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- 0:20And I just hit the like button over there at Park Bros and you
- 0:25know, one thing looks fairly similar there.
- 0:27I see a 10.1 subscribers on Park Bros Congratulations once again.
- 0:32And I look over and I see 20.1 on LID.
- 0:35So pretty good, pretty good, pretty good.
- 0:39That's that's such an accomplishment for you in such a
- 0:42short time and not even being here.
- 0:44So congratulations my friend on that.
- 0:46Once again, I know you reached that recently, but just looking
- 0:49at it makes me go wow that really pops.
- 0:51Well, then, then you'll like this.
- 0:54This morning I wake up and go to studio and it says you need to
- 1:00hit this so that you can get watch time.
- 1:02So I'm now fully monetized as of this morning.
- 1:05So thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 1:08Very nice, very nice Virtual High 5.
- 1:10It is May 12th, 2026 and things have never been better on either
- 1:17channel. My friends.
- 1:18I was just reflecting on that as we heard the opening and wow,
- 1:22there's just so much going on and you know, such momentum on
- 1:27on both channels. I would say we're really, we're
- 1:30really cranking it out, man, This is this is great.
- 1:32Want to thank everybody for all that support that you give us
- 1:34and all the deserving channels in the DSA and, and out there.
- 1:41We do this live because we do it for you.
- 1:43Welcome our virtual audience there in studio audience in the
- 1:48chat. We'll be looking at everything
- 1:51you guys have to say. But this is a live recording of
- 1:53a podcast. So we will be less interactive,
- 1:56but our eyes will be more interactive than they are in
- 1:58even the parks. So your your stuff doesn't go
- 2:01unnoticed. And Lawrence will highlight some
- 2:03of those things as we go along. And I'll stop the podcast now
- 2:06and then to mention something as well.
- 2:09And we also are very appreciative and grateful for
- 2:14everyone that listens on all the other podcast outlets where you
- 2:18get your great podcasts, iPod, iPod, radio, Apple, iHeartRadio,
- 2:23Amazon and Spotify. So welcome, welcome.
- 2:27And and you know, you talked about it.
- 2:28Apple has the video now or Spotify has the video now, so.
- 2:32Spotify has video, yeah, so you can watch the show on Spotify.
- 2:38You can also should be able to watch it soon, if not if it's
- 2:43not already on there on Apple video as well.
- 2:48So I'm liking that a lot of the other platforms are starting to
- 2:54realized that video works really well for podcasts.
- 2:58So. Yeah, I mean, I listen to some
- 3:01great podcasts where you can't hear the people, I guess, but
- 3:03it's more fun just to just kind of watch it at the same time.
- 3:07So there is that, like I mentioned, lots, lots going on
- 3:12here. There's so many things going on
- 3:15that I have to mark these down. I I got to go old school, old
- 3:18fashioned and open up my rocket book that shows every day of the
- 3:23month and just mark it down so I can see it at a glance.
- 3:27Normally we're pretty routine in our week to week schedules here
- 3:31in the family and LID, but there's just these little tweaks
- 3:34that you got to pay attention to.
- 3:35But miraculously enough, I keep a lot of that in my head, but I
- 3:40just want to see it. So I'm going to have to write it
- 3:42all down. We've got graduation for Jacob
- 3:44next week. We've got all these special
- 3:48openings to cover for the channel.
- 3:50There's there's so many. You know, I'm I'm I'm pulling
- 3:53myself out of work for a little bit to cover soaring this
- 3:56Friday, 10:00 AM Eastern Time. We are live everyone to bring
- 4:00you possibly the very first live stream ever of soaring across
- 4:04America. Then we will be in attendance on
- 4:08Monday morning at 10:30 AM to video Rock and Roller Coaster
- 4:13starring The Muppets. We can't release that until the
- 4:1621st. So at midnight you'll want to do
- 4:19that. And we can remind people because
- 4:20I'll be live on Wednesdays and when we sign off at about why do
- 4:25I think I'm going to be at Epcot that day?
- 4:27Why was I thinking that? I don't know, maybe I'm not,
- 4:30maybe I'm magic, whatever I am, wherever I am.
- 4:33It'll only be minutes before the premiere, so we can really hype
- 4:36it up and hopefully everybody will will stay awake at least
- 4:40just to watch the 10 minute video or whatever.
- 4:42We'll take video of the queue and of the of the attraction
- 4:46and, and we'll release that then and then we go what?
- 4:50Live again? And no, that's why I'll be at
- 4:55Epcot because we would have done soaring across America again for
- 4:59annual pass holders on Wednesday and, and Jacob and Tammy should
- 5:03be with me on that Wednesdays. So we'll talk about that
- 5:07premiere in 90 minutes or so from sign off from Epcot.
- 5:12So this is this just there's so much, you know, I for me to
- 5:15mention to all of you, you probably even can't even
- 5:18remember it all. So we'll keep reminding you as
- 5:21we go along. And of course we have the all
- 5:23day stream coming up on Tuesday the 26th I believe.
- 5:29That's a long day, and there's a lot opening.
- 5:31Oh my goodness. I just saw more pictures of the
- 5:35animation courtyard and I'm getting even more and more
- 5:39excited. You know, it was stuff we didn't
- 5:41even think about, right? Like the street signs, Like
- 5:47there's street signs, the new posters are there.
- 5:52Like it's just man, oh man, I'm getting really excited.
- 5:56And they change the colors of the the Disney live side, for
- 6:01lack of a better term, which I love.
- 6:04Yeah, it's all tan. Tan.
- 6:05It's matching the opposite side. It's matching animation, the
- 6:09animation building. Do we have an official name for
- 6:11that building, though? I just call it all the animation
- 6:13courtyard where the hat is. But.
- 6:17I. I call it Animation Courtyard.
- 6:18I think it's animation because I think it's the, you know, it's
- 6:23supposed to, to call back to Burbank Studio.
- 6:26So I think it's the animation building.
- 6:29And then I think Stage 1 is where Little Mermaid is.
- 6:34OK, OK. Oh, cool.
- 6:36Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the unknown,
- 6:38right? It's the unknown.
- 6:40We we, we have a little bit of an idea of what we're going to
- 6:43see, but we really don't have any idea of what's going to
- 6:46happen there. So stick with us on that day,
- 6:48everyone. We are going from rock and
- 6:51roller coaster on that Tuesday morning soon.
- 6:53We're going to rope drop that. As soon as we get on rock and
- 6:55roller coaster, we'll pop off that.
- 6:58If it looks like, I doubt it, but if it looks like it wouldn't
- 7:02be too long to go on again, maybe we do that again.
- 7:04But we will head over to the animation courtyard, check out
- 7:06all that. We'll go in the building.
- 7:09We'll try to, we'll cover everything you could possibly do
- 7:11in that building before we head over to Epcot and we'll do
- 7:15Soaring Across America one more time.
- 7:18We'll enjoy Epcot a little bit. And you know, I was like, man,
- 7:22and now it's the 40% off so we can catch 40% off with the
- 7:25family if we eat dinner there. So that's how that developed
- 7:30too. Like why don't we just go to
- 7:31Garden Grill when this is all done and, and just chill.
- 7:34And anyone that wants to just continue on and enjoy the dinner
- 7:37with us and watch us meet some characters and watch the
- 7:41restaurant slowly rotate, we'll do that.
- 7:44I thought you couldn't do spinning rides.
- 7:48I thought you didn't like spinning rides.
- 7:50It's it depends on the speed. This one typically goes slow
- 7:54enough so I'm distracted by food.
- 7:58Oh, that's what it is, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 8:00Give me a Pecos rice bowl, you know, on, on the tea cups and
- 8:04I'd probably be fine. You know, true fact.
- 8:07Years ago I I literally had a big meet sit down meal at Epcot
- 8:10once and then I went on Mission Space Orange and I was totally
- 8:13fine. That is tempting fate right
- 8:17there, Sir. I know, I know.
- 8:20I do crazy things on vacation. That was a vacation for sure.
- 8:23Wow. Yeah, Spaceship Ears is on and I
- 8:28don't recall that name, so welcome.
- 8:30That's John Ground miraculous. OK, I know that name.
- 8:35Welcome, welcome. So, yeah, there's just so much
- 8:39going on. And, you know, I have my
- 8:42Disneyland jersey on and, you know, that's all going on too.
- 8:47Big announcements on the channel this past week.
- 8:49We're going to finally going to Disneyland.
- 8:50It's crazy going to Star Wars Celebration in April.
- 8:54So we got all that going on. We got the cruise coming up and
- 8:59Gee, I feel like I'm leaving something out.
- 9:01But yeah, we got a lot going on. So it's exciting times.
- 9:07So anything else you got? I got a couple more things.
- 9:13So today was the Disney Upfronts where they talk to the
- 9:18advertisers, let them know, like, what's coming out on TV.
- 9:25Yes, people just still watch TV. And so they did make a few
- 9:32announcements. Not the one I was hoping for,
- 9:35though. I'm a little disappointed, but
- 9:39maybe it's still, you know, coming.
- 9:42So we will, we will see. But they did announce that
- 9:48Ahsoka Season 2 will be in early 2027 on Disney Plus.
- 9:54A new Marvel series called Vision Quest coming out in
- 9:59October of this year. Oh yeah, that could be good.
- 10:04Mm hmm Avatar, Fire and Ash is going to hit Disney Plus June
- 10:0824th this year and Disney Plus is going to be the US streaming
- 10:15home for the Banana Ball League Championship and that begins
- 10:20this fall. I'm telling you, if you have not
- 10:22seen any of the Savannah Bananas games, you need to check them
- 10:26out. That's a lot of fun.
- 10:28So sometimes I'm late to the party with, with seasons of
- 10:32things took me a couple or three seasons to join like Cobra Kai
- 10:38and Game of Thrones and things like that.
- 10:41I feel like I'm late to the party with Savannah Bananas.
- 10:44I have not seen much of anything with them.
- 10:47And being such a local baseball legend in my town, I, I, I
- 10:54haven't, I haven't seen anything with them.
- 10:56So yeah, I'll have to check that out.
- 10:59It that would be cool to see in person.
- 11:01Like I bet Jacob would enjoy that.
- 11:02Too. Oh, it is so mate.
- 11:04So I we were lucky we had last year we went to see the Savannah
- 11:09bananas and we went to Home Run Derby X in one year, which is
- 11:17probably as crazy as the Savannah bananas, but it's just
- 11:21a Home Run Derby. But the Savannah Bananas, I
- 11:23mean, you have trick plays and you've got the, the pitcher on 9
- 11:30foot stilts and the, you know, the, the, the umpires out there
- 11:37dancing and just all sorts of stuff.
- 11:41It's, it's pretty cool because you also, you know, they have
- 11:45their own set of rules. They, it is baseball, but they
- 11:47have their own set of rules. So like they will you win an
- 11:53inning. So if you score five runs and
- 11:57the other team scores two runs, you get one point because you
- 12:02won that inning. So.
- 12:05It's not about the. Total amount of of runs it's
- 12:08about the total amount of innings that you won so very,
- 12:10very cool and the innings are timed so you.
- 12:15May shouldn't. Shouldn't we just bring this to
- 12:17the Major League? I would like to see at least
- 12:22Major League players try their hand up in edible.
- 12:26I really want to see, you know, what they would do with that.
- 12:30Yeah, yeah, they've made, they've made some really great
- 12:32changes in baseball and I think everybody's accepting of it.
- 12:35You know, the the strike, the strike challenge and stuff like
- 12:38that. Yeah, Batters aren't batters
- 12:41aren't arguing it. They appeal it.
- 12:43And if they're out, they just walk away.
- 12:44Yeah, that's it. So.
