The Beauty Of Rope Drop At Disneyland -Short Wait Times & Fun Times Before The Daytime Crowds Arrive
Rope Drop At Disneyland
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Today's adventure begins. Crossing
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Harbor Boulevard. Oh, look at this.
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Perfect
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timing. There
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goes the morning
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Montreal. We got 19 seconds to get
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across here as the recording of this
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Monday, April
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21st, 2025. It is
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7:06 a.m. and I am going to have a rope
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drop Disneyland day. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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It's happening. Welcome everyone. Adam
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the Woo here and I am inviting you, yes
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you, to join me. It's good to have you
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here. Shall you? Oh, good. Mobile order
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Starbucks. It's so early. The world of
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Disney over here is not even open yet.
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All right, going to head in. And rope
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drops at 8. Still got a little time. So
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today, rope drop is at 8. So directly at
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7:30 they open the gates. Everyone can
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scan in. They have a more fluid system
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they used to have. I wouldn't say it's
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quick and super easy, as easy as the
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Magic Band system of Walt Disney World,
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but it's definitely easier than it used
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to be. So it got in in about 5 to 7
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minutes and now have stood over here
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towards the entrance of Tomorrowland and
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at the Matterhorn and the castle off in
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the distance. I think my move is going
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to be go over and do some Fantasy Land
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attractions once uh once the rope drop
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announcement happens at 8:00 and then
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start head start heading that way
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towards towards the castle. At 5 minutes
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till 8, they've started running Astro
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Orbiter giving it a little test run
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before the guest flock over
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there. Uh rope drive and done a proper
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rope drop a couple days ago. I popped in
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here, but I came in like 5 or 10 minutes
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after 8. Haven't done like a 7:30 half
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hour before rope drop lining up with the
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crowds in a long time. All right, it's
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happening. Moving forward now. Rope drop
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has happened and most people are
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cramming through this way to probably go
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over to Peter Pan. I'm going to head to
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Snow White
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first. decided to be a straight walk
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on and then probably towed after that in
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Nokia. I'll see how Peter Pan looks. But
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that's that kind of it's like a big hold
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up Peter Pan and then by that time it's
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already a half hour
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later. Try to knock out all the stuff
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that doesn't have any weights right off
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the bat. Pretty much everyone is getting
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in line for Peter Pan. Like that's
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that's that's the move. Everyone goes
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immediately over and get in line. Gets
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in line for Peter Pan. I'm going to head
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over here. Maybe a little Snow White. A
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little quick little walk on a Snow
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White. It'll be a 30 second wait if
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Yeah, I can handle this. This is like a
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just a straight little walk on, right?
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There's only like four people in front
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of me, so I'll be like the second part
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of the day. All right, going in. Heading
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into the little cottage
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here. I miss scary adventures, but I
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like the new version, too. It's good.
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Oh, the There they are. There she is.
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She's evil. She's evil. I do miss the
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creepy forest theme though. I do miss
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the creepy forest. This is creepy too,
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but I miss the forest. Right now over
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into Pinocchio. Look at this. Nobody in
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this line. Nobody in the line for
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Pinocchio at this particular m Well, two
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two people in front of me. And then
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there's Puppet Theater. Hi Diddly D.
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It's an actor's life for this Pinocchio.
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Absolutely a terrifying movie and
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attraction. I mean there's just a bunch
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of madness going on in here. the rough
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house. I mean,
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just it's like it's like the craziest
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thing that's going on in here. This guy
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is like pure evil right over here. Look,
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they turned the they turned him into
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donkeys. Look at this. They're taking up
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the salt mines. They're taking them to
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the salt
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mines. And it's like, does it end it
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does not end well for everyone in the
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youth bracket with the exception of
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Pinocchio. Pinocchio is the only one
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that gets the the blue fairy house.
