Disney World Is Drastically Changing- Magic Kingdom Is Mess Of Construction & Massive Updates Coming
Magic Kingdom Update 2025
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this TGIF. It is
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Friday, September 26, 2025.
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I'm going to take a short commute. I'm
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here in Celebration, Florida, just a few
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miles down the road to the Magic
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Kingdom, Walt Disney World. I'm going to
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be doing an update on Magic Kingdom and
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some of the changes that are going to
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transpire and have started the Wheels in
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Motion since the last time I was here. I
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have not been in the park for over a
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month, well over a month. So, going to
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pop in, check it out, have myself a day,
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maybe do some pen trading or bring my
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bringing my pen trading booklet as well
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and just kind of see where the day
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leads. I've heard that Rivers of America
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is drained. However, I don't know if
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I'll be able to see it because I don't
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know if the, you know, they've covered
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it in walls or anything like that, but
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I'll check that out when I get over
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there and uh just see where the day
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leads. I'm inviting you to join me.
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Let's have a Walt Disney World Magic
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Kingdom update day,
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shall we?
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[snorts] Florida pretty much par for the
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course as far as heat index. 89 degrees.
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1:53 p.m. It's going to get up to 90 by
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4 and then it'll subside
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just a little bit. Now, I cannot stay at
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Magic Kingdom too long because at 6:00
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p.m. the park closes for the Mickey's
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Nots So Scary Halloween party, which I
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am not attending. However, I've learned
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on park on days that a Halloween party
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takes place, the crowds are lighter
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until 4:00 when people who have those
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tickets are granted access. So, if I get
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over there by 2:30 or 3, if I get in the
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park by 3, I'll have an hour of low wait
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times and construction updates.
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Underneath the archway
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done, I was gone for over a solid month.
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And while I was gone, people I know from
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the Central Florida area were letting me
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know that they said it was cooling down
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a little bit. But now that I'm back, I
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don't think the cooling down is
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happening now. It is It's scorching.
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I don't I don't feel any coolness.
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Parked over here at Hook 326.
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Hook 326. I think I'm on a walk in.
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There's my pen trading bag I was talking
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about. It does have a little strap
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harness on there that you could put a
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strap on it, but I prefer to just shove
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it in my front pocket. It does somehow
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fit in my pocket. So, got all my pen
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trading pens in there. Don't know if
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I'll trade any pens, but if I decide to,
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I got them with me.
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>> I think there should be more.
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>> I just thought of something interesting.
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So, the tram driver said no more further
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boarding. A sister tram would be
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approaching soon. which made me think,
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you know, you'll hear radio stations,
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they go, "Oh, our sister station." She
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said, "The sister tram is now
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approaching."
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I never really gave it much thought. I
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wonder why it's called, but not called
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the brother tram, but why is it the
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terminology similar tram, similar radio
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station? Why is it sister station? Why
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is it sister tram? Why isn't it brother
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tram?
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Things that make you wonder. Things that
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make you go, h
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I've never thought about in my entire
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life till I just heard that.
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This is where I'm parked. I am here.
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That's a nice little little something.
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It looks like one of those type of
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plants that farmers and ranchers you see
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always photos of them when they have
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that in their mouth. I was waiting for
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the Montreal to go by, but thought I
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heard him, but I think that was just the
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car. There is a nice deal of cloud
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cover, however, so it might get a little
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shade
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as the afternoon progresses. Yeah, you
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know, you've seen photos or movies or TV
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shows of
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oldtime ranchers, they'll have like that
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little that little plant in their mouth
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almost like a toothpick or like a
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cigarette, but instead they just have
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that that plant with a little I don't
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know what I don't know what I'm getting
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at, but that's what that reminded me of.
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Yeah, I've noticed occasionally
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some people
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some people get a little irritated or
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annoyed that I show some of the comfort
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things when I do certain things. You
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know, I'm not always here at Walt Disney
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World. Not always here popping in a
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Magic Kingdom, but when I do stop in, I
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will occasionally show the Mickey Power.
