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| Episode 140 - Live In Kings Dominion/East Coast Bash 2010 |
| It’s East Coast Bash 2010 at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia and the Season Pass Podcast is there to capture all the fun. Join Doug Barnes (Owner/Producer of The Season Pass), John Pagel (Marketing Manager of Kings Dominion), Robb Alvey (Owner of Theme Park Review), Arthur Levine (Theme Parks Guide for About.com), Robert Coker (Owner of Thrillride.com), Joel Bullock (aka: The Coaster Critic), and many more as they discuss Kings Dominion, East Coast Bash 2010, Marketing Madness, Cedar F ... |
| Episode 139 - Live In Busch Gardens Williamsburg 8/26/10 |
| This week the Season Pass is live in Busch Gardens Williamsburg VA. We talk with the Vice President of Engineering and Maintenance, Larry Giles, about the park's unique history, attractions, beauty, achievements, and one of Busch Gardens "Signature Attractions"- The Curse of DarKastle! We get deep behind the creative process of this immersive 4-D motion based ride with Season Pass Co-Host and Creative Director of Super 78, Brent Young. If you're a fan of Busch Gardens ... |
| The SeaonPass Virginia trip |
We just got back from an amazing time in Virginia. It was a crazy trip, 5 days in three different parks and about 20 hours of driving.
We started in Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It was a little rainy but that helped to keep the temperature and crowds down. Thanks to Chase (JoseBob on the forums) for meeting up with us on Thursday.
The second day was a short seven hour drive to Six Flags Great Adventure, in New Jersey. There will be a full podcast review of the trip in a few weeks, but the ... |
| Real Lord of the Rings theme park coming |
Real Lord of the Rings theme park coming.
A while back I posted that a Lord of the Rings park was coming to Spain. While it wasn't a real theme park in terms of rides, games and amusement entrainment, it was a sort of renaissance fair concept in design. But now comes rumors that a real Lord of the Rings theme park is coming to the Orlando area. Lord of the Rings has become the Sta ... |
| Episode 137-Rock on Stage w/Rudy Sarzo & Paul Dexter 8/1 |
This week the Season Pass Discussion Room is devoted to the early years of Themed Entertainment on the Big Rock 'n' Roll Stage. Paul Dexter (Owner of Masterworks Lighting) and Rudy Sarzo (Bassist for Blue Oyster Cult, DIO, Ozzy Osbourne, White Snake, Quiet Riot) join Brent Young (Creative Director of Super 7 and Doug Barnes (Owner/Producer of Season Pass Podcast) to discuss the significance of themed entertainment in rock venues and the efforts in writing, designing, directing & producing ... |
| Universal:Gotham City theme park concept before IOA |
Before Island of Adventure, or Marvel Superhero Island, there was project X. AKA Gotham City Batman theme park at Universal Studios Florida.
Back in the early 90’s after Universal Studios Florida had open, plans had already begun on Universal next theme park to complement the Orlando site. When the process begin in coming up with a new theme park many idea’s went by, like a “Blue Sky” process a lot ... |
| Episode 136 - Blooloop.com's Charles Read 08/02/10 |
| Owner & Editor of Blooloop.com, Charles Read, joins Doug Barnes (SeasonPassPodcast.com) & Brent Young (Super78) in the Season Pass Discussion Room to talk the origin and purpose behind his website. Charles gives insight on the people who strive to make Blooloop an essential resource for the industry including the informative Bloggers of Blooloop. The guys also get into a discussion on Merlin Entertainments, Harry Potter, King Kong, Animal Kingdom, Ferrari World (& it's record break ... |
| Q for Brent re: Madagascar |
H Fellas,
I just read the following item at Screamscape (http://screamscape.com/html/universal_studios_singapore.htm):
"As for Madagascar… the story gets a little weird. According to our source, some kind of fire may have broke out inside the attraction, causing some extensive damage to some of the scenes. If that wasn’t bad enough… it seems the entire ride system is a big steaming pile. The flume system is plagued with technical problems, and I’ve even heard it said that the l ... |
| Plane landing like a bird tech coming to Disney Parks. |
New technology making planes land like birds coming to Disney Imaginerring for Tinker Bell show.
@Web.MIT.EDU
MIT researchers have develop a technology that could make planes perch like birds onto landing structure. In essences this idea of having planes land on wires or runway’s without t ... |
| Episode 135 - Theme Park Music Geek-Out 7/26/10 |
It's all about Theme Park Music in the Season Pass Discussion Room this week. Don Schockow, Owner of Theme Park Audio Archives, joins Doug Barnes (SeasonPassPodcast.com), Brent Young (Super78) & Rick West (ThemeParkAdventure.com) for a discussion on theme park environmental music and the significance it brings to it's atmosphere and attractions. A major confession right off the bat... We talk "A LOT" of Disneyland. Of course other parks are "mentioned." ;) Enjoy!
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