Gilbert Cruz

I feel like now they have video games like Theme Park Simulator, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and that you were doing it before all of that, just with pen and paper.

I was doing Analog Roller Coaster Tycoon.

My version of you drawing your theme park was in anticipation of our trip to Disney, which also coincided with the opening of Universal Studios Florida.

It was in 1990, so I get to see some of those early rides that no longer exist.

The Jaws ride.

The Jaws ride, like the Alfred Hitchcock experience, like Murder, She Wrote.

There's just a bunch of stuff that are so corny now.

There was a Murder, She Wrote ride?

There was a Murder, She Wrote.

theatrical experience it was one of the first things you saw on the main street as you were walking in through Universal Studios you would sit down and they would talk to you about like Foley sound and you know the mechanics the click of her heels and movie making and stuff like that

Anyway, before we went, I was obsessed with making sure that we got to every ride in the most efficient way possible.

So my version of drawing a theme park was charting out a course throughout all of Disney World.

Go to Tomorrowland first, go to Spaceland, do all that stuff that now people do on very intense websites.

And it was an odd combination of excitement for a theme park and also like real spreadsheet nonsense that a 10-year-old would do.

And I feel like it has led to where I am today in my life where everything needs to be as efficient as possible.

So, it feels like we're kind of at an important moment for a theme park business, here in America at least.

A big thing happened this summer...

finally happen after i feel like a year of commercials that i was seeing on on tv universal studios opened up its new park in orlando uh epic universe so i'm wondering first of all what the heck is that epic universe and why is it a big deal for universal sure so epic universe is they spent at least seven billion dollars uh to build it seven billion dollars is that normal

And what are the sort of different parts of Epic Universe?

Because it has several lands and each of them is sort of