Characters We Wish Were Disney With A Sazerac

A rye cube, a lemon twist, and a splash of absinthe set the night in motion. We open with the Sazerac, swapping notes between Boatwright’s at Port Orleans and our own New Orleans–style build, then take that same love of craft into a wild thought experiment: which non‑Disney characters and worlds would thrive under Disney’s storytelling?

We start with the legends. Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes spark a debate about timeless comedy, park characters, and the kind of physical gags that make queues feel alive. From there, we slide into Scooby‑Doo hijinks, SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom, and Bedrock’s bronto‑size charm—proof that retro IP can still deliver modern magic. Gaming and anime icons raise the stakes: Mario’s jump‑happy momentum, Pikachu’s collect‑and‑trade culture, Sonic’s speed run energy, and Hello Kitty’s soft‑power merch. Each brings interactivity, replay value, and social fun that match how guests actually play parks today.

We push beyond cartoons into cinematic sandboxes. Imagine a mid‑century Mad Men lounge with proper cocktails and impeccable woodwork. Picture Ghostbusters as a show‑driven effects playground, a Die Hard‑inspired tower drop with narrative beats, and a Jurassic World zone that sells scale without screen fatigue. Then we go epic: Middle‑earth as a multi‑land dream with the Shire’s warmth, Rivendell’s serenity, and Mordor’s percussion and heat; Wizard of Oz for technicolor wonder and storm‑tossed transitions; Willy Wonka for edible illusions, fizzy‑lifting laughs, and music that hums through the pathways. Along the way we weigh Transformers, King Kong’s Monarch universe, Hunger Games, Smurfs, Popeye, Garfield, Jetsons, and G.I. Joe—asking where Disney’s “story per minute” advantage can turn good IP into unforgettable place.

It’s part cocktail hour, part imagineering session, and all heart for the details that make parks sing: scent, light, texture, music, and a wink of humor. Tap play, then tell us your top three non‑Disney IPs you’d hand to Disney and why. If you’re vibing with the show, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a quick review—it helps more Disney lovers find our little corner of magic. Cheers!

Chapters

• 0:00 Sazerac Cocktail And Port Orleans
• 2:05 How Disney Makes It Vs Our Recipe
• 4:12 Today’s Theme: Non‑Disney We’d Disney‑fy
• 5:18 Bugs Bunny And Looney Tunes Debate
• 7:18 Scooby‑Doo And Retro TV Deep Cuts
• 9:20 SpongeBob, Snoopy, And Knott’s Memories
• 11:08 Mario To Pikachu: Park Potential
• 13:24 Don Draper Era Lounge Dream
• 15:10 Flintstones, DC Hopes, And Justice League
• 18:12 Tom And Jerry To Die Hard Ride Idea
• 20:01 Pink Panther, Ghostbusters, And Peanuts
• 22:08 Monsters And Myths: Kong, LOTR, Oz
• 25:12 Transformers, Jurassic World, And Ride Design
• 27:08 Popeye, Hunger Games, And Garfield
• 29:00 Oz Reboots, Captain EO, And Nostalgia
• 31:18 Roadrunner Antics And Harry Potter
• 33:06 Mad Magazine, Jetsons, And 80s Icons
• 35:20 G.I. Joe Stories And Final Lists

Transcript

Sazerac Cocktail And Port Orleans

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, where today we're discussing other characters that aren't Disney that we wished were Disney, and we're drinking a Stazzerat cocktail. Welcome to Cheers to Ears.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

We're gonna click our drinks. We're gonna toast, we're gonna talk to Disney. And get our Cheers to Disney.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

I hope they're liking that song. I hope it's an earworm. Nothing can stop us now like the Mickey of Minis when the way that way.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

When I edit the YouTube version, it's in my head all day.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

All day. Yeah. That's a good thing. It's a good thing. Sazerac. We're talking drinks. This is the first drink I don't actually have to participate in describing how it's made because you made this drink. Correct.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

So I gotta do everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

You gotta do everything. Oh wow. Telling you, I'm gonna just drink while you talk.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Wow. So this is at two different restaurants that we found right away. It's probably more at this because it's a staple drink. Yeah. A lot of places you could probably get it, but it's at what's it called? Boat rights. Boat rights.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

At Port Orleans Riverside, and the Scat Cat Club at Port Orleans French Quarter. Yeah. For sure. We know this. And we know this because I had one at Boat Rights Dying Hall when we went with Eli. Made very different. It's made.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

Well, both of those are made the same, but it's different from how you made your right.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

