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Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowNick vs SickThis week, Scottye faces the existensial crisis that is learning about the Disney Parks reservation system in real time for your enjoyment, we do some quizzes about the past, and then get nostalgic for our attractions. First up, Scottye uses a bit of his Tower of Power to rebuild the old Nickelodeon Hotel from just off Route 536, complete with all the horrors it was known for. Then, Jim sends guests on a trip through time (and little hard drive space) as they tackle The Oregon Trail (sponsored without asking by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) by fording rivers, shooting...
2021-04-2739 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowBONUS: Scottye goes Beyond The LensWe are back from our holiday vacations and instead of diving back into Party Town and JimCity we take a detour to Pigeon Forge as Scottye weaves a tale of woe featuring his journey to a strange interactive museum featuring everything from kids dancing to the 45th President to Bigfoot to kids dancing to aliens to the 35th President to kids dancing!
Jim, much like you the listener, straps in for the ride.
Note that Scottye does refer to this establishment as THROUGH THE LENS at every opportunity. I'm sure they'd actually love his endorsement.
2021-01-1142 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Thames And MenThis week, it's our season finale, and what better way to finish off our music theme park than by taking a seventy-four hour quiz and creating attractions based on the Greatest Band In The World, The Thamesmen...I mean Spinal Tap. First up, Jim takes guests on a BPM Backstage Tour hosted by the band and all the trials and tribulations that entails. Then, Scottye decides to fix a problem in the only way a theme park can, by having you the guest design a new drummer for the band and put it (it doesn't need a gender, its...
2020-08-2431 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Cheeseburgers and Paradise.This week, we continue to waste away the season as we create Jimmy Buffett attractions for our music-based theme park, BPM. First up, Jim throws guests into a river of colorful liquids and douses them with a selection of fine Boat Drinks. Caution: You May Get Drunk. Speaking of, Scottye decided that even though Margaritaville already has its own full fledged resort in the Orlando area that what Jimmy would rather be singing about is Drinking Around The World at Epcot. If you'd like to hear about it, this is the episode to listen to.
Also a...
2020-08-1728 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song of Giants And FilmsThis week, we discuss our lost TMBG episode and then take a quiz about classical music and Disney, which wasn't exactly planned. Then, we set about making attractions for BPM involving famous movie songs. First up, Scottye brings to life The Great Movie Music Ride and hits all the right notes in a coaster-like cavalcade of screens and loud noises that even Universal Studios would be proud of. Then, Jim focuses on one particular film and has guests play God as they help a rambunctious teenager, his girlfriend, and an introvert in a hockey jersey have a good day...
2020-08-1040 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Ham And BurrThis week, we do not discuss Mary Poppins Returns and instead find out which Moana song is most like us. It gets confusing. Then, we give our music based theme park a bit of that Hamilton charm as Scottye builds a story coaster (shocking!) based on the first act of the musical while Jim settles on just a single song, and has trouble remembering things from Alexander's life despite listening to the OCR a zillion times. We hope this recording will be enough.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-07-2730 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Hats And CrazyThis week, Walt Disney World has (dare we say foolishly) reopened and we find out which Mickey Ears best suit our strange personalities while far, far away from its turnstiles. Then, we visit our own theme park to add in attractions based on the late 90s jam "Virtual Insanity". First up, Jim invites guests into a twisted padded tunnel for tons of potentially dangerous fun but sadly without CGI birds flying at your face. There may still be a blood pool by the couch though, so watch out for that. Then, Scottye takes the video's concept and expands it...
2020-07-2029 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Kid And RockThis week, we spend an incredibly long amount of time taking an incredibly long quiz about Cedar Point because, well, Kid Rock we guess????? Then, we bring Kid Rock into our music theme park and things go...rather poorly. First up, Jim does a virus un-approved VR coaster where you take the reins as Mr. Rock and hit Ba's wit other Ba's...or something like that. Then, Scottye showcases the Kidrousel Of Rockgress, or whatever, as we force the Sherman Brothers to present the history of white trash in midwestern America. Obviously, this was recorded on the fourth of...
2020-07-0638 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Night And FeverThis week, we fail at finding a relevant quiz and instead answer questions about A Goofy Movie before giving our music theme park some attractions based on everyone's favorite genre - DISCO. First up, Scottye invites in the funk as he brings guests aboard Earth, Wind, And Fire's Afro Orbiters, an attraction that I assume will eventually be replaced with The Princess And The Frog theming in about 25 years. Then, Jim asks his guests to Escape To Funkytown as he takes this Lipps, Incorporated diddy and does all the genres through a wild roller coaster of a four minute...
2020-06-2929 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Rick And RollThis week, we actually do well at a music quiz before giving our music-based theme park some attractions based on everyone's favorite pastime - the rickroll. Jim gets confused and accidentally invites Rick Springfield in, while Scottye gets confused and forgets exactly what the premise of the show is. We still get two attractions out of it, somehow. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-06-2226 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Beasts And BoysThis week, we set out to build attractions based on the Beastie Boys! First up, Scottye throws guests into a madcap riot through a city on Make Some Noise, featuring everything from Men In Black Alien Attack references to a giant Ted Danson. You may or may not have to fight for your right to Fastpass. Then, Jim almost commits manslaughter on The Brass Monkey Carousel, a diabolic spinner featuring tilts, twists, racing(?), and little brass monkeys to grab and get, like, a prize or something.
Also, part one of our episode with Ride Rehab is now...
2020-06-1534 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Hair And Skin And EyesThis week, your super knowledgeable hosts try to pass a quiz about Dollywood (which neither has been to). This leads into the pitching of attractions for MTP based on Dolly Parton's "Jolene", the absolute perfect song to be immortalized in a theme park. First up, Jim invites guests into the mind of Dolly as she dreams of confronting Jolene, who may or may not be an eldritch horror. Meanwhile, Scottye takes the OppAtt formula of using Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and turns it completely around.
Also, be sure to check us out on WDWNT's Ride Rehab...
2020-06-0834 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Song Of Jocks & JamsThis week, we begin by utterly failing to answer questions about Disney song lyrics before switching instead to the real meat and potatoes of giving our fantabulous music-based theme park some attractions based on everyone's favorite Jock Jams. First up, Scottye does some recycling, sort of, and lets guests take flight as the basketball from the 90s opus Space Jam. Then, Jim calls on the spirit realm and the local costume shop to bring forth an attraction based on the Village People's "Macho Man" (dig it). Of course, the late Slim Jim spokesman makes a supernatural appearance in this...
