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Episode 297: Disney at SXSW, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit & Season of the Force
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Tom gives an update about his upcoming vacation. The Disney Parks team was at SXSW and announced the opening date for the Mandalorian Smuggler’s Run overlay. Plus, new details about the upcoming Cars land at WDW, the new Monsters Inc. coaster, and the Stark Flight Lab attraction coming to Disneyland. The BDX Droids, first tested at Disneyland, will be making their way to parks around the world. Disney reminded everyone that parts of DinoLand are still open. Jon Favreau is developing a live action/animation hybrid series based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. A Fantastic Four Meet and Greet is coming to Disneyland this summer. The guys review the new food and merch coming to Season of the Force at Disneyland.
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Introduction and Host Welcome
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Resale Market. Thank you for joining us on episode 297 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm
Rumors and Animation at Disney
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Tom here with Trevor and Damon. How's it going, guys?
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Good. I realize I miss our rumor section and I just don't know what happened to it. There haven't been that many rumors lately, I feel like. I mean, there's there's a lot of rumors. Are there? Rumors are where you find them. What about Disney saying that, you rumor here that Disney might go to all hand-drawn animation again?
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I didn't see that. Yeah. Well, maybe you need to say you can add a rumor section back in if you want. Yeah. I might have to. There's definitely been a few of them that have been interesting. Now, I just can't see that happening, but sure.
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i don't I don't necessarily frequent the Disney blogs that have rumors. on Yeah, I think that's the hard part is that rumors, you know, there's definitely good ones like that, but some of those blogs.
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I do like rumors, yeah. Yeah, it's just some of those sites just get so unhinged after a while. So unhinged, that's the way to describe it. They do, they they really do. it's It's just, you go down a rabbit hole ah and it's not a fun rabbit hole. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
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ah Yeah, listen, if you have rumors, add the rumors. And I mean, if anybody has rumors they want to send them, send them our way. I mean, we'll there's full butll put them in. There's rumor. I don't know how I feel about that. I don't think that's possible, but... To go back to hand-drawn animation?
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No, I just can't imagine that that's the case. I mean, yeah, it seems it seems like it would be unnecessary. like do people i know some people care, right? definitely care. but I like hand-drawn animation better.
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There is definitely some merits to doing it that way, and... Yeah. The general public care, though, is I guess what I don't know. I'm going to tell you, though, win or lose is just keeps getting better and better. Oh, my goodness. If you're not watching that, you are just missing out.
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I'll have to check that out. It is that good. i was pleasantly surprised. Well, that's good. That's good. We actually, there's Damon. I put a, I don't know if you saw, I put an animated show topic on here later down the line. So how it's probably too far down.
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Post, as soon as we hit the ad, you just, see you, you don't look any further, right? I kind of check out it. We, I don't see it. It's, it's ah further down. without john fa I don't care about Oswald though.
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What? Yeah. You heard me. I said it ah Okay. All right. We'll get into that. We'll get into
300th Episode Event Details
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that later. Okay. All right. Yeah. So i want I want to do another plug, one more plug for our 300th episode event.
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um Again, if you want to join us, we are doing our 300th episode event on the 29th of March at from 12 to 3 at a place called Old Mecklenburg Brewery in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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um we would love to have you if you could come join us it is a free event that doesn't cost anything we're gonna have food we're gonna have drinks we're gonna have uh you know a good time there so it's it and we'll record an episode as well so if you want to be on the episode that's a way that you can do it too um so because we're we're not just gonna not gonna just be the three of us talking know this is gonna be a kind of it's gonna be a mess of an episode truthfully but it's gonna be fun right usually it is when we do live stuff live stuff yeah yeah But if you want to join us, ah if and you you just need to register for tickets, like I mentioned, it is free.
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We're not charging anything. So we're just getting tickets so we can get a good headcount. um But you can either go on our Facebook page and find the event there or our group. You can also go to welcomehome.com slash 300 event.
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And that that will get you to the ticket site. we would We are kind of ah needing a a you know final number here by next weekend. So by the 15th of March, we need a ah need a ah good number. So if you do intend on coming, please register as soon as you can just so we can get that good headcount.
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so Yeah, I'm excited. I think it's gonna be fun. I'm excited until you told me i need to use my phone for like the microphone. Oh, you don't have to. Well, I got this covered. Don't worry about it. Okay, because then I realize like, what if I'm bored? Like, what am I gonna do?
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No, don't worry. I got i gotta go. Well, we'll be fine. I need my phone just in case you guys start talking Disneyland or something. I mean, you can just, you know you can ah get up in the middle the episode and go, you know, have some barbecue or something. is true.
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that is true. I do like that. You can install Bellatro on your phone and go play Bellatro if you don't like us talking about it. You not play Bellatro? No. It's an amazing card game.
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Go look it up. I've been playing Wizardry Daphne, which is so good. Oh, I forgot. i'm not allowed to talk about that stuff. All right. I'm sorry. It's not Disney related. Sorry. That was a self-imposed ban. Yes, that was a self-imposed ban.
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Okay. All right. The other thing I wanted to talk about, too, and and this kind of happened randomly. so yeah Okay. So I have some questions about this, but I'll let you start. I'm sure you do. um So so i think everyone's been hearing me talk about my cruise, right? So I've
After-Cruise Disney Plans
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got this you know cruise coming up.
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It's from May 3rd to May 10th, right? So it's which is a Saturday. We're coming back on Saturday. And so we were coming back Saturday morning and the original plan was we were just going to drive back to where my mom lives about two hours from Port Canaveral and stay there overnight on Saturday night and then drive home on Sunday.
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And, you know, Trevor, you and I want to meet up while we're there because you're coming in on that Saturday. Yes. And I was like, well, how are we going make Saturday? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Saturday evening. Right. So I'm like, how we going to make this work? Because I really want to meet up with Trevor.
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But also, like, I feel like this plan is that I ah generally that I have is like a waste because we're going to go back to my mom's house. Like, we're you know, we're going to be off the ship early in the morning. Then we're going to spend the whole day in the retirement community my mom lives in. Like, you know, my grandparents aren't even there. You know, it's entertained my daughter.
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ah Oh, so it's just you sitting in a house. Yes. Like, what else? What am I going to do? I can't like, you know, I don't even think I can go to the pool there. You know, like, um you know, people under 55 are not, ah you know, always looked upon greatly in that neighborhood. So, um yeah. So, I mean, like, i was like, well, you know, why why are we doing this? Right. so i After I talked to you, Trevor. So I talked to Trevor on Friday night and I was like, all right, well, you know we'll figure it out.
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And so then I think to myself, well, why don't why are we doing this? like just we are I feel like it's a wasted opportunity. So what I pitched to my wife and honestly, I'm going to be honest with you guys. I was like...
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You know, like when youre trying to pitch something to your wife and like you have to like come up with like every reason why you should do it. Just like dead start with like, okay, hold on. i just you Did it start with like, okay, so here's what I'm thinking. Like, is that where it started? Yeah. Well, because I'm just anticipating pushback. Right.
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yeah And i mean I just like on the front end. Right. So, and and there's no reason why I think she would give me pushback, but i you know, it's just, I'm just waiting for it. So I'm like, how about we book a room, a DVC room on Saturday night.
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ah And then Saturday morning, we'll you know drive from Port Canaveral. We'll drive to the resort. And you know we can go to one of the parks that day on Saturday during the day, stay overnight. And then on Sunday, we can do a full day at the park.
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And then after that day is over, we'll drive home, drive to my mom's, which is like an hour and a half from Disney, stay overnight there, and then leave on Monday instead of leaving on Sunday. That was my pitch.
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And my wife's like, yeah, let's do that. And like, oh, okay, cool. So now we're doing it. ah So we're going to come Saturday morning. We're going to come in And so I was actually able to book ah Copper Creek Deluxe Studio, which I was shocked by. Actually, I was surprised I was able to get something this late ah in the game. Especially in studio, because studios usually are pretty popular.
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I know they're about to go through starting like mid-May. They're doing like a hard goods. Like they're doing like a full refurb of Copper Creek. Not full refurb, but they're doing like the where they're like, you know, redoing the rooms with new furniture and stuff.
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yeah And so I'm wondering if that maybe drove some people away from that, because I think like ah probably a week after I'm there, they're starting construction on that whole area. So, I don't know. But all I know is I was able to get a deluxe studio there.
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ah And so we're going to stay there just Saturday night. But we're going to, you know, I figured why not, you know, hop over to Epcot and, you know, do some flower and garden stuff on Saturday because we're going to be off the boat like really early in the morning.
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I mean, we could be we could be to Disney by midday. no problem. um So, you know, why not? And I mean, have points, you know, why not? It totally makes sense.
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It does. so The only thing I had to clear with my wife was the ah she had to now take off Monday too, right? so And i I had already taken off Monday because I tend to take a day to like a recovery day from vacation, you know, before I go back you work. Yeah, you need it.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, so i already had that day off. So, um you know, we're good to go. It's, it's all all'll set up and ready to go. But I also did wait lists by the way, Trevor, I wait listed a room at the poly tower, at the Island tower.
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So, I mean, yeah, you might as well try for it. Right. You never know. Yeah. Karen's like, can we stay there? Can we stay by poly? And then we'll be by Trevor too. And I'm like, yeah, sure. Whatever. yeah I mean, like you guys can get over there. That's awesome. Like, you know, that, yeah that would be, uh,
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that That would work out perfectly because i also wanted to check out the Wailulu. um yeah Yeah, the Wailulu. Yeah. yeah so So, yeah. you know I mean, even if you guys are are over at Wilderness Lodge. like That's easy. yeah Coincidentally, for our trip, we were planning to start in Magic Kingdom on the Sunday as well.
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so that So we're both going to be in Magic Kingdom on the Sunday, which is yeah i would still like to try and get around a mini golf in, you know, so me Saturday in the day. or Okay. We're still going to do Saturday night. go Okay. Yeah. Saturday. We should still play it on mini golf. Yeah.
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Perfect. And and and then, yeah, Sunday we can. So, OK, I'm going to divulge some information to our listeners here that you've you've probably noticed that we've had some help with um posts on the on the Facebook page and Instagram. or not We've got we have a couple of people helping us. um I guess. Something we should have done a long time ago, honestly. Yeah. And okay. So just so everyone knows who's listening to the podcast, we have Lee, who you've probably seen her in the group. She's helping us out. But we also have my wife, Jen, and Tom's wife, Karen, helping us out. I just want to interject something here. You said we should have done a long time ago, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who suggested this a long time ago? Well, you did. I like doing it. Listen, you can have credit for that. You're right.
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and So the the funny thing is, is coincidentally, my wife put up a post. I think it was either last night or today that said, um which which roller coaster is your favorite and which one should Tom ride next?
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ah Oh, God. People are saying that you should ride Tron. And we're going to be in, but, but hold on, but we're, we're going to be in magic kingdom. Yeah. know Me and my brother
Disney Ride Preferences
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and you, I can drag you to Tron.
