RetroMagic 2022 Disney World Convention At Contemporary Resort - 50th Celebration / Handwich Returns
RetroMagic 2022 Convention
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you can hear the garbage truck taking
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care of business early morning about 7
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50 a.m on sunday
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april 24th
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2022
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here on market street celebration
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florida where they are setting up
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for their weekly this happens every
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sunday and as a recording of this it is
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a
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sunday the farmer's market
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here
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kind of sort of wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt because i love history
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especially disney history have been to
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marceline and main street usa which is
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based on walt's hometown in marceline
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missouri
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also is very similar to market street
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here in celebration florida so i get in
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my car drive over the contemporary for a
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retro look
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50 years of walt disney world not
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happening in the parks happening in the
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resorts
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in fact i don't even think it's
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technically affiliated
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with the disney parks in any way i think
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it's like a
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an independent type of thing i've never
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been to it so i don't know what to
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expect but i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you and to be a little more
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specific the technical name of this
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event is retro magic
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a 50th celebration and without a doubt
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first order of business well after after
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i go to registration or maybe even
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before
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is to find some coffee need a little
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caffeine
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this morning
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going underneath the water bridge
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i'm also kind of curious if i'm going to
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be allowed to park here i have my ticket
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to the event
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i'll just see if they'll let me park at
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the contemporary i don't have to go back
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all the way over to ttc and my
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assumption was correct the answer is yes
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was allowed to park here this is an
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appropriate place to have this because
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this
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is an opening day
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resort
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back in 71 50 years ago
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50th anniversary blend don't mind if i
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do
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i like how the warmth has absorbed these
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kind of cushiony style styrofoam cups
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and i curbed my temptation
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not going in on any delicious nice
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delicious treats
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here at the contempo
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all right gotta move i got 10 minutes
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i got 10 minutes i'll see you picture
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dandy torrence right here danny's not
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here mrs torrence went up to the
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registration desk and they gave me this
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little
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it's almost like a wristband i guess
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well it is a wristband i don't know if
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it's like like a wristband but they also
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give me
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including the wristband but they have
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the date on it this is just a one day
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only type of event we slide that down
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you can kind of see
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you got
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main street usa there you got the cinema
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you got spaceship earth
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well i'm curious what's inside this now
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what's inside this
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they're making an announcement let's say
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find a seat and check out the old timey
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orange bird over
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here did it
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and we're here together finally
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and real quick let me just
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let me just point out
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some of the amazing stuff that's over
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here
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there's a wdw certificate there there's
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a jigsaw puzzle
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look at this and even some mgm stuff
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like 50s prime time right there
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and a disney m i really i need this
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who wants to be a millionaire play it
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even some good epcot stuff over here
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future world
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and i'm utilizing this time because they
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turn the music off so this gives me a
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chance to really focus on this stuff
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without the music kind of blaring while
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they're doing that
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some of these items i do own for example
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a lot of the orange bird stuff down here
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a lot of those figment plushes
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i have look at this
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kitchen cabaret throwback
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oh my goodness this stuff is great
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they're also saying this is the biggest
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event yet usually about 200 people this
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one's already got 400 people registered
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so it's getting
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bigger and bigger
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look at that 1971
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that plate commemorative plate right
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there is awesome like 15 gallons of
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coffee already
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wow
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i mean i just love all this retro good
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top of the world
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menu right there 15 years take a look at
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in fact they're talking about what i'm
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over here
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right now
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we also have some special guests here we
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have some surprises for you in store i
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like surprises
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but take a look at this this is from
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south of the border
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look at this pedro says ask about your
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two free tickets to disney world
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that is amazing i love south of the
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border i love disney world i did not
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realize they did a cross promotion
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back in the day
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oh man they start coming with
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merchandise to some of this in fact i
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think starbucks has a mug
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i'm gonna get over to the interviews and
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all that a little bit later it's a few
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guests that are here that i really want
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to hear what they have to say who comes
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to this thing
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and i try to explain to them well there
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are people who
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at some point in the 70s 80s 90s
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the parks and the work that you've done
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whether it's the food that you fed them
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or the hotels that you ran and the theme
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parks that you operated
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had an indelible impact on them and
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connected them in some way for a lot of
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us it's members with family
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i know for those of you who listen to
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the podcast and i know there's a bunch
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of you who don't
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come because of the website the only
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time i got on an airplane
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and went away on vacation with my
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parents during
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the time i was a kid it was the one trip
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we ever took we always went to the
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jersey shore otherwise
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and uh and so there are spots in epcot
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and disney area and uh magic kingdom
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not so much disney springs anymore
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there's like one spot i remember getting
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whacked upside the head by my dad at
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disney springs
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because it was the like point of vista
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village we were going to dinner
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at uh empress lilly and i said the word
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sucks
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but there are just spots where i stop
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and
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my dad has been gone for 17 years he's
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back again now what he's saying on stage
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is exactly why
