The Last Hour of Hollywood Studios For Disney World After Dark - Nearly Empty Rides at Closing Time
Last Hour of Disney's Hollywood Studios
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today's adventure as i
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depart out of celebration celebration
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always gives me celebration florida
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always gives me some hollywood
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kind of vibes does it not
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the architecture of the buildings
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very very hollywood
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even the gas station that i'm fueling up
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at
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also has that type of vibe
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look at that the 7-eleven very very
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stylish
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as always traffic on i-4 westbound
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always backs up
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out of the ramp over there are people
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exiting the theme park the walt disney
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world theme parks in fact
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kind of on the just to the side of the
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center of the screen
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you see the mickey mouse power pole i'm
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heading to hollywood studios
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hence the segue of why i'd show those
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buildings that are very hollywood
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this will be the third of the four parks
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for the after dark series i have been
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doing
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first is magic kingdom and animal
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kingdom tonight hollywood studios
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current time
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5 50 p.m there are archways on every
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entrance
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going into wdw except the road i'm on
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goes
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beside this current archway
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and while in this area go through the
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drive-through here at the
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mostly solar powered mcdonald's get
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myself a coffee
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my goal is to get to hollywood studios
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about 6 30. so i have a few minutes i'm
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going to spend the last
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hour last hour challenge
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see how much i can do in the park
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been fun doing this got it kind of
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surprised they aren't
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reopened yet it looks like there's some
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guests sitting over there they must have
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gone through the drive through
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utilizing the tables but yeah good to go
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6 12. so i'm a few minutes prior to the
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6
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30 arrival that i had expected
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but still pretty close so pretty close
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while i'll be entering the gate
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just before 7 giving at the last hour
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there are no cast members here
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at the turnstiles for the parking so
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these cones
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are directing me to go around to this
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section you see the skyliner
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off in the distance and heading over to
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the parking area
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once i just go around the turnstiles
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technically turn styles would not be the
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correct word
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but the little little stations here
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where during the morning hours are very
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very busy
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a lot different feel in the evening
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is monday night
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march no not march april 5th 2021.
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now you can see there are quite a few
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cars on this section but
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in correlation with the supposed as they
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stated 35
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capacity the the parking lot itself
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is relatively empty
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you can almost see the camera shadow go
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across my face there which i usually try
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to avoid but i'm not going to edit that
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out just because
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you know you can also see the camera in
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my hand
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spoiler alert i do use the camera to
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film
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these episodes did not magically create
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themselves
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i'm heading in it is about 6 30 now give
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or take
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waiting for my friend world of micah who
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is
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on this this endeavor with me to do all
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four parks this is the third
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of the four after seven pm this one
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closes at eight studios closes at eight
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pm tonight
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and just though i was checking the wait
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times it is a little busy even though
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the parking lot does not show that it is
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it might be difficult to do more than
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two but if we can do three rides
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in one hour or a little over one hour we
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will be
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in sync with what our goal is inviting
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you to join me
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shall you now as long as we get on a
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couple of a 15-minute wait and then as
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long as we're in line
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before 8 p.m for slinky dog which right
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now has a 15-minute wait
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then that that counts also the sun is
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setting well
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starting to descend behind those clouds
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i can't think
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you know obviously we're doing this this
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little series together but i can't think
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of anyone else i would rather be here at
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hollywood studios
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because and i say this with all honesty
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world of micah is the only person
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that loves old school mgm as much as i
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that i've ever met
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in a friend that loves the old-school
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mgm feeling is mutual
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so when i come here i'm always like adam
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right our place
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it's our place so we're gonna do this
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the after dark
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series round three the third of the four
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this is it
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and as long as we get on the third ride
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by eight
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then it is an accomplishment it doesn't
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matter what rides they are and then
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after that we just wander around until
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they flush everyone out yeah i don't
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think they call it
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flushing out but that's until they until
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they tell every
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the final sweep the final sweeping
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sleeping sweeping out
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okay yeah comb the desert
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oh that's very nice you kind of see the
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silhouette there
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of the entranceway yeah and as always it
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seems like these washboards are always
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out now it is
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pretty much impossible to get a
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reservation
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for rise all right ten minutes to seven
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and going on mickey and minnie
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run away first off looks like a ten no
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twenty minute wait it says
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inside we were gonna try for tower and
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rock and roller coaster
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but the lines were just a little bit too
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long so
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opted out to head over to the chinese
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theater i think that way we can get our
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tree in before close
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now before everything reopened you know
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with the current procedures
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you would line up here and you would
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watch a movie and there would be some
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i don't want to get too many spoilers
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but the this would explode
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there's a tornado right there what the
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heck
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it's so windy oh there's some lightning
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okay i think we can still do this midway
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mania some
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some stuff over in toy story land's only
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15 minute wait so let's head over there
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yeah i don't know if i'm gonna be able
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to film and do this at the same time
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i'll be tough
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okay i think i got this secret kind of
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hold i think i might have the secret i
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don't know
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i don't have this bigger secret well
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they're counting it down one
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that's it oh how many pigs did i get not
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only 100 for the volcano 500 up top
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oh there's a 500 on the volcano is it
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gonna erupt hey oh it's erupting now
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look there's more 500s
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get it get it get it get it there's a
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thousand up there get that one
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200 200 100.
