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Episode 288: The Simpsons, Bluey & Movie Rumor
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The guys go over their holidays and Damon has a 2025 resolution. Tom recently bought and sold DVC contracts. The 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts will feature a Broadway exhibit at CommuniCore Hall. Disney is surveying guests on whether they’d like to see the Simpsons in Disney Parks. Bluey will be coming to Disney Parks and Cruise Line along with a new feature film. Disney and Universal both received patents for new ride designs. The guys discuss a rumor that Disney is developing a Mother Gothel film.
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Introduction and Milestones
00:00:09
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all points unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
00:00:30
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Hello and welcome home. Thank you for joining us on episode 288 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom here with Trevor Damon. How's it going, guys? It's been a while. We're gonna hit 300 this year. We are, yeah, soon. Oh, 300. We'll probably do nothing, though. No, no. Don't say that. We'll do a thing. Okay.
Meetup and Event Planning
00:00:50
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I say a thing because I have no idea what, but we'll do something. um I mean, we maybe well we can do another one. 12 weeks now, so that puts us in... Yeah. What?
00:00:57
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March ish April. It will be nicer at at least kind of close to the anniversary when we started the show. Actually, yeah, that's true. Because we started in April. So yeah, yeah, it's good culture. I say Trevor should just come down to Optimus Hall. I'll be honest with you we'll just like know and who find for the weekend. Right. And we do it from there. Yeah, that'd be fun. You guys can make that happen. I mean, oh easy we could definitely make it happen. Can you make it happen?
00:01:24
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ah yeah We can, we can start talking about that. Cause I mean, it would be cool. I think that's a possibility. we We have a fair amount of of listeners in the general area of where Damon and I live. So, I mean, we, I mean, Damon, you've communicated with several and I've, yeah you know, I've had several around here. So, I mean, we can even make it that kind of thing where they can meet up with us too. So, you know, I would definitely do it from Optimus hall. It would have to be a little warm out. that's right right Yeah. But that would work.
00:01:53
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Yeah.
Post-Holiday Adjustments
00:01:54
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there we are How, how, how were everybody's holidays? They were good. Yeah. Good. I'm still not quite done with my holidays. I'm on my last day of vacation, which that's actually the worst. It is when you, when you know that it's like tomorrow you got to start back to work. You got to remember how to, on my last day of vacation as well. And I have calls at 7am.
00:02:17
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there's no yeah but you know There's always that thing when you first go back to work, it's like, What do I do again? Yeah, I remember how had to do my job, but I got to remember, you know, like you just out for that long. Although I worked all this with all last week, so I was already back. So um yeah, it's it's ah it's been good. I did you guys get anything?
Gift Discussions and Preferences
00:02:38
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Anything cool? I mean, I got all this stuff from Gravity Falls from ah the San Diego Comic Con.
00:02:46
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Oh, nice. Oh, all the extended book stuff that he did? No, no, no. Well, I got the Book of Bill. um Then I got the Doorables, which are the small little things. I got all those Gravity Falls. I got all of the character plushes from San Diego Comic Con.
00:03:02
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oh hey' nice yeah oh that was good I don't really do gifts anymore for me like i because i I never know what to tell people to buy me. you know like as i We've talked about this before. i If I need want something, I get it. right so Typically, ah in the past, I've asked people to get me like Lego gift cards because I don't like spending hundreds. I like doing like big Lego sets, but they're expensive. you know they're like $300 and above for the bigger ones. And so, and I don't really love dropping my money on that. So usually I'll be like, all right, give me like a Lego gift card. Well, it just turns out that I had a bunch of Lego gift cards from, from the past couple of years together. So I got myself a new set that I've been building, which is, has been nice. Um, but you know, outside of that really.
00:03:45
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I didn't, I didn't really get anything nice, but everybody else had a ah nice Christmas though. For sure. I got ramen for Christmas. What? Actually, well, no.
Temporary Tattoo Adventures
00:03:56
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So i I like getting stuff from like, uh, like stuff from Japan or Korea and whatnot. Like, um, their, their food honestly is on another level sometimes. Like, and like.
00:04:09
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When you think about instant ramen over here, it's not very good, right? like Sure. But the stuff that they have over there is actually pretty fantastic. And yeah, my wife ordered a bunch of different flavors of ramen. So I've been enjoying ramen from from Asia that yeah, it's Honestly, yeah, I'm kind of the same way that it's like, you know, anything that I really want, I'll get for myself. But stuff like that is nice because it's like, hey, I'm getting to experience something that I wouldn't normally, you know, go out of my way for. So.
00:04:42
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Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, that's that's the kind of stuff you want, though, right? Like, I think my wife dreads the idea of trying to figure out something creative to buy me because, you know, like, because as I said, I like always, you know, i i if I want something, I get it. So it's not like, ah ah ah you know, I mean, she could always give me a Lego set, which she has done in the past as well.
00:05:02
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I also, so my daughter got these, ah my brother-in-law bought my daughter these temporary tattoos, you know, temporary tattoos, right? You know, the the little temporary tattoos that go on. Well, I don't know if you remember, but when I was a kid, those things never stuck on very well and they would like start flaking off like immediately.
00:05:18
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Well, apparently like the day yeah and like good day but apparently the temporary tattoo technology has advanced since then because I still have a unicorn dinosaur on my arm from two weeks ago and it will not go away. It's not even flaking off at at all. Yeah. And I'm not joking. It's a unicorn dinosaur, which is, you know, it's an important distinction. It's ah it's a dinosaur that's a unicorn, not the other way around. it' but well My daughter told me so.
00:05:43
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I think you need to get a picture of that worked into the podcast release. so yeah yeah Just the you so that does add a picture of that and with no context. No context at all. yeah and People will figure out when they get this far in the show. I i just couldn't believe it though because like you know those things i always used to be so bad. They like wouldn't stick very well. They'd immediately start flaking off. and like This one like stuck perfectly, didn't miss ah even a little piece of the picture, and it just won't come off. I like i so tried to scrub it off and it won't come off.
00:06:12
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but m Hopefully, eventually it does, and I don't just have a permanent tattoo now of a unicorn dinosaur in my arm, but you know. Well, I mean, maybe maybe that's just your new life, Tom. It is. I'm unicorn dinosaur lifestyle. That's how I roll. um No, I mean, it's it is funny, though, like, you know, looking at all the toys that my daughter ah is, you know, got that are, you know, just different and cool. And, you know, from what you know we had as kids, what I had as a kid and then what you guys had as kids, you know. Oh, yeah. So it's just amazing. Totally different world for kids toys now.
00:06:48
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Absolutely. Absolutely. So
New Year Reflections
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anyway, uh, any other, any other, uh, anything else you want to talk about from ah the holidays? I mean, anybody else do anything? I actually had somebody asked me to like, uh, I was at the grocery store and the guy was like, you doing anything for New Year's Eve? And I'm like, no, it's like, I probably won't even be awake. So yeah, we, we didn't do much for New Year's Eve either. It was, what I mean, we, yeah, you know, I, I like it quiet for New Year's Eve. Yeah.
