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Ep. 155 Shingle Creek and a Univeral Dumparoo · Privycast

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>> Hunter Hoover: And some of the poo that's going to be traveling
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through that plant is very likely going
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to be coming from Universal Orlando
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resorts. And so on
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my most recent trip to Florida, I
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decided to visit these bathrooms.
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Uh, welcome back to Privy.
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Privy is a podcast about
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bathrooms recorded
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from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
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Hunter Hoover, and I love
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bathrooms. Welcome back everyone. Thank you so much
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for being here. And if I haven't said it yet,
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Happy New Year. I hope your new year is off.
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Off to uh, a uh, u.
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Just a real bang. Just,
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just banging and clanging. You know what I'm saying?
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At the point of this episodes released, we are well into the new year. I
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hope your resolutions are doing good and they're not some
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decayed husk on the side of the road like many people's
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are by this time. We kick the year off here
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on Privy New Year, New Privy. Not really. By
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discussing some New Year's resolutions. You can go listen to that
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episode about how our diets affect our pooping.
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And we hope that your new year's off to a good start. You know that
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that first month is crucial to ringing
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in the new year. And um, hopefully your. Your diet
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and your workout regiment haven't caused you to crap yourself
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beyond repair yet. That's. That's always the. Those gyms
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are banking on you not using their stuff
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like they're banking on people signing up
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after a few too many of them Christmas cookies. They're
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banking on people signing up and not using it. That's what
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they want. They want you to be healthy. But for a large
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group of people, they do want them to sign up and
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not and forget they signed up. At the point of you hearing
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this, this record since the last time. So since
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last time you heard me, I recorded that episode. I will
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admit before I went on winter break, my
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family and I Traveled to. To FLUF mandatedA we were
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in Florida for winter break. Stay tuned for Toilet
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Tuesday on Privy Social. Uh, you'll see some of those
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Toilet Tuesdays from Florida here and in the coming weeks to
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months. So we have traveled to
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Florida and come back. And while in Florida
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I underwent a. Another special
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project. We're going to get into that here years
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ago the last time we visited
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Florida. And you can go check this out. It's
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about three years ago. It's on an episode called Disney Dump
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Peru. I got in my head that I wanted
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to try out every bathroom in the
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Magic Kingdom. And along
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the way I learned a few things. I learned
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about the less than magical side of the Disney
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Magic. If you recall, I
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was baffled at how a mere hour
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to two hours into the park being open, someone
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had totally just decimated the main
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street bathroom. Like, right out of the gate. First
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bathroom right out the gate for the day. Just
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absolutely, just shazzed it. Uh, uh, it's just first
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couple hours. It's truly wild. But something else that I
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learned on, on my trip. We did go to Disney this
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year. I did not venture into every Disney
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bathroom this year. But I will say that
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there's some bathrooms at Disney that are less
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known and are not on the bathroom map. And
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they're like, attached to restaurants and are not a part of the,
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like, general mapping. Because
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Disney got sedang busy most of the time that
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they had to route the foot traffic through, like,
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the back lot. And I got to see the seedy underbelly
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of Disney. I got to see where they stack all the
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Mickey's magical wood pallets. It
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was, it was something else. But there's a bathroom back there that I guess
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is public accessible. Ms. That one didn't know
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about it. And so we returned to the swampy
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South. Not with the swampy South. Try to keep my
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South a lot less swampy than, than I used to.
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And in doing so,
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I began to think, what. What am I going to do?
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Like, we're heading out, we're heading down here. I did like
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an amusement park greatest hit bathrooms
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hits in the Magic Kingdom. What? But I've already.
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I've already traversed and laid beef on all
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the Magic Kingdom bathrooms. What's next? And we went
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to Animal Kingdom this time. And at the time
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that I was preparing for this episode, I was thinking, man, maybe
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I could hit every bathroom in the Animal Kingdom,
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which maybe one day.
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But I'm glad I didn't, because
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when we went to Animal Kingdom, my children went
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on the, like, Wilderness
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Explorer, uh, where you got to go around and find all the
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Wilderness Explorer things, which was super fun. But I would
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not have been able to do these bathrooms if I had tried to do
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them at the Animal Kingdom. We were on a time
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crunch towards the end of that Wilderness Explorer
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journey. Also, none of the Wilderness Explorer badges were near the
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bathroom. It's kind of weird. Maybe, maybe put one in the bathroom next
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time. And I'll be honest, I don't really want to give
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Disney anymore free airtime. I'm'm, um, kind of annoyed with
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Disney. We had a great time at the parks. We always do. Um,
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we got to ride Tiana's Bayou. New ride,
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new skin on an old ride. It was good.