So it is different. I'm looking at it now. Yeah. So the Sazerac at Boat Boat Rights. Boat Rights. Okay. I want to say Boat House all the time because the boat house is at Disney Springs, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

How Disney Makes It Vs Our Recipe

SPEAKER_03 1:48

But that's a seafood restaurant, and that's where I booked us first. And Addie doesn't like love seafood. So anyway, a Sazerac at Boat Rights dining hall is made with knob creek rye, agave nectar, and Parashod's bitters with a splash of pernaud. And it's$17.50. Not how we made it.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

No.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

No, I use the recipe that I have at my local, local watering hole.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Down the road from me that I a little southern restaurant we go to. And I got the recipe from Sazerac House in New Orleans.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Yes. And so that's why you'd find it at French Quarter, Riverside, both of those, because it's a New Orleans drink.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

Right. Yeah. So I use Sazerac rye, a type of rye, not the knob creek rye they use there. And then the parachant bitters. Yep. A little lemon twist. A tweeze. A little lemon twist. And uh absinthe. Absinthe. Right. So what I do is I crust a sugar cube with the bitters, crushed it together, muddled if you will. If the is the correct phrase and put the sazerac in that same glass, stirred it, had a glass, chilled glass set aside where I dumped the ice out, put in the absinthe, washed it, emptied the rest of the absinthe, so it's just a wash around the glass. And then made the then strained the cocktail into that glass with an ice cube. Added a twist.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

And it's very good. I love this drink. For a like a sipping cocktail, which we're sipping quite readily. It's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

Yeah, it has that, it has the it's aromatic.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Yeah. And it's got the absinthe, which is kind of an ice flavor to it. It is, right? But it's just a hint of that. Like you catch that towards the tail end, which I like. So black licorice. I like black licorice, so I'm good with that. I'm very good with that. But some people I don't think it's strong enough that if you don't like black licorice, you wouldn't necessarily like this cocktail. I don't think so either. But yeah, who knows? Good drink. I'm not a big fan of rye because rye is not a big fan of me, or at least in the past.

SPEAKER_03 4:00

So we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

My first rough morning was after drinking a little bit of rye.

Today’s Theme: Non‑Disney We’d Disney‑fy

SPEAKER_03 4:04

So I might do the last. I'll just grab your list if you have to fall out for a few minutes. Yeah. Well we'll find out in the morning. Solo time with Eric. But today we took this is my father's idea. Yes. This is thank you, Rick Wall. My dad came up with this idea quite a while ago. And uh we mentioned it last week, and he ran with it. And we're taking non-Disney characters that we want to be Disney characters.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

That we want to be Disney characters. I had a hard time with this one because I had a hard time not coming up with like whole IP instead of just a one particular character. I've got a few, okay, but I've got an IP, the whole IP.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

Okay, so you're just grabbing it all.

unknown 4:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

And I think you would grab it all once you grab the character.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

But it's because of a character, usually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

And once you grab one thing, you're grabbing the whole IP anyway. Yeah, exactly. If you take one person out. So that's true. I put a list. My only struggle was where I ranked them at the bottom. So I tried to rank them one through twelve. I put twenty-two down because I kept going.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:03

In my mind, I kept just like coming up with more, and I wanted to add the last few on there for fun. So do you want to start? I have 14. You have 14? So should I start? You should probably start. I'm gonna start with number one. I didn't rank mine. I ranked mine.

Bugs Bunny And Looney Tunes Debate

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Okay. Should I start with number one or 22? Start with well, is 22 like your worst?

SPEAKER_03 5:22

They're not bad. I can start with one and we'll go down. Okay. Yeah. Number one, hands down, Bugs Bunny. Yeah. I'd grab him straight up. Oh, yeah. I think we'd all agree, except for if you're younger, I was thinking this. If you're younger, you might not know Bugs Bunny. You might not. Because of all the other cartoons in the world. Yeah. All the K-pop demon hunters of it all.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Yes. I had one similar. Okay. But mine was because of Porky Pig. But it's the Looney Tunes. Okay. You'd want the Looney Tunes. Right. And I believe what was it? Great America down in San Jose back in the day. Which might not exist as a theme park anymore. They used to have Looney Tunes as their characters. Oh. I just I remember when I was we went when I was like three years old. And I have these like one or two very, very vague memories. And we had a couple of pictures of our trip there. But yeah, that was yeah, I do remember Looney Tunes. I went to the place with the Looney Tunes.