00:07:15
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I don't even say up anymore. It's not even, yeah. Anyway.
Podcast Content Shift
00:07:19
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So, Damon, I think you had posted in the group. I have news. Yeah, it's your news. So, I've decided just based on me and Jen AI talking and things like that, I am not going to talk about anything other than Disney anymore on the podcast. Oh, okay. It's just going to be Disney. Okay.
00:07:37
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So I will preface that by saying that, you know, there are a few things coming up, which I will say now. And fortunately, you're not going to be able to hear about them again. I'm going to Epic Universe. I just decided we're going to June. I have to do it. I have to be there. I have to be there when it opens. Sure. um I just I can't not go there. I don't know why it's just pulling at me.
00:07:57
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Um, and and what does they, I have to do with this decision. So AI has told me that I shouldn't talk about this sort of stuff. So anything outside of Disney will not be talked about here. No more golden buttons, no more Damon's detours. None of that. It's all gone. oh All right. It's Disney. Um, so if you want to find out about that sort of stuff, you got to come to the other Facebook group. I have a Facebook group, which is going to be all personal stuff and things like that. Come find it. Rhubarb travelers. Jeremy can't spell it. You're doing it. at Wait, you're doing a new Facebook group too.
00:08:27
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Now, there always has been a Facebook group, which Jeremy can't get into, which we were talking about non-podcast-y stuff, but it will now be like trips and things like that that are not Disney. I feel like we do this already, Tom. Yeah, maybe I forgot. You told us this like last year. Yeah. I might have forgotten. I may do a podcast, not sure, probably not, but you never know. But yeah, I'm strictly in for Disney now, because that's what everyone seems like they wanted, so now they're going to get it.
00:08:51
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All right. All right. That's okay. I was, I was a little scared of what your news was going to be, but okay. look you see David didn't tell of time. I don't ever tell it. It's got to be, it's got to be exciting. And when you prefaced with, I, I, I was talking with Jenny. I'm like, this could go anywhere. I thought maybe you'd lost your mind and you're just talking to Jen AI. Now that's all you do is have a conversation. We're actually talking to you now, Damon. Yeah, this is AI Damon. We're just talking to you. That would be even better. Yeah. should
AI and Podcasting
00:09:21
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just get you We'll just get all your Disney stuff, and then have the AI just talk about Disney stuff, and then you're you're good to go. You don't have to do anything anymore. Oh, I kind of would like that. Like, yeah, just build a model. Build me a character.ai guy. Yeah, I'd like i'd love that. oh i I like that idea. um Okay, well, that's cool. so yeah dis Disney only. If you want to talk about other stuff, you got to find the other Facebook group. all right If it's a rhubarb, I can't help you.
00:09:48
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the The hilarious thing is I don't think I'm not in the other Facebook group. so Because we talk about Disney stuff. Oh, well yeah, do but yeah. I mean, so we have our own messenger. What do you think? I'm OK with the other. I was going to say, we yeah, we we we have like direct access to ask you direct payment access. You just want to ask me a question and we could talk about whatever. That's that's a fair point.
00:10:08
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I also am I'm not I haven't been using social media as much lately So I I mean I don't really look at Facebook at all anymore except for our group. So, you know i i I do just for the fact that I build a book every year that the kids love. so The picture, yeah yeah. Well, I also did something, too. So I
DVC Transactions Experience
00:10:28
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i don't know what spurred me to do this. i just I think I was just bored at work, to be totally honest with you, because you know anybody who has to work the last week of the year, the first week of the year, there's like nobody around. There's nothing to do, like at least in my job. If you have like an office job, that's a lot of the the cases. There's just not a lot of people around, not much to do. So I just started messing around and looking at a DVC contracts.
00:10:48
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And I think I've talked about this in the show before that I have two different membership IDs because I have two different use years. I have two contracts in one use year and then one contract in another use year. And for the longest time, I've been wanting to ah sell the one that's in the other use year and then buy a new contract to replace that one in the correct use year with the other two contracts. so I finally did that. um and so i put ah I put an offer out on a 120-point Animal Kingdom
00:11:21
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a large contract on DVC resale market. It's so funny. i i don't i you know it's I don't want to be like the shill for for our sponsors and our friends, but they're they're great, honestly. I put the put the offer in and within like a couple hours, I had an offer accepted and all the paperwork was in and the contract was already off to Rofer.
00:11:43
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like you know was' been like right Did you put us in the drop-down or did you just totally forgot? oh No, I put us in the drop-down. Of course I put us in the drop-down. yeah No, I referred me. Yes. I totally did us. but um but yeah i so i ended up I'm ending up with 10 more points that I had before because the contract I'm selling is 110 points. I'll tell you this too. you know We have said in the and the ads before that 98% of their contracts sell within 30 days. Mine was gone in less than 24 hours.
00:12:11
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I got an offer, a good offer, and it was sold. So now I have a contract that's being sold, that's in the process of being sold, at and it's it you know in Rofo right now, and also a contract that's being purchased. I'm going to tell is you, know listen, DVC is not an investment, right? We always say that all the time. It's not an investment. But what I will tell you is I did sell my ah Animal Kingdom contract for more than I bought it for.
00:12:37
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So I bought it for 109 a point, or I think it i was actually 110 a point, ah maybe four or five years ago, and now I sold it for 115 a point. But what did you buy at? I'm just out of curiosity. What do you mean? but yeah You sold one, bought one, right? Yeah, yeah so I sold 110 and I bought at 120, both at Animal Kingdom.
00:12:58
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but Oh, so you can't, well I'm saying what was the price per point on the sell on the buy? yeah Oh yeah, so so on the the new contract I bought was 109 per point and then the one I sold was 115. That's not bad.
00:13:12
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You kind of broke even on it, and or not, yeah or yeah, you gained 10 points is really what you did. Well, yeah, I'm still spending like maybe like $1,000 in difference there. And plus you have to pay the dues upfront for the year, which I don't typically do. I typically do the monthly. So so that kind of factors into it too. But I was like, well, I just don't have to pay dues for the year. Yeah, that's the worst. yeah I guess the the only risk there is if Rofer does, or on the one that you're buying, if if it doesn't go through,
00:13:39
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Then I just have less points for this year, right? Yeah, and then you have to go buy another contract, right? That's the only like risk with this. But then, yeah, you're selling like you get the money either way because whether whether it goes through Rofor or not, you still get paid, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Either way. it So, you know, listen, it's it's been a really great experience. If you haven't done it through a DVC retail market, they are great. They send you everything like through it's not DocuSign, but it's like, ah you know, you sign everything. ah They give you very specific instructions on how to do everything and do everything. And ah thanks to Derek, by the way, for being patient with me because so Derek sends these long instructions of like screenshots I have to take of my member ID page. And I read most of the instructions.