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my My wife will go on trying with you. No problem. well but but Someone's got to watch my daughter. i know, but, but I think it would be more fun. Yeah. It is. Yeah. yeah it is and by right Yeah. Yeah. standby Yeah.
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So yeah. Am I going to, am I going to make the podcast and make me go to magic kingdom when I go down now? Maybe just to just to go like one day, a magic kingdom just to do Tron.
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Yeah, you should. You should. You absolutely should. I mean, personally, i would I would rather get you on Guardians, but since you're going to be in Epcot on the Saturday. He's been on Guardians, though. He's been on. No, I'm talking about you, Tom.
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But I have a question. Oh, me, me, me. Okay. I'm talking about now. So you could really rope drop Tron at this point. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, I can. Absolutely. Yeah. That may make make it more interesting. Maybe I will do that.
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I feel like it's going to be such a letdown, but like just because like, it might be a just because sort of thing. ah Yeah. I mean, you should do it. I will say my personal opinion is Guardians is a better coaster than Tron.
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i'm trying to Tron is okay, but, and yeah, I think you'll, you'll find that it's not. Yeah. no red de is already and Like three, three times now, three, four times. Yeah. So like, I just just to say I've done, I've done Tron.
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yeah And that's fair. and And I've done both now probably about six or seven times. so I thought the main criticism of Tron is just that it's too fast, that it's over quickly. no yeah it the main problem It's not that it's over too quickly. It's honestly that the after the after the outside part, the the indoor part is...
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kind of underwhelming like it doesn't feel as good as the outside part i see okay yeah got it okay that's that's my take on it but anyway like i said we can we can so so so tom tom and i are both going to be in magic kingdom though when people are voting for is tron the 11th well people have said tron so so we'll we'll have some discussions we got time to to to work up to it but I know Tom is like, this is not happening, but... No, it's not going to happen. I'll try. i I'm actually really just... I'm disappointed that Big Thunder is still closed because i I... The past, like, three trips now, I have not gotten to go on Big Thunder. And then this trip probably would have been a ah chance for me to do it, but it's closed.
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So... Well, the time you would have spent lining up for Big Thunder, you can use on Tron now. So... Yeah, this is... happening. We'll see. Maybe my wife will convince me. she'll you know We'll try. um Yeah, so that's what's happening. it was Listen, it was not a planned trip, but it just makes sense. And and it's funny because um I think it was Becky maybe in the in the Discord was like, well, you're doing this in the reverse way. You should go to the park before the cruise, which You know, I'm sure a lot of people do. But and my actually, my sister-in-law and brother-in-law are doing that. Right. They're coming down early for the cruise.
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They're going to take their kids to the parks for a couple days and then go on the cruise. But it just kind of makes more sense for us because we have that whole weekend. Basically, you know, the cruise ends at, you know, nine o'clock in the morning Saturday. We got a whole weekend. you know Yeah. And also just the timing of the fact that we like we just had trip at the same time.
00:14:21
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You know, outside circumstances say that you're right. think this makes sense. You're going to be tired that day, though. I'm going to tell you, you're going to be surprised at how tired you are because you're going to have to get up earlier than you probably did the rest of the cruise.
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Oh, yeah. that's how So that first day is is, man, the first day off is a little rough. And then then i have people, I've never had that reverse sea-like sort of thing. Like, I haven't had it.
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um Nor is anyone in my family. But I was talking to somebody recently that had it for like three days after getting off the boat. God. Yeah. ge No, I don't disagree with that. It's funny because I said that to my wife. I was like, are we going to be too tired on Saturday? Oh, you'll be tired.
00:15:00
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Well, she's like, nap you can nap in the middle. Right. We could. But she was also like, you know, are isn't the crew supposed to be relaxing? I'm like, yeah, but we're going to be busy. you we join it's It's not that it's not relaxing. It's just that you relax yourself until waking up later. And then the next that last day, you got to get up early because you got to get breakfast.
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It's a shock to your system. i yeah guess what it is You don't want to miss breakfast on the day out because you just feel like for the money. like yeah but You're not paying though, right? No, but I still don't want to miss breakfast though. i mean yeah I mean, you might not care as much then. Like you might not have to do a full sit down jam. Like it's, well, it's all kind of sit down with your people, but it's at one location or you could just grab and go.
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But yeah. Well, listen, my daughter's up at 6 a.m. every day, no matter what we do. So I don't know if that's actually going to change. Yeah, you're going up at 6 a.m. trying to leave. You know what I mean? I mean, i'm just saying... It's different stress level.
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On the cruise, I expect us to probably be up around between 6 and 7 every day, just based on how my daughter is. She's going to worn out. I hope so. I hope that's the case, man. yeah I mean, that'll make Epcot easy, because you can take it slow, and you don't have to, like...
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Well, you know, that you know to to that point, though, I was like, maybe we don't do a stroller this time. But if she's going to be like wiped out, though, on that day, we might have to do a stroller. But I wasn't going to one.
00:16:18
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yeah Yeah, we do have that, too. um Yeah, i just I was thinking, well, let's go strollerless, because you know she's she's seven. So, I mean, you know i as long as I... She's she's bigger now, and i feel like we don't need the the stroller as much anymore. But, I mean, if we're going to do it... mistake.
00:16:34
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You think so? Yeah, that would be a big mistake. Yeah, because, I mean, especially since she's probably going to be tired from the cruise. I mean, I i guess I could just rent one there. i mean, that's not... You could do that. That's what we did one day, like, honestly. Yeah.
00:16:46
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Probably easiest, so I don't have to cart it there. Yeah, podcast got you. And i yeah I will say this, is that when my son was six, um you know we were in Disneyland.
00:16:56
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I didn't have a stroller, but I was definitely carrying my son a lot. The the difference there is you know the the amount of space that I'm having to walk wasn't nearly as bad. If it was Disney World, I think right what we would have considered a stroller as well. But yeah, you know kids do get tired sometimes.
00:17:12
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A lot quicker at that age. Like I i remember my son trying his hardest to stay awake for the fireworks as we were sitting um at Jolly Holiday.
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And then, yeah, I just picked him up and carried him back to the room after that. So, yeah, you'll probably want to do the same thing with your daughters. you i Get her a stroller. I could see us, ah you know, here's the thing on Magic Kingdom, right? I could see us rope dropping and going open to close on that day because we're only there for that day, right?
00:17:39
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So, I mean, and we're not really going to have the hotel room to go back to, right? so I mean, she can sleep in the car, right? It's just your endurance, I guess. Oh, I'm fine. I'm i'm fine. it's It's such an easy drive back to my mom's from Disney. like It's like literally the highway the whole way there. it's It's super simple. so yeah um So it should be really, really easy to to pull off. if we can And I would love to stay all the way for the fireworks, but I don't know if that's going to happen or not. She just might not have the stamina for that.
00:18:07
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But like you said, if we have a stroller, then she could just, you know, nod off in the stroller and then we'll be fine. um But it's also going to be, miss we we went to Disney last year around this time and it was miserably hot.
00:18:18
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So I hope it's not going to be that hot, but we'll see. um But anyway, yeah, so that's the new plan. That's the new plan. And i listen, i might I would love just to end up staying at the Island Tower if I can. um But you know I don't know if we'll get that or not.
00:18:31
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ah Because you know obviously, it's a really popular resort at the moment. So we waitlisted it. And it's obviously fairly last minute, too. Yeah, you never know. its Yeah, you never know. People do cancel. and Yeah, you have a last minute cancellation.
00:18:44
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Tom has SXSW on his agenda. Wow. Because Disney announced a lot of stuff at South by Southwest. They did bunch of stuff, which we did post on the group and whatnot.
00:18:54
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But yeah, we're going to talk about it. Yeah, there was a bunch of stuff that happened at South by Southwest, so we got to talk about it. And it just happened, too. This is like really fresh fresh news, too. Where are we starting?
00:19:06
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Let's start where there's a couple of good ones here. I have to admit. Yeah, there's a couple. of I actually think there's a lot of stuff this episode. So all I think we should start with the one that I like the least or that I care about the least. Yeah.
00:19:20
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yeah So I'm so I'm sorry. I'm making somebody mad and I'm yeah sorry, but. Okay, the the first thing they announced is that um like oh or Memorial Day weekend... there
Smuggler's Run Update
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certain This is next year. Okay, I thought this was this year. but okay No. so they're they're They're changing out Smuggler's Run, where um instead of the the current storyline, they're going to add a Mandalorian and Grogu.
00:19:48
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Wait, there's a movie coming out? Yeah, they're doing a movie next year. Oh, it's terrible. You didn't know this? I don't know. My Mandalorian interest is just ah a click above Trevor's.
00:20:01
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It's just, I don't know. like It's so... Here's my thing. It's a good show. If you're going to start me at television, keep me at television. like Don't make me change... Yeah, like I don't like that. Like the the new, you know, Karate Kid 2. Like I want to watch Legends. I don't like going to the theater.
00:20:18
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I don't like it. So now you're forcing me to have to wait and then avoid spoilers. I mean, I don't know what spoilers is going to be in The Mandalorian Grogu, but like I just don't like that, man. Like you start TV, let's continue with TV.
00:20:30
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I get it. I feel like Disney hasn't done one of these change your ride and movie out at the same time things in a while. I'm trying to think of last one where they did that kind of cross promotion. Like, like i like yeah, usually the ride change up comes well after the movie.
00:20:46
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It's like yeah they use the movie as the testing ground. You're right. It's kind of weird that they're doing it like at the same time. Well, I mean, they used to do this stuff all the time, though. Like, Dinosaur is called Dinosaur because they were promoting the movie Dinosaur, right? like so And also, Splash Mountain was called Splash Mountain to for some reason to promote the movie Splash.
00:21:05
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But it's you know they I feel like they don't do it as much as they used to do it. They used to do it a lot. And I'm trying to remember the last time they did a cross-promotional thing like this. Yeah. um With a ride. I'm sure somebody will remind me on Facebook. I'm sure there's one that's like pretty obvious that I'm just not remembering. But yeah um but it but I guess from the ride standpoint, it like...
00:21:25
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I don't just don't know how much it's going to affect Smuggler's Run. like i Because it feels like the... the are I've done Smuggler's Run like twice. And I'll admit, like the last time we went, we didn't even do it at all. Because the current... Well, the the line was long. But also the the storyline is doesn't really feel like much. like Like, it's... I don't know. It feels like just ah barely a step above Star Tours.
00:21:54
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Well, yeah, that ride's all about pushing buttons and, know, running the things. Yeah, exactly. Like, that's really what that ride's about, yeah. So I feel like, you know, what are you going to do that's so, like, Mandalorian and Grogu? It's like, you change out some of the audio lines or, like... Probably. Grogu's probably going show up on a screen somewhere, right? Like, doing Grogu things. Yeah.
