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Episode 286: Reflecting on Lakeshore Lodge, Magic Beyond & Parks Updates
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Construction has begun on a new DVC resort called Lakeshore Lodge, formerly known as Reflections. Membership Magic Beyond is now available and DVC has released more information about the benefits of the membership. The Island Tower is opening soon with a new restaurant called Wailulu Bar & Grill and the guys discuss the newly released menu. Disney World announced opening seasons for many of the new shows, attractions and parades coming in 2025. Disney Legend Josh Gad calls on Disney Imagineering to create a new Figment attraction. Disneyland debuted a new queue for the Haunted Mansion and announced new details about the celebrations for the upcoming 70th Anniversary of Disneyland.
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Episode Introduction
00:00:09
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This is Skipper Albert A. Walls, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all points unknown. Sure within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
00:00:30
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Hello, and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Rental Store. Thank you for joining us on episode 286 of Welcome Home and Disney Parks and Vacation Club Podcast.
Thanksgiving and Holiday Traditions
00:00:39
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I'm Tom here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Good. How are you? you know it's I almost asked you how your Thanksgiving was, and I was like, oh, wait. It was good, but yeah. Happened to happen a month ago, but yeah, it was great. Exactly. Yeah. but how was How was yours? I know you were traveling. How did how did all that go? Oh, you know.
00:00:59
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ah As fun as it could. Um, so, I mean, I'm not going to get into a whole thing, but you know, we, are on a scale of like, okay, to national Lampoon Christmas vacation. Uh, not national Lampoon, but okay.
00:01:15
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The Cousin Eddie show up. Yeah, no, no, Cousin Eddie did not show up. In fact, it was the actual all the guests at the actual Thanksgiving were extraordinarily pleasant. there was none of like you know You always get this stereotypical thing of like families that like fight about things you know and like about differences and things like that, ah you know for whatever it is. Didn't have any of that. The the problem is,
00:01:37
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And, i you know, I'm probably speaking to a small set of people here on this one, but traveling on the East Coast is a nightmare. I don't feel it's exclusive to the East Coast. No, but I feel traveling this time of year is just difficult. True. But very specifically, traveling through the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. area. Oh, OK. Is a total nightmare.
00:02:02
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um just in general, right? And like anybody from this area will tell you, it's like really bad. So we actually decided, we broke our trip up, we decided, because my wife doesn't love driving, it's a 10 hour drive. And I you know i don't mind yeah having 10 hours, but I know the wife and kid don't enjoy that. So we decided to break it up, go about six and a half hours, seven hours, and stay at a hotel, and then drive the rest of the three hours in the morning.
00:02:27
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Great plan, right? Yeah. that Makes sense. Well, we get to the hotel late um because we hit a little bit of traffic. And so it's about like 10 o'clock, right? And so we try you know we try to all go to bed. And and my daughter wakes up in the middle of night and she's got like an insane fever. like in like I don't think I ever felt her warmer than I felt like there. So it's 3 o'clock in the morning, right? And I'm like,
00:02:53
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And of course I had where's the nearest emergency. Well, and so we'll see. Here was the thing. Right. So it's three o'clock. And I, before we left, I had like stared at all of the, you know, the kids medicines. Cause usually I'll bring that stuff with us. I'll bring the Tylenol and all, you know, just in case you never know. And I stared at it and like, nah, we're not going to need it. We're fine. We're good. Right. I brought nothing. Um, as far as that goes, but luckily because we were staying in the DC area, there was a 24 hours CBS. So I like at three o'clock in the morning, we're out to see.
00:03:23
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Um, you know, and it's like 20 degrees out. I'm wearing, you know, like gym shorts and t-shirt. Um, but you know, she, my daughter was a little sick. I mean, I think everybody listened that last episode could hear that I was sick. So then my daughter also got sick. And, uh, so that made for a little bit of an interesting trip, but it wasn't that bad. She, she was fine. It's, you know, she's called.
00:03:44
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But um but you know Thanksgiving itself was good, had a lot of food, and like a lot of food. um you know It was good to spend time with family, you know that kind of thing. But the trip back was horrific.
00:03:59
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Oh, man. Okay. Yeah. we we I mean, we sat in like stop traffic. but We left on Saturday, right which is supposed to be the good day to go, not Sunday. It was a Sunday supposed to be a bad day.
00:04:09
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So we're like, all right, we'll leave Sunday, Saturday afternoon, we'll be fine, right? get ahead So the thing is, get ahead of the the normal rush of exact Thanksgiving post, whatever that is. Huge mistake. Huge mistake. I think it took us four hours to go 60 miles. like It was so bad. It was so, so bad. But we made it home. We're fine. All's good.
00:04:33
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only The only problem is Trevor, and this is why you guys have it, right? Is, you know, we got back on Sunday and then it was like we were, you know, we wanted to decorate for Christmas, but we're tired. Like we're from traveling and it was just like, we don't want to deal with Christmas right now. So now we're here a week into, you know, into, into December and we are only like half decorated for Christmas at this point, which is, you know, kind of a bummer. Cause usually we use that weekend after Thanksgiving to start decorating for Christmas, but we just didn't have that opportunity this year, which so kind of threw us off a little bit, you know?
00:05:03
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That's funny because I think I've had my Christmas tree up now for about a month. Do you do it after your Thanksgiving? Well, no. We do Thanksgiving and then we do Halloween. If my wife had her way, she would have it up like November 1st.
00:05:23
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she loved like she She's like Disney where she would love to like transform the house from Halloween to Christmas overnight, which I'm not doing that. That's way too much work. It's it's a lot. That's a lot. Yeah. The the the nice thing is, is because, like, we we start putting everything up in November because we have time. And, um you know, it's not that we're, like, full on, like, everything is Christmas, but, you know, we kind of, like, we'll we'll do it in sections, too, where it's like, you know, we start, you know, we bring stuff up, we start decorating, you know, we just get it out. And then, yeah, as we get towards, you know, middle to end of November, then the Christmas lights come on and and all that kind of stuff. So,
00:06:00
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I mean, yeah, it's it's just far like I didn't even think about that from the the U.S. Thanksgiving standpoint that like ah you guys do Thanksgiving and then it's like you're doing the Thanksgiving and then Christmas like immediately. Whereas we we have a lot slower burn on it. And and and around here, like, I guess I shouldn't say nobody does it because I guess actually a lot of people do.
00:06:22
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decorate. I do see it through November. like there There are people that have like their lights up and and whatnot, but everyone kind of does it on their own schedule. like It's not like a rush to do it. right so um yeah i mean i'm I'm just going to throw it out there again for you. and you know you you can We can totally adopt you for Canadian Thanksgiving in the future. i It is a lot easier. It's not a me problem. It's an everybody else problem. ill I'll do Thanksgiving at that time, but then I got to convince the rest of the family to do it at that time. you know No, you don't. You just tell them to respect your your my beliefs. yeah yeah my my My belief in Canadian Thanksgiving. Yes, exactly. Oh, man. ah No, it was that's that's a great idea. I would love to do it that early because it's just it makes things easier. It's just there's too much going on this time of year. It's just it's it's ah it's a mess, you know, and work and all that stuff. It's it's just gets crazy this time of year trying to buy gifts for people. I mean, are you done with your Christmas shopping?
00:07:18
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, because I mean, we're also I just finished. we We've talked about this before, too, that, you know, we like my wife like starts making lists for people like she doesn't make her Christmas list. She starts making lists for which is going to buy other people in September. So, OK, well, it' so she starts like she starts well ahead of time. I don't start quite that early. But yeah, it's like like November is usually I get all of my Christmas shopping done. And I'm usually done by December 1st because i do I refuse to go to the mall in December. Oh gosh, no, no. like i just yeah I don't want to deal with any of that. and i know like
00:07:58
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With Amazon and stuff, it's easier now. like you You can get stuff quicker. But but even with that, like you know we we were talking about it before the show that you know you know there's there's definitely issues with shipping companies right now. yeah um you know For anybody that doesn't know, you know in Canada, we're we've been having a postal strike for the last month, which is making things you know super fun to to get stuff around. so um Yeah, so like I just don't want to deal like I'm against dealing with the rush of everything.
Disney Lakeshore Lodge Rebranding
00:08:25
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Like I love Christmas and I love enjoying Christmas. I hate the, you know, all the people. I hate, I hate, I hate all the, I hate all the, you know, people shopping and the, you know, the, the, just the craziness of it. Right. So, so I do everything I can to be like well prepared, well ahead of time. You know, I have my stuff up. Our house is decorated. We have like, the only thing I have left to do is wrap gifts and then I'm ready for Christmas. So yeah. Yeah.
00:08:56
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I don't think I've gone shopping in an actual retail store for Christmas in a very long time. I am i very much prefer to do everything online if I can, you know? um We can't always, right? like Yeah. But most of the time you can now. I mean, there's very few things you can't get online. So yeah, know most of my stuff is is done that way. But I mean, i'm i've I've wrapped up everything at this point. yeah I mean, I'm not the president. The president's suddenly wrapped. But um yeah, it's ah It's, it's been a, it's been an interesting holiday season so far. Yeah. but Yeah. Anyway. Uh, right. So why don't we talk about some DVC news because we did miss a week and of course, yeah, of course, because we missed a week that we miss like the, uh, you know, the announcement of reflections, which is reflections is dead long live reflections.
00:09:48
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no No longer reflections, we are now dealing with Disney Lakeshore Lodge, which is a better to better name. yeah they did better They did a better job there. It doesn't sound like a day spa anymore. Although i feel it's I feel it is a ah point of confusion for people. or The whole um wilderness lodge area for DVC is going to be very confusing.
