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Episode 326: Holiday Special Taping, Rata-two-dee & Naming Lands
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Tom provides another small update on his upcoming trip. D23 members were invited to an overnight filming of the Disneyland Holiday Special. Toy Story Land is reportedly getting a new food kiosk. Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure at EPCOT is changing to 2D, much like its Disneyland Paris counterpart. The Artisan Club at Cotino is opening soon and it looks way too expensive for Tom and Trevor. Macy’s and Disney released a “holiday” merchandise collection that doesn’t seem to have much to do with the holidays. Disney filed a new trademark that may confirm the name of the upcoming Monsters, Inc. themed land at Hollywood Studios.
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Introduction & Podcast Sponsorship
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Humorous Outtakes & Patreon Benefits
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I'm Tom, here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor?
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Pretty good. How are you? don't No, don't. You already... So Trevor's laughing at me because this is like my fourth attempt to get... No, third attempt. Okay. and And I wish...
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Yeah, no. I can't leave these things in. and i know. i It would be funny as like an outtake, I'm just saying. Yeah, maybe like a Patreon benefit of me just putting in all of our, screw leaving in all of our scrubs.
00:01:05
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yeah Yeah, maybe. Yeah. It was just funny because, yes, to tom Tom was really trying his best and he got it eventually. i i So listen, i you know just to take you behind the ah behind the scenes here, you know ah I have like i have like a little script that I read. And it's listen, I've been reading the same script now for, what,
00:01:28
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how long we do is eight years, however long, seven years, whatever. it's this It's been the same script the entire time, right? it Like it's only really, i mean, it changed like once the past year when we weve put the sponsor up front and I forgot to change the sponsor this week. And I just, I thought I could just do it off the top of my head. And apparently my brain is not,
00:01:46
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there at the moment so you don't have space reserved to figure that part out on the fly no usually i do it on the fly like like usually i do on the fly no problems no issues today brain is mush clearly uh it's fine yeah yeah yeah so anyway uh it's been uh you know it's been an interesting weekend and yeah how's your weekend been going It's been going okay so far.
Weather & Carnival Plans
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So I know last weekend we talked to that it was snowing here and it's actually, we're back to warm weather again, which is weird. no
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um So I'm, I was like ready to hibernate and sorry, I went back. Yeah, because when the snow hits up here, like there's there's different kinds of people that, you know, you know, people that love the winter, you know, you know all the more power to you.
00:02:32
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That's me. I do not like the winter. I'm I'm very much a summer person place, Trevor. I know. Well, well, but I think over time it's changed is the thing. But and and I've just kind of gotten to a point where it's like, I don't want to.
00:02:47
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I don't want to deal with that. So like i when this time of year hits and it starts snowing, immediately am like, okay, well, you know, we're inside until March. Like, yeah, this is, you know, this is why people from, it's kind of backed out as the thing. So, so now I'm yeah i'm very confused with, uh, with, how things this is this is why people from up up north in the states though trevor moved to florida when they retire because they don't want to deal with the snow anymore like yeah they don't want to deal with shoveling they don't they don't want to deal with any of that so they just they go down to florida where snow is i don't want say never a problem because it did snow like it does happen yeah it does happen it happens right um not like in orlando though like i don't think it's snowed i mean it's sort of like the panhandle like that's a little different but
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You know, I'm not really. but But yeah, so that's why all the all those people move, you know, from from New York, New Jersey, all those areas. They move down to Florida because they don't got to deal with snow ever again. and And that makes it a little easier for them. But we're not even close to snow. It was 80 degrees here yesterday. So... it's Which is crazy. By the way, I Trevor, you know, and we, I joke all the time, like, you know, about we we joke all the time about you, you know, you guys use Celsius and we use Fahrenheit. Right. So I was got tired of looking up the conversion and I just changed the temperature on my computer to Celsius.
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So now I can just like look really easily. but That's that makes sense. Right. Yeah. Yeah. yeah you know Yeah. You don't need it for anything else. So, yeah. No, no. Right. so it's yeah. I mean, now it's it's much easier. i don't have to do the conversion anymore. It's just right there.
00:04:17
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i mean I mean, I also I'll admit I'm bad about like I should at least or I kind of know like Fahrenheit temperatures. But why do you have to be good about it? Like, I should also have to be good about the Celsius thing. Like, you shouldn't have to be forced to do my thing to be yeah to be fair.
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We're the weird ones in the United States, right? Like everybody else uses jesus Celsius and metric and all that. And end up up here, we we are in between is the funny thing. that's so what we there in some ways There are times where we talk about things in feet and inches. And then other times we talk in meters or kilometers or like, yeah like, we do I won't say like, like if I'm measuring like ah window, I'll be like, wait, that's like 56 inches. I won't be like, that's.
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I don't even know what 56 130 centimeters or something like that. and It's like, yeah yeah, yeah. I just, I get it. Yeah. It's, it's a weird thing. I get it though. It's yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. I get it.
Carnival Food Favorites
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I'm a, I, so, so Trevor, after, after we do the show here, i and I, I don't know how common this, guy I feel like this is a fairly common thing, but like we have a big shopping center down the road from us.
00:05:25
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And every time around this year, they do, they have like one of those carnival companies come in. Oh, yeah. and they set up a bunch of janky rides and you pay like thirty dollars and then your kid gets five dollars a ride and the rides are a like well yeah so this one down the road down the road from us is twenty five bucks that give you a wristband and you ride as much as you want which i think is pretty decent deal that's actually not terrible um But yeah, so we're going to do that afterwards here, which, you know, is last year. This is not even I don't even know if I talked about this on the show, but last year we went to the same one. They had a Ferris wheel there at the top of the Ferris wheel was a wasp nest that where like literally there were just wasps like floating around. So like besides the nice view you got at the top of the Ferris wheel, you also got an attack from a wasp nest.
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The operator of the ride, very unconcerned about this. wait except But how is it at the top of the like was there like ah the it was attached to like one of the supports.
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Oh, okay. So okay. So it was like, okay. Yeah, got it. All right. Yeah. So so it wasn't like on like, it wasn't a car. No, no, it was on the stationary part. But I mean, a wasp nest, like it it takes a minute for her like wasps.
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i don't know. I didn't think that they would like form a nest that quick. but You wouldn't think so. But it was there. You could see them swarming from the from the bottom. Unfortunately, we did not notice until after they were already ah on the ride. So like it was like, yeah.
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It was a whole thing. but And I didn't go. I hate Ferris wheels. So I don't typically do them. That's sad. I like a good Ferris wheel. but So for those Carnival rides, do do they have a Gravitron still? Because like when I was growing up, the Gravitron was like... was like one of the ones yeah right yeah i actually don't know what they have i haven't even been over there yet um my daughter drove past it so last year though they had like the giant slide where you go in like the potato sack thing and you go down they had one of those they had the worst fun house i've ever seen i mean it was so bad like nothing was working in it and i was like what even is this like you just paid to walk through a room got I mean, sir it was so bad. And I went with my daughter through it. And i was like, this is this is terrible.
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ah And then they had what else did they have? They had a a bunch of like kiddie rides. Like, so you had like a kid version of like the whip. Oh, yeah. It's like little cars, you know, they have that.
00:07:54
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What else do they have? They might have a merry ground. Uh, it's usually a bunch of like, yeah, like the, the spinning rides, right? Yeah. But just spin it. Yeah. They, I'm trying to remember the other way I think they had, they have, it nots the Gravitron is the one that's usually in your inside, right? Yeah. it's It looks like a spaceship and it spins around and you're like, they have the outside version of that.
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So the one where you like are, it's like the, it's like the mesh one and it's like the same thing, except it's open instead of closed. Right. And and those ones, some like they they'll tilt like sideways. Yeah. They tilt.