2020-06-0135 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA Parody Song Of Small WorldsThis week, Jim breaks the one-week-old rule of only using attractions based on songs by giving the challenge to make attractions based on everyone's favorite polka hero, "Weird" Al Yankovic. With a seemingly infinite number of possibilities to chose from, how is that our hosts come away with nearly the exact same joke of an attraction? Luckily(?), at least Scottye has a song to sing. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-05-2527 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowScrambled Eggs And Tossed SaladThis week, we finish many things.
OppAtt Theater concludes with the three most exciting attractions at Walt Disney World.
SITCOT concludes with the one most exciting sitcom of television history.
First up, Scottye makes a roll of the dice to send Martin Crane away from Seattle and maybe to a Cheers in space? It's complicated. Then, Jim combines the excitement of answering live radio psychology calls with the sheer boredom that is a state fair Tornado attraction. Don't worry, it's only slightly longer than the American Adventure in experience length. We end, somehow...
2020-04-2735 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowAren't You A Little Young To Be Making A Podcast?This week, we continue Opp Att Theater with a rather odd take on Spaceship Earth before switching over to even odder takes for our Phineas & Ferb attractions in SITCOT. First up, Jim takes bumper cars on a wild, scenery-changing romp through the Tri-State Area (as is the style at the time) while Scottye sets sail down a tunnel of (brotherly) love that somehow does not include any of the Lawrence bros. Dishonor to his cow (or something).
Remember, even in Flavortown we thank the Pheonicians. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-04-2033 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowAs They Say In St. OlafThis week, we continue OppAtt Theater by taking your ears on a whirlwind journey through the Haunted Mansion. There's even a bell. Then, we go forth into SITCOT to create attractions based on everyone's favorite show The Golden Girls. Scottye, hopped up on Tipsy Ducks In Love, somehow believes this show about four wise-cracking characters was also created by Eastman & Laird, leading to some crime-fighting shenanigans. Then, Jim tries to take the ladies at their word as he plays a Carousel Of Rashomon. Presumably it's Sophia playing the VR console. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design...
2020-04-0631 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowI Know You Are But What Am I?!This week, we do our best (?) to aurally explore Journey Into Imagination With Figment. In these trying times, it may just become a recurring segment. Then, we give SITCOT some attractions themed after Pee-Wee's Playhouse! The secret word for the day is 'lazy' on Jim's attraction, as he haunts up the playhouse and rides around in a chair. Meanwhile, Scottye sets his sights on a big adventure and an even bigger and more complicated coaster through the start of Pee-Wee's day. Good luck nailing that dismount.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-03-3030 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowShut The Front Door!This week, your hosts discuss the recent pandemic park closures and then set about adding a little bit of Flavor Town into SITCOT with attractions based on everyone's favorite sitcom known as Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. First up, Scottye and Guy are chased by the government as they soar/race their '67 Camaro across the country in (possibly our second use of) Escape From FlavorTown. Then, Jim decides to bring class to SITCOT, really, as he institutes his very own Fieri University featuring everything from one day classes to six months of delicious education as you pay us tons...
2020-03-2332 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowYo, Home To Bel-Air!This week, we discuss the perils of drinking around the World and trying to traverse three theme parks in a single day. Then, we devise new attractions for SITCOT based on everyone's favorite Non-Rotten Prince Of Somewhere Near Los Angeles. First up, Jim lives out a fantasy as he is thrown out of a mansion by Uncle Phil at an incredibly high rate of speed. Remember to keep your head back. Then, Scottye brings guests onto an omnimover of the theme song, hitting all the classic bits, and then switches to a second attraction also featuring (a rather swole...
2020-03-1634 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowYou Got It, Dude!This week, we discuss the Jungle Cruise sinking and how much John Stamos loves himself some Disney before giving SITCOT some attractions themed after Full House. First up, Scottye goes off book and brings in everyone's favorite mischeivious neighbor Steve Urkel to...ruin a Full House episode taping? Meanwhile, Jim straps guests into the Fullest of Houses as they dare to escape the wrath of a perverted Uncle Joey, a wacky religious cult, or a sadistic (and obsessed with cleanliness) Danny Tanner. Please remember to visit the gift shop and purchase your very own rose to pin our your...
2020-03-0929 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe One Where We Build A Friends AttractionThis week, we discuss Bob Chapek and other things that should never be allowed in Disney Parks before giving our park SITCOT some attractions themed around the somehow still hit show Friends. No one told me life was going to be this way. First up, Jim invites guests to experience a live fire exercise known as The One Where We Kill Ross, wherein our sad sad boy has cloned himself and is hell bent on world domination. Only a bus and some guns can stop me. Then, Scottye takes guests into the apartment for The One Where We Learn...
2020-03-0232 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Scottye MethodologyeThis week, we discuss Scottye's recent trip to Disneyland and all the wacky and wild things it has. Comparisons to Florida are made. Lightsabers are crowdfunded. Vaping is disallowed, but still happens. Then, we give SITCOT some attractions based on everyone's favorite least comedic situation known as The Big Bang Theory. First, Scottye sends the gang (and some guests) hurtling through the universe of time as passengers as they unravel the mysteries that led to the eponymous explosion referenced in the title of the show. Then, Jim shrinks guests down not for a war, but for a mission of...
2020-02-2430 min
Me Again: A Self-Help PodcastWeek 21: Vacation ScottyeIt's so bizarre getting reminded of who we are at our worst. Luckily, I get reminded just about any time I go on vacation. Vacation Scottye is a demon capable of rending any sense of self-help from me and forcing me into bad habits. He's a scamp. Remember to message us @Scottyemo on Twitter with any advice, ideas or questions for upcoming episodes!
Weekly Summary:
Sunday: Scottye makes a big nerdy spreadsheet again
Monday: Scottye gets ready for Hollywood!
Tuesday: Scottye is off on a jetplane
Wednesday: Scottye goes to Disneyland!
Thursday: Scottye enjoys the legal things of California
Friday...
2020-02-1900 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowNot Starring The Harlem GlobetrottersThis week, we discuss various DisTwitter shenanigans, the art of speaking to Sith Lords, and the hiring process for DCA before giving SITCOT some attractions based on Gilligan's Island. First up, Jim throws some guests on a boat and then throws a BUNCH of water at those guests. Buy your commerative towels at the exit, only $65. Then, Scottye realizes just how little he knows about the old-timey show and crafts a collection of mad libs. It makes more sense than Ginger Grant's wardrobe ever did, at least.
