Theme Parks Are Creepy

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Hey, Bobby, you know what's really creepy? What, Lauren? And that we might be going to this coming week? What, Lauren? I don't know how to say it. Theme! See, I would say amusement park. A theme park. An amusement park. I don't know what I'd say. Because you are amused there. I'm usually amused. But also, I like a good theme. So. So. I like parks with themes and parks with amusement.

We were sitting here trying to decide what to title this podcast because I like to say amusement parks. Bobby likes to say theme parks. And so we looked it up. Do you want to tell people that there is a difference between a theme park and an amusement park? First off, the definition-wise, which you could... Just in case nobody is aware what an amusement or a theme park is. We know you come here to get very good.

definitions about things. You come here for research. Yes. So the first thing. You in the audience. The first thing, amusement park is a park that features various attractions such as rides and games as well as other events for entertainment purposes. You're amused. You're amused there. A theme park, on the other hand, is a type of amusement park.

Oh, so amusement park is the main term. That bases its structures and attractions around a central theme, often featuring multiple areas with different themes, like islands of adventure. You're going to have an adventure. in the various theme parks in there. How was your first example not Disney World? Because when I thought of themes, I thought like Islands of Adventure is like Harry Potter World, like Marvel World, Dinosaur, Jurassic Park.

What's Disney? Disney's just Disney. Disney's Mickey. Disney movies. What do you mean? Yeah. Disney's Mickey. What is Disney? What is Disney? I've never heard of this before. what is disney i want to freak somebody out so bad someday and just if they bring up something that like everybody should know like disney they're talking about oh the late like we went to disney world what's that what's that

They'd be like, have you never been to Disney World? They'd be like, no, what is it? And they're describing, they're like, you know, like with Mickey and be like, who's me? And just keep going until they go crazy. That's the type of stuff I like to do in my day-to-day life. Oh, like Pixar. What? Get it? Oh, like Pixar when you're talking. Oh, like Pixar, not Disney. Get it? Going over your head right now? Yeah.

In your fake argument, you can be like, when they're like, oh, you don't know what Disney is? Like pretending you think Disney is Pixar? Sure. Okay. Okay. But anyway, for the sake of this podcast, I also looked up the SEO of do people search amusement park? More or theme park. 50% of people know what SEO means? Because I don't think so. Sorry. Search engine optimization. It is how you decide how to title your content. Or just things like advertisement. You use it a lot for advertisement.

Yes, but it's mainly how do you get your content in front of the people that want to see it? Correct. What are people searching for? What are people searching for? What word? Amusement or theme? So are people searching for amusement park or are they searching for theme park? And the answer shocked me. Regardless, it's amusement, even though it's not. Yeah. Well, theme park is searched substantially more, like way more than amusement park. You know why? Because it's a shorter word.

Probably. So it's a little tricky. I mean, I can definitely spell it. That was my long winded segment into the title of this podcast is going to be theme parks are creepy. Oh, they are creepy.

Instead of because originally I had written down amusement parks. When you first told me about this idea, I had an idea. Like one thing came to mind right away. You told me about an idea and then I had an idea. I had one too. You gave me an idea. No, it was when you said theme parks.

amusement parks whatever word you said i think it was amusement um i thought of going to like the halloween events that they have like six flag and stuff i've never gotten to go i went once when i was young it was cool i want to go to the disney one yeah that'd be fun i'm sure they're

Very thematically awesome. I want to go to a Christmas Disney. I want to go to a Halloween Disney. You sound like a Disney adult. You know Disney's creepy. But like if somebody was like, would you want to go to Disney? I'm just like, eh. Only for the special things. Not in general. I've been there too much now.

Some of the things I thought about immediately, I realized were water park related. So I'm going to say up front, we're not discussing water parks. That will be a separate podcast. Nice. We'll save that for the summer. Yeah. Because a lot of people will be going to water parks. Everyone goes. Not me. Water parks are extremely creepy. That'll also be an easy one for me to talk about. Okay. The pee water. There's no pee. Oh, yeah. They have special water that eats the pee. Okay.

there's there's animals that live in the water yeah amoebas pee amoebas yeah that's what people put in their pool yeah that's why you can pee in pools so we're not gonna touch up but it's funny that the first you pee in the water park have you ever done it Why are you putting me on the spot? I've never done it. When I was young. You've never done it. When I was young. Even as a kid? Yes. When I was young, I'm sure I did. But as like.

Yeah, I don't do it now. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yes, I do. But I think people do. I come real close to you. I think more people do, like more adults. Do you pee in like the river? Yes, absolutely. difference because it's being it's first off it's gross so it doesn't oh it's not gross but the river's gross it's gonna get always the water

The water park's grosser than the river. But the river is a constant flow of fresh water. You're like fish are peeing in there. Yeah, fish are piss peeing and pooping in there. You don't drink the river water. Oh, my God. Yeah, I don't do it now, but definitely as a child, I was probably like, I'm not getting up and losing out precious time to go to the bathroom.

Good little sidetrack there. Because I was also terrified because they told us at one point that if you peed in the water, this is all stuff we have to save for the water park one. Stop it. Enough. Cut me off. We're going to lose. This is a good sidetrack. Good sidetrack. But anyway, if people are.

Like, oh, what about this? No, it's a water park. So you thought about water parks. I immediately thought of all the creepy water park things I had heard and then was like, oh, that's not. I just thought of a small, a small theme park that I went to that was kind of creepy. What? wild west city we had wild it was like a small like western themed park and they had a little train ride and you would get like robbed on the train that sounds fun it was i love getting myself

But you could like bring like that was when you could still have like cap guns and like fake guns before that was. I feel like I've been on that as well. Yeah, I'm sure they have other.

wild west things i think i vividly i have to ask my mom or she probably knows while she's listening to this podcast like she usually does about getting robbed no but we were like on a train no i don't think it was themed i think they just told us hey We're going through an area where like Native American tribes are known to be and that they could possibly like attack the trade.

And this is a real thing. Yes. What train were you on? Like in a musical? I don't know if it was real or not. But as a child, I thought it was real and I was very scared. Because they were telling me that they had like hair. Did you get attacked? No, but I literally was like looking out the window. I'm sure you were in dead bodies in the water.

Dead bodies in the water. No, I was just picturing like Native Americans with like bows and arrows because that's what they told us. They were like, we have to be, the windows have to stay closed because of the bow and arrows. Wow. I'm now thinking about this and I'm like.

