My Return To Disney World After Four Months - Trams Are Back / No Masks Required / Busy Wait Times
My Return to Walt Disney World
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today's adventure begins
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as the sun is starting to set on i-4
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westbound
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take a look off on the distance
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oh i have missed you
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the mickey
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power pole
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it has been four months since i filmed a
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video at wdw property
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and i decided tonight
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i'm going to
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the first
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of 2022.
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i'm doing it why not as the recording of
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this it is wednesday february 23rd 2022
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the last time i filmed a video at any of
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the disney parks whether it be in
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california or florida
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was october 22nd of 21. oh yeah that
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goes
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you know what that is i ended up getting
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a reservation
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late this afternoon for magic kingdom
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it's been very busy i've been
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trying to get a couple different parks
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but magic kingdom was the only one that
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popped up for today so i grabbed it
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gonna do a little park hopping welcome
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everyone adam the woo here appears as if
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i got a little sun burning i'll show you
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riding my bike around fred not this will
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not be an often occurrence for a
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document the parks as stated this is the
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first of 2022 and i will occasionally
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pepper them in the tram
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this is a historic moment i have not
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been on a tram
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in a long time way before 2021 and 2020
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the trams are back
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i'll explain more
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on how often i'll be doing this not too
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often
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semi often join me
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shall you
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originally i was just going to do about
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one video a month at the parks but then
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i got to thinking
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that might be too much or that might not
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be enough and then i thought i'm going
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to go cold turkey
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and i made the statement i would not no
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longer be filming anything in the park
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but now after taking
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a little time off doing a road trip
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it makes sense to just kind of find a
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halfway medium between that so i'm going
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to label
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and state like this is number one of
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2022 how many times
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i will be going to inside not counting
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dvc
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and events like d23 and things like that
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later in the year anytime i go in the
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park
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i'll state how many it has been this
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year i don't want to overdo it i don't
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want to water it down too much
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but this is a pretty happy place for me
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but that's the case plus these trams
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have not been running this would be my
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first time on a tram
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on either coast
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in a couple years pulling into
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the station
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i'm gonna do some park hopping too
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oh a little hawkish
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i'm gonna go from here
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over to studios and then ended epcot
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see if i can do it in the allotted time
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period
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currently it is 6 p.m
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oh yeah this is this is exciting
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like i said before this is our villains
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courtesy looks like you guys are
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parked in hook 324.
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that means
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you're going to want to remember that
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when you come back from the parks later
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tonight you're going to want to get into
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the villains boarding zone and not the
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heroes we don't like heroes around here
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you guys are all villains today oh
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that's good i'm in the very back so i
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get that wide turn about 10 p.m looking
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this is a historical moment
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i know it doesn't seem like much but
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this is looking sunset too
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it's gonna be 11 30 p.m
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we also have our fireworks show
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enchantment tonight
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that's going to be right in front of
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cinderella's castle at 8 00 pm i
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recommend getting there a bit early so
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you can get a great seat it's a
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wonderful show it makes me cry every
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time i definitely respond
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it's okay i'll tell you anyways
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324 today
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and welcome to our transportation at
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ticket center everybody
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to everybody in our village boarding
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zone just make sure you're staying all
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the way behind that yellow line until
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our tram comes to a fully complete stop
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i will let you know when it is safe to
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board we're going to let our friends
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onboard exit before you i guess this
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could be referred to as my welcome home
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park visit
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because it is the first i'm not going to
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take the monorail over i'm going to take
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the boat very boat and then the monorail
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from here back to my car and then drive
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over to studios or maybe go to epcot
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first in the studio
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it out as i go but go do some park
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hopping
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i'm back in florida
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and i really hope the line's not too bad
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for big thunder mountain railroad
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because i would love to best remove them
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i know i'm pretty happy to be here it's
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almost a tradition of sorts to take the
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boat across seven seas just something i
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always do i like the boat across and the
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monorail out i don't know why i do it
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that way but i do that really is some
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sunset over there with another monorail
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going by
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and another monorail pulling in right
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here look at that
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feels so good i hear the weather is
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perfect
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perfect weather
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not too warm not too cold
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pull it into the porch
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i was just looking on the app and it is
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75 minutes look at these geysers
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75 minute wait
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to get on the attraction i want to go on
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so that might not happen
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this geyser is just geysering up to the
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heavens
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yeah i don't know if 75 minutes
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might not be doable with the time frame
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allotted i have not tried the new
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fastpass system there's a new paid
