Goodbye Disney MGM Studios : SECRETS and Hidden Memories
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This video was done out of utmost respect for my all time favorite theme park from the years 1989-1993 . Thanks to Micah from http://www.youtube.com/worldofmicah for the help . RIP Disney MGM Studios Theme Park . I will miss you
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Transcript
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welcome everyone I'm at Disney's
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Hollywood Studios but I remember this
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place as MGM Studios it opened in 1989
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and currently they are doing a lot of
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changes putting in Toy Story Land and
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Star Wars land so I want to give you an
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element of my past my my heart lies here
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at MGM Studios and a lot of this will be
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going away in the very near future so I
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basically just want to wander the
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property and show you pieces of my youth
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pieces of my childhood that I remember
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now as I enter into the park I'm
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actually joined by Micah from YouTube's
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own world of Mah m is going to chime in
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with some of his thoughts as well so
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we're going to kind of do like a dueling
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walk through the park type of History
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type thing I will put the link to his
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video down below as well we're going to
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take a look at the Hollywood That Never
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Was and always will be we welcome you to
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a Hollywood That Never
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Was and always will be join me shall
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you
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right behind me are some doors where the
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parades back in the day the opening day
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parade and continually on would come
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through those Gates and go straight down
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the makeshift Hollywood Boulevard and
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there's actually some RI
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of the old Parade route right on the
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ground walk along the street here you'll
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notice copper lining see in current day
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they would actually just use strips of
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tape and pull the tape up but back in
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the day they never thought they were
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going to get rid of the parades so here
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is a piece of silver or gold lining
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embedded in the concrete this is going
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nowhere this is a permanent memory
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you're a permanent memory so when you
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come out here and you look on the ground
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you wonder what is that
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bizarre triangle meet up there that's
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from the old
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parades if you've ever been here you
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probably noticed the huge Chinese
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Theater in the background and this
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statue which was actually erected in the
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late '90s but let's disregard that for
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now and let's pay attention to the
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original 1989 opening day MGM Studios
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plaque that is right
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here are those patunas oh no no
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no let me show you something really cool
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this is peave a place where you can get
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an icy something cold in the summer but
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this pays tribute to py the character
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from The Rocketeer normally this place
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is open I don't know if they're open yet
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today as you can tell but if you open
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this curtain right here check it out the
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rocketeers helmet and
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Jetpack classic old school MGM Studio
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stuff right
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there pretty awesome of course when you
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think of old school MGM Studios you
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think of one classic cartoon character
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Roger Rabbit please and we are actually
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standing in front of a relic of Roger
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Rabbit MGM Studios past and it's right
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up there in that window and a lot of
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guests never noticed that window on the
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top left window at the Hollywood and
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Vine
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restaurant is Roger Rabbit's
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imprint
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through the
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shades and there's a little homage to
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Eddie Valiant right there in the far
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right
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window who knew another little fact toy
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take a look at the address on the top of
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the building 1928
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and there is a significance to that does
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anyone know what
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cartoon came out in
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1928 when the Park first opened they
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used to do fireworks right over the
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Chinese Theater called sorcery in the
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sky narrated by the one and only Vincent
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chice guest would actually flock down
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those stairs into like a little VIP area
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that was roped off and the stanions that
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go in the ground the holes are actually
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still down here rusting away Disney MTM
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Studios is proud to present sorcery in
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the
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sky this ice cream standand that's been
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here since opening day pays tribute to
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Gertie the first animated dinosaur
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ever check it out this was the extended
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queue this is where guests went in and
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out of to wait in line to get their ice
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cream when this place was very very
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popular guests would start here grab
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their ice ice cream and exit this way
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and enjoy don't look now but he's
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actually left his permanent
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Mark dinosaur
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footprints so many decades ago the
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dinosaur crushed this exact concrete not
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many people realize
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that Micah remembers do you ever go to a
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theme park and you try to find an
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electrical outlet for your phone or your
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camera battery and it's very difficult
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you either have to pay for a charger or
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bring a portable charger not back in
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1989 there are actually Outlets mounted
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on the original light posts check out
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the date stamp on this January 1989 just
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a few months before opening
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day that is awesome and of course
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there's those electrical outlets right
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there of course the focal point when you
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walk in the park is the Chinese Theater
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replica after the one in Hollywood and
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just like Hollywood there are handprints
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in the ground and most of the guests
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when they walk walk into the q line
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never actually walk and read the names
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that are over a quarter of a century old
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let's go check some of them
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out I'm laying here relaxing while
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everyone else is going in the attraction
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little do they know that Rick Moranis
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stamped his hands right here in
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1989 there's all kind of Hollywood
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history out here unbeknown to
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one of my favorite hand and Footprints
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out here is of course the one and only
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John Ritter who stood right there with
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his feet backwards kind of very unusual
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and very uncomfortable just to think
