Big Changes & Whats New At Disney World - Tron Ride Testing / Connections Cafe Opens / New Starbucks
Walt Disney World Update April 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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i-4 westbound relatively smooth at noon
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well a couple minutes prior to noon
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on friday april 22nd 2022
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looking at the mickey power pole i have
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procured a reservation to epcot center
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where some new stores and new
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experiences food options
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have opened
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for my eighth that's right my eighth
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so far 2022 disney
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theme park video sometimes i'll pop into
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the evenings for the last hour just to
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walk around not take my camera in but as
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far as documenting it this is number
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eight i'm keeping track just to keep
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myself accountable and to find a balance
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now most of the times if i'm going to
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epcot
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i would just go right over to the epcot
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center parking lot
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and not take the monorail from ttc but
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because so much is happening
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construction wise i'm gonna change it up
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and go to transportation ticket center
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and ride the monorail around and because
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i have an annual pass just renewed it a
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few weeks ago
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parking is included on the ap so do i
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have to pay to park when you have an
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annual pass at least the tier i am
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here a little honking of
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the tram starting to pull in wearing
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an appropriate t-shirt it is friday tgif
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has a recording of this
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i'm
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inviting please
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who's excited to be here for the magic
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kingdom
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three people let's try this again
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here we go there we go folks just remind
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you guys are coming at our final
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destination so not yet but i will let
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you know when
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all righty here's that reminder you guys
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are a hero on a hero's tram coming from
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the hero side of the parking lot and we
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are dropping you off at the heroes of
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boarding zone so do not forget you guys
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are a hero today
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all right it is monorail time
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to epcot and it looks like the mk
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monorail has barely bested
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the epcot loop monorail if it was a race
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mk would have won and speaking of the
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epcot loop i will not have to wear a
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facial covering on this because just
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like the airlines the other day
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do not need facial covering that also
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applies to anywhere at walt disney world
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now for a while you didn't have to wear
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them on anything except the skyliner
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and the monorail but now that has
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changed
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and everything
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you see some faces including mine
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one of which is right there in the
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reflection right there you can't really
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see it because it's kind of shattered
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out but that's basically also you can't
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ride in the front or the back of the
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monorail anymore back in the day back in
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the 90s many many times i rode in the
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front this is the back but you get the
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you get the idea and this is about to
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open this doesn't mean this is this
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manually opened by a cast member this
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isn't like an electronic opening
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do not lean on the automatic door
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thank you
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not a lot of people on this particular
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vessel
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they have plenty of elbow room
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which is nice
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memory back to when they had all the
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little compartments and the shields up
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right here if you had to like
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stand on the number or sit
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and obviously backtracking just a little
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bit
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to get over to my destination that's the
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parking area i just pulled in a few
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minutes ago
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flower garden's still going on there's a
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goofy down there
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and the beautiful spires that they
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recently brought back at the fountain
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and glorious spaceship earth
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oh wow look over here and very soon
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guardians will be opening up to everyone
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what if the play pavilion will still
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have one of the new items is the
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connection eatery which was where the
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temporary mouse gears was and
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interventions all that was over and at
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this point communicore is just a thing
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of the past there is no poor
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communicator it's kind of strange that
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the communicator buildings were torn
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down there's still this one side over
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here
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but communicator as a whole making up
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the full
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circle we call it a circle but
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wow there's like a lot going on there's
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a real beehive of activity out there the
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creation shop is open the new club cool
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over there no more electric umbrella but
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of course connected to cafe opened soft
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open yesterday
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i believe i don't think they're going to
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have all this ready for october 1st
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which is the 40th anniversary of this
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park and i have to wonder they're still
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going to put the walt disney statue up
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you're getting like a little peek down
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in here oh that might be some of the
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moana water
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water effect
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and steaming over there that they're
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putting up that's a good possibility
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yeah there's a lot going on
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down inside there and i love those flags
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that we recently had and once we put the
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spiders here back
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highly approve of all the nostalgia
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they're throwing back in here that is so
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dang cool obviously this is the rear not
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the back side of water but the back side
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of the monorail it can go either way but
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the loop goes towards where i'm at so it
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does not
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go off that way but that's still a
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pretty good angle there looking at it
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from the
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platform here
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love it
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always a beautiful sight always is ah i
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love that sphere it's not a golf ball
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it's not a go trust me it's people refer
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to as the golf ball it's spaceship earth
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and looping around another one even
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though i just debarked d barked off one
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well unembarked off one another monorail
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going by right there and if gateway
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gifts was not here
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you'd get the full view as it goes
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around but i'm noticing over there
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that the guest service
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building is blocked off i don't think
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i've ever seen that guest service
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building
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blocked off before right over here guest
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relations is now around the other side
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which i don't in all the years i don't
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know if i've ever seen that
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maybe i have if i have i've slept since
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then and i was able to walk over here
