The EMPTY Final Hour Of Hollywood Studios Is AWESOME - NO Waits For Rides / Disney World At Night
Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Monday, September
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29th, 2025.
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Couple days left of September and then
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October rears its head. It's almost
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Halloween month.
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Seems like Halloween's been going on for
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a very long time, which it has. But it
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is almost at the cusp of October, which
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is really when it gets into full swing.
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I still need to buy some Halloween
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decorations and figure out when I'm
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going to put my Halloween decor up cuz
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Florida does get a lot of storms,
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tropical depressions, hurricanes, etc.
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Don't want to put the conglomeration of
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things that I purchased up and then have
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to pull it down a couple days later. So,
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trying to figure that out. Want to go to
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Home Depot,
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possibly a couple other stores. I think
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it's sprinkling. It is sprinkling. We
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got to get the car and get out of the
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elements. Also to Spear Halloween, maybe
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another Halloween shop. get a costume
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for an event that's coming up in the
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near future that I'm going to be
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dressing up. So, I got to get a costume.
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Nonetheless, let's have a day. Join me,
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shall you? Yep. The rain
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is coming down.
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Can't really feel it too much under this
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little canopy of trees,
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but I can hear it.
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just talking about rain and
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storm cells and things.
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Get to my car and head into CM out of
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out of the celebration bubble. Man, it's
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not showing lightning or anything, but
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it is showing overcast and cloudy and
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little drizzles. It's 12:41 right now,
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so a little bit afternoon.
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No lightning though, so not not too bad
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of a storm. Look at the next few days.
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Look at this.
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Oh
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yeah. When when should I put up the
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Halloween decor?
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Look at this lightning.
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Half of the days that is showing heavy
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rain. So there's some storms coming
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through. So yeah, I'll figure it out.
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Woo! Look at those storm clouds. Those
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are those are some beauties right there.
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I have arrived at Spirit.
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Pop in and get a little outfit for an
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event I'm going to in the near future.
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In the semi well semi- near future.
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Very very shocking. They've added this
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rat since the last time I was in here.
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It's a rat. Is the rat going to work?
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Oh, it is doing something. That's pretty
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dang cool, right? All right. popped in.
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Got a few things to create an ensemble,
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little outfit action.
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Didn't have everything I was expecting
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they'd have, but they had enough to
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throw something together, so it should
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work. And just like that,
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made it over to Home Depot now.
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It's been like a How you doing? It's
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been about a month since I was in the
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a Home Depot.
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I think they put everything in. Well,
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pretty much everything's probably put
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out by now. Oh, yes. They have the
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ginormous, gargantuan, huge, massive
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skeleton here. They also have a grim
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reaper for it's a fiery reaper for 179
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right there. And you got the skeleton
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dog with the
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got the swirling eyes. Also, I've been
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needing a 6ft ladder for a while. I got
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a smaller light like a two and a
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three-footer, but I've been needing a
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six foot. So, since I'm officially a
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homeowner now, have been for what, a
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year and a half, coming on two years at
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the end of this year. I should probably
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go ahead and uh finally get myself a
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nice 6ft ladder. So, getting that while
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I'm here. Just remembered.
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Little time has gone past now. Went home
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and relaxed for a little bit. It
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stormed. In fact, some of the palm tree
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leaves have made their way into the road
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and
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rain has subsided. I'm heading to
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Hollywood Studios for about the last
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hour, hour and 15 minutes of the park
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being open. It's 7:35 now. Park closed
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at night. I haven't been to Studios at
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night in a while, so heading over there.
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Yeah, it's been a while since I've done
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this. You show up here to the front
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parking area where you show your annual
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pass to go in and there's no cast
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members working. They just have the
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cones funneling you over this way
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cuz since the park closes in an hour and
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20 minutes from right now at 9:00 p.m.
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and then the gift shops stay open till
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10:00.
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So it can be in the park a couple more
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hours, but there's no one working the
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parking area. Getting that nice little
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Skyliner angle there with the sunset off
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in the distance going over a little
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speed hump.
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Love studios at night. It's been a
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while.
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Just so much good neon down Hollywood
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Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard throughout
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the park,
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you know, being a couple couple minutes
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away.
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Just not a bad idea. Occasionally pop
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over this time of night. So, I'm glad
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I'm doing this.
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I was just at Retroatric. Retro Magic,
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the convention put on by RetroWDW
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a couple days ago. It was so good. And
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they showed a lot of vintage photos and
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a couple video clips from the old MGM
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era of studios, which is how I remember
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studios. And my favorite era of
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Hollywood Studios was the Disney MGM
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Studios. So,
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>> yeah, I love this place.
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>> And I just stayed in Hollywood. Well,
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I'm always out in Hollywood, but just
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stayed right across from the Chinese
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Theater.
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So, I think I'll probably do Mickey Mini
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Runaway, which is in the Chinese Theater
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here,
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an exact recreation. Well, semi-exact,
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same proportion-wise, size-wise. There a
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couple little differences, but I'll
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check out some of the handprints over
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there and ride Mickey and Minnie if the
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rides the wait time's not too long. And
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then if there's other short wait times,
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maybe jump on another attraction
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or two.