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2020-02-1027 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Man's Theme Park AttractionThis week, we discuss the new ELEVEN DOLLAR sporks you can find in Batuu and then set about building a Home Improvment attraction for our sitcom park SITCOT. First up, Scottye bypasses the show and goes right to the SNES video game of the show, which features all the things Scottye loves in a theme park attraction (mainly dinos and aliens, along with Ellen DeGeneres somehow). Then, Jim pits Tim against his arch-nemesis Bob Vila in a battle of attraction supremecy that maybe Tim wins. Or not. All that time working for Disney has not made Tim the best...
2020-02-0332 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowHey Hey Hey What Is Going On Here??!!This week, we discuss a VERY Unfortunate Figment Drink (tm) as well as the various sitcoms that have visited a Disney Theme Park at some time since the early 90s. Somehow Newhart never made it to Disneyland. Then, we bring some Saved By The Bell attractions to our sitcom theme park SITCOT. First up, Jim relies solely on a single episode of the Malibu Sands series and sends guests on a whirlwind journey through wacky beachfront shenanigans that ends with a beloved voice actor nearly dying. Then, Scottye brings in exactly what Bayside High was missing all these years...
2020-01-2726 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowIt's Like The Imitation Cheese Of TheaterThis week, it's our shortest episode ever! After a short discussion about the merits of Hashtag Distwitter, we set out to give our newest theme park its first sitcom-based attractions. Jim combines the whimsy of comedy monsters with the audience particaption of lion royalty theatre to see which Belcher child will take over the park's new restaurant. Meanwhile, Scottye places guests into a war of toilets. And he says he doesn't understand Disney fans on social media...Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2020-01-1326 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThank God It's A Theme ParkThis week, we return with brand spanking new pitches for new theme parks to set a course for our NINTH season! After discussing our holiday gift giving and receiving, Scottye throws out ideas based on lesser known celebrities and incredibly rich people. Meanwhile, Jim is thwarted in his quest for a Guy Fieri park and instead goes to a real EPCOT, which would be such a collossal disaster. We eventually (somehow) settle on the rich vein that is situation comedies. It's going to be one of those kinds of seasons.
So stay tuned next week, same Opp...
2020-01-0634 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Out Of Here!It's our season finale and we gotta tear this puppy down to the ground! After discussing how we would fill our Epic Universe park up with lots of action-able employees, Scottye lets one of them set up some fireworks on a Giant Swing. This goes rather poorly and has the expected results. Meanwhile, Jim grants one lucky winner a chance to live the dream of destroying a theme park the Project Mayhem way while also creating tons of really akward band names.
As per usual, we take a week off between seasons, however with Christmas on the...
2019-12-1731 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Moving!This week, we discuss some of the insanity at this year's IAAPA conference in Orlando before setting about giving our very own Epic Universe it's own dangerous transportation systems. First up, Jim creates an in-park monorail-ish contraption that just so happens to routinely derail around the load/unload stations, leading to some harrowing balancing acts as guests try (and possibly fail) to make it to their next destination without falling to the sidewalks below. Meanwhile, outside the park, Scottye has instituted a guest proving ground to show that you have the fortitude to spend the day in a theme...
2019-12-0931 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Sharp!This week, your hosts spend way too much time talking about Baby Yoda merch and laughing at Reddit and not near enough time trying to put sharp pointy objects into attractions for Epic Universe. However, Scottye does eventually get around to inviting guests into his Knives Land, which may have originally been planned for California Adventure before they settled on Superstar Limo. Then, Jim creates two rides in one as he creates and destroys Highlanders in an attraction that he didn't actually name in the episode but probably has something to do with a Quickening or at least Mr...
2019-12-0237 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Shopping!This week, after some long discussions about Disney+ and Jim's recent WDW vacation, your hosts set about making Epic Universe attractions all about the horrors of Black Friday shopping. First, Jim straps some guests up by bungees and throws some other in a cage to partake in War-Mart: The Store Beyond, a reference you'll probably get if you understand any of the other references the hosts make. Do you dare swing through the skies for deals or wish to battle it out for the leftovers!? Then, Scottye decides to throw everybody on a rollercoaster with the most apt name...
2019-11-2537 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Gestalt!This week, we decide to prove whether or not the sum is equal or greater to its parts as we combine the themes of every OppAtt season to create one wild ride. First up, Scottye goes all the way back to season one to call in a favor from a masterpiece as he presents Juicy Peaches' Sidekick Academy, a glitched fly-and-shoot training simulator that may not exactly pass muster as education but excels in flavor. Then, Jim decides that what Captain America really needs is two asses as he installs both himself and Scottye in the role of the...
2019-11-1837 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Random!This week, we record well in advance thanks to Jim's upcoming vacation, leading Scottye to try to be INCREDIBLY SPOOKY for a November show. After reliving a terrifying scenario from his childhood, we set about giving our very own Epic Universe some randomized attractions! First up, Jim calls upon the (other) Patron Saint of the show, Guy Fieri, and a little bit of La Croix beverages to get guests wet and wild with Flavor Drowns, a slot machine-esque flume into various flavored waters at various levels of pressure. Then, Scottye sends guests into some sort of living quarters in...
2019-11-1131 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowSurvive The Magic 100th Episode Spectacular (Part 1)This week, Scottye and Jim are joined by BS Network host Blake Tanner (@blakeatanner) to play Jim's WDW RPG known as Survive The Magic. Listen in as Mal hunts for clues while Joel ruins attraction experiences, just like normal theme park guests!
Part 2 coming soon!Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLinks:Download Survive The Magic RPG
2019-10-2858 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Very Dangerous!This week, we begin talking about some theme park malfunctions, which ends up leading perfectly into our plan to give our Epic Universe some harrowingly dangerous attractions. First up, Scottye invites guests into The Tomb Of Wonders, a dark ride coaster featuring very real special effects that (hopefully) just barely miss riders. Then, Jim takes the idea of the heartline barrel roll and adds, you know, a space camp gyroscope to it. I mean, the point was to be dangerous, right?
Next week -- we celebrate (?) 100 episodes (and a top 5 show) by playing Jim's tabletop RPG Survive...
2019-10-2138 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Gaming!This week, we set our sights on giving our own Epic Universe some attractions based on video games. Surely no one has ever thought of doing such a thing! First up, Jim swims his way from the 50s, to the 80s, and to today as he combines the original flying saucers of Disneyland, the Ninja Turtles, and a slight wiring malfunction at Volcano Bay to recreate the sewer levels of the original TMNT video game. Caution, you my get shockingly wet. Then, Scottye embraces the crazy as he sends guests into the world of Psychonauts on Meat Circus Mania...
