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Episode 334: Poutine is My Routine, Buddy the Robot & Reckless Speculation
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The guys give a recap of their holidays. Guests on the first month of Disney Adventure sailings will receive an exclusive comic book. The Canada pavilion at EPCOT is selling merch with ‘Poutine is My Routine’ on it. Walt Disney Imagineering shared a preview video of the new character Buddy, coming to Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin. The guys recklessly speculate on permits filed for the Haunted Mansion and the Tree of Life, and discuss the possibility of another park in Asia.
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Introduction & Podcast 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 334 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast.
New Year Traditions & Reflections
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I'm Tom, here Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Happy New Year, I guess. Happy New Year, yeah. kind of I kind of hate when people say Happy New Year to me. I don't know why. Really? i don't know. It just feels like a kind of a made-up thing to me. i don't I don't know. It's, sure, we're changing our calendars over, but it's, you know, I mean, I guess all holidays are really arbitrary. Right. But that is true. And and I will say this, yeah you know, my my New Year's, we we have we oddly have some traditions to our New Year's that um I realized this year. So it's like we were talking before the show. My son, um he was spending a bunch of time hanging out with his friends and whatnot, as teenagers do.
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And it it did cut a little bit into our New Year's tradition. we We still ended up doing what we we normally do anyway, but we we ended up pushing it a little bit.
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But it it was one of those things where when it happened, I was like, I had that moment of like panic and like, oh, no, like this is you know, you know, it's ruined kind of thing. Right. Yeah. like But but yeah which is funny, because like you said, you know, it it is really an arbitrary day at the end of the day. But but there is something to be said for, like you know, Christmas and New Year's, you know, you have certain things that you like to see happen and.
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Yeah, so so I get it. I get your point about not wanting to say Happy New Year's, but I think i think it's valid. But also, I will say, I feel, i said this to my wife too, the watching TV on New Year's is not good anymore.
Media & New Year's Celebrations
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ah What do you mean? like Like the nighttime things? Yeah. So so like like um so like we used to watch like like I remember when I was a kid, we used to watch um like the Dick Clark New Year's Eve countdown stuff. yeah know it's right see it's yeah Yeah. But it's not good anymore. Like, I don't know. I ma i don't know. I just don't like it. you know yeah i'm not i'm not I'm not, you know, enjoy it if you like it, but I just don't.
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i is it I mean, I think part of it is because you're watching and you're like, I don't know who any of these people are. Now, given i yeah That's part of it, right? But i I will say, though, this year we did watch a little bit of it and I did know everybody that was there because they they had some older artists and they also had like the the the um K-pop demon hunters do you know doing their thing. I think...
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my bigger problem with it was that they, they, I feel like they used to do all the musical performances like in Times Square in New York. And now it's like, we're in Kansas city. We're in, you know, Chicago, like we're in Vegas. Like they were just doing it like all over the place. And it's just like, I don't know. It felt kind of weird.
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mean, yeah, but, Yeah, I think maybe that's part of it that, you know, that I get that, like, they're trying to they're trying to include more places because it is, you know you know, everybody's celebrating New Year's Eve. But like you said, it felt very much like, you know, you were watching, like, Times Square, right? And and that felt like very, like, that was where it was happening. But now that they've kind of spread it out, it doesn't, i don't know.
Experiences in Times Square
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Yeah, i I just every time I see that, I think to myself, like, I could never do New Year's in Times Square because I'm like, first of all, like, number one, I would have to go to the bathroom like two two hours into that. And there's no way you're getting out of that crowd.
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like you know There's just no way you're getting out of it. Yeah, I heard some awful things about how people managed to be there for 19 hours straight. That's insane. it's That's not worth it. it's Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, no offense if you've done it before. Maybe it was worth it to you. It feels like a like a once in a lifetime thing that you would do and never do it again. I would never even do that once in a lifetime. That doesn't seem like something that that I would enjoy. I would not either. But um but i how was how was how was
Christmas Family Interactions
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your Christmas? Was ah was Christmas good?
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ah Christmas was good. um It was ah funny enough. it would and and you know we We talked about this as well beforehand that you know my my son got a new PC for Christmas and my wife got a Switch 2. I got some games and and stuff as well, but I spent most of my Christmas Day um setting up stuff. So so like my my son's computer, we we had to like move everything over from his old computer to his new computer, which was... yeah comment Yeah, because like there there was a hard drive we had to pull out and everything. So it and and it was it was a good it was a great day because, you know, we were he was very much in it with me and like he he was like terrified. He was like, you know, don't you know, you know, let's make sure we're grounded. We don't want to zap the PC. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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It's fine. I know what I'm doing. I was going to say, was like, what, you think your dad's a rookie here? Come on, man. yeah yeah think The first hard drive he swapped in his life. Come on. Right. Yeah. yeah and And so, so like I get hit, I get his concern because, you know, it was something new and shiny for him and he was like, you know, concerned about it. But, you know, we, him and I like set it up together, which was great. We got everything configured.
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um Once he had it set up, i I, I very much got the enjoyment out of, um he had like, there was a couple of points where like his friends came over and he was flexing on them with, you know, oh, did you see my new PC? Yeah, you know, it's got this. Yeah. and And he went so far as like he was actually customizing the fans and everything that, oh i yeah because he has all the LED fans. Yeah, so so it's all like,
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Pulsing the right colors and everything. And I was like, i was like good, you know you know, enjoy it. so That's nice. So, yeah. yeah we had ah And then, yeah, my wife, like I said, she's she's a big ah Legend of Zelda fan. So she got a Switch 2 and she got or she was playing Tears of the Kingdom, but then she got to play the upgraded version of Tears of the Kingdom, which um she, like, honestly, that game's crazy. I just need to say that. Like, if you haven't played it, like, there's so much stuff in it. It's it's insane.
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Yeah, that's, that's, I've heard this great game. I, I, you know, I, I have had a nonstop family for the past two weeks here. That's right. You, you had like the, the, the Griswold thing going on, didn't you? A hundred percent, except people would leave and then come. So like, it wasn't, it wasn't as bad as that there were they like, you know, the kids were having to sleep in the same bed kind of thing. But I've, we've had, you know, we had family leave and then family come and then, you know, we've just, we've, it's been family nuts, which is great. I mean, listen, I, listen i've I've been honest on the show about these things. I have three sets of family. My parents have divorced and remarried for a long time. And so, you know, to get everybody in to to do the Christmassy stuff with and, you know, my daughter is also the only grandchild on on one of the sides anyway. Right. So um everybody wants peace, you know, it's. Everybody wants in, which I appreciate and everything, but it's, it's just hard to accommodate around the holidays, especially. And, uh, you know, we've been nonstop. Like I said, I mean, we, so I still have family here. My, my in-laws are here as we speak. So, um, you know, it's, which is great. I mean, listen, it's, I, I relish the, the time that they get to spend with my daughter and, uh, that's all great. But, um, you know, it's been a lot. We, we, uh, I feel like I've been constantly like cooking for the past like two weeks. Cause I, you know, we had, um,
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ah You know, we obviously for Christmas, we we made a Christmas Eve, we made a bunch of food. Christmas Day, ah you know, we did. And then New Year's, we had like a little party. We had people over for New Year's. And my daughter got a karaoke machine for Christmas. So we were doing karaoke. So that was fun. Really, it's just like a speaker with two wireless mics. Like the it doesn't have the the rest of the, you know, karaoke piece. But we, you know, you can do that on the TV and all that. It's fine. Yeah. But my I think my biggest disappointment this year and I know I didn't notice it until after. But, you know, my daughter is getting a little older. Right. And so she still gets like toys and stuff, but not she gravitates more towards um arts and crafties type stuff and clothes and things like that. Right. So this year was the first year that I didn't get to put anything together. And I love putting stuff together. So like I didn't get to put any toys together. There were no, you know, none of that. And so, which is kind of, you know, a bummer because I like putting stuff together. Like last year I had to put together the Barbie dream house. That took me hours.
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just Like didn't do that this year.
Children's Gift Preferences & Nostalgia
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But yeah, I, I get you on that because I, I had a similar, I had a similar thing this year. Like it was, um,
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You know, my I'm kind of – I'm further down the line than you that my son and is, you know, he's going to be an adult next year. Yeah. Or in Canada or in all kinds of purposes he is, right? I mean, 18 is legal adult age in Alberta and he's turning 18 next year. So, you know, I kind of hit that wall of like, you know, you know this this is the last time it's going to be, you know – Us with a kid kind of thing. Right. and And so, yeah, I get what you mean is that, you know, things change.
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It sucks, but also it's it sucks because you want it to stay that way forever. But also you want it to you want to see what they do next. Right. Like like it's like it's a hard thing because it's like you like you say you know, with your daughter, it's like, you know, you see.
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You see where she's growing and changing and everything. And it's like, you don't want to stop that. But at the same time, you're like, no, wait, I'm not ready do. I'm not ready to to, you know, move past putting stuff together. Like even I'll admit, you know, we we still have um we have a lot of toys from when my son was little that we we held on to deliberately. Yeah.
