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Epic Universal with Eric Hersey Ep 51-4: Remembering the “Ghostbusters Spooktacular” attraction

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Eric Hersey & Jim Hill start this week’s episode by taking a look back at the “How to Train Your Dragon” film franchise. They then pivot to discussing the latest land to be unveiled for Epic Universe Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: Which character did Wayne Brady almost get heat stroke playing at a Disney Park How many different movie studios have released “How to Train Your Dragon” films over the past 14 years What was especially cool about the “Casper the Friendly Ghost” ride that Universal Creative developed for that Company’s theme parks Who was originally supposed to be the lead of the first “Ghostbusters” movie Residents of which two states can take advantage of the latest Universal Orlando ticket offer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Welcome back to the Epic Universal Podcast. I'm Intertem writer Jim Hill and I'm joined

0:20.5

this evening by my talented co-host Eric Percy and he and I are recording this week's episode on Thursday March 28th

0:30.0

Where what nothing happened today, right?

0:34.0

Errik, absolutely nothing worth noting, right?

0:36.4

No, no, they, Universal only teased something briefly on a social media message that the 28th

0:42.1

was a big deal and just so happened you know I made sure to be

0:45.5

B aware in online this morning to see if anything did happen Jim did something happen

0:51.3

Yes, we actually learned about yet another land that's going to be part of the Epic Universe Park,

1:00.0

the one that's under construction now and we'll open an early 2025 and I have to say I'm especially

1:06.3

excited about this one because I have been a fan of the How to Train Your Dragon movies since the very first one came out. In fact, 14 years ago this month, March 2010.

1:21.2

So Jim, I'm excited as well, but for totally different reasons.

1:25.0

Jim, did you know that I'm actually named after a Viking?

1:29.0

So here's the story. So my dad was as redhead as you possibly could be and my mom had they had

1:35.4

three different children and I was going to be their last so at the end of the day she

1:38.9

says I want this boy to have red hair and they named me Eric

1:42.9

after Eric the Red.

1:43.9

But guess what?

1:44.7

Eric the Red.

1:45.7

That did not happen.

1:47.2

But needless to say, I have a fondness towards Vikings

1:52.2

because of that.

1:53.5

So super excited about this, unfortunately,

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