Goodbye To DinoLand At Animal Kingdom - Disney World Is Closing Rides & Changing The Entire Area
Goodbye DinoLand
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Thursday
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October 24th
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2024 I am holding a very piping hot
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caffeinated beverage toasty protruding
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through the cardboard around the
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exterior of this cup whenever I go to
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Animal Kingdom which is what I'm doing
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today I try to stop off here at this
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Mickey D's which is solar powered
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there's a huge solar power up on the
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roof get my coffee here and I'm going to
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head over into animal Kingdom where
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certain attractions will be closing
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within the next few months so it's going
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to be a pre goodby to some of the
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attractions I don't doing a lot of
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traveling when it comes into next year
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so I don't know if I'm going to be in
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town on the official closing dates of
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some of these some of them have been
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announced some of them there are rumors
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on and I'm just going to go ahead and uh
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and knock some of them out today one of
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them being dinosaur another one being
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Triceratop Spin and another one tough to
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be a bug all three of those soon will be
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erased from
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existence I'm going to have an animal
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kingdom today I'm inviting you to join
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me good to have you
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here that's pretty good shall you I
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always like the Sleek like look of this
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well it's not really I don't know why
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I'm saying Sleek like because it's just
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a it's a rectangle from this angle well
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the top of the roof which is the grid of
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solar powerness right there top where
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the drive-thru is and on top of this is
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a little Sleek like speaking of things
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that are being erased from existence
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they got rid of over here so there's the
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golden arches this is the foliage arches
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and when this place first opened a few
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years ago they ended up having some
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bicycles that were mounted into the
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ground that you could ride on and it
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would illuminate the gold section of the
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Mickey D's golden arches there
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inside of the foliage but they've
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removed the bicycles a few months ago
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and now they've just placed B not
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bicycles but they placed boxes on top of
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where the bicycles were so you could no
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longer get your cardio in and work off
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the little bit of sugar that is in your
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piping hot caffeinated beverage or if
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you get anything else there's a lot of
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other options here too but this this is
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what I got all right heading to Animal
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Kingdom made a reservation a little bit
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before heading over going to scan my AP
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got my magic band for when I go in the
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park it's an Animal Kingdom day Disney
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Animal Kingdom day all right the tram is
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loading up I think I might just walk it
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however it's not too far from where I'm
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at over here in giraffe
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228 giraffe 228 or giraffe 2 28 or
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228 it's
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giraffe giraffe 228 right next to 227
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last time I was in Animal Kingdom a few
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months ago I parked at 22 2 27 now I
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parked at 228 I remember
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227 because there was a TV show called
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227 I'm right next to the TV show now in
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22A and giraffe is right next to
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Dinosaur so evidently the dinosaur
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attraction is going to be extinct no pun
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intended or no maybe it's not a pun it's
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just a an ironic
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terminology it's going to be turning
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into an Indiana Jones Show and from what
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I'm hearing the rumor mill it's not
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going to be an exact carbon copy of
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Anaheim which is going to be nice be
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kind of cool to see Indie back in there
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the whole Dino Land
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USA it's going to be gone and they're
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going to have a whole different section
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including Indie en Kanto a bunch of
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other stuff they announced the d23 also
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look at
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this unicorn 215 I guess I could have
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taking the tram but just getting some
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steps in here passing unicor
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212 my shadow drinking a a coffee here
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McDonald's coffee is pretty good I like
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McDonald's coffee okay this is a
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serious they were cones moment they have
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gone
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overload on the
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cones they really want to make it known
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you're not supposed to park in the grass
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I've never seen so many
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cones in one section before this is
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maybe a world record for the most amount
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of
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cones in one little area almost at the
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front front
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entrance same time frame as the tram so
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I would have been waiting on the tram
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that whole
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time I'd rather just be moving I always
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like forward motion as opposed of just
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sitting sometimes the tra is quicker but
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a lot of times it's about the same same
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time
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frame at 11:37 these are the weight
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times so you got over in the Avatar area
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about an hour wait for each of those an
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hour right now for the Safari that'll a
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little as the afternoon goes on that'll
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probably get to be a little bit less
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tough to be a bug is this one right here
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the 10-minute one 10 minutes for
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dinosaur and 5 minutes for Triceratop
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Spin and maybe maybe do Everest for 35
