Episode 373: Wreck-It Ralph Attraction, Holiday Gifts & Holiday Food Time!

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Speaker: Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Rental Store. Thank you for joining us on episode 373 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom, here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, pretty good. I've had my Count Chocula for the morning and I got some tea here. You know what, it's Halloween.

Speaker: We're recording this on Halloween. I know this is coming out after Halloween, but... We're going to start with Halloween and it's going to kind of transition into Christmassy vibes. But I started off strong with Count Chocula. Count Chocula is an all year round thing though. is, but I feel... Yeah, it is, but I feel it like...

Speaker: yeah it it is but i but i feel it like I woke up this morning and I was trying to figure out what to have for breakfast and i was like, I still have some Count Chocula. so yeah, because I think I put it on the on the Discord that I bought a box of Count Chocula purely for the fact that they had, was...

Speaker: it was it was Count Chocula, but they'd done Jim Henson puppets of it. Or so, so it was like a a Jim Henson puppet version of Count Chocula on the box. And i was like, um that's cool. Like I, I don't need Count Chocula in my life, but I bought it because it was a cool Jim Henson thing. And then I was like, well, I mean, you know, I can, I don't eat it every day, but you know, I can have a bowl of cereal every once in a while. And today seemed like the right day specifically for that cereal.

Speaker: Yeah. so i mean, if you if there's a cereal you're going to eat for Halloween, I feel like that that's a good, um you know, it's a good good one to do, right? Yeah. it is It is one of the better themed cereals.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that. yeah and And you can't deny the little marshmallows are nice, too. Yeah. I'm just thinking like Count Chocula is really just like chocolate lucky charms. I mean, pretty much. Yeah, it is. yeah Yeah, it is. It is chocolate lucky charms, which yeah I'm not kidding myself. I'm i'm not I'm not even like doing the 90s like part of a complete breakfast. It was not a complete breakfast. I just had cow chocolate and straight sugar. Yeah. Just straight sugar. It's fine. It's, you know, it's breakfast. You got to have some sugar with your breakfast. I mean, every other day of the week I eat like I have a pretty good breakfast. So it's like I can afford a bowl of cereal every once in a while. Yeah, you know what? All right, that's fair. I'll give it to you.

Speaker: um Yeah, so it's we it's been... Happy Halloween to everybody. I believe I guess, because it was you know a couple days ago now, if you're listening to this. But we're recording it on Halloween, so yeah you know it is it's always an exciting time. I was at the grocery store this morning looking for discounted candy, but it's it's too early still. I need... Oh, yeah, you are way early.

Speaker: a day early. yeah I wasn't there for that purpose. I just happened to be there and I just, you know, was looking to see if there was any discounted candy. But um I don't know about you, but I went to Costco and got two like giant like five pound bags of candy. Yeah. You know, I i only did, um I found a couple of boxes of candy at the grocery store, which I really dialed back on how much Halloween candy I bought this year. But you don't get that many trick-or-treaters though, right? I think you've said that before. Yeah. like So like what's what's happened over the years is that my my neighborhood and space in particular,

Speaker: um yeah All the kids, like when we moved into the neighborhood, a lot of the kids were in like the same age group and all those kids now are adults. So, so, you know, they're, they're all off doing their own thing. And while there is new families that have moved into the neighborhood, it's, it's not been at a rate where it's like the neighborhood is packed with kids again. So, yeah. So also where, where our street sits,

Speaker: we're off of a um ah main road, which, like, on the main roads, there's there's tons of people, um pete you know, kids kids don't, they don't go off onto the side streets as much.

Speaker: so Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, like, like where, and and also where we are, too, ah my house in particular is on the side of the street where there's no sidewalk, so it's like, Like, it's just a whole bunch of extra for for people to come to my house. And and like and so, you know, we've given out candy, but it's like, yeah, we I'm not expecting we're going to get a lot this year. And honestly, that's fine because ah because our plans usually entail... um we always find a scary game to play on Halloween. So my wife and I will sit down and, and find something scary. I mean, we, we play scary games all year round, but we always specifically find something. in And usually I end up digging for like something, something that's not of like the, the main, like, like triple A game. So, so like, you know, I, I'm sure when I say scary games, people think of like, you know, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, stuff like that.

Speaker: um I usually find something that's more like indie or, you know a little i don't really do scary games man it's not my thing but but i guess like in terms of games too like i i'm not even looking for like like the top tier scary games it's kind of like finding like um it's the equivalent of you know when you find like like campy horror movies oh yeah yeah but that's all my wife watches is bad har yeah like so so it's the same it's the same kind of vibe like like so like we're doing like like campy like yeah you know, good, like some of them are good, but some of them it's like, yeah, you know, you know, they don't quite have the same production value as the higher tier ones, but it's fun because it's like, you know, you're, you're doing a, you're doing it on Halloween. So that's, that's my plans for Halloween. Yeah. I do really enjoy the fact that this episode, like you said, we're doing something a little different in this episode because we are doing this over on Halloween. where the beginning The beginning of the show, we'll talk a little bit about Halloween, but much like Disney, ah in a very quick manner, we are going to completely steer to the holidays. but we're we're going We're transitioning very quickly to Christmas stuff. That's right. It's going to be funny. but I should make our theme song into a mashup of Halloween and Christmas just for... all That would be weird.

Speaker: Yeah, you know, I don't even want to say it because I'm going to make myself mad if I say it. You're going make yourself mad? What you mean? Oh, oh, oh, oh, Nightmare for... Okay, yes. Sorry, I took me a moment. My brain's not working. Yeah, yeah the the the obvious transition between Halloween and Christmas is Nightmare Before Christmas. It's like, I don't... Yeah, I know how you feel. I know. I'm i'm standing my ground on the fact that the the overlay ah the overlay has ruined that movie for me because it wrecks Haunted Mansion in Disneyland for me. Yeah. sorry i know I know people like it. I know it has some redeeming qualities, but i just... Yeah.

Speaker: I don't get to ride Haunted Mansion because of it. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. yeah So, um ah but anyway, right? ah Let's, yeah wait we we're, you know, enjoying Halloween, but, ah you know, i we're going to, like I said, this is going to be a bit of a weird episode. It really is. we're Because we're going to do, we usually do our food time episode for all these foods.

Speaker: ah food guides that came out because they all come out at the same time. And we're kind of we're going to kind of do that. We're just going to not do it on, you know, you're not going to see our faces, but we're still going to have video and pictures of all this. So you can still see all of it. We're we're going to try something a little bit different.

Speaker: and yeah And again, this is not this is not to replace normal food time. It's just more so a timing of yeah You know, Tom and I have both been very busy outside of the podcast. So we're trying our best to, you know, do something that works for both of us. And, you know, hopefully, you know, get at least it gives everyone something to enjoy. And that's not to say, and just so we're clear, it's not that, you know, this is going to replace how we do food time going forward. We're just trying something. Yeah, I mean, listen, it's going to be the same as it usually is, except you're just not going to see our faces. So you can just imagine what they look like. That's all you got to do. I mean, but yeah I'll put that out there because ah i see this all the time for for like YouTube channels and and podcasts and stuff where people will do...

Speaker: um they'll They'll take like a conversation in the middle of ah of a show and they'll do an animation of it, which is also always very funny. So like if you if you know somebody that's like, you know, you know good at animation or, you you know, you're you're inspired to do something with it. Like if you want to try and animate us talking about or having a conversation, that would be hilarious. And I would love to see that.

Speaker: But that's pretty funny. Yeah. Just putting that out there that, you know, there's there's an opportunity there for someone. There you go. Yeah, there you go. ah So we're going to start really kind of just off the rails here. um Yeah, we're kind of going backwards, which I mean, I feel like since we're starting with Halloween and like yeah yeah ah starting out of order kind of feels right today. It does. Yeah. So we're going to talk about Tokyo Disneyland. Yeah, yeah I know everyone. I know. Okay. uh,

Speaker: yeah The reason why we're talking about Tokyo Disneyland is because they they've given some details on their ah Wreck-It Ralph attraction, which I i want more Wreck-It Ralph in the parks. I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous. You're not jealous? i'm not Oh, you are keep telling myself I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous, Tom.

Speaker: I know. i mean but I'm looking at this and I'm not jealous at all. I mean, okay, let's be honest though, right? It's it's basically like Buzz Lightyear with Wreck-It Ralph, right? But it's the cool. Come on. I'm not going lie. I love Wreck-It Ralph. Yeah, no, you're you're not wrong. i i don't know. And given they don't really say this, I don't know if it's like a trackless one or if it's I don't know. They haven't really given those kinds of details. And maybe I miss unless I missed it. Maybe I don't know.

Speaker: um But I know, I mean, I know it's a shooting attraction, right? So it's, we know that. And um is replaced. It might be like Midway Mania, but. Well, it's no, I mean, it is replacing Buzz Lightyear. So it's it's really just Buzz Lightyear with Wreck-It Ralph. I mean, that's that's what it is, you know?

Speaker: they Did they confirm if they if the track was staying the same or? I assume it is. I don't think that they did, but. Mm-hmm. Yeah, i I just assume that it is since it is replacing Buzz Lightyear. And I mean, i don't know. is it Is it weird that it's replacing Buzz Lightyear? mean, because I feel like the Toy Story 5 just came out, right? And Buzz is still a really relevant well property, you know?

Speaker: Yeah, but you also have to remember that culturally different movies hit differently. And like like Tokyo Disney... like the the merchandising and everything there is way different than what it is in florida or california so yeah yeah i mean i i'll be honest i don't know i feel like wreck-it ralph even like in the asian park seems to get more love than it does here like it's one of those weird things where it's like it did well internationally but it does

Speaker: that doesn't always translate to it doing well locally. Right. yeah So, yeah, which, but again, like, you know, I love the Wreck-It Ralph franchise anyway. So, so to me, it's like, it it feels, it feels like they're making a weird choice, but honestly, I don't think they are. And also like looking at, looking at, you know, you know how they've done, you know, redone space mountain and everything like it's, it,

Speaker: I think Wreck-It Ralph fits more in with this version of Tomorrowland than Buzz Lightyear does because of the fact that Wreck-It Ralph, like the second one was very like internet heavy. And this, like all the aesthetics of this, the building for Wreck-It Ralph and like, the and you know, they show like the exit, uh,

Speaker: the exit, uh, store, which is like, initially I was like, oh, that looks very Tron. But then I thought about, I was yeah, but also like, you know, it it is like Ralph breaks the internet kind of vibes too. So, which is, yeah I mean, the the, the, the two overlap, which is very kind of funny.

Speaker: um yeah it is It is interesting to me that it took so long because this this has been closed now. The the Buzz Lightyear one has been closed since ah what it says. ah I mean, it's been closed for two years. like they It stopped on ah actually a year ago, two years ago. It stopped on Halloween in 2024. Yeah.

Speaker: ah Which is crazy that it would take that long to just replace this stuff. I don't i don't know. Maybe I'm missing something. I don't keep up on Tokyo news as much. But that's where I asked the question, though, about like what kind of ride actually is it? Because I know like you're thinking of it from the lens of like, well, they're just basically overlaying the Buzz Lightyear ride and like upgrading stuff and all that.

Speaker: If it was closed that long, there is nothing saying that they couldn't have done a drastic change to yeah he the the overall ride, like like, you know, track or whatever, you know, or move to trackless, right? So... They could. i mean, what these from what I'm seeing here, they're comparing it to the Ant-Man and the Wasp Nano Battle at Hong Kong Disneyland, which is just an on-the-mover ride. So... Okay.

Speaker: I mean, so I don't know. But to your point, you know... I don't know. But again there still could be like major changes, even even if it's still an Omnimover. There looks to be a lot more screen a lot more screens in this. let's I mean, yeah.

Speaker: I would assume so for, for you know, being record... the The funny thing about Wreck-It Ralph is you can't even really be mad about it being a screen ride because it's an entire franchise about a video game. so That's true. I agree. I don't really care about screens. i you know I've said that before. But dear the outside of the attraction does look very cool. I mean, it's a cool outside to the attraction. And to your point, this is fitting into Tomorrowland. And you know that's fitting into the new Earthrise as well.