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doesn't seem to be too busy. The parking
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lot not as full
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as I've seen in other at other times. Oh
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yeah, look at this. This is 7:48 p.m.
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Park closes at 9:00. 15 minutes for
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Mickey Mini Runaway and 13 minutes,
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which is basically a walk-on. It never
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goes lower than 13 minutes. They do the
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13
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when it's a walk-on for Hollywood Tower.
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Even 15 minutes is pretty much a walk-on
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for Rock and Roller Coaster. You know,
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I'm kind of wondering if I can get all
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three of those attractions in the done
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in the last hour. They're not long wait
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times. Can I get those three attractions
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done within the last hour of just
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impulsively looking that the park's open
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till 9:00, deciding I'm going to cruise
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over to Hollywood Studios and then just
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popping in, do it. Can I do all three of
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those in the last hour? I think I can.
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Oh, yeah. Add in the fact that I could
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probably grab a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage in here. Park's still open, you
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know, over an hour, but no one in the
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Starbucks right now. Nice coffee
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achieved.
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Going to get uh get caffeinated. Heavily
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caffeinated real quick. Got to kind of
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down it. Well, I can walk. I think I can
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walk up to before I get on the
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attraction. I have to have to consume
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it. But the Hollywood, there's a little
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bit of haze. Look at that right there.
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There's like a little bit of steam. I
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thought maybe there was like the camera
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was smudged, but in fact, that is like a
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little bit of steam that's like
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permeating there off the front. Yeah. 13
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minutes without lightning line. Just a
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straight 13 minutes. Let me check the
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time so I could uh document this
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correctly how the last hour will be.
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Cheers. Current time 8:02 p.m. 8:02 p.m.
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Got 56 57 minutes. Oh yeah. Take a look
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at this. I'm like walking through the
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mist. I feel like I'm at a Halloween
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haunt right now. It's not It's not fog.
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It's just like a It's like a mist from
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the Yeah, it's like a mist from the
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sprinklers or something. I don't know if
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that's intentional, but it's definitely
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giving off some spooky effects. Oh, kind
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of. Look at this. Walking right into the
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lobby right now. There's like hardly
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anyone. A couple people in front of me,
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but not too many in front of the lobby.
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Look at this. I'm just kind of going
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right in. All right, take a look at
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this.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Those doors are open.
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>> Look, no pre-show. You just walk
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straight in. No pre-show. I had to toss
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my coffee, but I got about I don't know.
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I got about half of it down. I probably
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shouldn't have got a vent. I probably
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should have gone with like a small cup.
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They won't let you bring the coffee into
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the boiler room section.
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I don't know if I've done this without
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the pre-show
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since the parks reopened in like 2020.
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That first year or so after the parks
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reopened, they had some rules in place.
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Didn't have the pre-shows, but
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this is great. Oh my gosh. Late night
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for the not even late night. It's not
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even a late night. It's just it's right
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before closed for the whim.
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Oh, they got the dripping thing here.
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They brought this back a few months ago.
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It's like a dripping effect. See the
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water dripping there?
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They brought that back recently.
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12 floor down. There must be must be the
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13 floors on this hotel. There's 12 of
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them. 12 in the little mechanism. Oh,
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it's a basement. Oh yeah. Basement plus
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12 is 13 floors. Interesting. Why have I
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never noticed that before?
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>> There are 13 floors, including the
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basement
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>> in the basement right now.
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Walk. There's the peppers ghost family.
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Oh my god.
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Grab the motor up. That was it. That was
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short sweet. Yeah. on and off just like
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that. It's only 8:15 right now. Got the
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doll up here. All the different uh got
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the glasses found in the library.
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Got all the different tags on there from
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the different episodes. Halloween gala
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tonight and every night, even though
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Halloween is until the end of next
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month, like just over a month away,
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they're having a Halloween gala tonight.
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But a lot of cobwebs on that, though. I
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always like this painting right here. A
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little artistic rendering of the
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Hollywood Tower. Very beautiful.
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Yeah, I'm going to easily easily be able
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to do all three unless there's like an
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issue of some sort. Here's some of the
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merchandise. Got the Outer Order. You
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got Mickey here as the bellhop or at
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least a employee of the Hollywood Tower.
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Only 8:18 right now. Walking out, even
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checking out the merch and all that. And
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now, now they are changing this.
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Aerosmith is going away. They're going
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to be completely changing the rocket
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roller coaster. probably keep the same
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track obviously, but
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The themeing here, the parking garage
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right here. Wonder if that'll stay the
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same for moments.
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San Andreas. Never noticed that before.
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San Andreas fault.
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Go pretty soon. This is This is all
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theming. This is how it's going to be in
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here. It's all going to be construction
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soon anyway. So, it's a premonition, if
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you will.
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Oh, there's a pay phone right there. I
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never noticed that either. Look at that.
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The cast members here, this is almost
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like a themed pay phone.
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been a parking structure. Park well
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parking not a parking structure even
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though it is a structure parking garage.
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and I'll see you after. I'm going to put
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the camera away for this one.
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>> It's quite the extended limo. [cheering]
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Got some backstage passes thanks to
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Steven Tyler and Aerosmith.
