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Episode 335: DVC 35th Anniversary Logo, WDW Deals & Rapunzel Casting
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The guys answer a listener question about using the Disney Plan with a DVC reservation. DVC released a new logo for their 35th Anniversary and guys try to figure out which resorts are represented. A new Bluey experience is debuting at WDW in the coming months and a recent casting call provided some more details. The guys discuss some of the new deals and experiences WDW is promoting this year. Casting updates for the live-action Rapunzel movie have been released, revealing who will play Rapunzel, Flynn, and potentially Mother Gothel. Disney filed a permit for the replacement of the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin sign at Magic Kingdom.
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Introduction and Weather Discussion
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all points unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Rental Store. Thank you for joining us on episode 335 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom, here Trevor. How's it going, Trevor?
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Hey, pretty good. how's How's your weekend going? Mine's actually, ah or it's strangely warm here. Oh, it is here too. It's record highs here today. It's like 73 degrees Fahrenheit here today. It's like zero here, which is like unheard of in January.
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That's such a difference. Yeah, I know. It's funny. You know, highlighting, you know, perspective. record high is 32 degrees. Perspective means everything, right? It does. But but yeah, we're we're having we're having a good time up here. We're supposed to be getting a deep freeze, but I'm kind of glad that it's held off because yeah we we actually... And I wish i should have taken pictures of it. We we had... um ah So there's a phenomenon called hoarfrost, which it sounds it sounds scary, but it's actually not. um it's It's very cool where like literally like the frost like sticks to everything. So like oo all of the tree branches and everything are like white. And it's very... um I should have sent you a picture because it would have... I googled it. Oh, I've seen that before. That's really cool. It almost looks like feathery.
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Yeah. So, so we, that's actually been what we've had here for like the last couple of weeks. And actually, I think I'll have to ask my wife. I think she took a picture of the the front of the house or like the tree in the front of the house with it. Because it's it was very like, or, you know, to to tie this to Disney is, you know, there, you know, people have been talking about like, oh, the winter in...
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or, you know, Arendelle in Disney Paris or whatever, Frozen Land, right? And it's like, and it snowed there. I'm like, it's so like Arendelle. And I'm like, yeah, well, I get to actually like live in that. You live in Arendelle. Yeah. It's very, very snowy a lot of the time. Yeah, that's, that's crazy.
Labyrinth Anniversary and Nostalgia
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I'm actually, I'm doing a, ah I'm not doing a Disney thing today, but ah like a semi Disney adjacent thing today. It's not even real. It it really even isn't, but,
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It's it is the ah it's the 40th anniversary of the movie Labyrinth, Trevor. Oh, yes. I didn't know that. For the 40th anniversary of at Labyrinth, they have brought the movie back to theaters. Now, listen, this is not in any way related to Disney, really. But it is a Jim Henson yeah movie. So it's technically under the the Disney umbrella now. It's not. no I don't think it is iss because it was a Sony movie actually back in the day. Oh, I thought all of Jim Henson's stuff was like absorbed by disney This is interesting, though. labyinth was or or So Labyrinth was Jim Henson made it, but it was yeah made for Sony. Yeah. It was distributed by Sony, but was also a co-production with Lucasfilm. So Disney may own a part of it so um since Disney owns Lucasfilm now. So I don't know. All I know is it's a crazy movie. If you've never seen Labyrinth, ah David Bowie, ridiculous in it. Did you hear about the babe?
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Like what? You don't know the lyrics to the song? Oh, my goodness. Oh, I'm sorry. I was like, what talking about? The babe with the power of yeah the power. Sorry. I'm not there yet.
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Catch up, Tom. it's been a's so It's actually been a really long time since I've seen Labyrinth. Probably since the honestly. I'm pumped to go see it in the theaters. It's going to be fun. Okay, so so here's here's the thing. I don't actually remember the last time that I've watched Labyrinth front to back, yeah but it is one of those movies that is heavily ingrained in my head.
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like yeah I get that. I can like i could sit down and watch it, and I'm like... Oh yeah, I know the scene. Oh, I know, I know the part where she's talking to the two guards and she's trying to figure out which one's the truth, and which one's lying. The worm that tells her, you know, if she went the one way she would go to the castle. Like I, I know the movie, but I don't watch it though. Like, like, like I haven't watched it, but I
Labyrinth Universe Expansion
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know the movie. So yeah. like And listen, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a really good movie. Like I said, it's been a long time and, and you know, there's, it's basically, you should play the mini golf course because they have the mini golf course for it and walk about. Yeah, we should play that. I should play that. um Yeah, no, I mean, listen, there's very few human characters in this movie outside of like ah David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. And it's mostly puppets. And, you know, a lot of the voices and, you know, people in it are the people, you know, from the Muppets. I mean, you know, Frank Goddard is in there. you got Dave Goels. Yeah.
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You know, you got you got a bunch of those people. Steve Whitmire, these are all people that do all of your favorite Muppets and that are also in this too. So it's, ah yeah, if you haven't seen Labyrinth, I'm sure it's streaming somewhere out in the world. i don't know where, but... Yeah, and and if your kids are going, what's Labyrinth? This is a good opportunity to sit down and introduce them to the world of Labyrinth because yeah it it it is one of those unique, like, 80s fantasy things that it's like, I wish...
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or you know it's a Sorry, it's a double-edged sword because I know they did this with Dark Crystal and it wasn't well received. is like I wish that there was like further universe building of it, but at the same time, I also understand...
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if they did that, it could, it could potentially ruin it for me because it like, honestly, like the, the movie is very nicely. Yeah. Act up. it Like it's front to back, like just a solid movie, but the universe is so interesting. Right. It is. Yeah. They, they create a lot of really interesting, like, uh, uh, what do you call it? Yeah. Like, like you said, it's the, the, the interest is the ah universe of, of, it of it is a really interesting. Like they could have done a lot more cool stuff with it. Probably. Yeah.
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You know, listen, it's it's ah it's I'm excited to see. I don't think i I mean, I didn't see it originally in theaters. Right. Because it came out in 86 and I was too young at that time to go see that. So but i I definitely saw it in VHS later. Probably. yeah i I'm trying to remember. I don't think it was it wasn't one of the movies that I went and saw in theaters when it came out.
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But. Yeah, that was definitely like or or so I guess to to put it in equivalency of like how much effort you put into watching movies in the 80s versus now is that that was a movie that we when it was the early to mid 80s. So because I grew up in the 80s, there was a point where we didn't own a vcr Oh, yeah. And we would we would have to rent our VCR.
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Like, we would rent the VCR and rent a couple of of VHS tapes and watch them over the weekend. And I remember Labyrinth was in that. Like, I think that was like, you know, it was one of those weekends where it was like, oh, we and we had like the big VHS, like the top loader VHS thing.
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and its The top loader. I love it. Yeah. like Like, yeah, dude, if you if you haven't seen a top loader, like those things are crazy. um And, yeah, and and but it was I feel like it was as big, like it was as important as like going to the movie theater, like, like, you know at that time, it was like, oh, because we were renting a VHS and like bringing it home and hooking up to the TV and everything.
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It it had that same like I know watching things in the theater has a different impact. But because yeah. But like that was still one of those movies that even though I watched it at home, it like instantly stuck with me. So, yeah. By the way, I just looked this up. It's available it's seemingly it's like one of those things that is available for streaming like everywhere. It's on Hulu, Peacock, Disney Plus and Netflix. You can watch it on any of those places. Good.
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Yeah. Don't watch it. Why? Why? OK, more, you know, more companies pay attention. Like do that. Yeah. Why can't we do that for everything? Why can't why do I have to like find things all the time? um But yeah. So listen, David Bowie, super creepy and it really well done.
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Yeah, it's a really good it's a really good movie. So go check it
Live-action Rapunzel Casting
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out. I'm excited for you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited too i'm just excited to have a night out, you know, just the to it's not even really a date night because we're going with friends, too. But um it's funny, though, Trevor, because one of our friends refused to go. And I said, why don't you want to go? And she's like, I was traumatized by David Bowie in this movie as a child. Yeah.
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He's not even the worst thing in the movie. like I know. She said she just said he creeped her out so badly that he didn't want to. Okay. Yeah. mean, yeah, he is the Goblin King. I mean, he's so he's creepy. He's creepy. Yeah. It's fair. I mean.
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Anyway. what What was his name again with a J? I'm sorry. I'm. Can we tell what? I'm sure the Goblin King's name. Is it Jareth? think it was Jareth. Sorry. It is Jareth. You're correct. Yes. Yeah.