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Skipped it today. Didn't show the Mickey
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Power Pole. Show the archway going in
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the interest in the Magic Kingdom
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parking. Sometimes I'll focus on Heavy
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Metal Mickey and
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some think I shouldn't, you know,
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feature the same things every time I go
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to any of the Disney parks. So, I should
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probably cut down on showing Metal
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Mickey.
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We were going to the beach.
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>> Oh, dang. Take a look up here.
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Little first construction update where
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where the used exit used to be right
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there. The exit is not there. They moved
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the exit, but now they have this big
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partition, this big wall over here.
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Also, the gift shop over here has been
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closed. Has not reopened since 2020.
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There's a gift shop right over here that
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has not reopened. And evidently, they
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have other things up their sleeve
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because the exit is no longer here
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anymore. Take a look. This is usually
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when you exit out of Magic Kingdom. So,
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they've rerouted it. I'll figure that
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out on the way out. And now, there's a
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big partition, a big wall that they're
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doing. I wonder if they're going to ever
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open that gift shop back up. Probably
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not. Magic Kingdom will be closing
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promptly at 6:00 p.m. tonight. So, at
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6:00 p.m., I'll probably end up walking
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over to the Contemporary and then back
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to TTC. So, might do some some of the
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resorts, but definitely Contemporary
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after 6:00 p.m. because I don't know.
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I'm not going to the I'm not going to
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the party tonight. I might do the party
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before Halloween night on October 31st,
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but still got 5 weeks before then. But
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not tonight. And while there might be a
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select few that tire of seeing heavy
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metal Mickey, no one no one has ever
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said a disparaging thing about me
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showing the Montreal. Everyone loves the
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Montreal. 100%.
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What a magnificent feat of
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transportation.
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That's the wallpaper on my phone and
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anytime I go like
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Wow.
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We now enter.
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For our regular guests in the park, it's
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going to be open until 6:00 p.m. And for
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our
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trick-or-treaters, it's going to be open
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at 4:00 p.m. until midnight tonight.
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Thank you so much for your attention,
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guys. Have a wonderful day here at hand
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to keep them busy.
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>> All right, I entered the gates at 2:42.
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Now, I'm probably not going to ride a
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lot of stuff just cuz I want to grab a
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coffee and walk around, but just to show
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what the slower wait times are before
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the party begins. Everybody gets in at 4
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for the party is 2:43.
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Party days pre-party are usually lesser
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aligned. So look, 10 minutes for
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Tomorrowland Raceway, 10 minutes for
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Space Mountain, 10 minutes for People
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Mover. Yeah, not not too bad at all. 35
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minutes, but Peter Pan has a 35minute
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wait. That's a pretty good day. Half
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hour for Mansion,
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35 minutes for Jungle Cruise, and 15
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minutes, no 10 minutes for pirate. A
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little hack on if you have an annual
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pass or even not an annual pass. You
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want to buy a ticket if you have to
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leave by 6, but you have an annual pass,
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pop in on a park day before 400 p.m. And
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the wait times are pretty light.
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It's just a little uh little little
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hack, a little little park hack.
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I've never seen that fall mug before.
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It's kind of neat.
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Yeah, as hot as it is, I always go with
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a piping hot caffeinated beverage. I
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just can't do cold coffee
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even on these hot days. I'm a creature
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of habit. The spice latte achieved. I'm
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noticing over here they got the they got
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the walls up around Rivers of America as
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stated over here near the water
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fountains and then over around Haunted
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Mansion.
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And this will stretch all the way down
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through Adventure Land and over towards
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure Fuzzy through
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Tiana's past Tiana's Bayou Adventure and
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over towards Big Thunder Mountain
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Railway, which is under construction
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as well.
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So, I'll follow this along and just kind
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of see where the see where it leads. to
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see where the see where the wall leads
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as it continues continues down through
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Adventure Land and across the bridge and
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Railway. Kind of excited when Big
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Thunder Mountain Railway comes back
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whenever that day comes. If they're
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going to end up having the dynamite that
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they have at Disneyland, if they're
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going to reurb it. I know they're
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reurbing the track, but are they going
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to refurb the
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reurb the little the mining tunnel with
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the with the dynamite like they did over
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at Anaheim? I wonder if they'll do that
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here. That'd be kind of nice if they
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did. It' be kind of nice if they did
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that.
