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Episode 327: Festival of the Arts, Soarin’ Across America & Drone Shows
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The guys debut a new holiday themed Food Time song. Recent overhead images of the construction of Disney Lakeshore Lodge seem to confirm there will be a lazy river at the resort. Disney has revealed the dates and details of the 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts. The voice of Mickey Mouse created a merch collection called “Expedition Mickey Mouse”. Disney announced Soarin’ Across America, a new Soarin’ film that will debut for a limited time next year. The holidays are just around the corner and Disney has released some new advent calendars. The guys recklessly speculate on whether Tron: Ares was only made to promote the rides in the parks and on the reports that Disney is quietly testing a drone show.
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Introduction and Host Welcome
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all voice unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
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Music Music
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Hello and welcome
Halloween Costume Planning
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home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Rental Store. Thank you for joining us on episode 327 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast. I'm Tom, I'm here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, pretty good. How are you?
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Good. i So i I'm getting, you know, where're we're oh just like we're less than a week away from Halloween now, which is weird because it feels like it snuck up on me, you know? Yeah, in a weird way. This year has been weird. for like I think, at at least for us, it's been a late summer.
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And that always makes, like, you know, Halloween is, like, usually by this time it's a lot colder. And, you know, we're kind of getting we're getting into it. But we haven't felt it. And so, yeah, same kind of thing. as It's like, yeah, I looked at the calendar. was like, oh, it's end of October next week. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.
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Well, I don't know if your son used to do this when he was younger, but my daughter went through about, I don't know, 50 different ideas over the past year of what she was going to be for Halloween. Right. So like at one point she wanted to be Moana and I was going to be Maui. And then there was another time that we were going to do Frozen again, like we did a couple of years ago. And then there was another idea where, oh gosh, what was the other ones?
00:01:38
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She had so many, right? Yeah. wow Yeah. So so we did we made that mistake one year where we bought a Halloween costume in like August. And between August and October, his opinion of things had changed. And he was like, I don't want to wear that. I don't want to wear that how do i do that anymore.
00:01:57
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yes Yeah. So I get what you mean is, yeah, the the the current ah new hotness is what I call it. the because You know, changes very quickly. Yeah. She wanted to do, I think at one point she wanted to do K-pop demon hunter. Like she, she's been all over the of course. Yeah. K-pop demon hunter. Oh, and then we were going to do, we were going to do sentence and then we were going to zombies. And then, so we've been all over the place.
00:02:17
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Yeah. So the past, like, i don't know, a couple of weeks ago, she's like, I want to be a bunny rabbit. And I was like, you were a bunny rabbit last year, number one. And I was a carrot. So, you know, if you want to like do that again, we can do that again. And so that's what she settled on. But then I was like, okay, I guess we're not doing family costumes this year. Right. Cause like,
00:02:33
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You're a bunny rabbit. What am I supposed to be? And then I was like, you know what? I'm just going to you know, I think I told you and I talked about this on the show when we went on
Community Engagement and Promotions
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the cruise. You know, they always have pirate night and I had bought like a really, you know, pirate costume. Yeah. So I'm like, I'll just be a pirate. Why not?
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yeah Right. I'll just like I got the pirate costume or it could be Sully again. I still my Sully costume that I've worn on the show a couple of times. um I did realize, by the way, we're not doing a live Halloween episode this year. We never even talked about it. With everything going on, we just kind of brushed over that one. Yeah, it it got away from us. And, and you know, I don't think...
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You know, the live Halloween shows are good, but, you know, we we can do something closer to the holidays. And, I mean, we also have had years where we haven't done anything either. But I think i think we can do more live shows without a holiday or festival reason.
00:03:20
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yeah maybe maybe we do Maybe we do like an end of year Christmas, Hanukkah, whatever. Yeah. Just holiday thing. Holiday celebration. yeah Yeah. Speaking of holidays, Trevor.
00:03:31
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Yeah. No, go What were you going to Well, no, no, you, you, you were, you were talking leading into something. Yeah. Yeah. So if, if you're not in the Patreon, you should, you need to get in the Patreon, man. Cause we have, we have really good time on our discord server. And ah lately I've been, um How can I say that? Tom went off the rails.
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but let's Let's start with that. In a good way, though. Not a bad way. Yeah. Okay. Hold on. Okay. For anybody who's not been in the Discord. Yeah. Tom.
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And ah so let let me say, I've not heard all of these because this is great i was working and I couldn't keep up with what was going on. to had Tom had a flash of inspiration. i did. And was doing various...
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um various versions of our food time song. Yeah. So, and they're all over the place and I've listened to some of them. Like I said, I've not listened to all of them, but yeah.
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Yeah. So I just had the idea on, I guess, ah you know, in during the week and I was like, You know, because we've been waiting now, you and I have been waiting to do a food time episode for the Christmas party menus to come out, right? and yeah And we have one of them. We have the Jollywood one is is out now, but we're going to wait for Mickey's Christmas party, right? Because we want to um do them both together. We want do both at the same time. We want to do a ah holiday holiday version and and do that, right? And so yeah here's me thinking, okay, well...
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Maybe I can make like a holiday version. because And here's another thing that's coming that nobody's seen outside of the Discord yet is I've also made logos for the show that are specific to the holidays. So have a Halloween one that will go on this episode. And also have a pretty cool Christmas one that I actually really am pretty pumped with how came out. So I'm not sure which Christmas one you decided on because, again, there was like or three them. The Clark version.
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Yeah. but the Sorry, which one? The Clark Griswold version. Yeah, Griswold. Okay, yeah. Okay. yes Yeah, fair. And everyone will understand what I mean when you see it.
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um So anyway, I was doing this thing with custom logos, and then, you know, yeah we kind of got talking. don't know. How did this happen? Oh, okay. How this started again is that we wanted, we needed to update the food time song. So we hadn't done a food time in a little while.
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Obviously things have changed a little bit with the show since then. And so, you know, there was at least one lyric within the food time song that had to be changed. Right. Okay. So I went and I did that. We got a new food time song. It's essentially the same food time song that, you know, most of you out there, you know, love just with one change lyric and that you barely even notice. I mean, it's still the same song.
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Anyway, we don't notice. So it's, fun yeah, it's, it's really a very simple change anyway. So I was like, you know what? I'm doing all these special things for the holidays. you know, what if I made a holiday-themed food time song, right? So at first, I just was like...
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just gonna i'm just gonna you know make it a christmasy theme you know like maybe i'll just throw some bells behind or something like that and then i was like now let's let's change the word the lyrics and and say holiday food time instead of just food time and then my wife's like is that really the best you can do she didn't say that she didn't say that to me specifically but it was implied she was just like oh it was the yeah that's all right Yeah, she was like, she's like, it's too. I know she said to me, she goes, she goes, you know, it's too bad you get you can't update all the lyrics.
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And I'm like, okay, I can read between those lines. up yeah I can read between those lines. So I wrote a new, it's not really a new song. It's the same song, but I updated the lyrics. The holiday iteration of. Yes.
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Yes. So what we're doing right now, and I, as Trevor said, went a little crazy about this because there was a lot of different versions. I was trying some different things out. And if you're in the discord, I will share these things ah ah during the creative process. And I will ah shout out to everybody in the discord who also contributes to this too. You know, I, we've, we, we also are going to debut another song that we've been talking about forever on the show, this, ah this episode. And, and we, that was partly from input.
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from the discord and, uh, you know, even, even some of the listeners made their own versions, which was great too. Um, but, uh, you know, so my creative process with these things, you know, tends to be collaborative and, and I put them out on the discord and then someone's like, Oh, you should change this to that. Or, you know, you should try to do this.
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And so it just kind of builds on itself. So, Because we we came to a lot of different versions of it, I made a playlist of my favorites, and they're in our Patreon. Now, by the way, you don't have to be a paid member to be part of our Patreon. You don't really get a lot of benefits if you're a free member, but I've decided to open this up to everybody.
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So if you want to go to our Patreon, go to our Patreon. You can sign up. You can listen to the songs of Holiday Food Time and you can vote on your favorite. And then whatever one is voted on, that's what we're going to use when we go to do the Holiday Food Time episode. But Trevor, because you I know you didn't even get to hear all these.
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I wanted to play my favorite one on the show. I. I might have heard at least part of it. Okay. but Because like I said, I tried to go through it. Yeah, it was like I came back to the like I was working.
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Yeah. And then it was like lunchtime and I came into the Discord server and I was like, what is happening? Yeah, i went a little i went a little crazy. yeah I'm not going to. The funny thing is for the amount that I shared on the Discord, there was at least 10 times that. I only shared the ones that came out.
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I don't know. know how those things work when you're when you're generating versions. Yeah. And I also kept changing. I kept tweaking the lyrics here and there, too. But let's but let's play holiday food time. This is my favorite. And I'm going to tell you which option this is within the Patreon. I think we need to just, you know, you know, we can keep iterating on it. But I think at some point we just need to stick with it.
00:09:11
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Yeah. yeah Yeah. but All right. let's hear Here's here's holiday food time. What time is it? Holiday food time. What time is it? Holiday food time.
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Holidays are here, so our mission is clear. It's holiday food time, holiday food time.
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Holiday food time. Holiday food time.
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holiday food time
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all right so that i i really like how that turned out uh and the the the the lactate line trevor was actually added i think i want to think i want to say i did that last night but um yeah yeah that and when i thought of it i was like oh i gotta put that in there oh that's that that's really good Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. yeah I was very happy with how it came out. And yeah, listen, like I said, there's a couple other versions of it that are a little bit different.
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ah You know, I did some different lyrics in there, you know, depending on the on the song. And there's some different styles in there. I didn't include the one that somehow ended up sounding like a Weird Al song unintentionally. Yeah, my my wife and I had to laugh about that. Yeah, that was an excellent one.
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I listened to that one. And then, yeah, somebody pointed it out in the Discord. And I was like, Oh, yeah. Yeah, it does sound like Weird song. does sound like Weird Al. And I didn't realize it either. until Shout out to Becky.
00:11:06
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Becky was like, you made a Weird Al song. And I'm like, I did? And I was like, oh, yeah, okay. It sounds like Weird Al. I mean, hey, not going to lie. If by some strange coincidence, we ended up collabing with Weird Al on a song, I would not be mad. I could call it.
00:11:22
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yeah Close personal friend, Weird Al. um Yeah, right. But yeah, so that's that's one of the versions. ah you know In case you couldn't figure it out, it's it's meant to be you're sitting in your house on Christmas morning, you pop on ABC and you watch the you know the Christmas special happening at Disney. Yeah.
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That song is supposed to fit right in with that. And I think we've accomplished that. So I'm pretty, I'm pretty pumped about that. And like I said, go in and vote on your favorite um in our Patreon. It is free. You just have to sign up for a free membership. You do not have to pay to participate in this one.
