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Episode 354: Magic of Disney Animation, Disney Weather App & Carousel of Progress Updates
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The guys discuss an Imagineering video about the new Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run update. All inventory at Disney's Riviera Resort has officially been declared. Disney Vacation Club will allow guests to choose between single-story and two-story layouts for Grand Villa accommodations at Disney's BoardWalk Villas. Reports indicate that Disney Vacation Club has adopted a new policy that restricts members from using their points once it enters the Right of First Refusal process. New maps and concept art reveal layout details for the upcoming experience, “The Magic of Disney Animation”, coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios. The Bluey-themed experience at Disney's Animal Kingdom is reportedly already eliminating its virtual queue system to transition to standard standby. Disney and AccuWeather have partnered to launch a location-specific mobile weather check feature for on-property resort guests. Disney shared new details of the reimagining of the Walt Disney World Carousel of Progress including the new decades that will be covered and the closure date.
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Introduction to Welcome Home Podcast
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Sponsorship and DVC Focus
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Resale Market.
Hosts' Weekend Adventures
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Thank you for joining us on episode 354 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom, here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor?
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a I'm doing all right. just Yeah, we we're low energy today and it's for both of our own faults because... I was at a concert last night, so I was up late and you were up late for other reasons. I I was up late.
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um My brother and I have a a regular gaming session. And so we were up late doing that. But that's actually not why I was up late as late as I was.
Imagineering Insights
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It was because I went down YouTube rabbit holes, which are dangerous. so Yeah. I actually watched they they put out a imaginary put out another one of those unscripted things that they they do. And ah it's like 22 minutes long and it's about the the new smugglers run. And like it like shows them like ah testing everything and like all the stuff that they have to go through and all that, you know, ah like it's actually really interesting if you're interested in that kind of stuff.
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Because they're like, you know, they're they're trying to figure out, you know, sat like maybe they're measuring like the level of, you know, audio. there's There's a guy running the entire thing from a laptop in there programming like, you know, motion and stuff like that. you know, it's it's it's kind of crazy. And and they would they talk about how these testers literally will ride will ride the the ride all day long from like eight o'clock until like the night, just literally all day long while they're while they're testing it. And it's like, that's crazy. That's that's a lot. yeah Yeah. You know, it's it's funny, is like, on the surface, to me, that's like, that sounds awesome. It does, yeah. But also, it's like too much of a good thing where, yeah you know, like, I say to myself, like, yeah, I i could ride the PeopleMover all day.
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But do I really want to do that? If I did that, there there is ah there is a threshold once you're just like, okay, this is not
Engineering Challenges
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fun anymore. But, you know, the interesting thing, like you said, about the Imagineering story stuff, though, is that um i i haven't watched the most recent one either, but I do enjoy like...
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the the mindset of like trying to break it or like trying to, trying to find the stuff that's wrong with it. I, that's actually what I really enjoy about like imagineering and that kind of stuff is it's like, it's not just about like, Oh, they built this amazing thing. It's like all the stuff, like like the angles that people don't think about that.
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And I say this as like, I'm an IT admin. So it's like, I've learned over the years that no matter how much you like, true sorry, that this, I'm, okay. that This term, I don't know a better term for this, but it's what I would call it like idiot proofing.
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Yeah. And I'm not like, and please don't take this, you know, anybody listening, I'm not trying to like, I think that's a common phrase. Yeah. Yeah. but But I'm not trying to like put myself out there as like, oh, I'm, you know I'm an IC guy and I know better than all of you. But it's like you try and figure out all the angles that people will do stuff from and you think you've got them all and then there's always one more.
Theme Park Spoilers Discussion
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like Yeah. Yeah. And I love that about Imagineer. So, yeah. Yeah. And maybe I should throw a spoiler alert in here. i You know, if you haven't watched it, but go go watch it but if you want to and spoiler. And yeah it's it's funny, just to one brief aside. What we were talking about, I had just kind of randomly mentioned an effect at at Trader Sam's in the last episode. And I think it was Katie and in the Discord was like, I had to turn it off because my kids hadn't seen that effect yet. And I didn't. I wanted it to surprise them. And yeah at the time when I said it,
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I didn't think it would, it was like a spoiler, but after she said that, I was like, oh, I totally get that. Like, I, you know, like I, I just, when I said it, I just said it. I didn't think it was like anything, but yeah, I understand why that would be a spoiler, but yeah, it's, yeah it's, that is a hard thing to like, you know, you know, it's not like it's a new.
00:04:29
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Yeah, exactly. But it's, but it's also like, This goes back to like, you know, we've talked about like, you know, new rides coming out, you know how I am about like not like watching videos ahead of time most of the time and stuff like that is it's like it is about the experience and it is, you know, you don't want you don't want people finding out something ahead of time that.
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You know, it kind of robs you of the the expressions on their face and and all that kind of stuff. So I get that. I get her, her you know, you know skipping that part of the the episode.
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Well, the good thing about this Imagineering video is it doesn't, it it reveals, you know, they talk about it the ride in like, you know, in in general and they show a couple scenes, but it's not, you're not ruining anything by watching the video.
00:05:16
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I guess is what I'm saying. you You only see little bits and pieces and it's more about them trying to get it together and, you know, get it launched. And it was, but it was interesting because like there were there was a part where they they were rehearsing the switchover, you know, from the old version to the new version, just to, you know, see how long it would take them and see if everything would work. And but like they, so they did the switchover thing and then nothing worked. Like literally the whole thing just broke. And it was just really funny. And, you know, and that's why you do those kinds of things. But I mean, cause they, they go to test it after they switch it over and they go and sit in one of the cabins to go try it. And then like, literally they just sat there for five minutes and the ride just stuck and not moving at And it's just kind of, I mean, it's interesting. I'm sure that kind of stuff is ah is difficult, but, you know, it it takes a long time to do these things. They talked about they were working on for a year and a half. You know, it's it's it's a lot of time spent doing this. and Yeah, I mean, it's not a simple. or No. the The hard part is is when it looks so good and so easy, people really underestimate how much work they have.
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goes into it or or like, you know, when when you make anything look easy, like it's, yeah, you know, i I always equate it back to, you know, again, what I, what I do is it's like, you know, I, I sometimes diminish my work because it's like, oh, well I can do that in, you know, 20
Show Production Insights
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minutes. Right.
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Yeah. But you're ignoring the fact that it's like, Hey, it took me like, you know, hours and weeks and, you know you know, like in-depth understanding of this system and what it's doing to get it to a place where i can just, you know, do something in 20 minutes, right? And so, same thing with like, fli like you know, the the the the example of flipping things over is exactly that, is, you know,
00:06:59
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You know, it should be simple. Like, like you know, you know i hate i hate when people say that, ah like you know, it's like, you know, it looks straightforward. no like No, it's never straightforward. And i I thought you were referring to our show because we make this look so easy.
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I mean, but but that that also comes with experience. You know, we've been doing this for a long time. So, you know, it's it's easy now. It was not easy when we started. true. And I mean, you know, we've we've learned a lot along the way. So, I mean, it's...
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That is very true. In the beginning, it was it was pretty difficult. And, you know, listen, there are still things that we do now that are difficult, but it's it's're much more in a rhythm now than we used to be. but um But listen, Trevor, I am going to be adding a spoiler alert sound effect that you came up with the idea for. I'm i'm currently working on it. Yeah, absolutely.
00:07:49
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I just, when I heard that, like it just, it popped into my head and I was like, yeah we need something, but like, not, not like a song. It should just be like chime in. And, and, and my head always goes, like, I actually have it as my believer. It's my ringtone. Whenever you message me specifically. That's or well sorry its it's whenever messenger goes off because we talk about messenger yeah it's the the star tours chime so yeah do do do like and it's just like it's perfect like you know you know it's quick you it's you know you know what it is you know obviously like you know if we were to do something like that we would have to you know give it context so people know what it is but you could eventually get to a point where it's like you know Spoiler. Ding. That's what I'm going to do. That's exactly what I'm doing. So it's, you know, the Star Wars chime and it's going to sound like the flight attendant from Star Tours. That's what I'm working on right now.
00:08:39
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But yeah. All right. Yeah. Because we're going to, you know, do a spoiler the thing. So, but that was a brilliant idea by you. As soon as you said it, I heard it in my head and I was like, like I will get that done. I knew that. Yeah. but That's also why on the Discord, I do sometimes like...