2019-10-1432 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Gritty!This week, we begin with some discussions about Epcot's recent night time changes, and then segue into Scottye's new podcast-within-a-podcast Intoxications: Reflections Of Puke (I'm sure it's a working title), all about really bad times in the Happiest Place On Earth. That out of the way, we turn to giving our Epic Universe some gritty attractions based on other more famous attractions. First, Jim invites guests to visit the Big Apple on The Concrete Jungle Cruise, featuring minutes upon minutes of lame jokes and naked hobos. It's fun for the whole family! Then, Scottye heads back in time (???) as...
2019-10-0734 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Drunk!This week, the Skyliner is open! Also, LSD! Maybe that'll help you see through those silly decals, huh? Also, dang guys, sorry the show is late coming to the feed. We spent this episode talking about making attractions where you have to be slightly drunk and Scottye maybe took that too heart. Or maybe he was just busy. Something like that. Anyway, first up - Jim puts gets in the center of a collossal mirror maze known as A Series Of Unfortunate Reflections. If you've ever been through a normal mirror maze, it's like that - only way bigger...
2019-10-0134 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Spooky And Childish!This week, we discuss new signs, (hopefully) fake scripts, and do our best to give our very own Epic Universe some very spooktacular kiddie attractions. First up, Scottye invites kids of all ages to experience The Ride Where Everything Goes Wrong, a menagerie of animatronics from around the multiverse converging around a boat that somehow has wheels. It has to be technically possible, as we've seen it at Disney Springs! Then, Jim decides that it isn't such a small world that we can't do some Mary Blair murder and yeets those dolls squarely into the Haunted Mansion where they...
2019-09-2332 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Combat Trained!This week, after spending probably way too long looking at Epcot Food & Wine menus, your hosts set about giving their very own Epic Universe an attraction that doubles as military training. Oh the places we will go! First up, Jim sends a crack team of conventioneers and corporate lackeys into the suburbs of Chicago to rescue Kevin McAllister as Macauley Culkin Presents A Series Of Unfortunate Events (Sponsored By The US Army), a hell house of zany traps and terrorists just waiting for some team building exercises. Meanwhile, in another large building nearby, Scottye "invites" guests to survive (with...
2019-09-1631 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Off Track!This week, we discuss a harrowing (and supercharged) experience Scottye had at DragonCon, and then give our Epic Universe a different sort of trackless attraction. First, Scottye finds a way to separate one coaster into a quintet with The Titan, quite possibly the largest ever single attraction at an OppAtt theme park, because it's not exacty a single attraction. Anyway, one would think Jim would not be as completely crazy as this, until he decides to create Cool Runnings Presents A Series Of Unfortunate Events, a bobsled attraction that is more like actual bobsledding than any rollercoaster themed after...
2019-09-0931 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Seasonal!This week, after some D23 discussion, we set about putting some seasonal modifications into our very own Epic Universe. First, Jim sets the stage for disaster as he randomly chooses the contestants on American Ninja Warrior Presents A Series Of Unfortunate Events, a rain or shine (or dark of night) show featuring your favorite stunts from your favoritiest TV show, especially in the middle of winter. Don't worry, there may or may not be some water to land in should you fall. Speaking of maybe landing in water, Scottye goes even farther back into television history for inspiration as...
2019-09-0231 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLet's Get Epic!It's a brand new season and you know that means it's time for a brand new theme park! No, it's not Universal Studios Kentucky, but it is our very own Epic Universe! We are beating Comcast to the punch by throwing all of our own ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. First, Jim tries his hand at, you know, just knocking off what Universal is doing and adding in the TurboGrafx-16. Scottye, fresh off a trip to Central Florida, has found a co-conspirator in his surly friend Jersey Dan to bring to you, the listener, The Most...
2019-08-2633 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Fast & Furious SuperchargedIs this the real life? This week, it's our suitably supercharged season finale, and now we've gone and thrown it all away to remaster the replacement for Disaster in Fast & Furious: Supercharged! After a quick quiz to find our perfect angry and quick boy toys, Jim lets it slip that the only thing he could come up with was the exact same attraction, but maybe with a steering wheel thrown in. Then, Scottye lets loose with some thunderbolt and lightning as he explains to everyone within earshot just how much the original attraction truly means to him. It's not...
2019-08-1232 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New It's Tough To Be A BugThis week, after a penultimate quiz about our personalities, we set off to repair the 4-D antstravaganza (not sorry) beneath the Tree Of Life of Disney's Animal Kingdom Of Disney. Jim sticks with a talent show, of sorts, and replaces the bugs with Rescue Rangers and a rather annoyed waterfowl. Then, Scottye settles us down for a relaxing 45 minute (at least) trip into It's Tough To Be At Animal Kingdom, an ASMR journey away from the Joe Rohde's heat nightmare and into something more calming and air-conditioned. You can keep your punk-ass giraffes. We have alcohol.Support...
2019-08-0535 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Gran Fiesta TourThis week, we set out to do something about the rear forty perecent of Epcot's Mexico pavilion as we try to overhaul The Gran Fiesta Tour better than Disney could ever do. After a quick personality quiz that Scottye somehow fails, he brings guests onto five different variations of his attraction featuring everything from ducks to llamas and even outside entertainment and podcast properties, all with a hot dog to match (for some reason). Jim goes a slightly more feasible route, turning Donald from the goat to the hero in a way only he can and the only way...
2019-07-2937 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Mission: SPACEThis week, after a small struggle to find a Mission:SPACE quiz, we settle instead to test our knowledge of Best Picture snub Space Jam. As soon as Shawn Bradley returns to normal, we set out to the momumental task of removing the bad taste from Epcot that is the aforementioned Mission:SPACE. First, Jim does what he apparently always does in these situations, and just adds the Muppets. If Disney won't use them, we sure will. Then, Scottye gets into some magic mishaps as he invites guests to strap into a tiny chamber with(?) David Blaine in an...
2019-07-2232 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Great Movie RideThis week on our program, we quiz ourselves on the late, great Great Movie Ride and then set about trying to remaster it for generations to come (in our imaginations). First up, Scottye invites guests to experience The Great Bad Movie Ride, featuring everything you know and hate to love from the silver screen and the bargain bin at an indoor flea market. It's really tearing me apart. Then Jim decides to play around inside Disney's very own wheelhouse as he showcases The Great Remake Ride, featuring all your favorite live-action versions of Disney's animated canon, as well as...