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quickly enough
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to just catch that as it goes by back
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pull again to
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the station
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it's almost difficult to keep up with
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the maze that is this park you know just
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with all the walls and whatnot you can
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see here has temporarily been relocated
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to the main entrance
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as far as i can recollect i don't ever
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recall this not being accessible
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for information here's kind of a general
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layout of the land now future world is
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now a thing of the past it's now called
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world celebration world nature will
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showcase a world
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discovery no more
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goodbye future world wow and not only
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goodbye to
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communicore interventions
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also goodbye to electric umbrella but i
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will be able to go back in the building
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that used to house electric umbrella it
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is now a starbucks and a connections
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cafe change is inevitable one thing i
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always fond of saying and that's true
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but wow really
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it really kind of
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takes you back a bit to remember what
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things were for all of your recollection
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you know all of
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my life going here
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and seeing what it is now am i gonna be
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able to walk inside
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this door
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there's my reflection there am i gonna
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oh it's opening i'm going in
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i am going
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inside look at holy cow look at this
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what the heck my first impression is i
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really like it it is cozy and plenty of
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room it is
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huge in here take a look at these murals
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and the lamp the shade the wooden
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chandelier style lights right there now
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it appears as if she's cutting the
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cheese oh this is pretty fancy that's me
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with a bluish hue and it is very unusual
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looking over there and seeing test track
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at this entrance that is here now kind
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of kind of weird and this certainly is
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something i can highly approve of got
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walt's vision of progress city here on
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the ground
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yeah this i was not expecting this i
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didn't see any of the pre-plans kind of
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stayed spoiler free but heard this
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morning before i arrived that they had
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put this on there and i'm here to
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confirm that they have waltz progress
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city
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a nice touch for epc original epcot
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center plants didn't pan out this way
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but they're at least give it a little
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nod there and really
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really interesting how much space there
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is in here of course a lot of things
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behind the glass here and whatnot but
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there is just so much space in here to
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just spread out the tables are a pretty
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good distance from each other you're not
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really up in anyone's face even on a
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busy day i would imagine there's still
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going to be plenty of room in here
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probably one of the most spacious
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type of restaurants you know square
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footage-wise
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here on property that i've seen as far
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as just being plenty of elbow room and
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you get some pretty good views of
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spaceship earth out the window i just
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gotta wait for those walls over there
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to come down
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a reflection there
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well pay no attention to the
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construction walls the reflection of
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that here in this window
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as well i think i'm gonna go back inside
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and get a longer detailed walk-by of the
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mural just to show exactly everything
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that is on the mural surrounding the
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perimeter
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the far walls around it's just
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very large
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very large painting
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i want to also keep an eye out for some
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easter eggs that might have been you
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know for old school epcot
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or possibly electric umbrella and
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communa core interventions that might be
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around as well yeah just i'm just
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imagining you know mouse gears was in
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here the temporary mouse gears you know
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when all the construction was beginning
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they put the temporary mouse gears in
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here mouse gears is not even around
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anymore all right i've decided to go
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ahead and get myself a coffee from here
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why not it's kind of the first day they
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also have these very interesting kind of
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illusions that you can kind of point
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your camera out or look at with your own
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the human eye from one angle and then
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when you shift the wording changes from
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the logo to the word epcot for posterity
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i have a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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i asked for a large
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i think you could say venti which is the
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big i always say large and small
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sometimes when i say large they give me
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the tall which is technically starbucks
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is very confusing
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but this is what i ended up getting
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which is good because i don't want to
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drink too much coffee because i'm gonna
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end up going to club cool this has a
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definite old-timey epcot vibe too it's
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like a retro vibe here with the plants
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and everything this is kind of
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interesting they got these little seats
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that are over here which are very
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cushiony but down here are just chunks
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of wood very artistic but i've never
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seen anything quite like that and this
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is kind of peeking into one of the
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kitchen area windows for the connections
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cafe the casper is waving over there and
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got the neon lights there kind of
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dangling from the roof as well that's
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kind of electric umbrella-ish and it
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kind of man here's some very tasty
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looking cookies awesome and a nice view
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of a monorail doing the loop over there
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in the distance as well there goes
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the monorail it will be neat when all
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this is accessible as well will it be
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ready by the 40th on october 1st uh i
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have my doubts be able to walk straight
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through there
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but it would be nice when you'd be able
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to walk directly
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through this little courtyard like it
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used to be with all the new the new
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items that will be there and it looks
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like the odyssey center well the odyssey
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former odyssey which was the preview
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center and they had all the displays of
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everything that was coming to this park
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is closed down there no longer doing the
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preview with the little circle you know
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the grand circle look around you stand
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in one spot look around 360 and get all
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the upcoming attractions to epcot that
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has been
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shut down it's just sitting here empty
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now it was fun having this open for a
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good long while though i liked all the
