Happy Halloween from Coaster Radio! Mike shows up in a Ghostface mask, and he and EB spend the cold open on why the original Scream still holds up. Then it's First Drop. Mike thanks EB for hosting last week's solo show and gives the latest on the Six Flags Over Georgia tragedy. There is still no official word on what happened, so the guys stick to the facts. The Six Flags CEO says the chain will add seatbelts to Goliath and to other coasters with similar restraints, including Nitro at Six Flags Great Adventure and Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America, and will bring in independent engineers to review its rides. Mike and EB also look at which B&M hypers already have seatbelts and what other parks might do about coasters like Apollo's Chariot. In Quick Hits, the Disney news comes fast. Expedition Everest now runs with the lights on full, so you can see the static Yeti ahead of its rumored replacement, and the hosts have a theory about why. Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland is back from a six-week refurbishment with bigger loose-article pouches, a fix for Jeeps overshooting the load area, and electric doors instead of hydraulic ones. That adds around 125 riders per hour, and the park claims 320,000 more rides a year. Mike also makes the case for bringing back the original sliding-door illusion. Then there's a Tower of Terror update rumor, sparked by the voice of Rod Serling posting a photo outside Imagineering. The segment ends with Universal's soft third quarter, where theme park revenue fell 4.5% and Comcast pointed to marketing and to capacity and throughput at Epic Universe. After that, Mike and EB compare their home haunts. EB has a 12-foot inflatable pumpkin, a 25-foot snake, and a tentacle pine tree. Mike has singing projection pumpkins and ghosts flying behind his windows. The Halloween scare actor contest gets an update. The prize is now a check of about $35 toward your costume, the deadline is extended one more week, and a new entry comes in from Magic Mountain. After the break, the Coaster Radio mailbag brings a prize closet haul from Tom in Louisville, including an Alice in Wonderland puzzle, Metal Earth Haunted Mansion models, and foreign-language Disneyland maps. Then it's this week's interactive topic: which attraction designed to scare you actually did? EB picks the helix drop on The Beast at Kings Island. Mike picks a genuinely unsettling haunted house in Gatlinburg. Listeners weigh in with Demon Drop, Lex Luthor Drop of Doom, Oblivion, X2, Full Throttle's second launch, Verbolten, Tower of Terror, Catwoman's Whip, Kongfrontation, Jaws, the original Phantom Theater, and Tomb Raider: The Ride. Everything builds to the pick the hosts crown the scariest attraction ever put in a park: Alien Encounter at Magic Kingdom, with its evil robot, its lights-out chaos, and blood dripping on you in the dark. Want to enter the contest? Interview a scare actor in character, get them to say Coaster Radio, Mike, and EB, and send it to feedback@CoasterRadio.com.
