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Episode 321: Chewbacca Animatronic, Projection Patent & Hong Kong Disneyland Updates
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Trevor provides a follow up about the Disney Cruise Line discussion from the last episode. The guys answer listener questions on which resort they would swap their current DVC points for and what character they would like to be in the parks. Home Depot is selling a 7.5 Foot Talking Chewbacca animatronic for the holidays as well as a Darth Vader and Storm Trooper version. Imagineering filed a patent for advanced animatronic projections potentially utilizing AI. The latest episode of ‘We Call it Imagineering’ has been released with a behind the scenes look at the design of the castles. Hong Kong Disneyland gave a first look at its new Moana themed restaurant, a new stage show, and concept art for a new Marvel ride.
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Weekend Recap & Cruise Conversations
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Thank you for joining us on episode 321 of welcome home a Disney parks and vacation club podcast. I'm Tom here. Trevor. How's it going Trevor? Hey, pretty good this weekend. How are you?
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I'm good. I'm good. I'm getting a little bit of a sore throat. I don't know if it's like a home. I'm just allergies, but hopefully I don't like, you know, lose my voice through this whole thing. yeah It's cold and flu season coming upon us. So that's yeah, but I don't want either one of those things. I don't want cold or flu. I know.
00:01:00
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But yeah. So I'm hoping allergies, hoping allergies. But anyway, but but before we get into things, um I need to have a bit of a follow up with you about um we were we had a conversation last week on the show about cruises. And yeah, I just I okay so i'm just I know a little bit about this just because of my wife is involved with this. yes exactly yeah so so so since Since that episode, there have been some conversations in our house which I did not expect to happen because you know as ive as I've said previously, you know my wife, um her she she has um vertigo issues. This was all like a diagnosed thing. She actually missed work because of it. like it It wasn't just like a a little thing. It's like
00:01:46
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like a pretty serious health issue goes rough that's yeah and so so because of that you know she was very um she she was it wasn't that she was against getting on a cruise but she's like she was very hesitant because um it was the you know what if i get on this thing and you know i'm you know laying in the room for four days like that's not fun right and and that's a very real concern i mean that's i totally get that Yeah. So, so, you know, we, we kind of, or, you know, we, we just kind of wrote it off as, you know, we're, we're most likely never going to get on a cruise, but then we had the conversation last week and, um, you know, you know, my wife and I talked ah back and forth about And then, um, I wasn't talking with my son about it, but he kind of overheard us. And then he was, he went and talked to my wife and he was like, where are you, are you guys going on a cruise or something? And and she was like,
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No, we're not. But, um you know, you know, your your dad was, you know, talking with Tom about it. And, you know, they were saying about, you know, maybe, you know, Tom or maybe Trevor and Tom could go on a cruise together because my my wife said she's like, you know if you guys want to go on a cruise, it's fine. And I was like, yeah, I, you know, you know, I, I wasn't worried about that. Like, I knew she would so you support me on that.
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yeah. I was like, I don't know if I wanted to go on a cruise by myself. Like it sure that that's a me thing. But then my son comes to me and he's like, so you you want to go on a cruise, right? And I'm like, yeah.
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And he goes, I actually would really like to go on a cruise too. And I'm like, Oh, and he's, yeah. and And so, so I'm like, Oh, cause the thing is, is that he's never like, we, we yeah talked about in the past, but he's never said anything about it.
00:03:28
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Yeah. And, and, and when he talked to my wife, my wife said, well, if you want to do this, you need to say something to your dad because he's thinking like, you know, he, you know, that he would just be going on this cruise by himself. And I said, well, and I said to my son, you know, this would be it would be a Disney cruise. like I said, you know, it's like, you know, you know, it wouldn't be like doing a Royal Caribbean or anything like that. It would be a Disney cruise.
00:03:49
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And I explained to him that, you know, that it like there's like kids areas, but you, you know, obviously you're, you're almost, you know, yeah Yeah. But, but he's, you know, he's trending closer to adults. adult yeah Yeah. And, and so i was like, you know, you may not He's like, no, I, I actually, you know, I could, you know, lay it by the pool and like do nothing and eat. He's like, that sounds fine to me. So I was like,
00:04:09
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oh, okay, this changes things, right? You've never really considered it before. yeah so So we actually had some conversations this week. and then And then because of those conversations, now, again, you know, my wife still has concerns about it. but Sure. But she started, like, because...
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Then she started thinking about, she's like, well, if you guys are going, you know, maybe, maybe I should try it. You know, maybe just see, see if it's as bad as she thinks it could be. Right.
Family Cruise Considerations
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And so then, yeah, that's where I know she started having conversations with your wife.
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yeah and and And I'm sure it was probably an initially, uh, like, yeah yeah back and forth yeah like carrie goes to me she my wife is getting her name's karen she goes and i've i've said her name before but she goes uh she goes jen's asking me about cruises and i'm like she is and and then yeah i felt bad immediately because i was like i was like i hope i didn't make her feel like guilty or anything on the last podcast because i was giving trevor a hard time about this because like i was like i was just giving you a hard time i wasn't trying to be like oh can't believe you can't go on a cruise you know like
00:05:16
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but No, yeah, but that that wasn't the the feeling at all. But like it's good but yeah it was funny because that like that conversation did spark a bunch of conversation in our house, which resulted in... And again, I'm not saying that we've committed to anything. It's got to do it, yeah.
00:05:31
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But we are definitely exploring... um potentially doing a cruise here in the next maybe two years. like what like And you guys can always start with like a short cruise and just like see how it goes. you know Yeah.
00:05:43
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Like a three-day or something like that. And then you know if it goes well, then you can go from there. I mean, they also – I think they cruise out of Vancouver too. So that's probably not too far. I mean, compared to like Florida. Oh,
00:05:54
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Okay, i I didn't even actually consider Vancouver, but I'll bring that up now. But so funny enough, when when we started talking about this, um so um so, okay, I'm going to give a little bit of behind the scenes. is My 25th wedding anniversary is coming up in 2027.
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And we, so we had talked about, um you know, doing a stay at a bungalow and, you know, we talked with you as well about, you know, yeah yeah you know, you guys coming, you know, us, you know, having ah a bit of a trip together at Disney world, but we were actually possibly thinking of um yeah instead of, cause originally that trip was going to be like, um you know, we were going to stay at the bungalow and then have like an extra long trip at Disney and going to universal for a couple of days and all that kind of stuff. But,
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it might actually be that we kind of do what you did back in May, where we go and do a cruise, you know, you know, nice find something, you know, do a cruise down in Florida and then come back and spend the time, you know, kind of make it part of our, our, our anniversary, but do the comp again.
00:06:58
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Yeah. But, but again, you know, this, this is all theoretical at this point. So we, we haven't committed to anything, but it's just funny how like that conversation on the podcast, um, sparked a bunch of conversation. And I guess, you know, things that, you know, I kind of made a bunch of assumptions. Like i didn't, you know, I kind of thought my son was past the point of caring about doing stuff like that. But when I said to him what it was, he was like, oh yeah, actually that sounds really cool. Like he, he, he was on board with it. So
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I mean, listen, when I was a teenager, a cruise was great because all I wanted to do was lay around, listen to music and eat pizza at midnight. Right. Like so like, you know what mean? Like that's what you get to do on a cruise. That's why cruises are great.
00:07:41
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You do nothing. You sleep in, you eat, you drink, you sit by the pool. you can, you know, can get pizza until late at night. It's great. Yeah, I get, you know, in thinking about it, you know, my my son, yeah, that's that's kind of exactly what he wants to do. so Exactly, right?
00:07:58
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Yeah. Well, it's funny because when you brought it up, I never really actually thought about it too. And I kind of like Googled it, like, you know, could can you go can you cruise with Vertigo? And it it does seem like, you know... If like you talk to like a doctor and stuff and like there's some ways to like mitigate it where it can be not bad. Right. or Or you can get around it because people do.
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i mean, people do cruise with it with with Vertigo. Right. But I understand the fear there because I know it's she you know, she had a rough go of it. So it yeah, you don't want to put yourself in a position like that. If you're you know, I can understand that fear.
00:08:28
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like totally yeah because you know again the the the problem is you know you know and and for anybody you know dealing with vertigo like obviously i very much empathize with you know you know having to go through with you know i didn't go through it personally but you know having to help my wife through that you know vertigo is it is very challenging and you know even like us taking our flights down to florida you know there was there there was concerns with you know vertigo acting up during those flights and yes you know we we did the whole like You know, we've consulted for medication, all that kind of stuff. But the big difference with the ship is that, you know, you know, my like my wife says, its like for a flight, it's like, hey, you know, that's done after like, you know, five hours. Whereas a ship is like, you're here for you live on the three days. yeah You live on this place. Yeah. so
00:09:16
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But but it's also Yeah. um you know Like we said, you you know you Jen was asking questions back and forth with Karen and kind of getting it. you know yeah We may look at, you know obviously, there would you know you know part of going on a cruise is like you know you hear you know the the outer facing rooms, like the veranda rooms, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you know those those always seem like the best thing. But for someone with vertigo, something more inward on the ship may make more sense.
00:09:43
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yeah Yeah, exactly. so So, you know you know, sacrificing the view for for comfort may be something that we're talking about as part of it. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, like I said, it was an interesting conversation that I didn't think I was going to have this week.
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I mean, i listen, i ah we you know we did the one, obviously, this year. ah And ah we're just itching to schedule another one, right? And the only reason why we haven't is, i mean, because my daughter had a blast. We had a blast. It was just great. I mean, it was one of the best vacations we've ever had.
