Flight Of The Navigator Spaceship is Hidden at Walt Disney World - Movie Prop Then & Now Location
What Happened To The Flight Of The Navigator Spaceship
Flight of the Navigator Filming Locations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZR_PMzw_U&t=165s
Transcript
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today's adventure brings me to walt
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disney world property
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starting off at disney's hollywood
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studios formerly
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disney mgm studios where i will be
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beginning here and then park hopping
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over to magic kingdom in search
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of a 1980s film
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an iconic prop that was used as the
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focal point that is now hidden
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on property at wdw hidden in plain sight
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i covered a subject similar to this
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yesterday
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and it got me thinking you know there's
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a there's another item that a lot of
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people might not know about
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so said heck it round two
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obscure forgotten
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items from movies that have been
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repurposed and they're just
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kind of hidden and tucked away
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that's that's a that's a long version of
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what title really will be
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welcome everyone adam the woo here in
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1986
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oh it's windy also i have some screen
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grabs so i have my
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facial covering 1986 a film by the name
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of flight of the navigator
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came out a year later the opening of
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star tours at disneyland
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a couple years after that the opening of
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star tours here where i am now at
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hollywood studios now called
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then called mgm paul rubins did both the
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voice
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of the spaceship on fly the navigator
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and rex the pilot on
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star tours kind of a neat little little
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twist pb herman paul rubens
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and the ship the one of the two now as
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much research as i have done i've always
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heard
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rumors that there were two spaceships
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screen used that used to sit on this
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park's property
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and then as time went on the backlot
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tour
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started to kind of fade away or go
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through a couple different
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incarnations and changes and one of
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those
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ships was no pun intended
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shipped over to magic kingdom and is now
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sitting
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near the people mover but i love the
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film in fact i documented the
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the movie locations the filming
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locations down in south florida years
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ago
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and i've always wanted to cover this
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subject matter and now i'm doing it i'm
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inviting you
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to join me let's match up some some
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stuff
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shall you first thing i'm going to do
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when heading in after walking down
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hollywood boulevard
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is go down grand avenue which used to be
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streets of america
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through the little tunnel and then in to
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galaxy's edge
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there's two spots in galaxy's edge that
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i want to showcase
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kind of thin and now and the reason to
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stop back in here
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is because this is where the boneyard
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and backlot tram
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tour well in this general vicinity i'll
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pinpoint
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exactly momentarily where the two
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spaceships were
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kind of kind of neat that there still
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are spaceships
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back here as well there were a couple
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different versions over time
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of the boneyard and the tram tour and
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i'll show
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both of those spots seems to be some
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troopers out here
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guarding where the second spot was
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i'll walk back over here momentarily but
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it was located
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kind of where the entrance to the droid
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depot
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now stands more on that in a minute now
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i can finally recall very vividly
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hundreds of times in my youth taking
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that tram tour
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right by where the falcon now
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sits
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it is also very peculiar and interesting
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the falcon is in the same spot as two
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other
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iconic pieces i'll explain
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just to give a little perspective this
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is what the ship look like this is a
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screen capture there
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and you can see it's sticking sticking
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the head out of the front portion
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so there were two of these and for a
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while both of them
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were more or less a few feet from where
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i am currently standing
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in front of the falcon there were two of
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these props
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later just one of them here at studios
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the other one
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moved over to the other theme park but
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in this spot was where the two
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were before one of them was repurposed
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and moved over to magic kingdom
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now i am standing over here in the shade
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away from
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away from others but zooming in without
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zooming in but showing about 20 feet
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away
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kind of in that little a little cubby
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hole where the
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ship is now stationed was the general
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vicinity of both of these
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looking back towards where i'm standing
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so camera would be
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more or less over in that in that
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section looking back towards where i'm
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standing now
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which is where both of these used to be
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with the the fake facades of the homes
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from the backlot tour where i'm standing
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now currently also
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once again you can see the the facades
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there in the background but this is the
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one i believe
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was the one that was repurposed and
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moved over to the other park
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because it does not have the hole in the
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side that they used to
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pick it up and hoist it for a scene that
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took place at burt reynolds ranch down
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in south florida
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fun fact also the one that was
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repurposed in my opinion was this one
