The Season Pass: The Essential Theme Park Podcast

This week; Brent and Doug Discuss Hard Rock Park Woes, Dark Knight, Tr2n, The Disneyland that never came, Window of the World, Monster Coaster, More InBev/Merlin Gossip, plus other apples to feed on.    Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. – 1-916-248-5524   Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.

For this week we are working on a new format for the show;  please accept our apologies for the rough and “experimental” segments throughout the podcast.  As for the show itself – Brent reports in from China and Shannon and Doug banter in the Season Pass Discussion room about the September to So Cal (the conversation digresses to a past Texas trip as well… Married People!?!) Thanx for listening and thank you for your patience as the next couple of weeks might be a little chaotic.   _________________________________________- Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : ) Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it! Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.combrent@seasonpasspodcast.commatt@seasonpasspodcast.com Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything

Thrillride.com Creator Robert Coker is back in the Season Pass Discussion Room!  He joins Doug Barnes (Owner and Producer of The Season Pass Podcast) as they discuss www.blooloop.com, more Six Flags woes, other views of the InBev Purchase, Pixar in DCA, future trip to Knott’s, and so much more.  Enjoy episode 37!   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.   seasonpasspodcast@gmail.comThe International Authority on

Brent Young and Doug Barnes are back in the Season Pass Discussion Room.  We talk Super 78’s future, Six Flags Dreadful Stock, and possible scenarios for Worlds of Discovery.  Enjoy!   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.   The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Experience into the World of Rides, Attractions and Pa

Wow! Is today Wednesday?  Well, better late than never. This week’s show has absolutely no educational value, but Nick Hutson and Doug Barnes fill episode 35 Water Slides, Museums, Friendship, and Graphic Gore!!!  Oh… and we finally have a female appear on the show!  Download the podcast to hear who it is. J   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : ) Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it! Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.combrent@seasonpasspodcast.commatt@seasonpasspodcast.com Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-91... Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Expert

There was a slight delay on posting this week’s episode because our server was down; so we apologize for being a few hours late.  As for Episode  #34 - Martin Palicki (Editor in Chief of InPark Magazine- http://inparkmagazine.com ) joins Brent Young (Creative Director and Co-Founder of Super 78) and Doug Barnes (Owner and Producer of The Season Pass Podcast) in the Season Pass Discussion Room with tons of Media Event News, The Devastating Decapitation in Six Flags Over Georgia, The Closing of Pleasure Island’s…err…uhh…Pleasures, and Brent’s favorite attraction returns to full glory in Disneyland (here’s a clue: Sleeping Beauty’s Castle).  All this and WALL-E in this week’s Season Pass.  Enjoy   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’

Sorry for the confusion everyone; this is the repost of Episode 33 (lesson to all... pay attention to your edit before posting).  To anyone who was offended by the previous intro of #33, please except my apology.  That intro was NOT supposed to be posted... whoops!  Here's the podcast w/o annoying pimp and fart jokes.  Thanx again, Doug We’re Back!  Brent Young (Creative Director and Co-Founder of Super 78) and Doug Barnes (Owner and Producer of The Season Pass Podcast)  Destroy the Discussion Room with Gas (God it stinks!!), Dancing Wookies, The  Guide to “How Not To Ride The Simpsons!,”  and decapitated horses!!!  What a FusterCluck of a show…..  ….. Hey why are you still reading?!  Download this masterpiece now. : )   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@s

Sorry for the delay everyone, unfortunately because of schedule issues and health situations we’re unable to record the special conversation this week.  Instead Nick Hutson (musicaltalk.co.uk) guest spots on the show and we cover his one day visit to all 4 WDW parks… you read that correctly; FOUR PARKS in ONE DAY!!!  We also review Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures.  It’s all good-fan-fun on episode 32 of The Season Pass!     Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you

Episode 31 is listener feedback!  Brent and Doug go over your responses and questions for the show.  Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.   The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Experience into the World of Rides, Attractions and Parks.

On today’s episode  we have no guest.  Sorry for the mishap, but we will return to the Season Pass Discussion Room next week with an amazing line up!  For The Season Pass # 30 – We fill the  Season Pass Discussion Room with outtakes and bloopers from past episodes.  You’ll hear from Brent Young, Ryan Harmon, Martin Palicki, Nick Hutson, Jerry Rees and Ricky Brigante.  I also publicize a few complaints about the New Six Flags Format.  All this and more on The Season Pass 30.   The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Experience into the World of Rides, Attractions and Parks.   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us:

On today’s episode  Ryan Harmon (Creative Director and Principal of Zeitgeist)  returns to the Season Pass Discussion Room.  We discuss some of the great new attractions opening this weekend as well as internet fun.  Doug also has an opinion on the beloved “Thrills, Chills and Spills” of the 90’s.  So grab your Season Pass now. J   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.   The International Authority on Everythi

On today’s episode  we have 2 former Disney Imagineers in the discussion room – Ryan Harmon (Creative Director and Principal of Zeitgeist)  returns to the Season Pass Discussion Room & a very Special appearance from Barry Braverman (Creative Consultant to Cultural & Design Associations and Former Executive Producer of Walt Disney Imagineering).  We have a great and deep conversation on the development of EPCOT as well the creation of Disney’s California Adventure.  Doug also goes “Ape Wild” and we bring back a classic “Pass Holder’s Opinion.”   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Re

