My (Almost) Empty EPCOT At Disney World Experience - Walking On Rides / Journey Of Water After Dark
EPCOT in October 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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October 25th
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2020 2023 I'm standing
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here off to the side of Lake
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ryanard there's a bird right down below
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and it is the middle of the week hump
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day some
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say and I was looking at the My Disney
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Experience app and the weight times
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didn't look too bad for Epcot Center so
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I'm going to head over there and see
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what the night and late afternoon it is
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windy yeah that Bird's like high tailing
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it see you
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bird let's see where the day leads I'm
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inviting
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you to join me I thought it was a cow
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mooing I think it's just an electric
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scooter or an electric cart or a go-kart
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or possibly a weed eater or leather
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face 6 days till Halloween as I am
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filming this wearing an appropriate
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shirt join me I'll hallow Eve is almost
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here shall you now there is no event
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happening at this particular moment they
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are preparing for yet
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another one they're always doing events
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down here I do not know what this one is
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going to be over the near future but the
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streets are
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closed in preparation for another
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beautiful celebration downtown event
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always something going on and it's
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really about to kick into high gear
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through Halloween and then once once
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December rolls around this place down
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here is just non-stop every evening now
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it is 3:58 at the moment right now but
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take a look at these weight times now
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all this could change with annual
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passholders going a little bit later in
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the evening but spaceship first only 5
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minutes in fact SAR over California
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which rarely makes an appearance here on
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the east coast is over in the land
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Pavilion 15 minutes so if I can get over
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there in a timely fashion 15 minutes to
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for figment I can also do single Rider
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I'm going by myself heading over there
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for test track so I could actually do
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all of the Former Future World in a
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timely manner and the Moana
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water the new water attraction I have
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not seen under the shrouded Nightfall so
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it's going to be a fun night however all
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that could change within an hour of
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getting over there and a lot of APs show
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up and all that could kind of go off the
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rails but I feel like it's going to be
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pretty good I got my magic band ready to
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rock do not have to make a reservation
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at Epcot on weekdays anymore just show
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up after two and walk right in now it
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could be they have the road blocked off
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because they do are doing a little
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construction here on part of Market
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Street I think it's probably for an
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event also noticing cool is really
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getting comfortable on the staircase at
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the Forefront of Lake
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Reinhardt yeah he's just very very
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comfortable sitting there just enjoying
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the enjoying the enjoying the sun
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enjoying the fall Florida air not
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bothering
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anybody just join the lakefront as he
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should
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be I also think I'm going to get a
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Joffrey's coffee in the park I thought
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about trying another one but I realized
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I've been trying to do this pumpkin
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spice kick this month so I'll get in hit
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a joffre up and from there start the
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evening in Epcot boy I really timed this
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wrong my
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I think that bicyclist needs a coffee
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too
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you closest
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Archway heading from the direction I
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always head in this is the most freaky
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what Archway I drive under hello
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again oh perfect timing Montreal and the
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newly brought back trams in the same
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frame and there's hey he a grand and
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Miraculous Journey around the tram
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horseshoe obviously I'm referring you
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just just taking the the trams there
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going around I'm referring to spaceship
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earth it's always beautiful it's a
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little you know it's a joke but
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showing spaceship earth that amazing
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sphere some refer to as the golf ball
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don't ever call it the golf
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ball there's an attraction in there
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there's a ride in there
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fantastic Dark
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Ride one of the best and one of the few
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old school Epcot ones that are left all
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right in the last 4 days I've had
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Starbucks Dunkin Donuts 711 and now
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Joffrey's pumpkin spice lattes and I
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would say Starbucks is still in the lead
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this is this is all right though and
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this is only for the pumpkin spice latte
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persuasion not regular coffee I think
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Duncan is really Superior when it comes
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to to regular coffee yeah there is no
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one and no one in line for living with
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the land and I'm hoping soaring follow
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saurin well there's no g in it but
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saurin now taking flight follow suit
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with the California overlay which
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doesn't happen here too often yeah I got
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to say it was a pretty accurate
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representation of the time frame going
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in it really was 15 minutes but no they
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have the 100th anniversary emblem on the
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front of the Sor ins sign I guess that's
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probably why they brought sord over
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California out there what thing I really
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like about saring over California is you
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get to see a lot of the this the
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California stuff you don't really get to
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see here out here on the East Coast too
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much that's kind of neat one of my
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favorite favorite scenes in it of course
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ending at the very very end you get to