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over a quarter of a century ago John
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Ritter stood right there he actually
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used his birthday and wrote his birthday
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at the top Corner The Rocketeer you can
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see his Footprints here but look
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below jet pack
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inventions you don't see that on
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Hollywood Boulevard in Los
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Angeles now would you look at that the
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Chinese Theater I just entered through
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the studio Gates and right over here is
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the old Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant
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all these landmarks that mean Hollywood
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to much of the world all recreated here
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at the Disney MGM Studio theme park in
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Florida
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oh
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yeah the
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MGM
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Studios theme
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park you never know who you're going to
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run
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into at
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Studios next time you walk through this
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Archway be sure to pay attention to the
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mural that goes around it's been here
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since opening day and it kind of show
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some really cool stuff from Hollywood
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history it's an interesting fact that
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behind me is now currently the Star Wars
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launch bay you can see the architecture
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really does not match up this is 1989
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architecture because this used to be the
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entrance way to the backstage animation
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tour where a lot of Disney movies were
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filmed Lilo and Stitch Mulan just to
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name a couple pretty crazy and there are
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some remnants still back
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there palm trees leading into Star Wars
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seems legit behind this is actually a
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Sound Theater which has been through a
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different few different incarnations
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over the years it used to be a Drew
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carry sound show before that it was a
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couple different things and a Walt
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Disney World radio station but the
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interesting thing is not what's inside
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of there now but what's inside of that
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little
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room the doors would open the show would
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exit back in the early '90s and you
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would actually walk over here and Behind
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These curtains were doors that you could
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actually go in with your friends or your
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family members open the door talk into a
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microphone and you could actually
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replace the voice of Eddie Valiant or
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Roger Rabbit or other Disney characters
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and the doors are still back there
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behind this makeshift
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curtain it's crazy this is a piece of my
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childhood and now that the doors have
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shut there's really no one in here
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exiting out and we're not going to
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actually open the doors but if you just
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pull back the curtain you can actually
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see what once was check this
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out
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still here awesome but who knows for how
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much longer behind me is the old Studio
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shops building now home of an actual
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Walk Up Restaurant but inside there are
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a lot of awesome artifacts from the
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early '90s a lot of movie props a lot of
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weird things on the wall and it's all
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totally accessible to touch and look at
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let's go check it out as you walk down
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these stairs and you turn this corner
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here is some move actual movie props
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from Roger rabbit including this vehicle
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most people don't even realize that the
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tune patrol car is right here under
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their noses the seaming in here is so
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dated back in the late ' 80s early '90s
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I think that's probably why I like it
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because I am an 80s something you don't
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normally see at a normal theme park are
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things that you can actually touch and
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it looked like at one point Mr Jimmy
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Fallon was here working let's see if
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this water works
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look at
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this that's not water if you want some
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more information on what you are looking
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at right now go over to Micah's Channel
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and watch his video that he is recording
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we are watching Magic In Motion I'll put
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the link down below some old actual
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Polaroids of the backlog tour here at
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MGM Studio the streets of America they
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call it now but it used to be called New
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York street it's so crazy because right
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inside these doors there are lots of
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really
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unusual you know 20 to 25 y- old
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artifacts that are just hanging on the
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wall with just little like thumb tacks
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or Nails anyone can touch it weird
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unusual things in there in fact there's
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some pictures from Old School MGM
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remember the vehicle I showed you with
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the weasels there's an old picture of
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some cardboard cutout weasels against
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that car all kind of relics of the past
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inside of there and who knows how much
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longer they will be here for us to
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actually see check out this little fun
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fact here is a board that's there's
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glass over it but check out what
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promoting on the board a Disney park
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promoting a Six Flags park that is
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unheard of for a huge Disney theme park
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to promote another non Disney theme park
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look at these old movie Stills and
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Relics here on the wall Return of the
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Jedi the mall scene from Commando that's
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right come on stick a knife in me look
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into my eyes see what's going on in
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there when you turn
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it
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yes we
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too she was so
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disappointed behind me are actually some
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of the buildings from the old backstage
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walking tour you would actually walk
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through there and look down into Studios
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as television shows commercials and
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movies were being made and part of the
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backstage tour actually went around the
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corner and there was different things
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where you could actually look at movie
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props and you could actually be part of
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an actual movie scene where water was
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splashing on you and there were airplane
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jet pilots flying over you shooting down
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you would walk through this facade and
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you would walk straight down through
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that Corridor and looking at movie props
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you would wait in a little short que
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line and when you were granted access
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into the next group you would actually
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go into another area and you can
