Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood, you meet Burbank and we are back in the studio. Here in the studio with Brady McDonald. This is a special Disneyland and the Other Parks Brady McDonald episode. It's been a long time, Brady, Thanks for coming down, Thanks for having me. It's good to be back. I want to talk about the perceived or rumored
crowd crush that was going to happen at Disneyland. There was, I guess a letter sent out to all the employees saying there were so many people were going to come to Disneyland this week that it was going to be insane. But it didn't seem to be that way when I went there. Yeah, I was there today, I was there yesterday, and I were write about
it and said that very thing. You know that the Disneyland was warning their cast members, like, you know, for coming down Harbor, they're coming down ball, you know, giving yourselves an extra time to get to work
because it's gonna be a ton of people there. The two sort of storms that were brewing was one was they had a slew of one hundred and four dollars tickets the cheapest tickets you can get, so like Monday through Thursday of this week and for the next couple of weeks, why didn't you sign it in four bucks the cheapest you get in Because it's back to the school time. The summer is not really what we used to think of summer anymore.
The real summer is now sort of Halloween and Christmas. And so that's that's the reason they the distent tickets. And the second thing that was happening was like all these pass holders that had the lower price annual passes, they had been blocked out for most of the summer, and one set of passes came back on Monday this week, and another set is coming back next week. So we were expecting this big crush, and like you said, and like
I'm saying, I didn't see it. It didn't happen. I mean, I wasn't there every day, but I mean, you know, the two days I was there, I was there Tuesday and Wednesday and it wasn't there. Yeah, And I was there Thursday and product wasn't there. So I think the big message here is like we can't figure out when it's going to be busy at disney Land anymore. Like you don't know, like you can. You can go on a Tuesday in April and you're like, oh my
goodness, what's happened. Yeah, you can go like on July fourth and you're like where are all the people? They just can't figure it out anymore. I've talked to I'm trying to figure it out. But yeah, talked to security and they because my my one secret security connection. He won't break Disney rules for me, but he when you ask him to I do. Oh yeah, well, he complains about his job so much. What do I care if he gets fired. I'm not gonna You know, you're the
one that you're the one that says you hate your job. Uh, and they don't pay you, and then when you get hurt, they don't take care of you. And these guys are always getting fights and then they'll like go in the hospital and they tell me that Disney won't give them any medical help for their for the after they got beat up by And then they're getting fights with the guests. Yes they're yeah, they're they're fighting that My one sources on YouTube. He's on YouTube all the time, you know, because
as soon as the fight breaks out, it's YouTube city. And if I ask him, I stopped asking him because they just don't know when it's gonna be crowded. If you to ask them in confidence of your relatives, hey, hey, what's a good day to go when it's not crowded, they do not know. And then sometimes they'll say it's crowded. More crowded during the week because the prices are cheaper and if you go on the weekend, you might luxuriate with other rich people in shorter lines. But yeah, and
I went both both times, Thursday and Friday. I went during today. Who knows of like after six o'clock when everybody gets off work the place, it's just Jim. You don't know, Like you weren't there all day on Tuesday and Wednesday, so like it could have been crazy earlier. You never
know. The heat seems to be part of it. But yeah, I had some people cancel, some people cancel on me, just like we were going to dinner at an undisclosed location in the park and I can't talk about no U And one of my guests, she said, I will meet you at dinner time. I'm not going in that place during the day. So there's there's a little bit of ash. Yeah, but we had a great time, and so I think the less. So when people ask me what's a good day to go? I say I can't there's no good day,
and you should go on day to go. I mean, and then sort of pre prepared for both circumstances, like you could have a great day er is nobody there, or it might be a mess. But if you're from around here, you know both situations. And and if it's a if it's it's a great day, enjoy it. If it's a mass, guess what, you can go back back another time. Rights it's one hundred and fifty bucks, you know, you enjoy yourself. You say that like it's nothing,
but my first annual pass was one hundred and twenty five dollars. So oh no, no, I don't say it like it's nothing, But I say it like for eighteen hours of entertainment is nothing, Like you pay twenty five bucks to go to a two hour movie. Now, like you pay twelve hundred dollars to go to Taylor Swift. Yeah, I mean, like one hundred and fifty dollars is a lot of money for some people, but it's not a lot of money for eighteen hours of entertainment. It's just not
