International Drive Closures & Changes In Orlando - What’s New / Empty Amusement Park (Spring 2024)

0:03 welcome everyone Adam the wo here as a

0:03 recording of this Sunday April 21st

0:07 2024 starting off the video here in

0:09 Celebration Florida about to get on

0:11 I4 head

0:13 eastwardly over to International Drive

0:16 got my piping caffeinated beverage some

0:19 things have closed some things have

0:21 changed on ey drive or International

0:24 Drive whatever you refer to it as and

0:27 I'm going to check it out I'm inviting

0:28 you to join me on a casual ual Sunday as

0:31 I am filming

0:32 this and it might rain it's sunny right

0:36 now but I can see those clouds rolling

0:37 up just going to roll with it join

0:51 warm good though shall you also

0:51 construction

0:53 update the back side of the art deco

0:56 7eleven is under construction they're

0:58 finishing this finishing this back pylon

1:01 back here also this

1:02 tree it's kind of slanted a little bit

1:05 because maybe the wind blew it down or

1:07 something I don't know they got all the

1:10 items back here to

1:13 fix this iconic building here in

1:16 celebration this really good coffee some

1:18 has good coffee I'm not going to lie

1:19 made the commute over to iDrive

1:21 International dri is right there and I

1:23 have chosen to park in this area here

1:25 next to

1:27 Volcano Island you have the tus of this

1:31 Mammoth here you have the dinosaur and

1:34 I'm going to take the scooter they do

1:36 have scooters for rent but I bought a

1:38 scooter a few years ago this High boy

1:42 for those interested it says High boy

1:46 have fun I've had this thing two or 3

1:48 years now I'm going take it out of the

1:51 spot it's parked in I pulled it out of

1:52 the back of my car Volcano Island

1:55 parking only follow the rules

2:00 also they got the fence up here you

2:01 can't go into Volcano

2:03 Island they do not want any mail

2:05 entering in this mailbox they have taped

2:07 it up with blue

2:08 tape blue taped mailbox do not send this

2:12 place any

2:19 mail blue tape so this prehistoric

2:19 creature has no hands and looks like it

2:22 has an issue with the bottom part of the

2:25 jaw there

2:33 it's also very interesting they have not

2:33 torn this down

2:35 yet Prime R well guess not really Prime

2:38 real estate but good real

2:46 estate got a Hampton in right there if

2:46 you have that view if you have that room

2:49 you can look down at

2:51 this old mini golf course that seen

2:54 better days than Decay my favorite thing

2:56 ever is this sign well almost was this

2:59 sign because because it is about gone

3:01 the 24-hour surveillance sign has

3:04 finally the weather has got to it it has

3:07 rotted away or someone has karate

3:10 chopped it through the fence on the

3:12 other side of the

3:14 fence it's always cracked me up a hand

3:16 painted 24-hour surveillance

3:23 sign don't know if that's true or not

3:23 but if so they have surveyed the

3:27 situation and recorded

3:30 this thing falling the 24-hour

3:32 surveillance sign has been surveyed and

3:35 documented by their surveillance that it

3:37 has broken in half this is also

3:39 interesting you can tell by all this new

3:42 construction material here that it's

3:44 been sitting here for a while weather

3:47 worn fallen into a slight disrepair like

3:51 they were going to fix something up and

3:52 didn't or it could be for that little

3:54 Motel there

4:01 you can just tell how weather warn this

4:01 is that this has been here for a long

4:03 time and hasn't been put to use there is

4:06 a Denny's right over

4:08 there and right here is a gift shop that

4:11 says free Denny's gifts free gifts but

4:14 only for Denny's customers so don't walk

4:16 in here unless you have gone to den

4:19 don't even think about the IHOP that's

4:21 next door if you eat at that IHOP you're

4:23 not going to get nothing from this gift

4:25 shop also this gift shop was used as a

4:27 filming location when problem child to

4:29 too John Ritter walked out of there with

4:32 Junior little boy who was quite the

4:35 quite the terror people have placed a

4:37 lot of stickers on here some

