Disney World EPCOT Has Drastically Changed - Opening Day Of CommuniCore Hall & Updates To The Land
EPCOT June 2024
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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I4
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smoothly it's going to be another
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scorcher as the recording of this Monday
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June 10th
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2024 a high 90° day I'm heading to Epcot
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for the official opening day
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of communicore
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Hall should make it by ROP drop all goes
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well as of this moment doesn't look too
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bad
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weatherwise little streaking clouds up
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there but no heavy cumula Nimbus yet but
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that could change as the day progresses
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and the routing of the parking taking me
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over this way first thing Road been a
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while since I've been at the
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opening moments of Epcot
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day Guardians over there on the left
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blending in with the sky welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt Epcot Center the
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construction
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walls are down or should be down when I
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get in
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there the I don't say the longest
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construction period but it's been going
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on for a heck of a long time many years
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here at Epcot formerly Epcot Center
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still refer to that by myself and many
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others the whole middle section where
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the old Starbucks used to be the old
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Club cool area the Fountain of Nations
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long gone now there's a kind of a weird
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planter there with figment toer well the
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Fig mopier is gone because oh that
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speaking of there are no festivals
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happening so I actually might do a lap
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around world showcase there's no
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festivals right now no flower and garden
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no food and wine no Festival of the Arts
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just kind of a mellow day except for the
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fact with the exception of the fact my
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air is like a
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little out of
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control except for the fact that there
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is a whole new area I don't call it a
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new land but a whole new area that is
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now opening today Fountain nation is
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gone again there's that planter but
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there are no festivals happening inside
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the park you see spaceship earth over
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there if you can maybe see it right
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right there but I'm just going to peruse
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around check out the new area
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communicore Hall is the last thing to
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open in the new center area there is the
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connections Cafe there's the former
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Mouse gears called The Creation shop
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that opened now there's a lot of things
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that were announced at a couple d23 d23
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ago that were kind of like scrapped off
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of the drawing board including a two
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maybe three story platform thing that
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was supposed to overlook the nighttime
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spectacular at the Lagoon that is gone
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the Mary Poppins area back in England is
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gone no more play Pavilion I guess is
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not on the agenda you don't hear
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anything about the plag Pavilion anymore
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where wonders of life was so there's a
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lot of things that did not happen but a
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lot of things did
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happen and I believe this officially
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wraps up that particular construction
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progress
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right maybe not but I think I think that
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whole Center area is done nonetheless
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I'm going to go check it out I'm
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inviting you to join me good to have you
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here shall
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you Mickey and figment together on a
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shirt ah love the little emblem there on
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the trash can and that Beacon of
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goodness there that spherical attraction
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there there's attraction here spaceship
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earth inside the big spherical ball
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right
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there yeah kind it's kind of neat all
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the the I don't want to call Epcot 2.0
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cuz it's probably more like Epcot you
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know
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4.2 there's been a lot of different
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incarnations of of Epcot Center over the
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years but I really like kind of what
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they've done with it obviously I like
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the old stuff but
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a lot of lot of new progress which is
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pretty pretty nice including when you
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first walk in the whole area they got
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rid of the whole the whole section that
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had the it almost kind of looked like a
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a graveyard of sorts like headstones but
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they got rid of all that they brought
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back the pylons in front of spaceship
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earth which is nice gave it that whole
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vibe and then behind it of course you
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got Walt sitting over there you can now
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sit with Walt Walt the dreamer sculpture
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which is really good
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check that out too while I'm here all
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right got in about 10 minutes prior to
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rope drop it is now 2 minutes to 9 and
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they have opened up the floodgates you
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can see everyone is
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now straight ahead to the new area
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communicore
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Hall the floodgates have
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opened the
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floodgates have a properly document this
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moment for posterity underneath the
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nether regions here
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with my Mickey and figment shirt on
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underneath spaces shiper all right
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coming into fruition here my first view
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over here this says Mickey and friends
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on the side of this building and I
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really have a look at the extended queue
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a little later the day this is probably
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going to be a crazy behive of activity
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all right all right the exterior looks
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pretty dang awesome I really love the uh
