My Confusing Attempt To Explain Disney Vacation Club & Travel Plans - Magic Kingdom Train Is Testing
Buying More DVC Points
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of this Wednesday November 16
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2022 the soothing sounds of a leaf
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blower right over there you can tell I
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have my magic band on because I am going
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to be popping and doing a little Park
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hopping both at Epcot and Magic Kingdom
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today but first I'm going to be going to
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the Riviera Resort
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where there's the host of some of the
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DVC programs are currently and I am
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going to be purchasing more points to
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add on to what I already have
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today and the reason I want to do that
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is that way I will have an 11 month
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window and have some new home resorts
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versus what I already have for my home
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resource currently I have a 150 kind of
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confusing if you're not familiar with
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DVC but I have 150 points at Riviera I
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have 50 points at Grand Floridian
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and I'm thinking about getting Alani
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today for Hawaii because I would like
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sometime into next year go there and
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stay for at least a week
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also I heard the train is running over a
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Magic Kingdom the train might be coming
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back soon
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I'm gonna pop over there and see if I
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can see that also check out some how
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this holiday merchandise and things like
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that it's just gonna kind of wing it
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today but the main focus is to get some
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more DVC ports doing it
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join me
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and it looks as if they have added a
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little shed there which is where they're
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going to have the skates for the
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makeshift ice skating rink that's going
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to be popping up here very soon
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plan I have as of right now also this is
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not moved over here this is this road
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closed sign
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they're waiting for it to be placed over
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there
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I'm not sure when they're gonna
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officially kick off the snope and all
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that but they're getting ready for it
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it's gonna be a kind of a lengthy day
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I'm going to do quite a bit of things
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a couple Transportation devices
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including a Skyliner from Riviera over
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to Epcot
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and then also monorail over to Magic
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Kingdom
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it's been about a month since I've seen
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the Mickey power pole they had to stop
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off when I get it Epcot the DVC Lounge
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is in order also a little cloudy today
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parked over here at Riviera now Skyliner
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currently is still running I don't know
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if the weather gets a little
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inklimited might stop running but this
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is my first home Resort right here the
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Riviera
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and I say the only thing the only
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difference in a home the only reason you
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would need a home Resort is the booking
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Windows 11 months not seven months
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for everyone else other than that there
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really is no perks per se for having a
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home Resort so when someone says oh the
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Riviera is my home Resort it only means
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they have four months additional
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to those who do not have this as their
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home Resort let's say you had
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Grand Californian as your home Resort
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you would not be able to book here 11
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months out only seven months out that's
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the only difference with having a home
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Resort so what people do myself included
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starting today I want to get more than
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one well I already have one two home
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resources I have this one at 150 points
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and 50 points over at Grand Floridian
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but you want to have a good substantial
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amount of Home points that way 11 months
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out you can book a good chunk of time
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for example if I wanted to book a week
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somewhere you want that home Resort 11
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month window versus a seven month window
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because before you know between one and
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seven months there's only a couple days
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kind of peppered in here and there so
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you want to have that 11 month window
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kind of confusing I know but that's
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that's basically how it goes there's
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plenty of information online you can
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kind of go down a whole rabbit hole on
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how the point system works now the
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points and what you're paying for the
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contract is like a 50-year contract you
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know between 45 and 50 years depending
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on on where it is to
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give or take a year but it's very very
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lengthy this will basically
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what I'm going to be purchasing will
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last until basically while I'm While I'm
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Alive
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so this will be something I am going to
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be utilizing for a very very long period
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of time so it might seem like a bunch
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right off the bat but over time you know
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let's say in 20 years if I want to go to
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Hawaii or I want to go to Hilton Head or
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I want to go to California
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or stay on site here even if I don't
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live here I can use the points and the
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price per contract is over that time
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period not per year so when you look up
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the prices on what all the the points
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cost
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that is not that is not due each and
