Dec. 7, 2025

The 2026 Guest Is Chasing Childhood Memories

The 2026 Guest Is Chasing Childhood Memories
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A new report reveals how Gen Z and Millennials plan to travel in 2026: 78% say they’ve recreated a childhood vacation or plan to, and 69% avoid overcrowded destinations; 67% cited escape from burnout as a motivator, and interest in wellness and sober travel experiences is rising.

That context frames the debut of Netflix House, now open in King of Prussia, with another location opening this week in Dallas. The venue’s design aligns almost point-for-point with the survey data: flexible IP that can shift quickly with trends (including nostalgia plays like Stranger Things), free entry that lowers the barrier to budget-minded visitors, and pop-up-style attractions that avoid the overcrowding issues plaguing traditional destinations. Even the food program—mocktails, themed desserts, and in-house menu development—mirrors the rise of wellness-conscious, experience-driven dining.

Also this week, a potential Warner Bros. sale could reshape nostalgic touchpoints across the industry—from DC lands to Looney Tunes to Wizarding World. With younger audiences gravitating toward familiar brands and shareable moments, whoever controls these IPs will exert enormous influence over the next decade of park development.

Across all three stories, one trend stands out: guests are seeking comfort, flexibility, and low-pressure nostalgia—and the operators who can rotate content quickly and meet those expectations may have the advantage. Listen to weekly BONUS episodes on our Patreon.

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Okay, from our studios this week in Los Angeles and Tampa.

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This is Green tag tem Park and thirty. I'm Philip.

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I'm joined as always by my delightful co host Scott Swinson.

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Scott Swinson creat development on Green Tagged.

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Of course, we look at the top news each week

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and explain why it matters to business professionals. This week,

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we are recording this early, since I am in Vegas

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at LDI while you are listening to this, we're time

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traveling a little bit. But this week we're going to

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be discussing some trends for gen Z millennials and what

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they're looking for in travel, Netflix, House and Warner Brothers

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at the end.

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So a whole bunch of cool stuff. This is gonna

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be a cool show. It willed contrary to what popular

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contray to popular belief, this will be a cool show.

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Yeah, you know, you know who.

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We're not mentioning six Flags just yeah.

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If there was six Flags news, then it's because we're

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recording early, and that's why we didn't talk about it.

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But oh that's right, we kind of got We kind

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of got burnt on that one, didn't we where we Yes, Yeah, sorry,

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we're doing the best we can, guys.

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Sorry, So first up here we're looking at a report

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that came out about gen Z millennials and what gen

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Z and millennials and what they look for in travel,

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and there's a few interesting insights. The biggest one is

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that they're showing a strong desire to recreate childhood vacations,

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with seventy eight percent having already done so or planning to.

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Another one is that they're a growing trust in AI

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for travel research, but not pooking entire trips, and of

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course responsible tourism and wellness are still priorities. But interesting

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that overcrowding has now become a concern, so sixty nine

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percent avoiding overcrowded destinations. Now the caveat here is this

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report was only a thousand. It says over one thousand,

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but you know, usually when they say over one thousand,

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they mean like one thousand and four exactly. They're not

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meaning like, you know, a huge number. So about thousand

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Americans aged eighteen and thirty five is how they did it.

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So it's not a huge sample science, but it is

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a stistically minimum amount to qualify for a sample size.

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But I think all this lines up with what we

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normally have what WILL have been talking about, and in

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terms of reasoning, sixty seven percent site burnout and seventy

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nine percent so they would consider booking a sober travel experience,

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and fifty three percent continue their wellness routine while they're

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actually traveling. All this, I think we've been talking about

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these trends, especially the overcrowding, the need to have mocktails

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in your menu, lenient in nostalgia that this all seems

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to make sense. Is there anything new that we need

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to be aware of for our attractions?

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Well, I think it's you know, I think it's interesting

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because the term I just want to I just want

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to address the term nostalgia for a minute, because you know,

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nostalgia has always been has always been a draw. It's

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always been a draw. It's ebbed and flowed in its popularity.