4:39 scumbags and Superstars have placed some

4:42 stickers in front of what was I just

4:45 almost choked on my gum what was Hogan's

4:49 Beach Shop now has changed its name news

4:55 flash it's now Hulk Hogan's wrestling

4:59 shop formerly Hogan's Beach

5:02 Shop why is it not called beach shop

5:04 anymore which I always found very

5:06 interesting because there's no beaches

5:09 nearby this is in Central Florida you

5:11 got to drive at least an hour in either

5:14 directions or more to get to the beach

5:16 now Hogan's Beach Shop in Clearwater I

5:19 think was the first one and they took

5:20 over this old convenience store possibly

5:22 a 7-Eleven next to the Perkins here

5:25 where but where that Perkins is on that

5:27 back corner was going to be the world's

5:29 largest roller coaster a few years ago

5:31 they announced they were going to do it

5:32 and then they scrapped it Hulk Hogan had

5:34 nothing to do with that project I'm not

5:35 sure if it's even a coaster guy but

5:38 Hogan's Beach Shop is now called Hulk

5:43 Hogan's wrestling

5:46 shop I've been here many times and just

5:49 to drive that point home check it

5:52 out hog an's beach shop Hogan's Beach

5:56 Shop they've added the Hulk to the front

6:00 and wrestling to the

6:03 name very

6:05 interesting very interesting I wonder

6:07 what got the former beach shop over

6:09 there now the wrestling

6:11 shop that takes I'm getting used to not

6:13 calling it The Beat shop

6:15 anymore over here used to be mini golf

6:19 not mini golf a go-kart

6:22 track I believe the world's tallest

6:26 coaster was going to be right in here

6:29 right now just sitting empty used to be

6:32 able to go through this

6:34 fence kind of walk around back in there

6:36 but they have locked it up thrown away

6:39 the

6:41 key someone's got the key now in the

6:44 past I've done some updates on I drive

6:46 and I usually start there on Sand Lake

6:49 and go towards a Convention Center pass

6:51 chewes Ripley all that but this time I'm

6:54 not going to cross over Sand Lake that

6:56 way I'm going to go this direction and

6:59 see what I could find also that used to

7:02 be the world's largest McDonald's then

7:03 became the Epic McDonald's now it's just

7:05 a

7:07 McDonald's fun fact there goes the

7:11 iide the

7:13 iide all I can think of when I hear iide

7:16 is like Ed Bassmaster I

7:19 work I work a throwback all right that's

7:23 not a bad deal Disney t-shirt promo 2

7:25 for 18 and I am incorrect they do have a

7:28 free gift IHOP receipt so if you do eat

7:31 an IHOP on this side but you have to be

7:33 an adult no one that's not an adult will

7:36 get anything I guess if you eat at

7:37 Denny's over there you can get it if

7:39 you're not an adult but this says adult

7:42 only notice how the trolley there has a

7:45 little face on the front a little

7:54 face on the front of the

7:54 trolley look at that

7:58 also go in the

8:00 IHOP not don't NE doesn't say you have

8:02 to buy anything just go in and ask about

8:04 their mini flavored

8:06 Milkshakes that would probably be really

8:08 annoying if you didn't buy anything if

8:09 you just went down there and ask asked

8:11 them over and over tell me about all

8:12 your mini flavor next to the greenhouse

8:15 probably not the greenhouse I'm thinking

8:17 of probably no plants in there is fair

8:19 Villa sexy things Fair Villa mega store

8:21 on OBT is a place of

8:23 Legends well not necessarily but it's

8:25 well known around these parts I guess

8:27 they have a little popup secondary store

8:29 here sexy things I had no idea that o

8:33 Shu o Shu Pub is celebrating their 20th

8:37 anniversary why did I not know there was

8:39 an U Pub back there that's a great name

8:42 O Shu you see it written up there it's

8:44 kind of lettering is fading away but oh

8:46 there's there's a better one they have

8:47 full Liquor Bar O Shucks karaoke bar

8:50 this is the original sign that's the new

8:53 sign next to the two everything 299 or

8:55 less store Disney official merchandise

8:59 ice that's what it

9:01 says is it

9:03 really I've noticed a lot of these

9:05 stores do sell some knockoff Disney

9:07 stuff but in reality there is a lot of