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And there's like a lot of things in the
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gift shop I have noticed over the years,
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but when you first walk in out of the
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exit, I've never noticed this cage here
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with the guitar case and all that stuff
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in there and then the amplifiers, the
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microphone.
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Never noticed all this is going to go
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away, obviously.
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Oh, yeah.
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They just finished the show on the front
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of the Chinese Theater. It's 10 minutes
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till 9.
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>> You're welcome. Oh, you're welcome. Now
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I'm heading in to Mickey Mini Runaway
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for everybody else. I'm getting ready to
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do another show in 10 minutes. Wonderful
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world of animation. But right now, look
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at this. I was just like I was just in
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LA. There's Bob Hope star George Burns.
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Well, I'll starring
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to head right in the world famous
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Chinese Theater. There's Michael J. Fox.
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>> Hello. Stand by.
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>> Five minutes
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>> going in.
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>> That seems like a lot of paperwork and
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stupid.
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>> Take a look at this.
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>> Look [laughter] at this. Is this a Is
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this a coincidence? This says 89 maximum
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capacity and the park opened at 89. I
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mean, that's an interesting coincidence.
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I mean, I don't know how that would
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affect the the total people in here, but
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I thought that was kind of fascinating.
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Oh, it looks like I'm going ahead and
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just getting right on. Oh, hey, look at
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this. Complete walk-on. Got another
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train right here waiting for me. So just
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walked right on and went in. I was in
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Anaheim and they said no filming on the
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ride, but here they don't seem to mind.
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You don't have to put anything away.
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Just uh Yeah, [music] guess the rules
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are a little different in any
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tornado coming through. the tornado
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over here.
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A little bit of lightning off.
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We got Walt over here on the Earnest S.
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Marsh right here. There's Walt himself.
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A little homage to Walt with a photo
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here of him at the train ride. Yeah,
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it's like 10 minutes after 9. Casually
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strolling back out to my car. I mean, I
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was in and out in an hour and just a
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couple minutes. Did three attractions
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and I wasn't even in a hurry pace. Just
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walked on all three of them except the
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only the longest I waited was maybe 10
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minutes for Rock and Roller Coaster. The
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other one just walked in and sat right
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in the ride vehicle. Took off
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9:12. And look over here, they're doing
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the fireworks over at Epcot. Started at
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9:00. So, getting to kind of the grand
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crescendo of the fireworks on the lagoon
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over at Fireworks, the World Showcase
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Lagoon. I don't know if that was the
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grand finale, but yeah, it's 9:12. Maybe
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that's the grand finale. Could it be?
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Oh, this is just too good.
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Okay, I don't think that's the grand
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finale, but
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should be happening soon. I think they
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started at nine.
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>> Maybe
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a Would have been perfect to get up. Oh,
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look. and Magic Kingdom over in the
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distance.
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[snorts] Oh, this is like a perfect
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crescendo right here. Magic Kingdom way
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over there, which shows you how far MK
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is from here. Way over there. And then
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you got Epcot right there. Just to show
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the proximity.
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And I learned something when I was at
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the Retromagic that when the Imagineers
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built Hollywood Studios and it opened in
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1989, they had envisioned to be a 6-hour
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park. It was kind of they were expecting
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people to be here for 6 hours a half day
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and they were going to be so close to
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Epcot they would go back to Epcot or go
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to Epcot first and then pop over to
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Studios and little did they know it
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became such a popular thing. It was a
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full day park not a 6-h hour 6-hour
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park. So that's why according to the
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things I was seeing it's closer in
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proximity to Epcot than Magic Kingdom
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which is way over there. So pretty
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fascinating. I mean, it's really when
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you're on the Skyliner, it takes a lot
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longer to get over to Epcot than it
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should because you're going with the
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Skyliner and you're going that direction
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over to Caribbean Beach and then over to
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Riviera and all that. But if you were to
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just walk, which I've done before, you
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just walk over that way towards the
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boardwalk and then you just pop through
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the boardwalk hotels and resorts and you
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ride in Epcot. Really, really close
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proximity. I don't know which one to
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focus on. Now, do I focus on Magic
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Kingdom over there or do I focus on
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Also, the amount of time I spent in
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Hollywood Studios, the amount of time I
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was in there to do three attractions was
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almost as long as it would have taken me
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to go park at TTC and take
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transportation over to Magic Kingdom.
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Magic Kingdom is very difficult. You got
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to really, really want to get in Magic
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Kingdom here. You know, being a
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passover, I got to say it's just really
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nice to just, you know, drive the few
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miles from my place, pop in and do
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studio. There's a Mickey
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unplanned. I wouldn't even I wouldn't
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even plan on going in studios. And I was
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like, I wonder if wonder what time the
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parks are open till tonight. Magic
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Kingdom was open till 10:00. Didn't want
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to traverse all the way over there. I
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thought studios would be a
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be a good one.
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>> Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in the next video. of the
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vlog
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is becomes a golf cart.
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>> I have no idea.
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>> There it is. That's going to do it for
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today. Thanks for watching. I'll see you
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in the next video. The vlog
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is over.