00:08:55
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Okay, i I will admit I'm bad for this. but Becky's called me out on it before on the Discord that I sometimes like throw things out even on like as we're talking on on the show here too. I will throw things out and I don't even necessarily care whether or not you catch it in the moment when I'm saying, but I will kind of throw it out with like see if the dots get connected or or like, you know, like I'll make a joke or whatever. And sometimes, you know, the joke misses and, and, but it's, it's for me. It's not for like, I'm not, I'm not doing it expecting you to catch all of my references or whatever, but it's also the same thing on the discourse. Like I will make a comment knowing full well that it's like, you know, maybe it you know, it'll just be taken as, you know, yeah whatever, you know, but sometimes it has a bigger meaning to it. And and when I said the star tours thing, I knew
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I knew you were going to go down that line of thinking. That's why I was like, yeah, you should do this. Yeah. Yeah. That's as soon as you, as soon as you said it i was like, oh, that's so perfect. I'm just, yeah damn I'm going to do that.
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uh, anyway, i enjoy it. It's, it, yeah it, it makes the days easier. Oh yeah. So go, but you should definitely watch that thing on, uh, imaginary behind the scenes. Yes. Like I said, I find it fascinating and it's, it's really interesting to to see the way that they, you know, kind of came up with all the, all the things that they were doing there and, and, uh, and, and how much work they really put into it. So check that It's unscripted on, on, on, it's on Disney plus it's also on YouTube.
00:10:29
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So, Anyway, let's get into it, Trevor. Yeah, we do have a few things to talk about, um specifically DVC things.
00:10:40
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um Yeah, a couple. Yeah. I mean, not nothing huge, I don't think. but yeah um i will I will say, Trevor, really quick before we get into this. One thing I didn't put on here was ah all i the other piece of news that's out there now is...
DVC Membership Dilemmas
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um All of the um all the inventory at Riviera has now been declared, meaning all of it is for sale, essentially, at this point. So we're getting fairly close. Not not there yet. Probably still a little while out to that resort actually selling out. So, yeah. But that that does show you, though, that... um
00:11:17
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It's an interesting thing going back to when we first started talking about Riviera that, you know, with the resale restrictions and everything that we were questioning if it was going to end up in the same state as Alani, where Alani seems to just like never...
00:11:32
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Like, or like it's, it's a, you know, where it is and and all that, that, you know, it's people, it's not a lot of people's first choice for a resort, but, yeah but obviously Riviera, you know, the fact that it it is, you know, getting to, you know, it's the fact that it is fully declared means obviously enough people are buying into it and it is desirable enough, even with the restrictions that,
00:11:56
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that, yeah you know, it's it's still a a valid resort. if yeah I think it's more so, you know, I don't know that I would still ever buy resale there, but, or, i sorry, I shouldn't say, I i would never buy a resale, but I'm sure there's people that resale for that resort would fit for them, you know, staying there all the time is not the worst thing in the world by any means.
00:12:18
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um But I feel like, or actually, I guess i would I would be curious how much of Riviera is entirely direct or direct memberships versus resale. And I know we'll never, like, I don't say we'll never get those numbers. I mean, maybe maybe somebody has those numbers out there. I haven't looked, honestly.
00:12:38
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But it's an interesting question, right? Yeah. Yeah, i I would, at this point, I would expect it to sell out next year. now And the the other part of this, too, is with all of the all of the ah the rooms declared at this point,
00:12:51
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all the inventory declared, that also means more rooms that are available to, ah you know, people to use their points with, right? That's the other part of it. So, um yeah. So, yeah, it's it's good. I mean, it's I didn't put it on the rundown just because it felt like a kind of an aside, but, ah you know, yeah, I just thought that was interesting. But the other thing I did put on here, though, is something I just thought was kind of interesting, and I wonder if they're going to do more of this, and that's ah So for example, so over at Boardwalk, the Grand Villas, there's only seven of them, Trevor, but the seven Grand Villas, um two of them are two stories and the other five are a single story.
00:13:25
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And currently, if you want to book that, you basically just have to book the Grand Villa and then whatever you get is what you get, which, you know, it's fine. Good. Sorry. Sorry. Continue. i let I'll add on to it. So, but what they're going to do is next year, they're going to change it so that you can book either the one story or the two stories. So you can actually have a choice, which you know, it could be good for a lot of people that like, you know, if I were going with like my mom or something, I'd probably want to do the one floor one just so she doesn't have to deal with stairs. You know what i mean? Right. Like there's, there's like a lot of good reasons to have an option to book the one story instead of the two story, instead of it just being, you know, like a random thing.
00:14:03
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Yeah, and I i feel like ah this is ah this is probably the result of, um I know, again, you know my my experiences you know with the Poly is you know they they added, when you're booking rooms at the Poly, they had ah added an option to just default, say, you know request upper floor rooms like like you know you know that this feels like the same kind of thing where they're like the you know yeah it is only seven rooms in the grand villa but i exactly to your point you know people have different requirements and you know you know rolling the dice on am i getting the one story or the two story version even though you know they are functionally the same
00:14:48
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um the same room, there is that like experience thing where, you know, if especially like I would think of it also, you know, on the flip it's like, you know, hey, if I really liked that, you know, that two story feel to it and, you know, and I was excited to stay and you get in and it's a it's a onestory one story one.
00:15:04
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you're disappointed, right? So i understand, I understand, you know, from that point is, you know, I'm sure they probably got people that, um, you know, I, I used to do this all the time until they added the options to the website is that I would book my room and then I would call in and make all the requests that i wanted to, um,
00:15:27
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to like the particular, you know, areas that, you know, the area of the the resort that I want to be in. Obviously, understand you know, they have no reason to, you know, give you everything you request. But, you know, I feel like this is the same kind of thing where anyone who was booking these Grand Villas, it was it was probably a matter of like,
00:15:44
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oh, you know, I want the two-story one. And it's, you know you know, this way it doesn't feel like you're losing the lottery, so to speak. That, yeah that you know, you know people people can choose. Or, you know you know, I'm sure it will affect people. You know, if if somebody's like really...
00:16:01
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you know, dead set on getting the two story and they go to look and they they don't see the one or, you know, it's only the one story available, they might change their plans to get the two story, which, but but again, that's their prerogative. And, i you know, i I feel like Disney is, true or they're trying to make sure that you know, you know, DVC, it's not that we should be able to pick exactly what we want all the time. And we knew that going into it, but there's no reason why they can't clearly offer these things up on the website. Yeah.
00:16:34
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So, yeah. Well, listen, there's only seven of them. So unless you're a, yeah unless you own a boardwalk, you're not getting one of them anyway. Hey, that's, yeah a you know, for a single night, it's only like, you know, two thirds of my points. So there's that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, So the other item, though, Trevor, on here is that DVC... is So this is reportedly... Okay, now DVC, they haven't, like, said anything about this, and I don't know how official this actually is. So but this is from DVC News, and they're pretty good about this stuff. But they're claiming that DVC has adopted a new policy of placing a hold on contracts when they're passing through ROFR. So meaning...
00:17:10
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If you're in, ah you know, the process of selling your contract and, you know, you're going through the rofer process, they ah they won't let you use your points anymore on there. and Because they, you know, basically right, you know, now you could technically, I guess, use those those points, ah you know, in that in-between time. Now, if you're reselling it, i yeah if I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure you have to agree not to use the points. But basically, Disney's locking you out of it.
00:17:38
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While they do. Yeah. Which makes sense to me, actually. Like, i so I didn't even think about this until now. So, you know, I i see this the same way that like, um you know, when we and we we talk about resale contracts all the time. Right. where There's, um you know, you know, resale car or when you when you're looking at um like DVC resale market.
00:18:01
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different or you know You can have the same contract with the same use year, but depending on how the points are loaded, so like if it has like this year's points, next year's points, or points are banked or whatever, it does affect like some of the pricing of it.
00:18:16
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And i can see where... um I wouldn't be surprised if Disney might have gotten burned on this, where people... you know people People doing, um you know, resale of contracts, you know, they they wait for the rofer stuff to come through. And if rofer does hit, you know, if you're selling your contract and rofer hits, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody is trying to eke out a bit of extra money where they go, oh, you know, you know, Disney just bought it back.
00:18:44
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I'm just going to rent out all my points now and basically drain drain the yeah the contract. So, they you know, they they pocket the money from it. And then Disney's in a position where they just bought back a contract that's empty for, you know, potentially up to like the next two years. Sure. Right. so So I see where Disney is probably, you know, they're they're looking at these things. And it it was probably a matter of, you know you know, I feel like most people wouldn't be that devious with it. But there also does seem to be a subset of people that,
00:19:18
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You know, think on that level. and and And the silly thing is, like, I wouldn't have even thought about this until I read this article. And I was like, yeah me oh, yeah, you know you know, I see where you could play that angle of, you know, you're selling back a contract, but you're pocketing the money. And then the funny thing about that is that it could almost that could almost turn into its own.
00:19:41
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um side business of buying and selling contracts, knowing, yeah you know, you know, you know, you can, you can buy and sell contracts with the hope of Disney exercising rofer and then taking advantage of Disney in the, you know, draining the points.