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>> All right, one thing is for sure.
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Adventureland is full of walls. They are
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everywhere. However, some of them have
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not completely been built yet. In fact,
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where the wooden walls end, now they're
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putting up partitions,
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which is is maybe onethird
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visible left of Rivers of America, what
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there once was, maybe even like one
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quarter visible of what Rivers of
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America used to be seen. And it's dried
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up, exposing the track that the river
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boat used to go on. The Liberty Bell
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used to go around. The Rivers of America
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on a track, spoiler alert.
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And we're on the ferry boats across
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Seven Seas Lagoon. And those are not on
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a track, but the river boat in the park
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was on a track which is going to be soon
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ripped up. Even some construction
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workers in there, cast members in there
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kind of surveying. So it looks as if
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because of the walkway next to
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Adventureland because of the walkway,
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the way it's kind of elevated, they've
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got to build like partitions, metal
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partitions first, and they're going to
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have scrim blocking Rivers of America.
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So, I'm guessing as it's starting to
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kind of formulate and started to evolve
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eventually, probably in the very very
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near future, you're not going to get to
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see the former Rivers of America when
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they start all the construction. So, if
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you want to come take a look at it, I
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would imagine probably in the very near
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future, there's going to be no visible
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portions of the area from former Rivers
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of America. But as I followed it along,
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a real beehive of construction activity
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over at Big Thunder Mountain Railway in
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that little section kind of so pretty
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much adventure land right now is just a
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you know a conglomerate of construction
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if you will. But once once it's all
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done, Big Thunder will be back open way
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before the new Cars attractions through
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the two cars attractions will be
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happening over where Rivers used to be
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and Tom Story's Island. It almost looks
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like Tom Story's Island when I walk past
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it. almost looks like it's a lot more
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grown up than it used to be because
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since, you know, the the plants and the
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foliage and everything probably have not
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been trimmed down since they closed it.
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But yeah, that'll that'll soon be
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removed, erased from existence.
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The future is always always moving
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forward here at the Disney parks.
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>> See them right now.
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>> That's a train right there.
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I guess you'll be able to still kind of
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get a peek from this angle looking down
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from former Splash Mountain Tiana's Bay
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Adventure over that direction. But yeah,
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you could just see walls for days, walls
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for months, walls for years, multiple
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years, many years, lots of years. Got to
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get used to them. Got to get used to
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them. I just realized I'm wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt today. Look at this.
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So, I'm wearing an Adventure Land shirt,
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western shirt, without even thinking
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about it.
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>> What's new when it comes to pins over
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here at the Frontier Land Trading Post?
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Check it out. There's a Happy Halloween
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Darth Vader noggin. You could uh got the
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candy. I don't think I'm going to end up
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getting that one. I already have most of
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the Halloween pins that I feel like
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buying. I didn't get all of them, but I
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got got a couple of them. I don't
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There's actually some that I purchased I
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don't even see up here. Like the Mickey
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one looks to be completely out. Yeah, if
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at any time Florida summer could end, I
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would be most appreciative most
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appreciative of it. I think it was a
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little bit of a I almost say a cold
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front, but a cooler front while I was
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gone, so people told me, but it's
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definitely not here now. It is It feels
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like prime summer right now at the
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towards the end of September. It feels
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like prime summer. I might head over to
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Tomorrowland. Over to the people mover,
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take a ride around Tomorrowland.
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I see the people mover is happening. See
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it going by. It's active. So head that
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direction over through Tomorrowland.