00:11:57
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ah So, you know, but if you want to want to join, you can join for as little as $5. So that's, that's good too. So, um but anyway, yeah, that's, that's, I'm excited too, for the Reckless Speculation song too, Trevor. That's an early holiday gift for every early holiday gift for you yeah it is but um ah i after talking about it for years now i've finally finished the reckless speculation song and i'll tell the story about that when we get there to that part of the show but um but anyway so yeah yeah let's uh why don't we get through some of the items on the rundown and then we can we can come back to reckless speculation
00:12:30
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bit Yeah, I would I want to call this kind of a ah rumor, Trevor.
Disney Park Rumors and Speculations
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Right. Because I mean, not like confirming rumor. I don't know. I guess. Yeah. I just i I consider anything that Disney hasn't said themselves or that we've seen in like plan documents or anything to be a rumor. Right. Because like we don't you know, it could be something else.
00:12:49
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But air, but I could have sworn that in some of the concept documentation, we saw something about this. So what we're talking about is Disney Lakeshore Lodge, RIP Reflections, ah but it's it will always be reflections to me. and But Lakeshore Lodge is under construction, which, man, this is a huge resort that they have built.
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I feel so quickly. I mean, I know it's been a lot of times that they started and they and they had built a lot of the foundations and everything. But like the pictures of this thing, are I mean, it is it is so it's moving fast.
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you know, uh, now, and by the way, shout out to a bio reconstruct who took some aerial photos of this. And I don't know if you've ever followed that guy before on on Twitter or X or whatever it's called these days.
00:13:31
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Uh, but that guy does aerial photography of the parks of, of, uh, universal of, of, you know, just that whole area. goes up in one of those little, little tiny helicopters and takes pictures of stuff and often gets like these really great pictures of Disney construction. But,
00:13:45
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What we're talking about here, Lakeshore Lodge, ah it was rumored and maybe in the plans that they were going to have a lazy river. ah But we're looking at some overhead pictures and that certainly looks like a lazy river, Trevor, being built in the middle of the resort, doesn't it? I don't know what else that could be other than a lazy river.
00:14:01
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I don't know either. Yeah. I mean, it looks like one, right? is that Yeah, that's like the pool area. And... yeah it is It is very interesting ah interesting how this resort is situated because in a way it reminds me of kind of like how Animal Kingdom Lodge is where it's like it's like that big semicircle kind of thing or like U-shape. Yeah, it's called courtyard. Yeah, but like usually you know like Animal Kingdom, you're looking out at animals. Now if you have a courtyard view, you're just going staring down at some dude, you know shirtless guy that looks like me you know in the in the ah in the lazy river you know asleep with the sunglasses on. I equate it you know, the, did you ever see the carnival game where it was the ducks floating around? oh yeah. Yeah. And you'd have to like fish a duck out. yeah Yeah. You get different colors. ah Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:46
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is that what that's That's what it's like. yeah You know, people floating around on the lazy river is like, you know, watching the little, you know, the little duck game at the carnival. that's That's fair. Yeah. I listen. I love a lazy river and I feel like there needs to be more because this will only be the second lazy river at Disney resorts. Right. I mean, you're, you're talking about beach club and now this.
00:15:05
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but That's not part of a water park specifically. Yes, correct. so That's not part of a water park yeah resort. both Yeah, because both of the both the water parks have lazy rivers, which yes, I think you know and we all love a good lazy river, but you know not having to not having to pay for it as part of a like like a you know a water park day or something, just having it your resort, that's going to make this place very attractive to a lot of people for sure.
00:15:31
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Yeah, I mean, and it was already, I mean, it was already peaking a lot interest. I think this is going to be a very popular resort. Oh, yeah. Like, extremely popular. it's And it's going to be competing with Wilderness Lodge.
00:15:43
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for Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of kind of weird if you think about it. the and And yeah, because the thing is, that Wilderness Lodge won't have a lazy river. will not. yeah This is going to be closer to Magic Kingdom. And has a lazy river.
00:15:56
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I mean, so actually here's here's a bit of an interesting thought since, since we're talking about it. when Do you suppose, and I said, I'm wondering if you're having the same thought I am.
00:16:07
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Well, do you suppose that they will go back and retrofit other resorts with lazy rivers after this? That was not the thought I was having. But, I mean, it's an interesting idea. The problem is they take up a lot of space. They do.
00:16:18
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it's in In some of these places, they just kind of like like shoehorned in a pool, right? like So, I mean, they would have to do some major construction to some of the resorts to make that happen. But, I mean, I mean i think it would be good.
00:16:29
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The Pauly tore down an entire area and built a tower. that that is That is valid. They tore down. Yeah, I mean, they're not afraid to tear things down. There used to be the whole Luau area, and there was like this whole...
00:16:41
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But like it was all wooded and everything. They tore all that down and they built a tower there. So I know what you're saying, but I'm also saying, you know, I feel a lazy river is not nearly as complicated as a tower.
00:16:54
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But I mean, I guess from a budgetary standpoint, too, it may not work for me. Yeah, no, what I was thinking was i was trying to remember if there was a lazy river at River Country.
00:17:08
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And i I couldn't remember if there was or not. I don't think there was. I don't think there was either because I was almost wondering if this was like an homage to River Country. But I don't think that they had a lazy river, so to speak. Yeah, could because the thing about river country is but it was literally water out of the lake.
00:17:24
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Yeah. And I feel like a lazy river would have. I mean, they could still move water, you know, but it was. Yeah, but I don't know what the logistics were behind, like, pumping lake water into a lazy river. Yeah.
00:17:40
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Because they did have they did have the Whitewater Rapids, but that was a little bit different because that was like ah that was like a more intense kind of like... Yeah, that's kind of like the thing at Volcano Bay where... Yeah, yeah. yeah yeah It's more like, you know, there's like hills and stuff to it, right? But and listen, I will fully expect, knowing Disney, that there will be lots of references to River Country within this resort.
00:18:01
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I just believe that there will be. there There will be throwbacks for sure. I mean, I don't know if it'll be like... super obvious stuff but i wouldn't be surprised if there's little tidbits in there yeah well that's what they do though right they do like little tidbits like that's what they like to do so there's another part of this looking at these aerial photos which i didn't think about this but um lakeshore lodge is incredibly close to discovery island Oh, yeah, it totally is.
00:18:32
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Like is. It's so close. Yeah, no, it's it's very close to there. i I mean, you could I mean, you could probably swim over there. Don't do yeah that. Yeah. People have done that. And a whole bunch of security and police officers show up and remove you. So don't do that.
00:18:50
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I. I mean, listen, are you are you doing... and We're not doing the reckless speculation segment right now, but I mean, are you doing some reckless speculation that they might try to revitalize Discovery Island? Because that would be cool if they did.
00:19:01
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It would be an interesting thought because, again, it's it's incredibly close. It is. And... I mean, I don't know what's on the island at this point that would like, you're right. Abandoned buildings.
00:19:12
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It would be like an entire, you know, just demo and, you know, redo the whole thing. but But again, kind of an interesting, you know, maybe as an expansion to um to both, or I almost said reflections, to Lakeshore Lodge and Wilderness Lodge is, you know, Discovery Island could be like an additional...
00:19:34
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i don't I don't know. don't even know what you would put there. Like, it did like I know it it was like the whole animal thing before Animal Kingdom became became a reality. But, I mean, i feel like they could do something with it. Like, it could be like and another, like an entertainment area or something. I don't know. Like, just just looking at how close it is, that's all.
00:19:54
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Here's what they should do, Trevor, right? Take a page out of ah at a Universal's book. Make it like a ah like a scary island during the ah during the hall Halloween time. Oh, the villain's island? How cool would that be?
00:20:06
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But no, don't even do villain. Like, make it straight up real scary, like Halloween Horror Night scary. Because you're walking around an island. You can make it like a part escape room, part, like, you know. Yeah. but But yeah, like like like that's that's the thing is that, you know, it's it's a chunk of land that they could, there's a lot of things they could do with it. And like I said, looking at how close it is, like like that that that distance between like Shore Lodge and Discovery Island is like, it's pretty small.
00:20:36
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Yeah. It's really small. i mean it's I mean, if you want to like, I mean, i don't know if I can measure it out here, but it's like, it's it's small. I mean, it's it's not a... it its quick It's quicker than getting from the TTC over to Magic Kingdom.
00:20:51
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Yeah, if I just go shore to shore... Which Yeah. but That's like a five-minute trek on the ferry. This would be like two minutes back and forth at most. Yeah.
00:21:01
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Yeah, if i if I just go from closest shore to closest shore on both of them, it's 432 feet away. That's it? Yeah, and twitter according to Google Earth, it's it's only 432 feet away.
00:21:14
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So, I mean, it's... Yeah, totally. You could, like... Yeah. Take a running jump into the water and... but Again, don't do this. We didn't tell you to do this. Don't do it. Yeah, don't. yeah You will get arrested and you will get trespassed from Disney property. So, don't do it. Remember, wasn't there a guy during the pandemic that tried to live on Discovery Island for a while?
00:21:32
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He didn't try to... I think he just went over there, but then they they found him relatively quickly. Yeah, you're going get away with it. remember that. not going to get away with it. Yeah. But, okay. Let...
00:21:43
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You shouldn't be like this, but I have and now have it in my head that with inside of a year of Lakeshore Lodge opening, someone is going to use that as a... ah Because it's so close to Discovery Island, somebody is going to go into the resort and try and make their way across to Discovery Island. would shocked if it we lasted a month, Trevor. Yeah. I feel like it'll take up to it. Well, because it like in the first year, there's going to be a lot, it'll be a lot busier, but I feel like somebody in the first year is going to try it.
00:22:14
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Oh, a hundred percent. I would hope that they are thinking ahead about that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I feel like they're they have to, but yeah i guess I guess we'll see how... Because the hard part is, is you know they they don't want to destroy sight lines and stuff with, like... Yeah. You putting up a bunch of fencing and whatnot. And the thing is, that if somebody really wants to go somewhere, they're going to... They're to it.
00:22:36
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They're going to disregard all that anyway, so... Yeah, i I mean, listen, you're you're right about that. They don't want to open this brand new resort and then have you looking out on like some giant metal barriers or something that could prevent you from getting in there. You know, it's like, yeah, yeah you don't want that. I think it's funny, though, that we went from talking about a lazy river somehow talking about, you know, trespassing on property. Sorry, it's it's these photos are like the the guy took these photos. It's like, here's the resort. And then Discovery Island is right there. No, you're right. Like, wow. Like, I didn't realize how close it was.
00:23:06
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Yeah. And by the way, so the pool area is rumored to have also, ah you know, obviously a regular pool, a feature pool, a splash pad and also a leisure pool. Now, the leisure pool, i don't know where that's going to be, but it it is worth noting that there's two different wings of this resort.
00:23:22
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And the main wing kind of encompasses the, where the lazy river is. And the second you, so to speak, or second part, if you actually look at it, it kind of looks like a W um the second part of the W I'm wondering if there's going to be a smaller or, you know, ah pool there. That's not yeah the main pool.