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little blocks the the I believe this is
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a meat and green Mickey and friends is a
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meet and greet so you can meet Mickey
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and his Pals over in here all right
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there's the front entrance of
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communicore Hall take this look there's
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a little bench right here made out of
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concrete in front of communicore Hall
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all right I am going to walk in finally
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for the first time into the Hall of
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communicore all right that's looking out
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the window there and then that of course
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over there is the land Pavilion living
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Seas over there there's the bottom of
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the hall sign and I am now officially
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inside the newly opened the first
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official day of communicore Hall in the
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AC is a blasting okay first impression
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of this area if it's like nice and quiet
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like this all the time in a seed I will
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be spending a heck of a lot of time in
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here drinking my coffee because I must
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say World celebration Gardens right
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outside is ear piercingly loud and
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obnoxious yeah I've stated that my
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biggest complaint is when you step out
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the doors into World celebration Gardens
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just how completely loud it is almost
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like they created a space for loitering
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out there but then they made it known
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that they don't want people loitering
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the complete opposite I must say can be
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said for in here and if this stays like
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this all the time you could pretty much
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expect to find me in here having a a cup
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of joe piping hot caffeinated beverage
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on many occasions love all the
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different different flags that are up
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there I actually met the gentleman who
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designed all these original Epcot and I
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believe he even did the newer areas as
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well but the original Epcot logos he
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also designed the Trans Am believe was a
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TransAm the sports car for Smokey and
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the Bandit with the uh the front on the
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on the the front emblem on the hood yeah
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there he is this back in April of 2022
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at the Contemporary at an event pretty
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neat he's the one that designed all the
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the Epcot Center logos and the Smokey
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and the Bandit car design on the hood
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all right the best part about all this
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is the fact that you can just
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see with the walls down that you can
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just look right over into there before
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there was just wall there was been walls
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here for so freaking long and now
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they're gone yeah aesthetically pleasing
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from the outside I will say I highly
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approve of the exterior of this I'm not
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sure what they're going to do with the
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inside but for now I'm liking it but who
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knows they'll probably they'll probably
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put some stuff in there pump more tunes
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through there but I'm going go check out
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the Mickey and friends meet and greet
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area over here now I probably won't meet
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the characters but I want to see what it
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looks like in there there's also an
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Encanto show all day starts at 9:45 so
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about a half hour ah this makes more
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sense now cuz there used to be walls
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right here and this was kind of a a
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weird section but now it makes more
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sense cuz you can like walk out of here
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walk through and then walk over to this
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area see how the coffee situation line
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is over here for some reason they just
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turned the freaking music down in here
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what the heck did I just put World
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Travel oh you know they're getting ready
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to do the show over that's what it is
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forces of nature forces of nature right
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over here so over here there's a massive
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amount of people waiting for the Encanto
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show but forces of nature is about to
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begin their show right over here it's
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like an acrobatic dance show and I think
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Walt Walt would you approve of this new
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area trying to sit in the same spot well
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I was sitting in the same spot where
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Walt well Walt has his View and just
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kind of give the perspective of Walt's
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view as he looks across World
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celebration Gardens and now I'm going to
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walk back in the AC again again the new
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the new area that's opening is right
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over there I got a few minutes before
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the show but I'm going to get a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage over here in
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the connections Cafe the line doesn't
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look too long they said they're going to
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have food at the new area and snacks and
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maybe coffee but they weren't open yet
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so heading over here I love they have
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the design for Progress City down there
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on the ground some of the original
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artwork from what I had heard it was
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scribbled on a napkin and then they put
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it on a piece of paper and then years
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later as an homage they put it right
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here at the Starbucks also can't get
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into the Mickey and Friends building
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unless you waited in the half hour line
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to meet the characters but maybe as time
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goes on when the other portions of the
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building open up that'll change I wanted
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to take a peek in there I didn't really
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want to wait a half hour I mean I'll
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wait 15 20 minutes for coffee but a half
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hour right now I mean the coffee is the
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priority I love that even the napkin
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dispensers have the the Epcot logo on
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them even the
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napkins are going full Epcot yeah pretty
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much all the buildings through here I
