What Happened To Bedrock City - Flintstones Theme Park in Arizona / Grand Canyon Roadside Attraction
Bedrock City Flintstones Attraction in Arizona
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today's adventure
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brings us to arizona about 30 miles
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outside of williams
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virtually well kind of in the middle of
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nowhere
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if you're heading to the grand canyon
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you will pass
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the former bedrock city which closed a
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while back but
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a little secret they're still open
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under a new name and there are still
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remnants of what
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once was here and in fact quite a bit
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almost all of it
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see the sign over there it's now called
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raptor ranch
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born in bedrock and to enter the park
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you go through these doors also my
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friend natalie is here
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right over there are you ready to see
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fred wilma
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bar who's the other one's fred and wilma
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and benny
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barney and betty and of course dino
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purchasing tickets here in the gift shop
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check it out he is really cooking up a
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delicious steak there
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okay five dollars five dollars each we
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paid
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the admission and we're going oh look at
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this
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all right thank you so much we're going
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in
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bedrock city arizona
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whoa that's where i can't recall
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this character's name i don't know
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welcome everyone adam
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wait i see my body seems to have changed
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a little bit but adam's a woo
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here and i think i'm maybe leaning my
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neck a little too much onto this board
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i was here eight nine ten years ago
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eight years ago
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and i'm glad it still exists it's all
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behind me
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with my new my new self i'm going to get
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a joint
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shall you starting on the back side of
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the part not the back side of water the
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back side of the parking area
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would be over there and there are some
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some figures here which i i believe
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might be a little newer they do not look
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like
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the ones that were here before yeah
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pebbles and bam bam they just put on new
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wheels
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yeah maybe that's true maybe it's not
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for it's a gas station maybe they don't
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put
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put fuel in the vehicle because it's all
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foot powered
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like you were saying maybe they just
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changed out the though the wheels
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that would make sense because it does
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say
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flats fixed right there
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and you can have a nice little picnic
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underneath here as well oh it says used
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tires
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over here on the wall
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i think that needs to be taken for a
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test drive right over there
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now there are some some daddy long leg
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spiders
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right here you want to you want to come
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sit over here where the daddy long legs
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are that's okay you're good
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you almost sit right here where these
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little daddy log legs are there's a
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little teeny one right here
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yeah i don't even i don't think either
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of us could fit in there that's a
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there's also a volcano over there in the
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distance and
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uh a foul of some sort emerging from an
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egg what's the name of that dinosaur
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though the bird
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guy maybe a velociraptor the one coming
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out of the egg
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velociraptor okay it's being birthed
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oh there's like a snake snakey object
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over there oh
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look his foot
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busting out of here
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so great they left all this here not
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really sure the reasoning
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on why the name changed
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but it did some of the sections have
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been repurposed you know but you can
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still see
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the theming all here and the new signage
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as well that birds on site now
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we're inside one of the facades now
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got some fancy curtains you look out
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here
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across there is the general store and
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another vehicle there used to be
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a phone right here it is no longer it
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says hang up what's in use
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someone has not abided by that rule they
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have taken the phone
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they did not hang up the phone we'll
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just hang up the cord
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just hang up the cord that's fine over
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at the post office there is someone
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looming out of the top of that window
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up there there's a gentleman a little
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bit of a
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staring problem local
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local ups and air mail it's located
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right inside
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oh nice oh there's the counter over
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there
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you can send air mail they use a
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dinosaur
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a winged dinosaur will take your mail oh
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i guess you would mail one of these
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these tablets these brick tablets here
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this says stoneheads general store there
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is a
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cactus out front now i wonder if you
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could go in
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all of these what if they're all
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accessible
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i'm not seeing any sort of door knob oh
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here we go
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yeah there's a it's got a dura lock on
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it so whatever is inside
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of stone heads he keeps his
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keeps his stuff very secretive
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i just tried going into stone heads and
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this is what happened
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i guess next up would be
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the jail
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i believe that's probably where they
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take the criminals
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i've heard they work very swiftly
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the law around these parts
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right inside okay yeah so yeah this cell
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is completely empty and this oh they
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already got you in here
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already locked in
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yeah at least you got the little
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accommodations decorated
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all nicely here with the palm trees
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almost like a little
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a little tiki area or maybe like a
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pirate themed
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oh so now i'm in here and you're out
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here out
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wait don't lock it uh medical center
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okay this might be the dentist i don't
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know what the dentist uses this for this
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plank of wood oh yeah they're very nice
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little drapes there and this