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It's the same ride, different coat of paint, um,
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put lipstick on a pig. You know what I'm saying? But
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I will admit my family and I did venture
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to another park. And as I was doing some
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research, preparing myself, I was like, oh, maybe I should hit
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every bathroom there. And, and as I was doing that
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research and looking at bathrooms and
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looking at, at how many bathrooms are in this
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park and some of the history,
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I realized um, that, that I was going
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to do another, another bathroom project and that this one
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might even be bigger than the one I did. The Universal
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Orlando Resort as it's known to people who are
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not just dweebs. Universal
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Orlando is a 1200 plus
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acre theme park, an entertainment
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resort. Universal Studios
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Florida opened back in 1990 and at
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the time there was plans to form
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a single park into a large resort that would
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compete with the likes of Walt Disney World. And when
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what the Disney Corporation was doing nine,
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a second theme park opened nine years later,
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Universal Islands of Adventure.
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This opened in addition to the
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Universal City Walk, which is like the landing,
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um, business and restaurant scape that exists at
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the entrance to the Universal Parks, uh,
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and incorporates a variety of themed hotels
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and restaurants and retail outlets. And it had mixed
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success at first. Then the third and first
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ever 30 acre water park. This is the third
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park for Universal Studios and it's, and it's the
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first ever 30 acre water park. It's a big boy
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called Universal Volcano Bay was added in
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2017. Pretty recent, pretty
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recent. Thank you. At the point of this record,
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a fourth theme park called
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Universal Epic Universe. It's a lot of
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universe. It's a real, it's a real um, it's
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real universe sandwich right there. This is
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scheduled to open in the year 2025. Now. Um, and if you're hearing this,
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you're going, well Hunter, it's 2025 later this year.
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All right, just chill out. I didn't get into Epic
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Universe. We're going to get to that.
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Universal Orlando was originally called
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Universal Studios Escape, but the name was
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short lived and changed to Universal
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Orlando Resort in July
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2000. Universal Orlando ranks
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as one of the most visited resorts in the entire
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world with an annual attendance of 21
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million people. The last time that was counted
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seems to be in 2017. Univers Orlando
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exceeded, they
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exceeded three of the four Walt Disney
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World Resort theme parks in
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estimated attendance in 2021.
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So attendance to Universal
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seems to be on the rise after Universal
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Florida. Universal Orlando Florida opened in
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June 7th, 1990. Universal
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Entertainment formed A joint venture with the Blackstone
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Group. The Blackstone Group is one of those big
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corporations that just kind of likes to own a little bit of
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everything and likes to get their thumb and everybo_dy's
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pie. They're just finger blasting pies left and
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right. They just, it's just really frustrating. It's one of those
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things where when you go to the supermarket and you got like 90 cereals
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and you're like, ooh, they're really compete. They're not competing.
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Blackstone probably is one of those companies or
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Vanguard. They own like half of them and the
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competition's all in your mind. But they began plans
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for a future expansion that would
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transform the single park, Universal
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Studios Florida into uh, a multi day
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destination resort. Construction began on
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Islands of adventure in 1995 and as I
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stated, it opened to the General Public in 1999.
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This Universal Islands of Adventure
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featured six themed
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islands including the Port of Entry, Seuss
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His Landing, Lost Continent, Jurassic Park, Tooun
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Lagoon and Marvel Superhero Island.
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If you hear those and you've been to the parks in
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modernity, you'll go, wait, wait, wait, he missed something. More
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to that. The
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Islands of Adventure kind of had mixed success at
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first. Uh, people didn't really gravitate toward it and
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several attractions got closed almost as soon
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as they got open. And this became something
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that I've noticed about Universal. Universal seems
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willing to reskin a
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ride. Like it's like, you know,
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when, when one fad moves out, they're willing
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to like swap in the new thing and just kind of give it a
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different coat of paint. U and it turns out maybe they're ont
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to something because that seems to be what Disney wants to do
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to. But the Islands of
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Adventure opened up and they struggled at first. But fear
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not, that struggle was nothing that Harry Potter
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couldn't say. Universal cut a deal with
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Warner Brothers and Harry Potter
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World, quote, unquote. The Harry Potter World, the Wizarding
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world of Harry Potter came
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to be between 2010 and
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2015. This addition
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to, to both parks really
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was a revitalizing effort and, and it
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gave little Harry Potter nerds a
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new draw to Universal. And as a person
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who was drawn to the Universal
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Harry Potter World Electric Light as
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a, as a little Harry Potter bug, it
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worked. Um, now you can get a wand.
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You can also get an authentic butterbeer. And
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I just want to tell you something. Butterbeer is so good. I
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did overspend on my, on my most recent trip
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to Universal, I must confess,
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I overspent My Butterbeer budget a bit.
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We don't need to count how many Butterbeers I
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purchased in the course of my time in the parks. But
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it's not single digits. Uh, we're not sitting
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at single digits Butterbeer Now. I didn't consume every butter
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beer but you. But the Butterbeer is just better.