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actually see the TV sets right there
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that you would actually watch the movie
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being made and certain members of your
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group or the actual crowd that you were
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with would actually take part in the
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movie scene you can see the fans are
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still circulating that area has not been
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used by guests in quite some time that
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was the q line leading to the backstage
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tour all of these buildings on the back
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lot were all facades all you needed to
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see were the front of what the camera
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actually saw the back was just basically
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Construction in 1989 the very first year
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the park opened the actual Tram Tour
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went around this corner and the tram
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went right by there and do you remember
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what was actually right there peeking
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its head out through that door the dip
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mobile that massively scary hunk of
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Machinery that was fenced off and I
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remember being a young child passing by
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that getting terrorized thinking I do
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not want to be destroyed
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bware this down here from the 1984 movie
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Splash which inspired the Magic Kingdom
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attraction Splash Mountain the
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imagineers use the name splash because
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Michael Eisner loved the movie Splash so
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much he wanted to incorporate something
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from the movie into that ride so what
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did they come up with the name of the
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ride Splash Mountain which has nothing
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to do with Tom
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Hanks this pide here was originally
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going to be on the Backlot tour and as
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you can see they're not really doing a
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lot of filming anymore like they were
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back in the day one was on the other
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side of that wall the alien scene from
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The Great Movie
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Ride one of the many things that are on
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the former MGM chopping block in
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preparation for the future is this the
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old Honey I Shrunk the Kids Play Set
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area something I remember from when I
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was a we lad climb in around pretending
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I was the size of a
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bug look at the sh of that
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bee
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guys now this brings back some serious
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memories I can remember sliding down
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that film roll when I was a lot smaller
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than I am now but you got to think in
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this day and age does anyone really know
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what a role of film is probably not
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I smell wet
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dog it's crazy to think that the earful
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tower which was basically the staple and
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basically the logo of MGM Studios is
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soon to be removed in fact they're
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already starting to remove catastrophe
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Canyon there are workers down there and
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I want to know what is going to happen
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to Walt Disney's plane sitting backstage
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once Star Wars land comes in will that
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be a Star Wars
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plane Boba Fett riding in style at one
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point this was all actually fake facade
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homes the golden girl's house the house
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that was Vern's house in Ernest Saves
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Christmas The Empty Nest house and a
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bunch of other stuff as well as a lot of
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Backstage prop and this is the actual
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tram concrete right here and you can see
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it's very decayed broken up lots of
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cracks l lots of 25-year-old memories of
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a younger me riding in a tram and
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probably a younger you on this very
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spot old manhole cover this used to be
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the exit of the tram tour the start of
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the tram tour was actually right over
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there of course we cannot cross this
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line that they have put put up but you
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can see it look closely you can actually
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see some of the old back lot Vehicles
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there is the Pod the spaceship from fly
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of the Navigator straight over there is
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the helicopter from Ellen's Energy
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Adventure way off in the distance you
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can actually see a movie prop from Star
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Wars now this is not accessible to the
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public you just have to basically just
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look from a distance but it's pretty
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cool that all this is right
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here
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right behind me is a little place that
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holds a special place in my heart this
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gift shop back in the day was themed
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around Roger Rabbit and the whole acne
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Corporation all kind of fun little fact
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toys in this little region and some
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stuff even though it is gone there are
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remnants of it you'll notice this purple
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blue painted wall made of wood that
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originally was not always there that was
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actually a brick wall the reason this
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wall has actually been put a piece of
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wood on the backs side the reason is
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right around the corner there used to be
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a hole in this wall in the shape of
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Roger Rabbit himself in panic mode
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busting through the Bricks now I wonder
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what happened to that Roger Rabbit cut
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out could it be behind
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this there it is check that out so there
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is Roger
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rabbits his hand and his leg there is
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the top of his hand that's his thumb
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there is his arm and there is his leg
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Behind These
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bookcases Behind These bookcases lies a
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relic of the
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past secret you might also remember the
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Roger Rabbit footprints that went all
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through this store and check this out
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you can still see the very faint chalk
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outline of of the body that was actually
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crushed look at this you can see the
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faint chalk outline of the body that was
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crushed right here by that big heavy
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safe and you can see the crack in the
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concrete and there's his arm there's his
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legs the chalk
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outline that is crazy still here
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unbeknownst to everyone walking over it
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just like this
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woman she didn't see
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a propop from the film Who Framed Roger
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Rabbit that Tommy Gun right up there you
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might be wondering why Micah is laying
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down there on the ground no it is
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because not because the floor is
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comfortable because he is reminiscing
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because there used to be a steam roller
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in that exact spot a Roger Rabbit themed
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Steamroller that would mow people down
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and many of people me and Micah included
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would lay in that exact spot as children
