The Disney Soap Opera Continues - Starcruiser Closing / Imagineering Campus Canceled & Stocks Down
Huge Disney News May 2023
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today's adventure begins here on Market
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Street in Celebration Florida as the
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recording of This TGIF it is Friday May
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19th
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2023 the streets are being closed off or
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evidently will be something happening
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either tonight or and or this weekend
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of the Disney soap opera continues the
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last couple years
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following
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the nooks and crannies behind the scenes
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and the announcements of the Disney
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Corporation and Parks has been a
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riveting one
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to say the least looks like there's set
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up a bunch of chairs and tables over
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here maybe it's going to be like a
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and I wanted to start over here at the
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fountain showing Burbank as the crow
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flies I believe
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2197 miles maybe a little less than that
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if you're flying well if you're driving
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I should say
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so Disney was going I should probably do
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my intro first but just I want to start
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over a celebration because Burbank is
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one of the tie-ins frame for Central
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Florida and Burbank wow take a look at
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this Jeep right here this uh yeah this
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this Sheriff must be having some Affairs
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in the community welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here
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Behind Me Howard
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the duck
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somewhere down in there hey he's right
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there
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right over there
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big news as always happening in the
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Disney Community lots of changes happen
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to the parks lots of changes happen to
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the company but yesterday as the
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recording of this
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two massive announcements products of
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the chapek era
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Maybe
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the Iger era who knows if Iger had
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anything to do with what is he is now
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erasing probably so but I don't know all
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the ins and outs of all that the Star
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Wars Hotel the star Cruiser
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is going away they are closing it what
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the heck I just did it two weeks ago
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it's going away and over in Burbank the
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campus for the imagineers announced in
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2021 and they kind of prolonged it and
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said it was going to open in 2026 over
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in Lake Nona they have scrapped that
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completely a multi-million dollar dare I
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say billion dollar complex
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gone I'm gonna go check out where that
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was I'm inviting you to join me I'm
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gonna go find the spot where it was
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going to be shall you and not really
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partial to the two massive subject
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matters I want to talk about
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but I have to wonder I still wonder why
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this decoy duck is just sitting there
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and never moves My Philosophy it's on a
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string but I've also heard it's on a
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pipe to keep a boater that's in there
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maybe doing maintenance work on the lake
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from bumping into it but I don't think
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that's true because notice how Howard
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the Duck here the decoy duck
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is moving to shift in two and four
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whereas on the pipe that would not be
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the case
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I am I mean everyone saw a comma but I
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am still kind of a little shocked
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that the star Cruiser is closing so much
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money was an investor that so much
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talent
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with the actors and actresses on site
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and the cast members who put their all
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into it yes it's very expensive it is
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very overpriced but for what you get I
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could see why they had to have at that
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price and it's really bizarre that
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there's now going to be an empty
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building sitting next to Hollywood
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Studios will they repurpose it will they
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make it into a DVC hotel where they make
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it into a dinner experience or will it
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just simply sit empty and be torn down
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will it be destroyed just like the
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harmonious barges which is another
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you know multi-million dollar item
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and now has been destroyed a race from
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existence they're not even trying to
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reap they didn't even repurpose the show
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they just just got rid of it
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I need to get back over to Epcot at some
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point I'm not going there today but you
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get over there sometime and see the
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unobstructed view across World Showcase
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Lagoon
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stock prices are down Disney stock price
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is low again
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I am a shareholder so that's a little
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disappointing
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but I guess you got to take things off
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the bottom line closing the star Cruiser
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and not opening a billion dollar campus
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I guess maybe that would uh that would
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help the company a little bit what do I
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know
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all I know is that I don't know nothing
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I follow the pop ivy
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philosophy and while I am very grateful
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and content and happy the fact that I
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was able to go on the house here on the
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Star Wars Hotel
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I'm a little disappointed that I'm not
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going to be able to go again because now
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that I had gone the first time I felt
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like I had a better understanding of
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what it was and what I could have done
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and done
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on my second voyage the very last way
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for my sunglasses on it's bright out
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here the very last Voyage of the halcy
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on the Star Wars Hotel will be the last
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two days I believe of September of this
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year they have paused booking any for
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like another week or so because anyone
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who had a booking after well October 1st
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and Beyond from this this point of the
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year they have to readjust so that they
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can they will get kind of first pick on
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readjusting and having those so until
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now until the end of September are gonna
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be the last voyages I would love to go
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on the last Voyage I was gonna put this
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out there I will not be on the last
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voyage
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and dare I say I probably will not be
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able for honestly daring but I will not
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be able to most likely will not be able