00:22:10
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Doing Grogu things. I mean, listen, it's not bad to update a ride. I mean, I think that's a good thing, probably. you know i'm just trying to I'm just trying to imagine how this will impact the ride. But yeah what' what ship is it, though?
00:22:23
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I mean, it's still the Millennium Falcon, i think it's still the Millennium Falcon, but mean... That's lame. Yeah, I don't know how that's going to match up. Can you change out the ship, I guess? no is No, because the ship is right in front of the attraction, right? So like the whole conceit of the attraction is that you're getting onto that ship that's right there. That's what I'm saying. You've taken me out of it.
00:22:43
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All right. Well, then we don't have to talk about that one anymore. we get we can tell for that that's That's the low one on the totem pole here. So, yeah, let's let's see what... in The Monsters, Inc. coaster? No, we're going to talk we werere gonna talk... I was going to do Cars next. Yeah, I think Cars... So, Cars is next because it's, again, not quite... I think the Monsters, Inc. one is the most interesting. I think we should do it at least to most interesting...
00:23:04
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Yeah, okay. i would I would argue that order, but sure, I'll go with you. I i think they're both really interesting, personally. but yeah Yeah, the Cars one feels a little less interesting. like it's It's cool that they're testing out... So that they did this video where they're testing out um terrain. like like They've got like an off-road park where they're testing out terrain, which they said they're going to 3D model into...
00:23:26
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the uh if they do that's gonna be awesome that's gonna be awesome yeah but but but what that so what i took from that is not that you're going to get in ah a proper off-road track you're going to get a it's going to be a concrete track modeled after oh yeah you would find it an off-road track but course yeah you're right is is you know that that'll be cool and um again you know you know for those that have ridden um ah Radiator Springs Racers, you know that you know it's not going to be the fastest ride, but it'll definitely be fun. like like they're They're definitely touching on a lot of fun elements. And off-roading, for anyone that has done off-roading, it's not always about going the fastest. It's yeah know doing crazy i wear jumps and stuff.
00:24:10
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wish that they they do something where like... yeah There's like a winner of the race. I know that it's going to be, it looks from, ah it would be great to have four cars, right?
00:24:21
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Side by side by side by side. And like a different one wins each time. oh yeah. That's what I wish. Oh yeah when you you You need to ride Radiator Springs Racers. Is it like that?
00:24:33
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That's exactly what they do on Radiator Springs Racers. okay Maybe they'll do it here then too. yeah i mean Because you actually race side by side and one car, it varies, but one car wins. like At the last second, one car pulls ahead and there's a winner. and that You're right. That is a fantastic element of this kind of thing because it adds... like When you're when you're like cheering on your car, even though like it doesn't matter at the end of the day, it's just You can't change anything.
00:24:59
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Yeah, but it's super fun. It's fun to do. I'll tell you what, it's looking very good that the cross-country trip is going to happen, not this summer, but next summer. So we'll be there. Nice. Disneyland.
00:25:09
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but all right But it's great that they're adding something like that in. yeah like
Cars-Themed Ride Development
00:25:13
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That's what this off-road park thing looks like. is It's going to be just... This looks better than Monsters, Inc. I'm sorry, Trevor.
00:25:21
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You think so? Okay. yeah cause i you We don't really have much information about Monsters, Inc. other than the loading, right? Yeah. yeah but but Based on what it looks like, it looks very much like Forbidden Journey at Universal. like It looks like going to be so similar sort of ride scheme.
00:25:35
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sure yeah so so i don't have a point of reference on that because i haven't written forbidden journey yet but i will be riding it in may so i'll i'll yeah let me know because i have a feeling well listen and that's a great ride and i think you know there isn't anything like that at disney so it makes sense to bring something similar there so i'm on board with that but for me personally because i have written the other one i don't know if it holds the same um newness factor.
00:26:00
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Sure. But it does look cool. Yeah. I mean, I don't think they're even trying to say that they're doing anything different here. That's just new for them. Right. like Yeah. But just to go to, can we talk cars still for a second? I didn't really. Yeah. Just before we get there, I thought it was interesting because they're doing a whole new type of ride vehicle for this. So, I mean, I think it's probably going to be similar to about dinosaur and Indiana Jones is right. But, but um but I mean, they're saying about newness,
00:26:24
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Yeah, exactly. They're saying for this car's attraction, we need to invent a new type of vehicle. um And so like each car, kind of like ah you were talking about, Trevor, at um Radiator Springs, like each car is going to be different.
00:26:35
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right so like And they actually showed some concept art of all the different kind of car types here, which is pretty cool. ah Because like they it's it's not just going to be the even the same kind of car body. Although it's interesting, these sketches look like they're enclosed. I doubt this ride vehicle is going to be enclosed, right?
00:26:49
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I mean, I don't know, but... I can't imagine it would be enclosed because you've got all that like – it's like the the terrain and everything around is part of it. like you you should You should feel like you're in like an ATV, which you know ATVs are not closed in.
00:27:05
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so yeah The interesting thing i thought about I saw about this was that they are they're not just like taking these mopeds and stuff on this offer. Of course, they have instruments measuring the feeling of what what they're doing, what they're going through so that they can replicate it, which I think is pretty cool. It's not just...
00:27:24
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that they're, you know, they're feeling it for themselves so they can later programming it. They're basically programming it by actually doing it, which is kind of cool. um I do wonder how they're going to pull this off though, because I mean, how, how with how are you going to do that with it? It's obviously going to be on a track, right?
00:27:40
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But how are they going to make that also feel like you're still off-roading, right? Have you, have you seen what they've done with 3d printing and concrete? yeah Yeah, I've seen some of this some of the stuff you're talking about. Are you saying that's what they're going to do?
00:27:54
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I feel that's what they're going to attempt here. is you know there's There's lots of opportunities to make use of... um yeah you know you know Scanning technology combined with 3D printing yeah um means that yeah whatever whatever the layout of the track is that they decide on, you' you'll get a one-to-one translation of it from the the the testing area to the ride itself.
00:28:19
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Yeah. I mean, Tom, are you talking about what the track looks like or how it feels? Both. Because, you know... I mean, it feels. I mean, look at Dinosaur. Dinosaur feels like you're off-roading, yeah. Yeah. So I don't i don't think it's a far stretch.
00:28:32
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Yeah, and that's entirely the vehicle doing it because those rides are are just flat. But... But they can hide it in Dinosaur, right? Because like it's pitch black in there, right? like This is going to be out in the open, and you're going to have to see what you're what you're coming up on. So it's going to be... I feel like a little bit different, but you're right. I mean, I think it has... Think about it. They lift one side go over something. like I don't think it's that... I just wanted to be believable. I don't think technology is that...
00:28:59
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it's be a problem and I guess to that point, though, like like the difference here is that this is going to be an outdoor ride and it's going to be visible. And if you're you know standing watching the ride and you see a bunch of, you know, pneumatics moving the side up and down. Yeah.
00:29:13
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like You can just hide the sides. i mean But it's still on a hill. It's still late like, I guess, you know, breaking the illusion is riskier when, you know, people can actually watch the car in motion versus like on Dinosaur. You don't Dinosaur in Indiana Jones. You don't ever really get to see but what the cars are doing. Right. you Yeah. or But think about it.
00:29:33
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If you're looking from the side, it's up a concrete hill. The wheels are fake and they're at the level of the concrete. But the ride stuff is underneath that. It's going to look like you are without you doing so. Yeah, I don't think. Sure. I don't think the Imagineers are going to have a hard time with that one. i think no I think you're right. i just you know like You also want the dust kicking up and all that stuff, but you're just not going to have that. but it's it'll You're right. it will be You could.
00:29:55
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you could have like water spray as dust. there could be listen That's true. I'm not too worried about that. They usually do a pretty good job with this stuff. I agree. And I think this is going to be interesting because they have done the track thing before. And this off-roading, which is a totally different thing. And so it's interesting how that's going to look ah when they when they actually do it.
00:30:15
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ah But yeah, it's this is cool that we got this look at it. I'll be interested to see what these ride vehicles end up looking like. And and obviously, I think it's going to be a takeoff of like the Indiana Jones and and Dinosaur ones. But maybe this 3.0 or of that vehicle.
00:30:30
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yeah I feel it it'll be... you're right, it'll it'll have some elements of that, but I feel like it'll be... closer to test track slash radiator springs racers in terms of the speed of it because because dinosaur and indie they're they're not fast rides at all i feel this will have sections where you will get yeah you know it's not going to be like it's not going to like test tracks track crazy fast but yeah you will get to open it up and you know inside of test track the inside part yeah exactly yeah the inside part of test track exactly yeah
00:31:01
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um Yeah, so we we we'll find out more about this soon, I'm sure. but and And they're giving little pieces out here and there of it. But it's it does look cool. um i This is definitely a different thing. and And I love when they do stuff like this. And i I think part of this video, I think they actually built this.
00:31:16
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yeah they oh no they Yeah, they built this whole park for it, right? So for some reason, I thought they said they built it ah outside of Magic Kingdom, but obviously they did not. No. This is somewhere else. yeah Yes, somewhere else. ah but But yeah, so this is what they're what they're what they're doing. And this
Monsters, Inc. Ride Concept
00:31:31
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is something that they had.
00:31:32
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They also mentioned, too, by the way, ah it says these are all things Lightning McQueen and Mater haven't experienced before, like racing over rocky terrain, ascending to mountain peaks and dodging around geysers.
00:31:43
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So this is going honestly, it's going to be really interesting. I'm excited to see how this turns out. Yeah. What were you going to say, Damon? Sorry. No, I said, yeah, I agree. I put this above monsters.
00:31:54
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Well, the thing I'm noticing about the monsters, watched the video, right? And the the interesting thing to me is that the the ride vehicle, like the chairs themselves seem like they spin, you know, they they have a controlled spin to them like Guardians does.
00:32:09
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Exactly. but That's what's piquing my interest because that, that like, and i know I know you're saying, Damon, that, you know, Guardians is not, it's not doing anything new, but as far as storytelling goes and, yeah you know you know, being able to better utilize the the cars and the the track system, I think this will make for a very interesting ride. I think it'll...
00:32:35
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I think it'll be a great roller coaster, even if it's not the newest whatever. Well, I think it will. I would say that it will be a great ride, not a great coaster. Right. And I'm good with that. Well, yeah you that if you need to bring me if yeah, if you can bring me in The thing I also don't like about Guardians a little bit is like.
00:32:52
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yeah there's a part of it where like, I know I'm on a coaster. I hope that this is a little tighter. Right. So I hope that this is tight enough that like, you kind of feel like you're like in the movie rather than on a coaster.
00:33:07
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You know, there's parts of the track of guardians. Like i said, where you kind of just see and feel, yeah, I'm on a coaster. Like this is cool. I guess I'm on a coaster. I want it just to be a little tighter. I hope. I guess the difference is with like, in terms of, if you're talking about the immersion of it yeah is monsters Inc. You know, you're on a rail, but like the the whole premise of it is it's a movie is on a rail. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. i yeah oh yeah So that, so I think, yeah, to your point, that's not going to break anything because you're, you're already being suspended underneath of this thing. And there's always going to be this rail above you.