Speaker: ah yeah the um a For those that don't know the new Space... I know the new space bound Earthrise is so cool. Yeah. Yeah. I need to go to Tokyo. Yeah. Yeah. I say that you really should. Yeah. Cause Earthrise just looks really, really cool. um Yeah. So I don't know. And I mean, even just the, like the, the little, is that a fountain that they have in the front of it, but the, the whole thing or like the lighting fixture kind of thing that matches Yeah. That structure that comes up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: So, I mean, this is to your point. It's, it's, ah they've been, The thing is, you know, remember for the longest time there was a rumor that they were going to replace Stitch with a Wreck-It Ralph kind of ride ah add Magic Kingdom and in Tomorrowland. And that just, you know, just never happened, obviously. They really can't do this either because that space is big, but it's not really. Is it really big enough for a ride like this? I don't know.

Speaker: You know, I don't know. Eventually they got to do something with that space. It's kind of insane that there's just an empty space in the middle of tomorrow and that they're not doing anything with. But, um, sorry, as, as you were talking about that, I was piecing together the, the picture of the Wreck-It Ralph building with the earth rise, um, picture. Okay. I've actually fit. I, I'm, I'm,

Speaker: The Wreck-It Ralph building is in the Earthrise concept art. Yeah. Which I... So it's like... Because I was trying to figure out like that... Yeah, that weird fountain thing in the middle is... don't even think it's a fountain. I think it's just like a sculpture of some sort. Yeah, but um it's drawn differently in both of them. Which is... Yeah. That's what was throwing me off. but Because yeah, it is actually different. Like it looks different in the Wreck-It Ralph one.

Speaker: Like it's got more of these spires coming out of it. But... They also see know where it is, which I think it's starting to make more sense to me now that it's like, this is like, this is going to part of this, like this courtyard that, yeah, again, to your point, like, yeah you know, you know, we have, we have similar stuff to or like stitch where it's like, you know, entire empty spaces that should be like, yeah the Tokyo is reminding me why Tomorrowland really needs an update. It does. I also want to mention, too, because, ah you know, ah the Tokyo is, ah they and they mentioned this in the article, they are known for having a lot of flavors of popcorn.

Speaker: ah and And one of the, they're going to be debuting a new flavor, which is sugar lime, which sounds delicious to me. I love lime. Sugar lime. Yeah. Okay. Sweet and tart. Yep.

Speaker: So, yeah, I like that. Yeah, because they they have, they yeah, they actually have a little fun fact on here about Tokyo Disney being famous for their ah unique popcorn flavors, including soy sauce and butter, garlic shrimp, strawberry Napoleon, and more. Wow.

Speaker: I don't know. soy So you can get like a flight of popcorn there. Oh, yeah, you probably could. I bet. Yeah, that sounds We need popcorn flights. We do. We do. Yeah. right Well, I got nothing else on that one. I don't know if you do, Trevor, but.

Speaker: ah nothing Nothing other than i I need to go to Tokyo. Yeah. Yeah. ah Yeah, for sure. So we have a, I feel like we've been talking about patents so much lately, Trevor. This is such a weird beginning to the show because there's like a mishmash of topics. Usually I try to like transition from one thing to another in ah in a way that makes sense.

Speaker: Not the show. The show is, wherere we're not doing it that way. this This is pure chaos. This is pure total chaos. So, ah but because i i I enjoy talking about patents and I think you do too because it is fun to kind of speculate on what they could use these things for.

Speaker: And so one of the patents Disney just got is a new version of the Flying Theater ride. so Disney essentially, you know, created the flying theater ride with Soren, right? Like that was the first kind of version of that.

Speaker: Now there's a different version of this that they're doing. And I feel like they've done patents, different patents for the flying theater ride, like before that they never end up using. Yeah. Cause I remember talking about some,

Speaker: But this one's interesting because it's like a platform kind of situation. like It's kind of crazy. It is a little crazy, right?

Speaker: It's like you walk out onto a platform and you sit in your seat and your seat is like on like ah ah Bolted to like... the Imagine the same um on a foosball table, the bar that the... um That the little men are attached Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. it's it's like It's like that. Like all the seats are like attached across bars.

Speaker: And then the entire platform goes from being flat to literally just tilting all the way over. Yeah. And becoming vertical. But the chairs stay vertical because they're like Trevor said. They're like, that's actually a great example. I was trying to think of yeah of an example that. It's like football players. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, but the youre so your chair still, say it as it turns, it still you know goes vertical, so it still stays stays ah you know sitting upright, essentially. so you and And the idea here is that you can, you know and it says, ah for example, what what does it got here?

Speaker: um You know, an animation may show a first person point of view of a user paddling a canoe. The movement of the user cabin may simulate the canoe shown on the display. You know, exactly what Soren does.

Speaker: Just a different way of doing it. but which that This honestly, to me, is a little more like nightmare fuel because whole thing turns. yeah Well, yeah, because because like in Soren, it's like, oh, yeah, you know, you're sitting in like a a device and you know that it's lifting you up.

Speaker: This is imagine the floor is moving out from underneath you. But like, but because that that's how that would feel. It's like as it tilts forward, you're just watching the floor disappear. Yeah. and And like everybody in front of you is like going like below or underneath you. Like that's that's going to be a weird sensation.

Speaker: Yeah. Unless it could if it goes really slowly, I can see you not really noticing. But I don't know. If it's like in the dark and it's slow, you know?

Speaker: Yeah, I think, I mean... Because, because even if it's slow, you're still noticing because the movement theater yeah ah it's theater style seating. So, you know, the people in the front won't notice as much, but everyone behind them will suddenly notice, you know, everybody in front of you, you know, disappearing out of your field of view. Yeah. And your feet are suddenly and not on the ground anymore. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: i i I really sometimes wonder like where why these things are created, you know, like do they was there a specific idea for a ride or show or whatever and they created this for that or someone just had an idea to do this. So they just patented it like how does that work? yeah You know, and this kind of mechanism to like I'm I'm looking at this and going, how do you hide this?

Speaker: Right. guess you wouldn't really see it if you're walking into it though. Right. Cause like you're just walking on a floor, you don't know, you know? Yeah. But, but then at some point, like it needs to, or I guess like in front of it, it has to, you know, drop off that, yeah you know, there there's nothing there because the whole thing moves forward.

Speaker: Yeah. And then that's the other thing too, is it's it's not even like, like Soren like lifts you up and moves you forward a little bit. This is like very substantially moving you forward. Yeah, that's true. Because ah and because it's like on a giant counterweight. So it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. This actually, this kind of feels to me like, did you ever watch that um behind the scenes of um how they do, ah what is the show in the pavilion?

Speaker: Oh, yeah, I did watch that. Yeah, the you're talking about the yeah you're talking about the at the American Adventure. yeah think Yeah, the American Adventure. The platforms. Yeah, it's like a sliding puzzle with platforms. this This feels kind of like the same thing, like like it's a very large, complex machine. But the difference is is that this is housing the the audience, not the show.

Speaker: But yeah to me is like, by the way, that Imagineering video is one of my favorites of all time because I've, that, that is absurd to me that they've created that in the, you know, in the eighties and figured out how to do that. It's, it's insane. This, you have to admit, this feels like the same kind of thing. Like, yeah, yeah I kind of see what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, so I'm just thinking about, like, again, I know we like you're saying, like, oh, yeah, you know, it would be like Soren. I feel like this is and more intense version of Soren, maybe? Yeah, this is more intense.

Speaker: And, like, I feel like you could almost do... Okay, i'm I'm going to say this without any, like, serious thought behind it. This feels like something you could do with, like, an alien encounter type experience.

Speaker: Okay, yeah. Where, like, it's something, like, really scary. But the problem is, Disney would never do that because, you know, they learned their lesson on the alien encounter, but... Interestingly enough, like one of the images in here shows it not tilted vertically, right? Like it has it. And I don't know if that's just like an image. Yeah. Like, I don't know if that's supposed to just like represent it in transition or if, you know, the intention is also you could stop it like that at that point, you know?

Speaker: And like, what could stop it at that point and then have it like drop quickly down to the vertical? Like that would be a sensation, you know? Yeah. Actually, I'm thinking of this now. yeah. the the Kong ride in Universal.

Speaker: Oh, yeah, like when you let you like maybe reveal yourself to Kong and it's like right in front of you like that or something? Is that what you're saying? So so in in in the Kong ride, like so like you're in a truck and like it's it's very screen-oriented and there's stuff going on around you, but but it uses like there's some movement of the truck to make it feel like you're you're like falling down the side of a cliff and stuff like that, right?

Speaker: This to me, like I'm imagining this as like yeah you know, imagine that you're you're watching something and then same kind of thing is it's like you go over a waterfall, you go over a cliff, but like the whole room shifts forward, right? like Yeah. Like that would be...

Speaker: That that's not soaring like that. Like it's way more intense than that. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I mean, I'll be yeah I don't you know, this is another one of those things. Disney has an R&D department in Imagineering.

Speaker: They just come up with things sometimes. Sometimes they use them. Sometimes they don't. They came up with the whole simulator on wheels thing. And that became, you know, Indiana Jones and dinosaur. But, you know, those there's many things that they create that never see the light of day.

Speaker: So you never know. Yeah. i I like it though. I, I, I'm in my head. I'm very much imagining this as part of a like more intense ride. Yeah. It's very intriguing, you know? Uh, yeah. Okay. Well, yeah, those are our, like those are our normal non-holiday topics for this week. yeah So as I said, but is this the part of the show where we, we slowly transition into Christmas stuff?

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. That's what happens. Like, I don't, I feel like I need like a magical sound effect of like, of like, you know, sleigh bells or something. to Do we need to pause for like, like, like, yeah, sleigh bell magical sounds for a minute and then you can insert Magic, magic, magic.

Speaker: Yeah. Okay. We'll put that in there. ah Yeah, so time to to move over. It's, you know, listen, Halloween's over, Trevor. That was like days ago. this there was like days ago. Okay. there was it was It's over now. We should forget about it. Move on because now it's November. My wife is going to love you for saying that she wants me to put up the Christmas tree.

Speaker: Yeah, it's it's November as as I'm talking to you right now, and and which means ah it's it's obviously ah the holidays, right? It's it's Christmas, it's Hanukkah, it's all the all the fun holidays that happen during this time of year. so ah But Trevor, we got some... ah So first of all, you know one of the things in my house, I've talked about this many times, we celebrate ah what we call Christmaka in my house, which is a combination of Hanukkah and Christmas.

Speaker: um We do both And so we appreciate the idea of this Hanukkah merch because it is nice to that you know Disney's actually you know putting out some stuff for Hanukkah. There's not a ton of stuff here, but there's been more than I've seen in the past.

Speaker: ah And i I have to say, I really ah like a few of these things. ah you know there I agree. I i don't celebrate Hanukkah, but I very much appreciate how they're doing this. The effort, yeah. yeah There's a lot of fun stuff in here, for sure Yeah, I mean, first of all, there's i there's you have a couple with just like Mickey like holding menorah and like you know it looks like ah Daisy and Minnie. I'm going to guess they're supposed to be like latkes or something.

Speaker: And also just the the gang all saying have a happy Hanukkah. So that's cool. But I think my favorite of all these, Trevor, has to be the BB-8 one where BB-8 is lighting the menorah. Yeah, I saw that too. i was like, that's that is a very cool thing.

Speaker: That's a great Hanukkah shirt. Yeah. I really like that. i also like, so, so the next shirt is, it's BB eight and R two as a dreidels. That's the, this is how we roll shirt. I like that. I almost thought that was a bluey shirt for a second. It's that kind of color.

Speaker: Yeah, it's yeah. like Like the funny thing is, I feel like they could take that and they could turn it into bluey dreidels and it would still work. Yeah, which is they absolutely good, which is very cool. Like i i I like stuff like that. Like it's it's simple, but it's also.

Speaker: um or yeah, it's something they could use as a template, honestly, for a bunch of different shirts, right? Yeah, they absolutely could. And I mean, they also have these sweaters too, that one says happy Hanukkah and it's like a menorah, but it's lightsabers. the lightsabers. Yeah. Like, I think I'm pretty creative with this, which I appreciate. ah The C-3PO one, though, is just kind of like they threw just three CPO on there. Like, you know, I don't know. It's it's fine.