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But you know, even things like with with television programming

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when I was when I was a kid, there was

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like Happy Days came out. It was a there was

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a huge nostalgia jump back to the fifties, which was

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to me at the time seemed like ancient history, but

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to my parents it was nostalgia, So that made it popular.

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My point being when we say nostalgia, that is not

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necessarily nostalgia for the people who are the owners of

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said properties or organizations. It's nostalgia for the the gen

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zs and the millennials. So to me, that's that still

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feels contemporary. But you know when I when I meet

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people who said, oh, yeah, I the first vacation I

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remember as a child was coming coming to Bush Gardens.

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And these are people that I work with, you know,

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these are people who I consider my peers. And I

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was working at Bush Gardens when they came as a

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five year old. So nostalgia is you just have to

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be careful when you look at nostalgia that you're hitting

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nostalgia for the right demographic.

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Does that make sense?

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Oh, here's our six flags tie in exactly what Travis

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Kelcey said.

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I mean, this is exactly that's right.

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That's why he did his investment because he had such

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great memories of six We can't do a show without

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you know, mentioning six can't.

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It's you know, we're.

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Gonna we were talking before the show, we were going

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to change the name to Green Flagged and just you know,

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make it all about six Flags. But but no, I

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think that I think that it's true, and I think

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that another reason I think that's becoming popular is because

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right now things are are tumultuous in the United States.

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So people are always looking for a simpler time. And

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it's all whether it really was or not, it's always

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our memories make it so that the past and our

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nostalgic remembrances are always better than the current day. I mean,

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this is this is why Disneyland and disney World, well,

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disney World's Magic Kingdom had a main Street USA because

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that was going back to as as Walt was would

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say many times, going back to a simpler time. So

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the idea of nostalgia in travel has never really gone

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out of fashion. I know we all talk about newer, bigger, faster, better,

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but you know, look at look at.

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Uh it's what is nostalgic, I think is what you're saying,

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like correct, like correct?

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Basically as the target market shifts, so you know, like

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as you this is a target now it's millennials and

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their young children and then like gen Z and that's

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who the travel industry is targeting.

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So therefore, what is their nostalgia? What is their.

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Nostalgia is what's popular However, it's new in that like

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you know what previously like et right is kind of

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I don't know. I mean, there's things that are phasing out,

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but like even Mattel at Iapa, Mattel announced these the

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new beach water park things, even they haven't opened matel

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Land yet, and that is.

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Like, but anyway, look at look at Epic, look at

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a universe, you know, Harry Potter, Mario, yep Mario, Harry Potter,

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I mean, everywhere you look, now that you think about

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it in the lens of nostalgic to this generation, correct Burke?

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Can you believe it?

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Isle of Burke is nostalgic to this generation.

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That's crazy, but yes, but it is, Yeah, it really is.

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And then we didn't talk about this on this show.

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Or but there's the Pokemon Park that's opening in Japan,

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and there's also the Traveling Pokemon Fossil Museum that's coming

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to the Field Museum here in Chicago.

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I mean, like it's that I.

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Want to go see that. That would be really fun.

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It's a good excuse to go to Chicago too. But anyway, yeah,

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you're absolutely right. It's the idea of nostalgia has never

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really changed. So it's it's not terribly shocking announcement that

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they they want they want to relive childhood vacations. We've

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been trying to do that forever.

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I think anyone has been high to do that forever exactly.

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But I think it's important to recognize what nostalgia means.

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And I think you bringing up excuse me, you bringing

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up E T. E T is nostalgic for me. The

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early Star Wars films are nostalgic for me. Just it's

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it's things that you know, happened so far before the

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the gen z and the Millennials were even born that

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I think of as nostalgic. So when you talk about nostalgic,

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you just have to recognize nostalgic to whom. That's the

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tricky part, nostalg to whom.

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And I also think, I know this is we're going

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a little bit obscript with this this part, but this

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discussion has made me think about how.

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These Star Wars.