There's no way this is real. I don't think that. There's no way we were riding through America. And there's just... I don't think there's like active Native American reservations where they're attacking... a theme park attraction ride for real that wouldn't be happening i don't think mine was staged i don't know if it was in any way like i was saying

We were getting robbed as part of the script and the theme was. And I remember having like a cap gun and like getting ready to draw. And the guy was like, you better not draw that gun there, young fella. Yeah, I definitely haven't gotten on that one. Shot me.

Because I went for it. I hope my mom remembers. She doesn't remember it. I'm going to be like, where? Who brought me on this train? That made me like terrified we were going to get. And where was this in America? This is a past life of yours where you were. I don't know. I'm very. This is creepy. Let's just discuss this the whole time. Tell me more. Let's call your mom and figure out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We did almost get overtaken by Native American tribes. We went back in time.

I mean, it's kind of nice if there's a Native American tribe that the U.S. government didn't like try to infiltrate. That's kind of a nice thought. Take over. I don't know what's nice. Leave them be. Yeah. Well, I know. Yes. Yes. It had to have been fake. I'm like freaking myself out now. You probably just had like a six flags and they're like, watch out. If it wasn't fake, that was kind of racist.

They're like, hey, this is where Native Americans are. They might get you. So it was like a worker. You remember saying this to you? Yes. Like the people on the train. Maybe they were just messing with you. I know, but it's kind of racist. No? Yeah, it is. I mean, that's besides the point. Let's scare the kids. Make them fear Native Americans. Jesus. Anyway. Watch my mom be like, I have no idea what she's talking about. What are you talking about? No.

Maybe I just had a very overactive imagination. You think so? No, somebody definitely told me that because there would be no way I would get on a train and just think. Text your mom real quick. No, because she's busy. She's busy. But this is very important. We must know if this is real or not. On a future podcast, we'll talk about trains are creepy and we can come back to this. I fell asleep on one and missed my stop once. Anyway, theme parks. Thematic.

Parks of themes. I mean, I was trying to think of like the main ones. There's like Six Flags, Disney. Yep. Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios. What am I thinking? Great Adventure. There's a bunch. There's a whole bunch of parks. I know, but I feel like I haven't been to that. Oh, Hershey. Oh, parks you've been to. Yes. Gotcha.

Or that I just know of. You know what was probably the creepiest theme park we ever did was when we did that studio tour and the plane crash that we talked about before. Oh my God. Talk about creepy. I was having... serious trauma happening. Yeah, that was very creepy. Did we talk about this? I believe we talked about it on another podcast. We were in California. We went to Universal Studios and we did the back lot. But yeah, the cool thing about Universal, if you go...

Not to the Florida one, to the California one. They actually film movies there. So all the lots are there, but they... like people are working it's funny because people are like getting coffee and like walking to their jobs and then you just see this like trolley come and then eventually there's like fast and furious yeah and then eventually like we get to a spot and they like stage i don't know like

the psycho movies or whatever. Yeah. We just have like attractions. Yeah. It's like half attraction, half showing you things, but they showed us a manufactured plane crash in like a town, like a set. Yeah, but it was true to size. It looked like you were looking at a real plane crash. They are creepy. These cars are creepy. They're trying to scare you most of the time. Most rides are trying to scare you. Right? Are those the stories you have today?

Am I not going to want to go on? Oh, ride bad. No, I'm just saying in general, most theme park rides. They want to scare you. They want to give you adrenaline. Adrenaline. They don't want to give you. They want to like. They're creepy. They want to make you feel like you're like, I mean, there's little, you know, there's, I mean, I'm just going to say it's a small world, but that's one of the creepiest. That's still creepy. Yeah. It's supposed to not be what it is.

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It is. That was a cool one. That was cooler than I anticipated. It's creepy being inside. Yes, it's very creepy being inside. Flying up towards the roof and you're like, I'm going to hit it. And then you're like, no, I'm not. Okay, good. Yeah, like you. I feel like if you were to be launched off of some sort of ride. Okay. If you were outdoors, maybe you'd have a chance.

But I feel like if you're launched off a ride indoors. You mean like launched into the air? Yes. You don't have a chance when you're inside. You're slamming into something. I don't think you have much of a chance. I feel like that's why it makes me more freaked out. And also, your brain thinks you're about to hit a metal bar. All you have is the sky. You're like, oh, I'm good. I'm not going up there. I'm good. I'm not going up there. Yeah, I feel like in my...

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more scared of rides. Yeah. Theme parks. And I used to have no fear with rides. Amusement parks are just trying to scare you and make you think you're going to die. Yeah, that's pretty creepy. That's all we're going there for.

sense of wonder when you buy a ticket i don't even know if you buy a ticket and like you die or get hurt horribly at a theme park are they liable i feel like I'm sure there's some sort of that they were negligent. Like what if it was just like a out of our hands? I don't know if that would ever. Yeah, I don't know. Out of our hands situation. Like it's always going to be something for the lawyers. So I think for the lawyers, send that to the lawyers. Keep the ride running.

We'll figure it out later. We'll figure it out later. It's not what I was meaning, but okay. Oh, what were you meaning? It's just like, I don't know the answer to your question. Ask the lawyers. Oh, I thought you meant that theme park was just like, talk to our lawyers. We have lawyers. Somebody died. All right. Well, we have lawyers. It's like, was it? What was the simulator game called? Rollercoaster Tycoon. I used to love that game. I still not used to. I love that game. It's a great game.

Every now and then I have the old original one on my, they make it for like mobile devices now. So I have it on my phone every now and then. It's cool. Yeah. But I mean, you're just. But you would like build half roller coasters. Torture people. Yeah, just be like, oh, well, it's open. It's open. I don't know. 37 people have died. Whoops. We'll see what the lawyers say.

So your ride was half built and was launching. People don't want to come to my theme park anymore. I'll make it a dollar. And then people will be like, all right, for a dollar, I'll go. It's got to be worth it for a dollar. or i'd make or i'd make the the fee to get in like zero dollars and then all the rides were like a thousand dollars what which is kind of nice you could like go into it which actually that's like a freemium game

Yeah, basically. Yeah, I was going to say, fun fact for anybody who's going to American Dream, the Nickelodeon park. We learned after we went there that you don't actually have. You don't need a ticket to like get into the area.