00:08:25
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Yeah. They tilt. That one goes up in the air. Right. Yeah. ah What else do they have? They might've had like a bouncy castle slide or something like that. I don't remember. I'm getting my festivals mixed up. Cause there was another festival we went to a month or two ago that had the dragon rollercoaster, you know, that little dragon kids rollercoaster. You've seen that one before, right?
00:08:43
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Yeah. Um, but I don't remember if this one has it or not in the advertisement for it, like the, the shopping center advertising it, they have a picture of that, but that doesn't mean it's actually there. That's maybe what's screwing me up, you know?
00:08:56
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Um, but, but yeah, so I'm go to go do that, you know? Um, and, and, uh, those things are always, always fun. You know, you have yourself a, you know really weird, fair, food of some sort funnel cake or i don't know you know there's a million things you can have yeah um yeah the standard i mean it's funny you're talking about all this and i'm i i always equate it to like we have so the the stampede which i've told you about yeah yeah is so those fairs still happen around here from time to time but the stampede does that but it cranks it up to like a hundred
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So there's like more than like six rides there. There's like, yeah, yeah. there's that There's, there's an entire light. Like it's, it's a massive area that they have and there's all kinds of rides and, and like, it's more than like the, there is the cheap ones, but there is also like some better ones and they'll, they'll do like the, the slingshot, which, you know, where like the bungee cords where they slingshot you up in the air. And, Oh, wow. They got that. Okay.
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Yeah. And, but then, but then, sorry, of the food, you you remind me when you talked about like the, the, the food is like, like the, the, the carnival food is like, yeah, everything is something else.
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Yeah. Everything that's where, you know, well, no, I take that back. i was to say, that's where I first learned about deep fried Oreos, but that's not true. Actually the, the Jersey shore does deep fried Oreos, but there's, you know, they always have that kind of stuff. They just, like there's certain things you can like, just only get at a fair, you know? Yeah.
00:10:20
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Like at a little carnival. The little donuts are always... Yeah, that stuff's good, yeah. The little donuts are my favorite. One of my favorite things, and I think they only call them this at the Jersey Shore, but they're butterfly fries, which are really... They're basically... They're spiral cut potatoes that they fry.
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Is it like a potato spiral potato on a stick? yeah yeah kind of like that except it's just like on a plate like they just they spiral a couple of potatoes they fry them up and they throw them on a plate uh i love those those are one of my favorite things they like i said they call them butterfly fries of the jersey shore but i've never seen them called that anywhere else so but i know the i mean in i don't even know what they usually call them but yeah i just love that kind of stuff and ah unfortunately we got a little weather today so that's unfortunate but We're going to go right after this, hopefully, as long as it's not. solid So, yeah, let's actually get into
Disney Dining Reservations
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the episode. Oh, yeah. So you have time to get to your carnival. Yeah. Yeah. Let me let me do really quickly, though, here, just like a a mini update on on my mini trip. Right.
00:11:23
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yeah And we so we're talking about dining reservations. Right. Last episode. And, um you know, I was told everybody it was working towards Ohana, which I still am. That so that hasn't changed. However. We did have a 1900 Park Fair pop up and and and listen, I have not done 19. It's actually a one that we have not done before.
00:11:42
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um And it fills our requirement of being like on the monorail loop, right? It's right there. um and it's you know it's character breakfast and i i love a breakfast buffet i love you know i i actually almost prefer the buffet format as opposed to what ohana does which is you know like the they bring out like the skillet of food and then you just you know like i just like the buffet format i like going up family dining versus buffet yeah yeah i just prefer that and plus the characters in 1900 park fair are tiana maribel aladdin and who was the other one
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Cinderella? Maybe? Cinderella? yeah might have been Cinderella. Anyway, my daughter... I feel like Mary Poppins was there, but maybe I'm wrong. No, she's not anymore. Definitely not. I think it was Cinderella. I could be wrong.
00:12:26
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yeah she might have i She might have been there. They redid that whole thing and like you know like revamped it, like renovated and stuff like that. And I think when they did that, they came up with... um you know they They have new characters there. Got it.
00:12:39
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ah But yeah, so I was asking around because I had never done it before, so I was you know interested in doing this, and and we I was lucky enough to snag um a 1045, so I decided to do Cinderella. I was right. Aladdin, Maribel, Pintus, Tiana, and Cinderella.
00:12:56
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And my daughter loves Maribel and Tiana. So I'm going to be okay with this one. I'm still going to try to do Ahana, but... I don't know. I'm kind of kind of would excited. mean, they have they have the famous Grand Floridian strawberry soup there. Like, they've got, you know, i kind of want to check it out.
00:13:15
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Now, so so here's here's an interesting thing to think about is if but if this resonates well enough with your daughter, you may you may be back at the Grand Floridian more than you realize the future. That's true. and then And then you're going to have to figure out if...
00:13:31
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staying at the Grand Floridian. That's not happening. No. No, that's not happening. No. I'm just disappointed we're not going to the gingerbread house because they're not doing the gingerbread house at Grand Floridian this year because of the renovations. Right. Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. That would have been nice. I mean, to be fair, there are other gingerbread, like the Grand Floridian one gets like the front page, but there are other gingerbread houses. So It just would been nice because we were already there.
00:13:59
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know what mean? Yeah, that's true. So I'd just pop down and check it out. But listen, I'm still going to try to get Ohana, just not as hard as I was trying before. Now, correct me if I'm wrong. I thought that there was something about that they were still going to be selling the gingerbread this year. Maybe I... I think they might be.
00:14:16
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Yeah, I misread that. So, I mean, they'll still smell like gingerbread, at least, if that's... Yeah, they'll smell like gingerbread. Yeah. um All right. Yeah. So, I mean...
Disneyland Pride & Listener Feedback
00:14:28
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Okay, 1900 Park Fair is interesting. I will admit, like...
00:14:31
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Just because the grand flirting is not my style, I just I honestly forget that there is like character breakfast and stuff there because I just 100% doesn't register. like And, you know, not to hate on it for anybody else that enjoys it. It's just it's not on my radar.
00:14:46
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No, it's I really wasn't on mine, to be honest, either, Trevor. And i honestly hadn't even thought about it. It just went when I was, you know, doing my normal refresh, refresh, refresh thing.
00:14:59
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It just popped up because I was just doing Magic Kingdom area. It's how I filtered the the search. Right. And that one popped up and i was like, hmm. I've never considered this. Let me take a look. And i was like, well, this menu looks pretty great.
00:15:12
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Like good character lineup right on the monorail loop. Perfect time. Kind of meets all. Kind of checks all the boxes. Yeah. Yeah. Check all the boxes. So, I mean, honestly, that, you know, you know, the funny thing is, is and we, we do talk about this and, you know,
00:15:26
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we We have to remind ourselves of this is that, you know, you're looking at it through your kids eyes and you're like yeah trying to, you know, you're you're trying to give them like the perfect experience.
00:15:38
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But which is funny. yeah the The funny thing is, is the perfect experience is whatever happens. Yeah, exactly. but and and and and like you know And I get like why you're trying to get Ohana and everything. And I did the same thing with my son. was like, oh, you know I have to get this and whatever.