SPEAKER_03 6:23

Yeah, so I would say Looney Tunes also, because I didn't add Daffy Duck. Yeah. Or Porky Pig because I added Bugs Bunny. So I just stayed away from the rest of the IP kind of. Yeah. So I wouldn't have it totally like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Petunia, right? Yeah. All the way down. So yeah, Bugs Bunny's my one. You have Looney Tunes on your list.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

But I had Porky Pig. Well, Porky Pig's your main one. Porky Pig's why. Before Bugs.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Yeah. Because Bugs is he's a Mickey Mouse rival. And Daffy Duck, he's a non-rival character. That's why I was thinking Porky Pig. I don't see him as being being a rival character. What about Elmer? Elmer's not a rival. Elmer Fudd. Is he a rival to any Disney character?

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Probably not. I don't think so. Yeah. Love Looney Tunes. Good.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

I haven't watched him for years.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Ray's.

Scooby‑Doo And Retro TV Deep Cuts

SPEAKER_03 7:12

I might have to reminisce a little bit. Yeah, find out where they're at. Yeah, which streaming service know where they live right now.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

My number two. Alright. Scooby-Doo.

SPEAKER_02 7:22

Scooby-Doo. That's a good one. Scooby-Doo. You have Scooby-Doo? I don't have Scooby-Doo. Scrabby-doo? You have Scrabby-doo? Shaggy? Yeah, Shaggy. See, I don't know if you could Shaggy would be a tough one. Yeah. Because you know he's a hippie. Right. And indulges in hippie things. Yeah, that's not Disney. That's not Disney. No. But a Sazerak's Disney. Sazrack is, whether you want to believe it or not. Cheers. So mine, and I can't remember any of the character names, but a couple of Star Blazers.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

I don't know Star Blazers.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

I would think you would because we're the same age.

SPEAKER_03 7:57

Well, maybe I do, but I didn't. I wasn't a Star Blazer.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

It was an old Japanese cartoon that played when we were kids. Okay. And it's this battleship that they outfitted to fly into space because some far-off world was launching meteors that was destroying Earth, and Earth had the human population had to go underground. And so they had to go and destroy this threat, go across the universe. Yeah, it was this whole cartoon based on a year long, and they had one year before the Earth would just die off to go and defeat this.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

I'm not watching the records.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

It was on a Monday, it wasn't like a Saturday morning cartoon. It was on some channel Monday through Friday, because we watched it before school. And there was like an old old captain with the white beard, and then the young hero kid guy.

SpongeBob, Snoopy, And Knott’s Memories

SPEAKER_03 8:48

I bet if I saw pictures, I bet once I see a photo. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. Anyway, Star Blazers. Star Blazers. My number three. Okay. Just because he's iconic, is Spongebob SquarePants. Did you do all cartoons? Yeah, I did all I think I did all cartoons. Yeah, I didn't do all cartoons. Yeah, SpongeBob is my number three. Okay. He is completely popular. Yeah. He is. You have a bikini bottom. Isn't he? And that's the Toontown. Maybe you walk out of Toontown into Bikini Bottom. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Because there's some good IP there. There is. Now he's in the park north of the north park. The park up north. Yeah, the park up north. Okay. So this is another cartoon character. He's actually not on my list, but I'm going to add him. Snoopy. Snoopy, good. Snoopy, the peanuts. The peanuts is on my list. It is the one reason I want to go to Knott's Berry Farm. See, I'll mention Knott's. I won't mention the park to the north. But I will mention Knott's Berry Farm because it is the OG. It's not a rival to Disney. It's just an other than Disney. It's yeah, it's an other than Disney. But it predates Disney to an extent. And so they do a camp Snoopy and watching Fresh Baked, he actually does like quarterly updates on Knott's Berry Farm. And so that made me actually want to drop 40 bucks for a ticket, and it's still reasonable to get in there.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

It might be more than 40 bucks. Last time I went, it was it was literally 40 for a one-day ticket.

SPEAKER_03 10:25

Looked at it. I haven't. I've had zero clients ask about it ever. They want to go to the park up north. The park up north. Of both the both coasts. Yes. Of both coasts. It's north. The park up north. Okay. Okay, so I'll get to the peanuts later. Yeah. In my list. But uh my number four, right? Is Mario.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Yeah. Okay. I can see that one. That'd be a great IP to own.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Good IP there. Right. Okay, my next one. So going into human characters. Okay. Don Draper from Mad Men.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

But why is he Disney? Explain.