00:20:00
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Yeah. Right. So, because, because the thing is, is like in a, um, in a, in a resale contract, um, they They do have similar stipulations where they're like, you know, this is the points on the contract. You don't you don't suddenly, you know, book or change or do whatever with the points because you're so you know you're under agreement to that person. But the thing about Rofer is that that once Rofer hits, you're no longer dealing with um with resale market and the other party that you that you're selling. It's dealing with Disney.
00:20:32
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yeah You don't have an immediate... or you don't have the same, you know, binding contract with Disney that you have with, ah with you know, dealing with ah an entity like Resale Market.
00:20:43
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So suddenly it would be would have been fair game to say like, oh, I can just, you know, empty these points off of this account before they transfer it out of my... um or transferred away from me, right? Because because even when Rofur goes through, there is a delay. It doesn't, like, happen instantaneously.
00:20:59
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So, you know, there is still a chance that, yeah, you could you could empty a bunch of points out of the account. So, yeah, it's it's a very... It's a very funny, interesting thing to talk about, but it's also a reminder of this is sometimes why we can't have nice things because... um I mean, you know, it's it's sad that... It's sad that people have to, like... Stop them from doing something they shouldn't be doing. Yeah, but like like, I just...
00:21:32
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it's the same as like buying a house and yeah, yeah or, yeah you know, somebody selling a house and between when you buy it and you sell it, you know, they rip off all the, you know, you know, that like all the the drapes are in the house, you know, they take all the drapes, they take, you know, the faucets and the fridge, like, you know, like they just but strip everything out of the house. Right. Like it's, it feels like the same thing.
00:21:55
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Right. And it's like, most people would not do that, but, Some people would. Some people will. Yeah. Yeah. And those are not for most people. They're for the people that, uh, for the people that take advantage. and Most of us aren't bothered enough to do that. Like if I would, if I was selling a contract, i mean, I would, I would not be sitting there like wringing my hands going like, Oh, you know, let's see how this rofer goes. Cause I can make another, know, you know, yeah you know yeah you know, few thousand bucks or whatever. Like, you know, it's yeah. Yeah.
00:22:27
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Yeah, I get it. I get it. Yeah. All right. Makes sense. But again, we we should you know we're talking about this. We should, again, just highlight that um this... So this came from DVC News. This is not an official statement, but DVC News tends to... They tend to be good. Yeah. that They tend to to have... um They tend to have good sources on it.
00:22:51
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To be fair, they got this from Dizboards, so you never know. Well, well and and again, from Dizboards, it... Or hold on. what What was the actual reference? All it says is Dizboards. It doesn't actually say... Dizboards, yeah. Yeah, it doesn't say where it came from on Dizboards or if somebody like... I wonder if maybe that that... It's possible that Disney updated the, like... Did the agreement. Yeah, they might have updated the contract. Yeah, yeah.
00:23:18
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yeah So... Well, ah that's yeah it's interesting. But yeah, hopefully hopefully we don't have, you know, have to deal with more things like that. Exactly. Exactly.
Hollywood Studios Updates
00:23:30
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um So moving on to some other things we, ah you know, the animation ah like courtyard area over there is continuing to, ah to be, you know, to, to be updated. Now, some of, some of the animation courtyard is reopened at Hollywood studios.
00:23:46
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ah Some of it has not. And, and, you know, the big part of it that isn't yet open is the, the the Walt Disney studio a lot. And so we're getting some, ah We're getting so it's it's really this ah the magic of Disney animation is what the part that hasn't opened yet. Right.
00:24:01
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And so this is, you know, i think everyone's aware of this, but it is it's it looks like the they they're modeling it after the actual, you know, um yeah andim Disney animation building. Right. ah And so you have like the Sorcerer Mickey hat on there and which lights up at night, too. I've seen pictures of that. It's it looks pretty cool at night. yeah Um, but, and so we, we know about this, but they just gave us some more details. So we've got, we've got, uh, some more concept art and a map of what the experience is going to look like and, and a few more details. So, uh, which is cool. I'm excited to check this out. Uh, the more I find out about it, the more I am interested in it, but,
00:24:41
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so Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. First of all, I want to say that the map that they provided is, it looks like a park map. It does. It's fun. It's fun, but also it's funny and also might be a little bit misleading to people because because like a park map is like huge. This is a single building at in a park, right? so but But I understand why they're doing because there there's actually a lot of stuff in here. This reminds me of... um I'm, I'm, people are going to get mad at me that, uh, that they're there, it was, um, it was a similar animation building that they had in, uh, California adventure, which I believe, or I don't know if it's actually, or I don't think it's closed, but I think it kind of went through the same thing where like a good majority of it, like got shut down over time due to COVID and stuff like that.
00:25:33
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But yeah, you know, it's it's all these experiences that you you remember from, you know, you know the ah what was previously here. Like yeah they they have Olaf draws, which we've talked about.
00:25:45
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um there's once upon a studio theater. I'm i'm assuming this is like a, one of those like mini movies. It's like a small little theater. I think we're just going to be playing that once upon a studio short, which is, it's a great short, but you know, yeah and it makes sense to put it there too. They've also mentioned here too, that the, ah the portraits, there's going to be portraits around the wall all around and that are going to kind of come to life, which, you know, is what the once upon a studio, you know, thing is kind of about. And also, you If, you know, any of all the cruise ships essentially have this where, you know, all the art around the cruise ship, ah you know, can come to life at any time. And so it's, it's kind of similar, I feel like to that.
00:26:23
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ah One of the things we're seeing though, that's, that's, you know, new information on here is, is this Wonderland area ah call it called Drawn to Wonderland. It's like an indoor kind of playground.
00:26:37
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That is for six-month-olds to five-year-olds. And ah we got this piece of concept art, which I'm pretty sure we haven't seen before. This this looks new to me. I don't remember seeing this.
00:26:47
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um And so it's an immersive indoor playground. it's ah you know Of course, it's a Mary Blair inspired because they like to throw a Mary Blair on everything, so which is fine. I like it. I'm saying. I feel like they they do it a lot. um But it's got like... ah It looks like there's a slide in there. There's some, like like, a tea party thing with, like, a bunch of different, like, ah you know, ah i don't know. What do you call those things? Like, those beads on tracks? Those things you would, or I i always equate them with, like, when you're in the ah the doctor's office. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, beads. The bead's running along a metal wire, and you just, like...
00:27:21
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Yeah, that's so that's that's that part, um which, i listen, that looks great for younger kids. It looks like a lot of fun and and it it looks like a really neat design. And it looks like there's like a little kind of playhouse thing behind there.
00:27:33
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yeah I'm assuming it looks like there's like the the garden maze, which I'm guessing is there's probably like a a bit of a maze or like like, again, just a play. Or, you know, more of the play area, right? so Yeah, and then there's this off-the-page section where it's kind of like the character meet and greets, and you also can see like ah some of like the different animation stuff, too, which looks really neat, actually, because the the way they're they're doing it, it's like the different steps of the animation process. Like, they're bringing you through the animation process with different characters, which I think is pretty neat, actually. Yeah, I i do like in the map, the the um there's a few obscure references in here.
00:28:14
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which makes me hopeful that like the, a lot of times I feel like in these kinds of experiences, they, they cover just like the,
00:28:24
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you know, here's Mickey, here's like, yeah you know you know, whatever the current popular movies are or whatever. um I'm seeing like ah the the guy from Hunchback Notre Dame, the yeah Skeletons from that old... Skeletons, yeah. Skeletons, the Centaur from Fantasia is in there, which I know you you might say like, well, Fantasia is not like...
00:28:51
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obscure but if you think about it it like it's a pretty old movie and it does not get a lot of love at this point yeah yeah it it it does kind of come back up from time to time but the centaur specifically like i I honestly forgot about that entire bit in the in the movie but so I was like oh yeah right there there was that whole thing with the the satyrs and the centaurs and everything um I can't remember what the song was. It's not Dance the Hours.
00:29:23
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Yeah, sorry. Anyway, um ah I'm like running through like Fantasia in my head, like, where are all the songs? and but um But yeah, like I said, you know it's it's I will say that the the Drawn to Wonderland stuff as well, um this is actually the best case scenario for a playground that is needed in Hollywood.
00:29:46
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like Yeah. it ah Like, I didn't even... i I think I've said this before, but I didn't really think about how it would play out. Like all all the other parks have a playground type area of some sort or that or have experiences that are geared towards kids, which, yeah you know, i've I've said this many times and and I because I experienced this myself when my when my son was younger is that, you know, even when you're running around the parks and you are exhausted, your kids sometimes need to burn off energy, and especially like young kids, because i mean, to be fair, like,
00:30:17
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your young kids, you're they're not walking the same way that you are. They're usually in strollers and stuff. And so sometimes you need to just, you know, burn off energy, yeah um get out and burn off energy without, you know, letting them just, you know, run crazy in the parks because that's, that's not, or ah it's not bad, but it's also like, you know, there's a lot of people. It's, you know, it's not, it's not a playground. Yeah. Right. Like, even though I know it's a theme park, but you know, you know, that comes with,
00:30:46
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Theme parks can be dangerous, especially when, you know, it's like a three-year-old running around. So having having an indoor play area is a very... It's a good thing, and i don't want to say...