9:09 official Disney merchandise in some of

9:11 these outof thee Park Stores so maybe it

9:13 is luggage is a big selling point here

9:17 we have the luggage signs take a look at

9:19 this in this shirt

9:21 too I don't know what Mom would wear

9:24 that but

9:25 yeah got Chucky over here

9:37 a landmark of this area sad to say has

9:37 closed Little Drop Tower there a little

9:39 slingshot that this place originated way

9:42 before icon Park and the Orlando I

9:45 whatever the heck it's called now it

9:47 changes names every other day well not

9:49 really but pretty often this was the the

9:52 place where you could do the swings

9:54 right there and it's closed used to have

9:56 the big swing Tower not not as large at

10:00 the as the counterpart that is just down

10:02 on the other side of I

10:05 drive but for years this was the place

10:09 where you could

10:11 ride some sketchy

10:19 swings and now it is completely

10:19 empty erased from

10:24 existence it's like something out of

10:26 Indiana Jones right there look at this

10:28 you can see the little moat down here

10:30 you got the bridge across there was a

10:31 go-kart track here as well there is a

10:33 leftover go-kart mounted to the side was

10:37 used as an advertisement for those who

10:38 were perusing down the road here this

10:41 very very touristy

10:43 Road got the private property

10:46 up and they will punish you anyone that

10:49 goes in there it's signed by someone

10:51 right there I'm not sure if that's the

10:52 person that's going to do the

10:54 prosecuting or if it's just someone who

10:56 wanted to scribble their name on the

10:58 side of a signage here on I drive but

11:02 right up there is where the go-karts

11:04 would go and right above me right there

11:06 I never rode the go-karts here but I did

11:08 play mini golf they used to have

11:10 Gators along the mini golf course back

11:13 there I'll see if I can get a little

11:14 view into that area oh wait a second

11:16 that's where the Gators were that's an

11:18 active open miniature golf course okay

11:20 this is the next property over got

11:21 confused there was no mini golf course

11:23 in here just the slingshot the Drop

11:26 Tower and the go-karts back in here

11:28 there were a couple guys out front that

11:30 were just kind of hanging around out

11:31 front they said this is going to reopen

11:33 in July go I I don't know if that's true

11:35 I don't know where they got their

11:36 information but I don't think this place

11:39 does not look like it's going to be

11:41 reopened in July it looks like it's

11:42 going to be kind of torn down possibly

11:46 this is definitely does not look like

11:48 anything that is going to be on the on

11:51 the reopening block if you know what I

11:54 mean I mean look at this thing this

11:56 is looks like they theyve taken some

11:59 stuff out of here torn some stuff

12:07 down yeah this is the old swings right

12:12 there yeah I never got went on the

12:15 swings I had a couple friends that went

12:16 on the swings many years ago I just sat

12:19 down here and watched them as they went

12:21 up there I was like no I'm good and now

12:24 it's

12:25 Clos yeah you can see there's an arcade

12:27 over there tickets arcade this is like

12:29 looking at it from this angle this is

12:31 where you'd walk up to the swings

12:33 themselves and then that I guess was the

12:35 the drop tower right there but you can

12:37 see the Alpine track over there really

12:40 that whole that whole area over there is

12:42 in real disrepair and kind of the struct

12:44 not even very structurally sound just

12:47 based on a just on a view from this

12:48 point anyway danger do not climb on this

12:51 not because they don't want you climbing

12:52 on the fence but because there is a

12:54 volcano and there is boiling lava they

12:57 are watching out for anyone's welfare

12:59 there's boiling lava coming out of the

13:01 top of this Vol see very big volcano

13:03 theme on International Drive that the

13:05 climbing on the fence is fine they're

13:07 not warning you about that but do not

13:09 climb because there is boiling lava