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minutes but the three I really want to
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do are you know 5 minutes 10 minute
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weights those are the three that are
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going away Triceratop spin I believe
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middle of January has been officially
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announced they are closing dinosaur will
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be soon after has not officially been
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announced but it will be soon after
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based on the rumor mill and then tough
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to be a bug shortly after that there's
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some an eaters over there walking
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around think there's any ants in there
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or are they just the ant eaters walking
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around looking for ants I would guess
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there's probably ants on the ground that
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one's eating something
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probably either the foliage or a little
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snack that the workers have left out for
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it or possibly eating some ants I don't
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know if that's a healthy meal or not
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probably
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is ants probably not too content with
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the uh the situation but it is what it
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is circle of life right guys ah yes and
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coming soon very very soon will be
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rip Dino Land USA not yet but soon so
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known as Discovery Island that's what
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this bridge leads to which has Dino Land
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on it also I wonder when they bring the
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new land in that's going to be over in
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this section when Dino Land and all that
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goes away if they're going to eventually
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do something over here with where the
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the what's it called kite Tails there
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was a kite show over here there was
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originally when the park open and I
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think a few years after that there was a
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nighttime spectacular they don't do
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anything really with this Lagoon anymore
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it' be kind of nice if they brought
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something back over here the ter
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pterodactyl
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snack bar right
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there trillo bites I think it's called
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you got dinos or Donald's Dino bash
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signage still up over there you can do
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some character meet and greets and there
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is a possibility with I am in town and
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they do announce last days for dinosaur
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that I might be here in town on the last
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day but there's really no guarantee of
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that they haven't announced it because
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I'm going to be doing a lot of traveling
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there's really no guarantee and because
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I am going to Alaska in November and I'm
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going went to Hawaii in December and La
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back in December it won't be a lot here
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in December as well so cannot see that
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sign at all that is a Sunburst I believe
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after I get done with some of the other
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stuff maybe even before I'll go on
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Expedition ever I do like that I could
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single Rider on it as well but I think
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it's only like a 20- minute weit at the
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moment 25 minute weit so maybe not even
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do a single Rider just get in the
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regular line it probably is even less
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than that but I was kind of perusing
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around over in dinand USA and a lot of
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people didn't really like it it's kind
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of it was kind of a a we we setup for a
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Disney park almost kind of like Paradise
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Pier now Pixar Pier a lot of people
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don't approve of the the idea of having
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like a more of a carnival style thing
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but I think that the dino the dino the
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dino land area really was more the
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carnival area was a lot more Carnival s
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than even like paradise and Pixar Pier
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is and I really like the fact that it
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was just kind of like going to like a
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almost like a a popup Carnival in a
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parking lot in fact you can even see
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where they had parking spaces which
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really it's not something you would
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normally see at a Disney park something
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of this caliber but it was more made of
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like a Roadside Attraction I love
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roadside attractions so I kind of like
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the theming of it I know a lot of people
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didn't but for some something about it
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was just uh kind of brought back that
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nostalgic like a church Carnival Vibes
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or a a fair setup in a in a parking lot
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Vibes so that that I'm going to kind of
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missed but it definitely has seen better
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days uh we already want to traction went
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away a couple years ago and now the
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other ones are going to follow all right
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you know what I decided I'm going to go
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ahead and head over to Everest first
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before doing dinosaur and tough to be a
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bug ooh you can hear the the drop it
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just happen and now it's going up and
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around Expedition Everest here I come
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all right look at the single Rider line
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not one person in line in the single
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Rider line usually there'll be like 10
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or 15 deep here there's no one in the
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single Rider line for Everest not one
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person all I'm going to do is walk up
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and get in the single Rider section look
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yeah one minute wait for the
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way used to be an eagle that would pop
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out up there I haven't seen the eagle in
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a
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while backwards
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ho my
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Lord so good so good we're in the gift
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shop check this out y'all Yeti for this
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in said of ready y all Yeti there also a
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hat right there you Yeti for for this
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little Plushies are so cute and cuddly
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where really disco yeti on there is kind