00:15:54
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And then you're really disappointed if it does – or I shouldn't say you are, but like as a general thing. Yeah, no, it's a general thing. You get disappointed – in you know, when you miss out on something like that, but your kids like for your daughter, like, I think she's going to just love this trip. Like, it's going to be just like front to back. Like, Oh my gosh, this is like, I hope so. yeah You know, it's, it's going to be one of those memories. Like, you know we, we talked about it. I actually like earlier this week, um,
00:16:24
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we were talking about with my son, we were talking about past trips and he, he had kind of forgotten like some of his trips. And so like, we were just flipping through our, our photos on Google. And then we started showing like, Oh yeah. You remember when we went to Disneyland with grandma and grandpa? i Remember when we did this? And and all of a sudden he was like, Oh yeah, that was awesome. like Like, so he was like, it was there, but he just didn't have it like in the front of his mind. Right. But then as soon as like we showed him pictures, he all of a sudden was like,
00:16:50
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Yeah, that was amazing. That was awesome. There was never like, I didn't like this thing. or you know you know Remember how you didn't get that reservation? It was just like. Yeah, yeah, I get that. Well, she doesn't know about any but of it. you know just just like I get what you're doing, but you know just as a general observation is, you know your daughter's going to love this.
00:17:12
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Oh, I know. yeah like No matter how you you slice it. Whether you were at Chef Mickey's or 1900, she's going to have a great time. i Listen, I always say any any Disney vacation is what you make of it, right? Like no matter what, right? And so and we always make the best out of things. and and like But I'm just saying like we just wanted to do something new and different, right? Like it wasn't like we have to do a Hana. It's just like we want to do something different than we've done before.
00:17:37
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And this checks that box. I mean, we haven't done it before. So let's do it. you know and and yeah so so sorry i just i'm going to i don't know if this has been said before but the worst disney vacation is the one that you didn't take yeah i like it there you go there you go put that on a t-shirt uh make that into a meme uh
Disneyland Events & Experiences
00:18:00
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Uh, okay. Do you want to read this, this email from, from Gina, just cause this is, uh, in response to our interview with the castles, which by the way, if you haven't checked it out, that is out.
00:18:09
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Uh, you can go check that out, uh, with, with, uh, uh, Ryan, uh, Skylar castles who wrote a book about Disneyland and they were, they were super fun guests. We had, wheel all oh yes yeah we we had a great time with them. So, um, yeah. So Gina says, you know, Hey guys, this was a great interview.
00:18:23
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Something I noticed while you were talking is that we Californian people talk about Disneyland. Like it's like we own it. with Yeah. She said, it's almost like every sentence they said, we have black... <unk> We have... beth the black The black calf, the coffee man. Sorry, black calf, yeah.
00:18:39
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And in turn, you have gross coffee. And the reason I notice is because I do this exact thing. I do it with Disneyland and Universal Studios rides only because we have actual movie studios and you have a theme park.
00:18:51
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See what I did there? feel like I'm bragging you there. And she says, i also noticed that your listeners... know that the Huntington Beach Barnes Noble is in Westminster, California. And the number Oh, has the phone number to call in. Yeah.
00:19:06
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Yeah. So, um, which, yeah, I guess, yeah, I know when, when they were talking about where the, the, the sign copies, right. Yeah. Yeah. That's where the signed copies of the book are.
00:19:17
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Yeah. So I, I don't know. i don't know enough about the area to know like where these things are either, but I assume, you know, people can Google. Yeah. um yeah And then she says, you know, anyway, loving the program and have a great weekend.
00:19:30
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So, yeah. Thank you, Gina. Thanks, Gina. Gina's like been listening to us for like a really long time. Yeah. And yes, I get what she's saying there with. Yes. that you know there You know, we talked about that in the interviews. you know, the the difference with Disneyland is it's very um it's a lot more locals. And yeah, you know, there's a lot more. Yeah.
00:19:51
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ah protectiveness of it, I guess is the best way to put it is yeah you know you know Locals are protective of their park because it is is a very very big you know historical thing and has a lot of culture and stuff built into it. Not to say that Disney World doesn't, it's just different and I get it.
00:20:11
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so Yeah. Yeah. So it is interesting. I mean, at like that was a really good interview. So go check that out. But it is interesting how, like, you the... I mean, we talked about this, though, right? It's like, there's a lot more, like, it's it's all about the locals, right? With Disneyland. And it's yeah much more... Whenever you have something that's local like that, you feel more ownership over it.
00:20:31
Speaker
But especially this, you know? I mean, it's it's kind of funny that that, like, it's not the same thing by any means, but... no are actually guess maybe it is, but I put it in a different place in my head. The way I talk about the Stampede in Calgary, even though it only runs for a limited time, it is something that has actually been going on longer than Disneyland has been around, believe or not. It's over 100 years I get There a hundred years old now um so so i get is you know it is there is a sense of you know
00:21:02
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you know, pride and, and, you know, you know, it it, like if the stampede stopped running, I would be very upset because even though I'm not there all the time, it's still a part of, of our local culture.
00:21:15
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And yeah Disneyland's the same way, even though it's like world renowned and everything is I get for, you know, people who are local to California, it is a part of your, your culture. And if, if suddenly Disneyland stopped existing there, that would be, that would be wild.
00:21:29
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Like I, I, yeah. Yeah. So I get the protectiveness of it. Yeah, for sure. I wanted to talk about this one thing about this. Yeah. this is ah only It's sold out, by the way. So it's this doesn't even really matter. Like, you can't get tickets to this. But I thought this was just interesting in general, is that D23 was advertising the Wonderful World of Disney Magical Holiday Celebration overnight taping.
00:21:54
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which if I remember correctly, maybe I'm wrong about this. I don't remember them ever doing this overnight, at least that we knew about. I feel like they always did it. like do i think they didn't hours. you know oh No. So,
00:22:06
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I feel like there, because the the tapings every year, there' there's like a daytime and a nighttime section to it, if I remember.
00:22:18
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that's fair. So I feel like they this part was something that probably happened, and it just wasn't advertised. Yeah. So they're just filling it with D23 people. And yeah this was at Disneyland, by the way, this is going to be at Disneyland next weekend.
00:22:33
Speaker
And they they're they're starting at 11 o'clock at night and it ends at 630 in the morning. And this just kind of reminded me of like when they used to do stuff like this. Yeah. But, you know, and this is not the normal thing, though. So, so no, no. But remember, there was a time like they kept the park open 24 hours like they, you know, that Yeah. stuff when they' done before like that yeah But so but the the the event information for this, though, says very specifically, this event requires long periods of so waiting, standing and moving during the early hours of the morning.
00:23:06
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Audience participation is required as part of the taping. uh okay what the weather can be colder so i think it's jumping around going yeah yeah like like you you can yeah so it can't be yeah or it can't be that like you know i got my tickets in here i'm gonna go off and just ride the rides and ignore yeah everything right like it's i assume the rides are not even open right i yeah that that's all about this yeah Yeah, I assume as it's you're just going be following around a camera crew. And then and then, yeah yeah, they also say you'll be on camera during the taping. No photos, audio or video recording will be allowed. So, yeah, they don't want people like, you know, Instagramming.
00:23:42
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Yeah. that it does taping or The performance ahead of time. Yeah. Which if they come to phones. Yeah. The funny thing is, somebody still going to put something up guaranteed there will be somebody that will be like.
00:23:53
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oh, you know, I was at this taping and saw that, like, it it happens every year. there But I'm also thinking to myself, like and I don't know what the lineup, I don't know if they've announced the lineup, but i'm thinking to myself, like they really going Mariah Carey to perform at, like, 2 o'clock in the morning? Like, it's you know what I mean? Like, who are they getting to perform at 2 o'clock in the morning?
00:24:10
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I mean, the the interesting thing is as for these kinds of of tapings, it may be, yeah, they like, Mariah Carey shows up, is there for, you know, 30 minutes, does a song, and then leaves, but, like,
00:24:22
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Yeah. yeah you Like basically you're, this event is being an extra in the background of, of a Disney special. So they'll just cycle through people. And it's not like you're going to like be able to meet in these people. They're going to show up, do their thing and then leave.
