UUOP #402 - The Rides That Made Me with Kathrynn Cobbs
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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On this episode we welcome Themed Entertainment Designer Kathrynn Cobbs on to discuss the 3 attractions that have had the biggest influence on her and her career.
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| 0:00.0 | I talked a themed entertainment designer Catherine Cobbs about the three attractions have had the biggest influence on her and a career. |
| 0:06.3 | You are listening to Episode 402 of the Unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. Hey everyone, welcome to the show. It is me, Lee. I have managed to, well, I think Chris Tracy and Darren are all still in lockdown, but I've managed to squeeze myself out for my government-sanctioned hour out of quarantine. But I am joined by Catherine. |
| 0:40.8 | So Catherine, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It is good to have you on. |
| 0:45.1 | And to talk to someone other than the two other two people I share my house with at the moment. |
| 0:49.0 | I feel the same way. As lovely as they are, it's nice to see and talk to another person. |
| 0:54.9 | It really is. |
| 0:59.2 | So, Catherine, you are a themed entertainment veteran at this point, having worked in the industry for about 15 years, you said? Roughly, but in different capacities. Because I started working |
| 1:04.5 | at Disneyland when I was 15. Wow. Yeah. So from that point on, I've been in some capacity of themed entertainment. |
| 1:12.9 | I think that's the thing people think theme parks, |
| 1:15.5 | and it's become a much bigger thing, the themed entertainment industry, |
| 1:19.2 | goes way beyond theme parks at this point. |
| 1:21.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:22.3 | And sometimes those are the fun projects, |
| 1:23.9 | is the exhibits and the cool things that are still immersive and IP driven but aren't |
| 1:29.5 | necessarily a traditional theme park ride or something like that. Yeah cool cool stuff. |
| 1:34.1 | Is there anything kathen that you will have worked on that our listeners will know that you're |
| 1:39.6 | allowed to talk to us about? Uh yeah so I worked on the Hunger Games, the exhibition, which toured the US a couple years |
| 1:48.6 | ago and went to Australia. |
| 1:51.0 | There's a version of it that now permanently resides in Las Vegas, but it's slightly modified |
| 1:56.3 | version than the original. |
| 1:58.0 | I had a small hand, albeit in the Celestina Warbeck show. Nice. Yes. I'm a big |
| 2:05.9 | Harry Potter fan, so I've been very fortunate to touch lots of Potter-related projects, |
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