Cruise Plans & Future Trips
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um but it's just, you know, we, we have challenges with my, with my wife's job and stuff like that. And so until we kind of settle that and hopefully we'll settle that before the end of the year here, I was joking with my wife. i was like, was like, as soon as you like, you know, lock down your job, I'm like, the next thing we're doing is like booking a cruise, right? Like, know like, Like that's going to happen like immediately. Right. Cause we've got the placeholder.
00:10:41
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We're like, we're just waiting, you know? Yeah. Um, so yeah, listen, I, I think you guys would have a great time. i and I, I think, yeah, there's some things you can definitely do to to hopefully mitigate it. You know, you can go during a less rough time of year. You, like you said, you can do an interior cabin, ah lower on the boat. You know, there's lots of stuff you can do. And, uh,
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And I, you know, I think i maybe like a short cruise would be great because then you could test it out. And then if she does well on it, you could do a longer cruise later then. I mean, you know. Yeah. And yeah. And I didn't think about the Vancouver thing like that's actually that probably makes the most sense for at least a trial run is but Because Vancouver is very close to me. Like it's yeah it's only like an hour flight from us. And then, yeah, you know, you know, it's very, very quick, you know, three days and then back is a lot easier to manage than us figuring out like a whole Florida trip. And this is part of it. Right. so i actually I actually looked this up, Trevor. I went onto Disney Cruise Line website.
00:11:39
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They do have van cru Vancouver cruises next year, but they're all one-way cruises. so they're not i guess they're I don't know if they're just repositioning or whatever, but they they they're like four-night cruises, and they go from ah from Vancouver to to San Diego.
00:11:53
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and That's so easy. yeah yeah good Yeah. I mean, there you go right there. You could just do that. You go from right from Vancouver to San Diego, then you just fly back from San Diego. We could even... We could even i mean, i've I've done this like a Disneyland trip out of it. Yeah, we we we've ah we've done this where our one year we had a trip to Disneyland. So where we live, it blizzards are a legitimate problem.
00:12:18
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And sure the way it the way it played out, sorry, this we're going down a rabbit hole. And this is just how the show is starting. that's what um Yeah. And ah so we we had this trip where we were with my parents. My son was, I think he was like, he was four or five at the time.
00:12:34
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And so the day that we were going to fly out, there was a, there was a snowstorm coming in and we, and so we, were so we saw like flights were getting canceled and we're like, Oh no, like we're going to get our flight canceled. This is going to like mess up our plans and everything.
00:12:49
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But then my parents said, you know, let's go to the airport anyway. We might be able to to do this. And I didn't know, like, they they they had done stuff like this before because, like, they'd always planned these trips when we were younger.
00:13:00
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And so they actually had a plan when we got there. And what ended up happening was we got to – we drove to the airport. The storm was coming in. And we got the last flight out before they closed down the airport.
00:13:13
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But the flight didn't go to L.A. It went to San Diego. ah So, so, and the thing was, is that when my dad was younger, he actually, um, he did contract work down in San Diego where he had to be driving all over the place. So he, he actually knows the area.
00:13:28
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So what we ended up doing was we flew down to San Diego, we rented a car and my dad drove back from San Diego up to LA. And we ended up getting to, um, we ended up getting there about the same time we would have if we'd just taken our regular flight.
00:13:42
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um But we missed the snowstorm and all that. and But because of that, like i like that trip, i I and I know this but this might sound crazy to some people, but because I've done that drive, um I remember it, even though it was like years ago.
00:14:00
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It's just i think you it's very memorable. Yeah. yeah but and And it's something about my brain that like I can like I can retain like directional information like that.
00:14:11
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So if I had to get, you know, if I had to go from San Diego and and drive back up to to Disneyland, like that's, you know, get off a cruise ship, drive up to Disneyland, stay there for a couple of days and then get on flight. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like it's up high five along the coast. That's great. Yeah, it's it's not bad.
00:14:28
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And so so that that might be a plan now. So so yeah just see. ah So I guess, Tom, you know, if if you want to feel bad now, you're making me make plans. Yeah. That my wife is going to find out about later. Yeah, well, that's there's that. Just tell her not to listen to the podcast from like, you know, 10 minutes to, you know, 15 minutes. I can't do that because... so so So my wife listens to this podcast usually when she's driving to work in the morning. So...
00:14:56
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ah usually I usually get questions from her like when I'm getting ready for work in the morning because she she leaves for work earlier than I do. And then she'll like get to work she'll be like, so what about this you talked about in the podcast? so I'm fully expecting that I'll have a ah conversation on like Monday or Tuesday about this.
00:15:13
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Meanwhile, my my wife is tired of hearing my voice in general, so she doesn't want to hear it more on a podcast.
00:15:20
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I'm just kidding. My wife is very much the ah the the murder podcast person. shea That's what she likes to listen to. Oh, yeah. that's yeah that's what she She listens to the true crime ones. That's that's that's her thing.
00:15:34
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So if we start doing true Disney crimes, then I think we're good with my wife. mean... i mean Okay, I'm going to write that down. That's waitlist. That's a waitlist. I mean, I would say Disney Crimes, though, would be like...
00:15:47
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i would say i would say disney crimes though would be like not ah So not not like true crime, but like Disney crimes to me are like things that people do at the parks that they shouldn't do.
00:16:00
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Like that would be that would to me be like a Disney true crime. Well, this is there's there's there's that documentary that I don't know if it's actually come out yet called Stolen Kingdom about the about ah the people that stole ah Buzzy from ah Cranium Command over at Wonders Life. Oh, yeah. I remember hearing about that. Yeah, I don't know if that ever came out to to actual ah to actual like ah you know streaming or anything like that.
00:16:25
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I wonder if they couldn't. i mean it was eight It was like eight months ago that that thing came out. I have no idea.
00:16:32
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oh man. It's made by bright suns. I don't like those people. I'm surprised they made it because they hate Disney. But that's either here or there. Yeah. but Whatever.
00:16:43
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Yeah. Like literally every every one of their videos on on YouTube is trashing Disney constantly. So I don't know why they'd make it. Yeah. that that That sounds like something I don't want to watch. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like ah we try to avoid the negativity here.
00:16:55
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exactly Yeah, anyway. yeah But but I think I can't believe you guys are talking about going on a cruise. I'm like so pumped for you now. I want this to happen for you guys. So, yeah, like I said, and just so we're clear, like this is a play like no plan. There's no plans. This is not guaranteed. I'm not saying that that, you know, it is going to happen, but it's on the table, which I think.
00:17:17
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You know, for me, you know, I, you know, talking about it on the podcast, I, I love hearing like, like, you know, I know I always say like, I've never been on a crew. So I don't know, like, you know, I don't, I don't have context around a lot of the stuff we talk about. And that's, that's the hard part for me is that I can't relate it back to my own experience, but Um, you know, the, the fact that this is a potential thing.
Listener Engagement & DVC Discussion
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And even, even if my wife didn't go, i mean, going with my son would still be a very cool experience.
00:17:45
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Yeah. I would, I would have a good, I would have a good time either way. And it's, and honestly, I could do it by myself too, or even, you know, going with you and, and, and your family. Yeah, sure. I could do it, you know, anyway, it's just, I, as I think the thing for me is as long as I'm doing it with people that I want to,
00:18:03
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spend time with like like that's probably not that's my biggest hang up and why I've been like no this isn't happening for me is because you know if if I if my wife wasn't enjoying it I wouldn't enjoy it yeah is my thing right I totally understand that like that's yeah I mean that's that's like with any vacation right like if your family's not enjoying it it's like it's hard to enjoy yourself you know um um so yeah no listen that's that's great i think the only downside of i mean you would do the west coast one as like a test cruise because like it's it's more fun to definitely go out of florida because you get to do the private islands you know which you don't really get on the west coast yeah and pacific versus atlantic coast is a different vibe for sure yeah is yeah i mean i have been in the caribbean though too yeah
00:18:49
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So yeah, this, this is the thing I've not been to the Caribbean or anything like that, but I've been, I've been along the East coast and and especially like, you know, obviously being down in Florida, like, yeah, I see where it's different. Like, like even, you know, I, it's a very, like the ocean, know,
00:19:06
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feels very different further south than it does like vancouver is far north and it can be the time of the year um the ocean can be very um inhospitable yeah yeah of course yeah of course yeah it really uh depends on the time year but the the caribbean is i mean you know it's it's a i mean it's a beautiful place there's the all the islands are really amazing and um you know there's there's just so much interesting stuff going on down there just a whole different world you know yeah and then you know of course the clear water man it's it's it's bonkers you know like those those those blue waters that are you can just see to the bottom and all the coral and it's just it's i love the Caribbean it's great but anyway we should we should talk about we should like actually get into the show but that no i'm glad you brought that update because that's uh i that is really really interesting and uh you know of course
00:19:54
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We can ah we can can help you, though even though we're not like pros a at Disney Cruise Line or cruising, really. I mean, I've only been a three cruises in my life. But um you know clearly the Discord, we have some some ah major cruisers in there. ah Becky was talking about all her... She's been on all the ships. Who else was in there? Was was it Dan?
00:20:12
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Was saying they've been on all the ships? I've seen their conversations back and forth. And yeah you know definitely... I will get to a point where I'll probably be asking them some stuff. But like I said, the the main thing for for me is just, you know, keeping in mind that, you know, I have zero experience with this. And, you know, you know, it's actually kind of funny because it's, you know, it's the same kind of thing as, you know, us talking to people about going to the theme parks.
00:20:36
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Yeah. Yeah. is, you know, you know, putting it from a lens of, you know, somebody who doesn't do this all the time. um It's going to be a very different experience from, you know, people who are on the cruise ships all the time. So, well, yeah, I mean, and so I need to figure out a very unique experience, Trevor. They're a very unique experience. Yeah. and And so the thing that I have to kind of figure out is like,
00:20:57
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I want to be careful, I guess, of not, like, trying to take the expert path and, like, you know, doing all the the pro moves. and I just honestly kind of want to experience it is the thing.
