Park Rush

Happy New Year! The Park Rush podcast has been on a well deserved (we think) extended holiday break, and as such there's no proper episode this week. However, keep your eyes peeled for a special co-op episode with our friends at It's Quite Interesting, To Be Fair, which will be hitting our podcast feed in just a few days.

We'll be back with our first proper episode of 2022 next Monday!

A quick Christmas message from Tom and Josh, as we wish you a happy festive season.

COVID is back, baby! We've got all the latest on how this winter's hottest coronavirus variant is impacting the theme park industry, with one major closure announced just in time for Christmas. There's also our first proper look at Bush Gardens Williamsburg's new coaster, a Jumanji dark ride coming to Italy's Gardaland, changes to Disney Genie+ and the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, and more!

There are some distressing rumours about Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios Florida to sink our teeth into this week, plus some far more exciting ones about rides at SeaWorld and Thorpe Park. We also discuss two theme park-adjacent attractions coming to the UK in early 2022, one for Game of Thrones fans and one inspired by the Tomb Raider games.

This week's show includes talk of a new ride for Thorpe Park, a corporate shake-ups at Disney, a VelociCoaster documentary, and more!

Destination D23 gives us plenty of Disney headlines to sink our teeth into this week; from opening dates for Avengers Campus in Paris and Guardians Of The Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at Epcot, to a refresh for California's Downtown Disney and a look at the 'real lightsaber' coming to Disney World's Galactic Starcruiser.

Josh temporarily withdraws his request to resign from the Park Rush podcast to discuss Magic Kingdom in Minecraft, a Toontown refurb, a Supercharged admission from Universal, Ubisoft's foray into theme parks, and more!

Tom battles through the ill-effects of his COVID booster shot to join Josh, himself revelling in the unlikely glory of a Sunday League football win, to discuss the return of British tourists to Florida; early uptake of Disney Genie+ and the company's wider financial results; a disappointing development for The London Resort; the release of Jurassic World Evolution 2; and more!

Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we've delivered a day early this time. It's been a slow news week, so Josh is here to introduce our new upcoming YouTube series - which debuts on Thursday November 4th! As it's Halloween, let's then throw it back to our 2019 theme park film review of The Haunted Mansion. It's better than the film itself, honest.