- 12:46That's it. They take the chance and you
- 12:50know, the problem with it, or what I thought the problem was
- 12:52going to be, is that you know how when they do a play
- 12:55challenge, how long that takes? And I was like, oh man, we're
- 12:59going to delay the game again. But that ABS system is quick
- 13:05seconds. Yeah, so.
- 13:08I was thinking not to get off track, but I was thinking I
- 13:11thought of something not too long ago.
- 13:13It's a it was a crazy suggestion that baseball should do for a
- 13:16change, but I'll have to try to think of it off air.
- 13:19And if I remember it, I'll let you know.
- 13:20But I thought it could be revolutionary, but I've can't
- 13:23remember right now, but hopefully I'll remember it
- 13:25later. There was a couple of things
- 13:28that came up before we get into our topic of the night, which is
- 13:32what attractions need updating around Walt Disney World, in our
- 13:38opinion. I saw this just before we came
- 13:40on, and I think I have to go on a little bit of a rant about
- 13:46this one. Yeah, and it's this and I
- 13:51believe it to be true because of course, we don't speak in rumors
- 13:55unless we, you know, are certain certain channels or if we if we
- 14:00just want to claim it's a rumor. But Disneyland is cracking down
- 14:07on pin trading. I did see that.
- 14:12And it's not what we think. When I looked at it at first,
- 14:14I'm like, oh, OK, things have been trending towards like the
- 14:18fake pins and things like that. I under, I get that.
- 14:21I know a few months ago Disneyland was starting to make
- 14:25it and I don't know if it's in full effect now, but the pin
- 14:27boards were like you had to open your packs in front of them in
- 14:32order to trade on their boards. And I don't know if that was
- 14:36select boards or all boards. And anybody that's more familiar
- 14:40with Disneyland can chime in, in the comments listening later or
- 14:44anyone in chat or if you're on Spotify, Apple and all that good
- 14:47stuff and you have the ability, do any of them have the ability
- 14:50to leave a comment on those platforms?
- 14:54Yes. OK, yes, we want to see we can.
- 14:57All comment. We want to see some comments on
- 14:59that. So, so the particulars of it is
- 15:04there's three spots to touch on pin trading locations trade.
- 15:10Now this is, I got to be specific, it's in, it's in
- 15:12Frontierland in Disneyland. So I think Frontierland in
- 15:17Disneyland is like Epcot where you have that space between
- 15:22connections and creations where it's just like a flea market of
- 15:26pens. So The thing is, pin trading
- 15:31locations trade pens anywhere in the Disneyland Resort using a
- 15:35lanyard and a small handheld pin trading accessory #2 limit the
- 15:41items you bring. Lanyards and small handheld pin
- 15:45trading accessories are allowed subject to the Disneyland Resort
- 15:50rules, but no additional decorations or collateral like
- 15:55lights, signage, displays are permitted.
- 15:59People setting up shop over there but, and this is the big
- 16:04one though, no use of benches, chairs or tables.
- 16:08Pins are not allowed to be displayed on benches, chairs, or
- 16:11tables. Benches and chairs are for
- 16:14seating purposes only. And I I totally agree with this
- 16:19and this the way it should always be and I've never seen
- 16:21anything other than this. But they do not want you trading
- 16:23pins for money, gifts, vouchers, receipts, or multiple pins for
- 16:28one pin. OK, that's that's different.
- 16:32I mean, you should be able to do whatever you want with that.
- 16:35You know, if I really love a pan and I'm willing to give you 3
- 16:37for that one, then then that should be fine.
- 16:40That shouldn't even be Disney's business.
- 16:42So what do you all think in chat?
- 16:45Could this affect Epcot next? We always think when something
- 16:48happens in one park, will it affect the other?
- 16:50But, you know, and overall, it almost doesn't change, right?
- 16:55Yeah. They're their own individual
- 16:56parks. I I feel like they are.
- 16:58There you go. They are you know what's funny?
- 17:01We were in Epcot Sunday and we walked through that breezeway
- 17:07and I thought it just, I, I looked at where I I'm going to
- 17:17address something on TikTok so. Something just come up.
- 17:22Yeah, so Dazza is over on TikTok watching us.
- 17:25Hello, thanks for watching and saying that Disney should get
- 17:29away, should do away with live streamers and do it themselves.
- 17:32I say that's not going to happen.
- 17:34Here's why that means that they have to employ all of the they
- 17:39they now have to employ cast members to do that.
- 17:41They now have to buy the equipment to do that.
- 17:42Guess what? They do it for free right now
- 17:46with all of us. So it's not closer than I think
- 17:50it's happening. They're doing PO VS on Disney
- 17:53Plus. Go look at them.
- 17:54Is that the same thing as riding with your community?
- 17:58YouTube is about community. I understand TikTok feels a
- 18:01little like it's a little different, but I'm sorry,
- 18:04YouTube is about community and the folks that are watching over
- 18:08here with us on YouTube feel that community.
- 18:11Just had to get that off my chest.
- 18:13And, and a lot of these people have been with me for years.
- 18:17Years. Years when I go live it is a
- 18:20community, it is the IT is the group of people like our base
- 18:25OF20250 plus that are always there no matter what even if
- 18:29it's a slow view night, they are always there and they're there
- 18:33when I sit down and eat for 20 minutes or two hours.
- 18:37So there's that community and do I think Disney could do a good
- 18:42job with it? I think they could do an
- 18:43outstanding job with it, but I don't think they're going to go
- 18:46there. Like you said, they've got us to
- 18:47do it. And they don't think I'm going
- 18:50to disagree with you. I don't think they could do a
- 18:52good job of it. Here's why.
- 18:54I know one thing, but I'll see if you say it.
- 18:56They then work for Disney and they are Disney cast members and
- 19:00there's going to be marketing behind that.
- 19:03OK, every one of the. Live streamers you have out
- 19:06there is not out there to market for Disney World, Disneyland,
- 19:12Disney parks. That's a huge difference.
- 19:14You're getting actual people walking around the parks, seeing
- 19:19what the parks are like. Some use lightning lanes, some
- 19:23don't. You know, you're getting the
- 19:25entire gamut. Some like eating, some don't,
- 19:29some like roller coasters, and some won't get on a ride at all.
- 19:32They just walk around the parks. It's very different.
- 19:36Sorry, you have 4 parks and you have 4 parks to cover.
- 19:42They're not doing it. It's not going to happen.
- 19:45Yeah, it's just it's just all easy.
- 19:47And again, this is all fabrication.
- 19:50The people that that caused this to be a thing, it's not a thing.
- 19:55I just keep telling people it's not a thing.
- 19:58So for the people who worry about it that love live streams,
- 20:02love this channel, love any channel, don't worry about it.
- 20:05It don't worry about things unless they happen.
- 20:07And I really do not think that this is not going anywhere.
- 20:11It would have to take such a drastic turn for this to happen.
- 20:15And do me a favor, stop watching the fake news.
- 20:17Come and watch the DSN. Come and watch my show on 6:30
- 20:20so on Thursdays, and I'll give you actual news because what
- 20:24you're seeing is fake news. And yes, I know that people are
- 20:27travel agents and they sell merch.
- 20:28I'm not talking about those folks.
- 20:30That's not who I'm talking about.
- 20:31I'm talking about the people like Corey, the people like me,
- 20:33the people like all the people in the Disney Streamer Network
- 20:36that are out there, out there streaming the parks to you.
- 20:39All right, I'm done. All right, I know we could just,
- 20:43we could just keep going and going and going.
- 20:45I'm done. I was going to say, you know, I,
- 20:48I've, I've, I've sat in the living room of a decently
- 20:52high-ranking cast member and who is very influential in things
- 20:57that you see and use in the parks.
- 20:59And she told me what, 2-3 years now she's like, we're bumping up
- 21:04our social media. She says, you keep trying to be
- 21:07media. We want you guys out there.
- 21:09We want you to do what you're doing.
- 21:11So why would it change a small, a very small group, right?
- 21:15A very small group of people who hate live streamers.
- 21:20You know, we're stronger than they are.
- 21:22And Disney, Disney wants us to do things.
- 21:24Why would they take some of these creators?
- 21:26Now they're starting to work creators into official Disney
- 21:29videos. And we're proud of them, we're
- 21:31proud of them. Why would why would they be
- 21:33leaning a different way? And I just don't understand the
- 21:36hate. I don't get the hate because of
- 21:39a small percentage of streamers that are loud or have light, you
- 21:43know, you know, brighter lights on their cameras than they
- 21:47should have and things like that.
- 21:48That's very small. Somebody said a comment today on
- 21:53Instagram or something and they were, it was in reference to
- 21:57like live streaming and stuff like that.
- 22:00And what were they saying? Oh, it was on our channel.
- 22:05Somebody left a comment, probably from my Big Thunder
- 22:08stream or something like that. And they said I missed the days
- 22:12decades ago when people didn't talk on rides so much.
- 22:15And I didn't know if that meant like us or others around us
- 22:21because anybody can talk. And what people don't see is
- 22:26people might will point out, oh, we have a gimbal on our phone,
- 22:29you know, our phones on a gimbal, blah, blah, blah.
- 22:31But if I'm in a boat in pirates of what does that even hold?
- 22:35We'll say 26 people or something, 24 people, there's
- 22:39probably 1015% at least that have their phones out and
- 22:45they're recording it and they're talking to their family members.
- 22:49And you know, so everybody does it.
- 22:51You don't just have to be a live streamer.
- 22:53So just figured I'd bring that up again too.
- 22:56So. But it's not going anywhere and
- 22:59if it does we will just retool. That's right.
- 23:02We'd become a vlogging channel again and we'd figure something
- 23:06out. I have a backup plan for that,
- 23:08but we don't need it. So something else came up, and
- 23:12this one is marked a rumor. It's park trend news on
- 23:16Instagram. Do you know anything about them?
- 23:20So it's so it's nothing. It's it's it's crap.
- 23:22It's it's crap. Go ahead.
- 23:24I want to hear. That.
- 23:25I'll use it. I'll use it on the Thursday
- 23:27show. OK, that's why I prefaced it
- 23:29because I do not want to give anyone bad news.
- 23:32They were talking about Disney moving forward with a 400 annual
- 23:36dollar annual pass price cut next year.
- 23:40So I won't go any further than with that.
- 23:42Yeah, if you look at if you look at them, they are.
- 23:46They're terrible at what they do.
- 23:48And you can tell it because of the colors that they use, like
- 23:51they're very Kitty yellow neon. Green color it's.
- 23:55Just terrible. But then they will put rumor at
- 24:00the very, you know, in the picture and they'll put it very
- 24:02small and they'll put the caption very big, making you
- 24:06think, oh, this is going to happen and it's, it's not going
- 24:09to happen. Yeah, there's, they have no
- 24:12reason to cut $400.00 from and from which price point are you
- 24:17cutting it just from the Incredipass or you're going to
- 24:20cut it from the Pixie Pass too? I mean, Pixie's pretty cheap if
- 24:24you think about it, you know, and it, and honestly, it's all
- 24:27in how how often you go, right. Theme Park Giant is there five
- 24:31days a week on average. If you if you average it out,
- 24:35he's paying $6 a day to get him to Disney World.
- 24:39For he goes, it's a deal for a family of four.
- 24:43I always, I always do this to put things into perspective for
- 24:45people. As long as it fits your budget,
- 24:47this makes so much sense. We'll assume that it fits your
- 24:50budget and and it's easy to work in.
- 24:52If I took the family to, this is a good example.
- 24:56It's the same thing, right? We don't go to Epic because I'm
- 24:59going to drop $600.00 plus for a family of four for one day.
- 25:05Same thing with Disney. I'll drop over $600.00, close to
- 25:08700 if we all go to Magic Kingdom for the day, including
- 25:11parking before eating. But if I pay an annual pass, the
- 25:16the, the, the sorcerer pass, which is the second to the best,
- 25:20we're we're only limited last two weeks of December and a few
- 25:23days around Thanksgiving. That's it.