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Little people mover. And I'll show the
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carousel
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progress which is going to be getting an
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update soon. Walt Disney's Carousel of
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Progress is going to be getting a
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reverb, an upgrade if you will. And not
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only are some scenes going to change, I
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would imagine that Last Christmas scene,
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which has been very, very dated for a
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long time, but they're also going to add
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a Walt animatronic similar, if not
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identical, or at least a version of the
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Walt animatronic similar to the one that
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is out in Anaheim at Great Moments with
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Mr. Lincoln in that same show building.
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Well, Walt is going to be introducing
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his Carousel of Progress in the future.
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No word, or at least I haven't heard,
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maybe there has been word of when this
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is going down. But in the opening is
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going to be a Walt animatronic for a
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brief short introduction by the man
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himself on one of his favorite
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attractions and he was introduced at the
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World's Fair back in New York. I am
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going to predict that some of the
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dialogue in the other scenes is going to
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be trimmed down. I don't know if it's
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going to be completely removed, but I
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think some of the dialogue that is in
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here currently does not fall into the
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category of stuff that Disney wants to
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be kind of said and the way modern-day
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Disney presents itself just uh just kind
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of just, you know, with the changing of
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Splash Mountain, the changing of Country
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Bear Jamboree, etc. Other examples, I do
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believe the Carousel of Progress is
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going to go through a little bit of a of
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a modernday Disney refurb. So there's
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going to there's certain things that the
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dad kind of alludes to and the dad is
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saying that you know people of my
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generation would see and kind of you
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know get a little chuckle out of but I
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feel like new dis new Disney that is out
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there does not just it's going to
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they're going to alter it just a little
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bit just just that I'm I'm going to
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predict the future. You could call it a
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a modernizing of a classic if that's
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even a word. They're going to attempt to
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modernize modernize it like they did
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with other things. And with recent
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changes of Pirates of the Caribbean and
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Peter Pan, it's obvious that when they
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change Carousel Progress, it's not going
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to just be Walt that's added. There's
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going to be other slight changes. Just a
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prediction. I I'm pretty pretty
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confident that'll be the case. Doors are
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closing. Doors are closing. Anything for
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following along with Disney for so many
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years. The only constant here is
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definitely change. And they will
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continue to change things and continue
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to move forward, create new things.
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It's always fun coming here and seeing
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the differences.
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>> Take a look down here. They got rid of
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the old spaceship and now they've
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created something different. I don't
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know what that's supposed to be, but I
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guess I'm I'm in the very back right
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here. I'm in the I'm in the back car. No
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one No one.
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>> Nice.
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>> The next station is Tomorrowland.
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>> Tomorrowland urban planning. All right.
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Here's another angle from it over here.
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They got rid of the flight of the
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navigatorship. Well, some say, and I
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happen to believe that the Fly the
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Navigator ship is over there, but now
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it's just whatever that is. Whatever
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that is.
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What a magnificent hotel.
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One of my favorite Disney resorts just
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from the, you know, the history of it.
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71
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open along with Disney World and Magic
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Kingdom.
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I don't know why I've always been drawn
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to the Contemporary, but I love it. I
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love it. There's no one waiting for the
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bus. That's very unusual. I don't think
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I've ever not seen someone sitting here
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ever.
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All the years I've walked this path,
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there's usually at least one person
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sitting here. There's no one. Prepare
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yourself now for what could be the
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skinniest escalator of all time.
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So, this is
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put my feet side by side, not even
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spread that far. And you can just see a
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little bit of skinniness going on here.
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I don't know why I'm always so
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fascinated by the skinny escalator at
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the Contemporary. But it's a small one
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after all.
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It's a small one
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after all. There's a pumpkin.
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There's a Mickey pumpkin
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right there at BBG gifts
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back in the contemporary now. I drove it
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through. Drove through it in the
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Montreal. Now I'm walking through it.
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That is a thing of beauty right there.
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Now I will say about the Montreal, I
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love looking at it from the ground
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level. I will say if you're standing,
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which I'm all nine times out of 10 I'm
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standing on the Montreal, it's not the
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most comfortable ride through. Also, one
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of the Montreal mats is down here.
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Normally you don't see these unless
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you're entering and exiting on the
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bottom floor of the Contemporary. But up
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here on the what would it be the second
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floor? Third floor. Or is it fourth
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floor? Third floor of the Contemporary.