00:23:40
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like like that how they always do is, you know, they'll have the the smaller, just boring pool. Yeah, exactly. Go to. Yeah. Which is like, oh, no, i don't want to say that. I'm going to make all the Saratoga people mad. i was going to say basically all of the pools at Saratoga, um except for the main pool. To be fair. Yeah. Saratoga has a lot of space to cover. So they need a lot of pools. And it's, you know, but those secondary pools are nice and fine and all that.
00:24:05
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They do the job. Right. They do the job. I will say this and maybe I'm outing myself here. I don't know. But, you know, well you mentioned splash pad and I know that the splash pads are for kids, but I really wish that there was a splash pad for adults.
00:24:19
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I mean, one says you can't use it. Well, because the rules on the splash pad say they're for kids 10 and under. And so, you know, if you're an adult wandering through the splash pad by yourself, they're going to ask you to leave.
00:24:34
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I've talked about this on the show before, Trevor. If you if you look, you can Google this. If you've never stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge Kidani, and that I'm going to throw this out to everybody. animal One of the reasons we like saying Animal Kingdom Lodge, ah specifically Kidani, is because of the pool.
00:24:50
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And right outside the pool, there's a kid's play area that's like a water playground. And they have like water cannons and stuff like that. well, you know, me being me, I was messing around with one of the water cannons and it wasn't on, right? Like it just wasn't on, but I didn't realize that if you turn it a certain way, it turns on.
00:25:07
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And so I was just kind of turning it just because, you know, why not? Whatever. And it turned on and nailed someone right in the face. Like ah so i felt so bad about it.
00:25:18
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But I mean, even like on the cruise ship this past time, i mean, we hung out. I mean, my, my nephew is, is three. I mean, and so we were, We hung out in the splash pad quite a bit, and we we were having fun with the splash pad.
00:25:28
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but But my point... So, yes, that's fine because you have kids that are of the age that can be at splash pad. Oh, you can just be like, kid... ah You know, just like you just pretend to... yeah ah Johnny, and don't get into that over there. and No, no, no. No, you see, that's how you get yourself removed from the resort. now I don't want to be like...
00:25:47
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okay, I don't want to be, you know, the creepy adult at the splash pad. You're not the creeper. No. My kid is way too old to hang out at the splash pad, but I... I'm giving you a splash pad pass. You can... but you Yeah. Yeah, you can go. It's fine. I just like it, like, i because, you know, it's like I don't want to get in the pool, but... And it's not that I want to, like, play with the water guns or anything. It's just more... But you do want to with the water guns, right? It's like water features and stuff, which are fascinating to me, but I also don't want to go and stand...
00:26:14
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You know, yeah, stand there when, you know, I don't have kids of age that can be in the splash pad is the point, right? Yeah. I see. It's as you're talking about this, Trevor, right? I ah just to go. I want to go back to ah the I talked about Dorney Park before and here, one of my favorite places. Right. And Dorney Park and Wild Water Kingdom. Wild Water Kingdom is the is the water park. Right.
00:26:36
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Yeah. And one of the things they have in the water park is what we used to call the water fortress, right? It's a thing for kids, but it was like three levels of like, you know, water guns and like the giant buckets and like there were traps you could set for people and stuff like that.
00:26:52
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And in college, my friends and I, you know, when we were off for the summer, we would go to go to Wildwater Kingdom and we would absolutely play in that water fortress like every time, even though it was for kids, because we had such a good time. Like, you know, just soaking these kids. so like yeah but ah good I we had a great time.
00:27:13
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Like I said, Disney's very clear about it. Because even like when my son was like 12, you know, that the splash pad says like 10 and under. and And then, you know, he had a... Yeah, but...
00:27:25
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Like I said, I just don't like that or I get why they do that. Don't get me wrong. I totally understand that, you know, it needs to be a space for kids. But I feel like a lazy river is a good compensation of that, you know, bringing it back to talking about the lazy rivers that, you know, it's a it's a water feature that is not just a pool. Like like pools are.
00:27:45
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pools are boring, but like, you know, up to a point, it's like, you know, I can't do anything in a pool, but no lazy river or, you know, splash pad. Like it's, there's interesting stuff going on. Like, like yeah like you said, like the buckets and stuff like that. It's like, Hey, you know, I, it's not that I'm going to sit there and like play in them for hours, but it's like, I want to wander through one of those yeah and not, not be looked at as, you know, you know, where's, you know, you don't have a kid and you're wandering through the splash pad. Right. Like,
00:28:14
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Listen, i am generally... It's a weird... I know it's it's a weird thing. No, it's not weird. You're right. You're on the right side of this. i And I am generally a rule follower. Like, my my wife knows this. i am I very much am a rule follower, and I get very mad when people don't ah you know follow the established rules of society. You know?
00:28:33
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Like, people that park in two parking spots drives me nuts. yes You know, like that kind stuff. Right? This is one of those things. I just am like, whatever. Yeah. You know, I'm just, I'm going to play. I want to have a good time. I'm not doing anything creepy here. I'm just messing around. and You're going to take the Barbossa stance on it? Yeah, that's the that's exactly right. More of a guideline.
00:28:51
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Yeah, it's a guideline. Yeah, it's a guideline. Got it. Yeah. okay But anyway. sorry we We talked about... lazy rivers and splash pads for quite a while there we should probably move on to some other things i guess yeah um and speaking of maturity um and ah ah oh boy uh the 20 we've got the 2026 epcot international festival of the arts uh dates have been revealed or as i affectionately call it the festival of well i just call farts i just call farts yeah
00:29:24
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I just wanted to say farts. I just
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00:29:26
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wanted to say farts. Yeah, because you know what? I'm a big kid at heart and I'm just going to say farts. I guess that's why we're doing a podcast about this. Yeah, exactly. yeah was i'm i It's a childish thing that I do. It's fine.
00:29:36
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um Listen, Festival of the Arts is one of those really interesting Epcot festivals because it's so short. It's what, 39 days, right? Yeah, it is incredibly short, but there's a lot of cool stuff. They do so much cool stuff. I've only done it once.
00:29:51
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But and it's we've been a couple of times and and like it's actually i for us. It's one of them it's one of the times we we really do like to go to Disney because yeah, it's like e Epcot is Epcot is a different vibe that time of year.
00:30:06
Speaker
Like I would agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's it's not food and like food and wine is like. Like it's good. And and same with with Flower and Garden. But Festival the Arts, like you said, it like the the it's very much focused on the art exhibits and and you know and people you know doing different artwork and performances and all that kind of stuff, right? And it helps that it's mostly that figment is like the straight up mascot of this. Oh, yeah. There's so much figment stuff. There's so much figment stuff. It's over the top figment, which is great for people that love figment.
00:30:37
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ah And, you know, they're they're doing a lot of the same stuff they've done before. They always do like a lot of viral stuff when they have like the sidewalk chart, sidewalk art that the the real artists do.
00:30:48
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ah You know, where they make these incredible pieces of sidewalk or sidewalk art with chalk. I mean, which is nuts. Which like I think one year we did see one of the um pictures from Mary Poppins, like like somebody just. Oh, yeah.
00:31:01
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did that because why wouldn't you right exactly yeah exactly um and so we don't know a lot right so you know they're still gonna have like the the the food studios because it wouldn't be a festival at epcot if it didn't have a whole bunch of food um and so listen of course we will do a version of food time uh once that comes out but we're probably a few months away of that one so actually kind of say ah yeah So, okay. and We didn't actually touch on the date. So so it's running from January 16th to February 23rd. So nice I expect we'll probably like either like early January or maybe mid-December we'll we'll hear about.
00:31:36
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Yeah. the The food. I mean, I'm honestly kind of surprised we haven't gotten the menu for for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party yet. i like Because like that's not the first one is pretty soon here.
00:31:47
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Like, I'm a bit surprised we haven't gotten it yet. um But I'm sure sometime this next coming week here, so we'll get that. But yeah, so they're going to do, you know, they have the the art stuff. They have ah that that iconic, ah you know, paint by number mural that they they usually have.
00:32:02
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which ah in the past has been figment. I, you know, it may be figment again. i don't know, but um I just, I, it's a really neat festival. I wish I could do this one more, honestly.
00:32:14
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i mean, yeah, you know, maybe that's, that sounds like something on your to-do list as time goes on. Cause I know like it's, It is a hard time of year. and is. Because, you know, kids are in school and all that kind of stuff. For us the the root are the way that we always planned it was in February, there's usually parent-teacher conferences, which means that there's there's a week where, you know, our son would only be missing like three days of school.
00:32:39
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And because it's because it's a short week, you know, that they were never... doing anything like meaningful at that point anyway so so we would always take advantage of that and that's why we would go to festival of the arts and then uh also um for us in particular like like the hard part for some people about traveling january february is it can get cold in ah in florida like i i have been there when it's gotten down to close to ah zero degrees celsius or 32 fahrenheit And it's not comfortable, but like I get, you know, you know, there's a difference between where I live, where it's a, you know, dry cold, where it can get down to minus 40, which in Fahrenheit is still minus 40.
00:33:21
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that I like when Celsius Fahrenheit meet up. It makes it a lot easier on me. They align at minus 32, but that's not a good thing. No, no. that's It's cold. That's cold. When getting that cold, it's it's not fun. but But the thing is, is yeah, and in Florida, because of the humidity, I get, yeah you know, it's not, it doesn't work for everybody. But if you're, i would say, you know, if you're going, if you want to go enjoy Festival the Arts,
00:33:45
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Um, just, you know, you know, make sure that you have like a decent jacket, especially like in the, in the the evenings, like we actually would take like, like, um, like a, like a light jacket with us and stuff like that, because, you know, that's the only thing about this festival is that it, like you said, you know, it's, it's a weird time of year Well, that's why they have it, right?
00:34:05
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but Yeah. And it's, you know, it it can get cold there is the only downside of it. But the actual festival itself, yeah, like you said, it it's it is it's different from the ah from Flower and Garden and Food and Wine. Like, it it it's really short, but it packs a lot into it.
00:34:24
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And yeah, and it's funny, you know, you're saying about the figment thing. I actually just looked at the, they have the picture of the paint by numbers. And I realized how how forward they're being with figment where, The kid is wearing a figment hat. He's got the purple Epcot shirt on, which has the figment shirt.
00:34:38
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And then he's painting the figment mural. It's like, okay, yeah, they're there's so much pushing ah pushing figment for sure. That's fine. I mean, listen, push figment on me. That's cool. um They're also going to have the Disney on Broadway concert series, too, which they've done in the past. So that's cool. And then they're also this year. they're due and I don't know if they might have done this last year, but they're doing a Lorkana event, too.
00:34:59
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Which actually is makes a lot of sense because the art on those cards are is pretty incredible. I mean, yeah, it if you think about it it, is totally obvious because they spend a lot of time Lorkana, you know, working with artists to to do those cards. So why would you not show them off at this festival?