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Pinocchio. I know. Where is he? I'm
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looking. Get off of When I walk out of
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here. I think in 2015 when Olaf was up
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here and there was an Anna and Elsa meet
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and greet ride right in there. That's
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what That's what I always think of when
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I walk out of here. I think it's
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2015. All right, it's only 8 minutes
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after 8:00 a.m. I go over to Toad right
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now. This will all drastically change in
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about an hour or so. So, you kind of you
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really got to knock out that first hour
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cuz these will be like a half hour wait
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as the day progresses. Watch out for the
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coppers. They're trying to stop Mr.
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Toad. He's a This one's going to tell me
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something. Stop. No, you'll never get
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me.
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Copper. I actually just recently watched
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this a couple months ago. Pre-washed it.
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Still really good. Still holds up. A lot
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of dynamite now. Just watch out. Watch
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out.
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right
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there. I'm having too much fun. I think
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we're going to head over to the
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Matterhorn. Jay's arrived. You made it.
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You made it. You're about 12 minutes.
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Will you rush? Takes a while to get from
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the park instructor. I'm going to help
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crush these uh Fantas. Let's do it.
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Let's uh Well, what would the matter,
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Horek? Would that be considered fantasy
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land? Sure. All right, let's do it.
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Fantasy Land ride. All right. I'm number
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five. Thankfully, you don't have another
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six added on there. Number five, no
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disassembled. Yeah. Short circuit. I
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like that. That's right. You know your
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You know your 80s. You know it.
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All right. It's time to take go on the
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icy slopes of the Matterhorn. Is the icy
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peaks or icy slopes? I never get never
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can remember. The icy the icy slopes of
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the matter. Yeah. Did you ever go to
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Disneyland when they used to have the
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mountain climbers? Did you say I
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actually saw someone climb that
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mountain? Well, they did that like 10
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years ago. I think they do 60th. They
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brought that back for a little bit for
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the 60th. I think so. I missed that. I
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was going to say I was going to say I
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turned my hat around backwards. Fly off,
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but my hat's always on backwards. It is.
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Huh. Been doing that backwards. Lincoln
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Hawk.
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Yeah. All right, we're going in.
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Go. Love this ride. Love
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it. The Bob classic.
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Oh, we're
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racing. We're racing.
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Go
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back again.
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I don't think so.
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Goodness gracious.
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That was extreme.
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That was very You did it though. We did
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it. Right.
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The chiropractor tomorrow. I didn't need
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to fix my back.
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Roughest ride at a Disney park. Would
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you say that's the roughest ride at at
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Disneyland? I would have to say so. What
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would be a close second?
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Sometimes Indie if you have the right
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seat on Indie. Depends on what seat
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you're in. Whoever's driving sometimes
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don't know how to drive. That's true.
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Two
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Mickey's Toontown Roger Rabbit. The
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attraction Roger Rabbit gets pretty busy
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later in the day. So, we're going to try
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to hopefully jump on that. Maybe it'll
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only be like a 15 I guess probably 15
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minute 15 20 minute weight tops. This
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population really here confuses me
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though. It's always growing and
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shrinking. growing, shrinking. Tunes
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come in, tunes, tunes
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leave. Right. This is showing standby.
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Five minutes. I can do that. Minutes.
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I'm going to say it's probably more than
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five. I guess like 10. Mr. Toad. Mr.
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Toad's up there. Big bad wolf is up
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there.
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One of the best cues
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in the park in my opinion. I love I mean
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it's one of top five top five queue. Top
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five queue. Look at this. This is
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definitely Jessica Rabbit right here.
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Jessica Rabbit is don't take no
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visitors. All right. I'm sorry. My bad.
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I was just I was looking at Jessica.
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She's not bad. She was just drawn that
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way. Actually, it was about 5 minutes.
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We're squeezing in here. Two non thin
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guys in a tiny cab. Weird about
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that. There's right there. And there's
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Jessica. She now is wearing a raincoat
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or something. I don't know. They put
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that on
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her. Should we get this thing spinning?