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Is an example and E T where all a lot

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of these ips are like cross generational and part of

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a theme park or a part of an ipeholder's challenge

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is of course, I don't want to say indoctrinating but

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passing on the IP to the next generation so that

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it does become nostalgic, so that then it goes into

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it's basically this is the IP life cycle, right, and

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then we're just talking about how then it's now manifesting

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in theme parks a lot. But this is a critical

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part of it because I was thinking about going about

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just going to Disneyland and how like it's nostalgic from

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my dad because he was there on opening Day with

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his family and they kind of took me as a kid,

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which got me to think about associated Disneyland with happiness.

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And now I try and take people there, but I,

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you know, when taking Jason or you know that, like

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taking my partner, like, they don't it's not a they

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don't have that. It's not nostalgic for them, and so

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they don't they don't have that frame of reference, right exactly.

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It's just like it's just like you know.

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this this dilemma because Mickey was no longer nostalgic to anybody,

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and so they did they did desperate, desperate things. Google

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some of the looks that Mickey had during the late

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seventies early eighties and Mickey and disco where is just

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not good. It's not a good choice. But they were

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trying to make him more contemporary so that he could

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then be nostalgic for another generation. But for the most part,

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you know, most kids, most kids now don't they know

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who Mickey Mouse is. It's not there, it's not their

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the key character that they want to see. Mickey Mouse

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is just sort of part of Disney. We just accepted

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as part of Disney, not not a little black and

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white mouse that drove a steamboat.

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You know they needed to watch. That's kind of thing.

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regards to that nostalgia. The other thing that I think

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is really really sort of resonates with me is not

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so much the wellness stuff because I'm not good at

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that when I'm on vacation. Actually I get more exercise

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when I'm on vacation that I walk more.

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the idea of just health awareness is trickling to travel.

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Right, And I think that's and I think it's important

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to recognize that, you know, offering it's not just making

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sure there's a salad on your on your lunch menu,

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make sure that it's a salad that's not covered in

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you know, I don't know, deep fried fat.

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the shows. I don't remember when we talked about that,

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but that was a big when I went to some

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of the education sessions that I opered, that was a

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big thing as well in the food trends of there

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has to be real robust healthy options, like we've moved

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from just having a vegetarian.

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Option to like, there has to be actual healthy, good food.

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And we know that came up in the Six Flags

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presentation even to bring that back in you know where

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they were talking about revamping their restaurants because oh, it

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turns out people were not going to try if the

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restaurants are terrible food, Like, parents are not going to

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take their kids. And so none of this should be

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surprising because we've heard it in a bunch of different pieces,

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but it's interesting to see it here and really think

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about are you playing to nostalgia? Are you making sure

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that you're serving good food that is healthy? Are you

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making sure that you have a mocktail option Again that's

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not full of sugar and all this. I mean, this

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is really the generations that's trying to be more healthy.

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So are you meeting them where they are on that

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or not?

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And yeah, And then the other one is is that

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I identify with and I do not fall into either

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of these demographics. But is the avoiding postponing bucket lists

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simply because of overcrowding?

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Oh my god, I do that all the time.

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Yeah, being in a crowded situation. But why do you

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think that has become a trend again with gen z's

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and millennials. Is there something that has happened in their

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lifetime that has made that. I mean, the only first

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thing that comes to my mind is mass shootings.

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But I don't know whether.

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It's quite that. I don't know whether it's quite that heavy,

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but it could be something about you know, well, I

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in the back of my head, I'm just uncomfortable in

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large crowds.

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social I think for a lot of people they have

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still not recovered from that. But the other part of it,

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that there is anxiety with those crowds. I also think

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there's the whole social from the pandemic. I also think

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that it's again we talk about this too, it's the competition.

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It's like you could stay home and watch Netflix and

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it would be a great you know whatever, or you

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could stand in line for four hours to do a thing,

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competition for the people's attention. At least to me, I

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think that's that's what I because you always hear, at

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least with the millennials to generate, there's always all this

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like memes about how like you want to go to

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bed by not you're just the whole getting older type

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of thing, where like it's a lot of work to

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go out and walk around and stand in all this stuff.

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like sore, then it the calculation is shifting a little

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bit just because of the physical nature of it.

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you just want to avoid it.

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I mean for me, like it's like traveling in the

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holiday is like no, just because the hassle is too

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great and I can travel whenever I want, so wow,

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don't care.

