Epic Universal with Eric Hersey Ep 52-5: How King Kong came to be at the Universal theme parks

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Eric Hersey & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about how the M3gan horde became the break-out hit at last year’s Halloween Horror Nights. They also discuss Universal Orlando’s Stella Nova & Terra Luna resorts Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: What role did Michael Eisner play in setting Paramount Pictures’ “King Kong” remake in motion back in the mid-1970s Why did Universal Pictures insist that certain scenes in “M3gan” be reshot Why did Universal Studios Hollywood temporarily shut down “Earthquake: The Big One” back in October of 1989 Which Universal Pictures release back in November of 1974 introduced the world to Sensurround Which after-hours event at the Disney Parks inspired Universal’s Grad Bash 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 entertainment writer Jim Hill and I'm joined
0:22.0	today by my co-host Eric Hersi and he and I are
0:26.0	recording this week's episode on Saturday April 13th and Eric again speaking of the 13th, tonight at Universal Orlando, they're holding their
0:41.1	second grad bash of the year.
0:43.2	Are you aware of this thing?
0:45.0	The thing they did for high school seniors in Florida and Georgia?
0:49.0	Well, you know, Jim, I know it exists.
0:52.0	As for, you know, I didn't live in Florida or Georgia when I
0:55.3	graduated so I'm not too sure how that works for for them I mean I guess the local
0:59.8	one here I could have went to Kennywood in Pittsburgh but that wasn't that wasn't on my I guess
1:04.8	calling card when I graduated. What they typically do is it's it's actually sort of grows out of Disney's grad night, which is something I want to say that
1:16.4	I started back in the 60s. And the idea is it's a safe graduation event.
1:22.1	You know, typically what happens is high school students
1:24.3	get bused from cities in Florida or Georgia or or the like and what they do is they
1:31.8	have the two universal parks in Florida islands and of course the studios to themselves from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
1:41.6	and this year the first one was held on April 12 and again second one's being
1:47.2	held tonight on the 13th and then the two or actually the three remaining ones in the
1:52.0	calendar are April 19th, April 20th, and April 26th.
1:56.5	And so you, you went to Kenny Wood?
1:59.5	No, no, no, no, no, no.
2:01.8	I did not go to Kennywood. That would be the closest I could if they wanted to bus us up. I don't know if they have something like that local here, but that's our local theme park, so to speak. So no, we didn't, we didn't quite do that. I did not have a giant
2:15.0	celebration or do really anything fun. I think I just went to straight to
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