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It's better. The Butterbeer is better in. In
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the Butterbeer source. And
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so again, we're double digits. But that's
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fine. You can register your house
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with Pottermore. The people run around nerd.
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First of all, nerd running around, flippity
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dippity. Their wands all over the place. It's like, chill out.
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This one dude made it rain. Like, there's a spot where you
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can hook it. He poke your wand at the wall and it makes water come
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out of a shower rod up above. But it made it rain.
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Dude got me wet on the shoulder. Like,
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dude totally wet my shoulder with his. With his magic
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wand. Butterbeer, uh, is good though.
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But this is the basic history, as I said,
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the development of, of Universal
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Orlando. The and
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revitalization of it is one of kind
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of competition and ego. This is the,
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this is the founding of the parks. But we need to dig into like
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the nitty. The just the shaggy nitty
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under underbelly. You know what I'm saying? So backing up
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before Universal or/o in
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1982, Universal contemplated the
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idea of opening an amusement park in Florida
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to compete with Disney. And they did it.
12:15
They considered building a similar version
12:17
of their studio tour tram ride located
12:20
at Universal Studios in Hollywood, retaining
12:23
the studio backlot tour theme. To set it
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apart from what Disney was offering at Disney
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World. It would be an opportunity that have working
12:31
studios. You would drive around, see all these cool
12:34
studio sites and it would offer you
12:36
this experience that was different than what you could get at
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Disney. Universal abandoned the idea after
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attempts to partner with at the time
12:45
skeptical Paramount Pictures failed to
12:48
materialize. Good old spongebob
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backed out on the deal. Look where we are now. I didn't see a
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spongebob ride. I didn't see a Nickelodeon character in
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sight. Figure it out. The studio tour in Los
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Angeles continued to
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thrive, especially in the addition of a new
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massive scene based on the 1976 King
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Kong film. It opened in 1986 as King
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Kong the Encounter and became an instant hit with
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guests. It boosts attendance prompted Universal
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to revisit the idea of building this theme
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park in Orlando with a cool backlot tour
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that same year, 1986.
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Former Disney Imagineer Peter Alexander,
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who worked on the Life Size King Kong
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animatronic and later became an executive
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at Universal Creative, met with his friend and renowned
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director Steven Spielberg to discuss the creation of a
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Back to the Future similar ride, a backlot
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tour for Back to the Future. This was met with,
13:45
with various opinions. Um, Star wars
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creator George Lucas, who recently had helped Disney
13:51
design the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland,
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boasted to Spielberg that Universal Studios
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was, quote, incapable of buildings as such a
14:00
ride as what Disney had made. Bold move,
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Cotton. Let's see if it pays off. That's some big talk
14:05
for someone whose whole franchise has gone so
14:08
woke that you can't even tell who the good guy is anymore. Um,
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like even the bad guys are just a little bit good. They're just a little, um,
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misunderstood. And they might be a man and
14:17
a woman's whatever. Spielberg and
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Alexander gladly accepted the challenge and they began to
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work on the rides concept. Universal Studios
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was already working on the design for its
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backt tram tour attraction in
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Florida, which would include multiple scenes depicted
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in the Hollywood location. However,
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in 1987, Disney CEO Michael
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Eisner, previously the CEO at Paramount
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when Universal pitched their Florida park. And remember when,
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when Paramount was like, uh, I don't know about that. Well, it seems
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like he ran on over to Disney, became the CEO and
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he announced their intention to create their own
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studio. Backlot tour at Walt Disney were
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classic. It's a classic move
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of whose backlot tour is bigger. Let's compare
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backlot tours and. And it's not a
15:06
compensation problem. The new area to
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be called Disney's MGM Studios was a
15:11
preemptive move to counter Universal's
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planned introduction into the Orlando
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market. It looks like
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perhaps they should have had my friend signed an
15:22
NDA because Universal claimed that Michael
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Eisner took advantage of his prior access to their
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plans for Orlando,
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borrowed on some of the concepts. But Disney
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denied Eisner ever saw those plans.
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They also noted that planning for Disney and Gym
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Studios began in 1981, long before Eisner
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was hired. Huh? Yes. The corporate war
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between the two companies, Disney and Universal,
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had spilled over into the public relations
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sector. Described as, quote, a nasty
15:54
feud by the New York Times. In
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1989, Universal
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had publicly revealed their plans for
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Orlando ahead of Michael Eisner
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announcement. But Disney was in a better
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position to fast track construction on
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this new backlot tour attraction and open it sooner.
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This ultimately
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forced Universal Studios to rethink their
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approach and abandon the tram tour concept design
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for the park. Instead, they
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opted to build standalone attractions while
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retraining the overall studio backlot theme.
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Their projected opening day lineup would include
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kongfrontation, Jaws and the
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Spielberg Alexander collaborative project Back to the
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Future. The ride, a large
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theme park with separate attractions,
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was a new concept for Universal in
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1990 and their creative team ran
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into multiple obstacles during development and testing.