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i love the parks because a lot of it is
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nostalgic
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today
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and i i've got a little
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catastrophe canyon
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he's talking about this mickey doll
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right now um so that was the very first
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souvenir they ever bought back for me
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before i ever visited they're not with
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us anymore but i bought that so you guys
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can see today so the guy on stage is
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talking about this doll
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says that was the first souvenirs
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parents ever got him
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no no i just like to cut back there i
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sent a picture to my mom remember this
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we had this at the house i don't know
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who brought that cup but it's super cool
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except i had a crew here yesterday
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i do want to
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if you all look directly to the back of
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the room she's going to want to hide
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under the table but at the little laptop
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there is our disney representative
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vanessa
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and she took focus a nightmare to plan
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and made it sane for us and actually
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made it happen today so we appreciate
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that a great deal oh wow was this the
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from the swan boats the original box and
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the hands
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is the orange bird some of you got your
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picture with the orange bird this
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morning back there thank you very much
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everybody here we go
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uh so this is a proposal for a resident
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walt disney world before celebration
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very early on and it's got concept art
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and a large
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collection of memos about what this
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community could be and it's in a finder
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and it's a really interesting early look
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at ideas of what disney world could be
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besides justin theme park
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can we make anything out of it
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uh it's hard to see up here yeah but um
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if you look at it in a person that you
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can make out this is my this is i said
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you are coming down with this this is
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the hardest to bring down here i
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actually haven't checked this in my
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suitcase so i think it's awesome
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i want
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this is great this is a 1981 this is a
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an operating guide for the monorail
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system for marked force
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it's just great if you want monorails
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it's just fun to look at if you don't
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like monorails it should be you should
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be asleep
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uh
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tell us a little bit about the
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development of the hand which you're
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from you're in yes well um
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before that so i
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returned from tokyo
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although we focus on walt disney world
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here i will mention because people will
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meet you afterwards and we'll want to
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probably talk to europe disney
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the reply was what we're going to do
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1900 1910 you know the first half
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of the uh
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of the 20th century
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and michael
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says
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nothing good happened
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yeah
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and the book that you received was snow
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white that was the book it's the actual
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snow white which is one of the yeah they
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had originally twelve boats i've had to
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vote in mothball for the last couple
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years and the hurricanes come in and
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why i have to make arrangements to keep
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her cowered up keep her protected i keep
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the swan inside
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jim
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72 but his design was then picked up
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and modified and became one of the most
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i think iconic pieces of design in the
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1970s involve pop culture and pop
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culture so
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norm is the reason that smoking abandon
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ended up being i think
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if you look at his desk there's a lot of
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stuff going on there
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and all of this stuff is going to come
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into play with the work that he did so
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we're going to go forward but take a
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minute to look at it because you're
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going to recognize all these things
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pretty incredible he designed
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the pavilion logos
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i think that at one point because
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spaceship was such an iconic building
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it was sometimes
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this was a camera iris
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because of good app but in fact
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in fact this is probably the
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in retrospect was probably the most
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difficult and probably the least ex
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successful
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it was meant to be a vortex it was
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supposed to look like it was spinning
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into
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his version of the logo and card walker
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not being a humongous fan of it yeah the
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particular turn into
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fire rings representing
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five different
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things that come together and form that
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centers some signage and commercial
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signage and some just graphical
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definitely got to be the spires on the
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fountain
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so awesome came up with the idea
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at the original one that had uh nine
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pylons and they were going to be crystal
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glass
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and each those nine or eight of them
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represented the opening day preventing
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the symbol and in the middle of the
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epcot center
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but that hasn't turned out that
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the glass was too expensive also too
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heavy
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and it was it was just way too expensive
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to do
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sort something
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boiled it down to the three
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remaining and
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changed it to acrylic which
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i looked a lot like glass
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they bought off on that and
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sort of became
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the icon at the big entrance and that
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was told us at one point that it might
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have been the most photographed place
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in all of epcot because everybody needed
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a picture of his head there's pixie dust
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and stars and if you see there's one
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single four-pointed star
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that was sort of my homage to the old
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red locomotive
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has changed
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norm's logo is being brought back with
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new ones for the new pavilions uh and in
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fact um yesterday
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they are two days ago they opened up the
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connections cafe
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uh at that pot and his logo is all over
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the place in there embedded in glass
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so it's like the earth is healing things
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so it took you know
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40 some odd years but it all it all came
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around again
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here's a curious thing as we were trying
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to get disneyland open and then trying
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to do something for 56
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i don't have any recollection that this
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thing would ever last from underneath
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the desk and the next room the guy
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drilled a hole in the in the wall
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and he had a little a tube and he'd get
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talcum powder and up
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it would blow up on the guys
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uh what's the top speed you've driven
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this monorail on here 43 is that three
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contemporary
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we could test merchandise