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is a doctor's body chart
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so if you're wondering what this is
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it is that item right up there
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the teeth oh over here this is the nurse
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hello nurse
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okay do you recall this character's name
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i don't
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know what the heck is in this case right
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what
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is this i don't even know what all this
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stuff is
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oh there's a there's a bone right there
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that has been
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broken i think there's some original
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sketches or something oh there's some
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sketches there right there
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nice it's the common effect of a rock
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quarry digger
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and this is just a skeleton
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but the effects of the common cold that
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is if you have any
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any sort of symptoms that look like that
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that is what happens because this is
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extended i would imagine
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this is bringing the students to
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the school very echo-y
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in here got room for another in the
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class
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you do want to do some learning
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the best i can tell it had to have been
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a legal issue on why the
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the name changed and maybe they weren't
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they weren't
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technically allowed to use the images
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even though maybe there was a loophole
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and they still do you got me i wonder if
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fred's home
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the mailbox there dinos
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little food tray
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spread there
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he may have been in here earlier
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snoozing taking a nap right here
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on his bed on his bed this would be
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the kitchen oh yeah there's a high chair
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and oh what's for this is what's in the
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cabinets here
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a little bit of a glare kind of tough to
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see with the window there behind it
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but there are there's a milk bone
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down there and this yeah it's tough to
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tough to see let me get down a little
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bit lower that's a
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it's like a shark got himself a shark
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nice good catch i am noticing
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none of the main characters
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are in their homes which i kind of
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recall
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they used to be either from my visit
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you know eight years ago or maybe
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something that i
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had made up in my own head but i kind of
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swore let's check in barney's house
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barney at home right above the mantle
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there says home sweet huh oh the
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television
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right down here i wonder if they get
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and they're streaming on that probably
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not so that's the pot doing a little
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cooking a little brew there you know i
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kind of feel like this would be a great
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place to
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to dress up as one of the characters and
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get some maybe even have an event it is
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kind of a ways away from everything this
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would be hard to get a group of people
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out here but
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it'll be fun and that has probably
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happened at some point
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a bedrock-a-thon
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bedrock-a-palooza gotta get this place
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all cleaned up
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getting ready for bedrock-a-palooza
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inside this home there is a plant
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growing out of the seat
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and then over here we have the radio on
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top of that ledge and
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this is the oven right here people have
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inscribed their names
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on the table hundreds of signatures you
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know it's kind of tough to see because
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of the
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the shadow going through there but
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and this is the view out out the side
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door
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the fact there is a slide down the back
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of the tail
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and you can recreate the intro of the
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show
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is is amazing
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know
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it goes
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holy cow that thing's fast there you go
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i can see you up there you're at the
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it's almost time for you to clock out
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and go home for the day
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it's the barber shop there
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and the beauty salon here
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we got all the all the heads on
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displayed up down there
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pearl and ruby oh stoneheimer
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operations
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yeah there's the cash register
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very very nice oh this is where you
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would get a perm
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does anyone even get perms anymore is
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per or perms a thing
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i think so now the real question is
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what is under
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there okay what is that what
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it's a clip-ologist and
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okay do i want to remove this uh
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i didn't
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okay it's nothing too many too major
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it's just a styrofoam head
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one thing that is a little disappointing
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a lot of the cases
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have been broken into oh you got
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whatever was in there it's been busted
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out and taken
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and this is not the only one of these
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that that happened
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and over here this has been shattered
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and so whatever was in there is gone now
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so while her hair is falling oh this
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look this is cracked
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up here as well heading into the
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grocer's the grocery store
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oh nice got a oversized egg here
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oh watermelon
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today's special is cactus
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juice there's more eggs down here up
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not a half dozen one two three four five
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of them got some carrots up here
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that are weighed by the pound and some
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pumpkins
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right along here a pear someone has nod
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into that apple there's not much of that
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apple left
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some seashells are you
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hungry oysters on the half oh
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is that an oyster or a big chocolate
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chip cookie
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two chocolate oh there's meats
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rhinosaurus ribs oh that's a rib ribbon
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this is oh i think someone okay i don't
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want the whole
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i don't want the whole rack of rib how
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much for just one rib
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how much for just one rib i really do
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love this place
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i like the the fact that a lot of it is
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still here
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also we don't have the characters full
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size but they do have the paintings
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so i think maybe that was a loophole of
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some sort we got the peas
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peaches tomatoes corn