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get that place place place get get
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thousands there's a thousand don't look
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for the thousands
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i don't know what's the secret to any of
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this there's a two thousand five hundred
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thousand four three two there's a count
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down in three d
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five got the five the 3d is messing with
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my head
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5 000 up there nailed it go go go
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go go oh yes oh nice look at that
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not bad for playing one-handed all right
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it's 7 35 i think we can get on what's
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this called swirling saucers real quick
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before
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slinky dog it pretty much looks to be a
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walk-on so should be able to get on this
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and then head over to slow slinky's
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going by
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and then get in line for slinky before
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close and then wait in
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until after close yeah should work out
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well they're loading up we're gonna be
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on the neck we're gonna be on the next
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round of swirling
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saucers alien swirling saucers this is
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pretty dang good
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just it's more or less a walk-on you
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just keep continuing on through the
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queue
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and then go and board on one of the
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alien swirling saucers
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oh there goes slinky over there it
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doesn't look there's anyone else in this
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section so we got this entire section
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to ourselves oh yeah do like this you
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get a little dizzy you get a little
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little nauseating spinning around like
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this but it is a lot of fun you kind of
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get
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the view of the back of the aliens
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noggin doesn't get much better than this
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alien swirly sauces all right that was a
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lot of fun
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now heading over to slinky to oh you can
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see tower from here
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oh there it is that's going to be us in
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just a few moments
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it is definitely a really neat and
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mellow vibe in here in the evening hours
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not a lot of people
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i'm getting myself a coca-cola here at
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this stand
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a little refreshment while i wait in
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line look at this this is like a little
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bit of ice look at there's a chunk of
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ice right there ice cold
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oh yeah nice
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i love it so nice and quiet
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and there it is oh yeah
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that was fun and with that no one in
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line parks closed
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the last few guests are finishing up
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their ride through
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8 15 now you can walk at this time 15
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minutes after close you can
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exit out through galaxy's edge battery
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east but when you walk along here
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if you're trying to go out of galaxy's
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edge and
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over to toy story there is a cast member
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that is that won't let anyone head this
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way so you can go in this direction
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but you can't go back the other way
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that's very interesting so if i was to
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try to turn around and go back
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i could not it would be i would be
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stopped
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yeah that's it that's pretty interesting
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how that works whoa dude
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some serious noises going on back here
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have you ever been back in galaxy's edge
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at night before never
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no out of all the times you've been here
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never at night no
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some yeah look at the spires over there
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under the shroud of nightfall
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he's speechless right now he's not even
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talking
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oh my gosh wow would you say that's
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impressive
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almost impressive not a bad view
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definitely not a bad view of the falcons
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the fastest punk of junk in this theme
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park
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and of course since they are technically
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closed
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and they got the little stanchions up
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over there i mentioned this the other
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night
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i was here kind of wandering around as
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well
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did a dedicated video bad two east
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at night but just passing through i'm
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gonna head over down grand ave in a
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moment
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oh it's letting off a little bit of
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steam there
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i didn't even do that that wasn't even
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me doing that on the hack app
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oh dang even at this hour this droid is
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over here cooking at rontos
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there's no one just to let you know
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they're closed they're not cooking any
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more ronto wrap
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you can take the rest of the evening off
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droids
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no you don't want to all right well here
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we go
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pretty neat you can see the you can see
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the lights projecting up from
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chinese theater over there down what
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they they call hollywood boulevard
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well you know central florida is
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hollywood boulevard here at disney
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so that is correlation to where i'm
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standing in galaxy's edge so i'm walking
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directly this way towards the exit
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way over there the thing that's
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fascinating is you know thinking back to
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the mgm days
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it could have been streets of america
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rolling right through here
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or even the early hollywood studios days
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which means the
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honey i shrunk the playset we'd walk
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around
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in the vines and all that would have
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been we'll probably more
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yeah kind of maybe over in here library
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over in this section
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not a whole lot left of the former
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streets of america
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this is kind of the last little shred of
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it here
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for grand ave and if you turn this way
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you look over towards muppets in this
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section
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yeah very very empty heading out now
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as i'm walking out just uh you know a
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few perspectives of the section
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that i like the most you know the toy
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story land is nice
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galaxy's edge is nice but i really do
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enjoy the
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hollywood section of what is now
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referred to as
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hollywood studios so here's like you
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know some very
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empty streets of the boulevard
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sunset boulevard hollywood boulevard
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and some of the iconic pieces that are
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very
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you know etched in everyone's head from
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that era
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or you know still some of these still
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really do exist
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in real life out on the west coast so
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it's nice to see them
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i'm really glad that even though this
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theme park has gone through many
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transitions
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still is you know a lot of the stuff is
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left they did not
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bulldoze they did not change they did
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not erase from existence
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some of the fantastic items that are
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that are here and look very
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amazing illuminated when do you think
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the trams will
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finally start to come back i don't know
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not sure not sure i mean they could do
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it
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probably it'd have to be when capacity
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probably because like now they're only
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at 35
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capacity this golf cart only has one
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light
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look at that it's a one lighted
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golf cart and the tram route usually
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goes this way right now there is
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vehicle park there that's not a guest
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that is a cast member
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they're doing the patrol out there we're
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probably one of the last
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30 cars in the lot they're still
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probably
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i don't know i would say 50 guests still
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in the park so we're like the last one
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of the last 50 guests
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but we have done we have accomplished
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three of the four parks
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the little after dark series we got four
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rides on attractions then this evening
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not bad no not bad at all i got to do my
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outro
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where are you going i was going to have
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your hands okay i'm here that's going to
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do it for today
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with world of micah i'll see you in the
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next video
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good vlog
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i think i'm gonna count on there we got
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one so way over there are cast members
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but we got
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one car in the lot two three four
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five six seven eight
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nine 10 11 12 13 14 cars
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14 cars over here oh but there's
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actually over there there's more so
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there's
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15 16 17 18 that's 25 cars
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last of the 25 cars left and there's
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mickey
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303 mickey which
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we're way over there though yeah we're
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way down there
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getting our steps this is how far i
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parked away
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way out here but you know i was
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i was able to find my car very easily it
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was easy to find right along the walkway
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you can still see the spotlights over
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there from the theater
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nice