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perhaps with we've been we have been programmed to have

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unique experiences, and we've been programmed by watching social media.

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So content creators want something that only they have or

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only they can do. I'm wondering if people feel as

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though the experience is somehow lessened if I'm sharing it

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with ten thousand other people. Maybe, but if it's if

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it's something that is less, that is more personal or

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less less overcrowded, that I have more of a sense

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of uniqueness to it, I don't know. I don't know,

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but you know, so what does that mean? What does

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that mean to operators? What does that mean to people

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in the attractions industry? And you know, obviously it's kind

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of a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario,

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because you're stuck between a rock and a hard place

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of I want higher attendance, but people won't come if

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they think it's going to be crowded. And if they

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do come and it's crowded, then they won't come back.

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you know some of the basic some of the basic

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ideas that have been rumbling around theme parks for years

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still apply, and that is have what we would what

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we used to call crowd sucks. Have things that at

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key points of the day pull a lot of people

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off the pathways. So have a great have a grand show,

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or have a big event or a big festival that

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will that that happens at those highest attended times, not

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just at the end of the night, but at the

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highest ten of times to pull people off the pathways

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so that guests who are you know, coming in don't

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feel as of their shoulder to shoulder the whole time.

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Because I think that that feeling of overcrowding is something

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that's cumulative because the longer you spend in an overcrowded situation,

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the more anxiety it creates in us. So you know,

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find ways to divide and conquer your crowds. I think

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that's probably the best piece of advice I could give

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for attractions who are looking to to bring in the

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target travel audience, which is gen Z and millennials right now,

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and figure out how to make it look so how

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to make it not look crowded. I think we're also

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back to the days where and we're seeing it over

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and over again. But queues have to be hidden and fun.

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You know, when we went to when we went to

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Iappa Celebrates, we did the queue for and we did

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them back to back, so it was almost back to back.

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We did the queue for for a Battle the Ministry

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of Magic, and then which is amazing and is as

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much part of the show as the ride is. It

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was just super fun and super detailed. And then two

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rides later we were in a very standard queue for

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the Donkey Kong. Yeah, and that que felt so much

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more crowded than the Ministry of Magic que, and I

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know it wasn't. It was probably the same number of people,

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quite honestly, but because of the design and the way

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it was it was put together a the Ministry of

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Magic qu really never stopped for any length of time,

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so you just kind of kept moving forward and there

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was always something new to see. There was something new

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to experience, something new to talk about. You know, Philip

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and I were talking now, of course us being theme partners,

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we were talking about how detailed and how beautifully executed

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the queue was. But you know, we've got the people

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around us too, who are stopping and taking pictures and

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you know, taking selfies and looking at this and pointing

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out that, which makes the Q time just fly. You know,

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it was. It was a forty minute experience including the ride,

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but it flew by like it was fifteen minutes. And

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we never once, or at least I never once felt

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as though I was standing in a crowded room.

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YEP, that's right.

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So anytime you can split up your guests so you

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can you can handle large crowds without baking people feel

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that they're crowded, That's really what I would think would

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be the takeaway from this, probably more than anything, if

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there's any way to do that for you.

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Well, a project that I think has a lot of

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these elements is Netflix House, which we have talked about before.

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We've talked about this quite quite a few times on

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the show about since it was announced, and then since

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the ips were announced and the data Dada da where

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we are now. This episode will come out to you

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all on December seventh, and the second Netflix House will

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be opening this week when you are listening to this,

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It's going to be opening on the eleventh of December

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in Dallas, and I will be going to the media preview,

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which is going to be on the ninth and tenth,

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and so the next week I'll be telling we can

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talk about what it would, you know, my takeaways from it.

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But the first Netflix House has already opened. It's in Philadelphia,

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and there were you no, of course, I looked at

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the coverage of that and the videos and everything, and

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and speaking of nostalgic, you know, and I think another

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way that an IP can do it is by baking

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nostalgia into the IP. So the Dallas Netflix House will

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have Stranger Things in it, and of course Stranger Things

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is in the middle, literally in the middle of premiering

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its final season, you know, the first four episodes just

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dropped and now the next four and it's going to

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be dropping on Christmas Day.