00:14:23
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but I didn't read the part where it said you can't do it on a mobile phone, you have to do it on a computer because the the mobile phone pictures don't come out right. So I just did them all on my cell phone and I sent them to him and he's like, oh, so close, can't do it on your phone. And I was like, oh man, I can't believe I didn't read the whole email. and That's usually not me. but It was the week in between Christmas and New Year's. yeah one you get a You get a pass for not being.
00:14:48
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Yes, exactly. Exactly. so yeah so i you know In the end, we ended up bumping up 10 points, which is great, um at about the same price I paid for an Animal Kingdom contract a couple of years back. so and Like I said, I sold the the the old contract for more than I bought. the for more than i ah I bought the old old contract for less than what I sold it for. I'm not going to say I made a profit, quote, unquote, but you know I got a lot of use out of that contract over the past couple of years, and now I'm selling it for more than I bought it for. so I can't complain that much. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And you're selling it to move up, right? Like that's, that's the things that you're, you know, you're, you're benefiting all around. Like there's. Yeah.
00:15:31
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You're right. You know, it's not to say that this is an investment and it's always going to be better, but you know, you kind of, there was no downside to what you just did, I guess. is what thating yeah if I mean, it's, it's a huge, and that's how I said to my wife, I was like, listen, it's a huge benefit to me. Cause she doesn't usually book the vacation, but like anybody out there that has two years, knows how much of a pain it is when you have two different new years, because you have to like transfer points between the contracts before you can book anything with those points right because it or do separate reservations and then merge them later. like I just want one pool of points that I can use for reservations where I don't have to make transfers all over the place. and so and Listen, I'll go back to when I bought this too. so i remember
00:16:14
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I remember I bought this contract and i at the time, you know the DVC resale market was much smaller and you know our contact there was Nick, who's the you know the owner of a DVC resale market. And so I had marked him down at the time as the person to to help me, right? Because I didn't want to play any favorites with like Derek and Marissa and all the other people we worked with, so I just put that Nick. And I remember this distinctly. Nick calls me and he goes,
00:16:39
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He goes, hey, you sure you want to do this? And I'm like, what what do you mean? He's like, well, it's a different you share. You know, it could be a little bit of a challenge to to deal with that. And I was like, yeah, yeah, it can't be that big big of a deal. It can't be that bad. nick It's fine. Right. Like, but he called to warn me and I was like, and he's like, okay. He's like, you know, a lot of people do it. It's not that bad. He goes, if you don't care and, you know, go forward with it. But obviously I should have listened to Nick.
00:17:02
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But all will be remedied hopefully in the next few months here. Like I said, my contract's being sold, so um I'm happy about that. And then the interesting thing too is that the people I'm buying the contract from are from Australia, and I don't know if that's going to change anything on my side or not. I don't think so. It's probably just all work on their side, right? Yeah, because it it's just the the membership ID gets transferred. Not the membership, but the contract just gets transferred under your member ID. and I guess I just mean with the closing piece, you know because it's a real estate transaction. I didn't know if there's stuff you're going to do with that. but I mean, maybe if there's something to proceed with Australia. like when yeah When I've done it, it um yeah it's kind of the same thing you went through, is you know you just you follow the instructions, and then they do all their legal stuff on the back end, and then you get a contract. It is far too easy to spend a lot of money on DVC resources. It is, yeah. And that's why we have to be careful about it.
00:17:59
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Yeah. I mean, because it's so easy. You just put an offer in, they accept it, then there's paperwork that comes into you. And you don't really, you pay a little bit at the front end, but then you pay the rest at closing and it's almost weird because you're like, this doesn't feel right. I feel like it should be- It feels like it should be harder than it is. Yes. Yes. I agree. I agree. Okay. Well, that's, I think, all I got going on. Temporary tattoos, new DVC contracts.
00:18:25
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ah All right, we we have some different topics here. So I guess, like what what do we want to talk about first? I know you listed them in order here, Tom, but is there anything that anybody wants to specifically go at first? Because there's a few different.
00:18:42
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this is ah This is an interesting one. yeah um yeah okay so The first one I put on here was the Epcot thing, just because I know you had mentioned that you've been sad that they haven't been doing anything with ah with ah the the hall, right with where they said they were going to do all the art stuff and they they have really haven't been doing that. Now they're going to do it for the Festival of Arts. They're going to have an actual exhibit there. so Which that was more for you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and that's fine. It it doesn't. there is It's there's an easy way to get merch too. I mean, that's, that's good. Cause I feel like that's one of those things where I'm walking back across the park to get something like, can I just get all the merch?
00:19:20
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In one place. In one place. wheres like That would be great. Yeah. That makes it that makes it pretty easy, right? ah There was a shirt I wanted last time I was there and I was like, i I'm at the entrance. I really got to walk all the way to the back of this park. like Really? Do I really have to do that? I will say the app is nice for that, though too. If you can like scan it at the store that you're at, like it'll tell you where where it is and all the different things. It told me it was in the back of the park. and It told me it was way too far to get. yeah yeah yeah um All right. Well, yeah, no, but listen, there's a lot of interesting news here. I definitely want to talk about the Bluey stuff ah just personally, because that's fair I think we've talked about on this show a bunch that I felt like this was going to happen at some point. I'm actually kind of surprised that Disney just didn't outright buy them at this point because Bluey is gigantic. and
00:20:11
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still getting bigger. um But you know the announcement while we were gone is that Bluey's going to be coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort and the Disney Cruise Line in 2025. Which listen, i my daughter will lose her mind if she gets to do this. Bluey has been her favorite thing for quite a while now. And um the fact that she's going to be able to to meet Bluey and Bingo and stuff at the parks is amazing. The one disappointment I had was that The Disney Cruise Line stuff they're doing is only from cruises that are coming out of Australia or New Zealand, which kind of annoys me. I want it elsewhere. I mean, maybe it's the right thing. It's the right thing. Yeah, it's the right thing. Yeah, I bet that's what it is. But it still annoys me. ah like i won i was I got excited when I saw Cruise because I was like, oh, I'm going on a cruise in May. Maybe Bluey will be there in May. But obviously not because we're not leaving out of Australia or New Zealand. Seems like a U problem, man. You should just let that Australia. what
00:21:12
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should just Why aren't you flying to Australia to exactly to take a cruise? Yeah, you know I made obviously a huge mistake. i Instead of taking a ridiculously long flight, I'm going to take a seven and a half hour drive. ah But anyway, yeah, no, you're right.