00:10:11
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Okay. Yeah. if you think like because Because there's Boulder Ridge, there's Copper Creek, and now there's going to be Lakeshore Lodge, which they're they're all close enough together that if you're not really paying... or or sorry And there's also the cabins at wilderness. So sure so there's there's four separate DVC properties in very close proximity to one another, which is not unusual. like like I mean, there there are the other hotels, like um you know like the Polynesian, the Grand Floridian stuff, but My issue with it is that these are all very closely themed to one another, which means that you know people are not going to... necessari like They're going to think that they're, you know oh, i want I'm staying at a cabin. No, you're staying at Copper Creek. like yeah yeah right like like I can see stuff like that happening. right Yeah, exactly. you know people don't People don't understand what's what or they're you know if if you're not actively paying attention, I can see where
00:11:06
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You know, it's it's great that they're doing this, but um yeah, it's it would have been nice if they, I guess, themed it as something else besides like another lodge. Yeah.
00:11:20
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and It does look as I mean, it's going to look different, though. I mean, it is going to look different. It does. Yeah, it does look different than Wilderness Lodge, for sure. But they are. Yeah. i What's interesting. So first of all, I should mention I tried to find an official announcement for this and I could not find one. So it seems like this news is coming from Scott Gustin, who, to be fair, is pretty well connected. He's always right. Yeah. Yeah. he He always has the inside track, it seems. Yes.
00:11:48
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Yeah, and he's also saying this is being going to be targeted for 2027 opening. I've seen some construction photos already, like they're already going vertical real fast with this thing. um They also are saying that this is going to be the same footprint as the original reflection plans. Know whether that means the same design. I don't know. um I mean, Disney really hasn't said anything about it yet.
00:12:10
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ah We don't know if, and because the original plans also called for some cabins as well, um, that are, that actually, there's some pictures for her. Go ahead. Sorry. I wonder if they traded that off because of, um, Fort Wilderness cabins. and Maybe. I mean, these are, these are different cabins. So these are like yeah stilts like facing out to the, yeah, right. Yeah. yeah yeah know These are like Polynesian bungalow type cabins. Yeah. happens yeah I mean, part of me is hoping they keep the original concept, because I thought the original concept was really nice. And I mean, there's, and I'll say this, Trevor, because I don't know if you remember the original, ah some like photos had leaked of the like the concept art for like the rooms and the lobby and everything. And it was
00:12:57
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It was very nice. I vaguely remember, like you're you're talking the reflections. Yeah, of reflections. Yeah. Yeah. in And I mean, it looks incredible. And I kind of hope they keep that. I mean, maybe they tweak it. I don't know. But I mean, I don't think that this is like this design is no longer in style because it's been like three years. You know what I mean? Like, I think they can easily still do this. um You know, maybe they just changed the name and they're going forward with the exact same plans. I don't know.
00:13:25
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I guess we'll find out, but I kind of hope that they stick with what they had originally designed because there's some really, really interesting stuff here. And it's very nice and very upscale if that's what they decide to do. So, um, yeah, i so go ahead. Sorry, I get the feeling that, you know, just looking at, you know, the, the, the very first, um, leaked concept art, like does look very much like what we're seeing right now for lakeside lodge. So.
00:13:51
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That's fair too. you know I wouldn't say that they're just going to copy paste it per se. I'm sure that there're i'm sure that you know it's they're using it as a base for whatever they're going to do. i I feel like some of the stuff that they had planned is probably not going to happen because it honestly looks pretty pretty busy.
00:14:10
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in the yeah What do you mean by pretty busy? like all like like With the with the like the the wind thing, like there's that whole Pocahontas thing and then there's oh yeah weird domes. and I don't know, I just feel like like it's a little too much. I like it. Assuming that they go with that concept art, right? I like it. I like it but i get what you're saying. It's it's a lot. um and you know this also the the the The images that we have here also have like a cool restaurant surrounded by glass that's right on the water, which I'm all for that. I i love that idea. like let's Let's do that. And then you know these cabins, which will be absurdly expensive and you know will cost way too many points. But the other thing that people are speculating on too, is that this is somehow going to be tied to the cabins at Fort Wilderness. I don't know if I buy that. Oh, no. I don't see that.
00:15:02
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Yeah. Cause this is very clearly a deluxe resort and the cabins are very clearly not, you know, I just wouldn't make sense to me. And also the fact that the cabins are already a pre-established, um, yeah, entity in, uh, like if the cabins hadn't already come online, I would say, yeah, that's, ah you know, it's possible that the two could get combined together, but the cabins are already there and being sold. But. This isn't going to be like the poly tower where it's like, well, we're going to add this on to an existing one. That doesn't make sense. yeah Yeah. Like, because this is, like you said, this isn't entirely a new deluxe resort. It doesn't, I mean, yeah, I can't see them merging those two together.
00:15:47
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I agree. I, I know some people are talking about that Palmetto trust thing, the Palmetto trust association thing. Yeah. And that this may be part of that, which maybe, I mean, I don't really know though. Like it's going to be interesting to see how this works out. I mean, we're, and we're not going to have an answer for this for three years. So let's, let's, we'll, we'll hold off and wait for that. But, um, yeah. i mean Yeah. lot A lot can change in three years, right? We don't, sure you know, they, they,
00:16:16
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they could come along and yeah tell us that you know all new stuff is going to be under the trust in in that time. yes we don't know what and Listen, i liz i'm I am glad that they're moving forward with this because i I think I said before, if they do this, that I will most likely end up buying here at some point because ah you know i We love that area. We love Wilderness Lodge. This looks like ah an even like you know nicer Wilderness Lodge, which is to not to say that Wilderness Lodge is not nice because it is. This is more of like a modern kind of take um on ah Wilderness Lodge, and ah you know assuming they go with the same concept there that we have previously. so um I just think it'll be a great addition to that area and I think it's well needed. and ah but
00:17:01
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Yeah. Well, so it'll be a longer contract too than wilderness lodge. So there's that. Yeah. Yeah. That's, there's that too. Yeah. So yeah. So we'll have to see what happens. Uh, you know, I don't, I don't know. Uh, I, we don't really know what's going to happen at this point, but it's funny that a we've been talking about this forever and we claimed that it was going to happen. And, uh, sure enough, it happens the week that we take off.
00:17:26
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that's that's exactly how That's exactly how it should happen. Yeah, exactly how it should happen, of course. um But I mean, listen, it's good. Like I said, it and they did obviously take the feedback on the reflections name and decided to change it to Lakeshore Lodge, Lakeside Lodge. Wait, what is it? Lakeshore, Lakeshore. Yeah, sorry. like Like, yeah, that this is going to be like going to the haunted house versus the haunted mansion. Or going to MGM studios as opposed to Hollywood studios. I feel like I'm always going to call it reflections for forever, just because... If we're going to ask you where you're staying, you're going to be like, at reflections and they're going to go, oh, is that an offsite? I'm going to tell them I'm staying at haunted river country and then they'll really be confused.
00:18:08
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Yeah, there you go. Yeah, we should we should be doing that.
Membership Magic Beyond Program
00:18:12
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There's actually, if you Google reflections, I don't i think we did this one time on here, but there's about 16 Google reviews for reflections, even though it doesn't exist. And they're all really snarky and funny. Like, you know, saying like, non-existent service, there were no walls.
00:18:33
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It's pretty funny considering, uh, wait, had to sleep on the dirt and cover myself with moss and leaves to stay warm. The food was pretty good. You have to scavenge for the food as the resort hasn't been built yet. ah Oh, man. Amazing natural outdoorsy vibe. Yeah. Oh, man. ah This one's good, too. It was a little decent. Felt a little rundown. The pools were really gross and green. One was even filled with dirt, the water slicing covered in woodland. I mean, but I want to know who decided to look this up and then and then, you know, do an actual review of of reflections that doesn't i mean. Yeah, that that's
00:19:13
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You have to be a specific type of board. Well, it's funny that it's even on Google Maps, considering it never even existed, right? like Yeah, but but I mean, Google Maps doesn't curate that stuff. that's just yeah you know That's true. You can write pretty much whatever you want until somebody comes and objects to it. Until somebody says no.
00:19:33
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So, yeah, I mean, listen, a lot more on this to come in the future. It's, you know, it's going to be way off. But the good news is there's things that are being built right now. Like there's actual structure already. So like this is happening, which is kind of great. I'll be interested. to When is Disney going to finally acknowledge it? It's it's really.
00:19:53
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It's interesting when they, that sometimes they announce things way far ahead of time before they've moved any dirt. And then there's other times they just start moving dirt and then like later be like, Hey, by the way, you know, we're building this thing over here. I don't know. It's just weird to me that that's how they do things sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't have much else to add on it. I think, uh, yeah, but you know,
00:20:16
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We got some time to to process this and see what what it actually is. But in the meantime, I guess let's talk about something that I'm never going to get to enjoy. Someday, Trevor. Hold that hope, man. Hold that hope. All right. so So Membership Magic Beyond, which by the way, I got a thing in the mail with some stickers ah advertising this ah because they they just sent out a thing with a bunch of stickers. My daughter was very excited. Although I think they're car stickers. But anyway.
00:20:44
Speaker
So membership Magic Beyond has now started and and hopefully it will be available in Canada at some point. But ah we'll have it's $99 a year. We've talked about this before. There were some unknowns about this ah that we now know. One of those is how many points it will cost ah to get an annual pass use because that's one of the benefits of this is that you'll be able to purchase the Sorcerer annual pass using points.