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But like said, this this is where this movie sits in my head. like I feel like you need to watch it now. I might need to. Yeah. You might need to sit down tonight and watch so watch some Labyrinth, you know, now that I'm talking about it. I'm going to like randomly bring this up to my wife and be like, you know, we should watch Labyrinth. She's going to be like, why? then she's going to listen to the episode she'll be like, oh. Or I'll forget entirely. And then she'll be like, why didn't we watch Labyrinth? Yeah. Either way, you're going to watch Labyrinth. Yes. I'm a big fan of them bringing these older movies back into the theaters again. I actually really wanted to go. They brought Back to the Future back in the theaters, and they did the those 40X theaters where it's like ah it's like a Disney show. The extra effects and everything, right? Yeah, and I really wanted to go see it. But it's always such a limited time, you know? And like kind of all the moons have to align for me to actually go see a movie. so ah You know, that's honestly...
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You know, the whole, you know, saying like, you know, that that's a limited time, you know, it does create a sense of urgency around like going and seeing stuff like that. I'll be honest, I'm not opposed to more experiences like that where something pops up and it's like you get a chance to experience it or you miss out and and not from the lens of like, you know, you know, invoking that fear of missing out.
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But. It does kind of bring back like, you know, when these movies were coming out theaters, like it was, it did feel more like a unique. Like an event. Yeah. Yeah. It was an event and it was a unique opportunity. And, and you, because, you know, I remember there was movies where it was like, you watched it in theaters and, you know, it was over a year before you could get it on VHS. If you could even get it on VHS. If you could even get it on VHS. Yeah. Yeah. So.
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Yeah, I kind of, i'm I'm a little more receptive now to these like 4D things because I'm seeing where like they're they're giving that opportunity of an experience, not just like yeah re-watching a movie, right?
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. And by the way, this was, ah I think this was the last film that ah that Jim Henson
Disney Dining Plan Advice
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actually directed. So there you Another reason to see it. Oh yeah i guess yeah, I guess it was after Dark Crystal, wasn't it? Yeah, it was his last one. So yeah.
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Yeah. Crazy. So anyway. All right. Anyway, let's talk about actual things. Yeah. All that aside, we have some listener questions. Well, a listener question. Yeah.
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I thought there was two. Oh, no. Sorry. Formatting. Formatting. That's what it is. My fault. It looked like two. Okay. Do you want to read this so you want to read it? Yeah, and ah yeah go for it. All right. So this is Matty emailed us. ah Hi there. Taking extended family vacation December of 2026. It will be my baby's first trip to WDW and everyone from him to his great grandparents are going. We can't wait. That's awesome.
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i love I love that kind of those kind of trips. We've we've done that, too. And it's it's a it's a really cool memory for everybody, I think. You know, um my question is, if I book a placeholder reservation 11 months out of Copper Creek where they own and purchase the dining plan on the DVC website with that, can I easily switch resorts to seven months out to Polynesian or Boardwalk and keep the dining plan?
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Or do I need to wait to book the dining plan until the resort is 100% set? I was thinking booking the dining plan now due to the Kids Eat Free promo, but wasn't sure how Disney dining plan worked if I wanted to switch resorts when my booking window for other non-home resorts opened. Thanks in advance for the clarification.
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And as a PS, Maddie from Minnesota says, I would love to talk staying at DVC and doing Run Disney if you ever want or need a guest on the pod. So there you go. All right. We can talk about Run Disney one of these days. Okay.
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Um, but so I actually, I looked this up because I did, I'm not gonna lie. i didn't know the answer. And this is a specific, I mean, this is a specific promotion. So, um, from what I, from what I've seen here, you can, once you've actually, ah you can, you can do the dining plan. Now you can book your reservation now and you can change without an issue later down the road.
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So like it says, you can, you can still change and you're not going to lose the dining plan. So I would do it all now, but just keep in mind that when you do the dining plan, you're going to have to it in full up front, I believe. Yeah. The other thing with that, too. So this is my experience because I a couple of times I've had to go and change things at like, you know, just reservations or ad or whatever.
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um My experience with things like this is like, you know, if it's booked and if if it has a tie to your room um and you're changing your room. I would recommend, um you know you know, make the changes, but you may need to call ah member services just to make sure that they like that you talk it through with somebody to um make sure that it does get updated properly. Because I got i did get burned once with... um uh, or i'm not, not burned, but, uh, it was, it didn't get attached properly. I made some changes to a reservation and it was actually my, um, uh, my memory maker or or the photo pass or so used to be memory maker, um, didn't get attached properly to my, like they, they just didn't think I had memory maker and I had to go and like call them and be like, Hey, you know, I moved this, it had it. And and they're, they're like, Oh yeah. And they did it whatever they did on the backend and they updated it and it was fine. Right. So, but,
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um But yeah, like i said, I would say the caveat with that is, you know, yeah, book everything now. In my opinion, it's a lot easier or you know, from experience, you know, get everything you want booked and then you can always phone them and, and you know, say, I want to change this and kind of talk through with them.
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what the options are right so Yeah. Yeah. And I just looked at like the the fine print here and it says ah once you've added dining plan to your reservation, you can modify or cancel online. Now, I don't know if they're referring to that you can modify or cancel the dining plan online or the reservation, but it doesn't say anywhere that if you change your reservation that you're going to lose your dining plan. Modifying would can would include changing, you know, to different resorts, right? so I would think so, yeah. That seems valid, yeah. Yeah. I mean, now, as far as how easy it's going to be to get Polly or Boardwalk seven months out, that's different question. yeah Yeah. So, yeah, I guess that statement of can I easily switch resorts as seven months to Polly or Boardwalk? Yeah. Yeah.
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I would say between the two, you stand a better chance at poly right now because of the fact that there is now the tower. The tower, tower yeah and yeah. And so, again, depending on the size of your family, i don't know I know you have a lot of people in your family going if it's if it's multiple studios, um, yeah, yeah. You know, yeah there we don't know we don't know what they're booking, right? yeah there There's long houses in the, in the, uh, you know, the long houses have a whole bunch of studios. So, so there's that, but then the, uh, you know, the Island tower has, um you know, one bedrooms and all that. But the, the tricky part is, is that there is, there is less one bedrooms than there is studios. And again, depending on the size of your, your, your, party,
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You may find challenges with getting it the seven-month mark. i I will admit I honestly haven't looked at what seven months looks like for the tower right now because yeah um because my family, we we we're able to stay in studio. So i I usually end up just staying in the longhouses because – Well, you also just prefer that because it's close to the TTC, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there is that, but but also, like, i we could do a studio in the yeah in the tower, but I just don't bother looking at it because, this like I said, the size of my family, and know was it's you know usually three of us traveling, so we don't need to...
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yeah Yeah, I don't look at those other room types is the only thing. So I can't really tell you if how easy or difficult it would be. But but like I said, just thinking again about how like Polynesian versus Boardwalk in terms of like the size and availability, Boardwalk is also one of the smaller resorts too, right?
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Yeah, I mean, boardwalk can be a challenge. It's very popular, obviously. It's you know it's it's right there at the... you're You're looking for close to resort, which I appreciate. I mean, close the resort close to the ah to the parks, right? Yeah. And so really, you know it's it's interesting because you know you're going to book Copper Creek, which is... I love Copper Creek, and Copper Creek just got a nice refurb too.
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Yeah. like it's it's Even if you stay at Copper Creek, it's still not the worst. like Oh, I love Copper Creek. like Yeah, Wilderness Lodge is still fantastic, but... Yeah, getting getting into Pauly or Boardwalk, like I said, Pauly, I think, is the easier of the two right now.
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but I would think so. Yeah, I would think so. um Because they just, but I mean, especially if you're, again, it it really, it's hard to answer this question without knowing the size of your party and what kind of room you're doing, right? Because, you know, there's different resorts have different room types and and different amounts of those rooms, right? So um to Trevor's point, if you're doing, a you know, separate studios, like Pauly's got a lot of studios, right? I mean they pretty much have all studios except for the Island Tower. So, yeah. yeah So, yeah, I mean, i don't know. I hope we i have that helps a little bit, but I think you're OK on the dining plan thing. I would just double check, though, with like member services and make sure that you can change it down the line. But it seems like from what I'm reading, you you can and it it's not going to cancel. And especially if they're doing this as a limited time thing, ah you know, the the free dining thing, jump on it. I mean, if if you know if you want to. ah Because, because it's, ah you know, they they do more in a bunch of times that it may run out at any time or, you know, that they have a limited amount. So now whether that's true or not, or that's just for them, you know, them trying to create urgency.
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i don't know. It's good question. but well I think it's them just covering themselves that people don't assume that it's going to, you know, because they they could decide at any point just, you know, yeah, we don't want to do this anymore. And it gives them the out to say, you know, yeah, I'm sorry, it was limited availability. Yeah, it ran out. Yeah, it's it's really it is really just covering covering themselves. Yeah. So yeah. ah But yeah, so that's that's really ah i hope that that helps. i but Listen, we like getting email ah email. So, you know, please feel free to email us when you when when you have questions like that.
