🎢✨ Welcome to Theme Park Sandbox! 🎢✨

Thanks for listening to the first episode of Standby Queue. This is the show where Aaron and Drew discuss theme park news and theories, like they used to do while, you guessed it, standing in the line for the next big ride! I hope you enjoy the conversation on the latest Disney price increase, the introduction of MagicBand+ to Disneyland, and play a fun Price Is Right style game on annual pass prices. See you in the next one! 

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Imagining a future for our favorite theme park juggernauts to enter the Escape Room business! What type of escape room based on a theme park's IP would you imagine? Do you think that the creative talent behind our favorite parks would take the escape room better or worse?  

At some point last year, we lost track of this episode and it was never posted. But with a little sleuthing in an archive hard drive, you may now enjoy our take on escape rooms!

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Aaron and Drew make some wild (and not-so-wild) predictions about the upcoming Disney Parks announcements we could hear at the 2022 D23 Expo, being held in Anaheim California. The two make conjectures about what will get announced, what previous announcements will receive more details, and what attractions will be entirely ignored at this year's panel. What do you think? 

Once the panel has concluded, be sure to tell us in the comments how great and/or terrible we did at predictions! 

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On this week's episode of the show, Drew and Aaron ponder whether the creativity of Disney Imagineering is hindered by the very existence of passholders!

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Aaron and Drew return from a year-long hiatus to get back to some good ol' fashioned theme parkitecture! In this episode they bounce back and forth between the west and east coasts discussing the theoretical futures for the People Mover, Space Mountain, and Tomorrowland as a whole! 

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Replacing the styrofoam Whoville set from Ron Howard's classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is a nondescript parking lot of movie cars. Tragic! So, Drew and Aaron take on the unique challenge - imagining a new Universal Hollywood Tram Tour experience that is fully experienced 2-3 minutes and can be reset throughout the day with minimal effort and a small cast.   

What would you put in this parking lot space? What do you think about TPS's ideas?  

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Drew and Aaron talk about their recent experiences in returning to their local theme parks, how to have a great solo theme park day, and rant about the state of past and present interactive rides in theme parks, especially Buzz Lightyear: Astro Blasters, Toy Story Midway Mania, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, and the brand-new WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure   

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Many people are aware that Universal retains many important theme park licensing rights for Marvel super heroes and villains that would otherwise appear in the US Disney Parks. Now that Avengers Campus is open at Disney California Adventure, what else would you like to see Disney do with FULL creative control of Marvel characters in their parks?  

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But wait! There's more!! Back by popular demand, Drew and Aaron discuss their favorite clever design details and hidden gems that can be found in Universal Theme Parks across the country. Whether paying fan service or an homage to a past ride, Universal has wonderfully creative ways to celebrate their past in subtle ways.   How many of these design details have you seen in-person? What are your favorite details in Universal design?    

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