00:35:18
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Agreed. Yeah. Agreed. And I will admit, like like i'm i i to be honest, I try to avoid trading card games now because when I was younger, i played a lot of Magic the Gathering and I spent a lot of money on Magic the Gathering.
00:35:31
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Because it is a bit of a trap in that you can spend a lot of money cards or on booster packs. Yeah. And I feel like Lurkana, you could do the same thing. But again, you know you know, not just for the sake of the trading card game, but, you know, if you're interested in Disney art, like Lurkana cards are pretty cool for that as well. Like there's, you you get a lot of different artists and a lot of different, uh, um,
00:35:56
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lot of different takes on Disney characters. Yeah. It's kind of cool. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. So yeah, Festival the Arts, we'll what but talk about it more. We certainly will. We certainly will.
00:36:09
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why don I want to talk about this next thing, though, Trevor, because I i find this interesting ah so this just This is just interesting yeah because it's like, and this isn't the first time, by the way, but ah Brett and I never know how to say his last name, but I think it's just because I win, right? Brett Iwin.
00:36:27
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I thought it was Ewan. Yeah, Ewan. Yeah, i forgot I forgot exactly how he says it, but the and for those that don't know, current voice of Mickey Mouse, one of the voices I should say, because there's multiple voices for Mickey Mouse and in case you didn't know that, but he's the main main Mickey Mouse and has been for quite a long time now, right? so um So, yeah, so he is ah coming out with he well, not I guess he designed a line of Mickey clothing that's going to be sold in the parks. Mickey merch, I guess you could say.
00:36:59
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Yeah. Right. I remember this about him is that he like I believe he actually started doing art at Disney and then he somehow got into the the voice acting part of it as well. Like like the art was actually why he was initially hired at Disney, if I recall.
00:37:15
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Yeah. Okay. well that makes, I mean, that, that makes sense. Uh, well, cause yeah, he went to wait, wait, I just, um I just, i just pulled up his, his Wikipedia page. Right. And he went to the ringling college of art and design.
00:37:29
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Now I hear a ringling and I think of one thing. and Ringling the circus. Yeah. Like, is that related? I've never heard of the ringling. don't know. Yeah. I've never heard enough about. Yeah.
00:37:40
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it I don't know enough about that. Uh, makes me think he went to clown college. Uh, But I mean, he you know, he he's kind of got the the whole art thing covered from all angles, if that's the case. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:53
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No, no, no. And I don't know. I have no idea if it's related to that or not. But yeah. Now, I have to say, the, so, you know, about. Yeah, it Ringling Brothers, by the way. It is. Okay. Yeah.
00:38:06
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I mean, it was, it was the, the, the guy that one of the Ringling Brothers invested at it and and but I just learned something new. I didn't know that. That was that was really interesting. So that's cool. that is It's an art school. i I was not familiar with it at all.
00:38:16
Speaker
It's my bad. But there you go. We learned something today. Now we learned something new today. it's you decided I was going to just talk about the the line of or the Mickey Mouse collection. Oh, yeah. The actual topic. Yeah. I mean, you have to admit, like like you're saying, like, well, he's a voice actor. What can you do?
00:38:33
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No, it's great. This stuff looks amazing. Yeah. that like it This has like. i I want to say it feels like 80s vibe Disney, but it's probably even earlier than that. Because to me, like, the hard part is, like, when I was growing up, I actually had a lot of stuff that was, like, 70s and 80s Disney. But I didn't know the difference because, you know, it was just, like, you know stuff that my parents had or that, you know, they... Because my mom had some stuff from when she was younger. it was Disney stuff. And I didn't realize, you know, what era things came from. But this Expedition Mickey Mouse stuff is... it looks like the old comics.
00:39:09
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I want this jacket. It's so cool. I'm telling you right I want this jacket. This jacket is awesome. green one? Yeah. The green one with the patch on it. Yeah. Oh, this jacket is awesome. Yeah.
00:39:19
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Totally. And the way it across the back, like it has it has like the Expedition Mickey Mouse, but it's not it's not colored in on the back. like that like you just got like the the pencil It looks like a pencil drawing of Mickey on the back.
00:39:32
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Yeah. like it's Yeah. It's super cool. I didn't realize he was an artist, too. I think the only thing I knew about him is that he was the voice of Mickey. I did not realize that he was also an artist. It also kind of looks like he's maybe modeling these. I mean, serious. Like, all you see is the bottom of the model's face and a kind of from pictures. There there is further down there are full on.
00:39:53
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because there's ah a plaid shirt and a long sleeve. Oh yeah, you're right. I didn't get that far down. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, I think that is him, right? Yeah. That's totally him.
00:40:04
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So he's not only, he only gets to do the voice, but he also designed the line and he got to model it too. Look at that. Yeah. I can tell if that hat is part of it or not. Yeah. if it is i mean i i would assume it is like ah the hat is the same color but they they don't show the front of it at all like all they're showing is the the shirts can i i but i i want it though oh man and i totally missed on this that there's the one dark blue shirt with the pluto on it where he's pointing oh yeah the plaid shirt's cool though too all this is all really good stuff man like i i normally don't like
00:40:37
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like just straight up Mickey mouse stuff or, or sorry, I like Mickey mouse stuff, but I find a lot of the, a lot of the current Mickey mouse stuff is very samey in that. It's like, like they pick like one design and it's just like, you know, for, for like a year or two years, it's just like, like a generic Mickey face. Right.
00:40:57
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Yeah. Like, like I said, this is like, it it looks like the, he pulled it out of a comic and yeah, looking at the button up shirt, it's like the, uh, no, it's got Mickey and Pluto and, uh, Looks like Big Thunder's on there too.
00:41:09
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I mean, it's the it's the Expedition series, right? So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. So I like this because it has some it has some life to it. Like it's it's like, it's not just the like Mickey Mouse head, right? Yeah, exactly. I think that's the thing is that when it's just like a Mickey Mouse head, I'm like, ah, that's boring. But this is like, oh, hey, like it's, you know, it's it's drawn like a comic or it looks like, you know, it's something different.
00:41:36
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Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I love it. Very cool. Yeah. Love it. right. Should we do our ad, Trevor? Let's do our ad. Yeah. Let's do the ad for this week. Okay. yeah This week, the show is brought to you by a DVC rental store, which is a world of DVC company that offers magical vacations at incredible value.
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00:42:17
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When you speak to them, be sure to let them know that Welcome Home sent you. This news came out like literally like right after we recorded. I think it was the next day, right? Yeah. so So we're talking about Storin, I'm guessing.
00:42:28
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Yeah. Yeah. So, of course, we're talking about it. First of all, I want to talk before we – well, no. Okay. let Give – after we introduce what this is, I want to talk about a missed opportunity here. Yeah. So ah we we got an announcement that there will be a new Soarin' movie. Now, this is specifically to celebrate ah you know the 250th anniversary of the of the United States, right? And so we're getting Soarin' Across America, which is going to be debuting in summer 2026.
00:42:57
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And so Disney released a video of Patrick Warburton, you know, known as our chief lead attendant. And I actually throw this out. I threw this out there in the discord. If they were to rerecord the the the pre-show video, but still with Patrick Warburton, would people be mad?
00:43:15
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I feel like the answer is yes, still. Because even though the original version is so old, there's just a certain quality about it that I can't explain. You know?
00:43:26
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But, I mean, he for the announcement he did, like, he riffed on it. Yeah. but I don't think people would be mad about it. Yeah. like my My missed opportunity here, though, Trevor, is why wasn't he doing the announcement with Sam Eagle?
00:43:44
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Like, I mean, oh, yeah. Like, where yeah. How is that not part of this? Yeah, so Sam should have come into it. But, I mean, maybe they don't want Muppets in everything, necessarily. i But how funny would that have been?
00:43:58
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Like, that would be hilarious, right? Yes. Yeah. But anyway, um yeah, so we're going be getting Soarin' Across America. First of all, this this ah this attraction poster, I don't know who's doing the attraction posters lately, man, but this attraction poster's awesome. I think it is anyway.
00:44:15
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but the The one with the Statue of Liberty and everything. Yeah, it's pretty cool, right? It is, yeah. I like the style of it. It's very, very neat. I also love the fact that they are continuing to update Sorin and do new things with it.
00:44:28
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and And that makes me happy, right? But it's funny because in the Discord, again, we were joking about... what um you know like first of all they were joking about what national landmark is going to be you know the the new eiffel tower eiffel tower uh as far as you know being crooked right yeah i i saw the the space needle yeah that was funny yeah i like to believe they learned their lesson on that one ah you know and that's not going to have it again but you know you never know um yeah It would, it would honestly be hilarious if they, they didn't think about that. Right. Like it's, it's one of those weird things that,
00:45:08
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um You want to say like, oh, yeah you know, they they should know better. They should have. but should have yeah They should have fixed that. But I feel like when stuff's going through production like that, you know, not everybody's thinking of it from that angle.
00:45:22
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Right. Like it's. Well, you know that they probably. Well, no. See, you think that they would like do all angles, but they probably when they were like testing it and riding it, they were probably doing it from like the middle. Right. Because why wouldn't you? Yeah. and but But also it's, you know, that when they're filming it, they're like how it's being filmed and how it's being projected on the screen are different because the the filming it with a camera that's giving like a like a flat image.
00:45:46
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But then they're putting it onto a concave screen. And that's that's why it got distorted was that they weren't exactly thinking about how the screen distorts the image. Right. So which is still surprising to me because it feels like they should they should know better. Right. Like they they they should know better than but and And you say that, but yeah and you know you think that they learned their lesson, but somehow this kind of stuff does keep happening. And I'm not going to put it past them that it won't happen again.
00:46:11
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I think they got it this time, but we'll see. But anyway, so yeah, there was also a lot of special speculation in the Discord of where they're going to go, and we were joking a lot about smells. I think one of the funny things that we, you know, Trevor, we talked about doing as a wait list is a wrong answers only kind of situation, right? like Yeah.
00:46:29
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Yeah. Of where they're going to go. That would be pretty funny, too. but But anyway, yeah. So listen, like I said, this is this is a is good. I'm glad they got Patrick Warburton to do her do the announcement.
00:46:40
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Would have loved some Sam Eagle in there, but that's okay. It's it's all right. I'll i'll deal. um um I'm excited. i Listen, I love new stuff like this. I love Soarin', and I just hope that, ah you know, if they if they change the music at all, that it's still, you know, I'm sure, you know, when they when they launched the new version, they still had the the essence of it, and they just made ah you know so a little bit of updates Um, but, and they can still keep the same beats from like the, uh, like the storytelling aspect of it. Yeah. yeah yeah Yeah.
00:47:10
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Yeah. So, good sorry, but back to the, uh, to the, um, poster art for it. I, so I got the most recent Disney files. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I assume we all get our Disney files or those of us that have, of course, you see memberships.
00:47:25
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Yeah. There the, so the front page of it looks very similar to this. And I, I wish I could remember the guy's name that did it, but he, he did a bunch of art in the same, like it was inspired by the contemporary and thereby Mary Blair.