00:21:08
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i Yeah, I get that. I mean, there's, like, procedural stuff, you know, like, because it's weird how you get on and and off the boat. Yeah. that like Like, that kind of stuff would help you. But, yeah, the rest of it, it's like, it might be fun to just discover things, you know, and just kind of you know? Yeah.
00:21:21
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you know So what we'll see how this all plays out. Like I said, it this is just a conversation that started, but we'll see where where things go. See where you go. Yeah. yeah And listen, if there's any listeners out there that that do have vertigo and have experience with cruising, let us know. I mean, if you have some, that would be really helpful, I think.
00:21:37
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So, you know, reach out to the email or or Facebook, wherever. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to hear people's perspective on that because, yeah, it's, you know you know, cruising is one thing, but cruising with, you know, health conditions is I don't know that I've seen.
00:21:52
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and And to be fair, I haven't been looking for it, but, um you know, I don't know if there's been a lot of conversation about it. So, yeah, I would love to hear what people's take is on that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So speaking of email, we we got an email from Adam.
00:22:06
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So I was looking, Trevor, you know how like, you know, yeah in Gmail, it makes, you know, you kind of see like a conversation of like all the emails that you've had if, you know, has like the same subject line stuff. Yeah. The first time Adam emailed us about about listening to our show was 2018. Yeah.
00:22:21
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ah wow and And he just wanted to follow up. But I just was like, man, Adam, you you've been listening for the this whole time. Seven years. It's incredible. Right. And I mean, and and the the subject line was, I can't stop listening to your show, which is great, Adam. i You know, like and the fact that you you know still can't stop listening seven years in is is fantastic. So I just couldn't believe that when I saw it. was like, 2018, man. Like, Wow.
00:22:44
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Okay. You know, crazy. So, but Adam asked if you could snap your fingers and change all of your points to any other resort, would you, and where would you go? And for Trevor, if you had to change your points to another resort, if we're forcing you, there's no more poly closing the poly, where would it be?
00:23:02
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So, i mean, I'm pretty pleased with where my points are, right? Cause I, and I think I, uh, you know, have bought where I want my points to be. I would say,
00:23:13
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I would love some Copper Creek points probably we because we love staying at Copper Creek. So like if if we were going to change one, it would be Copper Creek or maybe even the new the new resort that they're building, Reflections, which is not really called Reflections anymore. I know, but it will will be Reflections to me forever.
00:23:29
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yeah um Lakeshore Lodge just sounds you know boring compared to Reflections. Yeah. I don't know if you want looked at construction that, by the way, Trevor. It looks exactly like the Reflections play. Yeah, like yeah it is. They just changed the name. yeah They just changed the name. anyway, go ahead. What what was yours, Trevor?
00:23:46
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Okay, so I have a few lines of thought on this. If if the Polynesian was suddenly no longer a thing, um i
00:23:58
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ah I guess places that I would that have always interest me to stay. i mean, Beach Club seems very interesting to me, mainly because it it is a unique resort and it has unique amenities that you can't get anywhere else.
00:24:12
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So, yes, yeah, one yeah. the The pool, the lazy river, all that kind of stuff. I would love to, you know, if if my points were suddenly there, I would not be mad. And also the location to Epcot is nice. Like it's, you know, I could, I could definitely yeah enjoy that.
00:24:29
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But um I think the, the next preferred resort it um Actually, or OK, it's going to this is going to be a split thing.
00:24:42
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And you'll understand my reasoning in a and a minute is I would actually want to default to the Grand Californian and because I've stayed at the Grand Californian and I know what I'm getting there.
00:24:53
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And I very much like, like the grand Californian. It's, it's a wonderful resort again, location. Yeah. Tough yet, but the, the location is amazing. The yeah you know, you know, you know, that would, that would be a choice, but then um kind of like you is, I would also not be mad about having my point suddenly turned to copper Creek either because wilderness lodge is the the florida mirror of grand california it's not mirror i know it's not exact it's a similar it's a similar you all know what you all know what i mean it's great you know you know wilderness lodge and grand californian are very similar resorts so yes so i would not be mad about staying at uh at copper creek
00:25:35
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but And of course you've been to Copper Creek before. Well, you've been to Wilderness Lodge, which is part Copper Creek because you've gone to Whispering Canyon. so Yes. yeah And also Artist Point too, right? Yeah, we went to Artist Point, yeah um i thought yeah. I thought you'd been to Whispering Canyon too. No, we no we we never did down at Whispering Canyon. I think that was that was supposed to be a trip that got um blown up yeah actually that hurricane got hurt no actually it was uh covid was uh oh yeah because we we had a plan for that and then things changed and then and then yeah that that was where we ended up because the the trip afterwards why why we end up going to artist point because but you know it was after covid and we were like you know let's let's go here but we you know artist point had just changed to the new storybook dining and all that so that's why i ended up
00:26:21
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doing that yeah Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. So, it makes sense so yeah, I mean, I think, uh, you know, you know, yes, I, I've definitely, you know, i know I, I emphasize it all the time that I'm in love with the poly and, you know, we're not, why would we not stay at the poly? You know, I, you know, I bought where I want to stay and all that. Um, yeah and I just, I, I love the vibe of it, but there's definitely other resorts that I would, you know, enjoy the vibe of as well.
00:26:47
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It's just, yeah. And unless they forcibly changed my points, I don't see that happening. So that's great. I'm just imagining a scenario. The put Polynesian wouldn't exist anymore. And I was... I, like, my brain went to, like, a very cartoony, like, ah somehow the wave machine that's still in... Although I think they finally removed it.
00:27:05
Speaker
Just, like, you know, somehow turned back on and got, supercharged and just, you know, took out the whole resort. ah Like... But, you know, I was... In a cartoony way, I was thinking in that in my head. Because, of course, that couldn't actually happen. And I am...
00:27:17
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pretty sure they took it out at this point. I don't think it's sitting under the water anymore. So it is wild to think that when Disney World opened that they had a wave generator that made waves go into the plane. I remember seeing the videos of it and I thought it was the coolest thing. like Yeah, I mean, it's just insane that they did that. I mean, and I understand why they had to stop doing it, but it's just it's kind of kind of crazy. so And then Chris asks us via Discord, if you had to spend a day in the park as a character, which character would you be?
00:27:44
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As a character. So not hanging out with a character, but as that particular character. Are we talking face character? mean, I think it's open to interpretation because he didn't specify.
00:27:57
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have to say, it has to be a face character for me because I'm not going to... It's too hot in Florida. I'm putting it that way. It's way too hot in Florida. Okay. So for me...
00:28:09
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I would want a character that could have fun as the character. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, that could be silly and, you know, or like i like a Gaston. Like, Gaston would be fun to be for the day, you know?
00:28:21
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Yeah. I mean, yeah, I was trying to, like, I was thinking about that, too. Like, the Mad Hatter, i think, is another fun one. You know know, it's a very, that would be a very cool character to be able to play if I was actually good at doing that kind of thing.
00:28:35
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um Yeah. Outside of that, I mean, umm i'm trying to think if there was like any other, i mean, I would mischievous character. Yeah. like Like somebody who has like, you know, like you said, freedom to like play around or and just like generally a very fun character. I'm trying to think of recent ones that have like,
00:28:56
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you struck me this is it I kind of want to take this in a, day you could do this as a different question to Trevor. If you could be the cast member at any ride for the day, which one would it be? Because I would go Haunted Mansion, right?
00:29:10
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Like, and I would actually play it up because we all know the Haunted Mansion cast members sometimes really into it. Sometimes not. Right. Yeah. Like you never know, but, or, and you haven't done rise the resistance, but rise the resistance, those cast members, uh, get to be super mean to the guests, which is really fun. Right. yeah I mean, they're, they're yelling at the guests and like, you know, treating you like prisoners and it's, it's great. It's hilarious.
00:29:36
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that's that's Yeah. I would actually, so if you have, we were talking cast members, um, uh, Tower of Terror would actually like I know like Haunted Mansion would be very similar, but fun but Terror Terror. Yeah, that they definitely they have a bit of a different kind of fun because of the fact that it is, you know, very um it's a very intense ride. Right. So, you know, they can they can psych people out a lot more than like Haunted Mansion, I think. And I think that would be fun. and I agree.
00:30:07
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ah you know, I actually, I I'm, I'm remembering now, actually, we had, sorry, but, um, I have lots of asides today. I guess that's just how the kind of day is. It's all good. You do, you do, you, but I remember, I remember now actually, so that this was in Disneyland when, when tower terror or before they changed it to, uh, um,
00:30:30
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ah Guardians of the Galaxy. But I remember um the cast member there did it was it was the funniest thing. um So we were we were getting onto the ride and, you know, he was, you know he was checking seatbelts and all that.
00:30:45
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And he was having a conversation and there was somebody on the ride that it was their birthday. And so then the cast members like, oh, yeah, yeah you know, yeah and, you know, he wasn't being like super in character. But then he was like, OK, you know, everybody, let's let's sing happy birthday to this person.
00:30:59
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He started singing happy birthday and then the doors closed and the ride started. Right. So so like, like you know, we were all singing that all of a sudden stopped and we all kind of laughed and whatever. And then the ride did its thing.
00:31:10
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And then when the ride finished, as the doors opened, he was singing happy birthday at the same spot. so So he like, like just continued on as if nothing happened.
