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Episode 345: Listener Questions, Disney Believe & Josh D’Amaro Answers Questions
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Tom gives updates on his upcoming vacation and discusses the ways he’s trying to bribe his daughter to watch movies. The guys answer a listener's question about the best and worst of the Iger era and they rank the boat rides at Walt Disney World. The next Disney Cruise ship will be named ‘Disney Believe’ and be themed around Encanto, Frozen, Snow White, Moana, and The Little Mermaid. The Garden View Lounge – Tea Experience at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa has reopened after refurbishment. Josh D’Amaro started his tenure as Disney’s new CEO by answering shareholder questions about a Figment movie, ticket prices, and Lightning Lane. Disney also announced the release dates of ‘Incredibles 3’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch 2’. Shanghai Disney Resort is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. Tom remembers when the butter at Disney restaurants was shaped like Mickey.
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Weather and Vacation Plans
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podcast. I'm Tom here, Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, pretty good. I i feel like i'm I should be saying I'm coming to you from Frozen Land.
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From the world of Frozen? Yeah, the world of Frozen. But that's in Paris. But where I am, it's just as frozen right It's just as frozen. yeah As we talked about, it's been like nice and warm all week and like like t-shirt weather. And I woke up this morning and Mother Nature decided that she hadn't had enough of winter.
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so it's It's so funny to because you don't even like check the weather report to see if it may snow or not like because you're just no it just snows. you know like i you You can't. I mean, it it changes so much. that Yeah. like I'm just like, you have to just kind of deal with it as it comes because. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. yeah You plan for all scenarios because yeah i mean, honestly, it could be sunny and 20 degrees by this afternoon. I don't know. 20 degrees Celsius. We should make that point. Yes. If anybody it doesn't realize. But hey, I mean, I mean, 20 Fahrenheit is still like. It's pretty cold. Is that like minus five or minus six? some I don't know. guess I could look that up. Yeah, I don't know. i mean, it's below freezing, obviously. so but I mean, it's still not that call cold. No, it's not terrible. No, it's it's really not. It's minus six. Yeah, that's nothing. That's still t-shirt weather. T-shirt weather? What? It is. i I'm serious. it like
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Some days around here when it's been like minus 30 for like a week, when it goes up to minus six, it's t-shirt weather. Like it it is all relative. so Just like, you know, yeah you know me me being in the world of Frozen is relative, even though I'm not in the Paris one. I would rather be in the Paris one and, you know, be saying hi to Olaf. But yeah, yeah. But yeah, whatever. i ah Yeah. I mean, I get it. I, you know, I'm i'm getting, ah you know, speaking of saying hi to Olaf. I mean, not that Olaf's going to be on my cruise, but i'm getting I'm getting pretty pumped for ah for my for my vacation. Yes. Yeah. Coming up pretty soon here, we just got... So we had... And don't think I said this on the show, but we had... a And Trevor, you're not really... You know you haven't really done the cruise thing before. So we booked... Usually you can book a room and then you pick what room you want, right? like So you can like pick what room you want. With with this, ah we did we got a cheaper... ah you know It was cheaper because we basically let them pick the room for us. You you became a filler spot. Yeah.
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Yes, that's exactly right. That's why we got a discount on it because you know they were trying to to fill the ship, right? So when you do that, you know they just basically are like, well, we're going to pick the room for you. And was like, oh, okay, cool, whatever. So we just got our room assignments. And luckily, you know we're going with another family. And we had linked our reservations on you know we had linked our reservations through Disney so that they were together. But we didn't know if our rooms were going to be anywhere near each other.
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um But luckily, we actually we have a... ah rooms that are next to each other with a door in between. I can't think of the word for that right now, but lock off. Yeah, yeah, we had. Yeah, we so we can actually go in between them, um but we're on the 10th deck. We're on deck 10 and we're all the way in the front of the ship. So like literally the furthest you could possibly go in the front of the ship.
Cruise Experience and Disney Fantasy Features
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What's cool, though, about those rooms is that you can like look like right into like where like the captain is like you know steering the ship ah you know from when they're like docking and stuff like that because they have these little wings and like you're really close to that. um But also, the the quick service food, like you know like the the breakfast buffet and lunch buffet and and all and the and like the little... quick places where you get like pizza and stuff like that are on deck 11. So you can actually just walk up, you know, a short flight of stairs and that you're at food. You have to deal with elevators, which I really like actually, because that was like, we had that set up on our last cruise and it was really nice to just walk walk up that one flight of stairs and just, Hey, there's food. Look at that. You know, like we didn't have to go far.
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um So no yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can appreciate that. i've I've had a hotel stay at Disney where we were right like above the quick service as well. And yeah, it was the same thing. It was like, oh, we're hungry. you know I'll just pop downstairs and grab food. I'll be back in two minutes kind of thing. yeah And it was, yeah. So yeah, I see where that you know that kind of convenience is certainly certainly nice. And that so so sorry, you you said that there's... um You're overlooking like the the captain or.
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Yeah. all the I don't know. I don't know. These not. All right. So like there's if you if you Google like the Disney fantasy. Right. and you And you look at it. So like and all cruise ships really have this at this point. They have like these little wing stations, like basically the bridge where they're where they're at. It actually extends off over to the so over the side of the boat.
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because when the when they go to dock, they actually have like controls in this little wing station, and they guide the ship in from there because they can see better. They can actually like see down and look down and see the dock, whereas if they were you know in the front in the middle, they wouldn't be able to necessarily see the dock. And so like these wings kind of extend all the way out, you know over like the the furthest part out of the ship, basically. So yeah, if you Google that, you can you can see that.
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Sorry, which... Remind me again, which ship are you on? The Disney Fantasy. Fantasy. kill Yeah, Disney Fantasy. yeah Very excited. I'm looking at a ship layout right now just to kind of... Yeah, I mean, even if you just like that look at a picture, you can kind of see you can see all the way in the front with like the tinted windows there um yeah and how like they there's like the part that goes all the way out out over to the water.
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um So, like yeah, that's that's basically right where we are. Yeah. So yeah, you go and we've, we we've watched that before on the ship, you know, like we, we've watched the, like them, you know, guiding the ship into, into, into, into the dock and, and taking it out. And it it is kind of fascinating to watch. I mean, I, I like watching that kind of stuff. I think it's cool. Um, but yeah, so listen, we're good with our room assignment. We're happy. i think it's good.
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ah you know, it's, um, I've also, though, Trevor, I don't know if you've watched anything. I've been watching. My my my my wife's been making fun of me because my mom and my stepfather go on a lot of cruises. And when they're not on cruises, they spend their time watching YouTubers that go on cruises. like You know what I mean? Like, that's that's what they do. right I watch people who vlog about Disney World when I'm not at Disney World because, yeah, I'm not. There's nothing wrong with that, right? But yeah I, with the adventure coming out, I was like, I kind of want to see what's going on. You know, i like, I want to see some videos around this.
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And, you know, I've been watching videos on it. First of all, the thing is insanely large. It's it's ridiculous. But that Sanford Sokyo Street, the thing that you were geeking out over is so cool, Trevor. yeah aren you just Yes, it is. the video The videos of it are of me. It's so cool. But there is there's one restaurant on there.
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And I don't, you know, I'm not this kind of person, but I'm watching this video and I literally like, like verbally gasped when I saw this dining room because they have this, uh, this like Hollywood themed, ah restaurant on board.
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And like, you walk down like this hallway that has like, you know, like kind of like the blinking lights, like you're walking down, you know, like you're, you know, don't like a marquee or whatever. But then when you walk in, it's like a two deck high. see I can't even describe it. Like go find a video of it. If you're out there, I'm not not telling you, but um it's like, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. It's, it's so fancy and so nice. And I mean, you can see why, how Disney spent $2 billion dollars on this thing. It's, it it is a very, very, very nice. I, you're talking about the Hollywood spotlight club. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think that's what it is. but i'm I'm looking at it right now. And yes, I i understand what you're you're talking about with that the the pillars and the yeah pillars that go up to death. It's like just crazy looking. um So, yeah, I mean, listen, it that that I mean, it makes me sad because I know I'm probably not going on it. Right. Yeah. Unless it ends up somehow in the States someday. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it will.
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But i never say never. but Yeah. Yeah. um But, you know, it just it looks very cool. and And I mean, like I said, that San Francisco soo thing is e also very, very cool. um But I mean, there's a lot of neat stuff on board there. ah But even like, I'm sure you just probably pulled up the picture of the Spotlight Club, Trevor. Like the video I saw was like them walking in and it was like, whoa, like that's cool. Like because the picture doesn't represent it well. Yeah, I assumed that. that like yeah it' I'm looking at the picture. I'm going, okay, I see what it is. But I'm, yeah, I feel like it's one of those things that
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yeah, a video will, will showcase a lot better. It does for sure. But anyway, yeah. So like we've been kind of on a cruise, uh, video kick. And then we were watching Disney bloggers this morning, going to like frozen and, uh, Zootopia and, and all those like lands in the Asian parks. And my daughter says to me this morning, she goes, she goes, daddy, she goes, where's that Zootopia park. And I'm like, Oh, that's in one of the, the Asian parks. She goes, I want to go there just for that.
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And I was like, okay. Yeah. I was like, first of all, you you don't have an appreciation of how far that is. ah Yeah, I know. But, you know, because at first she looks at it, she goes, Daddy, is that at Disneyland? I'm like, no, it's not Disneyland. I was like, yeah you'd be on the next flight there. yeah Yeah, no, I mean, she and I was like, I didn't know you like Zootopia so much. And she's like, yeah, I do. Like, i I'm like, OK, because I've been trying to get her to watch Zootopia 2 now for since it came on Disney plus, you know, which I think we might accomplish this weekend. I've also been trying to, so one of the other things, Trevor on the Disney cruise ships is they play ah movies on the ship.