You just need a pass to ride the rides. Yeah, it's only if you want to ride the rides. So if you have, I don't know, somebody coming that's like, I don't want to go on any of the rides, they can go for free and just walk around with you, which is kind of cool. Yeah, it's nice. I like that model better.

You can still be amused, but you don't have to be themed. Yeah. Well, baseball sets like we went with the grandparents and grandparents. Don't want to do the crazy rides anymore, which I totally get. Yeah. I mean, I'm getting there. I get dizzy now. I used to not. I didn't know that was a thing until I talked to another when I went. So I the first time I ever went was what's it called?

For Make-A-Wish, shout out Brody. He was awesome and his family. And I got to go on every single ride with them. But Brody, because they're younger kids, went on everything. And I was like, I tried my best. He was trying to give you a go on one ride. I was like, Brody, if I go on this ride with you, I'm going to throw up. I was like, and it's not going to be a good day for any of us.

But I used to be so good. I used to be able to go on like roller coaster, roller coaster, roller coaster. Yeah. And I tried to do that with him and I was dying. It sucks getting old. I got dizzy. And then I talked to one of the other like the.

the Make-A-Wish people there. And she was like, oh, she's like, did that happen after you had your daughter? And I was like, maybe. And she's like, yeah, after I had kids, rides just made me so dizzy. I'm like, why though? What happened? Because they took part of your body. What happened to my body? sucked of energy yeah life another thing i can blame we'll go to a theme park i'll be like mommy can't go like are you enjoying all those rides yeah you're welcome you're welcome i can't anymore

Oh, my God. What's your favorite? I was just thinking that. Probably Islands of Adventure. I've always enjoyed it. I think same. I think same. Would you count Harry Potter toward that or is Harry Potter's own thing? No, it's part of it. It's themed in the greater amusement park. Yes. Well, because I always get confused because half of it's universal and half of it's islands of adventure. And then Harry Potter is like in the middle. Yeah. You have to go through Harry Potter. That's just a whole.

I just, I mean, it's, you know, catered a little bit more towards like adults. Not more. It's not catered more towards adults, but it like. Like an older demographic. Yeah. But younger as well. Like. I think I'll like Disney. Like we've talked about our Disney podcast. I think I'll like Disney going with Melody. Yeah. But if it was up to us, if we were like, what? We'd go to Epcot. We have to pick an amusement park. Which one? Epcot.

That's the best theme park. It is pretty good for adults. Yeah. It's so funny how when you're a kid, you're like, I hate Epcot. Epcot sucks. And then you become an adult. I love it. I love it. I mean, it's getting better for kids. Yeah. Oh, Soarin', right? Didn't Tron go in? Yeah, there's a Tron. I heard it's cool. Tron ride. But yeah, for a kid, it's probably not. It's like history. It's like.

Or geography. It's like, ooh, check out these. They learn about the presidents. It's like, kids don't want to do that for their theme park. Yeah. I guess it's cool about like amusement theme parks. Meanwhile, the adults are just drinking in every country and they're like, learn. Go, go, go. Look at the architecture. Don't you like Morocco? This is mommy and daddy's day, okay?

Go look at the water. There might be a boat out there. I agree. Universe, that whole area, Universal, Island Adventure, Harry Potter. I just had such a good time when I was younger there because we went there like a year or two after it opened. It was just exciting.

The Doctor Doom death drop was awesome. Me and my dad kept going on it because there was no lines. We just would walk off and walk on. We did it like I'm pretty sure my memory serves me correct like 10 times. Oh, my God. It's awesome. I have a sad story with that ride. I don't know if I should share it. That I told you with this ride? I think so. I don't want to bring the podcast down. Then let's not. Unless you want to.

I mean, this is the only podcast the story is going to fit in. Go ahead. I'm pretty sure you've told me. So for one of my. Because when my dad was diagnosed with cancer today. Yes. Is this ringing a bell? Yes. I'm just remembering. I don't remember the one of his last trips he wanted to take with us was to go to Universal. I don't I can't. I think we went to Disney, too, but we stayed at a Universal.

hotel um and we like made a whole big weekend that was like the last trip we took with him and we because he was like in a wheelchair and stuff at the time we got I guess special treatment Obviously, like, you know, like when they you'll be like waiting for a ride and they'll come in with usually somebody with a wheelchair or like special needs people. And what's it called? So we were like with that group. So we got to go on every ride immediately and we got to sit in the front if we wanted.

And we kept like feeling bad about it. My dad was like, don't feel bad. He's like, use me. Like, that was the type of guy he was. Like, we're just like, he didn't even want to go on the rides, but he would like go through with us. So then we got to go to the front.

I mean, at the same time, it's probably like those poor children, their father has cancer, is dying of cancer. So I get it. Small little break of happiness and joy. Gotta look for the silver linings, I guess. During a terrible time. But anyway.

All I remember is he wanted, we were like, oh my God, this is going to make me cry. Because now I'm thinking about it. It was like at the end of us being there. So I don't know if he just like didn't want to leave because it was like the end of the trip. Yeah. And. There was this like, what's it called? The Dr. Doom ride. And I did not want to go on it, but he really wanted to go on it.

I don't know why. I think he thought I wanted to go on it and nobody else wanted because my sister was pregnant. She couldn't go on it. Ryan was too little. My mom was not going on it. So I was like, so finally I was like, fine, I will go with you. And we went there and we went to go sit in the rides and he couldn't fit in the ride because he was too big, especially like because of the cancer treatments make you very like bloated and stuff.

Yeah, that's a bad memory for me. And I like I was like, don't worry, because then you felt bad. I'm like, listen, I didn't even want to go on this ride. Yeah, I'm doing it for you. Doing it for you. Like, don't put this on your plate. So every time I see that ride, I'm like. I still have never been on it. I'm still, I will never go on it.

that will be my gift all right my very morbid gift to him oh my goodness i will not go on it because i was only gonna go on it with him i did that type of ride at the american dream and like i just when you get older and i guess when you have kids

Just things are more intense. I did it with Dawson, I think. Or Brandon or Dawson. One of them. And I was just like. I did it. Oh, God. This thing. I was like. Oh, I did it with you. I was with you guys. It felt fine. Yeah. I was either with you or I did it with Brody. It was more so just like. The scariness of it, you know, falling, dying-ness. I think there's more to lose now that we have a kid. We're like, we'll...