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of horrifying also never noticed here in
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the gift shop was a lot of these old
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cameras right up here you know what's
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interesting I used to have one of these
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I think it used to hold if I remember
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correct it would hold a floppy disc yes
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that's the floppy disc I used to have
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one of those years ago there it
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is and it's quite the drop quite the
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drop all right back over now to the dyo
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area rides of distinction that is a true
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statement if ever there was one I'm
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going to go underneath the belly of this
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beast and then back over through here
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and head over to the dinosaur very scary
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dinosaur attraction experience includes
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Dark Places and scary dinosaur high
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speed turbulent ride adventure that
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includes sharp turns and sudden drops
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what are the scariest rides probably
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left at Disney World honestly this guy
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is going to be saying goodbye very soon
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you can see the you can see right up
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there you got the meteor making its way
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soon that meteor is just going to just
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take this whole thing out yeah not a
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whole lot of people in the queue said it
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said it was a 10-minute
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Institute not much longer Dino Institute
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not much
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longer all right we're doing this G's
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here to go down into the coaster hole
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the toaster hole you got to pull your
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pull your yellow
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straps
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okay oh four-wheel drive move look at
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that
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ow oh morning
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Carnotaurus I think I nailed it I think
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I got a good photo up that's for
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posterity
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goig oh hold on IG do hold up that log
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hold that
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log hold that long oh the T-Rex the
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T-Rex I think that was a T-Rex I'm not
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sure going make it
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wo oh we made it we made it took a
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picture 65 5 million years ago dinosaur
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take home a Keepsake of your trip to the
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Cretaceous Era
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today right there I thought you know I
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thought it was a T-Rex but it's not a
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T-Rex what is that I believe it's a
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carus is what they said car tourus I
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keep thinking of Jurassic world or
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Jurassic Park the boat ride at Universal
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that drops in and this veneers on this
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guy this is the one that's holding the
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log look at that dental work there's no
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way that's St there's no way it's what
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there's no way that's natural teeth look
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at it you don't think so look Gary buy
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dude they had Gary a Gary Bucy dinosaur
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they had good they had good dentist back
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65 million years ago tell me that's not
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Gary VY look even look at his face you
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ever seen Drop Zone that's him okay I've
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never seen
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DropZone you ever seen you know what you
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ever seen Joe Dirt too oh yeah I've
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never wait joke Dirt 2 there's a sequel
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free on YouTube never seen that had no
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idea I watched I was going to scan for
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you last night how many views does it
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have one just you yeah it came out 2015
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never heard of you look at this meteor
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heading right for this Disney attraction
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right there it's going to be erased from
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existence soon enough let's see let's
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see how the photo turned out photo has
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arrived and Gary you have been wasowski
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by a piece of
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foliage look at that that's what I get
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for put my hand up front of Dustin SC
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face oh on the last day of
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Splash look at this why do they put the
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plant think we could go and ask them to
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remove the plant they going hit with
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head scers or something why is that what
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do you expect for 65 million years ago
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that's got the plant on it still
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completely gone there's no way you could
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show it without the
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plant maned no oh there it is there it
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is that's better there it is yeah that
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take picture o look at that that's
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better I like that one can you put the
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pl over my face now I like I like just
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like okay we're going to scan
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this got it thank you thank you thank
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you so much okay that's cool so little
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fun fact you can just go up to the
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little Guest Services photo pass station
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on the at the exit and they can shift
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the foliage
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over fun fact kind of curious if they
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have the puppet that Seeker has in the
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pre-show with Mrs Huxtable I always love
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this up here and how horrifying this is
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this is like the last Dino
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that I'm mistaken for a T-Rex I was
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thinking of Jurassic Park Jurassic world
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drop ride at Universal is that from the
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dinosaur movie wasn't there a movie was
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there a movie I think there's a movie
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for this guy it was like straight VHS
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man you're throwing some deep cut movies
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into that Gary juy could have been what
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the heck is
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this look at this is that a hat no I
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think you like you can actually put this
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on your
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arms look at that
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I've never seen anyone walking around
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the park with one of
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these this is cool too it's like coming
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out of a volcano era imagine going down
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with that like Expedition Everest and