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Among the casualties from the early troubles was the Back to
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the Future ride, which had its opening delayed by nearly a
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year. Now
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both parks, Disney and Universal
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Studios Orlando have backlot
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tours and although
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Disney still outpaces Universal, as
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was noted, Universal beat out all but
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one Disney park in Florida last year.
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But Disney, it seems,
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has something Universal does not a
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Specific Improvement and Tax District when
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we discussed the Magic Kingdom and Mickey's Very very
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Big Backstage Pass and Underground Tube,
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we had to discuss Reedy Creek. You can
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go back to that episode again, it's called Disney Dumpy Dumpero
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Roo and learn more about Reedy Creek. But
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in that episode we discussed how as Disney
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was preparing to make their little slice of
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Florida, they were granted and given a
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specific tax and improvement district to handle the
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infrastructure and levy taxes to be
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used for the development of the Magic Kingdom.
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This said, Universal is part of Orange County.
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As a result, Universal Studios lays
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within Orange County, Florida's tax district.
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It's hooked to Orange County's infrastructure and
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services that Universal has
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accomplished what they have
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without this specific bump.
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This tax exempt bump
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is telling. Today
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Universal has two full size amusement parks,
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a uh, record breaking waterpar, and it would seem
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if they were going to make things any bigger,
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an improvement district may be
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in order. And this brings
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us to a segment of Poo in the
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no,
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this Poo in the News article comes from
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Central Florida Public media back in August
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2023 and it says amid
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controversy over Disney World's special
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tax and improvement district, Reedy Creek
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Universal Studios is asking the Orange
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County Commission for a district of its
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own. The Commission plans to
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discuss that request at a meeting on Tuesday. And this
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was back like almost two a year and a half ago.
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Public hearing to create the district could come later. The
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proposed Shingle Creek Transit and
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Utility Community Development District or
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CDD will be structured like 15
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others around the state. It's unlike Reedy Creek,
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the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District
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was specifically created and revised by the
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legislraator to have a greater scope of authority. This
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this Shingle Creek Improvement District, as
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I'm calling it, would help
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Universal fund public infrastructure around its upcoming
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Epic Universe through tax exempt bonds
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and special assessments.
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Now, Epic Universe is a new
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theme park that is under construction and
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based on corporate information is supposed to
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open summer of this year 2025. The
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CDD the Shingle Creek Development
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District would cover over 700
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acres which 380 of
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those are actually being developed.
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These are south of Sand Lake Road and west of
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John Young Parkway. The Shingle Creek
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Improvement district would fund
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$174 million in
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improvements drainage, water reclamation, transit
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stations between between its
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forming and 2029.
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It's noted in a memo,
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Deputy County Administrator John V. Weiss
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said improvements will be owned, operated and
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maintained by the Shingle Creek Development District
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or by agreement other public entities.
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It would also uh have improvements
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to transit and stations and
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tracks related to links in Sunshine Corridor,
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certain improvements related to destination parkway, Epic
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Boulevard and Southwest Regional Water Reclamation
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Facility. They're they're looking to improve
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much more than Epic Universe and that's
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for this little installment of Poo in the
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new
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so that's fun. Um, Universal
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or you know through
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through the need Universal presents
21:22
as they prepare their Epic Universe is
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trying to establish Shingle Creek. But looking at
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Shingle Creek's website it seems that Shingle
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Creek Improvement District has has
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existed for some time at least since 2019 and
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so perhaps they've had this work in the work for a
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bit now but that's
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because as it concerns Universal they're actually looking at
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Shingle Creek Transit and utility Community
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Development District bit different related
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and in 20 and in October 2023
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it was approved. Universal got
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its improvement district. In a press
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release at that time, Spectrum News wrote the
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money would also cover a Sun Rail station
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off destination Parkway, improvements to
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the county's Southw Water Reclamation facility, improvements to
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Epic Universe, the main entrance roadway to Epic
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Universe. Funds would be raised through tax exempt bonds.
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We already talked about that. We think this plan will serve more
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than a 1,000 residents getting to and from their
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jobs as well as millions of visitors that come to
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our area attractions, said John
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Spules, Executive Vice President and Chief
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Administrative Officer
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co no, I'm just kidding. Of Universal
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Destination and experiences. Universal
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revealed their plans for the district one year ago
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in January 2024.
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Epic Universe is set to open later this year
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2025. It will feature restaurants,
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shops, multiple multiple themed lands including
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Super Mario Nintendo World. Super
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Nintendo. You better watch your back, Mickey. Epic Universe is
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coming. It could be the closest thing we get to the Pokemon theme park. This is
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a podcast about bathrooms, not this is not
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an amusement park podcast. I'm sure those exist. I bet
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they're interesting. This improvement district, as was noted,
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will bring improvements to the Southw Water Reclamation
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Facility. This is a water treatment and sewage treatment
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facility in Orange County, Florida that provides
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services to Orlando and the surrounding area.