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we could give people the
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full scoop of what was going to happen
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because when they came into the preview
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center which is
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the door you can't see it because we're
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blocking it but
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we were to know who they were by their
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photos and know all about them
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the the history of the company was
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fascinating most of us had all of us all
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the 14 disney girls had not been
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to disneyland so we really had
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no idea what we were talking about
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i want to go get you a picture of the
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contemporary we got to get out and i
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would be back from traveling my job was
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to market to go all over the east coast
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and tell people about walt disney world
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so
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we took this on the slide i ran out and
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he took the photos he'd say look at that
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red-headed kid that that top kid will
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use in this shot and the one on the
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right-hand side is one of those things
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that's that's a
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1955 it's before tom sawyer's island
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when i'm holding this two big bowl for
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all his way uh star jets and uh space
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mountain but you could get a ham and
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cheese or tuna sandwich or potato chips
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at that little tent there
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is i might get an answer to this
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question this is the inaugural book for
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epcot center and for nerds like us
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inside there's a photograph of the
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united kingdom
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on the roof this comes up on twitter
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from time to time i'm going to zoom in
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it's written boo ivy is a mama's boy
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the epitome
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i mean it's
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and that's why i enjoy doing these
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programs with you guys
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well we appreciate it
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now the line to get food is pretty
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lengthy
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very popular look over here there's no
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one at the dessert table yet so i can
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show the cake before it gets cut there
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it's a cake here
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modeled after the 15-year anniversary of
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wdw it's a vanilla cake with buttercream
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filling
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i love those little delicious cookies
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that are here too
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oh look at this they have the
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anniversary
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from 96. i have a photo somewhere in
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front of that
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castle the cake castle
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and it looks like they have an
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assortment of different cakes so they
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have the 15 back there here's the
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tencential attempt
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lots of toppings lots of accessories i
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went with the hand witch
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taco style i kind of went overboard on
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the sour cream but i went with the
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taco style with the taco meat down in
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there also with the tuna
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like a tuna fish
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tuna tuna salad is what it is and also
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they had your build your own cobb salad
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went with that one with these kettle
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chips
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as well they said that each person gets
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two they said not to go more with more
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than two simply because they have
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allotted for the entire crowd two and a
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half per so they said if you get two
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you're still hungry after the line
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dissipates you can go back and check for
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another i think this will be
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i think this will be funny i'm gonna go
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ahead and go with the water but they
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also have look at this throwback the
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splash down peach punch here i'm not
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really big on peach flavored stuff but
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it's kind of neat to see that too
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it should also show this is so somewhat
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started on that far end piece there of
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your number one cake and it looks like
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that's the end of the food food is
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rolling away time for the panels again
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they're about to begin another panel so
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i'm back over here just looking at a
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little more
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i just love all this epcot center stuff
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wow look at this main street mascot
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election
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single attraction ticket
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look at the speed boat going past the
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contemporary there's donald right there
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and look at all these look at this 80
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cents
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for an e ticket a d ticket
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25 cents for an a ticket these are magic
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kingdom that's not disney
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also the view masters
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the passport right there
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river country down here
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transportation ticket right down here
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another transportation ticket down here
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here's an admit admit one to the main
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gate admission 1.75
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225.
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treasure island excursion there's the
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paper big day big
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and over here are some slides
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frontierland tomorrowland slides a
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guided tour lanyard merchandise catalog
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this is a hot plate cutting board
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look at mickey's eyes right don't look
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too see it says look but don't look too
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too close into this mickey's eyes you'll
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get hypnotized
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and then he got
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these plates most favorite this is
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favorite that uh and your cookbook uh or
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your history book is a little bit
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responsible for that because they've
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integrated a lot of things
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it was 20th century for flair but one
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thing there that is i wish they would
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give credit to is the green beans they
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say walt's favorite green beans that
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recipe i got from walt's daughter i
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think walt's granddaughter tam about the
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household my mentor disney legend jim
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corria we've heard his name a lot today
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and talked about him he took me to lunch
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at our favorite lebanese restaurant in
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orange near disneyland he said what's
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next kid had several ideas but i told
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him i had this he says
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he loves bananas and he recommends not
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eating it with cereal just putting some
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citrus butter melting over the top of it
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so uh i don't know if you've seen top
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contest in a while so if condom can come
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up on stage they're staying at the
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polynesian and we had him pick one up
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this morning so you can see what they're
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serving today
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and with that
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i think i'm gonna head out
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between the two escalators and that's
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gonna do it for today from retro magic
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here at the contemporary resort there
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goes
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the monorail pretty nice souvenir i'll
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probably keep the box because this is
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pretty dang cool the two-sided
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big thunder mountain best remove them on
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the front that side and then main street
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the omnibus i learned so much today
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there's
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a lot of times you hear the same stories
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you know following
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you know being into disney for as long
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as i have it you hear a lot of the same
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the same stories over and over i learned
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things today i had never heard before
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which was awesome i'll see the next
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video the vlog
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is
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over