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Should we get this thing spinning? Spin
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it.
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I am too uh too big for this ride
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vehicle. Love
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this. That's going to be like a rope
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burn on my leg. The spinning of the
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literally burning my leg. Like it's like
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rubbing against my leg a wheel. That's
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not
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Oh, I know. That's the dip machine right
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there. That's the dip machine. Get us
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out of here. Roger. Get us out of here.
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Small world is down under construction.
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We were going to do Mickey Mini Runaway,
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but it is not operational at the moment.
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So, it ran It ran so far away we
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couldn't catch it. Oh, hello Montreal
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and the Matter Horn. Well, the Montreal
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is going to move momentarily that's
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going to reveal the Matter Horn. They
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just readjusted our
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backs. 35minute wait for Space Mountain,
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which has an overlay right now called
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Hyperspace Mountain, which is a Star
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Wars themed overlay. And it's a 35minute
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wait, and it's not going to get any
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shorter. It's probably going to get to
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an hour, hour and 15 later. So, might as
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well go ahead and get in line. 35
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minutes. This is giving me vibes from
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like 2015 or 16 where they were doing
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Season of the Force and they had I think
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that's the last time I went on Space
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Mountain when it was the Star Wars
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overlay. Remember what year that was? 15
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or
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16? The season? Remember the season of
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the Force? Oh, I don't know. It was like
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early on. 15 or 16. Unless something
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here. Also, I prefer this Space Mountain
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dramatically over Walt Disney Worlds. I
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like certain things at certain parks. I
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like this one better
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here. This was a little more comfortable
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and you sit side by side instead of
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tobogen
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style. I think I just gave a little
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salute.
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What are you doing? You going to get
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comfortable, Jack? Put your arm around
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me. Nestle in.
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Get romantic on a Star Wars ride.
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Heck it.
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All right, that was freaking
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awesome. That was really good. I forgot
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how good Hyperspace is. Obviously, I put
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the camera down once we were getting
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launched, but man, that was that was
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good. That was really
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good. Going to check out our
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photo. See how the photo turns out.
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Should be a good
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one. That's a pretty good photo. Oh,
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there's my face. Jay, man, you look like
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you're getting ready to rough someone
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up. Or if you continue the picture,
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where's my hand going in?
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Oh, yeah. There they also have a
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hyperspace mountain shirt, which is
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really cool. And then there's the
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classic Space Mountain shirt there. Like
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the hyperspace one, too, though. It's
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kind of neat. We do not have that in
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Florida. We don't have opening day nondy
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Space Mountain right there. It's like
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spiffy. Mickey just said, what did he
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say? Space Mountain. Boom. That's what
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they saw.
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Yeah. Look at this.
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Nice. Oh, yeah. Nice.
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Nice. Very nice. Look at all the
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Mickey's. The Mickey's going
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by. All the different eras of Mickey. I
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like
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it. I think we're going to make our way
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over to New Orleans Square. See what's
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going on over there. Anna Jones and the
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Temple of the Forbidden Eye are not
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offering tours today. They are down for
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construction, but the jungle cruise
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shows a 15minute wait. So, I think we're
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going to take a little cruise to the
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jungle. Look at this. Ecuador. I was
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just there. Hey, look over there. It's
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the Himalayan tiger. We call him the
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Himalayan tiger cuz sometimes Himalayan
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up there, other times Himalayan way over
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here. Right now, him standing, him
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growling, but I think him hungry. I'm
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going to speed up a little bit now. We
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go from the temple of the Forbidden Eye
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over there to the lesser known but
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still the lesser known but still
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magnificent temple in a missing contact
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lens right
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here. Been looking for a long time. I
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hope he finds a good one.
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Tense the shots show me something
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special. Looks like a 38 special. We got
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to go. Look what they did to my Jeep.
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They left the lights on. Now I'll never
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get it to turn over here. Get those
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cameras ready. This is the moment you've
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been waiting for all day long. It's
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finally here. The back side of
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water right there.