Speaker: It's fine. But then they tried to do some Avengers stuff, which the Spider-Man one's okay. but Yeah, the Spider-Man one is probably the most yeah thought out. Actually, know well the Avengers logo is the same. It's just, yeah, the Spider-Man one looks a little bit better. Yeah, it's basically the Spider-Man like logo, like web logo. It's Spider-Man's face, right? that yeah You need to just put the picture up as we're talking about this so people can see what we're talking about. but I also do as a good, you know, as a person who loves a good dad joke, I i appreciate the Stitch eating a latke saying I love you a latke.

Speaker: Because of course you have to have Stitch. You gotta have Stitch stuff, you know? Um, there's also a Hanukkah stitch, uh, um, uh, Funko pop too. So there's also that, but anyway, I just appreciate the, the, you know, trying to trying to make things for, for everyone kind of thing. That's really yeah good. It's, it's good. Absolutely. Like it, you know, it's Holiday merch should be, you know, approachable for for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Because, listen, it's, you know, it is the it's it Christmas is going on, obviously. But but Hanukkah happens, you know, in the same time period. So and young people forget that sometimes if you don't celebrate and that's, you know, understandable. You do what you do. But, you know, for my household, it's it's we appreciate it.

Speaker: Uh, but also Trevor, we're back to our, that same article where they keep releasing more and more Christmas stuff every week. They do seemingly every day. Um, but, uh, yeah. So there's a couple, couple of things on here. They, what these pastel? Is that what they're calling holiday pastel collection?

Speaker: Yeah. this is I was going to say that there's a lot of pink going on with it. It's not just pastel. It's very like the spirit heavy too much, man. I will say that the ah the sweater next to it or the hoodie with the hoodie yeah that's a castle on the back.

Speaker: Yeah. yeah i it's It's reminding me of the birthday cake castle. does look like the birthday cake castle. But as Christmas, which... Yeah. did This is a weird monkey's paw wish now that I have that it's like, it would be cool if they actually did the castle up like that. But I feel like if I actually saw it, I would be like...

Speaker: Ooh, no. No, why? What are you doing? doesn't It doesn't quite translate to real life, but I i like i like that aesthetic. I think it's very interesting. I agree. I agree. Yeah. ah it's it's It's really good. i You know, there's there's some interesting... that spirit The spirit jersey, I don't... I i think we all know how i feel about spirit jerseys.

Speaker: ah I made myself clear on that. Spirit jerseys are fine. that This one, think what's getting you is probably the the blocking on the letters is very like... It's like sticking out.

Speaker: it's It looks like there's like pillows. It does. It looks like you could like pull it like like squeeze it. Yeah. yeah but like Like Velcro letters that you take off and they're just yeah little like pillows. Yeah. Exactly.

Speaker: So I'm scrolling down here, though, a little bit more, Trevor, and I'm seeing, you know, again, some like sweaters. And so there's like a Mickey wreath one. There's there's some like pink tumbler things.

Speaker: I don't know. Those are he's supposed to be like those Yeti cups. But yeah, I don't know. What brand are they? Probably some trendy brand. something i mean, no, it just says Mickey Mouse Holiday 33 on stainless steel travel cup. So there's no brand there. Okay. Stainless steel travel cup.

Speaker: Because you all need a stainless steel travel cup. We do. It's very important. um I'm just going down a little bit further here, Trevor, and I'm trying to find a thing that I'm i'm into. What about the ah the dishes?

Speaker: yeah I mean, they're fine. I like kitchenware stuff, I guess. Oh, do you? Okay. I get drawn to that because it's like, yeah, this is very Christmas heavy, but I i like having stuff that it's like,

Speaker: Clothes are good and all, but this stuff lasts way longer. That's true. That's true. feel like I get more value out of like cookware and stuff that is Disney themed than I do out of Disney clothes.

Speaker: Yeah, that makes sense. No, that makes total sense. That makes total sense. salt and pepper shakers actually are are getting my attention. Where are those? Oh, yeah, those are cool. I've seen those before. I feel like they've done those.

Speaker: the The Mickey and Minnie snowmen, you know, like salt and pepper shakers. Yeah, there is different. You're right. Like, yeah, I think they've done different versions of it over the years. But in this particular set, that's just what's standing out to me.

Speaker: That's fair. Yeah, I get it. I actually really, I kind of like this throw blanket and pillows too, actually. I i didn't catch my eye at first, but now that I'm looking at it, i kind of like it.

Speaker: Yeah. it Yeah. I see that drawing of the castle on it. It says warm wishes, ah you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Actually, yeah. Yeah. More than I'm looking at it. It's kind of, it it's reminding me of like the old like Winnie the Pooh yeah drawings. Like that's that watercolor kind of static. yeah Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I like it.

Speaker: But I, yeah. I think I was hesitating at first because I didn't actually like click on the image and like zoom in on it at a distance. I couldn't really see what it was. I was like, it doesn't, it doesn't look like but when you actually zoom in it's like, Oh yeah, there's actually a lot of neat detail in it. So yeah yeah you gotta look closely at the picture people. You do, you do. yeah Uh, so we also, anything else on, on that one?

Speaker: No, I, yeah, I think we're good there. do we we Do we want to move? Or actually, we need to do our ad. and Well, no, let's see. Let's see the advent calendars and then we'll do the ad. Oh, you want to do advent calendars, then ad. Yeah, that's the last one. And then we're going to move on to food. It's going to be food time after the ad.

Speaker: All right. Yeah. So advent calendars. i actually have one sitting in my office for my daughter. That's a bluey one that I believe we talked about a month or two ago on the on the show. And i I bought it and it's just sitting here waiting for it to be December so I can bust it out. But But we, you know, they've got a bunch of advent calendars, as they do.

Speaker: And, you know, I like an advent calendar. It's a fun thing to do. Yeah. You know? Yeah, we've we've done many advent calendars. We've done a lot of Lego ones over the years. Oh yeah, that's fun. um This one what is Biddy Pop? Is that just small like Funko Pops? Is that what that is? Yeah, yeah, it's, yeah.

Speaker: I think that's the best way to describe it is that they're like mini Funko Pops. But it's like, it's not just like Funko Pop type characters. There's also like random, or like as you can see in the picture, there's like little presents and Christmas trees and stuff in there as well. like that they come in their own little like tiny Funko Pop boxes.

Speaker: Yeah, that's kind of cool. But this one is a Star Wars one. yeah So, yeah, so it looks kind of cool. ah There is a Disney Princess one, which I'm pretty sure we got my daughter last year.

Speaker: This one looks familiar to me, but I could be wrong. I don't know. Probably an updated version of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then there's a Frozen one that has, you know, micro figures and stuff like that. The cool thing about the Princess one and the Frozen one is that they like the front panel like folds down to like a play area. So like you can... yeah but It's not just like you know you're getting the gifts from there. You also have a place for them to play the You a little like...

Speaker: scene thing that you set up with it which the the funny thing about the the frozen one or or they's they're specifically selling it as a frozen one yet it's as much princesses as it is frozen Yeah, really, they're just calling once upon a story, but it looks it looks like they repurposed ah something that was supposed to be frozen. You know, like... Okay, but to be fair, like, saying, like, repurpose frozen, like, it's winter.

Speaker: Like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, holiday stuff is... You can say, well, it's frozen-esque, but, I mean, that's... Like, frozen Frozen is just winter-based. This is my fault, because I just looked at it without reading the title, and I assumed it was Frozen, and then I... wrote Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, fair. but But the funny thing is, is, like, just looking at it's like, oh, it's Frozen, but then when you look closer, it's like, oh, it's actually, like, all the princesses, but... Because also the main things they're showing on here are Anna, Sven, you see Olaf on there, but then you do see the other princesses. So that's, you know, that's that's my bet my bad. My bad.

Speaker: There's also... ah This one is kind of interesting, too. almost feel like my daughter would really like this, too. It's a ah Princess Advent calendar, but it's ah for crafting. So it has 25 decorative tapes, trivia booklets, keychains, custom stationery, and stickers.

Speaker: Oh, Inspired by Rapunzel, Ariel, and more. You shouldn't have said that. My wife's going to find out about this, and she's going We're going to have to... My wife... like so my wife loves craft stuff.

Speaker: Like it's okay. So, so like, ah as soon as you said decorative tapes, immediately thought my, my wife has so much decorative tape and buttons and paper and like, yeah. Okay.

Speaker: i Sorry, Trevor. Yeah, I'm going to have to figure out a plan for this. Just tell her not to read the, to read, not to watch this one. Tell her not to, not, yeah, yeah. Because she, you know, because she ever, she never not listens to the podcast. That's, oh boy.

Speaker: It's not that expensive. It's not that expensive. Yeah. But, but, well, it's not that expensive, but shipping to Canada, it does get that expensive. So that's fair. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: So I'm, I'm going to have to do some preemptive damage control on this one because I, I was not prepared. I saw this. was like, Oh yeah, this is just like a, you know, Disney princess thing. And as soon as you start reading off craft stuff, I'm like, Oh no.

Speaker: this is a problem. Did your wife ever get offended by you saying this? No, no. She, she fully, she understands. Like she gets it. Yeah. Like I, I very much encourage and and humor her stuff, but at the same time, I'm like,

Speaker: she She knows that she can go overboard with this kind of stuff. and Okay. it's It's fine, but also, like, I've made the point of, like, how much tape do you really need? But, you know, I quickly get told that my my opinion is invalid. So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, she's probably right about that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah. yeah yeah I don't Your opinion doesn't matter. Your opinion doesn't matter. this yeah Yeah. I'm like, do you need more tape? And she's like, leave me alone. I'm like, okay, fine. Never mind.

Speaker: Yeah. Let me know when you're done. That's funny. That is funny. Okay, let's... All right, wait. Didn't we already look at a Funko Biddy Pop? Oh, no, this is a Princess Biddy Pop. The other one was Star Wars. Okay. There's also a Marvel one, ah you know, so you got that.

Speaker: Yeah. There's multiple Marvel ones, actually. um oh my God, there's so many. ah Don't look. There's a Nightmare Before Christmas one. Don't look that one. Okay, well, I mean... Mini ornaments, too. That's if because that's what you want.

Speaker: That's fine. i Like, you do you. I'm not like, yeah, that's fine. There's a 12-day Toy Story one, which I'm not a fan of the 12-day ones. I like the bigger ones. I think the bigger ones are more fun.

Speaker: There's a lot of... Okay. Just real... oh So, a 12-day calendar. Then you got to remember to start it on December 12th. Yeah. Or you just have to do it for the first half of the month. No, i know. It's not fun. oh but We have to do two 12 days, right? Yeah, exactly. so Because this is the thing. The whole point of the advent calendar is that it's like you start at the beginning of December and it goes right up till the 24th, which is the day before Christmas.

Speaker: if you have a 12-day calendar yeah you're either starting it on the first half and then you're doing a second one which again feels weird yeah or you have to start it on the 12th so that it finishes on the 24th which again is like you thought this was a good idea i don't know Okay.

Speaker: it's well Well, sorry, Toy Story, you guys lost because you lose the game. ah There's another, ah there's a Stitch-themed itty-bitty pop. I want to say itty-bitty pop, but yeah. Bitty pop, yeah. There's a Home Alone one, Trevor.

Speaker: Which has twenty it has a pop-up tree in the middle with 25 paper ornaments that you put onto the tree. Okay. That feels like a waste. I don't know. I mean, okay. no here here's Here's my defense of something like this.

Speaker: Paper ornaments are very easy to put away when you're done. Did you throw them in the trash? No, no. But these are not for your tree, though. These are not for your tree. No, I know. But but like you you you put it up, but then you can fold it all back together, and it it stores very compact, so you can bring it out next year, and it folds out again into...

Speaker: into this. So, so yeah, but I get what you're saying. Like paper ornaments feel cheap or feel like, you know, they're, and just that they're not for me. Yeah, that's fair. But I see the potential of this. It's just, yeah, like sucks that it happens to be the home alone one because I would have loved to have seen it like a full home alone advent calendar.

Speaker: There's, there's a, there's an Olaf one that's only again, only 12 days, but it's a plush. and There's so many more of these. I'm going through them quickly. yeah Yeah. There's a pop socket one. So there's pop. There's a pop socket themed one. So you can get a bunch of pop sockets. I guess. How many pop sockets you need? Apparently 12. There's just a fuckco pocket pop. What is that? Is that slightly larger than the biddies?

