Big Changes Coming To Disneyland - Halloween Merchandise Is ALREADY Out & Park Construction Updates
Disneyland Halloween Begins & Construction Update
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this it is Tuesday August
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1st 2023
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the first day of August my birth month a
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little bit later in the month I am
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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because I
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am at the Forefront of Downtown Disney
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about to head into Disneyland just going
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to write a couple attractions it's a
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little later in the day I think it's
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about 4 30 p.m gonna stay probably until
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dark and just check out and see what's
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what's happening
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around the park there's a lot changing
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a lot of Construction Construction
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updates
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and just see
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kind of just winging it see where the
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where the wind blows
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if you will my glasses are
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a little
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probably need to get some new glasses at
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some point nonetheless I'm inviting you
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to join me
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not even kidding when I say there's a
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lot of a lot of things happening in the
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park some closures
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some construction
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and off I believe some new merchandise I
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think the Halloween merchandise might
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have come out in the last couple days
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since the last time I was in here join
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me
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Halloween seasons is already here what
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the heck
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shall you and speaking of
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construction look at this
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sorcerer's cap is completely covered by
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scrim
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like you've ever seen the sorcerer's cap
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I was here the other day popped out when
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I flew out of town and noticed this
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but I don't think I've ever in all my
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years coming here I don't think I've
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ever seen the sorcerer's cap
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blocked off like this
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and then over here look at this look how
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much is happening where the old theater
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used to be there's just beehive of
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activity out here yeah you'll just
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notice this is going vertical so this is
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where
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Earl sandwich used to be and the theater
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kind of curious what they're going to do
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with the former ESPN Zone or the
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previous area over here that was the
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Rainforest Cafe that is now a Star Wars
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thing but I wonder if they're gonna also
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if you look at satellite images of this
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years ago there's a baseball diamond on
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top of the old ESPN ESPN Zone building
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I think they painted over it but years
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ago you could always see the you see the
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you can see the baseball field up there
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painted on the roof yeah even after
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originally walking into downtown Disney
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said Disney Springs Florida but the
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monorail so there will be no there goes
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the monorail today because the monorail
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is completely under construction as well
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as like I want to call this the
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Espionage this little Center area where
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Build-A-Bear used to be is completely
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under construction they're just walls
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Galore
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all through here and I am inside World
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of Disney right now take a look at this
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shirt right here the Hundred Years of
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Wonder you see Big Al on there you see
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the genie on there you can see figments
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man I kind of like this Wonderful World
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of Color I think I probably could look
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good in a purple shirt like that take a
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look at that and over here at the merch
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who do I run into magic Journeys so
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today's the first day of all the
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Halloween merch it all dropped today oh
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I thought it came out a couple days ago
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today I think a few things came out is
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this a Halloween house Isn't that cool
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that's Halloween oh he's scared scared
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yeah he's like all right well don't
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spend don't spend too much money in here
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no we're not I just I think this is the
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only thing we're gonna bring home today
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yeah
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and the pin and the and the jersey and
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that right there all right well good to
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see you both you just got back from
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Florida if you put the Florida videos up
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yet oh we did one Magic Kingdom all
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right
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spoiler alert they went to Florida I
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kind of feel like I need to get an
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Anaheim Halloween shirt because I'm
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going to be going back to Florida and
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doing Florida wdw and other hot stuff oh
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my gosh I love this Donald shirt right
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up I am gonna buy that Donald so remind
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myself I'm gonna say remind me or just
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I'll put it in the universe I need to
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buy this on the way out right here this
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this Donald shirt right there and then
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here's the 2023 right here this says my
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spooky Place Disneyland right here I
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like all the stuff it actually says
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Disneyland on it horror haunts and
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hayrides I like that too that doesn't
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say Disneyland though it'd be nice to
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have one that actually says like
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Disneyland on it you know maybe I'll get
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this one maybe I'll get that one I love
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that dollar shirt this is kind of neat
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too with a little crescent quarter moon
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right there and here's a close-up of the
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Donald shirt I believe it was
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29.99 yeah 30 bucks for that well worth
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it oh it was a little scary cat as well
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and even got a little area over here of
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Hocus okay well that's Ursula right
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there or rehearsal over here there's
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some Hocus Pocus stuff on the other side
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and of course there's the pumpkin right
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there the Jacqueline all right here we
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go so here's the Sanderson sisters right
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here even some little plushes of the
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although I don't know if I want to wear
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this because it's kind of kind of warm
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it's not Florida warm but it's
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definitely warm the sisters three and
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then a little Brewing pot a little
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witch's pot here Hocus Pocus yeah
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walking in here it's pretty mellow at
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the moment it is about 5 30 it's 5 25 as
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I'm kind of walking in and about to head
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underneath the train station through the
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little tunnel going in the tunnel on the
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right and we're walking out onto Main
