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Episode 314: AI BDX Droids, Indiana Jones & Walt Disney Animatronic
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Damon returns to the show and talks about his recent cruise and future vacation plans. Imagineering is using artificial intelligence to make their BDX droids smarter and more emotive. The guys discuss a rumor that Disney is rebooting the Indiana Jones franchise. The new Walt Disney animatronic debuted for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary and the guys have thoughts. Also for the 70th anniversary, a new exclusive Dole Whip flavor was announced and new features were added to several Disney games.
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Introduction and Episode Sponsor
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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 314 of welcome home, a Disney parks and vacation club podcast. I'm Tom here with Trevor and Damon.
Hosts' Mixed Feelings and Lack of Disney News
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How's it going guys?
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don't don't be too excited. i You know, i looked at this episode and I was just like, really, this is the episode I got to come back to. Well, yeah, I mean, well, listen, I put the Disneyland stuff in the second half so you could, you know, you could. But I mean, even the first half, though, is kind of brutal. There's not a lot of news out there. yeah's it's It's
Pixar's New Trailer and Humor
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not. I mean, missed the Pixar What was the Pixar thing?
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The new movie. Oh, yeah. I mean, I thought we were not doing the movie stuff as much. Yeah, no. can talk about it. I watched the trailer. Okay. So, yeah, I thought, yeah, we weren't talking movies because it's not related to the Disney parks. So there's no, there's no, you know, Disney park news this week, I guess.
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Yeah. That's a fair point. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I watched the trailer for that. I thought it was fake at first. Really? Why? I just didn't think they would do a movie like that. It looked like it was just like fake. i don't know.
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It looked very different from everything else I've seen from them, which made me think like, oh, is this like another like side studio or DreamWorks? Not Pixar itself? Yeah.
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yeah I mean, i not know in a bad way, though, because I mean, I thought it was the trailer was pretty funny. I mean, i i thought that was funny that they that the concept is essentially Avatar, but they like called out in the trailer. They made the joke like right away. yeah It was like, isn't this Avatar? And they're like, no, it's not Avatar.
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think You know, I don't know. I thought it was kind of I thought it was funny. And I don't remember hearing anything about this movie either. i it kind of felt like it came out of the blue for me. Yeah, agreed. That's a general problem with their marketing right now. It's, you know, we we don't seem to know what they're doing.
00:02:19
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I mean, some things we know a lot about and then some things that, you know, they they don't like that Elio movie. I feel like kind of just like flew under the radar. Like there wasn't. but I mean, there was about that. But it just wasn't
Cross-marketing and Movie vs TV Preferences
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a good story. Like who cared?
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I mean, it great reviews about it. Yeah. Right. I mean, it was. Yeah. I just didn't care. I mean, it got great reviews. and I mean, people said it was really good. Did it lose money then or not? I have no idea.
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i don't I actually don't know if it did well or not. All I know is that I bought some Elio's pizza the other day and i they had the most obvious cross-marketing thing ever of having Elio on the Elio's pizza box.
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Oh, they did have him on there? yeah Yeah. I was like, how could you not, though? Like, you have a pizza brand named Elio's. like it Seems easy. Yeah. Yeah. It was like the simplest crossover ever. So ah there were a bunch other stuff, too. Listen, I didn't go and see it, but that's not an indictment on the movie. It's really just I don't know. My my daughter's really interested in like a sci fi kind of movie. You know, like that's not really her jam.
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So true like, you know, I, I would like to see it and I will see it once it comes out in streaming, but I, you know, it's just not what I would have gone to the movie theater about, but I do think it speaks to a larger.
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And there was, I think Pixar actually posted this on their social media about people complaining that there's too many sequels and not enough original stuff. But then when there is original stuff, people don't go and see it. I just don't do movies anymore. You can't do as much character development in two hours as you can. and you know, eight, one hour episodes.
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You're just all about TV series. I really don't do movies anymore. yeah yeah i want to tonight Once there was this catch-up of special effects, right? Because the big thing with movies was is you had so much money they could make anything look real.
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But now you can make anything look real on a small budget. So if that's the case, then I don't really need you know, to go to the movies anymore. Yeah. The, the, the only thing left is the storytelling and it's really not, like you said, it's, it's hard to condense it all into.
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it is, which is why they're remaking Harry Potter because, know, Because why not? Why not? Because seven movies didn't have enough space for exposition. didn't It Yeah, I mean, it's it's true. like like from From the books to the movies, there was a lot that was cut out. Absolutely. What did I watch? i watched something recently where it was like...
00:04:37
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They had to have spent like $25 million an episode on it. Oh, Squid Game. was watching the most recent season Squid Game, and I'm like, dude, they had to have spent a fortune on this show. I haven't caught up. I wanted to watch it, and and then like I just haven't caught up with
Vacation Preferences and Future Plans
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it yet, though.
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so You're not going to like it, Damon. I liked the last season. A lot of people didn't, but liked it. I think a lot of people didn't understand the last season. A lot of people were had...
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different expectations of it. The ending is not where you think it's going to go. There's so many spin offs anyway, now that it's just ridiculous. I don't know. I got, yeah I wanted to watch it. And then I started watching animal kingdom, just like out of the blue.
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And then I just couldn't stop myself. So I'm on season six of that. Once I finished that, I'll go back to, uh, squid games all right so yeah i clicked that with the bear watched the i watched all four seasons of the bear in like a week i got addicted okay real quick because i i know you kind of talked about your trip already but how was uh hagrid's coaster for you because it was kind of a highlight for me was it was good it's these trips are so far in my past i feel like now the summer has just whipped by like Epic universe was great. Probably one best vacations we've had ever. Uh, go listen to the episode.
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This last cruise was the cruise was very good. My son got sick. That was a whole big thing. Um, and then we stayed at a Disney, a good neighbor hotel, which was not up to my standards, but oh go, go listen to episodes. The only other thing that think that we decided is, is because unfortunately my son got sick on the cruise. We would have done a cruise next year, but now he wants to take a year break, which is fine. We'll do the star of the seas. I mean, there's no way we'll do a Disney cruise again. They're just too boring for our age range.
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And then was this your oldest or middle son? Middle. and And then the other thing is, so we decided because we're doing that, we're doing our cross country trip next year, but no one wants to go to Disneyland. So we're not going to Disneyland. They said that it is the same as Disney world and there's no, that is not true at all.
00:06:40
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no That's what they said. So, Okay, that is what it is. So we're going all the way out to the Grand Canyon and not taking the extra couple hours and going to Disneyland. Yeah, that's the crazy one we've said so far.
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He said his kids said it. I know, but that's still crazy that you're going all that way and you're not going to Disneyland. They don't want to waste the days, they said. It's a waste of days.
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yeah well I guess that's fair if you don't know what you're missing. yeah i mean they they they They said to me, what's different over there? and I was like, don't They got Star Wars land. They have some Marvel land. and They're like, nah.
00:07:13
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we're out. Yeah. It sounds like your family's really just out on Disney in general. Yeah. I think it sounds like you've kind of moved past that phase in your life. I don't know if they're out on Disney, but they're out on like, they don't want to go to a park where even if half the stuff is the same, which it seems like half the stuff probably is the same in terms of rides, right? They don't care about like walking in the park and that sort of stuff. They just care about the rides.
00:07:38
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There's some poor rides that are the same, but I think, yeah you'll find that there's quite a lot that's different. Yeah. I mean, listen, I get it at their age though. I get it. I get it at their age though. Like I, I understand that. I feel like you don't appreciate a lot of that stuff until you're much older, you know?
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Yeah. I just, I just don't know because i mean, the thing is what we're going to get an Indiana Jones ride. what What really is different in Disneyland, right? Like that's totally different. Not like that, you know, it's the same ride, but a little different. Like what's really different cars. I'm going to get one.
00:08:07
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So it's different than that one. it's where It is. Yeah. It's very different. Yeah. You don't have the matter. You don't have the matter horn. You don't have Mr. Toads. You don't have snow. mr tokyo's so Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah.
00:08:20
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yeah i don't have mickey's tune town um Is that a ride? It's an entire land. but Some of the rides are just different, though, too. like Pirates are different. you know we rail it's not You're talking about, like is it different for me, you, and Trevor? Yeah, sure. and Would we catch the nuances? 21-year-old's not going to care.
00:08:39
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I get that. yeah They could ride the Roger Rabbit ride, but they would they would have to know who Roger Rabbit is. to yeah i think i think the bigger thing on the trip now is is that we're staying three of the Gaylord hotels, which is their favorite hotel of all time. And I think they're more excited by that than they could ever be by Disneyland at their current age.
