EPCOT New Changes & Summer Updates - Temporary DVC Lounge / Portraits Of Courage Exhibit & The Land
Updates at EPCOT Summer 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Thursday
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June 27th 2024 and if this is any
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indication you might realize I am
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probably heading to one of the Walt
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Disney World theme parks that has the
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Magic Band capabilities Epcot if you had
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guessed that or not read it in the title
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then you are correct at your assumption
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I
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am going to Epcot formerly the Epcot
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Center well just Epcot Center now the
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Epcot or just Epcot going to check out a
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few updates some changes some closures
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as well as the Disney Vacation Club the
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DVC Lounge which normally is in the
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journey to imagination Pavilion but just
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for a short time frame it's over at the
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Odyssey building while they are doing
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construction update inside the journey
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to imag ation Pavilion speaking of
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construction update they are almost done
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with the 7-eleven here in celebration
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I'll show that as well and someone has
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parked a cyber truck on the sidewalk
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interesting join me let's go to Walt
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Disney World shall you also wearing an
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appropriate Walt Disney Marceline
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t-shirt is appropriate shall you watch
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out for this don't want to walk into
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this yeah so basically they ended up
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having to replace the little pylons here
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on this little why you classify this as
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art
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deco kind of reminds me of like
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Hollywood a cleaner Hollywood
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celebration is but take a look at this
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look at
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this look at this thing they're also
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putting in it looks like some electric
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Chargers electric vehicles are taking
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over the world I do not have an electric
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vehicle well I do I have mini Marge my
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glorified golf cart is electric my
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scooter is electric my personal vehicle
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is not
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electric cuz I've noticed sometimes when
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you travel around people will park their
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electric vehicles when there aren't
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charging stations and they'll just plug
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them into the regular outlets in the
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wall of random places that's what the
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Cyber Tru is doing man this thing is
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fancy right it's like futuristic
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looking all right I'm off to the parks
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big the foot was just expressing his
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thoughts if he wanted to be dangling
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from a rearview mirror of a cyber truck
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or not
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except he didn't want me to put out that
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personal information into the world so
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I'm just going to keep that between him
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and me as I was walking up I got kind of
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excited thinking I would get an angle of
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the monil pulling up towards spaceship
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earth and then I realized one's not
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coming anytime soon because there's it's
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right up there in the little pocket you
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got to wait for that one to leave before
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the other one starts to make its way
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around using see the one that's like
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docked up there we'll take off and then
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about 2 or 3 minutes later another one
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will pull
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out he you can see the little yellow one
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right up there in the little
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top it's like hiding in lurking in the
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shadows lurking in the
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shadows love spaceship her so much oh
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goodness gracious there are a lot of new
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pins in here now not all of these I
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probably will not end up getting but
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there are some new Hollywood Tower pens
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check out the Stitch one right there at
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the Hollywood Tower I really like that
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one right there but there's a whole
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ensemble of Hollywood towers and there's
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a bunch of different Mickey walking
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through all the world showcase country
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Pavilions I don't think I'm going to get
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all of these also interesting they
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didn't really change the way Mickey is
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walking in all of them so they're kind
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of like almost the same same
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but they just have the different
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countries on them all right getting my
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little video little photo well not a
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photo but a video here in front of the
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GL the mirror underneath spaceship earth
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going to start off with some coffee also
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inside the pin Trading Store I did find
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two pins that I'm going to get on the
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way I don't want to carry them around
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all day but I found two new ones that
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I'm going to get on the way out I'm
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going to go ahead and jump in line over
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here at the connections Cafe the
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Starbucks a little bit of a line but I
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do like the fact that Starbucks has
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really large coffee where joffre are a
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little smaller I like a large large H
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coffee also I should mention while I'm
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waiting in line also you got the little
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sketch there of progress city which
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eventually became Epcot I think that was
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like off of a napkin or maybe like a
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something of that nature was like an
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original sketch maybe it's not the
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napkin concept but it is the concept of
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progress City that eventually became
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Epcot but I ended up getting these at
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that 7-Eleven that was going under the
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the remodel there on World Drive and
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celebration the pair I had yesterday
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just they they weren't cutting they had
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a little issue so got another pair they
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were like uh 16 17 $18 for these I
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always always thought about getting more
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expensive and better sunglasses problem
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is when I do that I lose them
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immediately or I sit on them with by