Speaker: Okay. That's... All right. They need to stop. They need to stop. They're starting to lose me. Yeah. Okay. They're getting out of control with this. ah There's a Munchling one. ascent It's a Munchling's scented.

Speaker: Okay. Oh, okay. Smells like food, i guess. Cool. You know... interesting, coincidentally this week I had a conversation at someone, a conversation with a couple of people at work where somebody brought up scratch and sniff stickers and there was a few younger people in the group that had no idea what scratch and sniff stickers were. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker: I know, yeah. So, apparently... What smelly markers? They still know about smelly markers? I brought that up too and they they didn't know what I was talking about. There seems to be like a gap where... How? People didn't... Yeah. like like that Because that I think that stuff didn't exist for a little bit or like it wasn't as prevalent.

Speaker: Stuff like this, though, is like... You know you know that the younger generation is going to get like, oh, you know this you know, this one smells like ice cream and stuff like that. So I i think this is a good thing. Just for my conversation this week about life. Scratch and sniff was like huge when we were kids. I know. Well, i yeah I figured everyone knew what it was and there was people that were like...

Speaker: I had to reinforce the person bringing it up because there was two people in the conversation that thought we were, they they thought he was making it up. And I was like, no, no, no this is real. like This is a real thing. but Yeah.

Speaker: That's crazy. yeah there's That's crazy. That is crazy. There's a golf ball one, Trevor, if you're into golf. um a Disney themed golf ball one. Yeah. I like collecting golf balls.

Speaker: you Really? paul Well, not real golf balls. In virtual. Yeah, virtual. Yeah, we collect virtual golf balls in Walkabout. Yeah. And that that's actually cool, though. I like the idea of getting a bunch of, like, themed golf balls as an advent calendar.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. And then for the nerdy kids. This next one. Okay. I am the nerdy kid. Oh, no. Trevor, this was me too. would have loved I would have loved this. Yeah. My daughter would love this too. She actually loves this kind of stuff. I was always, Trevor, when I was a kid, we always used to go to the cave things and they would always have the ball you could buy that you would smash with a hammer and it had the geodes on the inside. The geodes, yeah. Oh, was the best. I love that stuff. So this is a National Geographic gemstone advent calendar.

Speaker: I love this. like This is awesome. That is a cool way to... This is the edutainment advent calendar. Yeah. Because, yeah, it's it's exactly what it says, is that you you get a bunch of polished gemstones, and then it says, oh, and there's a mini excavation on the final day to uncover a stunning rose quartz specimen.

Speaker: So you get to even do a little, like, like dig thing, which is... Yeah, listen, when i well when I say nerdy kid, I had a rock tumbler when I was a kid. Okay, so I am included in this. Okay, so don't if any don't don't take that as a bad term if I say nerdy kid. I mean that as a good term. This is for all the the the kids out there that the love this kind of stuff. So...

Speaker: um And I think people forget sometimes that Disney owns owns pretty much all of National Geographic. So it's we kind of forget that sometimes, but it's that's why it's National national Geographic ah um you know ah branded and why it's showing up in a Disney thing because it it's it's not completely owned by Disney, I don't think. I think they own a controlling interest. and and Yeah. um But yeah, so that's that's why. But this is cool. I really like this.

Speaker: So if I hadn't have already bought one for my daughter, I would buy this one because she would love this. Well, why can't you just buy one and have it for yourself? Well, I... Okay, what what was what was the coolest um gem or rock you can remember having when you were a I don't remember.

Speaker: I had to look up the name again, but I know what it is. I don't remember. I really don't. i my All my rocks are probably gone. All my gems, they're gone. So I know like from when I was a kid, the one thing that i found that was really cool was something called Olexite.

Speaker: Ooh, that's pretty cool. Which, have you ever, or do you know do you know what that is? i've heard I've heard the term before, but I so i don't know what off It's natural fiber optic. So it's it's parallel um parallel ah structures. So it it it be like it works like a fiber optic where like if you put something behind it, the light shines through and it looks like it's on the surface of it. or it's It's also called like a television stone.

Speaker: But it's it's the natural version of fiber optics. And I and i had that because, yes, i'm I do appreciate nerdy stuff and all that. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah that it yeah, this Advent calendar is like, yeah. It's speaking your language. It is, yeah. i I would get this for if... if I know my nieces wouldn't go for this, but like if I had somebody in my you know, in my circle that was like, you know, had like a, you know, you know, a younger kid, I would be like, you need to have this advent calendar. Like I would buy this for them. Yeah. This is, this is awesome. This is awesome. I may still end up buying this.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. You should. Cause then you get just a bag of cool rocks. Like exactly. Yeah. Yeah. All right. why don't we go ahead and do our ad and then we will get into our holiday food time, Trevor.

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Speaker: Holiday food time. What time is it? Holiday food time. Holidays are here, so our mission is clear.

Speaker: It's holiday food time. Holiday food time.

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Speaker: Holiday food time. Missed that song. Yeah, I forgot how that went. In a good way or a bad way? You missed it? Just just funny. i just I forgot the lyrics for a minute.

Speaker: Yeah, well, you know. All right, Trevor. This is going to be holiday food time. but i'm I'm excited to do this. and We love talking about food. we We talk about it every time we can talk about food, especially Disney food, which is always a fun thing to talk about.

Speaker: But yeah, as does have. It does inspire me. I will say like it it, like reading through this stuff, I do think about when I'm like shopping for stuff around the holidays, it's like, oh, I could pick up, you know, something to make a gingerbread milkshake, which is the first item on the list. But it is, which is not a new item, um but it is something they have had for a bit. So we're going to start off, though, Trevor, this is going to be Disney eats around Disney World's. Right. So this is all around the Disney World Resort.

Speaker: um So this is going to be some of the theme parks, Disney Springs. So we're going to kind of go everywhere with this. um But, you know, as you guys, you know, those of you who have listened to Food Time before, we we generally only talk deeply about the new things, ah that the things that are returning, we will mention, but ah not get too much into.

Speaker: So we're going to start with the Plaza Restaurant. And this is starting now and through January second I don't associate a Reuben sandwich with the holidays, Trevor, but, you know, they have one here.

Speaker: I feel like there's ah there is a subset of people that look for a Reuben around this time of year. Again, it's not not what I think of. This is an interesting... So, I'll admit I don't usually eat Reubens, but this is piquing my interest.

Speaker: Yeah, like yeah. Like sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing on a griddled rye. And then it's because Reuben is it's three different meats. I can't remember what they are.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. It's I don't know. it Like it it kind of like usually if I hear somebody say a Reuben, I'm like, I know, but this one's pretty good. Yeah. they they They made this one look pretty good.

Speaker: The other thing they have that does scream Christmas and holidays to me is a red velvet cheesecake. Oh, my goodness. yeah yeah I'm not a big cheesecake guy. We've talked about that before. But this looks like a pretty good cheesecake because it's not just a cheesecake. It's got like cheesecake on the top and then red velvet cake on the bottom, it looks like.

Speaker: Yeah, and i I would sacrifice a lactate for this. Ooh, okay, okay, I like that. Yeah? It's, yeah, because i I do love cheesecake, even though it doesn't love me, but and then I love red velvet even more. I feel like I need a sound effect for when you're going to do that, you know, like, ah you know like ora i don't yeaht I don't know what it is, but like, you know, something. you think Trevor, take a lactate. Well, offer a lactate just to enjoy whatever this is, because, yeah, it looks... yeah You're right. It looks Christmassy, like the red and the white and...

Speaker: I appreciate that they they even went so far as to, you know, add a little bit of extra red to the cheesecake. So it gives like's like they didn math yeah yeah they didn't have to do that, but it looks really good. Yeah, there is also a returning a Mary Berry Cosmopolitan and Santa's Floridian pulled pork sandwich, which as far as I can tell, the only thing Santa about it is that they stuck ah a ah toothpick in the top that has Santa's face on it.

Speaker: Yeah. I mean, okay. I don't know where they're going with that, but okay. I mean, listen, it's the Plaza. It's not really, you know, let's be honest, Plaza not really known for their food, despite being a restaurant.

Speaker: ah Yeah, that is kind of weird. Yeah. But okay. Also returning to Antigravity's. You want to do that one? Yeah. Yeah. Antigravity's is the Cherry Cordial Cold Brew, which yeah i I have never been able to get my head around cold brew yeah coffee.

Speaker: So and also cherry cordial. I feel like this is going to taste like cough syrup. I do love cherry cordial. See, I love the cherry cough syrup taste. ah Give me that. I'll i'll take that anytime. um But another returning item we have is over at Columbia Harbor House, the gingerbread ah cake.

Speaker: which ah is shaped like a Christmas tree. They've had that one for, I feel like, years now, Trevor, right? Yep. I mean, it it probably does really well. Like, it just it looks delicious. Yeah. looks delicious.

Speaker: same thing over at Liberty Square Market. The the Mickey Whoopie Pie, like... Classic. the The cake and the icing, like, i I'm just imagining like the most delicious cupcake when I look at that. I'm also imagining what happens, you know, a day or so later after eating all that green food coloring. But let's not get into that. But just think about it. and it's It's mint buttercream, too. Like it's yeah like chocolate mint. Like, yeah. i loved i love mint as long as you don't go too far with the mint.

Speaker: You know, I don't want to eat toothpaste. But, you know, they i'm I'm sure that they have the level of that right. there's There's also over at Aloha Isle, there's a Santa Surf, Santa Surf, this is hard to say. Santa Surf Shack Float.

Speaker: Okay. That's also returning. Nothing new there. which is ah that's That's pog juice for anyone that's wondering. Yeah, it is. If you're wanting some pog juice, like go to Aloha Isle.

Speaker: God, I love pog juice. Yeah. All right. Then, yeah. So that's all the, so we're moving over to Hollywood Studios now. Yeah, there was only really the two new things at Magic Kingdom that that we know about us thus far. There will be more things, I'm sure. yeah These are daytime holiday offerings, though, for now.

Speaker: All right. um And yeah, again, nothing really new at Hollywood Studios, or at least I'm not seeing it so far. So the first one is the Mickey Gingerbread Cookie, which... you know, if you want a gingerbread cookie, it's it's fine.

Speaker: Nothing really to talk about there. Yep. um Rosie's. The Reef Cupcake Returns. Yeah. Yeah. The Reef Cupcake. The Kikido. Is that how you say it?

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It's a nice looking cupcake. Yeah. Yeah. um Pretty standard. Like, I mean, I'll be honest. i I feel like I could find that at a grocery store.

Speaker: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. ah ABC Commerce Commissary returning its Linzer Linzer cookie moose tort. ah But Trevor, there is one new thing over Backlot Express, which yeah is the place where they always seem to throw the Star Wars things um in celebration of Life Day.

Speaker: as we've been, you know, encouraging them to do for a long time now. And they have been, you know, they've been starting to do some Life Day stuff, right? um You get a the Life Day Wookiee Cookie, which I had a Wookiee Cookie couple years back, which was delicious, but it was gigantic.

Speaker: <unk> This one is... Interesting. ah It feels like they dialed it down a little bit in size, but the... So I'm trying to envision what this is going to be because they say two oatmeal cookies. It doesn't look like oatmeal cookies. It doesn't. No.

Speaker: With cassis eggnog buttercream. What is cassis? I have no idea what that is. Cassis? I feel like sometimes they make up words in this just to just to throw us off. I've never heard of that.

Speaker: Okay. I found it. It's a creme de cassis. It's a liqueur. Yeah. It's a dark, sweet, tart, butter, blackcurrant liqueur. I don't know why I just said butter. Blackcurrant liqueur. Okay.

Speaker: So, okay. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. and You know what my big problem with this, Trevor, is? It looks like there's not enough buttercream in there.

Speaker: Yeah. And it's too thin. Also, the only thing that's making this a Wookiee cookie is the fact that it has the Life Day chocolate coin it. They the thing. They did the thing that we don't like.

Speaker: Yeah. but Because like when I think of Wookiee cookie, I think of it like having some like, it has you know maybe like an aspect of like like Chewy's, you know, the... um What is that thing called? The the thing that he wears. the I know. Why am I forgetting the name of it, too? Yeah. Yeah. Me, too.