13:12 inside of this oo but molten hot lava

13:15 it's hot there's also a closed themed

13:17 Tiki little popup bar right there and I

13:20 am technically not in Orlando yet but

13:22 now I'm about to be in the city

13:24 beautiful of Orlando oh I'm not in

13:26 Orlando now I'm in Orlando

13:29 not in Orlando now I'm in Orlando my

13:33 little scooter is not in Orlando but now

13:36 it is in

13:38 Orlando all right the live Gators are

13:40 still here look at all these little

13:41 teeny tiny cools down in here little

13:43 Gators the Gators have a Gator golf

13:46 right there there's a big old Gator

13:47 there's even a little another Gator over

13:49 there lot of gators all the little teeny

13:51 tiny G I mean these are little guys

13:53 right here but then that's a little

13:54 small teenier than a teeny tiny Gator

13:57 that one's moving here's me talking

13:58 about them right there I should take a

14:00 couple of these with me and give cool a

14:02 little some some friends of Lake

14:04 reinhardt's celebration I could probably

14:06 reach over and grab that one right there

14:07 I might lose a finger but yeah at least

14:09 at least cool would have a a little

14:11 buddy oh you can see the slingshot even

14:14 from here right there Gator golf Gator

14:17 golf the one and only Gator golf even

14:20 though there probably is like you know

14:22 more than one it's probably isn't the

14:23 only one and only it's the only one in I

14:25 drive it's still open Gator golf Gator

14:27 golf it's Gator golf I hybrid that

14:29 coffee just kicked in look at this

14:31 there's a little themed Murphy's Pub

14:33 over here too in Cajun Cola not

14:35 Coca-Cola cage and cola these Gators are

14:38 bigger than the ones out front these are

14:39 like good size Gators down here me lean

14:42 over the fence get those gators man they

14:45 got a lot of little teeny cools in there

14:48 lots of Discount Ticket centers through

14:50 here you do a little time share things

14:51 you also get t-shirts three for $9.99

14:54 it's a heck of a good

14:55 deal this place Robo land I don't even

14:58 know if Robo land's even open still but

15:00 it's been a number of different things

15:02 bargain plan has been there for years

15:04 with the

15:05 UFO a little alien top got a little Tiki

15:08 carving out front of robol

15:17 land another cheeki over here chained up

15:17 used to be a big sculpture here I

15:19 believe it was Michael Jordan and then

15:20 they repainted it it was a soccer player

15:22 a basket it was a basketball player then

15:24 a soccer player then a number of

15:26 different things they finally have just

15:28 removed it but you could see where it

15:29 was plastered into the ground there

15:32 someone has unscrewed it and taken it

15:36 away it's a Big E this has to be one of

15:39 my favorite little spots here on the

15:42 road you know this

15:44 this a lighthouse with an alien on

15:48 it got my scooter there got it all in

15:50 the frame let me go this way maybe it's

15:52 better so when you're end up at a

15:53 lighthouse and you see a UFO an

15:55 unidentified flying object Landing you

15:58 would lose your mind

15:59 not this gift shop this gift shop has no

16:03 issues with the Flying Saucer Landing is

16:05 it on the building where it is the

16:07 building oh it landed in front of the

16:10 building landed in front of the

16:13 building yeah this is like this is a

16:15 great spot scooter

16:17 chore spring 2024 I drive Edition

16:20 bargain Planet he's got it on his ha

16:23 little sideways hat there he's got the

16:25 sneakers the tennis shoes he's holding

16:28 stick which probably had a flag at some

16:30 point but now it's just a

16:33 javelin right

16:36 there I don't know the last time there

16:38 was a stick I mean

16:40 a flag on that thing but

16:44 yeah kind of silhouetted out with the

16:46 sun and all around this area you see the

16:48 skyline of that former attraction there

16:51 that's

16:52 closed slingshot Sky Tower drop ride

16:57 swings parking Planet all right it

17:00 appears Robo land is no more that's why

17:03 those Tiki carvings are in front it is

17:05 now for the 900th business that has

17:08 entered this building it is now a