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fastpass system
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here at wdw and disneyland and to be
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honest i still have not yet
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done it
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it is referred to as genie plus
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i have not used the genie plus yet
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just an extra add-on you have to pay for
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i'm an annual pass holder so
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kind of kind of nice to just pop in
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when i want to also daily ticket prices
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went up a couple days ago too here on
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site
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fun fact and while this is definitely
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one of the ones i wanted to do on my
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first visit back 2022
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wasn't in the cards i'm just gonna walk
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around and enjoy the night it's a nice
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night it'll be here next time it'll be
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here
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miss is getting me
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okay it's used on genie plus but it's
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technically called lightning lane and ll
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lightning lane
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for big thunder is not currently offered
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i gotta research this a little bit more
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for my next visit whatever that is and
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another usual go-to of my jungle cruise
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is 85 minutes away to pirates
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someone just coughed is 70
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minutes
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why is the park so busy on a wednesday
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yeah safe to say
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things are pretty much back
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to normal around these parts what a
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difference
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a few months can make i've kind of seen
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the progression after the reopenings
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of the summer of 2020
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slowly crowds starting to make their way
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back but this is probably the busiest
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i have seen it
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in a long time
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i know it's kind of silhouetted out but
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you can just see
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the throngs of people
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going by here
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it's probably a good thing i'm tapering
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back on
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going to the parks as much because i
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would be stressed out if i had to be
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constantly
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with long lines like this but every once
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in a while is nice
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and truthfully one of the most enjoyable
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things about the parks just walking
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around even if you do not gotta get on
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any attractions or rides it's just nice
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to soak in the ambiance so not
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complaining
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good to be back in here just wandering
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around enjoying the nice not too humid
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yet
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not technically big springs right around
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the corner though so it should be
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warming up right now and that's why i
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popped in here in the evening
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other than the fact i couldn't get a
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reservation earlier in the day but after
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the sun starts to set a little bit
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it feels good
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feels good this time of year here in
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central florida one of the few times
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it's not too long
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not too warm now usually tomorrowland
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raceway is a go-to of mine autopia east
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if you will
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but even that's got a lengthy line so
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i'm gonna bypass that as well perhaps
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the people mover might be a good option
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now i see you going by the right vehicle
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the people moving up yeah this might be
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my only option the line doesn't look too
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bad so i think the people mover it is
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underneath the rockets there not a bad
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line not too bad all right going up the
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people mover
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i am a people and i'm about to be moved
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up we just stopped
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i was i spoke too soon i'm not moving
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i'm a people and i'm not moving
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just just standing here now
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i have to walk up i have to walk up the
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platform
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at least i'm able to go on the people
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mover which is nice i love the people
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probably one of my favorite attractions
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so pretty nice that this wasn't too long
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of a wait i would say maybe 10 minutes
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tops
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that wasn't too bad shortest way so far
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i've seen here
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and i'm sure it's probably factored in
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and on purpose
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as far as disney goes but it would be
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very difficult to get everything done if
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you were not doing
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the lightning line
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that's just my first thing i'm noticing
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it's just it is really busy and that
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cone has its own ride vehicle they were
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cones
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okay confirmed at least i'm going to be
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on one attraction at my return back
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right you can use supervisors
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i think it sounds more like peter pan i
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do enjoy that they have this still here
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at wdw where at disneyland it has been
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removed
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from the property i feel like i can ride
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this thing all day long honestly it is
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just so peaceful and so dang nice those
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of all ages down there can drive a race
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car i've been down there many times holy
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cow look at tron that's coming along
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very nicely going through the bottom
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portion of space mountain not on the
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ride just on the people mover that goes
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underneath the ride and i believe after
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this i'm going to head over to hollywood
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studios and now heading up to the exit
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departing the people mover all right
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studios closed at nine it's currently 7
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15. i've got plenty of time to get on
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the monitor back over to my car and to
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studios that time doesn't close till 10
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so i can
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be able to get three parks in this
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evening decided not to take the monorail
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over i'm gonna take the ferry boat
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because on the monorail you have to wear
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face coverings and i kind of want to
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have a face covering free evening even
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though inside the stores and inside the
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park and on the attractions you do not
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need one you do have to wear one on the
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monorail
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skyliner
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and the buses
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so i'm taking the very bottom it's 7 55
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pm
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too late for a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage beverage seem having trouble
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talking because i'm lacking caffeine at
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this hour
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hazelnut latte
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coming right up
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from joffrey's