00:18:57
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we We would like to do more listener questions. I think, again, i kind of miss doing listener questions, you know? Yeah. I mean, again, yeah to that point, you know we we say this ah every time on on the show, but you know yeah if you guys if you have something you want to ask us, even even if it's been... like we We don't have a problem revisiting things that we've talked about before because you know over time, these things do get forgotten. They do change and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's it's totally valid to put in questions. if you're Even if you're not like planning to travel, like you know
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you know just I would be interested, you know, if you just bring up a subject just so that, you know, like, you know, like Tom showed, we can just take some time to investigate it and figure out, figure out what's going on with it. So. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. ah Now, now I am over here, like looking up ah room inventories and to see how many. I was trying to search it too, actually. and And I didn't, I didn't find a quick link. So I didn't want to like. I'm glad it's not just me. Yeah, no, I mean, it's not just me. But yeah, yeah I mean, listen, there's there's a lot of of studios at ah over at Poly. I mean, there they just are, ah you know, they they have a bunch. But I'm trying to to see compared to Boardwalk here.
00:20:10
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ah yeah, Boardwalk has way fewer studios than Poly does. So you should have a much easier time. um if But again, i don't know if you're going paul you're going ah studio studio or not. Maybe you're going larger. I mean, if you're going like one or two bedrooms, ah you know, there's there's there's probably, i don't know off the top of my head, but let me see here.
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so So, okay, this is just doing a quick switch according to Google AI. i Oh, boy. you know, just this just came up. ah Apparently, there's around 72 one-bedrooms in the tower.
00:20:45
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Okay, there you go. so So, I mean, that's that's a good amount, but then let's see if it tells me how much are at Boardwalk. Boardwalk has a fair amount of one-bedrooms. They have, like, a good amount of those, um you know.
00:20:57
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Oh, wow. Okay. Approximately 279. right. Okay. Maybe I was wrong. Or yeah, depending on your room type. Yeah. Depends on your room type. Yeah. board Boardwalk may be the better choice than Polynesian. Again. Yeah. For for whatever, like, I guess, yeah, that that answer comes down to what is, what does your family need?
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And yeah, like like exactly what we did here is, you know look at room inventories because yeah, it I didn't realize how, or yeah, that's right. we We did talk about this like a long time ago is that the thing about Boardwalk was if you're planning to stay in studios, the studios are much harder to get because there's way less of them, but then there's way more one bedrooms.
00:21:40
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So that's... And I think that's why in my head I was thinking like, oh there's not a lot to get at Boardwalk because I would want to stay at a studio at Boardwalk. But... And that's why like saying at the Polynesian makes sense because there's a ton of studios at the Polynesian. Yeah.
00:21:56
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So, yeah. Yeah, I just i just pulled up pulled up one of those sites and it's 246 studios at ah at at board at Boardwalk and then 279 one bedrooms at Boardwalk. And then if you look at Poly, Poly has 360 studios.
00:22:11
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ah So, yeah, I mean, it's a pretty big difference. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, I felt like Pauly would have been – Pauly feels easier to get access to because they just opened the tower. But I guess in retrospect, like, yeah, Pauly was – like, it's not the biggest resort on property either.
00:22:31
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No. So, yeah. But also, yeah, depending on the time of year and everything too, it you know, you know they're they're all booked at different amounts as well. Yeah. yeah Yeah. So I listen, i look in room inventories all the time when I'm going to book stuff because I i am the seven months. I actually I'm usually like the five month booker. Oh, OK. You know what I mean? I'm booking last minute. Like I feel like always I can't tell you the last time I actually use home priority. ah But i've maybe never, maybe never TVC. I don't. Until you switch to your home resort to Animal Kingdom, you were you were never staying at your home resort. Yeah. Well, we did. No, we stayed there before we before we switched it. And that's why we ended up switching it because we liked it so much. But also because Animal Kingdom is a much easier get. They have a lot of rooms. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's like your your home resort was Bay Lake before. yeah, yeah. It still is. but yeah you but But I mean, like you you never spent a lot of time staying at Bay Lake. No, we stayed at Bay Lake.
00:23:32
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Well, twice now, I guess, because we did the that Grand Villa a couple weeks ago. Yeah. But I mean, that that doesn't count. Like, that that was the exception. Absurdity. I was showing pictures of that to somebody. And then I was yeah like, I had to like qualify it. I'm like, hey, this is not something we do all the time. Okay. this was Because I was like, I don't want people to think that like, you know, I'm this bougie person like staying at, you know, staying in these gigantic rooms for one night at Disney. You know, i i mean, which...
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Listen, it's it's hard to avoid that that viewpoint when you do that. like and Especially when you show somebody pictures that room, they're like, oh, my God. you know Which I get. i I mean, I get. But anyway. So, 2026, Trevor, is the 35th anniversary of of DVC.
00:24:17
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Wow. And they got a logo for it.
DVC 35th Anniversary Logo
00:24:20
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And it's kind of interesting. Yeah. i was I was going to say that this low, is this really a logo? I don't know. Like when when does it stop being a logo and just a bunch of pictures thrown together?
00:24:37
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yeah mean it's because It's a piece of art, right? I mean... Yeah, you're right. It's it's more of ah of a of a piece of art. I wouldn't call this a logo, per se. yeah I mean, that's ah it's a tough thing to say. so it's it's It's busy.
00:24:51
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i will say that. It's very busy. to To describe it to the listening audience, if you haven't seen it yet, it's a cake, right? It's ah it's a very boxy cake, though. It's not like a ah you know like a graphical cake. It's more of like a It's a bunch of squares on top of each other. It's a kick out line. Yeah. And then at the top, it's got 35 and candles and with a Mickey face inside of it. And then you're getting a bunch of different images that you would associate with different DVC resorts.
00:25:20
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Right. Or try to. Try to. Like, I'm not 100% sure what the mountain is representing at the top there. I'm just like, what would I'm just trying to think what that um represents. Yeah.
00:25:33
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah. So, okay. So this is something is it, maybe it's, maybe it's the, uh, um, wilderness lodge. Maybe. i don't know.
00:25:43
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No, because wilderness lodge is down with, or no, the bear, I guess would be grand Californian with the the trees and the bear. Yeah. but That could also be, could us be four wilderness could be the cabins of four wilderness could also be wilderness lodge because wilderness lodge and and grand Floridian are, are like,
00:26:01
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twins of each other basically. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you definitely have like a Vero maybe in here and, uh, so, so the mountain, had I don't know what is, what would the mountain be?
00:26:12
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Don't know. Like I'm, I'm, I'm serious. Like this, this is bugging me now. It's, uh, we're probably missing something obvious and like someone's going to say something like, duh. Uh, you know, that's what it is. I don't know. I'm just, okay. Hold on. I'm just, okay. What, what are all the resorts? Um,
00:26:28
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you You need a list of all of them just to see? hey this wouldn't be This wouldn't be a... No, Alani doesn't make sense because... no. no no No. It's not Disneyland. It's not Grand Californian.
00:26:40
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um Okay. so Starting at at Disney World, Grand Floridian is further down here. Yeah. I see Saratoga. Okay. Yeah.
00:26:52
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I don't know where. our Okay. Beach Club is there. Riviera is there. Polynesian. I'm assuming Polynesian is the weird one next to Grand Floridian. The kind of looking thing? Yeah. Maybe. I think that's Polynesian.
00:27:07
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I could see that. Or maybe maybe that's contemporary. Could be contemporary. Yeah, that could be contemporary. Okay. And that and then then what else do we have? um i Well, obviously there's a giraffe here, so I'm going to say that that's probably Animal Kingdom, right?
00:27:22
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You know what Polly is, Trevor? It's the little design that separates them. That's Polly. Oh, yes. oh Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. I did not. I didn't know this until this now. Yeah. Okay. So so that's Polly. Yeah.
00:27:34
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and The giraffe, yeah, Animal Kingdom. The tent would be... Boardwalk, maybe? Boardwalk, yeah. Yeah, board that that that tracks with boardwalk. Yeah, i guess, yeah. It is very carnival-y. Okay, the the the crane with the... Could be Hilton Head.
00:27:50
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It could be. but there's a hibiscus flower there. So that actually is also poly. Okay, so it's Because the hibiscus flower is poly. I'm trying to figure out what that yellow thing is next to it. It looks like- turtle. It's a turtle, I think. Oh, it's a turtle. Okay. Yeah. My mind was messing with me and it looked like was like a weird drawing of the butt end of the giraffe with a- Weird tail or something. You see it, right? You see what I'm saying. immediately identified that as a turtle and immediately saw Varro because they do the whole turtle hatching thing at Varro. Right. Yeah. But then, again, the hibiscus flower and everything is Polynesian. And you've got like the – so, yeah. Again, weird. Again, weird. And then, yeah. And then, yeah. Further down, you have Wilderness Lodge, Contemporary.
