TDW 1548 - The Forgotten Disney Property

0:02 got a couple of new pens that I'm going

0:02 to put in the van and my friend Micah

0:06 gave me this my girl pin the other day

0:09 with v Sultan

0:11 Fus on the front of it pretty awesome ah

0:15 Highway

0:16 192 the once thriving tourist Mecca

0:21 leading to Disney

0:22 World of course this is before Disney

0:25 started putting a ton of onsite hotels

0:28 on their property oh welcome everyone

0:30 Adam the wo here and from the theme

0:33 parks point of view it does make a lot

0:35 of sense you keep everyone who is

0:37 showing up to visit your attractions on

0:39 property that way they spend more money

0:41 they have a better experience but then

0:44 all the surrounding areas start to

0:46 diminish it's my second channel daily

0:48 Vlog channel it's the daily woo I went

0:51 into this gas

0:53 station and when I walked in the cashier

0:56 said can I help the next guest over here

0:58 please can I help the next guest I'll

1:00 help the next guest over here and it

1:02 made me think am I really their guest if

1:05 someone is a guest at my home I'm not

1:08 charging them for a soda and then she

1:11 started getting like kind of loud

1:13 because people weren't listening can I

1:15 help the next guest over here there is

1:18 an insane

1:20 conglomeration of

1:22 birds funing the sky up there circling

1:26 around like a tornado a fat

1:31 owl ah Hitchcock would be proud right

1:34 over here years ago this whole place was

1:36 abandoned and I have a funny story there

1:38 was a former Checker fast food

1:40 restaurant sign right about here it was

1:43 super tall probably about 30 ft to the

1:46 top of it but right in this area around

1:49 the 20t mark there was like a little

1:52 signage billboard area and after driving

1:54 by it for nearly years of it sitting

1:56 empty I started to think no one's using

1:59 that page section so I got a massive

2:02 ladder I climbed to the top rearranged

2:04 the letters and it spelled out Adam the

2:06 woo and it sat there for well over a

2:10 full year so pretty much every car that

2:12 sat at this light and drove down this

2:15 road saw the gorilla advertising glory

2:20 and the thing that was great about it is

2:21 I didn't destroy anything I didn't

2:23 damage anything I didn't spray pain

2:24 anything all I did was shifted the

2:26 letters around and because the place was

2:28 empty no one even cared or noticed and

2:31 it just stayed there until they tore it

2:32 down and now they built that 7-Eleven I

2:34 want you to notice the name of this Road

2:37 7 dwarf's

2:39 Lane wonder why it's called that back in

2:42 the early years of Walt Disney World

2:44 this whole area was Snow White Villas

2:47 and it was basically the start of the

2:50 college program even though it's not on

2:52 Disney property this is where the

2:54 students would stay when they came here

2:56 from all around the world it was more or

2:58 less a campground and there were stru

2:59 structures built all through this

3:01 property and the property goes way back

3:04 that way and there's even a chunk of

3:07 former Christmas lights mangled and

3:09 balled up on the side of that palm tree

3:11 and they placed this garbage bag over

3:14 the pole where the sign was the original

3:17 sign saying Snow White Villas was right

3:19 here they cut the pole down and they

3:21 just stuck a garbage bag over it to

3:22 protect people from you know cutting

3:24 themselves on it remember the my girl

3:26 pen I showed you that my friend Micah

3:28 from World of Micah gave me well he did

3:29 a video and he was saying that right

3:31 here was a guard shack and I have a gat

3:34 that has gotten in my eye right now man

3:38 freaking bugs I'm kind of wondering if

3:40 there's anything left on the premises so

3:43 I'm going to take the Drone up in the

3:44 air and get some aerial shots now this

3:47 is not a Walt Disney World property in

3:49 fact it's miles away from where the

3:52 property line starts which is very

3:54 interesting because technically Walt

3:57 Disney students were staying here but

4:00 they weren't staying on property that

4:01 was in the early early years of wdw

4:05 that's right I use the wdw I shortened

4:09 it that's what I do see these little

4:12 markers that one says marker 11 back

4:15 when this road was a little bit more

4:16 booming with activity they had this idea

4:19 about putting up markers that way if you

4:21 went to any particular store and said

4:24 I'm looking for this Landmark they could

4:26 just say oh it's by marker 11 oh it's by

4:29 marker Mar 15 oh it's by marker 18 the

4:32 fact of the matter is if you stop at any

4:34 of these places along Highway 192 and

4:37 ask someone what marker something is

4:39 near odds are they have no clue they

4:42 serve no purpose anymore it did not work

4:44 out according to their design check it

4:47 out a few years ago there was a put putt

4:50 golf place called Lost Island it's been

4:52 torn down for a while now but the sign

4:56 is still right there on the side of the

4:57 pole and before that it was a water park

4:59 called Water

5:00 Mania that's some old school memories

5:02 right there so many people stop to get

5:04 pictures they have to put these no

5:06 stopping lights see that right there

5:09 where it says no stopping cuz so many

5:11 people want to stop and get their photo

5:13 and why wouldn't they it's a pretty

5:15 Majestic site and as you're driving

5:17 towards the parks if you look over to

5:19 the right you can see how much they've

5:21 torn down from Hollywood Studios

