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Episode 309: Spaceship Earth Popcorn Bucket, Disneyland 70th Anniversary Merch & Halloween Preview
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A new Spaceship Earth Mickey Balloon Popcorn Bucket has debuted at EPCOT. New entertainment is now available EPCOT including jugglers and a roaming “animatronic”. Shanghai Disney Resort is kicking off summer with new character outfits, Pixar-themed experiences, a Stitch meet and greet, and summer themed food. The guys discuss recent speculation that Josh D’Amaro is leading the competition to be Disney’s next CEO. Disneyland is celebrating its 70th Anniversary with new merchandise. It’s June, which means Disneyland has announced its plans for Halloween.
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Disney Dads & Family Memories
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Thank you for joining us on episode 309 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, pretty good. how are you?
00:00:43
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Good. You know, it's ah Father's Day weekend, so happy happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. yeah All the Disney dads. All the Disney dads, yeah. Specifically the podcast or just, the you know, the Disney dads podcast. We haven't talked to those guys in a while. no Not the podcast, but all the all the dads out there that do the Disney stuff for their kids.
00:01:05
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Yeah. There's a lot of us. Yeah, you know, it's for sure. I would agree with that. So, yeah, no, i but happy Father's Day to you. so yeah Same to you. Thank you. I actually, it's funny because I had, ah you know, it's i my daughter's dance recital today.
00:01:22
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And the reason I'm laughing about it is because there was a a fair amount of Disney injected into this dance recital. So what I mean by that is there was one of the songs, but you know, one of the groups of kids did was, you know, When You Wish Upon a Star, which, you know, of course,
00:01:40
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um But the other one, and this one, i totally forgot about this song. And it's been stuck in my head ever since the the dance recital, which was much earlier today. where was i think it's called ah i think it's called Have a Good Time. It's the it's the Come on Everybody, Get Your Ears On.
00:01:57
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You know that one? have What? you You know which one i'm talking about. Come on Everybody, Get Your Ears Yeah. Okay. Now you got and you gotta, you gotta, you gotta like look this up now because it's called, it's a good time.
00:02:11
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It was for Mickey and Minnie's
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Oh. Do you not remember this song? No, i don't. Dude, this song, i I'm pretty sure they also used it in a parade, too. And I i don't remember which one, but I yeah i just remember the... like i'm I'm listening to this song as it's playing, right? And I'm like, I know this song, but why? Right? like and And then all of a sudden, they get to the chorus part, and you know the you know come and everybody get your ears on. And it was like, oh, it's a Mickey Mouse thing. Okay, cool. It's a good time. Okay. Yeah, it's a good time. Yeah, yeah.
00:02:45
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yeah I'm sure people out there know what we're talking about, but I don't remember exactly when this come out or came out or, like, yeah. But it this was a whole this was a whole thing, and it was for, and, you know, I believe was for Mickey and Mickey's 90th. Or, I mean...
00:03:01
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That's what it says on YouTube. Yeah, that's what it says on YouTube. And I think that, but I seem to remember, you remember they had that parade for while? And I don't even think it was technically a parade, but it was ah in Magic Kingdom. It was like the dance, like party parade thing where they had like, you know, just like the floats coming through and just like bunch of dancers. And it was like a really short parade. It was just like, I forget what they even called it. It was like, I don't know. Maybe it was like a character. What's that word? Cavalcade. That's the word. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:28
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ah yeah ah But I don't know. So, all right. I guess and I get where you're going with it, but I, I've never like actually paid attention to the music.
00:03:41
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Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. So so i'm not like I'm struggling to like actually place the music that you're describing. Yeah. Okay, it was the Move It, Shake It, Mask It, Dance It Street Party, which isn't performing anymore. But I feel like I remember they played this.
00:03:56
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No, they did. Okay, good. See, I found on the website, and it says, move it move ah Move and Shake Along to the new original song. It's a good time. Yeah, so it was this. Because I'm listening to the song and I'm like, I know that this, i like positive this song was in the parade, but I couldn't remember which one.
00:04:11
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I have this up on my phone right now and I want to hit play on it. And it may ruin. no just we we can't. Well, no, don't play like play it quietly in your ear. Oh, really? Okay.
00:04:22
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ah Yeah. Well, yeah, because I can't, you we can't play things. I mean, we don't want to get like a, you know, copyright strike here.
00:04:30
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I'll just keep talking while you listen to that in the background. um But yeah, like it was it was this move it, shake it, mask it, dance it, street party. I remember it was like a, i remember i don't remember exactly when it was going on, but I mean, it's still listed on Disney's website. It just says temporarily unavailable.
00:04:48
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you know So, ah okay, let's see. Like I looked it up. Oh my gosh. Was it 2014? Really? Wow. Debut 2014. And then it was, had its final performance and during COVID, like right when they shut down. Oh, okay. They didn't it back.
00:05:04
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Are you listening to the music now? Are you right now? And yeah, I do remember this now, but yeah, this, okay. Yeah. that that was like yeah you're you're bringing up like i know archaic information i i know but i heard it and i was like oh man that's a good song like it makes sense now but to be that was 2014 because if they made this song for that that was that was the 90th right so of of mickey many right so that was 11 years ago i know
00:05:36
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That's crazy. um But yeah, I like, I just heard that dude and I was like, Oh my God, that song. and There was one other dis. Oh, my daughter actually danced to colors of the wind, ah which was, you know, which was nice. But um there was just like a bunch of Disney songs in there. And I just, it was, it was cracking me up that.
00:05:55
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Was it a requirement for the, for the recital or did it just so happen that everyone chose Disney music? I don't know who chose chooses the music. I assume like the teachers or whoever choreographs it chooses these things. i have no idea.
00:06:11
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But I mean, listen, it was it was like I said, it was very Disney-fied. I mean, and it's not like, it i you know, this is not the first recital we've done. and And a lot of their other ones have had Disney music in them. So it's not surprising to me. I just when I heard that song, I was like,
00:06:25
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Oh, man, i i forgot about this, but it's a it's such a catchy song. Like, it's ridiculous. because And i'm I'm, like, imagining it was, you know, sometimes when you hear songs or hear, like, ah or like, smell a certain smell, like, it takes you to a memory of, like, being a bat ah like, one of the parks or something, right?
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So, like, I'm hearing that song and I'm, like, remembering, like, sitting by the ice cream shop, eating an ice cream sundae and watching this parade go by. like you know? Yeah. And yeah, I just, it's just really random. I know, but.
00:06:58
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No, but, but it's fair. Like, like you're right about the whole, yeah. yeah You know, i feel, I feel like somebody in your, that who was setting up your, your daughter's recitals, like they rolled dice and landed on like Disney deep cuts or something like that. I mean, this is really deep cut for real. Like this. But if you think about like all the songs you just described, like a lot of those, yeah they seem obvious to us.
00:07:23
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Yeah. But they really are deep cuts at this point because outside of like Disney circles, they're not – They're not well-known songs, right? Yeah, that's fair. I mean, I feel like Colors of the Wind is. I mean, that one's – I mean, not anymore, but I mean, that's a pretty famous song. i It is. mean, which front of the star, but, you know, yeah. Yeah, but but again, I feel like, you know, to us, it's it's a big thing. But i can also I can also argue that there are people that would have no idea that, you know, Colors of the Wind was from Pocahontas.
00:07:54
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Oh, 100%. Yeah, that's 100% true. I do think When You Wish Upon a Star, though, is still like because they use it for so many things still, you know? i mean, it it is it is actually the theme song of Disney at this point. It is Like it's yes or an instrumental version of it is the theme song. and Exactly. So like I feel like people do associate at least that one with it. But yeah, you're right. I mean, I can understand.
