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Episode 344: Piston Peak Speculation, WDW Attraction Opening Dates & Bluey’s Debut
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DVC is offering a 20% discount on VIP tours for DVC members. The guys dive into a fascinating new patent that could hint at the ride system for the upcoming Piston Peak attraction, potentially giving riders more control over their off-road experience. Disney World provided opening dates for several new and refurbished attractions including Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live!, the Mandalorian and Grogu on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Soarin’ Across America, and Bluey’s Wild World. The guys speculate on what animals will be coming to Conservation Station’s new “Jumping Junction”. In a new "Food Time Bites" segment, Tom and Trevor look at the elegant new spring menu at Takumi-Tei in EPCOT and the Bluey themed food debuting at Disneyland.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Resale Market. Thank you for joining us on episode 344 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast.
Hosts' Banter and Podcasting
00:00:39
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I'm Tom here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, good morning. How is your Saturday going? We are you're telling people when we're recording. because You're breaking the fourth wall here, man. What are you doing? but It could be Sunday next week, so you never know.
00:00:53
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that's good they They don't know when we record, you know. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, it's there's a lot of time on Saturday. You don't know when we're recording. but We used to record Sundays. We did, too. We did, too. We took Saturdays. ah Yeah.
Interview with Debra Danielle and Ian
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But, yeah, it's funny because we already have talked a lot because we finally, after several months now, and listen, I'm not, don't take this as good as it's emerging. It's been two months. It's been a couple months. Yeah, it's been a lot of, yeah, been a lot of back and forth. Trying to get that for Danielle. Yeah. We got our interview. We got it. Yes, we did. We interviewed Dabra Danielle and her co-writer and brother Ian last night. And I think we had a really great time. Honestly, we talked to them for a little over an hour. We probably could talked to them for three hours. I mean, yeah.
00:01:44
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Yeah, we we we were in it for sure. Like that was, yeah that I guess if if you want to nerd out about Disney stuff, that is a show I would recommend you watch because yeah we very much enjoyed it and we hope you all will enjoy it too because...
00:02:03
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Yeah, that like they're they're great to talk to like that. That was just it was it was fun. it i I'm super excited to, you know, have it out there. I'm excited for them for, you know, the things they're doing next. Like I just I think and I said this to to Danielle was, you know, you know, I love i love that there is somebody out there that is so passionate about like.
00:02:28
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documenting and like understanding all the little bits of what actually goes into Disney because it's not yeah it's not as clearly documented as you think it is and it's very cool that she is like super passionate about that.
00:02:42
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Well, it's they actually and she talked about this a little bit, but and this is this is, you know, if you if you watch Imagineering story, they talk about this where the Imagineering didn't have a recording system at all.
00:02:53
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When when they built Disneyland, they just built stuff like in everything that they built was like one of one. It was the only one that they ever built because it was the only one they ever thought they were going to build. And then it was actually them going to the Asian parks, ah you know, building the Asian parks where they had to start documenting everything and creating records for everything. And that's when they finally started kind of like having some record keeping. But, you know, Danielle makes a joke in this episode of yeah would yeah about how bad the record
Disney's Historical Record-Keeping
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keeping is at Disney. So, yeah but, but it is funny though, because, you know, they, they've always, the, the imaginary kind of operated like that, where they just kind of they just built stuff and, Sometimes, you know, I'm sure it's a lot better nowadays than it used to be, but the the historical part of it, not so great. so Yeah. And that's I think that's the really interesting part is, you know, you know, there there there comes a point where like, you know, recent history is very well documented. when you go far enough back, it's like.
00:03:49
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there's a whole bunch of question marks. and Oh, yeah. And, yeah. Like I said, i she was she was fantastic to talk to. And, um yeah, I'm, like said, just... I'm glad we finally got to do it because, you know, she she's somebody that I think aligns with, you know, our same passion around Disney. And, you know, there's because there's like...
00:04:09
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There's like the storytelling and, yeah you know, I love like, you know, being immersed in it. But then I also love like that next step of like, oh, how did they do this? Or what is the intent? Or what is like even and you'll hear it on the episodes. Like there's little things that she brought up that like they like even in her book that that we were talking about, like she didn't explicitly call these things out in the book. But then like she.
00:04:35
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She brought up things that I was like, I would not have even thought about that in yeah in like my normal walking about Disney, but it makes sense. like like When she brought up, i was like, oh my god goodness, like it opened my eyes to...
00:04:49
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like It seems obvious, but it's like you you almost need like a neon sign, like saying like, this is the this is what we're supposed to be doing here. Right. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, and I mean, I don't know exactly what you're referring to, but there is a showcase discussion. That's what I
Upcoming YouTube Video Preview
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thought, because. Yeah. And i just as a preview to this, and and by the way, we also, we did do this episode on video. So this will be a video that's on YouTube. This last time we did it with her, we did it audio only. This time we decided do video, which is very exciting that we decided to kind of do something a little bit different this time around.
00:05:25
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And it was nice to have her there on video, too, to you know kind of see her. Because she she's like she's like me. And if you watch any of our videos, I am very expressive of my hands and face and stuff like that. And she's the same way. you know she's Her hands and face and you know making all all sorts of ah gestures. But um as a preview, you know she makes a valleyie very compelling or ah argument for starting in Canada and the World Showcase. And i i the thing that actually got me, Trevor, was not...
00:05:52
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the really even the facts that she had in the book of why you should do it. It was that the Imagineers is designed the, the, the view of each pavilion to be from that direction. Yes. And, and there was intent with it. And when, and you don't think about it, right? Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:11
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You're just walking around World Showcase. You're just looking around. You're not really thinking about that kind of thing. But the it was so deliberate and so intentional how they designed it. And going to the left, you're actually doing it wrong, which is crazy. good But yeah. And
Epcot's World Showcase Starting Point
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OK. And so just so we're we're on on the same page with everybody, we are so not debating. I will still go to Mexico first. Absolutely, yeah. I actually talked about this with my brother last night because we were playing mini golf and we we did actually, it came up a little bit like I was telling him about the interview and and I explained the part about, you know, the World Showcase and he was like, yeah, but I'm still going to Mexico. And I'm like, yeah, I know, i me too. But like, it's...
00:06:53
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It's funny. Made a compelling argument. Yeah, it's very compelling. And, and you know, I'll i'll still go like, it will change how I look at things. But it it was just funny because like, you know, even even outside of all of that discussion, it's like, yeah, I know that this is the right way, but I'm still going to go the wrong way. I'm still going the wrong way. Yeah. I mean, i to i to be fair to her, though, like I have gone every time I've ever gone in the International Gateway, I think we I feel like we always go. Right.
00:07:20
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So like after. And so that way, you know, you're right. that That's that where it actually makes sense. It's just for some reason coming from ah from like world celebration. just doesn't make sense for some reason. it does Yeah. Yeah. And and yeah, there's there's something there that that's.
00:07:38
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that's breaking my brain and I'm not quite sure what it is. But yeah, please. but We're going to probably put that out in the next week or
Interview Episode Anticipation
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so. So please check that out. Give us some feedback on it. We're, we're excited about it though. It was a lot of fun. Like I said, we probably could have talked forever about it and it is our typical kind of interview where we're not just at talking to her about the book. I appreciate that because a lot of times when you have people coming on to promote things, they only want to talk about that thing. And we did talk a lot about the book, but we also, you know, did We asked some crazy questions. Yeah, there there was some Disney nerd talk. There was just... We we had some randomness and there there was rabbit holes. So, yeah, yeah it's yeah ah it's a good time.
00:08:15
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Yeah, it really was. So please check that out just, you know, next week or so. Look for that. so Yeah. um But on to
DVC News and Discounts
00:08:23
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other things. We actually... After talking about all that, we ah have...
00:08:27
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A lot of news. Yeah, we have news to talk about. A lot. We have DVC stuff and we have Disney World updates because, of course, you know, Disney World decided yesterday. I don't know if you get these emails, Tom, but, you know, they send me like the promotional things. And I got the whole Cool Kids Summer like run down email. And I was like, oh, OK, this is what I'm talking about this week. Yeah, because there's lot of stuff there. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff there. But just to start off really quickly, and this is a quick one, but, you know, because we do like to talk about when there's some DVC news and and, you know, we don't always talk about like discounts and stuff like that. But when there's like a really interesting different one, then we do talk about it because, for example, this one, which is DVC members can save 20 percent on VIP tours. So if you want to get yourself plaid, now's the time to do it because you can save 20 percent, which is a hefty sum of money. I mean, for 20 percent, a big discount on something that expensive.
00:09:22
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You know? Yeah, for sure. And also, you know, this is something where, you know, you have a big family trip planned. Like, you know, I i would say put this on the table because yeah because it's up to 10 guests as part of a group. So, you know, you can have...
00:09:36
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You know, if you if you're splitting it between a couple of families at all, you know, and the 20% discount on top, um you know, so yeah, like you said, it seems like a good time to have a plaid. Also should point out that there are, they say most dates um through April 26th to October 3rd, 2026, they do explicitly call out blackout dates for May 22nd to 26th and July 3rd to 5th, which I'm guessing are because you I'm sorry. What is what is that holiday called for you guys? I'm sorry. I'm being very Canadian right now. It's it's Victoria Day for us in May for you. it's Oh, yeah. Memorial Day. Yeah. Memorial. Thank you. Memorial Day. Yeah. Sorry. I was like I was like, I want to say it's Victoria Day. And you would have been like, what are you talking about? um yeah I've learned my Canadian holidays. yeah um so and And then, yeah, obviously, July 3rd to 5th is Independence Day. So understandably, they're you know yeah that they are not going to do discount anything. state um so They also love doing new things Memorial Day weekend, which is a theme of what we're about to talk about in a years. they love they love opening new attractions Memorial Day weekend. like I feel like that's always like when they do things. But listen, 20% off, you're talking VIP tour can be anywhere from $450 to $950 an hour. And you have to do it a minimum of seven hours. So like you're tired that's a really hefty discount.
00:11:02
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If you're a DVC member. It is yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Listen, i I don't know if it would make me do it, but it would certainly make me think about it. Yeah. i mean I mean, it's one of those things where, you know, if the stars aligned and it was like, oh, hey, you know, i I don't know. It's, yeah, you know, nobody has a couple thousand dollars sitting around. But if for some reason it was like,
00:11:23
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I had an, you know, I had the means to justify it. And even if it was like, well, it's, it's close, but it's a little too expensive. I would probably do the mental gymnastics to make it happen. Again, a 20% discount, like you said, is like, that's, that's pretty huge when you really think about it. Yeah.
00:11:43
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Yeah, it is. So i want to move on from that, though, Trevor, because this next thing, i yeah I'll just play the music, man. and Tom. OK, yeah, go do it. Reckless speculation.