00:21:10
Speaker
And we have an answer to that now. And the answer is 75 points for our new pass purchase and 65 points for renewal. This is actually a lot less than I thought it was going to be. That's not bad. I mean, yeah. Well, actually, no, if you do the math on it, it's probably doing the math on a hotel room versus an annual pass. Yeah, this is actually eclipsing, like,
00:21:33
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Yeah, because this would be like a couple of days or like what, like four, four or five days potentially in a room, which would cost you thousands of dollars and our annual pass is like a thousand dollars. Yeah. So yeah, I guess, I guess, yeah, 75 points is is a lot, but still some less than I thought it was going to be. Yeah. I guess my thinking was that, you know, if yeah or I guess depending on the amount of points that you have and and especially if you didn't have um Or, you know, if if you had points that you weren't going to spend and you didn't want to figure out banking them, like this isn't a bad option to, you know, yeah you get an annual pass and you just use it and it doesn't cost you anything. Yeah. No, I, I, I agree. It's, I mean, it's, it's similar to me to using your points like ah for the cruise, right? It might not be a big deal. I mean, it might might not be a good deal for you to do it, but it's convenient for some, right? Yeah. So it's entirely situational. Yeah.
00:22:32
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So we also now know to the discounts that are going to be available to these, uh, subscription holders on tickets. So they had advertised that a five day based ticket at Disney world was going to have a discount. There's a discount of 10% for that, which is not great, but also not terrible either. I mean, its I get a better discount as a Canadian resident. Well, see, you got something that you have up on it. Maybe that this is starting to answer maybe why we're not eligible for it is that they do actually like.
00:23:01
Speaker
Because of the exchange rate, they we do occasionally get 25% discounts on our tickets. So, okay. Well, yeah, that's helpful. Uh, well, and then also Disney land tickets though, are discounted up to 35%, which is actually, okay. Now that now they're talking, now you're talking now now they're playing dirty. Yeah. So, and, and also, so they're valid for three days a weekday admission and include lighteningly multi-pass rates start at $330 for a three day pass with admission to one park per day, four 20 for park hopping. So see, I would, I would do this just for the Disneyland tickets.
00:23:35
Speaker
Yeah, that feels like a pretty good deal actually. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I could do this. Cause yeah, that would, that would be great. Cause we're, we're planning to go to Disneyland next fall and this would save me some money for sure. But, uh, Nope. I guess not. Yeah. Sorry. i I even just pulled up the f FAQs just did it. Yeah. It still says I love to it's only. like Yeah.
00:23:56
Speaker
yeah Sorry, man. Sorry, I'm going to continue to complain about it because... You should. You should. Yeah. i just i I'm standing here going like, hey, I want to give you guys money. And they're like, no. They're like, no, we're good. yeah We got enough. We don't want your we don't want your Canadian dollars. Yeah, our Monopoly money.
00:24:17
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um ah so It also mentions here though that the ah Magic Beyond participants can purchase up to eight discounted tickets per year, ah but they can only be used by the member and other individuals living in the same household. Interesting. yeah and That is fair. That is totally fair because you could you know people could definitely exploit that but yeah by you know buying their friends cheap tickets and stuff. It becomes a gray market.
00:24:44
Speaker
It does, but can't I just be like, Oh, my in-laws live with me. Wink, wink. You know, i mean yeah yeah you would have to set up accounts for them and basically create an identity for them that proves that they live with you because it's not just a matter of saying they live with me. Like they they need you to attach it to a person that has ID and all that. And if the ID doesn't line up with the account, then they'll just say no.
00:25:08
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That's fair. That's fair. Sorry. I know working in IT, I get to see all the behind the scenes stuff and they, uh, you know, they are tracking all this stuff. Unfortunately. i I also do want to mention by the way that that five day ticket, uh, one for Disney world also includes a free one day admission to a water park. So in which I think it's differently, different than the check-in day one. Cause it's just as a free one day admission to the water park. So I guess technically you're getting a six day ticket or is it one of the five days? That's a good question. Hmm. Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know. Well, usually the, usually the water park admissions are in addition to your,
00:25:48
Speaker
park days. Like it's like you you buy like a five-day ticket and then but whenever I've done that, whenever I've done the, or they they used to call it the water parks and more ticket was yeah you had your all your park tickets paid for, but then you had the one admission on top of that at one of the water parks.
00:26:05
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I did find the answer. So it's ah the tickets require the member to choose a start date and expire eight days from the start date. The one day admission to one of the water parks can be used any day during the eight day period. So it's not one of the five days. it's So technically you're getting a six days of tickets.
00:26:22
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if you include the water park. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, it's not too bad. and ah I will also mention here too that one of the other things in the terms and conditions for this, it states that you have to a DVC resort stay is required in order to use the benefit uh for the uh for the Epcot lounge uh and also for the character I guess for the character meet opportunities so you can't just interesting yeah which is odd to me it feels unnecessary but okay well it's not though because okay I think that there's a lot of people that would you know either people who are staying off site regularly or people who live close enough that
00:27:04
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I think they don't want it being that somebody is paying for it that is local and just is, hey, I'm getting 365 day VIP access to the lounge. It's fair. That's a good point. I can see why they're doing that because it's You know, not taking away, you know, I understand, you know, people who are local have, you know, it's a different way that they do Disney, but I think they're protecting this because they don't want it to become something that's overrun by people that just have it, you know, all the time, right?
00:27:37
Speaker
And also something else that I'm noticing in the in the FAQ page here, which you know people should be really aware of, is that yeah the membership magic beyond um the season for it is not based on when you bought it. It actually expires on December 31st, 2025.
00:27:58
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So it's not, it's not like a, an annual pass when it expires a year later, it's, it just expires at the end of the calendar year. Yes. So, so take that into factor with if you're planning something and you're thinking like, Oh, Hey, I can, you know, I can buy this later in the year and use it into 2026. No, you cannot. So it, you know, you have to really, I think that's also going to affect people buying this as you have to really look at, are you planning to,
00:28:26
Speaker
You know, use it enough through the year. Like, I think if ah if if if they turn around and say that, you know, Canadian people are eligible for this, like next September, I'm not buying it because I'm not going to use it in in, you know, three months. Right. So.
00:28:41
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I mean, I guess it just that it depends. See, I still think I would buy it even if I was going for like a week in September just because of the benefit with the memory maker where it's just basically like you're paying for that and you get some you get memory maker and then you get some other incidental benefits. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I would still buy just for that. and That's fair. Like I feel, though, that you would really need to like evaluate. like I guess yeah, Memory Maker is kind of an obvious win, yeah but I feel like you know the overall package of this, like it loses its luster the further you get into the year is my opinion on it, so yeah.
00:29:23
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Yeah, no, that that's fair. I'm just saying I, my personal thing on it is that it's worth it just for the memory maker and then anything else I get outside of that, then great, you know, but if it's just like extra to me. I'll just, I'll just stand at the window staring in wishing that, you know, I could get free memory maker in the meantime. It feels so bad. It's raining too. that It'll be raining and I'll be standing outside going, oh Yeah, you're going to get slashed by a car as it goes by. Yeah, exactly.
00:29:54
Speaker
like That's going to be the whole thing. And I'm just going to be happy inside, nice and warm, enjoying my memory maker and my lounge access. Disney, I want to give you money. Come on. Let me give you more money. now i You know, maybe someday, hopefully for your sake. Yeah.
00:30:10
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Yeah. Uh, I'll just keep letting them know. Yeah. I'm sure it's, there's lots of people that are letting them know and they'll, they'll eventually do it. I, I feel like this is a new thing and and I feel like it's going to be, uh, they're going to feel this out for the first year and they don't want to open it up to a larger audience because yeah, you know, if, if it's new, they don't need to be dealing with.
00:30:35
Speaker
all the chaos of everybody having access to it. I get it. I wonder if it could sell out. They never they never said that it couldn't sell out, but they also, I don't know, probably. That's true, actually. Yeah, i guess I guess like annual passes and stuff, it probably does have a limit on how, because I feel like if too many people are buying this, Disney may pull back on it because they also don't want to devalue it by having everybody have the same thing, right?
00:31:02
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Yeah. I mean, technically every person that buys it, it devalues devalues it slightly, right? Cause it, the more, it's the same thing with, with, you know, like, uh, lightning, like with, um, you know, that stuff, like the more people that buy it, the more it's devalued. Yeah. Cause everyone's lining up for the same thing. So, exactly so yeah, it's not a, oh, I'm getting the VIP experience. It's no get in line with everybody else. Right. Exactly. hey Exactly.
New DVC Restaurant Discussion
00:31:28
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All right Trevor, should i mean do should I play the song? I feel like it's- So I wondered why you put this early, but- Because it's DVC news, you know? Okay, fair. I mean, you you yeah, I mean, go ahead. Okay.
00:32:23
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I've been trying really hard not to overplay it because I don't want to like annoy people, but hey, I mean, but OK, you made it. You're proud of it. It's fine. I just like it, too. Yeah, I just enjoy it. um But also, i'd listen, the reason I made it was for a practical purpose to warn people that don't want to hear about food, that we're about to talk about food. so yeah But this time is not the end of the episode, so I guess you have to figure out how to skip past this if you don't want to hear about the food. But I I think people are going to want to hear about Yes. This food in particular. I know I do. I do too. And that's why I put it up front because this is technically DVC news, right? This is the new restaurant that's opening at the Polynesian um ah tower, right? At the island tower at the Polynesian. And this is, I mean, how do you say this? Wailulu? Yeah. Let's go with Wailulu bar and grill.
00:33:11
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Okay. Why Lulu bar and grill? And I, yeah, I would think people, especially DVC members want to hear about this because this is the newest DVC restaurant, right? I mean, it's and not that only DVC members can go. Anybody can go, but you know, but it's, it's new on a new DVC property. Now I was confused about if this was going to be a like this is a quick service or a sit down and I'm still confused. I'm still confused too. It says brand new casual walk-up pool bar that feels like a That feels like a, but that's okay. That's one part of it though. Yeah, it feels still like a quick service. I don't know, but it doesn't, it doesn't feel like quick service food though. well kind of because They also talk, they also talk about that. There's going to be fireworks views for dining in this, which that says to me that it's like a sit down because otherwise you're going to have everybody like,
00:34:05
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crowding, crowding a quick service to watch fireworks. I mean, could it be like, um, what was it? Be our guests and its initial incarnation was quick service during the day and sit down at night. Oh, could be. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe combo like that. I don't know. There's some interesting stuff here though. So there's some good looking stuff here. I like this menu. This is your kind of food. I feel like. hopefully Yeah. Um, let's see. So there's a sweet potato hummus. Uh, there's ahi tuna crisps. Yes. What are the ahi tuna crisps? Where are they? Are they okay? There's, is that just like a it's tuna nachos basically? No, no, it's the, um, or oh maybe I'm looking at the wrong, you know, it's the one, it looks kind of like a sushi roll.