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Street USA it's kind of neat being here
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because recently even since the last
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time I've been home to Florida I would
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went to Marceline Missouri which is the
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waltz inspiration for Main Street USA so
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it's kind of cool to on the same trip to
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go to Marceline Missouri and then also
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on the same and in the same you know
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General time frame to also show up to
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his Recreation of what inspired him to
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make this in his hometown of Marceline
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the real one here Anaheim well not the
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real one but the one that everyone knows
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and loves and shares just Main Street
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USA here at Disneyland all right I've
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decided to head up to the DVC lounge and
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get myself a beverage up here they have
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these freestyle machines here I'm going
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to go with a zero sugar mixed berry
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touch to pork
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myself a little mixed berry with no
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sugar in it I'm not sure what the
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calorie count would be but I guess but
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no sugar it's probably not too hard and
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I love the fact that they have these
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spacesuits from the Tomorrowland
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astronauts up here as well right next to
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the drink machines check these out
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Matterhorn is quite operational at the
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moment with the waterfall going down
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you're scared the yeti up there Harold
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but he's scary
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maybe during hot season he's scrambled
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this would be a much more impressive
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angle here if the monorail was going by
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but still not too bad not too bad with
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the Seafarer 507. well someone's waving
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there
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I was waiting there from inside that's a
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cast member inside there waving
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to the little little thing there but
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yeah there's quite a bit of things that
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I'm gonna pull up the app all those
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Dutch out ducks
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is that duck out of the way Ducks all
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right not as much as I thought but Mr
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Toad's Wild Ride down for refurb mint
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julepar down for refurb monorail down
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for refurb and of course Splash
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Mountain's not down for refurbished out
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for a complete overhaul so it's not on
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the list the soothing sounds a Big
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Thunder Mountain Railroad
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right here behind big well walking
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down Big Thunder Trail
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seems to be running
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I'm on a board a train depending on how
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long the wait time is I'm gonna board a
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train
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just removal
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seriously one of the best attractions
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ever I definitely picked a good time of
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the of the day to get out here because
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the weather is very very nice they also
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announced when Fantasmic either comes
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back or is going to come back they're
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not going to have the dragon through
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next year I think I read that correctly
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take a look up here Tiana's Palace is
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really coming along they got the got the
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two pillars have already kind of showed
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up and the walls still up it almost
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looks like at any point this place will
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be ready right over here in New Orleans
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Square I'll walk over
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to the tree house here in a minute I
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also opted not to go on Big Thunder
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Mountain Railroad because the line was a
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lot longer than I expected it to be but
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yeah this could be pretty cool when this
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is open you cannot get a mint julep at
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the moment and Julep is always a nice
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tasty treat here in New Orleans Square
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but this is what it's going to look like
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when it's done right here
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it looks like it's almost done walking
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over here through this little kind of
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called secret passageway but Less
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Traveled passes away past Fowlers in
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where the Mark Twain right now is Mark
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Twain is put away for the evening even
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the sailing ship Columbia which a lot of
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people call pirate ship I've even called
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it that is also docked over where the
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the queue line usually is so neither one
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of the riverboats Riverboat or the
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sailing ship are running at this hour
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right here next to the bait and tackle
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that Fowler's end I love this little
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kind of cubby hole there and it's very
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quiet now that this Splash Mountain
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Music is no longer running the Splash
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Mountain to drop here at Disneyland now
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I will say I was definitely team wdw
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when it came to Splash far more than the
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Disneyland version had some good times
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on the Disneyland version but the Walt
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Disney World one definitely held near
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and dear to my heart even though Jim
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Varney
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Ernest the character of earnest opened
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the Disneyland when I think I preferred
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because you could sit side by side
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there's a little more comfortable ride
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than it was here at Disneyland but I
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like this one too and you can see where
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the drop was there's stairs there now
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and then have kind of remove the little
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Peak up top there
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everything ready for Tiana's Bayou
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Adventure I do not see the water tower
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here they have already put the water
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tower up
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Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdoms
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version
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don't see it here yet though oh that's
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interesting looks like they're going to
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have a band playing out on the rivers of
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America maybe that's why the boats
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aren't running
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this is all adorned with musical notes
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and very beautiful colors there do you
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even see a drum kit set up
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they must have the jazz band that's
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playing down in front of Haunted Mansion
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or they're getting ready for their
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version of Fantasmic I haven't watched
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Fantasmic gear since the whole fire
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happened with Melissa that is a
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beautiful thing right there the Haunted
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Mansion New Orleans New Orleans style
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definitely different here on the West
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Coast than it is on the East Coast at
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least the facade of the sodium cart
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coming through sodium car coming through
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going past the two trees here in front
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of pirates if you get a view of now
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they're saying it's inspired by Swiss
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Family Robinson treehouse no longer