00:21:28
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But the other part of this, too, is that Bluey, they announced that Bluey's, and that this has been speculated for a while now ah because the after the show, kind of it didn't end, but it just they didn't make any more yet. They announced that they're going to do a feature film, which is going to come to theaters in 2027. And of course, Disney is going to be the one ah distributing that. so um So Disney acquired the global theatrical rights Uh, to, to bluey. And so they're going to put it in theaters. And then of course it's also going to be on Disney plus. And I'm sure it's going to be, uh, uh, absolutely huge hit. so um that My, my only worry with that is cause.
00:22:07
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so So first of all, I'm going to preface this by saying that, yes, my my wife loves Bluey as well. like yeah Yeah, lots of people. see It's a really good show. like It is. like I will be honest, it's it is a fantastic show. For being a kid's show, they do cover a lot of interesting stuff.
00:22:23
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There's a lot of adult stuff in there. There's a lot of adult jokes. it's It's kind of like when we were kids and there was the kid shows had a lot of adult jokes that went over your head until you were adults. you know Yeah, exactly. So so my my only concern with, you know, ah it's great that Disney is making a feature film. My worry is that they're going to approach this the same way they've done with Star Wars and Marvel. Like like to your point about it, you know, it's really big.
00:22:47
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is I feel like disney Disney needs to rethink how they approach this stuff because it feels like they they try and you know milk a stone, so to speak. where When it's like, you know there's there's too much or they they go in too hard on it and then it becomes not as good as it could have been. right like I will say though, Trevor, there Disney is really just seeming like they're distributing this and and putting it out there. right so like The studio that makes Bluey is still doing it, like the creator is still doing it. you know i mean like they They're not really making the movie, I guess. right like They're just distributing it. As long as they don't get in with their, you know well, you you know
00:23:32
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We think you should do it this way. Like, sorry, I don't think I know like like Disney definitely has had their moments in the past, but it feels like lately they've been so blinded by, you know, just churning out like like, sorry, Star Wars is a great example. Like there's so many Star Wars shows that it's like I could have watched it maybe if they weren't like if it didn't feel like there was one coming out every two months kind of thing. So I'm just worried that Blue is going to become a, you know, there's going to be just a ah deluge of.
00:24:02
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Bluey stuff that you know, no Disney bluey stuff like like it feels like you know The original stuff will be fine and you know, everyone will still continue to love it But I just I actually disagree that yeah I know you're saying like I think Disney should have bought bluey I'm actually glad that they haven't but fair Yeah. so I kind of see it as their early relationship with Pixar, where Pixar made the movies and Disney just marketed marketed them and put them out. like That's kind of what they're doing here with Bluey, where they're they're just letting you know they're letting them do their thing and then they're going to put the movie out and market it and probably make a big chunk of the merchandising dollars and you know all that. so
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah, this is great, though. I'm glad they're doing this because, you know i like I said, I want more Bluey out there. My daughter loves Bluey. I like watching Bluey, honestly. Again, it's one of those shows you can watch with your kids you know it's because it's there's a lot of funny adult stuff in those in those episodes. and you know that's There's a reason why there's an adult fan base for Bluey.
00:25:04
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To your point about, you know, staying off social media, you know, if you you've been on there a lot or i I do go on Facebook from time to time. And the thing I noticed lately is, you know, from inside the parks was during Christmas. I don't know if you saw all the tally the elf.
00:25:20
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Yeah, like it was going on. No, I didn't. say that no Oh, so so during the parade, there's an elf called Tally that would go. Oh, I did. see I'm sorry. yeah did interact Yeah, so so I'm I'm predicting that Bluey is going to replace that on social media as you're going to have people just like putting their interactions with Bluey on social media.
Bluey and Disney Expansion Plans
00:25:40
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I can see it, yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be a thing for a while, for sure. I mean, Bluey's just stupid. I mean, we talked about this last time, I think they're estimating that just Bluey, you know, because really, that's all they have is Bluey, is the studio just does Bluey. And it's worth a billion dollars, which is insane. But
00:26:00
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um you know that's it It is huge, it's and it got huge because of Disney Plus during the pandemic, and and you know that really brought it everywhere. um And you know ever since then, it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. So like I said, I i welcome this. I think it's great. i mean I'm excited to see it.
00:26:18
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so yeah All right. do Do we want to? Let's change gears and talk about the Simpsons. I was OK. So I put this on here because I knew both of you would be very interested in this. I feel this is one of the Simpsons. It's OK. I like the Simpsons horror stuff. Yeah. Yeah. kind of stuff but yeah i I agree. Yeah. the The little treehouse of horrors has always been.
00:26:40
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a free section of The Simpsons. But yeah, good. We should talk about what this is. yeah So so so the the the premise is Disney is surveying guests about including The Simpsons at theme parks, which is weird because it is at
The Simpsons and Disney Parks?
00:26:55
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Universal. I thought that ride's going away, though. It might be. Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, you're right. That whole section is going away, I believe. That is the most that is the most. I love that ride. But gosh, does it make you sick?
00:27:10
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Listen, I'm I'm going to be interested. Are they taking out the whole Simpsons thing? Was that announced or is that just rumored? i don't remember i I thought again, it's probably a rumor, but I thought that they were talking about in the parks that are in Universal that like they were going to put something else there because yeah, they don't have like The Simpsons is all under Disney now. So yeah, it makes sense for them to replace it with an IP that they actually, you know, or the universal has, right?
00:27:40
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, and this is not like the Marvel thing where they can't. I mean, I mean i don't know if they have exclusivity, at or ah but i from what I've seen is that the apparently the contract that Universal has to use the Simpsons is was a 20-year contract, and that means it would end in 2028. So we're sitting here in 2025, three years ahead of time,
00:28:02
Speaker
And you know if Disney's going to want to build something around that, they're going to have to start the planning for it now, right? Yeah. So they would have to make that decision soon if that contracts, because you have to assume that if that contract is coming up in 28, that Disney's not going to continue to let them to use let them use their IP. Like, I just don't think they're going to. Yeah, no, I i fully agree. Yeah, did you know Disney's. But the the thing with The Simpsons is, does it really fall within? Does it fit the brand?
00:28:31
Speaker
Yeah, it does. This is the hard part, is that I feel like, you know, having the Simpsons in the park kind of puts it back to like MGM in the 90s. Like it's that same kind of. Where is Yeah, like there used to be like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at MGM Studios. Power Rangers. Yeah, yeahs right. So yeah it kind of has that same vibe. It does. But I think they still fit better with the brand than the Simpsons.
00:28:59
Speaker
Who? You're saying Universal does? No, no. What I'm saying is that the Ninja Turtles and things like that. I just think this is so off brand for them. I don't know. I don't, I don't care either way. Like I wouldn't be mad if I saw the Simpsons. I mean, they obviously have to be at Hollywood studios. I don't think you put them anywhere else.
00:29:17
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yeah I don't think I'm mad either way, but I just don't see the the the brand. But you know like Trevor said, they used to have you know the the Golden Girls houses, so I mean, right? Yeah, they did. yeah There was that. They did have that, yeah. Well, and Disney owns a lot of crazy stuff now, right? like I mean, Disney owns It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I mean, and that's not exactly ah a crossover episode.