It's more like the senselessness of it. It's like, if I die doing this, like, what was the point? I didn't really need to go on this ride. Seconds of adrenaline and rush and fun. Yeah. For seconds, yeah. Seconds. Not even minutes.

seconds of your life anyway back to happier stuff yeah universal and islands of adventure and harry potter there i think two times we did all three in the same day i think twice like because we did it with the vip i'm just gonna say we did that when i got sick

Was that Lizzy? Yeah, Lizzy. Yeah. I was like, shout out to Lizzy. Yeah, that was awesome. LD's shadow lady for inviting. This was a long time ago. It was Yemi's wedding. Yeah, it was Yemi's wedding. Yemi and Kyle's wedding. Yeah. And Lizzy, because she was the biggest channel at the time. like by a long shot with all of us. She got through the network, right? She got VIP, yeah, through the network. It wasn't through Black Dot, was it?

No, it was. No. Oh, it was Polaris. Polaris. I couldn't. Yeah, I knew it was like a name. They're no longer. I say speak of the devil. Yammy just texted me. Really? Yeah. That's funny. But what's it called? Yeah, we got to do VIP with like Yammy and us there. And that was the coolest. So cool. I remember being like, I was like.

I can't believe that like they invited me. This is so cool. And Lizzie was getting stopped. No joke. Like every single ride. So she needed it. Yeah. The main thing was she got like a security person. Yeah. It gets you security, but also like you get to go around all the like. secret ways of the park yeah you get to go around like

The back ends. My goal is to do that again someday. Just so you don't have to go through the crowd of people where you're going to get like stopped. Yeah. I don't think what's sad is I don't think they do it anymore for YouTubers. They're probably like too many of you are asking. There's too many of you now. Yeah.

Um, so I think you just have to, if you want it, you have to pay. But yeah, we did not, we got lucky and did not because they thought Lizzie was a security threat from people like wanting to see her. Okay, it's kind of embarrassing how bad I am at budgeting. Let me see your charges. Ugh, fine. You spent over $600 on takeout last month. I can't.

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We got like meals. Yeah, we had like special place meals. Separate area for lunches. And he held all your bags and stuff. I know. I felt so bad. I was like, don't do that. We don't have to hold our bags. And then eventually like his time is up and then he leaves, but then you have tickets to do whatever you want. His time is up and he vanishes like a magical, magical helper. Well, he's like Mr. Meese. Well, our time.

We had a wonderful time together, but. I must leave you now. I must leave you now. Then we're like, oh my God, he's from Harry Potter. He's a wizard. It's real. He's a wizard. And he chooses to do this.

Oh, my God. Well, now there's like Star Wars World, which you haven't been to, right? Galaxy's Edge. Yeah. We keep calling it Star Wars World. Oh, wait. Should I tell that story? Yes, please. I don't know if we've told it before, but I don't think we have in the podcast. So funny. You haven't been there yet, though, right? No. Well, and I don't I think we're going when I go in August. Oh, good. You should. I think we are. Good. I could be wrong. Whatever. I hope you do.

Go by yourself. Go by yourself even. Okay. Okay. Just stay an extra day and just go there. So, yeah, there you go. So. It's really cool. So I've only been to the California one. I have not been to the Florida one yet. So we'll get to experience that together. But I had to go to Disney. Not had to. I got to go to Disney.

for D23, which was like a Disney convention to work an app game release as like a sponsorship deal, which was really fun. Well, this was like two years ago, so I don't think it was D23. No, it was called D23. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought it goes by the year. No. Okay. I don't know why it's called 23, but it is. And what's it called?

You lost my track. No, it wasn't two years ago. It was before Melody. It was before the pandemic. It was like 2019. OK, sorry. So Bobby, for some reason, couldn't go. I don't know. I had to watch Dexter. Yeah, I think nobody I think his parents were gone and nobody could watch Dexter.

So I asked my mom to come with me. I was like, listen, like I get a plus one to go. You haven't been to California in I don't even know how long. Do you want to come with me? So I'm not like so we can like go to Disney together and I'm not alone. So that was a super fun experience with my mom. But the theme park part of the story is that the first day we were or after rehearsals, we had one free day to like go do whatever we wanted. And.

People were telling us we have to go to the cantina. I think it's called the cantina. Yeah. Well, that's the name of it in Star Wars. Yeah. In Star Wars, there's like a place called the canteen cantina that's styled after the cantina in the Star Wars movies. We're like.

Han Solo and stuff. It's like a bar. Yeah. It's like a fake alien bar. Yeah. So when you go there, there's like the alien DJ. There's like fake aliens sitting at some of the booths. And then there's regular people sitting in the rest of the booths. It's a bar.

Yes, but you had to like sign up the night before. I was literally like refreshing. Could you only be in there for a certain amount of time? I believe so, yeah. Oh, dang. I think like an hour. It was like a decent amount of time. Can you just book it all day? There was no food. It was just drinks. Can you just book it all day and get wasted there?

No, I think there was like a limit. I think there was a drink limit. Maybe it was two drinks per person. You just go and bring a bunch of costumes and you keep changing. I mean, I think you could also wait in line and see if somebody doesn't show up for the reservation and then they'll let you in. But we got lucky and I got a spot anyway.

We get there and the it's a really cool place. Like I highly suggest, even if you're not a Star Wars fan, like it was super, super cool. And we get these drinks. They have special drinks that have foam at the top that. people told us to get that basically numbs your face, which sounds terrible, but it was actually kind of fun. But anyway, there's a drink. My mom's like.

I was telling Bobby, I'm texting Bobby. I was like, oh, we got a reservation at the cantina. Star Wars Land is really cool. Galaxy's Edge. It's called Galaxy's Edge. And perfect example, Bobby was like, oh, I'm so jealous. I want to be there. He's like, this experience is wasted on both of you because like he's like a way bigger Star Wars fan than we are. So wholeheartedly agree it was definitely wasted on my mom and I.

We enjoyed ourselves, but we definitely didn't appreciate it to the level that you would have. A Star Wars fan. A true Star Wars fan. I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I'm definitely an average. I like it, but I... You're a below average Star Wars fan. I've watched the movies. Yeah.

