Green Tagged: Theme Park in 30

About Green Tagged: Theme Park in 30

An insider’s take on the theme park and themed entertainment industry trends, Green Tagged Covers the Top Theme Park News from each week. From theme parks to zoos and aquariums to haunted houses, we scour the world for what you need to know. We may not have all the answers, but we ask the right questions. Subscribe to PRO content on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GreenTagged

Publisher

Philip Hernandez

Category

leisure · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2020

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

324 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Netflix House Adds KPop Demon Hunters, Chimelong Hires 300 Robots

   Netflix House is adding a K-pop Demon Hunters experience, opening November 12 in Dallas and November 20 in Philadelphia. It's a linear, play-based experience where guests start backstage with HUNTR/X, help restore the Honmoon after a demon crashes the show, and meet Derpy Tiger as a giant puppet built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. In Dallas it replaces Stranger Things, and in Philadelphia it replaces One Piece. That means Netflix House is swapping experiences in under a year, while Horror Unleashed won't change a house until late next year. The asset-light model, the viewing data behind every IP choice, and that price point all work in Netflix's favor. The detail isn't at Univers's level, and guests increasingly don't seem to need it to be. Making the tiger a puppet also reads the room at a moment when audiences are tired of screens. Meanwhile, Chimelong has deployed more than 300 humanoid robots from Agibot at its Spaceship park in China, covering live entertainment, guided tours, retail, hotel check-in, and table tennis with guests. Plenty of hospitality jobs go unfilled, and robots that give directions or move luggage could free staff for personal work. Whether operators use them that way or simply to cut jobs will decide how this lands. Adoption in the U.S. is unlikely anytime soon, since American sentiment toward AI runs the other way, while China's tighter AI rules have left its public more comfortable with robots. Listen to weekly BONUS episodes on our Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/GreenTagged)

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Six Flags Faces Another Sale Push, More X2 Lawsuits

   JANA Partners is pushing Six Flags to explore a sale again, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's JANA's second push this year, but this time there's no public letter and no statement from Six Flags. JANA pointed to disappointing second-quarter results, and Philip thinks interest rates explain the timing. About $1.48 billion of Six Flags' roughly $5 billion in debt has a variable rate, so the Fed's September hike adds about $4 million a year in interest, and each bond that comes due will likely be refinanced at a higher rate. That debt also makes a sale harder, because any buyer is mostly buying the debt. Meanwhile, three more riders have sued Six Flags Magic Mountain over brain injuries they say they suffered on X2, and their law firm says more than 100 others have hired it. The complaints allege fraudulent concealment, claiming the park kept running the ride after learning of injuries. None of it has been proven, but the story keeps getting worse for Six Flags. Enchanted Parks is running Halloween at all six of its parks, including its first season at the parks it bought from Six Flags. Every park has a daytime family event, four add haunted houses at night for an extra fee, and all of them offer allergy-safe trick-or-treating. Running both formats in a transition year lets the new owner see which one pays. Finally, five Six Flags parks made the top 10 of a Stasher study of America's most overrated attractions, with Great Adventure at number two. The Hollywood Walk of Fame ranked first and Plymouth Rock third, so take the list with a grain of salt. Listen to weekly BONUS episodes on our Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/GreenTagged)

3. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Scott's UAE Rebuttal, Then Winged Monkeys and Zombies

   We kick off the show by apologizing for mispronouncing ArieForce One last week and addressing some of the comments about the UAE. On the UAE, listeners raised labor conditions, LGBTQ safety, and J.K. Rowling, and we address each one based on firsthand experience living and working in the region. Then, the news. Legoland Dubai, Real Madrid World, and Motiongate reopen on October 7, which means a lot of people in the region are going back to work. Sphere is bringing The Wizard of Oz back on September 25 with new effects, including animatronic winged monkeys flying overhead, scents, glitter, and what the release calls pyrotechnics. The building and the screen were the expensive part, so each new layer is relatively cheap, and each one makes the show something you can't recreate at home. In Pigeon Forge, Rocky Top Mountain Coaster is running a nighttime overlay called Zombie Invasion, with live actors, fog, and military props along a track that already had half a million dollars of lighting. The coaster is already paid for, and fog rising off a hillside on the Parkway is better marketing than any billboard. Finally, the Golden Ticket Awards. Dollywood won four, the most of any park. Six Flags Fiesta Texas won for Monster Mash Bash a year after winning for Voodoo Dolls, and Europa-Park was named best park. Nobody agrees with every winner, but the awards recognize excellence, and the whole industry benefits when they do. Listen to weekly BONUS episodes on our Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/GreenTagged)

Who has been a guest on Green Tagged: Theme Park in 30

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kayleen Walters
• Scott O'Neil
• Jakob Wahl
• Robert Dahl
• Steve Thomas

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

69,359

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

100

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

71

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