- 25:26We pay just over $300 a month and we can go any other time.
- 25:31So it's a huge difference. It's it's paying for, it's like
- 25:34paying for half a day for the whole month.
- 25:36Yeah. So I think I.
- 25:38Thank Disney for deals like that.
- 25:40That's still a deal. I'm not going to complain online
- 25:42with people like, Oh, my passes went up full, you know, by three
- 25:45dollars. Yeah.
- 25:47So you could pay daily if you want to.
- 25:52Yeah, and find the deals. You know, I think everybody
- 25:55thinks that Disney's so expensive because they're not
- 25:57looking at it the right way. They're they're not looking at
- 26:00how you can do it. And Corey and I've done plenty
- 26:03of episodes on this show about how to save money at Disney.
- 26:07One of those that we talked about is what his family used to
- 26:10do. Pack your lunch.
- 26:12You do not have to go sit down and Cinderella's royal table
- 26:16every night of your trip. You do not have to go to Chef
- 26:19Mickey's every trip that you go take, take your lunch, pack your
- 26:23lunch, go grab, you know, a quick, quick serve breakfast and
- 26:27get a get a, a early dinner and that'll be it.
- 26:31And then you pack your snacks. You can take food into the
- 26:34parks, folks. There's ways to save money.
- 26:38There is. Ask us here.
- 26:40And we did it when we first moved here.
- 26:43We did that for the first three years at least.
- 26:46I carried around a bigger cooler backpack and I had eight drinks
- 26:50in there and I would have Subs from Publix or whatever.
- 26:54And, you know, we'd find a spot, a table somewhere outside in the
- 26:58parks. And that we eat, we eat.
- 27:00And I have all my eating spots. Like we used to eat up at Pizza
- 27:03Rizzo's on 2nd floor and, you know, had a great time.
- 27:06We didn't, we, we didn't feel like we needed to hit the
- 27:09restaurants every time and things like that.
- 27:11But start to think about that again sometimes.
- 27:13Like, you know, we might have, you know, might not be a bad
- 27:15idea now and then just take some Subs.
- 27:17But Yep, you can do it. There's ways to save.
- 27:20Yeah. So, you know, you get to the
- 27:25parks now and like Corey started to say in the beginning, there's
- 27:32a lot of new stuff happening right now.
- 27:34We talked about the animation courtyard.
- 27:36You have the Disney Junior show now, you have the magic of
- 27:39animation over there. You have Rock'n'roll coaster
- 27:43about to open up. Sauron opens up on the same day.
- 27:46And we just got Big Thunder, which I've done.
- 27:52Something that you haven't done. Oh, really?
- 27:57Finley's done something you haven't done, Really.
- 28:01So you've been on the new Big Thunder?
- 28:03Yes, so has Finley. How?
- 28:07Because we went on Sunday. What?
- 28:10But you, you flew down and went back up.
- 28:13What? No, we.
- 28:13Drove. Now we drove.
- 28:15Down. You hit Big Thunder and then you
- 28:17went back up. And went back home.
- 28:18No, SO we were there. We were in at in Orlando for
- 28:23Catherine's best friend's graduation.
- 28:25She got her master's on Saturday.
- 28:28So we drove Friday night, got in Saturday morning and then
- 28:34graduation was Saturday at dinner.
- 28:37Sunday, get ready to leave. We went to Magic in the
- 28:42afternoon, got on Big Thunder, then we went park hop to Epcot,
- 28:45got our magnets and went home. So however, when we got on Big
- 28:52Thunder, that was about the 40 minute window where it rained.
- 28:58So we did Big Thunder in the rain.
- 29:02We got soaked. But that's a memory.
- 29:07We had yeah and and Catherine recorded the whole thing, but
- 29:13and that is smooth. And.
- 29:17Can't wait, can't wait to ride it again.
- 29:19But you know, we didn't do and we didn't even think about it
- 29:22until we were, I don't know, in Georgia, I think we didn't do
- 29:26buzz. We went and did Big Thunder,
- 29:30focused on that and then that was really it.
- 29:33We didn't even think about going to do buzz.
- 29:36So we still haven't done the new Buzz so.
- 29:39Well, yeah, I'll give you something to look forward to
- 29:41then. Yeah, Buzz is great now.
- 29:44You never thought I'd say that, huh?
- 29:45Buzz is great. I know.
- 29:46Love, love, love Buzz now. But so so we just got 2 good
- 29:52attractions back at Magic. If I look back at last year, we
- 29:59got test track 3 point O, which I think there's a huge upgrade
- 30:02over 2 point OI think the story is so much better than it was in
- 30:09two point O. Don't care for the queue in test
- 30:14track, there's not a breathing there.
- 30:17No, it's, it's blah. It's very blah.
- 30:19It's very, you know, that probably had a lot of GMC
- 30:23influence, right? I guess, yeah.
- 30:27I mean, I, I knew I, I felt like the car, you know, creating the
- 30:31cars, I felt like that was going to go away.
- 30:33I didn't realize it was, there was going to be nothing.
- 30:36But it's like it literally just walking through the queue.
- 30:40We were in the queue the other day because I just really wanted
- 30:43to ride test track. That was kind of my mission on
- 30:50Saturday. I'm like even if it's even if
- 30:52it's a little bit of a wait, We it's been a while.
- 30:55So we got to do this and we didn't have to wait too long in
- 30:57single rider. So it was a pretty good success.
- 31:00But there was a point where he's like, well, I, I just really
- 31:04like to make my car right now. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 31:06it's right there in that in that room over there.
- 31:08Oh, wait, no, it's gone. So yeah, that people enjoyed
- 31:13that. That was always fun.
- 31:14And I always featured it when we were live as well, you know?
- 31:19And then when it worked, you got to see your car on the screen
- 31:23and see it ranked against the other cars that you made.
- 31:27But that's when it worked. A lot of times it didn't show up
- 31:31and it just doesn't fit the new, the new.
- 31:33Ride story No, no, not at not at all, but I, I do love the new
- 31:38story that they've done there. I, I thought it was really cool.
- 31:43So, so it got me thinking, you know, with all the new stuff
- 31:47that was opening up with Big Thunder coming back last week,
- 31:51what else needs a refresh and update?
- 31:55And so tonight we're going to go through each of the parks and
- 31:59we're going to give our attractions that either need a
- 32:04refresh like what we saw on Big Thunder, kind of plussing it up
- 32:09a retheming like what we saw with Splash Mountain, going to
- 32:13Tiana's Bayou Adventure, or, you know, even just tear it down and
- 32:19put something totally different there.
- 32:22And this is going to be interactive, you folks in chat.
- 32:25It can absolutely add what you think, add your own attractions.
- 32:30If we miss one that you think about, if you agree with us,
- 32:36absolutely put it in there. If you don't agree, you know,
- 32:39add, add it in there. And if you're watching after the
- 32:41fact, go ahead and comment with one of your favorite attractions
- 32:46that's in need of a refresh. So obviously with magic having
- 32:50the most attractions, I figured we would start there.
- 32:54So one for me is the one that you always rope drop at Magic
- 33:03Kingdom. You are getting ready to go to
- 33:04Magic Kingdom and you know you got to get there early for Swiss
- 33:09Family Tree House. Got a rope drop that it's time
- 33:16for them to do something with that space.
- 33:20I don't it's narrow though, so I don't know what you would do
- 33:23with that space. But what are we doing?
- 33:28What are we doing with Swiss Family Treehouse?
- 33:30When when was the last time you went Swiss Family Treehouse?
- 33:34I probably do it and I always say this because I don't, I, I
- 33:38watch limited channels, but I feel like, I think I saw someone
- 33:43do it not too long ago, but I'm guessing most streamers don't do
- 33:46it for us. I mean, there's, there's,
- 33:50there's video data on this, but I would say, well, the last time
- 33:53I went probably within the last two months, so maybe I hit it
- 33:58every 3-4 months. You know, it just, it just
- 34:01strikes me now and then, especially if the park's busy.
- 34:03I'm like, you know what we're doing?
- 34:04Swiss family, Swiss family tree house.
- 34:07So we'll do it. And yeah, it's, it's like you
- 34:11said. Yeah, you it's it's it's a cool
- 34:16thing, but it's probably the least visited attraction in all
- 34:21of Magic Kingdom. It's gotta be.
- 34:23Yeah, it was cool for its time. We like to hold on to classics.
- 34:28I get it. But I I think this one's one to
- 34:31wipe out. And you could put a new
- 34:33attraction there. There's plenty of space for it.
- 34:36Yeah, there's something else that could go there.
- 34:40They talked about Disney announced recently that they are
- 34:48taking out all the gas powered vehicles at Autopia in
- 34:52Disneyland. And so then that brought up the
- 34:55fact again about our lovely Tomorrowland Speedway and you
- 35:01know what should be done there. Listen, I'm all for changing
- 35:06those to electric it it's time, but could we just take that out
- 35:12and do something really different there?
- 35:15That's what I'm saying. Yes, but could it be an entirely
- 35:18different attraction as well? Because if you look at the
- 35:21overhead Google Maps or something like that, a satellite
- 35:25view of Tomorrowland Speedway, there's so much room over there.
- 35:31That's a lot of room. What I'm I'm assuming you had
- 35:36that on on your your list of attractions that need to be
- 35:39updated. Oh, absolutely.
- 35:41I've been touting that. And when they talked about at
- 35:43Disneyland that they they were going to go ahead and change it
- 35:47all over to electric. I don't want that to happen here
- 35:49because then that tells me it's going to stay longer.
- 35:52True, that's that's a good point.
- 35:54It, it doesn't fit Tomorrowland and I really don't know if it
- 35:58ever did. Cars and tracks existed in in
- 36:02the 70s. Yeah.
- 36:04Why were we, why were we putting him there then?
- 36:07Do I hate the attraction? No, we go on it.
- 36:10I don't hate it, but just to know that you could take that
- 36:15space and just and again, you can extend that.
- 36:19I always talk about extending that.
- 36:20You can wipe that out and just continue on to fantasyland.
- 36:25Is is Goofy's cute? Yep.
- 36:28Goofy's is fine. Dumbo's are classic.
- 36:31So you just have to move it. But that whole area could use a
- 36:34nice revamp at some point when we're done with villains and
- 36:37we're done with Cars I. I think Tomorrowland, I, I
- 36:45really think, and maybe it's more of a hope than anything
- 36:50that D-23, we're going to hear blue sky ideas for Tomorrowland.
- 36:58That includes the unused building, right?
- 37:00We're. Stitching, yes, absolutely.
- 37:02That thing is just sitting there just waiting.
- 37:06Just waiting. They could put something cool in
- 37:07there. I think we're going to hear some
- 37:10blue sky ideas at this D-23. You know, you said Tomorrowland,
- 37:18did it ever fit? And maybe it didn't fit the
- 37:22theme of being futuristic, but maybe it fit the theme of
- 37:29thinking forward, thinking, right?
- 37:32Because you can have a Finley who's going to be able to drive
- 37:37a car, you know, So maybe that was the idea is that, you know,
- 37:41it's it's not futuristic, but it's forward-looking, thinking,
- 37:46thinking about their future. And so maybe that's that's what
- 37:50the idea was, because the kids get a kick out of being able to
- 37:53drive. Yeah, they do.
- 37:57They do. And and I, 9 times out of 10,
- 38:00I'd always let the kids drive, Yeah, rather than me drive, you
- 38:03know? Yeah, Yeah.
- 38:06Yeah. So I think like you're right,
- 38:07you mentioned that building there used to be stitches Great
- 38:11Escape. That's another one that it's,
- 38:13it's time for something to happen with that.
- 38:15And you know what, honestly, they could be, they could be
- 38:19working on that right now and we wouldn't know.