00:28:45
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um yeah that, that mountain is throwing me off. Yeah. I can't figure out what mountain is. I keep going down. Like, yeah, yeah. There's, there's ah cabins are there. um Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:56
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So what is the mountain? so I can only think that it it somehow is for like Wilderness Lodge or something. That's the only thing I can think of that makes sense. Because the mountain, it it almost looks like Everest. like It kind of does, yeah. Like it it it it feels like they're like trying to show a ride, but it's like, no, these are these are resorts.
00:29:16
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Yeah, I also like... And neither Farrow or Hilton Head have anything to do with mountains. No. but But Alani kind of like... Because Alani, where it's positioned...
00:29:27
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is it's it's near it's near some mountains on the the island, correct? Yeah, but they could have picked they they could have picked something else to represent that, you know? actually Actually, yeah. Even no looking at it, no. Sorry, I'm wrong. Alani is not anywhere near mountains. Yeah. The only reason I'm saying Wilderness Lodge is because it's called Boulder Ridge. And I don't know. When I think boulder, I think mountain, I guess.
00:29:50
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But that's that's all I got. I have no idea what else it could be, right? I mean, looking. is there Is there logos of any of these things? Oh, yeah. Actually, yeah. the The logo, I just searched up the, or no, that's an Etsy thing, but it's it has a mean, they do have logos. logos.
00:30:10
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ah yeah You just got to like look at you got to look for them, but they do have them. So maybe that's what it's supposed to be? don't know. and How close are the villas at Disneyland Hotel to the Matterhorn?
00:30:25
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Not anywhere near close enough. That's what I thought. Yeah. Like, actually, about as far away as you can get. Could you possibly get there? Yeah. I'm just spitballing here, Trevor. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. If someone has an idea of what that's supposed to be for, you know, tell us. like, I'm looking at, like, you know, like, the Wilderness Lodge stuff and everything, and it's, like, they have, like, bears and mountains and trees on there. So, it's, like, yeah, you know, that... Yeah, I think it's Wilderness Lodge. That all kind of makes sense.
00:30:54
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Yeah. But, but again, that then what's the question then becomes, why do you have that up at the top? And then you have the bears and everything down at the bottom. Like it's,
00:31:08
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It's such a weird. It's a weird. Yeah. Yeah. the Honestly, as we've been like looking more into it here, the more I look at it's like it's very disjointed and it's very unclear.
00:31:19
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looks like you ask AI to make a 35th anniversary a DVC image. like it' you know Like it's a mishmash of a bunch of different stuff. Yeah. like Like what, like, and I get it. Like, like some of these things are relevant. Like, you know, I get how they're tying certain things together, but also in terms of like sequencing of it is like, you have, you have the tent and the giraffe and everything where it's like, okay, you know, these are all like different resorts, but the Polynesian and the Grand Floridian and the contemporary all kind of go together because they're all part of the resort loop, yeah like, or geographically. Right. yeah So it's like, you could like, it it would make sense to me to kind of put them together geographically or like,
00:32:00
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thematically connect them together but I don't see that happening because on the top tier it's giraffes and tents and turtles and on the bottom tier it's bears and beaches and camp like it's yeah like it it just does not make any sense to me we're definitely over analyzing this but'ar but yeah but I mean if you're going to throw out a piece of artwork like this yeah and you know you know claim that it's You know, that this is representative of your brand.
00:32:32
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What is it representing? Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, listen, throw this image out there if you haven't seen it and you tell us what you think. yeah You two can pick it apart like we did. Yeah, you can. Yeah. go and I mean, listen, if you think we misinterpreted something, tell us that too. So. All
Bluey Experiences at Disney Resorts
00:32:48
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right. So Trevor, Bluey coming soon to the the resorts and and we're getting some a better idea now of what the Bluey experience is going to look like because they're starting to cast ah some of the people that they're going to have doing these doing these things. Right. So they're going to.
00:33:04
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They're going to have a, you know, let's see here. They're they're just kind of doing like ah they're doing actual casting for this. It's not like just like a random cast member, you know, which I mean, I guess it could just be a random cast member. You just have to try out for it, I guess, you know, i mean, audition yeah that's the word i was looking for yeah, any of their roles, you have to meet a bare minimum requirement for, you know, doing fulfilling any role at Disney, whether that's, you know, as a character performer or just cast member in general. So, yeah. yeah And so this, um their rehearsals, they're saying rehearsals will begin in May, 2026. So probably, you know, June, July, right. For this to start. I think that's, you know, that's probably a good, good thing here, but they are looking for high energy actors to play some of blueies favorite games with fun animal twists.
00:33:51
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ah They should be comfortable hosting large groups, improv and working closely with children. So yeah, if you want to try out for that, go do that. I could do that that' that's that. That sounds like a terrible mixture for anxiety and for some. awkwardness for me Others would be all about it. that That is exactly the opposite of what kind of experience I would like to to do. yeah so So along with this, though, they've also filed a permit to install some electrical equipment, I guess.
00:34:23
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I'm going to guess this is going to be like a big screen or projector or TV or something. You know what I mean? Like they're, they're you know going to be building this little space, but it's, It's going to be the conservation station. Yeah. Okay. I was going to say, yeah, this is a conservation station. So, yeah. Listen, so, and and the animation, the really, the only space that's available there is where the animation experience is now. And, you know, they're opening the whole animation experience thing over at Hollywood studios. So it kind of makes sense that they can shut that down and then just be like, go over to Hollywood studios where it makes more sense anyway.
00:34:54
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Right. I mean, it makes more sense for, for the animation stuff to be at Hollywood studios and for a animal oriented thing. to be, uh, to be over at, uh, at animal kingdom. So, uh, my assumption is that it's taking over that space, but, uh, yeah, I listen, this is, i it's funny cause my daughter asked, she kind of wanted to take a break from Disney this year.
00:35:14
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And, but I also, when I mentioned the Louis thing, she's like, so when are we going? And I was like, I was like, uh, well, you kind of said you want to take a break kid. Um, Oh, come him on. i could listen but i could but Let's be honest. is, even Okay, even my son, who you know, he's he's made it clear that, you know he's finishing up high school and so we're not or we're not planning anything because of that.
00:35:37
Speaker
if If an opportunity came up where we were like, hey, you know, we won like tickets to Disney or, you know, we're going because of x he would not turn us down. Yeah. Like it's – That's fair. That's good. like kids Kids won't – you know, they'll say one thing, but they don't always mean what they say. That's true. Well, my daughter changes her mind every 10 minutes anyway. So it' sat to it's the age or whatever. But but anyway – right. So you want to go ahead and we'll do our ad, Trevor, here? And then I got a couple other things to talk about, too.
00:36:08
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Disney Summer Deals
00:36:43
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All right. So, Trevor, Disney announced a whole bunch of stuff. No, I mean, for this summer, right? Like deals and stuff, right? and And we talked about the free dining plan thing earlier, but they're doing that cool kid summer thing again, ah you know, that they did last year.
00:37:00
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um And so there's going to be a lot of deals. But the one i'm i'm I'm really looking at here that I thought was interesting is they're doing two free free room nights and theme park days when you do a four-day package.
00:37:13
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So you can do a four-day package and that turns into a six-day package. m Yeah. See, yeah. Interesting. That's, that's a good deal. I feel like this is something when, when I was growing up.
00:37:25
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I did more of, yeah. Yeah. Like I, I remember like, cause we did a couple of trips to Disneyland, not Disney world, but you know, same same, same kind of deal was, I remember, you know, my parents planning and saying like, you know, oh you know, we,
00:37:38
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you know we We were going this week and then we found out that there was this promo on and we got like two extra days. So you know we we the same so sort of thing is we turned like a four-day trip into a six-day trip because you know they're they're just throwing extra days at you. Yeah.
00:37:53
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but I've talked about this before, I think. When I was when i was a kid and we went in 1999 or 2000, one of those, we were staying at Wilderness Lodge. And, you know, back then you had to check out of the resort. You know, you had to like physically go to the desk and check out.
00:38:07
Speaker
And my mom was checking out and they were like, hey, do you want to add, you know, two more days for, you know, like 300 bucks or something like that? And my mom was like, yeah. And then we have to stay there for you we don't do that anymore, though. You know, this is not a thing. I mean, even this isn't that right. Because this is, you know, you booking it ahead of time. You got to buy the package and all that stuff. But like that stuff used to happen a lot where they would just be like, yeah, just, you know, throw us a couple hundred extra bucks. You can stay for a couple more days. Like I was shocked. I've ever been shocked at the time. i're Like, wait, we're just we're just going to stay here now. A couple more days. Like what what happened? Like it was crazy. Yeah.