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not a lot of people here at ttc at the
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moment i'm gonna walk to my car and head
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over to studios with their special 50th
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anniversary blind
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now they're starbucks and joffrey's i
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would say i probably get joffrey's more
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than i get starbucks than the parks for
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whatever reason usually because the line
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is shorter that's usually why but this
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is a special blend 50th anniversary
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blend
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cheers oh it looks as if they're doing
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the fi oh check it out fireworks over
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there in the distance off over
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looks like heavy metal mickey here
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because he's technically aluminum but
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is presenting the fireworks off in the
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distance
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there goes one right there
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a returning tram from taking guests back
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out to hello
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it's so nice that fireworks are back
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so good that everything's kind of back
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to how things it used to be
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more or less once again
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i could have taken this tram
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but it's not that far usually i don't
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take the trams i'd rather just walk but
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i took it on the way in simply because
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it's
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a historic moment if you will
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trams are back so are crowds
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still got 40 minutes before this park
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closes it's 8 20 at the moment took me a
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little bit of time to get over here
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close at nine
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should be able to get in and get back to
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galaxy's edge
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show something that is happening
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at this very moment
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back there i'll give a little teaser for
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it obviously
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and there's no one at this booth so i'm
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just going to go around the side that's
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what you're allowed to do
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three hours prior to close all the
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each individual park the cast members
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no longer collect money for a payment
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for parking you just go around the side
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here notice how everything's coned off
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but this little side entrance there's a
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sign saying
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just go around
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so that's what i'm doing
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unlike magic kingdom there are no trams
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that roll through here that this tram
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route
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is no longer at the moment quite
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operational
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and i'm wearing we flip this around
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an appropriate t-shirt that i got back
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at the reopening this is like a
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collector's item now this together
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together again shirt when the parks
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reopened
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as of right now is the media preview now
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i am not media i will eventually at some
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point
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well i guess technically i have media
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because i filmed media and i put
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something out into the
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into the world that could be classified
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as media but i don't have like one of
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those wayne's world lanyards where
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you're walking like backstage i always
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think about
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about that when they're like backstab
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going backstage going backstage i will
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probably at some point pay
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the exorbitant amount to get the star
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cruiser star wars hotel experience but
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right now
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soon very very soon
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should be seeing some footage from
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others
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who are staying overnight there and i'm
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going to show where
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the exit is from the star cruiser where
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they pull into port and go into batu
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east
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i'm going to show that while i'm in here
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even though there's no trams there's a
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golf cart driving through here
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it was interesting when i mentioned i
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was going to kind of cut back on disney
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videos there was a lot of rumors kind of
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floating around that
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they were that disney was trying to cut
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back on the amount of people filming
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vlogs and
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and videos in the park that is 100 not
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true
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trust me they open it with
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they
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they want that with open arms they are
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opening their arms saying come in here
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there are people every you could take a
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stick and throw it and hit someone
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either filming a live stream which i
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don't do live streams or a video
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so that's not the case i just stepped
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back because i was kind of burnt out on
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it needed to kind of you know get the
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magic back and just didn't want to
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really over saturate it from from my
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standpoint
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that's the reason i stepped back and
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that's really the only reason and i'm
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going to continue to to not do it too
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often but today i just felt like
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stopping in it took me a really long
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time to break the habit of not calling
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this place mgm studios but i think i'm
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over that now and they're making an
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announcement of some sort as i walk down
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hollywood boulevard here i thought about
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maybe doing slinky dog dash
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but check it out
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even at 20 minutes they'll close at 8 40
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p.m
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80 minute wait
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now if you go past droid depot just
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follow these are the droids
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i'm looking for and past the area where
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you get the blue and the green milk
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and you'll see there is the open little
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corridor over here with some hedges next
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to kylo's
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ship
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this is where
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the star wars hotel transport drops you
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off back there
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someone just coughed behind me about
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eight feet behind me
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they moved these out of the way i'm
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guessing
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and people walk through here that might
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be me one day others did it today i am
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not one of the others
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but pretty neat to see this i was here
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last night i wasn't filming i was just
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enjoying got myself a coffee walked
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around
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and noticed this and that kind of
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got me thinking you know what there's
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some neat stuff that i could show the
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trams
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this entryway