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And, you know, it's included as part of your price that that are ah movies that are in the theaters now. Right. yeah And I really want to see hoppers, ah you know, the new Pixar movie, because all the reviews are saying it's like hilarious. And it was, the it's like the funniest Pixar movie ever.
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And obviously it's doing very well at the box office. It's got great reviews. And so I really want to see it. i was trying to get my daughter to go and she's like, no, you know? And so, but you know, you know how it is with kids, Trevor.
00:10:52
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when they see their friends doing something, they might actually do it when they wouldn't do it otherwise. You know what I mean? And so it it doesn't matter how much you say it but if, if a friend says it, then exactly. Yeah. So we're going to be on the ship and if it's playing on the ship, you know, we're going with the other family we're going with is my daughter's best friend, right? So if her best friend wants to go,
00:11:14
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then maybe she'll go, you know, that's, that's the logic I'm working with here. I primed her on this though. And I, I said, you know, so will you go see hoppers on the ship? ah You know, if you're, if your friend goes and she goes, ah she goes, do I have to I'm like, well, you don't have to do it. mean, you don't have to know. I mean, you know, I'm like, come I, it's, I feel like she like ah whenever I'm suggesting this thing, she feels, it feels like I'm like torturing her. like, no, I just to take you to a movie. Yeah.
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It's Pixar movie. Come on. you know You know, you know, you linked that, that latest Disney Cruise Line advertisement video. Oh, gosh, man. And so, sorry, that this is this is sounding like the same thing.
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yeah you know You know, when it got to the point where it was the teenager and he was like, nah, I'm good. yeah I feel like you're kind of hitting that point, which i'm I am well into that point, by the way. Mike Hunter's only seven, though. I mean, we shouldn't be hitting that point yet. Well, okay, you you say that, but I mean, kids, they they do things at their own pace. It's... Yeah. yeah i Listen, I saw that commercial. So I was getting getting ready for the show, right? And and they had this they had the commercial this new commercial for Disney Cruise Line on Disney Parks blog. And i I'm like, all right, let me check this commercial out.
00:12:32
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And like I was like, dude, I'm like bawling. like I'm like, this is... like How are they putting... that like You're killing me here. like I watched that. I think I saw it on... like Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah. And it was in the middle of the day. Like I was like, I think I was actually like just going for lunch and, and I brought it up and I watched it and yeah, it took me a good, like 15 minutes to get over it. that Yeah. Yeah. Dude. I mean, they hit the mark on that one for sure. if That's like the second one they did too. That looks like that. I mean, oh they've, they've done lots that have hit close to that. That one hit particularly hard. I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't know what we're talking about and you want to be watching emotionally for a while little while, yeah have you listen if you want to be in your feels for a little bit. Yeah. I i good like like it's a great ad, but man, like, yeah, it was it really. I mean, and Disney's been doing a lot of these lately for the parks and for the cruise ships of, hey, your kid's going to grow up.
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do this stuff with them now. And that's, I think it hits all of us that have kids that are getting older and, you know, they're all getting, adding kids getting older, obviously, because we're all getting older, but it just like hits at a certain point, you know, when you really see your kid growing up and it just like that, it and they're getting you right there. And i you know, listen, you know what they're doing, but at the same time, they're right. And it just, it, it hits a really,
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Interesting emotional spot. So, yeah, I they're they're not they're not saying anything like unsurprising in those videos, but no you're right. it's It's just that they're like bringing it to the forefront and they're telling it in such a way that it's like, yeah, it it makes you very reflective of like, man, like my. yeah My kid's going to be an adult handle growing up too. It's like the the guy in it, you know, he starts off. I don't want to ruin it for anybody, but he starts off as,
Bob Iger's Impact on Disney
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as ah you know, the older version of himself. And then they go back to the younger version of himself. Yeah. Progressively gets older. They do a time skip or what would be in Marvel? Like, I guess.
00:14:34
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yeah Yeah. I guess time traveling of some sort. Yeah. It's just time traveling. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, but it's, it's, it's really, really well done and, and really good from the fields for sure. So anyway, yeah all that, I don't even know where we are anymore. We were, you were talking about trying to get your daughter to do something on the cruise, which, you know, ah all bets are off, I think, but, you know, hopefully, hopefully, you know,
00:14:59
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Hopefully you get to watch a movie with her, but I mean, I'll be honest. I can't remember. I think it's been years since I've sat down and watched a movie with my son, but he goes and watches movies with his friends all the time.
00:15:11
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So i'm I'm going to try to make family movie night happen tonight and watch utopia too. I'm going to, it's, it's, I'm going to attempt whether it's actually going to work or not. I don't know. I wish you luck.
00:15:22
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Actually, what I said, i no joke, and i I'm sure so a lot of parents out there can relate to this. I literally, I just straight up said to my daughter, I said, what can I bribe you with to make this happen? I'm like, what can i write what could I give you to make this happen? And she's like, she's like nothing. And I'm like, well, what about like you know we'll have some popcorn, we'll have some candy? And she's like, no. And then she goes, she pauses for a second and she goes, well, what candy?
00:15:46
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I was like, any candy you want, kid, ah you know, whatever you want. go to the store. yeah Yeah, we'll go to the store. We'll have some candy. And she's like, well, how much of it can I have? I was like, as much as you want.
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It's movie time. You know, I'm trying, man. I'm going to get try with the bribery sometimes. Yeah. Yep. yeah Take it where you can get it. Exactly. We've got a couple listener questions that I wanted to answer because we haven't done listener questions in a while. And I like doing listener questions because they're fun.
00:16:17
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ah But Dan K from Discord writes, with Bob Iger's tenure ending today, for real this time. We we think for real this time, right? i think so. I'm pretty sure it's for real this time. I think he's done done.
00:16:28
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Yeah. Yeah. This was a very smooth transition to Josh too. So, but but anyway, what is your favorite thing he did or accomplished? And what was your least favorite thing that he did? is Okay.
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i ah You want to go? know if you got one, go ahead. I mean, yeah i i you know, I think um i this, you know, and you you left this very wide, Dan, right? So, you know, we're not going, I'm not going to go with the parks thing here. I'm going to go with just the acquisition of Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar. I mean, I, those, I,
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acquisitions have shaped the company into what it is now. I mean, if you think about it, ah you know, most of the output is coming from those three places, you know, and, you know, they brought into the fold now given, listen, with Pixar, they had an agreement beforehand and they had, you know, we're using, you know, using a lot of the characters in the parks, but like,
00:17:21
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the the The integration of those companies with Disney overall, I think, has... Oh, and I guess you could also throw a Fox in there, too, because you know we're we're really seeing... it's My wife and I make a joke constantly, Trevor, where ah you know we're watching some movie somewhere, and I'm like, oh, Disney owns that now. ah You know what i mean? like it It's like, oh, they own this property? you know Like, oof. Yeah, I saw something that said, you know, because alien the Aliens franchise is owned by Fox, which makes yeah which makes the Xenomorph a princess.
00:17:53
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That's right. Yeah. so It's so many things like that, though. like yeah like I know. Okay, I'll admit what I was watching. I decided to turn on the movie Super Troopers, which is now like 25 years old. But that movie was a Fox Searchlight movie. It's a Disney movie now. Like, it's...
00:18:08
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you know, this, the wide breadth of what they have now, especially because of Fox to like, at least with like Pixar and Marvel Lucasfilm, they kind of brought things under the umbrella that made, so I'm not going to say family friendly, but they were, they were all, uh, you know, more, less R rated, more family esque, right? Because Lucasfilm was all the star Wars and, uh, you know, Indiana Jones and all that. And even Marvel wasn't, you know, didn't have anything to, to, em it it has some racy stuff in there, obviously like Deadpool and all that. But, um,
00:18:38
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but But like the Fox stuff, you brought in a whole lot of other stuff, you know? Yeah. Yeah. they They did very much try to hit a little bit of something for everybody, i think, was the the end goal there.
00:18:51
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But if you're going to force me to do a Parks thing, I'll figure out a Parks thing. Well, so, I mean, I do have an to answer to the Parks side of it. So, so okay, I'll do... i'll do so So, sorry, that was your that was your favorite. What was your least favorite? Do you have a least favorite? Yeah.
00:19:06
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I mean, i don't know. I don't really feel like he did anything all that negative that I can really think of. I mean, you could point to like, I mean, I don't know the closure of Disney quest. It was that he was around for that. I mean, i don't know. Technically that was under his tenure. Yes. You can blame him for that. can blame him for Disney quest. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:27
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I'll never forget Disney Quest. Never forget Disney. um No, because I see to me, I think I and I know not everybody agrees with this. I think that his tenure was filled with expansion and growth. And, you know, some people will say, well, his desire to put IP into everything is, you know, a problem. But let we talked about this Dabra Daniel that you'll hear in a couple of weeks. I I understand why he did it. makes sense.
00:19:56
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You know, like ah the the the whole putting IP and everything, like you said, yeah, you know, Hey, we, we have a Dapper Danielle interview coming up in a couple of weeks. So, Hey, you know, teaser for that. we did talk about that a little bit, but I think the whole idea of, you know, putting IP into everything's as negative.
00:20:13
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That's been the case from day one. Like, yeah. Yeah. If you go back to, like well, Disneyland was opened with Sleeping Beauty's Castle, it was to promote the movie. Yeah, of course. that something been for pro like It's It's not like they didn't have characters in Disneyland when they opened. They had characters. I mean, look, they did some original stuff, sure, but they still had characters. I feel like that argument is you know people love to try and...