Cross-country Trip Logistics
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So are you like RVing it across the country are you like in your car? Okay. Yeah. So I think me and my daughter will probably drive out to Flagstaff and then the other ones will fly to Flagstaff and then we'll drive back to Dallas. They'll fly back to Dallas and then we'll drive home.
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That's the thought process. Can I make a predict prediction for your kids? You can make a prediction. Sure. So I know you said your kid's favorite hotel is the Gaylord, but I feel like you're going to go to different ones across the country and they're not going to be the same experience. And your kids are going to be disappointed because the one in Florida or just in Florida, one in Florida, accommodations in general are on a different level.
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i I think they're going to be disappointed after two. Have stayed at the other Gaylords or not? No, but i've I've stayed in various places across the country and you get a very different experience. to like Florida is a very unique experience to it.
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and It's very like tourist-centric. A lot of other places are not tourist-centric. centric yeah i think the the osprey and then will be pretty similar to what we see but we'll find out hey he'll well we'll talk about it when we go yeah i guess so are you so you you're just doing like national parks and stuff is that yeah i think we're just doing the grand canyon petrified forest and then what is ever that cadillac-y place where you can spray paint stuff i guess we'll stop there just because the cadillac-y place that you can a upon what is that
00:10:24
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yeah There's an actual park. It's called. It's pretty famous. But anyway, whatever it's called, and the we'll stop there. um And then that's probably Yeah.
00:10:36
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yeah I mean, really just more Grand Canyon than anything. So, yeah, I'd like to do the Grand Canyon eventually. like you not so you're not doing like like Yellowstone and stuff like that? Nah, dude, there's not it is that enough time when you you know when we're driving and stuff. There's not going to be enough time. And even with you know the kids having jobs now, like they can't take off a ton of time anymore.
00:10:55
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Makes lot harder. Yeah, and we're going to stop in Dallas to do some things in Dallas. So that will be fun. And yeah that will be it. But that's our next trip. So you're not like road tripping across the country with the whole family. It's really just going to be like your wife's daughter.
00:11:08
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Just my daughter. just Oh, just your daughter. Your wife's not going. Okay. No, because she began with work. So she'll she'll fly out to Flagstaff. Oh, So we have actually the people that are doing, that did our cruise are actually planning the trip for us, which is good.
00:11:22
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Which makes it a lot easier in for us. I like them. They worked out great. And I'm going to tell you something. Royal did, man. that's just it was a fun It was a fun vacation. Which ship were you on? Utopia. It's huge. around that You were on one of the new huge ones.
00:11:35
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The newest one, yeah. It's like 7,000 people. It was... yes I think I saw that. I think I saw that one at port when we were... It's big. Yeah, it is again, it's large. it's absurdly large. Yeah, it's absurdly large is right. Yeah, i because I was in another Royal ship that was a much, you know, an older one, and we're just looking at that ship, and you just, like, look up, like, it's because it's like a skyscraper, basically. It's it's absurd how large it is. it's It is.
00:11:56
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So when we were on the island, it was the same thing, correct? There was another Royal ship on the island as well, and it was like, man, this ship is twice the size of that. It's crazy. So Star of the Seas, I think, starts in August. It's the same size ship this August. so we'll probably do that in 27.
00:12:12
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Did you feel it? See, it's funny because my my parents who are frequent cruisers, they don't like the bigger ships because they feel like, despite how large they are, that everything feels very crowded still.
Cruise Ship Experiences
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They're like more crowded than the smaller ones.
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That's what they said to me. I was surprised by that. The ships are huge. I mean, there's also 7,000 people on them. Well, yeah. know. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't feel crowded at all. I don't feel like I've seen some of the pictures of the carnival ships where like people are like shoulder to shoulder at Disney.
00:12:39
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It was not like that ever. i mean there was there It was big enough that I didn't find it to be crowded. um It wasn't sparse. like A Disney ship is a little bit... sparse in terms like which is good right like yeah like yeah you know again like there's not a ton of people like you could be walking down a hallway and it's just you on a disney ship absolutely yeah it's not like that that's for sure right but it's not like being at the parks either right it's not like it's not shoulder shoulder like no no no i think thing is and if you don't if you don't ride the elevators you're fine the elevators obviously can get a little busy but like the ship's big but like you can still walk stairs so
00:13:15
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All right. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. I actually don't know what my next vacation is going to be. I mean, we're doing, i don't know if I mentioned this, but we're doing my, uh, we're doing a thing up in, at the Philly zoo, in a couple of weeks, we're doing like a behind the scenes thing with, uh, with rhinos, um,
00:13:32
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Rhinos, hippos, and otters. it's It's for my sister's birthday. My my brother-in-law set it up and and he wanted you know her her niece ah her nieces to to join. So my daughter is going to be doing these behind the scenes things. I'm there for the otters. I don't know about anything else. but That's the only one I'm doing, right? So like we they offered it to the adults too. And it was a little pricey, so didn't want to do you know have both of us do each of them. So I just bought like one adult ticket to each one.
00:13:57
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And I told my wife, I'm like, I'm taking otters. You can take some both the other two if you want. I want to see the otters. yeah Because the Philly Zoo is really nice. I remember, I mean, I went there when I was a kid. It's funny because I remember them having a monorail. And then I said to my wife, I was like, does Philly Zoo still have the monorail? And she's like, I don't know. And then I looked it up and like they shut the monorail 2004. And I'm like,
00:14:17
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like what My life has passed me by quickly here because I remember the monorail being there and I'm pretty sure I rode like an elephant or a camel or something when I was there too. And i'm I'm betting they don't do that anymore.
00:14:28
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but I don't remember if I've been there. i feel like I might have, but i can't for certain say. so good zoo. It's definitely good zoo. so yeah And then i also I posted this in the Discord to get it back to Disney a little bit here. is that I'm going to the Descendants ah concert.
00:14:41
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yeah Descendants slash Zombies concert. I saw it and I was like, gotta take my daughter to this. She's like obsessed with these things right now. She's never been to a concert. I to explain the concept of a concert to her.
00:14:53
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which I think she'll enjoy it. I think she will, too. I mean, I think it's going to be great. Like, i'm i mean I'm looking forward to it. I tried to get my wife and daughter to just go by themselves, but my wife's like, I really would like you to come. And I'm like, all right, fine.
00:15:05
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I got ripped into it. But yeah, no, listen, i'm listen they you could say what you want about Descendants and zombies, whatever is. They make catchy songs, man. Like, hey, they're so good. super famous people in them too like those people have gone on to do other things and they're still doing those shows which is crazy to me i mean you're not yeah you're not getting any people yeah don't care mylo you're not getting milo there either but uh yeah no yeah and i think it will be enjoyable for you i'm sure yeah I'm just disappointed coming to Charlotte. I, you know, i it's weird that I have to go to Greensboro for it. um But, you know, it's probably like a scheduling thing. i Yeah. I mean, Greensboro is way closer. I can, I can make a I can leave after the concert and, you know, drive home and not have to stay there overnight. Like if I went to Raleigh, we'd probably have to stay overnight because my family would be too tired. I would be fine, but they would probably want to stay somewhere.
Scarcity of Disney Park News and AI Innovations
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So this way I can concerts over drive home, you know?
00:15:57
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there you but I'm looking forward to it though. It should be fun. should be fun. So, anyway, anything else we want to talk about before we get started here? Not a lot of stuff going on, to be honest. It's a it's a little bit of ah a quiet... Well, it's not really quiet. I mean, they opened a couple things here, but that's part of why why it's more quiet, because the you know test track thing's done, the new parade's out, all that stuff is happening. So, it's really... it's ah you know We look for new announcements and new news and stuff like that. so um But, listen, I wanted to...
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ah to talk about this article because it's, uh, talking about Disney imaginary moving the AI bar, using those BDX droids, the droids to, uh, they're basically using AI in those droids and having that, I, there was, this was on like a ah video somewhere where they have like a, instead of like, they have like a virtual environment that they built for these droids where they basically are training them in this virtual environment and a bunch of different like scenarios.
00:16:51
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I think you watched that one, Trevor, right? Yeah, I briefly remember looking at that. but so So but from this article, it sounds like they're just trying to enhance what they're able to do. or like i i mean I don't fully understand what it is they're trying to accomplish here. Yeah, i think they I think they're trying to train them faster and then also make them more autonomous, but then also like make them, from what they're saying here, to emote more, to be more human-like, I guess.
00:17:20
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Yeah. Okay. What the quote is here is that a process that used to take years can now be done in days and weeks and gives us the ability to bring our characters to our guests in a speed that's unmatched in terms of the way we worked in the past.