Speaker: But but like, you know, you know, having like there this is like just like a red cookie. Yeah, pretty much. And they're they're saying it's a Wookiee cookie. i'm And I'm like, but how?

Speaker: Because cookie and cookie rhyme. Yeah. Yeah. that That's that's that's it. Yeah. that That's really that's what it is. ah Okay, well, fine. yeah ah right Over at Woody's Lunchbox, returning hot cocoa lunchbox tart, which, listen, again, hot cocoa, that sounds delicious. I'm cool. We're good. just you know You can offer that. We do have new new stuff over at Animal Kingdom, though, Trevor, so we can talk about some Animal Kingdom stuff.

Speaker: Okay, so yeah, Animal Kingdom. Okay, this first one. um whole I'm really, yeah i'm okay, so my my biggest disappointment from my last trip is that we did not get a cookie dough brownie ice cream sandwich, which i was my goal.

Speaker: Yeah. But it was raining, and we just didn't get over there to get it. And I'm still sad about it I wanted to go and I was like, you know, the rest of the family was like, it's raining. We should go. And like, but I want a cookie dough brownie ice cream sandwich. Yeah.

Speaker: And I was told. so Okay. So Tara Treats has a festive cookie dough brownie ice cream sandwich, which that's such a mouthful, but but it's also justified. all that But all they did was throw some sprinkles on it, though. like I don't care. it looks like. Yes. Yes.

Speaker: but like This is one of those cases where like I guess the the base that they're using, it's like, yeah, they're doing the festive version. A little bit of sprinkles doesn't hurt on ah on something like this. like It's already, you know yeah you know, you're getting the brownie, you're getting the cookie dough, you're getting the ice cream.

Speaker: little bit sprinkles doesn't hurt. I will say, i like the picture they're using, it looks a lot bigger than the other ice cream sandwiches I've seen because they're usually square, right? And this looks very...

Speaker: I think the ones i think the the the cookie dough brownie ice cream sandwich that they've been that's been they've been selling there has been that size, I think. How is it? because i Yeah, it is. yeah if you Google it. It is whenever I see somebody eating it, it's like halfway eaten. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, no, it's it's that size. It's pretty nice size.

Speaker: um Yeah, so ah but um ah my problem with this, Trevor, is that they're just like, but how do we make this thing holiday? Oh, throw some sprinkles on a Boom, holiday. like It's like, oh, come on.

Speaker: I guess the thing I'll say to that is if the price difference between the regular one and the holiday one is substantial, then no. But if they're just like, you know, if it's like the same thing. I'm more mad at the laziness, Trevor. That's all. Fair. That is fair. But I mean, yeah, I guess you're right. They are selling this as a holiday thing, but really it's just a year-round thing. Like it could have just looked like that at all times and it would have been no different. You know what I mean? It be like, oh, okay, cool. There's sprinkle on it.

Speaker: I mean, i feel like it's one of these things that they can just, you know, for any season, like, you know, they can do pastel sprinkles for Easter. and Yeah, they could. You know. Yeah. yeah They could. like what Like, why don't maybe, like, change it up a little bit? Make the ice cream not villa vanilla. Make it, like, mint or something. You know, like, do, do like, something small just to make it more...

Speaker: Christmasy, but all right. But then they they also do have a reindeer sundae, which is a dolce de leche ice cream, espresso caramel, coffee, coconut streusel, coconut cake, chocolate antlers, and M&M's milk chocolate candy. i don' I'm guessing that's just the nose. i own That's the only M&M I see is the nose of the reindeer. but Maybe the antlers. I'm not sure.

Speaker: lot of things in that, though, and sounds interesting. Yeah. i'm I'm trying to process what all that is like. i was like, okay, you know, espresso, caramel, more coffee, but then coconut.

Speaker: Yeah. It's lot. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of, and then it's all, ah it looks like it's in like a waffle bowl on top of that. It does look like it is in a waffle bowl. Yeah. um Yeah.

Speaker: so So, I mean, that sounds pretty interesting. and There's a lot of things in there I wouldn't go for just because there's coffee flavors and coconut and those are neither of things that I like. So, but why don't we move over to Flame Tree though, if unless you have anything else? Yeah, it's, again, i'm it's it's a lot to process. i I feel like that's actually not going to be as good as you think it is.

Speaker: You don't think so? It would be good? Yeah, I don't think I would enjoy it. That's just my opinion. Yeah, I definitely would enjoy it. But yeah, Flame Tree, though. I'm surprised Flame Tree's on here. but i like the I like Flame Tree getting mix. They got a a new item, which is a gingerbread cheesecake pop.

Speaker: So gingerbread cheesecake mousse, spiced graham cracker, and milk chocolate. it's ah And it's on ah it's on a sea stick. Yeah. yeah I like that. it's very... the it's very hard angles like i it's clearly like molded but it's like it's just like a triangle of cheesecake yeah i mean yeah it's just cheesecake on a stick man yeah right like who doesn't want that i guess uh yeah i'm um i would have that i like i said not a big cheesecake fan but i do like gingerbread and spice graham cracker sounds pretty good with the chocolate i bet that would be delicious

Speaker: Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and you're also, like, you're having it at Flame Tree with your, you know, normal barbecue. With your normal deliciousness, yes. Yeah, exactly. ah Okay. All right. Okay, this next one. So, so we're moving over to Creature Comforts. um Once again.

Speaker: We, we just finished talking about this, but once again, best of chocolate chip cookie. Okay. Like, i was willing to give the, the cookie dough brownie,

Speaker: Give it a pass just because it's the roundy. Yeah. But this is like, come on. ah I'm sorry. the The fact that this is a new item is like just adding sprinkles to an existing chocolate chip cookie does not make an item new.

Speaker: Yeah. And then, and then right next to it, they don't even have a picture of it is the snowflake cinnamon roll, which is a cinnamon roll with blue icing and snowflake sprinkles. Like, come on.

Speaker: i Like that. That's such low bar Like you're, you're not trying. I just, I want to put up a picture, you know, for this, for that one. wait, hold on. Sorry. They have the sim and roll next. It's on the next, uh, I love Java has the sim and roll. So what,

Speaker: but Why didn't they just put it up there too? don't know. Okay. And then the festive holiday. I was thinking, I was like, I'm going to put up a picture like they did in the yearbook, you know, like when you're a kid. Not pictured. pictured.

Speaker: You got to do. Okay. If we run into that, you got to do your best MS paint. yeah Yeah, exactly. um But also, how how is this, again, this how is this a new item? how these are These are so boring.

Speaker: And lazy. well I'm just, come on. am so walking by this. What are they doing? dis Come on, Disney. What are you doing? but Yeah, go it his because again, you know, let's be honest. You're in the theme park.

Speaker: you're in You're in the festive mood. You know, you're feeling Christmas spirit and all that. A chocolate chip cookie with sprinkles on it is like... That's like walking into the break room at work and somebody bought donuts. Like, it doesn't it doesn't feel like...

Speaker: anything i feel like my daughter decorated this she just was like let's throw sprinkles on the chocolate cookie okay and now it's holiday and then the same thing with the set the snowflake cinnamon roll it's just a mickey cinnamon roll that they put blue uh icing on that's all they did and and snowflake sprinkles yeah like again it's it seems like their strategy with holiday uh foods this year is like let's just throw some holiday colored sprinkles on stuff and then call it holiday Yeah.

Speaker: Like it's the same thing every year. They have to hit it out of the park, but it just, the the fact it's more so the fact that they took the time to take a picture of this and try and sell it as a new thing. It's like, good Trevor, what are you doing? When we scroll down, there is another version of the the chocolate chip cookie, brown, the chocolate chip, the chocolate cookie dough, brownie ice cream sandwich. Wow. They do they did what I said, actually, ah which i did I swear to you, I did not read this ahead of time. i just I was just guessing. But anyway, there's also over at the coffee shop there, ah there is a chocolate a festive chocolate twist. Again, same thing. They took an existing chocolate twist. They just put some red and chocolate and some red and white chocolate stripes on it. But yeah down at Santa's Holiday Grove. Yeah. which they

Speaker: or Sorry, they they keep doing this with like they have the picture like they list it and then it's like the pictures like further down. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know why. yeah But okay over at Santa's Holiday Grill, which I'm going to it's near theater in the wild. Is this like a ah like a little pop up stand thing?

Speaker: That they're doing. I don't remember hearing about this. i That they're doing like a little stand. it must be a pop-up thing for sure. But this is where the good stuff is. so So don't go to the normal places that you would go for the treats. This is like, you got to go to the secret place for the treats. Yeah. Yeah. So they have the chocolate.

Speaker: so why um Why am I having a hard time with this? Chocolate cookie dough brownie ice cream sandwich. But they're doing, so they're doing chocolate cookie dough and it's peppermint chocolate. So it's. Yeah. Yeah. Nice job. Thank you. You figured it out. It's slight upgrade from the other one, but it's at least an upgrade.

Speaker: Like, yeah. and This is acceptable. Like, yes it's a, you know, chocolate peppermint version of it. Yeah. You know, it's just for the sprinklers. But I'm getting, like, that's what I want from a festive treat is, you you know, I want the peppermint flavoring on top of the normal, what I would normally get.

Speaker: Good work. Right. You've made it hard. It's not hard, but sprinkles is like the lowest barrier of entry into this. It really it really is. But that that's probably delicious, though. Chocolate, pet but peppermint chocolate, cookie dough, brownie ice cream sandwich. That sounds amazing.

Speaker: i'm I'm there for it. Absolutely. Then we also have a pistachio cookie, Trevor. And this actually is new. It's white chocolate chip cookie with Sicilian pistachios, dried cranberries, and candied orange.

Speaker: Okay. Not my cup of tea. Interesting. Not going to lie. yeah i i struggle with those three flavors together don't work for me in my head.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure they're fine, but... The more I look at it, the more I'm like, oh, no, I don't i don't want that. not i mean, if you're pistachio fan, I'm sure. yeah Yeah. Yeah. They tried. They're they're clearly trying something. Clearly, like it is a ah selection of holiday flavors.

Speaker: Yeah. I don't know that I've ever seen a pistachio cookie. I don't i'm trying to think if I have. No. Yeah. it's yeah I don't know. That's weird. but They do have a savory item in here, Trevor.

Speaker: yeah Which is, ah was what? good Sorry, they have a what, you said? Savory item. Oh, savory. Okay. What did you think I said? I couldn't hear. you You cut out for me. Oh, okay. Savory item. Okay. And that's somewhat what?

Speaker: Pan de jamon? Jamon. Jamon. It's ham. Yeah, jamon is ham. right below it's It's a ham roll. Yeah, it's a ham roll.

Speaker: Yeah. With olive and are in orange raisin bread. That feels like a very like, um, e interesting it's flavor combination. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's very, um, I mean, that this to me feels like something i would find in Quebec for sure. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Speaker: But yeah. Yeah. Not, not my favorite. There's also a jalapeno cheddar pretzel, which I'm pretty sure I got from a gas station fairly recently. So, ah yeah, but I like, I do, or I do like, like the cream cheese filled pretzels. I don't know what it looks like, right? Yeah. that Yeah, I don't know that they made. ye i Jalapeno cheddar, though, is kind of...

Speaker: yeah that's a good flavor. I'm just saying like, it doesn't look like a handmade item. It feels like a thing that Disney bought a, you know, thousands of frozen and just reheats them, which is fine. But you know, and where I'm struggling with it is how is that festive?

Speaker: True. Yeah, very true. We do also have two croissants, though, Trevor. One's a Santa hat and one is a chocolate a tree croissant. Croissant.

Speaker: Croissant. Croissant. Yeah. Saying it correctly. Croissant. Yeah. right ah All right. There's more effort here, at least. It's, ah you know, they they decorated them, I guess. It's it's a hazelnut filled croissant, which is fine. But then, yeah, you get two different options. You get the Santa hat or the the Christmas tree, which...

Speaker: It's still ah like a little bit more effort than just throwing sprinkles because they're at least trying to. Yeah. Like make it look like something. Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's also a couple of drinks here. There's a chilled mulled wine. There's a cookie butter milkshake. Those are both new items. Cookie butter milkshake sounds delicious to me. That sounds good.