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you got this full full Wing display
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going on I can imagine
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it I've never seen anyone wearing those
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in the park I can't even I think it's
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made for for someone younger and smaller
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than us
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what are you doing I don't know I think
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you're whatever you're doing now I think
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it's what it's made to be done with okay
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this is kind of
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cool this is honestly kind of cool 30
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bucks it's a Time Rover radio control
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vehicle what if I should buy
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this cuz once they announce the actual
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closing date which is going to be
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soon these are going to be gone 30 bucks
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and that'd be cool you just take it
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right out of the box you just put it on
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a shelf yeah get rid of the controller
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there are plenty in stock at the moment
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look at this there's an entire
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wall yeah I would wor I'm going to hold
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off on it for now I'm going to hold off
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on it but I would like to probably get
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one at some point what do you think
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they're going to do with this this big
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bag is that going to end up in the
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archives you're going to be able to go
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to Disney Studios in Burbank and you're
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going to see this like you put that in
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wal
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W right above the Sherman Brothers piano
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pretty cool it's like a monster truck
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din these are the new ride Vehicles this
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is the new ride and Harrison Ford's
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going to be inside this
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mouth they said it's going to be a
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different thing than Anaheim a shocks on
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that it's heavy
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Dy this should be what when they
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redesign test track this should be one
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of the new vehicles that you can
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sign it say the border
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on so I was looking over here nothing
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says the prehistoric crustation area
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like astronaut ice
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cream like they couldn't push it in Miss
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space thir here this is the one that the
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animatronic that they got rid of I did
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not see this in there so it is official
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they I did not see the the Al Ali oramis
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eating the alligator I got to head now
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into one of the best themed gift shops I
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would say at Animal Kingdom it's is like
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really quirky Roadside Attraction style
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the prehistorically low prices to the
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Dino store at the exit you exit not only
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through the gift shop but through a
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fantastically themed gift shop which has
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a lot of really quirky stuff up on the
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roof roof line from hanging from the
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ceiling on in and enjoy their Ice Age
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air conditioning don't mind if I do it
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take a look at this Coca-Cola machine
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right here vintage Coca-Cola refresh
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yourself big cooler right there again
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you got this dyo here there's a train
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that goes around there's all kind of
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diaramas dangling from the ceiling all
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kind of postures about dinosaurs this
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might be one of the probably the best
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themed gift shops left still currently
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on property I can't think of too many
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other ones a lot of the kind of quirky
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gift shops have kind of Gone by the
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wayside I've also already gone extinct
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before this but I love all the like
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Coca-Cola stuff that's in here you got
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all the dinosaur stuff that's in here a
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lot of anything that has dinosaur theme
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it's just basically what you'd see like
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a Roadside Attraction going around what
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do you see up there look got all the old
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Comics that are jammed up in the corners
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yeah I mean it's just anything that has
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a dinosaur when they were set dressing
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this place they were just like just go
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find as much dinosaur stuff as you could
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possibly find and what you would see
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like on Route 66 or driving across
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Lincoln Highway you would stop at this
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weird unusual places of course most
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dinosaur stuff would probably be out in
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like the desert you got into the desert
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areas where you find Place something SAR
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similar to this when they definitely set
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dressed all this that's what they were
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going for they were going for a Roadside
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Attraction type of theme just like the
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Dino Land is that's basically a fair set
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up in a parking lot so it's kind of yeah
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it's definitely not what you would
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expect at a Disney park It's Kind
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definitely a little bit different
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different vibe maybe that's why people
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didn't really catch on to it as much I
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know a lot of people just passed through
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the gift shop and through the dinorama
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area we're kind of like what exactly is
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this this this is not a this is not what
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we expect out of Disney but I I liked it
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what we got over here we already got the
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Indiana jonesb coming oh he hates he
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hates
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snakes found it at least two from the
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attraction the third one's not but we
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got two here from the attraction the
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credit card was not working but I had a
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dollar bill so I just went ahead and got
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one I went and got the final dyo at the
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drop so now let's go get that dyo press
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pinning I love not only the roadside era
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of the all the roadside era theming
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through here but also the Coca-Cola
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stuff also notice look this here this a