17:10 Polynesian fire

17:13 luau I have lost track of how many

17:15 businesses have been inside that

17:16 building at least a dozen or more since

17:19 I've been around these Mars all right

17:21 it's official at the end of this little

17:25 sideway strip mall the front facing I

17:28 drive has closed another Lighthouse this

17:31 one does not have a UFO in it but if you

17:33 go to the front of this there is a gift

17:35 shop at the front there has been here as

17:37 far back as I can recall and it has

17:40 finally closed its doors it is empty the

17:43 biggest portion of this building the

17:46 anchor store I guess you could call it

17:47 at the front which used to sell

17:49 Universal and Disney gifts and

17:51 paraphernalia another turistic items is

17:54 finally closed not here anymore just an

17:57 empty building empty shell at least the

17:58 the front portion stuff around the back

18:01 that's open but the main the main

18:02 section closed up another one bites the

18:05 dust although however right next door

18:08 two stor fronts down is a very similar

18:10 type of gift shop which is still open I

18:13 don't know if it's thriving I don't know

18:14 if it's days or number but this one that

18:17 has the space shuttle on the side and an

18:19 astronaut down at the other end as I am

18:23 standing here is still open see what

18:26 happens down the road but yeah very very

18:29 it's almost identical as far as like

18:31 well this doesn't have a lighthouse has

18:32 a space shuttle but it was like the the

18:34 same type of store so I'm curious why

18:36 this one stayed open and the other one

18:38 didn't make

18:45 it veered off this little

18:45 caac the Orlando circus School is right

18:54 there it used to be a

18:57 DeLorean over here at Georgia

18:59 music this is like the emptiest culta

19:02 saac ever there's no one back in

19:09 here wind Mo wind noise might be a

19:09 little much my apologies I got one hand

19:13 on the scooter the other hand holding it

19:15 so can't put my hand over the microphone

19:18 to cup it

19:20 so my apologies George's Music musician

19:24 Superstore has closed its

19:26 doors for decades also you see the

19:29 volcano that's volcano Bay the universal

19:31 water park for decades this place served

19:34 the community for a

19:36 musician items guitars amplifiers

19:39 microphones and there was a DeLorean

19:42 with both wheels up on the side of those

19:46 rocks and with the internet and online

19:49 sales and probably big box Superstores

19:51 that have music stuff which I don't even

19:53 know what people would shop at for music

19:55 stores

19:57 now George has gone by the wayside I

20:00 think gone to online only at least

20:02 that's what I heard that's what the

20:04 inside looks like now but it's soon

20:07 going to be the future home of bear hug

20:10 brewing there's going to be Brewing done

20:12 by a bear that's going to give you a hug

20:15 the company was established last year

20:16 but evidently they're going to take over

20:18 this spot and it would definitely be a

20:20 big fail if they did not put a delorian

20:23 here driven by a bear with both the

20:25 DeLorean Wheels facing that way they

20:26 might not have a DeLorean so I'm not

20:28 saying they should go out and buy a

20:30 DeLorean just to have the Brewer but if

20:32 they continue the tradition I wouldn't

20:33 be opposed to it it also never occurred

20:36 to me I've never contemplated the

20:37 meaning of bear hug obviously you think

20:39 oh give me a big bear hug put your arms

20:41 around me give me a little give me a hug

20:44 if a real grizzly bear was to hug you

20:47 you wouldn't live to tell the tale or

20:50 you would have some serious

20:52 injuries we look at it as a cute thing

20:55 but if a bear comes charging out of the

20:56 woods to give you a hug

20:59 you wouldn't be happy about it never

21:02 thought of it till just now but yeah I

21:04 think this lawn has been properly

21:12 watered yeah lawn has been

21:12 properly properly watered at this

21:21 point what the heck happened to this

21:21 visitor

21:28 Circle this thing has got damaged put a

21:28 cone around