Mario To Pikachu: Park Potential

SPEAKER_02 11:03

I want him. I want that iconic 60s lounge in one of the parks. Now, Prime Time, the tune-in lounge, is very close. It is. But I want something that looks like it came from a madmen set where you can go in and you could drink a Sazrec or an old-fashioned or a Manhattan or a martini and just sit there at that lounge, that bar, that whole feel. That's uh Don Draper.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

He needs to be a Disney IP. I like it. We won't go into the other madmen, how they are. Yeah. And what else could be involved of that? We'll just float by it because that's a great one. I like that one. My number five? Yeah. Pikachu. Okay. I think Pokemon would be a great IP to own. It's huge. It is. It's huge. And where I work, we there's one of those because all the Pokemon cards get stolen all the time. Oh, do they? So they took them off the shelves everywhere. You can't buy Pokemon cards on the shelves at stores. I don't know if you can anywhere now.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

It was it because they were some of them were worth money. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

They're collectible. Yeah. So now they have, I don't know if you've seen them, like vending machines. Pokemon Vindy machines. Yeah, that makes sense. They are so popular. People come in all day long because what the Vindy machine does, it drops a certain amount of things at a time. So you can't go in and buy the whole inventory. Oh it will give it to you. It'll at just random times it'll drop like this new$50 box, will be in there, but it'll say out of stock, but it'll be inside the box, the case, and then you come at the right time and it's available.

unknown 12:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

You can buy it. So we have people walking in all day. They just float down and check, and they stand there for like 10-15 minutes and check it like three or four times, they leave, come back later. Oh, interesting. Or come in the store four or five times a day. That's interesting. Just check. I think they probably I mean they it's got to be an online business for them.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

But uh they buy these boxes and the it's the employees at my work buy them all the time. They'll drop 50-60 bucks on a box of Pokemon cards.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

You know, if you can turn around and sell that for a couple hundred.

Don Draper Era Lounge Dream

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Yeah, we have we have thousands of them in the other room. I have no idea what's there because me and my son Eli actually, when he was younger, we would play Pokemon in the morning sometimes before he went to school. Because it's a really fast game to play. Oh, is it? Okay. Yeah, we bought the cards to play the actual game.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:25

We didn't buy them. We have I have no idea if any of them are worth anything. I just have a crap ton of Pokemon cards. They could all be worth nothing. I could have a billion dollars in I don't even know what they're worth. I have no idea about the market. But what's your number five?

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Next one.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

Just another one. Willy Wonka. Oh, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

Yeah. I didn't think of Willy Wonka. That's a good yeah. I went with the human stuff, but yeah, but that's not really good.

SPEAKER_03 13:48

And that's good because we're not right.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Yeah, he's fictitious. But Willy Wonka.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

He's borderline, he's IP.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Yeah. That'd be a fun land. That's the whole Wizard of Oz universe, is what it that brings in. So I mean, that's getting into Wicked. Or no. Willy Wonka's not Wicked. That's not. Did you have Wicked? I didn't have Wicked. I do have the Wizard of Oz universe. Yeah, that's good. But more for the Wizard. Okay. He's why for that one.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

Willy Wonka. Wizard. Good one.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Willy Wonka.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

I can see walking in to the chocolate factory. Oh, yeah. Walking in and you hear that song, come with me. That's great. Yeah. That'd be just fun to hear the music. Just do the music without the words even.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Everlasting gobstoppers, you know, the soda where you start floating. Right. And you have to burp to get your way down.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

I'd be out for that ride. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

And you have a playing the part of Augustus Gloop. Yes. And they can have the they can have songs by one of my favorite iconic 90s bands, Faroooka Salt. Yes. Okay, my next number my number six is Bart Simpson. Yeah. Okay. That's a given.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

I think this they own the Simpsons already. They do. Although they own like the TV rights, but the park rights are owned by that park nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Weird situation there.

Flintstones, DC Hopes, And Justice League

SPEAKER_03 15:06

I just thought of that. I probably shouldn't have put him on here because he's a Disney character, really. Because they do own him already.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Yeah, because they bought Fox.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

But he's my number six.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

Okay. I couldn't remember the main character, but the How to Train Your Dragon.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

That was a good movie. They're all good movies. And it's great IP and the parked up north. I want a similar ride at Disneyland as the kind where you roll the bat or the dragon. Uh-huh. With the like the bat-looking wing. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

I didn't think of that one either. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Yeah, that was I like that. That's a good cartoon. I was looking at different cartoons. I have not. I've only watched the original. Oh, you need to watch them. How many are there now? Four. Okay. Okay. And I knew there was a TV show.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

