My Favorite Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg Attractions - Earthquake Ride and Jurassic Boat / Space Needle
My favorite dark rides of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinbug TN
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hey welcome everyone adam the woo
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here today's adventure will be in and
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around
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pigeon forge tennessee meaning
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in this area as well as just through the
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mountain range there
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a few miles into gatlinburg this is a
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trolley here
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i'm in the patriot park area
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where you can take said vehicle up and
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down
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the main strip i have a rental car
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however i'm going to be cruising around
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to some of my favorite dark rides
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this means jurassic boat ride
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earthquake the ride and i'll pepper in
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a few other quirky unusual
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roadside attractions here that i am
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really really
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into there's a trolley there i'll be in
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this
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neck of the woods for a few days maybe
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longer
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but at least a few days
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i'm excited to be back i'm inviting you
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to join me
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there's a lot to cover shall we taking a
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shortcut
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down a bypass road to the space needle
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the main road in was really congested
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with traffic
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this one is a little populated as well
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but it does it's designated as a
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shortcut instead of
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sitting in bumper to bumper it's a
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popular time of year
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around here it really is a beehive of
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activity out here
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yeah quite a quite a few people
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and always get a good perspective
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up top here
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traffic backed up down there
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the spur that's what i was that's what i
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was the name i was trying to think of
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the road
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that goes between gatlinburg which is
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where i am now
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and pigeon forge which would be
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around that bend and then through the
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gap there in the mountain
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looking at the flyer it says ride to the
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top
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see space needle gatlinburg
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yep there's there's two space needles
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this is the lesser known
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the lesser known version when it
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compares to seattle
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prices are 12.95 for adults plus tax
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they have
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group rates and down here i was noticing
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there's something called an elite
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vip not really
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don't really know what that gets you but
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they do have that
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it might just be in my mind but i feel
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like this whole
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thing is swaying just a little bit in
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the breeze
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maybe not the wisest decision to be
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standing so close
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in proximity to the edge but i want to
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show where i'm heading
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next as i zoom in
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oh yeah this thing's definitely sweating
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the wind is is kind of
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making it shift to it oh i'm getting
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like i gotta get my sea legs here
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that building right there in the middle
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of the screen is earthquake the ride
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i'm i'm pretty excited to be back and be
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able to go
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back through that tunnel
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going down
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now i realize yeah i enjoy things that
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are not always
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up to par or spectacular in production
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value sometimes
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sometimes things that are not pristine
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when it comes to
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technology or very dated
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is enjoyable to me so keep that in mind
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with what i'm going to show i've showed
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it before
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but it's worth reiterating through video
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form
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right down here this spot that i'm about
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to head to and then
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over to pigeon forge to the jurassic
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boat ride
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i love doing both of those
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over and over and over just based on how
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odd they are so yeah sometimes
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worse really is better which you know
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i've
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i have definitely highlighted this place
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a number
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of occasions world of illusions which
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fall which falls
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into that equation it looks as if the
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magician that was up there
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has been uprooted and is missing from
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the side of the wall
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safe to say that over the last 20 years
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or so this place has not changed
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one bit still holding strong to its
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awkwardness
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so if you are in this region feel free
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to
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also you know go pretty much survey the
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entire area
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but this place is not to be missed at
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least to do it once
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some of the pumpkin folk are out oh is
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this a milk jug right here is this a
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milkshake cookie jar but unlike world of
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illusions this is a place i will never
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bypass
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every single time i'm in town this is
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happening
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i have honestly lost count i would say
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probably 50 maybe 100 times i've been on
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this over the years
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never gets old oh yeah disaster train
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ride during an earthquake
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great fun great drill good to see i'm
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not the only one
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boarding this train that's following the
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precautions i'm about to be
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let in there oh this thing this thing is
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shaking over here
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there's the the traps there but look how
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look how these pillars right there are
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oh yeah they are not structurally sound
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at all
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the way it works is you grab a seat i am
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sitting
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on this one so there's two in the front
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two in the middle two in the back and
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then
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i think there's six no there's eight
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seats there's one two
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three rows there four so a total of
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eight people
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can ride this into the dark i think it's
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just gonna be me on
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and an here action admission that you
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will forget
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now for a couple of safety checks you
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must remain seated at all times
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and your seat belt must be securely
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fastened and most important
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your hands must remain in the train
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i think we're about to start moving up
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we're moving
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going forward oh the seat's tilting
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backwards
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the seat's tilting backwards what's
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going on what's happening
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oh i forgot about this part oh this
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whole thing
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oh
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oh i'm twisting and turning oh this
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guy's smooth taking a smooth a little
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bit of a snooze back
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oh there's a gorilla over here look at
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that
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i think he's like i think he's confined
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to that
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that box oh that thing's swinging right
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here
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we are in the midst of a trimmer of some
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sort
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what sort of mechanism showed itself
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there was some rattle there's some rats
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on the wall right there sliding down the
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wall
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over here working on the electrical
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system i didn't even see him oh that
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can't be good either
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what is happening down here hope that
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doesn't spill