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Tarzan's treehouse
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but I guess it's not going to be a
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direct
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version from the classic Disney film but
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it is going to be inspired by it's gonna
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be pretty cool to be able to go back up
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in there
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whatever that day they come so it's
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coming soon how soon very soon hey Ira
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the kid's here with the broad
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just always thinking about everything
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else soon how soon very soon a little
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movie Heavy some people might get the
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movie reference or not but eventually a
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tree house inspired by Walt Disney's
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Swiss Family Robinson
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tree house or at least maybe the film
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itself this is going to be some little
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nods
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to the Swiss Family Robinson of course
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on the other coast still have
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the original version East Coast version
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of Swiss Family Robinson treehouse but
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over here was Tarzan for the longest
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time over at the Adventureland Bazaar
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they do have some indie merch I did see
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the new Indiana Jones movie The Fifth
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one of the franchise it was uh it was
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okay I mean it was fun I wouldn't say
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it's definitely the best the original
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Three Year my favorite probably the
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fashion Raiders is my favorite followed
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by Last Crusade oh dang look over here
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this is there's even a huge wall here
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this kind of goes next to the facilities
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over here
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wow you cannot even connect from
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Adventureland to frontierland anymore I
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mean you can get over to this lab you
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have to kind of take the long way back
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around they've already dumped off the
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pins already right over here look at
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Pluto looking very kind of like evil and
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menacing there
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got Mickey over here I mean I might buy
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some pins but I'm gonna wait till like
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Halloween and say look Midnight Madness
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right there look at goofy right up here
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this is all new pens that have just been
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unveiled I think I'm gonna hold off on
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any Halloween pins as of right now but I
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always like Nikki pens I don't own this
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one here which has Mickey with the
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camera so I hold the camera so I like
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Mickey so I'm gonna get this one I don't
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have this one to add in my collection
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and I kind of like this one too you got
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Donald and Mickey that are like almost
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look like the Dapper dance so I'm gonna
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go I'm gonna go I'm gonna get a couple
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Mickeys here as well here's a is that
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they're red is that Minnie is the red
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hat it is as many as the redheads are
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pirates all right I got my first
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merchandise I'm gonna definitely buy
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some more I'm gonna buy some of the
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Halloween shirts but I didn't want to
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buy any Halloween pins yet so when you
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dump out here into this area near the
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Royal Hall you can really see they just
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got a lot of a lot of construction going
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on I mean this is just like an overload
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I guess this time you want to do it
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because usually I've always heard with
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the Disney parks by the time December
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rolls around and on Christmas day they
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want every attraction open on every wide
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open and they want all the facades ready
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and in pristine condition for the busy
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Seasons I always heard the Summers when
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they do a lot of the work all right over
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into the Emporium now where there are a
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lot
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they're different pumpkins even the
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lounge flies over here and I ended up I
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think I'm gonna end up getting that
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Donald shirt down here but they also
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have the tote bags they have this one so
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I was kind of wondering I imagine
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they're going to have the same thing on
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the East Coast I guess the only thing
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that would set it apart is this says
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Disneyland here on this side they also
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have a darker colored shirt but this
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these actually might be youth sizes or
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maybe not maybe they're not used sizes
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no that actually looks actually I kind
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of like that one maybe I'll get this
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color now some of these designs like
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over here if they had this in a short
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sleeve then not a sweater I would buy
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that one nice I like the Coors haunts
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and hay rise you guys see Chip and Dale
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very terrified right there that says
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Disneyland all that one so I like to get
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you know I like to get merchandise
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specifically from both coasts but I
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would imagine they're probably the same
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and they just change the location on the
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bottom all right I changed my mind I
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went with a darker color on that one and
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then I went with the tie-dye yellow with
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the Donald the scary evil Donald all
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right I've crossed the Esplanade and
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stepped over into Pacific Wharf where
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are the entrance to Pacific Wharf is
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right over this way where they're doing
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quite a bit of construction over at
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Lucky Fortune cookery that's when I used
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to live in this area I would eat here
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all the time I think they've redone the
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menu since
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my uh since I was always coming out here
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but they still have the dragon up top
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there looks like yeah all this is being
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redone for San Fran Tokyo Square which I
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think some of the food options have
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already been released but it's not quite
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fat it appears as if I'm not going to be
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able to cross the bridge but you can see
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the bridge right over there I thought
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I'd be able to cut this way and cross
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the bridge but they're still doing a
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little bit of work on in fact it says
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Bridge closed this is what it's going to
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look like when it's done San Francisco
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Square the bridge right here Bridge
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closed but restaurants are made open and
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mobile order is available got a pretty
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good little Sun flare there from the Sun
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that's about to shortly be setting and
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you got Mickey's fun wheel or Pixar pal
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around now over there and they still
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kind of curious if they're still going
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to leave the fish option here where you
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can get the photo in the bucket of fish