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really like the the vibe of them and the
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design of them inside and out I will say
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that that is that is definitely
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definitely nice how they've kind of done
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everything with the little wooden slats
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in here and the connections Cafe
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and just like the the sides of the walls
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just little details that sometimes you
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just don't pay much attention to I got a
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large blond roast usually I get pie
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plakes I got blonde roast today non-fat
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milk and then couple of the regular
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sters so that's what I what I ended up
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getting also this is usually like later
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in the day this is really really really
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really full over here this is kind of a
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neat little setup hardly ever show that
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there's always a lot of people sitting
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here but they got these little like you
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can sit here on these little like this
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almost look like cutting little cutting
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boards I don't know how comfortable be
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there's no backings for them but
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definitely easy on the eye kind of kind
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of neat looking when you when you when
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you look at them but probably not the
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most comfortable seats oh that's pretty
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neat the uh the pride mural out there
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with all the different rainbow colors
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going off of spaceship earth murals of
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Plenty through here murals a plenty
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right now it's not too busy in here cuz
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everyone's over at the new area so I'm
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going to go around this way and then
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head over there for the Encanto show
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which is going to be starting pretty
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soon and I'm starting to get used to
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calling it creation shop but obviously
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it was Mouse gears for so long but
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creation shop is is starting to roll off
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the tongue a little a little more
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frequently now oh we got the
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jamet they always shift around and get
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go to different spots they're right now
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they're over here
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therea makes a lot more sense with it
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all opened up like this really does make
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a lot more sense
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everybody Sing
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Along come on now this is a sing a a
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sing
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thank you thank you hey what do you say
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there get him Clapper get him clapping
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get him
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clapping here we go with some floss in
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there that
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hey
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hey go
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welcome
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everyone we are having a party right
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here at fot you're all invited oh they
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don't call this place World celebration
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for nothing that's right and today we
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are celebrating the magic of
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Encanto and the amazing M God family
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with a big Fiesta we are going to
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sing oh we're going to
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Dan it's going to be
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fantastic my name is Alina and I am so
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excited let's say hello to our Primo
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thank you so much well now that
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everybody is here we are ready to play
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some en
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trivia that's encounter and trivia you
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know blend it together let's see if you
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all know your
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Stu first
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question who knows what you ready
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everybody here we go let's sing a
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nailed it you did you remember
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everybody's name SE that gu see but you
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know whose name no one
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forget
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close I heard Peppa
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Peppa we have a lot of family M experts
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are here today so I have a question if
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we can talk about Bruno does that mean
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that we can sing about him too hey I I
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think we're now are really I mean I'm so
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sorry I can't help it it's so catchy and
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my a always says that I'm really
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Talent you are very tent actually
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speaking of talented can we give it up
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for our Amigos and help us with the song
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today
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yes we're wonderful and I SP some of you
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jamming out there okay we're going to
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open the Dance Floor show us your moves
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show us what you got come on let's go
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hey but first why didn't we play so many
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now it's some about different plant that
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are needed to colia where takes place
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Now can anyone make some of those
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PL yeah for one reason or another the
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jumping water up here at the journey to
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imagination Pavilion is not on at the
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moment but take a look over there yeah
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all that down there is now open for
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business not a wall in sight ready nice
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pretty nice yeah it really does look
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great again I was talking about the
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exterior of it and how nice it looks the
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Encanto show was really fun very similar
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to the Frozen Ever After not frozen Ever
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After but the Frozen show over at the
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former superstar television at Hollywood
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Studios kind of kind of similar to that
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one thing that's nice too is there's
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restrooms over here as well and this
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little booth is called Festival
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Favorites thank you all right there is
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the menu they have a variety of
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different things
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I am going to get a light lemonade they
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also have they have cocktails beer wine
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things like
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that but uh no no Savory food items for
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me but I'm just going to get a a
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lemonade also one thing that's kind of
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neat
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is they have complimentary waters for
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anyone that wants them there's this