00:17:32
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And then, you know, they're saying that they, what sets them apart is their spark of personality. And I mean, listen, I, I, when I've seen those BDX droids, they do, they do have a really interesting, like kind of fun personality that is very human. Like, cause I did see, i don't know if you saw a video recently. They, they have shown up at Disney world out there. They're, they were, they're in galaxy dead right now. walking around.
00:17:52
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Yeah. Now I guess, you know, it's great that they're being fun and everything, but I feel like at some point they have to start making them like sassy the same way that like R2 is because there's there's a couple that are, there there's some. it Yeah. But I, I guess I don't see it as much, but like, you know, R2 is, you know, the, the, i guess prime example, I guess not just R2, like K2SO does it as well. Um,
00:18:20
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But yeah, like you know, like there there's, you know, them being playful, but also like, like you said, that more human, like, don't know how sarcasm or like sassiness. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't know what that quality actually is, but you know, I feel like if they're going to do this, like the emoting has to be, it has to be something that, you know, we'll get a reaction out of people. Not just like, Oh, Hey, that's cute because it you don't remember it as much unless like if the droids like clapping back at you for something you said, I feel like that's a better memory than, uh, yeah. Then it just like, you know, making some, some cute emotes.
00:19:03
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Yeah, no, that's, that's true. Yeah. Uh, the, I mean, the other part they mentioned in here too, is that they, they're saying that these droids are kind of just the beginning and that they're there. Uh, they plan to announce a lot more free roaming things in in the near future is what they said in this article. Now, whether that will actually happen or not, who knows, but, uh,
00:19:19
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I could see them getting on board with doing more of that now. um The interesting thing here is, too, they mentioned this before, actually, that the these BDX droids are going to be in the Mandalorian movie that's coming out next year, right?
00:19:32
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which Of course. Which is such a Disney thing to do, right? I mean, listen, I don't have a problem with it. I'm just saying. Yeah. Why wouldn't you do that, right? like Because that then you're taking them from the park, putting them in a movie, and then to promote them back to the to the park, right?
00:19:46
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um But it's interesting because it actually it says that the BDS droids themselves are performing during the movie. So like they actually they're not doing like, I guess, ah like ah a set thing. They're like actually performing themselves, which is or it's or it's not like a cameo in the background kind of thing. They're actually yeah in in a scene somewhere.
00:20:07
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Yeah, so this is this says ah the the next quote in here is this is just the start. The company plans to deploy more expressive interactive characters across parks and cruise lines. Part of which is part of the 60 billion dollar investment over the next decade in attractions and expansion.
00:20:22
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So okay so you Trevor, you're just like, OK, do it then. yeah Like you keep talking about it, but when are you going to do it? Yeah, I know. I know. i Listen, I just thought this was interesting because it's... And I think, listen, they've been making deals on AI and stuff like that too. But ah the fact that they're able to do... I mean, you know we've talked about this over the years. They've had these they've had these things you know that were like semi-autonomous as far as they could go for the for the technology at the time. Like um the dinosaur, where I've always forget his name, Lucky, um was like, could react to things and stuff like that, but was still controlled by a human. you know like There was still a person...
00:20:59
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determining most of what it was doing. But it was still like, you know, it could react to things and stuff like that. And for the time, I think that was like the early 2000s or the I don't even remember. But I mean, at the time, that was pretty, pretty, you know, pretty innovative and stuff. But now, obviously, this is moving a lot more quickly. And and and they've made a lot of partnerships with some pretty heavy, heavy hitters as far as ah ai goes so although i trevor i i thought about you when i was reading this too because i was like uh because we talked about this before of like the sentence episode where they're in itching scratchy land that's all i that's all i'm thinking about is you're you're describing on this to me i'm like yeah yeah and and the problem is is that we don't have the uh the single shot um disposable cameras to defeat them like they didn't
00:21:45
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Yeah, right. You got flash on your phone. You got a flash on your phone. It's not the same because they can override the flash, right? You know, those things are – you need an independent – They'll shut your phone down is what you're saying? Yeah. So, yeah, we need to have some, you know, Kodak cameras on hand just in case. All right. Aren't those kinds of things, aren't they, like, kind of sort of making a comeback? I feel like they, like... My daughter uses them all the time now. Does she? The thing is, she uses the printer, so it's not necessarily cameras anymore. She's just the Polaroid ones? Because the Polaroid thing came back.
00:22:19
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Yeah, so, like, she... What happens is, like, you use your phone, but you still print out the pictures on this, like... Kodak printer that like as like yeah Polaroids. It's crazy. Yeah. But it's not like the old like Kodak cameras, though, with the film and everything. Not the disposable camera that you drop into a, you know, Dropbox and get the pictures a week later.
00:22:39
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or Or buying film for a camera. I remember that. I remember I used to have to like stock film at a grocery store I worked at, which is wild now that I think about that. Honestly, if you gave me a camera right now and said, go develop the pictures we just took, I would have no idea where to go.
00:22:54
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I know by one place in the city that I could go to, to develop film. There's one like camera place that I could go. It's like CVS and Walgreens still. I don't even know. my Maybe. i don't know, but I don't even think they have those machines anymore. Cause used to have those big, yeah, those big machines. yes Yeah. Yeah. We could print stuff out. Yeah.
00:23:12
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Interesting. I said that that's, it's going to become a real problem when these, when these AI droids get up there, because like I said, we don't, we don't have the, ah the camera flashes to stop them.
00:23:24
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That's funny, I swear to you, Trevor, when I read this, that is the first thing I imagined in my head was Itchy and Scratchy Land and the and robots going crazy and trying to you know kill everybody.
00:23:36
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But, you know, let's hope that's not what happens. I would like to believe that Disney is being responsible in their AI engineering. i I would like to believe that as well. And let's let's hope that's the case. So um and think anything else on this? You want to move on to the next thing?
00:23:53
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Uh, yeah, let's, uh, let's talk about
Rebooting Franchises and Animatronics
00:23:55
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this next one. Cause, uh, the holdover from last week it is. Yeah. Um, so, okay. This is a little bit of a clickbait title you have in here, but, uh, I didn't write the title. I know, but, but whoever wrote this is, you know, Disney reportedly planning for a full reboot of a major franchise and it may be for the best. Well, yeah. okay what I mean, it's Indiana Jones for anyone that's wondering, you know, save you a click. Um,
00:24:23
Speaker
So, i mean, honestly, Indiana Jones, I feel like they tried to reboot it a couple of times and it hasn't quite hit. But it's definitely worth trying again because they are trying to, you know, bring it back. You know, you know they're they're doing the the new ride in Animal Kingdom.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah. and And, you know, it is a mainstay, right? You know, it it it is something just like all of Disney's IPs, honestly, is, you know, it doesn't mean every year they have to revisit it, but it is worth them trying to to revisit it. And so the the big implication of this is obviously recasting the main role because I'm pretty sure.
00:25:03
Speaker
just can't though. You can't. It's hard, right? It's too iconic. Well, no, you you can't for us, but that doesn't mean that you can't for a younger generation. that's That is younger generation. I'm going to watch this the movie though.
00:25:16
Speaker
You don't know that. You just get a curse, David. No, no, no. Okay. no is i I see this as a, it's the same thing that happened with solo, right? it It's not really Harrison Ford. So no one really cares. I think this is a bad move. I think that there's no reason that we need an Indiana Jones ride Indiana.
00:25:34
Speaker
Animal Kingdom, you could have made that anything else with any new IP. You want to go back to the IP and then redo Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones is Harrison Ford and Harrison Ford is andy and Indiana Jones. It just it doesn't work.
00:25:48
Speaker
I mean, i yeah I'm just trying to think of when like an iconic franchise has recast the main character and then it's and it's worked okay. you know um um I mean, listen, obviously there's been a million Batmans and a bunch of Supermans at this point, right? So there's that.
00:26:08
Speaker
That seems to work. um Sometimes. thinking Thinking of Disney movies that have recast... um Hmm. Who would you even have in this role? I got to go back or I have to really think back to like some of the like older 1950s movies and stuff.
00:26:24
Speaker
Yeah. It just seems ah that they decide to stick with this in Animal Kingdom. Like for me, fine. Great. Right. I love it. It makes sense.
00:26:35
Speaker
For their upcoming paying people, it just doesn't make sense. But that's why they're going to reboot it, though, right? They're going to try to reboot it i'm saying and make it relevant for this generation, right? But why not just make it a ride that's either no IP, like Dinosaur, right? Like, what if they made that ride Dinosaur?
00:26:55
Speaker
Yeah. I'm a store was not a no IP ride. It had a movie. It technically had a movie. tied to it Yeah. Technically it was a a movie, but it was not a good movie. yeah so and Yeah. I just think that Indiana Jones does not fit this current up and coming.