All very good. Okay. Oh. Eli, my son, loves them, so me and him sat down this summer and we watched them all before he took his step into the Naval Academy. But uh yeah, they're good. Nice. I never really watched them. They were on my TV when he grew up all the time. I didn't pay attention to them once. Okay. Had no idea. So yeah. Next, my number seven, I think. I haven't mentioned yet. From a modern stone age family, we have Fred Flintstone. That would be a good idea. That's a good one. Yeah. Having bedrock. Twist, twist. That's the actual song.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

Yo, I know. Though yeah. Flintstones was uh watch it constantly as a kid.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

Yeah. I love the Flintstones.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Which is funny that it was a prime time show when it first came out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

That wasn't when we were kids when it came out. No. But I watched reruns like Mad when I was a kid. Love the Flintstones. I even liked the first movie with John Goodman. Oh, yeah. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

And uh Rick Moranes.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

It's cheesy.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

But I like it. I'm a big Flintstones fan.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

Okay, give us another one, Aaron. Superman. But I was thinking of all of the DC universe.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

Did I do DC? I looked at I thought about DC first.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Mostly because so it's really been a competition between DC and Marvel. Uh-huh. And Disney has done well with the Marvel. There's been some misses, but overall, they did a really great job with all of that. A lot of the DC stuff has been misses. It has. And I just think that they could have done better.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

New Superman movie? Great. Oh, really? I liked it a lot. Oh, okay. I'm a DC fan more than Marvel. I think when we grew up, DC the movies were better. Yeah. Even the first Superman movies. Oh, yeah. Right back then. Yeah. All the way to the Michael Keaton Batman.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

Yeah. Great.

unknown 17:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

Those were when we were like teen older teenagers. Yeah when that came out. So those were what I grew up with was the DC. Batman's my favorite. My favorite character. The whole universe. Because he has the best villains. The Justice League and the villains.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

Yeah. I think they do DC just can bring a lot of really good characters into the mix. Yeah.

Tom And Jerry To Die Hard Ride Idea

SPEAKER_03 18:04

Good one. I like that. I thought of them and I didn't put them down because they were human. And they were cartoons. I don't love the cartoons as much. I should love them more because they're really good. Some of those DC like the Justice League. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

And I when I watch them, I like them. The Wonder Twins? Wonder Twin Powers Activate. Yeah. Form of a bucket of water and a chimpanzee. Shape of. And you're going to defeat evil somehow. Great. They just use their Wonder Twin powers to get out of a predicament. Yeah. Not to actually defeat anybody, but to just get themselves out of being screwed over because of their stupidity. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

Yeah. Exactly. Where'd those guys go? I don't know. That's good. My next one is Tom and Jerry. Yeah. Love Tom and Jerry. That's some good stuff there. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Back and forth. Those guys.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Those guys had some great cartoons. So my next one. Uh-huh. Another human. Okay. Fictitious one. John McLean.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

John McClane. What are you going to have? A tower?

SPEAKER_02 19:05

A little Nakatomi Tower.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Tower ride like crazy.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Yeah. So it's time to give up on the Tower of Terror and that IP. Okay. And go with Nakatomi Tower. And explosions. And you drop from the tower. You're Hans Gruber. So you're falling?

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Right. You can be both. Yeah. So first you crawl up the top of the tower. Uh-huh. All right. And then at the end, you're the bad guy that falls.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Yeah. And you gotta shoot. Like it opens, and it's a bad guy standing there with his little MP5, and you just gotta pretend shoot him. Yeah, there's a whole thing. I like that. I made a whole thing out of it. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

My next one, Pink Panther.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Okay. The real Pink Panther.

Pink Panther, Ghostbusters, And Peanuts

SPEAKER_03 19:48

The real the cartoon Pink Panther. Okay. It can go on to the movies with both movies. I mean, I as a huge Steve Martin fan, I also like his take on Pink Panther. Yes. His Inspector Cluseau take is also good. But the original you can't beat. You can't beat the original Pink Panther movies. But the cartoons were good too. The cartoons were good. I love them.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

Yeah. Mine, and which had cartoons, but the Ghostbusters.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Oh good.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Yeah. Mostly the main characters. OG. Dan Aykroy. Carol Ramus. Carol Ramis. Yeah. All those guys.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

Good one. Love that. Okay. My next one we can skip by at pretty much is Charlie Brown. We talked about peanuts already. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:33

That's my number 10. Okay, so mine, and this is King Kong and the whole monarch universe.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

And I know, like, I I'm sure they've done some cartoons, but the whole monarch universe, and I think like I really enjoy all those movies that have been coming out between Godzilla and King Kong and Kong versus Godzilla and all of those. I think they're they've been great movies. And they have the Apple TV has the series, which I never did finish the first season. But yeah. Great IP there. But King Kong, he's I like his him as a character.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Good one. At number 11, I have Shrek. Okay. Yeah. That's a great one. Yeah. That's good. That'd be a good land, good rides. You could do so much. You could do a lot. You could do so much with Shrek.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

You got a vi you got villains, Lord Farquad, who is the offspring of uh Snow White and Grumpy. Yep. Or Doc. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

I forgot what they say. I don't know.