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actually see Disneyland you get to go
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over Walt original Magic Kingdom and
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Main Street USA so course to get to see
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a few other little key moments as well
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but but I think that's the crescendo
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getting to see you know Main Street USA
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the matter horn and all the West Coast
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stuff pretty dang cool glad I got to do
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it it was only a 15-minute wait when you
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exit out it's kind of interesting I I
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have never noticed this before I've
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noticed a lot of stuff around this is
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this Pavilion but I've never seen this
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little placard here symbotic
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relationships mean creative
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partnership this symbiosis that's what
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it is symbiosis between the land and
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humankind the Earth is to be seen
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neither as an EOS system to be preserved
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unchanged nor a quarry to be exploited
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for selfish and short rain economic
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reasons but as a garden to be cultivated
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to development of his own potential of
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the Human Adventure I've never noticed
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that before who is it just me or did
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they take this tree out wasn't there a
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big tree right here recently there's
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tree removal living with the land
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temporarily
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closed pigment 15 minutes I'm going to
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see so 30 minutes just for a standby
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walk-on for test track which means
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single Rider will be a complete walk-on
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it take probably proba 1 minute wait so
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I've got to do do some test track
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actually this is kind of weird there's
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no one in the line at all I mean the
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regular Line's outside but the line
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backed up here there's not one person in
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here even the regular Cube I'm not sure
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if the ride broke down and it reopened
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but it just basically just
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beat
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automated driving technology verified
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and
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active
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the whole front row of that car the back
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row is empty I shared the vehicle with
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two other single Riders there were three
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single Riders on there and that was it
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the two cars in front of ours there was
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no one in now the line has gotten a
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little longer so that was kind of weird
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it must have been down and then just
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reopen it's time to just ride okay I've
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been pretty lucky both rides I've just
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walked on so far now this is like a
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little bit of a hack well it's not a
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hack a it's a $15 cheat code basically
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purchase for $15 I can get lightning
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lane or I could try to get the virtual
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que which probably I think the last
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virtual que started at once the only way
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I'm going to get on guard Guardians is
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to cough up 15 bones right here but if I
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purchase for $15 do the lightning Lane I
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can just walk right on Guardians so I
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think I'm going to do it I might why not
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all right that was pretty much a walk-
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on I mean you do have to watch the
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pre-show so that's like a good 10 15
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minutes of those but other than that
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it's just a quick little walk on one
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little hack I will say about going on
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test track though if you do single Rider
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you do not have to build the car and you
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just get right on you if you do
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lightning Lane that's not the case
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lightning Lane you still got to do the
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building the car and waiting in some
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sort of line so single rider for test
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track is definitely the way to go I'm
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curious what song I'm going to get I
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think my favorite is Everybody Wants to
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Rule the World or Iran I've gotten all
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the songs multiple times but those are
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my two favorite I think and I will be
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sitting in row number eight I don't know
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which is my favorite this or Tron as far
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as new attractions I really do like Tron
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a lot of people don't like Tron as much
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as this but I think they're kind of two
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totally different rides they're both a
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lot of fun number
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eight then again I've only done sea
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three or four times I've done this one
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probably 20 times maybe that's maybe
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that is why I have the thought
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process there items all nestled in there
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my phone my keys
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my wallet everything hopefully it'll be
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okay take my hat off going to hold on to
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my hat's best remove
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them
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curious to see what song I get I'm going
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to predict I'm going to get Iran I'm
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just going to State it now Iran I will
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let you know at Exit if I ended up
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getting it or not it's tough to pick a
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favorite Iran or flock of seagull or
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everybody watch over the world I cannot
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believe it I ended up getting Iran what
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the heck I think I've got Iran twice as
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much as any other song and I I don't
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crazy that I got Iran all right that
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ride is definitely better than Trump but
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they're definitely two different rides
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but holy cow I forgot how completely
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amazing that ride is I got to pop over
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into Club cool now and probably get one
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of my favorite ones which is the country
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club here get a little I'm not going to
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do the Beverly but I think I'm going to
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hit up the land I'll check the after
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land is back open 5 minutes and then
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spaceship earth 5 minutes I don't think
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I'm even going to go to a world showcase
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I'm just going to future world it up
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well X future world and then head
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the land back opened back up and there
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was no one on
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it just a complete walk
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on however the person behind me is like
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hacking up a
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all right that was uh yeah that wasn't
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the most enjoyable experience sitting
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directly in front of someone that was