00:38:43
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But yeah, the caveat to this, by the way, is that you have to book this between January 6th and February 15th. So you have a limited time to book this. Right. So you have to do it through ah through February 15th. And it's available for most stays from May 26th through September 15th.
00:38:58
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So, OK. Yeah. Yeah. So you got to kind of you got a limited time to get to jump on it. But that's that's a heck of a deal. I feel like there's there is a couple of good windows between May and September that oh yeah that you could definitely make a lot out of this for sure. like it you know ah having Having six days in like late August feels...
00:39:20
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Feels like it could be a pretty good trip. Yeah. So I would be surprised if people are, you know, jumping on this already. The the funny thing is, you know, we're talking about this and, yeah you know, as DVC members, like I don't... We're not going to use this. yeah Yeah, we're not going to use this, but... But listen, we know, I don't know what the proportion of non-DVC listeners to DVC listeners are, but... And to that to that end, like, you know, i I don't know about you, but I do have, like, I have people that, you know, acquaintances and stuff and people that I know at work that know me as, you know, the person yeah who does Disney stuff. Yeah. And so they'll come and be like, hey, you know, what do you think about this? And so, you know knowing stuff like this is not a bad thing because, you know even if you don't use it yourself, you know, if somebody else is planning a trip, you can help, you know, you can flag it to them because, you know, and people aren't checking this stuff as routinely as we are.
00:40:10
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So. that's Exactly right. And that's why we talk about these things, because, you know, if you're not if you're not up on it and you hear this and like yeah maybe you have a friend that wants to go or something that but doesn't want to spend too much. Hey, look at that.
00:40:21
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This is a two free rooms of room nights and theme park days like that's can't really beat that, man. Yeah, I mean, that the free dining plan for kids is pretty decent, too. But we've talked about the free dining plan thing before. Not always a great deal, but let's see the here or there. It's a little bit different because it's kids eat free. And I, you know, it's, it's a whole, it's kind of a different situation. So, um you know, it's, it's a good, it's a good way to do it, but kids. So, yeah, so that one, the kids get the, between ages three and nine, when you purchase a package for you and and the kids, I'll just keep mind with the dining plan too. You know, everybody in the room has to have the, all, everyone has to be on the dining plan, by the way. Yeah, you don't know you yeah you can't buy one plan for one person and share it around. it's Exactly. yeah everyone Everyone does need their own.
00:41:06
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Exactly. So they also are doing a 30% off on select Disney resorts up to 30% off, which is a thing they always do. ah And usually it goes like this where the ah value rooms you can get 10% to 15% off. And then moderate, you can get like off. as you go up the chain, it gets... You get a bigger discount, but it's also more expensive, right? So... Yeah.
00:41:30
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Yeah. So those are and those are out there. And I should actually add on to this that um I... So we we get... um or I get emails because I'm a Canadian resident. the yeah they They do these same kind of promos, but they they frame it as like, you know, Canadian discount offer, but it's like the same. It's like 30% off, right? so just So, yeah, exactly. But, so yeah, that that it's...
00:41:57
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It's this particular part that it happens a lot more than I think people realize. Yeah. um What they're saying though, like, like, so these promos, like this one is like, you have to stay between May and October. So, so the windows are always very um like, like they're, they're trying to get promos over the summer right now.
00:42:17
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And so if you're looking for something closer or into the fall or Christmas, this is not it. Or, you know, this may not line up with what you want. Just keep that in mind. yeah They offered the whole reason they offer deals is to fill the parks up when the times where they might not be as full. Right. Now, given summertime, is' a busy time summertime is a busy time, but it's also super hot and a lot of people don't want to go in the heat. So, um yeah, that could be it, too. But anyway, yeah.
00:42:43
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Florida residents cost to save 35% on rooms and annual pass holders can save up to 40% on rooms. So they're trying to get some pass holders up in there too. and And also just Florida residents.
00:42:54
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ah And then ah water park free for a day, still doing that. I kind of wanted to take advantage of her last time was there, but didn't really, didn't really work out. But um something to note with that though, is again, they have the water park free thing is a limited timeframe. So 26th to the 8th, May 26th to September 8th.
00:43:12
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Yeah. So, so again, really over the summer, they're, they're offering it. but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's also too, i I saw this too. So we talked about the bluey stuff, but then ah they're doing a thing at the diamond
New Show: Jesse's Roundup
00:43:24
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horseshoe. They're doing a Jesse Woody show called Jesse's roundup, which is interesting because they haven't, I mean i don't think they've done a show at the diamond horseshoe and like, yeah, forever. like That's – yeah. I i was going to say I can't remember the last time there was anything to do with the Diamond Horseshoe. so or Well, like I guess my experience with the Diamond Horseshoe has always been around like the Christmas party and stuff where like it's a place you go to get cookies and whatnot. So like i'm not I'm not hanging out in Diamond Horseshoe on –
00:43:57
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on a regular day, I guess is my statement there. Yeah. yeah So, yeah, I mean, that's, I don't think I've ever, got I mean, well, for a while, Diamond Horseshoe was only opening seasonally when they needed more capacity, like if I remember correctly. And so I haven't been there forever. um i Or, I mean, I don't even, maybe I've never been at the Diamond Horseshoe. I'm just trying to think if I've ever been there. Like said, I know the, I remember I've walked into that building specifically to get a cookie during the Christmas party. That was the only reason though. You never gone and actually sit down and eat there. Yeah. That, that is my like most recent specific memory. I, and yeah, you're right. I don't, I don't think I've ever like gone and sat down in diamond horseshoe or even like you said, I don't even know if it's been open in the times that I've been there.
00:44:44
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it's been It's been open lately. I mean, ah for the past, I think the past couple of years, it's been open year round. right They basically have the exact same menu as Liberty Tree. it's It's the exact same dishes from Liberty Tree. So, I mean, and they're they' not even shy about that. They actually even say, you know same dishes from Liberty Tree. So, um you know, listen, I mean, I i love Liberty Tree. So, I mean, I guess if Liberty Tree didn't have any availability, I guess I could you go to Diamond Horseshoe. But it's kind of cool. They're doing like a doing a thing there. You know, it really is an activity kind of thing. Yeah.
00:45:14
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Yeah, because there's ah there's crafts, dancing, and ah yodeling. Okay, cool. I mean, that that is Jesse's thing. so Yeah, it is it is Jesse's thing, man. It is. yeah So that's fun. They're also doing a thing at CommuniCore Hall called GoofyCore. Yeah. Okay. Where you can dance and play along with the goof troop. DJ dance pants and goofy himself during wacky activities. Goofy's game machine.
00:45:40
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ah Yeah. So they're doing like games and stuff. It looks like there's a parachute involved, which, you know, listen, well my favorite day at gym when I was a kid was parachute day, man. Parachute was the best. All right. Who doesn't love parachutes? The parachute was always fun.
00:45:55
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, uh, and then, you know, all the stuff that we, we've kind of reviewed already, all the new stuff coming to the parks this year. so there's a lot of that coming. Uh, you know, I, I think that was really it of all these things, but yeah, yeah I don't think there's anything else new we need to, or yeah like you said, we've we've touched on this stuff in, you know, the in very recent episodes. So yes, yes. Um,
00:46:20
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Yeah, I mean, listen, there's the new Disney Junior Mickey Mouse Clubhouse live thing that's going to be opening up in that whole area over at Hollywood Studios. So, you know, there's also that, too. So, yeah, lots of cool stuff.
00:46:32
Speaker
all right trevor So you you have another Disney Parks adjacent thing here. Well, so you listen, there's not a lot of Parks news going on right now. So but there's not a lot of Parks news, we kind of will venture into other things. And I saw this and was very interested in this.
00:46:49
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And also because of some of this casting, my my daughter is now on board with going to see this when it eventually comes out. ah So there's been some casting news on the live action Rapunzel, which has been in development for a while now.
00:47:02
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Right. So number one, and this will, I mean, I'm going out of order here, Trevor, but we can go in order of the way that they announced these. So they announced who was cast as Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.
00:47:13
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I don't know who this girl from Rapunzel is, who that's Rapunzel, but looking at her, wait, I get it. Is that Tegan? Hold on. She's from a deep, these teen Titans.
00:47:26
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Oh, okay. She, she looks like Holly from spring, stranger things. Oh, no, I don't think it is her because she's older. But, yeah, no, she kind of does look like Holly from Strange and Friends. Hold on, let me... Okay, yeah, yeah i see I see what you're saying. Yeah, she she did play Raven, which...
