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Episode 291: Villains Show, Muppet*Vision 3D Closure & Disneyland Hotel Updates
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Tom gives an update on his DVC resale contracts. Disney released new details about the upcoming Villains show at Hollywood Studios and the new nighttime parade coming to Magic Kingdom. Disney announced closing dates for Muppet*Vision 3D and the surrounding restaurants in preparation for Monsters Inc. land. With the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival around the corner, Disney has released details of the Garden Rocks Dining packages. Disneyland resort hotels are getting some new additions including new lounges and suites themed to Coco and the Incredibles.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall. The Voice of the Jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all points unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Resale Market. Thank you for joining us on episode 291 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom here with Trevor and Damon.
300th Episode Planning
00:00:42
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What's going on, guys? Nine away. what's Nine away, yeah. Nine away. Yeah, number nine. Number nine, yeah. Well, that gives me nine more weeks to figure out what we're going to do for the 300. No, we know what we're doing. We know what we're doing. I just got to plan it. I just got to plan it. Yeah, I just got to do it together. There you go.
00:00:58
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Yeah, we just know that the one challenge will be making sure that I have a or I assume we'll still do it on the regular platform, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I can connect in. Yeah, yeah. No, that we we will. We can exclude you in any way, Trevor. We never will. we couldn't I mean, the 300. You know, if if you guys went there and and I couldn't join, like, I wouldn't be mad. I would just be like, OK, you know.
00:01:19
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It's not, dude, 300. If it was like we were going and up here and freeze by my two ninety nine different story. Yeah. No, we have to do. Yeah. No, we have to do something cool for the 300. Then we all have to be there. That's that's the role. So, ah ah yeah, we'll do something fun. But yeah, anyway. Oh, man. Do you guys just want to get right into it? out Well, actually, I want to.
00:01:42
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Can I talk really quickly, though, about something? So i um my kind my contracts right that I have pending, ah so they both passed Rover, which I don't really care for the one I'm selling, obviously. But for the one I'm buying, I did care about, because I know Disney's been buying back a lot of Animal Kingdom contracts. And of course, I have an Animal Kingdom contract. So I was a little worried about it. But good news didn't happen. so And man, it's just like it's so easy to.
DVC Contract Updates
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So easy to buy that stuff. It really is. It's shockingly easy. I think I've talked about this before. like It's the easiest way to spend a lot of money ah because like they just send you all the documents, you sign them, you send them back, send them the money, boom, you're done. you know like It's almost like monopoly money.
00:02:24
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It is. Yeah, it doesn't feel real. Yeah, it doesn't feel real. It doesn't. No. And yeah, no, I'm looking forward to closing out my other one too. But yeah, so that's where I'm at. In case anybody's wondering with with that saga, it's it's been going well. You know, we just had to wait for for Rofer. Honestly, we didn't even wait that long because it was what, a couple of weeks. I think we got submitted on the third. So like, yeah, like three weeks, which is pretty good.
00:02:49
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So anyway, and then you'll realize what you've been missing all this time, which is booking your trips is going to be 10 times easier. Yeah, seriously. I, I can't tell you how excited I am to just have one bucket of points and and nothing else. ah Well, it's it's not one like in the, in the, uh, in the console, it's not just one bucket. like You still see both of the contracts, but it's i well yeah when you're booking something, it's like, where do you want your points from? And you just go, uh, just.
00:03:16
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whatever like like drain all of this one and take the remainder from the second one like it's not like yeah it's not ah like well but this one expires then or can i like yeah you're it's it's way simpler Yeah, because transferring between contracts is a huge pain and you have to call. and' i mean I know they they made it a little bit easier, but I think still think it's a ah process. right like you can't just yeah I don't even think you can still do it online. i i don't I haven't tried recently, but maybe they allow that now, but before you had to call. um But yeah, it's it's going to be much better ah just swapping these out. Plus, I'm getting 10 more points, so there's that.
00:03:52
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ah Anyway, what were you going to say Trevor before I started talking about my contract stuff?
Disney Content Focus
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and I was just going to ask if there was anything we did want to talk about before we got into the news, but you beat me to it. Oh, sorry about that. I need to apologize. It's all good. Yeah. and Damon, did you have anything? You're usually when I have something. No, because I have tried to separate it to keep the the internet happy. That's my, my goal here. I can't talk about off pocket things anymore. I mean, the internet is focused in on Disney. It's my, it's my yearly goal to focus in on Disney. If you, if you want to talk about Disney stuff, Rhubarb Travelers, Facebook group.
00:04:27
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We're like 59 people. Can I get like 60, like make me feel a little bit better about that? um I'll talk about Universal World Caribbean there, but I can't talk about that stuff. I'm trying to think about Disney things I have. I mean, we're just like I said, we're going to use, you know, some borrowed points because I don't still don't get points until like next December, man. um Wait, you're you're all the way to December 26 or this coming December? No, this coming to December. I don't have points until December 25 because I burned them all on the cruise.
00:04:54
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Wow, yeah, that's a lot. Yeah. That's a bummer. But, well, you'll have it soon. Have it soon enough. Have it soon enough. But that i was I'm surprised you don't have like an animation thing or anything like that, so. Disney-wise? Yeah, yeah.
00:05:10
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I mean, again, like what I'm looking forward to, Win or Lose should be interesting in terms of you know kind of new series coming up. I think it plays off inside out very well, and so I'm looking forward to that. Outside of that Disney-wise, I don't think so, but I am looking forward to that. I think that will be kind of cool. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, we can get we can start talking about news, Trevor, unless you have anything.
Disneyland Trip Planning
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Um, the only thing I have is that, so I'm actually going to be in the weird position of having to deal with the seven month booking window coming up. Yeah. And I'm actually getting worried. Why seven months? Because, so we're, we're planning a trip to Disneyland at the end of the year, how Disneyland. got Yeah. So, so we, so I have a plan that, um, or we're, we're going in November, so I'm going to be booking in April and we're going.
00:06:00
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I'm going to attempt to get into the Grand Californian, in which I feel like it's going to be a unicorn. It's going to be tough. Yeah. um But I'm even getting a little worried about booking at um at the Tower night Hotel. Yeah. at The Tower. So I'm I'm waiting to see what the seven month booking feels like because I've not to date. I've not actually had to ever book anything inside of seven months.
00:06:21
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because I've always looked at my home resort. Yeah. Well, because I i i never book 11 months ahead of time. I'm always like four or five months out because I never know what I'm going to be doing. See, this is giving me anxiety. Like I'm totally on the other opposite end of.
00:06:37
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what you guys are doing. Listen, I've always been able to I've always been able to find something and get what I get what I'm looking for. Like, so i' it's never like that. I think is like, I'm never like that pressed about it. Like if I there's nothing available, I just do something else. Like that's not the sort of trip you're planning, unfortunately, Trevor, which is why I guess it can be a little more stressful.
00:06:53
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And the difference is is that you like you say you can always find something because there's fourteen hotels that you have to pick from. I have to. Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen when I go to to Disneyland. I don't know. I mean, I guess. up I mean, you should I don't know what I'm going to do. Like, I won't probably stay on points. Like, will I be able to get a room?