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meat in a can canned meat well i guess
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that's not too wild cause there's canned
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meat but spinach
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as well three of each we were just
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discussing if something like this was in
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los angeles even not of this magnitude
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even this like
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just a just a little bit of theming even
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if just one of these facades or two of
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them was a pop-up
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it would be so packed so many people
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would want to go and get their photos
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document the occasion you're making a
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meal
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okay getting the fire going i don't
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think that's working well
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yeah maybe not i believe you can crawl
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through this
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i don't know if i'm going to you got
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oh wow yeah it goes right through the
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belly of the beast there's some carpet
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down here
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anyone in there oh you go anywhere on
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the other end
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hello hello hi did you get eaten by this
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the serpent
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that was a very weird sensation it
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sounded like
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you were like a couple feet away but in
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reality you were way back here like
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30 or 40 feet at the tail end
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of the slithering creature and i was way
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up there
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i just love how happy the smile
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on his face up there just having a good
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old time i understand this is a good
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it's a good spot even though there's
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lava
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not afraid of the lava up there i'm
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gonna go in
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i'm gonna go inside see what's happening
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oh i see
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more see more of the
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oh yeah look at this there's some some
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fire brewing up top here
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oh and then over here is some sort of
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like a
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garden area with rocks and
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it looks very looks toasty all right and
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over on
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this side this sheet of glass or plastic
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has been removed and you can get a
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little a little behind the scenes almost
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oh there is there's some sort of
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i don't know if they pump something
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through this into there to create the
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effect oh
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that door is open i don't want to look i
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don't want to get i don't have all the
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magic
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ruined but there is another one of
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pterodactyls
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that's what those are pterodactyls
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that's the word we were trying to what
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did we call them
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a velociraptor yep since disneyland and
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anaheim is still closed
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and can't ride the train past the grand
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canyon and
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the diorama of the dinosaurs primeval
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world
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this is really the this is about the
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only option
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and if this this
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this effect did not work out as well i
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was thinking that maybe you'd be able to
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see
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them over here let me just walk back
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over prime evil world
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you kind of you're getting the vibe
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right getting the vibe see i should have
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started in there and then panned out
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since we don't have disneyland in
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anaheim i can't ride the train
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past the grand canyon this is the
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next best thing prime evil world
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man i miss disneyland there is no longer
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a wild animal park
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but i do recall that over here way back
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in the day they had some goats
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so there are no goats anymore
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there are some you know what i don't
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know what's in here
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some birds of some sort
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oh oh that's an owl oh that's stinky
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that's the second biggest
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owl oh that's right this that's that
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when we went through the gift shop they
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said
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stinky the second biggest owl oh my gosh
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let me see
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okay stinky you startled me let me go
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over here
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oh my gosh stinky what's up
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hey stinky
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that is awesome that's amazing so
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pretty or she's so pretty
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you just hiding there in the shadow
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stinky you're beautiful
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i don't want to disturb you too much i
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just wanted to
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just say hi was just talking to one of
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the associates here
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said the new owner is going to clean the
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place up
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and to come back in a couple years said
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you would hardly recognize the place
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they're going to
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have a lot of changes not only for the
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new addition under the new name
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with the birds but also for bedrock and
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she also confirmed that had nothing to
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do with any legal
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reasons on why they got rid of the
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characters
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the owner that sold the place had
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planned on eventually bulldozing
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all of this and gave away some of the
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some of the items and they decided we're
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not gonna we're not gonna get rid of it
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it's all gonna stay
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so it's going to be around for many
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years to come and i am very happy about
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that this place
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is awesome oh that right there it says
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why
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because stinky says so we met stinky oh
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there's t-shirts with stinky
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stinky on the front as well i don't are
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you
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i'm not sure what your name is but you
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are also very very beautiful
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and what kind of bird is this a merlin
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falcon and here is a rock here they did
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up to 19. so
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in rio in reality this is going to be
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extended because bedrock city is going
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to are you going to still call it
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bedrock city
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or is it just going to be it's it is
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raptor ranch okay is it working uh the
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other one okay
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well there you go nice is this
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is that fred's house for barney's
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i think it was right because he had the
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overhang on the side yeah i will be back
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one day
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it may not be in the near future but at
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least you know in a couple years they
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everything will be fully operational
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here at the now the current name raptor
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ranch curious to see what ends up taking
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place
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time goes on
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he's rocking out that's gonna do it for
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