00:47:43
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I'm more interested in the in the Flynn Rider casting because, i as I think I've talked about on this show, i yeah i my daughter is very into the zombies movies.
00:47:55
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you know And ah the guy that casts as Flynn Rider is the main character of the zombies movies. And she absolutely loves those things. and And especially this character. And I feel like it's really good casting, actually. Yeah.
00:48:12
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Yeah, I mean, it like, yeah, these these two definitely look the part, like, like even without, my like, any yeah any makeup or, because, you know, the the thing is, is you know when when you get the final product, like, they obviously look like the characters and everything. But, yeah, these two these two definitely immediately fit, like, oh, yeah, I can see where, like, that's Flynn and Rapunzel. Plus, it's also smart for them to use Milo Mannheim, who's the guy that that from Zombies, because first of all, he's already in the Disney bubble, right? But you're also going to pull it. I'm telling you, when I went to that that concert, the Zombies Descendants commercial kind ah concert, he wasn't even there. But every time he came on the screen, all the girls in the crowd lost their minds, like flipped out. So like there will be and my daughter might be one of them. She'll go to see this just because he's in it.
00:49:02
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You know what i mean? and And this is the smart way to do these things is that, yeah, you know, there there is... It's interesting how fandoms will, like, follow actors around through different projects and stuff like that. And Disney is clearly not oblivious to that. that Yeah, they know how to do this kind of stuff. Yeah. And and I mean, you know, you know it the the the hard The hard part for me is that I'm getting older and I don't want to accept it.
00:49:32
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And I'm not in tune with, you know, the things that are going on with, you know, yeah like I've done this with like a lot of things where it's like, oh, you know, this this person it like,
00:49:45
Speaker
You know, you'll hear about pop culture things and I'm like, i don't even know who that person is. I've never heard that person. Even this guy from Zombies. It's like, yeah, I know about Zombies. I don't care about it, though. But but i get I get, you know, there's people that are hyped around it. And it's it's all a timing thing. At the end of the day, it's like, you know, what you're into at the time, what is, you know, what your friends are talking about and all that kind of stuff. Disney is definitely playing into that.
00:50:11
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And, you know, this is a good way for them to kind of get in the next generation of, you know, people hyping about Disney movies. And I will say, you know, i don't...
00:50:23
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yeah Live actions are very they're they're a very touchy subject and they're very hidden. They can be, yeah. like i wait When you initially say to me, like oh, they're doing a live action Tangled, in my head I go, why? like The movie was fine. like Why do you need to redo it? right but It's fair. you know you know I get Disney is...
00:50:44
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Yeah.
00:50:52
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the maleficent movies which were a a retelling of cinderella but from a different perspective I really liked those. like and Listen, yeah. There were a couple of them I really liked. And and part of that was like like Angelina Jolie as an actress, I've yeah i' watched a lot of her movies over the years. Like, you know, she she was in Tomb Raider. I go as far back as like I watched Hackers, which was is like one of my favorite movies from the 90s.
00:51:17
Speaker
And she was in that. so um So, like, I get like, you know, following actors and stuff through this. And so, you know, talking about these two, it's like, okay, I don't really get this. But then I saw you put this other thing on here. Okay. Yeah. Because this is a bigger one.
00:51:33
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Mother Gothel, which they're apparently casting Catherine Han. Which is another great casting for this movie. Which, you know, okay, now you've got my attention.
00:51:49
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Because Catherine Han, yeah, you know, obviously you know her as Agatha from... yeah from WandaVision and, and Agatha all along. And yeah, like, and, and she's had other, again, she like, she's had, you know, her own, you know, you know, rightfully very, very good career. And like, we've, I've seen her in other movies and and actually gone back and like, there was like movies that like my wife would watch and it was like, oh is that Catherine Han? Like, I didn't realize like she was in, she shows up with a lot of stuff. Yeah. yeah she She was, she was a great supporting actress and she's really getting like,
00:52:21
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her her front you know front and center attention right now, which is like... Yeah. Yeah. So because of that, it's like, you know, you know Mother Gothel is like... like You know, that that character has a lot of range to just like...
00:52:39
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Like, be... It gives her an opportunity to be a certain kind of crazy. Yeah. Which, you know, I think, you know... I'm i'm really hoping that her combined with... you know you know You know, this cast, honestly, is pretty stacked to get a lot of people's attention for a live-action show.
00:52:56
Speaker
So... I mean, yeah, i'm I'm curious to see how this plays out because, you know, i'm I enjoy Tangle. I'm not like obsessing over Tangled or and or anything, but the right casting for this is enough to get my attention to go like, oh, maybe I will go watch Tangle.
00:53:15
Speaker
a live action. Yeah. Right. Like it's, it's an interesting thing. Like it's, you know, I don't, and that's why I don't want to say like, you know, you know, all live actions are bad, but it's like, you know, if Disney is actually listening and doing it right and the, and like, you know, doing it with,
00:53:30
Speaker
the right purpose and, you know, not just, not just rehashing the story. Like, I'm, I'm sorry. Some of the live actions were just like literally like copy paste of the previous movie.
00:53:41
Speaker
Yeah. Which I hate that. I hope that they give it some space where like, like someone like Catherine Han, like, she ah She's going to bring so much cool stuff to that role.
00:53:51
Speaker
Yeah. and and And it's almost like, and and okay, nobody nobody get mad at me for this. Like, i'm not I'm not saying that, you know, Robin Williams was, you know, a phenomenal actor in his own right.
00:54:04
Speaker
um I'm not saying that Catherine Hahn is Robin Williams, but I put them both in the same space as if given the opportunity to,
00:54:16
Speaker
you know, stretch their wings in a role, they can do some real, like, like, you know, a lot of things that we see as iconic that like Robin Williams did was him, him bringing his own stuff to it. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:28
Speaker
I feel like with, with like, this is the same kind of thing. Like if Disney doesn't like try and force Catherine too much into like, no, you like, like give her some space to like, make some comments, do some like, like,
00:54:42
Speaker
Almost fourth wall breaking. Yeah. i feel like like I feel like that could like really make it a better show than just like retelling Tangled.
Disney's Live-Action Remakes
00:54:53
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah. Well, and listen, she can she can she can sing and she she kind of sounds like Mother Gothel. She looks like Mother Gothel. Like it kind of just seems perfect. It's not a hard transition to get her into that role.
00:55:05
Speaker
Especially, especially when you literally like this article that you linked, like they have the side by side and it's like, yeah. Like, okay. Yeah. Like like just yeah the the hair just needs to be black instead of brunette. Exactly. Right. And you know, I mean, you can just hear her doing that voice too. Like yeah you can hear her doing like a similar kind of like, yeah. Yeah. You can hear her singing. Yeah. And i yeah I mean like, and I don't, I don't think she's going to imitate the, the original voice, but like,
00:55:32
Speaker
She, you know, she, I think she will definitely, ah you know, kind of do the the inflection that she does and all that stuff. sure she'll bring her own thing to it. But listen, I've liked a lot of the the live action remakes. Like, Lilo and Stitch was really good. And I mean, it made a billion dollars for a reason. I mean, it was it was a good movie. and And they changed a lot in that movie. It was it was a fundamentally different movie than the original. and Exactly. Like, yeah that's exactly my point is that, you know you know, Disney seems to be waking up to that. But like, I'm...
00:55:59
Speaker
Because I don't spend a lot of time watching movies, I do get kind of stuck. Like, I did watch a couple of live actions like Beauty and the Beast and Lion King, and it was like... You know, they're, yeah. like i Listen, there were things I liked in Beauty and the Beast. Like, I enjoyed Gaston and LeFou. Like, I felt like that was a lot of fun. But those, like, yes, that that was, you know, those those actors definitely brought yeah more to the role. But the actual, like, structuring of the movie was...
00:56:30
Speaker
Just not like, yeah Yeah. And I'm not going to lie. i not, I wasn't really interested in the live action Moana, but I am kind of see, I'm kind of interested to see the rock play.
00:56:45
Speaker
ah What's Maui live. life yeah instead because Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I just, I'm like, I'm interested. I want to see how it, look and they've even been kind of like,
00:56:56
Speaker
like, he hear about it? didnt He did like, yeah. Like they, all they've shown in trailers basically is his back so far, right? Like they, they showed him jumping off the cliff and that's all you see. Right. But I i kind of want to see it like just based on that. And I mean, listen, the, the girl that they got to play Moana, I mean, she sounds like Moana. She looks like, I mean, she, they they nailed it on that too. And I mean, it looks like the production value is good just based on the, on what I've seen so far. But I mean, i don't know. I, it's going to be really, really interesting.