00:29:39
Speaker
Oh yeah, the crossover episode with everyone's talking about that. I've never watched Avid Elementary. My daughter, my daughter my wife really likes it. yeah But I'm definitely going to watch that whole crossover thing even though I don't really know the other show just because I, which I, you know, I always, it's funny because back in the 90s, they used to do the crossover thing like all the time, oh yeah all the time. And that really is kind of fallen by the wayside. But now with Disney owning so many things, they can do stuff like this, you know, where they own both shows. And they can do a crossover like this. I'm It's also interesting because I don't think those two shows, it's the same thing. I don't think that is on brand, so it's going to be kind of interesting. Yeah, I mean, The Simpsons, like I said, I'm not a huge fan. I'm not.
00:30:21
Speaker
and don't dislike it i think it's gone on a little too long but i have friends that like just live by that and you know they've now you know their kids watch it with them right like and so i get it i guess i have the last couple of seasons are good again i i heard it got good again but i don't know i haven't watched it so sorry i mean yeah the the thing is is and if it if anything runs long enough there will be like good and bad ah sections of it so yeah i mean i just think it's too long agreed it's been a long time yeah it's kind of the same or it surpassed the flintstones now right but um yeah but but but the flintstones is the same thing where there was like eras of it where it's like
00:31:03
Speaker
Like as a kid growing up like i watch certain episodes of the flintstones and i thought oh like this was the flintstones and then all of a sudden you get like something like totally. Weird and different and it's like do is like that too yeah yeah same thing it's it's like is this like did somebody like rip off the show and then you realize no it's the same show they just like it just went on that long right yeah so.
00:31:24
Speaker
So, yeah, I mean, you know, I agree that, you know, the Simpsons probably ran longer than it should. But then then, yeah, the the question here is, you know, am I am I actually if I'm in the park and I'm at Hollywood Studios, am I going to Simpsons Land?
00:31:43
Speaker
Or well or the the corner of, I don't know, what do they even do with it? Well, that's the question, right? Do they just copy, paste? Was that universal? Or what happened? No, I don't think so. No, I don't think they do that. And that's, I guess, the question I have, right? Because they do say character... the the The survey says character meet and greets or new lands or attractions. the The question is, do they go full out and build a whole, you know, Springfield? Or do they just throw one ride in there that Simpson says? I don't even know if you get that. I think that we're going to just get character interactions for a while and see how that goes. That's kind of my take. And then you can kind of limit what you want to do. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, same thing when they had the Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over there. You know, there was character interactions. They were a little rarer, too, which actually is even better. um But you didn't have a ride for them. It just was kind of cool. Like, oh, man, the Power Rangers are there.
00:32:35
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Cool. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think you might be right. I mean, I think you're right about that, Damon. Like, it will start as something like that, right? Where they... But again, it still doesn't even... The Simpsons really don't even fit Hollywood Studios either. Like, I hate... No, not in its current form, no. No. I don't know where it fits. It doesn't really fit anywhere in any... You gotta go throw them over by the, you know, the city part.
00:32:58
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The city. Well, yeah. Well, there's not really that much of a city anymore. I mean, whatever is left, that's where you got to throw them, I feel like, because that's where you used to see all the weird character interactions with Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Turtles, at least for us. That's where we saw them. Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah. You're talking about over by like Muppets. ah That's what I thought you meant with like the streets. of I was thinking like the main boulevard and like going down towards Tower of Terror. But oh, no, I wasn't thinking that way, but that wouldn't be the worst either. Yeah.
00:33:27
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Yeah. but I don't know where you stick. Where do you even stick like a. There is a whole area there that feels fairly unused, I will say, because, yeah, there's talking about that whole Pixar area that's in between like where toy story where the Toy Story Maniac entrance used to be before they moved out there. It's just empty. You know, I was thinking, yeah, yeah, that that's good, too. But, you know, I was thinking more like because there was like a market and there like it was it was like a market gets jammed, though.
00:33:59
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true it does yeah well yeah sometimes though it's completely empty so i guess yeah it's true it's either super packed or super and empty i yeah that that's fair but but yeah you know you're right the courtyard is actually that there is an entire courtyard that is unused at the moment what's what's left over because it's been now it's been gosh it's been a few years since i've been to disney what's left over when you're on your way to star tours um right outside of the the lakey thing like what's over there they still have the the well there's the frozen show in the one theater and indiana jones is still over there but what was what was a what was put into the american idol area gosh that's how long i feel like it's been so american idol one is the frozen show that's okay there's that there's that other theater though that has been used for a lot of things uh i think it's still a mickey short i think it's still mickey shorts in there yeah that yeah potato land is there
00:34:52
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Yeah, I think potato land is there. Yeah. um Because it it used to be I remember when I went in like the early 2000s, there was like a Drew Carey sound thing. Yeah, that was awesome with the bees. Yeah. Remember that? Yeah. that The Drew Carey thing was amazing.
00:35:06
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Yeah, I remember that. In fact, I actually had like an old man moment there where I was like, there were a bunch of kids making noise behind me, you know, they were like, you know, laughing and do whatever. And I was like, Hey, quiet down. but but Listening to this thing. um But yeah, that was a cool. um That was a cool thing. yeah I think it's just a Mickey short now.
00:35:25
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Yeah, so yeah, that's fair. I guess there is a couple of sections at Hollywood Studios where you could fit something. Like, it it wouldn't be like, you know, the characters. Yeah, just characters. But or I mean, I guess could they even do? Could you get some shorts? I don't know. I was launch base just sitting there empty pretty much at this point. And launch back. Yeah. but now What character from The Simpsons, though, would you even want to picture with Krusty or Sideshow Bob for me? Oh, Sideshow Bob is a good one. Yeah.
00:35:55
Speaker
Mr. Burns, I think. Oh, Mr. Burns would be cool. i would Mr. Burns said, so Bob, that's what I'm going with. Yeah. I was going to say, maybe even like having Moe's Tavern be a thing wouldn't be bad. Yeah, but that seems off brand, I feel like. And they already had that in- They have Olga's Cantina in Star Wars or in Galaxy's Edge. So yeah they've got, you get bars in the park. like But it's like fancy though.
00:36:18
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you know Moes can be fancy.
00:36:24
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Moes can be fancy. Did I just hear that? Yeah. I i don't know about that. um mother i mean They already have Moes at Universal Studios though, don't they? Yeah. have yeah like where you can yeah yeah so i mean i mean That would just be them. i mean I don't know what kind of ride I would want to see.
00:36:41
Speaker
right because i Even really, the Simpsons, the ride, right? Like you said, it's a lot of fun, but it's like, I don't know, does it doesn't make a lot of sense for the Simpsons. Like, what would you make what would you make as a ride that makes sense for the Simpsons, simpsons I guess? A skateboarding ride. Yeah. Okay. Give me a BART skateboarding through town, but your vehicle is a giant skateboard. Okay. Yeah. Or like a standup coaster, but you're standing on a skateboard.