00:24:37
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So, you know, I'm, I'm sure, I'm sure that, you know, the, uh, the celebrities are going to just, you know, do their own thing. And that's also, I think part of it too, is that because it is after hours, it's probably a lot easier to, it's probably much easier for them to film it.
00:24:52
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Yeah. and And, you know, you know if if they're moving in a bunch of different talent, they, you know, yeah they can move them through like areas of the park that are cut off because, yeah yeah know, that they can control where where people are. Right. So.
00:25:07
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Yeah, it's it's a funny thing, though. like like it's hes you know you know It's a cool thing to be in in the background of something like this, but I don't know that I would be you know super excited to be standing around from 11 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. because...
00:25:23
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I mean, my... That's how you're late. i'm I'm a night owl, I will admit. like i i will I usually don't go to bed until like 11.30, so I'm i'm up a bit later. But by like if I'm staying up until 1 I'm like passing out.
00:25:39
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So getting to 6.30, if I was to do this, I would have to like call in from work for two days to recover. Yeah. By the way, my the my Mariah Carey reference is not a particularly good one considering the last time she did it was 2016. But that's neither here nor there.
00:25:56
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but But whoever... know what I mean. happen You know what I mean. You guys know what I mean. I mean, listen. Whichever singers they have, there they're going to show up, do their thing and leave. is what i I mean, yeah. like last What was it last year? No, two years ago they had Michael Bolton. You think Michael Bolton showed up at 2 o'clock in the morning? I'm just saying, you know, i mean just feels like it would be hard to get those people to do that. I don't know. Well, except that because it's a Disney thing, you would be surprised what a lot of...
00:26:22
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you know Depends on how good the money is, I guess. ah Yeah, exactly. Yeah. One, they're getting paid. And two, you know, you look at it as, you know, hey, these are celebrities. And, yeah you know, Disney can tell celebrities what to do as well as anybody else.
00:26:37
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That's true. That's like that they can say we're doing this thing, show up at this time. And if it's like you said, if it's a paid thing, you know, you know, it's up to them to decide whether they show up or not. But if they don't, you know, Disney is not going to exactly work with them again, which.
00:26:52
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Yeah, I like i can I wouldn't be surprised if there's people, you know you know, celebrities rolling up at three o'clock in the morning to, you know, sing or do whatever and then going home and... none But now all I'm going to be able to see when I watch this, Trevor, is just the tired look on all these people's faces. Like, that's all going to be looking for. It's just like people like dozing off as yeah yeah felt John sings, you know? Yeah.
00:27:20
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And I'm sure they're goingnna have somebody there like, okay, everybody cheer now. And yeah, I guess you'll probably be able to tell. The the funny thing is is, that these shows like the the clips kind of get cut up. So oh yeah yeah you may see like earlier in the, in the special, it'll be like, people are more tired and then they see more awake at the end. It's probably because they're,
00:27:38
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you know, just timing of when things happened. Right. I would assume they probably do multiple, but like they do probably do the same performance multiple times to get it, to get, you know, to just have two in case they need to use They'll use whichever one is better.
00:27:53
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You know, they probably will do that. I'm just guessing, but I could be wrong. um But, you know, anyway, that's that's I just thought that was an interesting thing that they were doing it
Toy Story Land Enhancements
00:28:02
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overnight. I don't remember that happening in the past, but somebody can correct me. I have a very poor memory. I think and anybody listens the show knows that I forget these things all the time. So ah but yeah, I did, though, Trevor, want to move off of this and I want to I want to fly on over to Florida ah and and talk about um and this is not necessarily new news, but we didn't talk about it.
00:28:24
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um So Disney filed a permit like a little bit ago to build a new snack kiosk, new food kiosk at Toy Story Land right over by the bathrooms that are across from Alien Swirling Saucers. Because, you know, the thing I want to do is get food from next to the restrooms. But I mean, it's convenient.
00:28:42
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It is convenient. Yes. Yeah, it is. It is very convenient. ah I guess the interesting thing I am thinking with this, right? Listen, this is good. I mean, this is ah not a bad thing, but don't know if you've been following this, Trevor, but they like, they've been, you know, doing some stuff to Toy Story Land. Like they expanded that whole seating area over by Woody's Lunchbox.
00:29:02
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Now they're adding this little food spot. It almost feels like they're, ah they just like, you know, all of a sudden have, not all of a sudden, but like, are maybe trying to ah improve the land for really kind of the first time since it opened, you know, like, and it maybe include some of the things that maybe they intended to do in the first place, but you know, there were a lot of reports that the budget got cut pretty hard for, for Toy Story Land. Right. Yeah.
00:29:26
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Yeah. You're right. It's, it's not, i mean, i wouldn't say it's for the first time. It's like you said, you know, they have done expansions and stuff like that, but yeah, it definitely feels like, um Like you said, yeah you know, Toy Story Land didn't it didn't feel like there was a lot going on there.
00:29:43
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And even though this is just like adding a snack place or another, you know, just another place to get food in the land, it does actually help improve the.
00:29:54
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the the vibe is the best way I can explain it. Like, yeah, because, yeah. It helps with capacity, though because, like, Woody's Lunchbox gets a little crazy at times, right? That too, yeah.
00:30:06
Speaker
It's a small, it's a pretty small little place, and, you know, that's what, and they didn't have the seating before. Like, that was, like, always, like, a competition sport at Disney was getting a seat at Woody's Lunchbox, you know? um And now, you know, so you kind of take some of the pressure off of that by having this other place that's further down the way in the land,
00:30:24
Speaker
Uh, you know, and, and it gives, you know, takes, takes the pressure off a little. And also, like I said, back, back to the point of the vibes is like you said, further down the land, i always felt like as you get closer to, to, uh, galaxy's edge, toy story land feels like it kind of dies off.
00:30:40
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Yeah. A little bit like it's it's very like, you know, when you're walking in and you're by Slinky Dog and everything, it's like, oh, this you know, this land is cool. There's like movement and everything. And then you walk to the other side and it's just like trees yeah and nothing. Right. It's it's like, OK, I guess we're not doing it like.
00:30:58
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All right. So, yeah, like you said, this is this is exactly. this is the right call and probably, yeah like you said, probably something that was on their to-do list for a while. And it's just that, you know, with other projects underway and whatever, they probably found budget for this, that they, all the money they're already spending. They might yeah probably just allocated some funds to do it, getting this done, like finally finishing off what they intended.
00:31:22
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Yeah, exactly. And yeah, it's probably, they also know that, you know, opening these kinds of things means, um, They'll probably because they are going to be closing down um the or not closing down, but, um you know, redoing the. yeah what's it called animation courtyard.
00:31:41
Speaker
yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're working on. So, so, you know, the the thing is, is like, there's always a trade off, right. Is, you know, if you're, you're closing down other areas of the park to do renos, you should have something for people to do. Right. Like, and sure you know, you know, I think maybe somebody looked at you know, Oh, if we're closing down this, we're going to have toy story and people can go to toy story land. But then somebody, somebody probably looked at ah, there's not a lot to do Toy Story Island. Well, this is just food though, right? It's not like we're going go to the ride in, but yeah.
00:32:10
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but But again, it just it just speaks to, you know you know, giving people more reasons to stay in the land. Yeah, yeah, No, I agree. Agreed. Interesting. Yeah, little things sometimes do matter.
00:32:22
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like They do. They do. Trevor, why don't we go ahead and do our ad and then we'll talk about Ratatouille. How's that sound? Yeah, that works. All right.
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00:33:23
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It already happened a while ago in Paris, I thought. and Not that long. I don't think it was that long ago. I think it was fairly recent. i get I guess in terms of timeline, I mean, three weeks ago. It was August. It was August. Yeah. So, yeah, that that was like forever ago.