00:31:01
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you know, okay, this was like probably an opportunistic thing, but it could maybe be a precursor for more indoor-like experiences like that.
00:31:12
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Maybe. Because, I mean, I'm just going to put it out there. Florida's hot. It is. surprised that there's not more indoor things like this where, like, I know it's expensive to, like, build buildings and maintain AC and all that kind of stuff, but it's like,
00:31:29
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it does It does go a lot further than, you know, making people sweat to death. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I'm i'm a little, like I said that I think the biggest thing that surprised me about this was the Drawn to Wonderland stuff. Because, like you said, we we had never had we didn't have anything prior to this about it.
00:31:50
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We knew there was going to be a playground. They just didn't necessarily give all the details about it. Yeah. And I wasn't, but I wasn't thinking of, or I guess I was thinking of like, like I said, you know, in the animation building in California, it had like,
00:32:09
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kind of kids play areas but there wasn't like this is like an actual like play area like I guess I was I've heard people say like oh there's ah there's a place for kids and it's like you know you know ah or in California it was like the Beast Library where it was like oh yeah there's there's like these like books and stuff but it's not really like it's not a playground.
00:32:31
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Yeah. like Like, I guess I, maybe I, I have expectations of like, when you say a play area, like a play area could be a lot of things. And this is actually best case scenario. Like it's, it's an actual proper playground where kids can go and play and not, you know, it's,
00:32:47
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It's a seed and, you know, the parents can like, you know, keep an eye on them. You know, hopefully, you know, keep an eye on your kids, please. if you're Hopefully. Yeah. Unfortunately, had to say that. But yeah. Sorry. I'm going to be honest. to that Sure. Yeah. Sure. you You know, you and I have both seen, you know the kid, you know, licking the glass in the. Oh, my God. I've seen so many things. We've all seen so many things.
00:33:12
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I'm more disturbed now when a kid is doing that, that that when a parent is or is like egging a kid on to do something. Oh, that's so cute. Yeah. Like, things no, stop doing that. Don't let them do that. You know? Also, also don't lick. that They got the beads on the wires thing here at the tea party. Don't lick those. hey like Other people are touching them. Don't lick them. Well, like every time we go on Winnie the Pooh, like when we get to that honey, like the honey screen, you know, yeah honey my daughter always like wants to play with it. I'm like, don't touch that. That's like literal like germ. fact Like there's so many germs on that. Yeah, it's that is the hard thing about these spaces is that it's such a like.
00:33:50
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There's no good way to do it. Like it's like you want interactive, you want fun, but also that means other people are touching it. And that means that there's always going to be somebody that shows up that, you know,
00:34:02
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you know, sorry, we've had this conversation before, but I'm still going to say, as you know that you know, people that, my kid's sick, but I paid a bunch of money to be here, so, you know, we're going kind of thing. Like, I just, yeah. yeah i Unless they clean it constantly, it's, you know, which which is a lot. So, they got a lot of other things to clean. Yeah.
00:34:22
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Yeah, i can't imagine like you if you want to actually like properly clean, you would need somebody standing there like wiping these things down every 20 minutes. Every single time that somebody uses it, it's like wipe, wipe. Yeah, no, I mean, I mean, even wiping it out daily, like, you know, yeah, absolutely. They should. But it's it's a lot yeah like even daily. there's There's still so much stuff that would go through these spaces on a daily basis that. Yeah.
00:34:46
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Yeah, I'm just the germaphobe side of me is like horrified ah thinking about this. But at the same time, I'm like, like, I want it to be a thing. Like I and it's, you know, like because like, I know my kid would love that. I know me as a kid would have loved this. But I also see where like, you know.
00:35:09
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ugh, like... yeah Just don't put your mouth on it. like time not of that i don't i don't understand why kids have to, like, put their mouth on everything. ah So this this area will be, I think, supposed to be opening and sometime later this summer. So I actually might get to check this out when I'm there.
00:35:28
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I'm hopeful. But that's really the only new thing. We knew about the Olaf draws and all the other stuff. That's like the main update that they gave us here. And the little map, that fun map that you were talking about. It's got a lot of cool stuff on it. Of course, there's a store at the end of the whole thing. You've got to have the store. Wow. Yeah. You know, even when it's a walkthrough attraction, you've got to have gift shop. Yeah, still to have the gift shop. So. All right. Why don't we go look at this closer? Sorry. I'm just, I realize there's way more detail in this than I realized. I need to like really analyze this map. Well, while you do that, let's do our ad because I'm sure everybody's wondering when we're going to talk about that one thing. So we're getting there. I saved it for later, but we'll and do our ad and then we'll talk about a couple other things. So.
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00:37:02
Speaker
So, I mean, you know, listen, Trevor, the Bluey experience has opened over at Animal Kingdom. And I think a lot of us expected it to be a mess, you know, and it seems like it hasn't been a mess. It seems like it's been good.
00:37:14
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I haven't seen anything on social media anyway that has blown it up. I mean, it's it's been busy. Like, let's not let's not pretend that it hasn't been busy. It has like everything I've seen about it. It's been.
00:37:28
Speaker
It's been very busy, but yeah I mean, as to be expected. But yeah, like you said, it's it's not been that bad. It's not made social media headlines like the Disneyland one did. Yeah. For the wrong reasons, I should say.
00:37:40
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But it's now being reported that ah the virtual queue system, which they implemented at the start here, is actually going to be gone within a few days here, which is surprising. Yeah. But maybe they feel like they're controlling it well enough, and I guess they could always put it back on if they wanted to.
00:37:56
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Um, but I just, i just thought that was interesting because we talked a lot about that and the fact that they're taking that off so quickly. i did also see that, that the, uh, like the, the kangaroos and all, and all that stuff like is not, uh, they're not ready yet. I saw that they were, uh, that is one thing that they, they don't have going yet.
00:38:15
Speaker
That, uh, Sorry, we you said the kangaroos aren't ready, I was trying to figure out, like, all like do they... They're acclimating them to their new space, they said. Okay. Okay, that's that's fair. I was i was like, what, do they need makeup or... but No, yeah they're there. They just are acclimating. So they're just, they're they're not opening it yet. so Yeah. um Yeah, that's that is fair. and And I guess, you know, people are not there to see kangaroos
Bluey at Animal Kingdom
00:38:43
Speaker
anyway. yeah They are there to see Bluey and Bingo. I will say um one thing that um I saw somebody mention this that was that was covering the area is... um
00:38:54
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you know, they they pointed out that the the the Bluey bingo thing, um it's it's a dance party, right? Like, it's it's very clearly, like, you know, you go in there, that you know, they have the the party and and the characters and whatever.
00:39:08
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um The person who was talking about, you know, they were like, don't expect that you're it's going to be a photo op or that there is a photo op or anything yeah for this, which I can see where, like, some people parents might, you know, be like, oh, you know, I want to, you know, get a picture of my kid with blue. It's like, then you got to make sure that they're in the dance party or that you're, you're like, you know, paying attention because they're not going to stop and take photos with you, I guess is the thing. Yeah. which I mean, it's, there's no mean and greet, but they, they like dance with the kids and stuff like that. So you can still get the pictures, you know? Yeah. And and I think,
00:39:46
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the The interesting thing about that when when i when I actually sat down and thought about it was the the thing about not having a meet and greet is they can get a lot more people through this area a lot faster. Yep. Because and greets are atrociously slow. They're very Yeah. Because, you know, everybody wants to have their time. You know, it's not, it's not you know, 10 seconds, you know, snap the photo, go. It's, you know you know, people have interactions and stuff. And this way it kind of, it does,
00:40:16
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it gives people that level of interaction, but also doesn't, um, doesn't keep the, uh, you know, yeah it keeps people moving through the area a lot quicker. And that's probably what I feel like Disney, you know, the whole reason that they were doing the, uh,
00:40:33
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the virtual queue with this and everything was they were trying to gauge whether or not this was actually going to work the way that they thought it would. Right. yeah Because, yeah um and but because I, I, I wouldn't be surprised. I haven't heard anything on that level, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's somebody out there that,
00:40:51
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You know, obviously, you know, you know, not everyone's researching this the same way that, you know, you and I would, but, you know, walks into this thinking that it's going to be a meet and greeter that they're going to have like, you know, you know, their child's going to have an amazing interaction with Bluey or Bingo and it they and then, you know, go in there and it's like, you know, it's a 13 minute dance party. Yeah.
00:41:14
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So um I wouldn't be surprised if if somebody out there gets upset about it at some point. But, you know, for now, it's you know, it's just the initial hype of it is, you know, everyone's.