00:33:39
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I just i want the sides to be well done. Like, again, I think back to things like Guardians, but even further back, like, Peter Pan's such a good ride, but, like, think about, like,
00:33:52
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One of the reasons I like Navi River Ride so much is it feels a little bit closer to that all-encompassing immersion. I wish they went with half the boats. I understand you can't. But if you went with like half the boats, it darn might be perfect immersion level. So so you don't they see you similar po so seem that you don't see people in front or behind you.
00:34:12
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I mean, I'm not looking behind. So yeah, but just in front of you. Yeah. i I would think it would be really cool if they made it so that there's separation between each one of the ride vehicles and there's like, you could see a door. You know what I mean? Like, like i like yeah, think what you're seeing in front of you is not the car in front of you, but you're actually seeing a door in front of you. yeah but You know what mean? See everything cool coming up is the problem. That's the problem.
00:34:33
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Do you know what would be incredibly wild? And I know none of the none of the concept art leans towards this, but if each um section of... So like there's two seats per section, right? yeah If those could actually break off and like like if there was separating tracks... like But but like think about like in the movie, right? How like yeah ors like set like so like there's there's like a there's split tracks and separation and stuff. like um They can do something like that.
00:35:02
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I'm sure they'll have some of that, but it's gonna everyone's going to go the same way. You know what I mean? like I'm sure they'll have like a fake-looking split that you're never going to go to one side, but it makes it look like you might. You know what I mean? it would be It would be cool if half of your coaster split, though. and so That would be cool. And again, it it goes comes back to the same thing as Radiator Springs Racers, where when you get there's something about when you get another ride vehicle beside you, it's very like...
00:35:26
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it just feels different. Like, like, like you're racing somebody else. It's always that like, you you know, you know, you're not, you're not just in a, in a roller coaster to train. You're, you know, you're racing the vehicle next to you. it's the same kind of thing that happens on the Matterhorn again in in Disneyland is that you get cars going side by side and it adds, it it's a weird element that you don't see a lot of people talking about in rides is that having, having that side by side thing actually does add more to the ride.
00:35:55
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Oh yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That's part of why, honestly, and I hope you do it while you're there, Trevor, but I, that's part of why i like really, really like things like rise and, uh, you know, Mickey and minis where you can like, you know, the, you know, you never know where the car is going go. Right. Like you don't know where, and that's, there's a lot of that in the trackless vehicles and you have that in the, Trevor's never done that. You've never done those. Mickey and minis. I've not done rise yet. We just have not been able to do rise yet. Yeah, but it's i mean it's like that, though, because you just never know where you're going to go. like you know you can
00:36:26
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The only problem with some of those things is that they you know they leave like the tire tracks on the ground, so you can kind of see the predefined paths that they go on. But you know there's only so much they can do about that. But yeah, I mean, it's that kind of thing where you split up and you go different places, and maybe you start at the beginning of the train and make game minis, and end up at the end.
00:36:46
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it's That kind of stuff is cool, and I've always i've always liked when they do that. yeah and i hope I hope that for Monsters, Inc., it's It's not that they've necessarily shown us everything about it yet. I know you know they've just given us it.
00:37:00
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yeah yeah Yeah. We've gotten just... The only thing that I took from it is that the the vehicles do move or they they turn independently. yeah And the fact that it's a a suspended coaster, I think, is going to... yeah know We haven't had a suspended coaster yet at never yeah a Disney. The first one.
00:37:16
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yeah so So I think you know it's going to be interesting. I'm i'm really looking forward to it. And I don't think they previously announced the fact that it turns. and don't even think they mentioned that the the cars turn at any point. it just They just show it in the video. like They don't even say that they turn independently.
00:37:31
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so yeah Yeah. Interesting, right? All right. Who cares about the next one? Yeah. I'm going to make a surprise appearance. Woo-hoo. Okay, great.
00:37:44
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ah Well, okay, the there was the Robert Downey Jr. appearance, but it also leads into them showing off the ride vehicles for this yes new start Stark Flight Lab is what it's called. Which he's working on with them, and he's very excited about.
00:37:58
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Yeah. um But yeah, no, they're they're doing this. ah It kind of looks like we we talked about this before where they previewed it, where it like reminds you of like the old Innovations. Yeah, it it is the Innovations, the Cyberspace Mountain coaster.
00:38:14
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Yeah, that's basically what it is Yeah, like that's that's what they're doing. um You know, they they did they did talk about a little bit more about that, and I guess he's working on it, too. But I mean, listen, it's it may not be a big deal to you, but I mean, for a lot of people, they got very excited that Robert Downey Jr. was there and showed up at the Parks panel randomly. So, um you know, I don't know.
00:38:34
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I mean, I guess obviously it wasn't random because they planned it, but... you know Yeah, ah yeah, exactly. um There is one last takeaway on here that actually I didn't I didn't read this previously in the ah the blog post, but apparently ah so they say this Monday there's going to be a Imagineering episode on the Walt Disney YouTube channel.
00:38:58
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Yeah. Which is kind of an odd choice. Yeah. they're They're announcing something on YouTube, but, um, but apparently they're also, or part of it is that they're talking about, um or the, the, the sentence before mentions, um, you know, them talking about things they're doing with haunted mansion and other rides.
00:39:19
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Yeah. Which I didn't think there was anything else that needs to be done with haunted mansion, but maybe other than like, stop doing the overlay every year in Disneyland. But, I mean, that I guess that would be an announcement as far as I'm concerned.
00:39:33
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By the way, i just I just want to go back to the to the Tony Stark thing. I didn't watch the actual video. ah The video is pretty cool, actually, of the the ride vehicle. I missed that. Did you actually watch it? Yes. Yeah. i Yeah.
00:39:44
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Because it's cool how it like slides into place and then the arm kind of grabs it and then it does like ah the whole thing it does. ah That's going to be really an interesting ride. Yeah. so Yeah. I just, I mean, I'm sure it'll, it'll be interesting, but, uh, again, the, the big problem I have with those rides is that they are for, for people that have like motion sickness and stuff. That's, oh yeah yeah it's a limiting ride, unfortunately, like it is, it looks cool, but it's, you know, for me, it's, you know, it's not something that I will go and do by myself. And uh,
00:40:22
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you know if i if i'm If it was just me and my wife going there, which is actually going to be the case like later this year, I know this won't be open by then. won't be there yet, yeah. yeah but um But yeah, you know you know this is like, well, I'm skipping that ride.
00:40:34
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that's That's my only thing. is yeah I wish that every new ride didn't always have to be like... like something motion sickness inducing i i understand yeah yeah i get that i get that no that makes sense but yeah no i i will definitely uh like you said ill i'll i'll look at the i'll definitely watch that we call an imagineering episode thing uh because i i love you know i love that kind of stuff so oh yeah so yeah i guess anybody listening to this episode on monday there is that episode coming out on monday if it's after monday the episode's already out it's It's on YouTube too. it's it's not on i don't think it's on Disney+. plus I think it's just on YouTube. Yeah, yeah they said it's being it's only coming on YouTube is what the the announcement says. Which again, is like it's weird that they're... It is weird. like Why would they not put it on both platforms? But I don't know. I don't know.
00:41:17
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yeah i don't know All right, let's do our ad and then we'll talk about a couple other things. How does that sound? all right. Yeah. Anything else about South by south but Southwest you guys want to bring up? I mean, i I don't think there were any other announcements outside of that. um ah Well, like actually, a couple of the other topics we have after this were were announced there, too. So we can talk about them after the after the ad.
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00:42:19
Speaker
And I just you know i just bought and sold with them. So ah you know the process is ah is very, very easy to do. I'm i'm not just waiting. the The long part is waiting for Disney to load your points into your into your membership, which takes like they they they warn you up front. They said it can take like 30 days.
00:42:35
Speaker
But my old contract's already gone. It's not in my profile anymore. But the new points are not in, even though I already got a welcome email from DVC saying, welcome to DVC. like I'm a new member or something, i which is weird.
00:42:48
Speaker
ah but im I'm sure it's just an auto email thing. Yeah, it is. It is seems that they're on their own time for doing point allocations. It's fine. I don't need the points right now. i'm not like concerned about it, but it's you know it's just funny to me that my old points are already gone, but the new points are not in yet.
00:43:06
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So I'm assuming they're going to show up this week. but And I would assume if you called member services, you could probably they could probably help do something to speed it up. like I feel like... They're just going to do it whenever. But if you said like, hey, I'm trying to book a trip, they would probably, you know, yeah try and get it in there sooner than later.
00:43:24
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I don't know if they can speed that stuff up or not. I have no idea. I mean, maybe they can. don't know. Might be worth a phone call. I don't really care. I don't need them. I'm i'm fine. I can wait. So if you need more points to get the island tower.
00:43:37
Speaker
I don't. You know what? Here's the surprising thing, Trevor. So the Wilderness Lodge, well, it's Copper Creek, but the Copper Creek room was 16 points for the one night of Deluxe Studio. And I forget. i think it was just a resort view or whatever.
00:43:54
Speaker
And but to do a ah regular view at the Island Tower, it's only four points more. It's only 20 points. So it's it's not bad at all. um i would I was expecting more than that. But it's yeah, it's only 20. And now given it's not theme park view, theme park view is another is like more more, even more points. But as my wife said, we're there for one night. We're there to sleep. It's not we don't need a theme park view for one night, you know? So yeah.
00:44:18
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so I mean, okay. That's... Well, the other part was that we were... Disagree, but okay. Well, no, but but listen, the other part, though, is that we were thinking that, you know, a regular view studio would probably be easier to get than a theme park. True. Yes.
00:44:32
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Yeah. So that was that was the other thought. So anyway. ah um Do we want to talk about droids? Yeah. No, we want to talk about the animation because I'm the zoning out already. Okay. let's so you want to talk about the Sean Favre thing? Yeah.
00:44:47
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I mean, I don't want to because I don't like it, but sure. i' sorry so and So John Favreau has been doing like seemingly nonstop work for Disney, is ah now going to create a series that's blending animation and live action featuring Oswald the Lucky
Jon Favreau's New Series
00:45:02
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Rabbit. So sounds like Roger Rabbit, but with Oswald.
00:45:05
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kind think But why? Why not? They haven't done anything with Oswald in a forever. yeah like Oswald is like protected media. like You just don't do stuff with him, man.
00:45:16
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Well, I mean, that's probably why they haven't done stuff for so long. But why now? don't know. I don't know. I don't like their new, like, we already talked about this. I don't necessarily love those shorts that they have. And I feel like it's going to be the same sort of vibe.