00:11:54
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Reckless speculation. Reckless speculation. It's so reckless. It's so much speculation.
00:12:05
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We may be wrong. We may be right. But it doesn't matter because it's It's reckless speculation. I forget who it was in the Discord that said they were walking around the grocery store the other day and they were singing this in their heads and I was like, mission accomplished. yeah ah But, okay, so... would be wild to hear that in a grocery store. I know, right? w Well, yeah, i I think he said at first he thought maybe he was hearing it in the grocery store. Listen, I mean, I would love to to make a deal with with grocery stores, you know, just to play record. But I think food time would go better, know, grocery store anyway. But, okay, so we need to talk about this, Trevor, because and yeah this is...
00:12:44
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This feels to me like this is going to happen, but it also feels too crazy to happen. Okay. Right. So we've been wondering since they announced the cars ride, we've been speculating how they're going to do this ride. Right. Because we, they, you know, about a year ago, they showed kind of like them doing like off-roading and like golf carts for it. And it looked like it was going to be this kind of off-road thing. Now, if you've seen,
00:13:07
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what the Cars Ride is over it over at California Venture, or, you know, they they use the test track system, which has, you know, you a very defined track that you're going on. But this felt different, and we've been trying to understand how they were going to do it.
00:13:20
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and And we might have an answer. And this is reckless speculation because we don't know, but this feels like a really well-timed patent, and it feels like this patent is really ah geared towards this ride. You know?
00:13:33
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I mean... yeah Go ahead. I can explain it or you can explain it. So what the patent is talking about is, so there's an outline of the ride track, but then it looks like at certain points in the track, you will have some sort of control over the direction that the vehicle takes.
00:13:58
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So the the the part that they're specifically calling out is but they're they're saying ah there's off-roading sections. So so here here's the thing that I'm thinking about with this. or or So i'm um I'm thinking that this could go one of two ways. Because like you were just talking about, like you know we we were kind of assuming this was going to be a Radiator Springs Racers type ride initially, right? Yeah. and the thing about that is that in Radiator Springs Racers, there is two different tracks that the cars can go down technically. Sure, yeah. Because it hits a point where the cars actually, like they will split off and they will race each other. So so you will...
00:14:42
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you You have that ability built into that system where you can have different different branching paths in it. But the thing about this or the way that this patent is laid out is that they're like they're showing sections where it's like there's like different bumps. There's like washboard sections. and And the cars don't seem or the the way that it's designed, there's no clear track that's showing up, which yeah makes me wonder.
00:15:08
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If it, yeah you know, that having this, this ah having this um patent, I'm wondering if it might be a hybrid system because because I know like and I'm assuming like you you were thinking of this as like, you know, it'll be like a you know, like a trackless ride, right? yeah Where, you know the li know, the entire thing is trackless, but then at certain points, maybe you can drive it a little bit.
00:15:30
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Yeah. But I'm wondering if they like I'm kind of envisioning a hybrid system where it like you have like set sections where it's like I said, the larger track is like, you know, you you have it. You have it moving along like a radiator springs type track, but then maybe it decouples at some point and it it's able to do like the these off-roading sections and then comes back onto the track again. Like, yeah.
00:15:56
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Yeah. Yeah. yeah so i and i don't see it in this article that i said oh i no it's it's there so it' says per the patent the ride vehicles will be able to navigate terrain through a track guide wire and guest will be able to control some elements within a set set of with this set within a set of parameters So essentially what I think they're doing here is they're going to have like, okay, you can have guests are going to control the speed of the vehicle, but it has the minimum speed it has to go is X. And you can never drop below that. and almost like,
00:16:30
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ah Like on Mission Space, if you don't push the buttons, they just push the buttons for you. i like It overrides, yeah. Yeah, like it overrides, right? So like you can make it go faster if you want, again, to a certain maximum level and you can't let it go but below a certain minimum level. And it'll be the same with steering where you'll be able to steer it But not completely. Right. So like the car will let you steer to a certain point. But if you're about to run into a wall. tall older yeah Yeah, exactly. When you're about to run it into a wall, it it takes over. It's almost like ah the thing on my car that drives me insane where, you know, like if I veer out of the lane a little bit, the the steering wheel like steers me back a little bit. i don't know if you have that on of your cars, but I mean, I'm not veering out of my lane. so I'm not either, but, you know, sometimes it misunderstands the lines on the road. But anyway, but it's it's kind of a similar thing to me where it's like it's almost pushing you back into the safe guide path.
00:17:21
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But if if they do this, if they really do this, this is crazy. Yeah. I mean, it is the the potential of it is, is, yeah, very insane because that, that puts it, you know, we, we always talk about this with rides is, you know, the re-ride ability of them where yeah it's, you know, you know, even like, you know, Haunted Mansion, it's a set path, but, you know, because of the fact that there's details, you're able to go back and ride it again and you can see, you can see little things and it is a different experience every time.
00:17:53
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But this is, yeah, like you said, it's another level of, you know, maybe the, you know, the first time through a section, you're completely over to the right and you're, you know, it's very bumpy. And then the next time it's very smooth or maybe you're hitting like ah you know, I'm, I'm actually envisioning, ah like I'm looking at these designs and it doesn't explicitly say it, but I'm, I'm envisioning like possibly like a water element, like, like, you know, like, like moving through a Creek or something. And then, yeah, they show like washboard, like, you know, like bumps and stuff like that.
00:18:20
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So, I mean, yeah, the interesting thing about that is then it becomes ah it it kind of becomes a little game in and of itself yeah of like, which which is the which is the best path to take? Like, like which which line should you be taking through the ride? Which, that that's always fun too. Like, it it becomes a yeah Again, if this all comes to fruition and this is actually how the ride plays out is, you know, then it becomes a thing of like, you're not just going on the ride. You're, you're starting to talk with other people are like, oh, you know what, what elements did you do or what, what, what are the best elements of the ride? And and then then it becomes, you know, a silly like rating game of like, you know, how to optimize it, which I mean, that's whatever, like, like you could, like, that's fun too on a different level, but
00:19:06
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But it's yeah, it's such a it's such a cool thing that they're they're trying to do this. And yeah, like you said, you know, this is a patent. We don't know what it's actually going to look like. But, you know, based on the the videos and everything that we saw that there, you know, they are trying to really like capture that off-roading element of it. Yeah.
00:19:27
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I hope this is as fantastical as I envisioned it in my head. Yeah. I mean, seriously. Yeah. Because i the idea of, i mean, because you're basically, what's also cool about this, the Trevor, is you're almost taking what, well, you're taking what Autopia was originally, right? we there wasn't a time There was a time where there were no rails, right? like Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:49
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There was a time where you could just drive the car and bump into each other and do crazy stuff. Right. And like, that's what they're doing here, but they're doing it in a controlled way that not only keeps the guests from hitting things, but also keeps the ride moving along, you know, because you also have that problem with, you know, Autopia, Tomorrowland Speedway, whatever. take foot off the gas. Yeah. Yeah, some kid just stops in the middle of the track and now there's a backup forever, right? Like Disney does not like those kinds of operational issues, right? Like that slows down the hourly capacity of a ride and that is not okay. So doing this, they maintain control while also giving people, i don't want to say it's the illusion of control because there is an actual piece of control there in this patent where you're choosing the ride path. It may be a defined ride path, but you're still doing it. There's some agency on it, which... yeah then Then comes the next thing about this. And and again, so so, you know, just a reminder to everyone, we are speculating on this, so we could be totally wrong. But but then comes the next problem of this, which is the um smuggler's run problem.
00:20:55
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Oh, is there like a way to get around it or like a hack or something? No, so so the problem... Oh, going to drive? Who's going to drive? Yeah, the problem with smuggler's run is there's there's six seats in the car and only two people are actually the pilots.
00:21:08
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And if you have people at the front that are pilots that, you know, kind of the same problem as Utopia, where you're not, um you know, they're not driving or, you know, they just take their hands off the controls and you know, it, you know, it doesn't do anything.
00:21:23
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it's the same problem that, you know, the experience is like less than ideal, right? So yeah yeah because because you're basically, you know, somebody has control of the car, but if you're in the car with somebody that is controlling it and you don't have any say over what happens,
00:21:40
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I mean, you are literally just along for the ride, but, you know, it's the same problem of, you know, you know, somebody can like, you know, steer it into like, you know, nothing or, you know, the most the most tame path when you're looking for the most exciting path or whatever. So but i mean, i'm I'm wondering how this is going to play out is, you know, if if it's if it's going to be, you know, if people have control over it, then are you.
00:22:04
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Are people then vying for the seat in the car that has the steering wheel? Yeah, of course. right Well, some people don't want to drive that. Like my wife wouldn't want to drive. She would want to. Yeah, sure. Like, yeah, you know, absolutely. but But those of us that do want to drive, it becomes, you know. Rideability, my friend. You ride, you do it this time, I do it next time, right? Like you go on again. Right. But also, I don't want a stranger driving my car either. and you know may you know that Because then I have to backseat them and be like, you're doing it wrong. But that's why this system is is ingenious, Trevor, because you can't run into the same problem that you do on Smuggler's Run with a bad with somebody who's bad at driving it because there is it does some of the work for you, right? It keeps you within certain parameters, right? So there's no... Even if you can go within those parameters, it still gives you the freedom to move within them, but just not outside of them. So you you can speed up, you can slow down, but at all times you're going to be going at least whatever minimum speed the system needs you to be going, and you're going to be staying with... I'm almost looking at it as like if Tomorrowland Speedway had like a big long, a big wide rail instead of the one, you know, the one skinny one, you know, where you can, you can go anywhere you want within that. But, you know, you can't go outside of the rail, you know, and that's kind of what it is. But it's in a in a trackless way. i mean, i you know, in a second, you know, the other thing here to Trevor is, you know, what's the height requirement going to be for the driver? Like, if they I mean, if I why wouldn't they let kids do this if the guardrails are there, you know, like the. Yeah. i like Electronic guardrails are there. I'm just i'm just speaking from the selfish side, which is, yeah or or you know, I want to go through the creek and over the washboard and somebody like just goes over to the other side and I'm like, no like go the other way. Don't make me pull this car over. You're right.
00:23:56
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I will go go through the washboard here. Yeah, yeah no, no like but seriously, though, yeah, you're you're absolutely right that, you know, yeah the the ride itself will be set up, the kids can do it, which means, know, whatever element there is of controlling, it's not going to be like, it's, I mean, at most it would be like topia where, like, you have some control over the car, but really it doesn't, like,
00:24:19
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i i I agree with you. I don't think there's going to be anything about this that where you can like full stop the car or or like it it says, you know, it'll have like ah like a cable or something. So even if even if you could like take your foot off the gas or like like it does stop, I feel like like you said, at some point it would like pick up on its own and, you know, move you along. So exactly. i mean,
00:24:42
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Yeah, it's, but like I said, i'm I'm just looking at it from that angle of, you know, they the every time you give people control over things, there is there is the there's the wonderful part of, you know, people that do engage with it.