00:31:20
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That's and that was like the coolest. That was a very cool, like tower of terror esque thing to do. Like, I love that kind of messing with people. Right. Yeah. I, I, I love like, if you're going to do that, it's gotta be a thing where you're messing with people. Right. Like that's,
00:31:37
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Like, that's what it has to be in my mind. Yeah. I don't know what else. I mean, I don't know what else. so I think, that you know great question. And, you know, you know fun fun thing to to think about is, you know, getting getting a chance to just, you know, play play in the parks, but not as a ah not as a guest. Right.
00:31:56
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Like, that's really what it is. yeah i mean that you're 100 right that that's really really what it comes down to right is that you're you're getting to you're getting to be like uh yeah youre you're just getting to to play in the parks without being a guest like that's that's who wants to be the boring you know cast member that that seems yeah not fun i want to have fun at my job doing these things you know yeah exactly yeah all right trevor we got to talk about this thing okay ah Okay.
Holiday Decor & Disney Innovations
00:32:23
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that So so this this is not this is not Disney Park stuff, but this is Disney enough. and ok I mean, it is Disney. It is.
00:32:34
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and yeah Go ahead. do you talk okay so is so the So Home Depot is selling a 7.5 foot tall Chewbacca animatronic for the holidays, which is such a wild choice.
00:32:49
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Like... It really Chewbacca all things. but and And it's Chewbacca with a Santa hat and a candy cane. So I guess he's not celebrating Life Day. I guess he's now celebrating Christmas. But seven and a half foot tall animatronic.
00:33:05
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like it's It's insane. Yeah. Like it makes noises. And yeah. Oh, my goodness. it it It's mouth moves. It kind of moves back and forth a little bit. um Yeah.
00:33:18
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Thank you. I just had. I mean, I had. Yeah. but So so I said this on the discord because we talked about this on the discord and I could not have this thing in my house. No, because of where my Christmas tree is, is that it's in view when I come down the stairs in the morning.
00:33:33
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And if this thing was next to my Christmas tree, I would think that there's an intruder in my house every single morning. Of course. Like, yeah, it would be bad. Yeah, it's it's unset by the way, this is the thing is for indoor use only and it's motion sensor triggered.
00:33:46
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So that's even worse. Yeah. You're really only doing this to entertain yourself. You know, yeah, I'm just imagining coming coming downstairs at like, you know, midnight to get a drink of water and just like turn the lights on. and Like, you know, you're the heck out of me.
00:34:04
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um Yeah. yeah Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Fun idea, but no. yeah this I mean, i do wonder, you know, because I know Disney just kind of licenses stuff, right? Like, and I know they probably have a say in it, too. But, like, this is so over the top. mean, it's great. Don't get me wrong. And it's I I'm I'm actually shocked that it's only three hundred fifty dollars. That feels like, you know, not that bad considering it's seven and a half feet tall and it moves and makes sounds and stuff.
00:34:37
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Yeah, I mean, i feel it like it looks like its motion is fairly limited, which I think that's probably more the deciding factor on the cost is that, you know, the the parts to make it move are actually not as expensive as you think they are, um especially if they're mass producing them. But yeah.
00:34:54
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Yeah. So you should also mention, though, to Trevor, this is just one in the and a line of Star Wars seven foot tall animatronics for the house. They also have a Darth Vader, an R2-D2 and a Stormtrooper.
00:35:07
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huh i did not put that in the article but they are there uh yeah vader is a definite no eight for the same for the same reasons it's just a shadow that i'm seeing in my out of the corner my eye has his lightsaber in one hand oh my goodness swinging it around and then the other one he has a death star a large death star ornament why i listen i i have no problem i think it's hilarious but i just if yeah if if this is your vibe for christmas i we're no we're not i'm not hating on this at all like i'm not here to yuck this yum it's this is a great yum but i think it's hilarious but this is not for me and it's just the stormtrooper's holding a giant candy cane instead of a gun but that's that is funny
00:35:57
Speaker
I mean, it's hilarious. Although he's not he's not really moving. The stormtrooper doesn't move that much. It doesn't look like. And he doesn't need to. he just to Oh, well no. He points the candy cane at you. Okay. That's great. you Pew, pew. If it doesn't make a pew, pew sound, I'd be very disappointed. Yeah. Yeah. It better. It better have the the the gun sounds.
00:36:16
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It says it it speaks three iconic phrases. Okay. Yeah. No, it's it doesn't. I don't know if you heard that the background, but I didn't mean for Barely. ah Yeah. Yeah, all he he just you know it's just like standard Stormtrooper nonsense, it says. It's like, stop right there.
00:36:32
Speaker
You know, like that kind of stuff. okay ah But the R2-D2 is actually sold out. The six-foot-tall animated ah l LED R2-D2. Wait, at six-foot-tall? Oh, three and a half feet tall. Sorry. three and i was going to say, that that's a huge R2. Apologies. When I first loaded the page, it said six feet tall. And i was like, that seems wrong.
00:36:50
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ah Yeah, no, I mean, that's kind of cool because that's three and a half half feet tall. It's got lights wrapped around it. It's head moves. It does all the beeps and the boops, you know. and Yeah. yeah Okay. So again, that's...
00:37:01
Speaker
that's Of all of these things, that one seems a little more reasonable because r two is can't be confused for person standing the room. Yeah. Yeah. Can you seriously, can you imagine they're just walking down your stairs and then there's a storm trooper holding a ah candy cane in your living room?
00:37:19
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It's like just yeah insane. So yeah, that's yeah.
00:37:25
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Ridiculous. Anyway. um Yeah, so we just had to bring that up. Apparently, they also expect you to use this possibly for Halloween, too, I guess, because I mean, so one of them said it so comes with a candy bowl for Halloween. And i'm like, OK, that's weird.
00:37:40
Speaker
It feels like I mean, they're selling it as a Christmas thing, but like the props should be interchangeable is what I feel like. it there yeah You should be able to swap them out. And, you know, if you want to have your, you know,
00:37:52
Speaker
You should be able to enjoy your stormtrooper all year round if you're going to have a stormtrooper in your living room. but Yeah, if you're going to stormtrooper in a living room, yeah, you should be able to swap that stuff out. Yeah, I don't want it there for a month. I want it there all year round.
00:38:04
Speaker
I mean, yeah, why not, right? I mean, the the the ah old wrestler Mick Foley, if anybody used to watch wrestling, is obsessed with Christmas, and he has apparently several rooms in his house that are just decorated for Christmas year-round. So, you know, just just roll that way.
00:38:20
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I guess, i guess yeah, you you can do that too. there's and I guess there is no hard and fast rule saying when you need to... Oh, I'm so going to regret saying this sentence. um There's no hard and fast rule saying when you need to put up or take down your Christmas.
00:38:35
Speaker
Oh, that's there's the conversation for later. ah No, no. OK, I'm going to stop this now. where We are not putting up our Christmas decorations until after Halloween.
00:38:47
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And I know that my wife is listening to this. I'm saying this now. I love I love it i love it ah I also was just imagining to myself how funny it would be if you got the Darth Vader one and the Chewbacca one, and then you put them across from each other, and then they would both trigger their emotion sensors, so they would just be going back and forth for eternity.
00:39:06
Speaker
It's like how Furbies, when you would put them against each other, and they would just go back and forth. Yeah, you just get both of them, you put them opposite of each other, and you just let them let them ah fight of a fake war for...
00:39:18
Speaker
for the entire day i can only do that for one night and then i would have to turn them both off because i wouldn't want to hear just the constant back and forth yeah yeah i mean i am just imagining this being a an in p impulse impulse buy that like a a husband would come home with and be and the wife would be like you you bought you bought a seven foot tall chewbacca like are you insane like you know this is our life now Yeah, this is where we're got Chewbacca in the house now.
00:39:48
Speaker
It's a pretty good look at Chewbacca, too. I have to say he he looks pretty good. and So anyway, but let's move on to other things. Yeah. well Sorry. Just one last thought. what What could actually be like the worst thing is if you like put it in like a pantry or something like that.
00:40:01
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So that would be the funny thing to do is like constantly put it in different rooms. Yeah. Like put it in the shower, like before. you like Yeah. Yeah. And then someone opens the shower curtain and then there with
00:40:15
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that's how it should. Trevor, you found the use for it. Prank. There we are. Yeah, there it is. now Okay. All right. ah Good enough. yeah Yeah. we ah um Yeah. Anyway, let's actually let's do our ad and then we'll we'll talk about some some more AI coming to Disney parks, maybe.
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Dining & Disney's IP Strategy
00:41:09
Speaker
All right. i it's It's funny. As we're doing this podcast, I just got a text from one of my friends that is going to Disney for the first time on Monday. And I had promised that I was going to provide lots of tips and resources. And I've just been busy and have not talked to them. And they're like, hey, so like going to Disney in two days. You want to to help me out?
00:41:28
Speaker
was like, oh, shoot. Sorry. There's things they should have done about five days ago. Yeah, it's okay. I'll, I'll, I'll send them some stuff, but, um but yeah. So, okay. So the, the, the headline of this article, and by the way, this is a, we'll, we'll give credit where credit's due. This is being reported by, ah by WDWNT.
00:41:45
Speaker
um And this is a ah patent filed for some new, potentially new animation projection technology using AI, I guess. Sometimes I feel like nowadays, Trevor, and I'm sure you feel this way, too, especially being in the industry that you are in, that yeah AI just gets thrown on everything as like a marketing thing. and not I mean, i know given this is not a thing that they're marketing, right? this is ah I just feel like it's getting overused as a thing. Yeah. but I mean, AI is being posed as something that can solve complex problems. But the reality is, is that it can only do very...