00:45:31
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And I don't love them anyway. and And again, I feel like the character is kind of sacred. So ah this is not for me. This is I mean, this is a, this sounds like more like a show and not necessarily like shorts. No, no, no. I mean, but just what I'm saying is I don't like the style slash humor slash animation of those shorts.
00:45:50
Speaker
Gotcha. So I'm hopeful that it's not. 1930s animation. No, no, no, no, Is that what it is? Is it is that that what the new shorts are like? They're based on animation? I'm watching the Oswald one. It looks like it looks like Steamboat Willie.
00:46:04
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Yeah, they they use like the old style of it, right? Yeah, I just... I don't know. I'm not too hype about this, man. like Go make a new character. mean, there's some good stuff coming from Disney that I'm excited about, but this is not it. this Oswald's actually public domain now, too. Maybe that's why they're trying to do something with it.
00:46:23
Speaker
That's actually probably exactly why they're trying to do it. Oh, yeah. I mean, that that would make a lot of sense. I can't really ah can't really hate on the business acumen, if that's the case. Yeah, it went public domain two years ago. But if they create a new version of it, then that version will not be public domain anymore. So that's that's all they really have to do. Because like the the funny thing about public domain is, is sure, like the ah Steamboat Willie Mickey is public domain, but all the other Mickeys are not.
00:46:48
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you know like it's It's kind of this weird thing where every time they have a new version, it basically resets ah for that version. you know So if they create a new thing for for Oswald, then i mean that's a new property, basically. And they...
00:47:01
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you know I'm just not looking forward to it. I love the idea of a live-action hybrid, though. like I feel like we haven't seen one of those in a while. I'm so chipped in Dale. Oh, yeah, that's true. You're right. But that one I like that, though. It's fun.
00:47:12
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Yeah, it's okay. I haven't watched Roger Rabbit in forever. feel like I need to watch that. Yeah, I feel like Roger Rabbit was such lightning in a bottle. like I don't know that you'll ever be able to recreate it.
00:47:24
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And and like to to your point, Damon, like you know Oswald is like... A sacred character. It doesn't feel like like, you know, you say, oh they're making an Oswald show. And I'm going, okay, why why do I want it?
00:47:38
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Like, it's, I feel like not everything needs to be brought forward and brought out of public domain. like like And I get, yes, you know, Oswald was, you know, Walt Disney's first character and all that. And again, that's where the sacred part comes in. But,
00:47:52
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It's like, do you need to do that? And like, yeah. Like, what would that time be better spent, you know, inventing a new character and doing like like, like, I guess the thing about Roger Rabbit was there was no precedent for Roger Rabbit. Like it was, you know, when he was originally created. it It's kind of a amazing that movie even got made by Disney. Like it's, it's, it's a crazy. I mean, it wasn't, it was created under one of their, like, it was under like a Touchstone or something, wasn't it? Yeah, it was um But yeah. So, so like to that point is it's like,
00:48:22
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you know the The problem with with Oswald is that there is a precedent and expectation that it's like, well, this is this is a Walt Disney character. You can't you can't push boundaries with it.
00:48:34
Speaker
So i would I agree with Damon here that you know it should be a newer – or they would have better spent their time making a new IP and yeah you know still doing the the mixed animation live action hybrid. Yeah.
00:48:49
Speaker
But I feel like Oswald, they're they're not going to be able to do everything that you think they should do with but that type of show. I mean, you could be right. i We really don't know what the structure is going to be, right? So like it's it's going to be interesting to see how this actually shakes out, right? But i i listen, i also, it's interesting to me that they have Jon Favre doing this because i he it feels like he's...
00:49:12
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I mean, he does a lot of other stuff for the company, right? He did you know Jungle Book and the The Lion King and obviously The Mandalorian stuff. and ah But this is this is a little bit different territory for territory for him. I don't know if he's ever done like animation before, but he's a good director, though. So, I mean, I tend to believe that he's going to do a great job with this. I mean, he's writing and producing it, too. So...
00:49:33
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You know, I don't know. I think it's going to be interesting. I'm i'm excited to see it. I i love the the whole thing with Oswald that Oswald was. So the whole reason I'm sure people know this.
00:49:45
Speaker
The whole reason that Walt Disney and Iwerks created Mickey Mouse was because Oswald was their main character and Oswald got taken away from them. They didn't own Oswald.
00:49:56
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Uh, it was owned by, by universal. And so they, Oswald got taken away. And so they had to create a new character and Mickey was the new character, but Oswald was, you know, pretty much the original, right? So, yeah and the rights to Oswald just got bought back like in the last 20 years kind of thing. So it well, yeah, they, that's also one of my favorite stories too. Cause they did a trade for, uh, for, for Al Michaels.
00:50:21
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ah Yeah. Um, yeah, they, they wanted, I guess, uh, Fox wanted, um, and I'm sorry, not Fox. NBC wanted, ah wanted Al Michaels. And so they traded Oswald, the lucky rabbit for ah t Michael's, which is such an insane thing.
00:50:35
Speaker
Like, I feel like that's not a thing you ever hear about anymore happening in the corporate world. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Being being traded for a cartoon character, I feel like would be insulting.
00:50:46
Speaker
How would you feel? it yeah Like, how would you feel about that? Yeah. It's so crazy. It's so crazy. Yeah. So it's, your worth to us is the same as this animated character. Yeah, i literally. So they they got the rights to Oswald and the the original 27 Shorts.
00:51:00
Speaker
And they this was back in 2006. They did this. So you're right. Within last 20 years, it was 19 years ago. And they they got an exchange. They got Al Michaels went from ABC to NBC.
00:51:11
Speaker
ah we it's just It's such a funny thing. i that That's the way that that happened. But... I don't know. You'd think that Al Michaels would have some say in this, but um regardless.
00:51:22
Speaker
Anyway, but yeah, i'm I'm just interested to see what they do. I think it'll be but it'll be cool. Yeah, i'm I'm curious, but like I said, I feel like you know saying it'll be like Roger Rabbit. but The thing about Roger Rabbit was that they could absolutely do whatever they wanted with Roger Rabbit. And and to that extent, though, it was...
00:51:42
Speaker
it was subject to failure because of it. The problem with Oswald is that because it is such a, it is a, I don't want to say it's a flagship Disney IP, but it's definitely like, it's a, it's a big known part of Disney history and all that kind of stuff. I feel that,
00:52:02
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you know, as much as Jon Favreau is a good director and all that, he's going to get his hands tied by, you know, no, we can't do that with this character. No, we don't want, you know, to portray things a certain way. Right. Like it's true yeah because like, if you look back at Roger Rabbit, there was like, there's a race was up in that but there was some, there was a lot of stuff in that movie that, uh, you know, for being a kid's movie, it was, you know, borderline, not, uh, Oh, yeah. No, it was I feel like it was not at all. mean yeah Yeah, between between between yeah Jessica Rabbit and and and jessica raish yeah yeah and then Judge Doom. Yeah, Doom. Yeah. yeah Judge Doom was Christopher Lloyd's character. Yeah. yeah yeah like
00:52:44
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Yeah. That was like nightmare inducing, right? Yeah. i mean But at the same time, though, Oswald was, you know, his his like personality was kind of like...
00:52:56
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you know he was He was kind of... ah I'm not going to say he was... I don't know. I'm trying to think of how to describe it. But his character, he's like a little like ah funnier and edgier. Not edgy, really. More mischievous than Mouse. mischievous. Yes, exactly. That's probably the good word. More mischievous. So, to your point, though, you're right. They are going to probably be a little bit precious about what they do with this. right They're going be careful not to besmirch the name of ah Oswald.
00:53:23
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um But it's... it It'll be, yeah like I said, it'll be interesting to see what happens here. I just think it's it's kind of cool that they're bringing back an old character like this, and especially one that Disney started, lost, brought back again, and it was you know the the precursor to Mickey. so Yeah, it should weird.
00:53:41
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What'd you say? should be weird. Yeah, its i I hope it's super weird, actually. I love super weird stuff. um Me too. i I like it when things don't follow the...
00:53:52
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Don't follow it the formula, I guess, for how shows seem to be produced nowadays. So, yeah. Yeah.
BDX Droids in Galaxy's Edge
00:54:00
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right. So the other thing we got, and I think this was also from South by Southwest as well, was about the BDX droids, which by the way, if you haven't seen these, they're very cool, right? So they're, they're little tiny droids that are, can walk there.
00:54:14
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I guess, what do you call that? Bipedal ah robots. And they, they can kind of walk around. i think they technically can work kind of independently or at least ah with, you know, the assistance of a cast member, but,
00:54:26
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They're autonomous, but yes, that that there's usually a cast member supervising them. But the idea is is that they they're they're not being remote controlled. they're They're kind of doing their own thing.
00:54:38
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Yeah. And if you haven't seen the video, there's ah there's a video out there of them testing them at ah ah Disneyland and and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. and And it's almost like the cast member does like hand movements like you know or commands them by voice, too.
00:54:50
Speaker
And it's it's really kind of neat how these things are. First of all, they're adorable, right? Yes. They're adorable little robots. If there's anything that's that that Star Wars is good at is is creating person-like robots that people find adorable, right? that Yeah, cute cute robots has definitely been a thing.
00:55:08
Speaker
That's definitely a lane for for Star Wars. So... What's interesting about this is that these droids, they they built, they I think they only had three of them, but I assume they are building more of them because these were like proof of concept, right?
00:55:21
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And now these are these are showing up in all sorts of different places. So one of the i thought this was interesting. I didn't even read this in the news that these showed up on the Wish, on the and the Disney cruise ship, The Wish.
00:55:32
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which I was like, really? that That's kind of random, but cool ah that they were walking around on the wish. like that's That's new. ah But they're also you know we we complain a lot that Galaxy's Edge at Disney World doesn't get all the fun stuff that Disneyland Galaxy's Edge does.
00:55:47
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But finally, these are also going to show up at Disney World, too. Which is great. Disney World sorely needs because I feel like, yeah, like you said, Galaxy's Edge and Disney World doesn't seem to get quite nearly the same love. And because of that, like the the couple of times that I've been to Galaxy's Edge, I've found it to be very like it's a great set, but there's nothing going on.
00:56:11
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There's no movement or anything going on there. yeah And and a lot and i mean, to be fair, like like I think the first time we went there was pretty soon after COVID. Oh, so they didn't have as many people walking around. No, wait, sorry. No, no, wait. Sorry. We went right before COVID with my parents.
00:56:26
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but But even at that, it was it was soon after the opening. And it was like all of the characters were like up on like platforms up above kind of thing where like you couldn't. You couldn't really see them.
00:56:38
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The Star Proopers were what we rocking around? Yeah. yeah yeah Again, you know, they're there was like, you know, they have them like like Chewbacca was standing up on the the platform above waving at people. Like it feels like it's a lot of that. Whereas like these droids are very, you know, they're down in in the crowd. And yeah, you know there should be a lot more character interaction like that.