00:08:15
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i can understand what you're saying. Um, so yeah, anyway, um, that's, that was a whole, that was a whole thing today and it's still stuck in my head because it is an extraordinarily catchy song. And, and I can see that. Yeah. yeah ah they I only listened to about 30 seconds of it and and I,
00:08:34
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i remembered I remembered vividly of, usually it was, ah we were like, okay, we're going from Adventureland to Fantasyland. You kind of cut past yeah the ah the hub and that parade would be going on. And it's like, oh, there's a parade going on. Great.
00:08:49
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People aren't going to be in my way because they're watching the parade. But you can hear the music still as you're like walking. You're hearing that music and it's very like... yeah yeah and that was like it wasn't like the it wasn't like the scheduled like you know afternoon parade like festival of fantasy was like it was they had it like at a variety of different times it just kind of showed up and yeah yeah yeah it was it was cool like that which yeah i think what was a cool thing because it you know it didn't lead to you know the crazy crowds it it was more a spontaneous thing that happened yeah absolutely yeah
00:09:25
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All right. So let's I want to talk about something here because this kind of came up in the this came up in the discord.
EPCOT Updates & Merchandise Highlights
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And I actually this almost made the cut last week. And at this point, this is old news. However, we're still talking about it anyway.
00:09:38
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So first of all, by the way, i don't know if Have you seen any of the pictures or video of Geo 82? I've seen bits and pieces of it. Because it looks awesome. i and I wish I was able to go when me too I was there.
00:09:51
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But they had some really cool stuff that they were like selling, too. Like the cups they were selling. There's been some really neat merch with that. um But one of the other things, I guess, in in honor of the new lounge opening is i Spaceship Earth Mickey Balloon popcorn bucket.
00:10:11
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Now, I know, Trevor, that your wife was very upset not to have this, as was mine. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My my wife was like... you why did they not release this when you were there and i'm like i i i don't know and i i can't go back and get one i can't go back in time um yeah this was back on june 4th was when it became available so it's a little bit old now right but this is um first of all it's a 26 popcorn bucket which i don't actually i actually don't think is that bad considering right considering um but it it does light up so i think that's kind of the big thing is yeah it has it has extra functions besides being a popcorn bucket It does. And it seems like it's a decent size for a popcorn bucket, right? So it's semi-functional as a popcorn bucket.
00:10:56
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But it's basically the Mickey balloon popcorn. but I mean, it's the Mickey balloon, right? But it's with the geodesic sphere. pattern on the outside and it also says Epcot and as you mentioned it also lights up which is it's interesting I'm looking at pictures of this and i I'm shocked at how bright this lights up because i'm like how does that even work the outside of it is covered in silver and like it looks like it really lights up ah it goes either blue green or red right I wonder if the silver is actually like if if it's like a
00:11:29
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if it's translucent, like feel like, I feel like this is something, if you looked at it close, you would see like, Oh yeah, it's not like you see it. Yeah. It's not silver, silver. It's like, it's got like tinge of transparent to it, which, you know, means that, that like looking at it, there's not a lot of, you can see like where the LEDs are, but yeah, they're like lighting through silver, which is, mean, very smart way to do it.
00:11:54
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Honestly. It is. And by the way, I said there were three colors. There's actually six. it's It goes red, light blue, dark blue, purple, blue, and then green. So it flashes through a sequence, I guess.
00:12:05
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You can either do a slow glow or a blink. now i'm I'm just disappointed that you know they should have had more customization to it because you know why why could Disney not just spend a couple extra dollars to let you cut?
00:12:17
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Sorry. What do you mean by customize? What do you want to customize? I was invoking entitlement of people on the internet that seemed to think these things should be better. It's a nice popcorn bucket. like It is. Yeah, everything revolves around you.
00:12:31
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you know yeah And also, I'm just looking at the someone showed a picture of the bottom of it, and it is not microwave safe, which worries me that they have put that.
00:12:43
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On the bottom of Okay. read the same thing. making popcorn in your Disney popcorn bucket in the microwave? like that's Let's think about that for a second. As soon as I read that, I thought the same thing. like, in what scenario is someone putting this in the microwave?
00:13:01
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First of all, it's not going to fit in most microwaves, right? like it's It's not going to stand up in a microwave. Somebody's going to try, though. But... or Or maybe it's like you maybe somebody thinking like you throw a bag of Jiffy Pop in it.
00:13:14
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You run it in a microwave and then magical popcorn. Magical pile of melted plastic. That is just that it is. i mean, listen, it is sad that you have to say not microwave safe because there's batteries in it, too.
00:13:29
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I mean, I think most people know not to put batteries in the in the microwave. But I mean, who knows? i you know But it also speaks to, I think there's a lot of like merchandise at Disney that people assume, like especially mugs and stuff like that. like you you know This is very extreme, but there's like mugs and stuff that like you read them and it's like, oh, this is not a microwave-safe mug, which, again, is is understandable. there That's an understandable one. They're not always you know making mugs out of materials that are safe for the microwave.
00:13:59
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But again, like just... i I feel like the reason that they had to put that on there is that somebody sent them an email at some point saying, I tried to microwave my popcorn bucket that I got at Magic Kingdom and it broke my microwave. Right. I just, yeah I can't. I know. it's It's just, it's ridiculous. But I do have to say, man, like the, the this Geo82 looks awesome. And yes I don't know when I'm going to get to go there, though, because it is adult only.
Entertainment & Performances at EPCOT
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So it's going to be a tough one for me to get.
00:14:32
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you know i i mean yeah that that's fair but uh i guess you do sometimes travel like like you said you've traveled in the past with family where like you know you have grandparents or stuff with you yeah so yeah i mean i i'm actually hitting close to the point where i mean my my son is my son is going to be legally an adult in canada soon yeah which i mean doesn't help but doesn't help down here yeah He's old enough that I could just, you know, i could we probably pass him off.
00:15:02
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Yeah. Well, I don't pass him off. I could just say, you know, go do whatever. And, you know, I'm going to go check out this lounge and he would be like, okay, fine. Like, I know that's true. Yeah. You could just let him, you can just let him wander. Yeah. I mean, it is 21 plus by the way, not even, it's not even eight. Yes. It's 21 plus. Yeah. Exactly. yeah makes that It's a bar. I mean, it's a bar. Yeah. So it makes total sense, but.
00:15:21
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I mean, i it just looks awesome. And like the cup, like these cups that they were selling. I mean, i don't know if they're still going to be selling them, but I mean, though like those are awesome. I don't even drink and I want them, you know? ah um But anyway, I just, we had to talk about this popcorn bucket because it became a, you know, people were talking about it in the, in the discord. And I, yeah like I said, it just barely missed the cut of last episode. So yeah, it it was like,
00:15:48
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A couple of hours too late, honestly, I feel like from when we recorded the last episode, because it was like a few hours later, my wife was coming to me and going, did you see this? And I was like, oh, she yeah, that's that's really funny.
00:16:02
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ah So staying in Epcot, though, to Trevor, is yeah we've got some new entertainment in Epcot now. ah So first of all, the the the ah they they've moved a pianist from the Rose and Crown pub over at what was that Grand Floridian.