00:42:21
Speaker
simple tasks at this point yeah i i'm gonna i want i want to read this can i read this yeah thing that they put in the patent because i this is a whole lot of engineer talk but i want to read it anyway ah a method includes determining an orientation of a mechanically animated surface relative to one or more projectors configured to project content onto the mechanically animated surface, dynamically rendering the content based on one or more parameters derived from the, or this is one sentence, by the way, derived from the orientation of the mechanically animated surface relative to one or more of the projectors and presenting the content on the mechanically animated surface using the one or more projectors.
00:42:59
Speaker
Now, if I break that down, what that says to me is that you're talking about instead of what they do now, like, and I think the, the big example of this that everyone will point to of these projection faces is frozen ever after. Right. Cause they, yes and they haven't really been doing that since then. I mean, really that's the main one I think of, but what it sounds like is this is more like projecting,
00:43:22
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the face on a moving surface and being able to kind of like keep up with the movements and in render it in real time. Yeah. And I, I mean the, the face projection thing is the obvious tell there, but it's, it's not limited just to that.
00:43:39
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. So, so I mean, I, I look at it it expanding beyond like, Um, so, uh, okay. I, I guess, as you know, this would be where I think an example this would make sense is like, so the, the Indiana Jones ride has the, you know, you go into one of the, uh, one of the side rooms and there's like bugs crawling on the wall, but it's just like, it's just projected from the lights on, on the Jeep. Right. Like it's, yeah yeah but, and it's like a flat projection thing.
00:44:07
Speaker
Um, this to me sounds like, you know, they could take something like that. And, you know, the thing that's projecting it makes for like 3d image on the wall as your vehicle is moving. So like, it so then it's moving and projecting it across the wall in a way that and makes sense and doesn't look fake. Right.
00:44:26
Speaker
yeah. I think feels like a thing they could use in shows too, right? Like yeah project on the people that are moving and like, you know, yeah, that they're you're right. There's a lot of applications for this because, because the interesting thing is that, you know, the, the face projection thing, like, you know, on animatronics, animatronics are relatively predictable in their movements.
00:44:46
Speaker
Yeah. And the whole point of this AI thing is that it's meant to, it's meant to work, um, adaptively with, um, um you know, something that that maybe is not moving in in ways that you would expect it to, right? Like, you know, it doesn't have a set path that it's moving on, which, yeah, like you said, you know, if if you've got a show where, you know, actors aren't always necessarily on the same mark or, you know, things happen, but the projections are always reliable, right? Like that's yeah That's, I guess, the problem that they're trying to solve here or that what I see in this patent is that you know they're trying to solve a, you know hey, we want to project very complex things, but we want to be able to do it in a way that you know if the projector moves or if the target of the projection moves, that it's able to adjust in real time using AI.
00:45:35
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This also says, too, though, that the i AI could be used to render projected content and animatronic movements going so far as to identify guest interactions with the animatronic, like speech and gestures so it can respond appropriately.
00:45:48
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So this is almost like more interactive animatronics, too. it references a real-time puppet. um which could interact with guests in real time using ah using AI, which they already did this a little bit, but not with a puppet. They did it with, ah there was, I forget what event it was, but they had ah they had the AI-powered Mickey where you could like have a conversation with it, but it was just on screen.
00:46:13
Speaker
Yeah, but it was just on a screen. And it was you know and it's pretty cool. I mean, don't get me wrong. like it was It was pretty neat. But, ah you know, and they also mentioned, too, here that the the projection ah projections can appear warped, misplaced, or otherwise unrealistic due to the movement of an animatronic where the projections are not rendered for the specific movements of the animatronic. So kind of what you were just talking about, right? Like, it's it animatronics are predictable predictable, but if the idea here is that they're going to do one that's, you know, programmed at a time. If the animatronic is AI, it's moving independently, you want the projection to be able to work with it, yeah.
00:46:49
Speaker
Yeah. so Interesting. You know, listen, yeah Disney files hundreds of patents and doesn't he always use all of them. They have an entire part of Imagineering that's dedicated to to just like research.
00:47:01
Speaker
Right. So that's how you end up with some of the things in the parks, but some of the things they just invent and never use. So who knows? Or again, yeah like they've said in, you know, watching Imagineering or we call it Imagineering. And yes, we'll get to that in a minute.
00:47:18
Speaker
but I thought you were going to do like a really good transition there. I was going to, but I'm doubling back on it because this is what we're doing today. um they've They've said on previous episodes that you know ideas get yeah you know just because an idea isn't used now doesn't mean it's not going to be used in 5, 10, 15 years.
00:47:35
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yeah they never let a good they never let a good idea die at imagineering i've heard that said many times yeah so yeah that's that's exactly right but to your point uh the next thing we wanted to talk about was i do you have you watched any of these things trevor you watch the i call it imagineering series i do i've i've tried to watch a couple of them and i keep getting interrupted by other things so i have not actually watched a full episode all the way through yet they're I mean, they're very interesting and they're fairly short. They're only like 25 minutes. Right. And so and I, you know, you got to I watched I watched this one before we even talked about it on the podcast, you know, before I put it on the podcast list, because I just you know how like ah when you when you pop up YouTube, it just like recommends stuff to you. And it just so happened I'd popped up YouTube and it was like, oh, new Imagineering. You know, we call it Imagineering out now. And I was like, oh, all right.
00:48:22
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Let me go check that out. Might as well. I got some time. Nobody's around. Let's let's you know, I've got the TV to myself for for once, which, you know, is never the case. So ah but anyway, yeah, no this one was interesting. They talked, ah you know, about a bunch of different things.
00:48:38
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They actually talked. just kind of about the idea of castles and then just, you know, like how some of the details of some of these castles and listen, I've seen pictures of a lot of the ones overseas, but like they really took like a deep look at like how they design these things and you know, why they do certain things. And, you know, they talked of course a little bit about the whole repainting of Cinderella castle,
00:48:59
Speaker
uh you know which is which was part of this as well uh and i you know i don't know why i forgot the fact that they that they repainted it for the 50th anniversary i forgot that those two things were associated i just didn't think of that way i just thought they repainted it i was so long ago like yeah i should remember though i should remember these things but um but yeah i mean you know and and also they just rebuilt that one castle over top of the other castle i think it was in what was it hong kong yeah they yeah Yeah, back in 2020, Hong Kong built a castle over their original castle. That's because they originally had built the Sleeping Beauty castle and because they were Hong Kong was just a straight-up copy of ah ah Disneyland. and so
00:49:42
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But that now they went and they built a much bigger castle, and they literally just built it over top of of ah ah the Sleeping Beauty castle, which is kind of cool, actually. i mean Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:53
Speaker
yeah it It is a neat thing, but i'm I'm kind of glad that... I hope they never get that idea for Disneyland. No, no. As much as, you know, hey you know, the the castles have gotten bigger over time. i will say that, you know, there is a certain amount of... um charm to the Sleeping Beauty castle, which you'll like, when you do eventually get to Disneyland, you're going to, you're going to be shocked at the size difference. yeah Like it's, it's honestly, it's mind blowing how,
00:50:28
Speaker
yeah you know talking in in the sense of this you know you know looking at the different castles that have been built like the scale that they've they've moved up over time is honestly insane like well yeah the shanghai one is absurd is insane like that it's gigantic i mean yeah it's it the details in it are crazy too uh you know so just some of the things they did around it uh is is amazing so that i mean listen some of the international parks they've got like you know they've got like a rides and animatronics underneath the castle and everything. Paris. Paris is a great example of like a
00:51:05
Speaker
a much more fleshed out castle than, than what you get in the North America parks. They also, they talked also about the, the Disney adventure too, which is ah the new cruise line ship. Cause they do, they don't a castle on there, but they have a giant mural of a castle, which by the way, I didn't put this on the rundown, but I just, I was just reading that this ship got delayed by three months.
00:51:24
Speaker
So um our, our, I believe our, our friend Brian from ah DCL duo was supposed to be going on the inaugural cruise. And I don't know. Now he's got to wait three more months. So, Oh yeah. Yeah. Not good.
00:51:36
Speaker
Yeah. That's not fun, but no, it's a bummer. Yeah. It's a bummer. Um, but you know, the, the adventure is a very unique ship for Disney. So ah it is we're not going to get into the adventure, but anyway, all right. Yeah. No, go these out. They've got some really cool ones and they always talk to like older Imagineers too. And, and kind of go through, ah you know, why they did the things they did and and stuff like that. And, um,
00:51:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's really it's really neat. Yeah, I agree. You know, like I said, you know, I i just I've had I like you. I try and find time to sit down and watch these things. But what ah what always ends up happening is that, like, I'll turn on a YouTube video and then I'll either get interrupted by um work because I do get pinged outside of regular hours because of the type of job I have.
00:52:22
Speaker
Or, you know, you know, my my son, to you know, needs something from here. Like, whatever. You know, there's just always inert interruptions. And then and then I just like legitimately forget what I was doing.
00:52:34
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And so then i never go back to it. i mean, it's so it's totally interesting that that happens to me a lot. Like, so if I can actually sit and watch something, then it's great, because otherwise, like you said, I will forget. you know, like I'll totally forget that I was watching it, but ah yeah, there's some interesting stuff in this one. I mean, cause they even, they even talk to the, you know, the team that does the projection mapping on the, on like Cinderella castle and how the fact that they're repainting it means they have to redo all the projection mapping because the colors show up differently. Like these are things you don't think of, right. You know?
00:53:03
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yeah Yeah. That is exactly it. there Yeah. it's It is a canvas as well. And if you change the color on the canvas, you got to redo all the, all the lighting as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:53:14
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Exactly. So, yeah, go check that out if you're interested. But and we're going to end ah we're going to end this week on ah talking about Hong Kong Disneyland because for some reason, there's a whole bunch of Hong Kong Disneyland news. and i Yeah. Was there an event we missed? I don't know.