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Something must have happened here.
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Broken tile or something. But there's
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one of these mats.
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It's up here.
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And then of course the Mary Blair mural
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which stretches up.
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>> Just so awesome.
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too.
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And I'll show the five-legged goat. If
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you're ever looking for it, it's on this
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side. You're on the Montreal platform.
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The tallest goat right there. The goat
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highest up on the side of the mountain
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on the mural. That's five legs and not
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four.
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As I wait for the Montreal underneath
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this fan,
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I am reminded
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just going off of memories of watching
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old videos that when this opened in 71,
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right in this spot, it used to be
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another platform with Bob Hope did the
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opening. They call it a ceremony, but he
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opened it with a little
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comedy monologue and announcement.
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was like right underneath where this fan
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is. Yeah, Bob Hope was right in this
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exact spot looking that way. If memory
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serves me correctly,
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doesn't always work in my favor because
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my memory sometimes isn't the greatest.
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it comes.
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>> You see it?
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>> It's coming. We're going to ride that
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one.
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So we go by
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and
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wondering this on the way in. This
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answers my question. The exit is now
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right here. Pretty similar to where the
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last exit was, but now just head out
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this way. Old tram coming through.
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>> One final little piece of construction
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here at the Magic Kingdom TTC parking
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lot, Transportation Ticket Center.
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This very large berm of dirt.
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has really been leveled out quite a bit.
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It was a lot higher up. Not sure what
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they're going to do with this.
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My thought was over the last couple
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years that maybe they put a Skyliner
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station in here. They still have not
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announced it. No one really knows, but
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that's what I was thinking. This would
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be a good place for a new Skyliner
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station getting in and out of Magic
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Kingdom and then Magic Kingdom to the
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resorts around Bay Lake, 7C's Lagoon,
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over to Epcot perhaps. But who knows? No
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one really knows. And if they do know,
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no one has
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announced it yet.
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Time will tell.
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And that's going to do it for today.
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Only three more days of Rays baseball.
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I'm going to go home and watch the Rays
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play the Blue Jays tonight. Then after
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that, there's only a couple more games,
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then baseball season is over and I can
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move on away from the baseball. I mean,
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I'll probably watch a little postseason
25:17
here and there, but I'm not really
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rooting for any of the teams that are in
25:19
the postseason.
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That's my Rays are being eliminated.
25:24
So, I got three regular season games
25:26
left. And then for me,
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good portion of
25:32
baseball is over till spring training.
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So I got the rest of the year can
25:38
not have to focus on that anymore. So I
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got to go home, watch a little baseball,
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relax a little bit. Ending with the
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Mickey Power Pole. Here's a cloud.
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It's another cloud.
26:01
Fascinated by cloud structure,
26:04
the formulation of clouds and how
26:06
beautiful they are. And if you stare
26:09
long enough, you can always see images
26:10
in the clouds.
26:13
Almost like looking at a piece of
26:14
artwork. It's in the eye of the beholder
26:17
and can be interpreted different ways
26:18
when you look at something. Clouds are
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no different.
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I've looked at a lot of clouds recently
26:27
from airplanes, but I'm on the ground
26:29
now. Not on an airplane, not looking out
26:30
an airplane window. I'm just standing on
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the ground looking at clouds.
26:36
There's a lot of talk about clouds.
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Sun gleaming offset clouds underneath a
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Mickey Power Pole. Hey, appreciate you
26:44
watching. It's good to be home. It's so
26:46
good to be home. So good to be home.
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Sleeping in my own bed last night. I'll
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be sleeping in my own bed again tonight.
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Oh yes,
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things are good.
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The clouds are beautiful and the Mickey
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Power Pole is still standing
27:11
and all it all magnificence
27:11
right here among I4 westbound. Well,
27:14
westbound's going that way. Eastbound's
27:17
going that way. You get the idea. Thanks
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for watching. I'll see you in the next
27:21
video. The vlog
27:24
is over.