00:57:01
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they I mean, I've seen Chewbacca just want wandering around, though, too. And that might have been like a... I mean, i they i know they do the little thing that they do where they're just kind of you know walking around fixing stuff and you know not even really interacting with the audience. But I have seen them walking around, too, before.
00:57:19
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And, of course, the stormtroopers walking around interacting with guests, too. But, you know, when the land was... To be fair, yeah, when I was there, just I didn't see a lot of that. And I feel like... if If I didn't see it when I was there, that means that there's not enough of it. Because yeah its like most people aren't like standing there all day waiting for a character interaction.
00:57:39
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Yeah, I get that. I get that. ah But I mean, i there's definitely i think there's more of it. I mean, but to to be fair, when we when they announced this land and when they you know were were pumping it up, this was supposed to be a thing, right? They were supposed to have free roaming droids going around. And you know and and i remember at the time was talking about it and going, how are they going to do that? Because people are going to kick them. They're going to jump on them. and And even like when they were were doing that one that was kind of like, yeah,
00:58:08
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uh that was kind of like the like the ones that like the bigger heavier ones you know that roam around like there was i remember they were testing one at one point that was autonomous and was a big one and like they showed them testing into the park and like the first thing that someone did was jump on it and it's like that's why we can't have nice like that's just that's that's the problem right there but these little guys are different because i i feel like you no one's gonna like run up and pick them up but i think or anything yeah I don't know. I mean, to yeah if it can fit in a backpack, you know somebody might try.
00:58:39
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just Just grab it and run? yeah How far do you think you'd get? but i mean i i don't think you would get out of Galaxy's Edge with one of those, so not to be honest. There's no way.
00:58:50
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ah But yeah, no, these things are cool. And it's also just cool to see robots that are just, you know, walking on two legs like this too. I mean, that's becoming more common, but it's, it is, ah it is Disney does make a lot of strides in robotics ah that, you know, cause they have a whole research lab and we've seen that with the group robot and we've seen that with these.
00:59:09
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And I know a lot of these too. i think they 3d print a lot of this stuff too. So ah it's, it's really, really cool. And it's, I, I, think it's going to be awesome how like they are bringing this on the different ships. And i mean, it probably makes sense for the wish because they have that star Wars lounge there. Right. So they can put it there. They're probably don't have them just ran and, you know, wandering around the boat.
00:59:30
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ah But I mean, I would be cool if droids were not limited to galaxy star Wars yeah powers areas. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to see them in Tomorrowland, not going to lie, because ah like why would you not have them in Tomorrowland?
00:59:45
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yeahly Yeah, absolutely. It's like the new version of Push, basically. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. yeah but You're right. I mean, Tomorrowland is a good spot for them, but I want to see more of this stuff. I want them to be doing this way more. And and ah it looks like they are.
Fantastic Four Meet and Greet
01:00:02
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They're going to bring this to all the different parks around the world, too. Yeah.
01:00:06
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Yeah, cool. right. um Okay, I guess the next thing is there's a Fantastic Four meet and greet coming to Disneyland. Yeah. For the movie. um All right.
01:00:19
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Yeah. i I know you're out on Marvel, but I i've watched this trailer for Fantastic Four, and it looks pretty good. and i mean yeah I mean, Fantastic Four is like, it's... It's such a weird IP for starters. Like, like it's, it's changed over the years. And like, I, like what, when I was a, you know, a kid, you know, I, I remember reading the comics and it was, you know, they had, um, you know, they had Spider-Man mixed in with there. And then there was a point where I can't remember one of the characters was replaced with a robot. Um,
01:00:51
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At one point, like, it was... Yeah, so... and And it's funny that, you know, like, you know, the the show, they're they're going with, like, the classic costumes. Like, like these look like... Well, yeah, it's a throwback. It's a throwback movie. So it's the it's happening, like, ah i I think in, like, the 70s, right? Yeah.
01:01:08
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Yeah, so yeah so it's um so yeah it's interesting that they're doing... um or well I guess it's predictable that they're doing a meet and greet for this, but um i guess I don't know i't know how popular this is going to be. because it Because the other thing about like Fantastic Four, I feel like it's never been... like as big as some of the other IPs in Marvel. But maybe Well, because they've made a lot of bad Fantastic Four movies at this point. i mean Yeah, there is that. Yeah, that's the other part, too, is that that it's been... I think it's been more missed than hit.
01:01:40
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Oh, 100%. 100%. In terms of the of the movies, for sure. Yeah,
Marvel Meet and Greet Limitations
01:01:46
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it has been. And and i'm I'm hopeful for this one because, like I said, i first of all, there's really good people in it. And I did watch the trailer and the trailer looked great.
01:01:55
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Honestly, it's just a teaser trailer, but the the the tail trailer looked really good. and and that cool retro vibe that they're going for is is very cool as well. ah So I don't know. I mean, i would...
01:02:06
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I'm just jealous that there's any sort of superhero meet and greets happening that I can't go and do because they're over at Disneyland and not in Disney world. So but yeah, again, you know, Disney world never gets any of the nice things because of, you know, you can't do Marvel. We, we all know why, but yeah. Yeah. stupid Right steals. And, and I actually, so speaking of the robot, it sounds like, or so i' just reading this article, they, they've said that, yeah. her So, so the robot's name is Herbie.
01:02:36
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which stands for humanoid experimental robot B-type integrated electronics. Okay. um So, so Herbie is in the movie and there's some speculation whether or not he'll appear in the meet and greet, which I guess that could add a layer to it is, you know, back to our point about talking about, you know, adding, um you know, more, more robots to meet and greets, and you know, like the, like the droids in galaxy's edge, I guess if they did a Herbie,
01:03:03
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that is similar to that. That could be interesting. That could be interesting. We actually didn't even mention too. There was, and I, I didn't put it on here, but there was also like a tiny little animatronic that they ah premiered as well at the, at South by Southwest that was like riding in on the head of one of these, one of the little robots.
01:03:21
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um i didn I don't know if you saw that one, but I didn't see, I didn't see any video of
Animatronics in Disney Attractions
01:03:25
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it. So I didn't, um I didn't, I didn't put it on here, but it was like a small animatronic. It was a character from the the last Star Wars movie.
01:03:34
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Oh, wait, there it is. i found I found the video of it now. There it is. But it's ah it's out there. it's It's actually pretty cool. if you I'll send you the video and you can go to the to the spot where it's at. But um it's it's very cool.
01:03:47
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I meant to watch the whole South by Southwest thing. I just didn't get a chance to because it happened like last night. so yeah it's Yeah. yeah i mean I mean, it's great that they do this stuff on a Saturday, but you know some of us are busy on Saturdays.
01:04:00
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Yeah. So I sent you that link. Go to 10 minutes and 30 seconds and you'll see what i'm talking about. 10 minutes. and Okay. Um, let, Sorry, YouTube is yelling at me. Give me a second. I don't know if they're going to use this animatronic anywhere. like I don't know if it's going to be something that's... Or just like a you know proof a concept kind of thing. you know Where it's it they're doing this ah little tiny animatronic that's sat on top of one of the droids. And it's the droid repair character guy from ah from the last... was Oh, the little... Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. yeah
01:04:35
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But they have a full-on animatronic of it. Wow. It's pretty cool, actually. And yeah it has and has him repairing the BDX droid. He's fixing the droid as it's walking. As it's walking. Yeah.
01:04:48
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I mean, this is pretty impressive, honestly. Wait, does it? Okay. I was going to say, if it gets off and, like, moves around. It starts walking around? Yeah, no. That would be wild. Yeah, that's not happening. It looks like it's just a...
01:05:01
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He's just hanging up there, hanging out on top. it's I mean, listen, it's still impressive. This the entire thing is yeah is wireless. it's just It's out there. It looks real. I mean, it's... Even when I say it's wireless, there's a lot of wires sticking out of its head, but well, but that's not what it's just full because it looks, it feels real. I know you had to, uh, no, I mean, it feels so real. And I mean, like these, just all of these robots feel so real too. I mean, even just John Favreau, like looking at it, like he just looks like he's kind of amazed by it himself. So, um, but yeah, anyway.
01:05:36
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Yeah. so So yeah, I guess, I guess that that's the thing is that, you know, You know, more of this kind of stuff would definitely make it, you know, this goes back to, you know, we' we've talked about this before, how, you know, over time they've taken away a lot of the the interactive elements from the parks, right? Is, you know, the the this is definitely a way for them to bring it back in. And I guess, yes, you know, they they have to...
01:06:00
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build these robots and whatever. But, uh, you know, I, I guess if, if they're cheaper to maintain than it is to pay actors to interact with people, then it'll, Disney will probably keep doing it.
01:06:14
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Probably. Yeah. Yeah. That's a, that's a valid point. I mean, I know that sounds awful, but no, it doesn't I do miss the days of, uh, you know, push and, and, and some of the other, like, Oh, and like the, yeah the, the residents, ah um the Hollywood studios.
01:06:31
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Yeah. Actors that like the, Oh, I just even yeah more like the technology things they used to do. Cause like you used to have a, what was it? Lucky the dinosaur. Right. ah yeah. Walking around. Yeah. Like that was a cool thing. They had the Muppets thing that would, you know, go around to like, I mean, they just don't do that really as much as they used to.
01:06:48
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but but even But the thing about those is that those were all like none of those were autonomous. They were all they were all you know controlled actors. Yeah. Well, lucky was semi-autonomous.
01:07:02
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It was. That was that was like the whole thing about it. It was like the first one that they made that was like... It had it had somebody controlling it, but it could like the interactions that it did with guests and stuff like that, were it was it was autonomous. some So it it wasn't it wasn't scripted necessarily how it reacted to people. Correct.
01:07:19
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Correct. I mean, but that was, you know, lucky the dinosaur was 2005. We're talking 20 years later now with more technology, you know, 2003, actually 22 years ago. um So it's, you know, the technology is obviously getting better and better, you know, very quickly here too. So, ah but yeah they used to do a lot of that kind of stuff and they just kind of got away from it. But I feel like bringing this kind of thing back is, is good.
01:07:44
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Yeah. ah Agreed. um i think is there anything else?
Dinoland Partial Closures
01:07:48
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Oh, right. Yeah. Dinoland. Okay. yeah So the only reason I wanted to bring this up, I think, first of all, I think it's funny that Disney had to go back and clarify things because, you know, they already said that when the, when the stuff at Dinoland is closing, but I think people are confused.
01:08:04
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And I mean, they're not exactly clear here either where they said, ah you know, like parts of it are shutting down is the problem. So it's like, what, yeah what can you actually do there? It says, is Dinoland still open? And it says, yes.
01:08:15
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And you don't even need a time rover to visit Dinoland because parts of the area are currently open through 2025. Now, what does that mean? Like, when does it actually close? Obviously, I guess that means the whole year you this year you'll be able to do it. But when it will close, there's no there's still no closing date there.