00:33:37
Speaker
Yeah. August was forever ago. Two months ago, Trevor. So it was announced that the, and I'm curious to see
Ratatouille Ride Enhancements
00:33:44
Speaker
how this is going to turn on. I really am. So this, so Ratatouille at, at ah at, at Paris is removing the 3d part of the, just removing all the 3d stuff. So there's no more 3d glasses.
00:33:56
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They're converting the, ah the attraction to two d Now they're going to be doing the same thing at the Epcot version. Now from what they've said, You know, this change will, it'll still, because they're going to be able to enhance the visuals and make the projection more clearly, like projection technology has gotten to a point now where you don't really need the 3D to feel like you're, feel like it's 3D. You know? Yeah. There's different ways to do it that doesn't require three.
00:34:30
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It doesn't require stereoscopic 3D, which is what the glasses were doing. And, you know, it's kind of an, It's an older trick. And yeah, like you said, the problem is is that the the visuals are limited in you know whatever technology there is for stereoscopic 3D, which is not anywhere near as advanced as you know where where projections whatnot have gotten to.
00:34:54
Speaker
So, yeah I mean, if yeah if you think about it, like, OK, because I mean, when you go, there's the one part of Attitude where you're you're, you spoiler alert, where you're racing through the walls. Right. And it really feels like moving. and and ah And also the big giant screens that they have in there, too, where, again, it feels like you're really moving.
00:35:09
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You know, you can do that stuff completely without 3D, right? And they've proven this with, you know... I mean, Soren, you feel like you're moving and you barely are moving. You're moving like a little bit.
00:35:20
Speaker
But, I mean, Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, I mean, that's... Yeah, not there's no 3D. And you feel like you're moving when you're doing that one rafting scene. Like, you can... They've gotten it to the point now where you don't really need this anymore. And listen, I am always in favor of no 3D glasses.
00:35:36
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So... Yeah. And yeah, the the hard part about three d glasses too is from a... ah um you know, from a, a health standpoint is, you know, people who are subjected to motion sickness, 3d glasses makes it a lot worse for sure. so I didn't know that actually. Oh yeah yeah. Yeah. It can, because again, it's, it's adding, it's adding, or again, depending on the type of, of motion sickness you have, it's like, it's basically a disconnect between your brain and your eyes going, you know,
00:36:07
Speaker
I'm seeing movement that my body's not feeling. So your yeah your body goes, Hey, I must, there's something wrong. Right. And that's what causes the nausea and all that. So, um, So yeah, the taking away the 3d, you know, you know, people, the funny thing is, is when you when you look at it out on the surface, it's like, they're taking something away, but like you said, they're actually, they're actually improving it because it's better because it's, it's no longer using an older method of doing 3d, which again, like like if you, if you look back on it, like outside of, uh, I mean, like flight of passage still uses the three d glasses. Yeah.
00:36:47
Speaker
and And I mean, that it's still fairly newish, but again, it's it's starting to show its age. All the rides that are not right. Toy Story. actions Yeah. Yeah. yeah You know, there's still Toy Story. But, but you know, looking at, ah um you know, Muppet Vision 3D, Tough to Be a Bug, like all those kinds of old 3D shows and stuff, they they have all gone away.
00:37:11
Speaker
But I mean, the Zootopia show, the new Zootopia show, you're still going to need the glasses. You know, did they say that? I didn't see anything confirmed about that. Yeah, they did. And I mean, Fantasmic, you still the glasses.
00:37:22
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I think I almost feel like it's more of a like when you're sitting stationary thing, you kind of need them. Oh, PhilharMagic. Sorry. you meant Yeah, PhilharMagic. was like, Fantasmic. What talking about? Did I say Fantasmic? You did. Yeah. Ah, shoot.
00:37:34
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PhilharMagic. PhilharMagic, okay. Yeah, PhilharMagic still has the glasses. and But again, also still... yeah Okay, so so Zootopia will be a newer version of it. But again, the I feel like it's one of these things where you know you know picking and choosing your battles with it is not the worst thing. And yeah and the other thing about Remy's is that you're you're kind of doubling down on it with...
00:37:55
Speaker
you know, you have, you have simulated motion from the vehicle and then you have 3d effects with the glasses. Like that's kind of a recipe for nobody wants to ride this because it's, yeah it's going to be extra nauseous. I think with the movement, it's a lot easier when you have the ride vehicles and you can simulate the movement a lot easier, you know, like when you're just sitting there, it's, it's, that does make it worse.
00:38:18
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Yeah, I'm just saying you kind of need the glasses for that. Right. So it's I don't know. You need the the the old school 3D, which I so I saw it in one of the articles where they said, you know, through the help of your, you know, glass, your 3D glass. I forget what they called them. They had a name for them, of course, because why can't they? Why why wouldn't they? I guess, you know, ah but where is that that thing?
00:38:40
Speaker
There was a carrot vision 3D is what they they were calling it, first of all. ah That's on the poster. But I forget what the glasses are called. I can't find it anymore. But anyway, you can you can find that somewhere. But they're still going to have that.
00:38:54
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ah For those shows and also for PhilharMagic. Not Fantasmic. Why did I say Fantasmic? um It's still Mickey, Sorcerer Mickey stuff going on. To be fair, there's a lot of Fantasmic going on in that show. There is, yes. yeah all right so give give me give me ah give me Give me that, I guess.
00:39:10
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that's fine but But I feel like, like you said, you know, you know Remy's is not a ride that, like Mickey and Minnie's, I think it'll do just fine without the 3D. And, you you know, in thinking back on it, the only part that actually really stood out to me with the 3D effects, like you said, yeah, like running through the ah through the the walls and everything.
00:39:33
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yeah um I feel like that part, the three, like I could have just been watching ah movie. at Like the 3d didn't really need to be there. It was the part that the only 3d that really wowed me was actually the very first room in Ratatouille where you come around the corner and it's like, like you see like the rooftop and like, and it looks very, very expansive. Like, like it looks, it looks like it has a lot more depth than it does. Yeah.
00:39:59
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um hopefully they can you know figure out how to do that you know without you know without cheapening the effect or making it feel like you're not immersed in because that was the only part that really wowed me from the three d standpoint. But then the rest of the ride, it's like, I don't really need these glasses on. I get Yeah. necessarily And they are calling them care vision glasses, by the way. i was yeah i was okay that that's i said I was right and wrong because I said that that's what it was called care vision, but said that glasses weren't called that, but they are.
00:40:27
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So, but, and that that's fine for, I mean, yeah, that, you know, Zootopia makes sense. Yeah. The other thing I will say too, is, you know, you know, honestly, less Less reasons to wear three d glasses is better also from a hygiene standpoint.
00:40:44
Speaker
Well, there's that too. Yeah. and And I know, like, don't get me wrong, you know, Disney, like they run those things through, you know, a cleaning process and whatever. But it always drives me nuts when you're like, you're coming up to the booth to grab your glasses and there's somebody like rifling through them.
00:41:00
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Like they grab like, you know, like they grab like 10 different pairs and it's like, dude, they're like... ah they're all going to do the same thing. like but And I guess I know that they're looking for like, if there's like ones with a mark on them or whatever, but it's like, do you have to touch all of them? Like it'd be fine.
00:41:16
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Yeah. Yeah. i Yeah. i Well, that's the other thing, too, that part of the reason Disney's doing this, besides, you know, it may be being a better experience, is also that they the expense and pain that comes along with operationally having to provide three d glasses, clean 3D glasses, and then you have the loss of people stealing them constantly.