Speaker: I wish there was a picture of it. Oh, there is the cookie butter milkshake. There is. Oh, sorry. I was. Okay. Okay. There. I see it. I think yours and mine are out. Like we're looking at the same thing, but I think they've reordered the pictures.

Speaker: Oh, really? That's what it is. There it's, those are in the middle of everything else for me. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. The cookie butter milkshake though. That looks, that looks pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. look at the yeah i I don't know that I'm sacrificing any lactate for milkshake like that, though. Yeah. So maybe we do it. those I need better sound effects. I need like a disappointment. Yeah. like the The peppermint chocolate cookie dough brownie, yes. The the butter milkshake, no.

Speaker: yeah Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Well, let's let's let's hop on over to Disney Springs and go to Swirls on the Water where they have a gingerbread Mickey cone, which is gingerbread and vanilla soft serve swirl, holiday sprinkles, and a chocolate coin in red velvet cone.

Speaker: I can't decide if this is actually an effort to make something Christmassy or not. You know, is it yeah if if they had stopped short of the red velvet con ah cone, I would have said they weren't trying.

Speaker: This is an effort. It is gingerbread soft serve though, too. that You got to give them credit for that, I guess. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah you're fair. Yeah, theyre they are. they're They're doing the ice cream up proper. It's got the sprinkles. It's got red velvet coin. I would even argue that the the chocolate coin in this case,

Speaker: The design on it is not just a basic Mickey head. Like, there' there's actually some work put into it. Yeah. So, I think this is a good effort. Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker: It's something worth getting, in my opinion. Then we also... ah There's there's a ah Where are we at? Okay. We're at Dockside Margaritas next. Yeah, but we have no picture of this white chocolate margarita that they are talking about. So you have to draw draw a picture of a white chocolate margarita, which... That's a poor idea. Yeah.

Speaker: It would not look good. um But Earl of Sandwich has their holiday turkey sandwich again, which always looks incredible, ah even though it has cranberry sauce on it, um which I'm not fan of.

Speaker: It's not even the jellied cranberry sauce. It's like... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm looking through here, Trevor. I feel like I don't see anything new with the rest of these places. Everything's repeating. So like, let's, I'm just going to go until I find something new. Let's keep going.

Speaker: do do do do do Oh, okay. Look at Emirates, of course, coming through with some new stuff. Yep. Fair. All right. um Wow. That's way down there. Okay. Yes, it is. Yeah. There's a lot on this page, though. There's theres a lot. So we can't we can't talk about everything because, you know, we we we could talk for hours. And we're only one topic in here. and We got two more. So we got to move it. You got to keep moving. All right. Yeah.

Speaker: So gingerbread creme brulee. um They're using that same Mickey coin that we saw in the on Yeah.

Speaker: ah I don't hate that Mickey Coy, though. It's a nice looking Mickey I'm not going to retract my statement about it's not low effort because somebody took time to design it. And they're just, yeah they're clearly making use of it. And, yeah you know, it's a creme brulee. It's gingerbread spices topped with meringue and caramelized pecans or pecans, however you want to say it.

Speaker: Yeah. um I like the hot cocoa Mickey, which is a spiced milk chocolate mousse and whipped ganache in a chocolate shell. And it looks like a hot cocoa cup. I like that. Yeah, but that's cute. Yeah. um Next one I have on my list is the Tree Petite Cake.

Speaker: Oh, man. You're right. We are way out of order. Yeah. Yeah, it is it is out of order for both of us. Interesting. That looks good, though. Yeah. Peanut butter, dark chocolate mousse, peanut brittle, chocolate chiffon cake, and chocolate bark. I didn't even clock that it was peanut butter until I read that. And that actually pushes it over the edge for me. That looks delicious. Yeah. I read it. It's got the best stuff.

Speaker: Yeah. It looks so pretty too. like It does. The little um mistletoe on it. with and And there's a hidden Mickey in the mistletoe. like that's That's top effort right there. feel bad about eating that.

Speaker: It looks so good. No, I'm not regretting eating it at all. Like that's... I don't feel bad about that. They they put effort into it You love eating it. if that If they put that kind of effort into it you love eating it.

Speaker: That is true. That is true. There is also a Mickey Glove Linzer cookie. Yeah. that That looks cool. It does look cool. Yeah. That's giving like Tokyo Disney Resort kind of vibes. You know what, though? I'm not getting it because I'm not a Linzer cookie fan. I'm just not. So it's not really a thing, but it is nice to look at.

Speaker: i mean, it's shortbread with raspberry jam. That's honestly that... Just not a raspberry jam fan. Did you ever have the raspberry filled cookies? Yeah. don't know. Yeah.

Speaker: It's not my thing. Yeah. But, but also like the fact that it's a Mickey glove, like that's, that's yeah selling a lot of it for me. There's also a peppermint cheesecake mousse, which looks like a a Christmas ornament with a, which is pretty cool actually. Yeah.

Speaker: That's, that's cool. I like that. And then there's a Pluto reindeer chocolate mousse cake too. Yep. Which, you know, Amaranth is known for those those cheesecake domes. I mean, I'm sorry, the mousse dome things. So they always have some version of that.

Speaker: and This one in particular, it says it has a crunchy hazelnut center with the the chocolate chiffon. So it's like, that's a lot of different textures, which I like too, when you get something like that. And it's like, like you get the mousse and then then, you get the hazelnut and everything like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, i'm I'm just scrolling down here, Trevor. I'd have to line up at Emirates. Emirates always has the best stuff, man. They really do. They just knock it out of the water every time.

Speaker: Yeah. At Disney Springs, I think we're like done on this. I think we're done on Disney Springs. Yeah. I think it's time to move on to the holiday parties.

Speaker: Okay. Yeah. All right. right Holiday parties. Start with Jollywood, huh? I think that's a good place to start. Better be something Gertie related. there's just There's better be. I'm just going to say that.

Speaker: I feel like Jollywood has really been stepping up the last couple of years. Yeah. Like they're they're really trying to make it, give it its own footing. Like it's not, the thing I like is it's not a copy of like, very Merry Christmas party, they're they're trying to very much make it its own thing. So, yeah, I'm excited to see what what kind of stuff we get out of this.

Speaker: And I'm seeing this for the first time, Trevor, that Disney has decided to make its own first look video of its foods revealed by none other than John Stamos, of course. Your friend. Yeah, yeah my my my good buddy, John Stamos. We're good friends. You have photo evidence of you hanging out with him in Epcot. That's true, yeah. We're not standing, like, you know, far apart or anything. Awkwardly or anything. Yeah, no, no, it's definitely not awkward. And we definitely spent more than five seconds together. Clearly. Yeah. Yeah, clearly. We had a long conversation about life and, you know. Yeah.

Speaker: All right. So, do we want to start at jazzy holidays? Jazzy holidays. At the Holiday Brown Derby? So, this first one, i feel this ah this is a me and not a you thing. Or actually, no, wait.

Speaker: No, it's chicken, right? Yeah, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's it's chicken. I would eat this. So, yeah. Char-Grilled Chicken Yakitori, which, You know, I, it's not, I like rice too.

Speaker: It's not super holiday except it, the colors are. Yeah, the colors are definitely giving it. There's a lot of green going on. Yeah. Yeah. Crispy rice, passion fruit, soy, marinated chicken. That's an interesting flavor.

Speaker: Cilantro aioli and watermelon radish, which is those, that's the stars. That's actually a very cool. um That is pretty cool. Way to present that. Yeah, I like it. Yeah.

Speaker: I would eat that. ah That's the only new thing, though. Everything else is returning. They got charcuterie board. They got chorizo arancini. They've got hamachi. They got jazzy sliders.

Speaker: They got bao buns. We talked about all those last year. so think i'm eating bao for dinner now. Hmm. Yeah. Just remembered. I haven't had a bow in a while, but let's go down to Fairfax fair because there's some good stuff here. I'm, I'm, this is making me hungry right now. look at this but Let's see what the first one is on your list.

Speaker: It's, says Twix on a classic pie. Yeah. Yeah. Twix on a classic pie. Okay. Yeah. this Which is Twix meaning Twix the candy. Twix cookie bar pieces, caramel mousse, a chocolate ganache on a shortbread cookie topped with whipped cream, holiday sprinkles, and a white chocolate gingerbread man.

Speaker: I would destroy this. yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah, this looks so good. It really does. Oh, my God. I love Twix. I'm not even like... Like, Twix is not my first choice for chocolate, but...

Speaker: They're really presenting this well. Like, i I mean, I'll eat a Twix, but it's like, like this just looks delicious. Like the caramel mousse. Oh man. Yeah. Then they also have a they, they had the holiday Turkey popover last year and now they have decided to introduce a Yuletide ham popover, which is honey glazed ham, creamy mashed potatoes, top gravy, cranberry chutney, and a house made popover.

Speaker: I would just ask for no cranberry chutney, but everything else looks great. Everything else I i want to eat all of I 10 of those. Now i want ham you need to get You need to get one turkey and one ham.

Speaker: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, bounce back and forth between them. Yeah, apps I 100% agree with that. I love both of those things. i want to just eat nothing but things at Fairfax Fair.

Speaker: like That's all I want right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah the funny thing is, initially was looking at the Twix pie, i'm like, oh, that looks really sweet. But it's like, oh, yeah but you start with the ham popover.

Speaker: Yeah. So you get, you get the savory and then you you finish with something sweet. and Yeah. they just, you just got to walk a bunch is all like, you you just got to keep like, you got to keep moving between all these places yeah that we're eating food. and We all know that calories don't count at Disney because you're walking, you know, a ton. just, just get it and just keep walking. Don't even stop to sit down eat it. Just keep walking to the next one. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker: Over at ah Hollywood Scoops, Trevor, because there's nothing else new over at Fairfax Fair, but you don't need anything and else else new there, honestly. ah They have a Kermit chocolate pistachio sundae, which is chocolate cake, pistachio gelato, green cookie crumbs.

Speaker: What in the world is that word? Catafi? Where do they come up with these ingredients, man? I swear. Interesting. yeah I'm surprised that I have no idea what this is Katafi.

Speaker: okay. It's a shredded phyllo dough. Oh, okay. Okay. Interesting. um So, I mean, that's not something I've seen before. I going to say, it feels like it's like an Indian thing, which, yeah, it seems like it's from Dubai. Yeah, like a training kind of thing, yeah. And fudge sauce topped with whipped cream, M&Ms, and sprinkles in a souvenir cup.

Speaker: yeah I was going to say, i initially, the the souvenir cup was getting me because I've seen this before. They had it last year. I feel like. Yeah, I was like, yeah have we already seen this? We have. Yeah, I realized, yeah, this is very different from anything else that we've got. And I know they're trying to sell the pistachio a flavor. they just get like a bunch of pistachios this year or something? Yeah, I'm not i'm not convinced. Okay.

Speaker: Pistachio, to me, does not ring holiday flavor, but... I don't know. Yeah, I can could see for some people. Or a little bit. I guess it's it's not a prominent holiday flavor, but it seems like they're trying to be very forward with like, yeah here's pistachio stuff, right? Yeah. So. Yeah. ah The Twilight Soiree at the Tip Top Club is ah got nothing new, just stuff from last year. So we don't need to talk about that.

Speaker: Checking it twice. Lounge. This is new for this year. i know It's all drinks. These are alcoholic. Oh, yeah. I mean, candy cane cooler sounds interesting. do you think that's the one on the the left? i think Yeah, I think that's the one on the left because it says crushed peppermint that one has crushed peppermint on the top. Okay, yeah, yeah. it's I will say the lump of coal looks cool.

Speaker: the The black one, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever seen a black drink like that. Ghost spicy Blanco tequila. So it's got like it's like spicy tequila. Lime spicy agave with salt pepper rim.

Speaker: Salt and pepper. I don't know if that would be if I'd be into that or not. That feels very, I don't know. i will say I think if I were going to get anything in this, it would be the Snow Hopper, though, which has got I can't even read all this. Creme de cacao, white liquor, creme de minthe, liqueur, half and half with chocolate curls. Yeah.