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to book another Voyage between then and
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there I have a very full itinerary
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coming up of travel plans I might be
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able to squeeze one in but
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I don't know I did it once very pricey
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not sure if I'm gonna do it again and
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definitely 100 will not be on the last
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Voyage I have prior obligations to go
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into a destination
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at that particular time frame that I
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have never been to before which I'm not
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going to postpone or move that those
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plans around because I'm really looking
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forward to that as well but pretty sad
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about the star Cruiser mostly because of
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just how immersive it was how much the
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cast members work so hard how much the
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actors and actors put every they put
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their all into it and maybe the space
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will be utilized in the future for other
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things no fun into this space
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space you know
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see what happens it's just quite an
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unusual coincidence if that's the right
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word to even use yeah I guess you could
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say a coincidence that I was able to go
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on because I have not if I had not gone
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on it when I did a couple weeks ago
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coming up with my future plans that I
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have coming up over the next couple of
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months I don't know if I would have been
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able to squeeze it in and make it happen
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I probably would have but it worked out
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way better that I did it ahead of time
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and I don't think I mean there was no
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there was no news leaked out this was
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going to be happening it just kind of
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happened out of no out it just kind of
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happened out of nowhere both the big and
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I mean there's all there's always
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announcements there's always something
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that is kind of trending online and
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people are talking about these last two
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yesterday big announcements current
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stock price this is over the last month
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in the last month it has dropped 6.68
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so was that a little over 100 a month
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ago and it's even dropped even a little
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before that let's see in the last year
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to date here so that's the last year
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today so it's standing pretty strong
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with the last month it has dropped six
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six six points or six dollars in the
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last month in the last five days that's
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what it's done in the last five days but
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yeah in the last day yesterday it
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dropped two but let's just look at the
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last month so yeah it stopped quite a
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bit see what happens I bought in at 87
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uh probably I don't know nine or ten
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eleven months ago give or take
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so I'm still I'm still in the in the
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green if you will but I mean it could
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taper off and drop off even from there
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who knows and I am no stock expert in
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any way but you know it's always good to
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kind of hold on to things for the long
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run it's almost kind of like a diet you
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don't want to weigh yourself every day
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you probably don't want to check stocks
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every day I am not a stock Trader or
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anything like that and the reason
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there's another car driving up and down
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here is they have the streets blocked
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off I mean I think I showed that a
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moment ago but yeah this is just from
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the other angle so I'm hoping on to it
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for the long haul a little piping hot
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caffeinated beverage for the road on a
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well what it kind of seems to be a
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piping hot day it is definitely warmer
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here than it was in NYC when I was up
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there New York was cool and crisp
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Florida hot and humid even for this time
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of the year it's it's a toasty day hey
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and passing by this is going to be some
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sort of a run I guess there's a dinner
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and then there's going to be a run a
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little bit later
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I will not be partaking in the Run
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this is pretty interesting how right
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here along Water Street
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this water that's why it's called Water
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Street goes directly under the road
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and then down market right over there
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that always reminds me of Blade Runner
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but yeah the water goes under the street
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that direction
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this was a pre-planned this guy's gonna
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run the run the stoplight stop side good
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job there's a stop sign right there
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buddy are you gonna run it too
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why are you honking why are you honking
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dude
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I have the right-of-way buddy
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you guys like throwing his arms up is
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that shape
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I think I had the right of way there I
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really do
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all right it is 15 minutes to noon maybe
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I'm in the wrong there but I don't think
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I was
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yeah it's like 14 minutes to noon that
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was weird again these are all just kind
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of opinions and speculation and just
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I'm gonna have a little tour
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Around the Lake Nona spot I guess anyone
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can just kind of
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cruise around through the stop side the
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throne Accord when the officers are all
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over here setting up for a run and a
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meal
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it's a free game
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it's free run here in Celebration The
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Mean Streets let's celebrate and where
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I'm heading over to the Lake Nona campus
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curious to see what's going to be there
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when I get there 20 miles from
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celebration give or take just like that
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Lake NoDa Boulevard a mile ahead
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almost there
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and I believe right over there in that
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empty lot
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was where it was going to be I'm gonna
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pull over get a better view of it
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somewhere over in there I'll get a
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little bit I'll get a little more
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technical when I get closer
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all right I parked my car over here on
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this little driveway that leads into a
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construction site except there's no
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construction Happening Here
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got some Office Buildings some hotels
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there's like a golf driving range over
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there hospital possibly over that way
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now this from what I was kind of seeing
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on the interwebs