21:30 it damage visitor Circle information

21:33 booth perhaps I got this thing it's hard

21:35 to track this thing and film at the same

21:38 time all right heading back down this

21:40 way circling back this gift Shop's open

21:42 but if you would like to lease out this

21:44 discount ticket booth it's

21:46 release if you'd like to sell some

21:48 tickets out of this ticket booth here's

21:51 your

21:52 chance also a drive-through window on

21:54 this pizza spot right here it has Heros

21:57 and schwarma

21:59 I might be going a little crazy but I

22:01 think they just repainted this I think

22:02 it used to have

22:04 more like a kind of like how Highway 192

22:07 has a lot of the paintings of the

22:08 animals and stuff on the side I think

22:10 they repainted over all that this I

22:12 believe this one used to be themed that

22:14 way until recently I think so also this

22:17 seems pretty pointless but when's the

22:20 last time I I haven't seen a Dairy Queen

22:23 that was in a strip mall usually they

22:25 are Standalone so I just want to point

22:26 that out you will rarely see a

22:29 DQ That's in this fashion you see other

22:32 ice cream places but you rarely will see

22:33 a Dairy Queen attached to luggage stores

22:37 right a that's a bold

22:47 statement that's groundbreaking right

22:47 that's groundbreaking of Truth this is

22:49 the spot and this is looking from the

22:51 other side of the road just where I was

22:53 just to see how close and correlation

22:55 those two were also the place in the

22:57 middle interestingly was closed for many

23:00 years it became a number of different

23:02 things and it has reopened as arcade

23:05 monsters an arcade so things close

23:09 things open things close things open the

23:12 everchanging es and flows of I drive

23:15 International Drive to you and I again

23:17 with these things in the

23:19 skyline this used to be an old motel or

23:23 hotel either or that was torn down many

23:25 years ago and now they just got the

23:27 fence up looks like you can craw all

23:28 over that if you so choose to go rooting

23:30 around in there in the the

23:33 foliage yeah actually this gate up here

23:36 is completely open this gate's open so

23:38 you can just drive up in

23:47 there never knew this building was back

23:47 here never knew it this is wedge between

23:52 the drive itself and Interstate 4 right

23:57 there kind of a unique looking building

24:00 behind some restaurants that are still

24:01 open and an Irish

24:08 Pub the bustling thoroughfare of

24:11 Interstate 4 right

24:15 there this building is for sale or

24:18 lease just saw the

24:20 sign another little Motel adjacent to

24:26 it little roundabout

24:29 never been back here on this little

24:30 property

24:38 before it's behind the Pizza Hut you see

24:38 the Pizza Hut down

24:41 there that was the loading

24:44 dock still is a loading dock it's not

24:47 open so nothing's being loaded in

24:51 there there's the Irish PB there's

24:53 volcano B just

24:56 for just for bearings and that's looking

24:58 toward towards across the

25:02 road at the former property which is

25:05 closed that's what it's just sitting

25:07 over there and looks like this is going

25:08 to be something as well through here you

25:10 got another motel popping up with a

25:12 little construction

25:16 update I don't know why I started saying

25:18 construction update that way but it just

25:20 kind of stuck all right back over at

25:21 volcano island put my scooter back in

25:25 car see what else I can find start

25:27 heading back to

25:29 celebration

25:31 via International Drive see there still

25:33 are open and active swings those are up

25:38 there a ways 300 ft I think I do not

25:42 ever really want to do that I've never

25:44 done it and most likely we'll never do

25:46 those most likely all right back in

25:49 celebration that's going to do it for

25:50 today thanks for watching I'll see you

25:52 in the next video the Vlog that's right

25:55 big the foot the Vlog is over

International Drive Closures & Changes In Orlando - What’s New / Empty Amusement Park (Spring 2024)

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