00:20:42
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die on that hill and i i don't i don't agree with the the you know yes it's disney yes of course they're going to put their ips into it yes you shouldn't be surprised like it's if you don't like it go to your local theme park that doesn't have disney ip in it because i would disney not do that why wouldn't they do it they have the most valuable ip in the world why wouldn't they do that yeah i bet i can guess what yours is though i bet i can guess do you okay um so you probably don't know what my favorite is or i think this in the mu and okay okay let's hear it what do you what do you think it is and i'll tell carsland carsland dang okay you know me too much Yes, you're right. for yeah Cars land is absolutely the the best thing. i like From a park standpoint, yeah um the most immersive land. it hit
00:21:34
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For me, it was at that perfect time. you know Talking back to you know our kids being at different phases in their life, it was at a phase in my son's life where he was really into it. So we were able to like just really be into it and not have to... like and And I mean, and i not to say that like any other lands, like, you know, we enjoy as well, but it just, it hit at that right point in my son's life where, where, you know, he would like, we had tons of car stuff. Like he, he loved the movies. We had, you know, toys and all that kind of stuff. And so like bringing, being able to bring him to a two scale, like radiator Springs was the greatest thing. And, you know, for so for me, yeah, that was, that was the, the,
00:22:17
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The biggest thing that i there are my favorite thing that i that I like that was accomplished under Bob Iger's tenure. My least favorite thing, um that kind of overlaps actually with your talking about the acquisition of Lucas and... You're going to stick around all that? Yeah. So...
00:22:36
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so So, okay, this is a bit of ah a nuanced thing. i don't disagree with the acquisition of Marvel and Lucas and everything. I'm actually glad that Disney did that because it did bring some things forward that um that I think were great for the company. And, and you know, and even now, like, yeah you know, Galaxy's Edge, all that kind of stuff.
00:22:57
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Great that that it has happened. And, you know, you know all that And and you know the the the movies and everything were good. My issue with it, or I think that the the least favorite thing was the fact that there was oversaturation of particularly the Star Wars stuff. like i'm I'm mad that they pushed so hard to put so much Star Wars stuff out that it ruined my taste for Star Wars.
00:23:26
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<unk>s you know That's a fair criticism. yeah That makes sense. and And that's the thing is that like I don't hate Star Wars. Like I will still sit down and watch the older movies, but I'm not hunting for the new movies. I'm not hunting for like everything Star Wars because the it's kind of you know it's kind of like saying – Or, yeah you know, when when something's too sweet, yeah you know, you know, yeah you get like a dessert and it's like, oh, you know, you it has all the sugar in the world and, you know, but but it's supposed to have sugar. And it's like, yeah, but there passes a threshold where it's gone too far. Yeah, it's too much. Right. And unfortunately, that's I think I know. i mean, it it was definitely intentional, but I don't I don't know that.
00:24:11
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um I don't know that that it was their plan to overdo it to the level that they did. i mean, i feel like i feel like it was, you know, Bob had a clear plan for like integrating the IPs and everything.
00:24:27
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But I think it was one of these things where. ah Kind of funny enough is, you know, everyone talks about like, you know, when like Frozen came out, it was like it took forever for there to be anything Frozen in the parks. And it was like this. I wish that that, you know, they would act quicker on on integrating IPs into rides and, yeah you know, you know, giving us that stuff.
00:24:50
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And they kind of did that with Star Wars is the thing. yeah Like they, yeah they, I think they heard them like, okay, well, you know, fine. Like, you know, here's, you know, back to back movies and here's all this. And, and.
00:25:01
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You almost can't blame them though, right? Cause they got their hands on like some of the most but valuable IP ever. And it's like, oh, here's all the things we do with it. You know? The thing is, is that it, it honestly, to me, it, it felt like a bit of a monkey's paw wish. Fair. Yeah. It was like, I wish there was more Star Wars. And it was like, here you go. But. There's a million Star Wars things. Yeah. So i yeah that's that's my least favorite thing about is that i it it just ruined my personal taste for Star Wars. And I'm not hating on, you know, if you're still into it, good for you.
00:25:32
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It's just not for me. And or I've i moved on from it, unfortunately. Yeah. Listen, I actually think that Iger at one point said that he regretted how much they did around Star Wars at the beginning. i have seemed to remember him saying that in an interview. So, but, you know, i do a little too hard. Yeah, no. And and listen, the other thing, you're your favorite, I knew it was your favorite. I think a lot of people don't realize that like right after Bob Iger got hired, he was like, hey, ah you know, California Adventure's a mess. Like we got to fix it.
00:26:02
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Yeah. Like that was all him. Like he drove that hard to fix California Adventure. And so the whole redo of California Adventure was all Bob Iger. So, you know, it's.
00:26:13
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and And so that's why I had a feeling you were going to say Cars Land because I know that that, I mean, widely was felt to be very well done on the whole just besides
Disney World Boat Ride Rankings
00:26:22
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Cars. But just like the whole of redoing California Adventure was very well received, you know, and and that was really Iger's kind of if Iger hadn't a come it come in, he it wouldn't. I mean, and I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it wouldn't have happened eventually, but he was the driving force behind it.
00:26:37
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Yeah. And I mean, yeah, like I, I, I, you know, agree that, yeah, California adventure being redone absolutely need to happen. um For me, yeah, the the crown jewel of it was Radiator Springs just because of, like you said, it it was like, I can't remember a time before that where walking into a land, like even Galaxy's Edge, like when I walked into Galaxy's Edge, I was like, oh, wow, this is cool.
00:27:05
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Radiator Springs was like, oh my gosh. like like yeah like it was and you know Because we had watched the movies and it was so like it was familiar enough to us, we were like, oh wow, they nailed that.
00:27:20
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Like it's hard to explain when when you take an animated movie and you see it in real life and it it tracks. It works. Yeah. It actually works in real life. That's the part that was honestly mind-blowing about it was that it was like, oh, like I know it's not, it wasn't super outlandish as far as an animated movie went, but it was like, it was very unique and it had some very,
00:27:44
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like interesting stuff to it. And it was like, oh, they hit it so well. Right. And yeah. So yeah, that, that was why for me it was, you know, and like I said, and then, you know, see my, my son's, you know, my son kind of looking at it like,
00:27:58
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we're here. Like, like this is, this is real seriously walking in here kind of thing. And I was like, okay, yep. Okay. You got me. yeah yeah i' I'm sold. mean Yeah. So, so then we, the other question we have is from a Joe jam 35, who we realized we, we don't know if that's this.
00:28:16
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I'm assuming his name is actually Joe because so on our discord, people have the ability to change their aliases, but not everybody does. So we're going off of username. So yeah. So so we' we're just going to say Joe ah because i you know we have I know that JoeJM35 contributes a fair amount, but I don't know if we've like done names there. you know like so Anyway, ah question for the next episode or more of a request, rank the WDW boat rides from best to worst.
00:28:45
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I'm going to i'm going to have a proposal for this, Trevor. let's Maybe we say are the best and worst boat ride at each park. How's that? Okay, so so we're specifically talking in-park boat rides. we're were We're excluding boat transport. and so link okay No boat transportation, yeah. okay So Magic Kingdom, options are Pirates, It's a Small World, Jungle Cruise. I'm going to cross off Liberty Square River Boat since that's not a thing anymore. Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
00:29:12
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Those are our options. Does ah ah a flume ride counts as a boat ride? It does, yeah. Because it is specifically a log flume. But it's still a boat. It still floats sometimes. You know, sometimes they sink, but they just... Yeah, okay.
00:29:29
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I mean, I feel like it has a ride system. Okay, fine. Yeah, yeah you know what fine. You're right. It floats. Fair game. Yeah, yeah. like All right. Okay. um Okay, so between those ones... um Oh, you're okay. I was just going to say my, the best from my perspective, but now I have to go from best to worst. Ooh. Um, no, you don't have to go best to worst. We're just, let's just do the best and the worst, the best and the worst. Okay. yeah So, so for me, um, oh gosh. Okay. This is way harder than I thought. Cause I'm, um I'll do mine. If you want to say, think okay, yeah yeah, go for it. Yeah. right. I'm going to do jungle cruise is best.
00:30:07
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Okay. And I'm going to go small world is worst. That's right. and Listen, when I say worst, I don't mean bad. I like s small world, but it's to me the least good of all of them.
00:30:19
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Fair. Okay. I guess, okay, for me, i think my best is Pirates. um pirate Pirates just hits a certain way for me.
00:30:31
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And um i I was actually, i was wrestling between Pirates and Tiana's, but Pirates does win out just a little bit for me. um Worst?
00:30:43
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Okay. Okay. All right, I'm going to agree with you. it is Small World, but but i so but I say it with a caveat. I don't hate Small World, but Disneyland's version of Small World is better than Disney World's version of Small World. Yeah.
00:31:01
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I don't think that's even up for debate. And it's and and because of that, it is it is a... I mean, actually, and yeah, people are going to come for me because you could say the same thing about pirates, but I mean, I just like pirates overall as a ride is, is better as a, as a boat ride anyway.
00:31:19
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um And actually, yeah. Okay. So fine. yeah there's There's no drop in small world. So there, like just, you know, if you want to come for me, there's no drop in small world. come find me so for the rest of the parks. So magic kingdom had the most. So for yeah the, the other the only other two that have Epcot and animal kingdom have boat rides, but Hollywood studios is not. So um let's combine Epcot and animal kingdom and and do one whole list here. Right. So between animal and animal kingdom and Epcot, we've got living with the land frozen ever after grand fiesta tour Navi river journey or Kali river rapid rapids.
00:31:55
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Oh man. i I got my number one and number. and Okay. Yeah. And my last one here. Okay. If I'm going. do you want me to go mine first? oh yeah mean I'm conflicted again, but for different reasons than the magic kingdom. list it's it's fair It's fair. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Mine's easy. ah Number one.