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oh man i think i think it's over oh
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what's happening oh no that's not good
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oh oh we got some water here
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gonna have some water damage oh no whoa
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whoa
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whoa what the heck stay away from me
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come on calm down big guy
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calm down oh i i narrowly missed his
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grass
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you tried to get me but i was out of
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your wreath wasn't i
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strobe light alert oh my apologies for
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the strobe light oh there's a bunch more
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wraps up there
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rated four stars by world of
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entertainment incorporated
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i don't know what world of entertainment
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incorporated is but they gave them four
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stars so
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i guess that that means something
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don't know the reason why but every time
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i've gone through that tunnel
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someone's always honking it wasn't me
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there were all the other cars in there
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that were honking
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every time never gone through there
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without hearing a hawk from another
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vehicle
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oh yes it still
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exists it has been well over a year
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since i have gone on the
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jungle boat ride of the jurassic
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time frame yes
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oh goodness gracious the t-rex is
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growling that's how i'm saying the t-rex
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was not quite operational but he's back
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i always love the mannequins they have
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out here as well that are
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that are waiting in the line itself
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including it might be hard to tell
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because he's in the shadow there but
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i don't know if it still is but jack
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nicholson
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look alike here as well
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yep oh jack
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costs on this one 15.99 plus tax
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and they're stating here you do not get
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wet
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oh yeah that dino right there on top of
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the rock is also new he's a
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it's a totally new dino from the last
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time that's like 13 months ago 14 months
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ago i was here
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i lost track it's been over a year it is
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a
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battle of sorts going on right here and
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i am heading past the waterfall
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and about to cruise as this door opens
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past the mannequins and uh and look
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alike nicholson
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oh there's that noise there's that sound
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as the doors closed it's like you're
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going back in time it's supposed to be a
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time machine
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and that is the time circulating and
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pushing you back
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to the prehistoric moment i believe
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that's what that sound is
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pay no attention to your eardrums that
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are
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afraid okay it stops
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that was that's rough oh hello
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oh oh you seem very friendly
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oh look over here this little guy hello
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there
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oh yes so man oh there's another one
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here there's so
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many of these dinosaurs just they
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everything oh a spider
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we got a spider up top up here an
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eight-legged
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creature and then perched above this
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little
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rock formation down here oh there's some
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eyes
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we got someone always feels like
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someone's watching me oh snap of snakes
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did you miss me
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i missed you too good thing you're next
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to the exit sign
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just in case you need to hightail it
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that is real what is that what was that
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noise
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nothing happened but the noise was very
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loud
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i thought something was gonna pop out
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above me but nothing
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did okay there's an island up here
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this is creatures oh i hear
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i hear something
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oh i hear something's happening oh wait
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wait up here look
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look it's carrying away
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someone it's carrying them away on its
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wings
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oh it's slowed down it's gonna drop him
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oh no it's not dropping
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it's taking him back to his cave
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you guys up too hanging around oh having
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a little conversation
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what in the name of heck is that what
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is that
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it's like some sort of demonic fish
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with fangs yes
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oh i forgot about you you startled me
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oh man you got me good i was paying
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attention to your friend over here
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yeah oh yeah here comes the running one
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okay on your mark get set
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and go
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not listening you're supposed to be
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running
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run run you're not running
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usually you're moving at a quick pace
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down this guava train there you go
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let's get down that lava trail get down
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that lava trail
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it's running really quick isn't it i
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know i was noticing
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no you don't you don't want to take you
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don't want to have me for a snack
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oh we got a storm over here there's a
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storm of ruin
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over on the horizon
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yes indeed
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got some got some lightning protruding
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through the heavens there
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oh oh hello i see you like
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there you go looking through the shrubs
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yeah do not spit okay good
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the sign said i don't get wet i don't
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want you to break the rules don't spit
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do not spit
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good thank you for not
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doing not sitting
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oh look at this thing it's a big crab
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they are they seem to be communicating
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in some fast there's a little baby right
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down there
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as well now we're going to go through
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another cave they are just so
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stegosaurus is that what this one's
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called i'm not a i'm not a scientist but
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i think that
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going through the wall here making its
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way through the wall
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now many years ago your boat would
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elevate
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right over here they had this elevated
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platform
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that would take you oh you're trying to
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come forward there it would take you up
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to the roof line but
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i don't think it does that anymore oh
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there's that snakey
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the good thing my boat isn't rising up
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close to those
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bangs and just like that it has
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completed its task of making the full
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circle around
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around the river
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around the smoky mountain sections
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sevierville pigeon forge gatlinburg i
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have a plethora of
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ideas don't know how long i'm going to
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stay
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might not be here for a long time but i
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am here for a good time
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i don't know who originally said that
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i'll see you the next video
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it might be here throughout the weekend
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or up to the week maybe up to the
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weekend and then maybe past the weekend
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or maybe even long who knows
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i'll see you the next video the vlog i
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love it here
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it's over who are you pointing at
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you're pointing at me why
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oh because i once took a bike down
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a sweet slide and it's supposed to be me
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huh
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yep that's pretty much how it went