00:07:13
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Cash. There's not a lot of hotels around. Yeah. I mean, mean at Disney, Disney. Oh, guaranteed you you will be able to get a room cash that that's not a problem, but that, and that's kind of what I'm wondering is like, if it hits that point where I can't get a to sell points and then go cash. well Well, and then, and then here's where it gets even more messy is that I actually revisited this again, is that renting points as an international person, I have to go, I have to go to the IRS and get a tax exemption. Yeah. So I have to jump through a bunch of hoops.
00:07:43
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to rent my points which makes it hit a point where do i even bother so yeah it's it's it's messy honestly like it be being a canadian traveler and ah going to or using dvc points like as long as and that's actually kind why like using them at my home resort has been great is that it has offered me the least amount of resistance but dealing with these Like, well, what if I can't use my points? What if, like all those, what if things, I don't know how I'm going to deal with them because I mean, I may end up just like, I think if I couldn't book my points or if I couldn't book this trip in November,
00:08:24
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um I mean, I can still bank points, but I I'm going to lose like 15 points from this year because I banked from the previous year into this one. So, you know, I'd be out 15 points, which is not a huge deal, but not a small amount either. But also if it if it keeps going on where I can't get what I want. And again, this I know this is like like doom scenario, but, ah you know, there there is a potential that I could end up where like a year or two that I just end up losing my points. But but like I guess even at that, like that's if I was hell bent on going to California. like I can still always, of course, go to go to Florida.
00:09:07
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Are any of the hotels that are around Disneyland, and I don't know the answer to this, like ones that you can use on points, like you know one part of one of the collections that you can use on points, because I i don't know. You mean like Marriott or something? No, it's like whatever that I forget. The good neighbor hotels. Not even the good neighbor. I'm just talking about the the DVC piece. that and i oh What is that? Interval? Yeah, interval, yeah. Or any of them in interval, because maybe you could do that.
00:09:31
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That's a that's a good question. I haven't looked into that that. That might be something to I mean, yeah, again, it would still be a big hit. Like that would actually kind of not be great to like go to Disneyland and have to use interval points to do it like I would. Yeah. Yeah. I would just suck it up and just pay cash and accept that I'm not using my points that time.
00:09:50
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and Well, I hope
Family Cruise Preparations
00:09:51
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for your sake, I would love for you to get to go to the tower because I would love to hear about. Oh, yeah. like Like I said, I feel like it should be OK. It's just I read some stuff in the last ah couple of weeks that it was like people were like, oh, yeah, it's you know, it's hard to to book a Disneyland. And I was like, oh, no. Well, I mean, isn't it always kind of hard to book TV at Disneyland because there's so many new rooms, even with the tower is not that many. Yeah, I mean, it was before it was exceptionally hard because of the Grand Californian being the only option, but Like I said, I'm I'm just wondering how the tower is going to play out. So I guess I'm going to have that, you know, coming up here, actually kind of right after we do the the anniversary episode, um I'm going to be booking my my stay. So I'll let you know. Well, meanwhile, in a couple of weeks here, I have to is like the book, you can start booking stuff for the cruise, which, you know, I'm not that worried about. um But, you know, we're going to be booking stuff for the cruise.
00:10:48
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there's so like My brother-in-law and sister-in-law have a kid that's not going to be able to go to the regular kids club. so they You have to book the the nursery like ahead of time yeah because apparently it's very limited. so then In a couple weeks, we that opens up. um yeah And that doesn't seem like a Tom problem, though. it I mean, it is a Tom problem because, you know, as the resident Disney person, everything is, you know, how do we do this? How do we do that? Yeah. So what do we do, Tom? Yeah, it's like, what do we do? And I'm like, because like when I saw them over Thanksgiving, I was like, ah they like didn't know anything about the cruise or what we were doing or anything. And I'm like, OK, guys, come on. Like, we need to get on this. like You know, I can't travel with people like that, man. I just can't do it.
00:11:33
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Well, it's family vacation, right? So, but listen, I mean, you know, it's, if I, we said to them, like, look, if you don't, if you don't get them into the nursery, uh, you know, whatever, like a terrible crews, we'll just take them around with us. So be fine.
00:11:49
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ah so of Famous last words I know I know just leave them on the dock Is the kid like I see my thing is I couldn't imagine taking a kid that age and let's just say they got seasick yeah What are you doing and then? Yeah. I mean, that's, that's a good question. Um, I don't know if I'm feeding my baby Dramamine. Yeah, you, yeah, exactly. You can't just give them the medication that they would need. I mean, you probably can, but I i wouldn't personally want to. It's not like people don't bring those, bring young kids on the, on the boat. I mean, you know, like it's, but they're all foolish though. That's what I can say. So i mean it's so he's, he'll, he'll be two, my nephew will be two and a half when we go. Oh, that's not terrible. No, it's not too bad. Like he can walk and talk and stuff. What's the age for the stuff three.
00:12:37
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Yeah. Yeah. So he can't, eat but he's just not old enough to go, but hit my knees. So two year old around the whole crew. that oof Yeah. Well, and then, but pulling out of that cruise, actually this in I'm not paying for this cruise. So I don't care. I don't know. My, my, uh, my in-laws decided to take the whole family on vacation. So I'm not going to say no to that. Um, but he's like a a rather pricey, um,
00:13:06
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Very. Yeah. no Yeah. um For sure. That's why I'm like, you know. What do you think it's going to cost? Like 30? I mean, yeah. It's like something like that, I think. Yeah. For all of us. Because there's, let's see, four. There's eight of us, I guess. but More than that then probably, right? um Well, maybe nine. Nine of us. There's nine of us. Oh, that's 40 then. So like you're probably a 40.
00:13:28
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I don't think it's that, I think it's probably 30. It's a seven day? A seven day, yeah. There's no way. right I have to look back at what the receipt was, but yeah. Yeah, I mean, well even 30, 40, that's a lot yeah for them. That's that's good in-laws, man.
00:13:41
Speaker
They, my in-laws have always done like, uh, where they will do, we'll do like small vacations and then do one big vacation every like five years. You know what I mean? And this is the big vacation. They're not like popping this off every year. Exactly. And we, we've kind of been waiting to do this until the kids were old enough. You know, my daughter will be seven and awaited another like six months now.
00:14:00
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I know, right? listen' I don't disagree with you. um But it's we we we really wanted to get on the on the treasure. So and this is when it worked. So um but listen, my niece is is old enough, right? So my daughter and my niece will get to go to the the ocean. Right. So like, they'll they'll be fine. um And I'm sure they're, you know, going to very much enjoy that. So they're not going to remember it. But yeah, they'll enjoy it. I mean, my daughter's at a point where I think she'll remember some stuff.