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you know the scene where he's kind of
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looking over everyone driving in the car
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they would have had the sealed up
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that hole but there is no damage to the
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side there is not a hole in the side
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like the other one that was left on the
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back lot in the tram tour
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later on in the years let's look at a
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timeline here this is currently well
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you know beginning of the year from a
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satellite view of 21
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there is where i'm standing the general
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vicinity with the falcon there
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and then i will set this down
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move the page and you will see that this
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is what it looked like back in 2008
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right here and you can see in that same
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section just a few feet away
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is where walt's plane that he used to
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survey
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wdw back in the day was placed right
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over there
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who knows what happens to walt's playing
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it has been removed as well catastrophe
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canyon over here
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but right about in the center of the
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screen is
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the falcon now let's go back a few more
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years
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to the flight of the navigator days
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clearest one i could get was from 1995
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this is catastrophe canyon it uses
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perspective
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from the other one and the photographs i
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showed of the spaceship
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from navigator is right down there these
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little blurry sections
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right over kind of about in the center
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of the screen
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were where the two were and then one was
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moved
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and the one still remained until a few
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years later when they were moved up by
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where droid depot
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now sits also in this current spot
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you still see the little waterway that
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was there that led from the tram route
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to catastrophe canyon
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over to the behind the scenes there of
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the
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homes that were used in tv shows and
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movies on the backlight tour
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this is the one that was not repurposed
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but notice the hole in the side there
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why is the hole in the side of the one
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that
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i guess is probably destroyed and tossed
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after
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after the backlot tour went away and not
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moved over
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to the other part it's because it was
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hoisted up in the air see the hole there
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they have this crane place so they can
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have the camera there
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when this descends down upon the gas
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station
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right there that's kind of how they did
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that but that hole there
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is this hole here this the second of the
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two
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space pods nowhere to be found
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no idea where that is one more
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photograph of a gentleman riding a bike
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across the back lot past the original
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spot of the two when the other one
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had been removed and just to clarify and
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reiterate again
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it was right over there near the falcon
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also where walt's plane was later
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and the two spaceships and now go from
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this spot
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about a hundred yards or so over around
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the corner towards
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droid depot which is where would have
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been the remaining
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spaceship and kind of in the same
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section
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kylo's spaceship before it was scrapped
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the the one
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that still remained down this way was
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another section later in years up until
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closure
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of the tram tour went through this this
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area
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give or take a few feet now sadly it is
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a mystery
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of what has happened to a lot of the
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other items from the boneyard
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in fact next to the subject matter in
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question
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was the skiff barge from the jabba scene
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the sarlacc pit scene
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was right next to the flight of the
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navigator
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props
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where those are no one knows well
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i don't know see it down there that
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circular
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oval shaped
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fly to the navigator prop and there's
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that return of the jedi
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forge which yeah don't really want to
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talk about that
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let's flip this over this is what it
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looks like current day
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droid depot right here did not move at
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all from the satellite view
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just took a screen capture of both so
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where it was
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was technically across from the droid
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similar to well to where the coca-cola
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droid stand is now that would be it
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by these calculations right there
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that's my best educated guess here's a
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photograph before it really started to
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decompose
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you see that barge there on the other
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side
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as well as here's another one when it
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really started to decay and rust
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once again the jedi barge on the other
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this is the one that was not transferred
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over to magic kingdom
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the second of the two and let me tell
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you just like with the first version of
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the tram tour
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i took the second version past this spot
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many many times as well they had to
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reroute it because of the the car
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stunt show that it went around the tram
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tour went right through here
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and plenty of spaceships
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still theming on point i have had quite
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a few
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coca-cola products from the coca-cola
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droid
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which is where the navigator pod would
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have been
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somewhere give or take a few feet right
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in here
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on the tram tour and this is this is
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kind of where the
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the jedi barge would have been and
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there's still some star wars