00:57:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like you said, it's it's kind of funny how like, you know, ah maybe i could be wrong here, but I feel like maybe Disney is turning a corner creatively. Maybe, yeah.
00:57:41
Speaker
Because, you know, they're like throughout history, you know, you know we we've we've talked about this before, you know, like there's like the golden age of, you know, Disney movies and all that. Like there there is ups and downs of Disney.
00:57:53
Speaker
how Disney does production yeah and, and the the, the, the content that they put out. And, and I feel, I feel like, and you know, this is just my opinion. If you feel otherwise, or you disagree, totally fine. Like I, I'm not, I'm not discounting anyone else's perspective on this.
00:58:09
Speaker
I feel like Disney has been in a slump since about, I want to say as far back, it honestly, as like 2014. You think so? Like, it it feels like they're like, yeah, it was's it's been, they've had like a few little sparks of like,
00:58:26
Speaker
there there Yeah, there's been like, you know, the Moana, Frozen, like like those one-off hits. But when I think back to like, you know, again, talking about the Golden Age, like there was a point where it was like back to back to back to back that they were like just putting out...
00:58:42
Speaker
bangers Right. Like it was and and it feels like right now they're they're throwing a lot more at the wall and it's not sticking. And I also attribute that to the fact that there was a couple of franchises that Disney has really been milking for a long time that they should have stopped like it like.
00:58:59
Speaker
yeah you know Don't hate on me, but Star Wars stuff needed to stop coming out about five years ago. like Yeah, but I mean, like then they were the number one studio last year as far as box office gross goes. And in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, they've been they've been killed at box office wise Quantity does not trump quality. No, I guess my point there, like like the reason that they are there, that they were up there is yes, they have the power to put like the sheer volume of what they're putting out puts them at, you know, you know, even the ones that don't do as well.
00:59:34
Speaker
They're still just by nature of how many things they've been churning out for the last 10 years. Yes, of course they're going to be on top because of that. But yeah, my point is, is not so much around the, how much stuff is coming out, but it feels like they're kind of slowing down and maybe putting a little bit more quality into it.
00:59:54
Speaker
Is that, that's my on it. And I'm not, you know, you know, if you want to disagree with me, totally fine. Like, like, you know, you know, want to hear that, but you know, I'm, that's just my view on it is that I, I feel like Disney has not, they've not been on 100% their game for long time. And yeah,
01:00:13
Speaker
for a long time and like Like I said, like the last 10 years is what I feel like. It feels like they've kind of been fumbling a bit with um trying to find a good cadence of like, you know, making these shows and releasing them and all that.
01:00:28
Speaker
Stuff like this this kind of casting with... um with Tangled, it, like it it feels, it feels like they're, they're not trying to rush it.
01:00:40
Speaker
Sure. Is what I feel like, yeah you know, they they are thinking about like, yes, you know, you know, Catherine Han, you could say it's, it is a little bit of typecasting that, you know, she, she looks the part, but you know, they're, they're thinking of it from the angle of, you know,
01:00:55
Speaker
based on what this person has done, will they bring to the role what, you know, what people expect to see, right? yeah So yeah instead of just like, you know, you know, sorry, it felt like for a long time, and this is kind of where it got me to where like I i stopped watching a lot of Disney shows for a long time was that they were just churning stuff out and it and none of it felt impactful.
01:01:18
Speaker
Like it it felt like, like i said, even the live actions and stuff, it was just like, okay, they're just like, They're just getting stuff out the door for the sake of getting stuff out the door. I'm hoping that this is like them turning a corner of getting back to more of that You know, better quality that they like.
Creative Directions and Stranger Things Finale
01:01:34
Speaker
And I'm not saying he like me ever like the with like the animated stuff or like because i'm I mean, they they did a lot. Storytelling.
01:01:40
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, there's been a lot of great Marvel movies. And, you know, I mean, there's been there's been a lot of good stuff over the past couple of years. I just, you know. Yeah. But but even the the Marvel stuff, like ah but since since Avengers Endgame, yeah a lot of it's been very hard to keep track of.
01:01:56
Speaker
and Yeah, they just did too much. Yeah, exactly. Like i said, it's the the quantity has been killing the quality of it. Yeah, I think i think that was when Iger came back in. He tried to reverse that because that was kind of, you know, that was kind of the ah the the previous regime of like, yeah, like just the the previous Bob, and the other Bob, ah wanted quantity over quality. And then Iger came back in and was like, no, we need to quality over quantity. So, I mean, I mean, you know, i just, it last year was a very good year for them. I mean, they they did very, very well. Oh, yeah, I'm not. And that's kind of my point, too, is that, you know, it it feels it feels like that we're coming around the bend back to, like, better quality shows. Yeah, yeah. which And like I said, for for me, it's my my priority is not around, like, the most flashiest effects or, you know, even who they're casting.
01:02:42
Speaker
It's more that, you know, when I watch a show, and actually to this point, you know, you know like... You know, we finished watching Stranger Things, you know, on New Year's. And, you know, I was left at the end of that show with like... yeah And, you know, you can argue about like, you know, the finale missed this and whatever, like, you know, all the minutiae of it. But I felt...
01:03:03
Speaker
I felt satisfied at the end and it felt like a complete story. It's funny because right i everyone I know that I've talked to, like that I personally know, really love the finale. But every article I read is like the mixed ah feelings on the finale. Every, you know, the the internet. like But every person I've talked to has loved it. i i don't know. It's just weird. there There is a subset of people that just want to pick everything apart. And, you know, that's fine. For for me, i felt, you know...
01:03:30
Speaker
It felt the same as like reading a book or, you know, you know, finishing a video game where it's like, you know, everything finishes at the end and it just feels like a complete story. Right. Like that's, that's really what I'm kind of looking for from movies and shows and stuff like that. And it feels like for a long time, Disney was not doing that. Like they, they weren't, they weren't cleanly doing their, their storytelling and it leaves you at the end of it. You're kind of like,
01:03:56
Speaker
well, that was it? Or like, what happened? like Like, it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't feel good, right? yeah and and and I know my criteria is very ambiguous in that, that, you know, you know what I'm saying? like I understand. But yeah, like I said, that's just my feeling on it, that, you know, stuff like this makes me feel like maybe, maybe, you know, Disney is,
01:04:18
Speaker
waking up to the idea that they don't have to churn out as many movies and they can do they can do better not more right yeah just just really quickly yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna put a spoiler alert really quickly here on this the only thing that bothered me about the stranger things finale so if you haven't watched it you know skip ahead now but how is it that hopper can kill like 30 military guys and ever and then he just goes back to being the the sheriff of the i like what what like okay so that's That's where my problem is. He killed like 30 soldiers. And like they're just like, ah, it's cool. We'll just move on. Okay. like okay I understand that. And i okay, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. I don't completely agree with this, but the government was doing sketchy stuff. So they were like, don't say anything. So they were doing stuff under the table. Yeah.
01:05:12
Speaker
That if if he did go to trial or if he did if something did happen to him, people would kick up enough dust that it would bring attention to them and they would go. And so and so them trying him for, you know, you killed our people in the upside down is an admission of. They knew that this was going on.
01:05:29
Speaker
Right. just like that it wasn't explained all. it it's just like, oh Hopper killed all these people and no one cares. It's cool. these We're fine. mean I mean, to be fair, I think i think the ones the majority of who the ones we went after after were all in the upside down. yeah which Yeah. You know, plenty of people disappeared in the upside down and the government was just like, oops, you know.
01:05:49
Speaker
Listen, i was I was happy with how it ended, but that one just got me because I'm like, wait, there's no consequences. We just go back to normalcy. Okay, cool. you know Like anyway, but anyway, sorry. yeah Sorry for spoilers. just you know Hopefully you got a chance to see it. Mark that and we can you know put it front of the episode. Like, hey, so Stranger Things finale spoiler at this time if people are concerned about it, which I mean, yeah. you know If you haven't watched it right now, I mean, it's your Yeah.
01:06:16
Speaker
I'm just kidding. It's two hours long. That is actually like I said to my wife, like we have to watch this on New Year's Eve only because of the fact that the just the way social media works now. And it's not that I like I don't spend a lot of time on social media, but occasionally like, you know, YouTube shorts or Facebook reels like, you know, so stuff pops up and i'll I'll get little tidbits of like, you know, that this this scene from the finale. And it's like, no, don't like I don't. It's true. No, what drives me nuts is there are websites because of the way the Internet algorithms work that will just they'll put head in the headline, ah you know, the reason why X character died in this episode of whatever. Right. And it's like, why would you do? I know why you did it, but like I hate you for it because it's like I am trying to avoid these things and i i can't avoid them because it's just in the headline. like Yeah, it's so difficult to avoid spoilers. Yeah, just this character. And I know why they do it because you get clicks by doing it. Yeah, it's clickbait and it sucks because you can't. do it yeah I wish there was a filter for clickbait. like like if i could If I could revise my algorithm that it's like...