00:27:11
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generation, and I think that they should have done something else. but I mean, they could update it, though. I mean, they could make it... update it all you want. I just i don't think that that sort of movie, an Indiana Jones archaeology-based movie, like, I think archaeology is the new hotness, right? kind of Well, that you know what? that That is a fair point. And I mean, like, the last movie did not do great at the box office, right? I would argue Indiana Jones, I know his title was archaeologist. He was not...
00:27:38
Speaker
doing anything close to archaeology that's a fair point um i yeah i mean but i do think there's a big question of who you even replace him with right like i you know even this article mentions like do you cast the same guy that was young han solo like because he i mean he's passable terrible what solo did terrible though it did although i liked it i thought i enjoyed it as a movie i i I think the hard part is kind of to your point that, you know, Harrison Ford is the current iteration of Indiana Jones.
00:28:11
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um I think part of the reason that Solo didn't do as well is that they were very much just trying to emulate what Harrison Ford brought to the character. And the hard part is actually kind of going back to what we're talking about with, you know, new movies and independent IP and stuff is that.
00:28:29
Speaker
They do have to take a risk. And I think if they want it to work, it has to not be a clone of Harrison Ford. You know, and you can't go like, well, he kind of looks like him or he kind of acts like him. Start new. There has to be a new.
00:28:42
Speaker
Huh? Like, what is the IP? I mean, the IP is about a, you know, or you know to Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, Explorer-esque person that goes around finding hidden... or I guess the intersection of it is, from in my world, is it's the same thing as the Uncharted series, which is, you know, video games, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, all fall on the same thing. It's, you know, somebody who is an adventurer doesn't necessarily...
00:29:09
Speaker
call themselves an archaeologist. you know They're always in different roles, but they're going... Why does it need to be in the Indiana Jones universe? What is the Indiana Jones universe? It's just... as a recognize i and right yeah it's It's a hook to get people in. But the IP nothing except our current world, right? like There's nothing really different about it. With the mysticism to it. Yeah, yeah. there's I almost feel like the IP is the outfit, the music, and the whip, right? Like, that's like the IP, right? Because it's like, you know, the the music is iconic, right? Like, the the Indiana Jones theme song, iconic, right?
00:29:42
Speaker
and the And the whole the whip thing in the and the whole outfit is very iconic. Like, I feel like you could put somebody into that. I mean, but I feel like they could also modernize it, too, because all the all the indian ah Indiana Jones movies take place, you know, what, like, a hundred years ago, basically, right? Like, yeah.
00:29:58
Speaker
was trying to do math in my head. I don't know. I just don't see the IP being distinct enough. I think Harrison Ford carried it. And then I think that's the problem that we're going to see because the IP doesn't have this distinct level of like, Hey, well, what's different about this IP.
00:30:14
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Right. And I just, I don't know. I think I listen. I love the movies, but I love them. I think because of Harrison Ford and forton because of what we saw, like what else are we going to find? Right. He found a lot of important things. Like,
00:30:25
Speaker
What else is out there? I'm sure they can figure some stuff out there. sure there's stuff out there, but like, i don't know. I don't know. For me, I think this is a miss. I think that they really should have re IP that ride in Animal Kingdom to something.
00:30:37
Speaker
I don't know. Also a little more kid friendly. I mean, that's kind of the whole point of Disney. Yeah. I mean, I feel like Indiana Jones is still pretty popular, though. I mean, even despite the last movie. It's popular with like eight year olds, though. Not eight-year-olds, but I mean, that that video game they had came out was pretty critically acclaimed. I think that did pretty well. um too yeah the the The funny is... do I have to hit before it becomes popular? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. So hold on. Here's the interesting thing is to your point, you know, the eight and the 12-year-olds, you know, my kid growing up, he knows what Uncharted is.
00:31:10
Speaker
Because, you know, we played Uncharted and there was... We're not talking about Uncharted, though. No, no. But but video hold on. But yeah i' Uncharted, though, is very it is very much in parallel to what Indiana Jones does. It's the same formula, right?
00:31:24
Speaker
So, um you know, however they bring back Indiana Jones, if it's you know if they've got plans that it's not just going to be we release another movie... But, you know, the ride, you know, kind of like other things is, you know, they hook it back into um there. There was an Indiana Jones game that came out last year that actually got a whole bunch of great reviews. Yeah, I got great reviews. yeah So, you know, if if they start tying all that in together, that makes it relevant to a new audience and, you know, you know, you know, new kids that are discovering this stuff, then, it then again, it you know, it starts the cycle again where they can go, Hey, you know, this is, this is a relevant IP in the park. It's not just, you know, something dated, but everyone has their own tie back to it. Right. You know, we like, even, even us, you know, we say, you know, we like classic Disney. What, what I think a lot of us like it's eighties Disney, which is really not classic Disney. It's just a period of Disney yeah because there's stuff that goes way further back than that, that we don't care about.
00:32:18
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so Well, yeah, i wasn't that Uncharted movie was ah ah was a box office bomb, wasn't it? and I believe it was, yeah. It did it didn't do great. But again but the series, though, like it's it's very well known. And it it just it's fits that same mold that Indiana Jones is. So to your point, like yeah Indiana Jones...
00:32:35
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is just one of many in that type of adventure storytelling, right? So yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be Indiana Jones. those are bombing at the at the box office, right? Forget about the video games. If they're bombing at the box office, isn't that saying something, though? that maybe Video games are a bigger industry than the box office. I mean, that listen, the Minecraft movie just did a billion, or not billion dollars, but like $900 million. dollars That movie did great. That's what I'm saying. So if you have these things that are bombing,
00:33:02
Speaker
I don't know. I think this is a fail. We'll see. I mean, listen, people are going to ride it because it's a ride, but do I think they could have done better IP with it? Absolutely. I don't think new Indiana Jones reboot is going to do anything in the entertainment industry. So we'll see. Here's my question, I guess, to tie it back to the parks.
00:33:20
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Is the new ride going to be Indiana Jones? Is it going to be whoever? Are they going to put these things out in parallel? I guess is what I'm saying. I would have to imagine that if they're usually talking about it, it's going to be in parallel.
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah, like because like I would assume that... What if it's in parallel and it bombs and then you're stuck with this ride? Well, that's happened, right? like That's happened with Dinosaur. Dinosaur was like a movie and an IP, but the IP still kind of stands on its own as just Dinosaur. What kid doesn't like Yeah, united states because it's not it's not specific. I mean, they're just dinosaurs, right? but yeah when you eat in yes But then you're talking about it being kid-friendly. Dinosaurs scared a lot more kids than Indiana Jones has. I don't know, man. that but and The Indiana Jones first movie was still kind of scary, too. Let's be honest, right? Oh, yeah. the The movies, yes, definitely. But the the ride like the the ride is a lot more open, and you can kind of see what's coming, whereas Dinosaur is very dark, and there's a lot more jump scares in Dinosaur.
00:34:19
Speaker
Yeah. I didn't like dinosaurs. It's going to do was fine because it's in the park, but I just think that it could have been done with a better IP. it'll be It'll be interesting to see what they do, We already have that in Disneyland, right? Isn't that the whole point? Why are we just... mean, going to be a different It's different. But it's still the same IP, right? I think that's the problem with Disneyland for us, right, as a family. Forget about the ride being minusculely different.
00:34:42
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ah Give me different IPs, excluding the fact that we have... Avengers out there, right? Avengers Campus. You do. You have Marvel out there. You have... You you do some different IPs. There's the entire Pixar land. There's... mean...
00:34:56
Speaker
i mean i mean yeah there's actually less I just felt like this was an opportunity to create a different IP than just, you know, making a different same IP from Disneyland rock. But as we just talked about, though, right? Like, as I guess, you know, they they tried like Strange World and it didn't really hit. Like, yeah. they like what We just talked about original stuff is not going. It's just not. I mean, it's.
00:35:19
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Yeah. So then it becomes like, you know, where where do you if you're going to invest in building a ride, like where do you take that chance? you take the chance on an existing IP that even if even if the current iteration of it bombs, it's still it's still relevant in the, you know, the general, um you know, Disney.
00:35:39
Speaker
i don't know what you call it. The Disney bubble knows what it is. Yeah. yeah or Or do you go with something that, you know, is, hey, this is new. it you know, it could be the next Frozen, but. you know, that's, it's a huge risk. Like I see why Disney's not willing to, you know, you know, put all their eggs in one basket on something that might hit. Whereas Indy is like, yes, you're right. They could pick another IP, but this one is the safe bet.