00:41:26
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Everyone's good with it. ah One thing I will say is I wouldn't be surprised if once the hype dies down around it, if it doesn't turn into a meet agree at some point or if there isn't or you open up meet agree at some point.
00:41:39
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Yeah, it could. It definitely could. ah I could see that, Trevor. Yeah. Yeah. It's like I said, it it's interesting. It's an interesting way that they're doing this. Like I said, it's like to me, it's very, you know, I'm not like,
00:41:56
Speaker
I'm not feeling like if I went to Animal Kingdom tomorrow that I would have to be lighting up to to see this. But it is very interesting how Disney is handling this, right? like it Sure, sure. Like, if you really think about it, it is very different than the way a lot of other IPs have been introduced into the park.
00:42:17
Speaker
I can see that. Yeah, I ah kind of see what you're saying there. I don't know. I guess i in my head, though, I don't know what else they would do. like well know well But i I mean, in the past, we would have said like, oh, there needs to be a Bluey ride or you you know, meet and greets and stuff like that.
00:42:33
Speaker
This is like, this is really like Disney that they are capitalizing on the fact that they had a space where they could very clearly control the flow of people with the train. um But also even people in that space, they're, they're keeping the flow of like, you know, Hey, you can come do your dance party and you know, you get, yeah you know, yeah it's, you know, a bunch of people getting an experience with the character. It's not an intimate one-on-one thing.
00:43:00
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But that still kind of works. Like, I feel like it's a thing where, you know, not not everybody expects to have that one-on-one experience, I guess, is the is the point. Like, you know, we we talk a lot about meet and greets.
00:43:13
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But I guess maybe this is a hint that, you know, not everything needs to be a meet and greet. Right. they are also doing like interactive games too. Right. So it's the, they're doing the dance part. They're also doing the interactive games with the kids too. So it's keepy uppy and. Yeah. But that's, that's what they, I mean, that's what they want to play. Yeah. think it's Keepy Uppy and Magic Asparagus is what I saw.
00:43:33
Speaker
Listen, every time that there's a balloon at my house, we end up playing Keepy Uppy. So it's, you know. I haven't seen a balloon in my house in probably 10 plus years. wish I could say that. ah ah But yeah, listen, the other part of this too is ah the kangaroos and wallabies part, like I said, is not.
00:43:53
Speaker
operational but when it is it's actually going to be a walkthrough experience where you walk ah you you walk on a path essentially where and you can see the the the animals and there's i i've seen this kind of thing with kangaroos at uh our local zoo does the same thing where they have kangaroos and there's like a walking path and you can walk you walk through where the kangaroos are you can't um you obviously can't pet them but there's no fence in between them so it's it is kind of cool Yeah, we have ah we have an aviary like that at our local zoo where there's there's actually like owls and hawks and stuff that yeah like it's the same thing. Like they they can like fly right in front of you and whatnot, which, yeah, that that's that's a very cool way to do it where, you know, you know being able to walk into the enclosure is is good. But um as long as people stay on the path,
00:44:44
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Yeah, exactly. I feel like I'm always like pointing out the like, don't do that thing. kind of um i just I see it all the time. like Like, you know, there's always like the report of like, you know, somebody jumped off a ride and did a thing. And it's like, don't do the thing. ah do yeah Just just enjoy it. yeah You know, enjoy that you're like, you know, five feet from a kangaroo and it's, you know, eating, but leave it alone and don't let your kid, you know,
00:45:11
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think that they can go up and give it a hug like don't do that yeah that's that's even though i mean to be fair like kangaroos can be okay like yeah yeah but i still wouldn't you know let my kid like i mean i guess i i wouldn't let my kid near anything that you know anything short of what i know is a domesticated animal that i trust because it's like Yeah, yeah they're they're still wild animals, even if they're in captivity. Yeah, even though they're there. Yeah, it makes sense.
00:45:43
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It's like people trying to pet elk and stuff in where they They look nice, but that they can hurt you. so Yeah, they can. They can.
00:45:55
Speaker
i'm going to actually I'm going to skip ahead to the last thing. you You're deliberately... But you're you're deliberately making it, you're you're you're teasing that like, yeah you know, i know the the elephant in the room and it's not Dumbo. Well, but no, but here's here's the thing, right? Like, let's get this other topic out of the way. you yeah you Fair. Okay. Yeah, yeah you're you're right. Because, yeah, we are going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the great big topic today. The great big elephant. there Yeah. yeah ah Yeah. Yeah. So we actually kind of talked about this couple, i don't know, a bunch of shows ago where Disney had filed a patent for like a weather patent. Yeah. to to to ah alert guests. Not for controlling the weather. No. Don't go there. um But ah but um where they can alert guests ah hyper locally to weather conditions. Well, ah now we have an announcement of that's that's actually a thing now. um So it's it's a partnership. They're doing it with the AccuWeather app.
00:46:58
Speaker
um, where now you're going to, it's called Disney weather check. Right. And, and really all it is, it's the AccuWeather app, but they're doing specific weather for where you, where you are at, you know, within any the Disney, you know, locations. Right. So like, you'll be able to search directly for Walt Disney world resort instead of just, you know, whatever town that you are in on the resort. It's yeah specific to the resort and it's, and it, uh,
00:47:26
Speaker
And, you know, the the patent was actually so that the that the weather, if there's like a weather issue, that it would send it to the Disney app and then it would help you change your plans. Meaning like if you had like a lightning flame for a big thunder and there's a thunderstorm coming through and it's going to be closed, they could, you know, alert you and then you could like reschedule to something else. Right.
00:47:45
Speaker
Like that's what that patent was for. And we don't really have anything. hear about that but we do have that you know there's basically you're just getting hyper local weather specific to the Disney properties so so I feel like I should read this off because I've seen people like asking this question that they're like i go into the AccuWeather app and i don't see anything about this so so they actually say it is a geo-fenced experience within disney properties which activates when disney weather or activates the disney weather check features within the accuweather app so you actually have to be on disney property to see to see it yeah to see this happen and it says guests received enhanced locally location specific weather intelligence aligned with disney employee alerts warnings and advisories
00:48:31
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used to initiate uniform safety protocols. So, so you you are getting like all the, you know, lightning warnings and stuff like that. And it's, it's essentially the same information that Disney employees get, which, you know, that that's what drives like the closing of, of attractions and stuff is, you know, when they get certain weather warnings, they know like, oh, you know, this is not safe. We need to close big thunder or whatever, you know,
00:48:56
Speaker
You know, Tom's coming today, so we're closing Big Thunder. Oh, that'd be great, actually. Stuff like that. You can close it for everybody but me, though, right? Like, that's what you're trying to say. Sure, yeah. Let's go with that. All right. Sounds good to me. You actually can type in Walt Disney World Resort now into the app, but I think, like, the alerts and stuff don't happen until you're there.
00:49:14
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah, yeah. that That's the thing is that it's it is it's a custom-tuned feature of the app that... yeah You know, you know, geofencing is is a thing that's been around for a while, but they're very much using it that, you know, yeah so so I feel like this is probably a matter of since it's a third party thing, AccuWeather doesn't want people perpetually checking their app for Disney World.
00:49:39
Speaker
weather status what you mean like checking wait times when you're you know eight hours so yeah yeah yeah exactly i'm sure i'm sure disney disney probably had to set this up with them so that um you know accuweather wouldn't get their so their services slammed by people like going oh what's the weather like at disney today when yeah you know we're on the other side of the country like i just did right now exactly yeah yeah yeah know You know, Disney's fine with it because it's their own stuff, but I understand why why they need to, you know, limit the stuff for third parties. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:50:11
Speaker
Yeah, and and also it it offers, you you know, that that's where the yeah the attractiveness of it comes in is that, you know, it's, oh, once you get here, you get our, you know, special version of it. It's only, you know, it's not available to, you Anyone outside of Disney World.
00:50:26
Speaker
Yeah. is But I, I will say, I don't know that this actually, like, it's a very cool thing. I would have to see it in action to see how useful it is. Um, the thing for me is that I, or I use a couple of different apps for, um,
00:50:43
Speaker
like rain proximity and lightning strikes. I'm wondering how, like, I know it's AccuWeather and they obviously, you know, you know, track the same information, but it's more so like how quickly can you get that information to me?
00:50:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And is it going through any kind of like, sorry, I hate to say it is, is Disney filtering it in some yeah form, right? Like, um like, you know, I, I like having that information because like, even like, like things like lightning strikes, like,
00:51:12
Speaker
I'm not like terrified of being hit by lightning, but I understand how, you know, if I can see a bunch of stuff like kind of on the edge of the radar, that's like, oh, this is coming. I, I adjust before even like the, the closure notifications start coming out. Like it's, it's that like preemptive predictiveness that I'm curious if,
00:51:34
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they'll give you or how much how far ahead they'll actually give you warning on stuff, right? Yeah. Listen, Disney is the place I am least worried about getting hit by lightning because they have lightning rods everywhere. yeah it's and It's more so around like planning my day and yeah I use it as an extension of like if if outdoor stuff is going to be closing or, you know, I can see that something's coming, it's like...