00:32:15
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Living with the land, baby. Living with the land. Yeah. knew you were saying that. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, I don't know what it is about living with the land. Oh, it's a vibe. is. It's a whole thing. It is such a vibe. You can't get past the vibes on living with the land. I'm sure there's lots of people that go to Epcot for the first time and then go on living with the land for the first time and they're like, what is this? What? What is this nonsense we're doing here? No, enjoy your edumatainment and you're wrong if you don't like it. Yes, living with the land is – yes, I love living with the land. And I'm going to put my last, Trevor, and this is going to be an interesting thing.
00:32:52
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Kali River Rapids only because we have never done Kali River Rapids. I don't know why. mostly i you know what i think it is, Trevor? Every time where we've been there, it's been a really long wait and yeah we don't want to get wet.
00:33:05
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like That's really what it is. you know really you You don't want to get wet in Animal Kingdom? i have no problem with getting wet. My wife does not like want to walk walk around in wet clothes. i Listen, I've wanted to go on it for a long time. I love those types of rides. like they're Some of my favorite rides those RAF rides. I love them. yeah On a hot day, you need it at Animal Kingdom, too.
00:33:25
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and um with but that's why That's why the line so long. i Well, that's the thing though too is I generally if the line's longer than 45 minutes unless it's something I absolutely have to do. I'm not doing it. You know, like so i will lightning lane Callie just say. Okay. Yeah.
00:33:42
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All right. So where where are you at? All right. So, okay. I didn't, I mean, again, i I, in my head, I was going, yes, living with the land. and And honestly, it was like you said, the vibes and partially because I think my wife would be mad at me if I didn't call out living with the land because it's her favorite ride. ah But yeah i actually, i slightly put grand fiesta tour above living with the land. Okay. And, and my reasoning for that is again, it's
00:34:14
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It's honestly, it's such a unique ride. If you think about it, that it it is showing off Mexican culture, which I don't have a lot of exposure to. So to me, it's very, it's very different. I find it very interesting.
00:34:27
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I find like the, the design of it and I like how they did like the, the cute little animations through it and everything. Yeah. um i And also, you get to go stand inside of the Mexican pavilion, which, again, on a really hot day, you appreciate that AC. Appreciate the And it's i mean it's a good choice. any And it does beat out living with the land because, again, on a hot day, you hit that you hit that greenhouse and living with the land and it is humid. Yeah. Right? is Yeah. like If I were going to do a one through five, it would be living with the land, grand fiesta tour frozen ever after Navi river journey. And then Kali, like that's probably how. Okay. like
00:35:07
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So, okay. So, so yeah, that, um, my, mine would be like frozen ever after still in the middle there for me, I would put, so Kali is, would be second worst. And i i say that now because I've actually been on, I've been on Bluto's Build Rat Barge at Universal. yeah And Kali is a very pale comparison to Bluto's for like how wet you get on a raft. Yeah. So, so Kali is Kali is a little too tame and that's why it's down the list more. um
00:35:42
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I put Navi River Journey at last. Um, because it had potential and it's just such a disappointingly short ride.
00:35:54
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and That's probably the biggest problem. for the Right. for yeah ride It is like boat ride should not be that quick. It's well done. It's really good. It's just not long enough. It's the same thing as like like Seven Dwarfs, right? Like Seven Dwarfs a lot of fun, but it's just too short.
00:36:07
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Yeah. know And yeah, like, you know, for the amount of time that they put into theming it and everything, it's too quick. And I like and and compared to all the other boat rides that we're talking about, it's too quick.
00:36:18
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00:37:02
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all right, Trevor. So we don't do Disney Cruise a lot, but I mean, we have been a little bit more lately, but you know, yeah, we just spent like the first talking about the event the show talking about my cruise. Yeah, but I think it's, you know, it's valid. You know, if I think we always agreed, you know, as long as it's stuff that we're doing, you know, it's fair game to talk about. So, yeah, I mean, cruise ship talk is fair. Yeah. Yeah. And so ah with, you know, Josh taking over the CEO spot, we got a lot of announcements. ah And one of those announcements was the next Disney cruise ship. So I think a lot of people know that Disney is ah building a bunch of cruise ships. They are expanding their their fleet ah very quickly here, ah basically with one new ship coming out every year for the next ah bunch of years. I forget how many more it is, but it's at least like...
00:37:53
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I don't know. I don't want to give a number because someone's like, you're wrong. and um I just don't remember. But um anyway, there is a constant flow of literally cru shot coming yeah new cruise ships every single year. And so with that, they've announced what 2027 new ship is going to be. And that is going to be the Disney Believe, which when I saw it, I was like, well, duh. um that just you know i i just assume that somewhere in imaginary and they just have like a word doc of like all of the different like names for these ships you know because like that fit into the disney uh you know thing you know it's yeah it's and believe there's got to be like a thesaurus or something of like yeah yeah because yeah it makes sense yeah Yeah. Like, I feel like eventually you're going to be able to like, do like all the lyrics from like happily ever after something from, i have of Disney boats, yeah just the Disney ships. Yeah. Well, and the thing that a bit here, the thing that Disney does though, that is, I think a little bit different than the other ones is they,
00:39:00
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that they actually theme their ships along with the name. Right. So like, yeah you'll like, so like the destiny, like is themed around like villains and heroes and stuff. Right. So like it, and you know, the destiny thing plays into that. Like, whereas, you know, the believe is about a promise and possibilities. Right. So, and so like what they're saying is this is going to kind of focus on,
00:39:23
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um you know in kanto and frozen right and you know of course in kanto is like in frozen are are kind of fit into that believe thing with in kanto you know with like a maribel like you know kind of believing in herself and you know so i guess the same with really with elsa and stuff like that too right like it's yeah it alls all kind of falls into that yeah yeah so self-belief and yeah discovering their own internal power yeah Yeah. And then, and then of course, it it mentions the wishing wells of Snow White to the depths of the sea with Moana and Little Mermaid. Those are all things that fit very well into into you know into the concept of believing in things, right? so And end listen, and you could probably throw pretty much any Disney thing in there, and it's probably going to fit in. You could you can make it fit into ah the believing thing. Yeah. but
00:40:10
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But I think this is a ah good theme. We don't really know anything else outside of that and that it's coming 2027 and it's the same class of ship as the ah the Wish and the Destiny. um So, you know, it's it's... And the Treasure, I'm sorry. I should should mention everybody's favorite ship, including mine. and The Treasure. Poor Wish, man. Everybody hates the Wish. But it is what it is. It seems like people like the Destiny, too. And from the videos I've watched that one, that one's pretty cool, too. But anyway...
00:40:38
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ah Yeah, so this is going on and ah you know we'll we'll have ah we'll have more and more ships coming, but this is the the next new one. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, that you know it's funny you were just like listing off like the pros and cons of all these ships. I realize does fall in the same sense to me is like people talking about like their favorite sports team. Okay. It's like, like, you don't know what I'm talking about.
00:41:04
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Yeah. Like, I mean, I obviously do like in, in the sense of like, it's like, you know, people start talking about like, Oh, you know, no, I like this goalie on this hockey team or, you know, these players or whatever. And I'm like, Hmm. Yeah. It just kind of goes bye-bye. You go to like your happy place. That sounds interesting and I'm excited for you, but I don't have any frame of reference for what you're talking about. That's fair.
00:41:28
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Yeah. Again, and and that's that's not a you problem. That's a me problem. That's just me like trying to wrap my head around like... you know, I'm not, I've not been on any of these ships. So I can't even like, like you were saying like, Oh, well the treasure is better than the wish. And I'm like, maybe I'll go on the wish and I'll be like, Hey, this is like the most awesome thing ever. Here's the thing. I have no actual personal opinions about the wish. I am just relaying what I hear other people say. i actually not yeah And that's what I'm saying too, is like, i I don't know what other people are saying and I could walk in and be like,
00:42:01
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It would feel that way though, Trevor, because I, it seemed, if it feels to me and I hope nobody takes offense this, that the people that don't like the wish are people that have been on the other ships before and don't like it in comparison to those. Right. It's doesn't mean it's not an amazing ship. It is in its own right. But like when you have the, the, the, you know, comparison that it's, it doesn't compare. You know, I think that's really what it is.
00:42:23
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i think that's, that's kind of a big, challenge. yeah and I mean, honestly, you know we just finished answering a question about comparing boat rides. It's like, you know, comparing things is very um you know, it it does sometimes diminish. Like you said, you you know, all of these are good ships. It's just when you pit them against each other. Yes, there are, you know, for various reasons, there's better and there's worse, but I mean, you're still going on a cruise ship. like Yeah. I mean, it's listen, I agree at Disney cruise ship that, ah you know, they, they are still, they're very stunning when you go around. I mean the, the, you think the detail is high Trevor in the parks, the detail on the cruise ships is, is crazy. Yeah. Oh, I i don't doubt it. I mean, just from looking at the pictures, like, yeah, I i will admit I occasionally see like pictures of the restaurants and everything. And I'm like, oh, that like but that must be like something in one of the Asian parks. It's like, no, that's on a cruise. And I'm like, oh, man. like One of these days, Trevor, one of these days you'll you'll do it. I know. um But anyway, I don't know how much we actually want to talk about this because I i don't want to say I don't care. But the Garden View Lounge tea experience ah it reopened to guests already at
New Disney CEO and Future Directions
00:43:39
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Grand Floridian. And so they just as they did a little reimagining to the space for some little like tea parties and things like that.
00:43:46
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And it looks nice. It looks very Grand Floridian. It looks very tea. It's very... ah I don't know. it's It's very... um teapo as we've said in the past it's very top hat and monocle aesthetic like if if you want to go and be fancy if you can go and be fancy here yeah that's right um but yeah like you said cool i hope you enjoy it ah you'll never find me there We got to be careful with our our fake British accents, Trevor, because we we are like a top 25 podcast in in in the UK. I have family from south of London. so Okay, so you're allowed. I get it. Yes.