it isn't all right, Brady, you're a good ambassador. You make us put it into perspective. Now. The Davy Crockett Canoe Races were just held recently, and I remember talking to some cast members and they're all preparing for it and going there and it happens before opens up, right, because these guys were practicing before Disneyland opens up and they get up there. Yeah. Yeah, it's like two months of practicing. And there's some that's it gets
pretty serious. I mean, this isn't like the weener dog races. There's some well the reason it's serious. So there's sort of two groups of people. There are people that are just out there. They have fun and don't know what they're doing right, and they do both of those things right. And then there are people who are like, we are going to win this
thing. And the people who are like, we're going to win this thing are the ones that will work at David Crockett because their entire reputation is online, right, Like if they don't come in for a second, they they have a varsity and a junior versity team, and they are deadly serious. Like they're winning in five seconds of each other, and they are furious if they come in first and third or god forbid second and third or something like that. So it's very very serious for them. Well, I would go
just to ride the canoes around in practice. That's fun to me. I would I would get I would almost get a job there just so I could ride those canoes around by myself and practice. Yeah, it's it's fun and it is. Frankly, it is the reason some people get a job there. Like there's starting four thousand people that work there. There's going to be a few people that get a job there to be in the canoe races, right, But I was wondering, Yeah, but beyond that, like you
know, there's a thousand people that participate in those canoe races participate. There are eighty four teams, Like there's fifteen or twenty people on each team. There's a lot of people to do this. And it is like, imagine this is a perk that you'll get it no other job. What is a job? Let you ride a canoe around a fake river at five o'clock in the morning, right, Like it just doesn't exist. So this is a bucket list experience that I'm jealous and say I did it. I'm jealous.
There's a guy. There is a guy at Club thirty three that I know about who works on the canoes and he is wealthy. He's a television producer. I think I don't know him, but you know, I've heard about him. I know of him, and he's he works at the canoes. I don't know how he juggles his schedule when you know, if he ever gets a show in production. But man, I kind of envy that guy.
He just goes. He's running around those canoes wearing the Davy Crockett outfit, and then afterwards he goes and has a stiff drink at the club and he's a king. Let me say that the Davy Crockett teams are serious. They work hard and when they win, they celebrate like they've won like the Stanley Cup or something like that, like it is. They are hoisting the trophy above their head and pounding their chests. They got war paint on. These guys are all in Oh my god. Yeah, they look like something
out of Apocalypse. Now. If you want to see it, make sure you go to the Register Orange County Register where Brady is the theme park reporter and he has a bunch of articles as a newsletter called park Life, and you can see all the pictures from the Davy Crockett Racist. We're gonna take a break right here and check the traffic. I come back with more. Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register. Hang on there, Joe Ascalante live
from Hollywood. We are back and we have Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register here. He is the theme park reporter. We're talking about Disneyland for you Disney weirdos, and you're you're gonna talk about not Scary Farm a little bit later, and maybe even a little bit of Magic Mountain and Universal Studios. I'm hearing a lot of pushback, Brady on Disney adults. This is a new dirty word, and I get it. I get it, and
you know me very cynical. I don't like adults that dress up at Disneyland. I don't like adults that that, you know, abuse the space with their wagons and there their giant strollers. I've got a litany of place. I got a litany of complaints about the place, security, everything. When you say dress up, when you say dressed up, you mean like dressing character costumes. You don't mean like get dressed up fancy and look like like
a gentleman like yourself. I dress up like a gentleman as you know these people, these people, Yeah, and you can't say these people, these people, these these these people, you know who I'm talking about. They are wearing differs, They're dressed like like characters. And I feel like it's like, like, I wouldn't dress like that if I wouldn't I dress like that if I was going to an adult party. But when you're dressed up like Captain Hook or something and little kids around, they want to like,