00:51:58
Speaker
You know, I can adjust before other people adjust. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right, Trevor, let's let's let's progress to the next topic here. You get it? Progress. Progress. Yeah. Making progress on this podcast. Yeah, we are. Big, beautiful progress. Yeah, so a while ago, Disney announced that there were going to be updates to the Carousel of Progress, and they didn't really give us details at the time. i'm you know Who knows what kind of details they had at the time. We knew about the Walt Disney animatronic, right, good that's going to open it up, which I still think is great. I'm excited to see that.
00:52:34
Speaker
But they it' what they've been doing in past years, you know, the last time they did a redo of this, all they did was update the last scene, right, to be a little more modern. Yeah.
00:52:45
Speaker
We're getting a whole redo, which I understand why a lot of people have mixed feelings about this. Because i it's it's hard, right? like Because you want to you want to keep that thing that you you've had like this. But at this point, it's so you have to move the timeline up or the time jumps are getting you know too big at this point, right? like Okay. Yeah. So so why why don't we why don't we start by talking about how the actual,
00:53:10
Speaker
acts are changing because i think you you know we're we're just saying things are changing let's actually give some context oh yeah was gonna get there yeah okay all right i was gonna get there i promise uh so so uh the we're we're gonna have new decades now right so the first act after the walt disney you know talking about about the uh you know the the actual creation of this right it's gonna be the nineteen sixty s Right. So we're going from what was it? The 20s before or was it? I thought it was. I thought it was. Yeah, I think I think it was the twenty s yeah think it was the twenty s Yeah.
00:53:42
Speaker
And so now we're going to the 60s. So we're we're taking a pretty big jump forward here. But it makes sense to me that this is where they're going to start. Right. Because, I mean, this is like when the moon landing was. This is like, you know, and there's a lot of interesting stuff that happened in the 60s. It's also kind of technically after the end the.
00:54:02
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The previous one, if you like, because yeah the previous one went up to like the 50s and then they jumped to like, you know, I'm using air quotes, the future, the futures the photo future, future. But even the future was like kind of like 1960s Deco.
00:54:15
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The interesting thing is, yeah, the first act starts in the 1960s, which, you know, I i appreciate that that's still showing history. The second act offends me a little bit more. Really? Because because I was alive in the 80s and you're talking about it like it's his history. so it is Wait, no. Wait, no. Yeah, no, it is though.
00:54:38
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We pick up with the family on Halloween night, 1985.
Carousel of Progress Updates
00:54:42
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And for the first time ever, Sarah's taking center stage. So Sarah's not just going to be like a side character anymore. Sarah's actually going to be in the stage.
00:54:49
Speaker
Which, you know, yeah great. and And she's going to be sharing how all the new appliances and gadgets are making life easier for the whole family. That's that's actually a very wild thing. And i'm I'm very curious to see how. that's going to go. Because I i grossly...
00:55:05
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underest Like growing up in the 80s, like I got to go through, you know, the evolution of, you know, the the internet, evolution of technology, all that kind of stuff. I took a lot of this stuff for granted growing up. Yeah.
00:55:18
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And I'm curious to see how they're going to phrase the the perspective on this. Because like i I was very much a kid in the 80s. But, you know, you know you know ah so having Sarah emphasize it, I think, you know, you know it's, it's,
00:55:34
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I feel like that's actually the best play for this because he because, you know, a teenager in the eighties is the one really experiencing like how much things are changing.
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah. That makes sense. So, Yeah, I'm curious about that. And then the next one, again, you know, further offending me is that they're going to move into the Further offending you? I'm not that old. Come on, guys. I'm still like – I'm not either. I grew in the I'm only like 21. Come on. Listen, I grew up in the too, okay? So I'm with you. know, I'm here.
00:56:08
Speaker
ah Yes, but here's the funny thing about this, though, is I vividly remember ah New Year's Eve 1999. Like, that's a core memory for me, mostly because, you know, if we if anybody wants to remember the whole Y2K thing, that was made it a very memorable New Year's Eve that year. I was just out of high school, or I was three years graduate, so I wasn't just out of high school, but I was like...
00:56:35
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I was like just becoming an adult and everything in 1999. Yeah, it was it was a wild time for sure. seems like this one is going to focus on the internet too, like the beginning of the internet, I'm sure. I'm i'm hopeful we're going to get some old school AOL ah dial-up ah sounds going on. Do you remember Netscape?
00:56:56
Speaker
do i know what Yeah, yeah. that's yeah maybe Maybe we'll see a Netscape browser on a screen. I want my child to hear the eee. like the sound that it used to make when you had to log onto the internet. That would actually be the funniest thing if they if they did a beat in it where it's like, let me connect to the internet and they just play the the dial-up.
00:57:16
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now here's Here's what I want. I'm going to tell you what I want them to do, Trevor. Yeah. I want, I want, uh, I want Jimmy to, to be getting on the internet. Right. First of all, Liz, we know John's not gonna be using the internet. Okay. It's going to be newfangled and he's not, it's going to Jimmy. Right. And so Jimmy's going to be getting on the internet and then Patty's going to pick up the phone to call her friend and the whole connection. yeah Yeah. If that doesn't happen, they've made a mistake because that is a thing that happened all the time. Yeah. Okay, and i'll I'll speak from personal experience because I did this to my family's home PC was um my parents bought the PC for all of us. And, you know, we had we had the dial up internet and all that.
00:57:56
Speaker
um Me as a kid thought I knew better than I did. And I made some changes to um the startup file called auto exec bat. And I broke our PC for about three weeks. I think it was. because i because I made a change so I could launch a game, but I didn't realize that it broke, like, loading everything else.
00:58:16
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So, ah again, I know that that's, like, a little too technical for this, but it would be funny also if, like, things like Jimmy, jimmy jimmy like yeah like, you know, John bought the computer, like, oh, you know, this is for the family, and then, like, bit like like... John's going to be like... They've got this thing called an email. What's an email? I'm in an AOL chat room. AOL instant messenger. i remember ICQ. Maybe that one's a little too deep, too.
00:58:47
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there' There's a lot of fun stuff they can do with the 90s. I will be interested to see that. But... that that This is this is going to be weird because it's I feel like there's going to be a lot of like inside targeted jokes. at Obviously, at you know, at our at our age group and, yeah you know, kids are going to be like, you know what? You know what?
00:59:09
Speaker
Oh, I just realized what's going to happen here. The same way that, you know, when Carousel of Progress opened, I'm sure that there was people that when Carousel of Progress opened, there was older people that had lived through those areas that are probably going like, oh, yeah, I remember this. Like, ha ha. Like, that's so relatable.
00:59:27
Speaker
This is going to happen there. And we're going to be like, ha ha, that's so relatable. But, you know, all the younger kids are going to be like, what What? What is that? but What is this weird show we're watching? Weird. Oh, no. i'm i'm I'm reading between the lines here, by the way, but i'm I'm noticing in each one of these, they're referencing scenes that already exist, making me think that the side scenes are going to stay mostly the same, that they're just going to maybe update them. They're going to rephrased to reflect the current era versus... Yeah. yeah so So I guess the beats and the jokes won't change all that much.
01:00:06
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Yeah. Because it's yeah like for the 80s, it says Uncle Orville is going to be in the bathroom with no privacy around here. So like he's still going to be in the tub and still yell no privacy around here.
01:00:16
Speaker
But like, you know, I'm sure they're not going to make the air conditioning joke. Right. Like that's. You know what i mean? Like, that's not there. And then... But then also says Grandpa has... on For the 90s one, Grandpa's already nodded off before the big countdown while Grandpa sneaks the TV over to wrestling when no one's looking. That's a scene that kind already exists, right? Except it's boxing, yeah right? So they'll just they're just going to kind of update those side scenes, it seems like, right?
01:00:43
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Yeah, still... the like but But again, it's i guess the the actions in the scene are... Yeah, that's one thing. But that like like we said, you know there's lots of room for them to add to it.
01:00:56
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like And i see where I see where they do need to keep some of that. like like Keeping the original show intact in some way needs to be there. Because if they if they reach if they change it entirely, i don't know. i i I don't...
01:01:12
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Okay, yeah, i'm I'm having really mixed feelings about this. Is it just the choices or the fact that they're up there in it all? Well, because part of me is like, if theyre if they're if they're redoing all this, that's the opportunity to like, you don't need to have the little side, or or like, you can change the side scenes. Like, it doesn't have to be Uncle Orville. It doesn't have to beats. If you get rid of Uncle Orville, people are going to Well, but...
01:01:35
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Okay. can't get You can't get rid of Uncle Orville saying no privacy around here. Like, you come on. you i i i'm i will politely disagree with you on that.
