EMPTY Magic Kingdom Attractions & No Ride Waits - Big Thunder Alone / Fireworks From Splash Mountain
Empty Rides & Attractions at Magic Kingdom
Transcript
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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the mickey power pole i-4 westbound as a
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recording of this sunday
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august 29th
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2021 this side doesn't have any cars
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this is the merge lane
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you know it is a weekend so not really
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work rush hour traffic but there's still
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a little bit of a backup
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and i have a reservation
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for magic kingdom
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and this will be my first and only visit
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to magic kingdom on this current tenure
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to florida i arrived about two and a
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half weeks ago
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in a couple days two or three days i'll
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be flying up to atlanta for dragon con
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and after a few days there back to
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southern california it will not return
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here until the 50th anniversary october
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1st
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and there's a reason i'm stopping in
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this one time current time is 5 57 looks
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like i'm just gonna miss by three
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minutes the cutoff point where they
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don't charge for parking magic kingdom
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closed at nine tonight so directly at
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601
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three hours prior
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well six
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would be three hours prior they don't
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charge for parking now i have an annual
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pass so it doesn't doesn't apply to me
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but yeah just keep that in mind and did
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not stop they just waved me on through
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even at two minutes before the three
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hour the three hour plateau if you will
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all the parks are this way
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all the parks three hours before parking
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is free and this is the reason i could
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not pass up zipping down here
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you know having an annual pass and you
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see wait times like this on a sunday
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afternoon into evening
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15 minutes space
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what the heck
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five minutes people mover
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scroll over here
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pirates 10 minutes
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big thunder 10 minutes
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even jungle cruise 25 minutes a lot of
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five minute waits all through here
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yeah there's hardly anyone in these
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lines
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it's go time oh yeah
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perfect timing
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being greeted by my favorite
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transportation device
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the monorail welcome everyone adam the
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woo here now walking directly towards
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the sun but that'll be setting in about
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an hour give or take around this time
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frame you know that
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nightfall is within view within a few
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hours it'll be very nice
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some shade
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well there'll be no shade because
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there'll be no sun in there i digress
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the wait times i showed
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were even less than that an hour or two
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hours ago i think maybe that is starting
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to
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get later in the day a few people have
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showed up but they were less than that
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okay if you can even believe that
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earlier in the day what is going on
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i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you the great thing about
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technology and smartphone and the app as
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you can tell what the wait times are
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without even being on property and
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decide if you want to head down we're
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not now this is something i've never
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seen before
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a little doing a little construction
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here on the front of the
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corner of the boat look at that i got
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this little
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look at this little barricade
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i think i might go down i think i might
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go down to the bottom floor usually i
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will stand right up here next to the
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captain's quarters
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now when you arrive at this hour a lot
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of guests are leaving by the boats so
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you'll be able to see three boats
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instead of the normal two that go back
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and forth the one i'm on the one there
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and a third boat well that's a fourth
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boat obscuring the view the little boat
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the little boat going by and there's a
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fourth boat going across seven seas
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lagoon yeah because a lot of guests are
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leaving very few entering in like i am
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right now
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that entire boat there pretty full of
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guests
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leaving i believe up
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they're hawking
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while they're blowing the horn at us
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oh yeah headed into view
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got oh yeah got another boat crossing
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over as well as space mountain and the
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monorail
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cruising by the castle
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not a bad view and the
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the weather's cooling down just about a
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few degrees
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i mean it was hot it was high
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low 90s today it's like 92.