Speaker: That looks kind of good. i would drink that. Wait, so that that's the green one. oh That's the green one, yeah. all right. Interesting. I was, so yeah, I was looking at the fizz this season actually. okay. The edible glitter immediately turns me off, so.

Speaker: Yeah. Vanilla, creme de casus, the Dijon liquor what Dijon don't know we don't know our liquors around here Dijon is like a or maybe ah I know Dijon mustard it's not just like a region of like ah like somewhere France yeah could be and then yeah edible glitter but I feel like this is going to be very visually appealing because it looks like what whatever that glitter is is going to be like moving through the drink so it's going to be very like so like swirly yeah yeah

Speaker: I keep saying this. They need to do like animated GIFs of like. Yeah, like to see the glitter swirling around like that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. right. do you want to move over to just Market?

Speaker: Yeah, Market. is over by Pixar Place. Yeah. Yeah, Pixar Plaza. So the very first thing on my list is the Party Source Rex Brownie. Which looks very fun. Brookie, my friend. Oh, Brookie. Sorry. i Yeah, you're right. i It said Brownie underneath, but yeah, it's a Brookie.

Speaker: So chocolate chip cookie brownie topped with white chocolate ganache, rainbow sprinkles and sugar cookie. find them not It honestly looks more Halloween than Christmas. It kind of does. Yeah.

Speaker: But I like the party source rec stuff. I like that they keep bringing that back as a reference. It is a great reference. I agree with that. Yeah. And then ah the next one for me is teriyaki chicken pot stickers.

Speaker: I'm done with that. Yeah. I like a good pot sticker. I like a good teriyaki chicken. With sweet chili aioli. Yeah. And then there's a caramel apple cider and then a ah caramel apple cider with moonshine. Okay.

Speaker: So there's there's an alcoholic and a non-alcoholic version of it. Yeah, um all right. Which is, you know, Werther's Original Caramel, Apple Cider Cinnamon, and Werther's Caramel Popcorn. So, oh, they must have stolen this from the Germany Pavilion.

Speaker: Yeah, right? Yeah. I'm okay with that. that smell over there and uh what is that what is why am i caramel kush oh it's good that's like top five smells at disney that it's like it's it's like the ice cream shop on main street like caramel you can just stand there and just yeah just absorb it But yeah, so that I like that they're they're offering something like that as part of ah as part of the offerings in Hollywood Studios.

Speaker: but I'm also excited to see the Bing Bong candy lemonade back too, by the way. Yeah, it's such a, or it has the frozen yeah or the freeze-dried candy in it.

Speaker: feel like it looks cool for about two seconds and all that cotton candy dissolves. It just melts. Yeah, that's true. That's true. So Trevor, ABC commissary, nothing new over there.

Speaker: Not a thing. No, that's not true. There is a prickly pear margarita. Yeah, I got new drinks. I will say, though, everything that's there looks pretty good. You know, there's street corn chicken empanada. There's some arepas. There's a burrito taco. There's a Christmas taco cookie, Mexican hot chocolate cheesecake, cauliflower taco. They all look delicious. They really do.

Speaker: Mm-hmm. Just, you know, sometimes you don't need to fix it all every year. Yeah. Like, if if if the menu's not broke, don't fix it, right? Yeah. I mean, the berry-lime cheer drink sounds pretty good. Blackberry-pomegranate-lime blended with Topo Chico blueberry hibiscus sparkling water.

Speaker: Okay. Sounds good. I drink Yeah. Yeah, I actually like, I'll be honest, like if you've got a good food selection, just switching up the drinks sometimes is like, I like a good themed drink with my meal. so I agree with that. Yeah. yeah yeah The berry lime chair would definitely be on my list.

Speaker: Now, Baseline Taphouse, though, has just a a merry mango shandy. That's the only thing they're new there is a drink, but they do have macaroni and cheese croquettes, which, you know. now I'm not going to say no to. Yeah. Fair.

Speaker: Yeah. um Next on the list is Ice Cold Hydraulics, which salted caramel mini churros seem to be their new offering there. Okay. um Chocolate filled mini churro, cinnamon sugar, salted caramel sauce and sprinkles. I mean, is that really new?

Speaker: i feel like I've seen those before, but apparently like I've seen salted caramel churros before. Yeah. They also have two new drinks, by way, too. Sprinkles. Yeah. That's the difference. sprink they do have They do have popcorn crafted soda and churro crafted soda, which seem to just be, it's it's saying ah popcorn flavored oat milk over Coca-Cola zero sugar topped with popcorn or churro flavored oat milk over Coca-Cola with gingerbread syrup.

Speaker: topped with a mini churro. Huh. Okay. ah I've seen yeah crafted sodas. i don't get crafted sodas. and And I say this as somebody who, yeah I do drink soda on a regular basis because I don't, I don't drink alcohol. Like i if I'm going to have something like that, it's, it's soda.

Speaker: And i don't get what is so great about a crafted soda. And then also throwing oak milk in my Coke, Doesn't feel about that.

Speaker: Yeah. I'm not convinced. I'm sure someone's going to say like, you know, it's, it's delicious or it's a very interesting flavor. It gives like, you know, it's probably like a, like ah a float kind of thing. If I, if I was to guess like, like the same as like getting like a root beer float or something like that.

Speaker: But yeah I don't know. Not feeling I feel like it's just a reason to throw popcorn and churro on top of your drink, which I, I don't know that I need a reason to do that, but okay.

Speaker: um But if we move over to Backlots Express there, Trevor, there is the Blitzen banana bread pudding, which I don't know what makes it Blitzen other than they wanted to do some alliteration, but, you know.

Speaker: Banana bread pudding with banana rum caramel and sprinkles. Pretty basic. guessing, yeah. yeah i Yeah, I don't, why why they had to, or I guess, yeah, they're they're doing the festive thing, but, yeah. The frozen hot cocoa, though,

Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Interesting. That is new. Yeah, I like a good frozen hot cocoa. The rest of the stuff does look delicious here too, by the way. The Brussels sprouts, the Jolly Jam slider, the Sweet Chili Cheer chicken slider, the Hickory Holiday Mac, all of that from last year looks delicious.

Speaker: Yeah. the The one alcoholic drink on here, though, the the Seas sees and Greetings Colada, that's a fun play on words. I appreciate that. yeah um It's very different. It's, yeah you know you know, vanilla vodka, ah Bowls Blue Caraco liquor, coconut cream, pineapple juice and lime juice.

Speaker: Very... grabbing my eye, but again, not necessarily. or mean it kind of looks like a Christmas light, I guess. It does. that Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. Over to Epic Eats. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to rush this through. we just don No, no. fair. We should keep moving. Yeah. so over at Epic Eats, there's a cookie butter croissant beignet, which are croissant beignets filled up with cookie butter cream topped with powdered sugar. All right.

Speaker: That, I need it. i on So a croissant is folded. beignet is like a fluffy. yeah I don't know what makes a croissant a beignet. I mean, a beignet a croissant. Maybe it's because beignet is normally, or sorry, not a croissant is normally baked, whereas a beignet is like fried. So I'm wondering if they're like frying a croissant to make it like.

Speaker: Maybe. Kind of like beignet. Interesting. Maybe. Okay. Yeah. um Oh, I see ah your Christmas Gertie cookie he has returned. Yeah. Christmas Gertie has returned. I would feel bad eating Gertie, though. I don't know. I just feel i feel guilty. um But, you know, it's okay. All right. TuneIn Lounge just has a new drink. These are all drinks, so there's a tinsel twist. I don't think we need to. There's a lot in this. yeah We don't need to go into that. Yeah, we don't really usually get into the drinks as much. Yeah.

Speaker: um Dockside Diner, nothing new. All returning stuff, which they got loaded samosas. The meatball and polenta looks fantastic. I would love to have a meatball right now.

Speaker: Meatballs sound good. ah Christmas tree cookie stack, ah you know hot cocoa, bourbon coffee. Great. All the all the same stuff. yeah this Then this just says snack cart.

Speaker: Snack cart. Across from Beverly Sunset Boutique. Okay, I think I know what they're talking about. yeah A golden you gillet gimmer gimway golden... Gimlet? Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker: This is an ah annual pass holder exclusive, by the way. Ooh, fancy. Yeah, fancy. You get your own little exclusive thing because you're a pass holder. Good for you. No, I'm kidding, pass holders. I liked being a pass holder, too. We get special stuff being DEC members, so...

Speaker: yeah Enjoy your exclusive things. Okay. Yeah. So that's it at Jollywood. hollywood yet Not a ton of new food, really. Very, very little as far as new food. I mean, there was a few interesting things I will say, though, like it like it does. There doesn't have to be a huge lineup of new stuff. But if there's a couple of things that grab my eye, I think that's that's enough. Right. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. yeah So in the same vein, yeah we're now going over to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, which I feel like they usually do more new things, but we're going to see, right? So we're going to start at the Main Street Bakery because that's where you start. That is where you start.

Speaker: Yeah. The Winter Wonderland Express is new this year. i'm glad you're I'm glad you're reading this one because I know what word is. hazelnut mousse and a fuelltine with panna cotta, looks like.

Speaker: Well, yeah, I can't decide if this is good or not. I it's a white brick. It's like a Yule log kind of. Yeah, I'm assuming it's like a Yule log inside.

Speaker: i wish they like um had shown a picture of a cut into, you know what i mean? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Like, yeah, I want to know why they it looks like on the inside. And then and then right next to it, they have a Mickey cinnamon roll, which is just a cinnamon roll of sprinkles. Yeah.

Speaker: It's even less effort than the one at Animal Kingdom. Yeah. It's, yeah, it looks even like, they're not even like themed sprinkles. Although they're not claiming it's new, Trevor. They're not claiming it's new. I know, but it's still like, it's still lazy. or yes Still very lazy.

Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Um, Casey's corner is next. Same stuff as last year. Nothing new except for this mini cocoa cake, Trevor. That's the only new thing. yeah Which is cute. I like that it looks like a little cocoa. looks like a little cocoa. Yeah. And it's a chocolate mousse, marshmallow filling, and chocolate cake with chocolate decor.

Speaker: It's actually like the same coin that was at Disney Springs, but with mini instead of Mickey. It's like the same design. Yeah, you're right. i I didn't even check that. Yeah. Yeah. Which I like. It's kind of cool. Like you said, it's cute. It looks like ah it looks like a cocoa, you know, cup of cocoa, and it it looks delicious. I mean, I would eat that.

Speaker: Yeah. I also want to eat the holiday pot roast hot dog, the holiday pot roast mini corn dogs. I remember making fun of this tre last year. i Remember? Because they just took pot roast and put it on all the items they already have. Right? So they just took the same thing and threw it on fries, corn dogs, and hot dogs. I mean, it's not the worst thing. It's Casey's. Yeah. That's what they do. I mean, yeah. yeah i'm not I'm not expecting, like, anything super complicated from Casey's. It's... yeah They know what they're doing. Right? Yeah.

Speaker: Okay, at the plaza, though, the ice cream parlor, we have a holiday brownie sundae, which... Boring. It's... ah ah I mean, the the most interesting thing about this is the little... I'm assuming that's a little plastic cup that it's being served in. it kind of looks different. It looks kind of like glass almost, but yeah you're right. It's plastic. It's got to be.

Speaker: Yeah. But and yeah, vanilla ice cream, hot fudge brownie whipped cream and crushed peppermint, which is fine. I mean, it's just it's just the hot fudge sundae that they didn't do anything. it is Yeah. there's There's nothing there's nothing extra about it. There's nothing that like I threw some peppermint on there.

Speaker: what What am I getting from this that I wouldn't get from any other place that does a hot fudge sundae? It's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's too bad. All right. Oh, by the way, ah so wherere we're coming back around here. We're on the plaza. The other article did not note that the Santos Floridian pulled pork sandwich was new.

Speaker: This one, it is noting that it's new for the plaza. So i didn't think it's it I didn't think it sounded new to me. I mean, I didn't think I remembered it because we would have made fun of this last year, but...

Speaker: um Yeah, it's weird because it's good. Yeah, I was going to say, i could have sworn we saw something like this. like it It kind of feels like that... you know, you know, Santa on vacation kind of themed food.

Speaker: Yeah. But yeah, I guess, you know, since we didn't talk about it earlier, the ah you know, it's shredded cabbage, roasted pineapple chutney, sweet and spicy barbecue sauce on a grilled bun.