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metal pole down here I was kind of
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wondering what that's for but evidently
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it's to keep carts or anybody walking
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and smashing into that glass
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right there that's the only I can figure
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going around the corner here to get my
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refreshing lemonade from the Festival
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Favorites Booth it's fa bir reflection
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all I should also note that they turned
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the music on in here as well evidently
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it's going to be like a quick service
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spot in here as well but I don't see the
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quick service restaurant other than that
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little refreshment stand that I showed a
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moment ago outside and to meet Mickey
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and Friends 45 minute waight even though
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it doesn't look too long but there is a
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lineup against that wall but the sign
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said 45 minutes to get into the meet and
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greet area I might have to do the meat
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and greet at another point but I'm just
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going to walk through a lot of people
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say this looks like a college campus and
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I kind of agree with it in a lot of ways
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very College campusing all right
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stepping over into the land Pavilion now
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just to get out of the elements a little
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bit because it is definitely toasty
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outside a little bit of a line but from
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here it says it's 10 or 15 minutes for
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living with the land so give me time to
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finish up my little lemonade here and
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then head on and get on the boat ride
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and then after that go back over to
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Community Court Hall and possibly well
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most likely definitely walk around World
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Showcase it's a festival free day don't
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get those two off here anymore no
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festivals going on down the actually
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have plenty of time to finish this in
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line because you can't take it on the
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ride but you can take it in the line
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living
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with the
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land it's also very interesting that
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right over here on the new guy map the
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newest guide map that I got today they
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don't show the communicore hall at all
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so you go past face ship Earth and right
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over there now it's just on this map
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it's just all a grassy green area I
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guess they haven't updated the maps yet
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heading into the land I also
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heard that they have redone or cleaned
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up the the scene with the waterfall the
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uh I came with that area is called with
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the water okay definitely well with the
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thunder and lightning and rain it' be
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the
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to the rainforest scene if you
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will we go around this corner with the
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lightning and everything and go over to
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the rainforest scene and see how what
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they've done to
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it and hear the waterfall even oh it's
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actually a lot more
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illuminated wow that red light was on
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there
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before you can see it a lot better so
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you got the waterfall over here take a
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look this is like a different queue a
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different red
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coloration over here where the gator is
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that is definitely new and
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different got the gator over
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waterfalls check out the new
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lighting I can see the parrots a lot
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better too I see those gators a lot I
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never realized there was a gator right
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you can see a lot better all right I
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like
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it it does look a little bit better and
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brighter than it did before
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update this is one of my favorite
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attractions ever all right approaching
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the Hooves of the mighty Buffalo and the
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groundhogs oh look over there that's new
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too I don't remember that well I don't
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think I remember that
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I don't remember that fire back
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into the biod
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do love
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it wonder if Holly Shores ever been on
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this
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the rowers keep on rowing and they're
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showing no signs of
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slowing there is one room I've always
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wanted to go in even on the behind the
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seat T where you don't go in it it's the
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biotechnology lab over there I've never
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been in that room but I always see
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people in there working
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it's like on my bucket list to go in
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that room one day one day I thought
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they'd do it on the behind the seen tour
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but they don't all right exited off tell
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me this does not look like Donald Trump
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right here doesn't it I don't know kind
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of kind of kind of resembles him in an
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in a in a mural fashion up the escalator
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I go getting a nice little angle here as
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the escalator goes
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up of the
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balloons celebrating the different
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seasons
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Yeah couple different effects on the
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land fail the on the land attraction
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really nice I confirmed with the cast
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member soon as I got off it goes oh did
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you see the Prairie Lights they're back
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old school effect is back so that is new
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or well they brought it back wow it is
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wild walking this way and not seeing the
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walls anymore it is like I'm just so
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used to like going this direction and
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walking along a a big a bunch of wood
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that is placed all up along the side of
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here so nice to see it all open now the
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last time I was here was the last and
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final day of 2024's flower and garden