00:36:04
Speaker
Yeah. do You think Indiana Jones is the safe bet? I think it is for a park ride. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's so recognizable. would disagree with that. I'd rather see another park ride. I mean, I'd rather see a frozen Yeah. yeah Yeah. Even Zootopia is a high risk in India at this point.
00:36:22
Speaker
does Yeah, but I don't see any 12-year-olds clamoring to go on the Indiana Jones ride. That's all I guess I'm saying is like, until you get that number, you're just not like getting kids. Like they might enjoy it when they go, but they're not like, oh, I got to go on that Indiana Jones ride. Well, what's Indiana Jones? That's what you're going to get.
00:36:37
Speaker
Wait, what's Indiana Jones again? No, I get that. That's where I started with my kid when he was six years old and we took him on the ride and he was like, that was cool. But he still didn't like dive into the shows or anything like that. But yeah pre are actually he he liked the ride. And then we went and we watched the show in Hollywood Studios and he really liked the show or he liked the stage show.
00:37:00
Speaker
So we could have watched the movies. But is the stage show going away or no? I mean, not that I've heard. No, I mean. why don and Again, like, why do I need two things for Indiana Jones? Like, keep it a stage show and just update that to the new movie. they I mean, they they they might get a rid of it eventually. I mean, it's possible. Yeah.
00:37:16
Speaker
You can say the same thing about every IP at this point. There's so much overlap that. But there's ah there's a difference between Frozen and Indiana Jones. That's what I guess I'm getting. You could have 10 Frozen things and it still wouldn't be enough. yeah but The difference is you like Frozen more than Indiana Jones. That's the difference. Not me. Well, kids. Personally. Yeah, kids do, but not me.
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah. ah You just said you wanted a Frozen ride. I'd rather it makes more sense. Yes. From a kid's perspective. You're saying from a kid's perspective. Sure. for for Sure, sure.
00:37:46
Speaker
Like Indiana Jones would make you happy, but not, you know, my daughter. Yeah. Like I'm not, I'm not. I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. Yeah. I'm not saying for me, because I'm trying to just talk about the more, you know, larger general audience. For me, great. Indiana Jones is going be awesome. I'm going to watch the new, well. will I watch the new movie? I wish it was a series.
00:38:02
Speaker
Maybe I will. Actually, some movies I just have to watch. An Indiana Jones series would be awesome. We had it, and it was awesome. Yeah. i'm Like a new one, I mean. I guess a restart. Yeah. See, if you didn't have that, that wouldn't be bad.
00:38:15
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no I'll be honest. I think part of like, you know, I think the reason why we all click with Indiana Jones is growing up in the 80s and into the 90s. It was definitely like these types of movies and this type of theme, like like, you know, Goonies, Indiana Jones.
00:38:31
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um There's a whole list of of other shows in the same vein of like that, that like action adventure kind of thing. I feel like if that came back, it would like kids would resonate with it, but nobody's getting on bringing that kind of stuff back.
00:38:47
Speaker
but Like it's, yeah it's a hard, like, like to your point that like the reason why nobody, it seems like nobody's going to be interested in it right now is because that's not where, that's not where media is going at the moment.
00:39:00
Speaker
So it's, you know, it's kind of hard to, it's kind of hard to sell it if it's not big in the media. Right. It's true. Yeah. I mean, but you could also make, I mean, you could make Indiana Jones like James Bond, right? Like you could just have like a bunch of different cycles. Yeah. the Same thing. It's kind of gone down, down, down. I asked my kids who James Bond did. I don't know.
00:39:20
Speaker
At all. Like they don't even know, like they're not aware of James Bond in any way. I don't think that they are. Wow. why I haven't thought about James Bond in like 10 years. To be fair, I don't really. Yeah.
00:39:31
Speaker
My dad is very into James Bond. Like he has seen every. I mean, i I am as well, but like my kids don't know. and I haven't watched the newer ones. I think they recast James Bond, right? I don't think that that's been sure done. They're going to, but I don't think that's happened yet.
00:39:44
Speaker
Oh, I thought they already picked the dude. Oh, did they? i did I didn't see anything about that. I must have missed it. Oh, going to make me Google now. I couldn't do it. No, it has not been officially announced. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Because i know there's been a lot of people batted around and and there's part, I think that's part of why. And now Amazon owns it too. So that they've been kind of.
00:40:01
Speaker
Amazon does a good job with stuff, man. I'll tell you the truth. They do a really good job with stuff. they listen, they, they did announce the director of the next movie. They just haven't announced the new James Bond. So, and it's a good director too. They got, they got a good director for the next James Bond.
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Speaker
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00:41:05
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And when you speak to them, be sure to let them know the Welcome Home sent you. Okay. Let's let's ah I want to talk about this this Walt Disney animatronic thing. Yeah. So because it just opened this week. Right. And Disney's 70th anniversary or Disneyland 70th anniversary was happy anniversary. 70th anniversary to Disneyland. Yes. And they're doing a lot of things for this. And one of them is this new Walt Disney show. And first of all, Trevor, have you watched any videos of this? I mean, oh, yes.
00:41:35
Speaker
couple of times. Yeah. So. And I read a couple articles about it, too. The thing that stood out to me the most, the and and I don't want to say creeped me out, but it kind of did, was that he goes from leaning on his desk to standing and then takes a step.
00:41:51
Speaker
And there's no discernible cables or move. You could see the floor he's standing on. I have no idea how it's working. It's a freestanding animatronic. Yeah. Like similar to some of the other ones that they've demoed in like, yeah, um like ah Duke Weaselton.
00:42:07
Speaker
Yeah. the Duke Weaselton one. Yeah. That they did. Yeah. Or the, the, the group one they had um the, the group one that would walk around and dance and stuff. They had that one. um Yeah. So yeah, it it is a freestanding animatronic, which in and of itself is pretty cool that they're, they're starting to do that as part of a show.
00:42:25
Speaker
But i also I was also thinking to myself, that somebody like does he have like a battery pack on him or something? And someone needs to go like stick a like a USB ah cable into Walt's neck every night? like I would assume, yeah he yeah. It's plugged in somewhere. you know they They probably yeah just have a cable and the in the table somewhere.
00:42:43
Speaker
Got to be a weird job right there. But anyway, and let's continue. yeah yeah so that Just watching that part was mind-blowing to me. yeah Yeah. And, you know, the the the thing about it is like there the hard part for me is that i was busy looking at the animatronics, like how it was moving, how it was gesturing and whatnot.
00:43:04
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And it's it's very detailed. He's got a lot of emotion, like like they they did a lot of yeah yeah a lot of expression in the face and everything, which is very cool. But It doesn't quite look like Walt.
00:43:17
Speaker
it's It's funny. And it's bugging me. i Yeah, it's it's really interesting because I've seen several different angles of this and some of the angles it looks exactly like him and others it doesn't.
00:43:29
Speaker
I'm confused by it. Like face on, it does it just doesn't look right. His face looks a little fat. Like it looks like it's like, like it's too ish. Like it needs to be like a little bit skinnier almost, you know? And I attribute to maybe because of, again, because of all the, uh, the detailed stuff in there, maybe they had to build the head a little bit bigger than they wanted to.
00:43:50
Speaker
Or but but I guess the thing is, too, is that it also has his his um the framing of him. It makes him look shorter than see that. Yeah. Then what? Like, again, looking at all older pictures of Walt, like he he seemed a lot taller and slent more slender, whereas this like feels I don't know. It just according to the Internet, he was five ten so Okay, but I guess he he doesn't look that in a lot of the the old videos. No, you're right.
00:44:20
Speaker
you know He presents as be like standing up. like that This animatronic feels like he's kind of hunching over a little bit. which I get that. Yeah, go ahead. yeah good I was just going to say, you know, i don't I don't want to pick it apart, but it's like this is supposed to be like a big thing for the 70th. And, you know, they were they were very excited to launch it. But it's like, did nobody ever stop and look at and go like, hey, is this like...
00:44:47
Speaker
Does this look close enough to video and images of Walt that we have? Or did they kind of go you know, it's close enough for what we can do? Like, I just don't understand how it got.
00:44:59
Speaker
i I've read that they've already made modifications to it to make it look a little better, too. um I think it's probably one of those things, Trevor, you know, like if you're really close to something and you're working on it for a long time, you kind of lose perspective on it.
00:45:12
Speaker
That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. and But I also think it's just extraordinarily difficult to replicate specific human beings in animatronic form. Right? i just think it is.
00:45:23
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Especially it's, you know, somebody we have so many videos of and and things like that. Like, you know, ah characters from like, you know, cartoons or like books and stuff like that. Those are fairly easy because you can have some nuance there. But people are just really difficult, I think, to to nail. But I also think you know they talked a lot in these articles about how they created all these new facial ah expressions that have never they've never done before.