00:24:59
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But then when you get when you get into a situation where there is like a car full of people and one person has control, but then that one person is like, not engaging in it.
00:25:11
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Yeah. Yeah. kind of It doesn't like, it kind of ruins it for the rest of the car. It's not start. exactly. yeah And, and that's the only, like, maybe maybe it's a, I don't know,
00:25:22
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ah maybe Maybe you need your your, like, you know, pseudo driver's license before you get to drive the car or That'd be funny. Yeah, I mean, i like i i like I said, i am going I'm not going to be shocked if they do, because i they I think they definitely want to do something different than Test Track and do something even... Different than the cars ride in California. And this is the way to do that. I mean, this is this is incredibly innovative. I can't think of anything else where you can actually do this.
00:25:54
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What they're what they're talking, what they're talking about doing here. And I just I mean, to me, I i know we're recklessly speculating, but if you look at this patent, I feel like it's very difficult not to say that they're going to use this for for this ride. I mean, it just feels too coincidental with the timing and exactly what they're showing with the off-roading piece. And like it just fits perfectly.
00:26:19
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There is specifically off-roading elements in this patent. So, yeah. yeah And I mean, they filed this patent back in 2024, which is when they were developing this ride. I mean, this is...
00:26:31
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I mean, i don't know. It just feels too coincidental not to be the case. And like I said, if they do this and it works, ah that's it's going to be hugely. I mean, it's not already going to be hugely popular. Right. But yeah, that's going to make it even more popular because people like you said, the rewritability of it is going to be off the charts.
00:26:50
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Yeah. and And I mean, I think people do truly underestimate how strong the car's IP is in California Adventure. like Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:27:02
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Like, you know you you know, we're talking about like the the mechanical side of it, but then... when you add in the fact that like, like this is the other thing too, is, yeah you know, I didn't even think about this until just now is that, you know, you're in, you're in a car's car, which means the car has a personality to it.
00:27:20
Speaker
And the other part of it, you know, and you know, not just talking about the elements, but then also like, does your car react? Like, like, are you going to get different lines from the car that you're driving in or like, like whatever the, the voices that is like,
00:27:35
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you know, overseeing the ride basically. because there always is like, you know, these these rides always have like a, like dialogue going through it. Right. So, so then it becomes a thing of like, you know, not, not just the, uh, not just the elements, but like, I I'm sure it won't like vastly change whatever the story is of the ride, but you'll get like, like slightly different takes on it too. Right. Like it's, yeah.
00:28:00
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Yeah. Oh man. Well, yeah. i really need to see this ride. Yeah. I know, right? How cool would it be if each car had its own voice and it's the car talking to you, right? It's not just like it it should be.
00:28:11
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yeah should, right? Yeah, you should absolutely have each car talking to you with with a different voice. or there There should be, like, this is one of those things, because they already did this with Guardians, where you have the different tracks depending on, you know, when you ride. um And I mean, playing playing music is, and but actually, no it's still ah it's still a separate audio track and they still have to cue it and everything like that.
00:28:34
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There's nothing saying that you couldn't have five or six different voices or different um characters running you through the ride. Right. Like it there doesn't have to be there. It doesn't have to be like one per car, but it could be like, you know, across, you know, depending on on how you go through it. it yeah You get different. You get different.
00:28:53
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um voices it and then also like and you know further to that is hey you know if if we're overlapping things on top of things um you know add in the technology from Star Tours that has the the branching paths in Star Tours where you know as you progress through the ride maybe the the you know there is different sections where you like you just will never get the full like same interaction through the whole ride from the car that you're in so yeah absolutely absolutely Yeah, I just lots of potential here, both from the like, yeah, there better be talking cars. Like, that's all I have to say. that They have to be talking cars. I mean, Radio Springs had that like your car wasn't talking, but like you were seeing all the characters through the ride. Right. So so, you know, maybe it'll be like that. But like, yeah, I i really.
00:29:45
Speaker
yeah yeah there's there's so much potential to this. Yeah. Yeah, you know, to your point about the the the the the strength of the Cars brand, i you know, I just was looking this up right as of the end of 2025. The the cars cars has billion in between merchandise and the end the films So like just, you know, and I know not everybody loves cars. It's not everybody's favorite movie. The first one is very good. The second one is extraordinarily, I don't want to say polarizing even. I don't really know anybody. I liked it. I liked the second one. My son grew up on cars one and two.
00:30:26
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and And yeah, like, so so we were we were in that sweet spot where he was like of that age that, you know, cars was very much a thing in our house. Like we had, you know, Radio Springs Racers was like mind blowing to all of us. Like, you know, my son was like, you know, blown away. We were like, wow, like this is, you know, we because we had watched enough of it that we were like, okay, this is like bang on.
00:30:47
Speaker
The thing that I get about or I get the polarization about cars is that, um you know, I liked the characters in Cars. I know that, um you know, there's, ah Tomater was voiced by Larry the Cable Guy. And I didn't realize this until, like, actually pretty recently that um apparently, depending on the age group you're in, like, some people either really like Larry the Cable Guy and some don't. And, and and like, that shouldn't matter. Like, like it's the problem of, like, like you know you know, there's a lot of Disney stuff where it's like, oh, people voiced it and whatever. And it's like, you don't have to, like,
00:31:23
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the person that voiced it, but it's like the product is still good. The end result is still good. And then that's the thing about cars is that, you know, I get some people don't like cars, but I mean, I feel, i mean, there's a reason that the IP has done as well as it has. And there's a reason that it has one land and it's getting a second land, right? And so, you know, you can, you can be like, oh, you know, i don't know why they're putting cars in Magic Kingdom. It's like you, I mean, if you don't know why, you honestly just haven't been paying attention.
00:31:52
Speaker
that's And that's not to say that, like, you need to be, like, into it, but it's like, you can acknowledge that something is good and famous and all that. And it's like, but you don't have to, you don't have to like it. Like there, there are so many things that, and, and okay, you know, you can come for me if you want.
00:32:13
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I've never watched Game of Thrones. I don't have any, I don't have any desire to watch Game of Thrones. I understand why it's, why it's famous, why it's popular.
00:32:25
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It's not for me, right? And so it cars doesn't have to be for you. You don't have to go to Piston Peak. That's all I'm saying. You just leave leave it for the rest of us, right? Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah like So that that was, I know that was a bit of an aside to, you know, talking about this ride system and everything, but...
00:32:41
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I mean, it's... It's all still relevant, though. it's It's all still part of it. So... Yeah, and I think, again, you know, back to to the the ride system and everything, is it's like, ah you know, even if I... Regardless of the IP of it, I am just excited to see what they do with it, right? Because there is... Yeah. therere There have been a lot of really cool...
00:33:00
Speaker
creative ride systems coming out and you know they're not all like it doesn't always have to be like fully like oh this is like like unlike anything you've ever seen before that the iterations on um you know like roller coasters like Guardians which I'm seeing now that there's ah there's a new Fast and Furious coaster which is the same yeah Yeah, it's using like the same kind of thing, which is like, hey, but but it looks cooler. like It does, yeah. It's like the next iteration of it. And then, um you know, same thing with like some of the dark rides that, you know, again, over time, you know, going from Omnimovers to trackless rides, which, yeah you know, not to say that trackless rides are inherently better, but, you know, it's different. It's, you know, it's that trying different things, which I think i think this ride system, you know, is going to be different enough that
00:33:50
Speaker
I'll be curious if there's anybody actually like really hating on it when it when it comes out. Like, if I just don't want to drive, you know? Well, but see the thing is, this is this the way this ride, that this patent reads.
00:34:03
Speaker
This is much like when my daughter was on Tomorrowland Speedway and realized that she doesn't have to see her she doesn't want to. Right. Like she literally just put her foot on the pedal and just let the car bounce off the rails. You can do the same thing in this. It's if you don't want to drive, thatll the car will drive for you. If you want to drive, then you can, you know.
00:34:23
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yeah yeah that Yeah, that is true. it' I'm sure it'll be... um Yeah, if if you you know you have somebody who's in the driver's seat that is afraid to to drive or doesn't want to take that responsibility, um yeah, I feel like the the ride is still going to be enjoyable. I know I was saying, like, you know...
00:34:44
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it's the selfish part of like, I want to do these particular elements, right? Yeah. But really, at the end of the day, I don't think it's going to matter as long as the ride overall is like, you know, good. It's the same thing as like Guardians. It's like, you know, when I get on Guardians, I'm vying for one or two songs, but I'm actually good with anything because it's just a good ride. so yeah Yeah, exactly. yeah Exactly. Yeah. I i think the the Fast and the Furious ride with the Guardians ride ride ah ride technology, they're just they're just doing what Universal does and making everything faster and more extreme. that but it's you know Yeah, and but I don't think it's... I do i mean...
00:35:21
Speaker
I mean, it is more extreme. Like, it it it does actually have inversions on it and stuff, which, you know, definitely is is a step up from Guardians. But I, like, it it still is, it's a cool iteration and it's a smart way to use that technology.
00:35:37
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Yeah, yeah, because you're trying to kind of emulate the whole drifting thing. And so that that kind of, you know, works with that. Yeah. yeah ah You know, Trevor, I was going to, we're going to do our ad after this next topic, but I feel like we've talked so much ah for the beginning over of this already that we should probably do the ad and then get into that stuff. Yeah, because this next part is going to be a little bit for sure. Probably. Yeah. So.
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00:36:48
Speaker
So outside of this, you know, speculation we've been doing here, Trevor, and the, ah you know, there's some actual real announcements that happened over the past couple days here that we we got to get into because it's a lot of stuff. We did kind of touch on it already that Cool Kid Summer is coming back.
00:37:06
Speaker
Which talked about already, and we talked about a lot of the things that are involved with this, but now we got some dates and we got some details. Yeah. right. So I guess we'll we're just going to go down the list. So so we got this lovely Disney Parks blog.
00:37:21
Speaker
um ah Blog entry. I guess it's a article what article. Yeah, I guess post. Yeah. I don't know what the actual right term is. But um but yeah. So starting um at the very top is Bluey and Bingo coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom, which we've known about.
00:37:40
Speaker
Yeah, we've known about, but it is starting May 26th. So, you know, this goes back to we were talking about with the ah with the VIP tours and, you know, how stuff kind of starts around ah Memorial Day. Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, this this is happening right at that time.