00:41:36
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So yeah I'm sure that's going to to reduce their operational costs for this ride. Yeah. Yeah, and I will say that the throughput on the amount of people that need 3D glasses for a ride like Ratatouille, because you may say, well, but they're doing it for Zootopia.
00:41:53
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Zootopia has a limited amount of people. the The throughput of people is actually not anywhere near as high as Ratatouille because Ratatouille is a it's a constant moving ride.
00:42:06
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yeah And so so, you know, throughout a day... they need way more glasses than Zootopia because Zootopia is, you know, Hey, we have a show like, you know, every hour or whatever, right? Like, like, you know, whatever the cycle is for it.
00:42:20
Speaker
um and So yeah, it's, it makes, again, it's a matter of, does it make sense in every scenario? And I feel like somebody looked at Ratatouille and went, you know, you know, this was a ah cool gimmick or a way to sell it back when the the ride first came out. But The 3D glasses thing you know can be can still be used.
00:42:40
Speaker
It still has you know you know applications, obviously, looking at Zootopia. um And and i guess i you know I said earlier about like the you know the technology hasn't kept up. There is obviously still uses of it, you know like Flight of Passage is still using it, Zootopia is still using it.
00:42:57
Speaker
But I feel like um it does it does give them a certain amount of limitation on but like Because you you do have to kind of build around the fact that you are using this 3D technology, right? Oh, yeah, sure. yeah So, i it's not to say that it's impossible, but I just feel like, you know, but for anybody that...
00:43:19
Speaker
might be mad about this, which I haven't seen it You know, I haven't seen any negative reviews around this or negative comments around it, but you feel like anybody getting mad that they're taking away the 3d. Like I, I don't know.
00:43:31
Speaker
I just don't feel like there's, there's a reason to keep it right. big too Yeah. To your point, by the way. So the, the theater underneath the tree of life holds 428 people.
00:43:43
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They probably do a show like every 15 to 20 minutes. Right. So you're talking like 1500 hour, read it to just 2200 an hour. So it's exactly, yeah, it's, it's just, it's, it's a bigger, bigger, faster throughput because of the fact that it is a, a ride and just how those function. Right. So exactly. Exactly.
00:44:03
Speaker
ah So moving on here. Yeah. Listen, we don't have to talk about this, Trevor. I just thought that this like Imagineer, this this whole story living community thing that Disney's doing is nuts.
Disney's Cotino Community
00:44:15
Speaker
but Sorry, this is Coutinho? this one in California? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm just... Right. This is with the... i forgot about this with the ah the Incredibles looking...
00:44:28
Speaker
Yeah, but they're they're showing off because it's it's actually like i they've had the first residents move in and now they're starting to open some of the amenities. And this one's called the Artisan Club, ah which is an optional membership thing. But I'm going to tell you right now, just looking at this, I'm like, yeah, I can't afford whatever this is.
00:44:46
Speaker
yeah just Just looking at the picture, I was like, this is not happening for me. But not that I'm out in California or have the house. But i'm just I guess if you live in that neighborhood, it's not a big deal, right? Because if you bought in that neighborhood, you could probably afford it. but Yeah, it looks like a resort.
00:45:00
Speaker
Yeah, it does. Somewhere that I could stay for a week, but that's about it. Yeah, this looks ah very, ah very fancy. Very, very fancy.
00:45:12
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You know what it kind of reminds me of? And sorry, we're we're going to go behind the the curtain again. because oh no. Why not? What now? So, so you know, you know, when for OK, Tom and I play this game called Walkabout Mini Golf.
00:45:27
Speaker
There is there is a course called Arizona Modern. Oh, yeah, it does look like Arizona Modern. Yeah, this is very much giving Arizona Modern vibes, right? gets Yeah, more water, though. This is my more water going on. True, yeah. yeah I mean, Arizona Modern is on the side of a mountain, but it's still, like, in Arizona. and and And I think it's, you know, the mountains in the background and and the just, like, the design of the the pathways and the the architecture and everything is giving that honestly i did do a double take at some of these trevor because at first i thought that these were concept art but these are these real pictures like yeah this looks picture-esque it's insane it does yeah and i mean again especially like the way that they did the uh like the picture of the architect's fork bar where it's like looking out over the water like that's such a like so yeah it's yeah it like you said it it looks like concept art but it is that is really actually how it looks yeah yeah
00:46:22
Speaker
I didn't want to talk about that too much. I just, i saw it. I was like that. Very cool. um you know, cool. You know, maybe, maybe if I win the lottery twice, might end up there but yeah. Yeah. What is it? What is the, uh, what is the going rate for the base? hall is it like I think it's, I mean, I know it's in the millions, yeah but let's see here.
00:46:44
Speaker
okay yeah so they they start the starting price is 1.6 million so that's it yeah you can and you can go up to 4 million so you know if you really feel like uh yeah sounds like a deal if i've got that much to spend i'm buying a golden oaks i'm not buying over here uh but yeah you buy over there and then you have a private plane that goes to goes back and forth oh yeah by the way the artisan club fee is twenty thousand dollars Oh, I mean... That's a one-time fee. That's a one-time fee, and then you've got to pay the HOA dues on top of that.
00:47:18
Speaker
Okay. I mean, that again, that this is all like on the same level as like i if I'm I would be debating between this and a Club 33 membership, I feel like.
00:47:29
Speaker
Yeah, I would agree with you on that. Yeah. And so the Artisan Club 20,000, although this says that the monthly dues are only like 680 bucks a month, which is not that bad, actually. I think my parents pay like slightly less than that at theyre at their that they live. yeah.
00:47:43
Speaker
their place that they live so Sorry, that what are those dues for? And you said it's monthly? That was the HOAs. That was just the HOA then there's annual So the Artisan Club has annual fees. It looks like anywhere between $11,000 and $19,000.
00:48:00
Speaker
Got it. Okay. Sorry. I sorry. I forgot about HOAs. Yeah. We don't, I was thinking, so oh yeah up here we have, we have, um, we have like a, uh, community association, but I pay once a year for it. Yeah.
00:48:15
Speaker
And it's like $700. Yeah. Yeah, so this says for this for the for the club, it's $20,000 initiation fee and then annual dues starting at $11,000 a year.
00:48:26
Speaker
And that gets you access to the club and any of the programs. I'm good with my fees. No, I might have that number wrong. Maybe it's not $700. It might be less, but yeah either way. But anyway, time to move on. Let's talk about some holiday merch, Trevor.
Disney's Holiday Merchandise Confusion
00:48:40
Speaker
yeah so yeah We talked a lot about Halloween merch, but now we're starting to get, although this is weird because this article says holiday collection, right? But I'm looking at and I'm like, there's nothing holiday about any of this.
00:48:51
Speaker
Yeah, actually, that that is a good point. right i'm I'm looking at these things. So 2025 holiday collection, and this just looks like another random ah set of merch.
00:49:07
Speaker
Like, there's nothing... but And I feel like the way that they're modeling them, like, that this feels like... I mean, this looks like it they the modeling was done in New York.
00:49:18
Speaker
So it's very, like... like yeah fashionista kind of stuff. It's extraordinarily fashionista, right? like this is This is like a thing that you would like cat like that a paparazzi person like would catch like a celebrity in if they were going to Disney, right? Because this probably the the dress that this woman's wearing is probably absurdly expensive, know what I mean? like right Okay, here heres here's the here's the synopsis of this collection. This all-new collection brings together the best of fashion, beauty, and fandom with an assortment spanning Apparel, accessories, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, keepsakes, one-of-a-kind toys, home to Cornmore. So, like, this is Macy's. So, Macy's is not that expensive generally, right? like Yeah, but but this this is focus. This is not, I guess they they said holiday collection, but they didn't specify which holiday. I think this is meant to be more like all the way around Thanksgiving Macy's Day Parade stuff and not Christmas.