00:45:46
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And kind of what you were saying, Trevor, it's like they may have had to fit so many electronics in that head that it might have caused them to have to make it a little bigger as ah as a trade-off. you know the yeah The thing that got me, though, did you read about the twinkle in the eyes thing?
00:46:01
Speaker
No, I didn't. Okay. So, so they did, uh, they did something different here where they figured out the concept of the twinkle in somebody's eye, you know, that whole idea.
00:46:15
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They figured out why that happens in human beings. Like why, like you can, you know, sometimes we'll kind of see like that glimmer in someone's eye and then replicated it in this audio animatronic.
00:46:27
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so So the eyes specifically have like extra that and extra emoting going on in them that we don't necessarily even cue or pick up on consciously. Yeah.
00:46:38
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ah I mean, that's that's interesting. And bad yeah, that that like, and this is the hard part is, you know I don't want to take away from the fact that a lot of, ah lot of very talented people spent time working on this.
00:46:51
Speaker
And I don't want to diminish the fact that yes, it it is a very impressive animatronic, but like you said, I feel like somebody needed to take a step back and look at it as part of the bigger picture of what they're trying to project, because it it just, it's,
00:47:08
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The hard part is, is that, like i said, you know, I saw a lot of the reactions and even my reaction to is like, oh yeah, that kind of looks like Walt. Like it it yeah it looks like an animatronic of Walt, which I have heard it is.
00:47:22
Speaker
It is a lot more real in person than the video doesn't capture it as well as it it as it does when you're in person. is what i've heard a couple people say that it they saw video of it later the same thing as the new test track actually i heard a couple of vloggers saying that the the test track stuff was impressive in video but it's like 10 times more impressive in person like the video just doesn't capture it very well um but yeah there's a whole thing about how they figured out how to recreate a twinkle in his eye which is kind of nuts
00:47:54
Speaker
that That's leading towards the animatronics with the the laser eyeballs. The laser eyeballs? Back to the itchy and scratchy thing. Walt's going to walk off the stage and just start. Yeah. um Yeah. i Yeah. i That Twinkle's got to be a light source of some sort. I mean, they've got an an LED or something going on in there.
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I just I'm trying to find where it was because they like I so i felt I found like a really detailed explanation of how they did it um And like it. Yeah, they they like really they but I mean, this is the most advanced animatronic they've ever made by far.
00:48:29
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um Like because they they did a lot of things in here that, you know, well, you know, that have they never done before. So and and I mean, from what I've read, no one's ever done this with the stuff they're doing. But I will say the people that I've seen that have seen in a person I've, you know, looked at that have actually seen it and person have said that it is really like moving and really amazing.
00:48:50
Speaker
And in fact, his family said the same thing. So, I mean, I don't know. you Take it for what it's worth. I agree with you when I watched it. I was like, hmm, that's interesting. But then I also like saw different angles and I was like, he looks different from every angle. Like it's confusing.
00:49:03
Speaker
yeah oh And maybe this again goes back to why I say, you know, Um, in general, I, I try to have a policy of not spoiling things through watching videos for myself because yeah maybe, maybe this is the same kind of problem is that, you know, I'm looking at this through a video and I'm generating a certain impression of it.
00:49:21
Speaker
But like you said, the, the actual in person, you know, how the effects land, ever you know, you know, seeing it in person gives a very different impression. And the hard part for me is watching it ahead of time. i already have the preconceived notion in my head. So it kind of ruins.
00:49:38
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like I, yeah, yeah. It ruins watching it in in person because I'm already like, Oh, I, you know, I see that thing that bugged me when I watched it on the video. Right. Yeah. But I get it. yeah I mean, I'll, I'll admit like, like for this kind of thing, like, yes, I, this is, you know, in Disneyland they have, or, you know, they had great moments with Mr. Lincoln. This isn't the same kind of thing is that,
00:49:58
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I will admit I don't spend a lot of time when I'm in the parks stopping to watch shows like this. So, you know, I watched the YouTube video because I was like, I'm probably not going to... Or I shouldn't say probably not...
00:50:11
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I may end up stopping in there and checking it out once, but it's not something where I'm like, it's a priority for me to go and see the show live. Right. yeah So, yeah. Oh, so I found the article. So this was from, uh, I think it was from Tom Fitzgerald said this, who is like the, uh, like one of the big, He's like the main, yeah he's like top engineer at this point. He's done a lot of stuff that, you know, but he said, uh, we, we have, a met we have imagineering groups that say, let me figure that out. And they figured out the reason that we get that little twinkle in our eye is because of what's called a corneal bulge.
00:50:44
Speaker
And so physically our animatronic figures had not had that before. And so they replicated a corneal bulge so that when you look at him, you get a, get that glint in the eye. That is crazy though.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's they just have people there that are just like, let's figure out what makes a gleam in somebody's eye. Like, you know, that's crazy. Yeah. Anyway, but and listen, it's a it's an extraordinarily ah impressive animatronic. But to your point, I think they could work on the face. And listen, they can fix that. like that that's They can keep iterating on that and trying to make that better as they go along. You know, they they absolutely could. It's not wouldn't be the first time they did that.
00:51:22
Speaker
And you're right. like Like, I mean, as time has gone on, animatronics have gotten all kinds of facelifts, literally. yeah And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if this has the same thing. But but the hard part is is, you know, when it first comes out, it's it's going to be like this for a little while because it's not like they're going to go back and like change it in a week. I heard they already made some changes though. Like I heard they did already do some changing, but I don't know do to the face or to like to the face. Yeah. Specifically yeah after people, after the internet kind of, you know, some people were and were commenting on it. Yeah.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yeah. But I mean, I've also seen people that were in the like videos of people that are, were that actually saw live and were like, like straight up like crying, you know, like, so I don't know.
00:52:05
Speaker
Yeah. I get that again. It's, it's a hard thing to detach the, ah you know, what you get on the internet versus, versus being there in person. Right. Yeah. and But I mean, listen, if regardless of anything, just the point where he gets off the desk and then stands up and takes a step or two is just, it's crazy to watch, you know, wonder if they could make them do a flip.
00:52:27
Speaker
I mean, you i why not, right? Takes two steps, does a backflip. Yeah. that Then that would be, they'd really get some criticism for that. It's like, I don't remember Walt Disney doing any backflips on World of Color. Yeah, that's, I mean, that sorry, that that's getting into, like, I don't know about you. I've seen some crazy, like,
00:52:48
Speaker
yeah ai generation stuff on facebook and stuff like it just that feels in the same realm as that which yeah we don't need that i do think it's kind of cool actually by the way i don't know if you saw this part but that they're still doing the lincoln show in there too they just they made a giant turntable that basically flips the whole thing around which yeah it's pretty cool actually yeah it's kind of the same idea as carousel progress yeah exactly except well i guess the inverse of it because yeah it's yeah Yeah, i I do. I do seriously wonder, though, like how if I mean, are there wires attached to this somewhere or is it just battery powered and they can get through a day and they just got to go and charge them at that point?
00:53:30
Speaker
You know, i bet the charging is oh I'm forgetting the name of it, but. um Oh, it's like maybe through his feet in wireless charging. Induction charging. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:41
Speaker
yeah could Yeah. That could be is the baby. The whole ah the whole stage it has like a, you know, a you know, a charging platform underneath of it. So he, you know, wherever he's moving, he's connected and charging.
00:53:52
Speaker
Right. Usually if like you see, that would be, yeah. Well, but again, you know, it is Disney and they can be very smart about hiding these things, but that would be the, the smart and elegant way to, uh, yeah. Rather than having someone go up there every day and charge it. Cause that would, I'm not going to lie. That would, if that were my job, I'd be a little creeped out.
00:54:10
Speaker
like or if Or I heard that apparently it it had a malfunction already. Oh, I heard that. Last day or so. But yeah I'm just imagining you know a cast member running up with a USB cable and quickly plugging it in. Hold on. We got to reboot Walt. Wait a sec. You know?
00:54:25
Speaker
Yeah. That's just a weird, weird situation. but I like to think that, yeah, that they've they figured out a a proper solution that it can move around, but it's also... Um, cause cause again, if you think about how many times that the show runs throughout the day, yeah um there's no way it could just run off of a battery for the entire day. Like it needs a way to be consistently charged. So there there's definitely some sort of induction charging going on there.
00:54:52
Speaker
Yeah, because, I mean, there's there's clearly no wires going on here. if If there are wires, they've hidden them in the in the in in some way that's imperceptible. because Yeah, there's there's no way. but like its just yeah and Just looking at like looking at the floor, looking at he moves it like that there's you can see yeah you can see obvious like breakkes in flooring and like If you're looking close enough, you can see the stuff. There's none of that.