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so it's i'm glad the sun's going oh
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we're getting the crossing
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of the monorails there's a monorail
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going by
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yeah look over there the crossing of the
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nicely done monorails nicely done and
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the crossing of some boats
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all kind of transportation devices
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on rail and on water
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all right
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oh you can see the hidden mickey from
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here
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oh never mind that's not a hidden mickey
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sometimes that's a hidden mickey now
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except now it's just a normal rope oh
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nice directly overhead
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there it goes and i
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making my way up first stop i'm gonna
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head over to tomorrowland but i wanted
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to show the castle from this angle where
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it is shadowed out by the sun
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when i exit off space mountain it will
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not be that way
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gonna go over to tomorrowland space
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mountain
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shockingly
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is down to a five-minute wait i'm not
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even kidding five minutes
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i gotta check this out
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i'm leaning towards space people mover
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autopia east which is also known as the
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tomorrowland raceway and then dumbo in
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that order
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doing it okay here's the walkway up you
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can see somebody walking in way down
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there but this is this is the queue line
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situation take a look at this i love it
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look at this not what i am used to
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usually this is between a half hour to
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an hour and 15 minute wait normally
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about 45 minutes
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right now it's just a walk-on a walk-on
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there was about a total of 20 people
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in front of me 20 people tops look at
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this no one
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and here goes say goodbye to no one in
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that line oh there's a few people
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walking down okay there's a few people
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coming in not a whole lot
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there it is going into facebook
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i never can remember where the photo is
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sometimes you get another
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another space pod zooming by oh there it
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goes
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i think i heard it
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sometimes they're side by side but
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not this time
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oh my goodness oh this is so much more
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rougher than anaheim's version
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so much more rougher than anaheim's
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version a lot more spins and turns and
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drops
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i think i saw the track i think i just
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saw the track
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i have to say it's more intense than the
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disneyland
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in my opinion a little more intense
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than disneyland it's a little rougher
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all right people mover yeah people mover
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also a walk-on no one in the cube
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straight up the escalator and on you
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really cannot you can't get any better
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than that you really
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cannot get any better than this honestly
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although i think it might have just
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broke down i think maybe i think maybe
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people mover has just stopped believe it
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is going to get going again though they
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are making the announcement the vehicle
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will start moving at any moment all
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right perfect it is now going again yes
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some of these sometimes they'll put a
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cone in the seat this cone is very
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popular and it was only about a one
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minute delay it wasn't down for very
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long at all just about one minute and
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now
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moving right along people moving and it
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feels amazing out here right now yeah
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very nice nice and brisk with a little
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brief a little bit of humidity but not
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too bad it is currently 702
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pm and of course you get that grand
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reveal there of the castle silhouetted
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out of the sun and going back into the
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darkness i believe after this i'm going
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to go on the raceway oh this is like
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deja vu i'm going back into space
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mountain i was just on this on this lift
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hill there's those astronauts right
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there except now i'm below the astronaut
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not going up the lift hill beside them
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right here past the starboard side and
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there's the exit cue right down there
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that i walked past just below the people
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mover track fun fact
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and heading back into the light now out
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of the darkness into the light
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through the tunnel back outside
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okay the ride has stopped the ride has
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now completely stopped and now pulling
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back into the station
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with just about a ten minute wait give
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or take
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for the tomorrowland speedway so i
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wouldn't classify it as a walk-on per se
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but pretty dang close
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yeah pretty close
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and you can see the attraction i was
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just on
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going by and one of the vehicles
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i'm about to board right there well
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that's a display but i'll be boarding
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one very similar to that race car
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sitting over in the victory circle
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number 31
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i'm not only
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behind the wheel but i'm also on the
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accelerator the gas
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going through down there
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all right going around
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wasn't too long i'd say maybe a eight to
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ten minute wait
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it wasn't five
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as it stated on the app well madison you
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know what it might have stayed at 10
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on the app nonetheless
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still better than 20 or 30 minute wait
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times oh there goes the people mover
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up top i'm looking at what i was just on
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not long ago
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going around the crossing
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of the people mover vehicles as they go
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by and the neutron construction right up
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it is nice out the temperature has
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dropped quite a bit
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sun is setting
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but you can classify this as magic hour
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with the sun setting over there in the
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distance
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as i go through this
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under this overpass
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the castle
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is now in view
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nice
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i'm glad i stopped in here tonight
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i'm glad that i decided to head over to
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mk
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oh
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getting a little too close for comfort
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in here
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get a little too close for comfort
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there's tron
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still no opening date on that yet
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but it will be awesome
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when it finally opens
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look at that beauty
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and of course next to it i have to do
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the mickey voice from the opening space
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mountain special space mountain
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it's also interesting what you have to
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wear facial coverings on on this you do
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not need to people mover it is required
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space mountain required but because this
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is open air and i'm by myself
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no one driving the cars has it on i need
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to steer this like hey i gotta watch
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where i'm going now from here oh it's
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getting running a little rough
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oh there we go okay i wasn't pressing my
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foot down far enough from here up in
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view you'll be able to see
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dumbo the flying elephant
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oh let me zoom up a little bit a little
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bit more
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i am just going to assume
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that dumbo the flying album out helmet
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is a walk-on i'm just gonna
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cruise right up to the front of the line
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and once i get on to one of the mini
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plethora of elephants i'm gonna do the
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the loopty loop around the circle on one
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of the two now there are two
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sections of dumbo the flying elephant
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here at walt disney world versus