00:47:40
Speaker
I feel like this looks like it's the same artist and his name is escaping me right Oh, really? Okay. i Like, this looks like his artwork to me. It's a really neat-looking poster. I've really been digging... I mean, I think everybody that listens to the show knows that I have kind of a problem with wanting all the attraction posters.
00:48:00
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I don't know why it's, like, oh the weirdest thing I want to collect, but I just love i love attraction posters, just in general. they're Yeah, very cool They have a vibe to them. They do. Yeah, and and i I feel like Disney does like a really cool job of their attraction posters frequently. i like them more than movie posters most of the time because I feel like movie posters end up being like so similar to each other.
00:48:22
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And these are always kind of like have a unique kind of flavor to them, you know? Yeah. yeah it's Yeah, it captures something. i Like, I don't know. You're right. i don I don't know how else to explain it other than like it it captures the the vibe of the ride.
00:48:37
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It's the best way to say it. I would agree. I would agree. So, of course, I'm looking on the the UBC website and they don't have the latest Disney files up there yet. So I can't even go look at what the guy's name is.
00:48:49
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Well, that's right. But yeah, so this is this is great. Look, and there's there's a whole behind the scenes look out there, too, where they talk about how they're like kind of going to how they're doing specific things to like stitch together the the different scenes that is not um as I want to say CGI obvious. Yeah.
00:49:08
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Yeah. i but they theyre mean I don't know. i I will admit that one of the things I enjoy about Soren is like, because so like the the big obvious one is the eagle that flies up and yeah yeah like it does the transition.
00:49:23
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But now that ah like now that I've ridden it enough times that I kind of know that stuff's happening. I'm actually looking for it a lot of those elements are like in the background somewhere and you can like see how they like move through the scene and then come forward.
00:49:37
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yeah that's i Yeah. I actually enjoy looking for those in the scenes now more than like, like I do enjoy just like taking in whatever it is, but it's also like, oh, there's that, you know, I see that balloon off in the distance or like it's, yeah, it's,
00:49:52
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It's kind of a funny thing. like I agree. I know, yes, you're right. They can do a better job of blending them, but I think that was part of the charm of it. Yeah, it's part of the charm.
00:50:05
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it's It's like when I posted some of the songs that I had done for Food Time on on you know on the on the Discord, and people were like, that's really bad. And I was like, I didn't say they were all going to be good. camp is part of the fun, man.
00:50:20
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yeah Yeah. You know, sometimes bad is good. Yeah. Like, you know, you know, campy or you know, you know, if if it's done, i wouldn't even say if it's done deliberately, but if it if it's done, if it's done in the right context, it can actually elevate it, even if it is bad.
00:50:35
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Yeah, like I would agree. Yeah. Like, yeah as long as it's self-aware that it's bad, I feel like being self-aware is the key. But to be fair, like, Soren wasn't self-aware. it's just It just so happened that it became an endearing thing about it.
00:50:47
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And I never thought it was bad. i It's just, it's part of, they have to transition from scene to scene, right? Like, what are they going to do, right? Like, and that's, is it was a feature, not a bug. I mean, honestly. It was more, I think it's just more a reflection of what was available at the time for sure CGI and all that, right? Yeah.
00:51:02
Speaker
Well, I mean, the the newest update, they CGI'd a lot more. But yeah, but there's a whole behind-the-scenes thing here of how like they are doing this a little bit differently this time around. So again, I think they i do think they learned some lessons. I do.
00:51:15
Speaker
I believe it. So... Yeah. Anything else on this, Trevor, you want to move on to the next thing? Yeah, let's move on to the next thing. But I... I'll admit, I don't know how much I want to talk about this because... Oh, really? so So my wife... Okay.
00:51:32
Speaker
but The context on that is my wife and I went to Costco last weekend and they had a giant Advent... Or it was a Lindor Advent calendar. I saw it. it was It's like super tall, right? Yeah. And it's like hundreds of dollars. I also saw that when I was at Costco last weekend. Yes. Yeah. and and And my wife said, if that was a Disney Advent calendar, I would have five of them in the house. So you don't want to talk about this because you don't want your wife to know about this.
00:51:56
Speaker
Maybe.
Holiday Merchandise and Segments
00:51:58
Speaker
ah so so so the the whole point of this this subject is guide to countdown to Christmas with these Disney advent calendars. Oh, look, here's a bunch of different advent calendars. There's a lot of versions. There is quite a lot of them.
00:52:16
Speaker
There are. the Listen, what i just tell, it listen, ah Trevor's wife, skip through this. You know, there's nothing important for you. You don't need to know about this. If she's this far in, I'm cooked already. You're cooked already. Yes. Yeah, it's done.
00:52:30
Speaker
z The first one here, though, is there's a there's a ah Star Wars miniature legacy lightsaber hilts countdown collectible one. Now, they only have the one picture of the box on here, Trevor, but if you click the link, you can see what's it. I've seen other pictures. Yeah, it's it it's it's all different hilts from various various people in the Star Wars universe.
00:52:51
Speaker
I didn't see the the most obvious standout one is Count Dooku because it's that curved ah hilt, which I always thought was very unique. unique Although I will say that that, you know, I mean, obviously it's not a traditional advent calendar because it's lightsabers, but it's also only 12 days.
00:53:07
Speaker
So, you know, your traditional one has the the full month before. The 24 days, yeah yeah. At least the 24. Yeah, well, i've all the ones i get are usually up until Christmas or, yeah, and so it's the 25 days. It's the full month before, though, right? Right. It's not, yeah. Yeah.
00:53:21
Speaker
But you're right. Yeah, you start them on December 1st and it was all went until Christmas. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah. and but And they have, so so they have, we've done the Lego calendars before. So they have, they have again, a Star Wars one.
00:53:33
Speaker
Yeah. There is a Frozen one, which, I mean, that that's kind of obvious. Yeah. And then Disney Princess? Yeah, that one we got to open up here. What's inside this one? ah is this, are these Funko Pops?
00:53:46
Speaker
Yeah. what and They're like, wait, what is this? A special pop-up advent calendar. Okay, but what's inside it, though? This is nothing. but I'm confused. Oh, no. Okay, maybe is that a different?
00:53:59
Speaker
Oh, is it just like a pop-up book? Oh, I see. I see. Okay. 25 ornaments showcasing items like Cinderella's glass slippers, TM's water lily, Rapunzel's friend. That one's boring.
00:54:10
Speaker
Yeah. They don't even show a picture of that one. Then, yeah, the next one is the Funko Pop one. Yeah, that's ah ah it's mini Funko Pops, clearly. So it's like the really tiny ones. um What do they call? Biddy Pop? Is that what it's called? Okay, Biddy Pop. I've never actually heard that, but that's hilarious.
00:54:24
Speaker
um But that one's pretty cool. yeah there There's a Fisher Price one, which, I mean, i feel like, I mean, this one would be great like if my nieces were like you know in the five-ish years age range. This would be a good one for them i feel like i would I feel like I kind of want to get this Funko Pop one for my daughter. Yeah. feel like she would really like this one.
00:54:49
Speaker
But hold on. There's a Stitch Advent calendar. I see that. My problem with the Stitch one is all you get is like, what are these little books? Is that what's going on here? okay We did that one year with Bluey. We had a Bluey Advent calendar that had Bluey books in it. But now those books are small and they are all over the place.
00:55:07
Speaker
Like every once in a while, I just find a Bluey book somewhere. Yeah. You know, like, i I don't know how I got there. actually Okay, now, you sorry. i'm I'm continuing down. Yeah, the Muppet Christmas Carol one, right? Forget everything else, the Muppet Christmas Carol one awesome. That's the way.
00:55:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that one's pretty cool. That one $160. Disney. I mean, but it's all these, like, little Muppets plushies. It's mini stuffed animals. Yeah. Yeah. They've got the three ghosts. They've got...
00:55:36
Speaker
Marley and Marley. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, listen, this one's pretty cool. Again, though, only 12 days. You only get 12 days for this one. That's fine. but i mean it was pretty It's a pretty cool one. not going to lie. yeah We can skip over the next one.
00:55:49
Speaker
Oh, man, the hatred. Should I talk about my fun fact, Trevor? Because I was watching Beetlejuice the other night, and I learned that... Yeah, you said that on the Discord, and apparently Jack Skellington is in Discord, or not in Discord. Is in Beetlejuice, yeah. In Beetlejuice, but it's like an early iteration of him, which...
00:56:10
Speaker
I looked at it and don't thought he looked like Jack Skellington. No? It looks like a skeleton. Yeah, well, Jack Skellington just looks like a skeleton. I mean, right? No, he's he has a very specific look to him.
00:56:21
Speaker
You're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah. I don't know. But all right but this this Nightmare Before Christmas one, it kind of like the the storybook one, it like I don't know what all is in it. but Oh, it says gifts such as mini books, note cards, and ornaments. Eh, no.
00:56:35
Speaker
That's kind of fun, though because it, like, at least it's different things, right? Like, it's it's different kinds of items, you know? Yeah, but it's very flat, which means all the things that you're getting are going to be, like, just, like, it you know, here here's a book.
00:56:47
Speaker
Like, don't know. I don't like that. and So then they also have another Funko Pop, ah another Funko Biddy Pop one. But it's ah it's with ah Marvel characters. So that one's pretty cool. That one's neat.
00:57:00
Speaker
If your kids into Marvel. Uh, and down to bluey, right? I talked about, yeah, they're, they're doing a bluey one. They are doing a bluey one. Let's see what's, what's in this bluey one though. Is there, there's 24 gifts.
00:57:12
Speaker
Okay. So these are characters. See, I'd much rather that than the books. Not that I'm like anti book or anything. I just, the, the little figures I know my daughter's actually going to play with, you know what i mean? So, oh my God. Okay. I'm getting this, this, this is has, this has to be done.
00:57:26
Speaker
I was going to get the mini Funko Pop one. Now I feel like i need to get this bluey one because this bluey one is pretty cool. All right. Fair. you can know yeah that You can see the like all the stuff that's in it. And it's all these little figures from the from the show.
00:57:39
Speaker
i Yeah, my daughter is going to lose her mind if I get this for her. Okay. And it's only $20, too, which is pretty pretty great. So that's happening. Where are you looking at all the what's in it? there's ah There's a link. He's using the shop now. Yeah. I clicked the link, but it doesn't show. Oh, so you got to get the last image and it has like a circle that has, that shows all the stuff that's in it.
00:57:56
Speaker
Oh, that oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. It shows all the different things that are in it. Yeah. Oh, all right. Yeah. Some cool stuff there. Right. Yeah. There's also, too, a Mickey Mouse and Friends fillable LED light advent calendar. So it sounds like... Macy's exclusive, by the Oh, gosh. The same line of garbage that they were throwing out there.