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Mickey Mouse giving Pluto a bath right
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on the front of this I never never
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noticed that before
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never noticed that before as well a lot
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of good Coca-Cola stuff you think of
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roadside stuff and Americana Coca-Cola
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is definitely a big part of it and sell
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Coca-Cola here at the parks never
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actually seen this movie so you're into
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deep cut movies do you have you ever
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seen the Beast of hollow Mountain no but
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I did watch terrifier one and two pretty
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cool over here when visiting Diggs
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County see the dino institute there's
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the dinosaur ride and you can see the
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familyes all going in and not knowing
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how horrifying this attraction is it's
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like literally one of those scariest
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rides that still exist on property I
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also never noticed back here where it
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says where fossils are full where
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fossils are a way of life Welcome to
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digs County and I also never noticed
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back here there's a parking lot Chester
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and Hester's dinorama parking lot sign
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right there and there's like some neat
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theming here and there's like a road
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that goes from here and leads back over
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so over here used to be what was it
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called the what was the ride that was
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here oh um not Triceratop spin but
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primeval wh it took that down here comes
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Kevin Kevin is walking back over here
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later
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oh that's awesome stopping inside
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restaurant restaurant has it
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restaurantosaurus restaurantosaurus
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restaurantosaurus which I didn't realiz
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I walked through here a couple times but
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I've never actually eaten in here I'm
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not going to eat here today either but
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the theming in here is kind of on point
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as well almost like like just as good
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and quirky and as bizarre as the Chester
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and
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Hesters Roadside Attraction gift shop
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that you walk is a Chester and Hesters
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am I saying that right Chester Chester
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Anders fil fossil treasure fossil
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fossiles
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Treasures you can definitely tell that
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everything in Dino Land is kind of
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themed the same with like a quirky
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roadside Vibe I never really noticed the
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bunk beds that were up on the top level
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or the the camper that you could e
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inside of all that inside
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restaurantosaurus yeah pretty pretty
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pretty cool and all this all this is
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going to be going away I doubt that this
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restaurant will remain dinosaur theming
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when the tropical America's you know
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changeover happens photograph of Walt
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right here never knewed there was a
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photograph of Walt in here also that's
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the coolest thing in a dino Landing tell
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that's pretty dang cool I love this
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there are two dinos eating a hamburger
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right here look at that two dinos eating
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a hamburger chowing down on a hamburger
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you were talking about piranhas that
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looks like a piranha piranha right there
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as you mention before we ended up
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heading out of Discovery Island we ended
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up Discovery Island with Dino Land we
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ended up going on Triceratop spin got to
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ride around on the top of it so probably
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will be my last ride on Triceratop spin
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Triceratop spins like a spinny spinny
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type of thing kind of like Dumbo or
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Aladdin's magic carpets but there was no
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one in in line we didn't even wait 1
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minute we just walked right up they said
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get on whatever Dyno you want on we got
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on the dyno and off off we went but now
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we're going to head out of Discovery
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Island thank you for disneying dinand
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USA there's a possibility I might pop
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back pop back in before everything
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closes but they haven't announced all
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the closing dates yet so I wanted to
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make sure I wanted to get it in cuz you
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just never know there's a possibility
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when I start traveling I could be gone
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and they could just immediately close
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some of the stuff that I that I showed
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so I wanted to show okay some of the
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stuffs all right we head cross the
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yellow safety line let call for no
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further board this tra comes and
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freaking starts and stops make sure you
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hold on small children if you should
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lose an artic wild time here at Disney
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animal King get your car not have such a
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wild Time come on back to the Grand
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yellow PO and flag down a cast will be
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happy to assist you car is C follow the
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white arrows C down the ground leads to
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the one and only exit and the
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on small children L the comes to
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its full and complete stop and when it
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does it's going to have all my dinosaurs
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to Driver's right guys all dinosaurs to
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Driver's right all right that's going to
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do it for today from Animal Kingdom did
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a little dyo just walked out of the dyno
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parking area now going in giraffe
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227 and then giraffe 228 is where I
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parked definitely gonna miss the
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dinosaur ride but I'm excited about the
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Indie up here it's going be interesting
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how they work Indiana Jones in the
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animal kingdom interesting to see how
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that works well thanks for watching I'll
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see you in the next video the
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