- 38:22That's true, but they're not universal.
- 38:25No. It's two different theories
- 38:27right there, right? Universal just knocks stuff
- 38:29down. We're going to wipe down, you
- 38:30know, we're going to wipe out Mythos and you know that whole
- 38:34mystical area over there. And we're not going to tell you
- 38:36what we're doing. We're not going to tell you.
- 38:38We're not telling you what's going there.
- 38:40Disney announces it years in advance, and years later, you
- 38:44get it. Yeah, or RIP Ride Rocket.
- 38:47We're closing RIP Ride Rocket. Oh, what are we getting?
- 38:49We're closing RIP Ride Rocket. We'll let you know at some
- 38:52point. We'll.
- 38:53We'll just start, you know, constructing something.
- 38:55Yeah, yeah. What do you like better?
- 38:57I like to know. I don't like the mystery of it.
- 39:03I think part of the issue is that with Disney, we tend to
- 39:09know more than we should. I think it's got to be a
- 39:15balance. I think less universal and less
- 39:17Disney, you know, kind of in the middle there.
- 39:20I think that when there's new tile on the floor in
- 39:26Frontierland, what's happening, you know, it becomes any little
- 39:30thing become a permit was filed for new paint 11 the. 3rd trash
- 39:37can on Main Street has moved three inches today.
- 39:40I can't believe it. I mean, I've moved them myself
- 39:43about four or five with my hips not paying attention.
- 39:47Want to say hello and welcome to Melanie Diane as well as I got
- 39:52to ask you. We have a, we have our group
- 39:53chat here, you know, in ecam and Kimberly Web said hello and I'm
- 39:58tracking our channel, my channel and yours.
- 40:01And I don't see her in either of those.
- 40:03So is where is she watching? From I'll have to look because
- 40:07we are also on LinkedIn and Facebook as well.
- 40:10OK. So maybe it's somewhere there.
- 40:11Excellent. Welcome everyone.
- 40:13We are in 7-8 places actually with TikTok right now.
- 40:16You. Love that.
- 40:19OK, I'm going to interrupt again, Palm Bay says Jags fan
- 40:22says doesn't want to interrupt, but Lawrence, build the beans on
- 40:24that Figment shirt please. This is a Catherine original.
- 40:29Yes, it's she's the dreamstress. Yeah, so anytime we do a show
- 40:36like this where we have to be imaginative, I like to wear the
- 40:40figment shirt, so. Yeah, very nice.
- 40:43Yeah, I went off script and went jersey today.
- 40:45I have so many jerseys, you know.
- 40:47It works. It works.
- 40:49Yeah, yeah. I don't wear them out.
- 40:51And we've done jerseys on the show.
- 40:52We've also done scrubs. We had that one episode with
- 40:56Doctor Disney where we wore scrubs.
- 40:58And T-shirt tuxedos. Yes, and T-shirt tuxedos.
- 41:04So moving on, continuing with Magic Kingdom, is there anything
- 41:08else that you think needs a refurb or or goes or just needs
- 41:13to go away? You know, you know, those are
- 41:15the biggest ones that stick out to me.
- 41:19You know, I think it's time for people moving to go away.
- 41:21I'm kidding. I almost passed out just now.
- 41:26No, I, I think, I think those are the biggest ones.
- 41:30Here's what I do think though. I think when we do find out what
- 41:35we're getting for villains and Cars Land and they both open up,
- 41:40then I think some of these other attractions might feel like
- 41:44maybe it's time for this to go or that to go.
- 41:46But I think right now those are the biggest ones that that I can
- 41:51think of. I still want to know what's
- 41:53happening with Carousel Progress.
- 41:55Like they told us about that and then it there's just been
- 42:00nothing about it. No dates, no no time frame at
- 42:06all. We just know that Walt is coming
- 42:10to the beginning of it and possibly updating the last
- 42:15scene, which totally need that one needs a refresh.
- 42:19That last scene. That last scene hasn't been
- 42:22future looking in 30 years probably.
- 42:28Well, you've got the VR that's mainstream in homes now, but
- 42:32that's only been mainstream for what, maybe 5 or 6.
- 42:34So it probably became totally and still like you know, the
- 42:39voice activated stuff that's probably more in the last five
- 42:42years, right. That's true.
- 42:45You know what, What sticks out to me is the and you're right
- 42:48that that tech is fairly new. What sticks out to me is the
- 42:51graphics on the video game system, though.
- 42:54That's I think that's what bugs me.
- 42:55Yeah. Oh yeah.
- 42:57That's, that's 80s right there. Yeah.
- 42:59That's like late, late 80s maybe a couple other things of mention
- 43:04is I would like to see a refresh on monsters laugh floor.
- 43:11It's it's time for a new routine, new monsters, new
- 43:15routine. Maybe we get that.
- 43:17Maybe we get that when monsters land opens and they just do a
- 43:21refurb on that, you know, just give us a new act.
- 43:25That wouldn't be hard. That act has been running for
- 43:27quite some time, so I wouldn't mind a refresh on Monsters Laugh
- 43:31floor. OK, what if that's going to
- 43:35where Muppet Vision 3D is now? Then what do you do with that
- 43:39space? Wow, you have a whole another
- 43:44space and across from it you have a space that's not even
- 43:46being used. So I mean, there were rumors.
- 43:50I loved the rumors of like a how about Wreck it Ralph?
- 43:58Oh. And there was something, it
- 44:03would be cool to put this in Tomorrowland.
- 44:06Like what if they made and of course people hate screen based
- 44:09things, but what about a screen based attraction that can
- 44:15change? And I'm talking change, like you
- 44:19could have these ride vehicles that move about this environment
- 44:22that is interactive. Maybe it's even like a little
- 44:25like Mickey and Minnie ish, but you also have video screens.
- 44:29But you can have a totally different theme.
- 44:31You ride it once and it's Wreck it Ralph, You ride it again and
- 44:36it's Rapunzel. I don't know, you know,
- 44:38different, totally different experience that that technology
- 44:43exists. I think that's something they
- 44:45could do, especially in Tomorrowland, you know, maybe
- 44:48move towards the more futuristic type of theming or something.
- 44:52But you do that over there and I think you take monsters out of
- 44:57Tomorrowland. I think that's an easy thing to
- 44:59do. And yeah, you put a brand new
- 45:02fresh show in that show building.
- 45:04So I think that's the way you go with that.
- 45:07OK, I'm good with that. I I I like that idea.
- 45:12There was one more that I I before we leave Magic Kingdom
- 45:16and I really like what they did in Tokyo for Peter Pan.
- 45:21I would like a refresh of Peter Pan.
- 45:26It's great. It's older, it's super dated.
- 45:28I think it's one of those super outdated things we could change
- 45:31at first. I was going to say maybe we just
- 45:34add some. I don't people hate screens, but
- 45:36they did a great job with some of those screens in, in in
- 45:39Tokyo. Incorporate a little bit of
- 45:41that, a big refresh, or just shut it down and give us Tokyo's
- 45:45version. You're right, people don't like
- 45:50screens, but the way that look, they're screens and guardians
- 45:54and how good is that? So yeah, I would.
- 45:59I would go for that. Very nice.
- 46:03All right. Where Where do you want to go?
- 46:05Epcot? Yeah, let's go to Epcot.
- 46:08It's the second, the second oldest park after Magic.
- 46:12That's true. We might as well go in order,
- 46:13huh? Yeah.
- 46:16And for the most part, it doesn't have anything going on
- 46:21really. Like I don't think there's any
- 46:23scrim walls that I can think of right now.
- 46:26No, it's no longer Walcott. Yeah, that's for sure.
- 46:30Yeah. So Kyler Kreidler just
- 46:32subscribed. Welcome to the family.
- 46:34We appreciate that as well as Michael Walters.
- 46:37Thank you. Thank you.
- 46:38Also jump over to Park Bros with AZ and subscribe there as well.
- 46:46Man, it's going to be a tough one to say.
- 46:50I was not in the parks when this was originally announced, so I
- 46:57don't know what the feeling was back then.
- 46:59But when they announced A Spaceship Earth refresh, was it
- 47:07a good thing? I think so.
- 47:09I think what was tough to swallow was that we were going
- 47:12to lose it for like 3 years. That's a long time.
- 47:17And for that, my friend, I vetoed that idea.
- 47:21That's a long I I can't be without that for that long.
- 47:24That's way too long. I'd rather just stick with our
- 47:27classic, never to leave. Nope, you can't do it.
- 47:32Three years, I mean how long was it closed?
- 47:35When they when they did the maintenance, what was that?
- 47:38Was it 4 months? The recent one.
- 47:41That sounds about right. I.
- 47:42Think it was about four months and even that was like.
- 47:45Yeah, that was painful. I I couldn't imagine losing
- 47:49Spaceship Earth for three years now if it was a shorter time,
- 47:52right? We did without Big Thunder for
- 47:5416 months. Yeah, I'd give it up for a year,
- 47:58maybe a year and a half, but I wouldn't go more than that.
- 48:03I just, I just wonder what they could do with the technology
- 48:06that's out there now rather than what we had in 82 or whatever
- 48:11the last refresh was. I think that the ride itself
- 48:17would benefit greatly from a from a refresh and the project
- 48:25tomorrow when you come out of there, all the interactive games
- 48:29right there, they could totally use a refresh.
- 48:32I mean, Finley loves playing that racing game.
- 48:35But. That's using front projection
- 48:38like, you know, might as well be an RCA front projection TV from
- 48:431987. With the three tubes or guns,
- 48:46right? Red, green, blue.
- 48:47Red green and blue like it it's time to refresh that whole area.
- 48:52Look at how you have GO-82 in that whole nice lounge upstairs
- 48:57and then downstairs is. So, yeah, if it wasn't going to
- 49:02take three years, I'd all, I'd be all for, for that.
- 49:05I I, I think the seas is one that, you know, Finding Nemo,
- 49:16Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 49:18I think it's time for a refresh there.
- 49:22And if you're going to refresh that, you might as well do the
- 49:24whole building because I feel like that building just feel,
- 49:27you know, the, the, the aquarium there sometimes just feels like
- 49:31dated, you know, I don't want to get rid of it or anything like
- 49:34that, but just fresh coat of paint sometimes helps.
- 49:38Yeah, they could do a lot more with that.
- 49:40So I wouldn't, I wouldn't be in disagreement with that.
- 49:45The big one here is Figment, right?
- 49:47And I, I would think most people would say it's time for a total
- 49:51revamp of Figment. I was never lucky enough to go
- 49:55on the original. I don't even know if I went on
- 49:58the second version of it. So I only know the version that
- 50:03exists now. So I can't even speak to how
- 50:06great the first one was. I know Tony Baxter, who created
- 50:10it, loved it and hated that they turned it, you know, into what
- 50:14it is today. I mean, he's vocal about it.
- 50:16He hates it, and that's the creator, everyone.
- 50:19So yeah, I think Figment could use a total total revamp.
- 50:26You're not wrong there. That's the other part, that
- 50:28that's the other reason that I wore the shirt, because the
- 50:32shirt has Dream Finder on it and we have Dream Finder in Little
- 50:39speckles here and there, right? He's on the backdrop of the the
- 50:43meet and greet and he's on that shirt.
- 50:48That's the Figment shirt that they're selling in Epcot, which
- 50:51is, you know. Yeah, there's AT shirt now with
- 50:53just him on it. I think there he's in the
- 50:55forefront. Have you seen that one?
- 50:56The tan shirt with him? I mean, stop teasing us with
- 51:00that. You're only making people angry,
- 51:03right? People aren't looking at that,
- 51:04right? Disney will put out tons of
- 51:06merch and it's it's it's throwing back to something that
- 51:10we all knew and loved and we love it.
- 51:12And we don't throw a lot of hate.