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festival and this was all full of
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flowers also there goes the Montreal and
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there goes the walls no more walls I
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would say probably seven out of 10 times
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when I go around World Showcase I go
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this direction enter through Canada but
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I think this time I'm going to go this
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way and go to Mexico side also again
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nothing here yeah I am all about a
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festival list FAL less World Showcase
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they have the food boost up but none of
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the food boosts are open except for the
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regular restaurants and quick service so
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oh yeah Festival this abcot plenty of
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Elbow Room yeah it's always soothing
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just to watch the miniature trains go
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around over here at the Germany Pavilion
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all the miniature trains just going up
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the side of the little
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Hillside just always kind of a kind of a
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peaceful thing to do just sit here and
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watch the the miniature train yeah you
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know it's not a festival there's no
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Festival going on when there are wait
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times for attractions at the American
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Gardens theater which Al usually this
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has whatever Act is going to be playing
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that evening on it but right now the
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American Gardens theater it's empty not
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not even being utilized unless you just
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want to get out of the Sun and sit in
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the shade yeah last time I was over here
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Tiana the topy area of Tiana was right
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here but she has been removed now she
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probably moved back over to her
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attraction it'll be opening up soon
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they've been doing previews but the
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opening day is a little later this month
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at Magic Kingdom for the Tiana's B
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Adventure okay the walls are still
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around they're just over in the Morocco
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Pavilion take a look I think the
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fountain used to be right there but
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they've replaced some of the tile work
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over here in Morocco in World Chas so I
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mean the walls up in the new area are
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down but there still are some over here
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in my rocket look who's over here Big Al
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is over here hello big ow good to see
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you over here at Epcot you enjoying your
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day so far all right have fun Big Al
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good to see you I'll see you soon back
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over in Frontier land I heard there's a
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certain attraction opening with an
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opening date now all right see you later
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Big Al oh this is all open too this was
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all walled up last time I was over here
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there were walls around the side over
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here also and there's a lot of changes
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going to the former country bear jamere
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it's going to be called something else
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Country Bears I know the animatronics
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are going to be new songs are going to
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be new but a Big Al does not seeing
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Blood on the sadle it's a total fail
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again I know the entire soundtrack is
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changing but if they could just give us
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Blood on the saddle and and oh I almost
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ricocheted it in I haven't seen that
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window in a long time cuz there's always
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been you haven't been able to go over to
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this area I almost got that almost got a
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hole in one and I like the old Stitch
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backpack here too as well I haven't seen
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that and I've been eyeing this for a
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while it's like kind of like you put it
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like over the front it's like a front
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pouch like a fanny pack but it's more
25:46
over the chest I don't know if I'll ever
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use it but I think I'm going to buy it
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check out the monreal little like C is
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that a monor oh it's a candy dispenser
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but you could almost use this as a you
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could almost use that as like a pencil
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hold right there I might get that too oh
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play Pavilion what happened to you
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Wonders Of Life pavilion I guess that's
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never play Pavilion is never going to
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happen are we ever going to be able to
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go in that building again all right with
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that I think I'm going to go ahead head
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on out it was a successful day over at
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the communicore hall which is kind of
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nice you know they brought back part of
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the communicore which they tore down a
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good section I tore around half of it
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few years ago tore it down rebuilt it in
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its own little way
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like not not exactly the same as how it
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was and it does it go completely around
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it's not the four sections making the
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the sphere the spherical communicore if
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you want to call it that but it's
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communicore something nonetheless didn't
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get to go inside the character meet and
26:45
greet but another time when it's not
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quite as long of a
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line a good day was it end up being a
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good time glad I popped in and check it
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out parking lot
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now find my vehicle it is scorchingly
26:58
hot I also need to show what I purchase
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here where the heck's my car yeah pretty
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cool I'm going to use this as a pencil
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holder it's technically called a
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Montreal candy dispenser but I'm going
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to put pencils on the top of it pencils
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and pins and things right in there
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always nice uh nice little monreal item
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and I got this
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little what would they classify this as
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whatever it is a little bag and both of
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these items
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both of these items with an annual pass
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you got 20% off I think it was 20 15 or
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20% off but you got a little bit of a
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discount thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video of the
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Vlog it's over