I chose to go to the movies. Did you play any of the video games? No. I'm not like a crazy Star Wars fan, but I definitely like it. It's cool. I will watch the movies, but I won't like- I know all the names and stuff. Yeah, I don't know all that. I know all the people. I don't know all that. I know the story. Anyway, anyway, a perfect example of this is we were ordering drinks and one of the drinks was called like a Jedi. I don't know. Martini. Let's just pretend Jedi something. My mom's like.

The lady comes over to take our order. She's just like, yeah, can I get a jetty margarita or martini or whatever? And me and the waitress are both like, I have no idea what she just said. We're like looking. She's like. do you mean Jedi? My mom's like, oh yes, that drink. And she's like, I knew that word. I'm sure she's heard it. She probably knew it. Reading it, it's just like. Once the lady said it back, she was like, oh, I feel dumb. But like, it's just the funniest that.

Me and you were having a conversation of you being like, this experience is wasted on both of you. I wish I was there. And then you're like, yep. And then I was like, yep. We're in, sorry, Galaxy's Edge.

In the special Star Wars bar that only certain people can get reservations at if you try hard enough. And then... go to order it was like oh it's like their first month of being open that's why that's why it was so and i got that special mug that you have now because i got it for you where is it i don't know oh it's i know where it is it's like oh it's in like our mug

the mug area or the special like drinking glass area don't really use those much um but yeah that's my funny i always tell that story

I was like, I knew what the word was like. I know you did. I know you watched Star Wars. It was just how ironic being in Galaxy's Edge. And then the funniest was we had like a couple drinks in there and they're like drink drinks. So then we like leave Galaxy Edge and go back. Galaxies. And go back into like the. The Edge part.

wait we were still in disney then because disney owns yeah it wasn't universal yeah okay so we came back out and it's disney and the disney like the main disney park doesn't allow alcohol at all but we already had like two we were like Oh, let's just like keep this party going. So we went to like try to get lunch because they didn't serve food there. And every place we went, my mom was just like, you guys don't have alcohol. One lady was just like, ma'am, this is Disney.

Disney. You don't have any of those jetty drinks? Man, this is Disneyland. I want one of those Jedi jetty drinks. Yeah, we had a good time being at Disney. Nice. Two adults. Yeah. I had a couple drinks. What's the one? Tower of Terror. That's one of my favorite rides. Yeah. Well, now it's not Tower of Terror. Oh, it's the. It's Guardians of the Galaxy. Jerks. It's good, though. You want. No, I did. It's cool. But yeah.

cool but that was everything's changing the um splash mountain is being changed like the one with the rabbit the big like splash mountain do you know what i'm talking about this is helping at all the drop the like water drop the big water drop ride it has a rabbit It's from like a really old cartoon. They're redoing that. Okay. You seem very upset by it. Very. You were very attached by that. Oh, God, I hate that one. I love Space Mountain is one of my favorites. Space Mountain's cool.

I like being in one seat at a time while you're going through. Wait, so yeah, I would say my favorite is like universal that, but. I also really like Hershey Park. Hershey's really cool. We haven't been in a while, but I feel like the last time I went, I really liked it. Remember when we went early that one time? We got through the whole park in like two hours. Oh, yeah. That was awesome. Yeah, we don't know if we're going back.

this weekend or not. We'll see what the weather looks like. But I always like going, having an excuse to get candy. They do have, they have really good food because everything's Hershey. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's my six flags. I'm not a big fan of the King to call. You ever do King to call? That's fun. My friends tried to get, we did that. I was either, I think it was eighth grade. We'd be doing an eighth grade trip there. My, my class and, uh,

Yeah, it was awesome. All I have vivid memories. It's fun going to like theme parks with all of your friends like at school because everyone is hyping each other up and you're just we all go down and we're all going down. My last memories of going there is like.

a long time ago. I think when I was like 18 for my birthday, we decided to go. That's the one that like shoots straight up. Yes. Fall back down. And I refuse to go on that one. But my main memory of being there is just waiting in line. I waited in lines forever. That's. The worst and creepiest thing about theme parks is waiting in the damn lines. That's why it's worth it if you can afford it.

To pay for the fast passes and whatnot. So it's better, I feel like, now because you have phones and whatnot. Yeah. But back in the day, you used to just have to stand there. You just pull up there and you're like, an hour and a half, three hours. It's like, oh, no. And you just stay. And if you have kids.

yeah when you have phones you can distract yourself and then you have i mean it still sucks you have to wait yeah but you at least can distract yourself with your phone but back in the day before you had phones game boy what'd you do just stare never brought your game boy i'm gonna bring your game boy to theme park i might have

Yeah, you might have. I might have. Might have done that. Wait in lines. Ugh, line waiting. Yeah, for sure the creepiest and worst part. Waiting in lines. Yes. It is kind of cool when they decorate it. Like universal.

See, Universal Disney does a really good job. That's one of the, like, building up the hype. Yes. When you get, like, worse when you're outside, like, so far away. Oh, it's hot. It's hot. And you're, like, barely, you're just, like, the path is, like, a little bit themed. But once you're inside, like, the...

The building, if it's in a building, you start getting like little intros and stuff and little little taste of what's to come. But that's why I think Six Flags I hated so much because there's no theming. It's because it's an amusement park. Yeah.

No theming. The theme is just the ride. The theme is stand in this line and then sit on the ride. Then get amused. Actually, they did have one. My favorite ride there was the Superman because you got to lay down. Yes. That was cool. I like that one. That was cool. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, they're fun. I like being amused there. And just for anybody interested.

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So did you ever have like the, it wasn't the circus, but like you'd have like a little theme park or amusement park come to town. Like a carnival. But it wasn't a carnival. I guess it was. It is a carnival. If it's a traveling. Our carnivals. Now, is that a whole other topic? I would say carnivals could be put together with a circus because it's kind of like it. OK, it's kind of embarrassing how bad I am at budgeting. Let me see your charges. Fine.

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If a ride has to get taken down and put back up multiple times in different places, there's too much. Yeah. There's too much human moving parts and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Cause anyway, what I was going to say is we used to have one. a carnival that would come and there was the like when the like spinning saucer and it would you'd stick against the walls oh the gravatron gravatron no i never did that and then the salt and pepper shaker thing that would just

Oh, I hate. Yeah, I did that once. Once at a carnival because my friends made me do it and I hated it. I think I hated it, but I was just like. enjoy like I hated it I've never done it but I could never I almost threw up I could never I was fine back in the day but now I can't do it no even as a kid I almost threw up it ruined the whole rest of my car I do like the Gravitron

Going upside down. I've heard that one's good, but I was too nervous to go in because I thought I would get sick. You just stick against the wall. You don't really notice the spinning. You do if you like stare at the center, but if you're just like. I think my days, my Gravitron days are behind me. I could still go for a Gravitron. Yeah, any sort of, even like, I used to love the bobsled ride. But even that makes me kind of crazy now. Wait.