2019-07-1532 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Country Bear JamboreeWith recent rumors of the possible closure of Florida's version of the Jamboree, your wonderful hosts set out to maybe #savethejamboree, or at least try to do something better than a puppet version of Woody's Roundup. First, Jim decides that if one attraction can be closed and redone, then toucan as he combines the bears and the tiki birds into a musical cacophony featuring hula skirts, straw hats, and some tiki gods in overalls. Then, Scottye leans into the rumor mill with vigor as he pitches Five Nights At Forky's, an existenial crisis and rock show all mixed into...
2019-07-0831 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Expedition EverestWe begin this week with a very odd quiz about becoming a Disney animal. Somehow neither of us are Max Goof (he's a dog, after all). We then switch gears to the Animal Kingdom, and fixing what some might say is only just barely broken - a roller coaster themed after India or whatever. Scottye falls down a Disco Yeti rabbit hole (yeti hole) and somehow finds his favorite chef, while Jim goes on a Big Thunder-esque hunt for treasure with everyone's most favoritiest butler. You can almost hear Joe Rohde frantically scribbling notes in the background.
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2019-07-0133 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Discovery IslandThis week, we set our sights on the dilapidated and abandoned husk of land known as Walt Disney World's Discovery Island. After taking a quick drinking tour around the world at Epcot, Jim leads his guests onto the Steamboat Willie and to a world of animation history, featuring zany tours, art classes, black and white props, color changing magic, and the Disney Cruise's own Animator's Palate Restaurant. Then, Scottye takes his tour group through the potentially easiest and probably wildest 'haunted deserted theme park with smoke monsters' escape room you've ever seen. Only two words can accurately describe both...
2019-06-2432 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Dinosaur AttractionThis week, after Scottye brings an incredibly NSFW quiz to the table, we try to do more than defeat the dreaded Tyrannosaurus Sax as we look to revamp all dinosaur attractions. With the quiz being all Scottye could prepare, he decided to follow in the footsteps of the Rock N Roller Coaster and make a ride based entirely off a rock song. It's all somewhat NSFW. Are you noticing a pattern? Jim tries to bring back decorum to the show and utterly fails as he rebuilds EPCOT in his own strange dinosaur way. They are very much not happy...
2019-06-1735 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Dollywood's Blazing FuryThis week, we talk all about the wonders of Dollywood and the unwonder that is Blazing Fury. Scottye gives everyone his own MST3K recap of the attraction before we try and repair it. Things go about as well as usual when fire and an 8 year old girl trying to steal your man are involved. There's also a quiz. Jim would write more for these notes, but he has encountered a slight RSI issue and isn't currently fond of typing. Enjoy the show, anyway!Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2019-06-1034 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Many Adventures Of Winnie The PoohThis week, your honey-filled hosts tackle a redo of the maligned The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh. With the success of Tokyo's Pooh's Hunny Hunt, it seems only fitting that both of our attractions go as far away from being perfect specimens of trackless entertainment as possible. First, Jim clobbers a corner of Fantasyland to install a knockoff of an attraction a few hundred yards away as he invites guests to visit a Carousel Of Poohgress, featuring that brainy bear Pooh helping many of his Hundred Acre pals deal with their physicatric problems. Then, as if that wasn't...
2019-05-2733 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New E.T. AdventureThis week, your hosts use their superpowers (foreshadowing!) to develop new versions of Universal Studios Florida opening day attraction The E.T. Adventure. First up, Scottye gets small, gets sponsored, and gets thrown off a cliff all in the name of annoying a late night talk show host. This does, all, somehow make sense in context. Then, Jim finds inspiration in the logo for Amblin Entertainment, as he imagines an omnimover full of E.T. being a jerkass to other production companies. Somehow this makes even less sense than Scottye's idea. Finally, we finish off with naming next week's...
2019-05-2031 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Journey Into ImaginationThis week, it's all about everyone's favorite dragon and his unfavorite attraction, Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment. After a brief history lesson, Jim brings to the table an attraction to both shame and celebrate the rest of Future World as he mocks as many attractions as possible before a grand (and miraculous) reveal. Then, Scottye misremembers the closing of the original attraction in 1998 as "sometime in the 90s" and makes even the Carousel Of Progress seem timely as he introduces the world to MC Fig (and his dope, dope rhymes).
Note: There is at least some...
2019-05-1335 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowA New Themed Amusement ParkIt's a brand new season, and that means pitching brand new theme parks! Scottye weaves a tale of coaster shenanigans in New Jersey and then turns the floor over to Jim, who halfheartedly suggests two theme park ideas based on 80% of the Planeteers and one with paths that would make the concrete at Disney's Animal Kingdom seem like foam in comparison. Then, we get to the meat of the season, as Scottye decides we need to forget our usual approach of originality and head into The Asylum. What does that mean? Tune in to find out!Support...
2019-05-0632 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For A WeenieThis week in the penultimate episode of season five, Jim gives the merchandise of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge a piece of his mind, Scottye does lots of confusing math, and then both hosts give the Mysterious Kingdom it's own royal castle weenie! First up, Scottye takes guests into The Home Of The Mad King, a walkthrough full of clues on the history of the kingdom's former (?) ruler to potentially earn a chance to recieve (steal?) your very own royal crown. Then, Jim enters a vast garden maze to find a Castle Escape of one sort, only to be captured...
2019-04-1534 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For RandomnessOn this week's show, we discuss Disney Parks recent bans of smoking, vaping, cotton farming, strollers with engines, kiddie wagons, Shakespeare In The Park productions, underpriced merchandise, and any ice that isn't made by Elsa who they have trapped in a refrigeration unit somewhere in the depths of Tom Sawyer Island. Then, things get...kind of random. First up, Jim finds himself on a Quest For Passage as guests must train for the difficult realities of (illegal) wagon travel outside the Mysterious Kingdom. Sure, it's a screen-based attraction, but it'll probably also readjust your spine. Best of both worlds...
2019-04-0832 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Kwest For A KrakenThis week, it's that one day a year where you just might think what Disney and Universal pitch is a joke (but it isn't!), but in the Mysterious Kingdom, we don't have time for such shenanigans because there's a Kraken on the loose! First up, Scottye invites everyone on a Quest For Booty featuring pirates, caves, goggles, and a certain sort of locker - not to mention that there feisty Kraken. Then, Jim scoops up the children for a fun time in his new play area Carla Kraken's Kidzone (please for the love of god she spells it with...