00:37:55
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And Bluey hitting um hitting Animal Kingdom. that So the funny thing about this ah is...
00:38:07
Speaker
So where Bluey is going to be is you have to get on the Wildlife Express train and go over to um the conservation station. That train is going to be so busy. i Dude, i think that train has never, will have never as been busy as it is going to be now.
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah. It's going to be insane. And I... Because listen, Bluey is like a ah huge phenomenon, right? Like this is not like so them putting Bluey at Disney World and Disneyland is going to be extraordinarily popular. it is going It's going to be huge.
00:38:40
Speaker
And, you know, so they're also changing the little petting zoo. First of all, I love that area, by the way. i was taking I like taking that train ride and I like going to conservation station. There's so much cool stuff over there. They, you know, for they always have the petting zoo.
00:38:55
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um And then, you know, we've gotten into many conversations, like long conversations with trainers, the like the animal trainers that work there. And they're just really cool to talk to. And then sometimes you can go in there and you can see animals getting medical procedures done, depending on when you go, yeah um which we've seen before. And it is very, very cool to to see this because it's literally just a big open window. We also, my wife and I did a tour one time there where we were actually in that room. And being on the other side of the glass is very unsettling. Yeah. I bet, yes. It doesn't feel good. It feels like you're in the people's zoo and you're the exhibit. um yeah But anyway, ah that's neither here nor there. But you can, i don't know if they so i don't know if they still do that tour or not, but that was one of my favorite tours we ever done. But to your point, the Wildlife Express train will never have, yeah has never had a line as long as it's going to have for this.
00:39:45
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yeah so So I guess prepare for that if you're planning to go in May, that, you know, end of May, that, you know, if it's suddenly incredibly busy at at Animal Kingdom, you know that Bluey is there now. Got to be all about Bluey.
00:39:59
Speaker
Yeah. and And the other thing, too, is they they even, um i'm I'm actually curious how this is going to play out because, you know, a lot of the... ah um Or, ah you know, the the petting zoo is, you know, they have a certain certain animals at the petting zoo.
00:40:13
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Basically goats. Yeah. yeah but But they talk about um they said even or they say in here, even discover animals native to Bluey's home country, Australia, at Jumping Junction. So I, you know, obviously that they're, yeah, I mean, they they won't have kangaroos out there. Like kangaroos in a petting zoo is a bad idea. but But there are other animals native to Australia that are very cute and that, you know I wouldn't be surprised if you have trainers come out. because Because that was part of it, too, is like you said, like there was the, there was the, um like, petting zoo. But then they would have people come out with, like, like an animal that, you know, a handler could...
00:40:48
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could keep on them and and so it wasn't like they weren't just like free-roaming animals but it was like you you know you'd meet like a turtle or or something like that where yeah yeah you know you you you would be there with the handler and you know i i love those kinds of interactions and i'm hoping that having bluey there you know you know because they're obviously representing australia you will see a lot of very cool australia animals that uh that you normally wouldn't get to see. I'm i'm hoping that's the case. so like Like they're saying, you know, they're they're talking about discovering animals. There may just be, um sometimes that's just like, you know, they'll they'll have like the informational things, like like kind of like museum stuff or things you would find at a zoo. But I'm hoping that there is more unique interactions on top of, you know, the Bluey and Bingo meat as well.
00:41:35
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Oh, for sure. i mean, there are there's there's a lot of really cool, ah you know, animals that are are you know, that are indigenous too um to to Australia. So, I mean, maybe they'll do like i mean, i think that I think wallabies are OK, right? Like wallabies will mess you up. Right. I don't think. Have you ever seen a quokka?
00:41:57
Speaker
I have not seen a quokka, but I just Googled this, and it's known as the happiest animal in the world. They are the cutest thing in the world. That has to be AI. That's not real. No, those are quokkas. I've seen Steve Irwin interact with those. um Oh, my gosh. ah Q-U-O-K-K-A. Google it. The cutest thing I've ever seen. yeah ah That would be amazing if they had those. They're so they're so cute.
00:42:24
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Yes. And you got wombats you can have. i don't know. Are wombats dangerous? i don't know. They got Tasmanian devils. Yeah, I don't think Tasmanian devils are. I mean, the the name is very intimidating, but yeah it's it's a misleading thing. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But but again, you know, there's there's lots of opportunities there for, you know, you know, exposing Australian animals and culture and all that kind of stuff. And, yeah, you know, Bluey has just been a great ambassador of that.
00:42:55
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And, you know, having it in the parks is going to be I'm i'm really going to be interested at how. but I'm predicting this now is, you know, I'm going to look on Reddit that week and people are going to be like, what's with the wait times at Animal Kingdom? Because like, it because it won't just be Louie, right? Like, yeah you know, people will just, they'll just be more people in Animal Kingdom because of Louie.
00:43:19
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But then there'll be like these people that are puzzled, don't know what's going on, be like, why is there, why is it like a, you know, a three hour wait for x and in animal kingdom? Right. Yeah.
00:43:31
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ah According, according to to AI, so take this with a grain of salt, ah animals that are indigenous to Australia that are appropriate for a petting zoo would be wallabies, quote the quokka thing. Quokka.
00:43:43
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guka and then smaller kangaroo species species like ah redneck wallabies. They're accustomed to human interaction and they're not dangerous. So, I mean, we don't know what we're going to see there, but, you know,
00:43:54
Speaker
If they're calling it jumping junction, it makes me feel like they're going to have some wallabies in there. Yeah. Just going to throw it out there but Yeah. I feel like you're right. that the ad that they'll There'll definitely be some emphasis on particular particular species. yeah Our local petting zoo has a like a wallaby petting zoo. So like our local zoo has one. So like if they're doing it, then I'm sure Disney could pull it off.
00:44:16
Speaker
Yeah. All right. so let's so Let's leave Animal Kingdom. so So, you know, going down the list here, we're jumping over to Magic Kingdom now because... ah Where are you going here? Jesse's Roundup is You skipped over Disney Junior Mickey Mouse Club has live.
00:44:32
Speaker
I'm just going down the list. No, you don't. Well, maybe we're looking at different articles then because that... Okay. I'm i'm looking. i clicked on the first one and... Oh, you're right. Okay. all right. that's Yeah, that's weird. There's two articles about this that have the same stuff and it's in different format, which is weird.
00:44:47
Speaker
But okay, that is continue. So so i'm I'm at Jesse's Roundup. I don't know about you. um This is this is at the Diamond Horseshoe in Magic Kingdom. um They actually don't list... ah There's no update on this. you already talked about this one. Yeah, I was just looking. I thought that we were going to get a date on it, but okay, I guess... No date for that one. So that's still happening at some point. So then let's jump over to um let's jump over to Epcot because, hey, we we haven't talked about Epcot enough. Well, yeah, we haven't talked about it nonstop. like We only talked about it. Yeah, exactly. um But we're going to get GoofyCore at Communicore Hall, which GoofyCore sounds.
00:45:24
Speaker
I don't know. let go I don't know how to feel about that. Yeah. We talked about this one already, though, too. But yeah we don't have a we don't have a date on this one either. But it looks fun. It does. Yeah. I'm i'm very curious what Goofy Corps looks like like. Because, you know, it's a lot of Goof Troop. And, you know, you know i think that that's what kind of what they're trying to capture is, you know, bringing back the... The whole Goof Troop thing.
00:45:45
Speaker
Yeah. Which, I mean, i'm not I'm here for it. I love Goof Troop. Yeah, that sure. It's great show. So... Grew up on that. But Disney Junior Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live at Hollywood Studios, Trevor. We do have a date for that. May 26th. Also May 26th. Hmm. May 26th is a busy day. Everything's happening May 26th, except for Buzz Lightyear, because they're doing that much earlier. But and we'll get into that in a minute. But, you know, this was they had a thing. You know, they had that whole Disney Junior thing there, which I did one time.
00:46:15
Speaker
Wasn't a huge fan of it. Now, given it's not for me. Yes. Back to my earlier point. Not for me. You know, not everything is for everybody. Yeah. No, I don't. My daughter may be too old for this at this point because she's Disney Junior is really towards much, you know, more for the younger set. But she might still enjoy it, too. because She still likes, you know, all the characters and the songs and everything.
00:46:39
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is like in that like two to two to five or two to six kind of age range, or at least like for us that that was kind of like where my son was at. I think I think by the time he was like five, he was completely done with it. But like, yeah, we had we we had a little bit of a go around with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. But the same thing is I get it, you know, great for people that are in that.
00:47:03
Speaker
that group that, you know, they could, you know, their kids enjoy it. But, um, I would only go there if I was dragging my kid there, ironically, to punish him for something. um That's funny.
00:47:16
Speaker
i i I would tell, you know, if something happened on trip and I was like, fine, you know what, you know, I'm not going to ruin this trip, but you're going to come sit through Mickey Mouse's house. You're going to come sit through do the junior and you're going to like it. My teenager has to sit there and I'm going to record you. I'm going to send it to your friend. That's the real punishment is that yeah is the proof of it.
00:47:39
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yeah um yeah I'm going to skip ahead, Trevor, because a lot of this stuff is stuff we talked about already that we don't have updates on. Right. So yeah i'm I'm looking for dates like it. Yeah. So but what we do have and I think is big is really big news is ah is Buzz is the reopening of Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin.
00:47:57
Speaker
They do have a picture in here that I don't believe they've shown previously. ah which which has like ah these really cool, like um I don't know, like electrical wires or something going on there, and this whole emergency escape hatch. like I don't remember seeing that before. that i don't think that was there.
00:48:16
Speaker
I thought this, mm this looks like how I need to go back and look now at Buzz Lightyear. I feel like this was there or it was maybe it wasn't labeled as a escape hatch, but I remember like this is at the very beginning of the ride.
00:48:31
Speaker
I don't think it has the effects like this, though. I yeah i think the wiring is definitely new. But yeah but it's also, it's a static image. I don't know. I'm assuming this is very animated and moving and all that. So yeah but so Buzz Lightyear is going to be reopening on April 8th. And the thing that makes me the most mad about this day, Trevor, is that ah this is the day that I am getting off my cruise.
00:48:52
Speaker
And we were looking for something to do on that day before we go to Vero because we get, you know, you get off the ship super early in the morning. And, you know, you really kind of have the whole day there. So I'm just like, man, I wish we were going to go to Magic Kingdom that day because I could get on it. the I could be one of the first people, you know, on it. That would be so cool. Is it is Magic Kingdom the opposite direction from where you're going to Vero? Because so like from Port Canaveral, it's kind of like in Florida, people are going to kill me for this because I'm probably misrepresenting this. But it's kind of like west from from Port Canaveral. And to go to Vero, I just basically go due south. So it's I'm going in the opposite direction that I need to go. Now, that being said.