01:01:46
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i think I actually think it'd be funnier if they had Uncle Orville like in modern times and somebody FaceTimes him. He should be the one trying to connect to the internet. yeah you knowll get Somebody FaceTimes him and he's like, no privacy. you know but yeah He should be the one trying to to connect to the dial-up yeah internet. like It shouldn't be him in the bathtub. It should be him like...
01:02:08
Speaker
I'm trying to you know, i'm trying to get to an AOL chat room. Don't pick up the phone. Oh, my no Yeah, I just want someone. I just want them to be on the Internet and for someone to pick up the phone and just hear all the sound and then someone yell at the other person like, get hang up the phone. I'm trying to talk to my friends. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
01:02:30
Speaker
So now that we've, you know, just, know really have thrill weve we've just kind of like, or we've set ourselves up for disappointment as well. i accept because I'm excited for this. I'm excited. Well, well, because we we have a vision now of how we think it should be yeah and it's not going to be what we think it should be, which I mean, yeah, you know, you know, let's be real. We have no idea how this is all going to play out in the end. I i really hope that whoever they like assign this to, like, you know, like if they so had assign different teams to the different acts, they need a bunch of 40 year olds working on the 80s and ninety s Right. Like you can't give that to like some 20 somethings. Okay.
01:03:06
Speaker
you know You need to have the 40 year olds and the 50 year olds working on the 80s and 90s because they they're the ones that actually know what's going on. I've watched enough YouTube videos of teenagers trying to use rotary phones. Don't you dare tell me that a teenager can now didn't tell you how the 80s worked. 20-somethings out of the 80s and 90s. So Act 4 is always going to be the trickiest one for them, right? Because they're trying to predict the future before we we get to the future. and And so, you know, it's hard because it can outdate itself very quickly as the current version has gotten kind of out of date.
01:03:38
Speaker
And so this time, this is this feels very, um to make another old reference, very Jetsony, I feel like, in weird way. I was going to say this feels Spaceship Earth.
01:03:49
Speaker
Yeah, it feels Spaceship Earth-y, too. Yeah, I get that. But they're going to have, ah so they're going to have a helpful robot assisting with everyday tasks. Maybe that's what's making it Jetsony for me, because I feel like the robot kind of looks like the robot in the Jetsons. But... um yeah yeah it does Yeah, it does look a little like Rosie. A little bit. Yeah, little bit. And ah it so so, helpful robot assisting with everyday tasks to space travel. This scene imagines a future where extraordinary innovation has become part of life and proves that a beautiful tomorrow is just a dream away.
01:04:20
Speaker
I ah and, you know, so the mention in it says to help that bring the new finality to life. Imagineers looked back at the original concept sketches ah from John Hench drawing and inspiration from his vision of the future. So this I think this makes sense. i It's the the last scene is very difficult. I mean, that's it just is, you know, because they're trying to make this as timeless as they can. so i think it's hard.
01:04:46
Speaker
I think you're absolutely right, though. when When you say it's giving Jetson vibes. Yeah. I think that's the best case scenario because because even though Jetsons is dated, it is still very much a representation of a a future that we haven't realized yet. Yeah.
01:05:08
Speaker
So like, you know, you know, everything that happens in the Jetsons is so like, Out of this world, fantastical. like Like, even to the point of, like, they are, like, space travel is a common thing. And and this final scene, they are actually, um they're implying that the family is living in space, yeah like, on another planet or something like that. So, you know, yeah, they are definitely trying to, I think that's the best case scenario is because if you if you do put it into a complete like I think the previous version of it they tried to be like oh here's like the there's here's how the future will augment day-to-day life right and the problem with that is that you know the augmentation stuff doesn't you don't know how that all plays out like we you know we we can't
01:05:56
Speaker
we can't predict that part. And it also, it does show its age very quickly, yeah but going to like a more fantastical setting, which, you know, and I say like, you know, space travel right now feels very fantastical, you know, in 20, 30 years, you know, it could be, you know, obvious like like that's the whole point. it's like, it actually does giving it a very fantastical, um, end point does actually add to the longevity of it. And I think they, um,
01:06:27
Speaker
You know, it is the right decision at the end of the day. um The other thing I'll say, too, with this robot is I'm also getting vibes of the the um droids from oh yeah Galaxy's Edge. I can see that, yeah. Which I know they don't need to go that far as having, like, fully autonomous droids, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does, if it has, like, similar...
01:06:53
Speaker
movement or functionality to it as the ones that we see out in the park. Right. Yeah. I I'm wondering what the problem is going to be in the last one.
01:07:04
Speaker
Right. So like yeah is cause you know, if you watch it now, you know, the, the, the, the voice activation overheats the oven, the oven catchched on fire, there's smoke. Right. So I assume something similar is going to happen in this scene unless they want to keep it positive and things are going to be OK.
01:07:20
Speaker
But my air fryer is not enough in this time. or Yeah. Right. Well, I also so I'm noticing I'm looking at this concept art and I see there's a cake there and what looks like a robot arm decorating the cake. I feel like that's a prime suspect for something going haywire. Yeah.
01:07:37
Speaker
And also, of course, the robot ah you know cleaner as well. So I don't know. We'll we'll have to see what happens. But i it looks cool. I'm going to tell you this right now, Trevor. i I think everybody that listens to the show knows I have a great affinity for attraction posters.
01:07:53
Speaker
And I kind of collect them and have them framed all around my house. I have never wanted an attraction poster more than I want the one that for this that they put out. this attraction poster is awesome and I must have it immediately. So there's so sorry. Is it the one on the one on the left?
01:08:11
Speaker
That's the new one. I believe the one on the right is an old one. And yeah i the one, yeah, I was going to say, it's hard to tell, honestly, the way you tell is from what she's doing and the one on the right. And also the robot is in the left hand side one. So that's valid. Yes. yeah I didn't think about that. Yeah. Yeah. I, but and I want, I want this poster. I'm going to get this poster and is going in my house somewhere. I, I, whenever I can buy this, I will buy it. So yeah, it's, I mean, yeah, all in all, like, okay.
01:08:44
Speaker
So, so now that we've talked our way through you know, how they're changing the, the attraction, right. the You know, the the big debate about this is, you know, people always go back to, well, you know, why why does this need to change, right? And and I mean, it's the this is the hard truth that people don't want to accept is that, you know, it's in the name. It's carousel of progress, yep not carousel of stagnation or carousel of, you know, you know keeping...
01:09:19
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keeping everything in a little box that, you know, you don't touch
Change vs. Nostalgia at Disney Parks
01:09:23
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it. It does have to be changed. It does have to evolve. It has already evolved. Yeah. The hard part that people seem to wrestle with is that, you know, you have your memories of a particular version of a ride or of, of a, of, you know, the park, but it's not a museum, right? Like I don't, uh, I, i don't get why people are so against like the evolution of the stuff. Cause it's like, you know, if, if it was just tearing it down for the sake of like, you know, we don't, we don't like this anymore. We're going to turn it into a Starbucks or something like that. You would have every right to be upset. The carousel of Starbucks.
01:10:09
Speaker
And I, and I mean, to be fair, like, like they did that, it you know, it happened in Disneyland. Like the, the, ah the, um the show there, it it changed, it you know, it was America Sings and then um it was Star Wars Launch Bay. So it like it was where they had the launch bay and I don't even or actually, yeah, and that's a DVC or the the upper floors, a DVC lounge and stuff. So it's like, you know, but, you know,
01:10:35
Speaker
I get why that needs to change for this one. It's like, you know, you can be mad that they're changing the version that you grew up with, but the fact that they're putting the love into this to update it and to keep it relevant and to keep it moving forward says far more about how much they actually care about it than them keeping it in the state that you want to see it in because it lives in a place of nostalgia for you.
01:11:03
Speaker
Yeah, and to your point, Trevor, I always go to what the man himself said, right? Around here, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, doing new things.
01:11:14
Speaker
Like, that's, Walt Disney himself said that, and that's what, we you know, that's what they do. Yeah. So, yeah. And the reality is, is that, that you know, you know the the whole thing about, well, this was the last...
01:11:27
Speaker
thing that Walt Disney touched. If Walt Disney was still doing this, he absolutely would have wanted to change this. Probably would have changed it a lot sooner, honestly. Yeah, yeah you're right, actually. He but he could he could you would have wanted to be showcasing, you know, you know new stuff coming up. the newest technologies were.
01:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, like it's, so yeah, it's it's such a weird, it like, you know, we talk about this all the time where, you know, you know people get stuck in like a particular version of the park, which, you know, you know, and this isn't to say that I agree with, you know, everything changing. And, you know, I, I, as I get older, I do struggle as well with the fact that, you know, I have, I have core memories of things in the parks that don't exist anymore. Sure. And,
01:12:15
Speaker
you know, I have to wrestle with that. It's not like, i guess I guess you can get stuck in the nostalgia of it or you can appreciate the nostalgia of it and then also look forward to you know, seeing something new, learning about something new, and also, like, it does make for new memories, right? like Yeah.