00:16:17
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And now they're performing in the Odyssey. but Which is cool. During the day. yeah i love it but I love a pianist, man. i love all this I'll sit there and listen the piano all day. yeah and And the Odyssey is actually a good place for it because it's kind of like it's ah it's a quick service location. It usually has specific foods to whatever festival is going on. But it has a fairly nice large area where, like you said, you can sit and enjoy you know a pianist playing while you're eating your food. like it's not It's not out of the way. It's actually, honestly, probably more visible than them being at the Grand Floridian.
00:16:52
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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Then we also have, I don't know, did you ever catch forces of nature when you were a at Epcot?
00:17:03
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I don't think... It was like an acrobat kind of act. they were it was very like artsy. Then no, I don't think I've ever seen forces of nature. Okay, because it was, I mean, there was something that when that area of the park you know reopened, they had that as like entertainment there and that just ended, right? But it was, we caught it the one time when we were there last May, not this past May, but the one before that.
00:17:27
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You know, weirdly, i feel like the last two or three times I've been Epcot, specifically around that area, it's always been raining. Yeah. So that's fair probably why I've never actually caught that particular act.
00:17:40
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Yeah. Well, that, it's gone. So you're never going to see it. Okay. All right. But, but we have some new stuff though. Yeah. we do stuff ah So the first one is um Max and, and Adar is, I guess, and kind of yeah which is, which is a a pair of um variety entertainers who juggle various objects while poking funny. at Each other is the description.
00:18:02
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Yeah. They also do things like plate spinning and they get they get the crowd involved in it, which is is always cute. I love Street Misfier stuff, man. Like even it's like ju jugglers, I'm down to watch some juggling while walking through World Celebration. Why not? Right.
00:18:16
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Yeah. And I feel like it's, you know, Epcot is kind of a, you know, a perfect place for that because Epcot is supposed to be an amalgamation of a bunch of. yeah you know, different ideas together. And so having a variety act is, you know, kind of right, right in there is, you know, yeah i would expect to see something like that in a, in a fancy park somewhere.
00:18:36
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I don't know. I, I wish they would. ah So my favorite street atmosphere besides the jammeters, of course. um Oh, and of course I listen to number one, of course is, is um Dapper Dan's. I consider that street atmosphere, right?
00:18:50
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Yeah. I think my favorite one at Epcot though, they used to have that one at the, at the France pavilion. where the guy did the chairs where they said he said oh yeah up that one was awesome and like i'm so sad that one went away because we would just stop there every time and watch and because it was like it was cool because they weren't they would like there was no talking right like there was just one dude that would blow a whistle instead of talking in his mouth and he would he would yeah use that to like communicate what he was doing Yeah, but then this the other guy was stacking up all these chairs and ends up getting really high up in the air and you know is is doing these acrobatics on these chairs. with and There's no padding on the ground. and
00:19:28
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you know it's I mean, honestly, it's kind of terrifying to watch, but it's also fascinating. I absolutely loved that show. I mean, I also do love the drummers over at Japan, too. like That's always a fun to watch. The taiko drummers are a personal favorite of mine as well.
00:19:41
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that's that That's one of those ones that just is is always there and will never not be there. um So now we have this other okay other group or a group. I don't know what you would call this. stream-mosphere pairing. So we have – this is called misinformation and AL.
00:20:01
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Or AI? don't know. AL is short for algorithm. Oh, is that what it is? Did I not read that? Okay. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. With her is al short for algorithms. So, so yeah, but but Al is ai I guess. So, so the,
00:20:16
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the, the intent is, or this, this is a, I guess a comedy show of some sort. and It kind of seems like it. Yeah. Where, yeah. Mis, misinformation is a animatronic.
00:20:28
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A fake animatronic. It's a person. you just have learning Yeah. Learning about humans with, with her is Al and they come from, and actually I love this is the Florida artificial intelligence laboratory. That's pretty funny.
00:20:41
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Or fail. That is funny. That is funny. Yeah. um I will say they're just intrigues me because it's called fail. Yeah, there's obviously doing a lot of wordplay here. now but i I'll tell you this, Trevor. When I first read this, I was like, that kind science cat sounds kind of stupid, right? Like is somebody pretending to be like a robot or whatever?
00:21:01
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But like considering the play on words and the silliness of this, i it it probably is pretty funny. You know? and And I mean, honestly, like, like comedy street performers, it's, it's another level of improv that, yeah I mean, you you don't get that out of like, even like planned shows, like the jamminators and stuff. Like, I feel like,
00:21:21
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these kinds of things, you will get a lot more unique and memorable interactions than lot of shows. Assuming they do it right. Of course, I haven't seen, I haven't seen any like extensive video. I know that there's a quick video on here of it, yeah but um I'm curious to see how these, how these may make their way into social media through like different reactions and whatnot. Yeah.
00:21:46
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Yeah. And i I, like I said, I enjoy the play on words here, right? You know, they're they're obviously doing the misinformation and and al or AI, right? And then the Florida and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It's funny. Interesting dig on, yeah, you know, kind of I mean, AI is known for having misinformation. Exactly. That's why it's funny, right? it' it's Yeah, it's clever. It ah it is. it It's an interesting choice to like, I mean, it it's a funny joke and all that, but I'm honestly surprised somebody greenlit this at Disney.
00:22:20
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i Yeah. I also have to say, too, like in this short video I'm watching, too, like she's doing like a really bad version of like being a robot. She is trying.
00:22:30
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I mean, she's trying. Yeah, she I mean, she is. But like, like, she's not fully committed to the bit. I feel like, you know, she's like sometimes doing the jerky robot thing and then sometimes not. But, you know, again, I don't know. Maybe it's hilarious. i I could be very wrong on this.
00:22:47
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I said, again, I feel like this is something that. If given if they're given the space to be creative and funny and whatnot, then it could be something that is very memorable for, you know, families walking through Epcot. And and the thing is, is like the area that they're in, it's over by Guardians, which yeah is a very busy area. So I feel like that there's going to be lots of opportunities for.
00:23:10
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Silly stuff to happen. persist For silliness. Yeah. Yeah. That's I mean, you're you're probably right about that. It's just and listen, I'm all for more street atmosphere, even if like it's not great.
00:23:25
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You know, yeah and ah we should also mention that because they're putting this as part of what they're calling cool kids summer. don't know if you've or I know you've looked into this, but, you know, for for our listeners, this seems to be Disney's latest episode.
Disney's New Themes & Offerings
00:23:40
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Yeah, themed thing for, you know, activities that they're doing over the summer. um You know, they're calling it Cool Kid Summer. and And they seem to be invoking a lot of like, um I feel like ninety or that they are trying to lean into some of the 90s nostalgia somewhat. So um i I'm curious to see what else beyond like the these kind of streetmosphere things we see pop up as well.
00:24:04
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i You know, my wife said this to me the other day, and this is totally true. They've been leaning, leaning like really hard into a goofy movie lately. And she's like, why? She's like, why? She's like, why all of a sudden are they doing that? I'm like, I know there was the documentary that came out.
00:24:18
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Right. Because there was like, there's like a doc on Disney plus about the making of that movie. Yeah. And it is the 30th anniversary of it, too. Yeah, exactly. That kind of makes sense. Yeah, it it just was, it's kind of random. I mean, I know it's always been like a cult classic to a lot of people, you know, but it is interesting that they are highlighting it so much right now, you know, more than usual, I feel like.
00:24:40
Speaker
Yeah. But anyway, you want to talk about Shanghai? your Yeah, let's talk about Shanghai because... doing so okay but ah that is oh no. we're We're leading in with... these are These are cool things that I wish we were getting in the North American parks that...