00:49:34
Speaker
The distance from Magic Kingdom to Vero is not that far. it's like I think it's like an hour and a half, two hours. So it's it's not like a huge deal if we were to do that. I think at this point, though, that there's 0% chance that I'm convincing my wife that to do this. Yeah. Like, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:49:55
Speaker
I mean, okay. So here, i'm I'm just looking at Google Maps right now, and I'm just trying to figure out how you could accidentally get out lost. It's two hours from Magic Kingdom to Vero, which is not bad. I can do that. That's that's easy, you know? Yeah, okay. yeah Yeah, I see that. But then, yeah, but then going to Vero, yeah, okay.
00:50:16
Speaker
Yeah. So, and I mean, from Port Canaveral, it's not that far either. so too Yeah, it's it's totally the opposite direction. it it It is. It really So, yeah, it's straight west from Port Canaveral, basically. And then, you know, you have to go like, ah you know, southeast to get to from Magic Kingdom of Arrow. But...
00:50:33
Speaker
Listen, I wanted to do the parks. I was trying to get the parks done and I was i was very much told no on that. So, yeah. look i mean just I like how Trevor, you're just going to like, I'll just start driving and hope my wife doesn't notice where we're going. And be like, surprise! Oops. Listen, start I, okay. Okay. You know, to so I, I do this.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. Like legitimately this happens to me where, um, I have certain routes that I drive going to work because, because of how my, my work is, is I have different clients that I go to. So it's like when I'm going to a client site, I will, I will take it like a particular road and i don't think about it because I do it so much Oh, yeah, yeah. do it then yeah but then if my wife and i are going somewhere and it's like near one of the places that i have to go to it'll be like i'll be driving and i'll just like autopilot like i'm going here and then my wife will suddenly be like
00:51:29
Speaker
where are you going and i'll be like oh shoot we're oh we're not going to my office we're going somewhere and so i have to like snap myself out of autopilot like you could ah she would know yes I feel like you could totally make an argument for her. What do you mean you drove her two hours on autopilot?
00:51:47
Speaker
to the doubt There's no way I could pull this off. i you know Come on, I'm trying to help you, Tom. See, here's the thing. I would try to pitch this if we weren't going with another family, right? but yeah It's really because we're going with the other family. like If we weren't with the other family, I would be like,
00:52:04
Speaker
hey, you want to do this? And now my wife would probably still say no, but at least I could have. But let's let's get back to Buzz Lightyear anyway. but yeah so um So, brandy ride vehicles, and we talked about this on the Debra Daniel episode, even though we were talking about Epcot.
00:52:19
Speaker
ah we We did talk about the fact that they finally replaced these ride vehicles. Now, the the last ones that they had were the original ride vehicles from when Magic Kingdom opened, right? So that's how old they were. So the fact that we're getting new ones,
00:52:32
Speaker
is great but also you know lots of upgrades here you know no more uh stiff plastic button with uh you know a laser that only sometimes works and i don't know if you've ever gotten this before but i had you know we to have the the car sometimes that would like the the little spin joystick was screwed up so just like like jitter basically yeah Yep.
00:52:53
Speaker
ah yeah i Like the gear was stripped so you couldn't actually turn. Yeah. But now the the the laser guns are free. ah You can actually like take them out and hold them. So they're not attached to the vehicle anymore. They're like Disneyland. Yeah. disney ones like that yeah yeah And the the ah the targets actually react and light up when you hit them.
00:53:14
Speaker
Uh, the laser is always on. So it's not a situation where it's, uh, you know, every, just when you hit it, it turns on, uh, and there's new sound and vibration effects. And then of course there's new character buddy.
00:53:26
Speaker
But the one thing they didn't talk about before Trevor, that I'm like really pumped for actually is the new on ride photo. Which includes your score and the total targets hit and the total special targets hit.
00:53:40
Speaker
I love this because they're, listen, i always felt like the the ah Buzz Lightyear ride photo was great. kind of silly to have there right like it's it just just you're concentrating on shooting stuff right and you and so it became kind of a thing with my wife and I where every time we're on it I always make a really dumb face like I try to find like dumb face I hadn't made before you know You limit yourself Buzz Lightyear for doing that? No, no, I can't do it for most things. But it's actually this one. So I do it on this one, and then I also do it on Haunted Mansion.
00:54:15
Speaker
um like so yeah But Haunted Mansion is usually like I'm trying to make like a really weird scared face, and then on this I'm just trying to make a dumb face. But now, like... you have a ah record you can take with you of how much you either, you know, beat the person, the people you're with or they beat you. Now, when I showed this to my wife earlier, she said, oh, good. So we'll always have a record of how badly I beat you.
00:54:39
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Which, you know, she's trash talking already. I mean. um so So my wife would, the the equivalent statement would be, oh, so now I can see how bad you were cheating. Because she assumes that every time I do well at these things that I'm cheating. so I see. Okay. So I'll have a record of of how I cheated her out of a win on Buzz Lightyear.
00:55:02
Speaker
That's pretty funny. um Yeah, I know. Like, we we used to get really... I mean, here's the weird thing. It's for some reason my wife beats me a lot in Buzz Lightyear, but I always destroy her in Toy Story Midway Mania. Like, I just... i always destroy her in that one, and she's, like, better at this one for some reason. I don't know why. But, I mean, it's not to say I don't win on this one. I do. But my wife also has gotten, you know, the Galactic Hero. You know, she's gotten all the way to 99999, which I've never done. Now...
00:55:29
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this This is interesting, Trevor, because there is like there was like a whole cottage industry about around like how to get you know the maximum score in Buzz Lightyear. I'm pretty sure that's that's gone. like This is all going to be new, I think. Oh, yeah. daring and everything all All of those videos will be invalid that yeah had all the tips. Although, one thing I'm going to be curious about is how...
00:55:52
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There will be throwbacks. There will be like, you know, you know, the back of the robot hand was, you know, one I remember from like knowing back in the 90s even um that, you know, I have to wonder if they'll they'll put a couple of them in as like nods to things. But yeah, you're right. There will be there'll be a whole new a whole new set of of scoring and, and I do find it interesting that they, they list out special targets.
00:56:21
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I kind of like that though, because it's like, yeah, I just, I just like the stats that there's, that are there. Yeah. But, but then, ah but then now, now I'm going, okay, what qualifies as a special target? Well, that'll be the right is what are the special targets? Yeah, yeah, this again goes down into that whole rabbit hole of like, you know, like I talked about with the Piston Peak thing is like figuring out like the meta for for how to like optimize the the ride, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, this is exactly the ride for that though. i'm I'm excited to see when people actually get to ride this and I'm sad that you won't be able to day one.
00:56:59
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let's try I might still bring it up. We'll see. Yeah. There's hope still. i mean... um We'll see. Yeah. I mean, i i will take I will take accountability for influencing you on this one. Oh, no. i You know, I hadn't even thought about it until I saw that date, and I was like, hmm, I just happened to be in that area on that date with nothing to do. you know Yeah, but but you you blamed me for planning the trip in the first place. That's true. If you end up in Magic Kingdom, then I guess...
00:57:28
Speaker
I guess it's my fault. No. No, I won't blame you for this. The other interesting thing in here, Trevor, is they ah they mentioned Big Thunder Mountains reopening, but they don't give an actual date. They just say early May, which is kind of funny. Oh, interesting.
00:57:42
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Yeah. Like, are they, is there some doubt about when they, like, I feel like that means that there's some little piece that's not finalized yet. Yeah. Okay.
00:57:53
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Yeah. maybe Maybe just give them a little bit of leeway or something. I don't know. Now, what about, um I know Smuggler's Run is kind of thing. thing for me that like it was a good ride but they're doing this Mandalorian Grogu update which is happening May 22nd so again you know you know everything's happening happening in May besides Buzz Lightyear at least this one's a week it's like before everything else for some reason who does yeah um but yeah it's interesting that like they're doing they're doing a whole or it's ah it's a new story thing now I guess the one thing I i was never clear on with these is is this a
00:58:33
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it'll just be the new Mandalorian Grogu thing from now on, or will they go back and forth? Hmm. It doesn't really, it says new gameplay. I don't know. Maybe this is just the way going forward. I mean, listen, I like the fact that they're, they're updating it because I mean, it's like they're doing, they do a star tours. I wish they would do this with midway mania. Like, I don't know why they don't like, there's no reason for them not to. that they It's as easy as, in fact, it's probably easier than doing. I, I have to wonder, Midway Mania, though, was a very specific like game system and all that. really has some limitations to it.
00:59:09
Speaker
And I guess, actually, yeah now that I'm reading this, it makes sense that it's probably just going to be the Grogu thing going forward because they said the new gameplay additions have the engineers communicating directly with Grogu during the mission. and I know that that was based on feedback that... That would be a thing.
00:59:26
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if If you rode Smuggler's Run and you got the engineer seats, they were the most boring seats. And the and yeah and and the the funny thing was, ah the way I saw it phrased was, you know, you you'll be looking out the front of the ride, like, you you know, you're watching the action, and the ride would deliberately take your attention away from that to push a button, which is, like, counterintuitive to, like...
00:59:52
Speaker
how you like it's actually making the ride worse yeah because they're they're distracting you from from the ride yeah yeah yeah it seems like they're trying to fix that but yeah yeah that's that's coming in May and then let's let's blow through the next couple yeah because we really need we got so much other stuff to talk about so the Walt Disney Studios courtyard is going to open on May 26th now that is the new area where like Star Wars launch bay was but they're not opening the inside stuff until later later in the summer yeah yeah The Courtyard will be there, the new Disney Junior show, but, you know, the rest of it will be later on.
01:00:28
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Yeah. ah I think the last, actually, yeah, we don't have a lot left. um The last one that actually is Soarin'. So Soarin' Across America comes May 26th as well. Man, May is... i' gonna I was going to say, you never believe what date it's going to be happening, Trevor. May 26th. That's going to be such a crazy week. Holy... yeah they It's all Tuesdays, too, which is weird, but okay. I mean, I'm i'm okay with that. I don't mind being there on a Tuesday. It's like a random Tuesday, you know. i usually i But yeah, no, it's it's the it's the day after. I think it's the day after Memorial Day, i think. Yeah, that that sounds right. So yeah, after that's that's probably the intent is, you know, get through the long weekend and then, you know, here's a bunch of new stuff for those that stayed past the long weekend. Yeah, Memorial Day is May 25th. So everything's happening the day after memorial Memorial Day. So...