uh, talk to you, and and it's creepy. So I don't think they should do it for that reason alone. Yeah, I mean there's a there is a group of people that for every day is it's Halloween, right, And so for those folks it's fun. You know, they try to get right up to the line of whatever Disney's rules are, undressing like character, you know, on these after hours and as you can dress literally like the character that you want to dress like something. So for most folks it's
fun. For me personally, I'm like, I don't want a goofy hat or a Mickey Mouse ears because there's only one place I'm ever going to wear them, and why would I wear them twice? Right? Like, that's when I see the big goofy hat, that's I'm like, where are you going to wear that? Unless you're going to a rave? And then that's probably the worst hat you wear a rave because everyone knows where you got it. But you and I are are the same because we go to Disneyland a
lot. But I wouldn't. I would not call either one of us disney adults in the in the pejorative term. But where we are any I'm adulting now, I'm no more adulting shirts or whatever that is. I mean, but here we are talking about you. I win Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Thursday. So it's kind of hard to pretend there's something. It's always interesting to talk to people about how much they don't love Disneyland. You talk to them for an hour and a half fro about Disneyland, and you're like,
yeah, I mean I love Disneyland. I love all the parks. I mean, I have the greatest job in the world. I agree, but but I still sort of like, I still sort of draw the line and say, you know, here's here's where I'm willing to go to. I do love seeing the kids having a great time and they're dressed up and they're blowing the bubbles and running around bubbles. I love the bubbles and enjoyment. The bubbles are so magical. I mean, I know it's cliche to say
magical. It doesn'tland, but the pet is it is truly magical. Sea bubbles floating across there and guess what, much like the silly hat or the crazy costume, there's very few places in this world where you see bubbles floating around and it just makes you smile. You know, they have next level bubble technology for sure. So yeah, I mean I love it. I love it. But and when but we want to be still love to complain
about it though I do? But so why I bring you on because you help my listeners have a better time at disney Land and or at California Venture. We haven't been talking about California Adventure. Let's skip over to California Adventure. Is there anything new going on there? What's what's the what's the latest over there? How are the crowds? Well? I was there today, I was there for this Disney Junior Festival. It was more like a marketing
thing than anything else. But you know what we're about to slip into it at California Venture, like Lewis Earland next week, is we're about to move into festival season. And if you think about it, I mean Ugie Boogie Bash and Christmas and then all the stuff that goes was sort of January to April, you know, literal a year and all that the festival seasons about
to start at Disneyland and at California Adventure. And so for me, California Venture is sort of the Florida equivalent of Epcot, right, Like, yeah, it is the place where you go to sort of drank, have fun and eat us a little better food. I mean, it wasn't envisioned at the beginning twenty plus years ago. It was sort of the forgive me for saying at the adult park, right it was the place where you were going to go and hang out and have Wolfgang Puck food or something like that Mandhabi
wine that all failed in the first year. But it is sort of getting back to that a little bit. And you know, I mean it's not quite Disney win End level in terms of attendance and or attractions, but in terms of food and drinks and fun and sort of parties, if you will, festivals, it is sort of the place to be. And it's that's just about the start again. I mean, Ogie Boogie Bash sold out in
one day. I've never been to the Ogi Boogie Bash. I don't have a strong desire to go to it, but my wife does then and by the time we know that it's happening, it's sold out. Yeah, And for me, I just don't understand any of the after our events. I mean, who wants to spend one hundred and fifty dollars to go take pictures with characters where you stand in line for forty five minutes to for a photo. Yeah, I mean it just doesn't make me sense to me. But
it doesn't matter if it makes it's filmo. It's folded up, it's sold out in a day, And so this is what the audience cares about, and this is what I'm writing about, because yeah, people get people, and yeah, it could be worse. There could be worse kinds of people. There are people going into Nordstrum and stealing all the bags. You know,
I don't understand those people. Either these people are waiting forty five minutes for an Instagram moment and when they could be running around and they're just waiting and waiting and waiting in those things what I understand, So I'm not there's some things going on to this music and stuff. But it is always curious to me. It's like, Wow, I can understand paying one hundred and
fifty bucks for seventy five rys. I can't take photos with a bunch of characters, But what about what's the Sam Francisco kio, Sam franci okio? What is that? It sounds racist, but maybe I'm gone. I don't know why. I suppose anything's possible, but it's not. It's basically the Big Hero sixth movie. They're doing an overlay of food court of Yeah,