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coughing pretty much the entire time but
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it wasn't a long wait it was like a 5
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minute wait and I'm walking out to this
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which is kind of nice you get the view
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of the Montreal going by and it's a very
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long ride to be sitting you know in that
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kind of position where I knew when it
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started I was like oh this is going to
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last the entire ride and it did and from
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one upside down waterfall I'll be
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heading over to the Moana area the sun
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should be
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completely set soon and it'll be dark
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enough to get a a nice little Vibe over
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there in the Moana Water Area all right
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I'll take the long way around to the
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Moana area here along the construction
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walls over in this section kind of it
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turnning into a really beautiful night
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the weather out here is just absolutely
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amazing it feels so dang good very very
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comfortable a little bit ago when I was
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in the creation shop I ended up
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purchasing a new t-shirt I'll show that
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momentarily but they had an Epcot Center
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1982 T that said Epcot Center on and as
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I was heading over to where my
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destination is I'm kind of like looping
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around the front side of spaceship earth
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and they started it started being
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illuminated they were doing one of the
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light shows that they started for the
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50th anniversary of Walt Disney World a
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couple years ago and then when the 50th
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Ed they just kept all the lights that
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were up on it so it's kind of neat to
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see still see the the the lights all on
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spaceship earth I'm really glad that
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they left that for the 50th they also
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left the bottom of the montre Rails all
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illuminated which is really really great
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to have the bottom of the montre Rails
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also illuminated it was also something
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they did for the 50th and they just
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figured you know what let's just let's
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run it into the not only the 50th
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anniversary of wtt Disney World and soon
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after that now it is going on the 100th
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anniversary of the entire company not
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just the parks but the entire Disney
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company itself is now 100 years old and
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they're still they still have all the
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lights so that's pretty good yeah and I
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will say it definitely is a lot more
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impressive into the Journey of water
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area at night I was out here on opening
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day which was only like what a week and
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a half ago 10 days ago maybe even a week
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ago wasn't even that long ago I was like
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pretty recently where they had the soft
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openings even before all the the opening
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day the soft openings the annual
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Passover previews they did all that kind
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of stuff but I came out on opening day
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and I got I got a the time time slot
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that's when they were still doing
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virtual cues but the virtual queue was
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like over and done with and now you just
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like show up you walk right in so you
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can show up at any time so I chose to
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walk in there at night walk in at night
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and kind of see it but it definitely is
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kind of has the vibe kind of like Avatar
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the Avatar area over at Animal Kingdom
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we really kind of want to see it at
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night versus during the day it
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definitely is a lot better all
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illuminated with the with the water
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going up and the different colors and
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the different you know in the under the
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shroud of Nightfall with the lights it
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just it's definitely like a much
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different vibe so highly recommend the
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Journey of water Moana area at at night
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as opposed but during the day is good
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too if you can only see it one you know
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see it once and you only have a you're
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in a time crunch see it during the day
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but all right going to get one last one
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heading out of the mon going by with
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spaceship earth off in the distance was
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able to catch a little show they were
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doing on the way out of spaceship earth
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and was also kind of nice too because
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they ended up getting a little angle of
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the montre rail as it was was going by
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too as just as I was kind of like
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heading out walking backwards out of the
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park the monre rail ended up going by
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and I always like a little illuminated
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spaceship earth and then definitely like
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the illuminated spaceship earth and the
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monreal illuminated under the bottom so
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you get the double dose of
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illuminations all different colors there
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on spaceship earth speaking of said
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attraction and or Landmark or both I
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ended up getting this Epcot Center 82
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you don't see a lot of merchandise
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nowadays there's a figment shirt that
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has Epcot Center written on it usually
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it just says Epcot but it's nice to get
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some retro kind of throwback Vibes on
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this this definitely has that mid 80s
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early 80s Vibe with the different colors
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and design says 82 it says
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wdw pretty nice yeah I ended up getting
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this I looked at some pins but I decided
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not to get any pins tonight I decided to
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go with this t-shirt anytime there's an
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Epcot Center shirt which doesn't happen
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too often they bring it out with the
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secondary word Center I'm glad they
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brought back the that particular font I
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will usually purchase it I do like I do
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like the Retro Vibes you know eletro
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throwback
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style oh is this actually happening
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crossing of the transportation devices
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streams oh I doesn't really any better
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than that for an outro that's going to
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do it for today I'll see you in the next
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video the Vlog
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is over