Oh, the one that goes it goes around. You're like sitting in a bobsled and it goes faster and faster and faster. Oh, yeah. And usually there's two people. Oh, yeah. Another funny story about that. My sister and I used to go and my sister is eight years older than me. And that was like our ride. Like that was.

If we went to a theme park, we had to go on the bobsled ride because it was at every single one, like a carnival. It was at carnivals. And then we were like, all right, that's our ride because we both loved it and nobody else in our family liked it. But I'll never forget because she's eight years older than me. And as a child, I was like, oh, I'll go on. So there's two spots in the car. And as the momentum goes and goes and goes and goes, you obviously are going to start like.

There's no separate. There's nothing in between you. So like one person. I don't know what this ride is. One person is going to slide into the other person eventually and then like jam you up against the side of the car. Oh, wait. No, I've seen. Okay. Oh, you're watching a video. And it spins? Yes. It doesn't spin. It goes forward, but in a circle. Yes, like this. It moves. Yes, it moves forward in a circle around and around and around. I got you. That one.

No, the ones that we went in didn't dangle like that. No, they weren't danglers. All right. Anyway, I get it. You're moving forward in a set thing. She's eight years older than you. She's eight years older than me. And we made the mistake of me going on the inside of the car and her on the outside. So eventually the. pressure from like going so fast. Yeah. Just like had her like.

crushing into the side screaming she's like laughing and then from that day forward I was like no more flying bobs I was like you go in the inside every time and still I could probably handle it now because I'm bigger, but you're funny. I will never forget. I got traumatized. I thought I was going to get crushed from the gravity. You got bobbed. All right. But yeah, that was our favorite ride.

I don't know why. I was like, yeah, like the Doctor Doom death, like the ones that go up and down. I like the gut feeling. I don't like that. That weightlessness. See, that makes me sick now. That doesn't make me sick. I don't know why. I like that. It's very like, whoa, holy shit, this isn't. I'm not used to this. This isn't normal. I still love roller coasters. Yeah, it's still my favorite. When you're able to let go and just enjoy it.

Be free. I love the roller coasters that shoot you. Shoot you. Shoot you right. from the start yeah like the Hulk does that yeah they launch you right from the start like the Hulk ride and Universal does that I love and the Hershey Park like you like a good launching I like launching it's your favorite type of movement launched

I also remember, oh, there was, in one of the rides at Six Flags, it was like, people referred to it as like the penny dropper. Have you ever heard of that? Because you're falling faster than a penny would drop. Why do you know these things so well? I don't know. I have a good memory. Good for you.

cool, fun situations I did as a kid. But I remember like we went at six flags and we all had a penny in our hand. And then like when you did the drop, you're supposed to like hold your hand like this and you can watch the penny levitate because you're moving faster than the penny.

And then eventually you hit the bottom of the penny. It's probably not the safest. But do they encourage you to do this or no? There was lots of pennies on the ground, so I know we're not the only ones. I don't know if they still let you do that, but.

it was cool i forget what ride it's called you know as i typically do i avoid the like disaster like like stories getting decapitated bad just like Deadly death. I mean, a lot of this is about like ghost. Every time somebody like I come across one of those videos on the Internet, that's like I see a theme park ride and they like slow it down and show like this. Like, you know what I'm talking about?

like when you they're like anticipating something bad happening in the ride on a video okay on youtube or not youtube just like scrolling twitter or something i'm like ah like i can't i just like try to scroll past it as fast as possible it's like i don't want to see yeah no Why do people like watching this? People like weird stuff. So I just found a couple interesting stories of creepy theme parks around the world. And then I have the world.

nine creepiest abandoned amusement parks. That was the other thing was a lot of it was like a lot of the creepiness when I found like online was about abandoned parks. I'm always confused by that. Would it cost them less? Would it cost them more to take down everything and sell it than it would to leave it? What do you mean? Scraps and stuff? Scraps? Metal? Come get some scraps. Is it metal valuable? It'll keep us a business.

Come get the scrap. You're going to be a scrapper. All right. So these. Want your own roller coaster? Well, come take a piece by piece. Give it to you for 75% off. Come on, get it. We don't need no more. It works. We think so. We used to work. We just can't afford it. So this I got a couple from this list. I found 13 of the most haunted amusement park attractions from.

Carousel of chaos dot com. Oh, my God. I was just thinking that I was like, if I had if I could buy my own amusement park, would I? And then I think about the South Park episode where. cartman bought his own amusement park so he never had done lines but then he slowly had to buy like get workers get workers and sell tickets to pay for the workers okay So the first thing we have here is the historic Elitch Theater. The grand old Elitch Gardens is a park with rich history.

It resided in its original location in Northwest Denver from 1890 to 1994. Oh, could you imagine? Early 1900s. The early 1900 rides? I don't think they had very intense rides back then. Okay. Thank God. You are being very themed. before it moved to its current location in downtown Denver in 95 at its original location and the more beloved historic LH theater. It still remains there. It opened with the park.

It opened with the park and became known as the cradle of American drama, having presented a wide variety of quality entertainment from vaudeville to film. Both the theater and the park were owned and operated by Mary Ehrlich until she was unable to, at which point two viewing boxes were permanently reserved for her. The reservation apparently continues on in death.

And since the 1960s, performers at the historic Elitch Theater have reported seeing Mary Elitch sitting in one of her theater boxes. The spirit of a philanthropist who helps save the theater is said to be haunting it. Unexplainable sounds and voices are heard from time to time, and paranormal groups in the area say they've had great success catching activity at the site. I'm confused. This is a theater that's in a theme park? Yes. Oh. These are just...

A lot of these are just like old parks. Okay. With spooky ghost stories. Yeah. I also told bikes. There's a lot of Disney creepy stories about the rides. If. You didn't listen to our Disney podcast. Go back and listen to that. We tried to make sure not to do the same stories. The Serengeti Overlook in Busch Gardens, Tampa. It was originally known as Crown Colony House, which opened in 1964 as a Valentine's Day gift for the third wife of August Bush.