2019-04-0131 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For An EscapeThis week, Scottye grows litigious and then disappointed at the new Nickelodeon animated film Wonder Park, then your fine hosts try their best to design fantastical escape room attractions for the Mysterious Kingdom. First up, Jim looks for inspiration in the horror film Cube, as he tasks his guests to test the dungeon designs of a crazy orc in _Echo Security _, where every room is the same, but not quite. Then, Scottye sends guests on The Search For The Power Glove by way of a zany (and power hungry) gooblin. If you think that's spelled wrong, then you haven't...
2019-03-2529 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For The HydraThis week, Scottye regales us with the splendor and the horror of his recent central Florida theme park vacation, then both try thier hands at creating attractions based off the mythical Hydra. First up, Scottye follows the "technically possible" show tag down a strange path as he invites sixty four guests at a time to become a part of the Hydra itself on a megacoaster inside The Hydra's Cave. Hold on to your necks for that one. Then, Jim puts his neck on the line as he pitches the tale of Mystical Martin and Mechanical Maddox, two estranged brothers...
2019-03-1833 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For Dinner TheatreThis week, after some news about Galaxy's Edge, your good boys set about on the challenge to create some exciting dinner theatre for the guests of the Mysterious Kingdom. First up, Jim invites patrons into The Sqauwk Show, a late night type of talk show featuring a barely functioning wizard, a talking bird, and a range of zany guests. Then, Scottye tasks hungry folks to not only find the entrance to his show, but also not succumb to the sweet persausions of The Society Of The Enlightened Beings. If Disney's Animal Kingdom isn't a zoo, then boy howdy these...
2019-03-1133 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For PointsThis week, after a rousing double dip of PassFast (our show within a show), we send guests on a quest for delicious, wonderful POINTS. First up, Jim invites his guests to tackle the Colosseum Champion's Quest through the use of cheap carnival games and the wonders of virtual reality. Maybe you'll even get a shout-out at the Mysterious Kingdom's daily Colosseum Action Stunt Fight Spectacular Showcase Show! Meanwhile, Scottye has stumbled upon a castle. But not just any castle. No, it is the castle of the former King of the Mysterious Kingdom! Do you have what it takes to...
2019-02-2534 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For Something NewThis week, your hosts begin by taking an online journey through the many "wonders" of Gatlinburg, TN with a combined Yelp review score of 3.2! Then, with knockoffs and imitations behind them, they set off to create a ride system that has never before been seen! First up, Scottye attaches guests to a harness on the end of a stick to allow them to battle in Verngar's School Of Magic, where they may earn badges to become the Ultimate Wizard and impress someone named Chuck. Meanwhile, Jim decides that what guests really want to do is to rescue slaves using...
2019-02-1833 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For DragonsThis week, after Jim learns the horrible, horrible truth of Universal Studios very own Guy Diamond, your hosts set out to bring dragons to the Mysterious Kingdom, mainly through the use of virtual reality. First up, Jim invites his guests to become their very own dragon jockeys as they search for lost souls in an old dwarven steampunk morass known as The Dragon Factory. Then, join Scottye on his quests to tame some dragons and take them on their very first flights on The Road To Draconia, where after your flight you can purchase your very own dragon puppet...
2019-02-1131 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For GoblinsThis week, we discuss Scottye's vision board and a massively expensive VIP experience at WDW. Following that, we continue our quest of designing the Mysterious Kingdom by introducing some goblins into the mix. Mines continue to play a fun role in our theme park as Scottye sends guests into a bit of a kerfuffle between a village of dwarves and a village of goblins. Manage to sneak past some pesky dwarf gaurds and find yourself on a wild ride through, ahem, Tugnut's Shaft Drop, a cart coaster and drop attraction that'll have you holding onto your gorbins with all...
2019-02-0432 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowThe Quest For Water RidesThis week, after a quick discussion of Scottye's recent travel and Jim's ideas for the Imagination Pavilion at Epcot, we set about giving the Mysterious Kingdom some epic water-based attractions. First up, Jim sends his guests on a search for silver and gold through treacherous mines and a potentially dangerous guided tour on Calamity Cliff's Cavern Cruise as they attempt to complete the Metal Detector Quest. Then, Scottye finds a tavern (of course) where an old wizard sends guests to acquire the Magno Sword and defeat an ancient evil in The Cave Of The Leviathan as they look to...
2019-01-2831 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Star Spangled WeenieThis week, FreeWorld gets its signature all-encompassing USA attraction that will undoubtedly draw guests from not just the states, but from the rest of the world. First up, Scottye joins his pal Michael Bay for The Totally Real Story Of The American Revolution, which as stated does involve Michael Bay, so I hope you like lizard people, jets, and girls in bikinis because this attraction will be right up your alley. Then, Jim gets decocratic as he does a mostly themeless motion simulator known as The Two Party System, a majority-wins rollercoaster that can be different every time, but...
2018-12-2431 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: North To AlaskaThis week, we give FreeWorld some attractions from the biggest state of the union - Alaska! First up, Jim sets his sights on the wonderful world of bush pilots with the STOLer Coaster, a medium thrill jaunt around the snow-covered peaks of an incredibly small Denali and ending with a fun splashdown. Meanwhile, Scottye decides to follow his heart and break some laws with Operation Moose Drop, a bizarre screen-based attraction with an enormous SFX budget that sees you flying across Alaska to illegally parachute in some moose. Also illegal in Alaska but not used for an attraction this...
2018-12-1733 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Puerto RicoThis week, after a discussion of Stone Mountain Park in Georgia, your hosts take FreeWorld to one of the USA's unincorporated territories known as the nation of Puerto Rico. First up, Scottye invites his guests into a not-at-all-reminiscent-of-some-other-theme-park temple where they can find food, shopping, and even the official sailboat of Puerto Rico as they experience Oh No! That Dang Ol' Duck Is Missing!" (I think we got a trademark on this, right here). Join Pico and the Hedgemaster, two of Those Three Bird Guys, as they search high and low for their third band member Web Baxter (voiced...
2018-12-1033 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: DC Or NothingThis week, after a short discussion about Disney films based on theme park attractions, we set about putting a special district into our theme park about the United States. First up, Jim invites guests into a secret lair of the Dupont Underground to go on a time travel adventure in Biden Time. Great Scott? More like Awesome Joe, amirite? Meanwhile, Scottye hires Nic Cage to also go underneath the city and into The Halls Of Presidents, featuring everything from missing senators to zombies to horrific orange haired monsters and piles (and piles and piles) of condoms, it's everything you'd...