00:44:31
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So that's move on quickly, but that, I mean, listen, tea parties, is not really our thing, but I wanted to mention it because it is a Disney world thing. And I know a lot of people like to do the tea parties there and stuff like that with their kids. And I, I'm not going to say I wouldn't do it. I probably would with my daughter. She'd probably love such a thing. I mean, but I i might be passing yes rapidly. I can't imagine a scenario where I would end up there right now. I should say, i shouldn't say never. I mean,
00:44:57
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I don't know what would happen, but like just with the way my family is right now, no chance that any of us would ever be like, let's go do a tea party. Yeah, exactly.
00:45:09
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Exactly. All right. So moving on, you know, Josh tomorrow took over the CEO spot officially from Bob Iger on the March 18th. And they did this at the annual shareholder meeting and they had a Q and a and so Josh got some, ah got some time to answer some questions. And something I think that gets asked every single year it's something I just feel like I need to highlight is ah if we're ever going to get a figment movie, right? Which, first of all, kudos to whoever keeps asking that. Because, you know, yeah I you for that. The persistence is appreciated. Yeah.
00:45:46
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But Josh said, and I quote, I love the fact that there's so much adoration for Figment. He stood the test of time as a fan favorite, and he clearly continues to spark creativity and imagination across generations. And I think that's i think that's really cool.
00:46:00
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That's what he said. So Josh has already mastered the art of not answering a question. um Yeah. You really think you would be this far into it if you didn't know how to... To not and answer a question without answering the question? Yeah. um Now, listen, i mean I know this was nothing and you know he didn't announce anything. but there There's been rumors about a Figment TV series for a while. There was Figment film that was in development.
00:46:26
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you know They just put out recently that the ah that that how not to draw short ah on Disney+, plus which i my I watched with my daughter and was really funny. i actually really liked it. um And it was it was really a ah very fun way to use Figment.
00:46:42
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ah But if you haven't watched that, go check that out. It is on Disney+. plus It's also on YouTube. You can check that out I'll have to look for that. I didn i actually didn't realize it was on... uh, Disney plus. So I'll have to let my wife know because she loves finding figment stuff too.
00:46:54
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So, yeah. Yeah. And that this is, uh, you know, it's, it's a, um, different voice than the original. Well, well it's all, all figment is different than original, but you know, Dave goals had done it ah for sincerely. Isn't that the voice of Gonzo? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, in the ride. But ah the past like couple things they've done with Figment have been a different voice. so um But yeah, i like to I mean, it sounds like Figment. I don't think it's like New Kermit, ah you know where I'm just like, oh, that's not Figment. I think Figment has more breathing space for that because he's Figment. Yeah. and he can and yeah yeah
00:47:30
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good Kermit is too iconic. Like you can't, not that figment is an iconic, but like figment, like you've just heard Kermit talking a lot more than you've heard figment talking. Yeah. ah Kermit has much more of a legacy to live up to. Figment is not in that same sphere yet. Yeah.
00:47:47
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, um but yeah, listen, it's it's good. It's really fun. It's a nice use of Figment. If you haven't watched it, just go check it out. Like I said, Disney Plus, it's on YouTube. And it's like it's it's really, really good. I liked it. But yeah, so this listen, there's no news here, really.
00:48:04
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The news is that he that said... He didn't say acknowledges that Figment is popular, which I think... The ah only takeaway from that is that, you know, if the CEO is aware of the fact that people like figment, that means he won't be quick to pass up opportunities to utilize figment. And hopefully, like you said, that means more than just merch in the park or you know, festival tide stuff. Like, you know, yeah yeah you know maybe maybe there is a plan for him to be the next character that they expand similar to, you know, when everything started with pirates of the Caribbean, right? Like, yeah.
00:48:39
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You never know. Yeah. Oh, he also, the guy that's the new, the new figment voice also was the voice of Gambit on a X-Men 97, which Trevor, don't know if you watch, have you watched X-Men 97? Cause that, that series is great.
00:48:53
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Yeah, I mean, because it's the continuation of yeah the original X-Men series. Yes. yeah did you Did you watch it, though? i i I think I got like three episodes into it. It was so good, though, right? it's it's It literally is exactly Yeah, lives up. yeah Yeah. It's exactly same. Yeah. So he's the voice of Gambit, too. So there you go. Fun times.
00:49:14
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I'll to go back and listen for that. Yeah. Because usually you can you you can hear like... with different voice actors, you can hear like inflections in their voice that like, you can tell like, Oh, I know who that is. Right. So, Oh, I mean like literally every time we watch a Disney movie, my wife and I have a game where we go find Jim Cummings. Like yeah Jim Cummings is so like iconic. Yeah. And you can always tell it's him too. Like, even though he does change his voice to different stuff, you can always tell it's Jim Cummings, right? Like, yeah. And so like, literally we'll just be watching a movie like Jim Cummings right there. Yeah. It's almost like how ale Alan Tudyk's become too, although Alan Tudyk, I feel like is much harder to, because he's, I feel like he's always doing things like, um like, Hey, Hey, where it's like, you don't know who's doing that voice. Like, you know, ah yeah his his is a lot more. Yeah. Like stuff like Hey, Hey is very, it's very hard to nail down because that could be anybody, but yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:50:11
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Uh, so, uh, another question that got asked to Josh is about prices in the parks. Uh, well, and they, you know, they put it in a nice way of how does Disney experiences balance revenue growth from ticket pricing and attendance with, with maintaining positive guest satisfaction, AKA how do you stay profitable and not rate, right. Race prices so high that it makes everyone mad.
00:50:34
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yeah Which, you know, is tough to do um because we're probably at that point now where people are pretty mad about the the things, the you know, how much things cost.
00:50:45
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ah But again, he kind of gives a non-answer, Trevor. He said, you know, i mean, he's not wrong though here, though, too. He says, starts with the fact that I know that a Disney park visit, it's meaningful investment for families that visit us. Our goal is for every single guest to feel that their experience is worth it. Basically, we want this experience to be the best day of a guest's life, and we're always measuring our success here.
00:51:05
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ah Okay. And then, but then he says, when we comes to when it comes to how we think about pricing, what we try to do is focus on offering a wide range of options and different price points that the families can visit in ways that work for them, whether that's during value season or, you know, maybe taking advantage of multi-day ticket savings or even taking advantage of special offers when we introduce them from time to time. That really does seem to kind of be their thing, Trevor, you know, and it's always has been, you know, like base ticket prices cost a lot more, but then they do like a ton of promotions and you just, you know, you use a promotion.
00:51:34
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you know I mean, yeah, that that you're right. like For those of us that know, it's like you never just pay you know face ticket costs. You always figure out like yeah multi-day tickets, discounts, you know time of year, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, time of year. yeah because i I had a friend that wanted to go and they wanted to do it under a certain budget and they told me when they were going and I was like, well, why are you going then? That's like an expensive time to go. you know cut it like Go back ah like go a couple weeks earlier and you'll cut off like $2,000. Yeah. That's there's ways to do it now, no matter what you do, it's expensive. I mean, it is. It is what it is. I do. I have always felt, though, that, you know, it's I've never got come away from Disney thinking it wasn't worth it for what we paid for, you know?
00:52:17
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Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, ah ah absolutely true. They yeah like, yeah, i've I've never been upset about paying the money um to get to get these experiences. But, yeah, you know, like what what Josh is saying here, though, is, you know, but basically that they're looking at how people are reacting to it. And i guess we haven't hit a point yet where people are.
00:52:43
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so dissatisfied with it that uh that they're you know declining going to you know going to the parks and all that kind of stuff right i i think i think that's like you know it's i always laugh when people are like oh well ticket prices when disneyland opened were like you know 50 cents or whatever you know it's like okay but can we stop with that like you know what I mean, there there is a whole relative conversation and but inflation and everything. It's like, yeah, you're right. and But, you know, you know, I don't recall a spot where the rule said that ah that Disney ticket prices had to move linear to inflation. Yeah, exactly. like that That's honestly kind of an insane statement as well. Like it's it's equally like.
00:53:31
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I guess what people don't realize is that, you know, so saying that, you know, the price should be this part or this amount, because I agree with it is just as insane as if Disney doubled the prices of their tickets, like month over month, like, like it's like, it's unreasonable. And and I'm not saying like that, you know, I'm okay with the way the prices are right now. I, I honestly think, you know, Disney could look to do some more promos or, you know, find ways to, you know, help people.
00:54:00
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you know, enjoy the parks more. But again, we we've talked about this before is that, you know, Disney as a business is also where if there is a line of, you know, the more you charge for things, the less like you still get the same amount of money, but there's less people in the parks and, and the, the whole thing of, but not everybody can enjoy it is like, yes, I know, yeah,
00:54:27
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Like not everybody has to do everything all the time. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I don't get to enjoy private jets either. When we were growing up, you know i we had to save up for five years. you know We went to Disney once every five years.
00:54:44
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I was lucky enough that you know as an adult, I was able to go there every year. And you know for the last couple years, we haven't – or I shouldn't say I was there last year. But you know we we had stints where you know we weren't going every year because of various reasons.
00:54:57
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you're not entitled to go when you want to go, I guess is the thing. So i mean the it was the same thing that I was a kid. I couldn't afford to take us to Disney when I was a kid. Like it's, it's always been a premium vacation, right? It's always been a i don't want to say a luxury vacation. Cause I don't, I don't think that that's the right term for it. but For us, it was – I mean, you know considering in Canada, like you know it is a lot more expensive to travel to you know to the States and all that.