On today’s episode Jerry Rees (Writer, Director, Artist, and Disney Attraction Veteran)  returns to the Season Pass Discussion Room & Ricky Brigante (Creative Director of Orlando Attractions Magazine and Host of  Inside The Magic Podcast) appears for the first time, as we continue Part 2 of this immersive conversation on Disney attractions, Future Ride Technology, and so much more.   Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524    Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremel

On today’s episode Jerry Rees (Writer, Director, Artist, and Disney Attraction Veteran)  joins us in the Season Pass Discussion Room.  We talk Alien Encounter, Tron, Robin Williams, and so much more!  Doug also gives his opinions on the “testing” pyrotechnics  on the new X2 experience at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA.  Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )  Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun” Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!  Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –  1-916-248-5524 .  Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.

On today’s episode Doug Yellin (Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Cinematographer  joins us in the Season Pass Discussion Room.  We discuss Iwerks, U2-3D, 3D Technology, and the Future of Immersive  Entertainment.  We also review the updated website.  All this and more on the Season Pass Podcast.    Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun��? Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports, Podcast Comments, or Anything else you would like to announce. –   Thanx to each one of you for listening to the show.  Your support is extremely appreciated.

Hi everyone, sorry for the delay.  In today’s episode Gene Jeffers, Executive Director of the Themed Entertainment Association (aka-TEA),  joins us in the Season Pass Discussion Room.  This is a wonderful conversation about the History of Themed Entertainment and the Brilliant People Creating the Experiences we know and love.  Also on the show, Doug discusses his opinion on attraction planning research and  has a  surprising response  on the placement of Hershey Park’s new  Fahrenheit  Coaster.  All this and more on the Season Pass Podcast.    Check out the website www.seasonpasspodcast.com - Join the  Season Pass Forums when your over there and become our friend on our new MySpace and FaceBook Sites! : )   Want your “Theme/Amusement Park Fun��? Pictures on the Season Pass Website?  Send them to seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com or doug@seasonpasspodcast.com and we’ll post it!   Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com matt@seasonpasspodcast.com   Call the Hotline with Park Trip Reports,

Finally.  After many technical hiccups... 23 is up for your neural pleasure.  Doug has a cold (that means no rant..... OOOhhhhhh!!!), but the Season Pass Discussion Room is a full house tonight (YEAAAAAHHHH!!!).  Nick Hutson (musicaltalk.co.uk) and Erik Yates (In The Loop, IOA Central Radio, coastercrew.com, and more than we're willing the type: )  Join Brent Young (Creative Director of Super 78) and Doug Barnes (....... uhhh... ___________!) in a conversation full of rumors, opinions, more rumors, more opinions, as well as rumors and opinions.  Plenty-O Busch Entertainment, Universal Studios, and of course some Disney.  Enjoy this special Theme Park FAN Cast! Contact us: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com Give us your opinions and trip reports on the Hotline:  916-24... Updated website debut for the 25th episode (4-29-2008). www.seasonpasspodcast.com The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Exper

We are back and throwing a wrench into the mix.  Brent Young, Doug Barnes and special guest Ryan Harmen (principal and creative director of Zeitgeist) return to the Season Pass Discussion Room this week, but we're tossing in segments and "open questions" from a conversation Doug and Nick Hutson (host of musicaltalk.co.uk) had to get a professional view on the matter.  Updated and Expanded WebSite- Coming Soon to www.seasonpasspodcast.com contact: Voicemail-  916-248-5524  doug@seasonpasspodcast.com - host brent@seasonpasspodcast.com - host matt@seasonpasspodcast.com - WebMaster The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Experience into the World of Rides, Attractions and Parks.  It’s the Internet’s Audio Source for Amusement Park News, Rumors and More! Thanx for Listening and Tell your Friends. : )

Hello Everyone.  21 brings the return of Martin Palicki of InPark Magazine (InParkMagazine.com).  Unfortunately, no Brent this week - But... HE'LL BE BACK!!!  Martin and Doug discuss Theme Park Attendance and a Plethora Media Events.  Doug reviews listener feedback and an odd voicemail. : ) www.seasonpasspodcast.com Contact: doug@seasonpasspodcast.com - Host brent@seasonpasspodcast.com - Host matt@seasonpasspodcast.com - WebMaster (The Man Who Got the Web Site Up Again!  Thanx Bro!) seasonpasspodcast@gmail.com - General Feedback CALL THE HOTLINE : ) -  916-248-5524   

Episode # 20 has Brent and Doug back in the Discussion Room on a casual Saturday night.  We talk Rockin' Coasters, Rockin' Parks and Rock in general; also TEA #s and Small World Rehab. www.seasonpasspodcast.com Contact us: Hotline-   (916) 248-5524  doug@seasonpasspodcast.com brent@seasonpasspodcast.com The International Authority on Everything Theme Park Related.  Join a Cast of Experts and Fans Every Week On an Informative  Immersive Experience into the World of Rides, Attractions and Parks.  It’s the Internet’s Audio Source for Amusement Park News, Rumors and More!   Thanx to everyone for listening.