We discussed the Riders That Made Me with Justin Martin on episode 383 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast.

Hey everyone, it's Lee. I am here. I have benched Tracy, Darren and Chris. It is just, well, not just me.

As you heard in the intro, I have a special guest, former Thinkwell and Universal Creative Employee, Mr. Justin Martin. Hey, Justin.

How are you? Thanks for having me on.

It is good to have you on again. I will say again, for those of you don't know, you may remember Justin from back on episode 308. I can't believe it was that long ago. Yeah. Where we had you on to talk about your work on Volcano Bay. And as we have discussed offline, Justin, Tracy and I got to have a tour of Volcano Bay in about six weeks ago, I think it was at this point. It seems like a lifetime ago. That park is stunning.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'm super proud of it. My whole bathroom is decked out in concept

art and whatnot of Volcano Bay. It's my little homage to that park having been able to work on it.

But I'm so glad that you guys got over there to see it and I thought it was a real nice place as well.

Well, we've discussed, Tracy and I aren't really water park people.

After coming out of that to Tracy, it was like, we need to come here for a proper day.

Yeah, I think even on my, when I was on back on, you said 308, I was, when I was put on the project, I was had the same thing of like, I'm not really a water park person. It's kind of a bummer that I'm going to work on a project that I, you know, I don't care for water parks. And then I just became a water park person. I, like, my family begs me to go to that park every time we go to Orlando.

We had to go to Volcano Bay. We had to go to Volcano Bay. And I think it's not even the fact that

that their son or brother worked on it, just more that they love the atmosphere of the place.

So it's a common brand. Yeah, it's absolutely gorgeous. I mean, Tracy's a budding photographer.

She had a field day in there with her camera. She said she could have spent all day just taking pictures. And it is, I think we've talked about on the show before. It's such a small footprint that it was put in. Yet when you are in there, it feels huge. Yeah, yeah. I think I was pretty impressed having only been on that project on the on the blue sky concept phase

But kind of going in there after it had opened on its own kind of just seeing like wow they really just killed it when it came to hiding

It was I for that's right next to the park and you know obviously you have some issues with you know being up on the water towers, but that's the fact of life. Yes. But once you're just, when you're sitting there with a margarita or a very fruity drink in hand sitting on a lounge chair, the world just fades away. You're in, you're in Volcano Bay. It's that thing as well of being where they've where they've crammed it in

that it affects the whole resort so you see it from i4 you see it from you can see it from the

hotels if you're staying in i'm hoping at some point we can get one of those cabana bay

volcano bay view rooms because those floor to ceiling windows looking out over Volcano Bay are just to die

for.

Yeah.

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