00:34:47
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No, I think that's, I think it's the one in the middle that has the like, that looks like nachos, but it's got like the pink stuff on top of it. No. that Oh, maybe. Yeah. Sorry. You're right. Yeah. That is it. Yeah. Yeah. It basically looks like, you know, tuna nachos, which, you know, I guess is good. I mean, if you're into that sort of thing, I am not, but sorry. The the one I was looking at is the spiced ham, um, sooby, which is.
00:35:11
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um Yeah. It looks kind of like a sushi roll, but it's got like crispy rice and it's, you it's ham, which is yeah. Yeah. It's yeah. It's spam, which, I mean, I think that'll be really good. Like I don't know how you feel about like spam type meals, but.
00:35:28
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Yeah. I mean, I know that's why, yeah. Like that's, that's a dish that they, they serve in Hawaii. Right. So, um, that doesn't surprise me that they're doing something like that. I mean, I, I like it. I like, sp I like spam. It's, it's fine. Um, I don't know if I would have this. I'm not a huge, like, I think there's some seaweed going on there. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to tell.
00:35:48
Speaker
A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. There's, but there's also a grilled shrimp. So, you know, although it only looks like there's like three shrimp there, but you know, yeah, I don't know. So that just might be for the picture. I mean, I mean, they could be big, some bigger prawns can be that's true. Yeah. That's true. They also have crispy chicken wings, uh, which, you know, adobo marinated soy glaze. That sounds kind of like the chicken wings that they have at, uh, Ohana. Um, you know, the soy glaze and everything like, I guess, you know, those wings are delicious.
00:36:18
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Uh, and then there's a wayfinder burger, which is pretty much just a straight up burger. I mean, it's nothing too crazy about it, right? I mean, the only question mark is actually, Oh no, there's, there's two question marks is there's volcano sauce, which I don't know what that is, but it's probably like a, like a spicy male, I'm assuming. Yeah. And then, uh, it says it's served on a sweet bun, which I think that'll, that'll make it different. Yes. Sure. Yeah. Cause it's like a Hawaiian. Yeah. Yeah. think Hawaiian roll. Yeah.
00:36:48
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Yeah, exactly. So Trevor, I'm turning over that this is not a quick service because this is there's too many items on the menu for it to be a quick service. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Usually quick services stop at like.
00:36:59
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what we just listed, but there's a whole other section on stuff here. Yeah. So like there's a whole bunch of other stuff that it almost reminds me there's, um, I'm forgetting the name of it off the top of my hand. There's like a kind of quick service, sit down, a combo kind of place over at wilderness lodge. It's like outdoors. I gosh, it's killing me. I can't remember it, but and this almost feels like kind of similar to that where it's like a bigger menu. That's kind of quick service, but it's not like you need a reservation and you know, need to like dress up and there's like waiters and stuff. You know what I mean? I don't, I don't know. We'll see. Right.
00:37:29
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Um, but there's a beef short rib loco moco. Okay. That's and I was in until I saw the mush ah mushroom gravy, but you know, outside of that, I would eat that ah um it's mushroom gravy is good.
00:37:42
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I know you don't. It's good. Come on, trust me, it's fine. You're telling my wife. Or what I say to my daughter. The next the next one, actually, I know you don't like fish, but there there's a grilled fish of the day, which comes in a green curry broth with jasmine rice, chickpeas, and sweet potato, which, okay again, I know you don't like fish, but but curry green curry is really good. I really like.
00:38:07
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like that. um There's a poke bowl, which, again, is more fish. but my My wife loves poke bowls. Yeah, poke bowls are fantastic. Yeah. And yeah, all, all, all the usual stuff you find in it. Um, and yeah, you get to actually chew. Oh, Hey, actually, Hey, this is perfect for you is that you can choose between, uh, he tuna teriyaki chicken or tofu. So you can, ah you can actually get a chicken poke bowl. Well, look at that. That's, that's exciting. Perfect. And then there's a chow mein salad. And then there's also sticky pork ribs, which look delicious to me.
00:38:41
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Uh, that's probably the route I would go right there. Those is that, is that nice little, nicely stacked pyramid of ribs that they got going on. Yeah. yeah Um, that that looks pretty good. I, you know, I'm, um I'm in for that.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, all around this, like this is looking like a good menu and I'm, I gotta make a reservation now. um Wait for the restaurant or for the, for the, the tower? Well, no, for the restaurant. Okay. So I already have a reservation at, at, uh, Maria. So we're yeah okay we're staying at where I usually stay, which is fine because I, cause I was able to book that 11 months out and I wasn't going to wait for the tower to to come available because um Yeah, because that like that that was a big question mark. But I'm still going to make a reservation at this restaurant and we're going to walk over there and have dinner. And I'm telling my brother that because we're just doing it. that that's
00:39:38
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That's what we're doing now. So I should mention too that they do, they're going to have breakfast here, but like limited. It says on the go morning pastries for breakfast, which I mean that, that kind of sounds like any quick service as you get like the, yeah, the, the basic, you know, croissant type stuff, I guess.
00:39:56
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They have a pineapple coconut bread for breakfast. Actually, hey, that looks good. Yeah, that does look actually pretty pretty good. yeah I don't know if I would pass up on Tonga toast for that. Well, yeah, that's the thing. Tonga toast is... I mean, this has got some it's got a a hill decline to compare with Tonga toast, but I guess we'll wait and see what people say about it.
00:40:16
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they They also have a couple of desserts here too. They have a dole whip sundae with the biscuit smearing and passion fruit crispies. that's you know They just basically took a pile of dole whip and they pritted it up a little bit, which is fine. um This other one though, the chocolate cake with salted caramel ganache, chantilly cream infused with the essence of Kona coffee. I don't drink coffee, but that looks delicious. I would probably have that.
00:40:39
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that that might be an after lunch dessert. Yeah. I, I, I hope it agree it it'll wake you up and keep you going for the afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Probably depending how much coffee's in it, I guess. Um, so wait, can you make reservations for this one or is it not? It says casual dining, but ah is it reservation?
00:40:58
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I mean, I assume if it's a sit down because all all sit down restaurants have or you can make reservations at them, right? Maybe if it's a sit down, you have to make a reservation, right? All right. I mean, guess sorry, you don't have to. I know there's walk up, but like they are in the system for reservations. I've yet to see unless somebody can prove me wrong. I've yet to see a sit down restaurant where it's exclusively walk up.
00:41:22
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That's fair. Yeah. My, the funniest thing about this Trevor, if you click on the name of it and you go to the page for the restaurant, it has the location on the map. Uh, but the location is just in a field. They haven't updated the map yet. So yeah, seriously, go, go on the bottom of the page. If you click on the ah why Lulu bar and grill and you go to that page and you scroll down a little bit, the location is just spot.
00:41:47
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ah ah that's Where are they pulling this map from? i That's the question, yeah. Probably from the main map and maybe they just haven't updated the main map yet with with the new building, which actually they have not. Yeah, the the main map on Disney dot.com does not have the building yet. It just has beach and grass, so yeah that's funny. They need to update that, get their artists on that.
00:42:12
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I mean, it's yeah. It opens in like a week. I was going to say, I guess, yeah, they're not they're not leaning on Google Maps for that. You're right. It is an internal thing. So, yeah, I guess they need to they need to get on it. And actually, I look so looking on the page. um it So it has today listed and it says no times available. I did see that. Yeah. So, yeah, casual dining. Yeah. So casual dining is not quick service. This this is a.
00:42:40
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Yeah, it's going to have reservations. It's a weird spot. Because when i when I click on casual dining on the website, it brings up like 50s Primetime Cafe and Be Our Guest and Beaches and Cream. So these are all um my yeah yeah these are all places you can make reservations at.
00:43:03
Speaker
true. Yeah. So, okay. So it does seem like you'll have a waiter at this place, not just like a, okay. So it's, so it's going to be a sit down, which I'm perfectly fine with. Um, I mean, the, I guess I, uh, I hope that there are, you know, it sounds like there's going to be like the walk up bar side of things. Yes. My only thing with, if this is only a sit down, it does have an impact on Captain Cook's in the main ceremonial house. What do you mean? Because um it so Captain Cook's is the only quick service. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ah In the Polynesian.
00:43:46
Speaker
So you're going to have people that are going to be like not everyone's going to go to the to the sit down. So that means that Captain Cook is going to be even busier than it is now because you're going to have more people there, which I can see that. But but also, I guess the other thing, too, it might actually I guess.
00:44:07
Speaker
We'll have to see how this plays out. This may actually affect people both at the Grand Floridian and the Polynesian because that tower is close enough that ah technically, if I was staying at that tower, I would actually be trying. Oh, I'll have to go explore this when we're there. but Like, seriously, I'm I get very curious about the stuff that, OK, you all are getting and, you know, like inside my head here for a minute is that I love like mapping stuff out and I love like Once I know where everything is and I can figure it out how it relates to one another, I will figure out like the most optimal way to do things. I have fun with you. yeah so so my thinking My thinking right now is the where the tower is, it's actually pretty far to get over to the main ceremonial house. I believe it's actually further than getting from like the the ah the current long houses for DVC.
00:44:58
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like so um So it may not actually be in people's best interest to walk from the tower all the way over to the ceremonial house, but depending on how close the quick service is at the Grand Floridian, you may actually have people walking from the Pauli Tower over to the Grand Floridian for quick service.