00:58:17
Speaker
There was another, like, line of stuff that with the macy's that they put out with Macy's that they put out. And I was just like, yeah, no, we're good. um it's It was like a Spider-Man collection. And I'm like, who's... where This is ridiculously fancy stuff. Going to Macy's for... Yeah. So this particular one, you have to go buy off of the Macy's website. And just looked at it. It's unavailable. So it doesn't matter.
00:58:38
Speaker
Oh, see, it's available for me. Oh, maybe because I'm... You're in Canada. Yeah. But they acknowledge that I'm and not a real person, guess. wait, does this need to... to just but By fillable, do they mean that I have to come up with things to put in there?
00:58:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it does. Okay, yeah, no, forget that. This is just the, it's just the, ah like, box. It's just the structure. Yeah. but But, I mean, it like, this would be like showpiece that you would put on your, on your like, shelf. Yeah.
00:59:11
Speaker
Because it's lit up and everything. Like I can see where it, you know, it's a nicer, it's a nicer advent calendar thing that, you know, it's still Disney, but a little more upscale, obviously, because it's Macy's. But yeah so I see a place for this. um Again, not something that,
00:59:29
Speaker
I would want in my house necessarily. but And i mean, I can't get it anyway. a Sorry. Macy's is going to be like that. You know? Yeah. How dare you Macy's? How dare you keep this from Trevor?
00:59:40
Speaker
Yeah, I know. Well, but right you won't care. i'm I'm after that Muppets Christmas Carol one anyway. So yeah, that's, that's the one, right? Like that's the winner for you. See, I think the bluey one or the princess mini Funko pop one is the one I'm going, I can't get two though. Right. That feels like too much.
00:59:57
Speaker
I said my wife was saying to me, I want five Advent calendars in the house. And I'm like, nice white love and what are you going to do with five Advent calendars? She's going to enjoy them. That's what she's going to do. Yeah. um like weird so She wanted the stand-up ones. like She wanted to like surround in my living room with yeah Advent calendars. Jen, I'm on your side. Okay? Just so you know. Yeah. Okay. you Forget your husband. I'm on your side.
01:00:23
Speaker
All right. Are we done with this one? Yeah. but Hopefully she doesn't listen to this episode for couple of weeks. I've got some time. She's gonna. She's gonna. I may just let her know about the Advent... Or I'll just let her know about the Muppets one and then we don't need to know about the other ones.
01:00:39
Speaker
That's... Yeah, that's that's a good idea. Yeah. Just be oh, you don't need to listen that segment in the show. I already found for us. Just skip over it. Just skip over it. It's cool. We're good. um So, Trevor.
01:00:51
Speaker
Is it time? I think it is. ah i So for years now, i've i've gotten asked this before, too i would call this rec right why we call ah where Why we call it reckless speculation, right? And I actually don't remember where this came from. I think a friend said it to me one time, and I just thought it was a funny pairing of words. And I think I just brought that to the show. and you know We were using it as a place. or I think when we got to it on the show, the whole point of it was...
01:01:16
Speaker
we were being very clear that, you know, this was not, this was like the, the Disney bus driver, like yes expert stuff, meaning that, you know, it's entirely rumors or it's based on just somebody's opinion. There's no factor, anything behind it other than us just yeah speculating. Right. yeah So, yeah. So years ago I said, I was going to make a song for this as one of the segments. And I, so I actually wrote a song for this Trevor about a year ago, little over a year ago.
01:01:44
Speaker
I couldn't ever get it right, though. right like I just couldn't get it where I wanted it to be. And in my mind, I had always seen it as like a metal song, just because the word reckless you know kind of was doing that.
01:01:56
Speaker
But I was messing around again with songs, and I just so happened to hit a specific genre that I think works really well for this. And and the other funny part about this before I play it is that the lyrics I wrote a year ago were really supposed to be a placeholder.
01:02:13
Speaker
They We're not really meant to be the lyrics because they are silly and they're ridiculous and they're repetitive and they make, I mean, yeah i mean, you've heard it. It's, it's silly, but yeah somehow I think it works.
01:02:26
Speaker
I don't know why it just does. So but without further ado, well, good. Yeah. Before you do that. Good. you I'll, I'll, I'll give my thoughts after we play the full song.
01:02:36
Speaker
Okay. Let's do it.
01:02:46
Speaker
It's so reckless. It's so much speculation. We may be wrong. We may be right. But it doesn't matter because it's reckless speculation.
01:03:03
Speaker
I don't know why that turned out the way it did with ah the Dapper Dans, but I just, I don't know. I'm tickled by it. It works. And so i thought i thought you had a longer version of it. I was going to say if it's... No.
01:03:16
Speaker
Yeah. if As long as it's, you know, as long as it's not like two minutes of reckless speculation before we get into it. and No, no, no. No, that's... Short version. that That works. Yeah,
Tron Ares and Movie Industry Analysis
01:03:27
Speaker
I i was i actually thought because yeah i' had heard the yeah ah hair metal band version of it. I thought that's what you were going to go with. No, that one's a lot longer.
01:03:36
Speaker
Yeah, this was like 24 seconds. That one's like over a minute. Yeah, exactly. So that one plays a more guitar going on in that one. Yeah, that that works. I like that, though.
01:03:46
Speaker
Yeah. A little bit of Dapper Dans for your for your day, right? yeah Yeah. So we're into reckless speculation. And so this this thing you have on here um is... So the title is...
01:04:00
Speaker
Was Tron Aries just, in quotes, an advertisement for the Disney rides? Now, I want to point out, I got this article from WDWNT. However, this was not this is not their speculation. This is from Deadline.
01:04:15
Speaker
So this is from an actual publication. so so so there So they're quoting Deadline. They are. and Yeah. Okay. Okay. And so I guess what that comes from is Tron Ares did not do well at the box office.
01:04:28
Speaker
It didn't. No. And the, you know, a lot of people pointed to the fact that it felt very flat and the the lead in it was, you know, didn't do a lot. and And I will admit, like, you know, from watching the trailers and whatnot, I didn't see where it was actually Tron trailer.
01:04:46
Speaker
movie beyond the part where they briefly showed a light cycle, which, yeah you know, that, that seems like, like mandatory viewing, like, you know, you're going to do Tron. There's going to be a light cycle in there, but it's, I think the point that's being made is that, you know, somebody made a movie and, know,
01:05:06
Speaker
they they tied it to Tron, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it was like a Tron movie. But here's the weird thing about Tron is Tron is kind of a a cult classic at this point.
01:05:20
Speaker
Yeah. and Because the original Tron didn't do well in theaters. Tron Legacy didn't do well in theaters either. But they they do have their audiences. And I feel like Tron Ares is, again, yeah you know...
01:05:34
Speaker
I haven't watched the movie yet, but I've and I guess i'm I'm basing this off of, you know, what I've heard about it. And I will watch it. Like like the thing is, is I will watch it, but I'm not like running off to the theater. and And I think that's part of it is that, sure, you know, the they're expecting to make a bunch of money at the box office on it. I don't I'm not but I'm a Tron fan, but I'm not hard up enough where I'm like, I got to go see it like opening weekend in the theater and all that.
01:06:00
Speaker
But like I like the world building of Tron. I like the premise of it. um That doesn't mean that every movie or every show or any game or anything that comes out about it is, you know, necessarily good. there There's been some hits and misses over time with Tron. That's the hard part about it is that.
01:06:19
Speaker
and And it sounds like Aries is kind of falling into the missed part. And then this whole article is kind of implying, like, was their whole reason for this just another means of pushing Tron lifecycle, Ryan? Which that's a very backwards way of looking at this.
01:06:34
Speaker
Yeah. So and and so the quote from the article is it says first it says first those close to the project believe that ultimately Tron Aries was an advertisement for the Disney theme park rides.
01:06:45
Speaker
Uh, versus, uh, any Disney plus viewership. Uh, wait, no, it so so I'm sorry. Of, uh, Disney park theme park rides. Also one of the catalysts of Tron areas being made versus say any Disney plus viewership of the previous Tron movies. So what they're saying is the, is the reason for doing it was specifically to pump up the Tron ride at the parks.
01:07:07
Speaker
I think this is it. ah Well, that see, that's what I'm going to say. Like, this is where it doesn't make sense to me. First of all. Right. There's a couple a couple of things. there Right. They reportedly Disney spent. What was it? Two hundred and fifty million dollars on this movie.
01:07:20
Speaker
I mean, they could have just done a two hundred fifty million dollar ad campaign if they really wanted to. I mean, they they could do a way less ad campaign and get the same amount of results. Yeah, but that's exactly the thing. if If they were really just trying to push the ride, it like there they could have just advertised the ride. they They could have done lots of stuff advertising the parks.
01:07:41
Speaker
It's a weird thing to say, you know, let's put a movie out with the intent of, you know... Oh, but, you know, this will drag people to the parks because they'll be excited about the Tron ride, which, by the way, the Tron ride or light cycle run is like it it is the lightest of light in terms of story building in the queue and all that. Like there's yeah there's not a lot to it. Like, yeah.
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah. By the way, going back, there the the they're saying it actually costs about $220 million with, you know, like promotion, with marketing and all that stuff. So $220 million is is what the number is. But again, if they wanted to just do it as an advertisement, they just just go and do $220 million dollars ad campaign, right?
01:08:23
Speaker
Like, I don't think anybody seeing the movie is going to be like, you know what? I want to go ride on that. Like, yeah. And the other part of it is to your point, but it doesn't need it. Right. It's not like this is a a ride that's in the corner of the park that's like decrepit and no one's going on and you can walk on it any time. It's not figment.
01:08:39
Speaker
You know what I mean? like still It's still one of the like most busiest rides at Magic Kingdom at any part of the day. Yeah. Absolutely. I think they were trying to they had this property and I think they were just trying to bring it back.
01:08:53
Speaker
Now, here's the other part that I find interesting in these articles, because I think people love to. they and There are a lot of people out there that love to see Disney have a bomb. I don't know why they just love it. Right. And that's fine.
01:09:06
Speaker
But and because every listen, every single studio out there has bombs. Right. it's It's not like yeah it's almost impossible not to have a bomb, you know. And the thing about it is the math is different nowadays.
01:09:17
Speaker
Like, sure, it didn't do well at the box office, but most things don't anymore. Right. Like, it's not. Yeah. I mean, I mean, post 2020, like, yeah, box office numbers are not anywhere where they were. Like, no. Like, I mean, even even thinking back to like my habits, like in in the early 2000s, I was at the movie theaters like I want to say like sometimes three, four times a month. So like almost weekly, I was going to see movies at one point in my life.
01:09:45
Speaker
Yeah. But, um, but over time and, and, you know, it changed like my, my viewing habits changed over time. And then with COVID, you know, actually it wasn't even with code. It was, it was before that.
