How To Build A Shrek Waterpark
Very Amusing with Carlye Wisel - A Theme Park Podcast
Carlye Wisel
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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What does an ogre in swim trunks, a shopping mall and a conversation with Jeffrey Katzenberg about bathrooms have in common? This episode!!!
Y E S, we're diving deep into the creation of DreamWorks Water Park at American Dream in New Jersey. If you've ever slid down these slides or merely seen the 41 foot-tall Shrek balloon from the highway, you know that something special lies within that chlorine swamp, and we're talking to Don Carson, Senior Art Director at The Hettema Group, all about how it got made. Let's go sliding!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.7 | And welcome to Vary Amusing, your one-stop shop for the story, secrets and shenanigans |
| 0:17.3 | of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Carly Weizel, and who, boy, I am deep in the holiday season, and I'm not even talking, |
| 0:25.4 | Shrek's Ember. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm talking to my weekends are now jam-packed with festive stuff, and it's incredible, |
| 0:31.4 | but I'm recording this on Sunday night, and I feel like I've lived so many lives only |
| 0:36.4 | in this weekend. |
| 0:37.4 | And a lot of it was weirdly podcast-related. |
| 0:42.0 | On Friday night, I went to my friend Jeffrey Upsdien's holiday party, which was incredible. |
| 0:46.6 | Jeffrey hosts D23's Inside Disney podcast, which I highly recommend. |
| 0:50.6 | And then on Saturday, I went to a basketball game. |
| 0:54.2 | Me! |
| 0:57.2 | Me who knows nothing about sports was shocked to find out that the opposing team's mascot |
| 1:00.2 | doesn't travel with them. |
| 1:01.6 | I don't know what that's about. |
| 1:02.9 | They definitely have budget for it. |
| 1:04.9 | All the mascots should be there, but I guess that's not normal. |
| 1:07.5 | But I learned a ton of things about sports, including that at Clippers Games, it was a |
| 1:14.3 | Clippers vs. Magic, and at Clippers Games, if the opposing team misses two free throws, |
| 1:22.4 | then everybody gets free chick-fully, isn't that terrible? |
| 1:27.4 | Can you imagine just doing your thing, trying to perform at the highest elite level, and |
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