01:08:31
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I will say, though, I don't know if you saw this, Trevor, but um you know the big green dinosaur, which some people used to call Cementosaurus, is ah gone. it's it was It has been knocked down. It's already gone. They did it overnight.
01:08:45
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Yeah, I saw pictures of it. Somebody said it was there one day, and then the next day it was gone. So they completely demolished it. All of Dinoland is pretty much demolished at this point, which is... You know, as some people are going to be sad about. i am a little sad about it because I i did.
01:08:59
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You know, I understand why they did it because it was cheap at the time and it was not very Disney-esque of them. You know, it was it was a lower end of of their abilities as far as Imagineering goes. And I think everyone knows that, right?
01:09:13
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Yeah. But... there were still some cool aspects to it. I enjoyed the lore that they put around it. I i also just kind of enjoyed the fun midway game of it. And just like the, the cartoony dinosaurs and all that, that was, that was fun. But I, I'm happy that they're doing something new and, and something different because then they're actually putting the resources into it this time.
01:09:33
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But yeah, it's, It is sad too, because my daughter loves that, that playground and she liked the boneyard and all that stuff. And it's kind of sad. The boneyard is still open. it for now It's open through 2025. So, so I know like, it's funny. You just said like, you know, Dino land is pretty much closed except restaurant stores is still open.
01:09:55
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Dinosaur is still open. The boneyard is still open, but yeah, the Triceratops spin is gone. Midway games are gone a lot. Like, Primeval World's been gone for a while. Yeah, I mean, i mean for me, i mean yeah, Dinoland died when Primeval World went away from me.
01:10:09
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So it's it like, I really like the Primeval World. So it's, you know, to to me, Dinoland's been gone for a while. But I guess, yeah, depending on what you're after, you can still go there and...
01:10:23
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experience some of these things before they, they close up. um and And yeah, that's kind of what Disney is saying here is, you know Hey, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to completely avoid the area. There's still stuff to do there, but I guess,
01:10:36
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Why would you want to go there is kind of my question. i mean, if you're a big dinosaur fan, I like dinosaur. I know a lot of people don't like that. Right. I like it. um I also think it has one of the most classic Disney pre-shows and things, you know, of all time, just because it's the the the guy going, we're in you know, like,
01:10:58
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the the yeah The terrible voice acting. It's not even terrible. it's just like silly. it's you know and it's and it's I don't know. and it's It's campy is what it is. It's a super campy one. yeah and i i feel like it's one of the best ones. and yeah It always made me laugh going through that that ah that that pre-show.
01:11:18
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Yeah, but it's no indie. i Listen, I understand. I understand. Sorry, but sorry. I know you like Dinosaur, but for me, it's always been the inferior Hold on. Well, hold I like Dinosaur. I'm not like obsessed with it. I'm i'm happy for you to come in. Come on in. Yeah, but i I know, but it's just it it is an inferior ride.
01:11:39
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I'm just going to say it. it's it's for For anyone who's defending it, you have not ridden Indy if you're defending Dinosaur. That's all I'll say. it It is kind of funny that, you know, with Dinoland specifically, where it's it didn't feel like it was one of those beloved things, right? Like, where people were going to just be okay with it being gone.
01:11:59
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But then every time, like, Disney announces something's gone, it's all of a sudden everyone's favorite ride. Yeah, right? Well, it's it's the vocal minority. That's what it is. Speaking up is what it is. And, yeah, you know you know, there is definitely a subset of people that like Dinoland. And that's fine. you know You know, we had... I have some great memories there, too.
01:12:17
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But... um Yeah, you're right. the the whole The whole aesthetic of it felt very out of place until I understood that the backstory, which, to be fair, that they didn't do a good job of conveying it because I had to go and do um additional reading about it to really understand what the intent was there, which means that it was a failure.
01:12:38
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because Sure. like like the whole thing about you know storytelling through through set pieces and the rides and all that is it should be able to tell you the story without somebody having to like write a post on a website somewhere and go, okay, well, what they actually meant was... like yeah it's Yeah. So, so you know unfortunately, yes, there there is definitely a...
01:12:59
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a cult following of Dinoland, but that definitely is not enough to keep it afloat. And, and I think the reason Disney did this post is that I'm sure as they've been walling off sections of it and, you know, and the rumor is getting around that it is going away.
01:13:15
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i wouldn't be surprised if people are just outright avoiding it right now. And which, you know, that hurts Disney because, yeah know, they do still have a restaurant open there. They still, you know, have a ride that they, you know, that they have to pay people to operate.
01:13:28
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And if there's nobody showing up for that stuff, then, yeah you know, it it is hurting them. So sure i feel I feel like Disney is like trying to say, you know, hey, no, no, we're not, you know, we're we're trying to keep it open as long as we can.
01:13:39
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But it's actually kind of backfiring on them, which I think is it's kind of funny. but it is better that it is. it is i think they I think they should just hang up a banner above Dinoland that says, ah I assure you we're open.
01:13:51
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and ah Open during construction. Yes, open during construction. um Yeah, that's that would be pretty funny if if they did that. But yeah, listen, I don't know if anybody's really going to miss Dinosaur.
01:14:04
Speaker
But I think, and especially if in if the Indiana Jones ride they build on top of it is going to be that much better, then I don't think anyone's really going miss it. I mean, even if they did a carbon copy of the one in California, it would be better.
01:14:17
Speaker
But they've said that they're not even doing that. So ah so it's it's going to be better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. i you're You're not wrong. But listen, it's this is all in the in the in the cause of progress, right? So we we we're okay with progress.
01:14:33
Speaker
yeah i you know I also think, though, Trevor, too, and and you're going to hate me for what i about say because this is this is you written all over it. This reminds me too of like Maelstrom where I know people liked Maelstrom, but like it never had a wait ever. It was like figment. If it was a busy day at Epcot, if there was like a 25 minute wait in Maelstrom. Right.
01:14:53
Speaker
And then they get rid of it. And then now everybody's the biggest Maelstrom fan of all time. You know what i mean? Yeah, it's you're right. It is the same thing.
Nostalgia for Dinoland
01:15:01
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but you know it's it's It's not until they take it away that you know people suddenly go, oh hold on. but No, but wait, I love that thing. i ignored it for 10 years, but I love it. I mean, I i did like Maelstrom. I did too. yeah yeah between Between that and Frozen, like I would still take Maelstrom over Frozen.
01:15:19
Speaker
but it's That's fair. I also know that it's not coming back. Well, yeah. No, that's Milschirm's coming back. That's that's gone. That's gone forever. and so ah All right. Well, anyway, so I'm not going to play food time for this, mostly because there's only a little bit of food to talk about here.
01:15:35
Speaker
ah But I also don't want to wear people out of food time. So ah the last thing we have on here... need to just cut like... like just like It's food time, like like just the singing part of food time. Someone's going food time. that And then then that's it. yeah That's it. that's a short yeah it's ah Yeah, that's what I'll do. I'll have to have like a short, quick one.
01:15:54
Speaker
But ah so this is a we're going to talk about food for season of the force at Disneyland. ah You know, this is basically Star Wars themed eats. Right. Right. Yep. Starting May the 4th, which of course, of course, because of course ah the second day of my, of my cruise. ah But it's, you know, it's funny too. I realized Trevor that Sunday that you and I will be together in magic kingdom is mother's day.
01:16:18
Speaker
And I, yeah, know. I didn't realize it. And then I was like, Oh, that'll be a good way for you to spend. I said to my wife, i was like, that's going to be a good way for you to spend mother's day We're going to get spend the day of magic kingdom. um So yeah. Yeah.
01:16:29
Speaker
anyway And and my mine and my brother's wives get a day without us. so you know Well, that's a gift to them. Yeah, that's a huge gift. They not having to supervise their husbands.
01:16:40
Speaker
That's but helpful always helpful. ah so ah love it We'll just do new things like we typically do. ah But down at Oga's, it looks like there's a new ale of some sort.
Star Wars Themed Food and Drink
01:16:53
Speaker
what is it? White wampa ale, whatever that is with apple cider and cherry puree. That's interesting sounding. i actually might drink that. That's that red or yeah, it's yeah red with the, the white on the bottom.
01:17:06
Speaker
Looks, looks like, Where's the one in the middle? No, it no it's the it's the one on the right for the three pictures. But it looks like you poured grenadine on top of milk, which I don't know that I want that.
01:17:20
Speaker
That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. and but I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce that either. N-E-apostrophe-T-R-A.
01:17:30
Speaker
Nutra... Nutragal. Is that a reference to something? i have no idea. Okay. Yeah. I'm sure there's a star Wars fan out there yelling at their, at their radio or something. Again, if I kept up on all the different shows, I would probably know what that's referring to.
01:17:46
Speaker
i mean, the the one after it, which, you know, is ah is, has come back the grinning loth cat. I know that, you know, Yeah. Lots of cats are from rebels. So yeah, I thought that that was the one all the way to the right there. Cause it has the coconut milk in it. And i you know, it's, I, I mean, I took it as, or, Oh, maybe it is the, yeah, I guess. Yeah. You could be right. That, that could be it.
01:18:06
Speaker
I'm not really sure. they don't really mark them. So yeah, it would be nice if they actually like labeled the pictures. That would be nice. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah. but let's um Let's go to Ronto roasters though. Cause a fried falumpaset cheese skewer. I feel like i'm making up words, but I guess somebody else did.
01:18:25
Speaker
You actually said that pretty well. I was going to pronounce that differently in my head, and I think you did it the correct way. so A Falumpaset cheese skewer with crispy potato and mustard cheese dipping sauce, which it it looks like corn dog. Yeah.
01:18:41
Speaker
But it's cheese, though, so it's more like a mozzarella stick on a stick covered with crispy potatoes. there's a There's a Korean street food place in my city that does corn dogs like this. like so So it's a corn dog, but they wrap it. Yeah, they roll it in cheese and all kinds of other stuff. And yeah, it looks good.
01:19:02
Speaker
Not going to lie. yeah um Should go down to grill here. But but oh but i I did want to touch on the milk tea, though. Okay, spiced milk tea. Yes. So milk tea, horchata jelly, and caramel sugar crisp.
01:19:17
Speaker
I mean, what is horchata jelly? So, well, horchata is like, ah it's like a rice milk. Oh, no, I'm familiar with horchata. I just, I've never heard of horchata jelly. i'm Yeah. I don't know what horchata jelly would be like, but I'm assuming it, I mean, it just adds a horchata flavor to, to the drink, which. Yeah.
01:19:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Should be good. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Should we go and then the grill here? Yeah. This is the most boring thing I've ever seen for a, for a star Wars.
01:19:47
Speaker
It just does look pretty standard. Doesn't it? Yeah. The galactic. Okay. Is it hero? Yeah. ah gira Yeah. i always So growing up, i always called them gyros, and that was in my area. But like I know other places, they call them gyros.