It closed in 1982. She was the special one. Yeah, she was the third time's the charm. It closed in 1982 for refurbishment and didn't open until the 90s. It was when the restaurant opened in 1990 that the first of the paranormal activity began. Employees reported experiencing cold spots, phantom piano music, and apparitions. Apparitions? Apparitions.

One spirit occasionally seen is that of a little girl. Sounds of children playing in the restaurant after hours isn't uncommon either. Another spirit seen is of a woman dressed in a white gown. Over the years, employees have detailed that the activity usually picks up around closing time.

when they're shutting down and that for the and sorry and that the fourth floor seems to be the most active numerous numerous people have felt a presence following them around the floor and temporary and temperature inexplicable inexplicable you're having you're struggling struggling reading today yes it's because i'm reading off because you're doing it on your phone you should have just went got your laptop i was being lazy i left my laptop

Upstairs. Temperatures drop and anytime they press the elevator button to leave. So the temperature drops when they press the button or moving tray shadows and cigar smoke are noted as some of the strange occurrences. So again, more ghosts. But no reason? My pet peeve is when people are like, this building's haunted by the ghost of a little girl. I'm like, oh, did a little girl like die there? And then the things like, not that we know of.

It's like, okay, so you're just making up this little girl. Like it would make more sense if a tragedy happened and then you're like, oh yeah, we see that little girl all the time. So I picked this one because of where we're going this weekend. Oh, is Hershey Park wanted? The Lighthouse on July 13th, 1929 at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania.

Milton Hershey opened a sprawling pool complex at his park that included a bathhouse, beach area, and lighthouse. The pools were closed in 71 and filled in, but the lighthouse remained. And with it, a few ghosts. Over the course of the 40 years the pool complex operated, multiple drownings occurred and are believed to be the source of the hauntings within the lighthouse. See, there's a reason. There's a reason. Yeah, that's good. I'm sorry.

That's good. I'm glad people drown there so we have a reason how it goes. It sounded terrible. There's a reason. Apparitions of spirits wearing old-fashioned swimwear. were spotted in and around the lighthouse up until 2019 when the structure was removed for the new chocolate town area. Oh. The kisses found underneath Candy Mountain is the site. Oh, sorry. Candy Monium.

Not Candy Mountain. Candy Monium. Candy Monium. I don't know that one. Is the site where the lighthouse once stood for 90 years when the park was operating. Yeah, so that's that one. This one's called The Racer.

The racer? Kings Island in Ohio. The racer is the park's iconic white wooden roller coaster that runs the length of the Midway. I guess that's the park. The coaster debuted with the park in 1972. and is notable in pop culture for its appearance on the Brady Bunch. Amongst coaster enthusiasts, it's cited as sparking the second golden age of roller coasters.

It is said that I didn't know there was a first. It is said that at one point the racer used cars from the old old Coney Island Shooting Star, a nearby roller coaster that closed in 1971. The Shooting Star reportedly. had a boy fall from the ride who's thought to be haunting the cars and the racer. Dubbed the racer boy, a little boy wearing all white is said to be seen around the racer. He usually appears just before sunset or right after dark.

walking along the ride tracks or inside the tunnels. He spurred a few guest reports to employees about a child on the racer's tracks. Interesting. You really want to be better with your finances. You try to put money away in savings. You look for deals. You wrote out a budget once a long time ago, yet you still overdraft from time to time and you still have debt. The truth is managing money is not easy.

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The spirit of a little girl with blonde hair and in a 19th century blue dress is one of the most commonly seen by employees and guests. There is a cemetery in Kings Island dating back to the 1800s, and that is believed to be where she comes from at night. Referred to as the Tram Girl, she is seen often running in front of trams in the parking lot.

causing drivers to brake abruptly before she would disappear into thin air. Sea trains are creepy. Less frequently, she is spotted roaming the parking lot, front gate, and admission area, and the restaurants on International Street. All accounts of her settings have maintained that she's a friendly thing. She's Casper. Friendly thing. Not threatening or scary and that she's just kind of there.

I like that part. Kind of just an annoyance. When I was reading that, when I read that, I laughed. She's just kind of there. She's kind of there. It's a ghost. That's fine. That would be me as a ghost. Yeah. She's kind of there. She's kind of there. Just walking around. It's a really new one. She's just kind of. She's there. I like this part. Some have speculated that her name is Missouri Jane, but this report is unconfirmed. The ghost didn't confirm the report. I need to know.

Need to know the name. So those are some of the stories from that one. And then now I have the nine creepiest abandoned amusement parks from alltherooms.com, which was from 2019. So I don't know if there's any. New creepy ones, but the first one on the list is Six Flags in New Orleans. There's a Six Flags in New Orleans? Not anymore, Lauren. It fell out of business following serious damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The park opened in 2000 and was only operating for a few years before suffering significant damage during the hurricane. The park closed after the hurricane Katrina and there wasn't enough funding for repairs so it fell into further decay over the last few years.

To this day, there's still an eerie sign at the entrance of the park that says, closed for the storm. It's an apocalyptic site, which has been taken advantage of by Hollywood and used for films such as Jurassic World and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Next, we have Nara Dreamland in Nara, Japan. Nara Dreamland is one of the most photographed abandoned theme parks in the world. The park was built in the 1960s and deserted in 2006 due to low visitor numbers.

It was constructed in a style that was inspired by Disneyland in California and features a contrast of brightly colored fairytale rides and roller coasters that are now rotting. Everything has... Rotting. Rotting. It's rotting. It's all rotting. I wanted to emphasize Rod in there to get you back. You did. You did a good job. Everything has been left as it was on the park's last day, and there are even still chairs in the coffee shops. So you can't even scrap chairs, Lauren.

I know. No one wants them. I'm just so confused why everything just gets left. Go get it. Just go take it all and open up Lauren Park where it's all just old abandoned stuff. It's just old rides you can't ride. I'm going to do it. The story for this one is kind of whatever, but I'll just say Disney's River Country Bay Lake in Bay Lake, Florida. I think this is the one we talked about. Oh, that's the one you talked about last time. Yeah. The lake episode.