00:14:28
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Yeah, that's what I thought too until I asked my 14 year old about stuff, but she's like, yeah, I don't remember going there. I don't remember going there. I don't remember going there. My son remembers his like six year old Disney trip. Like we, we talked about go remember. Yeah. Cause we'll say like, yeah, remember how we went to, or we watched Fantasmic or, you know, Tom, your daughter's not six yet. Is she? No, she'll be seven by the time we go. Yeah. Like my, my son does remember stuff like that, but I guess your mileage does vary per kid. I also forget that Tom's daughter's that old now, to be honest with you. Well, because she was just born when we started the show. I feel like she's like, I mean, she's gonna be mad like if she ever hears that, but like, I feel like she's three. That's how I have her in my mind. Yeah, no, it would be nice if she was actually no, I kind of like her now because she can like she's self sufficient, you know, like, Oh, just wait. Well, I like, you know, like I came, I woke up this morning and came downstairs and she's like, you know, she made her own little breakfast for herself and I'm like, Oh, okay, cool.
00:15:24
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like Was it cereal? It wasn't cereal. She she she washed an apple off and started eating an apple and then she tried cereal the other day and that did not go well. ah but So yeah, I left cereal out for her and she just didn't see it. And so she poured her own bowl and as kids do, poured a gigantic bowl of cereal. You know, but you know, this is the age. i I think I remember some stuff from this age at Disney. Like I have a couple memories around this age. So I think My daughter will have a better time anyway because you're going to have a lot more video and yeah phone stuff and things like that. I mean, listen, even if they don't remember it, like they're going to have a good time because and it's always, you know, it's yeah we, you know, my my my niece and nephew and my my sister-in-law and brother-in-law live in New Jersey and we're here in North Carolina. And so we don't she doesn't really get to see her cousins all that often. And so this is, you know, an entire week she gets to spend with her cousins, which is which is really nice.
00:16:21
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you know so I'm excited. I'm really excited, although I think, Damon, that this is probably going to be, ah we're going to do this once and want to do it again immediately. so like I think this is going to be a problem. I have a feeling. I agree. I mean, it's definitely something that you'll be like, oh, this was better than I thought. yeah That's the way I felt. Yeah, that's good. and Well, that's what you want it to be, right? so For the money, sure.
00:16:46
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We also, we also though wanted to try to book a, we wanted to, to book a private cabana on the, on the private island, but for what I've, because there's nine of us and we thought it might be kind of nice to have a space to, especially kids with, you know, some of the younger kids, it might be nice to kind of sit there and plus I'm not paying for anything. So I think that isnt that exactly very is Yeah. Cause if, if I were paying for the cruise, that's out. But since I'm not paying for anything and I'm going to again,
00:17:14
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the The castaway key. yeah Okay. Yeah. So it's, uh, yeah. So, I mean, like, listen, if I were paying for anything else, then sure, like, you know, uh, but I'm not paying for it. So why not do it? Uh, it might be, you know, fun to do that. But from what I've heard, and if you don't have status and get a chance to book that early, like they're gone. and and anyway Yeah. oh There's no way I'm getting it. Uh, let's talk about, uh, some of the news that you got on here, Tom. Uh, I guess we can start with the villain show and the nighttime parade coming to Disney world.
Interactive Villain Show at Disney
00:17:46
Speaker
Yeah, so we're starting to get more details about the the this villain show that's going to be happening. I mean, I don't know how interested I am in this. I feel like I probably will go see it because my daughter for me, I'm definitely going to go see it. But like, am I like chomping at the bit? No, probably not.
00:18:03
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this very much okay so so here let's let's read the they've got a quick synopsis here it yeah says uh if you ask them our villains would probably try to convince you that they've been treated pretty unfairly over the years in the show the magic mirror has summoned to them to hear something like that i like the magic mirror backstory like that part of it um'm i'm down with I hear them out like they're trying to try to be like that's I'm not down with that so yeah so so this is the thing is that I feel like it's going to be a you know they're going it's gonna be an interactive show it's gonna be targeted at you know you know the you know the villains trying to convince you know the kids in the audience that like like it's not.
00:18:39
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to me this doesn't feel like it's going to be like a a stage show in the sense of like oh this is like a great performance thing it's going to be an interactive fun thing for the kids which is perfectly fine um but to your point is you know i'm not going to be chomping at the bit to go and see this either But well, and they needed more of this at Hollywood Studios, too, right? Like this is the kind of stuff they need more of at Hollywood Studios, because right now Hollywood Studios is skewing very heavily, you know, towards like thrill rides and stuff and and not as much for little kids to do. um But the interesting thing that it says here, too, that so they're going to go get on stage to prove once and for all whether they're they are the most misunderstood in the end, it will be on you to make the final call in a delightfully wicked finale filled with dozens of the most infamous evil doers awaiting your decision.
00:19:24
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from within the Mirrors Realm. So like you said, interactive. I like the Mirrors Realm situation though. I like that, like I'm down with that. but Yeah, it looks pretty cool. And the vote, I feel like there's going to be an interesting like voting yes or no, which I mean... You think so? Yeah, I hope that that's the case, that there's like two different outcomes to the show, like depending on how people know yeah that i mean need it can, you know, play one way or the other. Because then it does, you know, it gives you a chance to go back and, you know, you know you're you're hoping to see one or the other. And then again, it also it also ramps up that interaction where you know you you got like half the audience going, you know yeah, they're cool or or no, you know they're done kind of thing, right? so but I don't think that's a bad thing. No, I don't i don't i don't disagree with that. i I do wonder though if they're going to do that thing where it's like, everybody that- It doesn't matter.
00:20:15
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No, no, where they do well yeah where they do the thing where it's like, you know, everybody cheer if you think the villain... Oh, they're definitely doing that. They're doing that, right? They're definitely doing that. There's not like a real vote going on here, right? I would agree. That's how I envision it as well. Yeah. Like, it's it's just going to be, you know... Which is fine. For kids, they love that. Yeah, sure.
00:20:32
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Um, and so also, so they said a dedicated team has spent nearly two years developing cutting cutting edge stage design, thrilling effects and catchy live musical numbers. So that should be interesting. I mean, I would, I'll be interested to see what the effects are, you know, cause they, they have been doing some really cool effects on stage shows recently.
00:20:49
Speaker
Will there be drones? Drones inside? I mean, maybe. I mean, there's no reason why not. I mean, I don't know if you guys read about this, but like on the Treasure, that Moana show, apparently the Tikka puppet that's like very big, it's huge. Apparently when it changes over to Te Fiti, it's like an incredibly cool effect.
00:21:13
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have answer for i've heard it's I mean, it a lot of people have said it's amazing and like it's that that happens right in front of you and nobody knows how they do it. So that's what I've heard. But i obviously, until I see it, I don't know. And I'm not going to watch anything either. I'm not going to watch any videos. Smart. Yeah. I'm going to be i'm goingnna be Trevor and not and be spoiler verse for the crew.
00:21:33
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you know Go ahead, Tom. I'm usually not though. I'm usually watch something ahead of time guy, but yeah. You make it sound like it's a bad thing to be a sport. No, no, no, no. I think life is better when you actually have surprises. I am with you. I just am usually not that person. My wife is with you too. My wife won't even watch trailers for movies because she doesn't want to ruin anything.