01:01:13
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Yeah, but listen, this is a lot of new things. Like, it's not new, new stuff, but it is new stuff. And it's all happening at the same time. And there's still more to come. There's still more things that are that are happening. So this is these these are great updates. And I mean, listen, Rock and Roller pressure is now closed and being revamped. And the the rumors on that are it's going to be a quick, it's going to be a fairly quick ah re reskin of it. So, you know, hopefully that'll open fairly soon, too.
01:01:38
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Yeah. um All right. Do we want to, we we have a quick Disneyland update, I guess. Do we want to just touch on that? and At Disneyland? Yeah. I mean, you know, hey, you know, I don't know who cares about Bluey, but, you know, we just finished talking about that for. Literally everyone. Yeah. it feel me You'll never believe what week this is opening, Trevor. March 20. No, just kidding. March 27. No, this is actually happening in March. It's happening March. Yeah. So this is actually happening next week. ah So we, Bluey's Best Day Ever, which is the new Bluey show that's over at Disneyland, is going to be opening, like i said, next week.
01:02:15
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ah What is really, what I really enjoyed about reading through this was that, so Bluey and Bingo are going to be on the stage at set times through throughout the day. Of course, there's going to be a show And for those that watch Bluey and know the references here, ah i was talking to my daughter about this this morning, actually. So it says extra laughs, place playful surprises, a little bit of delightful chaos are added when Bluey and Bingo are joined on stage by beloved characters from the show.
01:02:40
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ah Chattermax, Unicorse, and Granny's. So just first of all, Chattermax, of course, but if you guys haven't watched, you know, Bluey, if you have, you know what i'm talking about. Unicorns is like probably the funniest part of what are one of the funniest things on Bluey. And then grannies are up there, too. Everybody loves the granny thing. So yeah the the granny I've seen on clips, the granny stuff is very, very funny. Unicorse is hilarious too, Trevor. If you don't know Unicorse, I mean, it's, it's it's you know, Bluey and Bingo's dad doing a sock puppet. And it's really, really funny.
01:03:16
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And it's one of my favorite parts of of it. so um But also they're doing they're going to do games. They're going to throw balloons out of the crowd. they could do like keeppi upy They're going to like keepy-uppy. They're going to do barky boats, which is like ah basically like just like little boat racing kind of thing.
01:03:30
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it says It says favorite games by racing barky boats on an imaginary waterway. So I don't know what that's going to be like, but I guess we'll find out. um We'll get to the other stuff in this, Trevor, in the other part of what we're going to talk about. Yes. Yeah, but this is ah this is this is great. You know, I was talking to my daughter about this this morning, and she was just like, oh, I want to do this. Especially when we talked about the food. When she saw the food, she lost it.
01:03:57
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Like she was like, wellll we'll have to, we'll, we'll come back to that in another segment that we have coming up. You know what? Let's forget about this Winnie the Pooh. No, we can't forget about Winnie the Pooh. It's the hundredth anniversary of Winnie the Pooh. I know we can't, we can't just gloss over Winnie the Pooh, right? Yeah.
01:04:14
Speaker
Or can we? Yeah. I mean, we we can a little bit. Like it's, Winnie the Pooh is cool. It, it was, uh, did you know it's actually a Canadian or it was, and it was,
01:04:26
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The name Winnie was based on a Canadian town of Winnipeg. I did not know that, no. Or city. route I shouldn't call it town. Winnipeg is... City, yeah. Yeah, it's a city.
01:04:37
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Or it is a city now. but yeah that But that was the name of Winnie. didn't know that. The original bear that it was based on was... ah um that there's there's a whole thing on or I'll have to find you the the clip of it but it's it's like a Canadian history thing where like Winnie the Pooh was started because of a bear named Winnie yeah yeah okay yeah well listen there's a whole bunch of hundredth anniversary Winnie the Pooh merch ah And we're not going to go through it, but I'll put the link out there. But there's some really cool stuff in here. If you're Winnie the Pooh fan, ah there's there's some really like neat like bags and like shirts. And I know there's my my daughter, her you know favorite character but ah besides Donald Duck. Donald Duck is her favorite, but second favorite would be Eeyore. So ah you know anything with Eeyore on it, she's she's all about it. um So yeah, go check that out because I want to talk about these last two things.
01:05:33
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So, yeah Trevor, this episode, i'm goingnna we're going to debut a new a new show segment that I'm gonna i'm calling ah Food Time Bites. Okay? um And so these are food things that are small enough that we're not going to do a whole Food Time episode about it. But we want to talk about them anyway.
01:05:52
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Right? Yeah. Yeah. so um So this will be quick. but I don't know if you say quick, but, you know. I mean, i don't think there's good. Okay, the the two on here.
01:06:05
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But they're not a lot on them, so yeah. Yeah, so so the first one is we have the ah new Takumi Tei spring menu at Epcot, which I don't think we're going to talk about this very long because I don't think Tom...
01:06:16
Speaker
I, you know. Likes a lot of this stuff. this is this is very This is a really cool restaurant that I would' had never checked out, but it's ah it's a two-hour dining experience. Have you ever done this one, Trevor, or no? No, I mean, I i would like to. it's But like you said, it's it's a two-hour dining experience, and it's, I mean. how do you
Omakase Dining Experience
01:06:36
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say that? Omakase?
01:06:37
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Omakase. Sorry, where are you in the article? what the dot what the dining experience is called yes yeah yeah yeah that's uh or as it says it it means you know leave it to the chef so you yeah so you you don't get to pick the um or you you basically pick like different menus of items and they so they bring you out courses of of the these items. so But you don't pick anything. They just, you you trust the chef.
01:07:06
Speaker
Yes, exactly. And that that that is very much a thing in Japan. they There's lots of restaurants that do it this way, which, ah you know, for for a lot of people that can be very, if you don't have a, um you know, a very,
01:07:21
Speaker
um broad palate for food. This could be very terrible. Who are you talking about, Trevor? I don't know, Tom. I don't know who I'm talking about, Tom. it's It's also it's also shsh um it's also worth noting, by the way, that this is probably the most expensive meal that you can buy at Epcot, ah which is $250 per adult for the full course for all all of the courses. it, 10 courses, think?
01:07:46
Speaker
but is it ten courses i think where Where's the... I thought it was a four or seven were the two options. Oh, I thought it was a 10 course. and My bad. Yeah. too Hold on. Let me... Yeah, so yeah it's it's a seven course. so So, yeah, this is a seven course. My bad. Okay. Yeah, so it's seven courses. But so, I mean, listen, that is seven courses you get to for $200. You know, it's it's an experience. It's like going to Victoria and Albert's, right? It's kind of the same thing except ah with ah the Japanese flair to it, right? Yes, exactly.
01:08:15
Speaker
and And actually, you know, looking at it, the only... the only or it looks like the first course you actually get to pick or that there's three different options it looks like but then everything after that is like this is what you're getting but I mean I feel like the ah looking at the first course you have a choice between um Seabream, which is kombu cured, sacro style, kombu cured, sacro style, accented with edible gold leaf. So this is like seaweed.
01:08:47
Speaker
Yeah. um Lightly fried tofu with a silken white miso broth, which I love miso. and So that that sounds great. And then there's a salmon roe and spring vegetables, um which none of these Tom is eating. Yeah.
01:09:04
Speaker
correct yeah yeah then This is this is ah Tom is going elsewhere. Tom's going to Viannopoli, which for some reason Depp or Danielle made faces about. I didn't elaborate on that. There seems to be some history there. that but dad Maybe someone could tell me. I don't know. But yeah but um yes, no, I'd be going there. My wife would be eating this by herself. um Hey, the the tofu with miso would be my choice. so Okay. yeah yeah yeah Listen, this looks all very fancy. I mean, yeah you know the second course looks like clams handss and mackerel. yeah
01:09:39
Speaker
But yeah, this looks like a $250 dinner. Yes, this is super fancy. it ah i' just so I'm just scrolling through the courses to see like what kind of, yeah, we got flounder. or yeah it's It's a lot of fish. so yeah Yeah, that's my problem.
01:09:58
Speaker
Some Wagyu. yeah Yeah, and it's all it's all like small samplings. all like like the The whole point of this is like you're getting a whole bunch of flavors. like You're not going in there getting like a big slab of fish. These are like individual bites that you're getting in each um each course.
01:10:14
Speaker
I've only once in my life done a meal where it's been like you know like one of those seven course kind of things. It is... it is Fun to do, because like you said, it's like small bites of things, but also like if you eat something that you really like, you're kind of like, I kind of want more of that. Yeah, I want more of that. Yeah.
01:10:30
Speaker
But it is. um photograph I'm looking at the the fifth course. There is Wagyu. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There's Wagyu. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah if you can get as far as the fifth course, you can get Wagyu. But i'm I'm going to be hungry at that point, though, because I will have not eaten anything up until then. I don't think. But then, what what is this on the, oh, the the there's the little origami thing. It's the rice course. The six course. On the rice course, on the sixth course. I'm just. Pressed eel sushi and shredded egg atop Japanese sasho pepper and and a spinach and silken tofu in a red miso soup.
01:11:07
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Yum. I don't know what this little leaf box is, though. What is that? ah Yeah, it just it just looks like how it's served. or you it's Is it that? Is it what I just read? ok Yeah. and then But then also it has the little origami hat, which is a keepsake. It's kind of cool. Yeah. yeah It looks very, very delicate for sure.
01:11:29
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would eat some dessert here. think a strawberry baked cheesecake, like a strawber strawberry. I don't know how to pronounce that, but I'd eat it still. Yeah. ah ah So the that would be daifuku.
01:11:44
Speaker
Okay. but Which, yeah. it's I know it could be read in another way. No, I was, i see Trevor, my mind didn't even go there. Okay. yeah I just, you know, you want to try it for the, you know, to to not screw it up.
01:12:00
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um Yeah. i But I mean, yeah, listen, I do dessert here. lots of strawberry, actually. Yeah. Actually, that's something to point out, too, is that this this is a spring menu, which makes sense that, you know, the sakura and strawberry flavors are very prominent in Japan for spring.
01:12:17
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Yeah, we you should know with this kind of experience that the all the the menu will change constantly based on what is seasonal. So it's it's this is the menu now, but this is going to change as as the season goes on. So which is kind of what makes it cool, honestly.
01:12:32
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Yeah. Yeah.
Bluey-Themed Food at Disneyland
01:12:34
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i would I would definitely sit down and do this if I, like, my problem is kind of the opposite of yours, that, um like, you're ah you know, your wife and I would hang out and do this, but my wife would be with you, where she would be like, like i there's nothing here that I want to eat except for, like, core six.
