2.20 - Islands of Adventure Birthday Spectacular

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Joe, Mike, Nick, and Sean join to discuss a little news then dive into talking about the history, past, present, future, and our opinions of Islands of Adventure on it's 15th birthday.

Islands of Adventure from ThemeParkSushi
Designing Islands of Adventure - Orlando United
A Short History of Islands of Adventure

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2.19 - Mike's a Robot

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Joe, Nick, and Sean join for probably the last podcast episode ever (inside joke) to discuss Diagon Alley developments, DisneySide 24 hour celebration thing, SDMT ads, random news we can pull from our brains, and then spend like 90 minutes talking to and preparing Nick for the most mind blowing experience of his life: Disneyland.

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The Tonight Show Diagon Alley Sweepstakes

Another week, another NBC related Diagon Alley sweepstakes, this time for the Tonight Show. From May 26th-June 6th you can enter online to win the trip to the VIP event June 16th-20th. Here are the details.

• You can enter daily between May 26th - June 6th.
• To enter you must register, then "answer a question", this time being what song the house band The Roots plays for the intro of  the first guest. Just as with Today, the answer does not affect the chance of winning, so you can answer incorrectly.
• 22 winners will be picked in 21 different major media markets. The last winner will be picked from the remainder of the USA.
• Winners will be contacted June 9th
• Winners can bring along one guest.

To enter visit the official homepage starting May 26th.

Good luck, and we hope to see you at UOR!

First look at Universal Orlando's New App

One of our little owls happened to drop this in our chimney today. Universal Orlando's new app went live for a short time last week, and our intrepid owl managed to get the Google cache of it for us. The new app was developed in house at NBCU, instead of by a third party like the last horrible app. It will provide wait times, attraction and dining information, and the app description also teases "hidden surprises" around the parks! Wonder what that could mean? The Google cache can be found here, and as always follow @Parkscope for more details as they're released.

  

2.18 - Kubersky Problems

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Seth Kubersky from TouringPlans, OrlandoWeekly, and more joins us today! WHEN WILL THE NEWS ABOUT SEVEN DWARFS AND FROZEN END? Probably never. runDisney, Tink, Sea World, Antojitos, and then a ton of Potter. AND WE ANNOUNCE SOMETHING COOL?

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UOR Permit Update: Starbucks Coming to Portofino Bay

Well, busy day on the permit sites today, as another bit of information has come our way thanks to the Orange Country Comptroller site. Seems that Portofino Bay will soon become home to the second Starbucks location in a resort on Universal property, as you can see from the attached picture. As always, follow @Parkscope for more updates.

UOR Permit Update: Halloween Horror Nights 2014 Construction

Well, everyone, it's that time of year again! While we're all gearing up and getting excited for Diagon Alley, Universal has applied for the first permit pertaining to Halloween Horror Nights 2014 construction! The interesting thing about this one is it specifically calls out Disaster's queue, but also says it's for all the HHN houses. Could these be the only permits we see for this year's event? Stay tuned to find out! As always, stay tuned to @Parkscope for up to the minute updates!