- 51:14We go, oh, like I bought that Epcot shirt with Figment and
- 51:17astronaut Figment and Astronaut Mickey on it.
- 51:20Yellow one. I love it.
- 51:22And I look back and go, oh, I remember that.
- 51:24And I'm not angry. People get angry if they see
- 51:28Dream Finder because they can't have him back and they want him
- 51:32back. So what kind of ride could they
- 51:34do? Obviously they're not going to
- 51:36go back and make and do and just kind of redo the old ride, but
- 51:41they could do a new story with Dream Finder.
- 51:45And if he did it right, the fan, the fans would love it.
- 51:49Absolutely. I think what was cool about the
- 51:52original ride is that it took you through what your
- 51:58imagination could give you, and I think the current version kind
- 52:03of does that. I do not remember the second
- 52:06version at all. I probably will have only had
- 52:12the opportunity to do it once, so that's why I don't remember
- 52:15it at all. But and funny enough, I don't
- 52:18even I don't even know that I looked like when I was producing
- 52:23the post show. I don't even know that I looked
- 52:26for a version of that version of Figment Attractions magazine
- 52:31might have it. We'll have to check.
- 52:34Right. So the first ride was much
- 52:39longer. That area when you leave, you
- 52:45have the post show there. That area used to be more of the
- 52:50original attraction. And so the ride is much shorter
- 52:55now. And all that stuff that's
- 52:57downstairs, the interactive stuff used to be upstairs and
- 53:00the ride used to be much longer. So you definitely, you know, I
- 53:03don't think they're going to go back and make it a longer ride,
- 53:05but I'm sure that they could do much, much more with it.
- 53:09So, yeah, I think, I think of, and I think it was Palm Bay who
- 53:13said, you know, it's probably the most outdated ride.
- 53:17Yeah, I, I think, I think it's probably in all four parts,
- 53:21probably the one that needs the most.
- 53:23And Disney listens. They have to know what people
- 53:26feel, how people feel about figment.
- 53:28You wonder why it hasn't changed yet, but well, you know, we'll
- 53:33see down the line. Maybe it's another blue sky
- 53:35thing that we'll hear. Could be.
- 53:37About. And I, Ann mentioned it, you
- 53:44know, they did, they did world celebration over and you have
- 53:47the gardens, which I love and all that, but we don't have the
- 53:51lights. And now it's even worse because
- 53:55they fix the lights to do the fly over for soaring around the
- 54:00world. So you end and you've got this
- 54:03beautiful version of Epcot with World Celebration gardens and
- 54:08all the lights in the ground and we don't get to see them during
- 54:12the day and they look, I like color lights, right?
- 54:16I have them on my back wall. I have them on the front of my
- 54:19house. I like lights that can do
- 54:21things. And those lights went with the
- 54:24shows on spaceship Earth and it's just a shame that we don't
- 54:28have them. So yes, that World Celebration
- 54:32could use refresh on the lights only.
- 54:36That also mentioned why the one issue he has with that gardens
- 54:42is that that planter is just a planter and not a fountain.
- 54:46And I asked him one time why he didn't like that and he said
- 54:52because you don't have kinetic energy there and that area could
- 54:58benefit from some kinetic energy.
- 55:00Just that moving water helps. You do have the one in front of
- 55:03Spaceship Earth, which which is nice, but you know, I think
- 55:07world celebration gardens should have should have something in
- 55:11that space. So.
- 55:14Well, you know what? I didn't realize or I learned it
- 55:16in the past and then forgot. Jacob reminded me that the
- 55:20Fountain of Nations was truly the Fountain of Nations.
- 55:24It had, it contained water from every nation that, you know,
- 55:30Epcot represented. And when he told me that, that
- 55:33was heartbreaking to me. How could they eliminate that?
- 55:38That's that's what makes Epcot. So they really shouldn't have
- 55:44gotten rid of that. I think it should have stayed
- 55:46because of that reason. Now they did, I don't know if
- 55:49you know, but they did the same thing with Small World.
- 55:50When Small World opened, they put water from all 7 continents.
- 55:54Oh. Oh, I didn't know that.
- 55:57Yeah. It was like.
- 55:57And does that remain? I would assume so, yeah, but
- 56:06that's not even the biggest one in.
- 56:09Really. That's not even the biggest one
- 56:12in Epcot. There's a huge one and that,
- 56:16well, there's two. They're right next to each other
- 56:19that we need something. OK, I know what you're talking
- 56:24about because we share a brain. It is going to be the golden
- 56:29Dome and it's going to be mission space.
- 56:32It's time to wipe out mission space and we need to get that
- 56:36golden Dome going. Maybe not the idea that they
- 56:39unveiled as blue sky right before, but they need to do
- 56:44something over there as well. Yeah, and, and Epcot would be
- 56:49perfect, right? It it would be, and you know,
- 56:52the play Pavilion I thought was pretty cool when they had the,
- 56:57oh goodness, the Epcot preview that they did in the Odyssey
- 57:01building there. Yes.
- 57:02They displayed a lot of what was coming to the Play Pavilion.
- 57:06And so that's where I saw it because again, I had just gone
- 57:09back to Disney World at that point and I was, I was pretty
- 57:16excited about it. You know, it wasn't an arcade,
- 57:18it wasn't Disney Quest. It was something very different.
- 57:22And we didn't get it. And then when they started to
- 57:28invest all the money in Epic Games, I was like, oh, here it
- 57:32comes. This is, this is where we get it
- 57:35now. And we're still not getting it.
- 57:37So I don't know. I I think there's a lot that
- 57:41could be done with with and here's the thing now, I think
- 57:46that if they went somewhere along the lines of what the Play
- 57:50Pavilion was going to be, I think you get back a lot of what
- 57:55Epcot used to be, that forward-looking, forward
- 57:59thinking, imaginative ideas, creative ideas, communicore
- 58:04innovations. I think you get a lot of that
- 58:07back. Will it be the same?
- 58:08No, but it'll be something. I I agree you can't just drop I
- 58:15PS in and and it just be an attraction.
- 58:18It has to speak of Epcot of the past.
- 58:21That is going to win a lot more people over.
- 58:24If you can do things that speak to the future.
- 58:28Yes, I just remember things, you know, before Jacob and and Jill
- 58:32were born and Tammy and I came to Disney and I tried to explain
- 58:36Epcot. I'm like, I just remember going
- 58:39into like interventions and things like that and we saw like
- 58:4240 inch flat screen TV's and I'm like, wow, wow.
- 58:47I I would love for that to happen someday, but I doubt it
- 58:51and here we are. Video.
- 58:53Calls just yeah the video call thing I remember I think there's
- 58:57a video call phone in there you know so you know yeah Disney can
- 59:03obtain the this futuristic information from any of these
- 59:06companies which I think they did in the past how else would they
- 59:09know that's right and it and it's all come to fruition you
- 59:13know so Yep I think they they revamped those two areas and
- 59:18they definitely have it speak to Epcot of the 80s and early 90s
- 59:24where we can we can look to the future it that that was the
- 59:27exciting part right you go to Epcot and you let's go look at
- 59:30some futuristic stuff and it has such a track record you can
- 59:33trust it you can trust Epcot wow Disney is saying this is going
- 59:38to happen wow OK I can't wait for it right you know it's not
- 59:44it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when usually.
- 59:47The other part, I remember where I was going when I took a
- 59:52tangent earlier, World Showplace, which a lot of people
- 1:00:00don't even know what that is, right, World Showplace.
- 1:00:03We haven't stepped, we haven't stepped foot in there in like 2
- 1:00:07years maybe. It used to be open for
- 1:00:10festivals. Right.
- 1:00:12Right now, they don't even tell. Them where World Showplace is.
- 1:00:15So World Showplace is right by Canada as you, as you, I know a
- 1:00:22lot of people don't want to start in Canada, but if you
- 1:00:25start in Canada, you look to the right before you get to Canada,
- 1:00:30you have these large swinging doors.
- 1:00:34No, no, no. It's after you pass Canada on
- 1:00:37the. Right after.
- 1:00:38Just just before the UK. It's between the UK and Canada.
- 1:00:40Between the UK and Canada, that's right, that's right,
- 1:00:42that's right. And so if you look behind beyond
- 1:00:48that, you have this blue roofed building and that's World
- 1:00:52Showplace. The last thing that, and, and I
- 1:00:55remember watching it, there was a, was it a pen trading event?
- 1:00:59I think it was a pen trading event.
- 1:01:00There was something happening in there and I had to to turn it on
- 1:01:06because I wanted to see what the building look like because I've
- 1:01:09never been in there. Oh.
- 1:01:12And so that's what made me think about the pin traders that
- 1:01:15they're moving out of Disneyland and that we still have an Epcot.
- 1:01:19I wondered because we were there Sunday and we saw all the pen
- 1:01:23traders there, could you do something like that?
- 1:01:26Could you move them into that space and have them use that
- 1:01:28space for pin trading? And then maybe do you charge for
- 1:01:34tables, right, and turn this into something, some revenue for
- 1:01:39the parks? I don't know, because I'm sure
- 1:01:43some of these pin traders would go for that.
- 1:01:44But then there's probably liability because Disney's
- 1:01:47paying, you know, getting money from the tables.
- 1:01:50And then if you're not trading authentic pins, and there's
- 1:01:55probably some liability there. So maybe that maybe they won't
- 1:01:57do it. But if they wanted to move pin
- 1:02:01traders out of that area, they certainly have space for it.
- 1:02:10Yeah. I was going to say, if you're
- 1:02:12watching and you're enjoying the the streams, definitely hit that
- 1:02:16like button for POC Bros and living in Diz.
- 1:02:19It really helps out these podcasts, so go ahead.
- 1:02:23And other than that, I, I feel like, you know, they're, they're
- 1:02:28in good shape. Are there some things that I
- 1:02:30would like to see in Epcot? Yes.
- 1:02:32Will we talk about them on our D 23 episode?
- 1:02:36Oh, we're going to talk about them because we, Corey and I
- 1:02:39will have an episode coming up the week before D-23.
- 1:02:42We're going to do AD 23 episode where we decide what rides are
- 1:02:50coming and names of rides and all sorts of stuff.
- 1:02:54So we're going to have a little fun with that.
- 1:02:55And then we'll do the following week where we do a recap of D-23
- 1:02:59to see how wrong we were. Because, you know, we're not
- 1:03:03Imagineers, but we like to play one on TV.
- 1:03:06So yeah, I think other than that, we're we're good.
- 1:03:10I was upset that Epcot recently changed my the name of my store.
- 1:03:15The store under Spaceship Earth used to be called Camera Center.
- 1:03:20They recently changed it to Pin Traders.
- 1:03:24Yes. They should have looked at his
- 1:03:25camera center because that's where I used to go get.
- 1:03:29They used to sell flash bulbs for the older cameras back in
- 1:03:33the 80s. You could go there and buy flash
- 1:03:35bulbs for your for your old camera.
- 1:03:38Your little camera, your one. Ten yeah, your 110, your 126
- 1:03:43film way before 35mm. So yeah, I think, I think that's
- 1:03:51other than that, I, I think Epcot's in, in good shape.
- 1:03:54I mean, it recently went through, you know, as Corey
- 1:03:56mentioned, it was, it was called Walcott for a reason.
- 1:03:59So I think other than that we're we're good there.
- 1:04:04How about you? You good on on Epcot?
- 1:04:08I'm good, I'm good on Epcot, ready to move on to Hollywood.
- 1:04:13So someone recently mentioned, I think it was on a Doctor Disney
- 1:04:20post that they said they said, what if what we're getting in
- 1:04:25Hollywood Studios right now is representation of each of the
- 1:04:33studios. So you have the animation
- 1:04:37studios because you have the animation courtyard, you have
- 1:04:40Pixar represented by Toy Story Land, you have Lucas represented
- 1:04:44by Star Wars. Maybe that's the next theme of
- 1:04:49Hollywood Studios. And then maybe you have Muppets.