yeah, I see. It's a fun movie. So the conceit of it is that I'm back in whatever whenever the earthquake was nineteen o two nineteen o six, the city of San Francisco or someplace like that sort of merged with the city of Tokyoko. It's not clear to me whether like it's the separate city or if it's like the city of San Francisco. But but part of it, and this is you know what would have been like the Japanese workers that were there, they had sort of ended up having a larger influence on
rebuilding the city after the earthquake. So that's where the name came from, and that's where the sort of the visual look of the movie came from. And so they're taking that and they're running with it as a theme for the Pacific Wharf, which I was just called like the food court of California Adventure. There's like three or four restaurant including uh An, the Asian restaurant, and Mexican restaurant, and so there is sort of these three cultures colliding there
sort of Mexican Japanese slash Asian and then San Francisco. Saint Francis was an Italian Have they addressed that yet? We get to ask about that, but there is not an Italian restaurant, all right, So Big Hero six, So when you go when you hear the San Francisoccio, it's a place in California Adventure that is themed from sort of by Big Hero six. So I guess you gotta see the movie. It sounds like a good movie. I didn't see it. I don't see every once in a while one slips through
the cracks. I did see the Haunted Mansion movie, and I will give you my review on the Haunted Mansion movie, Brady. When when we returned after this break, you're listening to Joyce Galante Live from Hollywood, speaking with Brady McDonald, the theme park reporter the Orange County Registered. Make sure you get this Park Life newsletter and you'll be set for all the parks instead of
California. So back up for this Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood, you meet Burbank and we are back in the studio here with Brady McDonald, the theme park reporter from the Orange County Register, and we're talking about Disneyland and other parks like we like to do and catch up. Yeah, you were going to give us a review of the Haunted Mansion movie. Yeah, the Haunted Mansion movie. So, the Haunted Mansion Movie. I watched it, and I thought it was pretty good. I enjoyed it.
But I enjoyed the Eddie Murphy on a Mansied movie too. I like that one, really, you do? Yeah? Yeah, I like that. Hey, Murphy's funny it was funny, I thought, I thought was I mean, maybe if I rewatched it, maybe I'm smarter now or more sophisticated. But I remember liking it. I liked this movie. I liked this movie better. It was good and good enough, and it really was true to the esthetic of the Haunted Mansion. You were, I feel like you're
in the Haunted Mansion. And but then when I read that there was a Guiermo del Toro script that didn't get made because it was two out there, I wanted to go and find the person who squashed that project in favor of this project. And I wanted to punch that person. And I haven't I haven't wanted to punch anybody in in days. So who is this guy, Brady? Do you do you know who this guy is or this woman? And how can we how you can find them? How do we destroy their
career? Well, I mean, so it is one of those you know, there's a bunch of things that have been there's a bunch of attractions, whether you know ever since you know Pirates of the Caribbean, everybody's gonna got an idea of how to remake a ride into a movie and turn it into a franchise, and so this is one of those movies that has bounced around for a long time, has been with different stars, has been with different directors, and this is one finally got made and it seems to be doing
pretty well, I mean good enough. I think I think it. I think I think the reviews are are okay, but the the ticket sales. Here's my point. It was a pretty milk toast compared to something that Gammel Del Toro could do. And then you look at the Barbie movie where they really pushed the envelope. They did like that person would have rejected the Barbie script, and the Barbie script over at Mattel, they took a giant risk
with this weird, out there script that makes fun of Mattel. It makes fun of men, it makes fun of women, it makes fun of all the gender roles. It's just crazy and it's hilarious and it looks beautiful, and they would have rejected it's it's and it's making over a billion dollars and it's still like making like three million a day or something. But and there's
going to be another Barbie movie. I think it's a Ken movie. I think can deserves a movie, but it was So whoever is whoever rejected the Gammel doltoral script for those reasons, if those are the true reasons that it was out there and to you know, pushing the envelope, that person should have his face rubbed in the box office of Barbie for a long time until
that person learns their lesson. So yeah, because clearly Disney was doing us to start trying to start a franchise, right, and so you need a good start to do that, and you need to be slightly bold, which was what Pirates was. I mean, you look at Pirates now and all you can think it was the billions that's made in the Giant Depp and all that. But when it came out, when it first came out, it was pretty risky because they weren't making movies about rides, right, Like they're
