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Epic Universal with Eric Hersey Ep. 17: Universal's Cartoon World That Never Was & A Look Ahead at Wicked Attractions

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Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Epic Universal Podcast, Jim Hill and Eric Hersey dive deep into Universal Studios' unbuilt Cartoon World, a project meant to pave the way for Islands of Adventure. Jim shares fascinating insights into the concept's early stages and how it evolved into what fans know today. Highlights include: Jim's stories about the behind-the-scenes development of Cartoon World and its transformation into Islands of Adventure. How Warner Brothers and Universal nearly partnered for a superhero and Looney Tunes theme park. The hidden history behind Universal’s decision to bring Dr. Seuss and Dudley Do-Right into Toon Lagoon. A fun discussion on the replacement of Hello Kitty with the new Wicked experience and how Universal is preparing for the movie’s release. Join us for this in-depth discussion on the park that could have been and its impact on the theme park landscape we enjoy today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Eric Hersy. I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and this is the podcast where we cover the

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latest Universal News rumors and history and as always I'm I'm joined by my co-host, the formerly universal curious, now full-on enthusiast

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for these theme parks and resorts.

1:11.3

Eric Hershey, so how are you tonight there?

1:13.4

Jim, I'm doing fantastic and I'll tell you what I just, I was debating on the annual pass route for

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Universal.

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We're going to go back down here in December and I think in the coming

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weeks I'm going to really explore that whole annual pass and see if it makes sense. So not just

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Universal Curious at this point in time almost a universal curious AP

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question question. No no to that end and in fact let's let's invite folks into

1:40.4

the conversation here because obviously again you're going to be wanting to get the best

1:44.8

value out of your annual pass and but as somebody who isn't a local I mean you'll be climbing

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into the car or getting out of plane to travel down there from

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Wheeling. We'd love to have input from folks about what would the best annual pass be in this situation given that what you see yourself going

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down there a couple times a year now or I think that's going to be the case now the

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biggest thing is we didn't buy because the rumors were circulating for epic universe you had to have a

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