- 1:04:53Maybe when the villain show moves and you have Muppets,
- 1:04:57could you do Fox? And then what do you, where do
- 1:05:00you, where do you, where do you put that?
- 1:05:02The Star Tours and Indiana Jones and Back Lot Express go away and
- 1:05:07then you get Fox representation over there.
- 1:05:12But could you get rid of Star Tours?
- 1:05:19That's a tricky one right there. That's a tricky 1, boy.
- 1:05:28I put that question on myself. I don't know if we if that was
- 1:05:34announced today that it's going away, would you be upset?
- 1:05:41If yes, because they're bringing Mando to it.
- 1:05:44No, I I know what you mean. No, no, no, you're thinking
- 1:05:47about Millennium Falcon, or I'm talking Star Tours.
- 1:05:50Oh yes, yes, yes, that's right, I don't.
- 1:05:56Is there room to move it into Galaxy's Edge?
- 1:06:00Well, that's what I was pausing and thinking about too.
- 1:06:03Do we have room to grow there? I don't know.
- 1:06:12We'd have to look at a map. Let's just you know.
- 1:06:14So who knows on that one? It it is out of place these
- 1:06:19days. It's out of place.
- 1:06:21Revamp it is out of place. So you know, maybe maybe when
- 1:06:31you first walk in coming from Monsters Inc land and resistance
- 1:06:38rises to your left on your right, there's like a ship there
- 1:06:42on just this display doing nothing to the opposite side.
- 1:06:46There's a ship as well. I mean, if there's enough room
- 1:06:49right there maybe to plop that in there, then I would I would
- 1:06:54agree with that if they could do that.
- 1:06:58But I mean I'm. Just wondering if if what's
- 1:07:01backing up to that space is Toy Story.
- 1:07:04Right, right. Might be too much a Toy Story.
- 1:07:06So, OK, let's assume there's no room for that.
- 1:07:11Would we be upset if we were getting a whole bunch of new
- 1:07:14stuff? I don't know.
- 1:07:16I'm a little torn on that. I mean, Star Tours is one of
- 1:07:21those where, I don't know, I enjoy it.
- 1:07:27I think I kind of hang on to it. I like to hang on to it.
- 1:07:30But there's room for back lot and there's room for, you know,
- 1:07:34with Indy, as great as Indy's been, if we wipe that out and we
- 1:07:40did a whole Fox area or something, Foxland, they'd have
- 1:07:45to do a better job than Universal did with Simpsons for
- 1:07:48sure. Right?
- 1:07:51It's it's not great by any stretch at all.
- 1:07:55You know what they skin? You know they didn't.
- 1:07:58It that was. That was, yeah.
- 1:07:59That was a quick back to the future Band-Aid.
- 1:08:03So you got you got to wonder what would Disney I wondered
- 1:08:07this too, because they do. They have hinted here and there
- 1:08:10with so when you walked through animation courtyard before, they
- 1:08:16would always have on the light posts these banners, these
- 1:08:20flags, and they've had fox ones recently, you know, Bob's
- 1:08:30Burgers, things like that, more of your adult animation.
- 1:08:35So would would Disney dare put something like that in their
- 1:08:39park? I would be shocked.
- 1:08:42It would be, you know, a changing of the times.
- 1:08:47I kind of don't think that they would do a Fox animation.
- 1:08:50I still say that's that's a fifth gate.
- 1:08:54Me too. If they do it, it's going to be
- 1:08:56somewhere else. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:08:59But Hollywood is the most disjointed park of any of them.
- 1:09:08Maybe, maybe Animal Kingdom. I mean, you have the Tree of
- 1:09:12Life, you got Discovery Island, you kind of loop back there.
- 1:09:15But Animal Kingdom is disjointed too.
- 1:09:17But Hollywood Studios is disjointed.
- 1:09:19You cannot, there's no easy way to get from Tower of Terror to
- 1:09:23Galaxy's Edge. You know, you, you, you've got
- 1:09:27to walk through 1 land to get to the other where you know, you
- 1:09:30don't have the hub and spoke like you do at Magic Kingdom.
- 1:09:35So I think it always feels that way.
- 1:09:39And then as you look at like Star Tours, you know, being at a
- 1:09:43place there, the reason for that is, you know, that was the Star
- 1:09:48Wars representation before Disney owned Star Wars.
- 1:09:52Then they went and did the the, you know, the galaxy's edge.
- 1:09:57So I'm going to scroll back a little bit.
- 1:10:00So so I want to see what you think about this one.
- 1:10:03So so Drew says few smugglers run and Star Tours smugglers run
- 1:10:09is just not what it should be in such a new great land.
- 1:10:13So they they could be similar. What about a star tour?
- 1:10:21What could you Could you put Star Tours next to Smugglers
- 1:10:25Run? Yeah, you absolutely could,
- 1:10:29because it's, it's transportation, right?
- 1:10:32It is a a port where ships can land, come and go.
- 1:10:41So maybe that's that's that's an idea.
- 1:10:45That's an idea. I think Rise just needs to be
- 1:10:51working in in a mode. And I'm not saying the a mode
- 1:10:56that we currently have. I mean a mode get the guns
- 1:11:02working again. Just give me that.
- 1:11:05Like if you figured out what was wrong with them on the West
- 1:11:08Coast, you can figure it out on the East Coast.
- 1:11:10I don't understand, just doesn't make.
- 1:11:13Sense, right? There's no, there's no excuse
- 1:11:15for it. You just have to open up the
- 1:11:18pocketbook on that one. I mean, that's all it is.
- 1:11:22You fixed Moana's waves in Disney's Starlight Parade.
- 1:11:25You can fix the guns on. You know, I get why we can't fix
- 1:11:31the Yeti got it. You have to tear the whole.
- 1:11:33Mountain, yeah, they just don't make those parts anymore.
- 1:11:36Yeah, but. You could fix the guns cuz you
- 1:11:40showed us you can over in Disneyland.
- 1:11:42Yep, and are those guns still working in Disneyland?
- 1:11:47I don't know. APP is in, is in the chat.
- 1:11:50Greg's. In chat.
- 1:11:52Greg's in chat. Any of you that are in chat that
- 1:11:55that are West Coast, let us let us know if the guns are still
- 1:11:57working over there. So yeah, Galaxy's Edge, I mean,
- 1:12:04you're getting a little bit of a refresh, which I think is really
- 1:12:07needed right now. When smugglers run.
- 1:12:09That's going to be really, really cool to have a little bit
- 1:12:12more to do as the engineer. You have new missions to go on,
- 1:12:18so that's going to be great. Rise of the Resistance is the
- 1:12:23best attraction that I've ever been on.
- 1:12:26In the world, it's. Down.
- 1:12:27I mean, there's just nothing like that.
- 1:12:30Total immersion. Should they do a refurb on Rise
- 1:12:37if we get your Luke Skywalker and your Princess Leia, You and
- 1:12:40all that? Didn't you say that?
- 1:12:42They could they, could they do it?
- 1:12:45Somebody said that they'll I think it's been a rumor, which
- 1:12:50would probably start in Disneyland.
- 1:12:54I'm OK if it doesn't, but. You have two sides to it.
- 1:13:00Oh yeah, and it could be like, what side am I getting?
- 1:13:04You know, I love that mystery of things.
- 1:13:07Pretty cool. Although that would that would
- 1:13:09mess with the pre shows though. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yeah, it sure
- 1:13:14would. Yeah, it would.
- 1:13:15That would mess with the pre shows.
- 1:13:19How about here's 1 mania. It's time updating.
- 1:13:25Screenings. And updated shooting galleries
- 1:13:29for the smart Imagineers. This is not a hard thing to do.
- 1:13:33I think you you shut down mania for three months Max.
- 1:13:38I'm giving them extra leeway. You shut it down, you you throw
- 1:13:43up some new screens and yeah, I think that would work
- 1:13:47beautifully. It would, it would not.
- 1:13:49Not that it needs increased interest in the parks because
- 1:13:53that is always a decent to long wait time.
- 1:13:57So it's not that it's needed for those purposes, but it would be
- 1:14:00nice to create some more excitement and and do that with
- 1:14:05Mania. Steve and Tony says find a place
- 1:14:09to bring back the great movie Ride represents Hollywood
- 1:14:12studios. I get that it's not going to
- 1:14:16happen because they don't own that or or they they're not
- 1:14:20going to license that anymore from MGM.
- 1:14:24Do they have their own catalogs now?
- 1:14:26100% So could they do something like that?
- 1:14:30Yes. I would rather them do the Great
- 1:14:33Muppet Ride though. I think that even better
- 1:14:38because. They look at that.
- 1:14:41No kidding, right? How cool would that be?
- 1:14:45Yeah, yeah. So.
- 1:14:47That would be really cool. Yeah.
- 1:14:49I other than that, I think we're good in Hollywood.
- 1:14:51Yeah, I think Mania needs an update for sure.
- 1:14:55Other than that, I think what we're getting is is really good.
- 1:14:59What about the shows there? Do you think any of the shows
- 1:15:03need an update? I've got I've got one more spot
- 1:15:08vacation fun, the Mickey shorts, you know, you know my family and
- 1:15:12your family. There's nobody that had bigger
- 1:15:14cheerleaders for Mickey shorts. We need a new season.
- 1:15:17I I love that Mickey so much. I love those shorts.
- 1:15:21They're so awesome. It it's had its run like you can
- 1:15:29only go watch that so many times.
- 1:15:30I mean, that's probably I don't even pay attention to it.
- 1:15:34I don't know what the wait times are for it.
- 1:15:36I don't know. Jeez, it's it's like my least
- 1:15:40known ride in all of Walt Disney World, now that I'm thinking
- 1:15:43about it in terms of wait times and things like that.
- 1:15:46Is it eating people really? Is it really not?
- 1:15:50Yeah, that might be a dead area. So.
- 1:15:53They used it for the May the fourth store.
- 1:15:57That should tell you everything you need to.
- 1:15:59Know Oh yeah, right. They're like no land.
- 1:16:02They're like we we need space here.
- 1:16:05Go use that. We finally bought Merchant
- 1:16:08potato land, you know. Which so your point makes me
- 1:16:14think of one we forgot at Epcot Pixar shorts that that's never
- 1:16:21busy, right? Never busy because I could I
- 1:16:25could come home and watch them here.
- 1:16:27Now I can't watch them. Exactly.
- 1:16:29But they're right here. And all all vacation fun is.
- 1:16:33And it's great because I love Mickey shorts, but it's really a
- 1:16:36mishmash. It's a montage of existing
- 1:16:39Mickey shorts, right, that you can watch on Disney Plus.
- 1:16:42Because once I saw, I saw it the first time and and a lot of
- 1:16:46those were new to me. But then when I went back and
- 1:16:48watched all the Mickey shorts and is like, what, close to 100
- 1:16:51or more, I started to recognize the clips in Vacation Fun.
- 1:16:55I'm like, oh, I remember that episode.
- 1:16:57Oh, I remember that one. I remember the itchy sweater,
- 1:16:59things like that. So yeah, we need to wipe that
- 1:17:04out. Yeah, something else that I saw
- 1:17:11here. Oh, Drew says when villains
- 1:17:15moves, they'll open up. Will villains move when they
- 1:17:19open up? Villains land.
- 1:17:21That'll be an open space for another Muppet ride.
- 1:17:25Listen, I have said I don't. I need to start writing these
- 1:17:30things down, right? I've said this from the day.
- 1:17:33It's documented on the podcast. It's somewhere and I no.
- 1:17:36There's AI now I can just go in and and just type in AI.
- 1:17:40Where did Lawrence say this needs to happen?