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The the reclamation
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facility has four MGD pumps near the end
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of their life cycle. That means they're getting ready to die.
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The IPS'faced accessibility,
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maintenance and hydraulic performance challenges.
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Frequent sanitary overflows. Don't want those
23:38
bad news when the sanitary is overflowing. Pump
23:41
failures. If the pump is pump IND deuce,
23:44
you don't, you don't want failure on that. You do not want a
23:47
deuce pump failure. But these underscored their
23:49
need to update things. They got to fix it and get it, get it
23:52
going. They they decided these pumps
23:55
removed via hatches and guide rails while at
23:58
grade at grade piping and
24:00
valves enhance accessibility. These are some of the
24:03
things that they want to do. This is all part of
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Shingle Creek's coming plan.
24:09
Universal Orlando, via
24:11
preparation for Universal's
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epic universe, got their
24:17
Reedy Creek, Shingle Creek,
24:19
the Shingle Creek Improvement District and
24:22
some of the poo that's going to be traveling
24:25
through that plant is very likely going
24:28
to be coming from Universal Orlando
24:31
Resorts. And so on
24:34
my most recent trip to Florida, I
24:37
decided to visit these bathrooms.
24:40
Every bathroom in both
24:43
parks of Universal Orlando
24:45
Resort.
24:50
First up, the entrance bathrooms. Our
24:53
first bathroom that we visited was
24:55
Dr. Seuss'Corus Circus
24:57
McGury.
24:59
>> Hunter Hoover: All right, first bathroom at
25:02
Universal Adventure Island. Uh, we're
25:05
in the Cat in the hat Dr. Seuss bathroom.
25:08
And I promise you, we're an hour into the
25:11
park being open and this toilet is
25:13
fully streaked. So pictures will prove
25:16
it. Uh, but other than that, the bathroom looks clean.
25:19
It's got a cool Dr. Seuss theming. Um, and
25:22
big fan of the Seuss land over here. Never been to it, but now that I
25:25
got kids, we had to Good stuff. So first
25:27
bathroom, uh, the Dr. Seuss cat in the Hat
25:30
bathroom.
25:31
>> Hunter Hoover: Next, we ventured to the Backwater
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Cafe.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Al right, next up, we backpacked a little, backtracked a little
25:38
bit. Um, we're in the Backwater Cafe
25:41
bathroom.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Super cool.
25:42
>> Hunter Hoover: Theming looks super clean, super accessible.
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Um, we're about an hour and a half into the park day. This is a
25:48
definite stop right now. We might check back
25:51
on this one. But great stop. We'll give a complimentary
25:54
flush before we go.
25:59
>> Hunter Hoover: We continued our journey to the
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bathrooms and in the general
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Marvel bathroom.
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>> Hunter Hoover: All right, number three on the stop here. We're in the Marvel
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bathrooms at the back of the Marvel comic book
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land. We just rode Spider Man. Super Fun. Um,
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bathrooms are clean. We're like two and a half hours in the park
26:18
being open. Bathrooms are clean. Little spray on this
26:21
seat, but you know, what can you do?
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Um, but yeah, lots of space. The bathrooms.
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>> Hunter Hoover: There's like no wait in here.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Although I'm a guy.
26:29
>> Hunter Hoover: You know what I'm saying?
26:30
>> Hunter Hoover: Those ladies are waiting all day. But yeah. So the Marvel
26:33
bathrooms.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Good stop.
26:35
>> Hunter Hoover: So far, these bathrooms have been wonderful.
26:38
>> Hunter Hoover: We moved up to the Tune
26:41
Lagoon bathroom. I have to tell you, the
26:43
cartoon space in
26:46
Universal epic Islands of Adventure,
26:49
that cartoon world is awesome. But the first
26:52
bathroom in there was the Toon Lagoon bathroom.
26:56
>> Hunter Hoover: Bathroom number four in Universal Studios Islands of
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Adventure is the tooune Lagoon bathroom. Super
27:01
cool, like old school, um,
27:04
90s type stuff on the wall.
27:07
Um, tons of room, tons of space. Very
27:10
clean. Little courtesy flush because I got a little too close
27:13
to it. There almost nobody in this bathroom. Two and a half
27:16
hours in. Great bathroom stop.
27:18
>> Hunter Hoover: Also in this area was the Tune
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Wimpy bathroom.
27:23
>> Hunter Hoover: We just rode Popeyes's Bilge Rat
27:25
adventure stopping by
27:28
Wimpy's bathrooms right outside of it, soaking wet.
27:31
10 out of 10 ride. A little bit of a cool day. But
27:34
this is a great bathroom. It's kind of a smaller bathroom, but
27:37
it is a great one. Um, Wimpy's bathroom next to
27:40
Popeye's Bill Dr. At Adventure Great stop number
27:43
five.