like, what are you doing. You're making a pirate movie. We don't make pirate movies anymore, right, if you lost your mind, yeah, well they were crazy, Yeah, but that was a thrilling movie. Thrilling. It was a thrilling movie. And if they said the same thing about how to Mansion right now, we'd be talking about what I did it was and how great it was, Like they said, it was crazy, I'm never gonna work and it probably wouldn't. This probably would have work. But
you know, this was pretty much what everybody expected. Like you said, milk twe milk toast and and good enough And that's not really what you start a franchise with. You gotta you have to be boulder a risk. Yeah, so it just see that's what I'm Although I liked it, I'm glad I saw it. I let me ask you this, would you want to see like Jamie Lee Curtis's head floating and the Madam Leota, magic Ball and
Disneyland? You want to see them sort of remake the Disneyland attraction and then the vein of the movie, Like I think people would lose their mind if they did that. No, I don't want I mean, you know, don't change anything, is what I'm seeing. Never whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing, don't change it. Just don't. Just wait a little bit and it'll be kitchi, you know, just you don't need to change, it'll be historic. Let's have your storic and kitchi. And yeah, I
mean it reminds me of I have a question for you. You know how their name tags on the Disney employees, Yeah, how they used to have where they're from. And that was really cool because you could see someone and it would say I'm from Hawaiian Gardens and you're like, Wow, that's cool. That's that's a cool place to be from. Or I'm from Copenhagen. Oh how how how great? I was going to say, how do you
do in Dutch? But I don't know how to say it? And then now they just they they they have their favorite Disney character under their name, yeah, which I think is sometimes interesting. Like if it's you know, if it's just some basic character, it's not interesting and it might be even confusing. But you know, if it's something people I find those interesting, that's a conversation starter. Just as much as you're from Hawaiian Gardens or Copenhagen.
You know, I think it's a conversation starter. I also gonna have to agree to disagree on this one, Grady. The other good part is like it'll be over at the end of the dish. Okay, it's a hundred year thing. Okay. Good Because I saw this one guy and his character under his name was Uncle Remus, and I just thought that was offensive, and I lodged the complaint so they did not did not say Uncle Remus underneath his name. I guarantee that there are a number of names that you
can't get. No, I heard there's a list. There's a list. There is a list of you to pick for the list, and some of them there are other thousands of names on the list, but there's a list of also of like the names you can't get. And a lot of times it has to do with some sort of copyright that Disney doesn't quite have complete hold of. And sometimes it's like an Uncle Remus. I'm thinking like, no, no, no, we're not gonnact. I'm not gonna let you
do that. But they call that a rear window problem. Sometimes when you have the rights, you got the rights at the beginning of it all, but then over time you lost some of the rights to like maybe the underlying story, to the to the to the descendants of the whoever wrote the Rear Window that Hitchcock movie, and and that person is sitting around going, well, guess what, I don't want you to release that movie again because the rights lapsed, and my lawyer is would like a big pile of money.
Yeah. The one that I heard that you can't get a name tag for is any sort of nightmare for Christmas characters. Some I'm imagining that's tied up with Burton and everything. And then the other thing that was interesting is you can get some of it, but not all the seven Dwarfs. Okay, I guess yeah. I don't thinking good dope, dope. Yeah, I mean everyone would want to be dope and sleepy. I don't think you can
get those. Yeah, that doesn't. That doesn't inspire confidence. When the guy who's running the uh to the ride the roller coaster's name is sleepy. Sometimes the lawyers might have gotten involved. Oh my gosh, Okay, what's going on. We've got a few minutes left in this, like a minute left in the segment. What's going on with Tianna's thing? I heard the unveiled it. I was just there like two days ago. I didn't see it. It was I missed. No, no, no, it's going
to be unveiled September seven, So they're getting ready to unveil it. I think I'm going to a media preview next week to try the food. It looks pretty nice. It looks like it's pretty much done. The tables and chairs are already sitting there, so they're ready to go. I'm sure they're just in test and adjustmentde and you know, we'll see it pretty soon. It could even soft open if it's ready. But September seventh is the date for that, so you know, we'll see how much they change it up