00:25:00
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You know, it just, it looks so good. Yeah, yeah. right Right? These outfits, though, are really out there. Yeah. that the So, that yeah, the the the Mickey and Minnie and yeah Goofy. like i guess it's not out there for Shanghai, though, right? Like, maybe that's just, it's our sensibilities. But but it's all these, like like, bright, like, pastel colors that they're doing. And and it almost, it again, it almost has, like, a 90s. A 90s feel. Yeah. to it Yeah. Yeah, it's like they're doing 90s throwback right now, which i maybe they're just specifically targeting our age group. Like, is that what's happening right now? They're like, we need to target at this group. like so
00:25:38
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yeah To be fair, we we are the adults with the money taking our kids to places like this. So it probably makes sense to yeah you know pander to things that were we're excited about. Yeah, it's not like your song has like nostalgia for 90s things because he has no idea what happened in the 90s. No, but but to be fair, I have gotten him into a lot of 90s music and he seems to appreciate it. Okay, well, that's cool.
00:26:00
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That's cool. So, yeah, so they have all new costumes, like you said, or they're all ah very, very pastel-y. And then we also got some ah duy Duffy and Friends. Yeah, the Duffy. We talked about this previous. We talked this about this even during the interview with Dapper Danielle.
00:26:16
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, man, the Duffy stuff is just crazy. It it is crazy how, how like, like it it almost seems to eclipse the actual, like, Mickey Mouse stuff. Like, it it's so... In Shanghai? Yeah, totally. I completely think it does, right? I mean...
00:26:37
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uh the other stuff they have going on here too though is they've got uh they're doing they've like a walkthrough exhibition about like all the pixar movies but it also looks like they're doing like uh they're doing a turning red meet and greet right is that what's happening or is or is that just a statue there is maybe that's just a statue i assumed it was a meet and greet it kind of looks like it looks like a character but i guess that there's nothing animated about it Yeah. So I don't know. it's hard. It's hard. Cause it just says a walkthrough exhibition. So maybe it's, Oh wait, no, it's just don't stop there. You can have the chance to meet joy, sadness. Yeah. Red Panda. Okay. Yeah. So it is and greed. Okay.
00:27:14
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ah So they're going to have the, the, the, you know, red Panda, uh, Sully, Carl Fredrickson, Bing Bong, and, uh, ah joy and sadness that you can do meet and greets with. But I feel like you really don't see Turning Red ah thrown out there as much. And I have to say, like, Turning Red is a very underrated movie. If you haven't seen that one, that's we really enjoyed that one. And my daughter is still obsessed with the fake ah boy band in that movie.
00:27:41
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Yeah. Sorry, are you asking me directly if I've not watched a movie that was based in Canada? yeah Canadian Pride, I know. yeah It's a good movie, though. and It is. They do reference Timbits in it, which I i love. you you and it's It's just a really good movie. It's like different. it's it's one One of the things I really liked about it is that Pixar clearly like allowed the director of that movie to go very out of Pixar's wheelhouse as far as like the animation style you know like it's it's unlike any other pixar movie i would say in a lot of ways um but yeah if you haven't seen that one check it out because it it's good the music's good the it's funny it's it's just well done but i i know with this is not a food time episode trevor but i i already know that you were eyeing up this anger burger over here
00:28:32
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You know, this deathly red. Yeah. Burger in the, in the, in the, they're showing that they're showing with, with, uh, it looks like chili peppers in front of the box to indicate that this thing is dangerous and very hot. I mean, and are the fries spicy too? Because they're served in a box that looks like.
00:28:51
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I don't know. I think they don't look like they have anything on them that would be spicy, right? Yeah. But I don't know. but again like box hand area i mean, there's so much stuff like, again, that the food is just they always go amazing like it It always looks so good. And even the... Is this a bing bong cotton candy?
00:29:12
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Yeah, like his belly makes the cotton candy. is that way Yeah, which makes sense because he is made out of cotton candy, right? I i believe that his body is cotton candy. yeah Oh my goodness. Yeah, you're right. Which is great. It's hilarious, right? That's such an easy... How did they not do that before? i mean, maybe they did and we just forgot. but mean, I've never seen that before. like yeah that Shanghai is just doing all kinds of fun interesting stuff. Yeah.
00:29:36
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Yeah, really fun stuff. And then there's going to be a stitch meet and greet, which, you know, is is fine. you You know, whatever. We've had stitch meet and greets around. That's not that big a deal. um But ah they're going to, I guess, Tinkerbell has ah not been ever at Shanghai Disney Resort because they're saying Tinkerbell makes her debut.
00:29:54
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So, okay. Like random, but sure. Great. um And the interesting thing is it's not a meet and greet. It looks like it's a, it's a wandering character.
00:30:07
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Yeah. You know, I actually i don't know if you noticed this, Trevor, but the last time we were at Disney, we saw far more wandering characters than we've ever seen. They have really brought that back in a big way.
00:30:18
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We saw so many wandering characters when we were at Magic Kingdom just for that one day. Like, I haven't seen that many in a long time. And they kind of didn't quite. We were there the same day.
00:30:29
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yeah Yeah, I know we were. Yeah, I wasn't sure if you were paying attention to that, though. Oh, no, we we were because i i would I actually said it to my brother when we were there. I was like, this is weird like like because like we saw the Incredibles over by Tron. We saw um ah ah Woody and Jesse in Frontierland.
00:30:47
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And i'm trying, I know, like, yeah, it was just like, oh yeah. And then we saw, like, the Mad Hatter walking around at one point. And it was just like too like, yeah, just going up to random guests. Like, i that has been missing for a long time.
00:30:59
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Yeah. So, yeah. and And same thing. Like, I turned to my brother and I was like, this is weird. This doesn't normally happen. And he was, but course, he hadn't been there forever. forever He's like, oh, I just thought, like. The last time he went, that kind of stuff was happening. So he was like, oh, I just figured this was normal. And I'm like, nah, hasn't been like this for while. It was normal, and then it stopped being normal, and now it seemed to be back to normal again.
00:31:22
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But I also have to wonder if in Shanghai, like i guess I've never paid attention to things like that in Shanghai. like Is it normal for wandering characters there? Don't know. question.
00:31:34
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Because, yeah, I mean, they did they're making it sound like, you know, you might run into to Tinkerbell, which is... Yeah. Yeah. Kind of crazy. seems very random. Yeah, it seems very random.
00:31:44
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So, i like I didn't really see anything else on here. that i mean, ah other than getting down to the bottom here of these... ah these the ice cream cones and then whatever the ice cream thing is in that little package and then also this zipper that is Mickey's hands.
00:32:01
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Again, i weird. What would you say? It's an ice cream sandwich, but it's in like a little container. You know? yeah don doesn't look it doesn't say what it is. It doesn't, unfortunately. Actually, before we even got down there, i was I was fixated on that. They show um a kid's play area.
00:32:18
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It seems to be... um I don't know what the theme actually is of it, but the slide... Looks very Moana-y to me. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, it looks it looks like yeah something Polynesian Moana-themed. But this slide looks and incredibly painful.
00:32:34
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but It does, because it's got, like, ribs in it. like Yeah, and and the way that it curves looks like... it like Oh, yeah. and I feel like there there's video out there of somebody's kids getting hurt on...
00:32:45
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still It's still better than the aluminum, ah you know, those metal slides that we used to go down as kids that would be a million degrees in the heat. Those are character building. i yeah You said this one's not?