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right here as you cross over look at
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that it's pretty good with the sun flare
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going on there it's gonna be exciting
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when all this kind of opens even though
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it's kind of soft opened already where
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you can still eat in the area but it
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just hasn't been completely
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completely themed yeah I'll take this
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way out I'll go through Radiator Springs
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past Radiator Springs Racers through
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Cars Land going over this direction
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which is always kind of neat going
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through ornament Valley and speaking of
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San Francisco themed areas the
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Embarcadero area
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so you have this kind of row of houses
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for opening their fans that they
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purchased through here it has a lot of
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scrim and walls up there I really hope
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they're not going to get rid of this
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kind of classic San Francisco Vibes that
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were down here going to the Eureka
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Springs wheel golden timber company but
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yeah there's lots of lots of walls
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through here too it looks like Soarin
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has a little scrim around it as well
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soaring is under a little construction
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now the ride itself is open but they do
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have the fences and the scrim up in
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accordance then again the monorail beam
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no monitor all going across the monorail
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Beam not today monorail all right
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popping over now into the Disneyland
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Hotel property where they are soon I
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think the end of September they're going
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to be opening the new Wing over here for
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the DVC members and I will be staying
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here before year end I will be staying a
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couple nights here but I will also be
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going to Hawaii for a couple of nights
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before the end of the year this year
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before 2023 if all goes well good Lord
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Willow and the creek don't rise if
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that's the correct phrase I will be
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staying here for a couple nights and I
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will be staying in Aulani for more than
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a couple of nights so that's pretty it's
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also interesting how that looks
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completely different this the Hue and
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coloration of it is different at that
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Disneyland Tower because it's the brand
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new tower these are the originals and
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then that over there is the brand new
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and that is not open I believe until end
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of September I'm gonna go take a look
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inside here
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and I like this little setup they have
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here with the old black and white Walt
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photos and I'm really glad I stopped
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inside the Disneyland Hotel
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because they had some merchandise so I
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ended up adding another shirt onto the
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repertoire of items I ended up getting
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three shirts so I got I got plenty of
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Disney shorts for the the upcoming
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Halloween season but if you go to any of
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the Disney DVC hotels show that you are
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a DVC Club member there are specialty
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Halloween shirts they do not have at the
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Emporium do not have it World of Disney
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so just keep that in mind if you would
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like to get something and you are a DVC
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member you could get those inside the
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hotels and you can get a little bit
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different a little altered merchandise
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that they have to the the normal general
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public guests that they have in the park
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so I ended up getting uh dv's shirt
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Disney Vacation Club Halloween shirt and
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I am ready for some Halloween it's too
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early but you know what I'm Gonna Roll
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gotta roll it and from what I'm hearing
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Magic Kingdom in Florida has already put
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up their Halloween decor down there Main
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Street now Disneyland has not put theirs
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up but they did release the merchandise
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today cannot speak for Florida because I
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have not been there in a little while to
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see if they put their merch out but I
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was seeing some posts online that the
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Halloween decor is in full effect and
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Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party
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today's as a recording of This is August
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1st I think starts on the 11th
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10 days
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Disney Halloween is in full East Coast
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Swing and you know nothing says
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Halloween like sweating your nether
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regions and took us off in the summer
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Florida Heat
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early August nothing says Halloween like
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that so
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get on board
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gonna be a wild ride
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I wish Mr toes was open here I wish it
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was I would have gone and the West Coast
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counterpart for Halloween parties here
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does not kick off till early September
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with Oogie Boogie bash and yes spoiler
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alert I will be going to both Oogie
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Boogie bash here and Florida's not
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Mickey's Not So Scary Skye looking very
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beautiful over there you got the Sun
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that is starting to descend across the
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Horizon so the sun is kind of glistening
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off of the clouds this parking lot which
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is now I believe used for cast members
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employees back in the day 2015. you
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could park over here go to downtown
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Disney for three hours so if the park
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opened at eight let's say 8 A.M you
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could park here till 11. so you could
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park here do some shopping at Downtown
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Disney and then you could go into the
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park for a couple hours if you left by
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10 30 got back here by 11 you could be
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in and out without parking over in the
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structure ah I miss those Dice and got
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some good merchandise
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Halloween whether we like it or not is
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upon us it is rearing its head quickly
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very very quickly and I'm just going to
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zoom in here on this sunset for one
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moment and I'm just going to end the
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video right here
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with the sunrise while the sun right now
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the sunrise the morning Sunset is
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setting now
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is
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oh
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that's not the monorail but there it
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goes
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the Parking Lot Tram I got one in I got
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I got I got one yeah for real the sky
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looks amazing up here also I always try
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to park at the top of the parking
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structure
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that way I could always remember my car