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cheap pair they last forever kind of
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doing a couple things at once today I'm
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in the queue to get Oogie Boogie Bash
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tickets out in
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SoCal their Halloween party last couple
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days it's been uh it's been a chore
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trying to get their tickets at 56
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minutes 6 56 minutes until it's my time
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to purchase and I'm hoping they will not
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be sold out this is day three of trying
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to get the opening night tickets
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accomplished and as I am walking out of
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here I'm now noticing that I can hear
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the soothing sounds of that's right the
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beginning of their set
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the jamer
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oh
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hi w
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I also wanted to walk by the recently
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closed down I think about well two week
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about two week a week and a half ago cuz
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I was out of town for 2 weeks and I
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think I caught test track a few days
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before the closing wasn't here on the
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closing day they're completely redoing
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it they brought the cars out the sherly
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cars are out front in front of the wall
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which is very interesting so we ended up
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checking that out saw the little little
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construction walls all that and now
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going to make it my way over to the land
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Pavilion the living with the land
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Pavilion which I'm inside of now right
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down there looks like there's like 20
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minute
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wait what I was hearing they have
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modified the ride a little bit and
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brought back the lightning scene at the
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Hooves of the mighty Buffalo area a few
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weeks ago I rode it and they had brought
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back the fire effect if they hadn't
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added the lightning yet so I'm going to
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go check out some lightning and I'm glad
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it's a little bit of a line not too long
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of a line but I'm glad it's a short line
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enough to me to finish off my coffee you
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don't want to wait too long but you want
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to wait long enough where you can
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consume the rest of this before getting
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on the traction according to this 20
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minutes I'm going to guess it's probably
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less than that though I'm going to guess
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it's probably 10 that is a big a sickle
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I it's called a sickle might be another
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word I'm not thinking of but
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yeah there's now going to be even more
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lightning on living with hand
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they added this new lighting a month or
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two ago a month and a half ago see the
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Gators all about
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it reminds me of the boat ride from
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really W of the Chocolate Factory Jean
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Wilder I just watched that Jean Wilder
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documentary really really good
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fish H love
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fishes those shrimps are usually oh
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there's a big shrimp right there look at
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this size of a freaking
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shrimp the snake gours the they look
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like snakes like slithering
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serpents but they're really just
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gourds snake gourds at the base of the
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upside down waterfall I also refer to it
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as the PVC Fountain right there looks
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like it might get some rain also cuz
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that looks like a pyramid made out of
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PVC pipes but I don't know if it really
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is PVC but it does look like PVC and
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even though there is a pyramid there
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that looks to be made out of that
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certain substance appear here here the
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top of these pyramids the glass pyramids
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is where the DVC Disney Vacation Lounge
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usually is but they have something up
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their sleeve maybe they're going to
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bring the rainbow tunnel back oh one can
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dream if the rainbow tunnel was unveiled
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they put the wall up years ago but man
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if they could if they could bring the
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rainbow tunnel back that would just be
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the coolest thing have to wait and see
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when it reopens but I'm going to head
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over to where the temporary DVC Lounge
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is the Disney Vacation Club Lounge which
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is is over at the Odyssey Pavilion and
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I'm kind of curious to see how they how
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they have it all set up go check that
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out oh and they actually put it on the
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the sign here temporarily on the sign
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with the arrow pointing over to the
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Odyssey Disney Vacation Club Lounge over
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at the Odyssey the old Odyssey
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Restaurant which sat empty for a very
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very long time when they started doing a
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prominent amount of food festivals
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around World Showcase and all that they
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started to open up the Odyssey even more
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to have Festival Foods inside here but
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I'm kind of curious now that there's no
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Festival going on if this is only
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specifically for DVC or if they have it
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half just like a regular guest half DVC
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or if it's going to be just all full DVC
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Lounge that's the most probably the most
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amount of times I've used the phrase DVC
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in such a short time frame oh nice got a
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Montreal coming by a nasty looking cloud
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above it you got the Montreal making the
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noise giving a little tension on the
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beam there walkway kind of you plenty of
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elbow on the walkway going over there to
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where the topiaries usually are and then
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walking around this way and then going
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to Loop in I actually have seen people
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walking in and out of here there's a
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pathway so I think they have it open for
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regular guest and for again I'm St I'm
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reusing that phrase DVC as well yeah
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take a look right here Disney Vacation
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Club Lounge Epcot hours 11: to 6:00 p.m.