Monsters And Myths: Kong, LOTR, Oz

SPEAKER_02 21:36

One of them. Yeah, that's a funny one. A funny fan theory. Yep. There. Okay, next one. Bilbo Baggins. The whole and I gotta say I'm surprised that the Parkour North has not bought this. Because you so you stop and you think of Harry Potter. Uh huh. It's the only good land there. Of that IP in the parks, the Tolkien universe. That'd be great. Like the whole land where you like you could do a whole park, literally, right, of the Middle Earth. Right. Rivendale is one land, the Shire is one land, Mordor is one land, yeah, Gondor, all of those different, and you're walking to the different. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

Oh, that's good.

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Yeah. It's own park. Its own park. Yeah. Incredible. Incredible park. And see, Disney is the only one I think who could really do it justice. Because the park up north, the only land that I thought was really good and really themed extremely well was the Harry Potter land. Other than that, they don't do, I don't think they do as well with don't do as well. Yeah. And so, yeah, just let Disney do Tolkien.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Their little Springfield's pretty cool with the Simpsons. But Disney would do better, I think. Yeah. It has a cheesiness factor. Yeah. So next I have Optimus Prime. Okay. Transformers. That'd be good. Yeah. I mean, it's just thinking that ride. Oh, yeah. It'd be very Guardians at Epcot.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

At Epcot, yeah. Cosmic Rewind. Because there is a Transformers, and I almost threw up on that ride. It's a screen-based whip your screen-based. Some of those I can handle, but that one was just rough. It ruined my day. Oh wow. And Disney, and see, and that's a big part of it. Disney doesn't create rides that ruin your day with unless you're really, really prone to motion sickness. Uh-huh. Then yeah, they do have a couple rides. But if you're just like the occasional mo motion sickness, they don't really have rides that ruin your day. Yeah. Fair. Okay. They're next. I'm next. They're next. Jurassic Park. Oh yeah. Yeah. The whole no and because there's multiple, I would say the later ones with Owen.

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Okay.

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You know. Jurassic World. Jurassic World. More the IP.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Okay. Kind of stuff. That's cool. My next one's Popeye.

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Oh, yeah. That'd be fun. You got some old school cartoons here. I do.

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I'm an old school guy.

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Yeah.

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These are ones I grew up on.

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I couldn't remember like all the cartoons I watched when I was a kid.

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Yeah, I just floated. They just came out.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Yeah. I wrote this in fast. This one took me a while, and I just but I kept going to human characters and IP. More thinking of what would be great in a park. Okay. My next one, The Hunger Games. Oh, okay. A cat Niss Everdeen character. Great. I think you could do a lot with just everything that they've done. Yeah, I think. That whole universe.

Transformers, Jurassic World, And Ride Design

SPEAKER_03 24:52

If I'm correct, my son Eli and his fiance Addie, I don't think they've ever seen any of the movies. Really? I don't think that at least Addy hasn't, and I think Eli also hasn't seen any of them. Because those were all pre two 2015, written. Yeah, I mean they'd be pretty young. I'm surprised they haven't seen them. Huh. Yeah. That's interesting. Right. We didn't have enough time to watch any of them on Christmas break, but yeah.

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So, you know, when you got eight, eight, nine hours, watch them all in a day.

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My next one is Garfield.

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Garfield's a good one.

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Garfield's a good one.

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Yeah.

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He would have to be expanding more. He's pretty much just a comic strip with small cartoons.

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With Odie and John and Liz.

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I love Garfield.

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Yeah. Did your parents buy all the books when you were kids? No. My mom did. Every time a new book came out, she bought it.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 25:43

And then we would just pass it around. Everybody in the family would read it.

SPEAKER_03 25:47

The one books my parents always bought us were the Barenstein Bears books. Okay. Pre-Mandela effect?