01:07:24
Speaker
You know, you know, I want to see like content about Stranger Things, but no clickbait. no yeah your clickbait. No spoiler. Like, give me a spoiler filter. Like, that's what I need in my life.
01:07:34
Speaker
Anyway,
Buzz Lightyear Ride and AI Concerns
01:07:35
Speaker
Trevor, last but not least today. And I put this on here because it seems mundane, but I'm interested to see your thoughts on this. Mm hmm. So, a as we know, ah Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin yeah has been closed, you know, for a while now because they're redoing it. And one of the questions I think we had, you and I, at the beginning of this is, are they going to redo all the signage up front?
01:07:58
Speaker
Right? Like, are we going to move away from the super cartoony, like, you know, kind of. The 90s cartoon. Like, yeah it's it's very much like the 90s Buzz Lightyear. and animated show. Yeah, it is.
01:08:09
Speaker
ah So the, the, I think our question might be answered on that because a permit has been filed to replace the signage of this ride. Now, are you sad that the, I mean, here's the thing. I don't know. I'm assuming they're going to deviate from this because like you said, that was very nineties,
01:08:27
Speaker
And I'm assuming they're going to bring it up into like, I don't know, maybe not. Maybe they want to keep it nineties because you know, that toy story was nineties and they want to keep that vibe to it. I don't know. But you know, maybe they're just putting something in that's a little more updated and a little more, you know, I don't know. But my, my question is, are you sad to see that happen or are you cool with the progress?
01:08:46
Speaker
I mean, my take on this is the, you know, looking at looking at the overall aesthetic of Tomorrowland. Yeah. You know, we we talked about the Tomorrowland problem before that, you know you know, it becomes out of date very quickly.
01:09:02
Speaker
And – this This is a great example of leaving it the way it is. Unfortunately, like, you you know, like we just established, it is very rooted in the 90s. It is. And so and, you know, I haven't watched the Buzz Lightyear cartoon in a long time. i think since like, i you know, I i sat down watched it with my kid when he was like five or something like that. i'm not going to lie. i kind of forgot it existed until now. Yeah. And I mean, we we watched it just because like I was hunting for like there's that, you know, there's a whole lineup ah of like
01:09:32
Speaker
like Disney afternoon cartoons besides like the obvious like Chip and Dale and everything like there's there's a whole slew of them that like i went through with my son when he was younger to you know just see what sticks and you know this didn't stick i from my point of view i don't I want to see what they do with it. My only curiosity around is that, you know it's very heavily 2D animated at the moment.
01:09:55
Speaker
I'm wondering if they're going to give it, like, the proper, like, Toy Story 3D animation to it. And and also if Zerg is going to stay on there as well because... ah um Yeah.
01:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. z Again, Zurg is a heavy, like he's he's the the antagonist in in the cartoon. And, you know, he shows up in the, um I think it's the second Toy Story movie. But again, he's really not like, he's not actually a main character in in Toy Story. So it's kind of like...
01:10:26
Speaker
yeah I'm curious what they're going to do with it. They're still battling Zerg, though, right? In the ride. It's the storyline of the ride still, you know? Yeah. Okay, so yeah yeah, I guess that's fair. But then, yeah, um I hope that...
01:10:39
Speaker
i I honestly don't know what I want for it. don't know either. It's got to be a tough job to come up with that because you want to maintain that nostalgia, but at the same time, you need to not have it look like it does right now. Yeah, it is so like stuck in 1997 right now that, you know, ah at the very least, it needs to be...
01:11:01
Speaker
so I don't even know what needs to change with it, but something needs to change with it. And, you know, you know, my wife. So Buzz Lightyear is one of her favorite rides because um in in terms of things she can do in Tomorrowland, like, you know, roller coasters and whatnot are not something she can do. So like there there's Buzz Lightyear and the People Mover are kind of her her go to is while we're going and doing Tron and.
01:11:25
Speaker
Yeah. And Space Mountain and all all that. so So, you know, i but I will say I don't think my my wife is too married to the 97s aesthetic of Buzz Lightyear either. So, you know, I don't think she's going to be too upset about the signage changing. But I think...
01:11:43
Speaker
What I don't want to see is do you remember when they changed the boardwalk, um the the slide? Oh, the creepy clown slide, yeah. Yeah. like I remember we talked about that where it was like, you know, you know we we we kind of liked it. Like, like you know, it had it had a very unique thing to it. And what they replaced it with felt very...
01:12:02
Speaker
um They threw a decal on it. yeah Yeah. Yeah. Very very ah like generic white toast kind of Yeah. White toast, no butter kind of vibe to it, right? I can't imagine what will happen here.
01:12:13
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Yeah. I really hope that's not the case here. you know Even at the very least, if they just like you know clean it up a little bit and like you know still leave it. um yeah You can still leave the color palettes. You can still leave it.
01:12:26
Speaker
effectively the way it is and just kind of like update the uh the lettering and the uh the the hand-drawn animation to something a little newer yeah you know i mean if we if we can if we can get any idea of what they're going for from the the ride vehicle you know the new ride vehicle it does have that same vibe still right so like i assume that that because i mean it looks very much like a toy right yeah and and i And I think that's what the this sign is always kind of evoked is like a like a toy box kind of thing, you know, and and that's really what they're a lot of what they're going for. So to your point, like, I'm hoping that they kind of keep the similar vibe, but just update it and make it, you know, just yeah it probably just needs to be updated, too. It's probably just, you know, it's an old sign. So it needs to be updated. Right. So, I mean, I'll be interested to see what that's going to look like.
01:13:14
Speaker
do Do you know what I just realized I hope it doesn't happen with this sign? What? Is that I hope they don't try and update it using ai I would hope not.
01:13:24
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Because, like, I, you know, I know. You're saying create the logo with ai or or like Or, like, clean up the the animation. yeah the The look of it, yeah. The drawing of Buzz. Like, i feel like like I'm looking at it, I'm like, somebody could throw this into an AI thing and be like, you know, clean this up and it could do it. But then, like, you know, something would be off with it, right? And then...
01:13:48
Speaker
Yeah, and and not like not to say Disney is like going all in on AI, but I know there's been a couple of of examples of like so like promo stuff that they put out that is very clearly done with AI. Yeah. And i just I feel the worst thing that could happen is if that moves over into the creative space for them. Yeah. like like you know yeah ai is great for like taking care of menial tasks and taking care of of things that are you know, you know, easy to do when it starts.
01:14:22
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Right. And, and I, I, you know, I'm fully aware of the fact that yes, we've used AI to like do like our Christmas logo and stuff like that. Nobody needs to know that. Nobody needs to know that. No, but, but okay, let's be honest. Tom and I are not artists, right? Maybe I don't, you know, developed our skills later in life, Trevor. Okay. Sure, Tom. but So, so, you know, it filled a gap for us, but you know, I'm, I'm not, I'm,
01:14:46
Speaker
I'm not displacing the fact that, you know, if, you know, if I was to do a proper logo, I would engage somebody to do it. And I would, you know, get get it done by somebody who actually, like, knows the rules of of, like, design and stuff like that. I hope Disney is doing the same thing with this and that they're not trying to cut corners with it. I doubt i doubt i it it. It's too high profile, i feel like. Yeah.
Listener Engagement and Promotions
01:15:12
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And yeah, I feel like to that end, you know, if if they did decide to to do something AI with this and replace it, um people would like in in the first like days of it being open, people would pick it apart because they do. Right. So, yeah.
01:15:29
Speaker
All right. mean, just going to throw that out there. because yeah we'll we'll We'll see how this plays out. yeah All right. Well, I think that does it, Trevor. I think that's a, let's, let's wrap this thing up. Yeah. That was a good spread of stuff for this week. I think. Yeah. I think so.
01:15:42
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01:18:23
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01:19:40
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01:19:58
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Uh, oh, by the way, we yeah we we will have a, ah we we are going to be doing a food time, again, sometime here soon for, uh, the Festival the Arts. So there will be ah an upcoming food time here. So keep an eye out for that. We forgot to mention that earlier. But yeah, we'll have that.
01:20:11
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we we We saw the figment cake and we just we we absolutely have to do an episode just to talk about that. um so so So that'll be coming anyway. ah So look for us, by the way, in any of the podcast platforms. You can find us there. And a huge thank you to our sponsors, DVC Rental Store, for sponsoring this episode. And of course, World of DVC for being partners for a long time now. So join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion. Of course, more DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon.
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skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC................
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