Thirty20Eight #5 - From River Country to Typhoon Lagoon: The Evolution of Disney Water Parks
The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory
Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Thank you for downloading the Thirty20Eight, a show about Disney History, Disney Listory, and news! This week on the show, Matt and Kevin explore the evolving water parks at Walt Disney World, from River Country to Typhoon Lagoon. They also evaluate how these parks tie into the larger "Vacation Kingdom" philosophy that drives your experience at Walt Disney World.
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| 0:46.0 | you be out there wallowing and shoulder I wade. The Welcome to the 3028, a show about Disney history, Disney history and news. I'm |
| 1:18.4 | Matt Parish and I'm Kevin Quigley. And you know Kevin, when we launched the |
| 1:22.0 | 3028 we really wanted to look at smaller pieces of Disney history and explore them and over time I think we both recognize |
| 1:28.6 | There are bigger stories we wanted to tell and now we're here. Yeah and tonight on the show we are going to explore an area of Walt Disney World that both of us really love Typhoon lagoon. |
| 1:39.2 | Yeah man I love Typhoon lagoon. I've been going to Typhoon lagoon for 25 years now actually 26 years the first time I went |
| 1:46.1 | there was in 1991 and I could and I'm telling you like as as far as theme parks go when I was a |
| 1:51.5 | kid this is the one that I was most excited about this |
| 1:54.5 | water park. Really? Yes. Oh that that's pretty cool not you know I've only been |
| 1:58.7 | going to gosh the water I've only been to Typhon lagoon twice I've been to Blizzard Beach once in the 10 years |
| 2:06.2 | I've been going Disney so this is very interesting for me you know to get your perspective on it growing up with it and then my perspective having just seen it fairly recently |
| 2:15.7 | So the first time that I remember like we went to Walt Disney World in 1987 and then we went again in 89 and 89 is when Disney and GM studios open so that was a whole |
| 2:25.3 | experience but we didn't do the water park so we had to wait until 1991 so between |
| 2:30.8 | 89 and 91 there was all this information right burn bombs a book and this kind of stuff where you can see pictures of typhoon |
| 2:36.8 | But it was still really new and when we went there in 91 it was incredible. It really did live up to expectations |
| 2:42.4 | Oh, that's so exciting see you know I'm used to going It was incredible. It really did live up to expectations. |
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