00:21:56
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Well, the problem is they make that stuff so terrible these days. Yeah, they they give away the whole movie. or Or the trailer has like the way that they cue trailers sometimes have nothing to do with like it. It presents the movie in a different light than what actually happens in the movie. i've seen Oh, yeah, there's that too. Yeah, there's that too. Okay, so alongside this show, so they're saying these are going to open at the same time, I guess, ah is the new Little Mermaid show, um which, you know, they've been kind of previewing here and there. They don't really say a lot about it in this, but I guess they're, when they say alongside, that makes me think they're opening the same day. No?
00:22:31
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I don't know about that. I would assume like yeah around the same time or two months. Yeah, I don't know about the same day, but yeah, I would agree with that sometime during the during the summer. they They've also been throwing out like little previews of like the ah puppets and stuff like that, um which actually I think I had. Yeah, I don't know why I didn't put this with the other stuff, but there was an Instagram post where they showed ah some of the things about the villains and then also um like some of the puppets for the for the Little Mermaid show.
00:22:59
Speaker
So there's some really cool puppets here. ah they're actually I kind of like these. They're they're they're funny. um I'll try to post some of the pictures from it, but um you know there's some there's some interesting things that they're doing for the Little Mermaid show. So yeah, I guess we'll have to see that this summer too.
00:23:17
Speaker
Anything else about this? I mean, oh, oh, we got the parade too, right? Yeah.
New Disney Parade Details
00:23:21
Speaker
So, so yeah, switching gears to Magic Kingdom park, we have Disney starlight dream the night away is the, the new parade. And they've shown a couple of, it looks like concept art stuff and it seems to be kind of geared around, um, or they say it's there's a focus on like, um, old school Disney stuff. So like Cinderella and, and like a lot of those.
00:23:46
Speaker
Older stuff but then obviously there will be new, um, you know, appearance from characters from Moana and Kanto and like newer shows. But the okay, the thing that I feel like like I'm reading all this and they're talking about like, hey, there's, you know, we're we're doing all this work with the imagineers and everything and you know, the lighting and all that.
00:24:06
Speaker
I feel like they're they're trying to say, it's paint the night, but not paint the night. Okay, well, I mean, that yeah, maybe. like Like, they can't say it's paint the night, but yeah it's it's giving that vibe for sure. Paint the Night Magic Kingdom version. Well, you know, the thing I thought was cool, though, too, this and I think this is they're saying that this is a mary but that they have they' they're doing the this based off of Mary Blair.
00:24:30
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uh painting yeah or the cinderella one which is yeah yeah which is very cool because and you could see that in the concept art it's very it's got that same kind of aesthetic to it right yeah um they also said there's going to be a couple easter eggs the thing that gets me about this and truthfully i don't know what the answer to this is but like i feel like disney does this thing with all of their parades and all of like the shows whenever they have the prince and princess together where they're just dancing in a circle on the parade float and that's totally what's happening here patient I don't know what else I want them to do. I'm just saying like that scene. What do you want them to do? I don't know. I don't know. It's just that thing know do the Paint the night stuff. Paint patton night is not like that. Yeah. No, no it's it's very like that there's a lot of unique floats. like I agree with you. is yeah it's the The big thing in the song is there's this big float with all the ah
00:25:21
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All the the characters on it and if that's the if that's the um ah center point of the parade it might actually be a little bit of a letdown because it's like I get what you're saying that you know it's kind of it's kind of a tried and true thing but Well, you also want movement, though, right? yeah like They need to have movement. you They can't just be standing there waving at you, right? Because like, that's... They can. I mean, they can. its yeah yeah yeah it's not You want the like, the kinetics of the people moving, you know? Like, I don't know. That's just what I'm thinking. ah But, you know, i like I said, I don't know what i else I think they should do. I've just like, they do it in Fantasmic, though. You know, like, the whenever they have those floats go by, they're always doing like the little dance in a circle thing. It's just... Yeah, but anyway, I'm actually wondering if there will be a show stealing float in this. There will there'll be one that they advertise, but there'll be one that everyone's like, hey, this is like I feel like if they do it right, like an encounter float could actually like blow the whole thing away.
00:26:19
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No, i I would agree with that. um And, you know, they're actually talking to here where that that float that they have the concept are for. um It's it says ah anchored by a gleaming fountain of light that overflows to illuminate a cosmic ballroom. The float is just one piece of the constellation of classic and contemporary stories to make up the new parade. ah So it's going to include Milana, Peter Pan, Frozen and Kanto and more. ah So, I mean, obviously, there's going to be some really interesting stuff in there and I'm sure they're going to continue giving us more little pieces of this. um But it looks like they're, you know,
00:26:49
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ah Doing a lot of different things with this so in a lot of interesting. ah ah you know i don' I don't know if there's gonna be like new technology or anything on this I mean I don't know how much you can really do but to your point Trevor lights yeah lots of lights like lots of lights that's the thing I don't I don't need all that much right like I like the you know main street illogical parade and that's not exactly technologically advanced.
00:27:10
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That's exactly the point. these These nighttime parades, like paint the night and Main Street electrical parade work because it's nighttime and they're very bright and colorful and you just need lights. Like like you don't have to overthink it. It doesn't always have to be like, you know, bleeding edge, but it has to be quality though. Like you can't just be blinking lights everywhere. It has to, you know, it has to make sense.
00:27:33
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So I mean, what well, like I said, we'll see. im I'm looking forward to this one, though, because I, you know, I think that Magic Kingdom has needed a new nighttime parade for a long time now. It's been so long overdue. Way overdue. I just don't know when I'm even going to go to Magic Kingdom again. I know. We talked. that You talked about that. where Yeah. said such this is this is Like I don't hate this stuff, but like it's not like drive me to Magic Kingdom.
00:28:00
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This stuff does for me, though, like I I want. Yeah, absolutely. I want to go see this. Yeah. OK. It's the difference between like like right now on on our last trip, we really at night, we wanted to be an Epcot because we wanted to see the yeah Epcot show and food all the lights they did around the space of birth and everything. Yeah. Yeah. And food. Yeah. And what but Like to your point, this is actually something that would make me say, Hey, I actually want to spend my evening in magic kingdom. Okay. I don't want to see this. Yeah. Okay. And, and of course they don't give a date on or when that's planning to open, but yeah, it's maze of possibility, right? I mean, they said summer. Is that really summer though? It's not, but come on guys. Come on. Do me a favor. I'll be there in May. Just do me a favor.
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00:29:39
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00:29:56
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Closures for Monsters, Inc. Land
00:30:10
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Land, and now we know when things are going to close. And kind of like we speculated, ah Mama Miller's is closing, right? um So, that's that's going away. um And that's the last day to do that, as well as um as well as Muppet Vision. So so May 10th is the last day for Mama Melrose. Mama Melrose, can't speak. Although they call you Melrose, it's restaurante Italiano. I thought it was Mama Melrose. What happened to that? I don't know. but really So my wife and I were actually, we were going back and forth on this because she saw May 10th and I saw June 7th and I was like, which one is it? but i realized Different dates. Yeah. mom Mama Melrose closes on May 10th. Muppet Vision 3D and Pizza Rizzo closed June 7th.