00:33:00
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You see, I I learned how to position my, like on my elbows and stuff so that I wouldn't burn my hands on those ones. and This still exists. You see them every once in a while, but yeah, I mean, even these slides get really hot though too. I mean, it's not, you're not spared really, but yeah, but all right. Well, yeah, lots, lots of cool stuff going on at Shanghai. And, you know, as we always say, you know, I hope that I hope this stuff does like,
00:33:27
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It has to make its way over sometimes. If things resonate well enough that you know it does make its way over to the North north American parks. I do to say, by the way, I've really been enjoying, as someone that frequents Disney Parks blog, that there's a button on all the pages that says ah that it says Alien Invasion, i think is what it said, where you can click it and everything turns to Stitch ruining it on the page. I don't know if you've noticed this, but... I actually have not clicked on the button. I've seen...
00:33:55
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Stitch on there. but If you click it, it' said it pops up and it says 626 error. And then all of the pictures on the page they become kind of scrambled. And then Stitch is like ruining half the things.
00:34:07
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Although not on this page. oh its he's yeah At the top it is, but then... Oh no, is there's a couple other pages. to it stuff yeah it's It's just funny. It's just like a random thing that they didn't need to do and then just decided to do. but And that movie continues to be huge. I think it's still number one at the box office. It's it's destroying out there. So...
00:34:25
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You know, you say it's a random thing that they didn't need to do, but I disagree. ah ah Yeah, okay. sir That's fair. That's fair. Disney should absolutely be doing stuff like this because it feeds into the... the movie and everything, yeah.
00:34:41
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Well, not not just the movie, but but the general... um like bringing that next level of magic to Disney stuff. It makes them stand out from, from, you know, other, other theme parks and stuff because, you know, they are doing these extras and,
00:34:56
Speaker
I agree. ah agree. agree. All right, Trevor. So that's cute. Okay. Let's go. Right. um Why don't we go ahead and do our ad? And then we got a couple more things. And, and I, I promised, I promised that since it was father's day weekend, we were going to try to keep this one to ah a minimum today. So I know I always say that and then we go for it. oh No, I, I think we have, we have enough stuff.
00:35:19
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00:36:02
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So here's ah another thing that didn't make the cut last week. And this is not really. See, I actually. This is a rumor. i It is. But I also I connect this to Disney parks because I think I think this is an interesting conversation to have. And we don't have to have too many conversations about it. But um I don't even want to say his name because every time I do, someone says I'm saying it wrong.
00:36:25
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but Josh DiAmaro. Yeah. i I see. I feel like I say it that way. And they're like, oh it's DiAmaro or something. and I'm like, okay, well, whatever. DiAmaro. I say DiAmaro. But whatever. Yeah. Whatever his name is. Josh. I'm using my Canadian accent. So, you know, come come for me if you want. there you go.
00:36:39
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So there's reports out there that that ah that Josh is the current front runner to succeed Iger as CEO.
Leadership at Disney: Past & Present
00:36:46
Speaker
Yeah. And that doesn't surprise me. In fact, yeah i kind of thought he was always going to be the front runner because it is like straight up impossible for anyone to really do a good job of running Disney because you have to think. And they talk about this in the article that I linked on here. But, you know, you it's very difficult because there's such a diversified company, right? Like you need somebody that understands like Hollywood, but also somebody that understands theme parks and music and television and, you know, like cruises. Right.
00:37:16
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Right. So oh but also the the culture of Disney as well. So not not just understanding these businesses, but understanding how Disney operates within these businesses.
00:37:28
Speaker
Exactly. It's a very I mean, Disney is probably one of the most complicated companies to run. Right. Like just because of of how complicated they really are.
00:37:39
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So to me, and it's, it is interesting to me because like, obviously JPEC moved from the head, you know, from the head of the parks to being CEO. Right. And that didn't work out great, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work out great with DiAvero. Right. Cause I think Josh has a very good reputation. He has that, that same kind of like Iger, like um charisma, you know, yeah he's got like, like people just like kind of like him, you know, generally. Yeah.
00:38:08
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yeah I don't even think – I mean, yes, he's he's very personable and very very easy to be engaged with. yeah you know he Like you said, yeah, he does come across with a lot of charisma. But I feel more so than that is that you can see where he has listened and tried to give guests what they're looking for from Disney. Yeah.
00:38:29
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You know, you know, the flip side of that is JPEG was running the parks, but he was entirely just balancing the books. He wasn't cut it wasn't cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting. Yeah. Yeah. and And so he wasn't doing anything to look at, you know, hey, how are we going to improve? How are we going to, you know, you know, get people in the door? see Like he JPEG didn't care about any of that. He didn't care about what the actual customer thinks at the end of the day.
00:38:56
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Josh, you can see that he does. Yes. Yes. And I remember when he became the park's head, I remember immediately like some things that people had been like the guests had been complaining about started changing.
00:39:07
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Like he i remember he like improved the bus situation by quite a bit. I remember there was a lot of cast member like he went out to cast members and like find out like what their issues were and and started solving those. So I think he's also pretty popular amongst the cast member.
00:39:22
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you know, like groups as well. um But I, you know, the other part of it is though too, is like he is overseen, you know, he overseens parks and overseas parks and experiences, which is not just Disney parks, right? Like it's, it's, you know, it's DVC, it's the cruise ships, it's adventures by Disney.
00:39:40
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It's, it's a large part of the company, right? Now, given he doesn't really have experience seemingly in the, in the movie world. Right. But I think he has kind of, like you said, he needs to though. Because, yeah you know, he can you can trust the people who are running those areas. And and I think that's the the bigger part of it, right, is that, you know, you don't need somebody who knows everything, but you need somebody who knows how to trust and, you know, you know make make good judgment calls based on the experts in those areas.
00:40:11
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Yeah, and and you know to the i Josh kind of reminds me of a lot of ah of of like how Eisner was, but in the opposite way, right? like Eisner came in and knew everything about the movie business and had all the connections in Hollywood, but knew nothing about theme parks.
00:40:25
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like Just nothing about theme parks. Yeah, but and and that showed in how he... did some things for the theme parks well oh no but i mean he expanded the theme parks a lot though i mean like you're right but there was also some big flops in the middle that's true that's true but yeah well like when he started cost cutting and stuff like that yeah but it's at the same time it's like i think josh has like this ah amazing you know background there and he can i like you said i think the most important quality is being able to listen and to adapt and to use the people that are around you that are experts. And I, it, based on the things I've read about him and the things I've seen, you know, he, like you said, he's very amenable to feedbackme to feedback and will change things based on that. And that is a good quality to have. Whereas JPEG just seemed like this, is it's going to be my way and that's it.
00:41:10
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Like, you know, there's no, there's no feedback here. Like I'm doing what I'm going to do. And so, you know, it'll be interesting to see how this shakes out. I hate to do like a whole, you know, ah you know, the talk about the CEO things. But I do believe that if he does become the the CEO, I actually do think this could be beneficial to the parks because I think he realizes how important the parks business is to the company.
00:41:36
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Whereas I feel like JPEC, did, but also didn't care as much about it. Yeah. I, like I said, I, I feel you're right in that it's the difference between, you know, Chapek cared about the business and he cared about, yeah he cared about, you know, is the business doing what it needs to do, which was, you you know, are all the cogs moving nicely, but Josh cared about, you know, the, the entirety of Disney as an entity, like, like not, uh,
00:42:06
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Not just the fact that, oh, you know, you know we're we're running under budget. We're doing this. It was, hey, people are happy in the park. We're giving them, you know you know, not just what they want, but, you know, a curated, you know, whatever they can do within their power. And and like you said, you know, listening to feedback and understanding, you know, what's working, what's not working. I feel like JPEG never...