00:50:12
Speaker
I will say that the second link I sent you, Trevor, that is has more of the stuff in it. I mean, this stuff is still not even holiday. It's still not holidays. I still don't really know what we're doing here with this holiday collection and thing. But this stuff is a little cooler and a little more accessible. The interesting thing I find about it, though, is that they're using the character styles from, like, the 50s.
00:50:34
Speaker
like Yeah. Which is really interesting to me. Very. Yeah. A lot of the old school, like, comic book. Yeah. The Mickey Mouse comic book. Because if you look at Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse throughout the years and the other characters too, but they they've changed. I mean, they then they have continued to evolve and change.
00:50:51
Speaker
And so like there's certain eras that have different you know different kind of looks to Mickey and Minnie and you know the rest of the the crew. And this, to me, I mean, it's interesting. they're kind It's almost like they're going for a very nostalgic thing here.
00:51:04
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like Disney is leaning heavily in on the the nostalgia factor right now. Oh my gosh, that what are these... hologram What are these?
00:51:16
Speaker
I don't know. You remember the hologram pictures, you know, that used to be a big thing in the nineties.
00:51:22
Speaker
Oh, you can't even really see how like they work though, because you the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse three inch balloon pin. Oh, they're like the the kidding day pray the the Thanksgiving day prey. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. But, but they're, they're pins. Okay. But I see, okay. What it is, is that you flip it one way and it's Minnie, you flip it the other way and it's Mickey.
00:51:40
Speaker
Makes sense. Yeah. That's all I got for that, Trevor. Honestly, I, you know. Interesting. I i forgot about those hologram things. You know, those were, um you know, the pictures were cool, but the most satisfying thing about them was you when you rubbed your thumbnail across them because there's like edges.
00:51:57
Speaker
You get like that, that like zzz sound. Zzz. Yeah. Oh, yeah. that was That was all you would do with those, basically. Yeah. Yeah. yeah After you're done looking at you just sit there all day and just thumb across it. Yeah. Back and forth. Yep.
00:52:10
Speaker
ah the last piece of the The last piece of news I have on here, Trevor, and this
Monstropolis Trademark & Discussion
00:52:15
Speaker
isn't really news. It's not even really a rumor, I guess. According to reports, Disney's filed a trademark application for um the Monsters, Inc. Land.
00:52:24
Speaker
You want to guess what it might be, Trevor? Well, I mean, there is... To be fair, there are two possible names for it. I think there's one possible name for it and no other name.
00:52:35
Speaker
and So, I mean, i mean if if you're doing the land thing, it's Monsters, Inc. land, or you're calling it Monstropolis. You're calling it Monstropolis, of course. so Why wouldn't you call it Monstropolis?
00:52:47
Speaker
They're like trying to replicate Monstropolis. Why wouldn't you call it Monstropolis, right? But but it's it's like, sorry, the same way that like Galaxy's Edge was called Star Wars Land. right yeah like yeah like you know you can still call it you know people you can say star wars land and people know what you're talking about you can call it monsters inc land and people know what you're talking about but yeah i guess the official name is monstropolis no one's probably going to call it monstropolis right like that's the thing you let's go over to monstropolis for lunch yeah cool get to your point most people don't go let's go to galaxy's edge most people say let's go star wars late right like that's yeah you know that's what you do right like people don't call things by the right names
00:53:26
Speaker
totally I will admit on this podcast, I do actually catch myself because we're like when we're talking about Hollywood Studios and I and i go to say like you know something in Galaxy's Edge, I do make sure that i I have it in my head to say Galaxy's Edge and not say Star Wars Land because I don't yeah i don't want to be...
00:53:45
Speaker
that person like i want i want to call things by their proper name but in the back of my head i'm still like oh that's star wars land right yeah so well yeah this will be monsters yeah c planned the the other the other thing about this though too trevor is like how did they not already have a trademark on monstropolis like that's actually yeah that that's surprisingly dangerous Yeah, that that they didn't.
00:54:09
Speaker
I mean, because I feel like somebody could have stolen that or I guess probably not, because if you tried to trademark Monkstropolis, the Disney lawyers would have come for you anyway.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, listen if they would have called it Monsters Inc. Like, that's a terrible name. right Like, I mean, it's ah like, no that's just not a good, I mean, you got to call him if you're going to try to do the like the immersive thing of like, this is the actual Monstropolis. You have to call it Monstropolis.
00:54:39
Speaker
But it's it's a hard thing, though, because like Disney Disneyland started with, you know, Adventureland and Fantasyland. Like everything was something Lance. Right. So it's like that that naming convention. But feels like it should extend out. But you yeah. And yeah I agree with you. I'm just, you know, saying but i guess it was yeah the whole land thing.
00:55:01
Speaker
But the land thing only applies in disneyland and actually isn't even consistent because you get you know you have um was it bayou country now and you have new orleans and you have galaxy's edge so that's like all been thrown out the window and then every other park outside of that doesn't you know they've never followed that naming convention anyway right to and to your point trevor if we were following the same logic, then Toy Story Land should be called Andy's Backyard and not Toy Story Land.
00:55:32
Speaker
That's Yeah, actually, you're right. that That is actually the odd one out that it got named Toy Story Land and not... Because even even like, you know, Avatar Land or, you know, Pandora, right? Yeah, that's Pandora.
00:55:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. know Does anybody call it Avatar Land? i No. that Yes. That's the thing. like it does And listen, you know, when they open the the new South America area in yeah an Animal Kingdom, no one's going to call it that. like They're going let's go to Encanto. go to Encanto. Encanto Land. Yeah. No, is it's tropical South Americas. Yeah.
00:56:07
Speaker
that's um i don't Listen, I'm totally fine with that. I'm just saying like the official name has to be Monstropolis. It can't be Monsters, Inc. Land because that's just terrible. I'm okay with it with Toy Story Land. It doesn't bother me with that. For some reason, though, this would bother me. I don't know why. Especially because it's Monsters, Inc., and then Land after that that. All of that is the worst grammar in existence.
00:56:31
Speaker
So that's my You're correct, yes. Monsters, Inc. Land would be yeah you're right. It's such a weird thing that like, like it's funny how in our heads we're like, you know, Toy Story Land is fine. Galaxy's Edge.
00:56:46
Speaker
but is that fine it's it It's not Star Wars Land. It's Galaxy's Edge. Yeah. It's not Monsters, Inc. Like, yeah, I don't know. That's. No one's calling the Enkanto area tropical Americas. then No one's calling it that.
00:56:59
Speaker
It's not going to happen. That's true. Yeah. Going over to Enkanto is or going. Yeah. it and but And then I guess the funny thing is is, if you think about it in Hollywood studios, the fact that there is a Toy Story land there doesn't make sense.
00:57:14
Speaker
if you think about it, because there isn't, it's not, it's not broken up the same way that magic kingdom or Disneyland is where you have like that hub and spoke thing and there's separate lands. It's like,
00:57:25
Speaker
It doesn't... but yeah it It doesn't follow the same like design. It's very... yeah You know what I think the difference is here, Trevor? Is Toy Story... If you were to name it Andy's Backyard, Andy's just a generic name.
00:57:40
Speaker
right It means nothing. yeah Monstropolis, when you say that, it has the word monster in it. so i mean Not for the full word monster, but you get monster from it. right like you You hear Monstropolis, you think, okay, that's a land with monsters in it. Because that's just...
00:57:54
Speaker
you associate it, right? So like, I understand why Disney would not call Toy Story Land. First of all, because Toy Story just by itself as two words is extraordinarily valuable, right?