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and that kind of was one of the many
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reasons that prompted me to just go
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ahead and put an episode together for
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this evening and i just felt like coming
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back to the park
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it's kind of like my return to florida
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my vacation this is like i kind of
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little little one day
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filming vacation here at the parks doing
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a lot of small town stuff
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a lot of back road stuff a lot of movie
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locations
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why not throw a disney vlog in this is
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so cool
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i'm looking forward to seeing what
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others experience so that way i can
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make up my mind what my opinion is on it
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i think a lot of others are also
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interested
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should be hitting the interweb soon
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in a great abundance there will be no
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shortage rest assured there will be no
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shortage of those covering it
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in great detail
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and i will be watching
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as i'm sure others will as well now that
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i'm looking at this a little closer i
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don't think they move these hedges out
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of the way i think the hedges is almost
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like a maze of sorts because if you go
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over here this roll-up door has been
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removed is lifted up the tarp that was
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over for a long time we can see there's
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like a stanchion chain right there
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so i'm guessing the guests after they
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depart
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the hotel get dropped off here walk up
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go through this hedge maze almost like
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the shining
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almost like you know jack torrance would
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do chasing little danny
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through here and then
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not emptying out into the overlook hotel
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but emptying out
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into oak
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into batu east
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you know gazpacho west would be
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disneyland bad to east could be florida
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it's fun to call it that
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it's kind of caught on too
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i'm glad it's caught on that that phrase
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that's what i refer to it and when
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walking through this area it is always
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appropriate
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to stop off and look at the fastest hunk
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of junk in the galaxy right here
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millennium falcon
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so dang cool this whole land is so
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awesome
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it's really neat when you're in anaheim
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if you watch fireworks in anaheim are
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directly over these spires here of
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course here
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fireworks are not over this but if
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you're watching it at anaheim and
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anaheim and batu west
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you can almost get a yubnub experience
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kind of like the end of the original
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return of the jedi before all the
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fortune george lucas changed it with all
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the cgi the fireworks kind of went up
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yup nub style that's anaheim not here so
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i don't even know why i'm bringing that
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up i do think at some point
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not immediately but at some point i
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would like to do another galaxy's edge
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video back in here that might happen
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not anytime soon but it's on my radar i
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got got a couple ideas back in here i
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was like filming
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back in this area
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i don't know it's just a cool i just
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like the vibe back here but more on that
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another time all right i'm gonna try to
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make it over to epcot in time head out
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here and head over to epcot and it looks
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like epcot over there is doing their
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nighttime spectacular around the lagoon
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yeah that starts a little after nine but
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it doesn't close till 10 so i should be
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able to get over there in time you see
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the little little small
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pyrotechnics that are going up from the
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lagoon well they stopped now but they
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were there for a moment yeah there's a
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little bit better look right there
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oh
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yeah
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nice
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and going past not the back side of
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water but the back side of the galactic
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star cruiser
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very soon they have the loots off the
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lights
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all illuminated
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back in there
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officially open for business well kinda
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sorta soon
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if you turn down this road takes you to
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the entrance
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to the star cruiser i'm not going to go
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down that road
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but it's down that way
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right there
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and approaching the parking entrance of
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epcot center i still call it epcot
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center sometimes but mostly epcot epcot
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center what it used to be called got
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spaceship earth over there illuminated
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very nicely
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and i stand corrected
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the park closed at nine it is 9 21 so
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i'm not going to be able to go in i
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thought it closed at 10 but
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close at night
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that is a thing of beauty right there
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getting the monorail going by
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take a monitor oh yeah look at that oh
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that was not planned i thought it was
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the car passing
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then i realized there's a monorail going
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by there it goes
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so my car i'm not even gonna get out of
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the car but that was pretty cool and
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made it back over to the entrance to
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celebration there's the water tower
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that's going to do it for today
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it's kind of hard to read the lettering
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there on the side of the water tower
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though
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the shrouded in nightfall
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it was fun to go back to the parks a
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little return to florida
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experience
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won't be rushing back in there trust me
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but i wanted to do a video
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and i wanted to visit it so i did
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and as stated earlier this will not be a
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regular thing
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every once in a while
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but rest assured
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no rush
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no rush to get back there
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the lines are so long
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is over
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it's pretty dang cool riding the tram
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and
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no more mass
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two historic moments in wdw history here
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in 2022