00:55:20
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is So, no yeah. It's a solid floor. He takes two steps. So it's not like the wires are running up one of his feet legs. you know it's And the table behind him doesn't have any obvious like weird pieces to it or anything.
00:55:33
Speaker
Yeah. this is yeah if if they If they did it somehow, if there's wires somewhere, I don't know where they are. I honestly don't. But yeah, it's a little unnerving, but it's also extraordinarily cool. Like if this is the stuff they're going to be doing, I mean, not english not every animatronic is going to be going to be doing this, but if they do this kind of stuff more often, I mean, it's Tom, don't ruin our dreams.
00:55:54
Speaker
You know, we, we, we should be allowed to believe that all of the animatronics are going to be freestanding. Just like, ah walking alongside your ride vehicle and I mean, that'd be kind of cool with you. Like, wouldn' that wouldn' yeah. Right. I mean, I wouldn't object to that.
00:56:10
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Yeah, there was actually, there's a universal ride. I think it's in, I want to say it's like Japan or something. It was like a Jurassic Park ride. and don't know if you've watched videos of this one, where they have like a dinosaur that like runs after you.
00:56:22
Speaker
And like, it's a huge like T-Rex kind of thing. And ah it it like, but they like do it by hiding stuff. Right. And, but like, it it looks like it's running after you. But if you look, I watched a video of it and I can, you can actually see the wheels that it's on.
00:56:35
Speaker
And I was like, You got to do a better job of hiding that. If you're going have something this cool like that, where it looks like it's running at you, at least hide the wheels. like you know Again, I would argue when you're there in person, you're probably not looking like unless you've been on it enough that you're, you know, the effect is lost on you.
00:56:52
Speaker
You know, you're not looking for, you know, the extra wheels and stuff like they don't. do They don't have to like always hide it so obvious or hide it yeah so well that, you know,
00:57:03
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Yeah. It just felt a little too obvious. It felt like they weren't even trying to hide it. i That's what can what bothered me about it. But it was very cool. Don't get me wrong. I saw it and i was like, wow, that's that's impressive. Because they had some really large ah ah dinosaur animatronics there, including one, you know like I said, that chases you um in your ride vehicle.
00:57:22
Speaker
And they were pretty clever about how they did it. and But again, I also think to myself, too, like... That ride is one of those that if the animatronics are not working, it's probably not worth going on the ride. You know what I mean? There's plenty of rides you can go on where if an animatronic's not working, it's like, all right, whatever, fine, no big deal.
00:57:38
Speaker
The rest of the ride's still great. But if the if the the dinosaur chasing you isn't working, yeah ah the the other ones are cool, I guess. But it's you know it's just it's just a it's just a dark ride. But talk about a terrifying ride, by the way. i creeped me out just watching it.
00:57:53
Speaker
So back to the point about, you know, the freestanding animatronics and all that, yeah you know, Hey, if, if we have this with Walt and, you know, we we just said, you know i wish this was in every ride, you know, maybe, maybe Indiana Jones will have some freestanding animatronics. I was literally thinking about that. Yeah. yeah Like, like Indy actually like moving around on the set versus the the current iteration, which is very, um very static and obviously mechanical. Can you imagine if that becomes the norm?
00:58:19
Speaker
Like if they start having these animatronics to like straight up walking around rides and and the parks and stuff like that, like humans. I mean, we're going to there eventually. It's going to happen. But yeah, I I'm not ready to, you're not ready for that yet. Yeah. Like, yeah, I feel like a lot of movies happen. Yeah.
00:58:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, i I watched too many of those 80 sci-fi movies. Too many sci-fi movies. you know Terminator 2 left in an impression on me.
00:58:50
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Yeah, exactly that's exactly what I was literally... Yeah, I was just thinking. Yeah, okay. Having a peach dole whip, Trevor, to celebrate the 70th anniversary. Do you want a peach dole whip? is that Is that sacrilege for you to have anything but the OG? Like...
00:59:02
Speaker
No, I mean, I do. I have orange Dole Whip on a regular basis because we we make our own at home. And I have I have both orange and pineapple because they're my personal favorites. um Peach, i I don't know how I would feel about a peach Dole Whip, but the fact that they're offering it in Disneyland specifically. So and it's the only place in the entire world you can get it.
00:59:24
Speaker
Yeah, they they they made a point of that. That Tropical Hideaway in Disneyland is the only place in the entire world you can get this flavor of Dole Whip.
Disneyland Exclusives and 70th Anniversary Celebrations
00:59:31
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. good I mean, I mean, we were talking about like Dole Whip is everywhere now. Right.
00:59:37
Speaker
So yeah it's good to have an exclusive flavor like that. You know? Yeah. I mean, that that's fair. as You know, it used to be that. Yeah. Just Dole Whip period was just always at the ah the tropical hideaway. Well, there and in Hawaii. But yeah, like you said, it's become more more prevalent as time's gone.
00:59:54
Speaker
ah Peach as a flavor, though, I I've never been a huge fan of peach anything. and And that actually may sound weird because i'm I'm pretty close to in British Columbia, there's a place called the Okanagan Valley where there's actually or there's an area and they're called Peachland and there is peach groves everywhere. So like I do have access to peaches and all that, but it's never been something that I've been like this, like I need to go get a peach or anything So i I don't I mean, yeah it's weird because the fact that it's an exclusive flavor there, I feel like I would try it once.
01:00:39
Speaker
Would I like it? i don't think I would like it any more than the pineapple one. I just don't think Feach is my personal go-to, but nice that they're doing it. i I hope that this leads into, again, you know, them them trying different things. like Like, you know, this comes back to, you know, they have to try things. And if they're if they start doing more exclusive flavors at various places in the parks, and it just gives me more reason to go and visit the parks, right?
01:01:07
Speaker
Yeah. Even if it's not something I necessarily would like, I'll still go there and try it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. ah The other thing, too, that they're doing here. So for for the 70th, they're also doing like um they're doing some things in the games and like their games like Dreamlight Valley.
01:01:24
Speaker
So like you can 70th anniversary stuff in Dreamlight Valley, which my wife played for a while and was really into. She hasn't played Switch in a while in general, so not not an indictment on the game, but she was really into Dreamlight Valley for a while.
01:01:36
Speaker
Um, but I guess you can do, there's some like free 70th anniversary stuff you can do as well Disney speed storm too. Yeah. It's actually across three different games that they're doing it. So there's dream late Valley speed storm and then Disney magic kingdoms, which is a a mobile game.
01:01:52
Speaker
um where you literally build ah a park. I played Magic Kingdoms for a little bit. It's it's fun, but I just... or Is it just Roller Coaster Tycoon Disney version? like is that yeah kind of Yeah, kind of. I mean, it has like quests and like dailies. like like a a lot of mobile games, it kind of fits the same...
01:02:09
Speaker
format of like, you know, you got to do your daily quests and all that stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. um You don't do it every day. Go on every day and do stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly. um But but yeah, you know, you know, it's nice that they are, you know, you know, kind of back to what we were saying earlier is yeah you know, games are, are a pretty big cornerstone now of media in general. And, you know, for them to promote the stuff in, in their own games, ah I'm glad they're at least doing these kinds of special events because in the past, it seemed like Disney has like, they put games out there and and been like, yeah, we made a game and you know, it doesn't really do anything.
01:02:46
Speaker
yeah and yeah yeah but the and And these, these three games are, they are like recurring online service games, you know, for anybody wondering, uh, Yeah, you know, Dreamlight Valley, Speedstorm and Magic Kingdoms are all they're all online, you know, persistent games.
01:03:02
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ah Speedstorm in particular, if you if you want a good arcade racing game, like in in a similar vein to Mario Kart, not I mean, it it has its own flair to it and everything. Yeah.
01:03:12
Speaker
You know, they're not... It's a fun arcade racer game. But ah yeah, like I said, you know, nice nice that they're actually, you know, trying to promote this stuff in there because it feels like sometimes...
01:03:28
Speaker
You know, back to, you know, the point about some of the the newer movies that they're trying to promote sometimes, like, even though the 70th is ah big thing, sometimes it feels like outside of outside of the obvious Disney channels, they don't always advertise themselves well enough. And this is a great way to advertise themselves because there's millions of people that play these games. Yeah.
01:03:50
Speaker
No, there are. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, there's, listen, there's a, they they're doing a lot of cool stuff for the 17th anniversary of Disneyland as they should. I mean, I'm sure 75th will be even bigger because we love when it's like, you know, for whatever reason, we love 20 quarters. Yeah. I don't know why that is, but like, you know, they're going to be a century. Yeah. Yeah, yeah exactly.