00:45:17
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or or there may be a split of people. or Like I said, it's it's pretty far though. so Is it really far? Grand Floridian, yeah. Because it's it's it's on the it's on the other side of the wedding pavilion and then it's where the quick services is towards like, not towards the back of the resort, but as far as the far side of the resort compared to where the island tower is.
00:45:38
Speaker
OK, so I guess. Yeah, I don't know. We'll let see how it shakes out, you know. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, I guess, yeah, the the thing is, is that, you know, it's great that they've got this sit down there, but, you know, you're going to have an entire tower of people and not all of them are going to want to be doing sit downs, which means that it's going to I hope Disney's considered this, that, you know, their quick services are busy enough in those resorts, specifically like the last time I was at The Polynesian. I did an online order at Captain Cook's and took me 45 minutes to get it because they were just so overwhelmed. So if they're not thinking about that, um i it really should be. To be fair, though it's a similar situation to Animal Kingdom Lodge, right? So.
00:46:25
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ah Animal Kingdom Lodge, Kidani, does not have a quick service option, right? Right. you can You can get some breakfast at Sana'a, but the main quick service is over at the main building. And so you have to either take the little bus over there or walk over there to get breakfast if you want it. So I mean, it's it's not, I guess, all that different in that case is like, you're if you're staying in the island tower, you don't want to grab some pastries to go, you're just gonna have to walk over to the main building.
00:46:50
Speaker
But you know like you said, it's probably going to get busier. yeah I'm not just thinking about like breakfast. because like like For me, like i don't I usually like order food and have it in my room for breakfast, so I don't even deal with breakfast crowd stuff. But I'm thinking about like throughout the day, like I will go to the quick services sometimes at lunch and dinnertime.
00:47:09
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And my, yeah, my, my concern is that, you know, they've added a whole other tower to this area, but there's not, or the only additional food option is a sit down. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:25
Speaker
So I'm just, I'm throwing all this out there because, you know, you know, as much as we all love the new stuff and I, like I said, I definitely want to go this to this restaurant, but I'm kind of thinking about how this is going to impact like just general experience at these resorts too. Right. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. That makes sense. All right. Why don't we do our ad and then we'll talk about some other stuff, huh? All right.
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00:48:22
Speaker
All right, some other stuff we got to talk about here that's not DVC related. I can't believe we talked for db about DVC for so long. So Disney also revealed a whole bunch of dates for stuff and also updates for things, right? ah So one of those is the villain show that we talked about, which I'm seeing a lot of people, by the way, saying that they should just cancel the show and and move Muppet Vision 3D over to that theater.
00:48:48
Speaker
Which I mean, you know could happen I guess eventually right like this last for a year or two and then they could you know rebuild mother vision over there the right it's right next to the new coaster, right so Yeah, but I mean I I know, I just know like, like,
Disney 2025 Updates and Attractions
00:49:07
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no, don't, don't choose to do that. Don't shoehorn stuff in yeah where it doesn't make sense. Like I know people are scrambling to find a place for Muppet Vision 3D, but it's it.
00:49:23
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It's not going to work out the way you think it will. yeah That's yeah that's all all I'll say is that they won't just one for one take Muppet Vision and put it over there, even if you ask them to. It would not be what you want. And in my opinion, just, you know, the fact that we're getting rock and roller coaster, I think people will, you know.
00:49:43
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be happy with that. I think it'll be better. Like, yeah. Yeah. So we know more details though about this villain show. It's called unfairly ever after, which I'm going to guess means that, you know, it's a show about the villains being like, you know, treated met badly or misunderstood or something. Right. but Yeah. I mean, maybe it'll be, uh, I don't know if you've watched, I assume you've probably watched descendants at this point. Like, yes. You know how, how all the villains got like banished to an island kind of thing. It yeah kind of, it kind of feels like that vibe. and And so that's coming summer. Then we also finally have an update on the Little Mermaid, the new musical that they're doing. they they That's been closed since COVID and now they're bringing it back. ah That one is also going to be, I think it says summer. Yeah. they're they're not So they're not giving dates. They're just saying like approximate. Yeah. Yeah. There are some dates later on this so that we have. So also I totally forgot about this spaceship Earth Lounge. Yeah. Me too. Until I saw the the announcement about it.
00:50:41
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Yeah, and then I saw the picture and I was like, oh, I remember that. I just it just kind of i think it got like pushed down with all of the other crazy announcements we had, but this ah is coming in late spring now. um my My question about this one, it doesn't look like a gigantic space, right? Is this gonna be a pain in the butt to get into? This is gonna be one of those things that's different. I mean, obviously they're gonna do a nightly fireworks thing there, right? like There's gonna be a paid event in there for fireworks just because of the view you get, I'm guessing.
00:51:09
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but I would I would expect so I expect there's a like a dessert party type thing that they're gonna do yeah that's what i I would guess too and it looks like they are gonna have some food ah so it's it's not just like a bar they're calling it a lounge right so it's late spring, there's going to be food, there's going to be drinks, it's going to be a nice view. I'm not going to lie, I've always wanted to go up there ah because you know I've always known there was a lounge up there, but it was for the sponsor previously and now they're just making it a space that anyone can go to. I always wanted to check it out and I will definitely make my way up here at some point. Yeah, this is on my list now.
00:51:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Especially with an opening in spring, you know, like this is, yeah, this is going to mean I'm so i'll I'll be there in May, which I mean is still spring. So yeah, I mean, there's, there is a chance that I will get to get in here. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we also have an opening time, ah air you know, season for, uh, the test track 3.0, um, which is going to be late summer, 2025. Yeah.
00:52:12
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You're going to miss that one unfortunately. Yeah, I really was hoping that this was going to be open early. Yeah. i They also hint here that they're going to start you're going to start seeing cars returning to the track with their new look.
00:52:25
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in the next couple months here. so yeah Yeah, for testing, of course. yeah Yeah, but we'll start getting images. I mean, you see in this ah concept, are what the what the you know ride vehicle is going to look like, assuming it's going to stay the same as the concept, or which it doesn't always. um But you know it'll be interesting to see what that that looks like when that starts happening.
00:52:45
Speaker
Uh, and then we have, uh, I, you know, I didn't forget about this, but it's now back in in my mind again. Uh, new nighttime parade at magic kingdom, Disney starlight dream the night away, which I have to say the concept art, if it looks anything like the concept art, this is going to be an amazing parade. I mean, if, yeah, yeah yeah you, if you know what paint the night is, the like, this is going to be like paint the night, which means it's going to be good. Yeah. it Like I, I'm not.
00:53:15
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I feel that Disney is not so out of tune with their nighttime parades that they would ever do like anything particularly horrible with it. so like like they They understand that these nighttime parades need to be a spectacle, and this is definitely lining up to be a spectacle.
00:53:32
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100%. And this, so this is summer 2025. They didn't say late. They didn't say early. They just said summer. So, yeah. I mean, I'm going to go with July on that one. Just a guess. Yeah. I mean, it kind of makes sense that they would line up some of these things for like the, the summer. Yeah. Yeah. yeah ah so they And just so those that don't know, it's going to have ah Peter Pan and Kanto, Frozen, Moana, and it says, and more. And of course it's going to be lit up like we're talking about. And then the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio will says, we'll weave a transformative magic of starlight through each float and every costume. So just like lit up. OK. I thought maybe it was something different.
00:54:12
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ah And then we have Pirates of the Caribbean, the tavern that was announced a while ago. This one is not until late 2025, so we still got a full year for this one, basically. Which is interesting, because it's just the tavern. why what Yeah, like what what's taking so long? Is it just a low priority, I guess? I don't know. Maybe. I mean, they're doing a lot of stuff right now, right? so I feel like this concept art changed. It did. I agree.
00:54:37
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Because I remember the previous one felt a lot more like... Debatris. Yeah, very very like Tortuga-esque. You know what, though? where This is a different angle, though, because the other angle was of the bar. This is not a picture of the bar. This is of the sitting area. You know what this is giving me the vibe of? Is ah Blue Bayou in Disneyland. Oh, okay. That's kind of cool.
00:55:00
Speaker
Is that a bad thing, right? is Yeah, because yeah Blue Bayou is very like it's it's very like candlelight, dark, like yeah because because it's it's facing into the ride or into the beginning of the ride. It it has a very like like fine dining ambiance, I guess would be the best way to put it. um Yeah. so yeah the this I wonder if maybe that's why this is taking longer is that they they maybe got feedback on the initial like, hey, this looks like ah like it's going to be like a rowdy bar kind of thing. And maybe people went, I don't know. I want that. I mean, I kind of want that though, but yeah, but but I also get like, It's hard because it it it puts it into a fine line. of yeah if If it's all entertaining to loud, rowdy people, that actually does cut off a lot of people it does that yeah you know are there on vacation and you know feel like you know they have to avoid. like
00:55:58
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like For me, if it was like if they say it was a full on bar, I want nothing to do with it. Like I do. I i don't go to bars. I just don't i don't. I don't like that kind of atmosphere. But this is like, oh, this looks like a nice like, you know, it's pirates themed and all that. But it's not like.
00:56:15
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over the top aggressive, which like, but I get what you're saying is like, Hey, that seems like, you know, in the, music like youre if you're in the mood or in the moment, it seems like it would be a lot of fun, but I don't know how sustainable that is in the middle of a theme park. Well, and they they do say in here that it will welcome pirates of all ages. And they, and I actually didn't realize they're actually going to have food here too. So it's, it says Grog and grub. Now that could be just, you know,
00:56:40
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a couple like little appetizer things. But I just assumed they weren't gonna have food. They also said there may be a few more a few mysterious and magical surprises in the store. So interested to see what that's gonna be like. Yeah, that's that's the part that that's the part that that intrigues me is that you know that you can do like, you can do a rowdy bar like whatever kind of thing, but it's it's when you're like sitting there and stuff starts happening. like You know, like like Trader Sam's type stuff or I'm thinking Trader Sam's with. pi Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. But, you know, like Pirates version of Trader Sam's kind of stuff. Right. Like I'm I'm looking at the ah I'm looking at the little um ships in the bottle above the that mantle. Yes. It's something it feels like something's going to happen with those. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, with the portraits that are on the wall. Like there's a lot of things that can happen here. Yeah.