01:12:54
Speaker
So... So not even course do we do a brief, yeah a life swap where you take my wife to this and I would take your wife. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You guys could go, um like hang out near Mexico or something. i don't know. And yeah, we would, yeah we we would be gone doing this for like two hours. So yeah it's,
01:13:12
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Well, the the other thing, though, to go back to what we talked about before, and like is there anything else you want to talk about? with No, no that's that that's cool, though. I appreciate like that. That is definitely something we wouldn't have caught covered in a regular full food time. So, yeah, thanks I'm glad we got to do that. Yeah. These are mini bites. So, yeah.
01:13:29
Speaker
But along with the opening of the bluey ah stuff at Disneyland, and I'm going to assume we're going to get the same thing at Disney World, Trevor. But because that one's a little bit further away still, we probably don't have this information yet. But.
01:13:41
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They're doing themed beverages and food for Bluey, which are awesome looking. Yes. But I feel like they finally took the hint of like...
01:13:54
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yeah Like, you know, the the themed food you see in the Asian parks is starting to make an appearance here. Yeah. And, you know, it's obviously all bluey-centric, but, man. Okay, like, that okay, so... Yeah, let's start off. The very first thing is the he Pizza Girl's baked potato and the and the Troubadour baked potato. Like, yeah i I forget about the Tribunar one. The Pizza Girls one just looks insane. They both look really good, honestly, for different reasons. And and I'll be honest, i I've been on a bit of a baked potato kick lately. like ah Because like places like Wendy's and stuff offer them. yeah and and and like I normally wouldn't think about it, it's like, oh, you know I could go for a baked potato. Yeah, this is like this is a loaded pizza.
01:14:43
Speaker
we gave it So the Pizza Girls baked potato is pepperoni. And the good pepperoni, too, the ones the one that curls, right? Crispy ones. That's the best ones. yeah So pepperoni, sausage, bacon bits, marinara, mozzarella, alfre Alfredo sauce, and Parmesan herb topper. It looks so good.
01:15:00
Speaker
And then it and that looks like I'd have like heart, like I'd have chest pains after eating it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. You need to walk a lot to burn that one off. yeah and then And then, yeah, you know I guess this is ah ah ah a classic one is the Troubadour baked potato, which is you know butter, sour cream, cheese, bacon, bits, and green onions. So if you don't, you know, the Pizza Girls one is extra, extra. You can dial it down and just get the Troubadour baked potato if you want.
01:15:26
Speaker
You could, yeah. And, you know, we talked about this, I don't know, a couple weeks ago where Disneyland mentioned they were going to do this kid's meal that's like cheap or whatever. It was like $5.99. And I'm pretty sure that's what this is, this last item, which is – but I didn't realize it was going to be a mini hot dog. So it's actually – it's a mini all-beef hot dog served with the cuties, mayonnaise, and orange applesauce and a choice of water or milk.
01:15:47
Speaker
But this it's like a little a little tiny hot dog. It's so tiny. It is so tiny. Yeah. Which is perfect for kids, you know, it's good. need like three of these, but i know yeah, it's, it's cute. I like it. and i mean, yeah, exactly. That is, you know, they're, they're realizing that, you know, you know, the kids menu needs to be appealing to kids and, you know, kids don't want to eat a foot long hot dogs.
01:16:10
Speaker
I mean, well, you know, when I was kid, I was a kid. Most kids think they can eat a foot-long hot dog, but most kids cannot eat a foot-long hot dog. So, yeah, this is good starting place. And, yeah, you can, hey, you can order multiples.
01:16:24
Speaker
Yeah. And the other, the really themed stuff they're getting into, Trevor, are these nice things, which the first one, if you know Bluey, you know this. There's an episode of Bluey where they're at like a...
01:16:37
Speaker
Almost like a flea market kind of situation, Trevor. Okay. And there's a guy walking around going, Poffergees. And that's what they actually did them. What's a Pofferge?
01:16:48
Speaker
That's what these are? Poffergees? Yeah. And mini Dutch pancakes topped with buttered ah ah condensed milk and powdered sugar. They look like little beignets almost, but yeah I think they're different.
01:16:59
Speaker
but it's a whole thing in that episode. And the fact that they actually made them, when I told my wife that, and that's why they have exclamation points, Trevor, because that's the guys walking around yelling it. And I, I, when I told my wife this morning that they were doing that, she was like, no way. She's like, that's so cool.
01:17:15
Speaker
But, the next So those are good. But the next thing I think is the coolest of all of it. So there the next one is the magic asparagus pretzel.
01:17:25
Speaker
Now, yeah Trevor, you're probably like, why is why is this a thing? No, know this one?
01:17:32
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I know of the the asparagus was it was like a magic wand. That's right. In one yeah episode, it wasn't it? Yeah. Yes. So it was it's a magic wand. ah And so what is amazing about this piece, Trevor, though, is that it's they they it's a pretzel rod coated in white chocolate, but it it really looks like a piece of like a cartoon piece.
01:17:54
Speaker
Asparagus. Yeah. yeah It looks like it could be almost like a toy like or like ah like something you would see in like a like a kid's play set. It doesn't look real. Yeah. yeah Yeah. those are kind plastic Which I don't know if that's a good a good ah compliment for but it, but.
01:18:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that that's, I guess, a little dangerous. But hey, you know, ah pretzel coated in white chocolate Yeah, actually, yeah, I do have pretzels coated in chocolate. Yeah, who doesn't want that? That makes sense. Yeah. Here's the problem with this, though, is that every kid that gets this is going to want to be, like, waving it around and using it as a magic wand, but it's made of chocolate and, you know, you're holding your hand. It's going to melt in your hand. Or it's going to snap because it's a pretzel and it's not going to, yeah.
01:18:38
Speaker
But, you know, listen, if they have some, if they, so I'm sure there's going to be accompanying merch as well. I don't think we've seen that yet, but you know, there's going to be merch. It's Disney. There's going to be merch.
01:18:49
Speaker
So, ah I mean, they already have some blue merch and stuff like that, but you know, they're going to have separate stuff like this, but this is just cool. like This is just really awesome. This is very Australian, by the way.
01:19:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The Pavlova parfait. Yeah. So the Pavlova is a whole thing on the show as well. Again, there they're really referencing the show. And also just the way this even looks is so colorful and bright and looks like looks like it belongs to cartoon. It's a Pavlova. Yeah. Yeah. But just the way I mean, and it's it's a Pavlova parfait. Right. So it's. Yeah.
01:19:22
Speaker
ah Meringue bites, ah vanilla yogurt, mousse, berry compo, vanilla cake, fresh berries, and candied kiwi. Again, these are all, you know, it's references to the show, right? and It's all, it's so bluey to do to do that.
01:19:37
Speaker
And then um last but not least is a watermelon ice pocket. It's basically just ah a watermelon ah ice pop. It looks like a watermelon slice. so yeah See, I'm there for that because, you know, i usually get the strawberry ice pops because I don't do the ah but Mickey head. But watermelon, it like, i you know, i regardless of the show, I hope that this becomes...
01:20:01
Speaker
a regular thing, right? Like, yeah like I get it's referring to the show, but it's like, yeah, can I just have this anytime, please? These might be off the shelf too, because I feel like I've seen these before. So I don't know if they, yeah, this looks like something I've seen off of an ice cream truck. Honestly, like it's, it's, which is not bad. Like, oh it's not bad at all.
01:20:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's, but it's, yeah, very, it it, it's made to look like a slice of watermelon on a ice cream pop. Yeah. yeah Now, on the less themed side of things is a mud cake cold brew for the adults.
01:20:35
Speaker
Fine. You know, just. Yeah. Yeah. Some Joffrey's with malted milk topper, fudge, brownie bits, and sprinkles. That probably has about 300 grams of sugar in it, um which is fine, you know.
01:20:46
Speaker
Don't care. Yeah. yeah okay I'm not really a cold brew person. Yeah. so that's nothing. The next one, though. i would get this. Yeah. This is the lime ice, the lime ice block drink.
01:20:57
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which is pineapple limeade, coconut milk, and then the watermelon ice block that we just talked about stuck in it. document yeah But, oh man, pineapple lime, coconut, watermelon. Dude, would get that. Oh, yeah, this is like, this is peak summer right here. That sounds delicious. Yeah, I would absolutely get that. I'm not a huge coconut person, but coconut milk is fine with me.
01:21:21
Speaker
And I'm not really huge into pineapple, but i I do like pineapple, like the flavor pineapple is fine. I just, I don't like the actual like feeling of a pineapple. I'm very much a mouthful kind of person. But so like the flavor of pineapple with limeade and then the coconut milk and then that watermelon ice block you just leave in there to to melt. Kind of love it. It's non-alcoholic too. So it it is a kid's drink. Yeah.
01:21:40
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Yeah. I'm not sharing this with my kid though. I just, well, you might have to buy a separate one for him. Yeah. He can get his own. That's fine. don't, don't care. I'm, I'm having mine. What is, and then we have, uh, they're doing Disneyland does what they do and is, uh, having a s zipper, a bluey zipper.
01:21:57
Speaker
This is going to be very popular. I can tell already. And I, you can also see the fact that they're already saying limit two per person. Um, it's it's just bluey and, you know, really, if you want to think about this, it's not great that blue beach is just sitting on top of my my drink cup, but that's fine. It's cool looking and my kid's not really going to think that way. or but She might actually. You know, you know but this is, you remember we were talking about sippers. Yeah. I think it was a couple weeks ago that you know, the the cup being separate from the actual sipper thing, like this is, like, yeah, it's sitting on of the cup.
01:22:31
Speaker
But this is perfect because you can actually take it off, you can wash the cup, and then you can put it back on, and it's minimal, um... having to mess with it right yeah exactly this is this is how they should be doing sippers in my opinion this is the ideal sipper because like you said it's easily cleanable and it's it's still cool looking like it's still they have the entire all of bluey sitting on top of it and bluey all the way down yeah and I I when I was working on the on you know the rundown for the show my daughter saw that and she's like oh that's so cool and I'm like and I just in a moment of ah parent parental stupidity was like I will get that for you I don't know how but I will get it
01:23:08
Speaker
ah So, yeah, I'm just like, I will get it. She will love it. And I just can't, I can't not do it. So I'll i'll get it somehow. ah You know, I'll get one. But yeah, ah yeah i just, cool. Okay, so moving on. This next one, I do, I've seen this episode. Ah, Stumpfest. The Stumpfest cake, which is a chocolate roulade.
01:23:30
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with a white chocolate mousse and ganache, and the outside is painted up very pretty. like Very rainbow-y. Yeah, because they they had the whole stump painted up, and it's got the flower on it and everything.