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not Not with the like, you know, oh, the those are for our I mean, you know, when, if we end up having grandkids, you know, you know I'm not putting that pressure on my son to do one thing or another. Yeah. But if we do, you know, it's like, yeah, you know, i would, I would offer those up to, you know, like, hey, they're, those are for, you know, your child to play with the same that you did. But You know, we also kind of keep them too because they're they're a weird bit of nostalgia that, yeah you know, I don't need to have these toys in my house. You know, they they're not doing anything, but they do have some meaning behind them.
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Yeah. so I get it. i I'm not going to take them apart and put them back together just for that feeling though yeah yeah I just like putting things together. i you know, and and I think the the big, I think my daughter, I don't know what her favorite has been, right? She's had a lot. She's got a lot of stuff going on, right? But the one thing that's been a constant in our house, and I think I might have mentioned this in a previous episode episode, but my daughter got a Tamagotchi, which just feels like a blat a blast from the past that these these are back again. You know what I mean? Yeah. Back and better.
00:10:56
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Well, the funny thing about it is they didn't change a thing in 20 years. Like, they're exactly the same as they were. Really? I figured that the components inside would be better. like Maybe they are, but the screen's the same. It's still three buttons. like Yeah, but the the buttons were awful on those, I remember. Like, I remember mine breaking and, like Yeah, the buttons are still I mean, I don't know the buttons were are a bit. It's like the screen is exactly the same as it was right now. I think there are other versions you can buy that are more updated. But we bought like an old school kind of one. And so that's been it's funny because I'm, you know, I listen, I think Tamagotchis were originally out when I was in middle school, right? So it's actually more than 20 years. It's been like 30 years. You know, and so, I mean, I'm trying, I'm sitting here with this thing going off. My daughter's like, I don't know why my Tamagotchi is so sad. I'm like, okay, let me try to figure this out and looking at Cause know, they don't really give you like a lot of directions.
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Like they tell you like what things are, but they don't tell you like how to actually make the Tamagotchi happy and not die. ah So yout mean outside of like feeding it, I guess, but we've already had, we already killed two, two of them. So it's already, it's already died twice. um But you know, it's, it's fine, which is fine. You know, but it's, it's just, um you're teaching about life. Well, so it's funny you say that because my daughter has been saying to me for a while now, she's like, well, she's like, I want like a hamster or I want fish or whatever. And I'm like, okay, but understand that, you know, if you have these things, daddy's not going to be taking care of them all the time. You need to take care you know? And so in a weird way, I'm trying the Tamagotchis in a weird way, kind of teaching your responsibility of like caring for a thing is not just like a thing you can do. Sometimes you have to do it always. Right. And so, yeah.
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You know, and I know it's not, you know, a perfect, obviously, you know, parallel to it, but it it it does. i mean, I think it's she's understanding it a little bit more. So, um yeah, so there's that because I know I'm not going to be able to keep the lid on that one for for while a while here. my my daughter My daughter is obsessed with axolotls.
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right and so and because she's obsessed with them i was like i wonder how difficult it is to take care of an axolotl right because like axolotls are yeah yeah they're an axolotl they're a lot yeah yeah' they're an axolotl to deal with um yeah i know i i from what i from what i read yeah it is a little bit challenging so that idea kind of went out the window but you know listen when i was a kid i had fish i had chameleons i had you know i had mice i had hamsters I mean, I always had like a menagerie of of animals ah that I would take care of, you know, and and i you know I definitely want to do
Holiday Fatigue & Rest
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that. i just we we haven't we haven't really done it yet. But I think, you know, probably some point in the next year or so here. But but yeah, listen, it's been.
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The holidays flew by. Seriously, like flew by. It's funny because we were talking before we, like i maybe on the last episode that we were planning on, you know, you and I were planning on getting all this podcast stuff done while we were off.
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And we both like we started some things. Yeah, we started some things, but we got we both got busier than we thought we were going to be. yeah And, you know, i I really only had a couple days here and there that I really could... ah you know, actually have time to myself to try to do some of the podcast stuff. So, but to be, you know, and I, you know, I will say this, you know, it's, yeah you know, like you said, you know, being busy, having family around, you know, you know, it's, there is no expectation that, you know, just because we have time to ourselves that it's spent on building out the podcast. Like I, yeah yeah I also do firmly believe, I guess, I i don't know.
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i don't know for you, like for me, um, Dealing with, sorry, i'm dealing with family. I shouldn't phrase it like that, but like, like, you know, you know, being in like family situations and everything for me, it's, it's, it is very draining. It's exhausting. Like I'm not somebody who fills my battery on social interactions. It drains my battery. So You know, I get I do get the point of like, you know, you have a bunch of people over, you're doing stuff and then it's like, oh, you know, I've got a day. It's like you can't take that next day to like, you know, I'm going to go and do all the other things I was going to do It's like you need time to recharge. You do need time to, you know, it's valid. I get I get what you're saying. and like I said, it was the same thing for me is that it was like, you know, I just needed some days to to recharge and just, you know,
00:15:15
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be to myself because, you know, sometimes you need that too. And, and, you know, we, we have, i will say, you know, the fact that we started things with the podcast is true yeah is, is good because at least now that it's started, you know, we've already talked about like, you know, we're, we're going to get some momentum on it. it's something that I feel that,
00:15:36
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You know, you know, Tom and I are excited about this and we're not I'm not going to spoil it. I'm not going to you know, you all can tell can sit and think about what what's happening. But, um yeah you know, we we want to we want to do some things. And, you know, just having that initial momentum on it is, i think, bigger than anything else, because.
00:15:56
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Getting started is the hardest part. so It is. It is. And ah especially when you're talking about stuff, you know, around, you know, like anything that involves creative work, it takes time. It just takes time. It does. Yeah. yeah It just takes a lot of time and energy. And, it you know, it's it's a slow burn. So we' we're we're moving through it for sure. But we were taking steps, um you know, to to improve things. So it's it's good. Things are happening.
00:16:19
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Things are happening behind the scenes for sure. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, no, listen, it's been a, it's been a good, it's pretty good holiday. I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's been, ah it's been nice. We have ah certainly enjoyed spending time with family, ah but you know, it's funny to your point. ah My wife says to me, you know, like yesterday and her parents are here right now. Right. So she says to me, she goes,
00:16:39
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ah they're they're leaving today, today's and today meaning Saturday, right? So we have Sunday still. My wife goes, i want to do nothing on Sunday. Nothing at all. Like, literally nothing.
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And I'm like, I'm with you. Like, let's just, so we need a break. Like, let's just do nothing. We don't have to interact with anybody else. We could just kind of... Relax, you know, and be ready for work. Yeah. ah yeah I, yeah you know, it's, I've said this to my wife too, is in past years, we, we used to do, and so we, we don't do as much with a, with extended family anymore.
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um Just because it like I have so much extended family that like I could literally be at a party every day over Christmas. Like, yeah yeah like for like 10 days straight, I could be at somebody's house for some reason. But we had to we had to cut back on that because it's just it's too much. Right. yeah it is And and.
00:17:36
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and the The funny thing too is, you know, I remember past years where like, you know, you're talking about like, oh, you know, you know, I, I'm going to be rested and go back to work. There was times where I got back to work and it was like, I'm actually more tired than when I left before. Like I feel worse than when I left for Christmas. So that's how I'm going to feel. Yeah. It's yeah. I, I get you on that. Like, yeah, just, yeah. Try, try and rest as much, as much as you can.
00:18:03
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For sure. i'm I'm definitely trying to do that. So yeah, no, I like, but you know, like I said, it's, it's been good. It's been, ah it's been, I mean, even though like, you know, like you said, his family's here and it's it's exhausting doing all the cooking everything. Most of it's been kind of chill, you know, we've just been hanging out and yeah yeah spending time with each other, which is, is a good thing. And I hope everybody out there did that. i I saw in the discord, it seems like everybody's families were getting sick and having, you know, The flu flow through
Holiday Illnesses & Precautions
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their house. And I, I consider myself very lucky that my daughter got strep because strep is ah easily fixable with some antibiotics. And she actually two days before Christmas got strep. And which is, you know, always, always seems to happen.
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But the nice thing was, you know, because of strep, you take some antibiotics and you're good within 48 hours. You're not contagious anymore. So I immediately at the first sign of strep, because it's not my first rodeo, I knew that she she probably had strep. And I, you know, so we went to urgent care and I said the doctor, I'm like, I bet you have strep. And they go and they give her the test. They do a swab and they're like, yeahp she goes She comes back and she goes, that turned positive real fast. And I'm like, yeah, I told you that she's like, you're right on the money. I was like, yeah, this is I've been I've been here. where yeah you You are that parent now. I was the same way where it was like you see certain things happening. You're like, I know what this is. This is like the fourth time I've been through it. So. Yeah, because, I mean, she had strep like three times in a row last year. Like, i mean, like it happened it kept happening, right? So it's like, you know, and I know my daughter, my daughter, you know, there's there's nothing that's going to stop her from eating cereal in the morning. And, you know, we woke up and she was like, my throat hurts and I'm not hungry. And I'm like, oh, strep, let's go. Like, let's go right now. you have strep. And sure enough, she did. you know, she was never even really sick, to be totally honest. Her throat got a little scratchy. And then she, you know, we took antibiotics immediately and was never actually sick. Right. You probably got it close enough to the start that you didn't get chance to really develop. Yeah, she was fine. Yeah.