01:09:58
Speaker
Um, I hit a point where I you know, I don't want to go to the theater. It's just, it's not that I, I, I ah like totally against the theater. It's just, that's not the viewing experience that I want. And with the way streaming services and everything are now, it's like,
01:10:12
Speaker
I can wait until it comes out at home and I can watch it at home. And, you know, I don't, I don't need to get all the extras that a theater offers, which they do, you know, they definitely, there are reasons to go to the theater, but, um, you know, people building movies or people like writing movies under the premise of, you know, we need millions of dollars to do this so that we can get millions of dollars back at the box office. It's like, yeah, you're not getting that anymore, but also,
01:10:40
Speaker
you know, they're they're so focused on like opening weekend sales. And it's like, there are so many movies now that there are examples of movies that, you know, did bad at the box office, but they're slow burns or they they come back around later or they be they build up into like Hocus Pocus is actually a great example of that. Again, another Disney movie that, you know, it did when at first, you know, everyone, everyone talks about now they're like oh yeah, Hocus Pocus. It's like when it came out, it was like,
01:11:07
Speaker
ew, like, terrible reviews what is this, right? like Like, nobody wanted it, but then it built itself up over time, and then it it got sequels because of it. Like, there's there's a third one being made, which, like, for for something that did so bad back then, it's like people's minds about like how it was received at opening weekend get forgotten.
01:11:29
Speaker
It's the same kind of thing with Tron is, you you know, when I go back, like, you know, I, I remember watching Tron as a kid and and I was, I loved it. Like it it was very much in the vein of everything that I was into, which was, you know, sci-fi and fantasy and all that.
01:11:42
Speaker
I didn't care about, you know, how it did for everybody else, but I was just like, you know, yeah, Tron's cool. It's like this, like, you know, it was VR before VR was a thing.
01:11:53
Speaker
Right. yeah yeah yeah So, so to me, that was cool. And then, you know, over time it built its audience and it's obviously still there. The fact that, you know, a third movie was made, um, you know, shows that the audience is still there, but the problem I think comes in where,
01:12:10
Speaker
They're trying to they were trying to make this like i would say I don't even know what they were trying to do with it because I didn't understand from watching the trailers. And I think this is part of it, too, is that, you know, when they promote these things, I don't know what the point of the the third Tron movie was supposed to be.
01:12:28
Speaker
I mean, like from like, I shouldn't, I shouldn't have to go and do a bunch of Wikipedia diving to figure out what the movie is supposed to be about, because I know the end of legacy was like, oh, you know, they came into, you know, they came back into the real world. They they came out of, our out of the computer and it was kind of like implying like, oh, you know, lines are going to start blurring and, you know, it's going to be, you know, stuff happening in the real world instead of just in, in the world of Tron. Right.
01:12:55
Speaker
Yeah. or in the grid. I'm sorry. I was trying to remember what it was called. The grid. Um, So, so i was like, okay, that could be interesting. But then it feels like, you know, whatever they decide to do with it, it sounds like it was kind of like, mean the this is going to sound awful, but it's like, imagine like you, you've just came out of like, ah you know, a cyber world. And the first thing you do is like, go to Starbucks and like sit in a Starbucks and like drink coffee. Like it, it kind of feels like that's how it was received is like, it sounded like the, you know, the script didn't really go anywhere, which is like, oh, um you know, great. They're in the real world. Now what?
01:13:30
Speaker
Like, it's It's a weird thing, but also, I hate to say it too, but movies, usually by the time you, there's very few instances where by the time you get to the third movie, um that the movie hasn't lost the plot.
01:13:46
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, like, I mean, like yeah like, listen, like, I think we can all agree that the worst ah of, um you know, Back to the Futures is the third one. Right. I mean, it's, yeah you know, you you have Alien as a franchise. The first two movies, fantastic. Then they did, ah you know, what was after that was Resurrection after that. That was terrible. Resurrection was the third one. Yeah. um yeah i was yeah Yeah. It was it was weird.
01:14:08
Speaker
it's hard to keep a franchise up. Right. I mean, like not everything is a toy story where they keep making really, really good movies and keep it up. Star Wars, which was built as a trilogy. a Yeah. chain Yeah. Right. Like like but that's the hard part is that this was not built as a trilogy.
01:14:23
Speaker
So it's kind of like, you know, should it have been a trilogy? Yeah. Like they they could have. And I guess, you know, the fact that they're calling it Tron Aries, you know, it, you can have branching storylines and stuff. This particular storyline, I didn't,
01:14:38
Speaker
Yeah, I i don't. Yeah. I just think the math is different nowadays, right? Sure. Did it lose? Is it going to lose a hundred million dollars in the box office? Fine. Is it going to be the number one streaming thing when it comes out on Disney plus?
01:14:50
Speaker
Definitely. Right. he Like it's got to be. it's I want to know what the number is that translates to the amount of people that wrote light cycle run because of watching Tron air. I want, I want that number.
01:15:02
Speaker
Yeah, there's no, listen, there's no amount of people you could get to visit a Disney park that is worth $220 million dollars of a movie. Like, that just no is absurd. No, I don't even care about that the budget part now. I want to know, like, are they going to start, like, polling people when they get, like, did you hear about this What?
01:15:19
Speaker
how did you hear about this ride Well, I walked into whatt Magic Kingdom and I saw a big, giant, you know, there was a long lit lit up hood and I wanted to go and ride that.
01:15:31
Speaker
Oh, OK, cool. You don't know anything about the movie? I saw this blue dome and it looked amazing. And there was a car that went by on it and it was zooming and it looked like fun. like Yeah, I mean, you know I don't need to know.
01:15:43
Speaker
and again, yeah the funny thing is about the the ride itself. like I know you haven't been through the queue or anything in the ride. The queue, like it has... queue's basic. like it has It has a cool little effect that they do at the beginning, but then the rest of the queue is just like like nothing. Because, and I get it, you know, you know they I think whoever designed it looked it went, you know...
01:16:05
Speaker
Well, you know, in terms of the grid, the grid is very like, it's very bare and basic because it's like the inside of a computer, right? It's, it's, that's kind of the aesthetic of Tron, but it doesn't translate well to, to a ride, to standing in a queue, right? Like there, you know, and when I think about like, you know,
01:16:23
Speaker
few experiences and then need and then even the ride itself like the the ride's premise is very loose in the you know you're racing against other light cycles but it's not even like like it's not even a a race per se like it's again they they just like loosely justified the ride so then you know let's take that back to Tron Aries how are you how is Tron Aries convincing anybody that this ride is like like the movie And then also the the funny thing about that too is, you know, saying that it's it's just an advertisement for Tron light cycle run because of how the movie's done, that actually would work against them if that was the case. Like, you know, I feel like if people watch the movie and we're like, i didn't really like that, we're not going to go ride light cycle run because of
01:17:10
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the movie right yeah like it's the the logic leap is just fine and it's probably just solely because yes of course disney did do an overlay based on the the movie yeah yeah as they do for a lot of their movies you know they they like to try and incorporate that stuff into the park but that doesn't mean that you know they're they're making an entire movie as a means of advertising something in the park yeah like that that's i don't know that that That's a weird leap to take.
01:17:41
Speaker
It it at Yeah. Yeah. It is. It is a weird leap to take. i agree. I just, it's, it's odd to me. I mean, like there's big movies all over the place that are, I mean, like so the, the, the most recently leononardo kaper movie Leonardo Leonardo Capri movie that I, I went and saw ah is going to lose a hundred million dollars. Like, and no, and, and people are talking about it, but not like this Tron Aries thing. Cause again, I think people for whatever reason love to love when Disney has a failure of some sort. It just, don't know.
01:18:07
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People love to talk on Disney. So again, just because we are in the middle of reckless speculation. so So what movie or show or anything, you know, what Disney thing do you want to see become an advertisement for a ride in the park?
01:18:22
Speaker
So, so let's say, you know, you know, they suddenly latch onto something that, yeah you know, like something in the vault that people are not thinking about or haven't thought about in years and they're going to make a ride as an, and then they're going to use this show. What I'm not limiting it to movies. I'm saying like show, whatever, what would you expect to see as an advertisement for a,
01:18:43
Speaker
for a ride. I mean, well, you had Pirates of the Caribbean, right? I mean, did that re reinvigorate that ride? Yeah. I mean, yes and no. I mean, the ride was fine beforehand.
01:18:56
Speaker
Yeah. But, no, i'm saying some sorry I'm saying something that doesn't exist right now as a ride in the park. Something that doesn't exist. What IP would you... what i p would you just Just high level, like you don't have to like, like, like detail, justify it, but like something that maybe hasn't been seen or heard from in a long time, you know, what would you like to see them bring back as like a new movie or show or whatever so they could justify like, you know, but on the premise of this article is, you know, oh, they're going to like build a ride and it's going to be this is going to advertise it.
01:19:30
Speaker
That's ah that's a hard question. there There are some weird ones, i feel, in the in the vault. I mean, the problem is because Disney is really good at capitalizing on their IP, right? So, like, it's there's not there's not a ton of things. I mean, yeah well, no. Okay. um So, the Black Cauldron was, like, you know, I think could be, like, a very weird, like, Mr. Toad-type ride.
01:19:52
Speaker
Yeah. um You know, nightmare-inducing, because that show was scary. Yeah. But how many people actually know it, though? But that's my point is, yeah yeah you know, there's there's Atlantis, you know, you know, for people who know, could you imagine if like they did like a ah Treasure Planet dark ride and then they were like, go watch Treasure Planet to promote.
01:20:11
Speaker
Makes no sense. so Right. But, you know, to your point, there there are lots of, you know, weird IPs and stuff like like I think the hard part people are struggling with is that Tron did get a ride. But I mean, it took, you know, you know, 30 years for Tron to get a ride.
01:20:27
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And, you know, people are like, oh, you know, every time they release a movie, well, it's just to promote the ride. Like, that's, I don't know. yeah It's such a weird thing. But now I want a treasure Planet Ride.
01:20:41
Speaker
All right, let's get this last piece
Innovation in Disney Parks
01:20:42
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here because we're, yeah. I know where where' we're running late. Just a bit of an aside, just not not a Disney show, but there there was a, in the same time as Treasure Planet, there was a non-Disney show called Titan a You ever watch that? Oh, yeah, I remember that one, yeah. Titan AE was awesome. I love Titan.
01:21:02
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Just an aside. Yeah. so the last thing we have on here is... Oh, yeah. I'm surprised you left this till last. Yeah, I mean, I wanted to put it sooner, but it's it was reckoned with speculations. I put that at the end.
01:21:18
Speaker
So there have been multiple reports and videos of ah drone test drone show testing. Visible in the sky over the Disney ranch in California, which the yeah the Disney ranch is it. Well, it's Golden Oak Ranch is what it's called. Right. But it's it's where they they can like do it's like filming area. Right. So it's owned by Disney. It's a filming area. But they're testing a drone show of some sort.
01:21:44
Speaker
And so there's videos of this and someone saw it two nights in a row. um Now, given like, listen, this is why this is reckless speculation, right? This could be this is a large amount of drones, right?
01:21:57
Speaker
I mean, this is like any drone show. Yeah, no, no. I mean, more than a typical park drone show is what they're saying here. is there These are more drones than you would typically see in like a park drone show. So there, the, the, the article itself is speculating that this may be just for some sort of ah announcement. Now, given the dedication of the destiny is coming up, right?