00:42:29
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listen to what was working, what, what wasn't working. He was just, you know, I'm doing this full speed ahead. Don't talk to me. Right. So it was just like magical spreads too expensive. Bye. You know what i mean? Like you don't no thought to like how that would affect people, you know? Like, yeah.
00:42:43
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And I feel like, you know, the thing about this is, you know, if Josh does become, the next CEO. um Like you said, it's good for Disney overall, but then the question becomes, know, well, who's filling in Josh's position.
00:42:56
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That's right. And, and, you know, we we don't, we're not looking into that this point, but you know, again, because of how Josh has operated the parks, I would expect he would be looking for somebody to succeed him that has a similar mentality and has that, you know, that same understanding of, um you know, Disney's,
00:43:15
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Like I said, equate it to, and, you know, it's probably not the right term for but it, but it is a culture thing. It it is, you know, yeah understanding that, you know, Disney operates a certain way.
00:43:26
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It is different from other theme parks. yeah You know, they do things differently. Yeah. And not trying to fit them into a mold, right? yeah You know, you know, adapting to what is going on in the current, you know, you know, ecosystem of, you know, whatever is popular in the world, stuff like that. But also, um you know you know, not trying to just turn them into another, um sorry, carowinds, because we talked about carowinds last week. Right. Poor heroines catching a stray. They don't deserve that.
00:43:56
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and Sorry, but, but you know what I mean, right? So yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, no, I, I do know what you mean. um i mean, I think jo Josh has also been with the company like a really long time too. And, and kind of has worked. Yeah. He's, he's been there. I just looked at it really quickly. He was there for 22 years. i mean yeah so so I mean, he's, he knows, he understands the culture. I mean, he's been there a long time. He's worked in a variety of different places. I mean,
00:44:21
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you know he he really did And i mean, listen, this could also be you know this guy to be good for DVC stuff, too. I mean, I don't really know what else I want from DVC at this point, because I mean i think everybody's like, all right, too many resorts.
00:44:33
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ah yeah like But also more resorts, right? like it's It's a weird thing because everyone's like, oh, they're building another DVC resort. But then we're also all like, well, we want more rooms to choose from.
00:44:44
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So, you know what I mean? I mean, yeah. i yeah ah like I guess yeah everybody's wants out of DVC is not. yeah i mean, at its most basic premise, yeah, DVC is about having ah place to stay when you're at Disney. so Yeah.
00:45:00
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Yeah, I think the I think the good sum up of this whole conversation, though, is a quote from this article. And this was in the Hollywood Reporter ah that said, this is the problem at Disney. How can you expect someone from theme parks to understand the process of making television and film?
00:45:14
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And how can you expect someone from television and film to understand how to work with the Chinese government? like it's You know, what i it's it's such a difficult job. And that's something I mean, Josh at least knows the second one because he, you know, has he obviously is the park chairman. So he has to work with these other countries.
00:45:30
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And so but I mean, yeah, he's probably more deficient in that part. But I think if you're just a creative, I mean, if you're a creative person and you're opening to listening, like open to listening, like we're talking about, like, I think you'll be fine. You know, it's not like Iger came in with, ah you know, experience and all this stuff. He figured it out, you know, yeah.
00:45:46
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And honestly, that that does speak back to, you know, if it for anybody who has listened to, yeah you know, reports of how Disney or Walt Disney did things when he was alive was, you know, Walt Disney was he was in film and animation and all that.
00:46:03
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He didn't know how to run a theme park. So, you know, back to the point of, you know, you can't know how to do all things, but he, he brought people in and he had people around him that, you know, they weren't even necessarily the experts in those areas. And, you know, you know, a lot of Imagineers said that front, they were like, I've never done this before, but Um, Walt put trust in them and he said, Hey, you know, you're going to do this thing.
00:46:27
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I'm trusting you to do it. yeah He was, he wasn't like trying to micromanage them. He wasn't like trying to, you know, tell them one way or the other. And yes, he did take some risks because of it, but that is part of the industry.
00:46:39
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That is part of, you know, working in, in movies, in, movie in theme parks, all of that stuff has risk associated with it. And you need somebody running it who will, will pay attention to,
00:46:51
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What's working, what's not working and and put value in the people that, you know, not necessarily the experts in the area. But, you know, if if you have people that are working for you that prove themselves to be reliable and prove themselves to, you know, they have the vision of the company in in mind whenever they're doing stuff.
00:47:10
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you know I would hope that Josh continues to promote people like that. and that you Again, that just builds up Disney as you know when you have people behind the scenes that are running it the way that we want to see it run. yeah and and you know and That comes down to you know things like you know bringing back the little...
00:47:26
Speaker
And I'm using air quotes, the the magic things, you know, yeah know the streetmosphere, the in the parks, you know, it's the wandering characters. yeah It's, yeah you know, you know, little extra things like, like you know, we still don't have, um you know, delivery back to your room back yet. yeah And and, you know you know, all kinds of little things that just make the park better when you have somebody who has that in mind.
00:47:49
Speaker
It does make it better for everybody. Right. And and that's that's ah actually how if Disney if Disney's board of directors and, you know, you know, CEO and everybody else, you know, if if all of those people want to make money, the hard part is, is that, you know, it's not it doesn't come from just cutting everything and, and you know, trying to hoard as much money as possible.
00:48:10
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They do have to put themselves out there and they do have to put risk into what they're doing, because that's how Disney got to where they are. And. And honestly, if my opinion is if if Josh doesn't become the next CEO, um I feel like that, you know, dis Disney is in danger. and You know, we've we've talked about this previously, you know, whole Disney Universal thing.
00:48:33
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And and also like on the movie side as well as, you know, there other there are other studios that could take over Disney in terms of popularity. But it's kind of in Disney's court.
00:48:44
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yeah Right now, like they need to actually drop the ball. But if you have somebody at the helm that is moving them forward the way that they have been moving forward for decades at this point, yeah um that it's it's not going to happen. you're You're not going to you're not going to take Disney out of, you know, being one of the biggest companies in the world because you have somebody who's operating like it's the biggest company in the world. Yeah.
00:49:10
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Outside of those a couple of JPEG years. ah but yeah That's what I mean. but youll forget paype was He wasn't acting like that, though. that's the that He wasn't. he wasn't He was just you know treating it like this is you know another accounting job to him. That's how I felt. you know every time i saw felt yeah yeah This was just another job to him. He didn't have that like understanding company yeah yeah understanding of what it was right so yeah yeah like you got to have that love for the company too like you have to understand like you know like you said the culture you gotta you have to love what the company is and what it stands for and everything so it's i think he has that clearly so all right well trevor let's talk about some disneyland stuff since we talked about ceo now let's talk about disneyland what do you want to talk about first halloween or you want to talk about some merch
00:49:56
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Let's talk about the merch first. I think we can finish off with the Halloween stuff.
Disneyland Merchandise & Seasonal Events
00:49:59
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Yeah, yeah. Okay, so 70th anniversary merch is popping up now. ah And let's just go through here. Anything that that catches your eye that you really want to talk about. because All right.
00:50:10
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Because there's some interesting things in here. There's an interesting thing to me that they have a, ah what's not even an R2-D2, is that it's the R2-DL70 Interactive Remote Control Droid.