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Barrenstein Bears? I was thinking if I was going to say it right. Or if I didn't say it right. I can't even remember. I don't know which one's correct. So that's I think the Bernstein Bears. Is correct? No, that's the Mandela effect. Bernstein Bears. I always call them Bernstein Bears. Is that correct? I think that's the real way. The way it is now. But some people remember it as the Bernstein bears. I remember them as the Bernstein bears.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Oh, so that's Bernstein.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Yeah. So I'm from a different multiverse.

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Tomato, tomato.

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I got moved into this multiverse. Probably.

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I can see that. That says a lot.

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It's why we diverge on our episodes here, the way we record them. Okay.

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Okay, you're next.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Oh, I didn't. Okay. Oh, you're done? No, no, no. I got two more. The Wizard of Oz Universe. Okay. And it's mostly the wizard. Not necessarily Glenda or the Witch. It's the Wizard. Oh, Dorothy? No. And Dorothy is. You would get all those, but I've got to say, after watching, having watched everything, my favorite was the wizard and his backstory. Big Jeff Goldblum fan?

Popeye, Hunger Games, And Garfield

SPEAKER_03 27:06

Wasn't he the wizard in the new movies?

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Have you watched it? No, it wasn't. It was James Franco.

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In Wicked?

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Not Wicked.

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Oh.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

No, they did a Wizard.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Yeah. You do the Michael Jackson. Right. Moving up the room.

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So I guess technically moving up down the road.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Okay, I have no idea why that and or Captain EO. Actually, gonna go off on a little tangent here. Uh huh. They need to bring back an on occasion show Captain EO.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

I agree with you, but with all the controversy over Michael Jackson, it'll never happen over his life and what happened. It won't just won't happen. I know, but it won't happen. Yeah. It's a bummer, but I was thinking about that too, and then I thought of that, and I it's just not because some people, yeah, think what because it's a very divisive as whether or not he's guilty type of thing. Love the idea.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Really want to watch. I watched Captain Eo uh-huh when it was there back when I went and like my first trip. That it was playing, and I remember going to it and stuff. Anyway, next.

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Yeah, and I love the whiz, by the way. Yes, the whiz. I loved the whiz as a kid. I'm a huge Wizard of Oz fan.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

My I didn't like it when I was a kid, Wizard of Oz. Really? Yeah. My dad, I just remember when I was a kid, he's like, Why would you call it the Wiz? Why would you make it a slang term for going to the bathroom? So it didn't make a whole lot of sense to him. He voice that go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 28:33

So I just did Garfield. So we're on number 15, Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote. Oh, yeah. Those good ones. Shenanigans, Tom and Jerry style. Yeah. Tom and Jerry adjacent.

Oz Reboots, Captain EO, And Nostalgia

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Yeah. I was thinking of the Looney Tunes, the big character that looked like Swedums. Okay. He was in one of the episodes. That was always one of my favorite characters. And I can't remember if he had a name. I should look that up.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

You should look it up.

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Yeah. So this is my last one. Okay. Harry Potter Universe.

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Oh yeah.

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I think Disney could do even better.

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Right.

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Yeah. Then that park up north. Yeah.

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If I had live IP, then I would probably pick Harry Potter too. But definitely Lord of the Rings before Harry Potter.

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No, Lord of the Rings is probably my number one, and I would say Monarch would be number two.

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So with yours, with the live IP, I don't know if I picked Lord of the Rings over Willy Wonka. I think I would rather have if I could run with Willy Wonka, I think I could do a lot with it. Like for kids. You could. I don't know, but Lord of the Rings is Willy Wonka, my top two.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

I think you could do a lot with for kids with Willy Wonka. I was thinking of another one while you were talking. Spy versus spy.

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Oh yeah.

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Remember those cartoons? Yeah.

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That was in Mad Magazine.

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Yes.

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The Mad Magazine Universe.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

The Mad Magazine universe. Alfred E. Newman. Yeah. National was that National Lampoons? No, that was just Mad Magazine. Mad Magazine. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

National Lampoons is a whole different thing.

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Alfred E. Newman.

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Right. Alfred E. Newman.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Yes. For president.