01:23:41
Speaker
Very cool. I like the... ah Yeah, yeah. Nothing fancy on that one, right? it's late late late the The thing is, the thing is, is that it's not like it. It's the reference, but it's not overstated. Right. Like it does. It doesn't always have to be over the top, but it's like, oh, yeah, I get what they're doing there. Right. So. no Yeah.
01:24:00
Speaker
And then last but not least, Trevor, the popcorn bucket. Which is, and when I say popcorn bucket, it's not like the the fancy popcorn buckets. It's the popcorn bucket that you buy that you can refill. You know, it's like the the ones that usually just have Disney characters on it. This one has all of the bluey characters on it.
01:24:18
Speaker
And again, when I saw this, my daughter was like, I want that. Because we have a bunch of the popcorn buckets, right? yeah And sometimes they have, you know, when we were on the last cruise, they had some of the popcorn buckets from that designs from the parks.
01:24:32
Speaker
on the ship. So I'm like crossing my fingers that maybe they have this. it's going to be hard again. It's gonna be hard to get this one. um Yeah, this is going to be a one that's going to sell out. It's going to be another one of those things that people are really trying to get.
01:24:45
Speaker
um It's the you know, it's the basically the whole family sitting in the living room. And my favorite character, ah you know, Muffin is shoving popcorn in her face because Muffin is the greatest.
01:24:56
Speaker
So um I think everybody, you know, I Muffin's the best. I love Muffin. So Muffin's doing what Muffin does on this popcorn bucket. Yeah. um But, again, this is one that I really would like to try to get. Now, this one does set to say a limit of 10 per person, which feels excessive.
Bluey's Popularity and Cultural Impact
01:25:14
Speaker
10. 10. What are you doing with 10 popcorn buckets? Be honest. yeah yeah Be honest. That's the only thing you're doing with 10 popcorn buckets is reselling the popcorn bag. Unless you're, like, a grandmother that has a bunch of grandkids, you know, maybe she can. no. you know that's That's not actually happening. Don't kid yourself. Yeah. Well, yeah.
01:25:33
Speaker
ah you're You're right. But I think if this is any if this is an early you know because this is probably not the end of this, Trevor. This is just what they're starting with. Right. And I think if this is any indication of the theming that they are the the accompaniments, let's say they're doing for Bluey.
01:25:51
Speaker
um you know, this is going to be great. And I fully expect that Disney World will do the same thing and maybe it will be slightly different or maybe it'll be the same. But typically Disneyland, Disney World don't do the same thing with this kind of stuff. So that's that's true. But I would hope with the yeah with the popularity of it, I wouldn't be surprised.
01:26:12
Speaker
And again, this is this is me thinking... You know, they they're doing everything with timing and whatnot. I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, we have the stuff going to Animal Kingdom first.
01:26:23
Speaker
um Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if they start making moves in Hollywood Studios after they're done some of the other pieces that they're building already in Hollywood Studios. I wouldn't be surprised if um you start seeing Bluey stuff there at some point. Because I can't think of anywhere else where you could really put like a stage show or anything for...
01:26:42
Speaker
I mean, listen, you could all you all you have to do is replace the Beauty Beast show at at the Hollywood Studios. Oh, you're going to make somebody angry. sam ah i Listen, OK, let's let me say this really quick. and And I don't want to offend anybody on this. OK, I've seen that blue Beauty in the Beast show a couple of times.
01:27:01
Speaker
it's It's not bad, but I don't think it's Disney quality anymore. and Right. And part of the reason is that show is way too short. They shove that entire story. the The story is so truncated that it doesn't make sense. Right. Like it makes no, like literally Belle falls in love with the beast the second she meets him in that show. like like the second like Like immediately because there's no time for them to develop it. Right. And it makes no sense. So like when I saw Beauty and the Beast on the, on the treasure, like, so there's a Beauty and the Beast show in the treasure.
01:27:33
Speaker
That's what I expect from Beauty and the Beast. the The problem is my bar has been raised. trip Okay. My bar is, has been raised after seeing the Beauty and the Beast show on the treasure because it was so good and so well done.
01:27:44
Speaker
And it gave the time to develop things in a way that made sense. I understand why they can't do that in Hollywood studios, but listen, that show has been there a long time. Maybe it's just time to move on.
01:27:55
Speaker
You know, that's all saying. Yeah, no, I don't disagree. I, I feel, you know, Hollywood studios is, is in a, it's in a state of flux right now and things like that do need to go away.
01:28:07
Speaker
I think I agree. um But, and yeah, you know, i think Bluey going into Hollywood Studios would make sense based on everything we're seeing here. Like, you know, the the fact that they're hyping it up so much in Disneyland. I would not be surprised if you've got people, you know, i saying, great. Now, when are you doing Florida?
01:28:26
Speaker
Right. So, yeah, well, I mean, but they, we are, they're doing Florida. They're doing the, the, well, no, no, the, the, the, yeah, the, the conservation station. Again, the problem with it is that it's very, it's very limited. It's isolated.
01:28:40
Speaker
it they're going to, I think they're going to realize quickly that they've, racked open a floodgate and they're they're going to need to do more you know, sooner than later.
01:28:52
Speaker
but So, I mean, probably because it is incorrect. I mean, like I said, I, Bluey is, has been for, I think the past three years now, the most streamed thing on streaming.
01:29:04
Speaker
Like literally, like, I mean, i don't know if it was, i mean, i think it was the most streamed TV show. So I, but I mean, I don't know if that was up to date since like stranger things came out or something like that, but if it even beats stranger things, like that tells you what kind of phenomenon it was. I feel like it's, it is different because like people watch through shows like Stranger Things once. Once, yeah. And don't go back and watch it. The thing about Bluey is like, you know, in, in households like, you know, with kids, those shows are on repeat all day. like Yeah. You know, I was, you know, when my kid was younger, there was certain shows that was like, okay, we're just, we're running this all day. Like it's. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, Bluey is in a different league than even something like Stranger Things. Yeah. Bluey was number one in 2025 with 45 billion minutes streamed. And that was more than Stranger Things at 39 billion minutes.
01:29:55
Speaker
like they They beat them by six billion minutes. I mean, be fair, the the fact that Stranger Things was at the end of the year and got that close is pretty impressive. But a lot of and probably didn't rewatch this up until then because it had been such a gap. I mean, I know we did. yeah We watched the the the second to last season again just to catch up, right? But yeah, I mean, that's... Bluey has been killing it in in streaming for...
01:30:19
Speaker
many years now and the fact that they still yeah because they were number one in 2024 at 55 billion minutes I mean they and they've they've just been dominating it's it's insane and and ah that's it's not just yeah Australia it's it is everywhere it oh I know it's I see it believe like you know even though I don't have kids in that age yeah like I said I see it all the time it's you know you see clips of it I you know I have friends with younger kids and it's like oh yeah like you know you know you You can't help but
01:30:52
Speaker
it's the same thing we said earlier about like cars. It's like, even if you're not into it, it's like, you can't help but acknowledge like it's, it's popular. It's it's insane. Right. yeah And you know, yeah, like I said, I've, I've seen some of, you know, I've sat down and watched some of the episodes and I get why it's, it is as popular as it is. Like, it's a very well done show.
01:31:11
Speaker
It's hilarious. And honest yeah. And, and yeah, there there are definitely jokes that are targeted at the parents as much as the kids. And I, and I get, yeah, like, he um, the bandit, the, you know, her, her dad.
Disney's Strategy with Bluey
01:31:23
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Like, like I see where it's like, yeah, there's there's a lot of like, there's a lot of dad jokes in there and I can appreciate that. Oh, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. So I, I, I'm, I'm a little surprised it took Disney this long to really capitalize on it. But now that they are, I, I think they're going to get a straight up attendance boost from these bluey things. I mean, it's not going to be like, you know, opening a new park kind of thing, but there, it will be busier just because of this.
01:31:49
Speaker
i I think, I know you say I'm surprised they didn't get on it sooner. There is something to be said for not rushing things like this. Yeah. I mean, it was the same thing with Frozen. It took them years to get Frozen to go into things, you know?
01:32:01
Speaker
Yeah. and And, you know, like, looking at, like, the food and the shows and everything coming from it, like, you can see, like, you know, as we were talking about, like, hey, you know, the way that these things are themed, the you know you know, even though, like, you know, like, that this stump fest cake, it's like,
01:32:17
Speaker
It's not complicated, but somebody put some thought into it. Oh, yeah. It's it's not just like, ah oh let's just slap the the bluey chocolate piece on it and call it good. Like somebody put some thought into it So, yeah i yeah, I appreciate I applaud that for sure. All I'm going to say is they better they better be running ah multiple ah trains ah for the Wildlife Express train. like i hope someone i Can do that? I didn't think. Oh, yeah, they can. They can. I thought it was just like like it it goes one like it's one track going there and back, right? It actually is a loop. So there there is a loop that goes all the way around.
01:32:55
Speaker
Oh, is there? oh Yeah, yeah. Weird. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I mean, they, I mean, they need to, they can't just have that one train by itself. Uh, you know, so. Yeah. the The line will just be, it'll be out of this world for sure. or at least that first week. Yeah. Yeah. According to Wikipedia, they do have three trains. So and they they they just need to run all three of those trains.
01:33:17
Speaker
All right. They, they just, they have to. Yes. I mean, it's, it's going to be too crazy not to. So. Yeah. I would not want to be standing there waiting for that train. Like that's,
01:33:27
Speaker
yeah I've waited a long time for that train before, but I also always suspected they were just running like one or two trains. but Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. In the off season, it is definitely like, yeah or I guess, yeah, like I've stood there like for maybe five minutes, but like it gets hot.
01:33:40
Speaker
Oh, don't you? So. yeah Yeah. That's why my wife hates going to Animal Kingdom because she always claims it's like the hottest park, which I don't. It's all is's very humid. i think that's the thing is it's more. i know Florida is generally humid, but Animal Kingdom is more humid than other areas of Disney.
01:33:57
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, let's
Conclusion and Listener Interaction
01:34:01
Speaker
let's wrap it up. There's a lot of good news this week, man. is Yeah, cool that that was quite a lot that we... yeah Great stuff, sir. Exciting stuff. Yeah, for sure.
01:34:09
Speaker
looking Looking forward to it, right? and Yeah. yeah And I guess, you know, hey, that you know the first thing is coming up here, like, in we have a few things happening in March and, like, Buzz Lightyear in April, so... I mean, Louis stuff starts at Disneyland in a week here, so... Yeah.
01:34:23
Speaker
Wow, that's... Yeah. How is it already, like, middle of March? I don't know, Trevor. I don't know where the time has gone. Yeah. So, okay, well, I guess we should probably start wrapping this up though. So we can, you know, I can reminisce about this again in April when a month has gone by and i don't know what happened there either. You don't know how that, that happened so fast. Yeah.
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