00:50:22
Speaker
okay i was at disneyland 70 but i mean i i know star tours but you know but but it's because it's following the same color palette as all the characters it's that uh metallic gosh i'm a moron today r2 dl 70 i'm just getting the dl 70 my god okay i'm sorry time for tom to take a nap apparently all right you read it and and that's why i went oh yeah you you know dl 70 makes sense It's just like, i well, okay, here's the, this, you know, what really happened here, Trevor, is I, you know, I've talked about this before. I'm a casual Star Wars fan, right? So like, I don't know all of the things in the Star Wars universe.
00:50:59
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And I remember there was the whole thing when they were building Rise of the Resistance and we said, ah what would we say, AT-AT or whatever. And then someone was like, that and it was like, okay, but it's actually both. So,
00:51:10
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you know either one whatever whatever but i thought maybe there was like some sort of r2d2 droid or something in one of the shows that i don't know about and i was going to get like heat from like ah from star wars fans no tom that's r2d70 duh you know even though it's clearly clearly he's from the disneyland planet in the star wars universe all right i'm i'm just uh i'll i'll take i'll take the heat it's fine uh i love it that sorry that was do you understand that why we're not coming from with this yeah like yeah i know but i i just it's just funny because i thought you got it and i know i i mean i get it now it just took me a moment it's been a long day i was at a dance recital and you still got music from 10 years ago stuck in your head i guess yeah i'm i mean i um want everybody to come on and put their ears on um
00:52:01
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Okay, so listen, I actually really like this shirt that they're showing first off, the 70 Disneyland one um that the the the the this woman's wearing in this ah in this picture, but that one's pretty cool to me.
00:52:15
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ah There's also some like interesting... I don't know if I'd buy this Mickey shirt of him in all this multicolored stuff with the 70 on. I don't know. That's not my dream. Fair, but do you know you know what it's reminding me of? is um It's actually and a bit of an 80s throwback to me, yeah which is is kind of interesting because I'm remembering back, and okay, you're you're you're probably going to roll your eyes at this, but probably we we had a vinyl record for Mousercise.
00:52:48
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ah do you know what mouser size is yeah i do actually yeah yeah that's okay and yeah and and the vinyl like this is the colors yeah that were on that like they were the characters were all wearing on the vinyl so it so i see where it you know it's not a throwback to like early early disney but it's definitely giving like a like a eighty s kind of kind of vibe to it which is interesting I just Googled Mastercise because I had to. Oh, my God. You see what I'm saying, right?
00:53:20
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I knew what you were talking about. i just i you know Obviously, it was this is from 1983. So i you know I had to look back on this. Oh, my God. Mastercise. This lasted for two seasons.
00:53:32
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Yeah. yeah But like i said, it's it's the the specifically the LP. So, so okay, the the reason we had Mousercise was we went to Disney when I was like four years old.
00:53:43
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My parents bought a couple of records because we had that big, you know, the wooden record player. Yeah, I know. yeah so So we had one of those. And so we had Country Bear Jamboree and Mousercise.
00:53:54
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yeah and And I remember this. Like, this is just burned in my head as to, you know, you know the and the music from Mousercise was, yeah, whatever. Like I, I, I, if I heard it, I would remember it, but I'm not like, it's not drilled into my head. Like how, how the, the other music was for you.
00:54:14
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yeah but like i said, the the colors though, it definitely, the, the, the Disneyland 70 is giving, giving that, but, um, they're definitely leaning into more like a metallic version of those, uh, those colors, which I think is cool. I'm, I actually like this more than the iridescent stuff they did previously.
00:54:31
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um yeah Because I found it was very one note before. like it it did It didn't give a chance for them to like actually have anything colorful in it. I know you may say it's too much color, but I don't think too much color is a bad thing, especially for Disney merch.
00:54:48
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I had to tell you, Trevor, I've scrolled down a little bit and I've come to Dooney and Burke bag and I see this ah in your future. the Which the the seventy s No. yeah Yeah. Yeah. This Mickey and Minnie one. as soon as I saw that, I was like, Oh, Trevor's wife's going want that one.
00:55:05
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um I mean, you don't think so? No. I feel like that's a maybe i don't, she's actually not. And I mean, she'll tell me I'm wrong, I guess.
00:55:16
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Later, if i if i if I misquote this, but she's not as big into like Mickey and Minnie specifically. like she She wants a variety of Disney characters on her Disney merch.
00:55:29
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so Okay, that's fair. I actually don't think she would go for this one because it is specifically Mickey and Minnie, but it is still very nice. like I agree with you. It is a nice bag. And again, just stays in line with with the color palettes.
00:55:43
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This looks to be, or no, this is probably the Celebration Collection. so So they have different collections. They do. So this is the Celebration Collection. so yeah so this is the celebration collection Along with that is a really cool hoodie.
00:55:55
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I really like this hoodie, actually. This is a cool hoodie. Yeah. says that It says Disneyland 70 on it, and it's all in gold. And inside the hood, it looks like it has like the D logo. And then I can't tell what else.
00:56:07
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There's something in there, but I can't really see it. but um And as far as Spirit jerseys go, i don't hate these that bad. They're kind of cool um throwbacks, you know?
00:56:19
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Yeah. it Again, you know, like you said, as far as spirit jerseys go, I feel like of spirit jerseys have been very copy paste for a long time. And this one, it it had like the Disneyland font is like very specifically to like the Disneyland sign.
00:56:35
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So it doesn't feel as samey, I guess, as the other spirit jerseys have. sorry okay i know people like their spirit jerseys but i feel like they all look the same so yeah i just i just want to scroll down here too though i i'm so god yeah have you looked at the castle or the castle collection with the with this purse that looks like the old lunchbox yeah yeah so i the throw i love that like like those that classic classic look to it is amazing yeah and then we have the uh and then i'm assuming you've gone down to the vault collection So, yeah, this one sweatshirt that says Disneyland is the star. Everything else is the supporting role.
00:57:13
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i I don't know if I've ever heard that quote before. And I mean, I assume it's from Walt Disney because it says Walt Disney right underneath it. But I don't think I've ever heard that quote from him before. I feel like it would might have been in a interview or something somewhere along the way.
00:57:29
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I mean, it's a great quote. Disneyland is a star. Everything else is in the supporting role. Like that's that is a great quote. And it has the um like long ah latitude, longitude of the of Disneyland. And then what does it say? Anaheim, California, Disneyland.
00:57:43
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But this is guy I like this stuff in the vault collection. It's cool. Now, what about the ah there's this gray hoodie that has the ah the plaque on it? The here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy. Yeah, that's pretty cool too. I like that one.
00:57:57
Speaker
Yeah. I like it because i like that one because, you know, i as much as I like the, you know, it's good to have the the bright, colorful stuff. This one is a lot more um subdued and it's very, you know, it's something that,
00:58:11
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you're not going to necessarily notice it unless you are paying attention. Like I feel like it's something, you know, I could actually even get away with wearing that to work. no one would notice Probably. Yeah, probably.
00:58:23
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I like subtle Disney. I've talked about this before. the legal My, my house is filled with subtle Disney stuff. Now there's some not so subtle stuff, but there's some, I mean, a lot of the pictures I have on my walls, if you didn't know, you would think that they were just drawings.
00:58:38
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ah You got to get the reference, right? Yeah, exactly. I enjoy that. yeah Yeah, I'm like that that person that like well likes to buy the shirt with the TV show stuff on it. But if it says the name of the TV show on it, I will not buy it because yeah I want you to figure out what it is. You know what I mean? Like I had a Stranger Things shirt that did not say Stranger Things on it. And it was just a reference to Stranger Things.
00:58:59
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And if you didn't know, you didn't know, you know? so So coincidentally, I'm wearing a Stranger Things shirt right now. And all it says on it is Hawkins, but it's done in the same format as the old pitfall game.
