Kelly McCubbin
@kellymccubbin.bsky.social
Enterprise Architect - Theme Park Writer and Podcaster - the guy who brought you Uke-y Stardust and Purple Rain: When Ukes Cry - runDisney dilettante - Finnegans Wake evangelist... https://bio.site/kelly.mccubbin
Last call, Vallejo. Everything here is free!
February 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Last call, Vallejo. Everything here is free!
Reposted by Kelly McCubbin
Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.
Lowdown on the Plus-Up S2E10
The Loof Hippodrome in Santa Monica: Charles I.D. Loof's final hand-carved carousel.
It was dismantled years ago, but the replacement Merry-Go-Round has an interesting genealogy: it was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, creators of Laffing Sal!
#AmusementParks
The Loof Hippodrome in Santa Monica: Charles I.D. Loof's final hand-carved carousel.
It was dismantled years ago, but the replacement Merry-Go-Round has an interesting genealogy: it was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, creators of Laffing Sal!
#AmusementParks
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Lowdown on the Plus-Up S2E10
The Loof Hippodrome in Santa Monica: Charles I.D. Loof's final hand-carved carousel.
It was dismantled years ago, but the replacement Merry-Go-Round has an interesting genealogy: it was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, creators of Laffing Sal!
#AmusementParks
The Loof Hippodrome in Santa Monica: Charles I.D. Loof's final hand-carved carousel.
It was dismantled years ago, but the replacement Merry-Go-Round has an interesting genealogy: it was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, creators of Laffing Sal!
#AmusementParks
To be fair, the Puppy Bowl figures are from last year and probably underestimated.
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
To be fair, the Puppy Bowl figures are from last year and probably underestimated.
Join Pete and Kelly as they try to dig up some ghosts at San Francisco's Playland-at-the-Beach! This time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up.
Link in thread....
Link in thread....
February 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Join Pete and Kelly as they try to dig up some ghosts at San Francisco's Playland-at-the-Beach! This time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up.
Link in thread....
Link in thread....
The greatest cast of a television comedy show ever, period.
February 1, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The greatest cast of a television comedy show ever, period.
"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Reposted by Kelly McCubbin
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Errata for our most recent episode: Peter Renaday's voice is no longer heard on the Disneyland Mark Twain at all. Oddly, the character no longer speaks on the ride.
At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool!
#Disneyland
At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool!
#Disneyland
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Errata for our most recent episode: Peter Renaday's voice is no longer heard on the Disneyland Mark Twain at all. Oddly, the character no longer speaks on the ride.
At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool!
#Disneyland
At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool!
#Disneyland
We are back, just in time for Christmas!
This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We are back, just in time for Christmas!
This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
After our Autumn Bradbury-fest, I thought I'd share with you all a couple of dramatized version of one of my favorite of the master's stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains."
The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange.
#RayBradbury
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange.
#RayBradbury
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After our Autumn Bradbury-fest, I thought I'd share with you all a couple of dramatized version of one of my favorite of the master's stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains."
The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange.
#RayBradbury
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange.
#RayBradbury
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
We've talked about Universal's Battle of Galactica stop on the Tram Ride, but who built those first robotic performers for it? He's a Columbian immigrant named Alvaro Villa and he invented "Theatronics". Here's a short bio of him below.
#UniversalStudios
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
#UniversalStudios
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We've talked about Universal's Battle of Galactica stop on the Tram Ride, but who built those first robotic performers for it? He's a Columbian immigrant named Alvaro Villa and he invented "Theatronics". Here's a short bio of him below.
#UniversalStudios
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
#UniversalStudios
New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!
Listening to Billy Corgan and Paul Williams share their love of The Guess Who was not on my to-do list today, but here I am...
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Listening to Billy Corgan and Paul Williams share their love of The Guess Who was not on my to-do list today, but here I am...
I got a bunch of episodes of The Midnight Special from 1973. We started watching one with Joan Baez, Wilson Pickett and The Pointer Sisters.
I don't think I'd ever heard Black Oak Arkansas. I don't know if I liked it, but I do know that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose watched this guy a LOT as kids.
I don't think I'd ever heard Black Oak Arkansas. I don't know if I liked it, but I do know that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose watched this guy a LOT as kids.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I got a bunch of episodes of The Midnight Special from 1973. We started watching one with Joan Baez, Wilson Pickett and The Pointer Sisters.
I don't think I'd ever heard Black Oak Arkansas. I don't know if I liked it, but I do know that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose watched this guy a LOT as kids.
I don't think I'd ever heard Black Oak Arkansas. I don't know if I liked it, but I do know that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose watched this guy a LOT as kids.
Join us for all things Universal as The Lowdown on the Plus-Up pays tribute to the late Jay Stein.
What a story! What a life!
Link in the thread.
#UniversalStudios #JayStein
What a story! What a life!
Link in the thread.
#UniversalStudios #JayStein
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Join us for all things Universal as The Lowdown on the Plus-Up pays tribute to the late Jay Stein.
What a story! What a life!
Link in the thread.
#UniversalStudios #JayStein
What a story! What a life!
Link in the thread.
#UniversalStudios #JayStein
Reposted by Kelly McCubbin
This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built.
Link in the thread.
Well, this should be delightful!
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Well, this should be delightful!
Jay Stein - Universal Theme Parks First Visionary: Dead at 87.
The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away.
More in the thread...
The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away.
More in the thread...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Jay Stein - Universal Theme Parks First Visionary: Dead at 87.
The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away.
More in the thread...
The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away.
More in the thread...
Corrections from recent episodes:
Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon.
Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey.
Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back."
More in thread...
Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon.
Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey.
Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back."
More in thread...
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Corrections from recent episodes:
Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon.
Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey.
Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back."
More in thread...
Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon.
Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey.
Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back."
More in thread...
It's kinda interesting, isn't it, that the East Wing of the White House, which was built, in many ways, to protect the President from the Nazis if WWII had reached our shores, is being torn down by a Nazi President.
Ironic.
Ironic.
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It's kinda interesting, isn't it, that the East Wing of the White House, which was built, in many ways, to protect the President from the Nazis if WWII had reached our shores, is being torn down by a Nazi President.
Ironic.
Ironic.
Before Elvira was the Queen of them all, Vampira!
We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments).
It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm!
#KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira
We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments).
It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm!
#KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Before Elvira was the Queen of them all, Vampira!
We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments).
It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm!
#KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira
We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments).
It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm!
#KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira
Before Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, before Oogie Boogie Bash and Mickey’s Not So Scary, before Six Flags’ Fright Fest there was Knott’s Scary Farm.
Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts!
Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm
Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts!
Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Before Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, before Oogie Boogie Bash and Mickey’s Not So Scary, before Six Flags’ Fright Fest there was Knott’s Scary Farm.
Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts!
Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm
Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts!
Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm
Reposted by Kelly McCubbin
With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again...
In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece on "The Fall of the City."
Link in the thread...
#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds
In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece on "The Fall of the City."
Link in the thread...
#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again...
In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece on "The Fall of the City."
Link in the thread...
#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds
In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything.
My piece on "The Fall of the City."
Link in the thread...
#OrsonWelles
#CitizenKane
#WaroftheWorlds