00:57:28
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Yeah, exactly. I want a pirate waiter though. though That's all I'm going to say. Um, uh, anyway, so moving on, much to my wife's happiness. Uh, Zootopia better. Zu together. I almost said better. Zu together. It actually works if you say it right. yeah Um,
00:57:48
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So this is the new show that's going to be replacing the I want to say much maligned. It's a bug. It's tough to be a bug um because, you know, I mean, I don't think I've ever done that show without seeing multiple children come out crying. ah And my wife me on the verge of tears because she doesn't like it either. So.
00:58:07
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Who doesn't love being you know yeah salted by spiders coming down from the roof? Yeah, of course. Yeah, and I think this is new concept art. I don't think I've seen this. I think that the name was not out there before, so I think this is is new information. ah But this is going to open winter 2025 at Animal Kingdom. It looks like they're going to make this a lot more family friendly and a lot more fun.
00:58:31
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You know, just even looking at the concept art, you know, it looks, it looks really interesting. There's some drones going on here for some reason. I think that's, that's what those are drones on the top. Oh yeah. Yeah. yeah I actually did not, I, I scrolled right past those. I didn't even notice those. Cause I was looking at the, like.
00:58:48
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I was looking at all the character silhouettes and everything, which very much reminds me of the end of the movie when they're at the the concert with Gazelle. That kind of seems like what it's going to be, right? Yeah. And like like looking at the way that Nick and Judy are dressed and and everything, it's... It's feeling like it's it's going to be very much a party atmosphere and not- Scary. no Yeah, not dramatic. That's absolutely terrifying. Also, I did notice on this poster too that it's presented in Carrot Vision 3D because why not?
00:59:21
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Well, carrots are good for your eyes. You know that, right? That's true. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I just want to know who's I'm sure that's going to be the joke. Who's going to be the character? Like, are they going to get rid of the animatronic that comes out from the ceiling? Like, or are they just going to replace that with somebody else and who they're going to play? I don't know. I feel like they're going to redo that whole theater. That's all going to be yeah guaranteed. It's yeah. that theyre i I can't imagine them repurposing the existing show because it's it is very dated and it's a good opportunity for them to just rip it out and replace right yeah ah The other thing is we, uh, we found out now that dinosaur will be still open for the entire year of 2025. So, Oh no. Oh no. Um, but yeah, so listen, if you are really,
01:00:09
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and but That's the saddest news on here, Matt. That's sad for you because you wanted to be close sooner than that? It is. And and especially, okay, okay we're going to sidebar for a second here. okay yeah um So there's a game that is, i be it's just coming out, like I think on like tomorrow, or the day this comes out actually, so so like Monday.
01:00:31
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um Indiana Jones and the Great Circle oh yeah is is coming out, which looks really good. And does look really good and I've been watching like trailers and stuff. and and And I actually saw that they actually did, um somebody pointed out that there was one part that um they did a reference to Indiana Jones in Disneyland.
01:00:53
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and Because there's actually a there's a picture of the eye of Mara that he looks at at one point so okay cool so that immediately got me like all right you like I just like remembered like Indian like how all that is and Now hearing that dinosaur is gonna be there for another year. It's like but I want indie yeah They know prioritize things, Trevor. There's a lot going on. Don't, don't, don't wait another year. Give me like, come on guys. Uh, unfortunately that's, that's how it's going to be. Right. So, um, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not even going to be the animal kingdom on my next trip anyway. So that's true. That's true. it's So after, yeah after hours returns next year, which I know you're talking about taking advantage of. We are doing an after hours party. garre Nice. Yeah.
01:01:39
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we We're going to do. I was wrestling with doing Epcot versus Magic Kingdom, and I did settle on Magic Kingdom. Oh, wow. OK, nice. Because something people don't think about with Epcot is that like it's good that they have the after hours, but um the pavilions aren't open during the after hours. Yeah. So.
01:02:04
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i mean Yeah, I get it. Just throwing that out there for anybody who's looking at after hours. part That makes sense. That makes sense. ah So they also do mention here, too, that the throughout 2025, there are more than 200 days of themed, seasonal, and limited time magic happening.
01:02:22
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So between the, you know, the usual festivals, like the festival of the arts farts and, um, international, uh, the, um, you know, obviously food and wine and then the Christmas parties, the Halloween parties, all that stuff. Yeah. Flower garden. Yeah. That, that was the other one I was looking for. Um, but yeah, so this, I mean, there's a lot of good stuff coming in 2025 while we wait for other things to be finished. But listen, we're going to get a new test track. That's great. We're going to get new parades. We're going to get some new shows. Lots of good stuff happening, right? Yeah.
01:02:52
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Yeah. All right. So what do we got next year? Um, we don't need to do this one. Let's skip that. I mean, we can, we can, if you want. We already talked about holiday merge. I don't know that we'd like, what else is there to talk about? dont know That's it's a valid question. And I guess, okay. I, I will roll this out there that, Oh boy.
01:03:16
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OK. Yeah. OK. Come at me, people. ah hall Holiday merch is the least interesting thing at Disney because it is so situational and it's so like you buy so you buy a a Christmas anything. You're only using it at Christmas time. like Like I'm not buying shirts or hats or anything. Christmas. It's yeah. I I feel like the the like the Christmas merch is the the worst Worst thing. The worst thing to happen and and like I said, it's the least it's the thing that I pay the least amount of attention to because, and and to be fair, you know in this article, they are advertising other things like yeah you know like toys and stuff for the kids. The Honda Mansion light up chess set sounds pretty awesome. If I play chess, I'd be all over that.
01:04:04
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Well, and again, that, you know, you also kind of have to think about, you know, am I, am I going to buy a chess set and that's going to sit there and not be used? Right. and it's Yeah. I mean, it it is cool though. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's cool. fair Yeah. I agree. But I guess, like I said, when whenever I see anything about like holiday time stuff, I kind of, I pay less attention to it because it feels like Disney is like, I don't want, I get it i don't want Disney
Josh Gad and Disney Projects
01:04:32
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holiday stuff. I want Disney stuff.
01:04:34
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and I get that. I get that. That makes sense. Yeah, that's fair. All right. ah You want to leave it on? Yeah. Okay. All right. So I put this on here just because I thought it was interesting. um It doesn't mean anything. It means nothing, but it's interesting. It is. And I guess it's and so so the the headline is Disney legend Josh Gad publicly presses Imagineers for new Figment Ride at Epcot, which If Josh was really going to do this, he wouldn't have to, he wouldn't be publicly hitting them up. He would be going and having conversations with people he can have conversations with. Well, but to be fair, he, he posted on his Instagram, Hey, Walt, does the Imagineering call me? We need to give this guy the ride update he deserves. So he's literally saying, call me. I want to help. Like, you know, yeah I want to do this with you, which, okay, sure. But as if he doesn't have contacts though, like, true i mean i'm sure he does but you know i the thing about it is that you know and the only reason i put this on here right it's like
01:05:33
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it's It's so frustrating, I think, for a lot of us with the figment thing because it's like, and this article mentions it, right? Like Disney's still like promoting figment in so many ways, you know, between the meet and greet and like, you know, that's super popular popcorn bucket and just the merch and everything. And it's like, but why can't we have a good ride? Can you just do that? Yeah, I don't know. But i just I mean, it's kind of funny. I guess I guess it's good. Yeah, you know, you know I feel, you know, maybe Josh is, you know.
01:06:04
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maybe he's said things and people have ignored him. And so he's using, you know, obviously the fact that he does have a public platform as a means of, you know, I feel like this is kind of the same way that like Ryan Reynolds got Deadpool. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like, yeah, he's, he's politicking for it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Which, which is fair. i mean I mean, I'm not mad about it. I'm not, you know, you know, I'm glad that, you know, he's aware of it. And, you know,
01:06:31
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you know, having somebody like him acknowledge, like, you know, us as fans are all saying, you know, hey, this needs some love, but we really don't get listened to all that much because, you know, even as a hardcore fan, they, they, you know, we don't have, we don't have the weight to say this needs, this needs some work, right? yeah yeah And, you know, yeah, I'm glad that Josh is, is taking the time to do that. I,
01:06:59
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Initially, when I thought about it, I was like, OK, if he if he was he's obviously got something in mind for it. And I was thinking about like, OK, the current voice of Figment is the same guy who does Gonzo for for Muppets. Do you think that if they did an update to this, that Josh would try and take a swing at doing Figment? I don't interesting i I don't think he would do bad because no I actually think his voice would fit that. yeah Yeah. He, like, he, I, like, you know, looking at Olaf and everything, I feel he could do real, really good justice to the character, but, yeah but I'm just, I don't know. Like, why kick out Gonzo though? You know, like, yeah, well, but I mean, also the, like, it's not just Gonzo, like, like the whole current way it's done with like Eric Idol. Yeah. yeah It like,
01:07:50
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it who it literally doesn't remember doing this. It's that old, he literally doesn't even remember. and And it was one little project that he did in the midst of how many other things Eric Idle has done. and true The only thing that I hope that happens is that, I'll admit, the one thing I really like about the current Figment ride is how it ties together a universe of the different zany science movies that they used to have back in the 90s. True. Because there's there's the reference you know that Robin Williams is in there. Lubber. Lubber and you know Rick Moranis from Honey I Shrunk's Kids and all that. And the connection to that, Josh Gad, remember, was going to do, they were going to do a new Honey I Shrunk the Kids show.