01:22:19
Speaker
So, and they did a drone show for the treasure. so it's possible. That's what they're doing. However, these particular shapes don't really match what is on the destiny. Cause the destiny is all about like superheroes and villains and stuff.
01:22:34
Speaker
And what we're seeing, like everything Disney. but Yeah. This is like Moana and Fantasia and think I said Aladdin and like, so like, doesn't really I mean, that fits with with the treasure, but not really with the destiny. So, I don't know. I mean, maybe there's going to be ah ah drones being added to the you know Disneyland nighttime shows.
01:22:57
Speaker
Or, I mean, I assume it's Disneyland only because this is happening in California, but it could be Disney World, too. They might just be testing it there. i mean, mean it's it's a space to test in. That doesn't mean... like yeah The wonderful thing about drones. Yeah, drone shows don't matter with that because they can just, you know, send that program over to Disney World and then they if they have the drones, they can just do it, right? Or they can just move the drones over there because I'm sure they could just pack them all in a trailer and exactly move them over wherever they need.
01:23:25
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Yeah. I mean, because then this is... I can hear... Go ahead. I can hear the little gears in your head. Oh, they're going. Right now. Like, there there's there's some excitement from Tom on this because he really wants to... Because I've been waiting for them to do it.
01:23:39
Speaker
I've been waiting for them to do it. And I've been saying they need to do it. And i It's... I mean, it's not even that. It's... They're doing it at all the other parks. Yeah. Except for the U.S. parks, right? And listen, I shouldn't say they're not, because they did a little bit of it, right?
01:23:54
Speaker
They've dabbled. They've tried things. They've dabbled. Yeah, they've tried things. But they this is this is definitely, like, it's very clearly a Disney show. It's not, it doesn't like you said, doesn't look specific to any one thing. Yeah. um So that does kind of lend itself to...
01:24:12
Speaker
you know, a nighttime show of some sort or like a, like a firework show or, you know, and in combination with a firework show. oh yeah. And, and I mean, so yeah, cause they have the general things that they would usually put in a, you know, nighttime firework show, uh, Mickey sorcerer hat, the man away from Moana, the, the captain hook pirate ship, like yeah all that stuff is there. Uh, the genie and the Agrabah palace. Right. So from the, from the other clips. So,
01:24:39
Speaker
I don't know, man, there's no announcement about any shows, right? But it's very possible that this could be for a ah show in the parks. It's also possible that it's a promotional event. It might not be a thing in the parks. They might be doing this for, you know, maybe they'll do this as a one-time thing when they film the Christmas stuff. Although I think if they were going to do that, they would make it more Christmassy and not just generalize yeah That's true.
01:25:05
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yeah Stuff like that. um And again, i think if they were going to do this for the Destiny, i mean, i don't know. I mean, I think that they would also, again, be doing more things that are Disney Destiny themed as opposed to the stuff that they did for, um you know, for for the treasure. So.
01:25:21
Speaker
hmm. I don't know. I, this one is a, is, is true speculation, right? So, yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah like I, I agree with you in that, you know, the, you know, looking if, if they were just doing a specific show for like a one and done thing,
01:25:38
Speaker
It seems odd that they would like like you said that the the character choices that they made for it all that kind of stuff seems odd if it was for a specific, you know, night or like a like I said, a sh show or um cruise or whatever.
01:25:57
Speaker
Yeah, but I guess the hard part, too, is, you know, I was thinking about it is, you know, ah is there anywhere right now where, or I guess in Paris, that they the show is running consistently there, right? Like, it wasn't just like a one-time thing. They are running drone shows on regular basis.
01:26:17
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, because I was i was thinking about it. I was like, have have they actually done a nighttime show? But I guess, yeah, they have in the other parks. So, yeah, I mean, maybe maybe this is because it's in California, I'm inclined to believe.
01:26:31
Speaker
so So the fun thing about California is that they don't run the fireworks every night of the week there. Yeah. Because you're in a neighborhood. Yeah. Part of the reason for that is because they're, you know, where they are.
01:26:42
Speaker
um i think they have they have agreements with, yeah you know, other. you know, the areas around Disneyland because it is very close to communities and all that, you know, people don't want to be hearing fireworks every night. So, um so they only have certain nights that they run them.
01:26:57
Speaker
I wouldn't be surprised if this could be a way for them to kind of fill that gap where it's not necessarily running every night, but it's like the nights where fireworks are not running, you get a a drone show because, know,
01:27:10
Speaker
You know, I feel like, yes, the, you know, it's still, it's still a light show and it's, you know, it could, some people could perceive it as disturbing, but it's not like fireworks where you, you know, you're constantly hearing. explosions. Bangs and whatnot. And, you know, you know, some of them, if you're close enough, you know, it feels like it's shaking the room that you're in. Yeah. I, I know I've, I've been, I've been inside Big Thunder when fireworks are going off, like underneath Big Thunder, it's a lot louder when there is a structure.
01:27:38
Speaker
So instead you're just going to hear, you you know, that sound. Yeah. yeah the The interesting thing though, is I don't know from a distance how much you're going to hear that. No, you probably won't. I'm just kidding. like Yeah. but so So the thing is, is then it then it's just a light show, which again, you know, so it's like, you know, 20 minutes a night. There's, you know, you know, drones going off and then and then it's done.
01:28:01
Speaker
I feel like this might be something again, specifically for Disneyland. It feels like some, you know, it makes more sense to start there because the difference in Disney World is, yes, they can they should do a drone show. But Disney World great.
01:28:15
Speaker
It's deliberately far enough removed from everything around it that they can run fireworks, you know, in their parks yeah anytime. And nobody cares because it's, you know, Disneyland is its own bubble. So if you buy a house around there, you know the deal, right? Like at this point. Yeah. yeah it's it's free It's pretty established. But again, also Disney World is like it's so much farther away from from the communities nearby.
01:28:38
Speaker
That, you know, I feel my take on this is that, yeah, you'll probably see it in Disneyland first and it'll probably make its way over to Florida at some point. But this to me feels like a good way for them to bridge that gap of, you know, being not being able to do fireworks every night of the week.
01:28:55
Speaker
Right. Yeah, I was my mind was kind of in the same place, Trevor, because I know that that is an issue for them. ah and And so it's it's not a firework replacement, but it's more of like a supplement at times. Right. Yeah.
01:29:07
Speaker
so And that's the thing is that, you know, maybe it's a, you know, I don't know, logistically, you know, if the wind doesn't work for fireworks, if you could still do drones. Right. I don't know what kind of tolerances they have there for that, you know? Yeah.
01:29:22
Speaker
Yeah. So, you know, you know, maybe that's one thing, too, is that, you know, if they that they have a ban on doing fireworks for various reasons, because you get that we're like, you know, if it's too windy or too dry or whatever, they don't want to do them.
01:29:34
Speaker
um you know according me according to the internet trevor the maximum wind speed a drone show can operate in is 20 to 25 miles per hour oh that's not very much at all no it's really not ah that's according to the internet i don't know if it's true take it with a grain of salt that actually works against uh disney because the the uh the santa out of winds there can definitely be an issue yeah yeah no i i can see that yeah But yeah, and interesting though. like like i I know i saw this earlier this week and as soon as I saw it, and I was like, oh, Tom's going to... I feel like I could almost hear like the the the squeal inside your head. You you know that
Listener Participation and Episode Conclusion
01:30:12
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meme of... and What's his name? Jonah...
01:30:15
Speaker
um Jonah Hill. Yeah. Jonah Hill from. yeah's doing that Yeah. right Yeah. Yeah. I could see that. and a hundred percent Yeah. to Tom is just like excited right I just want the drone shows to become a thing.
01:30:27
Speaker
Like, you know, i want it Bring it. I like you could theoretically add it to every single nighttime show at Disney. Every single one of them. You could just have, I mean, just have them there. They don't need to be the the the the highlight. like five minutes of drones. Just like yeah do do a drone bit in the middle and then you can go back to what you were doing. Like, it's like the projections, right? You can just, you know.
01:30:46
Speaker
Yeah. Send up the drones and then, yeah. By the way, one thing I did not put on here, Trevor, and I probably should have, but we really need to wrap up. And, ah you know, for a long time ago, I mentioned that Disney should be doing like a Life Day celebration thing at ah and Hollywood Studios over the holidays.
01:31:05
Speaker
They're doing a Life Day Chewbacca meet and greet. ah Life Day themed Chewbacca meet and greet. I did not put this on the rundown because it felt very small, but they're doing it during Jollywood Nights. And i was like, ah, okay. Well, that's it's something. specific day, too, isn't it? It is. It is a specific day. Yeah. yeah I remember seeing this. Yeah, but I figured they would just glom it into the regular holidays, right? You know?
01:31:26
Speaker
Yeah, but it's kind of one of those things like... ah um It's like May the 4th, right? but But I guess, you know, May the 4th expanded beyond. it's It's a whole month now.
01:31:37
Speaker
Yeah. yeah and And specifically, it's for some reason, November 17th. Yeah. November 17th. Yeah. yeah's Such a weird day. They might only be doing it on that day. i only saw a headline. I'm not going to lie. didn't read into it But i I was like, oh, OK, they're doing it.
01:31:54
Speaker
So anyway, I get, I guess if you're in, if you're in Hollywood studios on November 17th, go, go get, no, they're only doing it at Jollywood. ah But on, I thought it was on the 17th specifically. or um According to this article, they're doing it during every... while well It says Life Day is usually celebrated on November 17th, which happens to be the date of one of the Jollywood. So it's possible... Okay, so maybe maybe it's... I mean, maybe it's just for that date. I don't know. But it does it doesn't say that. That's crazy if it is the case.
01:32:24
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Yeah. that would be That would be kind of a crazy thing to do. But yep. Random thing. I wouldn't put it past them. No. So anyway. Okay. i think I think we've had enough fun today.
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i don't I mean, I have more songs. I'm just kidding. I don't. i Well, no, and if you if you want the songs, you got to you got go to the Patreon. Yeah, go go to the Patreon. Like I said, you don't have to pay anything. You can sign up ah with a free account and you're allowed to vote in this little contest we have.
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And you can hear the other four songs that are are part of this. So ah go check that out. Trevor was a patreon.com slash welcome home pod. Right. See, I did a part of your wrap up for you. Look at that. Thank you.
01:33:01
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01:35:04
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The food time song and all that kind of stuff. you get messages from me at 1130 at night, you know, while I'm creating them. Yeah, when you should be in bed and you're doing edits to songs. don't know about you, Trevor, but I always get my best ideas between that time when I get in bed and before I fall asleep.
01:35:23
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That's like literally, literally last night I'm laying in bed and I was, i I had deleted the line about unless it involves dairy and in food time. And I was like, you moron, dairy, you could have just replaced that with Mary and it would have been perfect. Like, what are you doing?
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