00:55:23
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um you know Going to Disney was is like, oh, that's the expensive vacation. yeah and And it's all relative, right? like it's yeah But yeah I mean I was in the same place. sure Like we, I mean, I went like we did like one time and I think it was, you know, my mom and, and, and stepfather like saved up a lot of money to get to make it happen. And, you know, like we understood that, like it wasn't a, it, it made it more special in a way, you know? And, and we just couldn't, and listen, much more fortunate as an adult to be able to go more often, but it's not, it's not something we really did when we were kids. We, you know, it was very, yeah it was, it was a couple times. That was it. So I,
00:56:01
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I understand though, cause I want everyone to be able to go there and experience it too. Like I, I, ah but I also think that they have been listening to that lately and have been doing more deals. And, you know, i mean, like they mentioned the, was it the $50 ticket for, ah for at Disneyland for kids during the summertime? Like, like,
00:56:19
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they are doing things, you know, and, and it's, ah it's, it's not like they're, they, they've always had these offers and I think they continue to do the offers. And I also like, I also understand the criticisms around like things like lightning lane, like paying for that when it used to be included. Like I kind of get that.
00:56:34
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um But I also have some different thoughts on why you have to pay for it. as i I've never felt that paying for Lightning Lane was a pure profit play. ah i I felt that they partly did it to lessen the usage of it. um But that's neither here nor there. Go watch the Defunctland thing on You might change your opinion. And I agree with you there. is that yeah you know that Because when they finally killed Fastpass...
00:57:04
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It had hit a point. like I remember those last couple of trips where it was like, if you didn't if you weren't all in on like gaming the FastPass system, you lost.
00:57:15
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Exactly. like Full stop. like like There was no option to be like, oh, I can just show up and experience this and I don't need to know like that I'm going to be on Slinky Dog Dash at 145 today. like it's like yeah Right? The the the fact that Lightning Lane is there still facilitates that, but it does level the playing field back to...
00:57:41
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Yeah, you know you know, not everybody needs to walk in the door and immediately have all of the knowledge of the parks in order to be successful. yeah And I think Disney acknowledged that to to a point that it was like, yes, you know, you know putting it behind a paywall is a way to solve the problem. I'm not saying it's the best way, but it is a way to solve the problem. From a business point of view, it's it's a way to solve the problem and also make you know incremental revenue. right So for them, it's kind of a win-win for them and you know because they're making, obviously, that that money off the fees for it, but also less people are using it. And so and and it actually also, though, helps...
00:58:16
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with the standby lines too. If you have less people that are going in lightning lane, then you have, you know, less people cutting the line. Right. And so really it's a win overall for, for everybody who then, except for the that are paying for it. But, you know, but even then you're paying for a service, you're paying to, to to save time for yourself. Right. So, yeah. And and then you don't see, I mean, i guess i have seen,
00:58:39
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pictures of like occasionally people post wait times. And I think i can't remember which ride it was, but there was a 300 minute wait, like in the last week or so because of spring break. Yeah. Oh, was it really?
00:58:51
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Yeah. I can't remember. I need to go back and look, but yeah, there, there was somewhere in the park where it was, uh, or one of the parks had a 300 minute wait, which, but again, the the thing about that is it's like, that's 300 minute wait standby.
00:59:04
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i mean, you could, you could still potentially lightning lane that, but I feel like a 300 minute wait standby now feels different than how it did with the lightning lane because, or not with the lightning with the fast pass, because before, if if your weight was that long, you could like get into a a queue it would be like, Oh great. You know, you know, I'll be up there. Like you would feel like I should be up there in like 20 minutes or something like that. But because they're stopping to let fast passes in the standby queue never actually moved.
00:59:36
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So it's a weird perception thing. I think that a lot of people don't think about is like, Even if I was in a queue where it's like moving slightly and it's still like, you know, I mean, I would still never stand in line for 300 minutes.
00:59:49
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that But, but, you know, even if you're constantly moving, that feels a lot better than you're stopped. And there's like another line off to the side where people are constantly it's It's the same as like, you know, when you go to checkout for for your groceries and you're kind of like sizing up the ah the cashiers.
01:00:08
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you get that one cashier that like that's like like, you know, they're just like people are flying through and it's like, you know. like throwing the items across the scanner. Six people get through and then you're in the other lane and, you know, they're calling for like price checks and stuff. And you're like, oh, I chose wrong, right? like I made a mistake here. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it used to feel. I feel that.
01:00:29
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the current change or the current way lightning lane is it's not, it's not like that as much anymore. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And if you really want to like, I mean, I, I I've talked about this many times before and if you want to, if you want to nerd out on the whole fast pass thing, go watch defunct lands video on it ah because it's one of the most comprehensive and I mean, spent a lot of time analyzing fast pass tonight. And like i said, listen, I, I'm not naive here. I don't go. Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Finish your thought. No, was saying I'm not naive. I understand that Disney's also doing it to make more money.
01:01:06
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Sure. and That's 100% true. But I do also believe it helps them with capacity as well. buts so That's all. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say about the the defunct land video is that it like the reason we say to go watch is like, not to like, Oh, well this will explain like lightning lane and like, you'll under, like, you'll be okay with lightning lane after this. I think it's, I appreciate the fact that it explains the logic behind it, which for me, understanding, understanding the logic behind it makes it a lot easier to see what it, when it's happening in real time, you're not quite so like,
01:01:41
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subject to being like, oh, they're they're just doing this to like hurt me or they're doing this because of you know reason X. like You kind of start looking and going, okay, i see I see the logic. I see why it's happening this way.
01:01:56
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And I think that makes for it makes for a more chill experience across the board is my opinion because I'm not... I'm not standing there getting angry about things that I shouldn't be getting angry about because I don't understand them.
01:02:10
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Yeah, exactly. so I think when you have more knowledge about something, you can gain more understanding. And then, you know, you're're're you're getting why they're doing things. Because sometimes these decisions can seem like, well, that's stupid. Why are they doing that? And then when you, like, really break it down and understand it, then you're like, oh, okay, well, I get it. That makes sense now. Yeah. I still don't like it and I still don't agree with everything that's happening. Like I, I, I definitely don't agree with a lot of the things that I see in the parks, but I'm, I'm more willing to like, it plays into like one, when you're in the situation, you're like, you can, you can work through it without as much emotion, which I think helps. And then the other side of it too, is that I'm also, because I'm more informed,
01:02:52
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I can make better decisions to decide whether I'm going to engage with those things or not. yeah like yeah And if it's something that I disagree with, that's like, I understand what they're doing here. No, I'm not doing this. Right. Like I i see some things it's like, no, I see that as just a cash grab. Right.
01:03:09
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and And I'm not saying that this from like, a you know, you're doing this to, you know, you know, screw me or anything, but it's like, no, I see you're, you know, you're making money off of this. Good for you.
01:03:19
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That doesn't work for me. I will not partake in this. Right. Like, yeah, yeah I mean, you know, you I totally agree. but Speaking of Lightning Lane, Trevor, he got asked about Lightning Lane and he got asked about a question that a lot of people ask, which is why are Disney World and Disneyland's Lightning Lane reservations so different? Disney World allows us to reserve at 7 a.m. regardless of if we're in the park. Why isn't that offered at Disneyland?
01:03:46
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And I feel like he gave a very honest answer here that makes total sense. Talking about logic and understanding why things make sense. i don't know if you want to read it. I can read it. Uh, here I'll, I'll try and give you the, ah okay. Here, we got the full answer. So I will do my best to, to, to recite this. So, yeah all right.
01:04:03
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Walt Disney world and Disneyland are, they're obviously both incredible destinations, but they do operate in really different ways. And our lightning lane systems are designed to reflect how guest experience to reflect how guests experience each of the resorts. So for example, in, in Disney world, our guests typically plan further in advance. They have more theme parks to choose from.
01:04:22
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And over in Disneyland, our resort is contained within a more compact footprint with two theme parks located side by side. There's a lot of dynamic flow between attractions and parks.
Disney Parks Planning and Services
01:04:31
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Now, for guests to choose to use Lightning Lane, our objective is the same regardless of which resort you're visiting. We want to offer a convenient and optional way to reduce...
01:04:40
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time spent waiting in line and add flexibility to the day in a way that fits each, how each resort actually operates. And like everything, we're always evaluating guest feedback. We're looking at how guests use these products. We look at our operational performance and make sure that we're giving our guests the best experience we possibly can. So yeah, that, that is kind of, I think, yeah, you, you and I, you and i have agreed about this before is that yeah you can't like, you know, a lot of people go like, well, but Disneyland has X, why don't they do it in Disney world?
01:05:10
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A lot of times it's because of, you know, hey, Disney World is a very different park from Disneyland. And if if you've been to if you've been to both locations, you can see that. Like, I've been to both. I know you haven't been to both, but I know you've youve paid enough attention that it's like... yeah They are very different. You can't, you can't paint them with the same brush.
01:05:33
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And Josh acknowledges that like it's, yeah you you honestly, if, if he said we're going to just unify everything across the board, that would actually show that he's not paying attention to what's going on in his parks.
01:05:45
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Yeah, absolutely. It makes total sense to me that they operate. I was just thinking to myself how weirder would be, Trevor, if Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios were all next to each other and connected and how nuts that would be. That would be insane. Yeah, like you couldn't do it.
01:06:01
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like So you've never been to the Esplanade in Disneyland, which is like the main the hub that connects California Adventure and Disneyland. Yeah. But like that, the Esplanade by itself is like, like when you're standing there and you're like, oh, there's a theme parks on either side of me.
01:06:17
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Having that with four theme parks nuts would be insane. Like, yeah. Yeah. But like it's a cool idea, but I'm just like, like that that would be insane. That's a lot of the reason why Disney World operates differently is because of that. I mean, it's you're when you have double the parks, really, if you want to if you really want to like include the water parks, you you have you know triple the parks. you know i mean it's yeah you And it's it's a lot more. ah there's There's a lot more. I mean, it's it's a lot more daunting. and And people go, you know, not to say that people don't go to Disneyland as ah as a destination, but like, it's it's just different.