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>> Hunter Hoover: And closing out the bathrooms in the
27:46
toonown area was the tune
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Gasoline Alley bathrooms.
27:51
>> Hunter Hoover: I'm doing this one from outside Gasoline.
27:53
>> Hunter Hoover: Alley because this joker was slam packed.
27:56
Um, it's got a cool cartoon thing.
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>> Hunter Hoover: On the outside, but yeah, as far.
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>> Hunter Hoover: As going in, there was a line.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Of like six guys. So, you know, the ladies room was bad.
28:04
>> Hunter Hoover: I gotta say. We got absolutely
28:07
soaked. The bilge rat ride
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at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.
28:13
Just the amount of water that they
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displace onto the human person on that ride is
28:18
just.
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>> Hunter Hoover: It's just criminal.
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>> Hunter Hoover: It's just soaking that you're just not prepared.
28:24
And so the rest of my day was spent
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wet, which meant wet visits to
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the rest of the bathrooms in the Universal
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Studios, Orlando, Florida. We
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moved up to the Islands of Adventure Jurassic park
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bathroom.
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>> Hunter Hoover: All right, so we're in the Jurassic park
28:41
bathrooms right next to the Jurassic park
28:44
ride. If there's as much
28:47
splash m on this ride as there is on this toilet,
28:50
we're in for a treat. Unfortunately, this splash is yellow.
28:53
So, um, not the cleanest showing,
28:55
but it is a land of dinosaur, as I suppose.
28:59
>> Hunter Hoover: And then from there I made my way over
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to the Veloca pizza bathroom.
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>> Hunter Hoover: It's a Veloca coaster themed bathroom
29:08
number eight on our Universal Studios tour.
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Um, we're in the velociraptor pizza
29:14
bathroom. This thing's got more
29:17
wet around the toilet than in
29:20
the toilet. Truly, it's a masterpiece of
29:22
failure. Um, it literally looks like a
29:25
velociraptor has venom spit everywhere around this
29:28
toilet. Pictures to come.
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>> Hunter Hoover: I kind of messed up. I had to super overt
29:33
trackck.
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>> Hunter Hoover: So here's the deal. In the middle of
29:37
Harry Potter land, there's a place called public
29:40
Conveniences. This bathroom is anything
29:43
but convenient, but it is definitely public.
29:46
I've never seen so many people in one bathroom in
29:49
my entire life. So, uh, my review
29:52
couldn't tell you couldn't even get through the door because there's so
29:55
many people wizarding themselves all over the place.
29:58
So enjoy that.
30:00
>> Hunter Hoover: And then to Lost Continent.
30:03
>> Hunter Hoover: We're doing a quick stop number nine.
30:04
>> Hunter Hoover: I took a wrong turn.
30:05
>> Hunter Hoover: Lost Continent. Uh, family bathrooms.
30:08
Pretty clean, pretty spacious.
30:10
>> Hunter Hoover: Not bad.
30:10
>> Hunter Hoover: We're here midday. Um, great bathroom here on the
30:13
back of, uh, Adventure island section
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of Orlando.
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>> Hunter Hoover: Then number 11, I went back up to the
30:20
Diagon Alley public conveniences. We
30:23
crossed over.
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>> Hunter Hoover: All right, we're on the Diagon Alley side of
30:28
the Harry Potter land back on the universeal Orlando
30:31
section of the park. Uh, right as
30:34
you come off the thing in the back of Diagon Alley.
30:37
Big bathroom. These doors on this bathroom are kind of
30:40
like the bank for Greenottz. It's kind of cool. Big, tall
30:43
doors go all the way to the ceiling, even covering the floors on
30:45
one side. But somebody left me a big old log,
30:48
uh, in the turlet back here. It's a big one,
30:51
brother. So m it's pretty clean except
30:54
for some jack wagon forgot how to flush.
30:57
Uh, Gringotts. Diagon
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Alley.
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>> Hunter Hoover: I made my way down to the World's Fair
31:05
South. You know that. I had Butterbeer in hand.
31:08
>> Hunter Hoover: This one I coming out of Diagon Alley, I missed
31:11
one. I had to backtrack. But just outside of Simpson's
31:13
land is the, um, World's
31:16
Fair south bathrooms. Pretty clean,
31:19
pretty spacious. Um, it's kind
31:22
of one of those, like, chugi kind of
31:25
modernist feel. It's kind of a space speckled
31:28
lining. This, um, toilet's pretty clean.
31:31
I'd use it a little wet, but you
31:34
know, we're midday after lunch, everybody's dropping them. So,
31:37
yeah, World's Fair.
31:39
>> Hunter Hoover: And then backtracking again, I went
31:42
to the bathrooms labeled the London Bathrooms
31:45
just outside of Harry Potter world for number
31:47
13.