00:19:58
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Totally Funny enough, so right before we went on holidays, um so at work, i so i i I work at a, so i i'm I'm an IT consultant. I'm sure I've told people this before. this before, I think so, yeah. But, so i I work for, I have different clients that I go to and at,
00:20:16
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two different client sites, there was people that were calling in sick because of flu and stuff like that. And so the week before Christmas, I was like, you know what? I'm going to work from home this week. Like i just, you know, slightly said late, like, cause like usually I would go in because like because they're usually doing stuff like, yeah like you know, every, everybody has their like before Christmas, like, oh, you know, Hey, let's do a last get together whatnot. And I was like, you know what? I'm good right now. good much Yeah, I get that. Yeah. Which I'm glad that I did because, yeah, we were thankfully on the flip side of it. You know, we didn't have anybody sick in our house, which which was nice because like you you know, for years it like –
00:20:54
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leading up to Christmas, it was always like, oh, you know, somebody somebody in the house would get sick. Either I would or my son or my wife. And it was like, you know, there was always that like, oh, you know, are they going to be better by, like, you don't want to be sick on ah Christmas morning kind of thing, right? So. That's why I took my daughter right to urgent care. i'm like, let's get this knocked out before Christmas. I don't want you to be, because she was sick on Christmas last year. It always seems to happen like two days before Christmas. I don't know why. it's It's like that, it's that delay of like they finish up school and then it's like whatever.
00:21:24
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Whatever they come in contact with, it shows up a couple of days later, right? so Exactly. So, yeah. so But, yeah, that was that was the holidays, though. I mean, we also, too, to bring it back to the the topic of the podcast. Yeah. let's let's say I was going to ask, was there anything Disney-related your holidays? Because i I didn't have a lot of Disney-related stuff, which I think is it's okay. But, yeah. yeah ah No,
Vacation Planning & Disney Cruises
00:21:45
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not really. ah Really just that we were talking about our vacation plans for next year because we still haven't really figured out what we're doing this year. ah And really, i I do think though, so i mean, I was talking to my in-laws because they're here. I think we're doing an Alaska at alaska cruise in 27. A Disney cruise, an Alaskan cruise. Yeah. um
00:22:04
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Which should be really cool. i you know i'm i' if we're going to I'm pretty sure we're doing it. So I think that's that's happening with ah with her whole family and ah you know, uh, and such. So that should be a lot of fun.
00:22:16
Speaker
Um, but this year it's like, we still have no plans whatsoever. Right. So I was over the weekend or over my, wasn't even the weekend. I've kind of lost track of time. You know, when you're off from work and holidays, I'm like, what day of the week is it? I don't know.
00:22:29
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You know, like, um, but I was looking at like DVC availability because my wife was saying, why don't we do, why don't we go to the beach? Why don't we Vera beach? Right. And I was like, OK, you know, like we can do the beach, but i don't really love the beach. I'm not going lie. I know I'm kind of an anomaly on this. I don't i don't know the beach. I like the the the waves. i like listening to the ocean. I like looking at the ocean. I don't like sand.
00:22:54
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I don't like going in the ocean. sand The sand gets everywhere. oh, you can never get rid of sand ever. And like, you'll find sand forever after, you know, you go to the beach. And I don't know. I just don't like that. So I was making a Star Wars reference to in that. But what what was the Star Wars? What would I miss there? ah um And or I think it's episode one or episode two. Or no, it was episode two where Anakin says, I hate the sand. It's rough. and It's rough and it gets everywhere. Something like that. But I agree with Anakin. Yeah. I'm going to mention it because if I didn't, somebody's going to come back in the Discord later and be like, Trevor did again.
00:23:36
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Yeah. so what ah but then So my wife's like, let's do Vera Beach for a week. And I'm like, a week's too long at the beach. like We're going to get bored after like three days. like you know like i just I just know my family. I just think you know i know my wife could spend a week there, but my daughter's probably going to bored pretty quickly. she'll She'll enjoy some time at the beach and all that. But so now what we were thinking, know, Vero is like an hour, hour and a half from Port Canaveral. So it was like, well, why don't we do like a short like beach day? Like we do a couple days at Vero and then we do like a shorter cruise, maybe like a five or six day cruise we because we really want to do another cruise.
00:24:12
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Um, so I think that might be what we're going to do. We're not a hundred percent on it yet because we're kind of waiting for, ah more like deals and stuff to come out on, on, you know, like they, you know, you can get like D like good deals on, all the Disney cruises like in the first quarter here, you know, from like January to, to March, but we're looking more in like the July, June timeframe, like try to get it as close when my daughter's done with school as possible. Uh, cause we don't want to, we don't want her miss any school. So we're going to try to avoid that.
00:24:42
Speaker
Um, and so we want to kind of like, but we also don't want to be in the super busy time either. Right. You know, so we're thinking like, okay, like maybe the week when she's after she's done with school, we go right. Which is like June.
00:24:55
Speaker
Uh, so, but you know, we, there's no like real like deals out there right now for that. Right. It's you. So we, I think we're going to wait. Uh, and I think we're going to do the, this might be the first time we've ever done a vacation with another family. We, we,
00:25:10
Speaker
usually just don't do that. But, you know, my wife is very close with with, you know, has a close friend who, and my daughter's really, you know, has grown up with with their daughter and and and son. So, um you know, they're they're really close and everything. So I think we might do that. um But yeah, I was just, i you know, Vero Beach is ah is a blind spot for me, Trevor. i Because I've never stayed there, right? So like, I'm looking at all the room categories and I'm looking at, you know, all this different stuff about Vero Beach. And it's like, you know, I feel like I should know all this stuff.
00:25:40
Speaker
um But I don't. ah you know it's From what I understand, yeah, Vero Beach is definitely like it's not – It's a Disney resort, but I feel like you have to approach it the same as like going to or not. the Sorry, someone's going to get it mad at me for saying this, but, you know, the same as like going to Alani in that, you know, it it is a self-contained resort.
00:26:01
Speaker
And and and I know there is stuff around Barrow Beach. You know, I know we've we've talked about this before that like you can you can choose to like you don't have to stay just at Barrow. You can like go out to you know, the surrounding, yeah frowning music yes surrounding areas and and look for stuff. But, but again, the problem with that is that it becomes like, you know, how much, how much time are you spending? Like,
00:26:28
Speaker
explore like look like trying to figure out like what's good and what's not there because it's not like outside of Vero Beach itself like everything else is just like you know random tourist stuff you don't you don't know what's good and what's bad so yeah yeah yeah yeah I get that that's fair um yeah It's looking like there's not going to be a park trip that though this year. I mean, it there might be. i Listen, i we we we don't plan well ahead of time. I'm not going to lie. We're really bad at planning ah these things. So, I mean, i write as of right now, there's no park trip in the cards, but that doesn't mean there won't be. Um, my, my daughter has said she'd like to take a break from, cause we, I mean, we haven't done a week in like, you know, since last year, but we did go a couple times this year and she just wants to do other things, which I understand. And I'm not like, you know, I don't issue with it, but I think that's the benefit of DVC though, too, is that I can do Vera beach. I can do Hilton head. I can do a Lonnie. I can do, you know, like there's other, and and all the other places that are in the network interval and, yeah that as well Yeah, exactly. So like I can still use my DVC while also, you know, trying to do some different things. And and I i think she really wants to do the cruise again. too We really want to do the cruise again, too. We had a blast. So I we definitely want to do that. We just have to we want to find a time where the the the price is right, so to speak, because Disney cruises are very expensive. And it's ah yes. Yes. We want to try to find one that is ah reasonable, let's say. So, which, because the last one when we, you know, the last one we took was was pretty pricey, but, you know, we we were looking for one that's ah a little bit cheaper.
00:28:02
Speaker
Not like, you know, I'm not going to get cheap. I understand that. And that's fine. But they do a lot of discounts on these, especially for ones they're trying to fill. And, ah you know, so what we we'll keep an eye out for that. But ah but yeah, so we were kind of doing a little bit of vacation planning and trying to kind of work through maybe what we'll do this year. But we're still it's still pretty up in the air. But it looks like we're going to do it with another family. So that should be fun.
00:28:24
Speaker
Yeah, that's good. i You know, I think um we so we we talked about this a little while ago that, you know, for us as well, like this this year is looking most likely like we're not doing a park trip either. And because of the fact that um we decided that we're going to bank our points and put them into 2027 because we're going to do a bigger trip for our 25th wedding anniversary.
00:28:48
Speaker
um The other funny thing, too, is, yeah you know, similar to or kind of the same thing as you is, you know you know, our son is in school and, you know, we're trying to just there's a heavy focus on getting through school. And the nice thing, like you said, about DVC is that it's like, you know, I'm I'm looking at it and going, oh, you know, we can.
00:29:09
Speaker
you know, you know, I, we can bank our points. We can, we can hold off for a year until we see, you know, what, what's coming up next. And like, even, even our plans are like, you know, you know me, like, you know, we, we're usually the ones that are like 11 months out. We have our stuff booked and and planned and all that kind of stuff. way better owners than we are. Yeah. But, but also, you know, you know, the interesting thing for us is that, you know, we're, we're kind of waiting to see how things, you shake out with like my son's post-secondary schooling and all that stuff too.