00:58:05
Speaker
So of course you're going to call it that, right? But Monstropolis, I guess, feels a little better than than Andy's Backyard would because it conjures up an image immediately. You know that where that place is. You know what i mean? We never even really got into Andy's Backyard and all the Toy Story movies. So They created a place that exists only in there, basically, not even in the movies. right so That is true. Yeah.
00:58:29
Speaker
Yeah. So i think this is the same as, I guess, going to like Radiator Springs in in California Adventure. Yeah. like Cars Land. Yeah. yeah But again, that should be called Radiator Springs.
00:58:39
Speaker
Yeah. right You're right. Huh. Man, you're you're breaking my brain right now. You know, though, that like there are people whose job it is to figure these things out that spend an insane amount of time doing so.
00:58:52
Speaker
Right. And at the end of the day, like it would drive me nuts if I named you know took the time to figure out the name ah Galaxy's Edge and then everyone just calls it Star Wars Land.
00:59:03
Speaker
You know what i mean? Now, given it is Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, the Star Wars is still in it. But like you know what i mean? like It just would annoy me. Yeah. And yeah, actually, if i if I Google it here, so so the actual name of Galaxy's Edge is Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, because I was going to say the fact that it's called Galaxy's Edge didn't sit right with me because it's like, you know, to your point about Toy Story Land, if they called it Annie's Backyard, you don't know.
00:59:30
Speaker
Like it could be anything. Galaxy's Edge is kind of. but they Star Wars the front of it. I mean, Galaxy's Edge should just be called Galaxy's Edge and not Star Wars. Like, they had to throw Star Wars in there so that you know what this is, you know? Yeah, but that's why I don't think it should be called Galaxy's Edge. No, I get it, yeah.
00:59:47
Speaker
that that it should have been or it is called star wars galaxy's edge so you know i guess i can't be too mad about it but uh i mean but again if you if you're really doing it right the land should be called batu that's what it should called right there should be no star wars there should be no galaxy's edge there's just should be called batu right like if that's the way want to do that that's but Because, yeah, Monstropolis is in-universe naming of that land. so Exactly. Technically, Galaxy's Edge. Yeah, that's the thing about Galaxy's Edge. is I don't know where that came from.
01:00:21
Speaker
um i know it was some background story thing where they were like, oh, it's you know some planet or whatever, but it's Batuu. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You know, i but that that's like calling your city like, you know, I'm i'm in Alberta land south. Like, it's... Yeah.
01:00:44
Speaker
yeah I don't know. I know. Now we're really... We're just getting deeper. We're getting into it now, which is fine. But, yeah, it's just funny that this this trademark application for Monstropolis is like...
01:00:58
Speaker
Now it's becoming an, or not an issue, but now it's coming up. It's like yeah that, that should have been there. Like before any of this trademarked out like immediately, like how was that? Not, well, I feel, I just assume that Disney trademarks, everything they possibly can, as soon as they possibly can do it.
01:01:15
Speaker
I mean, to be fair, I feel like there's also there just because they submit a trademark doesn't mean that it goes through immediately. Well, that's true, but they're submitting it now though. Like why not submit it before? Well, again, probably had to go through all the lawyerisms and all that. Well, I mean, like what was to stop Universal from calling you know the the monster area of of ah of Epic Universe Monstropolis? They probably just could have. you know if They didn't have the trademark. I mean, you have if they weren't already calling it Dark Universe. Yeah, yeah. You know what i mean, though, right? like Yeah, you're right. you know that they They could have definitely...
01:01:50
Speaker
if universal was going to fight dirty they could have stolen that out from underneath of disney but that would have been really funny actually it would have been but uh yeah it's yeah you're right it is a weird thing that uh i mean i guess yeah in my head it's going to be yeah oh yeah this is this is monstropolis and that's fine but maybe but want to start calling it monsters in clan i don't know No, i see but that's the thing. Monstropolis is better.
01:02:19
Speaker
It's a better name for it. Yeah, you're right. You don't want to call it Monsters England. Yeah. but But this is like going into the same space as like, you know, calling the Haunted Mansion the Haunted House, right? Well, yeah, but, you know, it's it does feel like it's a it's kind of a mess, though, right Because like I said, if you were going to follow the same logic as as calling that land Montropolis forever else, we would, you know, the lands of Hollywood of hollywood Studios would be Andy's Backyard, Batuu, and mean, Muppet's Land was just Muppet's Land. Although it was Muppet's Courtyard, it wasn't even Muppet's Land. Yeah, exactly.
01:02:51
Speaker
It's just a hot mess, man. It's just... Well, and then, I mean, you do have the rest of Hollywood Studios, which has, yeah yeah I mean, they're not even, it's not even really sectioned off into Lance because, and sorry, I need to look this up now. we need to wrap this up though yeah you're right we need to we this is we've gone too far okay yeah yeah all the other names are like echo lake grand avenue animation courtyard sunset hollywood barard yeah uh no sunset boulevard not hollywood boulevard well no there's hollywood boulevard and and no it's not and hollywood city is no
01:03:28
Speaker
no Oh, no, sorry, you sorry I missed that. Yeah, you're right. Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah, that's the entrance. Sorry. I would yeah i was thinking about the the the area going towards Tower Terror. No, you're right. Hollywood Boulevard is the main... like That's Main Street, basically.
01:03:40
Speaker
Yeah. And then Animation Courtyard, which is descriptive, at least. But, you know, then he's Sunset Boulevard. I mean, none of this is descriptive. It's just all... like I mean, it's based on stuff from Hollywood, right? But... Yeah, which which actually is kind of funny, too, again, looking looking at how Disney breaks their own naming conventions.
01:03:56
Speaker
Yeah. So, you know, they have Echo Lake Grand Avenue and then all of a sudden Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, Toy Story Land, Monstrous. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen, we we all know Hollywood Studios is is is verging very far from its original ah intent and design. so but it It has evolved over time. and sorry I'm just i'm poking fun. I'm not hating it. Just anyone doesn't think that I am. Listen, there are still, I'm sure, plenty people that still call Hollywood Studios MGM, to our point, right? yeah
01:04:28
Speaker
So um even though that has been gone for a long time now, really long time. feel like I over 20 years now. Right. I mean, when was that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's no, it's not been 20 years.
01:04:41
Speaker
It's been, I guess. When did i mean, I was there in 2006. Yeah.
MGM History & Name Change
01:04:48
Speaker
say It was probably right around then. It was still MGM in 2006. Okay. So, all right. I guess we are coming on 20 years. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We're getting there. mean, just want to... I've got to find that year now because I need to find out. I feel it was 2008 2010 that it changed.
01:05:06
Speaker
two thousand and eight twenty ten that it changed and Anyway, i i just just as an aside, I feel like... I know this meat has been done before. 2008. Okay. yeah So officially it started in 2008, so that was 17 years ago. I was close. I was i was giving an estimate. It was 17 years ago. I was close.
Fun Game & Listener Engagement
01:05:25
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And you're in the right ballpark. Yeah. I feel like this would be a fun... or I like the idea of this in my head as long it doesn't get too far out of hand is, you know, you know, naming places incorrectly, which I know like that means been done, but it's like, like Disney, like, you know, you know, calling the ride or describing the ride or the the land and like wrong answers are possible. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Wrong answers.
01:05:50
Speaker
But, yeah you know, trying to describe. We could have too much fun with that. I know. Maybe that's a, maybe that's a wait list. Yeah. Right. I don't know. That's actually, that would be a fun I like that idea. That's a fun one.
01:06:02
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i'll I'll add that to the list so we don't forget about it because if I don't add it to the list, we'll forget about it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. um Okay. But we'll come back to that later, but for now we'll wrap this up.
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