and how much. It's just like every other New Orleans Square restaurant. Tiana is not going to be there. It's just it's just going to be her place. She's going to be on wandering around New Orleans Square, but she's not going to be a character inside of the restaurant. It's not like character dining. Okay, and that used to be. That's what it used to be. What was it? What was it? Oh? Was it the market? French Market? French Market? Yeah, okay, I've an open
I've an open mind to that. Yeah. And I think what you like about it is there, you know the stage that was there. I think it's gonna be dual sided stage, so you're gonna get a little bit more opportunity for entertainment. I think you'll like that. I like it. I think that's my my destiny and my retirement. Maybe I was thinking I was going to ride the Columbia boat around from my job that I pick out for myself and pretend that I can have it, the ride the boat around the
Tompster's Island. But maybe I'll just play stand up base in one of those. Yeah, you could be like a bootstep for stand up base too, but you have to get a little wheels for the bottom of your stand up based you could roll it around Disneyland. Well, I mean that reminds me of Woody Allen playing the sallow in the Marching Band on that movie. Take the Money and Run So fond Memories. I'm gonna take a break and wh're gonna come back. We got one more segment with Brady McDonald from the Orange
County Register talking about Disneyland. We're gonna talk a little not scary farm coming up next. Okay, you know what I'm I'm done with my zoom, so I'm gonna I'm gonna make a new segment and call you back. I think that works all. Yeah, it texted to me because I'm using my phone. Okay, Joe Escalante, you don't want do Escalante Live from Hollywood. We are back talking to Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register about Disneyland,
and this is an update that it's been a long time coming. Brady, thanks again for coming with us. We got one more segment and Uh, one thing I wanted to ask you about is when I go to Disneyland. There's a part of when you go to all right Tomorrow adventure Land from Main Street. They've got it all blocked up in a big in a tiny funnel. And that's why I know it's not that crowdy, because in one of those crowded days, that would be a hellscape. But there's a do
you imagine it actually getting stuck up with people? Yeah, I mean I people jammed in there. Yeah, and in ninety eight degrees, a couple of wheelchairs and a so what's going on there? What happened? So you know, Disneyland was built in nineteen fifty five, right, and it still got some pipes on her name of it from nineteen fifty five. And if you were to do an X ray of Disneyland, they just you know, it was built exactly the way you think. It was right on top of
each other, over and over and over again. So there's pipes from the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties, Oh my gosh. And so yeah, and it's a mess, you know, And so this kind of happens every once in a while. This one. The way that this one happened, it just kept growing in the wrong place, right, And so it's the eventual land bathrooms there that we all know. It looks like
they're pretty close to wrapping it up. They've laid the frames for the support the cement, so you know, it looks like probably pretty soon that'll be over. But the reality is, and the fact is it's going to happen again, right, Like disney Land is not digging up everything and starting over with plumbing. You're dealing with seventy year old plumbing patching things here and there. Is it when you say it's growing, was it a pipe growing?
Was it a tree trunk? Now? The projects kept growing, right, Okay, they kept fighting the pipe and then they're like, we need to go further up stream. And so that's what ended up happening, was like it's just kept expanding. The problem expanded grew, So I can imagine the I like to visualize the lead plumbing guy there just going just the king. You know you want me to, you want me to prevent crap from blowing
all over this adventure land. Do what I say. The conversation had to go, do you want to fix the problem we have right now or do you want to fix the problem we're gonna have like in six months, Like do you want to do this again? Or do you just want to a band aid? Or do you want surgery? And they're like, oh God, I guess we're going to have to do the surgery right in the middle
of summer. Blocking off essentially one interest to one of the layouts. Now, there's a lot of places in Disneyland that's stink from stuff under the ground. There's there's one place that smells good right by the ice cream place, but there's a lot of places that are stinking. Are you gonna end to deny that? Well, I'm gonna say you might have a more sensitive nose than me. And it's all particular about that kind of stuff. Well, there's places that where you just go, what's what is that? What was
that? What was it? In its underground stuff infrastructure? It happens there's a place in Seal Beach like that on the corner of Seal Beach Boulevard and Westminster Avenue. She smells like Calcutta. That'd be a great new land for Disneyland. Calcutta with the natural authentic smells. Oh oh well they have they have. It does exist somewhere, you know sometimes right now since heal beach.