Family Travel Dynamics
00:29:40
Speaker
So it's like, we're kind of in a similar boat where like, you know, we're going to take our trip. Absolutely. Like, you know you know, my wife and I have this trip planned, whether or not our son comes with us, that's up for debate because, you know, he'll be, you know, he he can make that decision himself. um But then also like we had we had talked about, you know, that,
00:29:59
Speaker
ah we We wanted to spend a couple of days in a bungalow and we also wanted to invite you guys. So, so you know, yeah kind of similar is, you know, we were like, you know, hey, we're going to we're going to travel with another family, which happens to be you. But for for us, that's a bit of a blind spot as well, because we don't um or all of our trips previously have been it's been, you know, just our family. Although my parents have been with us a couple of times, but.
00:30:24
Speaker
I feel like parents with you on a, on a Disney trip is like, yeah, that's different. Yeah. It's different because it's like, they're they're just kind of going with the flow and and they're like, you know, they're, they're there because, you know, they want to be with their grandkids and, yeah and it, you know, it, the,
00:30:42
Speaker
they They don't have the same dynamics as like dealing with another family because like like I get it is that it's like every family does things differently. And then on top of that, everybody does Disney differently. yeah So it's like, you know, you have different priorities, you have different priorities.
00:30:58
Speaker
Yeah. i feel like with disney that or or i guess my take on it is that if i was to travel to disney with another family there has to be first of all a ground rule of like you can't you can't be together twenty four seven Oh, yeah. If you you try and if you try and do like, you know, oh, yeah, we're going to like, you know, we're going to go to this park this day, this park this day. It's like, no, like that. You can't you can't tell other people I can't imagine getting that many people to agree on. Like, we're all going to this park at this time and we're doing this or whatever, because.
00:31:35
Speaker
Just more people, more personalities. it's it seems like a ah It seems like a bad formula for becoming that scene that we've all seen in the park where there's like a meltdown happening. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, i don't want to i don't i don't want to contribute to that is my thing. So it's like it's kind of a weird thing, right? like it's It's very weird to think about. like you know i'm I'm excited to travel and to like like you know experience it with other people, but then it's like it hits a point where it's like, okay, well, I'll see you later, right? Yeah. Later, later, you go do your own thing. Yeah. and we And we've done we so we've done it with family before. Right. Like we've we've done But like you said, family's different.
00:32:19
Speaker
Right. Like because I know my family's idiosyncrasies. Right. Like I know things that are going like and and we also agree to like to your point ahead of time is you kind of just do what you're going to do. Like if somebody wants to do something different, we have to be OK with splitting up or else you're going to have conflict. And yeah.
00:32:35
Speaker
I don't know how to really manage that with another family, you know, but I, I mean, I guess we're going to figure it out. So we're going to see what happens. Right. need to have the the Disney rule book. but Well, I mean, we do often have people that just defer to us to like, you know, it's like, well, you guys do, you know, you figure it out because you guys know what you're doing. Right.
00:32:57
Speaker
ah So like, you know, I don't know who knows how that's going to shake out, but it's, it's certainly a possibility, but I, I'm now envisioning like a nicely bound book that says like the the disney rules the the disney the the Disney family traveling rule book. Like thou shall not eat a turkey leg in front of other people. like it Sounds like a shirt we need to make, Trevor. Yeah, that might be a thing. I'm not sure now.
00:33:24
Speaker
I need to get ah to of go open a Google Doc and start writing here. Yeah. So anyway, listen, there's not a lot of news going on this week. I mean, will say as we've talked for like 30 minutes, we haven't even actually got to the rundown yet. Yeah. I mean, listen, there's not a lot news. We're talking about, you know, Disney stuff too. So, but yeah, I mean, I, what was I going to say about Disney Cruise Line? I can't remember now.
00:33:54
Speaker
there was There was a thing I was going to say. I can't remember. Okay. Well, well I mean, it kind of kind of segs into the the first thing I had in here that I thought was kind of cool.
Disney Merchandise & Cruise Offerings
00:34:01
Speaker
was that ah guest selling on the first month of the inaugural disney adventure voyages will receive a physical copy of of a special edition first issue of amazing adventures which is a a ship exclusive comic book that's being done by marvel Which I think is very cool.
00:34:18
Speaker
Now, it is cool. um My only question is how quickly are you going to see this on eBay? Oh, immediately.
00:34:28
Speaker
Immediately. Especially since the adventure is exclusive to Singapore, right? Like, there's going to be a lot of American fans that want this, right? That can't get to shit to Singapore, right? Yeah, I forgot about that. I was like, i was like oh yeah, you know people are going to get it and sell it But yeah, it's going to be international, which makes it even worse.
00:34:49
Speaker
Ooh. It's going to be a pricey one, right? If you want to get that one. ah i also thought Yeah. Yeah. ahead. Sorry. It's cool, though, that they're, like, actually getting, like, you know, they they don't have to spend that kind of energy to to do a comic for a cruise ship. I'm kind of glad that they are because I feel like this is something, too, that, you know,
00:35:11
Speaker
When I was a kid, if I had gotten like, I wouldn't have known the difference between a you know, comic books were just like comic books, right? Like I went to like, there was like a used bookstore that had comic books nearby when I was a kid. And I would just go in there and grab all kinds of random stuff.
00:35:29
Speaker
I didn't know rarity. I didn't know like, you know. you know, any of that kind of stuff. Yeah. When you're kid, you don't know that, like, especially like toys and stuff like that too. It's like, you just rip the toy out of the box. However, you can get it out. You don't care about saving it, you know? Yeah. And, and the, the thing I like is that, you know, I, I appreciate the fact that they're doing this and, you know I hope that it's, you know, some kids somewhere is going to be,
00:35:51
Speaker
you know, just enjoying this comic book about, you know, a cruise that they went on. Like, that's... Yeah. That, to me, is more important than, like, like I said, you know, we're commenting on, like, the the, you know, people eBaying this stuff and collecting and all that because it's a limited edition thing, but it's like... It...
00:36:11
Speaker
Comic books should also be for enjoyment. Yeah, that's my take. Yeah, I 100% agree with that. It's funny because when I saw this was the adventure, I assumed it was the destiny. You know what I mean? Like I just because I'm like the destiny is all about like superheroes and villains and stuff. Like why wouldn't they have a comic book for that? But I'm pretty sure they did or do. I should say I think they did this for the destiny as well. I have to look, but I don't remember off the top of my head.
00:36:36
Speaker
Yeah, I don't remember either. But, yeah, I'll wait to see what the price of these comics looks like. Oh, on eBay? Yeah. But I want to one. But I'm legitimately curious, though, what it's going to... What it's going to be going for on eBay for a free thing? Yeah.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah. because Which is... I know it's that's silly, but... Yeah. I mean, listen, it is cool. Don't get me wrong. Like I, i you know, if you, if you go on like ah the, the, the treasure or the, I think it's, I don't remember if it's on the wish or not, but ah it's cause I'm not, listen, I'm not a DCL expert. So don't, don't kill me here. I just been, I've only been on the treasure, um but you know, the treasure, they had the, the, um,
00:37:24
Speaker
worlds of Marvel restaurant, right. That we went to and they had a whole like Marvel show, you know, with that. Right. So like, I mean, I think if there was also a comic book that I could get, that'd be pretty cool too. I just think it's kind of neat.
00:37:36
Speaker
Uh, and I, I like this integration of Marvel with, uh, with, with the cruise lines. I think it's, I think it's kind of cool. Yeah. Okay. See, I don't think there's much else we can say about that. I'm laughing because of what put on here. Yeah. So this feels very targeted.
00:37:55
Speaker
ah what What? No. Why would I target a thing to you, Trevor? so so So Tom linked a ear headband that is available in Epcot. And the the title of it is, Poutine is My Routine. Sure.
00:38:11
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And it is the most Canadian-looking set of ears ever. It is. It's got Chivindale on it with poutine. Yeah.
00:38:22
Speaker
And, yeah, they're, they're like, laying in poutine. And it's got the... yeah It's got like the flannel with the Canadian... There's little Canadian maple leaves on it. Listen, I saw this and I had to put it on here just to get a reaction from you because I was curious to see how you felt about this because i think it's... all I love this. i think it looks awesome. But I wasn't sure how you were going to feel about it. You know, i I don't like that flannel is associated with Canadian stuff. To be fair, though, I think it's more for the Epcot version of Canada. It's very in with the Epcot version of Canada. It does. Yeah. And I just noticed that on poutine on the...
00:39:14
Speaker
Actually, yeah, I don't even know why. They have a little maple leaf above it. thought it above the eye, I realized the eye is actually after. Yeah, you'd think they would have dotted the eye with the maple leaf, but they didn't. Yeah, it probably didn't fit the font. They do also have, by the way, it's not just the ears. They also have shirt that says, only here for poutine. Only here for poutine, yeah.