00:53:29
Speaker
But like all of a sudden, the whole bunch of stuff came out. yeah I don't know what the context is for it But, yeah, I guess they want to make sure that people know that they've got – New food there that i hope that we see some of this food come stateside at some point because it looks really good.
00:53:43
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Yeah. So mini food time time, right? Yeah. Just a mini food time. Yeah. Yeah. That's all you get. um if ah Just a tease.
00:53:53
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I know the last time we said that we ended up talking for a half hour. There's not a half hour worth of stuff to talk about ah and this one. So especially a lot of this stuff, Tom won't eat anyway. So yeah, sure. So there's a new place called Wayfinder's Table at Hong Kong Disney Resort. And you know, if you're, if you know anything, you know, Wayfinder refers to Moana, right? So this is a Moana themed resort.
00:54:13
Speaker
I mean, resort, a restaurant. ah And it's, you know, Pretty cool looking. It looks like a quick serve, right? It's a quick serve. Yeah. yeah that's Lots of very Polynesian inspired um food here. What is the thing in this main picture up top with the like, does it come in this little boat with the little back part that has it for for dipping sauce? Like, I think so. Hold on. Let me let me. because I kind of want that. Like banana coconut fritters is what I think those are.
00:54:40
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Explore the ocean banana coconut fritters. Do you get to keep that? Is it like a souvenir deal? I would. a I mean, could you have imagine that they gave you? Yeah. like Like they gave you this cool little boat thing and then they're like, thank you. And like you take it, you take it back and watch it and it just gets all grody every time. Yeah.
00:54:58
Speaker
Now it's so there's, then you got to carry this thing around too. Like, well, out there's also that. Yeah. and That's also a pain, but so let's see beef steak. um I'm not going to, you know what? I'm to let you say these things. me i get I don't know. I don't know how to say this.
00:55:13
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I don't know what a lot of these are either, but, but yeah, there's, yeah, there's that. There's a, there's a chicken leg, which pretty straight. Yeah. Chicken leg with grandma's signature rice, Mally Kofta with lentil masala, Massamen prawn curry. Prawn curry would be good. Yeah. i would you you You would eat a prawn curry or you go. No, I would eat the other stuff though. You go for the chicken.
00:55:37
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Yeah, of course the chicken. Yeah. I'll eat the chicken. Give me the chicken. Yeah. I'll eat the rice too. i like rice. Yeah. And then there's a there's a seafood laksa soup noodle, which, again, like this is a like I i would go for any of these.
00:55:51
Speaker
What's the one that has the Kakamora? um Yeah, that's, you know, the whole reason I actually put this on here is because I thought that that and the boat were cool. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. that kind of more It's like a little bento box. Yeah. They, but there's like, yeah, there's like the little, there's like a little bowl on top and then you open it up and then there's the, the different sections inside. Like you said, it's a bento box, right? So it's, yeah but it's, it's just very cool looking. I don't know. It doesn't really say, does it?
00:56:17
Speaker
Yeah. Like I'm looking on here and I don't see, would this be? Is that maybe like the kid's meal or something? Comes like that? like Kofta, uh, vegetable carrots.
00:56:29
Speaker
Yeah, no, nothing really matches the, like, this isn't matching any of the descriptions, right? Is that a carrot cut like Mickey? Is that what I'm seeing? Is that? Yes, it is. Yeah, that is.
00:56:40
Speaker
Well, and the in the one next to it, there's a there's a little shaped Mickey Mouse. That's an egg. Oh, they have the egg? my God. No, no, no. no no its not Wait, wait. That's not an egg. That's butter, right? No?
00:56:53
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No, it says the seafood laksa soup noodle shrimp scallops, squid, rice noodles, crispy noodles, and Mickey egg. that So that's the yolk of an egg they made it yeah into a Mickey. they shit Yeah, that they shaped into like a 3D Mickey.
00:57:07
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Yeah, I was going to say, by the way, well I'll post this picture, but... in case you're wondering i'm not talking just like mickey ears i'm talking full mickey face yeah like like a 3d it looks 3d printed it does yeah man they they always do so many cool things with their eggs man man yeah do you remember when they used to do the cool pads of butter at the restaurants that were shaped like they had the mickey they why don't they do that anymore i miss that i mean yeah you know it's I get there's a cost associated with it, but like, I don't know. I, I feel like, you know, investing in that means you'll get more people.
00:57:45
Speaker
I would be more into stuff if they did more of that kind of stuff. Like I used to love that. Like I, that's a distinct memory from my childhood of sitting at a restaurant and then bringing the little plate of butter over for your bread.
00:57:57
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And it was shaped, it was, it was shaped into Mickey. Yeah. And I mean, I feel like I've still seen it recently. It's just not as prevalent as it used to be. Yeah. It's yeah. So again, and stuff like this, you know, Hong Kong definitely is leaning in on, on that kind of stuff, which yeah. Like, like this whole menu is, looks great.
00:58:16
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It does. i would, the other thing, the other thing, go order some type of, know, is there anything else you want to talk about on this one? No, no. I think, I think that's good. Yeah. So they also announced that there, there's going to be a new Pixar show,
00:58:32
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How do you edge Pixar's show? Yeah, featuring Monsters, Inc. the The concept art looks pretty cool. ah Because you have like the cd the CDC guys... ah ah Or a CDA guys, sorry, right? it's Child detection. you see Yeah. yeah walking through the Walking through the crowd. There's like a door.
00:58:50
Speaker
There's somebody... Boo's riding the door at some point here. There's doors all over the place. They don't really say what the... cutting edge thing is going to be, but they're saying it's going to blend real and digital environments to connect to generations of Pixar friends, which they're kind of doing at some of the shows at Disney world now.
00:59:07
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. you You know, it would be the, or I guess ah to me, the, probably the, the cheap obvious thing is, you know, this is monsters Inc. If you know, doing the effect of Randall appearing and disappearing with digital effects would know,
00:59:24
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And this actually goes back to, you know, talking about the patent of AI stuff is, you know, if you have like, you know, somebody like Randall who is meant to like blend in, you could use lighting to do that.
00:59:35
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Right. Like, yeah, kind of a neat idea. But so so i was all excited for a second because I was like, oh, this is Monsters, Inc. And I my head immediately went to that. They were doing a stage show of put that thing back or so help me.
00:59:48
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which we Which we have been speculating will replace Mubbit Vision 3D in Monsters, Inc. But that's not this. That's not what this is, no. This is just featuring Monsters, Inc. Yeah, it looks like it they're they're playing out scenes from like the the first movie, Monsters, Inc., which yeah is still good, but like I said, I still just really want to see, put that thing back, or so help me. Listen, we might get it it in Monsters, Inc. land. I mean, you know, you never know.
01:00:16
Speaker
yeah so that's So yeah, there's not a lot to talk about on that, but then let's... i want to talk about this ride, though. Yeah, this so ride. Yeah, so we got some concept art for a new ride at Hong Kong Disneyland, which is Avengers-themed, because um you know they can do fun Marvel things everywhere, but here...
01:00:37
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Uh, well, you know, sorry, but yep. Just not here. Yes. Uh, but so there it's rumored to be a tower of terror, like attraction.
01:00:48
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Yeah. Which now yeah makes it look like guardians, right? Like, like this is going to be like the, the guardians ride. Yeah. But the, the building is much more, I mean, it's much more Avengersy, right? Like the guardians one is very guardians. This is very much like an Avenger building.
01:01:05
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Yeah. um But yeah, it says team up with the Avengers for an unexpected adventure in the thrilling new Marvel themed experience only at Hong Kong Disneyland. This is from social media.
01:01:17
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Uh, the concept art we have, you got Thor in there, you got Dr. Strange, I'm seeing Black Panther and I see Spider-Man. And what it looks like, it does look like a Tower of Terror kind of ride vehicle.
01:01:29
Speaker
But yeah, and like you said, in the one concept art, you know, they have like, you know, Doctor Strange opening a portal, which I feel like it's good. That's going to be like the, you know, you're dropping through portals kind of thing, you know, like like how he did to Loki.
01:01:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. In the movie. ah You know what? the Like, it's it's it's disappointing to me if all of it doesn't go up and down. Now, given I'm never going to ride this because it's not anywhere near here. But like, I don't know. i just I want something different that like it. Why are we making another Tower Tower? Well, I can just, you know, throwing. I guess the one thing that that i'm I'm noticing with this is that... the So, actually, the the interesting thing is that looking at these these concept arts, the Spider-Man one where he's holding onto the car and the one with Doctor Strange in it, the car is different, which is a little confusing.
01:02:19
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um But... You know, the thing I'm noticing is that they're very deliberately like the the top of it is open. It's open. Yeah, it's it's like mesh almost. like Yeah, which i to me what that feels like is that it's, yes, it's going to be a drop ride, but I feel like there's going to be a lot of visual effects and potentially like animatronics above and around the yeah the car that, you know, for, yes, being just a drop, yeah you know you know, like a Tower of Terror type ride, you know, that experience is not...
01:02:50
Speaker
so much exciting, but if the visuals paired with it are, you know, over the top and and crazy, I think that can make up for it being just a, another drop tower.
01:03:03
Speaker
Well, what they should do is what they do at the end of Rise the Resistance. And no spoilers here, Trevor. I mean, you know, because i know you know you haven't done it yet. But it at the end, you know, the you're on a trackless ride vehicle that ends up on a simulator base that they ah basically put they put the simulator base in a drop tower. So you're on both a simulator and in a drop tower.