2018-12-0334 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: FloridaysThis week, after a short discussion about the new EPCOT nighttime shows coming soon, we take FreeWorld to a hub of themed entertainment known as Florida! First, Scottye distills an entire vacation into a creepshow known as The Disna-Whirl, a madcap romp from the airport all the way to a (very expensive) in-park hotel. Meanwhile, Jim cheaps out on reasonably "good" attractions as he welcomes guests to The Central Florida Fair-O-Rama, a large pavillion featuring ferris wheels, bumper cars, slides, and even a cartoony log flume as (hopefully) free-of-copyright facsimiles of famous Disney and Universal attractions. The show then...
2018-11-2633 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: MichiganOn this week's show, FreeWorld goes to the Mitten State of Michigan. After getting a live reaction of Scottye watching the first teaser for Toy Story 4, we set out on a midnight train for everywhere north of South Detroit as Jim gives us The Wolverine, a mobile shooting gallery attraction to first attac and then protecc a lone wolverine that has happened to wander into the state. Then, Scottye puts forth one of our more expensive attractions to date as he presents Kid Rock's BawitaBlast, a musical journey brought to you by Kid Rock and everything he stands for...
2018-11-1934 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: O-H-I-OThis week, we travel to the Buckeye State of Ohio and things pretty much immediately go straight off the rails. Scottye's research team leads him to give us The Best Guess, a madcap adventure through what Ohio may have looked like if it was an episode of Jay Ward's Fractured Fairy Tales. Then, Jim drops into a culinary apocalypse known as The Chili War where some of Ohio's favorite celebrities do battle with Eldritch horrors that may or may not be covered in cheese, onions, and beans.
Also, Disney celebrated Mickey's 90th birthday and it was nonsensical...
2018-11-1234 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: I'm Shipping Up To Boston (Massachusetts)This week we head on up to New England and give FreeWorld some Massachusetts flavor. After a short discussion of naming babies after princesses and talking cars, Jim invites guests to visit the Massachusetts Institute Of Terror where some enterprising students may or may not have invented time travel and shamelessly ripping off Disney. Meanwhile, Scottye goes on a very important mission of love to help Matt Damon do some Good Ben Hunting. There's a giant Batman in there somewhere. How do you like them apples?Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLinks:
2018-11-0533 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Country Roads (West Virginia)This week, Scottye shares stories from his most recent trip to Central Florida before getting into the challenge for the week of West Virginia. First up, it's an omnious dance party as Scottye brings guests Mothman's Cocaine Dance Party featuring everyone's favorite cryptozoologic celebrities. Will anyone survive the show (put on every hour on the hour)? Then, Jim tries to not embarass himself or any of his in-laws as he presents New River Rush, a waterless VR rafting attraction where you just might end up getting hit in the face by a few branches if you don't learn how...
2018-10-2934 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Blame It On TexasThis week we head slightly north of the border to the lone star state known as Texas to find inspiration for our attractions. First up, Jim invites guests to take part in Last Rodeo, a semi-educational trip through an old rodeo arena (that might actually be a basketball court) before coming face-to-face with a terrifying clown ghost! It ain't his first rodeo, but it may well be your last!!! Meanwhile, Scottye tries to skirt various copyrights on his attraction The Baconator, a possibly even more terrifying attraction featuring Guy Fieri and the insides of a pig. If there was...
2018-10-2230 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: California Dreamin'This week we head out west to Californy (the kinfolk said we should) to create attractions deserving of the Golden State. Of course, Scottye immediately goes to a dispensary and comes out with High 'N' Dry, a log flume that gives riders the feeling of being on that wacky tabacky. Sometimes, things go bad. Meanwhile, Jim has gotten lost in the mountains as he invites you to board Sequoia Slalom, a wild mouse-style coaster through (and through) a cache of redwoods as though you are snowboarding the peaks of Mineral King.
We also discuss Scottye's upcoming central...
2018-10-1533 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: New Jersey, New JerseyThis week, it's all about that Jersey Shore, bay-bay! After a bit of discussion of our park, FreeWorld, and it's layout, we dive in to our attractions for the week. First up, Jim pulls a Four Seasons swerve before inviting everyone to go Dancing In The Dark on his heavily modified indoor Tilt-A-Whirl that would probably leave most wishing they had just stayed off the boardwalk. Meanwhile, Scottye skirts his responsibilities and hands the reigns over to his good friend Jersey Dan, who shares with us his coaster The Jersey Devil, an attraction with a finale that might need...
2018-10-0829 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Sweet Home Alabama!This week, we take our all-american theme park to the home of the Crimson Tide and completely unsurprisingly both hosts use college football as jumping off points. Scottye takes his guests into a virtual reality stadium to be thrown around by the Roll Tide Rollercoaster starring Nick Saban and Paul Bear Bryant (of course). Meanwhile, Jim pitches a crossover with NASA as he welcomes everyone to Puntsville, USA, where the Rocket City has been tasked at helping Bama Football set its sights on conquering every football team in the universe. Also, kids can join in on the fun by...
2018-10-0132 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: We Are The World (Pitch A New Theme Park)It's a brand new season, and with it comes a new theme park! After discussing Jim's weather-shortened Disney vacation, both pitch their ideas for a new theme park. Scottye talks up Luna Land, a theme park based on the moon and all the expenses that might entail. Meanwhile, Jim asks why we would ever just settle on a Possum World and instead pitches Knokturnia, a park about all the world's nocturnal creatures. This is shot down, however, and you can listen in to find out exactly where we end up going. Here's a hint: not even Disney could pull...
2018-09-2435 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: The Greener Yard (Finalizing Our Theme Park)This week, after discussing possible updates to Epcot's Spaceship Earth, we finish up the third season by nailing down final layouts for Versus, featuring Scottland on the left and JimCity on the right. Jim starts things off by having trouble explaining something he should be good at by now and Scottye follows it up with a confusing romp around promenades that may or may not be shaped like the male anatomy as drawn by MC Escher.
Remember to tune in next week as we look back at the first year of Opposite Attractions and then take a...
2018-09-0330 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: How To Be A Detective (Escape Room Attraction)After a week of Scottye taking in the sights, sounds, and tastes of Orlando, your brave crew returns to create Escape Rooms (for a price!). Scottye invites his guests to part with their hard-earned cash to visit Southern Mythology, a distillery with a creepy past and tasty liquors. Can you find your way out in only an hour and bring with you the greatest treasure Scottye can dream up?? Meanwhile, Jim struggles to find a name, or much of anything, for his escape room he is now tentatively titling The Vault, an escape room more about finding treasure than...