00:39:37
Speaker
Yeah, and ah yeah, there's also some Chip and Dale stuff too. but And it looks like, i don't I don't know what this other thing is. It's almost like a towel or something. towel or – probably a dish towel if I had to guess. Yeah, it's as poutine as my routine. this This one says fries, cheese curds, and gravy. It actually yeah lists out the ingredients on there. So, hey, at least I got the ingredients right, right? so I will say this actually. We we did – I did enjoy some poutine over Christmas break. so So this is something we figured out. It was even last year or the year before –
00:40:10
Speaker
So we we do a roast chicken for dinner on Christmas Day because we like it's just it there's not enough of us to do a turkey and all that. So so we do roast chicken. But then usually when we're done with the chicken, we have a whole bunch of gravy left over because my wife makes like amazing gravy and we have a lot of it.
00:40:29
Speaker
um So I will or so we bought we bought a couple of bags of cheese curds and we bought um we bought just like frozen curs of french fries. Yeah. And um so so what we did was after we were sick of like like we had a couple of days of like the the the regular leftover stuff, you know, like with the potatoes and vegetables and all that kind of stuff.
00:40:53
Speaker
um We still had enough turkey or not turkey, but chicken, everything left over that I made. It was just roast chicken in the poutine. But it was and that that got us like, yeah, that that got us like another three days past Christmas. Yeah, it it's so it's such a good comfort food. Like I i was like.
00:41:11
Speaker
yeah You know, it's actually it's one of the best things like when it is cold out to just have like a warm bowl of poutine. So i i I agree with you. And I over Christmas, it was funny because I decided a while ago that I wanted to make a loaded potato soup for Christmas. um And so because i I love a good like hearty soup when it's cold out.
00:41:34
Speaker
And then it ended up being like 75 degrees here on Christmas. It was like so warm. and i you might to whatever You need to plan a Christmas trip up here because, you know, if you if you want like like the proper Christmas treatment, like it was yeah it was cold up here. Like we've had a couple of swings, like it's been up around zero. So like.
00:41:56
Speaker
zero would be warmer weather relatively for us, but then it also swung down to like minus 20, but we had all the snow and everything, which, you know, if you, if you're wanting that, like, you know, reason to have, have, you know, a big bowl of soup or whatever. You should come up here. You, you would really like Banff. Listen, I was, I was thinking about it after the Alaska cruise. Maybe we, I mean, I think the Alaska cruise goes out of Vancouver. We could, you know, maybe hop on over to see you guys. I don't know. There's a train that runs through BC that I can't remember where it stops. I'm going to do that then. Yeah. I can't remember. have a friend who did it this last year and can't remember which one they did. But yeah, there's like
00:42:40
Speaker
I think it's like two or three day train. So, so like you're on you're on a train and have like your own. Yeah. Yeah. Like a sleeper train and, and they have like, um, like the glass top on one of the cars. So like you can see, so like you can look out and see like the mountains and everything as you're going. Okay. I want to do that. That's, I'm going to plan that. That's, that's it. I'll, I'll, I'll find out what the name of it was for you. I, I can't remember the, um, think it Rocky mountain train or something like that. Well, now that I've given you a hard time about poutine, why don't we go ahead and do our ad? And then there's a couple more things to talk about we can get out of here. Exactly. I'm actually glad that you did put that on there because I did forget about the fact that I did have poutine over Christmas. So, yeah. All right, good. So it had a benefit. All right, good.
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00:44:11
Speaker
All right. So, okay. What else do we got? Not much, honestly. i mean, you know, it's it's fair because, you know, it's been holidays,
Disney Parks Updates & Speculations
00:44:21
Speaker
right? Yeah. um Well, so Walt Disney Imaginary is giving us some looks at the ah refurb of, or I guess reimagining, let's say.
00:44:31
Speaker
of ah Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger spit. Right. Yeah. And ah part of that is that there is a a new ah there's a new beginning of the ride, which has this new character called Buddy.
00:44:47
Speaker
which Buddy is going to serve as kind of the, you know, like the pregame in Toy Story, Midway Mania, where you do where you, you know, do like some target shooting and practice and all that stuff. Right.
00:44:59
Speaker
Yeah. So that's, that's what we've we've got here. By the way, I mentioned this on the discord, ah right. That if you look at the concept art, right. ah there is a little homage, I believe, to the previous ah to to the previous tenant of Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, which is ah if you had wings. which So if you look at the bottom of the robot, it it says IY-HW. Yeah, it says IY-HW3.
00:45:29
Speaker
So I was thinking, so it has to be if you had wings, right? Yeah. And then the three, this is the third iteration of something that's in this spot. So Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger Schmidt is. So that's what I'm assuming the three stands for, but I could be wrong. Someone else maybe has an idea of the significance there, but I can't tell you how much I love when they do stuff like that, that most people are not going to notice. ah But if you do notice, it's kind of great, right? Like, you know?
00:45:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's what makes it... Fun is like, you know, there's there's the upfront experience, but then the reasons to go back and rewrite her for all the little details and stuff that you missed the first, fifth or 10th time. Because yeah like, honestly, that, you know, the fact that you pointed that out, like I've, I've looked at this concept art before and I didn't even like...
00:46:18
Speaker
I should have clocked that because usually it's like, oh, what what is that you know serial code? or Because they they always do that. They always do like – they'll put something somewhere in a ride and it it always has a reference.
00:46:30
Speaker
And I always – for some reason, I always blank on like the initial like, oh, that's cool. But then it's like, wait a minute. What does that actually mean? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. yeah yeah it' exactly. And they, and they always do it too. Like they always do some sort of a match. And, and listen, they don't really need to do that here because they, this is, you know, it's not a new ride. They're just, you know, replacing some things. Right. But the fact that they create a new character and then decided to put that reference in there. I, I just, I love it. It makes me happy. I, I really hope that. So, so they're, they're really pushing to that. so it,
00:47:05
Speaker
so It's kind of odd that, you know, they they're bringing in a new character, which is obviously it's they're deliberately doing this as it's specific to the ride. Right. Like, yeah because I don't I don't know that Buddy is going to show up anywhere outside of the ride. It might be in the next Toy Story movie. You might see a reference to to Buddy or something like that.
00:47:26
Speaker
Yeah. But um the way they describe it is a support bot character with youthful kid energy, which I'm trying to imagine. what that looks like because normally like bots are not like like like i mean they have a couple bots like that right that are like fun and silly and weird like the what's his face from uh star wars star tours right he uh what was that why am i forgetting oh rex yeah yeah yeah Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. i
00:47:58
Speaker
ah The hard part about Rex is that i all I can hear is Pee Wee Herman because he's voiced by Paul Rubens. Yeah. Yeah. that's That's a fair point. but But no, yeah. Yeah, you're right. I guess the the it's weird that i now that you mention is that like I always like when I immediately me hear of like a road robot, you immediately think of like the like like Commander Data on Star Wars or not Star Wars, start Star Trek, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:24
Speaker
And it's like, yeah you know, you think about like emotionless and whatever. But yeah I guess, yeah, valid point. Robots don't have to be, you know, they they can be whatever they want to be. They don't like they they can have personality to them. But yeah I'm curious, like how this one is going to heighten the ride.
00:48:45
Speaker
Right. Because like like Buzz Lightyear didn't. or like Buzz was originally in the spot, wasn't he? Like, cause this was, uh, I guess it is the same spot, right? Where they're going to, uh, yeah, I guess they haven't really said where it is, but yeah, it looks like it's, yeah it's there. Yeah.
00:49:02
Speaker
Yeah. So, so I'm like, it's interesting, like replacing like a you know, what what was kind of like the flagship or was the flagship character of the ride. He'll still be in the queue, though. He'll still be the queue. Yeah, like like like, you know, it because, you know, it is labeled Buzz Lightyear's, but now, like, I'm wondering if Buddy is going to kind of steal the show. Yeah, maybe. is the thing, like, which which I'm honestly kind of glad if that is the case because I always enjoy that when they... yeah When, you know, they they find a means of like, you know, you know, there's like the main story or the main like characters, but having like a side character that kind of shines more.
00:49:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Then the main character is always enjoyable to see. Like, like for the same thing, like ah my my wife loves from from Muppet Vision Bean Bunny. Oh, who doesn't love Bean Bunny? Yeah. Yeah. but But, like, originally, like, he wasn't, you you know, you go to Muppets, like, assuming, like, Kermit and Miss Piggy and Gonzo and all that.
00:50:00
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Bean kind of came in as, like, a secondary character that yeah that kind of took it over. and i mean, I know he's, like, focal to to the storyline in in Muppets and Muppet Vision, but...
00:50:12
Speaker
I don't think he originally started as that. I'd have to go back and look because I'm pretty sure like he showed up in some of the other yeah Muppet shows before that. And that was kind of like... Later on after he became popular. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what his first appearance was, but um yeah, he's, he's definitely, he's been around.
00:50:30
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ah But yeah, I listed it. So by the way, this vid, the one video I linked here actually does point out the Easter egg. So it it is, it is definitely, I didn't watch the whole video, but they point out in the Easter egg for if you had wings.