01:03:29
Speaker
right So like you it's basically like if they just took Star Tours and then put it up 50 feet in the air and then drop it down. Yeah. what I mean, if they did that with this, that takes it to a different place because then you don't just have the up and down motion. You also have the you know the lateral motion and and all that kind of stuff. so And you know who knows, too?
01:03:51
Speaker
And I don't know if everybody realizes this, right? like There's Tower of Terror all over the all the Disney parks. However, the one at Disney World is the only one that actually gets out of the elevator. It has track that it moves on. Yeah.
01:04:04
Speaker
All the other ones just go up and down. That's all they do. Yeah. So like if this is one that does that, which, you know, based on the show, based on the building here, I mean, doesn't, I mean, there could be a show building behind it, but you know, kind of seems like it's just straight up, up and down, but who knows?
01:04:19
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but Sorry. What were going say? I was just going to say you know, you know, the building Tower of Terror in Florida doesn't it's very unassuming. It doesn't look like there should be a lot of space to move around in it.
01:04:30
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This Avengers ride, um the I guess, depending on the scale of it or what, you know, what it actually how yeah it actually gets built out. It does look like there's a lot of room for potential movement.
01:04:42
Speaker
But like, good yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. ah It's a cool looking building. I have to say that the building is very cool looking. It's very Avengers-y, you know? Oh, totally. Yeah, it's... yeah I hope that, you know, I guess, you know, they're kind of showing it, you know, concept art here.
01:04:57
Speaker
Sometimes the scale of these doesn't play out. like quite the same. Like, I hope it, I hope it looks as big as the, the concept art is portraying it. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:08
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Well, and you know, listen, there's, we know that we don't know a whole lot about the Avengers ride that's coming to Disneyland at this point. Right. Cause we do know there's going to be more than that. You know, I actually, my brother-in-law you know, is, is a big Marvel fan and I, I really like Marvel too. And he's more like,
01:05:25
Speaker
Like deep in the comics and also, but like he goes opening night to every Marvel movie, like that kind of person. Right. And he told me he's like, once they finish Avengers campus, like let's do a Disneyland trip. So that might end up being my Disneyland trip once all the, all that stuff is done.
01:05:42
Speaker
um But you know, we'll see. Yeah. but I mean I haven't been there for any of that either. So yeah, yeah that would be.
Marvel Rights & Universal's Future Plans
01:05:48
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Listen, I'm still holding a hope that Disney's going to get the rights ah from Universal at some point and and and and do something with it in Florida. Because you know, like, even... even i mean, i wouldn't be shocked if they tried they made it... The Fifth Gate is Marvel, right? Like, the Marvel is an insanely valuable property.
01:06:05
Speaker
Like, insanely valuable. you know it Do you know what's wild, though, is that I think... this ah This is just my aside wild speculation because, ah you know, being to Universal just this last year, i think, yeah you know, whatever agreement they have, when Universal is ready to redo that whole section of, ah of or you know, all the X-Men area in the comic book stuff, yeah yeah I think that's when you'll see... yeah you'll see things change with Disney. I get the feeling that it's currently, it's just them saying, you know, yeah, we have this section of the park and we just don't want to confuse IPs and all that.
01:06:46
Speaker
And once Universal is ready to like, I know that there, there is lots of expansion talk over there, but I think once that happens and once they, or once they start like doing some renos and Island of adventure and, and I mean, the, the sad part is, is that, uh, uh,
01:07:03
Speaker
Hulk will have to either rebrand or be changed out as a ride, which like I mean, hulk that though they could yeah Hulk wasn't my favorite coaster there, but it's still a very cool coaster. And so I just hope that when they decide to redo that area, that it's not or that the the casualty of it is not them taking out Hulk.
01:07:24
Speaker
But that's. you know That's an aside. Yeah, and and listen, there's i it's it's interesting because i we we we talked about this. There was a rumor a little while ago that ah Universal was was coming to coming up with concepts to re-theme ah you know, Marvel superhero Island. Right.
01:07:46
Speaker
And that kind of made it seem like, well, maybe they're ready to give up this IP and, you know, not give it back to Disney. Cause I'm sure Disney's going to have to pay them an absurd amount of money to make it work.
01:07:58
Speaker
But ah yeah, I, I mean, I, you know, listen, it's, ah the the the good thing about it trevor to your point right like mo with the exception of the spider-man ride the other things are pretty much off the shelf rides that you could just throw another ip on you know yeah they're not yeah you're right yeah they yeah yeah nothing about any of the other rides is is exclusively like honestly like the the storm teacups and the dr doom tower yeah you're right they could just relabel those with whatever they want. I mean, even the Hulk coaster, just paint it a different color, throw a different IP on it. You don't have to paint a different color. You can just call it something else. It could still be green. It's a Shrek coaster.
01:08:38
Speaker
Yeah. Shrek coaster. Done. Like, see, I mean, donkeys, tea cups and lore Farquaad's drop tower. I mean, seriously, you could. it wouldn't be that difficult. And, i you know, i it's it's not like, I mean, I'm not saying it's not like a ah well-done part of Islands of Adventure, but I'm just saying, like.
01:08:58
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it It's showing its age. I will say this. So, like, we when we were there, you know, we we talked about it in our in or trip report. is or I don't know how much we, i remember how much we went into it, but, like.
01:09:10
Speaker
We started in like with like Harry Potter and Jurassic Park and all that. And then by the time we got to the yeah like Marvel stuff, it was like it didn't look It's like, oh, this this is it.
01:09:27
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All the all of the rides in in Marvel Superhero Island were built in 1999. Yeah. And it shows no joke. Like they were all, I'm not given. They probably they've refurbished them and stuff like that, but you're not talking. There's not like new stuff happening there.
01:09:43
Speaker
There's just, there isn't right. So the whole area just shows it was built in 1999 and not. Yeah. yeah not Not by a company that it was trying to make something timeless. It it feels very stuck where it is. So, yeah, you know you know, you're right. Maybe you like, yes, you know, I i know we're talking about, you know, like a Hong Kong ride concept here for for Spider-Man. But, um yeah, you know, with with stuff kind of, there is a lot happening at Universal. And, you know, we've said this before, you know, if even though we are a Disney podcast and whatever, you can't ignore Universal and you can't ignore the fact that they, you know,
01:10:17
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stuff that they do does affect things that happen at Disney. Yeah. And, you know, you know, maybe again, you know, it could, it's still, it'll still be years out and, you know Disney has other plans right now anyway, but,
01:10:29
Speaker
I mean, they're building a bunch of stuff too. I mean, it's not like, you know, they're building a ton of stuff, right? so Yeah. But, you know, maybe like I said, you know maybe though when they finally decide to retheme that area that, you know, that's just going to open up the next wave of, you know, you know, changing stuff up at Disney again.
01:10:45
Speaker
Right. Like, if and, and I feel like, and again, this is, this is my conspiracy theory hat on right now is that I, I feel like Disney and universal have had this conversation and I like,
01:10:59
Speaker
ah he's up pant I can't believe that they haven't been like, okay, well, we're doing like A, B, and C. And, you know, once we're done, yeah, you know, we'll, you know, in five years, we'll talk about, you know, we'll hand you over Marvel because by then we'll be done, ah you know, the Zelda expansion at Islands of a Adventure. Sorry, that's another rumor, but I want to believe it's true um because I love Legend Zelda. And, you know, maybe...
01:11:23
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yeah Just to stay in Nintendo IPs, maybe it'll turn the Marvel area into a Metroid area because I love Metroid. And I know you probably don't understand what I'm talking about, but I know all the Metroid lovers out there. yeah Sorry, they announced Metroid Prime 4 is coming in December and I'm super excited about it. So I just have to throw that there.
01:11:42
Speaker
It's fair. It's fair. Yeah. Listen, I i would not be... i Listen, they they had long negotiations about Hulu, right? So... Yeah. Which I guess ah your your stuff is turning into Hulu now, right? You're going to have Hulu in Canada, i think. I think they're getting rid of the... What is it? Star or whatever you have.
01:12:01
Speaker
But... um no that's I think it's rebranded, but it's still just all part of Disney Plus, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're just rebranding as Hulu, right? But when when Disney bought Hulu, they the co-owner of it was was ah was Universal, right? and And they had to there was a whole lawsuit and everything because you know Disney thought Hulu was worth X and you know and and Universal thought it was worth – well, it's really Comcast. Let's say Comcast, right?
01:12:27
Speaker
But, you know, like, so they had a whole thing about it. But I guarantee you while they were talking about that, this came up like i I don't have any information on this, but I Iger's knows how valuable this is. And Iger would absolutely love to have Marvel in the at Disney World, like 100 considering that it is everywhere else at this point.
01:12:47
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. So I don't know. I would be shocked if they haven't had haven't had that conversation before. But, you know, who knows? Right. So and and, you know, listen, you we'll have to see. We'll have to see what happens when whoever replaces Iger, ah you know, if if it ends up being Josh.
01:13:05
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I'm putting this out here as a reckless speculation is that, you know, we we have like the next five years known of like park expansion and stuff, you know, we know what's coming with, you know, you know, villains land and, you know, cars and monsters Inc and all that.
01:13:20
Speaker
I think once this wave is done, the next wave is going to have Marvel stuff. All right. That's like my, that's my take. And we can revisit this in five years.
Bluey in Disney Parks
01:13:31
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I'm also going to make a bet, too, that at some point in the next five to ten years we will have – and listen, this is not this is an easy bet to make because they kind of already said they were going to do this, but they haven't announced anything.
01:13:42
Speaker
Bluey is going to end up in the parks somewhere, right? like Oh, yeah. I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet. And I did see that there's like a Bluey roller coaster opening up somewhere somewhere else. at ah There's like a Bluey park somewhere. But Disney, I believe, owns the theme park rights to Bluey in the States. So and maybe not everywhere else.