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anaheims that only has
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one there are two and i am flying
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sky-high
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on an elephant
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well i'm narrating it i'm narrating it
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from
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from autopia east
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but i'm on the elephant
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you probably he probably figured that
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out by now
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nonetheless i just did dumbo and walked
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right on it
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and i believe it took a little longer
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than what the stated wait time was they
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did five minutes it probably took like
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10
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10 to 12 maybe 13 it's because the
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secondary dumbo is not working it is
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okay though i still got about an hour
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till close should be able to do a couple
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more couple more attractions if i if i
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time it right which is definitely a walk
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on and i'm going to get my very
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own car but i'm getting the front seat
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here no one in two or three rows behind
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me i mean wrote one oh man is this one
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of those best remove them right i think
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i'm just going to i'm going to hold on
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to it tight maybe i'll maybe i'll do the
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switch maybe i'll do the stallone over
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the top
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good all right might be okay i don't
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know
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yeah you know what okay hold on i'm
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holding on to it i'm just gonna hold up
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oh yeah barnstormer goofy
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he knows how to yeah oh my god look at
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this i can see the propeller around the
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front i'm about to go through the
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billboard here
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yep
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yeah
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okay i think you can do a hat on this
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yeah that was a grand total of about a
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20-second walk-on wait there was no
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weight at all i just got in line hopped
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on the plane and went on the attraction
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oh there it is right over here
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right overhead and through the billboard
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that's a good angle right there that's a
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real good angle
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exiting the queue looks like mansion big
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thunder and pirates are all 10 minutes
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it's currently 8 10 so i'm kind of in a
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rush to get over there before before
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nine and get those three done but and
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then also splash is only 20. i feel like
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wait uh the commute time over there
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walking over there is probably going to
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be longer than some of the some of the
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wait times for the lines themselves yeah
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i gotta kind of walk briskly and walk
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quick
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that's my train going by that's a little
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a little longer than a walk-on so i'm
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bypassing that one oh yeah 10 minutes
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don't mind if i do i have been stopped
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right here the line has stopped right
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here i'm going to assume that maybe the
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stretch room is back and that's why
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there's a little bit of a hold up but
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still
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still not too bad this is where it stops
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right here just looking across rivers of
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america
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now it's moving back in yeah still some
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of them pretty quick
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moving pretty fast now even the though
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this was a walk-on it did take a little
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longer than it has in the past because
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they have brought the stretch room back
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so when you get up to the front over
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near the two you know the headstone and
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all that the cast member will open the
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doors bring you into the pre-show room
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and once you're in the pre-show room
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then you wait a little bit then you go
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in the stretch room you listen to the
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stretch room spiel and as the there are
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no windows and no doors that you get on
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a dune buggy and go through the haunted
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mansion
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proper so it probably adds another
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five to seven minutes and how it was
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before everything you know everything
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started to take place last year where
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they cut down on you know they had the
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distancing of people and they didn't
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have the pre-shows and everything the
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pre-shows are back so it took a little
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bit longer oh there was a little thunder
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up there it is currently 8 30 p.m and
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the fireworks i believe are about to
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begin at any moment it is dark over here
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by the mansion all right big thunder
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states 10 minutes i might be able to do
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big thunder and get on splash it's
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currently 8 33 what if i was on big
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thunder when the fireworks are going off
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that'd make it even extra special nice
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view of the castle over there going
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across the bridge out of frontierland
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and well still technically in
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frontierland going over to big thunder
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mountain railroad we'll best remove them
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currently 8 37 and we'll be able to do
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this oh there's some water there not the
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back side of water but water near still
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nonetheless should be able to do this
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and then get over to splash mountain
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all before close yeah not a soul in this
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line not one person just me i'm gonna
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guess i could pretty much ask for the
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very back i'm gonna ask for the back row
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because there's nobody on this thing but
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myself all right i learned my lesson
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last time in anaheim on big thunder i
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lost my hat because i didn't best remove
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them so i'm going to hold on to it by
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the way i have this entire train to
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myself
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back row
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no one
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an entire
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train
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to myself on big thunder dreams come
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true
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look at this
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no one but me
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oh yeah
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bring it
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yes
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empty train alert
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i love it
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go go go go go got my hat off
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not taking any chances this time
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hello possums
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there's the hotel the gold dust saloon i
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should say that's a better view
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no one on this thing but me no one
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this hardly ever happens my own
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train on big thunder
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dare
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i love it hello
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hello
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or ram or whatever you are go go go
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oh man this is a heck of a night hardly
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any weight
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i and my own train
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oh gosh
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i am way
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way too stinking excited about this i'm
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not really sure why i need this one
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and there's no dynamite room here no
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dynamite
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in the florida version look at this
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empty freaking train
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enjoy the moment
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gosh i love this attraction
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i'm gonna go through mr bones
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that the guys are going on right there
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and the empty train
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no one on this bad boy
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like myself
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i don't know if that's ever happened if
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he has
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it has slipped my mind
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i did not get the fireworks though if i
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would have waited a couple more minutes
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i got the fireworks i'm gonna run over
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to slash
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and end with that
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look at this my own train
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there it is 10 minutes standby 17
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minutes till close can i get this and
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then get over to pirates before close i
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don't know that's a toughy it might
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happen i'll try it
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if not this is a good thing this is a
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good one attraction to end on going in
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to splash mountain look at this no one
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look at that
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dang i move very quickly walk very
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briskly after splash to try to get over
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here by jungle cruise by 9. it is
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currently
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901.