00:50:41
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ah So yeah, so that's definitely confirmed there. i But i I mentioned this, I don't know, a couple weeks ago in the Discord that I noticed it. And so it's good that they're confirming that because I just assume that's what it was. And I mean, what else could it be? Honestly, it just matches too perfectly. so But, you know, this is good. i think it's good, though, too, to have like this little practice thing so that people know what they're doing, especially since they're changing the guns. You know, the guns are different now. they're good they they They auto fire and...
00:51:08
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ah you know, there's, it's, you're actually able to see, I mean, I think everyone's biggest complaint about Buzz Lightyear for the longest time is he never knew where you were shooting. You know, you were just kind of like, you're just kind of like firing blindly. Trying to calibrate your red dot yeah was difficult because because half the time the red dot didn't work. yeah Or, you know, there was five people shooting at the same spot so you couldn't tell which dot was yours. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I'm hopeful that they're also and I don't know why they have not done this in Toy Story yet. And it kind of drives me nuts that they don't. They had, you know, a long time ago, they had kind of ah really you put out there this like the whole thing with the magic bands where they were. If you had a magic band, plus, you know, they were going to be able to read your name off of it and put your you know personalized things in cues and in rides. Mm
00:51:54
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You know, for a while they were doing the thing at the end of Small World where they, you know, had the names, you know, you had people's names up there, which, you know, this last time I was on it, they they weren't doing anymore. In fact, I don't even think the screens were. I think they were just either gone or I don't know. But anyway, I always felt like in Toy Story Midway Mania that they should have at the end when they do the high scores, they should have your name next to it. Why not? Yeah. Right. Like put your name next to it. Right.
00:52:17
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I, they should do this here too. Like they should absolutely like have, be able to read your name and be able to put that somewhere at the end and like list the scores. People would love that. Are you like, yeah I mean, people would absolutely love if you did So heres heres here's actually a little bit of food for thought on that too, is, you know,
00:52:36
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The original structure of the point system in Buzz Lightyear was, you know, you had the different rankings, right? Like, you know, you get to the end, you you take your score and, you know, you know, all the way up to Galactic Hero, which was, you know, we if you got the max score.
00:52:49
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Do you think I'm wondering if the new system will keep that same structure in place? feel like they have to. Because because the interesting thing about that is, you know, your point about like having the names and everything, you know, if you if they have like a leaderboard or something, you're going to have just a bunch of people like, you know, it'll just be a bunch of galactic heroes because, there' you know, there's people that that know how to do it.
00:53:10
Speaker
And so like the leaderboard will just always be, you know, yeah galactic heroes throughout the decade. I have to assume that all of the tricks to get galactic hero are going to be, are not going to be the same anymore. Right. I, yeah, feel like, yeah, I feel like that's all going to, that's gone. Right. Like if you want to get galactic hero now, you're going have to, you're going have to figure out the new secrets. Right. It's a new, guy yeah, that, that is actually a good point. Yeah. that They've, I'm sure they've redone That whole point of the ride. Yeah. Like that whole thing is probably redone. i i i don't even need like a daily leaderboard. I just want like as I'm passing by the board, maybe show my score against everybody else that's on the ride right now or show my score against, you know, you like how they did on Toy Story where like yeah you could have like like cart or, you know, car best and daily best. Exactly.
00:53:55
Speaker
Exactly. Like, I think that would be kind of kind of neat. And I think people would like that. And I mean, listen, part of what they're doing, too, is we're not going to have the old, you know, digital clock displays for our for the for the ah for the score anymore. They're going to have actual screens in there, much like Toy Story ah Mania. and And you'll actually be able to see your scores and all that, which I think is is is great. i People love this, you know, the gamified piece of these. And I think all of us that have done Toy Story Mania before, you know, you you get competitive with your friends and family members, you know, like that's part of the fun. Right. And so they're, they're actually going to make this feel more, I, you know, the the thing with buzz, you could do that. But at the same time, if you got like, you know, a gun that didn't work, then you're not going to win. You know, like it's, I mean, that that could happen with the new one too. Like, you know, it could I don't know.
00:54:39
Speaker
like I don't know how long the guns are going to last either. Let's hope long time. But, yeah um but yeah, so I, listen, I, I like that they're giving this little preview. I like this little, this little, uh, new, new character. I think it's a ah fun thing. And, uh, yeah.
00:54:53
Speaker
So anything else on that one, Trevor? ah No, I'm curious to see where or what else comes of it, because that this is one of my wife's wife's favorite rides. So I'll be excited to see when it actually is finished.
00:55:09
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I agree 100%. hundred percent So, all right. All right. Here here we go, Trevor. Reckless speculation. Reckless speculation. Speculation. It's so reckless. It's so much speculation.
00:55:23
Speaker
It's speculation. We may be wrong. We may be right. But it doesn't matter because it's reckless speculation.
00:55:34
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Reckless speculation.
00:55:38
Speaker
i i I honestly completely forgot that you had done that. Well, because we only played it like once, right? Yeah. So, yeah. It started, I was like, wait, what? Oh, right. How about the Rick and Speculation song? Yes. Okay. So we got some speculation here, especially this is, ah you know, we we got speculation because there's not a whole lot of news going on. So we got to speculate about things, right? so Yeah.
00:56:01
Speaker
This first one is ah um so it sounds scary, but I actually don't think it's as bad as it sounds. So so the title is Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for Set Elements at Haunted Mansion, which means something's changing at the Haunted Mansion.
00:56:19
Speaker
I mean, I always read – I read set elements as maybe like enhancements, right? Like new things, right? Yeah. but But sometimes that could mean taking stuff out too, which is – like it does – you know, sometimes they they will reno stuff and, you know, when the – like you said, they add stuff, but sometimes they take away stuff that people may have liked. And, you know, there's there's always – there's always conflict around that kind of stuff. But, um but specific to this though. um The permit is to install set elements though. Yeah. So yeah, it's for a company that, that does set elements for them and it's to install set elements.
00:56:59
Speaker
And this company does a lot of like the fabrication for Disney and like, you know, does a lot of the set things. So like, you know, right now they're working on the, the dinosaur, you know, the change in Indiana Jones and the, and rock and roller coaster too. So like, this is ah the stuff that they do.
00:57:14
Speaker
um The article notes that a permit for Imagineering usually means more thematic updates rather than standard maintenance. So, but, you know, Disney's not said anything about this. So the question is, Trevor, what do we think is happening here?
00:57:29
Speaker
I have an initial obvious thought about this. Okay. Okay. but i don't think I don't think it's anything internal to the ride. Okay. So... You mean like outside stuff is what you're saying? Yeah. so So here's the thing is that the queue for Haunted Mansion right now looks over into Rivers of America.
00:57:49
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And that's, as we know, that's all been drained and is being converted into into the new Cars Land. they got some big old walls there right now that you can't see any of it. so and and but the so like the um the northeast side of the queue and yes sorry i'm i'm doing this by by cardinal directions because i know i know how i know how magic kingdom is laid out and um so the northeast side of the queue which is like as you're coming up towards
00:58:20
Speaker
where like it's the start of all the interactive elements in magic kingdom so so like you can see like it's the whole um no sorry is it northeast maybe i got that backwards maybe it's northwest dang it it's it's um yeah so so so on that side actually yeah it is i don't know yeah it is northeast um
00:58:41
Speaker
the ah So you you have like the whole view on to the rivers, but then like as you come around the corner where there's like like the the tombs and everything that you interact with, they have to be doing some kind of construction there.
00:58:55
Speaker
And I guess my question is, is if – If they're revising the, you know, that whole area, because, you know, i assume there's going to be walkways or there's going to be something there. Is it think possible?
00:59:07
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Is it possible that the queue itself is maybe getting a bit of a redesign in how you get into the Haunted Mansion? And then further to that is if they extend the queue, does that mean that there's going to be more interactive elements in the queue?
00:59:23
Speaker
That's, that's a really interesting, that's kind of where my mind went as well, Trevor, with the queue, because they just redid the queue of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion, right? Yeah. And, and they just, I mean, they, they redid that entire queue. Now, to your point, because of all this construction going on, which by the way, i saw some pictures from, ah you know, the, the, the ah bio reconstruct that does all the overhead pictures. I had no idea how much progress they had made ah backstage on like land clearing, like,
00:59:50
Speaker
And also on how ah how much they've done in the middle of the park, too, with, you know, Tom Sawyer Island's totally gone. It's a pile of dirt now. And it's like they're starting to level everything out. But, like, all that area where Villains Land is going to be is all leveled out already.
01:00:03
Speaker
And, I mean, it's... Which I was shocked by because I feel like the last time I saw pictures, they was they were not that far along. But they are moving quickly here. um But, yeah, to your point, Trevor, like, I would... I kind of agree with you that that at some point maybe they're going to redo this queue and have it go in a different direction but and and maybe you know kind of update some of the themes to it. I think that's a good call. I don't know if I have a different idea there you know because I don't know else what else they would be doing.
01:00:30
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Because here's here's the thing to to think about. Like, i know that this is like installing theme stuff, but or installing set elements is the is the the speculation or that it's the permit that's filed and, you know, what we're speculating on. But I feel like like Q expansion is set elements. So, right. it is still yeah And especially because of the fact that like.