Land of Oz in North Carolina. What? A 16 acre Wizard of the Oz theme park. The Land of Oz was incredibly popular when it first opened in 1970. However, shortly after opening, interest began to decline and the park became almost completely deserted. Then in 1975, there was a fire which destroyed parts of the park and the park was officially abandoned. Land of Oz still opens. It's gates a few days a year around Halloween for visitors to explore for visitors brave enough to explore. Interesting.

Uh, this one is in Hungary and, uh, I cannot pronounce it. Doon Jabarski in Viedemann Park, Hungary. It opened in 1953 and was a communist-run theme park offering free fun for all people. After surviving on funds... From the Communist Party for 40 years, it was forced to shut its doors in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's truly a ghostly sight and an interesting insight into entertainment under the Soviet regime. Interesting. This one is in...

in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Oh God. So can you guess what happened? Oh, I wonder why that one shut down. Pripyat Amusement Park. You gotta say, I feel like there, I was gonna say that I thought there was one in like as part of Chernobyl that I've seen photos of. Pripyat.

is the most famous abandoned amusement park in the world. The park was a new build due to open in 1986 however a few days before the grand opening catastrophic nuclear disaster a few days struck the chernobyl nuclear power plant the park was briefly accessible to locals but they were forced to evacuate as reports of dangerously

High levels of radiation in the area started to emerge, something habitants and authorities had been unaware of on the day of the nuclear incident. Today, the park remains untouched and unused rides are disintegrating or consumed with. mold that's crazy yeah what terrible timing well we said that about american dream the big like american dream mall that is near us that has

The amusement park, the indoor amusement park and water park that we were talking about was being built pre pandemic. And it was set to open like, I think, right during the pandemic at the end of the pandemic. And I was like, oh, terrible timing. But I think they're doing OK now. Yeah, definitely. I like it there. It's very cool. Joyland Amusement Park in Kansas. It was once the largest amusement park in Kansas after changing hands and falling into new ownership, the park fell into despair.

The park ran for 55 years, closing in 2006. The demolition process began several years ago and it still stands as a creepy destination with decaying rides and lost memories. If you're a big fan of abandoned theme parks, here's a good list for you to check out. Then we have Gulliver's Kingdom in Yamanashi, Japan.

Gulliver's kingdom was only in business for four years before being abandoned due to low visitor numbers. Today, the park is home to an enormous disintegrating Gulliver statue based on the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a chilling sign. a chilling site that represents the park's fall into disarray. And the last one we got here is Dunblobin. Dunblobin? Dunblobin Crinkly Bottom Theme Park in England.

Oh, it was like in Germany? Dunbloblin was created as part of Noel Edmund's Crinkly Bottom Park, which was... Sounds great. A Mr. Blobby theme. What is happening? I love this one. I feel like you're making this up. I'm not making any of it up. Which was a Mr. Blobby themed amusement park. Based on a popular. If there's any British.

People listening right now, they might be like, oh yeah, Mr. Blobby. Mr. Blobby. I've never heard of that. This is based on the popular 90s television show character. Okay. The amusement park was abandoned and left to decay. when the rest of the park was renovated and turned into a hotel. Today, there are rumors that the site is haunted and ghost hunters often visit in hopes of catching something supernatural on tape. Mr. Blobby coming out.

There you go. I guess that never made it over. There's your list and your spooks. I enjoyed it. Thank you. I just I want to know why that there's no value in an amusement park. I don't know. It's probably because it's still owned. No, I don't know. I don't know why it's. I mean, I guess there's there's abandoned buildings and things. You got to destroy it.

All? What are you going to build there? Mr. Blobby World? Mr. Blobby. I need to know why was he not brought to the States? Mr. Blobby. Let's look at Mr. Blobby World. I'm picturing like a giant blue... blob creature. You're not too far off. Really? He is certainly creepy. Is he blue? Nope, he's pink. That's Mr. Blobby. Oh my god. For those of you listening, make sure you Google Mr. Blobby. What? Why? People of England, why? Why is this a thing? He looks so scary.

I mean, to be fair, we had Ronald McDonald, which was also terrifying. This thing is much worse. He looks kind of like the Grimace. He looks like a nightmare. Talk about creepy. You can do a whole episode of Mr. Blobby. Wow. I'm glad I looked him up. Learning about Mr. Blobby. There was a theme park around that guy. You can tell why I didn't do so. Oh, Mr. Blobby.

They're like, people love this guy. People love pink blobs. People love him. He's like a pink blob guy with yellow dots and creepy big eyes. I hope... You all enjoy your amusement slash theme park adventures this summer. Yeah. All of our information now. Now, you know that there's a difference between a theme park and amusement park. I did not know that. Let us know your creepy amusement and theme park stories. Let us know any that we did not cover that exists that we don't know about.

Do it now. Especially if it's themed around something. I find that's. even more interesting to me if they're like yeah i went to a theme park about pickles pickle park oh my god we're gonna make it we gotta take one of those abandoned areas there we go paint everything green And only sell pickles. And all of the rides will have pickles shaped like vehicles that take you in the ride. Alrighty.

And fried pickles and regular pickles and sour pickles. Sounds like the birth of a genius idea. Nobody better steal that. If somebody takes that idea. Blair, edit this out so people don't take it. If anybody takes my pickle theme park idea. There's definitely a pickle park. There's definitely a pickle park. There's definitely a pickle theme park. There's no way there's a pickle park. Pickle. Oops. Theme park either way? This does not exist. If this exists. Pickle themed party? Theme park.

Oh, my God. Pickletopia in Dallas. Pickletopia? All right. Never mind. It doesn't exist. Or Pickles Park. All right. Never mind. Yeah, there's a place called Pickles Park and Pickletopia. All right, never mind. Pickletopia has eight reviews on TripAdvisor. Eight reviews? I think it's just a bunch of barrels. It's just a guy on the side of the road that's selling pickles. Come get my pickles. Come Pickletopia.

We'll give you a ride. Oh, my God. I was going to say something. Don't. Nope. Don't. I'm not. You can't make Pickle Park. People would. ruin it with their dirty thoughts. I was ruining it right off the rip in my mind. And remember, everything is creepy. Except for Pickle Park coming 2024. Pickle Park. To a place near you. To an abandoned theme park. Coming to an abandoned theme park near you in the future will be a Pickle Park. Brought to you by Lauren's Eastside. Very on brand. Bye. Bye.

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