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and pretend that we were getting rolled
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over by a tune
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Heroes and a half shell turtle power
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right over here is the stage where the
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles liveaction
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show happened on the streets of America
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right over here is where the vehicle
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would pull up with the teenage mut
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Turtles and April O'Neal they would get
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out do some dance moves everything and
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then come down to the streets and take
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photos with kids and
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family here's in a half shell power and
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now we have come to my favorite part
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here at the former MGM Studios I'm
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talking about New York Street renamed
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the streets of America the tram used to
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actually turn that corner and come
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straight this way and the operator of
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the tram would tell everyone get your
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cameras ready cuz you are about to see
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the New York City skyline straight down
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that
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way the former New York Street was
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actually built for television
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commercials tv specials movies and and
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videos that they would actually use to
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promote this place as an actual working
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Studio you can see that they are not
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real buildings they are just facades
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there was actually a point that the tram
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tour went down this actual Road and you
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could see the park guests are walking
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through here now but before you were not
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actually granted access to actually walk
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down this road it was kind of a mystery
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you had to stay on the tram tour because
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they did a lot of filming here right up
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on this very ledge bet Midler actually
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starred in a made for the theme park
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movie called the lottery and she was
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dangling from right up there another
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scene from the lottery was actually a
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stunt double for B Midler shopping cart
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sped towards some extras and some stunt
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doubles that were right here and she
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turned the corner very rapidly busting
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into the crowd right there and there was
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a big mess stuff was flying
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everywhere
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so there's the New York skyline remember
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how I was saying this was called New
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York Street and then now called streets
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of America here is a Remnant signifying
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that this actually was New York Street
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Yankees rule been in this concrete
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slab for
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decades some of these facades are
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actually very well detailed pretty cool
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cool check out the mailboxes here with
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the names on it Waters
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Smith they actually have the little
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buttons to push to ring if you wanted to
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ring a tenant that lived inside of here
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of course this is just a facade no one
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actually really lives here in real life
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a Subway stairway would lead underground
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but not on a back lot in fact this is
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what it leads to pretty deceiving I
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really like the fire escapes up there
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you can see the grill and the outdoor
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tables and chairs just like these are
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real people's Apartments but they're not
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I assure you they are not there's a lot
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of history that a lot of people just
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walk past here at the studios including
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all of these names that were carved in
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the pavement probably by either cast
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members or maybe workers that actually
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help build the old New York Street and
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you can see there are dozens upon dozens
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of names
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concrete there was actually a show here
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called Ace and Chira live in action Ace
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and Chira would lay himself down the
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building and have a conversation with
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the Hollywood director and there's the
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actual metal rod up there to secure Ace
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Ventura so he didn't fall down the side
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of the building that is still up there a
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little Remnant on the top of that
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building that basically chained the
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stunt man playing Ace
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Ventura pretty crazy some of these
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buildings are actually based on real
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buildings in New York City itself
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including this hotel let's go up the red
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carpet and actually go through the door
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and into the hotel let's actually go
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inside oh wait you can't get inside
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another kind of little unknown little
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area is of course the singing in the
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rain umbrella which Micah is prominently
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taking full advantage of hold here I'm
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going to miss that thing I am
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too thanks for watching everyone also
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thanks to Micah from YouTube's own world
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of Micah I will put a link to a video he
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filmed today along with me in the little
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section down below check out my other
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channel it's called The Daily woo I hope
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you enjoyed this walk through some of
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the weird wacky crazy secrets and some
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of the stuff that will no longer exist
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in the very near future here at the now
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Hollywood Studios but what I like to
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call MGM Studios yes see you guys in the
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next video goodbye bye and more
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importantly goodbye MGM Studios goodbye
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MGM Studios we will miss you there's not
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so much a theme parth as a state of mind
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a Hollywood That Never Was and will
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always
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be of course the focal point when you
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walk in the park I have something
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hanging out of my mouth some kind of
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slobber or something kind of in the
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nether regions of the internet of him
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actually standing right there it's crazy
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to think that John Ritter I don't know
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where I'm going because I love Roger
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Rabbit and I love early
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MGM tourist thanks let's try and there
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are some remnants still back there that
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guy is not one of them nor is the guy
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blowing in the snow the Honey I Shrunk
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the Kids playet this has actually been
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here for quite
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I right here was the Bulldog Cafe from
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The Rocketeer and you got to wonder
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where do they remove all those old props
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I don't know are they just non-existent
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did somebody buy one is some old man
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somewhere have a a relic of The
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Rocketeer in his backyard probably
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living in the Bulldog
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Cafe probably so yeah yeah I know man I
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know I know feel the same
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way that was
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Eiser just not happy