00:37:09
Speaker
That would be cool. That seems off Disney brand too, but yeah. It does. I mean, they're doing the the door coaster for Monsters, Inc. So. That's true. I see it first, though, before I consider what, yeah.
00:37:22
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Yeah. I'm speaking of rides, right, Tom? What? Speaking rides? What? Oh, the ride path. You want to get off of this now? Okay. Yeah. We're Simpsoned out, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would be interested to hear what people think about this though. If they want Simpsons there and if they do, what do they want and where do they want it? I think that'd be, that's an interesting conversation point. So anyway,
00:37:41
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Yeah, some ride patterns, right? Just a couple. I love when these pop up because I think I'm just like a nerd about these things. But um so but I don't really get the Disney one all that much.
00:37:52
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um What's the picture of the one that's right next to it? Is that the Disney one or the Universal? the did ah The one that's right next to it is the Universal one.
Innovative Ride Systems
00:38:00
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The Spider. Yeah. the the The Disney one looks like it's up for a rider controlled amusement park ride with a force sensor in the vehicle that guests can activate. By leaning forward or otherwise applying pressure, guests would be able to adjust the vehicle's position or speed in real time. And then yeah the picture shows it kind of looks like a high hang gliding ride. Hang gliding, yeah.
00:38:22
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yeah Here's the thing. I don't want to be in the thing with a bunch of bozos. This is always the problem. Yeah, yeah, it is. Yeah, it sounds good on paper, but it's a bad idea because unless you two teenagers up front, super young kid and mother in the back or father just, you know, young kids or two young kids. Well, now that wouldn't happen, but say mother, father with the young kid. Yeah.
00:38:44
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Yeah, the the second that you have a party or you have ah a ride where it's mixed parties and like people hose you. Yeah. Yeah, same problem. It's, you know, if if you don't have control over the entire thing, then, you know, it.
00:39:00
Speaker
I'm thinking about this like my, you know, from my wife's point of view, you know, she does not like going fast, she has vertigo and all that. So, you know, if there was somebody else that was making the ride go faster than she wanted, and she couldn't, or you know, that then you're fighting against the other person, right? Like, that's such a weird premise for a for ah an idea of a patent, like, well yeah And listen, it's just a patent, right? So it doesn't mean they're ever going to use it, right? Because they they patent a lot of stuff. they did They just have a research lab where they just research stuff. And then if they come upon something, they patent it. They don't always use it. Actually, you know, Damon, to to to your point, though, that what I think of when I see see this is I think of my experience on the Alpine coaster that I did, where nobody was in front of me, but the other people in our party, one of them went slow and the other one wanted to go fast. And they were just stuck behind them because they wouldn't go faster.
00:39:51
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the Alpine ride is a tough one for me, just in general, because you can absolutely get ruined by other people. We always like kind of peek out and make sure we know who's coming, yeah or you try to get on when there's like a gap, because yeah, your ride can be ruined. ah Patent seems like the same sort of thing.
00:40:10
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I mean, I guess ah if you unless you had like individual tracks for each ride vehicle, you know, where you everything was separate. I think that's what Universal is doing with the Dragon's ride that they have. You control your own dragon, but you're still part of the larger ride.
00:40:24
Speaker
That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Just the way that this patent is looking is, you know, like you said, they're showing the glider with like, you know, part two. Yeah. Two sets of two seats. Yeah. The front people are like crazy about it. Yeah. What if it was sworn? What's the, if that's the next iteration of sworn four people hang glider, sworn.
00:40:47
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one night I might have to then take back what I said, because that would be the coolest thing ever. That would be pretty cool, yeah. um But it would be difficult for people to get motion sick or whatever. But I mean, i don't like you said, it's I don't know. it's It's an interesting idea. And it looks like, too, that the top part of this moves, right? So it's like it's not stationary like so. And it's like it's almost like Peter Pan, where there's like a track above that's holding the vehicle.
00:41:10
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You know, that's that's yeah, it looks like the top part is yes, like you said, sitting on a track and then I'm guessing it would probably control it in the same way that like how Indiana Jones or dinosaur makes you feel like you're moving faster than you are the violent reaching the vehicle and whatnot. So.
00:41:29
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Well, Soren does too, right? Soren doesn't move all that much, but the the the actual video makes you feel like you're moving more than you actually are. more yeah yeah are So um they Disney likes to do that trick a lot. ah David, are we allowed to talk about the universal patent or is that is that against your new resolution? yeah As long as I'm not bringing it up, you can I'm more than happy to add to whatever conversation is needed. I mean, I do find this one interesting. i In my mind, I don't know what the application for it is, but it's basically they they've did a patent for a round ride system where ride vehicles are attached to arms and a wheel kind of like Dumbo. But in this case, they have two separate drive systems so that you can independently remove some of the arms from the rest of them as it's still moving, which is I think that's what it's saying here, right? I don't think it's as it's moving. I think it's for loading.
00:42:21
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It looks like like it will be. It can can be trolled independently from the center wheel, but doesn't say that it could. Yeah. Yeah. Because it instead looking at the while moving. yeah Yeah. Yeah. Looking at the design looks like one of them is like off. It it looks like for for loading loading. Yeah. um the The scale of this, though, is way bigger than Dumbo because well yeah looking at these compartments.
00:42:43
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You know, each one has got a bench that, you know, looks like it could fit, you know, four people. So you've got like 12 people per compartment. But then, yeah, like you said it, you know, what are you what are you doing with this? Because it's just going in a circle, right? but I guess because it can like tilt and they they can spin or change angles or whatever. i mean I guess you could do some fun stuff with that, but it's still a basic flat ride for the most part. i mean you know it's it's still a it's i Again, I don't know what they would to use or if they're going to use it at all, they might not. right so again these i mean Disney and Universal, just they they have research departments, they they look into stuff and if they
00:43:20
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you know research something and find it to be ah you know unique, they'll patent it and maybe never use it. you know But I'm still remembering, I don't know if you guys remember years ago, they had that patent for like that's similar to this ah the the hang glider one, where it was like um the the application for it was that you were like with Spider-Man and it was you know and you're going the the ride vehicle would like swing through physical sets. Do you remember that one?
00:43:48
Speaker
Yeah, kind of. Yeah. I mean, that one never got used, as far as we know. so But you know stuff like that, ah they they just kind of will register anything, right? So we should also, or you know we or obviously, we we're very visual learners around here, and we are all looking at the pictures. But yes there is actually a second patent here. that i This actually sounds far more interesting than the the first universal patent.