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every year that is over the span of the
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entire contract
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and that's my best way to explain it
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which is one of the reasons I really
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want to get a good chunk of points for
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Alani in Hawaii that way
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from you know starting next year until
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throughout my lifetime I'll be able to
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go there every year if I Bank the points
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every two years for a good chunk of time
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and I can do stuff around the you know
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around Hawaii
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so I could obviously you know if I'm
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filming videos or whatnot I could film
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room reviews and food and restaurants
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and things like that but then I can use
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that as a central point to travel around
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same with Vero Beach down in Vera if I
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want to do some more south Florida a
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little bit you know south of
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Central Florida area I can do that and
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then Hilton Head got Savannah near there
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Hilton Head all that within that same
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general area so that's yeah there's kind
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of a lot going on in my mind on why I
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want the DVC and then being able to have
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kind of long tenures and being in an
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area for a good chunk of time so that's
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that's kind of another reason I want to
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get multiple home resorts okay enough of
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that going out and after today got to
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get a pretty good chunk today but after
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this I'm not planning on geek buying any
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more points up until the only exception
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will be up until the new Disneyland
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Tower opens up which I'm thinking maybe
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next year I'm gonna buy some points
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there because that way when I go to
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Anaheim and even today I might even look
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at some Grand Californian because it
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would be nice to stay on property when
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I'm out at Anaheim but definitely
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once the Anaheim spot at the Disneyland
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Hotel opens up that'll probably be the
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next Point purchase after today but
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today
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I'm going to get a few I've been loving
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one to add on for a while I like this
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little seating area out here
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you see there's a chess board out there
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you got the RR for the Riviera Resort
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lots of games and whatnot and I ended up
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getting a coffee here a little piping
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hot
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beverage so you can see it right there
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not only does it am I stating it it also
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says it right there on the cardboard
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sleeve caution
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piping hot beverage
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just a regular coffee a little bit of
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cream of sugar not much
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I really like this Resort
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like the restaurant up top I like the
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view and one thing I really like about
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certain resorts are the like the ones
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that are on either a monorail Loop or
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the Skyliner Loop big fan of this I
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don't know if I've ever seen the spirit
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jersey before so DBC started back in
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1991. I've never owned a spirit jersey
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but I kind of feel like at some point I
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need maybe some a DVC spirit jersey even
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though it doesn't really get too cool
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cool here I don't know how the weather
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weather is in Hawaii Hilton Head gets
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very brisk so maybe one day I also have
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ears and these little cups here little
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coffee mugs as well you can even get a
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license plate frame as well what does
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this say this is also oh yeah there we
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go
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vacation club member and then around the
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back it says let the good times I almost
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said it I thought it said roll but says
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Let the Good Times begin also I do love
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the theme parks I'll never stop loving
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the theme parks there's a lot of
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nostalgia
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but I also am really getting into the
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restaurants and the resorts lately it's
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like a whole other Vibe especially here
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at wdw Disneyland there's not a whole
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lot of on-site Resorts but here there's
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just a real plethora it's like it's a
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whole vibe on its own even without going
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to the parks
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side note all right after a little time
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discussing a little bit and purchasing a
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little bit
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I've got another one of these I already
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had one my zip the zipper on the on the
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one side of it I was still able to use
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it but I got another one I got enough so
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now I have two
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Disney Vacation Club Club member
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backpacks this is a newer one I've had
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the other one for a little over a year
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it's got some good use out of it I'll
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probably still continue to use it but
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now I have a backup all right heading
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over towards the Skyliner now over to
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Epcot
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cloudy and learned a little bit of a
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couple things that I want to kind of
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clear up I said some of the contractor
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50 years that is incorrect I don't have
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three home resorts I'll discuss that a
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little bit more in a second but all
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those home resorts go until like 1962
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1964 and 1967. so they're not 50 years
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but they're pretty good chunk of time on
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when the the contract will be good until
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if if I'm even still around in 1962 19
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or 2062 2064 at 2060.