2018-07-0936 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Jungle Rhythm (Jungle Attraction)This week on our world famous program - the deepest darkest jungle attractions! Jim makes it all about himself as he invites guests to experience Jim's (Apparently) Amazing Jungle Adventure and boy is there a reason that one word is in parenthesis. Join Jim as he delights you with tales of a recent Central America jungle trek while his engineers and artists show you how everything really happened. Meanwhile on the other side of the park, Scottye takes guests down a very special river on his very own World Famous Jungle Booze, a 2-drink minimum attraction where you are...
2018-06-0433 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: The Karnival Kids (Create A New Theme Park)It's the season premiere and you know what that means - a brand new theme park! This time, Scottye and Jim put themselves against each other to create the Opposite Attractions theme park of their dreams. Jim controls one half, Scottye controls the other, a line in the sand has been drawn like so many sitcom sibling rivalries.
What do we learn this episode? Scottye has lots of ideas, some of which include dicks. Jim has a history lesson, not so many dicks though.
Please note that we cut out quite a bit of audio...
2018-05-1430 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: I Wanna Be Like You (Cheap Knock-Off Attraction)Yeah, so, apologies in advance for the wack-a-doo audio quality this week. It's like the podcast gods heard we were making cheap knock-offs and decided the sound had to be like that too. Anyway, after some talk about digging in Diggerland, Jim and Scottye set forth back into the Pirate Bay to showcase their very own cheap knock-off attractions. Scottye does what he does best and immediately involves Keanu Reeves, among other celebrities, while Jim travels deep into the mind of a drug-addled hobo. Wasn't he supposed to be the reserved one in this group?
Only one...
2018-04-1736 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Look Through My Eyes (Bodycam Attraction)This week, Jim thought it was a good challenge to put bodycams on theme parks guests. Was he correct? Scottye is ready player one to put the internet in charge of your basic motor functions while Jim turns Universal's Halloween Horror Nights into a democratic election (with cheap 3D tricks, wakka wakka!)
But before all that, Scottye googles for the worst theme parks ever and is absolutely not disappointed both in the lack of quality and the abundance of dicks. It's like the internet knows him.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2018-04-0934 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: God Help The Outcasts (Meme-Based Attraction)This week, Scottye and Jim discuss theme park employee wear, minor and sometimes accidental acts of theft, and memes! Jim signs up a fifth day dad (tm) to be a Star Wars Kid, while Scottye dabs his way to internet fame and invents some kind of nyan cat dance-based rollercoaster complete with plenty of exposition as to what exactly the crap is going on. Pretty normal show, all in all. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2018-03-2631 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Ev'rybody Wants To Be A... Dinosaur? (Rock N Roll/Dinosaur Attraction)This week your faithful heroes deal with Scottye's insanity head on as he laid down the challenge of a dinosaur attraction with some rock and roll, or maybe a rock and roll attraction with some dinosaurs. Something like that. Anyway, Scottye takes his song stylings to Jurassic Idol, while Jim sets his course for Amazon dot com. Listen in as Jim steps all over Scottye's lines because he had trouble hearing him during the recording! Be wowed by Scottye's confusion over what exactly the Wonders Of Life is! Bask in our attempts to be competent imagineers each and every...
2018-03-0532 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: You've Got A Friend In Me (Mascots & Their Attraction)This week, it's all about mascots for VISTA! Jim starts the party by not fully understanding the intricacies of the deep, dark web. Scottye follows that up by building a web all his own around a large chunk of the park's real estate. Note to any listeners: Don't go on Scottye's ride after dark. Yikes. And you thought you were afraid of spiders before...Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2018-02-0534 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Poor Unfortunate Souls (Dirty, Nasty, Anti-Disney Attraction)We gotta warn everybody right off the bat that things do take quite a turn in this episode. NSFW is not just a descriptor of this episode, oh no, it's actually the name of Scottye's attraction. Jim, on the other hand, at least waits till the sun goes down to be a dirty boy.
Also, Scottye details the reason for there being no episode last week - that being a combination of snow, sickness, and a trip to Central Florida. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLinks:Happily Ever After...
2018-01-2934 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: A Whole New World (Season Premiere)After a week off, the dynamic duo of design return to pitch their ideas for a brand new theme park. Scottye decides to make the internet into a theme park - and it works. Jim tries to pitch something somehow involving the former head of the FBI, but relents to Scottye's premise fairly quickly due to how difficult it would be to use new IPs in a park built around arcade games a decade older than Scottye. Damn these kids. Get off our collective lawns! Winners Don't Use Drugs.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2018-01-0831 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Music-Based AttractionThis week, it's all about the music! After a somewhat brief discussion of Scottye's plan to bring a slight agoraphobe to Orlando, we bring forth our creations for this week's challenge. Jim puts all his marbles into the Wallflowers while Scottye is visited from space by the alien Kavinbacahn. The villainous Milo Strange will never be the same again, that's for sure.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2017-12-0435 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Gift Shop Ride!This week, it's all about that consumerism and a little bit of fun as Jim and Scottye do their best to give APEX a gift show themed attraction. While Jim sets out to reinvent the entirety of Apex's theme, at least a little, Scottye in turn uses the power of the multiple choice questionnaire to put everyone in their place whether they like it or not. In the end, both do remarkable similar things and both go trackless and, eventually, get their park visitors to open their wallets and dump them into our coffers, which is really all any...
2017-10-3038 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Night-time Spectacular!This week, it's all about the night time shows. Scottye and Jim spend some time mocking Universal's paltry attempt and both have varying opinions of Disney World's various outings. Scottye hates the rain, and Jim hates having to go to a theater, which makes his choice to use a theater for Apex's grand finale of a show a little suspect. Things turn into a real slobberknocker, however, and the main known as Craig (or maybe that's Greg, or something) Apex is born.
This is a real turning point, folks.Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park...
2017-10-2337 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Water RidesThis week, Scottye and Jim attempt to build an amazing water ride for their park, Apex! Jim attempts to make a good-hearted run at making a fun water ride... then Scottye sprays juice all over it. Along the way, they find new friends, make new enemies and most of all... wonder exactly what Mickey would be like at the water cooler!Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show
2017-10-0232 minOpposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowChallenge: Design A Theme Park (Season Premiere)On this, our pilot episode, Scottye and Jim discuss what synapses fired in their brains to decide it was a good idea to make this show, and then get down to the nitty-gritty going over their big picture plans for their theme parks. Jim has way too many notes and an idea too big to be any good, while Scottye just happens to really love himself some fine Branson entertainment. Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design ShowLinks:Walt Disney World Resort - WikipediaUniversal Parks & Resorts - WikipediaSix Flags Over Georgia - WikipediaDisney's...
2017-08-3137 min