Episode 021 - Tiana's Bayou Adventure, Spooky Season, & DreamWorks Land

That Tracks Podcast With Tim and Nick

Tim & Nick

Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Nick and Tim are back together and ready to break down the latest theme park news! Starting with the details surrounding the opening of Tiana's Bayou Adventure and the annual passholder previews for Walt Disney World's newest attraction. They also discuss the dates that have been announced for Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World and Oogie Boogie Bash at Disneyland. While there is not much changing for Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, what will the characters be for Oogie Boogie Bash?! Spooky season is right around the corner and Nick and Tim cannot believe it! Universal Orlando also continue to bring the excitement as a preview of DreamWorks Land took place while recording, giving Nick and Tim the opportunity to break some of it down. As always, there is more than just tracking through theme park news with Tim and Nick. From cars, to fatherhood and plenty in between, we hope you enjoy tracking with us! Be sure to follow our socials and check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThatTracksPodcast?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator www.instagram.com/That_Tracks_Pod www.instagram.com/thethemeparkdad www.instagram.com/thetimtracker

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to that wax the podcast about the history of the wack-a-mole arcade game slash carnival game Nick take us back to that fateful day in 1976 at IAPA attractions expo.
0:12.0	Oh, was that where it was
0:14.0	where it was introduced to America.
0:15.8	That is so exciting.
0:17.2	You know, growing up...
0:18.2	Well, sort of because it was developed and invented in Japan as a game called Molebuster.
0:28.4	Okay.
0:29.4	And then there's this guy over here and I'm sorry Bob's Space racers if you guys are listening, but they claim that they invented the Wacamole.
0:38.0	They didn't invent Wacamole. They made the name Wacamole because it was called MoleBuster in Japan, but they saw it at IAPA and they're like,
0:47.0	we should make that.
0:48.0	And they made it to a carnival game, and they also created a portable version of it that went on a trailer so it could be taken around the country.
0:56.0	When did you look this up?
0:57.0	This morning.
0:58.0	Okay.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	I love that you prepared.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	When I was a kid I loved that game especially at
1:04.1	Chuck E. Cheese. Oh. Were you a part of the Chuck E. Cheese generation? Yeah. Were you? Yeah.
1:08.6	We also had a star was it was called it might have been called Starbucks it wasn't we used to have a coffee place but it was just like Chuck E.
1:19.1	A celebration station we had one of those never heard of that really you never heard of showbiz pizza. No. Oh, there was another one you should look up showbiz pizza it's a it's a ride
1:30.0	There are there's a whole community of people that have bought the animatronics from showbiz pizza and they like have them in their personal collection and there's a guy in town that has like the whole it's a it was called the rocket fire explosion that was the name of the band
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