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Do we want to do the regular intro or is this it? We're in it.

We'll do the regular intro. Here we go.

Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara, and I'm stoked.

No, I'm Byron.

And we're coming to you live from Epic Universe, or more specifically, Tara Luna, the hotel that Universal has graciously put us up in to preview Epic Universe because Byron and I were lucky enough to attend Media Day at Epic

Universe, April 5th, 2025, viewing the park a full month before everybody else, which is

honestly incredible. So thank you to Universal.

And also just a little disclosure up top that we were invited here by Universal for Media

Day. So take that in however you will as we give our review. And also major thank you to all

our viewers and listeners who have stuck with us through all this

because we also would obviously wouldn't be here if we weren't for you all.

No, we quite literally would not.

Thank you for keeping the train rolling for us. And hopefully in return, we can give you a very

interesting sneak peek. And as this show goes, and you might have noticed this in the title of

the episode, we're going to give very generalized thoughts to start this episode out so that it is

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