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7
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and I am now a proud owner of a total of
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500 points
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per year
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until
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2062-64 and 67. I have a home owner
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here well this is my home Resort I
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should say at Riviera where I have 150
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points and then I have 250 points at
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olani in Hawaii per year and then I also
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have 100 points
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over at
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Grand Floridian it's a lot of points and
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I'll be staying at a lot of them
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especially I'm really excited about
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Hawaii now just to reiterate the points
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can be used at any DVC property not just
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my three home resorts that I mentioned
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however the one I am most excited about
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is 250 points every year atollani in
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Hawaii which means I will be able to go
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out there sometimes in non-peak seasons
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and probably stay depending on the size
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of the room for like a week a week and a
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half every year in Hawaii really get to
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know those islands which would be
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awesome I've never been to Hawaii ever
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so maybe next year I could be able to do
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that and I could use the other points to
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stay either here
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or utilize them at some of the other the
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other properties all over Hilton Head
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which is really good as I say they go to
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Hilton Head and I can just use South
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Carolina
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for you know kind of like a home base to
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stay and relax but then also film other
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videos and travel and this is also
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years from now when I'm not doing videos
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I will have places I can stay and relax
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for a long period of time I think this
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is a lot of points the next points I
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will buy
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will be at the Disneyland hotel which
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we're building the DVC tower now which
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hopefully don't know what's going to
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happen or not late next year or maybe
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the year after some of those will go on
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sale so that would probably be the next
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time if I buy any more points I don't
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even know if I need any more than what I
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have right now but I just kind of
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I decided to do it I just pulled the
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cord and said heck it
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went full in on DVC and for me it works
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the availability that I have it really
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works I can get like low Point State
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long periods of time as much as I travel
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it just works for me it doesn't work for
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everyone
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but it works for me and of course 20
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years from now I'll be very thankful
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that I did this now
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ah it's exciting
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all right hopping on the Skyliner and
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I'm kind of glad I did this now because
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on December 4th I believe it is the
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first week of December the prices at all
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three of my home resorts are going up if
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I were to buy after December 4th going
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up ten dollars a point today I paid 207
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a point times the amount of points I got
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like I said they're good until
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2060s and Beyond kind of in that same
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time frame but if I was to buy or anyone
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was to buy after after December 4th the
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same hotels or not the same dvcs that I
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just purchased would be 217 and they
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will continually go up so I'm kind of
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glad I I did it now because you know
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over time it's just going to continually
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go up
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so it's good to just good to kind of get
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in now and not not do it down the road
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I thought it was stopping for a second
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but it's still going I am not the best
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at explaining things so definitely
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plenty of other information out there
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regarding this but that's just basically
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what it is so I have 250 points now at
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Aulani 150 points at Riviera at 100
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points that I can use over at Grand
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Floridian
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when I bought 150 points a couple years
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ago
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didn't think I would be going up to 500
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but
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I did it
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which should last me that's a lot of
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rooms for the amount of points I get for
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some of the smaller rooms and again the
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main reason I wanted home resorts is
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when I especially go into Hawaii
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whatever you know where that happens
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next year hopefully hopefully
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I'll be able to stay for a long period
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of time and having that 11 month booking
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window versus seven months makes a big
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difference with booking a huge chunk of
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days
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and also in Riviera but you know for now
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currently I live in Florida so it
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doesn't make much of a difference to
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have the booking window so I could just
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pop in to any of the wdw resorts but as
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far as you know a lot it makes it makes
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a huge difference
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turning around the station here now do
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not disembark here and just turn around
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in this section
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because flying all the way to Hawaii
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and only being able to do a three night
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stay and then not being able to get a
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fourth fifth sixth seventh night in a
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row
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little more advantageous to be able to
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book like a week or 10 day chunk
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so that's kind of one of the one of the
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advantages
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of that and also speaking of one of the
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reasons like Hawaii makes a lot of sense
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to me I will always continually go to
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California and California is like the
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halfway point from here to Hawaii so I'm