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is not that was not going to be part of
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it
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so this is not what they had already
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started on that would not be a Disney
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ice machine
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however across this road was where the
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complex was going to be
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with this little Bend in the road here
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so it turns this way and goes up that
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way and I'll kind of match up well some
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stuff I found I combined two different
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images the one up here the blue dot is
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where I'm standing on satellite view and
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this is the images of where the what
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originally was going to be the Disney
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Regional campus the imagineer
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imagineers were going to move over 2 000
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new jobs are going to be placed here so
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this is me currently and just kind of
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meshed it in with something I found as
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far as where it was going to be but you
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could see the bend in the road
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which means right over here
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doesn't look like they really started on
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too much again this originally was going
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to be back in 2001 you know there's the
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events that kind of took place in 2000
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2001 took a while for the world to get
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back on track there are some survey
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markers here as well
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these will probably be taken down
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Orlando International you can see some
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of the planes taking off
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so this whole massive area here
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tons of Acres
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a Disney purchased and I guess they
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probably still own the land or maybe
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sell the land off maybe utilize it for
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something else made a lot of that is
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going to be speculation and whatnot as
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time goes on there's actually something
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going on out there
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as well
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got some survey markers out
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out there also all those will be pulled
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out
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here's the concept art of what it was
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gonna look like
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so also the interesting thing is a lot
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of the Disney cast members and
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Associates imagineers have already moved
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over here in their plans for they've
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already relocated
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now I would imagine that the company
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would help them out with that at least I
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would hope so
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also survey markers
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for getting them back over to Southern
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California
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and I really honestly I'm kind of on the
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fence with how I feel about
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you know them building this complex not
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necessarily building the complex but
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imagineering moving over here
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I kind of liked it in Burbank
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I don't know the reasoning be helped by
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why they wanted to have it out in
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Florida maybe it'd be closer to wdw and
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the Florida type of stuff and there's a
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lot of opinions being thrown around and
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why they scrap this whole
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this whole deal and I don't really I
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don't really know no one really knows we
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don't know the behind the scenes of all
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of it especially someone of my mental
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caliber
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I don't really know what's going on in
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the in that hole
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that whole world
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but I do know it's not going to happen
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all I can know is his uh State the facts
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and I've been to a little off-site areas
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from away from the studios where
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a lot of the imagineers work and whatnot
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would have been cool to have them in my
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own backyard
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and obviously 2 000 people moving here
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Florida is the most rapidly growing
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State I believe out of the 50 states
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for release of the Continental
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there are more people moving here on a
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daily basis
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believe what I was reading what I've
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Been Told
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that any of the other states it is just
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by Leaps and Bounds growing so
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even without the 2000 cast members
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moving here it's not going to stop the
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growth of Central Florida at all
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celebration was a Disney planned and
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Disney created Community not that Lake
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Nona is but it's kind of a correlation
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as well Disney no longer has their hands
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in any affiliation I believe they do
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have some offices and the cruise ship
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offices are based out of Celebration but
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other than that
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you know Disney has kind of cut ties
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with celebration and they are their own
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HOA unit you know town city whatever you
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want to call it and they kind of keep up
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with how Disney wanted it to be run
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that's why it really kind of looks
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pretty pristine and manicured and thinks
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I think a lot of that kind of went over
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also very curious so there was going to
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be an affordable housing complex massive
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area that Disney also had talked about
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with the scrapping of the star Cruiser
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and with the scrapping of this
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will that be the next thing on the
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chopping block
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quite possibly it would not be
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surprising or shocking if uh if Iger
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gets rid of that and tomorrow gets rid
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of that as well well it'd be auger
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because tomorrow was over this
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more or less well Iger is above him
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chapek era decisions
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and again some people say that you know
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Iger and chapek kind of the same unit in
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a lot of ways so who knows who what
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really made any decision if there's a
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scapegoat in that situation if there's
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the blame's place on someone it should
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be placed on I don't know
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and honestly I don't really care but
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it's just kind of fascinating
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soap opera that is the Disney
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rumors speculations
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in the last couple of years and this is
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just this is a big one
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I really enjoy documenting this kind of
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stuff obviously if this would have gone
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forward I would have showed up here
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every you know half a year or so and
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showed the progress of the building and
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the construction and all that from afar
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it's just fascinating to me to to