01:08:30
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where Josh Gad was going to be the lead of. Oh, yeah. Connections like that. But they which I think got canceled just because of schedules, because I think I got delayed because of the writers strike. And then I think ah Josh Gad just got too busy, I guess. um But yeah, he was supposed to do a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids show on Disney Plus. And I think it was going to be that he was like, you know, Rick Moran is his son or whatever you know following his footsteps. And then. Oh, OK. And if I remember correctly, I could be wrong. This is a while. There's a couple of years ago. This is announced, so.
01:09:01
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Yeah, OK. So I guess, yeah, maybe maybe there is some ways that, you know, maybe he has a plan for something bigger, if that's the case. Because because like you said, you know, I guess things like this, you know, or like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, you know, it got canceled at the time. But we also know, you know, Disney is also very notorious for things will seem like they've died off and then all of a sudden, like three years later, they'll resurrect it and like green light doing something. Right. So Yeah. He actually, last year, he so there's it was actually supposed to be a film. um And I guess he answered last year, he said, um truth is we were inches from starting it and then COVID started, and then inches from starting again, and then Josh Guy got too busy basically, and then inches from starting again and the budget got cut. so And then he said, if you want it, let your local at Disney know.
01:09:54
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So I'm just tagging Disney in there. yeah Um, but yeah, so I guess we're supposed to be called shrunk. Is that okay. Cause that's what there's like an actual like little, like a poster for it. Oh, so somebody did some initial, like, like, yeah, the reboot with center around GAD, one of Zelinski's kid who followed in just father's footsteps as an inventor. So, okay. Yeah. Which, okay. I mean, I guess I could see him playing the, the younger son.
01:10:20
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Only Frick Mirandis is in it though. like or no it's It was, sorry, it was the son and the daughter that were, or he had a son and a daughter. um I was thinking of the neighbor who had two boys. Yeah. Yeah. No, but i've been I mean, I feel like, Me too. I, I, Rick Mirandis would need to be in it though for me. Like I, you know, I don't, I don't know if you will he he he won't, I don't, I mean, yeah i know he's he had retired now. Yeah. He, well he's, he's done, he's appeared in a few things. I don't know if he's completely out of retirement and I don't like, yeah.
01:10:50
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I just would want him back for that. <unk>s I agree. I love Rick Moranis. He was so good, but I also understand why he stepped away from acting. like Oh, 100%. He had to take care of his family. well and i mean you know it's It's funny, Trevor, and I don't know if you feel this way, but like I distinctly remember much of Honey, I Shrunk the Audience. like I still remember that show. like i don't know Me too.
01:11:13
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Yeah, it's just like some of it stuck in my head for a long time. Like I just remember it still. I remember the poster for it. I remember certain effects that would happen and like that's been gone a long time. Like the mice running under your feet. Yes. Yeah, there was so many things in that that I just like I remember and it's like weird that I remember. It's like I shouldn't, you know, because it's so old at this point. I mean, I only saw it once and it's stuck in my head like that. Yeah.
01:11:37
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That says something. And and also, that that was the original tie-in for Eric Idle's character in Two Figment because he was yeah he was in Honey, I Shrunk the Audience. Yeah. So there's lots of connections there, but you know, back to figment, I, I, I remember seeing a rumor where they said it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when that it gets done. So it's going to get done. It just depends on when, I mean, and listen, they have a lot of projects going on right now. So it's, it's going to be, you know, it's going to take some time. I can only imagine what it's like over at imaginary now with the amount of stuff that they're working on right now. It's, it's crazy. Yeah. But just work on my figment ride, please. Yeah. Just do that. Yeah. Forget everything else. and I know you're busy with all these other things, but this is my thing. Forget new cruise ships. Yeah, forget new resorts. ah You should do my thing first. Yeah, do my thing first. Yeah, yeah exactly. So I think this is one that that you're excited for, probably. We're going to go over to Disneyland.
01:12:40
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and should be Excited for this too because you're you are potentially going to be experiencing this too at some point aren't you. i yeah I'm not going to Disneyland next year that's not happening but okay. No but um sometime yes.
Haunted Mansion Enhancements
01:12:56
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All right, so yeah, what what's happened is they they finally revealed the upgrades to the area around the Haunted Mansion. The big part being that the queue has been entirely redone and looks fantastic. like It does. Okay. like like you don't You don't understand how cramped that old queue was. like it was It was almost like single file, just like all these tight switchbacks. There was nothing like it was just like a big box on the side of the of the Haunted Mansion. And this looks so much better, like like the the gardens, the all the little there's so many details in this, like all it's very detailed. Yeah. All the um iee I don't even know what like like statues like like the little it looks like there's like these um
01:13:51
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I don't know what to call them. It's like a jug with like cherubs around the side of it. Yeah. yeah And, you know, there's like little gargoyles. There's there's this glass or looking thing. Yeah. The the fountain, like, man, it looks so good. He did a really nice job with this. It's funny because I yeah usually with stuff like this is just like, yeah i I wouldn't say nobody cares because this is a big deal, obviously, for Disneyland and, and you know, it's the original how to mansion and all that. um I just everything I've seen online has been extraordinarily positive for this. And people seem to have really liked what they did here.
01:14:23
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Yeah. And then and then also on the other side of it. So so there's the queue, which is one thing which I, you know, and again, looking at the queue, it does give very similar vibes to the queue in in Disney World that like there's there's definitely going to be like.
01:14:40
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There's going to be some stuff to it, right? Like it's yeah it's going to have some some movement and and whatnot. um But then coming out of the Haunted Mansion, that that whole section where the exit, there's there's now going to be the Madame Leota's shop there um called Somewhere Beyond.
01:14:59
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which is going to open soon. It's not open yet. Yeah. But, um, the, so the, the, the exit to haunted mansion is actually one of the most jarring exits now that I think about it. Like, because you, you would just get off the ride, you would go up the, there, the, the, the path to get out. And then it was literally like you came around this little tight corner and then you're just kind of dumped back out into,
01:15:26
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the like next to the mansion. and It felt like you were like you came out through like a service corridor. like like You didn't belong there? like It was the wrong place? Yeah, yeah it felt it felt very weird. but yeah they they they they've kind of moved that or or like they've They've expanded that out and now that there's this the shop there, it you know it looks a lot nicer. like it sir and The shop looks Looks pretty crazy. Yeah. It's way better than the, than the um, uh, momentum worry one that they have a different world, which is very cramped. And this, this looks like it's going to have a decent amount of space to it and just looks, looks so.
01:16:06
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creepy, but like curious. is Is that the right? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. yeah No. And then they showed off a ah couple of pieces of apparel too, which are pretty cool. Um, yeah, no, I know what you're saying. Kind of like that, uh, that hoodie. Yeah. it's not even good It's just like a jacket. Yeah, this it's a zip yeah it's a zip up. jackt Yeah, it's it's very cool. ah I do also want to mention too, because i I know this is obviously a big deal as well, is that ah there' they put in a new elevator, an accessible elevator for folks in in wheelchairs and scooters and stuff. so ah which Which is great, because I've heard before that they had to go like a different way, right? Yeah, because there there was technically actually
01:16:51
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I'll have to confirm or I never had to use yeah service or the the the handicap accessible stuff, but um I'm pretty sure they actually used the stretching room as a means to get people in and out of the ride because um the way that or yeah, because you can't really or people can't really go up the ah the it's it's like in Space Mountain, you know how you had the ah the ramp going or like the escalator. or It's not an escalator, but it's like a, it's like a moving sidewalk, but it was it was inclined. So you couldn't have people going up that. So I think what they used to do was they would take people, like you would get off the ride and you would actually go back to the stretching room and then come up
01:17:38
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using the stretching room because in in ah Disneyland, the stretching room is actually an elevator. Yes. Yeah. So I think they were doing that and it sounds like they've got a separate elevator now for people exiting the ride that is, you know, specifically for that purpose. And it also says to that it extends the story of the attraction and there's a gallery of original imagining artwork. That's pretty cool, actually. Oh, that's so is that going to be um exittensio
01:18:09
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or who It could have been. I mean, it's a lot of people were involved in the Honda mansion. I mean, I know, um, I know, uh, what's his name. Sorry. who Who's the, yeah, I'm blanking now. Who, who is the guy that has the bust on? That's what I was trying to say too. I don't know what. run really grew up yeah I thought I was like, no, it's not Raleigh. No. Okay. No, it's Raleigh.
01:18:30
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Yeah. And then there was, ah there was another guy to his name I can't think of who was like, I think it was him and Raleigh Crump just used to like come up with like all sorts of random effects and like, you know, just used to do weird stuff and that kind of morphed its way into the haunted mansion. Um, but yeah, that'll be cool to see some of that art too.
01:18:48
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Are you talking ah Yale Gracie? That's the one, Yale Gracie. Yes, that's right. I don't know why I forgot of his name because his name is in the ride. yeah you know Master Gracie. Master Gracie, yeah. I don't know why, I just forgot for a second. i yes wherere We're an hour and 20 minutes in, I'm starting to lose my mind. Oh wow, are we? How did that happen? I don't know. We were talking and it happened.
01:19:09
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um we should talk about the seveneth seventy We should wrap up with the 70th anniversary of Disneyland and what they're doing for the 70th
Disneyland's 70th Anniversary Plans
01:19:17
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anniversary. And we actually do have some hard dates in this one. There's there's some hard dates of things that are are coming, so yeah which is nice. So we got the all new World of Color show.