00:44:16
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um Yeah, so universal second patent is for a real-time proximity operation and object handoff. In other words, this is a system to seamlessly transfer large show elements like sets or props between moving platforms or robotic arms. Sensors would monitor and adjust the positions of the platforms while a manipulator moves the show elements to assure a smooth transition. See, that to me is way more interesting than than these ride I just don't like sitting through shows and amusement parks. My thought on this is like in ah in a ride, you know you you have like you have show elements in a ride where like you know you'll have a set. like like I'm thinking about you know Runaway Railway where they they do some cool stuff with how some of the rooms transition between like yeah one version or another. yeah um This sounds like the same kind of thing, but you could actually have like instead of them, instead of using like like Disney, I feel, I shouldn't say they cheaped out, but they you know, they they got creative with using projector technology to do that.
00:45:18
Speaker
this is actually having like physical elements like move in and out of a scene. That's very interesting to me because you know this is actually you know we've we've talked about this a lot where you know it feels like projectors are the the cheap and easy way to do it. But doing a system like this where you actually move like physical items around as part of a scene, that's very interesting to me.
00:45:41
Speaker
it it It sounds to me though, like I don't know if you've ever seen like ah what the American Adventure Show is, because that's kind of what they do. They like they have a whole like they have all these scenes that move in and out. like ah and You can actually used to be able to tour the the ah the underground area where this happened, but that's kind of what would happen, is the curtains would close, the scene that was there would go away, it would go down under the stage, and then the next one would come and and come up. and all of a sudden it's a whole new scene. like But i mean maybe you know maybe this is using updated technology because i yeah that one's been around for a long time, but it's a similar kind of effect. you know yeah This is like next level. i like imagine using like I'm thinking of this like like they're talking about using you know robotic arms and stuff. This ah almost feels like you know having your set on like you know how we like the the trackless ride systems, right? Yeah. yeah yeah
00:46:31
Speaker
Imagine if your sets were also on a trackless ride system where like they they could move around. so So it's not just the set, but it also gives the ability that you can have different variations in it. right like like the the The American Adventure stuff is you know it's one scene. It's pre-programmed to all work one way because you know it was made So many years ago. yeah Yeah. This sounds like, you know, you could have, you know, so many different variations of a scene because you can program the the arms and stuff to move, you know, all kinds of different stuff. Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. It's it's maybe the more the more updated version of it. But yeah, I mean, you should definitely if you haven't seen it, like there's there's videos out there where you can you can see how it all works at the American Adventure. And it's it's surprisingly cool for such a simple show. So yeah. All right.
00:47:22
Speaker
Um, okay. So I think the only, the, the last thing we got here is a rumor. Yeah. This is, this is a weird. It's a weird one. Yeah. Well, I mean, it is, I guess. I mean, I feel like they're doing this thing where they're leaning into the villain stuff
Disney's Focus on Villains
00:47:40
Speaker
lately. I have more than usual, right? Yeah. So actually, you know what? Sorry, Trevor. Go ahead. So, so the rumor is that they're, they're Disney is looking at developing a mother.
00:47:52
Speaker
Mother Ghost is a goth or a goth. Mother Gothel film. So so focusing specifically on the villain of Tangled. Here's how I read this, Trevor. Okay. ah Villains Land is years out from now, right?
00:48:08
Speaker
I feel like they're going to be doing a whole bunch of villains type stuff before that land opens as work-ins to the land. You know how they do this all the time? They do this all the time. But we have so many other villains, so many other classic villains. Yeah, but we don't have a lot of movies that are focused specifically on the villains, I guess, right? But to Damon's point, they could use so many of those other villains. They can. Why Mother Gothel?
00:48:36
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She's a pretty good villain. We're getting a tangled live action, right? sure We know that's in development, so why more? That's a good question.
00:48:48
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that's like guy Well, we don't even really know. yeah this is This is a rumor. like so one this you know We don't know this is happening, but you know the speculation is, you know I think what people are pointing towards, and it says here ah in the article, is you know that they're suggesting that Catherine Hahn play Mother Gothel from, ah she was Agatha from Not a bad option. All along, which, yeah, you know, I think that's more people are just finding reasons to use their favorite actor. And it's less about, you know, people necessarily loving Mother Gothel as a villain. Yeah. Because i I guess I don't hear about it a lot. Like, like, i you know, people I hear of people that, you know, really love Tangled. But, you know, that there's there's a subsection of people that like villains.
00:49:36
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And mother Gothel doesn't come up as like a villain favorite. Yeah, I mean, it depends on what they do with it, right? Because like, and this is even mentioned in this article, right? Is it going to be like a Maleficent thing where they retell Sleeping Beauty from the, ah you know, from her perspective, or is it like an origin story? Like an origin story might be interesting, right? Because you only really see up until when she, you know,
00:50:00
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Yeah. She, she started as like the corrupt, you know, you know, she was after the flower and all that. Right. So there might be some interesting things before that. I mean, I don't know, but, um, yeah, I don't know. It's going to be, it'll be interesting to see if they do this. I mean, again, this, like you said, it's a rumor and who knows if it's actually going to happen. But I mean, I'm sure they Disney's developing a lot of things that are never going to come to fruition, you know,
00:50:27
Speaker
Yeah, but it is an interesting rumor. And like you said, you know, you know, the fact that that the villain's land is coming, you know, I i guess I wonder how much we are going to see a villain. So maybe that's the new maybe that's the next Star Wars arc is that they're going to, you know, bash us with so many villains movies that we're going to get sick of it before. Well, I just yeah I could just see them just the way that they do the the you know, they're why am I forgetting the word for it, but the um
00:51:02
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synergy, the synergy of all what they do. like you know where they They have the the the movies that lead into the parks and sometimes the parks go back to the movies. and so like I could see them doing this thing where they do a bunch of villain movies that are part of the villain's land later on as a way of hyping up the villain's land before it happens. Just a thought though. i mean Again, we I know nothing. I'm just just knowing how Disney operates and how they like to, you know, try to tie things in. I mean, listen, the whole reason Splash Mountain was called Splash Mountain was to promote the movie Splash. Like, you know, true. And then yeah it got yeah turned around. That's fair. But that's what I'm saying. Like, I could see them doing this. They do it, you know, better than anybody, pretty much integrating all that stuff. So it's it wouldn't be surprising to me if they did that, but they might not. I don't know. Maybe they're just, you know, doing a villain's thing now.
00:51:55
Speaker
Yeah, um I mean, yeah, I i don't want to dis like you said, you know, I don't want to describe, you know, Disney does have a larger intent on this stuff. And I mean, I guess this wouldn't be a rumor if or I guess it's it's not fair to say that, you know, all rumors have a basis in truth. But, you know, you're right in that Disney has been doing a lot of stuff with positioning villains for villains land. Yeah. And this does make sense. Like, I guess it does make sense if if they're planning for this particular villain to be in the park, maybe, you know, doing ah a movie for them is a good way to, you know, help bridge that where, you know, I guess they don't want people showing up and going, Oh, I'm here for villains. And, and you know, everyone has like,
00:52:39
Speaker
an expectation or, you know, everyone has their favorite villains, right? Sure. And the thing is, is not all of your villains are going to end up in the park. Like we all think that we know what villains we're going to see, but realistically, like Disney is going to tell us what villains are going to be in the park. And and that's the ones that are probably going to get the movies. Honestly, I don't know if I have a favorite villain. If I have to think about that. Really? Yeah, I'm trying to think of who would it be.