00:30:52
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Yeah, exactly. It's kind of funny that because I feel like Pizzarizzo is like fairly new still, but like, you know, they didn't really do much to it and it's not like anyone's going to miss it. Yeah, it's such a nothing.
00:31:04
Speaker
This is so painful to hear Muppet Vision going away. I don't know. It's a little bit, i know you know, I'll be honest. I actually wasn't planning or it's not hard in my plans to go to Hollywood studios when I'm there in May, but I may convince my brother for us to go and watch it because it is going away because we'll be there like three weeks before it closes.
00:31:26
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Yeah, I mean, you should that I would do it one last time. I mean, we've we've done, whenever we know something's going to go away, even if it's not announced, like, before they announced that um ah Great Movie Ride was going away, right? ah yeah People knew that it was happening, right? Like, everybody knew it was going to happen. It was a real mercy. yeah Yeah. So, like, we we took, like, our farewell trip on that. Like, we made a point to go to that. And it was the same thing with Universe of Energy, right? Like, that the as soon as... Tom, I don't even talk about that. I know. it hurts It hurts you deeply. um Very deeply. Well, i'm I'm the Phoenix that rose from your ashes on that one, David, because Guardians is an amazing ride and you can't convince me otherwise. I'd still have Alan back, but... Yeah, I get it. i like Yeah, I know. My my favorite part of of that is that the very last ride on that, it broke down in the middle of it. i Did you guys do you guys remember that when it was... Alan?
00:32:20
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the last day that the very last day that it was supposed to be there like it broke down it was like okay it knew it now it knew it just reminded you that it gave it all it could it did it did anyway um yeah so like i don't think anybody's going to miss pizza riso but i know people are very upset about muppet vision 3d especially since we don't have a date for when rock and roller coaster is going to turn into Muppet rock and roller coaster, whatever they're going to call it. Is it just going to be rock and roller coaster featuring the Muppets? Like what's that going to be? I mean, it can be because, you know, it is, uh, it is the main, I mean, would you call it like someone with the mayhem or something? or dr Yeah. Isn't it mayhem? Yeah. let Yeah.
00:32:57
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yeah or yeah doctor or a like yeah dr teeth in the electric mayhem yeah um but yeah i mean I don't know what they're going to call it. ah but yeah so i mean and I think people are upset too, because not only because they're getting rid of Muppet Vision 3D. Listen, I understand why people are upset about Muppet Vision 3D going away. like I'm sad about it too, but i I think everybody on here knows that I Understand there needs to be progress. No, there needs to be progress. man like that That thing is so old. It's been, I mean, it's been sitting there for the exactly the same for so long. And it's not like... I just hope, yeah, I just hope there's like a nod to that in the ride. There should be. yeah And if there is, then it'll make me feel better, I feel like. Yeah, I just think there's very few things that will sit around being exactly the same for 30 years. You know what I mean? There's just very few things that should sit around for that long. And I mean, there's pretty much nothing a Disney does sit around for that long. I mean, even Small World and Peter Pan, they like make little updates to here and there, you know? I can't think of the same though. Well,
00:34:00
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I mean, Small World has gone through various overlays and stuff, especially the Disneyland one has had lots of overlays. They do overlays there, yeah. Not so much at Disney World. Yeah. And yeah, to your point, I can't...
00:34:13
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You know what actually is the only ride I can think of right now that probably has not changed at all from its people motion. Yeah, people movers. The only ride that has not changed. And that's a good point because there's been no reason to change it like it like everything around it has changed. Yeah, people mover hasn't changed. Well, carousel of progress hasn't been updated in quite a long time, although they have had updates though. It has had updates. Yes. And if you had a theme people mover, what would you seem it as?
00:34:44
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Let's just say that was the thing that they were doing. They were like, you know what? We're going to theme people mover. Yeah. What about, uh, they kind of did like, uh, they had like a people mover thing going on on the the first Incredibles movie where they, you know, they had, but they were like, they were like the egg shaped villains. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of where there's a reference in there, but, but anyway, you look some weird meet the Robinsons thing.
00:35:07
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Yeah. you Oh, my God. that That'd be really reaching because I feel like so many people don't even know that movie, um which is could be the top Disney movie. It's it's a really great movie. I don't understand why people haven't watched that one. It's a really good movie. I don't think that it's for it's just the lack of marketing, I feel like. It just hit out a weird time. It definitely hit out a weird time. The bookends around it are larger movies, I feel like. I mean, there's, ah it also is a little bit of a weird movie, right? Like it's got some weird, weird things in it, but I like the weird of it, you know? Um, yeah. So anyway, uh, but yeah, Muppets, right? yeah So yeah, i like, listen, I, like I said, I'm, I'm sad that, uh, that, that that's the way it is. But, uh, you know, at the same time I'm all for progress and I'm excited to see what's next. I just don't know how I feel about monsters anymore. About monster jank? Yeah.
00:35:59
Speaker
Let's feel like maybe they overdid it with that series that wasn't that good. And I think they got a little bit. I feel like I don't love that. I'm OK with living in the original Monsters Inc movie. Like I don't. Yeah, I don't need to go into the to the larger universe of it, but I will admit, I don't think I'm going to be too hurt about walking through Monstropolis and getting on the ride. Like there's a there's a lot of fun things they can seem to Monsters Inc. Right. Like, I mean, there's just that, that world of Monstropolis, like you were saying, like that monster world just has different stuff in it, you know, like just everything from the light fixtures to the architecture and everything. Right. So, you know, I'm probably going to want to eat at Harryhausen's.
00:36:41
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Well, yeah, of course you're going to want to eat there, right? ah And that's that is definitely what's taking over Mama Melrose, right? Like that's clearly taking over what where Mama Melrose is. So, um yeah. And then I will have to see what's going to take over Muppet Vision 3D. We don't really know. I mean, this it's in the concept art here that you can see the theater. it's not They're not tearing it down, but I don't think anybody actually knows what's going there. I don't think they said anything. right I said it previously and and I'll keep saying it is that it's going to be put that thing back or so help me. they why Why would you not do that? Because like they reference the show like it becoming an actual stage show in the in the movie. I mean they could at least reference it. like Like making an actual stage show would be hilarious. It would be pretty funny, actually. The same thing like they did the the Captain America stage show from oh yeah from har Avengers. from Hawkeye. Yeah. Yeah. The Captain America one that they did in, or no, it's the Avengers one they did in Hawkeye that they put in yeah for an adventure. Yeah.
00:37:38
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Exactly. California Venture, it was Disneyland. But um yeah, I mean, they, and that was really- It wasn't California Venture, you were right, because that's where the theater is. Oh, was' it wasn't? Okay. Okay. It was California. Okay. But yeah, that was hilarious when they did that. I couldn't believe that they did that, because that show was so over the top and so cheesy, like, and that that's why it was funny, right? It was meant to be, but, um because I mean, the whole point of it was to make Hawkeye mad and annoyed, right? So they made the most annoying version of The Avengers they could.