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So it's it's it's.

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An excellent timing wise to to be positioning this, but

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it's also tapping into that nostalgic because of the time

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period of Netflix and Stranger Things, and it's a high

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resonance IP. But basically Netflix House for those are not aware,

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you know, it's basically seems to me like a little

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fec type of situation where both Netflix houses are in

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high traffic situation. So the one opening in Dallas is

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at the Galleria, so it's kind of in a.

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Place that already has infrastructure.

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It's not a standalone building, it's a in a mall

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that has infrastructure, that has foot traffic, and basically they're

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designing it so they can have almost like exhibits. I

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think is a sort of I don't know what the

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right word is, but basically it's like all the stuff

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that we've talked about over the years, like escape games

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and touring exhibits and blah blah blah. It seems like

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they're combining the best practices of all of this. So

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they do have experiences, let's call them experiences. They have

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experiences for different ips. The experiences and the IPS at

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the different houses are they're not the same. So like

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some are photo experience, some are escape type experiences, some

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are like LARPing narrative experiences.

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It just depends. They're different based on the IP and

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what you want to do.

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So for the Nevermore Academy, the one in Philadelphia, you

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know you can actually it's like an our ex linear

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story experience where you are you are playing a part

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in the experience and you're going through and you're completing

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activities and you're trying to you know, join Nevermore Academy.

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So there's that, but it will be different for the

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Stranger Things component. Now, another big thing that we've talked

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about about the accessibility. It is open to the public,

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so you can go in and still do the photo

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some of the photo experiences and still see everything and

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you only pay for the actual experiences. They also have

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attached to it Netflix bytes speaking of the food and

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speaking of the mocktail and all that, they have Netflix

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Bites at each location that has items that they've been

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testing at different at the different that are going to

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be you know, part of the stories. So uh again,

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I think this is gonna be very I think that

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also the ability to switch these experiences around depending on

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what they want to do with their film audience. Also

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the data the Netflix has they know what serieses are

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popular in these markets they've chosen. I mean, I think

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all signs point towards US being a good thing. And

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I think where especially where it differs from Horror Unleashed

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is like it's free to enter, you can just enter,

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you pay for the experience by the experience, and then

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the menu again back to Horror Leash, like it's not

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like they don't have mocktails, but they're not like leading

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with alcohol free first, like they are bars in Las Vegas.

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Right here, it's like.

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They're leading with the food and leading with the like menu,

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like you don't have to drink it all and you

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can still have a great time. And it's free to enter,

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so you can enter with your family and you just

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pay for the kids to go to the experiences and

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you can hang out. I mean that there's I think

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much more flexible. Plus they're at high traffic mall areas

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that are in the middle of other things to do

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right way, it's sort of.

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It's sort of like these kinds of experiences are replacing

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anchor stores. They're they're replacing the anchor stores in the mall,

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which is great because you know, most brick and mortar

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malls have lost their anchor stores anyway, so they've got

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there's real estate there that needs to be filled. And

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I'm sure that the smaller stores that are still trying

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to do a brick and mortar business are very happy

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about that because it brings more foot traffic into the area.

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The thing I think is really interesting is some of

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the discussion about.

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You know.

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When going going, you know, let's hop in the way

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back machine here and going way way back. When Disney

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first opened, there was a very tiny price for admission

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so that everybody could get in, and then each experience

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had an A, B, C, D or E ticket. It's

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theme park lore. What I think is interesting about this

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is the fact that it is all electronic based, so

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that the friction getting into these attractions is slim to none.

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You basically hit a QR code, purchase a time ticket admission,

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and go straight into the attraction. So it's not like

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you have to wait in line to buy tickets, to

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wait in line to do the experience.

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It's the overcrowding thing that you talked about, right, It's

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not there's not any of that friction.

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It's it's eliminating the friction, the friction of entry into

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the the individual attractions. Uh, there are those people who

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are going to say, oh my god, they're Nicolin dimingas.