- 1:17:43Because I've been calling for that when that villain show move
- 1:17:47it over to villains land when it opens and do something with The
- 1:17:51Muppets there. So I think that that's what's
- 1:17:53going to happen. I could be totally wrong, but
- 1:17:56that's what I'm that's what I'm certainly hoping for.
- 1:18:02USC Greg says that they updated Mania in Japan.
- 1:18:05Number one, I didn't even know Mania was in Japan.
- 1:18:08And #2 that's pretty cool. Like I need to see a video of
- 1:18:11that. Yeah, it's, it's time.
- 1:18:17It's time they, I mean, there were two I was watching
- 1:18:20yesterday and there were two people that had the right reride
- 1:18:25because the gun wasn't working or the screens weren't working
- 1:18:28or it's weren't synced or whatever.
- 1:18:30So yeah, it's it's time. Let's go ahead and give that a
- 1:18:33nice refresh. I have a hot take.
- 1:18:37Oh, OK. We get the return of our street
- 1:18:41players on the day of Animation Courtyard.
- 1:18:45You remember our you remember our people on the on the
- 1:18:48director's chairs. And that whole show, just a hot
- 1:18:51take just came to my head. It was told to me.
- 1:18:56I've been talking about the fact that we have Holly Grove there,
- 1:19:02which I think they're phenomenal band.
- 1:19:04They're the jugglers that juggle with Donald Duck there and.
- 1:19:11I That's a great show, by the way.
- 1:19:13Yes, yes. I love that show.
- 1:19:16I was part of that show on May the Fourth.
- 1:19:19Yeah. Did you see that?
- 1:19:21Yeah, I, I think that that's the kind of stuff that we need.
- 1:19:25And so when I saw that I, that's the first thing I thought it's
- 1:19:27like, OK, maybe this is part of that new Hollywood Studios
- 1:19:33identity and we will get that back.
- 1:19:35So I hope that's the case. I really do.
- 1:19:44I don't know if we even have anything at Animal Kingdom.
- 1:19:48I mean let. Me take a look at my list I
- 1:19:50gotta look at my list I could I could be wrong I mean we're
- 1:19:54getting we're. No, I'm kidding.
- 1:19:56Yeah, man, I never saw those in person.
- 1:20:00It was a it was, it was a cute idea, but it just wasn't working
- 1:20:05with the wind and all that stuff.
- 1:20:09Hey, you know, maybe it's a little early for this, but, and
- 1:20:12I and I still love every bit about it, but maybe we get a new
- 1:20:16film in the future for Flight of Passage.
- 1:20:22Could you do flight of passage without it being 3D?
- 1:20:29You could. You could, but you would rather
- 1:20:35be. 3 DI just don't like the glasses I.
- 1:20:41There's I know, I know, but the 3D is a little more immersive,
- 1:20:47you know? I like seeing real 3D movies in
- 1:20:49the theatre. Whenever there's an opportunity,
- 1:20:52I always jump on the 3D version. It's kind of funny.
- 1:20:57Like it doesn't bother you. If you're watching a good action
- 1:21:00movie in non 3D, you're into the film.
- 1:21:03I mean, I get so immersed sometimes I'll show up to a
- 1:21:06theater and I'm like, man, this screen is small.
- 1:21:08This is a small screen that's not going to be as much fun.
- 1:21:12But once you're in the film, it doesn't matter.
- 1:21:14The size of the screen or the presentation doesn't matter
- 1:21:17because you're into the film so. But I prefer 3D over none.
- 1:21:22But you know, we learned with Ratatouille that it's actually a
- 1:21:26little bit better without it being 3D, so.
- 1:21:29See, I, I struggle with that because I think that Ratatouille
- 1:21:34benefits from being 2D because you have all the set pieces and
- 1:21:38all of that. So I think the 3D having to wear
- 1:21:42the glasses takes away from the set pieces.
- 1:21:45Whereas as Drew mentions, you know, flight of Passage needs an
- 1:21:50update because the screens are as fuzzy as they are.
- 1:21:54And I, that's why I said the glasses because I don't know if
- 1:21:56it's the glasses or the screen or what it is.
- 1:21:58But if that was clean 3D, amazing.
- 1:22:04And I don't know if it was the day, well, it opened like as the
- 1:22:08screen just deteriorated of the glasses, you know, become so
- 1:22:12scratched that they are messed up.
- 1:22:14I don't, I don't know what that issue is, but I love Flight of
- 1:22:17Passage. I just wish that it was a
- 1:22:21cleaner vision, you know? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:22:30And of course the Tree of Life got an update, which is fine,
- 1:22:34but, and I'm not even like going back on the idea of, of a Bug's
- 1:22:40Life because it's sentimental or anything.
- 1:22:44I think it was still just a better show than Zootopia.
- 1:22:47But we, we did enjoy the Zootopia show and I don't mind
- 1:22:52going in to see it anytime we're at Magic Kingdom.
- 1:22:54So but I did like, I did like, still like Bug's Life better.
- 1:23:02So I don't know. Everest is fine.
- 1:23:06I'm still fine with Everest. I don't think that needs any
- 1:23:09changes. It's an amazing coaster.
- 1:23:12It's one of my favorites of all time, so I think I'm OK with
- 1:23:16Animal Kingdom. Yeah.
- 1:23:18I mean, we're getting so much there it it's hard to be.
- 1:23:21Yeah, I didn't even think of that.
- 1:23:24It's hard to be. Down otherwise I'd be like
- 1:23:26dinosaur, you need to wipe out dinosaur and you need to wipe
- 1:23:29out the you know the whole gaming area and all that stuff
- 1:23:32yeah so Triceratops and they're doing.
- 1:23:34That it's time for that to go. Yeah, no, we're getting, we're
- 1:23:38getting quite a bit there. I'm very excited.
- 1:23:41That building is coming. The building for the Encanto
- 1:23:44ride is coming along really well.
- 1:23:47That is going to be a top notch attraction, folks.
- 1:23:52I am telling you right now, I think they're putting so much
- 1:23:56effort into that one. That one's going to be the one
- 1:24:00you're going to see. The Flight of Passage is going
- 1:24:02to be like, what do we do now? We'll go to Flight of Passage,
- 1:24:07like I'm telling you, everybody's going to be over at
- 1:24:09Encanto, especially because it's going to be a family ride.
- 1:24:12Whereas, well, I believe it is going to be a family ride with
- 1:24:17no height requirement. Whereas Flight of Passage has to
- 1:24:20be height requirement. And not everybody wants to do it
- 1:24:26right because they don't want to sit on the on the seat or, you
- 1:24:29know, because you have to straddle it like a bike or
- 1:24:34motion sickness and stuff like that.
- 1:24:36Whereas you're not going to get that with Encanto.
- 1:24:37So I think it's going to be a much busier experience than than
- 1:24:41flight of passage for quite a while, quite a while.
- 1:24:46So there were a few people in chat mentioning some of the
- 1:24:49shows, not the show, not the like shows like the Finding Nemo
- 1:24:53show, but like bringing back the kiss goodnight our, you know,
- 1:25:03bringing back Tapestry of Nations.
- 1:25:05I think, I think Epcot needs something during the day.
- 1:25:13You know, it doesn't have you, you have some of that
- 1:25:15entertainment, but I think you, you, you.
- 1:25:17A Tapestry of Nations parade would be amazing going through
- 1:25:22that whole walkway there. Yeah, I agree.
- 1:25:25Bring that back. I bring it back because you can.
- 1:25:28You can listen to that on Park World Radio and I love it.
- 1:25:32I really enjoy it. We're going to play the rest of
- 1:25:35the the show playing in the background.
- 1:25:41I think I, this may be controversial.
- 1:25:47Festival Fantasy, I think needs an update.
- 1:25:51I think it's time for us to get something new, whether it's
- 1:25:55Festival, fantasy #2 or whatever you, you know, the sequel,
- 1:25:59whatever you want to call it. I mean, it's a great parade and
- 1:26:03I love it. But I just wonder, could we,
- 1:26:05what would we get if we got something new, you know?
- 1:26:11Those are Starlight. They are.
- 1:26:13Those are magnificent floats. Yeah.
- 1:26:16Just come up with something else.
- 1:26:18Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm down with and maybe adding a few floats,
- 1:26:22maybe subtracting a few floats. Sure.
- 1:26:24You got to keep the Rapunzel 1, though.
- 1:26:26Those swinging axes are so cool. Yes.
- 1:26:29I love that one. Yeah, I love that one.
- 1:26:32In fact, we were watching it Sunday and.
- 1:26:34And Finley said she realized because she wasn't in a
- 1:26:38stroller, we didn't take a stroller.
- 1:26:41And so she was standing and she was like that.
- 1:26:45No, Daddy, look, there's something they're they're not
- 1:26:48moving. I just noticed that they're not
- 1:26:50moving. I was like, yes, they're not
- 1:26:51moving. So sometimes they move,
- 1:26:52sometimes they they swing, sometimes they don't.
- 1:26:54And it really depends on the, the cast members that they have.
- 1:27:01They only have enough guys to not have it balanced.
- 1:27:03Then they don't swing. They're they're stationary.
- 1:27:06But yeah, I, I listen, I like love Starlight, you know, that's
- 1:27:14not going anywhere. Happily Ever After is not going
- 1:27:17anywhere because I think Happily Ever After gives you the right
- 1:27:21feel. I think it gives you enough
- 1:27:23variety in there. Same thing with Festival of
- 1:27:27Fantasy. But I think that so many people
- 1:27:28are down on it because they know what it was like pre 2020 and
- 1:27:33they're like, this is like half the version of what we used to
- 1:27:36got. You know what we used to used to
- 1:27:38get. So maybe it's time for something
- 1:27:41new. I don't know.
- 1:27:42I don't know. Fantastic.
- 1:27:45That's not going. Anywhere.
- 1:27:46Don't touch that. Nope, can't touch it.
- 1:27:48That's because it can't touch this.
- 1:27:51Although I do think you need a drone show at Animal Kingdom.
- 1:27:56Yeah, just saying, yeah, a night show right in that area, it's
- 1:28:01just dead. They haven't come up with
- 1:28:03anything that they could put there.
- 1:28:05Yeah, a a night show would be good.
- 1:28:09I also think, not positive, but it feels like Pandora is away
- 1:28:14from the animals so you could keep that park open a little
- 1:28:19longer if you did a night show and allowed the guests to walk
- 1:28:24around Pandora and see it at night.
- 1:28:29When you open Tropical Americas, you're going to have to have
- 1:28:35that park open longer. Yeah.
- 1:28:38And, you know, to be honest, that is I think that is also far
- 1:28:42away from the animals. So, you know, could could you
- 1:28:46get away with now it becomes a half park at night and it could
- 1:28:51literally close, you know, Disney.
- 1:28:53So minimum 9:00 ten might be more reasonable, especially in
- 1:28:58the beginning, right? There's going to be a lot to do
- 1:29:02over there. So yeah, imagine that when that
- 1:29:05opens, you've got indie running, you've got all of Tropical
- 1:29:09America's right there in the vicinity is Everest.
- 1:29:13So you could run Everest. You could have the nighttime
- 1:29:16drone show that could really revive that park and and push it
- 1:29:21to a point that it's never seen before in the history of that
- 1:29:24park. Oh.
- 1:29:25Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:29:28Now, did you ever do a nighttime safari?
- 1:29:30Because they tried that for a while and we did the nighttime
- 1:29:34safaris and I don't know if we did it before we had a channel
- 1:29:41or I have any video evidence of that.
- 1:29:43It wouldn't have filmed well. But I remember they tried to put
- 1:29:47out put up like sun lamps or something and lighting to kind
- 1:29:51of keep the animals revived, right?
- 1:29:54So I know I don't think they'll ever go back to that.