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daily so right over there is the regular
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section and then over here is to the the
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non Disney Vacation it's just it's just
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a little
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this is kind of funny it's the same
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freaking room there's actually less
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people over on the regular side than
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there is the DV side all right one thing
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they don't have over here is the
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freestyle machine so the only real
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difference I see is actually give you
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water and soda over here yeah they can't
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tote the freestyle machine over here so
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they're just handing out soda and I also
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got myself a little small miniature Dan
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they don't sell the danis in the in the
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park of this size so that's kind of cool
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I got a miniature dis you don't see
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these too often and they even are giving
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out a little lip balm think it of Three
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Amigos at Chevy Chas SC lip balm
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but it look has has a vacation club on
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the side of the lip balm doesn't really
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have the same effect as being up in the
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pyramid above the journey to imagination
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Pavilion didn't really see the point of
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sitting in there but did get some lip
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balm which I'll probably never use and a
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little hydration in the form of a
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miniature Dan a look at the little
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family of ducks right there swimming
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around in the water outside of the
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Odyssey Pavilion yep till July 13th the
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cast member was telling me after July
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13th they will be back up inside the
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last pyramids and now going to take a
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loop around World Showcase starting from
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the Mexico side sometimes I go from the
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Canada side so let they go for the
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Mexico side today Mexico side the Frozen
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Ever After line starts all the way back
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here at the entryway
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into Norway country
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Pavilion wow it didn't realize it was
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going to be this busy today well
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definitely over in the Frozen area it is
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I'm going to go say hello to the troll I
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definitely miss Maelstrom I do like the
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Frozen ride a lot one thing I miss is
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being able to see the melstrom boat even
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though it's the same exact boat that
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they use on Frozen Ever After but they
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enclosed this over here you used to be
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able to see the boat would come up here
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before it went back back well no it was
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like pass the back back over the falls
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part before he did the drop that was
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like an exposed area that you could look
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in and you would see the back of the
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boat would hit go Peak over the falls
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there and then it would drop down on
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that final
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that final drop you can't see it they
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enclos that which is interesting even
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though they overlaid it I wonder why
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they leave that
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open I wonder why into the what's it
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called the forging the forging the fing
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is where the troll is like how do you
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pronounce that word yeah I always like
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to say hello to the troll that's always
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in here always a friendly is this some
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trolls are really friendly and this is
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one of the friendly ones right here
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always has his hand out stretch to to
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shake his finger or his hand his hand is
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bigger than mine take a look at this
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they have the uh they have the the
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famous painting here the I mean
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obviously this is kind of equated now to
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the the horror film but originally it
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was a piece of artwork and they have the
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the original painting on the shirts in
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here I think this is like even a little
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notebook there it is the scream items
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but that's basically where they got the
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inspiration for the mask in the the
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horror franchise which has now become
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very very successful yeah it's over here
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in the Norway Pavilion gift shop H how
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long before the heavens open up with
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rain and start precipitating upon my
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head you know would have been really
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nice over here at the Germany Pavilion
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if they would have gone with their
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original plan when World Showcase oap
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CAU open they were going to have an
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attraction and a ride right through here
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this wall was not going to be here I
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believe it was going to be a boat ride I
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I think it was a boat ride or a dark
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ride but it never happened and now
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there's just a there's just a wall oh it
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is now starting to rain I think I'm
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going to dip over into the American I
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may have evented these bif focals I'm
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wearing but I am that's the quote from
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the American American Adventure but I'm
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now it is really starting to rain on my
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head go over the American Adventure
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where they have a new exhibit that just
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open it's called portraits of Courage by
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President George W bush right over here
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inside the
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American Adventure yesterday I was at
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Magic Kingdom and I thought this was
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this exhibit was going to be over in the
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Hall of Presidents but I was wrong it is
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over here in the American Adventure I
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painted these men and women as a way to
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honor their service the country and show
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respect for their sacrifice and for
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their courage portraits of courage and
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underneath all the paintings it has
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their name so that is corporal Joshua
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Michael right there and this is dinner
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Dennis oliviero right here Zachariah
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Colette right here serve from 2002 until
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2010 in the Army it is on on o it's an
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oil painting according to that all the
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different photographs through here this
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over here that doesn't have a name on it
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oh yeah it is this Allan Adams senior
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over into this area here which usually
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you can't get over into this section I
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think they usually have it uh kind of
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closed off I love the iron work here of
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the Eagles over here I didn't realize
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that he had painted this he was this
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this uh this much of a painter to be
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honest with that also kind of curious I