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There's no matter what you do, it's always going to

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be wrong. But the nice thing is Philip said, is

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this is the perfect I think this is the ideal

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playdate scenario. You know, you get you get families who

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the parents want to just go hang out and grab

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some lunch. But they don't want to. They don't want

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to do it with the kids. But they also don't

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necessarily want to get babysitters for the kids, and they

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want to do something fun for the kids so the

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kids can go off and scan a couple of QR

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codes and and experience the cool stuff like you know,

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as you say, if if nevermore, Academy is an experience

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that's enough time for for a group of moms and

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dads to have lunch. Yep and uh, and the kids

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have a great time, the parents have.

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A great time.

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It seems like a win win scenario. And you know

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this is this is very much like what they what

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they do in Boulevard City in Rio where they have

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these pop ups. Uh you know, and Disney has done

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these pop ups there. Universal has done these pop ups there.

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There are some some some more year round interactions or

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or activations there, but they during during Riod during Boulevard

473
00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.839
season or odd season or whatever it's called. Basically, they

474
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have these these pop ups that show up and they

475
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they engage guests with different ips and then they go away.

476
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And I think what they're doing is actually like we've

477
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talked about earlier beta testing. I I think that Disney

478
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went to Riod so that they could see if there

479
00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:55.000
was a market in the in the Middle East, and

480
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that's what led them to do the announcement of Yas Island.

481
00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:00.480
I don't know that for a fact, but it kind

482
00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.839
of makes sense. So again, I'm really first of all,

483
00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:05.200
I'm really jealous that you get to go, because I

484
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:07.640
think that would be really fun. And secondly, I'm really

485
00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:09.680
curious to see how this pans out because I also

486
00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:14.200
think that this kind of is is a game plan

487
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.640
for all of the concerns that we talked about earlier

488
00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:21.640
with gen Z and millennials. It's it's ways to disperse

489
00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.920
the crowds. It's being reminiscent of things that they have

490
00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:29.480
experienced before or ips that they are familiar with. There's

491
00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.240
a familiarity with it. And the nicest thing is as

492
00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:36.799
the generation continues to grow and what was contemporary is

493
00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:39.920
now reminiscent, can track along with them.

494
00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.680
I think that'll be really cool and they can swap

495
00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.880
it out. They can tune it to the demographics in

496
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:47.559
the area, using their data to know who's passionate about

497
00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:50.839
what they can it's also we talked about last week

498
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:53.640
with the characters, you know, the the.

499
00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:55.000
Well we talked about that in the bon show.

500
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But anyway, talk about laughing me about the puppets and

501
00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:01.039
that in world kind of like the olaf Right. These experiences,

502
00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:03.160
I mean, they get that at these because they have

503
00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:05.319
still the photo experience, you still have the I mean,

504
00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:09.480
it seems to be a checklist of all of the

505
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:11.759
best practices that we have been talking about, and so

506
00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:14.920
we would hope that it would do well. And I

507
00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.000
think if you if I'm just while you were talking,

508
00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:23.039
I was also thinking about how I think Universal approached

509
00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:26.160
horror and Leash, being like, here's a mini theme park,

510
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.880
and Network is approaching this by being like, here's an

511
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.319
entertainment experience like a pop up. And I'm curious to

512
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:38.480
know which mindset is will do better. But if we're

513
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.279
looking at all the trends, especially consumer data, and how

514
00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:44.480
the last consumer report came out consumer confidences all time low,

515
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:47.359
how many people sixty two percent of Americans saying that

516
00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.680
their stuff is more expensive and xyz, I mean, you

517
00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.480
have a lot of concern So I'm and Scott has

518
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:54.240
been saying for a while that he thinks the era

519
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.319
of the giant theme park might be phasing out.

520
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:56.920
Yep.

521
00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:59.920
So I think I'm not sure it works to say

522
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.720
We're just going to make a smaller theme park somewhere.

523
00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:04.039
I think it's more like what does entertainment look like?

524
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:09.079
And it's like because Netflix is not like it's like

525
00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.319
Netflix is like they come coming at it from like

526
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:14.599
a not expert mindset in a way, like they're coming

527
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:16.519
at it from like, how do we make an entertainment

528
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:18.240
venue that the people at this mall are actually going

529
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:19.519
to care about? Well?