01:14:00
Speaker
Um, but blue is going to end up there somewhere, right? Like that's going to happen. It's especially with a movie happening, believe next year no, I think they said 27. Uh, thought I, I thought it was 2026.
01:14:13
Speaker
i I can't remember. i i yeah It was either 26 or 27. But yeah, let's see. okay release Here's twenty years's a hot take. August 27. So we're still two years out from the movie. Okay. yeah So, okay. Here's a hot take.
01:14:29
Speaker
yeah Would you be mad if Mickey's circus area in... Turned into bluey. Turned into bluey land? Ooh, that's tough. Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:41
Speaker
you' talking You're talking about the whole Dumbo area and all that? Yeah, and Barnstormer like and all that just um became like like Bluey bluy- themed. I would rather just have a new thing themed to Bluey, you know, and not like an overlay.
01:14:54
Speaker
that's what That's what I'd rather have, I think. um I was just thinking about because, you know, obviously Bluey would replace, you know, a a kid's area. that's your dots That's just the one that I thought of immediately.
01:15:05
Speaker
It's hard though because Dumbo's over there. Because Dumbo is like over there as a ride, Yeah, I guess... Yeah, I guess Dumbo, Dumbo, unfortunately, is things it can't be removed, I guess. so You just can't remove Dumbo. Well, I mean, you could always you could talk like Animal Kingdom. They can make it like an Australia land or something. And just well actually so. So actually, that was the other thing I was thinking, too, is, you know, they just recently closed the Boneyard.
01:15:31
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What if that got some some Australian? But that's going to be South America land, though. You can't have. Yeah. Bluey and South America land. Hmm. Yeah. Uh, they're making it complicated.
01:15:44
Speaker
you got to keep up the theming. Okay. Hollywood studios, hollywood Hollywood studios had the honey. I shrunk the kids place. They could figure out how to put bluey somewhere in Hollywood studios. That's all good oh gone already though. Like that's gone. I know, but that that that doesn't mean they can't bring it back. Like, yeah i mean Like a play area? A play area is too easy. yeah I want a whole... I firmly believe, even though I don't have kids of an age that use a play area anymore, I believe every park should have a play area or should have somewhere for kids to burn off steam, for parents to relax. and and you know
01:16:20
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It's a little shaded. you know maybe some be like you know like They have like the Moana thing in in Epcot and and like ah various play areas around Epcot. and it's like they They need that in every single park is my opinion, because it needs, like said, even if I'm not going to be using it, there needs to be that kind of space.
01:16:40
Speaker
Oh, I 100% agree ah you know with you. But I also think to myself, like I want that, i but I also like would want i want a bluey, give me bluey dark ride, man. like i want a full on bluey dark ride. Okay. Give me that. Yeah.
01:16:58
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So, and yeah. And, you know, yeah Okay. Okay. let's Let's just get into it here because clearly, you know, we've tap danced around it and not even how to do this. Yeah. well Well, but obviously, you know, you would like you and I have both watched Bluey at this point, right? I love Bluey. Bluey's great.
01:17:13
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. like and And yes, it's a kid's show, but it's it is also very much targeted at the adults as well. it's and There's a whole episode where the the healer parents are like hung over from the day before and the jokes that they are making are hilarious, but a kid would never get it in a million years, right? Yeah.
01:17:33
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It's I mean, there there are so many funny things on that show that are for adults. And like, listen, a lot of Trevor, like a lot of the shows in our youth were like that, though, too. Right. Where they had, you know, there were jokes happening on, ah you know, Ren and Stimpy that were way above my head when I was kid. You know, i thought it was hilarious. But now when I look back on Ren and Stimpy, I don't.
01:17:51
Speaker
to yeah I won't know say at the time. Yeah. But it's it's more disturbing than I remembered. But I found it funny at the time. yeah That's but that's, you know, and Bluey's not that. But different lens. Yeah.
01:18:02
Speaker
Yeah, but Booty's not that, but it's it is one of those things where – I mean, but even like Toy Story is that, right? like Like if you watch Toy Story as an adult, it's a different experience that – you know, like they make some subtle adult jokes in there.
01:18:14
Speaker
you know that is That is true. Yeah, I think – you know, that ah that's true I think for a lot of Disney shows, that's honestly. Oh, 100%. Yeah, there there are plenty of jokes that are not just jokes, but there's a lot of things that happen that, you know are not necessarily targeted at the kids yeah per se. Right. So, yeah, it's yeah, you're right. I just think Louis does it better than anybody. Honestly, it it definitely hits. It hits a weird mark where like and weird in that.
01:18:44
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it it resonates so well. Like it feels very um like the, the, the person or the guy who wrote it is, you know, he he conveys things in a way that like, even though it's a specific scenario happening to the healer family, it's super relatable.
01:19:04
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Oh, a hundred percent. Like it's like, even though it, like he said that it's, you know, his, you know, his family experiences and everything is it's like, yeah, I see where, like, I get this, right? Like, and and, and, and it's a weird thing that I don't think a lot of shows capture. Well, necessarily. Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:23
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Or, you know, that it's a hard thing to do. Yeah. they they They do it with some subtlety sometimes too, right? Like yeah there's like some real subtle things in there that are very much like, you know, I wouldn't, when my wife, my daughter and I watched it, there were times where they would do things in it that my daughter would not have noticed at all. But my wife and I looked at each other like, yeah, like that's how it is. You know, like that's, that's how it is to be parents and and how it is to be adults and and and all that, you know, and it's, ah I think, I just think Bluey does that better. I mean, it's also just a legitimately funny show.
01:19:54
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Like, it's just it's just funny. And and yeah, like i said, for for us, it was, you know, we we we started watching it because there was, you know, we we had heard a bunch about it. And, you know, obviously, ah you know, our kid is not at a point where he cares about it in any way, shape or form. But, ah you know, we started watching. We're like, oh, yeah, I see why.
01:20:12
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see why people get yeah I see why this hit the way it did, right? And yeah yeah you know it it was enough that you know we we enjoyed it. and and you know And the nice thing about it is, like I said, you know talking about, like hey, bluey stuff in the parks, it's like, yeah, I get why...
01:20:27
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I get why people want it and I get why it needs to to be a thing. So, and I know again, we, this, this is another episode of, you know, we just kept going down rabbit holes and yeah, we we somehow got here again.
Adapting to Popularity Trends
01:20:41
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Well, it's just because I read an article yesterday about there being a new bluey rollercoaster and I'm just like,
01:20:46
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Man, Disney's got to get on this because this was the same problem with Frozen with them. Right. It was like, now, given Frozen has had staying power, but it might not have. Right. But, you know, the success of Frozen definitely surprised them. And then it took, I mean, and how long did it take to get the ride? I mean, you know. Yeah.
01:21:06
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like And that's where it's like, you got to capture that moment. you know like it's But it's hard too, right? Because yeah you can't always... like be Something being a phenomenon, um you know they don't know... like so yeah Yeah, it can burn out or or it might have the staying power. like I think that they like they they had the initial hype of Frozen and I think...
01:21:27
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they were so busy kind of reacting to that, that they just didn't know. um or, you know, it's not fair to say like, well, you should have jumped on it. Like, you know, hindsight's 2020 and yeah we can all say like, you know, they, they should have had something out year one. And it's like,
01:21:44
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It doesn't work that way. And especially, you know, something like, you know, building a theme park ride is, you know, that's not just a, you know, okay, flip a switch, you know, let's build something. it's like, nah, this is like a years and millions of dollars of commitment.
01:21:56
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And so they have to be like, you know, they have to be sure about it to a point where it doesn't turn into, and sorry, I'm i'm going to use universal as the example, because i very much saw it over there where there's a bunch of IP at universal that is,
01:22:11
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you know It was relevant at a point, but it's kind of where it's fallen off, right? And yeah and you know Disney doesn't want to be in a position where they're having to redo stuff every five or ten years. Reduce stuff because it's fallen off, not because it's like... um you know There are legitimate reasons to take out rides and yeah you know things do run their course. But if it's if everything is you know lasting five years, it's not sustainable for them to keep... like reinventing rides or re rebranding rides to keep up with whatever the new hype is.
01:22:45
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yeah So I, that's I get it, but that's true. i you know, it's, it's, I, if I remember correctly, bluey was the number one most streamed show last year.
01:22:57
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like by K-pop demon hunters came out. and Well, well, yeah, but that was, like I mean, it's 2024, but even, even looking at it now, uh, as far as most stream things, it's number four right behind K-pop demon hunters. So it still has that staying power, right? Like it's still hugely popular.
01:23:16
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It's, and, and I don't think it's going anywhere. That's the other thing. Streaming now kind of changes things, right? Because something can be, can last for a long time.
01:23:26
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Yeah, it's it's it's not as dependent on like a on like channel or, you know, reruns. There's no reruns anymore. Yeah, it's it's not like cable channels like adopting it and saying like, okay, we're going to run this and it's going to take up a time slot. Now it's just like,
01:23:42
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hey, it's hosted here, and as long as as long as you want to watch it, it's it's sitting there until we decide that you know the licensing is done or whatever, right? like Yeah, yeah. The staying power is much different now, and that's I think that's a big part of that. so But anyway, why don't we wrap up, Trevor?
01:24:01
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Yeah, yeah yeah we we could talk for another hour about this, but maybe this will be, again, we can... We need to figure out some, we haven't done some wait lists in a while and we need figure that out.
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Any good wait list topics? Yeah, yeah let's let's put that out there because we, you know, we like to do wait lists because there's not always times where Tom and I can record in a particular weekend and the wait lists kind of give us, um you know, something more topical that we can...
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01:29:40
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01:30:03
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