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. I'm Brian Morin. And for this episode's featured attraction, we preview a whole ass theme park, folks. We're talking about the big dog,

Epic Universe. And joining us in Celestial Park is the one person that kept all of us little

pigs fed during this time of speculation. I'm, of course, talking about Alicia Stella from

Theme Park Stop. Thank you for joining us on the pod, Alicia. I'm very excited to be here. Anytime

anyone starts talking about Epic Universe, I will materialize in the room. Yeah, you're like Candyman.

If we say Epic Universe three times in the mirror, you'll slowly appear behind us. Yes. It would have felt

like a sin having anyone else, I think. Discuss this park. You have single-handedly put the entire theme park community on your back.

We did not have any information to go off of this theme park, even though it was announced, what, 2019-18?

In 2019.

I started covering it in 2018, which is amazing because like no one believed me.

And a local news station actually reached out and they're like, we believe you.

And they wanted me to do like a show off all the permits and stuff.

And like it got no traction because it wasn't announced yet.

There is actually this hilarious meme.

I don't know if you've seen it.

I believe it's one of those memes of like a guy whispering something into like a girl's ear at like a party. And she's just kind of like going slack-jawed because it's just not interesting. But it's this guy. He's like, so anyways, there's this, there's this lady online. She looks at permits. and there's another guy who

I think he has a drone

and he takes photos with it

and to get their... There's this, there's this lady online. She looks up permits. And there's another guy who, I think he has a drone, and he takes photos with it. And together, they kind of form this super team to that. They keep me all updated on Epic Universe. And it's basically, have you seen that? There's a lot of versions of those memes. Yeah. I think that was from Hal Bauer's. Bio-Reconstruct, by the way, uses a helicopter,

which makes it even more difficult because he's literally in that helicopter with a point-shoot camera

zooming all the way in, not like a drone, which stands still. So the amount of talent that he's

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