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I think I'm going to go up into the
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castle around the backside up to the
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corridor of goons. The top of the
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castle. There it is. The original sign,
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the corridor of goons. And the teacups
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here are out out in the elements, not
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under a cover like Walt Disney World.
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Oh, deja vu. We saw the same Montreal
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earlier. Going to go to the DDC lounge
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and to the former launch bay. It's hard
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to believe it's been 10 years since
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Launch Bay opened. I did this, remember
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I did this thing called the launch bay
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layown where they would lay down here
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along the scroll. Right now, they've
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covered up the launch bay lay down with
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the carpet here, but you can kind of see
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part of the
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scroll over here. And I guess Vader
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isn't meeting over here like he was.
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It's been 10 years since launch bag.
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Isn't that
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wild? Isn't that wild? Liz showed up
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also. Fresh baked Liz. The last time I
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was in the DBC lounge, they used to have
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coffee cups that you'd use for the the
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soda. I say soda. Minuteade zero fruit
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punch cherry limeade is what I get. But
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now they got the paper cup back like
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real cup. I have to use coffee cups for
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the for the minute. Nice. Love the
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Coca-Cola freestyle machines up here.
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Out onto the ledge. The Tomorrowland
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ledge. Love this view out here. You got
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Space Mountain over in the distance. You
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get the People Mover. Well, you get the
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uh the where the rocket rods people
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mover track used to load, but now it's
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not used anymore. You got the Matter
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Horn. We're going to pop in and take a
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look at the new bride on Haunted
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Mansion. It's only a half hour wait. So,
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check it
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out. Not good. Not good. I don't like
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this one. They've been trying to get out
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of that coffin for years trying to get
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out of that coffin. Made it over into
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Disney's California Adventure
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now. Going to see how Pixar Pier is
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looking.
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on Mansion really wasn't too bad. It
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said a half hour. Really only like a
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20-minute wait. I'm really shocked that
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boy. It was wasn't as busy as I thought
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it was going to be on on Mansion. It's
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busy in the park, but Mansion for some
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reason wasn't too bad. There it is.
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Mickey's Fun Wheel Incred Coaster and
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walking into Pixar Pier. Oh yeah. Love
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this ride. Love this ride. Most of the
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time I will call it California
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Screaming. Took me a while to call it
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Incredic Coaster, but it's the same
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ride. Just a little Incred Incredibles
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overlook. It's go time, Liz. It's go
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time. Let's do it. Oh my god.
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wow.
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Holy. Woo. Holy crap. Nice breeze.
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Feels good out.
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god. I forgot how intense this
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is. We're going to head on to Mickey's
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Fun. Well, M used to be Mickey's Fun
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Wheel. Now it's called Pixar
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Got a pretty good viewing of Radiator
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Springs down there. You can almost see
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the race bars.
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There's
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something. Well, that's where we're
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going to be doing all that construction
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for Avengers Campus back there. Yep.
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Getting the blast off there of Incredic
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Coaster getting launched right there up
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the screen tube. All
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right. I think that one's about to do
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the the loopy loop there around the
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through the
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loop. Think we're going to go grab a
19:40
coffee and then head back over to I
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almost said Magic Kingdom. Over to
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Disneyland in the Starbucks at DCA.
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There was no line. How's yours? What did
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you get? I got the ice chicken um brown
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sugar oat milk espresso. Iced chicken.
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Iced chicken. Oh, ice chicken. You have
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chicken on your brain like I do? We are
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going to get some chicken. Um but I do a
20:03
little splash of half and half and I get
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really creamy. Yeah, it's delicious. I
20:06
got the vanilla hot sugar-free latte.
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It's like my go-to now.
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I don't even know if sugar-free is even
20:16
even good for you. It's probably just as
20:19
bad as regular sugar.