01:00:54
Speaker
You know, every every queue now in some way, shape, or form has something interactive because, like, even if you look at, like, the the the front part of the queue into Haunted Mansion, it's just a bunch of switchbacks before you actually get up to to the north side of the ah of the queue. And, sorry, it's it's northwest. i I always have it backwards in my head on when I'm looking at the map. I don't know why. East and west are confusing. some But – Yeah. so So when you get up towards the north end towards or of the queue, like that's where the interactive elements start. And and I guess my my thinking there is that, you know, yes, they you could there is always going to have to be some sort of room for like overflow queue of some sort, right? Where you just have like switchbacks, and you know, and everybody everybody hates that.
01:01:41
Speaker
But I will say this is that, you know, I'm looking at this also because I went to Epic Universes last year and thinking like, you know, you know, both Disney and Epic Universe um or Disney and Universal, you know, they do contract a lot of the same people and they do have a lot of like similar thought processes. Yeah.
01:02:02
Speaker
And I was thinking about the yeah um the DK roller or the Donkey Kong roller coaster in Epic Universe because we got in the queue for that. And while it wasn't, you know, the entire queue, um or actually, sorry, it was it was throughout pretty much the entire queue, is that they had, um so so we had bought the, they they have their version of the Magic Band there, but it's exclusive to ninten to the Super Nintendo World area.
01:02:30
Speaker
So it, it um throughout the queue, there was actually touch points that you could scan that did different things. And I was just thinking about, like, you know, they they had it through the entire queue. like Like there wasn't... Yeah, Disney did a little bit of that. They just, with like the statues and some of the other stuff, like they were doing with just Magic Man Plus, but they not as as they didn't go as far.
01:02:51
Speaker
Yeah, it it stops at a certain point, right? Like it is, and and that's what I mean, is that it's like, you know, maybe Disney is looking at this as an opportunity for, you know, hey, you know, we can, you know, we don't have to just do like like blank queue with nothing going on.
01:03:05
Speaker
You can have it You know, you know, there's there's lots of opportunity to have, you know, means of entertaining people through the entire queue. And then also thinking back to, you know, Haunted Mansion, I've seen I've seen the queue go all the way past the entrance to the Liberty Bell.
01:03:21
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because, you know, when it gets really busy, you know, it extends out past the entrance and it just runs all along that road. that path right, and right along the riverfront. Right.
01:03:32
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah so maybe, maybe the the thing is, is, you know, if they, if they are redoing this whole area, they may have freed up some space for themselves that, you know, it's not just building a bunch of new stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the haunted mansion queue gets some expansion to it because it is, it is a high capacity ride. It is a high, um,
01:03:54
Speaker
or, you know, high, through you know, there, there's, there's a high throughput. There's always lots of people lining up for it. So why not have more Q elements to it? Yeah. Right. So, cause honestly, I will say this too, is that I feel like when you do finally get up to the, uh,
01:04:11
Speaker
We do finally get up to the the spot where there is the interactive stuff. You're so close to the front of the the line that it it is it does kind of move faster when you get closer to the front. It does. Because because they're letting people in and and and all that.
01:04:25
Speaker
you don't really get a chance to like actually stop and like interact with a lot of things. I feel like having those things further back in the queue actually makes more sense because... you're, you don't, it's a weird thing. Like you don't move as fast, right? Like you, you, you kind of, you kind of there's more so stopping and starting. You have this problem with, with Peter Pan now and also with, with seven dwarves, right? Where you, you run into a thing where there's all these interactive things that you can do in the queue. And it's like, you, you also run into an etiquette thing. It's like, okay, well, if they're playing with queue elements, does that mean I can pass them in line? Like, I know i i think it Like, If you if you stop to play with the thing in in the queue, like, you know, you know, whatever it is, you know, if it's the screen or, you know, the gems or whatever, you know, fine. yeah You know, I'm going to walk right past you. Yeah. But it but it goes both ways is, you know, when that person's done playing with the queue.
01:05:21
Speaker
they just merge back into the line. Like it should it shouldn't be an issue. Like if you're already in the line, like, you know, you can just merge back in at whatever point, but you're not holding people up. And, you know, if I want to spend five minutes messing around with, you know, whatever interactive elements are in the queue, you should be able to do that. But like I said, Haunted Mansion, thinking specifically about theirs,
01:05:43
Speaker
it feels like it always feels very rushed when you get up to that part. Right. Like, because, because it's, you know, there it's a bunch of switchbacks and it's like right to the front of the ride. And it never feels like you have enough time to like, you're kind of like walking by and and I've watched this, like I've done this too. And I've watched other people do this where it's like,
01:06:03
Speaker
you're You're kind of walking by and you're just like quickly poking things because you don't that's because you don't have time to like actually stop and look at it. Yeah. like it's it's It's just how they designed it. I wouldn't be surprised if they're they're rethinking that. And i'm I'm wondering if it would actually change. Like the feasibly, they they could redesign all the way up to where the entrance of the ah the ride is, which...
01:06:29
Speaker
We remember the queue how it is now. There's nothing saying that the queue as we know it now could not be moved and restructured as part of this larger renovation that's going on. Yeah, they could push it out into that newly cleared spot right next to it where it used to be a water, right? Like, they could just push it out there, take a little bit of that space up.
01:06:49
Speaker
And then the entrance to Haunted Mansion is not just right outside of Liberty Tree. It's like, it you know. Yeah. like Like, just, yeah. Like, if you think about it, it could be, like, it could be actually further up north.
01:07:02
Speaker
like up where the interactive stuff is now and they could change how the whole queue moves to get to the entrance. That queue does need more space. It just, it just does. It does. Yeah. So yeah. All right. I think that's speculating. That's fine. I like that. That's a good, good call out on that one. Yeah. I like that one.
01:07:20
Speaker
ah The next one we have is ah ah this one is really hardcore speculation because this, this is based off of almost nothing. And this is this the headline of this is new Disney theme park could be built in Thailand. Now, if you look at the actual, if you look at what is actually said here, like Thailand has come up with like a little plan for economic development. And they said they believe that attractions like a Disneyland level theme park would make ah the case for for investments more compelling.
01:07:50
Speaker
OK, but that's just them being wishful thinking and hoping that they could get something like that. You know what mean? I mean, like i mean that there are a lot of Asian companies that have done Disney like theme parks like it. It's people. People have tried to emulate Disney theme parks.
01:08:08
Speaker
Well, and listen, given it's yeah ah the way that the the other Asian parks came about, except for Shanghai, right? Is that someone came to Disney and said, I want to do this. Like, you know what i mean? It's like, it actually, it's funny because ah the, if you watch the Imagineering story,
01:08:25
Speaker
the uh was it hong kong was uh i guess the um it was the first one right so yeah but they did in asia and uh they they're telling the story of this where the guy that you know that they basically developed it all there kept calling the ceo of disney and saying i want to build a park here i want to build a park here but and he and he was annoying the ceo of disney so much that he said all right well tell him we'll build a park but he has to pay for everything and we get half Or some like that, right?
01:08:52
Speaker
And like thinking that he would never say yes to it, right? Because it's a ridiculous thing to say. And they were like, yeah, cool. Yeah. And so he says yes to it. So like it's not out of the realm of possibility that, you know, some super rich person in Thailand could come to Disney and be like, I want to do this here. I mean, but it just, I don't know. It just feels like wishful thinking more than anything.
01:09:14
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. so And I had to look this up so that there was... ah so So to the point of like, you know, just because they said a Disneyland-like park, yeah there was a place called ah Nara Dreamland. Oh, I remember Dreamland. Which, yeah, like it's it's it's since it was in Japan and it's it's gone now, but um it was...
01:09:37
Speaker
It was very deliberately like... was a ripoff. It was straight up. Yeah. yeah it it was It was Disneyland, but not. and Exactly. And it's funny, like when you look at it, like they they were literally like doing a copy paste of yeah of Disneyland in a lot of areas of it. So, but so you know, to that point, you know, in in Thailand...
01:10:01
Speaker
There's no – there's nothing saying that somebody couldn't do something like that there, right? Yeah. Of course. They're not going to – they're not going to get in trouble for doing that kind of blatant ripoff because, like like, the funny thing is is that the – you know, like they even had, like, in in our dreamland, they had the castle.
01:10:20
Speaker
Like, it was – Yeah, they look like Sleeping Beauty's castle, but it was clearly not like it was it it was missing a lot of details and stuff. But it's far enough change that, you know, they they're I mean, one, you know, copyright laws and stuff don't extend across the world necessarily. So it's like, you know, if if suddenly you heard about a Disneyland like park popping up in Thailand, I wouldn't be surprised. And there may be there may already be stuff like that there that we don't even know about. And It's just, it's funny, though, that as soon as you put, like, Disney on it somewhere, it's, like, you were like, oh, you know, Disney's opening a new park. It's like, no.
01:11:01
Speaker
Yeah. Probably not. I mean, maybe, but probably not. Yeah. don't Don't hold your breath on that one. Yeah, I don't I really don't think they are. I think they're too they got enough stuff going on.
01:11:11
Speaker
So, okay, last but not least. Last one. Yeah. Yeah. Last but not least, another permit one. i like these permit ones because they're they're they're so open for interpretation. They're so vague. And and they show intention, right? Yes.