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wonder if he was here for the opening of
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this exhibit I wonder if he has ever
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been in there and seen the American
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Adventure Show I love the American
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Adventure I think it's one of the most
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underappreciated and underrated
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attractions anywhere a Walt Disney World
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property so if you're ever if you're
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ever here definitely check it out just
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the animatronics alone I mean the story
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is great but the animatronics alone are
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just incredible how they work and they
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flow up and I think that's actually him
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I think that's actually I think that's
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actually him well maybe not it's Melissa
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Stockwell but that does kind of look
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like
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George right there right right there
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maybe definitely a really cool exhibit I
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don't know why I thought it was going to
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be over at the Hall of Presidents over
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at Magic Kingdom but yesterday I went in
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there and I was like where's the where's
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the the oil painting exhibit they're
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like oh that's an Epcot makes sense yes
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a rare non Festival time period here
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around World Showcase all these boots
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are closed Oo we got more walls down
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over here at Morocco all the walls are
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now down over at Morocco go and now the
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fountain can be seen check a look at
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this there were this was all covered up
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before the new tile work and everything
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is right here it looks like someone has
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lost a little shoe over here yeah they
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re look like they redid the tile work
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there were walls up here for quite a
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while and now they've redone the tile
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work I am noticing however that the
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fountain does not appear to be on I
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don't know if the fountain supposed to
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be on or if the fountain was on before
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but again they redid All the tower work
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you got some standing water in there I
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think maybe that Fountain is supposed to
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be kind of formulating up some water
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that maybe they haven't maybe they Haven
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it turned off or possibly that's not
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what this is maybe it's not a maybe it's
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not a fountain anymore maybe it's just a
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tile
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display speaking of lounges is the
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restaurant marash lounge back here for
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annual passholders still open I don't
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know also remember when this was a
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little uh a little larger and taller but
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they they redid all that there been lots
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of changes you know what I think the uh
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annual passholder Lounge is history now
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okay annual passholder Lounge was only a
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a short time frame it is no longer an AP
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lounge if it is it's not today be kind
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of nice they brought this back to being
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an actual restaurant yeah for a while
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for a couple months I was able to go in
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there and I I went in there a couple
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times and you could get some tea get
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some hot tea or cold water or some
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snacks and you could meet you could meet
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the genie from Aladdin
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in there as well but I guess I guess
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those days are over short live also when
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there's no festivals there's definitely
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a lot more Elbow Room as you're kind of
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walking around I think I've used the
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word Elbow Room a couple times it is
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about to come down out here there is a
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storm of Brewing feel like I'm getting a
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double dose of the jamut today as I'm
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heading out the jamit over here
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performing again it's get right
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go
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here we
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go yeah this is going to be a wind
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tunnel very soon through here whenever
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the wind starts whipping around
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underneath spaces shipper and I ended up
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getting two pins they are upside down
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well let me flip it around this way you
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kind of figure out as well these are the
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two pins that I got I love the the devil
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Pluto and the angel Pluto it's like the
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angel Pluto is begging the devil Pluto
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and I had to get that Stitch Hollywood
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Tower one right there I like these I
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don't really collect a lot of Pluto pens
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but these are really those are really
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cool I like those I don't even know what
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that's from but I like oh I believe this
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mural is different too there used to be
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a different spaceship earth mural right
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there but now there's a a different one
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I don't recall that that one was the
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same one as from before o and as I'm
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heading out we got a little Montreal
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yellow approaching the park it's
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approaching and I am departing heading
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back to my car trying to beat the storm
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it's going to be an
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NA soothing sounds of the birds and the
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trees
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and now into the corridor of goons Urkel
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down
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here Rancor up there all my nerdy
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stuff all through here the
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corridor of
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goons I found a spot for another Stitch
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pin right here in between all the
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stitchess also got a spot for the little
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Pluto up top kind of running out of room
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there are some of the ones in this area
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here are just random ones I like to have
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little collections like conglomerate
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collections like you got the splash pin
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you got the figment pin I got my Stitch
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pens I got my Roger Rabbit pin I got my
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Walt pins I got my epot pens got a ton
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of Mickey
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pens got some May the 4th and Star Wars
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pens I got a lot of Resort
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pens got a lot of
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anniversary of the parks pens but then I
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have just other ones that really don't
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have a grouping for I think a lot of
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these will probably end up trading off
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just to either make room I could also
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get another another cork board as well
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which I'll probably end up doing but I
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do got a little collection of some
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Stitch pins going and I like this one so
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this one's going to be added to it
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right there that's going to do it for
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today thanks for watching I'll see you
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