- 1:29:57But that would have been cool if you could do more at night time
- 1:30:00safaris though. Yeah, you know, I forgot the
- 1:30:04other thing that's opening at Animal Kingdom is the new Bluey
- 1:30:08meet and greet and everything that's happening over there.
- 1:30:12So we'll we'll be getting that soon as well.
- 1:30:15Lots of new stuff. And we might sound greedy,
- 1:30:19right? Like we're like we're getting
- 1:30:22all this stuff. We just got Big Thunder and and
- 1:30:25all these these new attractions and we got Starlight and but we
- 1:30:28want more and more and more. It's just.
- 1:30:31That's how we are. We're just dreaming, yeah.
- 1:30:35Just just dreaming, you know, Disney does Blue Sky.
- 1:30:39They're already thinking about stuff.
- 1:30:40Here's what's funny. I think people don't understand,
- 1:30:43like they don't, because we don't know what's happening.
- 1:30:46Maybe this is a little bit of the universal effect, right?
- 1:30:50Because not only are permits filed, they're building the
- 1:30:54coaster for monsters. They're building the Encanto
- 1:30:59ride and we don't even know the name of it.
- 1:31:03Like they haven't even told us the name of it.
- 1:31:05And that's. Already.
- 1:31:07Vertical, like it looked like the building's already being
- 1:31:10painted for Encantos. So maybe that's more of that
- 1:31:15that universal effect that that you mentioned.
- 1:31:23But I think we're in for a good couple years, especially at the
- 1:31:27speed that they're working. I think we're we're going to be
- 1:31:30in good shape, very good shape. I agree.
- 1:31:36Make make sure when you get to Disney that your camcorders have
- 1:31:40plenty of film in them because you're going to, you're going to
- 1:31:42want to see it. Or you could just watch Living
- 1:31:45in Diz when he goes live. That's right.
- 1:31:49Especially with the cast member previews coming up.
- 1:31:51Coming up. Lots happening.
- 1:31:57Lots happening. Let's see.
- 1:32:00So tell us about the cast member preview dates again.
- 1:32:05When when will you be able to see Soren?
- 1:32:09OK, so on this channel this Friday at 10 AM, we'll be going
- 1:32:15live at Epcot. It'll be a short stream.
- 1:32:19I'm literally dipping in just to do that live stream and then
- 1:32:25I'll be off to work. So we want to be able to bring
- 1:32:29that all to you as fast as we can on the channel.
- 1:32:32And it might be the first time you and anyone else has seen it.
- 1:32:36So we're, we have an, we have a boarding time of 10 AM.
- 1:32:41So actually I'll be, I'll be live a little bit sooner than
- 1:32:43that on Friday. Yeah, I'm all for.
- 1:32:51All for. Are you gonna watch it?
- 1:32:53So that's what I was just going to say.
- 1:32:55I've got to decide if I'm going to watch it or or not because I
- 1:32:58will be there Wednesday. Yeah, I would.
- 1:33:02I wouldn't watch it if I were. You.
- 1:33:03Yeah, I think I'm going to wait. So, you know, I'm trying to
- 1:33:09think I can get there as early as I I want.
- 1:33:13I'll probably start streaming at like 9 or something.
- 1:33:18I have to feel it out, but between 9930 or something like
- 1:33:22that, make sure you set your notifications.
- 1:33:24We will be going live and maybe we can do soaring more than
- 1:33:27once. If we can, we'll do it if we
- 1:33:29don't have to wait too long, but it probably wouldn't be more
- 1:33:31than like a 90 minute stream or something.
- 1:33:33But it'll be out there. It'll be there for all to watch.
- 1:33:36We'll post APOV of it right away as well.
- 1:33:40So all the content will be out there.
- 1:33:42We'll, we'll do the shorts of it and we'll post all that up like
- 1:33:45we did for Big Thunder Mountain on its opening day, which I
- 1:33:49still can't believe. It was almost a walk on for me.
- 1:33:51I was thinking it was going to be like an hour wait minimum.
- 1:33:55We walked on to Big Thunder that day.
- 1:33:59Big stuff for the channel. It wiped me out though.
- 1:34:01I put the couch and I got home and I didn't move.
- 1:34:04That was a long, that was a long weekend, but.
- 1:34:06Yeah, it was less than three hours.
- 1:34:07Yeah, it certainly did. It was well worth the sacrifice.
- 1:34:11So again, Soren, this this Friday live on the channel 10 AM
- 1:34:16ride time and then you all. I keep thinking that they're
- 1:34:20going to see what we do Monday as well.
- 1:34:22So this coming Monday, we are going to do Rock and Roller
- 1:34:27Coaster starring The Muppets as a cast member preview invite
- 1:34:30that we got. And we can't live stream that,
- 1:34:34but Disney said we can hold the video and at midnight we can
- 1:34:37drop it on the 21st. So that's just Wednesday and
- 1:34:43we'll be live at Epcot. I know, I know.
- 1:34:46And we'll be live on Wednesdays, not tomorrow.
- 1:34:49The following Wednesdays at Epcot with Tammy and Jacob,
- 1:34:52we'll be riding Sauron. And then 90 minutes after we get
- 1:34:55off the air, we'll be debuting Muppets, The Muppets Roller
- 1:35:00Coaster, Rock and roller Coaster.
- 1:35:02And then it goes beyond that again, right?
- 1:35:04Am I missing anything else? Where from there we jump?
- 1:35:06No, from there we jump to Saturdays, which will be rock
- 1:35:12and roller coaster for annual pass holders.
- 1:35:14So we'll be doing that one and then spending the day probably
- 1:35:19at Hollywood. Maybe we park up to Magic later
- 1:35:23because I can't get enough Starlight.
- 1:35:25And then that following Tuesday is the all day stream on the
- 1:35:29channel between Hollywood and Epcot for all the new stuff and
- 1:35:35finishing with Garden Grill. Sit down and dinner with all of
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- 1:36:11the end of the Monterey report on Thursdays.
- 1:36:13That's. That's perfect.
- 1:36:14I stopped there because I didn't know what the rest of the stuff
- 1:36:17was. So very cool.
- 1:36:21So I will be live on Thursday for the Monterey report.
- 1:36:25We'll bring you all the news, all of the Disney upfront news
- 1:36:28from today, all the news from this past week on Thursday at
- 1:36:326:30 on the Park Bros channel. Then Friday I'm going to be at
- 1:36:37the Got to Be and See Festival, which is like our State Fair but
- 1:36:41based around agriculture. But there's a lot of rides and
- 1:36:44stuff like that. We may or may not do some rides.
- 1:36:46I'll certainly show them to you because you know, there's they
- 1:36:49got some crazy State Fair rides. We'll look at some of the fried
- 1:36:53foods, fried Snickers and fried cheesecake and all that kind of
- 1:36:57stuff. We'll take a look at that.
- 1:36:59Yep. That needs to be a thumbnail.
- 1:37:01We went to the festival and we ate fried Snickers.
- 1:37:05Fried Snickers? Yep.
- 1:37:07Or well, my my favorite is peanut butter.
- 1:37:11Reese's peanut butter cups, fried deep fried peanut butter
- 1:37:15cups, and deep fried Kool-aid. What?
- 1:37:20Yeah, OK. I really need to tune in now.
- 1:37:23We need to see this stuff. So we'll see.
- 1:37:26We'll show you what what they have out there for for that
- 1:37:29festival. That'll be fun.
- 1:37:30That'll be at least Friday. I may go Saturday morning as
- 1:37:33well. So tune, tune in for that.
- 1:37:36Sounds like fun. Sounds like fun.
- 1:37:38And what time is that again? That's Friday.
- 1:37:40Friday, I'm probably going to start at like 7:00 PM, Yeah.
- 1:37:457:00 PM Yeah, we're going to work.
- 1:37:47Friday OK, go after work. We'll watch.
- 1:37:49We'll we'll watch. We'll definitely watch that on
- 1:37:51delay. We'll be at the movies probably,
- 1:37:53but we will come back home and great.
- 1:37:57Oh, you know what we're going to see?
- 1:37:59We're going to see the 40th anniversary of Top Gun.
- 1:38:04I saw that pop up and I was like, you know what, it's a slow
- 1:38:07weekend for films. Why don't we go see Top Gun on
- 1:38:12the big screen? Because I, I can't remember if I
- 1:38:15really watched. I don't think I saw Top Gun in
- 1:38:18the movies. I can't believe it's 40 years.
- 1:38:22Wow. Yes, deep fried kool-aid folks
- 1:38:25telling you. I'll post a picture of it on on
- 1:38:29my community page. Jay.
- 1:38:31Little Jay. He was like that big had it.
- 1:38:35Yeah. Yeah, Dionca's reacting in chat.
- 1:38:38And Steph, how do you fry Kool-aid?
- 1:38:43Yep, Yep. Yep, hey, it's the same thing.
- 1:38:44Like I always wondered, how do you how do you fry ice cream?
- 1:38:47That's right. That's right.
- 1:38:49Yeah. So very cool.
- 1:38:51We're going to have some fun. It's going to be another another
- 1:38:53good week on both channels. Looking forward to seeing what
- 1:38:56what we all accomplish out there.
- 1:38:58Make sure you're watching on the Disney
- 1:38:59streamernetworkdsn.disneystreams.com. You can catch all of us at at
- 1:39:04one time. We will not be live for the next
- 1:39:09two weeks. You know some some little guy
- 1:39:12over there, not little guy over there is graduating doing big
- 1:39:18things, which is just amazing to see.
- 1:39:22Very proud of of that young man Jacob.
- 1:39:26And so we will not be live next Tuesday.
- 1:39:28That's right. Following Tuesday, Corey will be
- 1:39:33live with an all day stream because that is May 26th and it
- 1:39:38seems like everything is opening that day so make sure to to tune
- 1:39:43into that. Yeah, lots happening.
- 1:39:46So couple weeks where we won't be with the Dyspod, but after
- 1:39:49that I don't see really much getting in the way of the Dyspod
- 1:39:52in the coming months before our before our cruise.
- 1:39:57Yeah, and we'll be we'll be lining up a lot of guests for
- 1:40:01the summer and the fall. Still talking to EULA Toca about
- 1:40:08coming back on the show and talking more.
- 1:40:10And not only her, but a lot of her family as well.
- 1:40:13So that should be a fun. Oh nice.
- 1:40:15Yeah. So working on that, working on
- 1:40:17some authors, some artists coming on the show as well.
- 1:40:21So make sure to to tune in, make sure that you have your
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- 1:40:37that. OK, that's good to know.
- 1:40:41Yep. Yep, yeah, we'll keep we'll keep
- 1:40:43telling everybody about that. So very.
- 1:40:48So I've got you set up to go to score Jason after this.
- 1:40:51He's over at Hollywood Studios and I'm sure he's going to be
- 1:40:56watching Fantasmic tonight. When you get over to to score
- 1:41:00Jason, make sure to tell him that the Dyspod sent you and
- 1:41:03tell him that the Booty U parade is the best parade.
- 1:41:06He doesn't he he ranks at the 4th high bias parade.
- 1:41:12What goes before that? Everything.
- 1:41:14Starlight. Starlight Festival, Fantasy and
- 1:41:19the Christmas Parade. Oh, OK, OK.
- 1:41:26I gave him a hard time about that.
- 1:41:28So you guys go over there and give him a hard time about that,
- 1:41:32yeah. Definitely harass him about
- 1:41:34that, he'll laugh. Yeah, yeah, I'll have a good
- 1:41:37time. All right, well, I hope you all
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- 1:42:13special event. That's right.
- 1:42:14That's right. So we'll be doing that.
- 1:42:17We haven't done Fantasmic in a while, and I have two great post
- 1:42:23shows put together for the live stream for tomorrow night and
- 1:42:26for Saturdays. So yeah, putting together some
- 1:42:29really great stuff for that. So it's the LID extra magic
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