passing of Gary Corb, a staple and pillar o

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! Have you ever just wished that your favorite closed attraction from the past would make a resounding return to the world of theme parks and amusement parks? One more ride on The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management at The Magic Kingdom? One more trip into the twilight zone on the Tower of Terror at Disney' California Adventure? Well this is the episode where the Duo talks about oldies that have gone the way of the dodo. Everyone has their personal attachment to attractions whether its at Disneyland in Anaheim California or Universal Studios in Orlando. So the Duo gives their personal TOP 5 closed attractions here in Souther California. It is a whirl wind of emotions, sad stories and wonderful memories. Not only do we reminisce on amazing rides and attractions of the past, but we do talk about the new night time show coming to Universal Studios Hollywood in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We mention that permits have been file

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! Set sail with Nikki and Gabriel as the hosts of The Theme Park Duo Podcast bring an intense RIDE BATTLE between Pirates of the Caribbean from Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in celebration of the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.  Although there are many differences, the magic that was used to design both attractions is immense. Incredible minds came together to create an attraction that has surpassed the bounds of theme parks and has permeated the popular culture. By the end of this episode, you will be saying Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me. Along side this voyage, we will be making some pit stops to chat about the current news. This news includes our Mouse Report: insider new and previews of Pandora: The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom, the rumored Haunted Mansion themed restaurant, Club 33 opening up in the Walt Disney World Resort and The Foolish Mortals Documentary all abou

THE THEME PARK DUO PODCAST: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY AND STITCHER! Sit down with Nikki and Gabriel as the hosts of The Theme Park Duo Podcast bring a fun trip to Shanghai Disneyland! We are joined by our friend Kevin who was lucky enough to visit the brand new Disney Park! We talk about the incredible ground breaking Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure, the Tron Lightcycle Power Run, the shows, and the major cultural differences between American Disney Theme Parks and Foreign Disney Theme Parks! It's such an interesting conversation and you should not miss this one! With our Theme Park Bulletin segment, we chat about Blackpool Pleasure Beach's new roller coaster ICON, Christmas in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida/Orlando,  Star Wars Land construction updates and the immersive details coming to the new land and FINALLY some interesting new information coming from Pandora: The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Its a jam