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document for posterity if you will how
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things progress how things get removed
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sometimes things go forward and
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sometimes obviously like this
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things go backwards they were just
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complete come to a complete halt
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and this probably would have been one of
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the main construction entrances
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again
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no clue what any of that stands for the
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numbers on it says 4x4 number three two
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seven eight four
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out there well way way out there
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maybe the Farmland is
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a different area
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so this one now just said empty Disney
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not making their move to Lake Nona
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oh yeah it says right here keep gate
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closed
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cows in area
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plane going right over my head
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hello plane I don't think you can hear
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me
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man oh I just saw go over I always had a
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way for all moment where the plane's
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going over top of the head
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all right that's it not much to see
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nothing to see here nothing to see here
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nothing will be seen here scrapped
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erased
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from existence
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I guess you can see the riding on the
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wall with a lot of stuff not only the
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star Cruiser very overpriced granted an
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amazing experience but it's you know
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most people would probably never go
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there and I figure a good percentage of
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those that really wanted to go probably
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wet
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there are some that probably didn't make
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but all in all it'll see how that game
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plan could have been a
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could have been something they would
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have kept up at that price point maybe
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they have something else in mind
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it's a possibility but you can also see
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if this was going to open a 2025 they
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probably would have broke a little more
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ground on this so you could probably see
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the riding on the wall
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with this as well
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but it's been confirmed this is not a
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rumor
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Disney is not moving
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to this spot here on Lake Nona done and
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while I was sitting here someone came to
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check up on me said you're not supposed
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to be parked here this is a an active
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driveway I said an active driveway maybe
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it was an active driveway but I said I'm
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leaving I would just try to get some
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some photos and video
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I said this is active
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sorry Lake Nona Central Florida
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no Disney imagineering for you no soup
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for you and I'm sure this area will be a
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bustling thoroughfare down this road as
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time goes on someone else will probably
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now who knows maybe even Disney
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probably I mean obviously they bought
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the land maybe they just won't make it
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what it is but maybe they'll utilize and
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build something there in the future who
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knows
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yeah check this out too right over here
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is another entry point in
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almost looks like it was built to go
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into something
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and this is also would have been another
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access point
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onto the property
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looking at it from another another angle
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there was a little birdie up there
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on that Lake Nona
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pylon
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that was I going tomorrow
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they were channeling that bird and
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they're like nope going back to the West
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Coast
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that plane's going too West Coast bound
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oh man fascinating stuff
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all this is just so fascinating
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there it is
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probably the only time I ever come out
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here no real reason to now
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I will not be visiting any of the future
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imagineers who'd be working here because
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they will not be here nor will the
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complex the Disney complex
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multi-million if not billion dollar
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complex that was gonna be here it's
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gonna go back into the pockets of the
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Disney corporation which I mean is
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probably a good thing honestly
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sometimes you gotta trim the fat
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that's what people have referred to this
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situation trimming the fat
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not sure if I uh I'm not sure if I love
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Iger as the the head honcho I don't
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definitely don't dislike him but I like
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him a lot more than Jay back
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uh yeah I think most people probably
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side with me on that one
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what the heck is going on
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there's another one that'd be good right
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you can tell from that what this video
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would be about
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one of those will work
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one of those oh there's another Lake
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node uh entrance exit sign over there
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I'm not sure if Lake node is proper that
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way or proper that way
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as both sides of this are the same
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this whole area refers to Lake Nona look
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more survey markers down here
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sidewalk might have been white we've got
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to be widened
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thank you
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have the inside info bird
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really
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all right that's a topic for another
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another day
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Fair bird
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you're just chirping from the cheap
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seats all the info
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can you go in a little more detail on
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that
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yeah
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all right all right
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juicy
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spilling the tea
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star Cruiser closing the end of
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September
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gone
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and the huge complex here not happening
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at Lake Nona that's gonna do it for
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today
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thanks for watching I'll see you the
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next video the Vlog is
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over
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bonus footage
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look at this car all right figured out
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what this was it's a run it's called the
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torch run
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I wanted to show all this looks like all
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these motorcycles are going to take off
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momentarily