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already so kind of going to plan them
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out go to California stay there for like
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a little time and then jaunt over to
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Hawaii and then you know this is in the
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way future by having that place to stay
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there for a week or two every year I
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could go over to Tokyo or Hong Kong
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International stuff it's pretty wild to
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think about in the 48 years I've been on
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this planet I've never been to Hawaii
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but now there's a possibility starting
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next year if I wanted to I could go each
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and every year for the rest of my life I
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mean that's just like what the heck I
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could get to know that state pretty well
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at all those islands
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I don't know I'm just thinking out loud
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well thinking towards the camera all
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right off of the Skyliner now and
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heading into Epcot Center through World
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Gateway we've got a pass water entrance
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over here
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I almost had a flashback to 2020 when
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the fingers were not needed at the front
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but now you have to use the finger oh
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dang look at this
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fully going vertical over here
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nice spaceship earth off in the distance
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is now kind of obscured once again
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I am so excited about Epcot 2.0 I just
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cut it's not a little something I made
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out but it's gone through different
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different incarnations obviously
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communicore which used to be over here
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has been completely torn down and the
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old Club cool and all that I'm excited
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about what's coming here I still love
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this park a lot I love it looking at the
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PVC Fountain there well looks like PVC
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above the the fountain that goes up it's
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like a upside down waterfall that goes
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the waterfall flows uphill and it's kind
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of come a tradition each time I
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get more points I'll stop it I mean I'll
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stop him here pretty often anyway but
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it's something it's become a thing that
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whenever I am at Riviera and I buy more
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points
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this is the third time come over here
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and go up in the lounge so I'm gonna
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keep that tradition and go up there it
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goes
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the Monterey
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you want to go over to Magic Kingdom
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with me yeah I heard the train might be
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the train might be testing
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circle tour around Walt Disney
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all right now pulling up to the Monorail
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station at Magic Kingdom and now over
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into storybook circus we're gonna walk
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past here to pass Barnstormer get a look
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at Tron and of course possibly the train
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and totally different than the train
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itself but this is the first time I've
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seen the trains over here with the
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spitting camels and the monkey up there
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and the water kind of protruding up in
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the air over in the little splash pad
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area on in a long time
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spitting camels are back yeah take a
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look at this
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some of the conductors and some of the
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cast members are front of the the train
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station how's it going
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it's good to see you here
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yeah
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oh there's Tron
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going around the turn there Tron is also
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testing as well they have not made any
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announcement on when the reopening day
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of this will be but it is nice to see it
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on the track see the Tron note now
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programming sign on the other side and
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hopefully they're going to back this
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thing up we're going to see some of the
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steam coming out from where the kind of
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water pours in from over here this
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thing's been closed for years yeah like
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how many years has it been a few three
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yeah probably three years awesome
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pulling back in it's been a heck of a
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long time since I've seen this happening
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at Walt Disney World massive I cannot
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wait
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for this thing to reopen whatever that
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is I don't know what it'll be but it'll
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probably be before Tron opens which
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they're slating for springtime
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come on all the way in we're going to
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see the full train itself
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it's interesting too because I don't
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think that Disneyland has the side view
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trades I think here they're all kind of
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facing forward it's been so long I don't
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even remember
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oh look they have the weighted bags of
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water just to designate that's people
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sitting there
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listen to that beautiful sound
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pulling into the station
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yes
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oh that's a thing of beauty right there
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foreign
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we time this perfectly
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just couldn't have worked out any better
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I think you're gonna be some steam
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emitting out of this very shortly he got
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the water that goes in steam engine and
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then they have to let out some steam put
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some water in and let them steam out
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this is you know how many times I've
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stood here in the last couple of years
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looking at that there's no track they
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built the tracks back now there's a
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train sitting on it oh this is awesome
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that's going to do it for today
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see you in the next video the Vlog
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is over
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spaceship earth over there
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from the Skyliner here
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I was scared by a tree
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look at that oh great view of spaceship
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earth
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all lit up there the front entrance of
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the park