00:53:07
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Mm hmm. Mine's easy, but I think you already know it. Do I turn a bunch? Yeah, exactly. I've said it so many times. I've said it so many times. I'm coming off vacation. My brain's not working at full capacity.
00:53:24
Speaker
All right. I think that's all we had to talk about today, right? like Listen, there was a lot of debt. Part of the reason why we don't do shows in those last two weeks is there's not a lot going on, right? like Disney's not announcing things and you know there's not a lot going on.
00:53:36
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As everyone wakes up from their their, you know, turkey comas and whatnot, we'll start seeing more more stuff here. It was a ham come in my house. Oh, OK. Yeah, eat turkey at Christmas. we We actually did roast chickens, which was really good. And we did. We we made poutine with the the gravy afterwards, which was fantastic. We. Oh, nice. Nice. i We actually did. I feel like I was more than anything sweet stout. Like we had so many sweets in my house.
00:54:03
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like you know cookies and I bought some ridiculously priced caramels off the internet that were really good. Just sugar overdose. Yeah, just yeah yeah just sugar overdose. you know i mean It's just also just a crazy amount of food. We had so much food. ah just ah Given I had a lot of people in my house, right so i it was not Um, you know, I was not just by myself here. There was, there was a lot of people and I know. So, okay. I'm going to give people some behind the scenes because hopefully we do that. So, so, um, okay. So, uh, I think it was like a couple of days before Christmas, you and I got, uh, online, we played mini golf yeah and your sister was at your house as well. And so
00:54:45
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I was kind of hearing through your guys' headsets. All the monotony behind me. in The chaos that was going on. and yeah your Your house sounded um extremely busy for the holidays, which was which was very funny because you guys were trying to play mini golf and it sounded like people were like, poking and prodding you with your headset on. Typically, when I VR, I do it by myself specifically because you're when you have a VR headset on, you're in a very vulnerable vulnerable position because you can't see anything. Also, it's dangerous too because you can hit people around you without realizing it. Yes. But of course, you know everyone was you know
00:55:23
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poking me or tapping me on the shoulder. I think somebody punched me in the stomach at some point. You just wanted to play mini golf, yeah. I just wanted to play mini golf and you know that's what I get. i so Anyway, ah but yeah no im i'm glad I hope everybody had happy holidays and you know had had a happy New Year. you know I guess if you stayed up for New Year's, if you did something fun. I haven't done something fun for New Year's in a long time. but Um, you know, hopefully everybody's holidays were great. I know, uh, mine were, and I know you guys had great holidays. So, um, yeah, just hoping the same for everybody, but looking forward to how this year is going to play out. I'm sure it's, it's feeling like it's going to be an interesting one. Yeah. Should be, should be. Uh, all right. So let's wrap it up. Yeah.
00:56:11
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All right. How do I do this again? Um, that's good. You got to remember how to do your job, right? Like we were just talking about that. Yeah. This is me. This is me getting back to work. you You guys are getting me before I'm even like back in work mode. So so this is going to be really scuffed and it'll be fine. ah So, um, you know, as usual, if you guys have any questions about anything that we, uh, we talked about on the show, you can always reach out to us at welcome home podcast at gmail dot.com. We love getting your, your questions and hear your own trip reports and no that kind of stuff and uh we talked about you know we weren't on social media a lot but we do have social media for the podcast so you can find us on facebook as welcome home podcast you find us on youtube also is welcome and podcast you can find us on instagram as welcome home pics. On facebook we do have the group welcome home disney waitlist where we talk about you know stuff from the show there's people that post memes about you know things that we said on the show which is always fun to see you know i always love seeing people get creative about.
00:57:11
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yeah know Things that we said in the moment and didn't think would be a big deal, but... Can I mention that? I think it was Francisco posted a meme of me on a match of carpet and i I didn't see it for like two weeks later and I was like, what is that even in reference to? I don't remember what that was for. is You said something, I think it was it was either the last episode or like second last episode, you said something and and then I followed up with saying like, you said something about showing people the world or something and I said, or yeah, showing somebody Disney world and I said, well, yeah, you know, I can show you the world, right? Uh, okay. Well that that's what it is then. So like, but it's just funny cause I didn't see it till I was just like on social media blackout during the holidays. And then I, after the holidays, I just was like flipping around and I saw it and I was like, wait, what is that in reference to? I don't remember saying anything about this. I think it was, you had somebody that is going to Disney world and and they needed, they needed versions. You were showing them the world.
00:58:06
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Yeah. Got it. Makes sense though. I get it. Very clever meme. Nice work. Yeah. So, so yeah, like I said, if you know, if you want to see more content like that, you know, check out our Facebook group. And, uh, if you want to help support the show, you can go to store.welcomeonpodcast.com. You can check out our different merch there. We've got, you know, all the, all the usual stuff, you know, t-shirts, mugs, um, you know, Hey, I'm going to push the fanny packs. You know, this might be, you know, the year where fanny packs are hot. You never know. yeah Um, so, you know, you can get your fanny pack early in the year.
00:58:34
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and very yeah yeah exactly and and similarly we also have a patreon so you can go to patreon dot.com slash welcome home pod and check out our different levels of patreon support which have an exclusive ah patreon logo that um only our patreon ah listeners get and um anybody who does support us through patreon gets access to the discord server which is yet another place that we We have conversations about all the stuff on the show and just, you know, you don't have those great great Disney and other conversations, but mostly Disney. um So yeah, we'll get to see the the unicorn dinosaur tattoo before anybody else. So nice. All right. take um I'll take a picture that and share it on the discord. And there you go. key forward to seeing that on there It's not even a great picture of a unicorn dinosaur. Whatever. It doesn't matter. It's it's good. and And last but not least, um if you guys are listening on iTunes or Spotify or or and you know anywhere where you can leave us a review um or you know leave us stars, first of all, the you know the stars help more people find the show. It's just you know how um things work nowadays. So you know it helps us get promoted and helps us find new people to to listen to the show. And then also you can register views on iTunes. and We love seeing what you guys um say about the show. So you know please leave us a review.
00:59:51
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01:00:14
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Just a reminder to our listeners, Welcome Home Podcasts. For entertainment only, we are not employed by the Walt Disney Company and as such, all opinions we express on the show are our own. So please consult a DVC cast member or a Disney cast member for more information about anything we talked about today. Join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion. Of course, more DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon. This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.