01:12:36
Speaker
i get Because, like, even even from when my son was younger, you know, going to the parks, like, you know he ah you know, if I, I haven't talked to him about this particular thing, but if I said, like, oh, they're changing gene carousel progress, you would go, like, yeah, I don't care. It's not, like,
01:12:50
Speaker
it's not a big thing to him, but there are other rides that, you know, he resonates with. Like, you know, even Tower of Terror in Disneyland was a good example. of Like, that was a big thing for him. And then when I told him that they changed it to Guardians of the Galaxy, he was like, okay. But, like, he wasn't thrilled about it, but he also was like, okay, but now it's something new. Like, it's, you know, it's a reason to go back to the park. So, you know, yeah you you can be mad about them changing this, but I, I just, and anybody who's mad about this is honestly, I'll, I'll stand on this is you're doing this. You're enjoying Disney for the wrong reasons. If you're mad about carousel progress changing.
01:13:38
Speaker
Wow. Okay. I know. I know it like, I, I, sorry. It like the whole idea of holding onto everything and keeping it in a perfect little box and it can't change and whatever. Like,
01:13:50
Speaker
That's silly to me. Walt Disney himself didn't want that. yeah know and And you shouldn't want that either because if this stuff didn't change, if if we didn't keep changing these attractions and everything, we all would have been tired of the parks like yeah years ago.
01:14:10
Speaker
And... Disney World would be closed down because nobody would be going there. it would be boring. Like, it's it's what happens to, like, local amusement parks where it's like, well, nothing's changed in, you know, 20 years, and it stagnates and, you know, falls off, right?
01:14:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen to me, it's it's it's about, you know, it's about, I think this, if anything, carries on, ah you know, what I wanted to do with this. And, end yeah you know, listen, here's the other part of this.
01:14:39
Speaker
the last time this was updated was 1992. Okay. I'm sorry. 1994. I'm sorry. 1994. Way overdue. The last time it was 1994. So you're talking, you've had 31 years to enjoy this version of it. Right. mean, it's time for something new, you know, and, and that's, and that's the thing about it though, is too, it's not completely changing, right? We're still going to have the song. We're still going to have a great, big, beautiful tomorrow. Like that's not going away. Some of the beats are still there. Yeah. Like the story beats are still there. They're just being revised for, you know, that they're going to make a, they're going to make tons of references to the original. Like, you know, that's what they're going to do.
01:15:20
Speaker
I just think this is, you know, I, I think this is great. I love to see the older things getting love like this. And I, I really want to see some other things like, you know, Spaceship Earth and, uh, and, and, uh, you know, uh, Journey into imagination. Like, those are things that need that next. You know, those things that have been, mean, because we haven't had an update for on Spaceship Earth in a long time either. It hasn't been 30, you know, 31, 32 years, but it's been while. thought it was 2013, right? Yeah, that, was it 2013? I feel it 2013. I thought it was further back that.
01:15:50
Speaker
yeah that it's was it twenty thirteen i feel like i i was thirteen thought it was be further it back than that Yeah, you might be right. I'll have to go look now. but Yeah, um but yeah, I mean, we're still going to have the songs.
01:16:05
Speaker
You know, we're still going to have all that. By the way, for everybody that's wondering, you have until July 6th to enjoy this version of it. And then starting on July 6th, I'm sorry, July 5th, I guess, because starting on July 6th, it will be closed.
01:16:18
Speaker
And they're expecting to reopen it in 2027. So I will say my only disappointment, Trevor, is that I won't get to see the this version again. Now, listen, I've seen it a bunch of times. I'm sad it's going to be closed when I'm there. My daughter actually really loves it.
01:16:33
Speaker
So it's kind of a bummer that I'm not going to get to you know kind of have that goodbye ride on it. But it's okay. I'm excited for the new version. I think it'll, it'll, it'll, my daughter will like it just as much. 2007, by the way, Trevor, 2007 was the last update. Yeah, I, I just found it as well. Yeah. two thousand Yeah, so it's been almost 20 years now. I mean, it's been a long time. Judy Dench has been narrating for a long time on Spaceship Earth. Yes, she has. Yeah. And I think it's, I mean, listen, they were going to do the Spaceship Earth total refurb and then COVID happened and it got canceled and I, I'm just asking, bring it back. Let's do it. Let's make it happen. You know, because it needs it. It it does need it.
01:17:07
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So.
Listener Engagement and Support
01:17:08
Speaker
But back to your point about Carousel of Progress is now you get to look forward to a Carousel of Progress, you know, you know, in the future, which is the whole point of the Carousel Progress. That's right. That's right. Listen, it i I want this ride to not be the ride that people go and take a nap on. I want it to be the ride that people go on and appreciate. okay You know what? No. Okay. yeah all right. Sorry. I'm going to disagree with you. that is you know People are well within their right to nap on the ride. No. Because it is a cool AC building and all that.
01:17:44
Speaker
that That is their choice. It doesn't hurt you from enjoying it. It does. Yeah. It makes me mad on behalf of know what what what needs to not happen is when you and I were there and there was a kid running back and forth like gosh in the ride, which like that, that should stop happening. Like, you know, I've also had the person loudly talking on their cell phone in the middle of the show and it's like, really? Yeah.
01:18:09
Speaker
Come on. Like, so, and yeah. but i let' so so i get like I get what you're saying. Yes, people should just enjoy the show. But, you know, sometimes you you need a little nap. I mean, you know, hey, I think after the show, you and i are going to need a nap because we were up late last night. So it's true. Yeah. but boer Both for unrelated reasons. We just both happened to have really late nights last night. um All right. Well, yeah so let's wrap this up.
01:18:34
Speaker
yeah okay so great big beautiful afternoon that we uh want to enjoy yeah a great great big beautiful maybe afternoon nap we will see there you go um yeah i know man talking about carousel of progress is making me feel really old right now but i love it i just yeah ah just like like i said just just looking at them like oh yeah they're they're updating history and it's like but wait, that's like my childhood that they're talking about.
01:19:04
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so I'm going to, it's going to take me a minute to get over that. um Yeah. And we'll, we'll come back around it. But, you know, and i guess in the meantime for, you know, anybody listening to the show, if you want to share your thoughts on Carousel of Progress or, you know,
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01:20:09
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01:20:21
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01:20:51
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01:21:03
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01:21:15
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01:22:11
Speaker
So if you don't know, you don't know. I really hope it happens because I. Me too. Yeah, me too. Absolutely. I just am not. but I'm just not not getting that excited about until it does. So I talked with my brother about it last night when we were gaming and and I was expressing my excitement to him. And he like he he's he he didn't.
01:22:30
Speaker
He didn't fully understand it because he like he was like, oh, is this like a big thing? And I and i was like, well, yeah, it is it is for people who know. is for us. yeah Like for for people who are into Disney stuff, it's a big thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anybody that's into a like Disney parks. You don't even need to go that deep into Disney park stuff to and to know who this person is. So anyway, we'll continue. Well, this thing.
01:22:53
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This thing, You didn't say it was a person. but Person, thing, whatever. but You're ruining it. never to get anything. I'm never going get anything. But anyway, yeah. So, you know, outside of all that, you know, if if you like what we're doing on the show, also, you know, check us out on on iTunes or Spotify. Leave us a five-star review. Write us to review on iTunes. Let us know what you you think about the show as well. And, yeah, I think that's...
01:23:21
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Did I cover everything? I did cover it. is why I don't do it out order because. Yeah, I know. It screws you all up. It does. so Yeah. i But the other thing is ah you should not you should ah not forget to subscribe to the to the podcast, right? So so actually remember, that's a good way to say that, ah to subscribe to the podcast so you can be reminded every time we release an episode. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn,
01:23:43
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Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music, and just about any other podcast app a podcast app that is out there. You can listen to us. ah Huge thank you to our sponsors, DVC Resale Market, for sponsoring this episode and being ah good friends and partners. We're going to get them on sometime again soon here, too. We were going to have a all the old folk all the old crew back on all at once, Trevor. I still got to coordinate that. so ah where The old DVC Resale Market crew? Yeah, a lot of the guests, well, one of the guesses, which I think was from Becky, was that our you know might our big reveal was that we were going to have Derek on the show. That's not what it is, but it is big. That would be nice. But, you know, anyway.
01:24:20
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We still want Derek on the show. Yeah, course. That's still, we're going to try to make that happen. We're still going to it happen. Join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion, of course, more DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon.
01:24:33
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the TVC. We do a hug when we head to church.
01:24:45
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How she can cuddle, she's no mess of fur. I look around for folder of hope. Found her in her sugar bowl. Hey, look out, here goes my ball and chain.
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The End