530
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.920
And sometimes, you know, sometimes expertise just gets in the

531
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.519
way sometimes if with all the you know, all the

532
00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:27.759
experience of the world and you're unable or unwilling to

533
00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.400
see things in a totally different way. And that's kind

534
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:34.319
of seems like their approach, well, their approach.

535
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:36.240
We have a tiny we have a little bit of

536
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.039
time left to talk about, so we have not talked

537
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.079
about this on the show, even though it's been news

538
00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.440
for a while. But Warner Brothers is for sale. Everyone

539
00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:47.000
should know that. I mean everyone in this year should

540
00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:47.480
know Warner Bros.

541
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:48.000
Is for sale.

542
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:50.359
The reason we haven't talked about on the show is

543
00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.000
just kind of because we normally kind of wait until

544
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:54.279
purchase has.

545
00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:55.240
Actually been announced.

546
00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.480
Yeah, yeah, it actually happens, but we thought it'd be

547
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:01.480
interesting just to say that while we're looking, I mean,

548
00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:03.519
last year episode, we tat all about six Flags and

549
00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.519
about their cash position and just the whole challenges. Another

550
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.920
challenge actually for them, that is Warner Brothers. Like, if

551
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.759
Warner Brothers get sold like to Comcasts, that is going

552
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.000
to be I think bad for six Flags because they

553
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.680
have so many of the ips in their parks and

554
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.119
they don't have any money, and so what's going to

555
00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.240
happen if Comcast purchases it? And now I know there's

556
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.960
poison pills and there's a lot of like stuff about

557
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.240
all of I mean, I know it's not quite that simple,

558
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:36.599
but there is a scenario right where it is purchase

559
00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:39.319
or even or those rights are taken away that there

560
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.480
is multiple scenarios in which that could happen, or at the.

561
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.039
Very least those rights become more expensive when it comes

562
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:46.160
time for contract renewal. That's right, because they want to

563
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:46.880
just price them out.

564
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:48.079
That's yeah.

565
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.880
I think what's going to be interesting with Warner Brothers

566
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.599
is whatever happens with Warner Brothers is going to start

567
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.359
a series of dominoes because if it goes to you know,

568
00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:02.480
if it goes to some other cumps, say you know,

569
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:09.240
Netflix buys them, then that could have rather significant ramifications

570
00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:13.559
for all the Universal properties or anything that has Harry

571
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:17.200
Potter affiliated with people. Forget that Harry Potter is not

572
00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:21.680
owned by Universal, it is least by Universal, and so

573
00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:26.000
there's all Now obviously they're not just going to well

574
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.720
I doubt that they would just pull the rights. I

575
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:29.279
doubt that.

576
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:32.400
Well, there's I think it's a few decades or I

577
00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:35.359
mean they have extended licenses, so some of this stuff

578
00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:39.359
it may not even ever come out because who knows,

579
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.680
like ten years from now, like well, I.

580
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.000
Mean there's still there's still Marvel at Universal too, So yeah,

581
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.279
that's so there's that.

582
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.200
But but yeah, to just we just want to bring

583
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.240
that up that that is depending on who buys it

584
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:55.799
and and what you know, the scenario is, and where

585
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:59.440
they want to where they're competing with the other people,

586
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:02.279
it could be big ramifications. Yep.

587
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.039
So it's it's really one of those where we want

588
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.200
to put put that little blip on your radar for now.

589
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.559
We will come back and talk about it when it's

590
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:11.359
when it actually happens, when it's actually sold. I will

591
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:13.680
say that I have several friends who work for Universal,

592
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:16.519
and you know, I asked, I said, so what's the

593
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:19.000
what's the rumble? And even they don't know. Yees, So

594
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.039
no one knows, no one knows, no one knows. So

595
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:24.799
we'll see what happens, you know, and who knows, Maybe

596
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:26.880
we'll see it next week when you will all join

597
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.440
us again right here on green tagged theme park in

598
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.799
thirty Thank you guys so much for watching and listening.

599
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Don't forget to go to YouTube and subscribe, and we

600
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