Great Adventure, Long island Adventureland, and Coney Island trip reports! Regional Park news! Pinball! White Castle! White Castle?

News Team Assemble!

Joe, Lane, Mike, and Nick talk about Duffy's friends, Rock'n'Rollercoaster overlays, trains, Magical Creatures, LargeFlames, Halloween Horror Nights, Endless Summers, Cars, Disney+, and more!

Joe and Mike are joined by special guest Banks Lee of Attractions the Show! On this episode we talk about Busch Gardens Tampa's newest coaster, Tigris, and next year's RMC'ing of Gwazi. Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is opening earlier than we though but Mickey's Runaway Railway might be opening in 2020? Universal announced Stranger Things at HHN29 while also showing off more of their new Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure coaster.

Lastly we discuss our trips into the parks with Banks visiting Lego Movie World at Legoland, Sesame Street at SeaWorld Orlando, Knotts, and 90's Nite at Disneyland followed by Joe giving the highlights of his recent Disneyland Resort trip.

Regional park news, trip reports sans rides, and Alex has been meaning to tell us all something for 3 months. BUT WHAT?

Joe. Mike. Tokyo. Tokyo Disneyland. Tokyo DisneySea. Tune in. Turn up.

Joe is joined by David Daut to talk about Stranger Things at Halloween Horror Nights(?), Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge news and rumors, David's report from Nevermore in Utah, Disney's acquisition of Fox and the theme park implications including Simpsons and Spider-Man at DCA, and then finally closing out with talk about theme park preservation with an eye towards Muppet-vision 3-D.

Joe, Nick, and Sean talk about Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, Epcot's new entrance, and Wonders of Life's 'Play Pavilion' replacement. Then we dive into Sean's bachelory party to talk about the "3 great rides" theory, Magic Kingdom, Homecomin', Trader Sam's, Universal, and more.

Alan and Alex talk about ski trips, defunct coasters, and other nerditry. Also we lost part of the episode, sorry for the abrupt ending.

Alan and Joe talk about Cedar Fair's earnings call, their plans for their parks, mistakes with smaller parks, and the removal of Volcano: The Blast Coaster. Then we dive into our recent trips to Orlando! Joe talks about his adventure to SeaWorld, Jiko, Animal Kingdom After Hours, and Universal. Alan discusses his long weekend at Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. Then we give our final reviews of Pandora - World of Avatar, the price of theming, the importance of good rides, and more random thoughts.

Joe, Alan, and Alex are freezing their asses off! This week's topics:

Jurassic Park coaster update

Gwazi RMC rumors

Hersheypark's Chocolate Town updates

Kings Island's International Street Updates

Kings Dominion and Volcano

Complain about Disneyland's Tomorrowland

SeaWorld San Diego and Orlando rumors

Trip Reports

Alex goes to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Kings Dominion, and Six Flags Over America then some alpine coasters

Alan visits Graceland and Dollywood