01:06:58
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You know, it's ah it's a very, very different. And I think anybody everybody knows this if, you know, Disneyland Disney World. the the The space between the the parks is a huge part of this. And, you know, even just like the amount of resorts, you know, that there's so much more that you have to plan for a Disney World vacation. So why wouldn't you also be able to plan this thing?
01:07:17
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But also just like to to his point, like, how close all of the attractions are at Disneyland and the fact that it's a more of a local audience and not, ah you know, you're you're not getting the ah the most of the audience there is, is locals.
01:07:33
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ah Whereas most of the audience in, in, ah in, in WWU is, ah is, is tourists, right? I mean, now of course you'd still have locals, but it's the, the, the mix is way further weighted at Disney world. Right. So, I mean, I think it totally, his answer makes total sense. I just, I also understand why people are like, well, why can't everything just be the same? And it's like, I, do you really want that though? yeah you to do I can speak from my own experience. Like when I, when I think about how even I've done planning for Disneyland versus Disney world trips, like to your point,
01:08:05
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Disney World, we are looking a lot further out because it is such a bigger destination. It is. like Exactly what he's saying is like you are planning months in advance. you are like you can't You can't roll up to Disney World or like you can't roll up to Magic Kingdom the same way you would roll up to Disneyland and just like...
01:08:24
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I just like wing it. Yeah. Like, like like you're right. Like the the thing is, is Disneyland. Yes. Like I, you know, I use the fast pass system when it was in Disneyland. um You know, I could see, you know, using, using lightning lanes in Disneyland, you know, makes sense as well with, you know, with the way things are now. But um I also know that, like you said, you know, getting around Disneyland is not the challenge that it is getting around Disney world. And so I don't,
01:08:52
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the The times that I've done both vacations, like the amount of the amount of planning that I've had to do even for just a single day is way different. And so so to try and say like, oh, you know, we're going to offer all the same things in Disneyland that we're doing in Disney World. Yeah, but it's kind of a waste because you're not doing you're not doing things the same way, even though it is a similar park.
01:09:15
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And then also, um you know, not just the point of, um you know, yes, there is more local people there, but the way Disneyland is structured, the the bubble is much smaller.
01:09:28
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And if I'm only there for like three or four days, because like, i like you know, I spend a week in Disney World when I travel there because it's big enough to justify being there a week. when I'm at Disneyland, I'm there for, you know, honestly four days is pushing it. Like I can, I I'll be there for four days. And by the fourth day, it's like, okay, I like, i I could just sit in my hotel room because there's nothing I'm like, I'm, I'm full up on what I've wanted to do. Right. So it's that scale does affect as well. How, how you plan stuff out. Like it's so, yeah, I mean, I mean, it's like, I feel like people saying like unifying things between the parks,
01:10:08
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they're really not thinking about like, you're not even comparing apples to oranges. It's like apples to bananas. Like it's, yeah. Yeah, it's because yeah and so yeah it's true. I was just, I was just thinking like a weird, you an even crazier combination. but no No, because because ah they're still in the same realm of like fruit, but bananas are very different from apples in in a lot of ways. If you think about it. yeah that is That is a fact. It's still Disney, but they're very different in a lot of ways. Yeah, no that's that's true. That i got that makes sense.
01:10:44
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But yeah yeah, I mean, listen, that's a pretty straightforward answer. And I you know i think that's that's good. but So that's all we got from Josh Jamara. But we also got movies, Trevor.
Upcoming Disney Movie Releases
01:10:55
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We got movie announcements. Yeah.
01:10:57
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Yeah. and two Yeah, i knew knew about that, knew about the new Incredibles movie. we got release date, Well, we got release date for the Incredibles 3. Yeah. Oh, wait, but this is in 2028, though, right? Yeah, Lilo and Stitch 2 is all the way to 2028. So we're still far off on that one. I feel like giving me a release date in 2028 is like... Two release dates, June 16th, 2028 for Incredibles 3. Yeah, like, i don't I don't know why I would need to know this that far out.
01:11:32
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ah you may you may Maybe you got a plan. You know, your're make your plans now. Yeah. Like, OK, I'm like my Disney World vacations. I'm planning like 11 months out only because of the fact that, you know, that has to be planned that far out.
01:11:49
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I'm not planning seeing a movie. Yeah. two years out. I was going to say three, but I realized we're in 2026 now. Yeah, they like to set their slate. They put it out there. Okay, fine. I get what you're saying, but it's not really for us. It's not really even meant to get us all that hyped because it's so far away. But listen, we assumed that there was going to be another uh another um uh lilo and stitch right because the first one was very very popular i mean it was the thing that ended up being the highest grossing movie of 25 right i mean it was one of the highest grossing movies no i know k-pop demon hunters beat it well no because that didn't that wasn't in theaters though it wasn't no
01:12:33
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Well, it was briefly. yeah not Not for the length of time. You're talking for just movie or like movie theater. Yeah. yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it was, well, I guess it it wasn't the highest. It was the fourth highest. Okay. I yeah i was going to say, I didn't think it was the highest. I'm sure there was other movies that I'm missing that were higher than that, but Well, it was, let's see, Zootopia 2 was number two. The number one movie was a foreign movie, but like as far as these movies go, it was Zootopia 2, Avatar, Fire and Ash, then Lilo and Stitch.
01:13:08
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so But it made over billion dollars. All right. So, yeah. Yeah, if you make over a billion dollars, you're going to get a sequel. you know I mean, that that brings up an interesting point of like movie theater sales versus, I guess, what is perceived and hyped and everything are two different things. So... That is that is very true. um Yeah. <unk>s I mean, listen, that one probably beats it on most streamed movies, right? like so Yeah. I mean, just the sheer hype around it, I feel, was more... Like, Lilo and Stitch was a good movie and and all that, but...
01:13:44
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It's yeah. i I don't know. Like, i guess I don't measure things in box office charts anymore. more yeah Yeah. All about ah the minutes. Yeah.
01:13:55
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I think it's just what grabs my attention is really all it is. So yeah. I mean, I understand that. I understand that. So I'm just looking at, top okay, top 10 kids, kids, movies streaming of 2025. K-pop demon, demon hunters won that by, a you know, by a mile. Yeah. But everything else was Moana, Moana two frozen cars, Zootopia. I mean, that's, you know, so they, they did very well with that.
01:14:21
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Anyway, so am we're back to these movies that are like way into our future that I'll forget about three times over. I've already forgotten my movies are coming out. Loon Stitch 2 and Incredibles 3. I mean, incredible i need to go back and watch Incredibles 2 again. I don't even remember. Incredibles 2 is good.
01:14:41
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Yeah, but I haven't watched it in a while, and I don't remember like the plot points of it is the thing. Yeah, no, it's it's a good one. it was the It's the one, and spoiler alert for a movie that's a little old at this point, it's the one where ah you know they... um There's the the villain that's like, ah you know, like flashing stuff under people's eyes and turning them into like ah zombies. And that like they, you know, that they can control. And like, there's, you know, all these other superheroes involved too.
01:15:07
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feel like there's a meta joke there somewhere. Probably. There's some kind of commentary on you know flashing things into people's eyes and brainwashing them. Oh, no. 100% is what it is. yeah well it was Brad Bird is not a easy smart guy. you know he's The thing that thinks about the the third one is that he's not directing it.
01:15:27
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he is writing it. So we're still going to get the writing from him, but he's not actually directing this one, which he's directed the other two and only just cause he's just cause he's busy. um But you know, it's which is because both the Incredibles movies were very good. I mean, they're, I mean, the first one is fantastic. And the second one is I would say close to as good as the first one, as you pretty much can be, it's really hard to make a sequel, especially one that's as good as the original. And I feel like they,
01:15:54
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For the most part, I accomplished it. so So there is an interesting thing with that, that there there are sometimes cases of movies where the sequel is better than the first one.
01:16:05
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It does happen. don't know about it as Aliens, but that's ah that's a controversial. Aliens and Terminator 2 was, you know, miles above the first one. I think you can have a conversation about alien and versus aliens. They're both fantastic movies. i just prefer aliens, but that's either. Oh yeah. But I agree. Actually aliens is better than aliens. So, so yeah, you know, there there are cases where, you know, you know, the sequel is better than the original, but then when you get into the the whole trilogy thing, my, I can't think of a time where the third movie in a series. toy so oh did You think toy story three is better than toy story two.
01:16:45
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Eh...
01:16:47
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it's that's i it's it's I know that's that's a controversial choice, right? but I didn't like Toy Story 3 as much as 2. Oh, man. I don't know. Toy Story 3 really hit... I mean, toy Story 4 was fine, and I don't even think it's in the conversation. that's toy storie Yeah, we're not talking about past trilogies. so like yeah i'm I'm keeping it to the first three movies. so yeah i um Yeah, I don't... I mean i don't know, man. 3's really good.
01:17:14
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it's It's hard. 3... three Three didn't hit me the same way that two hit me. Oh, really? Okay. See, three hit me pretty hard. The end of three? That that was actually part of it, was that the the the ending of three was...
01:17:29
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I mean, they did something unexpected with it, but. But they had the fake out ending that was really emotional. And then the real. yeah And both of those were were really good, I thought.
01:17:41
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But yeah, I mean, yeah. So but like I said, I'm just looking at Incredibles 3. I'm just thinking about like, I'm not saying that it's going to be bad,
01:17:52
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But I guess, okay. I saw some where they're going to the Return of the Jedi, i guess, was yeah yeah pretty good. read they're going to age the kids up, which I think is smart.
01:18:04
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Like, I really want them to age the kids up. Yeah, I mean, that honestly does need to happen in the third movie. Yeah. Otherwise, it turns into the same problem as, like, The Simpsons, where, you know, they've been 12 years old for 25 years kind of thing. Longer than that now. Yeah. I lost track of how long The Simpsons has been running. guess it's more like 35 years now, isn't it?
