UUOP #181 - Universal's Land Purchase with Sandra Pedicini
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this episodev we are joined by the Orlando Sentinel's Business and Theme Park Reporter, Sandra Pedicini.
We begin, as we always do, with The Producers Club birthdays and continue our Great Florean Fortscue's Ice-Cream Debate by hearing from Sandra, herself.
We then discuss the recent land acquisition by Universal Orlando, as well as some other stuff going on at the resort.
Maureen from Autism at the Parks then takes us Universal Orlando Resort to talk aout the upcoming Mardi Gras celebrations.
A Celebration of Harry Potter took place at Universal Orlando this past weekend and Sandra visited, so we talk to her about her experience at the event and wrap up by asking her some rapid fire questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Covering the Universal Orlando Resort for over four years, you are listening to the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello. Orlando podcast Hello everyone and welcome to episode 181 of the unofficial universal Orlando podcast I'm your hostley and joining me tonight is Tracy |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and Darren what's up internet |
| 0:35.9 | Hunter is not here he has defected to Disney once, but we have a much better replacement for him tonight. I'd like to welcome on board. The Orlando Sentinel's business and theme park reporter is Sandra Pedicini. Hi, Sandra. Hi, thanks for having me on. Thanks for joining us. Hunter will be scared if he's listening to this because she better not be better than I am because she's not replacing me, you'll be fighting, you'll be coming down to fight you. Hunters are just blind me to fall off. Yeah, this is true. He's a big gentle giant. Yeah, and he's irreplaceable. Oh, God, yes, yes. Yeah, the broken world with him. Yeah. And he's irreplaceable. Oh God, yes. |
| 1:11.5 | Yes. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, the broken world with him. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.5 | Cool. |
| 1:17.1 | Right. |
| 1:17.4 | Well, we shall start off, as we always do, Tracy, with some producers' club birthdays. |
| 1:20.7 | We shall indeed. |
| 1:21.8 | Everybody get your party hats on. |
| 1:23.3 | Quite a few. |
| 1:24.0 | There are. |
| 1:25.0 | We shall kick off with a February 4th birthday for the very lovely Colin Reese. |
| 1:30.6 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:32.3 | And then on February the 10th we have Melanie Brookbank. |
| 1:36.4 | Jim Craig's birthday is February the 11th. |
| 1:39.4 | It's happy birthday to you two. |
| 1:41.6 | And on February the 12th we have John Pace. |
| 1:45.0 | Happy birthday everyone. Happy birthday everyone. |
| 1:48.0 | Now we've got a non-birthday but very very special celebration that we have to mention. |
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