Epic Universal with Eric Hersey Ep 53-6: Meet the horrifyingly cute Frankenstein Junior

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eric Hersey & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing the tram accident that happened this past weekend at Universal Studios Hollywood. They then take a close look at the perks annual passholders will be able to enjoy at the Universal Orlando parks starting in May. Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: Which Universal horror classic got transformed from a silent film to a sound picture in 1929 Why did Universal Studios Florida push back the opening of “Twister … Ride It Out” from March of 1998 to early May of that same year Which store used to occupy the space in Universal CityWalk that’s now being transformed into the Epic Universe preview center Back in 1931, who did Universal Pictures originally announce was going to star in that Studio’s upcoming production of “Frankenstein” Which cartoon character is at the wheel of that popcorn bucket that Universal Hollywood is now selling to commemorate the 60th anniversary of that theme park’s tram tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Welcome back to the Epic Universal Podcast. I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill and I'm joined
0:20.7	this evening by my co-host Eric Hersey and he and I'm
0:25.0	recording this evening by my co-host Eric Hersey and he and I recording this week's
0:26.0	episode on Tuesday, April 23rd,
0:30.0	at 2024.
0:32.0	And Eric, as you know, that's just three years. uh... summer long celebration of the 60th anniversary of their Tram Tour, which actually starts the very same day
0:46.2	this podcast goes live April 26th. But that got off to a rocky start this past weekend, didn't it?
0:53.6	Yeah, just a little bit now.
0:55.9	Now I will tell you, Jim, that although it did get off
0:59.7	to a rough start, I've been watching more and more YouTube videos of this tram tour and tram tours in general and boy
1:06.7	Am I getting jealous that it's not a quick drive to go check something out? It is really making me think and consider saying, hmm, I think I think
1:16.1	Hollywood might be the place to go. So it's so even though there was a little bump in the
1:21.3	road so to speak this week it's still something
1:24.9	that I that tram tour it gets me okay now remember you know work you and me and
1:31.0	and Lauren and I know will be out in California for the D23 Expo and the 60th anniversary
1:38.8	version of the Tram Tour runs through August 11th and isn't that in the same window at time
1:44.5	or, you know, that we're out there?
1:46.3	Yeah, sounds like it.
1:48.1	So, but, but let's just hope,
1:50.2	if that does turn into a thing
1:51.7	where we go out there and we get the party with the best of them that we don't have an incident.
1:57.0	Well, all right, tell you what, we'll get to the details in just a moment here.
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