00:38:07
Speaker
Um, but, and the fact that they actually did it at Disneyland is, or at California Ventures, pretty hilarious. But yeah, to your point, I think that that would be cool too. Um, but yeah, listen, I, I'm not trying to say you shouldn't be mad about Muppet Vision 3D going away. Be mad about it. I understand. ah But I also like, you know, we, we, we're going to lose these things every once in a while. I,
00:38:28
Speaker
Yeah. What were they going to do with it? Like redo the whole thing and, you know, with new technology and like, I mean, I don't know. Yeah, you're setting it up perfect, right? But I mean, like 3D, are 3D movies like really, do we really care that much? No, but I think because it was the Muppets, they did have opportunity that they don't necessarily have with other talent. Other properties. Okay, that's fair. The weird thing about that one too, is it was actually the last project that Jim Henson worked on. Yeah. So I also get why touching it can be like it's a weird place. I wish there was just like nostalgia land like give me like you have all this old rides all this land and what if you just yeah if you when you just closed a ride you just like picked it up and moved it there. I feel like you just did a wait a waitlist topic nostalgia land where we decide all of the things that would go in nostalgia land. How do you map it out like like yeah where does everything fit?
00:39:21
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Yeah. Cause I mean, you need 20,000 leagues under the sea back, right? I need that back. Yeah. So, but it can't, so the only thing is like, you but it can't be next to rocket rods. Cause that right. But like you, you also, you can't take something that they use the piece of for something else. You know what I mean? Like sure it's got to only be rides that were fully shut down. So it can't be like the original version of figment. No. Okay. Cause that still exists just in a different iteration. Okay. Yep.
00:39:50
Speaker
Interesting. It's got to be rights out of but mapped out. So interestingly, you could actually put um Mr. Toad's ride in there yeah because because it's been redone as Winnie the Pooh, but Mr. Toad's also does exist in Disneyland, so you could have still the Disney World version of Mr. Toad.
00:40:11
Speaker
But we're talking about a whole new land, though. go Yeah, I'm going to say I don't know if you like i'm in in my world, not I would not because it was taken over by Winnie the Pooh. And that's like cut it if there was one bolt that carried itself over or one piece of wood or so like then then I'm out on that. I could see your line. of is But then nothing you'll never have anything that would be in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I feel like with Lock, Sock and Barrow. Yeah, I mean, yeah yeah, that's yeah. I feel like the track reviews for Winnie the Pooh.
00:40:40
Speaker
Yeah, well, I think it's the same track, isn't it? Is it? I don't know. If it's the same track, then I'm definitely out. For changing that into Mr. Toad. Yeah, like if it's the same Mr. Toad track, then no, I don't think it goes in my nostalgia land. That's just... I don't think it could have been the same track because they do extra things. Or I mean, I guess the cars are different. I can't imagine them retrofitting a track.
00:41:01
Speaker
to those cars because so you see the, if the, or the Mr. Toad in Disneyland, like true it's old, like it's not, you will notice the difference. What's the next holiday for a nostalgia land wait list? I think it's a long time away. I think it's like fourth of July. Sorry, everybody. I mean, we can just take a week off and do it. about Yeah. I want to do nostalgia land as an episode. but It's got to have a map. If you don't come to the table with a map, you're not allowed to come on the episode. All right.
00:41:28
Speaker
I mean, is this a whole new park or is it just the land? A whole new park. They just took some extra land and they just move rides there. We have to generate a list of defunct rides. You don't have to take them all. Right. But you need a starting point to work from, is the thing. You need something to work with. Yeah. I mean, obviously, Alien Encounter, Great Movie Ride, 20,000 League, universe of energy. The question is, is Alien Encounter Is it available? Because that area is, well, no, it's not me anymore, right? None of it's in use. See, that's the thing, is it stitch or alien encounter though? Like, are you allowed to pick the choice? yeah right We'll give that as a choice. No, you're not picking. Come on, it's alien counter. No, not that, but I'm saying, do you even have the option to pick? You even have the option, yeah. Okay, fair. But like i having read bull or been on both, it's not stitch. I can put that one. No, it's not the winner. i want
00:42:21
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, and then also like universe of energy, great movie ride, uh, 20,000 leagues. I'm trying to think if there's any other ones. The ticket is double the price of magic kingdom. If you, so wait, here's the question though, Damon, like do you, you can do Disney people mover as well.
00:42:39
Speaker
Oh yeah. There's just another people. Yeah. There you go. Do is it, they have to build it with the original technology. Oh yeah. There's no updates here. There's no updates. It stops or land. It's not updated. Yeah. you can up you're You're right. it It can't be an updated iteration of it because that it totally invalidates it. Yep. Yeah. That makes sense. That that makes total sense. All right. Well, we're going to develop this and do it as a wait list. Cause I like this idea. Um, but anyway, yeah, the Muppets bye.
00:43:06
Speaker
why it's joe will see Are we 44 minutes in and still like this is like actually on Tom's chart pre-ad by the way every time I know what we've been talking about other stuff So the rest of the topics will not be nearly as long as these ones We can just do we can just skip all the way down to Disneyland to talk about No, let's talk about the garden rocks dining package Yeah Exactly. What is this? Basically, it's that flower garden thing that they do for the concerts where you can buy a dining package so you have a guaranteed seat, which I've never done. The only time I've ever done one of those- Guaranteed seat for what? For whatever concert has happened- The show that you can hear all through Epcot?
Epcot's Garden Rocks Dining Package: Worth it?
00:43:50
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Exactly. Yeah.
00:43:56
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The one that you can stand nearby and get an equally good experience. Exactly. That's what I don't understand about it, right? Because it's like you said, you could just stand in the back of the pavilion and listen to the whole thing. I do when you're older or you're just not trying to stand that long, I guess. Like this is an old person thing, mean which I mean, I'm slowly getting there. I can start to kind of understand it a little bit. Some of these, um, some of these dining packages are really expensive for the birds. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Lacellier, $99 a pop. But what are you eating at Lacellier that costs you $100? Which one of my stay heaters? 11-year-olds, because it says age is 10 and up. But what one of my 10-year-olds is $99? Yeah. I mean, it is probably like a... you know You can get whatever you want on the menu, right? My 10-year-old does not need $100 or anything.
00:44:45
Speaker
yeah Yeah, exactly. Well, so it it just so you know, so it includes an entree and dessert or buffet, uh, and a one non-alcoholic beverage and plus the seat. So, I mean, you could get the most expensive cut of steak at La Salle A if you wanted to, you know what I mean? Like you could do that. Or I could go to Regal Eagle Smokehouse, $36. Wow. They actually made a quick service as part of the, I mean, yeah, like, like,
00:45:12
Speaker
If, if I'm that hard up to have like a slab of meat for dinner, I'm going to take the slab of meat. That's $36, not the $99. I don't feel like I've ever seen them do it on a quick service like that. Cause that's, I mean, it's sit down, but it's, you don't have a waiter there. It's, you know, it's quick. So yeah, it's, I wonder if they just had to include something from the America pavilion because like, there's all these other pavilion ones and you're right there though. Yeah.