01:04:10
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um And also, by the way, i don't know if you check this out.
Disney+ Ride POVs and Listener Engagement
01:04:12
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I i did, but um the, they, they put all those POVs we talked about a couple of weeks ago, they put them on Disney plus. And so I was checking some of them out. I just had him on his background, which was kind of fun, ah you know, just to see that because especially since I haven't been to Disneyland now given I've watched, you know, ride videos pretty much everything there. So like, I know what they look like, but these were obviously shot by Disney and empty rides and you know, you you can't get really much better of a POV of Disney ride than from Disney themselves. Yeah.
01:04:41
Speaker
um I will say that the skipper they chose for Jungle Cruise, I didn't love, but given there's no one else on the ride. So I feel like, you know, a lot of times with that kind of stuff, you need the other people, you know, laughing along with you kind of thing.
01:04:55
Speaker
And, you know, the hard part about that ride in particular is that, I feel like, you know, the skippers sometimes do have to go a little bit off script. But if you're if you're recording a something for like Disney Plus, yeah I feel like they had to get somebody that was like, okay, you're going to stay to the script. You're not going to do anything creative or different because that does warp. like Like you said, we see it as not as interesting because of the fact that we like the, you know, when they when they do the little like,
01:05:26
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you know you know jab at current event things going on or you you know that they they do like a weird twist on it that you wouldn't normally see, but I get why they couldn't do it as part of the the video.
01:05:37
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One thing I will say, though, is I know you're saying that it's a complete... it's ah like a complete um like ride through um they like the the pirates one is not quite right like it what do you mean it doesn't the the bayou music doesn't sound right and they they kind of did the uh the drop out of order it like really Yeah. Like they edited it. Like, yes, or there there are some cuts to it. Like, like you can see where somebody took some artistic liberty with it. So, so that, that's actually kind of an interesting thing is that, you know, it would be easier for them to just do the full ride through and, know,
01:06:19
Speaker
Leave it at that. But somebody is doing editing and and like trying to trying to present it differently, which honestly is kind of a bad move on Disney's part because you're you're warping people's expectation of the ride that have never been on the ride.
01:06:35
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. Right. still I, you know, honestly, I watched, watching the, I watched the Pirates the Caribbean one last night and I was surprised at how, and maybe this was just a function of the video, but I wanted to ask you this because I have seen other videos like this before, but is the drop that well lit that you can see the whole thing? Cause the, no,
01:06:54
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In the Disney World version, you see nothing. but like In this video, you can see the whole track and everything. You can see the whole drop. The first drop is pitch black. The second drop is not.
01:07:07
Speaker
okay so Maybe it was the second drop I saw but that was first. like You were talking about it. was like out of order yeah that yeah Like I said, that they they've done something there with editing that... kind of yeah i don't know why they did that like and maybe because they didn't want to just have black like maybe maybe that was their intention was that they're like well we can't just have a section of of black it's like but that's the ride like yeah yeah but i mean i get that i get that point though i i like from a the perspective of somebody who is you know putting editing videos and things like that just straight darkness in a video is not a good thing yeah Yeah, but I feel like that's going to, you know, there there's going to be some poor person out there that has like a a legitimate phobia of the dark that is not going to be prepared. Oh, yeah. surviv And it's it's misrepresenting what the ride actually is.
01:07:56
Speaker
That's fair. That's fair. Yeah, that's fair. right so yeah like said i you know it's it's i i'm like you you know i've watched a couple of them i enjoy them but because i've been on the rides it's like you're done that's that's well it's just like it it doesn't i mean it doesn't take away from the rides per se but it's still like it's it's just a little thing that again you know when you know enough about it you're looking at going that they didn't do that. Right. Like, like it's, yeah I get what you're saying. Like, like I know I shouldn't be picking it apart like that, but yeah, most people are not going to notice. Let's be honest. Like the majority of people that watch that are not going to know or, or even notice later on when it's wrong. I bet.
01:08:40
Speaker
But, you know that's true. I mean, i mean, to be fair, like that it's been so long since I've ridden because it's it's been I'll be coming up on 10 years since I've I've ridden any of the rides at Disneyland.
01:08:51
Speaker
um But I have enough memories of them that, you know, when I get back on them, it it'll come back fairly quickly. But yeah. I know the same kind of thing happened to me at at when we first went back to Disney World was that I had like specific memories of the rides, but they also changed over time too. And so when I went back on there was like, oh, this is, is this how this went? I don't remember. like You don't remember if your memory is bad or if they completed it. Like it's, yeah, exactly. So yeah.
01:09:20
Speaker
I think that all the time when I'm at Disney because I'm like, that feels different than I remember it. And I talk about this stuff all the time. And given there are times that they make small changes and you know people some people notice, some people don't. A lot of times the the blogs will pick it up, but I don't read all the blogs, right? So you know I don't know. Sometimes there's these minor changes and I'm like, wait, has that been like that the whole time? Or just can I not remember things?
01:09:41
Speaker
Because usually it's I'm not remembering things. you like our Our memory betrays us more than we realize. Exactly. Exactly. So anyway, why don't we wrap up here, Trevor? I think that's a good, good place to to wrap it up. um Yeah.
01:09:56
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Yeah, for example, ah Jamie wrote us a a a a... This is actually really ah prescient to what we were just talking about here. um jamie Jamie wrote a five-star review, but said, I say this with love. ah Y'all need to look into what you're talking about a tad further before recording your episodes.
01:12:54
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01:13:09
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Doing this is hard, man. Like this is you you say things sometimes and it's like, oh, I like I can't tell you many times I've said stuff on the show. And then after we're done recording, I'm like, oh, wait, that was wrong. Why did I say that?
01:13:20
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That was stupid. Like you just say stuff sometimes, you know, but listen, I appreciate any feedback and especially appreciate foods, uh, you know, uh, five stars, but he has said, especially food times, just general details sound like more like guessing than information. I'm trying to think in food time. Like is when we say ingredients wrong or something, i I feel it was, we, we did that, uh, the last food time episode we did, which was the, uh, the, um,
01:13:42
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Disney Springs. The Florida one. Yeah. The Florida. Yeah. i think I think the thing is is that we we didn't understand the context of of a lot of the Florida-specific stuff. So, yes, you're right. we were not... but We didn't educate ourselves on the nuances of Florida cuisine, which...
01:13:58
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Yeah, that's fair. I will take all feedback. what's again completely i But i do take feedback i do like feel like i general lack of knowledge feels a little harsh because I don't feel like that that's true. i I know a lot about these things. i just We make mistakes. We do. you know we and i try By the way, we try to fix those mistakes when we make them. We do.
01:14:18
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so yeah And and there's there's a lot to know about Disney. like there I don't I don't claim to know everything about Disney because there's way too many facets of it to know everything. So, yeah.
01:14:29
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Yeah. Listen, it's, I'll, like I said, I'll take all food but feedback and I appreciate food back. I'm going to start calling food time feedback, food back. Um, so thank you, Jamie. I appreciate that. And by the way, I did actually want to correct something from last week. Cause I think who was at the point of the sound of the discord was the Jason.
01:14:45
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Yeah. So there was, there was the thing we talked about last week in the Canadian pavilion about the, about the holiday thing they're doing in the Canadian pavilion.
01:14:56
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Oh, that. Yeah. yeah And I Googled it and the Internet told me that it was off kilter doing it was a rebrand of ah off kilter. Jason is telling me that this is not correct. So listen, I fully will tell you, i just looked. I searched for it. I found that. And if that's wrong, that's totally fine. I didn't look that deep into it, but, you know, it's yeah.
01:15:17
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Yeah. so Yeah. like we we're Again, we're not paying super close attention to all of the things that happen at Disney because, frankly, I i don't think either Tom or I have the time to know yeah the entirety of of Disney lore inside and out.
01:15:34
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Yeah. No, listen, and and sometimes I just, you know, you Google stuff and and it's not always right. Like I'm not, you know, I can't, I can't. Yeah. the The internet betrays us too. Yeah. But I appreciate when you guys correct us on these things. And if there's, listen, Jamie, if there's specific things we got wrong, send me an email. I would love to know because I will correct all of them. So do that. Email me, please. Welcome home podcast at gmail.com.
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01:16:07
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01:16:41
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Actually, you can do trip planning to them too. you can do You can do just about anything. ah So join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion. Of course, more DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon. this is Skipper Albert Wall, the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
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I looked around from pole to pole, found her in a sugar bowl. Look out, there comes my ball and chain.