SPEAKER_03 30:08

Yeah. If you ever want to play a great board game, we're at my dad needs to listen to this episode because we're doing a lot of things. He would appreciate it. Appreciate a lot of things we're talking about. My parents had this game called the Mad Magazine Game when I was a kid. It was a board game. It's the exact opposite of Monopoly. I think we had that when I was a kid. It was the most amazing game. You wanted the least amount of money possible. You had to go the other way around the board. Okay. You had to roll with your opposite hand the entire game. Oh. All these rules. And the cards were hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

I think my favorite games ever. Now that you're talking about it, I think I actually had that game when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

I would get the Mad Magazine Universe. That's a great one. Okay. I love that. Okay, so to round off my list, do I just do George Jetson yet?

unknown 30:56

No.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

George Jetson's my next.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Oh, that would be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

Yeah, that kind of rounds out my Hannah Barbera thing. So I'll go down my list and then I have one question. Okay. At the end. So George Jetson. Okay. Sonic the Hedgehog. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

Hello Kitty. I thought about Hello Kitty.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

Again, it's huge.

Roadrunner Antics And Harry Potter

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Oh yeah. Especially it's still huge in Japan. Don't they do a lot of Hello Kitty stuff? You can find it at the Japan pavilion in Epcot. I wonder.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

Speaking of I wonder if David Hasselhoff is still huge in Germany. Oh. Remember Norm McDonald's thought he said that? Yes.

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Yeah.

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Okay. That was off.

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The Smurfs. Smurfs would be a good one. That's some good old school.

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That is old school.

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IP, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

We're going old school. The rest of them are all old school. Okay. Okay. Ninja Turtles?

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Yeah. I was never a big Ninja Turtles fan. He-Man? Okay. Love He-Man. That'd be good. Castle Gray Skull. When I was a kid, my best friend was a huge He-Man fan. Had all of it. All the toys and everything.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

Yeah, my brother was a huge He-Man fan. He had all the toys. What if we had the Castle Gray School? He had the Castle Gray Skull. We had a lot of Skeletour stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. And my last one. Next time. That was good. My last one was Inspector Gadget.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Okay. Yeah, I was just thinking it when you said those. G.I. Joe. G.I.

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Joe. I forgot about that. That's a good one.

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G.I. Joe. That was my jam when I was a kid. I was huge. GI Joe.

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After school, G.I. Joe was on.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

My mom. So I had like all the guys, all the figures. And then tons of vehicles, all kinds of pieces. And then I had a few of the ones like at the tail end, my mom was still buying them for me for Christmas, but I wasn't playing with it anymore. I had some that were unopened. Some of the characters, the figure figures.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

Uh-huh.

Mad Magazine, Jetsons, And 80s Icons

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Whatever you call them. And my mom sold, I had two big boxes full, packed full, at least two big boxes.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Oh, we were GS.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

She sold it all for like 20 bucks at a garage sale. I know. I was so kicked. Because I'm like, I knew that some of that was collector's items.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Oh, yeah. I remember saving up to buy the hovercraft. Oh. I wanted that so bad. And my brother had the cool Cobra blue jet. Okay. That was awesome. And I had the other jet, the silver jet.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

The F-14. Yeah. Yeah, a friend of mine had that.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

I had so we had so many G.I. Joe's and all the things.

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Yes, all the things, all the mortars and cannons and howitzers and oh yeah. It was good like war stuff.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

We used to set them up, sit there with our BB guns, and we'd have them all set up like 20 feet away, and we would shoot at them with our BB gun. And basically, the last person to have a man standing won the war.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Oh.

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As we were shooting at him with BB guns. Oh, we never shot our. Yeah, we did.

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I think my parents probably still have a bunch of them.

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Yeah.

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And when my dad listens to this, we'll probably have to take them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Darn it.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

Anyway, that's our list. That's our entire list of who we think Disney should take.

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Yes.

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Disney should buy, purchase, grab.

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New IP.

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New IP for Disney.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

Ideas for parks. So if you could like, subscribe, follow, leave a comment, leave a review, whatever your platform asks for, we would greatly appreciate that. If you'd like to reach out and give us an idea of an episode, you can reach us at Cheers, the number two, ears, the number one, at Outlook.com. And if you're looking to book a vacation, come to me.

G.I. Joe Stories And Final Lists

SPEAKER_03 34:55

So I still have my special going on because February's not over yet, is it? By the time we no. If you hear this anyway, I'll still honor it. Whenever you listen, just reach out and tell me. We'll still figure it out. Anyway, if you book a three-day package at Disneyland or a four-day package at Disney World, four part days, three part days, I will send you a$50 gift card on your first resort stay. And you can get a hold of me at Aaron.bestarVacations at gmail.com. And hopefully it's right here on your screen. And yeah, get a hold of me. Let's talk Disney. And Cazarek. Great. That was good. We finished a bolt during the episode. We don't do that very often.

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No. But until next week, cheers. Cheers.