31:49
>> Hunter Hoover: I've never been to London, but I'm pretty sure that
31:52
there's about this much urine. Urine in the toilet, urine
31:55
on the toilet, urine around the toilet.
31:58
The flush on this toilet though is really
32:01
what we need to talk about because it is the most chewy looking flush
32:04
I've ever seen in my life. Um, check out the
32:07
pictures of this thing. But literally the flush mechanism is
32:10
not even attached to the toilet. Um, the repair
32:13
job on this is um, abysmal. But
32:16
it's functional. Maybe.
32:19
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 14. I made my way to Fast
32:21
Food Boulevard heading towards Simpsons
32:24
World.
32:27
>> Hunter Hoover: The fast Food Boulevard restrooms, they're
32:29
pretty clean.
32:34
A lot of uh, same
32:37
stuff that we usually got going on from BD bathroom
32:40
but.
32:43
>> Hunter Hoover: A little busy.
32:44
>> Hunter Hoover: A lot of foot traffic. There was a guy cleaning, so
32:47
yeah, one that's themed after fast food.
32:50
Not too bad. He to wash Hand sense.
32:57
>> Hunter Hoover: And then I use the Expo Circle
32:59
bathoms.
33:03
>> Hunter Hoover: All right, number 15 is the
33:05
Expo Circle bathrooms. Right outside of
33:08
ET's Flya Away Bike Adventure and the
33:11
Spongebob meet and greet. Actually pretty clean. And as
33:14
far as the artwork on the outside, I think this
33:16
one's my favorite. Um, a little bit of poo streak in here.
33:19
Not too bad for 2:30 in the afternoon.
33:22
And like the paint job, it's a cool place. Like this
33:25
bathroom. Polar.
33:30
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 16. I use the bathroom inside of the
33:33
DreamWorks World.
33:35
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 16 is the DreamWorks Land Restrooms. And I'm here to tell
33:38
you not only of these the cleanest, they have
33:41
the thickest doors. It's a small bathroom, but it's kind
33:44
of tucked away.
33:45
>> Hunter Hoover: This is my recommendation.
33:46
>> Hunter Hoover: If you have kids, go use the Dreamworks land
33:49
restrooms.
33:51
>> Hunter Hoover: And 17, I use the bathroom
33:53
called Mel's.
33:57
You good?
33:58
>> Hunter Hoover: Okay. Number 17 is Mel's restrooms. It smells weird.
34:01
It smells like Mel really dropped a fat Mel. Um,
34:04
but it's raining outside. Everybody's panicking.
34:07
So it's about as wet in this bathroom as it is outside.
34:11
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 18. I use the bathroom at Music
34:14
Plaza.
34:15
>> Hunter Hoover: Alghty guys, I'm in the Music Plaza
34:18
restrooms.
34:19
>> Hunter Hoover: Cool layout of this restroom.
34:20
>> Hunter Hoover: All the sinks are right in the middle. Um, and
34:23
for the amount of rain that's coming down, I am soaking
34:26
wet. Um, but for the amount of rain that's coming down, there're surprisingly
34:29
empty. Bathrooms are pretty clean. Um, for
34:32
4:45 in the afternoon.
34:33
>> Hunter Hoover: So we're doing pretty good music Hal Music Closet
34:36
Restroom'Pretty great.
34:40
Number 19 was Gotham Ice.
34:44
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 19's the Gotham Ice Company. Restrooms are pretty
34:47
clean. Dude just came in, did a fresh sweep. Um,
34:50
yeah, cool ceiling.
34:52
>> Hunter Hoover: So you'gon to try to get a.
34:53
>> Hunter Hoover: Picture of those, but um, yeah, Gothamia, they're way back in
34:56
the back of the right side of Universal.
35:00
>> Hunter Hoover: At this point it began to dump PR rain and it
35:03
was starting to look like
35:05
maybe hunter'not gona get like
35:09
maybe hunters not going to get all 26
35:11
bathrooms. But my family went to
35:14
secure a table at BUBB Guum Shrimp Co.
35:17
And while they did so, I
35:20
braved the rain, the downpour, the
35:22
elements. No, no rain jacket,
35:25
no coat. Just a ball cap and a dream. It
35:28
put forth to Visit the last six
35:31
bathrooms. Number 20,
35:34
San Francisco bathrooms.
35:37
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 20 is the San Francisco restroom. This restroom
35:40
is by far the busiest restroom. I've been two since
35:43
I had to wait. There's a huge. You'll see it in the pictures, guys,
35:45
but I'm rushingus. I'm trying to get back to my family at the
35:48
front but San Francisco bathrooms towards the back
35:51
of Universal Studio. Sor of the busiest bathrooms I've
35:54
been today. Not terribly dirty though, just very wet.