5:24 building Star Wars lands crazy and look

5:27 up here there's a massive Monument to

5:29 Tower of Terror and as far as I know

5:31 Florida's version of Tower of Terror

5:33 ain't going nowhere these solar panels

5:35 off to the right where it on the street

5:38 is they make a huge Hidden Mickey but I

5:40 can't fly the Drone here it's not

5:42 allowed hello hi mister good to see you

5:45 guys again I'd rather be

5:48 theud where you guys going down

5:50 Hollywood on your arm told me that last

5:53 time I have a tattoo of you on my arm

5:55 you were supposed to might I guess that

5:58 that kind of looks like hi everyone it's

6:00 me Dorman and this is my oscar it's the

6:02 only man I've never left and I just I

6:05 just want to thank all you little people

6:06 out there in Hollywood land for loving

6:08 me I love you back but I especially love

6:11 the man next to me in this camera shot

6:13 you got to keep that a secret you got to

6:14 keep that on the D number 13 I know it

6:17 sh don't tell anyone

6:36 a fresh charge oh man I love this place

6:36 so many memories so many that you could

6:39 shake the stick out I don't think I said

6:41 that term correctly I think I messed it

6:43 up this place has been here forever the

6:45 ' 50s Prime Time Cafe and a lot of

6:48 people don't know how cool it is inside

6:51 these doors and I'm not just talking

6:52 about the air conditioning I'm talking

6:53 about the Ambiance and the theming look

6:55 at the front desk here it looks like a

6:57 kitchen you have the oven over here you

6:59 have the old television set you have the

7:02 cupboards you have the spoons and then

7:04 when you walk into the restaurant look

7:06 at this each booth has its own little

7:08 homey feel including drapes including

7:12 the tile on the ground and this is a

7:14 whole other area I've never seen they

7:15 have characters in here look there are

7:18 characters in there talking to everyone

7:20 while they're eating lunch that's

7:22 awesome there seems to be some sort of

7:24 parade or a progression of Evil coming

7:27 towards me I do not know what I'm what

7:29 I'm with witnessing what the

7:31 Stormtroopers just walking and strolling

7:34 through a theme park like they own the

7:36 place like they do not give two cruds

7:40 what your thought process is on them

7:43 even from when I was younger the Giant

7:46 adad in front of star chours has always

7:49 been impressive just look at that thing

7:51 and there's a Ewok village q line that

7:54 you walk under to get inside the ride

7:57 it's pretty awesome the detail of it

7:59 it's pretty spectacular the only problem

8:01 is the line never really gets long

8:03 enough to go around underneath it so

8:05 most people don't even realize that you

8:08 can walk underneath

8:11 there pretty

8:13 clever pretty clever oh look at this up

8:16 here it's like Haunted Mansion the

8:19 hitchhiking ghosts but Star Wars and

8:21 this tie has little teeny tiny R2 on it

8:25 this used to be a different themed shop

8:27 but now Star Wars has taken over so you

8:31 have Luke Skywalker with a lot of the

8:34 golden age of Hollywood

8:38 Elite something is a miss here inside

8:42 the Planet Hollywood store there is a

8:44 life-sized Terminator from Terminator 2

8:48 replica that's right look into my eyes

8:51 see what's going on in there to their

8:53 hands arms feet and legs inside the

8:55 vehicle and don't forget to supervise

8:57 your children that guy takes his job

8:59 very seriously there's Bert the chimney

9:02 sweep here they come bus get out your

9:18 Grinders sleepy little

9:21 BG a it let some mighty tough territory

9:26 you're heading into Pilgrim not to get

9:29 out of here you'll swing for this

9:33 warning remain in your vehicle the area

9:37 you are entering is extremely dangerous

9:40 proceed with

9:41 caution

9:43 okay the Ark of the Covenant it really

9:47 does exist something's about to happen I

9:49 don't know what all

9:52 unbeliever disturb The Treasure of the

9:55 Gods and you shall all pay with your

9:58 lives what's going

9:59 God

10:13 whoa they turned into a skeleton there

10:13 he comes the one in only Johnny Weiss

10:16 Mueller

10:37 this parking lot here on the St Cloud

10:37 Lakefront couple pivotal points in my

10:41 life happened here including when I

10:43 decided that I was going to sell my

10:46 stuff

10:47 originally gosh over 5 years ago sell my

10:50 stuff from my apartment that I had here

10:52 in town and start to travel in this van

10:56 and this is also the parking lot I sat

10:58 in and I talked on the phone with the

11:01 singer from Guttermouth and basically

11:04 got the position playing bass in that

11:06 band and went on tour and it was

11:09 probably the best musical gig I ever had

11:13 in my life and this

11:15 is this is where I found out it was

11:17 happening right here it's amazing how

11:19 the brain works you stand in a certain

11:21 spot and memories that you normally

11:23 don't think of come flooding back in

11:25 that is what happened when I pulled into

11:27 this parking area the Sun is Now setting

11:30 look at this it really is incredible

11:31 looking it's like a fireball in the sky

11:34 well I guess technically that is what it

11:36 is but it's now drooping and caring

11:39 itself down word Over the

11:43 Horizon the beautiful

11:45 sunset here in St Cloud Florida at the

11:49 lakefront

11:51 Majestic I think it's time now I think

11:53 it is now time to

11:56 say vlog

11:59 over

TDW 1548 - The Forgotten Disney Property

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