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it's a very lengthy ride
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yeah when you're in a time crunch you're
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trying to wait for that log to pull into
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the
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i didn't make it but man i got a lot
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done
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that didn't want to focus worked up a
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little bit of a sweat
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getting over here
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it could be that could be the water from
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splash as well luckily there's the tikis
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here they are also permeating with
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humidity it is humid out here it is now
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903 fireworks just ended i got a lot
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done today i got a well this evening
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within like two and a half hours castle
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looks very beautiful at this hour the
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park is officially closed i'm gonna
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start making my way down main street usa
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and post fireworks
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crowd going out here is a little bit
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different than the wait times on the
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rise now i know why but no one was on
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the attractions they were all waiting in
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line for the fireworks and now
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everyone's exiting a little beehive of
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activity the line for the monorail is
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very lengthy i think i'm going to take
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the ferry boat once again yeah you can
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see the crossing of the monorails there
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yeah where the heck were all these
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people in the park none of them were on
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in the queues for the attractions
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it's been another area
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because there was no wait times for
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anything i went on but there's a lot of
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people exiting
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they must have been hidden and check it
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out over there there's the water pageant
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there's the
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electric light parade on water there's
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the dragon going by as i make my way
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over
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to the ferry boat off in the distance
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yeah it's moving pretty quick there's a
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lot of people out here but it's moving
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fast got the octopus there at the end
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the octopus is at the tail end of the
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parade next to the turtle got the turtle
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and the octopus that's the tail end or
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is it a squid yeah i'm just going to
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reiterate i probably should have stayed
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in the park a little bit until this
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thinned out but
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i'm in the thick of things now
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and there's no turning back
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oh yes it's all moving forward now
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this is the only way to get off the
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island well it's not an island but
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i thought about maybe going over to
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contemporary and taking the resort
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monorail a little bit later but there
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are so many people getting on at the
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here at magic kingdom that it'd probably
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even take a while too so i just figured
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i'd wait it out
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oh yes it's up to you general joe potter
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boarding the general joe potter this is
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going to be a full book where did all
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these people come from
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they were they were not in line for the
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attractions and rides there was a
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monorail going by
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look how many are now getting on this
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boat to go across seven seas
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in all truthfulness
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this is not a pleasant experience
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leaving
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i kind of forgot what it's like to leave
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post fireworks when there's a lot of
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people in the park i didn't think there
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was this many people in the park but
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there were a lot of people
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in the park as proven by
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everyone that is leaving now okay it's
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moving now it's moving away from the
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buoy
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i am closer to shore
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and closer to my car
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and this boat here is for those
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departing
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no one is allowed over you can only
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leave
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the monorail was not even an option the
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line for the monorail was even more
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lengthy than the boats
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going across seven seas
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yeah it was very pleasant not having any
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wait times but there are
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there are people
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cramped on this boat i mean i have
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someone against my torso directly behind
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me
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as i'm saying this
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smooshed up against me
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i'm ready to get something to drink
24:17
once i get to ttch
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well i really appreciate you staying
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away from me
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really
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so happy
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i just realized that was the first time
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i have been here where they did
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fireworks in like the last year and a
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half
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that's what threw me off
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not used to the conglomeration of folks
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on main street because i have not been
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here when they have done the fireworks
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since i've returned they brought the
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fireworks back
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and i'm not used to that it's like out
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of my element now
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it's a lot of car horns right now
25:34
it's almost like a concert out here
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well one is more prominent and loud than
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the others
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yeah remind i have to remind myself make
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a mental note
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unless i'm watching the fireworks stay
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clear
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of main street
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the monorail out and the fairy boat out
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afterwards
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because
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it's not enjoyable
26:08
that took a long time
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to get out of there
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what made it worth it though is
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riding big thunder mountain railroad all
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by myself i had my own vehicle and
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this closing angle here
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of the monorail going by
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oh yeah i love it there it goes
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and short wait times
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it was pretty pretty awesome night with
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the exception of
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accident that was woo
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exiting with something else
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all part of the experience though all
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part of the experience i'll see the next
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video
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it is humid too
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fireworks
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crowds
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am i right
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except why was no one on the attractions
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and rides where was everyone
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i didn't wait on anything
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but somehow there was
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a lot of people leaving the vlog
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is over