01:19:29
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ah which is world of color happiness. So that'll be pretty cool. It looks like there's going to be a lot of inside out stuff going on there. A lot of other Pixar things. Goofy movies in there. Love that. Yeah, that's, you don't see, Goofy movie does not get enough love, right? Yeah. and And I mean, world of color actually really will lean itself towards Goofy movie. Like it'll work. Also turning reds in there too, which I don't feel like turning red is get gets enough Enough attention cuz I was a little bit more love for sure. I love that movie. I thought it was great I yeah you know this is a really good movie and I feel like it doesn't get enough in the parks I mean it it gets more I feel like in Disneyland than Disney World, but
01:20:09
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yeah Um, yeah. So anyway, so it's going to, you know, the same stuff that always has lasers, fog, flames, all that fun stuff paid the night is coming back as we know. Right. Um, what was the date on that? I thought there was a date. I'm not seeing the dates on any, on any of these. There was a date though. I, maybe it's just not in the, in there, but I saw the ground return for the, to Disneyland for the 70th celebration that so.
01:20:34
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I swear that they announced the date, but might be further down. Yeah, maybe. um Yeah, because I saw there were there were dates. I don't know. So, I mean, I guess not in this article, but I saw in other articles there were dates. um So, yeah. Yeah. For whatever reason, Disney Parks blog is not. I mean, they probably don't want to post dates here in case something does change. I don't know.
01:21:02
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May 16th. Okay. There you go. Yes. There you go. Uh, so I think both of those actually debut on May 16th. Is that saying the beginning out of the, uh, thing in the, we did just didn't see it. Oh yeah. Beginning May 16th. Okay. Oh yeah. You mean that the, mean the bold part at the beginning. Yeah, it's the big bull part. Yeah, that' is enlar it it looks like it's in larger font type. and Yeah, it's good. That's not fair though because they put that there and then immediately immediately below it is a picture of World of Color, which immediately grabbed my eye. That's fair. That's fair. that's so um I'm claiming that it was a bad design choice on their part there by putting by putting the shiny stuff in front of me because I'm clearly distracted by the shiny stuff. Obviously. obviously yeah
01:21:47
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ah So, but paint the nights coming back. So, uh, so look for that in May. I know that's like your favorite. So, um, you know, hopefully they've also, you know, just, I know there was a lot of issues with that parade back in the day with, uh, with some of the performers and the, the outfit yeah stuff like that. Yeah. outfits um very Yeah.
01:22:04
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Hopefully they've upgraded now because batteries are smaller and less heavy, so I'm sure they can do better. Wondrous Journeys is coming back as well. um that one is I actually really liked that one. i My daughter was obsessed with it for a while and she watched it watch videos of it over and over.
01:22:21
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so She really liked that one. ah So that's that one's coming back. And then also better together Pixar celebration, a Pixar pal celebration ah parade is going going to be happening next year. yeah This is the daytime parade at California adventure. Yes. Yes.
01:22:41
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So yeah, so I mean, there's some cool stuff. They also said additional entertainment and more magic to come. So there's going to be more announcements around, uh, you know, what festivities are going to be doing for the 70th anniversary. They're also going to do all sorts of decorations all over the castle and everything too. Uh, and then of course, many, many, many Mickey have a whole new, uh, outfit. So I, I actually really like these outfits over the 60th. I'm just going to put that out there. The sixties outfits were very, um,
01:23:11
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They're very monotone. Like it was it felt like if there was just like one color in the palette. And yeah. And I didn't like it. I didn't like it. It was like it was like this purple color. or or yeah It was the 60th or the 65th. I can't remember. actually I know what you're talking about. Yeah. but Yeah. but Yeah. they Like the they're the 70th ones. of They've got actually a nice like selection of colors. Like it it looks like somebody actually thought about this and didn't just like or like, like looking at like the, the general palette, there's actually a lot of different color going on, which there should be, I feel like like, you know, that they should be, they should be emphasizing things. And, um, yeah, instead of just like, here's everything in a, you know, metallic purple color, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to throw some silver in there. I'm going to throw some weird purple. No, this is, this is good. I like it. Yeah.
01:24:07
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And it's also giving me vibes of um I'm actually remembering like looking at or there's the one picture here with the the shirt with Mickey and Minnie on it. Yeah. um It reminds me of like early 90s Mickey. OK. Like I do that because I remember like some of them like I got some some stuff as a kid from like records and stuff from from yeah um back then. And this is giving off the same like color scheme vibe kind of stuff like it it feels like they're doing they're definitely doing you know some retro stuff but it feels like 90s I don't know it's weirdly like it looks like 90s but then Minnie's dress is like a like a 50s kind of thing I guess I don't know
01:24:52
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I see what you're saying. Yeah. And then that glittery conductor's hat is, I don't know how I feel about that. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. I like the idea of a conductor, like a Mickey conductor's hat. That's cool. yeah The glitter is throwing me off. It's a bit much. Yeah. It's a bit much. I mean, glitter in general, like, okay, people need to stop. I hate glitter. Yeah. Yeah. People need to stop putting glitter on everything. like Yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's just too much. I hate glitter more than anything in the world. um And yes, you you have a daughter too, so I know you get to deal with it in an unusual amount of... I can't i can't describe to you how much I hate glitter. It's like it's well known. If I if i get like a card for like a holiday and there's glitter on it, I literally throw it from my hands like it's on fire.
01:25:40
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Like umlitters yeah yeah yeah oh God, get that away from me. Like that's no joke how I read. Yeah. I, I feel you on that. My, my, uh, my nieces, um, when they were younger, like everything was glitter. And and I remember like, you know, going over and visiting them and it was like, I would leave and I would have like glitter on my clothes, even though I didn't like touch anything of theirs, like somehow like just being in the vicinity got like glitter.
01:26:10
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on everything. but yeah do okay that's i We'll wrap up on this, but i i was I did laundry yesterday and I found a sticker stuck to the inside of my laundry drum and I mentioned this to my wife and my daughter goes, don't blame me for that. And I'm like, of course it was you.
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Like, who else would it be? Like, of course it was your fault. It was my work stickers yeah like stickers coming from, except for from you sticking them on me or on random things all the time. Like, come on. now She's immediately though, like so quickly. I'm just like, yeah, I found a sticker in the washing machine. She goes, what? Don't blame me for that. like they would say like anyway That's so cute. Yeah, it is. It's cute. and Don't get me wrong. It was adorable, and but it just was it was funny. so Anyway, let's wrap it. Yeah, we've we've we've had a good you've had a good chance to talk. at yeah Obviously, it's been a couple of weeks, and we had to get through some things. so Yeah, um yeah so so this was good, and I guess we can
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We can wrap it up here and i'll start by mentioning that you know if you have any questions about anything that you heard on the show um you know if you want to tell us trip reports or or you know whatever you know if you just want to reach out to us you can always find us at welcome on podcast gmail dot com. Love hearing from you guys and similarly you can also find us on social media.
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We are on Facebook as Welcome Home Podcast. YouTube is Welcome Home Podcast. And Instagram is Welcome Home Picks. Make sure on Facebook that you check out our group called Welcome Home Disney Waitlist, where we have lots of conversations about stuff on the show. But there's also, you know, I've so i've seen people in there, this this last week that you know they're posting questions about you know their own travel plans. you know everyone's trying to Everyone's trying to figure out how to do Disney stuff. And I think our group is a great place for you know people of all experience levels of Disney to get together and you know just talk about it. Because there's lots of people that are very well experienced in Disney. And then there's other people that are just you know just trying to plan a trip or just new to it and figuring it out. And I think it's great that we have a place where we can
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connect those people together. So make sure you check it out. Speaking of that, Trevor, just really quickly, not to add to the time here. I think everybody knows I'm going on The Treasure in May and I am 100% clueless on cruises, right? ah so And I was planning it over the Thanksgiving because it you know was with all the family that we're going with and I was like, man, I really got to get up on this. So I think we're going to do something with one of our DCL friends at some point, whether they come on our show or I go on their show, we're going to go through like a first-time cruiser kind of thing, ah all the things you need to know because I'm i'm realizing it's ah more than, you know, I fairly deep knowledge about pretty much everything except for the cruises. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, so I think we're going to do something with our friends over at ah DCL Duo or or one of the other DCL shows, probably DCL Duo, but um but anyway, continue. but So to to dovetail onto that is, yeah, you know,
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If anybody has some advice for Tom in the group, you know let's hear it. i you know i'd love to Give me advice. I'd love to hear what you guys have to share about cruising. And I'm sure Tom would as well. So you know please come check it out. Help me. And then ah you know if you want to help support the show, you can always go to store.welcome1podcast.com and check out our different merch there. um you know we We got all the usual stuff. You can get your t-shirts and mugs and and all that great stuff. um And you know all the money from it just it just helps us continue to keep the show running. um In the same vein, we also have a Patreon, which is patreon dot.com slash welcome home pod. You can check out our different levels of Patreon support, which our Patreon supporters get access to merch that has an exclusive logo that you can't get in the regular store. And our Patreon supporters also get access to the Discord server, which is yet another place that
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um We have great conversations about you know stuff on the show and just you know disney stuff in general because you know there's there's always stuff to talk about. and like Sometimes yeah and actually and sometimes even just random topics like that's that's totally fair game too so yes no please come you know check it out and and join us on the conversation.
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01:30:52
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So, yeah. I actually have a review you to read. and Oh, great. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, if you want to write us a review, please do. So what do you got, Tom? This is from Mandakjane. Okay. And it says, food time. I need more food time in my life. I love listening to the guys talk about food. I'll listen to Tom and Trevor talk about anything related to Disney. Thank you. Oh, for that that's very nice. that's a very thing that Oh, we we fulfilled this week. So you got some food time. I do have to, the past two reviews are are titled Food Time, so I guess I feel okay about playing Food Time. There you go, yeah yeah. There's nothing wrong with it. I think it's perfectly fine. I enjoy Food Time. ah Anyway, so ah don't forget to subscribe to Welcome Home Podcast so you can be reminded every time we release a new episode. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music, any podcast app that and that's out there, you can find us. Just search for Welcome Home. and
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