00:45:38
Speaker
Yeah, it is right there. Yeah, no, I agree. And it's that it does say same day dining packages only. So I guess that's like a last minute thing, i I guess. Right. I don't know. That would be the only option of these that I would take. Everything else is like, you know, $50 plus for like, I guess a dining package like that, you know, yeah did they always charge more. But it's like, that's a lot of money for, um you know,
00:46:03
Speaker
dining and then watching like Garden Rocks, we've talked about it before. you know it's There's a lot of cool bands and stuff that show up in there, but like there would have to be a band that I'm like, oh my God, I have to see them perform at Epcot.
00:46:17
Speaker
like yeah like it's I feel like there's like a very limited set of people that this would appeal to in the first place. well like we And I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago when they announced a little bit of the schedule, but there's there's like nobody on there that anyone wants to see. like you know It's the former lead singer of Boston, there's Air Supply, there's Blue October, Rick Springfield, Sherman Service. Which one of them are you paying for $99? $99 for, yeah. like Because that's what you're getting at La Salle is the steak and yeah whatever the soup is there, the cheese soup. Yeah, exactly.
00:46:52
Speaker
But like so so which one of these bands is worth $99? I don't know. Maybe if you really love 38 Special. so I mean, I Listen, I did one of the... die I think I've done it maybe twice. And the one time we did it we did it it ah at a Hollywood Studios for Fantasmic,
00:47:16
Speaker
and We specifically did it because it was a couple days before Christmas and I knew it was going to be like a zoo and I didn't want to have to show up like an hour and a half early for Fantasmic, you know? yeah So that was really the only reason we did it that one time. And that's actually the only time of being at Mama Melrose is when I did that package was for Mama Melrose. And I did the same thing for Paint the Night. We we bought a dining package in, there was ah a place, it's not there anymore, there but there was a dining area and in Adventureland. We bought lunch there so that we could get into a VIP area for to watch Paint the Night, which again, I feel that's justified for the same reason that like you don't want to you know deal with crowds and you know trying to find a place to sit for you know shows like that. But that's, to me, like
00:48:01
Speaker
That's different than going and seeing just a random band play at Garden of Rocks. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. it's it's ah It's another one of those things like, is it worth your time to wait in line or do you want to pay for the convenience of not having to? Right? Like, that's really what it comes down to, right? It's the same thing as the Fantasmic one and the Paint the Night one. yeah You know, you're paying for the convenience of not waiting in line. right So.
00:48:27
Speaker
Anyway, so let's talk about these Disneyland things. Trevor, you want to do that? Or do you have anything else about this dining package? No, no i'm I'm good on on that dining package I'll never buy. So even if I was there and they were like offering it to me, I would not i would not buy. it If they were like, well, give it to you half off. And you're like, no, I'm good. I don't need to see 30. It's special. I can get, I can get good steak at home. Thanks. I don't i don't need to see the former, uh, lead singer of Boston anyway.
00:48:56
Speaker
but Okay. So, okay. and indeed Okay. We're not insulting these, you you know, there there are performers and everything, but yeah yeah it's not not, I'm not giving Disney money to see these people. No, no, it's not happening. No, it's not happening. So.
00:49:08
Speaker
OK, we have some some improvements or additions coming to the Disneyland Hotel Resort, which the ah know the three hotels of the Disneyland
Disneyland Resort Hotel Updates
00:49:19
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Resort, three. OK, so so this is not just the the Disneyland Hotel. This is including Grand California and it is Pixar Pier. I keep wanting to call it Paradise Pier, but Pixar Place, isn't it? Pixar Place, right? Yeah, Pixar. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. It'll it'll forever be Paradise Pier in my head because I had such a bad experience there once.
00:49:38
Speaker
Hi, it's fair, it's fair. um So let's see what we got here. ah Napa Rose to bloom with a new interior and beautiful patio. So this is like, have you ever been here, Trevor? Um, I've not actually eaten at Napa Rose. I've walked by it many times because yeah yeah it staying in the hotel. Um, it's a, it's a beautiful restaurant. Like it's, it's very nice. The the fact that they have a patio now, I don't remember. I don't remember if I'd had a patio before.
00:50:05
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Interesting. ah Yeah. So they're going to be doing that. It looks really nice from these kind from the concept art. um It says they will close the spring and they'll reopen in fall. So yeah so just be be aware of that if you're going to go. Napa Rose is like it it's very heavy on like California wineries. So if you're into wine tasting, that is definitely somewhere to go.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah, it says more than 1500 labels in their wine collection, which, ah you know, that's a lot. It is. I'm not a wine guy though, so I don't. Yeah, me neither. That's that's why I like it. Like it's somewhere that I'm like, Oh, that looks nice. But I, I've never eaten there at the Disneyland hotel or California venture.
00:50:48
Speaker
Then there's ah the Disneyland Hotel will unveil an all new concierge lounge, the High Key Club, celebrating the music and sounds of Disneyland parks circa 1955. Wait, they're doing ah a nostalgia land lounge. Yeah. but yeah um So swanky and sophisticated, colorful and fun, pay homage to mid-century modern aesthetic. ah Yeah, so this is this looks pretty cool. i don't know how you get in here. Oh, so wait this is the double the space of the previous club level lounge at in the hotel's adventure tower. And it'll be a special place for concierge guests to watch the fireworks and enjoy music from the show. So this is this is a room category, right? Yes. Yeah. So yeah. So yeah, that this is you do have to stay concierge level and um looks looks like it would be a great space. I
00:51:39
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I think I don't like about concierge stuff is I'm never going to stay concierge level. So it's kind of like, you clear though but yeah, it's kind of like, oh, that that's cool, but I'm never, I'm never going to experience it personally. But I do love the art design of, uh, of this lounge. Like you said, it's, it's that mid mid century modern, which is, yeah, it's, it's a great aesthetic, I think.
00:52:00
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I agree. Uh, I, I did concierge once. Um, well it was club level. It was, we did club level and, uh, at animal kingdom, but it was for our honeymoon. So like, that was like a one and none kind of thing, but it was cool. I mean, it was, but the one at animal kingdom is tiny. The one in animal kingdom lodge is a very tiny lounge. So like, that's why they have so few rooms that are concierge levels. Cause the, the lounge is so small. Um, so yeah, so this one obviously is much bigger, right?
00:52:30
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And then so let's see. And then the last one is the veranda concierge at the Grand Californian is adding a second club level lounge nearby, which I don't or I guess I have not again, I'm not seeing the the current one, but this looks like a a nice two story lounge done in the same vibe as the Grand Californian slash wilderness lodge. Like it it definitely has that you know if you if you love the vibe of Wilderness Lodge, this is just a lounge centered around that. Yeah, pretty much.