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vehicles weird
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would be kind of neat if one day they
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brought back wrecks instead of 3po
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piloting star tours like the good old
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days just for a short time kind of like
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an overlay
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for a bit well paul rubens
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all right now heading over to a little
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park hopping
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also side note paul reubens was
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credited as paul maul doing the voice of
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max
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the spaceship's name and navigator
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fun fact and with all that backstory now
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finally arriving
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at the destination i guess i could have
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just gone right there
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got on people mover and showed it but
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what fun is that
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gotta have some backstory gotta hit all
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the spots right i wonder if
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heavy metal mickey even those may think
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it's made out of aluminum
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remembers that film not a lot do but the
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ones that do
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really enjoy it now the item in question
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sits over next to people mover and
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below astro orbiter kind of next to the
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raceway
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it is known as the cool ship it is an
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area where you can get refreshments
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currently closed at this time
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during the current circumstances and
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what not but if you look up top
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of the refreshment area the cool ship
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is the screen used ship from navigator
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true story repainted retouched up
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a few add-ons to the front to the back
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some tail fins things of that nature
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to disguise it but you can see with the
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little notches
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yeah this is it same size same
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dimensions same angles
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and same etchings there it is right
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there in all its glory
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that's the one figure can get a
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nice little perspective from down here
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now they have done one heck of a job
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disguising it
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in fact recently within the last month
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or so
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they have placed another paint job on
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top of it
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meaning that the little notches and
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whatnot right in the center of it
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are very well disguised but you can see
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some of the grooves that does
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match up you have to look very very
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closely
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they've also added a little side rockets
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at the beginning portion there's that
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little
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nozzle at the front that kind of
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disguises the
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the front point of it as well
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i'm also going to go up on the people
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mover
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see people move it right there and going
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by up there it is up there
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and once i go on said people mover
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once again
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there it is kind of see it once i'm up
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on the people mover
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it gets more of a bird's eye perspective
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or not really a bird's eye but at least
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kind of straight across on the same
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level
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i just have to my apologies for the
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noise of the race car
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i'm just going to overlap the dialogue
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as opposed to working around the
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music of tomorrowland you hear the
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rumblings
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and in reality i'm on the people who are
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mover right now
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zooming in zooming out showing
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this amazing prop one of the two
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that did exist at mgm studios now
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they're only one
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in existence here in magic kingdom
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pretty fascinating a great film classic
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80s
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not a lot of murky i wish i wish there
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was more merchandise
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of not only the spaceship max but the
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movie itself
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they don't really acknowledge it too
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much in the park so much
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that that's what they really ever did
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even at mgm studios they never did with
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the exception of the boneyard
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this item has been moved from the
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boneyard
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from one part to another but still
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sitting here in walt disney world in all
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his glory
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i'm doing a time warp now just like in
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the movie
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it's about time travel i just went back
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in time i'm on the
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raceway again looking back over
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at the spaceship
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and now another time we're going back
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to people mover it's going to stay
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focused on the people mover
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you know in the movie itself it's a time
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travel movie
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if you haven't seen it i highly
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recommend it the fun one
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the good film classic 1986.
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well my favorite movies were from the
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mid-80s in fact all of my favorite
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movies
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with the exception of one or two are
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from the mid-80s
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1986 could be classified specifically as
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mid-80s
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kind of just rambling now trying to get
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as many angles of this as i can
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and that's going to do it for today as i
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take the ferry boat back across the ttc
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documented a little 80s movie history
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from studios over to tomorrowland i'll
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see you in the next video vlog
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oh there there's a lot of boats crossing
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by here
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also a little side note the ship itself
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appears to be
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if you look back at the at the footage
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when i was over there kind of
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sitting in kind of nestled in the the
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bowl shaped top portion of that beverage
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stand
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which kind of makes it look like the
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bottom fifth of the ship
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was gone it's very misleading a very
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it really you gotta really look at the
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clues to figure out if that's it
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or was it but i did it
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pulling away from magic kingdom
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a vlog from studios
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to mk 1986 movie history
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prop that still exists that some might
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not know have known about
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is over