01:20:03
Speaker
Yeah. yeah i've I've never been clear on that. but So yeah, it's it's a beef and vegetable patty, Havarti cheese slice, feta tzatziki sauce, cucumber, tomato, red onion served on a toasted ciabatta bun, which the picture makes it look worse than it is. It sounds okay, yeah but it just looks like the most...
01:20:24
Speaker
Yeah, it looks like just the most basic burger, but they threw it on ciabatta bun. like But like listen, the next thing, the loaded apple fries. The mountain of fries. They just dumped a bunch of stuff. i Listen, I'm not going to complain. Crinkle cut fries and onion rings topped with barbecue pulled pork cheddar.
01:20:41
Speaker
Monterey Jack blend, pickled red onions, roasted corn, sour cream drizzle, and green onions. It literally looks like they just took a pile of fries, a pile of of of onion rings, and just dumped a whole bunch of delicious things on top of it.
01:20:53
Speaker
like I would eat that. That looks delicious to me. yeah and And the fact that they didn't try and claim it's poutine, which is nice. because that it is that' It's just loaded fries, and rightfully so, these are loaded fries.
01:21:05
Speaker
but And yeah, i'm I'm there with you. like This is an easy... you know yeah sit down and go into a food coma after eating this pile of food by the way trevor i i have to so i uh i decided i went down a disney rabbit hole yesterday on youtube and um i started watching some disney food blog videos which you know they produce really nice videos and stuff and they were doing their uh their best dishes of flower and garden and you know what their top best dish show was trevor
01:21:36
Speaker
That terrible poutine. The poutine. They said it was amazing. I'm sitting there watching it and I'm like, oh, Trevor would be so mad if he watching this right now. It's fine if it's a good dish, but stop yeah calling it something that it's not.
01:21:50
Speaker
but The other thing, they they mentioned the dips. Remember, we half the stuff we made fun of on here were the things that they said were the best at the festival. Right. you know maybe they're listening to us. Maybe they also said that strawberry shortcake was amazing too, even though it was very basic, but they said it was very good.
01:22:05
Speaker
And so were the dips and yeah. Okay. Yeah. The dips still looked very like, like the least, I very big i know that, I know they can say it's good, but like, I just, I don't know. Yeah. I'm not, sorry I'm not there for chips and dip, but yeah, i get sorry. We're getting sidetracked. Let's get back to Galactic Grill.
01:22:22
Speaker
Pistachio cherry parfait layers of pistachio mousse, red velvet cake, cherry pie filling chocolate pearls and chocolate popping spheres. You had me until the cherry pie filling.
01:22:33
Speaker
you You had me until pistachio. See, the pistachio, I don't mind. I would do pistachio. The cherry pie filling, I'm just... Oh, I love cherry pie. I'm not into cherry pie at all. Oh, I love cherry pies. Yeah.
01:22:45
Speaker
yeah. like Like, if you could take out the cherry pie layer, this would actually be, like, top-notch for me. Very appealing to you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, that's fair. i mean, I guess I could eat around it. You know just ah eat the first top. Because, yeah, it's it's all nicely layered. So, you know, I eat the top two layers, dump out the cherry pie filling, and then continue eating the rest.
01:23:07
Speaker
I want to dump out the pistachio part. There you go. Hey, that makes us That's the majority of it, though. That's the majority of it, though. I can't dump that out. So, yeah. But but if you if you if it's layered so you can selectively dump out the stuff you don't want, that actually makes it a good...
01:23:22
Speaker
uh you know a good option because you can you can pick your way through it if it's all mixed together like you you can't do that so that that is that is true so to find another thing new we have to go all the way down yeah im but umm i'm scrolling real fast and i don't see okay we're we're at the death star bucket with the We're at popcorn buckets and
Star Wars Popcorn Buckets and Sippers
01:23:42
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sippers.
01:23:42
Speaker
So i'm surprised I'm surprised it took them this long to do a Death Star bucket. ah It feels like an obvious popcorn bucket thing to do, right? It's honestly the the easiest popcorn bucket because it's literally just a big ball.
01:23:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. How did it take them this long to it? But listen, again, it looks very cool. It's got all the LEDs. yeah yeah Yeah. it's got the It looks big, too. But its I like that it has the LEDs that light up on it. That's that's very cool.
01:24:07
Speaker
And then there's a coaxium sipper. ah So, which, you know, listen, again, also looks very themed and cool. i I'm not going to complain. It looks cool. I like it.
01:24:19
Speaker
I assume that the, is it it's is it it's just the bottle that's in the front there or does it go in that thing that's? I would assume it goes into that thing. It looks like it's, you've got like a holder for it which again is kind of cool if it's like ah like an insulated thing.
01:24:34
Speaker
Yeah. Thermos kind of thing. Like that, that's actually probably costs like $80. Yeah. But, but, you know, in thinking about it, having insulated cups or, know, you know, sipper cups that are insulated.
01:24:46
Speaker
um i know, like, I know these are being offered at Disneyland, but you know, in Disney world, i would, i would love to have an insulated drink cup that I could carry around with me because it gets so hot there. Right. Yeah. ah yeah Yeah. No, you're a hundred percent right.
01:25:02
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Then there's ah there's a Yoda stainless steel tumbler, which is pretty much just Yoda on a tumbler. This looks like something you could pick up at Target. This feels like the collectible things you used to get from McDonald's. Yeah, the the yeah tumblers you'd get from McDonald's.
01:25:19
Speaker
Yeah, you'd get the cups and the you know yeah all that stuff. yeahlthough mean yeah I guess I don't hate it, but it still feels pretty...
01:25:31
Speaker
I guess it's whelmed. It's not underwhelming, but it's it's just whelming. It's just like, yeah, it's basically. It's kind of yeah kind of mid. Feeling very whelmed. yeah This next thing, though, is pretty cool, though, I will say. Mythosaur mug? That looks really cool.
01:25:48
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure it's plastic, but ah it it looks very cool. And and hey it's it's served with that weird ale that we can't pronounce. and The Nutragal Ale. The Nutragal Ale or whatever it is. Nutragal Ale.
01:26:02
Speaker
I've been watching Home Improvement, so I but i got Al in my head from Home Improvement. Or it's Nutragal Ale. Nutragal Ale. newch nutraal ale yeah I would just say Nutrigal all the time.
01:26:18
Speaker
and I feel like it's Netrigal because there's no U in there. It's Netrigal. I'm sure someone will correct us because there's probably it's probably a reference to something we don't know about. okay This next thing.
01:26:30
Speaker
i like this. You like this? These lightsaber swizzle sticks. But look how they light up the drink. It's so cool. Yeah, i guess. i i mean, the blue raspberry slushy looks good.
01:26:43
Speaker
It does, yeah. But yeah, just having a lightsaber sticking out of my drink doesn't doesn't feel like it's doing a lot for me. i Yeah, I mean, I get that, but I just like that it's all lit up and and looks like a lightsaber. It's just kind of cool. yeah No, I guess. I guess. Okay. You have two options. So so the blue one is blue raspberry and the the Darth Vader one is Coca-Cola slushy. What, which would you do for a slushy?
01:27:09
Speaker
Coca-Cola slushy. Oh, really? i like I love Coca-Cola slushy. Yeah. See, I'm, I'm, I'm on the blue raspberry side. I'll always go for something blue raspberry. Yeah, see, I would always like, ah you know, and I don't know how ubiquitous of an experience this is because we don't really have, we don't have a lot of 7-Elevens down here, but we did, you know, 7-Elevens like around every corner up in New Jersey. And I would always, you know, you'd always go there as a kid and go and get a Slurpee. And they always they always had the Coca-Cola flavor. Like they, you know, sometimes have like sherry or other things, but Coca-Cola was always there.
01:27:39
Speaker
you know it's I mean, we we still have, yeah, like Slurpees are absolutely a thing up here. Even I know it sounds crazy that it's cold here like eight months of a year, but we still love our Slurpees. And yeah yeah, you know, I guess that's the thing is like a Coca-Cola Slurpee to me feels like like that's the that's the basic choice. Yeah, it is.
01:28:01
Speaker
but You always go for the other flavors because you can always find the Coke flavor. I'm a simple man, Trevor. I'm a simple man. We got more sippers than popcorn buckets, by the way. Wow. they they're wow They're really going all in on it.
01:28:14
Speaker
Yeah. So this this ah this acid spitter orb one sipper not new. So that what they had that one last year. We have a Tauntaun bucket. A Tauntaun bucket.
01:28:26
Speaker
where do Where do you think you get the popcorn from? should be from, like, its stomach, right? but Yeah. it doesn't It doesn't look like the stomach opens up, and I feel like there's a missed opportunity. That's a missed opportunity, yeah. You should have to eat the popcorn from its stomach. Served with that popcorn that you would get from the circus that's red.
01:28:46
Speaker
Oh, yeah. you know that Yeah, exactly. Or the pink. Yeah. yeah um Yeah, that's that's it doesn't even look like that big of a popcorn bucket. I feel like you could have like a handful of popcorn stored in that thing. Yeah, yeah I take I take my Death Star over over a ton. Oh, 100 percent. 100 percent.
01:29:03
Speaker
There's also a Jawa sipper, too, which is pretty cool looking. Actually, i kind of like that one. Jawas are always so cute. Yeah. Like, I know that they're like these like scavengers that dismantle droids, but they just always look so cute. They do. They do. They do. And then there's also the salvage clone trooper bucket, which they had a similar one at Disney World, but it's this one's a little different.
01:29:27
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, I thought, or was it a sipper that they had? No, they had, I think it was a i think his popcorn bucket, but it was, I think that the key here is the clone trooper piece. I think.
01:29:37
Speaker
Yeah. So slightly different design. Yeah. Slightly different. Got it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Okay. But it's there. So that's, that's fun. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Wait, what else do we have? I think that's, don't know. There's a whole Star Wars after dark.
01:29:55
Speaker
I'm just laughing at the porg belly sandwich.
01:30:00
Speaker
Which is, how did it take them that this long to make that pun? Yeah. Yeah, that that that that seems like low-hanging fruit, though. It does, right? Yeah. poor Like, you know, the whole pork thing, i one of the funniest parts of, was it the second movie in that trilogy?
01:30:17
Speaker
Where Chewbacca's eating one of the porgs and one of the other porgs is just staring at him eating it? Yeah. It's pretty funny. um Yeah, I know. you didn't love You didn't love those trilogies. But the porgs were adorable, at least.
01:30:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I agree. Yeah. the The Porgs were definitely, I think they were one of the more redeeming aspects of those movies for sure. Yeah. Yeah. They, yeah, I agree. So, yeah. So I think that's really it. I don't think I have anything else here. I mean, I don't know if you have anything. I think that was plenty.
01:30:46
Speaker
Honestly, I think we we covered a lot of ground today. Yeah, it was a lot. Yeah, definitely a lot. So let let's wrap it up. All right.
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01:34:58
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I'm going to do a huddle when we hit a chair. How she can't cuddle is no man's affair. I looked around from pole to pole, found her in a sugar bowl.
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