35:57
>> Hunter Hoover: It was wet. Very wet. Number 21
36:00
inside the Hollywood world was the one called Studio
36:03
Audience 21.
36:05
>> Hunter Hoover: I'm in the studio audience bathroom. Cool
36:08
bathrooms, high stalls, really cool patterning
36:11
on the floor. It's pretty busy because everybody's running for their
36:13
lives because of all the rain. Pretty clean too. A lot of pea
36:16
spray on the backsplash here. Um, I'd probably give it a
36:19
5 out of 10 usability, but nothing bad for me.
36:23
>> Hunter Hoover: And on my my way up to fill my tum tum with
36:26
Bubb Gump Shrimp company I stopped by
36:29
the park exit for Universal Studios.
36:32
The regular one allgh.
36:34
>> Hunter Hoover: Next up is the park exit bathrooms for Universal
36:37
Studios, Orlando, Florida. Um, pretty clean,
36:40
cool vibe. Uh, this toilet that you just
36:42
heard flush probably gets a 9 out of 10. I'd use it right
36:45
now. It's one of the cleanest surfaces I've seen all day.
36:48
So not a bad bathroom up here. As we leave the park to go get some
36:51
dinner.
36:51
>> Hunter Hoover: A belly full of shrimp later, Anna and I
36:54
ventured back into Universal Studios
36:57
with a mission. I've got four bathrooms
37:00
and I need to get some more butter beer.
37:03
Number 23, the moose juice.
37:07
>> Hunter Hoover: Number 23. We're almost done. We had to return
37:10
to Islands of Adventure for one that I missed in
37:13
Seussland. This is in the Seuss land next
37:16
to the Lost World. Um, and it's the
37:19
moose juice bathrooms. Uh, when I came in There
37:22
was a gentleman m cleaning it. They are very clean.
37:25
It's almost the end of the park being open.
37:28
Definitely would use this in a day. Vibes pretty
37:31
normal. Yeah. Looks like a great
37:33
bathroom. We're running little on time. I don't know if we're going toa make them all.
37:37
>> Hunter Hoover: On my way out of the park, I've still got
37:40
three times a tick him we stop by number
37:43
24, cafe four in the islands of
37:45
Adventure.
37:48
>> Hunter Hoover: All right, Another one that we missed from Lost Islands. Islands
37:51
of Adventure, Cafe 4 and Marvel Land.
37:54
It's pretty late in the day. Bathroom smells
37:57
pretty bad. Pretty, um,
38:00
sure. There's a dude watching the football game in the stall next to me.
38:03
Avoiding his family and his obligations as a man. But you
38:05
know, what can you do? It's the end of the day. It's
38:08
9:45 almost. The island's closing here in
38:11
15. I don't know if I'm gonna make.
38:12
>> Hunter Hoover: It, but here we go. And then jumping up
38:15
to number 25, the waterworks
38:17
bathroom.
38:19
>> Hunter Hoover: Another vacant bathroom at the end of the day. This is
38:22
almost the last one. It's the Waterworks. On the
38:25
way out of Islands of Adventure.
38:28
It's pretty clean. Floors are a little wet. Plenty of pea
38:31
space for the dudes. U um, yeah,
38:34
weird layout, but cool bathroom.
38:36
>> Hunter Hoover: And finally, on my way out of
38:39
Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. On my
38:42
way to the car, it's about 9pm
38:45
Lou Lodge at the park exit for
38:48
Islands of Attention.
38:50
>> Hunter Hoover: Alrighty.
38:51
>> Hunter Hoover: This one's locked.
38:52
>> Hunter Hoover: I set foot inside the bathroom. We made it
38:55
lose Lodge on the way out.
38:57
>> Hunter Hoover: Uh, I didn't get to go use this one.
38:59
>> Hunter Hoover: But we visited every single bathroom in
39:02
Universal Studios Orlando, Florida.
39:05
And the service worker who
39:08
was trying to tell me that it's locked,
39:10
who's super pissed that I stuck my foot underneath his little rope so I could
39:13
be in his bathroom for a second. So I'm gonna leave before I get
39:16
in trouble.
39:18
>> Hunter Hoover: And with that, it was a load of fun. We
39:20
visited every bathroom in
39:23
Universal Studios Islands Adventures and
39:26
Universal Studios Classic. And I gotta say,
39:29
I really like the bathrooms at Universal Studios. The
39:32
inside didn't have the craziest vibe, but they were
39:35
all pretty clean. I mean, you heard a few in my
39:38
comments there. And every bathroom has its things. But
39:40
I was, I was impressed. It was fun.
39:44
What a way to. What a way to kick off the season.
39:47
And so, yeah, uh, thank you for joining me on,
39:49
on that little bathroom journey. I visited every
39:52
bathroom in the Universal Studios Orlando resort. I'm
39:55
here to tell you my Favorite is definitely that tooune town
39:58
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40:01
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