00:59:12
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Okay. Yeah. Nice. So it's, so it has like, like the pitfall colors and it has the kids on the bike and it just says Hawkins. So it's like, yeah. Yeah. My, my, my shirt is, it says Hawkins, uh, AV club.
00:59:23
Speaker
Right. And, and like, it's like an AV club thing because I was in the AV club in high school. So, um, but you know, if you don't, No, you don't know. Right. So and that's what the kind of stuff I like. Right. But yeah, i this is this is all really cool stuff. i'm um I like it.
00:59:38
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um Any anything else you want to mention before we go into really quickly to Halloween? Because, you know, it's June. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, we need to talk about our Halloween stuff. I don't think there's anything else on the merch side that. Yeah.
00:59:51
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Yeah. Halloween just does earlier and earlier every year. I mean, listen, it's not starting. They're just they're just talking about they're just giving us dates. Right. So people can yeah plan things. And yet and they've also OK. I've seen more Mickey costumes today than I think I have in the last three months. I feel like beat between the Shanghai stuff and the yeah Disneyland and now the the.
01:00:14
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The um Halloween costume, which again, yeah you know you know, his Halloween costume looks pretty good this year. Like it's, it's, it looks like a kind of a riff on the, the sorcerer Mickey, like wizardy kind of thing, but it's very like, it's,
01:00:29
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It's a more updated, like, like it looks like a hoodie almost, but it's like a sorcerer. It's very Slimer colored though. It's very, yeah yeah, it's green, but, but I just noticed it's, it's actually, it's like a wizard cloak, but it has like hoodie drawstrings on it. So it's like a yeah yeah like a more modern wizard hoodie. It's wizard Mickey. Yeah.
01:00:48
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hip Hip wizard Mickey. There you go. Hipster, his hipster wizard Mickey. No, I wouldn't put him in hipster. Yes, but. Yeah, this is this is like, again, it's it's to that 90s throwback stuff. Yeah. Like they're they're definitely leaning into like, i feel like this would have been this could have been a costume in Halloween Town.
01:01:11
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Right. like Like, if you remember Halloween Town. Yeah. It feels like that. Yeah, i i can I can see that. I'm just trying to scroll through here to see what's, like, new.
01:01:23
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Like, what new stuff is going on, you know? ah by the So, they announced, by the way, that that so that the Halloween is starting, what, August twenty second so Which, you know, again, is not that far from two months from now. I mean, that I can't wait.
01:01:38
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I can't wait to start my Halloween planning before my kids even go back to school. It's yeah, it's not far from now. I mean, it's it's coming. I listen. they You know, Halloween starts early at Disney and and we understand why. Right. Because they want a lot of dates for the Halloween parties. And but it's just always funny to me. Halloween starts in August, you know.
01:01:59
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Yeah. So I think I might have found something in here that is worth mentioning or or maybe yeah maybe I've not paid enough attention to this, but they say something's brewing in the Disney theater, which the Disney theater, if I recall or no, but that was at the Fantasyland theater I was thinking of.
01:02:18
Speaker
was thinking of where they used to do Mickey and the Magical Map. This is where they do Disney Junior Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live. Okay. All right. So, okay. but so So, they're doing a Mickey's Trick and Treat, which is an interactive show that will temporarily replace Disney Junior's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live. so Okay. um Yeah. you you knowre Kind of interesting that, again, you know you know interactive stuff that they're trying to bring back.
01:02:45
Speaker
I feel like it's a good mix of like that street misphere thing, right? Like it yeah it gives, you know, it gives the kids something interactive and memorable. It's not just another show that you're, you're sitting through and, you know, maybe do you think it always has to be something seasonal?
01:03:03
Speaker
Like, I, like, I feel like, yeah you know, Disney is very good at, you know, these shows. it feels like they're always like, or, you know, they're, they're doing a temporary Halloween show. But i don't know. it Like, it feels like it feels like they could maybe just not have to tie everything to a particular season.
01:03:23
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Like, you know, change it for the sake of changing it instead of like it always has to be like Halloween themed or Christmas themed. But like that's kind stuff brings people in, though, you know, like I get like stuff and i i feel like I'm kind of like.
01:03:38
Speaker
Halloween's a weird thing for me now that like, now that my son's older, you know, I'm not into Halloween like I was when he was younger, but I feel like sometimes like Halloween's it's too oversaturated in for me, I guess. Like, like especially like you said, you know, the the fact that they're starting all this stuff in August.
01:03:57
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Yeah. I mean, they always do though. I mean, it's the Halloween's been in August for Disney for like a long time now, you know? Yeah. I mean, so the other the other things that jumped out to me, Trevor, were there they mentioned here overnight guests at three hotels can enjoy special perks, such as treat trails on special afternoons. So that and that's the unselect afternoon. So that's cool.
01:04:18
Speaker
But what makes me laugh is how is it a perk when you're you're saying you have the option to purchase something? That's not a perk. that's yeah that's ah That's just a thing that you are selling. I'm giving you the privilege of purchasing yeah merchandise. You now have the privilege of buying this extra thing.
01:04:36
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um You know, okay, whatever. But I just thought that was funny. I mean, there's not a whole lot else here. I mean, you know, they're doing a they're doing some Coco stuff, which, you know, they're they're returning, you know, what they did last year ah from Coco and doing some different things there. But I don't really see a whole lot of interesting. What about this guided tour?
01:04:58
Speaker
Where's the guided tour? miss Disney's happiest haunts guided tour. um Unearthed chilling stories and thrilling experiences in a two hour walking tour across Disneyland park. The tour includes lightning lane access to select attractions and reserve few viewing for Halloween scream. So, you know, you're getting a lightning lane to haunted mansion.
01:05:16
Speaker
Of course. I don't know what other attractions you would, you would get her for Halloween themed tour. Um, um maybe they I mean, are they tell like taking you to places that are supposedly haunted in Disneyland? Is that like a thing? that's i mean I mean, technically, Big Thunder is haunted. earth Yeah, I guess it is kind of haunted. Because ah the the whole premise behind it is like so you woke up the spirit of the mountain or something like that. And the the train is... It's a runaway train. It's not a ghost train.
01:05:47
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No. But... Yeah. I feel like there's a loose tie there to to Big Thunder, but yeah it's definitely Haunted Mansion. and And I guess you could also do Pirates as well in there.
01:05:58
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Yeah, you could do that. Yeah. Well, so all this ah all this stuff, the the tickets to the uogiebi Oogie Boogie Bash. Oogie Boogie, I'm going to get like hate for something somehow. for but I'm so scared to say things wrong.
01:06:12
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I don't know. I just feel like I said it wrong. Oogie Boogie Bash goes on sale ah to the general public on June 26th. So that's obviously, yeah. So that's, that's pretty soon here. So if you're going to be doing it.
01:06:24
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Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I, I shouldn't, sorry, you're right. I shouldn't be like that because people are planning, you know, you know, we are planning trips that far out. So I guess it's fair to say that, yeah, you know, if you are planning, it's good to know that when the tickets are available sooner than later. So, and by the way, if you do have a magic key, then you can get in a little earlier too. So you can get in the days, days before, depending on which magic key you have. So.
01:06:47
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There's also that. Right. All
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01:08:07
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01:11:21
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01:11:38
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We'll do a huddle when we hit a chair. How she can cuddle is no man's affair. I looked around from pole to pole, found her in a sugar bowl.
01:11:51
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Look out, here comes my ball and chain. The End