00:53:05
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ah The other part we have, though, too, is there Grand California is going to add ah new ah decor to guest rooms, but also, so that's kind of DVC news, right? but Because there is going to be a Grand Californian ah refurb is happening, right? So they're doing a replacing furniture and adding all such other stuff. um But then there's also, Pixar Place Hotel is going to be having so is going to have signature suites.
00:53:30
Speaker
And the the one, yeah, it's not cool. the The one that I'm looking at right now is themed to Coco and it looks very cool. Oh, that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, which one? Oh, that one. As soon as you see it, you're like, okay, that. Yeah. Yeah. Although I'm not going to lie, the little doll over to the right that's sitting on the counter creeps me out a little bit. The Miguel. Yeah. Look at him. That's a creepy looking doll. I don't know. His eyes are all beech creeping me out. I don't know. It's a cutesy looking version of Miguel. I know, I know. But then not only the Coco Suite, there's also an incredible suite that does the mid-century design from the movie. That is super cool. I would 100% do the Incredibles one. Look how cool that is. Yeah, totally. I mean, it's got the old style TV. I wonder if they're actually going to do that. And then that same kind of that stone fireplace, it's basically that whole aesthetic from Incredibles, which is interesting.
00:54:27
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It feels like or I know like their house, but also like it feels like the villains layer on the on the island. Yeah, yeah, it does. But it's it's it's built it's based on Incredibles 2 where they get to the house right oh yeah there. Yeah. So I honestly I Incredibles 2 was OK, but I still go back to Incredibles 1 in my head for some reason.
00:54:49
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Yeah, I get that. Wait, wait, I'm just reading this too. I'm i'm reading the details of this. The suite includes a primary bedroom for the par parents with a connecting room for Edna Mode and designed by Edna herself, beginning with a hand scanning prop at the entryway. So.
00:55:04
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Meaning like you have to put your hand on the, like it's a scanning your hand, like a secret agent kind of thing. Yeah, the door and so or opening and closing the door, I guess you touch a panel and I'm guessing it's a sliding door. So like they probably have like a pocket door that slides in and out. That's pretty cool. Yeah. That's cool until it breaks. Well, yeah, there's also that it says super inspired touches and special effects, including a spy phone, hidden messages and secret, a secret door and other surprises.
00:55:33
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I really want to stay in this, but it probably would cost a fortune. I have no idea how much it good would cost, but it looks awesome. I just like the idea of there's a C like the whole spy angle to it. Like that scan your hand and there's, you know, the spy phone and there's a secret door. I want to find a secret door.
00:55:52
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i and we No, no, no. I'm just looking at the the picture. i'm I'm betting it because there's that red phone there. I'm betting that's the secret door. I would, you think, Oh, okay. So you think the secret door is, is that wall? Like you you do something with the phone and the wall opens up. Yeah. See, I want to do the thing where you pull the right book out and then it doesn't, you know, like,
00:56:11
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Now, that that's not that that's not like spy level. That's like... It's Batman though, right? No, because he he used the Batphone didn't near or he? No, he flipped open ah a bust and pushed a button and then... I think it depends on which Batman it was. I think in the old Adam West Batman. Yeah, yeah. And now I'm just thinking of like, you know, the the stereotypical thing of you, you know, you find the right book and then you just pull it out a little bit and the whole wall opens, but yeah.
00:56:38
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I like the idea of you flip something open, there's a switch or a button and then you push it and then yeah, that'd be cool too. The wall opens. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I think this idea is very cool and uh, I, I really like it and I, it would be cool if they also did this somewhere else, but uh, I like that it's uh, that they it's interesting. They chose Coco and the Incredibles for this, but it, you know, what they're doing with them are is really cool and highly themed. Um, Uh, and interestingly too, I, I'm looking at the cocoa one and it looks like there's like the windows, you look at the windows, like, is that going to be, yeah it it's got, it looks like the, um, like the bridge, right? Or whatever. Yeah. like the yeah The flowers and all that. Um, yeah. Yeah. Like, are they actually going to have like tinted windows or like, or stained glass or something? That's interesting. Cause that, cause I would assume part of the room is that you want to view, but, but not like a view into,
00:57:34
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like a static picture or anything like that. Like it should. Yeah. I wonder how that's going to work. That's not, or maybe it's just the flourish of the, of the, uh, the concept art and not actually what it's going to look like, you know, yeah but if there's no outside facing windows. That's not quite as appealing.
00:57:50
Speaker
Sure. I mean, yeah, that would be, I mean, especially for the fortune you're going to pay for this, this room. Right. so Although, although on the Incredibles one, they they also don't depict like, um, cause usually on, on some of these concept arts, like they'll show like a picture of like California adventure off in the distance or yeah you know, kind of indicating like, Oh, you know, this has like a view of the parks or whatever, but, uh, these ones don't.
00:58:14
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Yeah. Yeah. But Pixar place does like there is definitely park views there. So yeah, I wonder, uh, I wonder how they're going to pull this off. Would you consider staying here again, Trevor, even though you had a bad experience, not that we got it. I mean, cause it looks really nice now. I mean, I mean, uh, you just spawned a conversation with my wife in like three days, just so you know, when she listens to the show, yeah when when she listens to the show, she's going to be like,
00:58:43
Speaker
Well, maybe we could stay there. No, no, no, I actually think it's going to be we're not. so Why are you even entertaining the idea of staying there? We're not staying there because like it was it was a bad, a bad experience. But I've also been assured like it was the elevators. Actually, that was the the big turnoff because.
00:59:01
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the way the elevators were designed. We were on the sixth floor and it was impossible. It took me 30 minutes to get an elevator that was that let me get back up to our room because of how they were. There wasn't enough elevators, basically, for yeah but for how big the the hotel was. So, yeah, I mean, I guess I shouldn't say that we'll never stay there again, but am I going to pay to stay there again? Hmm.
00:59:30
Speaker
I would have to actually see how these rooms are in practice, not just the concept art. Let's leave it there. Okay. That makes sense. All right. Let's, why don't we wrap up and listen to anything else you want to say about this? Uh, no, not yet. Um, but I said, yeah, I'm just, or I was just looking if there were, they've got some dates for or they're talking about hotel offers, but I thought there was like dates for when these open, but no, nevermind. No dates. Just, it's just coming soon. Yeah. Yeah. Just teasing you, you know, of course. Yeah, no. So yeah, I think, I think I'm good to to wrap it up here. Okay. Let's do it. All right. Uh, so yeah, as usual, if you ever want to reach out to us, you can always find us at welcome home podcast at gmail dot.com.
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01:02:01
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01:02:52
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You know, it makes us enjoy keep doing that. That was a terrible sentence.
Review Mishaps and Humor
01:02:57
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It makes us makes us keep enjoying what we're doing here. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. And my my head took the words and put them in like a different order. corner Yeah, that's OK. But yeah, so so yeah, you know, leave us review on iTunes and, you know, you know, spell it.
01:03:10
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improperly because then I'll know you're listening to me. are they that's That's good. i Yeah, I like that. ah Also, on top of doing a review, please do a review review if you haven't done so. and we like it Like Trevor said, we appreciate all reviews. Even the negative ones you know sometimes make us laugh.
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