01:18:27
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Yeah. Yeah. Man. Yeah, 36 years for The Simpsons. So, yeah, they've been the same age for 36 years. um I know. But I'm still 25. What are you talking about? My brain is stuck at 25. Leave me alone. my My wife and I are for some reason on a 90s movie comedy movie kick. Right. Just like. no what And so last night we decided to watch Austin Powers just to see if it held up.
01:18:51
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Right. And that movie was from 1997, Trevor. And I was like, yeah this movie is 30 years old. But basically I'm like, how is this movie 30 years old? This is like it hurt me deep. 97 was a good year. It was. to may Yeah. There was a lot of good movies that came out in 97. And I'm going to say it mostly held up.
01:19:10
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Mostly. I feel like some of the jokes wouldn't get a pass nowadays. Definitely not. But yeah, it it hold it help holds up. Same thing. I feel like the ah the Naked Gun movies as well. like Oh, I want to watch one of those. and naked na I mean, I love like Leslie Nielsen was amazing. That might be the next one on the 90s. But again, like Naked Gun was like they were pushing some boundaries back then.
01:19:34
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yeah They were. Yeah. Yeah. And even then even more so now it's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, sorry. I know that was an aside, but, you know, Hey, we have, I don't think we've had a rabbit hole this episode. So fun, fun fact. Awesome. Power is not available in any streaming service. You actually have to rent it. Really? Huh. I know. Yeah. it's I think it would be available, but no, it's not. Um, anyway, uh, what were we even talking about? Do we want to just call it there? I think we we were talking about movies. I mean, is there anything cool in the Shanghai 10th anniversary celebration you want to point out? I mean, I know I can't think of anything. We we've talked, I'm pretty sure we talked about this before, like when they were announcing this. Yeah, that sounds right. um
01:20:15
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I mean, the the only thing that looks a little interesting is the Zootopia float. I would be curious to see what that looks like. They got all this food and stuff, too. Yeah.
01:20:26
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So much. yeah Food. What is are those carrots that are cut like Mickey heads? It looks like it. i assume those are carrots. Those are carrots cut like Mickey heads, Shiverr.
01:20:38
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I wish we got that. Why? why why is Every time we look at stuff from Shanghai. is like Yeah. Yeah. I wish i wish we had stuff like that. and they're I think they're doing more of it. I think I, yeah.
01:20:51
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Do you remember? don't, I don't want to do another rabbit hole here, Trevor. I really don't. I don't, but, and I'm sure some people are going to remember this, but, and I could also be misremembering this, right? Cause this was from childhood.
01:21:03
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I seem to remember going to, I think it was Liberty tree when I was a kid. And when they brought the butter to the table, it was a full on standing mold of Mickey mouse of butter.
01:21:15
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Oh, really i might be making this up and I want someone to, to confirm this because so so it looked like a figurine, like how you, how you get like figurines of Mickey mouse, but it was, it was butter shaped into. Yes.
01:21:29
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01:21:32
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Yeah, I'm going to see if I can find this on the internet somehow. Yeah, i'm i'm I'm curious what that Google search is going to look like. not And I remember when they did like just like medallion ones that were like punched with like Mickey, right? So they were just medallions. But I swear there was one that was like an actual full-on figure.
01:21:51
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i Like I said, i might be making this up and I might be misremembering it and and be thinking of just like the like the pads of butter with Mickey's face on it. But I swear I remember it was like there was this butter statue.
01:22:03
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Yeah. Oh, wait, look, I, wait, I found it. You found it. Wait, the the garden grill had it. Really? Apparently Mickey shaped butter statue.
01:22:15
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Okay. Now I'll hold on. Let's see if I can find a picture of this now. I'm, I didn't think Mickey butter going to be in my Google search. I think about it. think about it.
01:22:30
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Oh my gosh, I found it. All right. This is a real thing. Okay, I remember it looking cooler than this, but... Oh yeah. I remember looking cooler than the picture I just sent you, but I mean, yeah.
01:22:48
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Full-on stand-up statue. this was This person posted that this was from 1998. So I'm really calling back to the 90s here. But... I appreciate it.
01:23:00
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Yeah. Yeah. See? i I guess I'm not losing my mind. is that That makes me happy that I'm not going crazy. Because I was like, I swear i remember this. Yeah, that that's a...
01:23:13
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it's such a funny thing to think about now that like you know i know we talk about like the stuff from shanghai it's like oh i wish they would do this more but it's like also do i want like a little like do i want to chop mickey's ear off to butter i want a little standy of butter made of mickey that i'm gonna going to mutilate in order to you know butter my waffles yeah Well, yeah, I mean, that's okay. So yeah, I even just found ah an article from all ears.net about this too. So yeah, this was, this was a, they say there was actually a time where they used to serve you butter that looked like Mickey. ah Yeah. And it was a full body Mickey figure. And they also have a, a, ah a, a yeah ah picture of it. And yeah, Trevor, you would lop an ear off. Okay. You'd be like, all right, it's time to butter my bread. I'm goingnna cut Mickey's ear off. Yeah.
01:24:03
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Yeah, I see why that doesn't quite work. I mean, I thought it was awesome. Yeah, I'm not i'm not saying it wasn't awesome. I'm just, yeah. And then, yeah.
01:24:15
Speaker
Well, that's that's ah that's a rabbit hole. We're going to stop there. Well, listen, and if you remember the Mickey-shaped butter us statues, ah you know drop us ah drop us a comment or or whatever, an email. I don't know. i There's got to be other people out there. Anything like that like that. I know that there's things that you know people experienced at various points in history at Disney that – you know, seems like a hallucination, but it really wasn't. Or like, it's, it's unbelievable that things happened. So yeah, that's, yeah there' there's definitely, there has to be a lot of those things that I'm just not really, you know, and I'm not really thinking through it. That was just a random one that I remembered where i was like, Oh man, that was so cool. Cause I remember like that from my Disney vacation. I remember sitting at the, table and they brought the butter and i was like whoa they made mickey out of butter like this is so cool like you know what mean like as a kid that's like the coolest thing that you could ever see you know yeah i mean yeah i mean yeah i would have been thrilled for that as well um we never we never uh got to do sit downs when i was a kid unfortunately so i would have never seen anything like that
01:25:32
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Yeah, I don't – I think – I mean, I only ever – Actually, sorry. That's not true. we The only sit-down we did was – we did – was it Blue Bayou? I think it was – I think we did Blue Bayou once.
01:25:47
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Okay. Yeah. But – and again, that – like, Blue Bayou is its own thing. Like, it's not like a typical – um character meal or anything like that. I think this was at Liberty Tree, but it might have been somewhere else. I don't know. I felt like they were doing it across property because we didn't do a lot of those things. Probably. Yeah, like we didn't do a lot of that either, Trevor.
01:26:08
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So, I don't know. yeah i I feel like it's one of those things that they they would have had like a mold somewhere and it's like yeah you know they they would have been like mass producing these for all of their restaurants. because i mean Why wouldn't you, honestly? Yeah.
01:26:21
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i mean maybe maybe that Maybe that's something you need to talk to Josh about is, you know, when when are you bringing back the Mickey butter? Yeah. Yeah. Josh, where's my Mickey butter at? I know people want figment, but when are you bringing back the Mickey butter? Yeah.
01:26:36
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Well, listen, tell us if there's any of those weird things that you really miss, ah you know, because I'm sure there's, and don't and don't say the birthday kid castle. We all know. Some of us love the birthday kid castle. Not all of us do, though.
01:26:49
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um But, you know. It was a thing. It was the thing for for a moment. um But anyway, ah yeah, let's wrap it up, Trevor. Yeah. Yeah. I think we're good. I think we covered of ground. I think done what need to do here. Yeah. think we've done what we need to do. Yeah. So, yeah, for any questions you guys have about things we talked about on the show or if you want share your own trip reports or anything like that. You can always find us at our email address, which is welcomehomepodcast.gmail.com.
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01:29:08
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they each other um i should actually follow up on this that I know, I, um Tom, we had talked about your you know you convincing your wife that you should go and ride ah Buzz when you get off the cruise ship. Yeah, my wife reached out to your wife. Oh, did she? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was, yeah, no, we're not doing that. so I told you. i mean, I said, or she said it nicer than that, but it was yeah my, my, my wife tried to, to vouch on your behalf and did that yeah yeah, it didn't happen. So like I said, i think it's circumstantial because we're traveling with another family. Yes. that yeah That was the reasoning. It was because you're with other people. It didn't make sense. If it were just if it was just us, we would do it. But you know i but literally, I said this in the Discord, and this is true. like but I didn't even get to the end of my sentence. She's like, no, we're not going to the park that day. I was like, hey, you know ah Buzz Lightyear opens up the same day we're getting off the... No, we're not doing that. I didn't even say like, Hey, we should go to the park. No, which she knew where it was going. She knew. she yeah so I know her. She knows me, you know, we've been together a long time. So, so if you, if you want to see that stuff happen live in the discord, um, like I said, you know, check out our Patreon and, uh, and yeah, you'll get access to the discord server for that kind of stuff.
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01:31:35
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ah Thank you to DVC Rental Store for ah sponsoring this episode and, of course, Keyhole Irrications for continuing to be ah you know great sponsors of the show. I actually, Trevor, I didn't even tell you. We got an email from Danny.
01:31:49
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trying to coordinate the grand reunion of of Marissa, Derek, and and and herself all at once on the show. So we're going to try to get that done for May, Trevor. so Wonderful. We've got to book that like several months out because we know how busy yeah that some of those people are. So yeah, we're going to do that. We're going to get everybody all... We're going to get the gang back together. so Right on. try to get nickcoty forward yeah to There's no way Nick is joining us. ah yeah right anyway 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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