Speaker: Pineapple chutney is turning me off a little bit, but I get that, you know, they're trying to sell it as, you know, hey, it's a Floridian flavor. I just, I don't know that I need pineapple on my pulled pork sandwich.

Speaker: Yeah, i'm I'm with you. I'm with you. I don't i don't need that yeah at all. um let's let's Let's continue down. um Astrophys.

Speaker: How about that? The peppermint bark cola slushie. So it's a frozen Coca-Cola chocolate peppermint swirl and sweet cream topped with chocolate curls that are red. Mm-hmm.

Speaker: I know. So Coke with peppermint. Yeah, I mean, that could be... ever had peppermint Coke? Yeah, i yeah i feel like that could be good. No? i'm I'm just trying to think if I've ever had...

Speaker: Coke with peppermint in it. I feel like the the two would be fighting each other in terms of flavors, but think if you do it right, it's good. I think i think you could do it right. And then yeah and and then with the the ah the sweet cream on top, like i I guess, yeah, it kind of becomes like a float.

Speaker: Yeah. Then over at Cosmic Rays, ah no new like hot food items. They high still the holiday turkey burger, the holiday pot pot roast meal, the snow cheese chicken strips from last year. But they do have a new dessert, Trevor, which is a Mickey the Elf, a vanilla mousse with festive sprinkles, sugar cookie, and chocolate ears, which is Basic, but effort.

Speaker: it The name of it, it's kind of weird. it is a little bit. Mickey the The coloring, too, reminds me of, like, Elf from, you know, like, Will Ferrell.

Speaker: Yeah. um yeah Like, the movie. It feels like it's giving that a little bit, but... I'm noticing a trend, Trevor. In all of these holiday meal updates.

Speaker: What? The trend I'm seeing is that they're updating desserts and drinks, not food. Yeah, you're right. So, so yeah, they're they're offering, i mean, I guess it makes sense for the for the yeah for the Christmas party is that, but I feel like in the past they've done a lot of new foods. Like a lot of these I remember being new from last year, you know? that But I have to wonder, because like if you think about it, when you get to the Christmas party, like even if you show up like very early at the Christmas party or, you know, early for the Christmas party, you you grab food, but

Speaker: There's nothing, making exclusive foods to the Christmas party, I feel like they may have realized that it's very difficult to sell stuff when it's like, you know, eight or nine o'clock at night and you're like, come eat a hot dog. We swear it's good. Like it's, it doesn't, you're not in the mood for like meal. You're kind of just eating whatever, you know? yeah Yeah. You're just eating whatever you can kind of get your hands on. Well, and also at a Christmas party, like like who's, who's not going for the treats at the Christmas party? There's that too, right? right yeah Yeah. You're going for the treats, right?

Speaker: But yeah, I'm noticing that too, because even over at Friars Nook, hum jalapeno popper tots, pigs in a blanket, spinach artichoke ham pie, all the same from last year. yeah Except for the sugar cookie soda, which is Coca-Cola.

Speaker: You do like this? Yeah. Yeah. Coca-Cola, cookie butter syrup, cookie butter cold foam, sprinkles, and sugar cookie pieces. I would drink this. I would drink this. Yeah. Yeah. This makes more sense to me than the peppermint with the Coca-Cola. Like the...

Speaker: I don't know why. like but Yeah. Yeah. The cookie butter feels like it, it compliments it more than it's fighting against it is what I feel. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree. I would agree. Yeah. Uh, there's also over at storybook treats, there is a very Mickey, a very merry Mickey Sunday.

Speaker: They love these names that trip me up, ah which is a new item ah during ah Mickey's very merry Christmas party. There's vanilla soft serve top of whipped cream, ginger snap pieces, festive sprinkles, cherry coating and chocolate decor.

Speaker: Which I'm guessing is the little square. There's a little square. Yeah. I mean, it's... ah The thing about a sundae is, like, you can really just throw anything on a sundae and call it a sundae. So, you like, you're getting ice cream. and And, yeah, you know, the ginger snap pieces, I think, are, like, they'd better be good.

Speaker: Agreed, yeah. Because otherwise you're just selling the ice cream. So... Yeah. Yeah, I mean, but that's my only thought on like it. Like, it looks okay, but it's like... Like, if you're selling this to me as a sundae, what you're putting into the sundae better be way better than, like, I better not just enjoy the ice cream.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Over at Cinderella's Royal Table. Nothing new. Roasted pork belly, lamb chops, beef strip loin, hazelnut carriage cake, cranberry sparkling cocktail, cranberry Christmas cocktail, all the same from last year.

Speaker: VR guest does have one new item, Trevor. Which is a weird pull. This is a weird. You read that one. Muscles, uh, marine air. murder Muscles, marine, marine air.

Speaker: I feel like this is like a French word that, uh, you should have to know. nice It sounds like marine air. like it's I think it should sound like marinara, but I think I'm wrong in the pronunciation. i have no idea how to pronounce that. Marinier, I think is what it would be. yeah But that's a... So it's mussels with white wine, butter, garlic, lemon, sourdough croutons, and parsley.

Speaker: I am not... thinking about muscles when I'm at Christmas party. Christmas muscles. Specifically in the back of Fantasyland.

Speaker: Oh my gosh. Like, hmm. Yeah. That's such a weird choice. It's a weird pull. Yeah. Like, I get, like, there are other places that sell muscles, but I i cannot recall...

Speaker: at and Like, it's always been at the the resorts, right? Yeah. I cannot recall any point where you could buy mussels, like, in the theme park. No.

Speaker: but But I know it is also Be Our Guest. maybe Maybe this is, like, them trying to, you know, figure out the the the identity for b i Be Our Guest. Because Be Our Guest has kind of had a bit of a...

Speaker: they've struggled with their identity, I think for a while. Yeah. Yeah. I could see that. yeah So your options are, you know, muscles, you know, returning stuff is free range chicken, ah then a lamb chop cassoulet.

Speaker: um Which, yeah, I mean, i mean that those menu choices are interesting. i I know they're trying to sell them as festive. i I don't... Yeah, don't know what's festive about these.

Speaker: I feel like mussels is a very regional thing. Yeah. If there's somewhere that's doing mussels at Christmas, I mean, again, keep in mind, i'm in the middle of like i'm in the middle of canada like we We do get stuff from the coast, but I know there's a lot of stuff both East and West Coast that is far more emphasized than it is here.

Speaker: So maybe I'm wrong about this, but yeah, I don't know. i don't know where where. I do find it a little weird. Yeah. Yeah. Where you're doing mussels at Christmas. Over at a Pinocchio Village House, though.

Speaker: Nothing new there. Yeah. But I will say ah they they had the Italian sausage and meatball lasagna flatbread ah last year. I did have the holiday ravioli at last year's party. Or was that two years ago? When was that? It was last year you were there. last year I was there. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm i've losing track of time. ah But yeah, the the holiday ravioli I did have, and it was delicious. I very much enjoyed it. um So yeah, there's that. But they also have this snowflake ornament, um which, you know, again, a lot of these things were new last year and they just haven't really changed.

Speaker: Well, I mean, they don't have to change them every year, which is fine. It is. Sleepy Hollow. Let's go to Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow. Again, crazy, crazy change that is random. The only thing Christmas about this is the plate that it's on. And that it's red-ish.

Speaker: Not even. said ish. So a Mongolian beef bao. a beef bao served with miso gochujang sauce and chili threads. One, that's that's spicy. that That is, yeah. I mean, gochujang, I love gochujang, but it's it's spicy with miso.

Speaker: Where is this? Or I guess, ah am I just ordering takeout at Christmas? Pretty much, yeah. It's a pull on, what's that movie called?

Speaker: Christmas story? Christmas story, yeah. At the end where that where they're eating in the in the Chinese restaurant. I mean... I guess, yeah. you know i guess I guess Christmas is what you make of It is kind of what they're doing here because the they have the orange chicken strips too that are in like a takeout container. So it kind of seems to be what they're going for. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess I can't be mad about it. And, you know, a beef bao is...

Speaker: Seems like it would be nice, but i I feel like if I was going to buy this, I would have to make sure that I have like the the peppermint bark funnel cake ready to go right afterwards because yeah yeah it's going to be or I mean, gochujang is not, I guess depending on how much they used in it.

Speaker: i Just looking at the picture, it looks like it's going have some heat to Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can always hit up the, the, the cookie places too, I guess, you know, that's true to, to get some sugar to like cool it down. Yeah. Yeah. We, we we need to give, you know, some, is some, some props though to Pecos bill Trevor.

Speaker: Cause Pecos bill did do a new thing. And they have a tostada de noche buena, which is a ah smoked pulled pork i smoked pork, salsa verde, smoked tomato salsa, queso fresco, and cilantro.

Speaker: It looks delicious. Oh, yeah. That looks really good. this This is what I wanted from Pecos Bills, just like... Can we not make this a Christmas thing?

Speaker: like Yeah. Because it's only this is only available during the Christmas party. so Yeah. It looks yeah good, though. Yeah. So they're only like, would I stop to eat this at 9 o'clock at night? Yeah, I think I would.

Speaker: um Absolutely. Yeah. They also did a Pluto reindeer cake, which is a gingerbread cake and moose filled with apple filling. Now, not the most complicated thing, and I don't know why... It doesn't look really like Pluto. It looks like a lemon. I was going to say it looks like a banana with antlers. I see. I feel like it looks like a lemon with antlers. But yeah, I can see that. it it did Banana or a lemon. like it's Yeah. I don't know what they're doing there. But, you know, at least there was an effort made.

Speaker: Sort of. But, you know, ah good for Pecos Mill for introducing a new dish when most seem are are seem like they're not. yeah mean um Maybe I'm wondering if maybe for the Christmas party, they're like rotating through where they offer new dishes instead of just because because then it kind of it kind of highlights people going to or it gets them to go places that they maybe wouldn't go. normally so Yeah.

Speaker: It's funny. I don't remember these things at Golden Oak last year, but I could just be forgetting. But there there's the Yuletide chicken strips, gingerbread cheesecake beignets, and gingerbread cola. that I remember the beignets. I remember the beignets, too. And I remember the cola, actually. um Just not the Yuletide chicken strips. But maybe we just glossed over them. I don't i don't know. yeah um But that's really it, Trevor. that's That's really all we got. Aloha Isles got some returning stuff. And then the spring roll carts got pastrami, Reuben spring rolls. But again, they had those last year. So yes that's it.

Speaker: That's, you know, it's that's all right. I'll be honest. I'm i'm glad that i I feel like looking at, you know, everything that we we went over here, they're putting more emphasis on Jollywood Nights. is and i And I said that up front. And I think that's okay because I don't think...

Speaker: I don't think that the Christmas party or very merry Christmas party needs as much help with like special foods and stuff like that but because there's enough already going on at very merry Christmas party.

Speaker: I'm not mad at them for putting more emphasis on Jollywood what Nights for this stuff. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting selection stuff. i I did not have muscles on my bingo card for Christmas food this year, though. Like that was, that surprised That's random one. That's a random one. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That is. I'm just trying to think what other crazy pulls you could do for like, i don't know, like a holiday food.

Speaker: Or I guess it's like the least holiday food that exists. Well, okay. But like I said, i'm I'm going at it from, I don't think it's that it's not a holiday food. I think it's a regional thing. So, yeah you know, maybe an interesting thing to to put out there is, you know, if there is something regional that you you and your family do that maybe doesn't sound Christmassy, you know, I'd love to hear. I would be interested to hear what other people define as Christmas stuff. Because, you know, we're obviously talking about this from the lens of what we think is Christmas stuff.

Speaker: Um, so yeah, I, I would be curious because like there, there's things that like people have brought into my life. Like before, um my, my brother met his wife, um, I i didn't know what torture was and you know, you know, anybody who lives in like Quebec knows what torture is. And, and now we have it at Christmas because of, you know, my brother's wife bringing it into the family.

Speaker: So I would be interested, like if, if muscles is actually a thing somewhere, i' would be curious to hear what that, or like where that is, because that's like yeah to me, it to me, it seems like there was a couple of things on this list that they just, they tried to shoehorn it in, but maybe I'm wrong.

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