Okay, what about let's go over to Knotsbury Farm and let's briefly, uh, give a preview of what of not Scary Farm that's coming up that's epic, and then we have all the pretenders to the to the Scary park throne that try to compete and you can tell us how they're doing. Yeah. So Knats is getting ready to announce their lineup next week, going on
our media event for that next week, and it's their fiftieth anniversary. They are the oldest first parked ever to this Halloween thing that is now literally around the world parks do this. I mean Disneyland literally learned it from knots They went over there one Halloween and they're like, oh my god, those guys are printing money. We could do that over here our own way that's to be empty on Halloween. It used to be where you could go and waiting,
no line, zero line, nothing exactly. And so now now at Disneyland, it's a two month you know, Uly holiday festival, right and it is one of the for for most of these parks. It's probably the most profitable time of the year. Universal calls it the thirteenth month of the year because they make two times as much money in October too everywhere else because
if you think about it, they're charging a mission twice. They're letting everybody in from eight am to six pm, and then they charge essentially the same emission from like say six to midnight or one am or two am, so they get to charge and mission twice. It is incredibly profitable for these guys, and it is it is the new summer, right like this is this is the busiest time of year for these parks. Natzis seems to be looks
like they're to be going all in this year. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary, they've promised nons back to you know, mazes and haunts and scare zones from the last fifty years. So if you went forty years ago, thirty years ago, when you were a kid like oh, I always wanted to see such and such again, you know, it'll probably be there this year. And if you were Man Jack, be happy, Wolfman Jack and Wolfman back, I'll virus or I don't care. Yeah, So that that that'll
be this year, and it should be fun. It should be crowded and crazy, but it should be a great trip down memory lane. And and they are the forebearers of all this that you know, every other park benefits from that. I'm gonna go. I went the I used to think I went on the first year, but because I'd never heard of it before. But when I do the math, I go, oh, no, I didn't go until the second year. So I my first year was the second year. And yeah, the first year was pretty slim, I think.
I don't think it was. I don't know that they even knew they were doing it. Yeah, right, that's what I imagined. By the second year, they knew they were doing it, and there was ads in the paper and they had Wolfman bug Uh and him and he was you know, that was just what a great celebrity or Seymour. It might have been Seymour. They had the first year, and Seymour was in there very early.
Yes, Salvi was there for a long time. Yeah, so they're gonna I think I think they'll pay tribute to all that kind of stuff, and it should be a lot of fun. It would be a great opportunity, particularly if you were, like, you know, a parent and you want to take your kid to this thing. They're like, you know, a teenager and you're like, look, oh, this is what it was like when I did it, and I get to do this thing that now that the way you guys do it. So it's sort of a good generational fun.
They should have a Misfits tribute band or the Misfits. I mean how expensive connecting? Uh well, I mean you find it. Yeah, And I do know. I do know. I do know that because I've been I've been offered money by by that park for for for performing, and they're they're not in the high dollar world, but you know, maybe they don't need to be. So what Okay, So what do we what can we expect from Magic Mountain? Magic Mountain is going in a slightly different direction this
year. They're kind of taking on a universal a little bit, which is pretty bold, and they're gonna do a Hollywood horror movies, a couple of them. They're doing a saw and they're doing conjuring, and so that wought to be interesting. The thing that we're going to want movie, I'll see that you get the rights to it. They might be able to because Disney is never gonna use it. That would be really interesting. To have Hannah
Mansion the Universal or something like that would be fantastic. But the big question will be whether it's six Flags spends them on a hair sort of keep up with the Universal. Remember they were having that Goth fastin and then they then they abandoned it, they pulled the plug. I think it was more about the Goth fast folks. I think they had some issues. Yeah, well, you know, there's a lot of Satanism in that world. Just kidding.
I don't know anything about goth people. I don't want to get a bunch of letters from goth people, as if I ever got a letter ones from the show. Do people still write letters? I don't know. Yeah, they get they get very uh get their quill out and their ink path their ink uh well, and and they write me nasty missives. Okay, anything else we're missing that we didn't talk about. I got about thirty seconds
now and we are heading in the Halloween. So this is the big so like the beginning of quote unquote summer for for those folks, and it is going to be a busy and it's going to be a big year for how it's going to be. Your tickets, get your you can't go too but gay tickets are not scary farm and then you probably can still get tickets to
the other ones. Right, yeah, your tickets too long? Okay, all right, Rady McDonald the Orange County Register, Jowisco Wante signing off, I now leave you with just a taste of the great song you ever written.