01:11:24
Speaker
Yes. They show an official project moving forward, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So there was a permit filed ah by Walt Disney Imagineering for a a demolition and construction project at the Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom.
01:11:38
Speaker
Now, I don't think any of us here think they're going to take down the Tree of Life. That would be silly. Oh. That would be ridiculous. By the way, this is it's calling for facility demo, general construction, electrical and area development. Again, very wide. Right. So um a little bit odd, especially considering that, ah you know, they just opened the news utopia show there.
01:12:03
Speaker
ah so I don't know. Yeah. Like what what what do they need to do? Because they just finished doing a bunch of renos in that area. Unless it's something like structurally like, I mean, listen, the tree of life is pretty old at this point. Maybe you need some structural work. I don't know. Like maybe they do need to just demolish some of it. And I bet here's the thing. You can't demolish any of the outside of that. it's It's straight up art that people did on the tree. You can't like just replicate that. You know, you'd have to basically do net new if you're going to demolish any of the outside of it.
01:12:33
Speaker
Right. So it's yeah, I don't know. This is an interesting one. ah Now, this this article does mention the permit is almost identical to one that was filed back in February.
01:12:46
Speaker
And that one was around the Zootopia show. So, I don't know. This says maybe that's just an extension of the the old permit and that, you know, maybe there's something else they need to do or some last construction work or changes or something. I don't know. Maybe there's something that they couldn't get done during the initial Zootopia development that...
01:13:09
Speaker
I mean, I guess the practical thing to think of is, you know, you're you're dealing with a bunch of companies. It could be something was backordered and they couldn't get it done in time for the opening. And it's like, oh, but, you know, we got this part or or something, you know.
01:13:24
Speaker
You know, something that was missing and they have to keep the permit in place just to ensure that whenever the part shows up that they can install it because, you know, doing stuff outside of permits is a great way to get yourself in trouble with all kinds of officials. Yeah, of course. So, you know.
01:13:43
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I guess that, yeah, it's still very odd, though, that, you know, I'm just like, you know, thinking about it's like, what what else do you need to do there? Like, you know, that you spent a bunch of time in there already.
01:13:57
Speaker
what What could be missing? Yeah, and in this article also it does note that ah they they put nets over the entire queue for Zootopia better. Zoo gather. Can never say that correctly. um and And people have said that, you know, that every once in a while there's like ah a limb that falls or something like that. and that's why they have it as a safety thing. But maybe they put those nets up proactively because they're going to be doing some work on the on the outside of the tree. I don't know.
01:14:27
Speaker
I really don't. It is ah is a very interesting thing, though. It could be nothing. could be something, you know? I mean, you know, of all the things to put a ah permit on in Animal Kingdom, this is honestly the last thing I would have thought of because there's, like, the, the you know, the um South America's area. I mean, that's already, like, well.
01:14:50
Speaker
Yeah, they're building they're that's getting built real fast. i don't know if you saw pictures of that, but that's moving yeah quick. Yeah. Oh, yeah. yeah um So, yeah, it's it's just odd that, um like I said, I'm still just trying to rack my brain on what what it could be. Yeah, I don't know. But if any has anybody has any ideas, let us know what you think it could be. I'd be curious. But, yeah.
01:15:10
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So, I mean, that's our last item, Trevor. That's why we wrapped this bad boy up, huh? but That was fun. I didn't, ah I didn't realize that there was enough stuff going on for us to have a whole reckless speculation section. but You know, honestly, Trevor, whenever I go to write our rundowns, sometimes I will look at like the Parks blog and be like, wow, there's nothing going on. And then I have to like dig through internet to find things. Yeah. I just need to dig through the internet to find things. And then I find things and that are interesting and,
01:15:43
Speaker
That I think are interesting and that I think you think are going interesting, especially poutine hats. So you don't have to find more poutine related i want merchandise for me. I want a headband. i want a headband that has the ears, but in between the ears has like a little like ah like paper boat of ah of poutine.
01:16:03
Speaker
Not real. Like, you know, like in a like a little plush, you know. Just get give me that. Can I have that? but the The little – or, yeah, so the so the containers that they serve yeah all the food in. but Yeah.
01:16:15
Speaker
I'm actually surprised that hasn't been made merch yet. like That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just to get the little paper, you know, the little – boat is the best the way I can come up with it. But it's ah the little paper container that they put these fries in.
01:16:27
Speaker
And then, you know, you just put that on the – Oh, my gosh. I i just hadn't – I had an amazing but also terrifying idea on that front all of a sudden. To actually do that? so So you have like the little, you have the little paper bow. So it's like so like ah a plushy type version of it. Yeah. But then you have, so like for the different foods, you have like little like,
01:16:50
Speaker
but You know, like those those like chibi or like squish mellows or whatever. like like Yeah. Yeah. But so you have a bunch of different ones that you can like interchange into your your thing. So it's like like, you know, for all the foodies, you can have like ah collect like like a collection of like Funko Pops or something, but it's all like little plushies of like stuff from like elements food around the world.
01:17:15
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know. yeah Yeah. I was thinking you were going to suggest, i don't know if you ever saw Despicable Me too, but at at there's a point where ah Gru is wearing a a nacho hat. Yeah, the nacho hat. I thought you were going to try to say, oh no, let's get a poutine thing you can wear on your head and then you can just grab poutine off your head. that what mean i was thinking I was thinking more like little, just like a little merch thing that like you could you could collect like little so stuff from around the world. I don't know. but i was i took it to a weird level and I understand that. The idea of a plushy light of the the paper container that they serve stuff in it is really weird if you think about it. But also, it does make sense. so It does. yeah We'll leave that there.
01:17:57
Speaker
Yeah, just leave that there. Yeah, let's let's wrap it up. Yeah. All right. So, ah yeah, um since since it's the new year, give give me a moment. We've we've been gone for week You don't remember how to do this thing? Yeah.
01:18:08
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, that that was last year, Tom. That was that was a whole year ago. i haven't done this since last year. Can you believe that? going to do that thing? Yeah. I don't care. I'm a dad. I can do that. Yeah, you dad joke it up. yeah Exactly.
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On Facebook, you can check out our group Welcome Home Disney Waitlist. Where again, you know, there's there's lots of great conversation about stuff on the show. People share their own trip reports and thoughts and and all that kind of stuff. So, um you know, if you're looking for a good Facebook group, we got one there for you. So you you can join that.
01:19:03
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um And if you want to help support the show, you can go to store.welcomeonpodcast.co and you can check out some of our different merch there. Uh, maybe if you need a t-shirt for an upcoming trip or something like that, you know, we, we got you covered there as well. So you can check that out.
01:19:17
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Um, we also have a Patreon, so you can go to patreon.com slash welcome home pod, and you can check out our different, uh, different levels of Patreon support, which gets you exclusive Patreon merch that you can't get through the ah the store.
01:19:32
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And all of our Patreon supporters get access to the Discord server, which, as we talked about, is yet another place where we have conversations about the show and, um you know, just talking about stuff in general, sometimes random conversations.
01:19:47
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I will... I will mention it here um because, and I'm not going to spoil this for Tom, but we talked about Stranger Things before. Oh, yeah but but so somebody somebody on the Discord mentioned stuff about Stranger Things, but it was it was just like a passing comment, but I was like, I was...
01:20:06
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I was a little worried that it was going to turn into a whole conversation. A whole spoiler thing. Yeah. and but But, you know, people are, I appreciate people are good about that, that, you know, that there wasn't any actual spoilers going on, but we do talk about stuff outside of, of Disney as well on there, you know, stranger things case in point, which, you know, love stranger things. Just going to leave that there too, that, you know, it was, it was a great show.
01:20:30
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This is a frustration. the thing that they talked about was a frustration I have with a lot of TV shows where they spend too much time talking and not in in emergency situations and not enough time running for their lives. That was what we were talking about. And yes, yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah. I i got it once I watched it. So i I binge watched Stranger Things was the thing. So yeah, so I was i was behind, but I got caught up and I understand. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, that was an aside. Just, you know hey, yeah Discord server, we're there.
01:21:00
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yeah You know, you can talk about stuff with us. you You know, check out the Patreon if you want to get access to the Discord server. Last but not least, if you're listening on iTunes or Spotify or anywhere, you can leave us a five-star review. Please do so. um It just helps more people find the show. It's, you know, it's good for its good for feeding the internet Tamagotchi algorithm. i don't know. It's, yeah you know, it's...
01:21:22
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It's, hey, yeah you know, like your daughter with the Tamagotchi, you got it got to help us feed the show. like yeah You know, click those five stars. it's like It's like making sure that the Tamagotchi doesn't die. Make sure that it doesn't die. Yeah. yeah That's right. So you got to make sure you feed it pie and candy. That's what it eats. So five-star reviews are pie and candy.
01:21:42
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ah The other part that you have to do is not is subscribe to Welcome Home Podcast. That's the other thing. that's That's the candy part of it. So, you know, get the give give the podcast some candy by subscribing.
01:21:53
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ah You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music, just about any podcast episodes out there you can find us. Huge thank you to DVC Resale Market for sponsoring this episode and for being our partners for many, many years now. ah Join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion. Of course, more DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon.
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