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There's the Carthage Circle Theater. The
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Silver Lake sisters, Dolly, Ethel, and
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Die. Do you know they had names? The
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three of the three
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sisters. Silver Lake Sister. You think
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they're really
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related? You think they are? Okay, here
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they are. Right here. All right, test
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time. Which one's which? Which one is
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Ethel?
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Correct. The middle one is Ethel.
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And then Daddy's left. Doy's on the left
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and Dolly's on the right. Nailed it.
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I like all the lore of this place that
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no one pays attention to, including
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myself till right now. Hello, Cruella.
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Hello, Cruella. How are you?
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Gonna go check out some pirates. Always
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love getting on getting some Pirates of
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the Caribbean. A little boat ride into
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the bayou. Oh, the lightning lightning
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bugs are working this time. The other
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day they weren't. They weren't working.
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The little lights aren't twinkling.
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Clark, look at that. There's a gator. I
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never noticed this gator down here. Or
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if I did notice
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it. Gator right there. Wow. They have a
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weathered eye
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open. Hold it on
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tight. Both hands.
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Oh, got a little weapon right now.
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Heading over to get some
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chicken. I love Plaza in. Love it. Best
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chicken ever. Best chicken ever. That's
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Plaza in specialty chicken. Two pieces
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of chicken fried golden brown seasoned
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sweet herbs spices served with mash
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taste gravy. Seasoned vegetables and a
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buttermilk biscuit down in there. Oh, so
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much food. I'm already overwhelmed. I
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love it. Look at this, too. They also
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have pot roast. You want my drumstick?
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I'm a chicken guy, though. You have my
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drumstick. Okay, I'll double down on the
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drumstick. I don't like drumsticks. You
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don't?
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I need pure white meat. Okay. Thank you.
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Look at that. Beautiful.
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I'm going to do the same thing. Thank
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you.
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I'm getting this like blue icy kind of
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drink as well. Also comes with a
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biscuit, green beans, mashed potatoes,
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and gravy. And you really doubled down
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on the uh the trip, but you can have my
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wings. I'm not going to eat those. I'm
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over in the emporium now. I'm going to
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get a shirt to remember this particular
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trip. This is kind of This is what I
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kind of like, but there's another one
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that has Mickey on it. I like a little
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bit better. But I like the original
23:01
Disneyland sign, Happiest Place on Earth
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shirt right there. This is an XL. I got
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you an XXL. Sorry.
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I think I'm going to go with the Mickey
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shirt and not this one. But I like that,
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too. This one here. I like this. I kind
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of like the mini one, too. Rock it. Rock
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the pink. Should I? Yeah. Rocket with
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Minnie on it. Yeah.
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Um I wish they had the Mickey one. I
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wish they had Mickey on the pink shirt.
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Okay. Still not sold on the Disney 70th
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shirts, but I'm hoping they bring out
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more than just these designs before the
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70th
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starts. Even though I do like the Spirit
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jersey. I will say the Spirit jersey is
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kind of cool.
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Liz, are you a spir a spirit jersey kind
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of guy? I was and then I got over it
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really quickly and I do not like this.
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You don't like that? I like the tie dye.
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It's a little It's a little too tie-dye.
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It's a little too much tie. It doesn't
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say 70th though, but I still kind of
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like it. It says 70 right here. No, but
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it doesn't It doesn't scream 70th. I
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don't That's what I mean. I see. I see.
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I see. Yeah, I'm thinking they'll
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probably put more out. But you were
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saying they actually they actually
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showed some images of some new stuff.
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They did. Yeah. Um it's definitely way
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cuter. It's like a little bit more like
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classic. This is just like very loud.
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Okay. And I'm already loud as it is and
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I don't need I think pink and purple is
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like the colors of the 70th. Is that
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even the right colors for 70th? I don't
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know. I know the 60th but was diamond
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which was beautiful. What's the 70th?
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Purple. And that's going to do it for
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today from Disneyland.
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