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the old posters they had in there all
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the old epcot attraction posters
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throwbacks there's also me and the
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reflection hello me it certainly is good
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to see some life back in this area again
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that is for certain all right gonna get
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myself a non-piping hot caffeinated
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beverage here at club cool i might try a
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few little sample cups inside the newly
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revamped open well not too long ago club
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cool in a different spot than i remember
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there is plenty of room over here at the
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machines i'm gonna go ahead and get my
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little sample cup i'm gonna stay away
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from beverly however now i've been in
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here in you know recently and i like the
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madagascar i like the country club i
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think is my favorite and there's also
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the sprite that's over here that's
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pretty good that's my favorite the
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sprite the country club is probably my
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number one and the madagascar in fact i
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think i'm gonna go with the madagascar
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right off the bat
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all right after trying that i'm gonna
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still go with country club being my
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favorite this is a this is a tasty treat
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and as they say bottoms up
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that they are testing out tron the tron
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coaster
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over at mk
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i'm going to do that i've already had my
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fila soda usually when i go up to the
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epcot lounge
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up top to the dvc above journey to
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imagination i usually get a mr pibb up
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there but i just had a lot of club cool
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cola i think i got my cola fill for
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tonight so i think i'm good all right
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gotta hop on this monorail
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and head that direction
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over to magicking i always like these
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grids of the solar panels
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that is not the hidden mickey solar
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panel those hidden mickey ones like
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about half an acre that direction past
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it but it's still a little bit oh this
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is like deja vu
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went through this earlier also a dump
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truck going through there
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in a race with the goofy bus
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well the bus that has goop the bus
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itself isn't goofy the goofy is on the
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bus
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the parking lot for mk doesn't look too
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busy sometimes
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over through here it's extremely backed
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up with cars up we're gonna lose
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galloping underneath us going directly
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over
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the goofy house and also going over one
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of the trams a little tram
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monorail departing the other direction
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excited to take the ferry boat over
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richard f irvine i'm about to board
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across the seven seas lagoon i go
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pulling away from the station with
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another boat crossing pass over there
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up you can do a little shave and a
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handshake
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guess not
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just doing the hawking of the horns
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there's also a pontoon in the way up
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this pontoon needs to
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needs to skedaddle this pontoons right
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in the middle of the waterway oh very
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nice the monorail's going by with a view
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of the castle and everything doesn't get
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much better than that made it to the
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port noticing over here the wind sock
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has stopped moving but there's a wind
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slug okay go windsock go windsock go go
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go win suck up go win sock go come on
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win sock feel that win feel there it
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goes wind sock is now fully up
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rational also people throw their coins
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down here lots of quarters pennies dimes
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nickels all right and there it goes over
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directly over the top of me and i have
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reached the entrance to mk i just gotta
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scan in park hopping style on my way
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taking the commute to tomorrowland
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over here next to the small coaster
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goofy's coaster there is the tron now
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programming sign here at magic kingdom
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and if it launches off if they're
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testing it at all you should get a
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pretty good view here from uh past a
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little foliage they have set up in the
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queue line and if you look up on the
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roof there are some construction workers
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scaffolding it kind of reminds me of
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back in the day when
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when people would climb the matterhorn
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at disneyland that's almost reminiscent
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of the climbing of the matterhorn they
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no longer do that but they would have
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people climbing like the mountain
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climbing on the matterhorn true story
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and this is about as close as you can
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get to that experience because this is
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on the east coast not the west coast but
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they're scaffolding the side
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of the tron ride itself and it appears
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as if there's a really large tarp
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up there that they're climbing up the
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side of
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i've heard some heavy rumors that maybe
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possibly before new year's
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this bad boy might kick off it might be
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so
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in 22 it is a good possibility that
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guardians which is set to open soon now
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we'll be out of town i will not be here
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for the opening the fact in a few days
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i'm going to be hitting the road hitting
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the road cross country and doing
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probably seven eight weeks give or take
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maybe even more this would definitely be
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a good sign
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if they're running it now that it could
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be open by the end of new year's
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it might have two different
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ways that the lift track i just heard
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i can't tell where some of the noises
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are going from oh there it is
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there it goes looping around
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there it goes
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oh my gosh that's awesome
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first look
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try i'm sure someone else probably
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already covered it but for me first
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look just the wind blowing really hard
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it gets that thin plastic up top there
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don't have a lot of confidence that's
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good they're going to run anymore i
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think that was it
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glad i got here when i did because no
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not another one's come by for about the
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last 20 minutes
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i don't think i don't think they're
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going to launch anymore
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i've had the signs here though
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and there's a wall here too as well so
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you can't really walk any closer
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to where i'm at from this angle and i
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think i don't think i'll be able to to
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see it even if it watches from here i
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think i'm gonna have to go up on the
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people mover attraction itself see if i
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can get kind of a bird's eye perspective
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this is kind of like winning the lottery
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because i don't even know if it's
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launching anymore and the odds of
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launching when i'm in that area slim to
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none but you know what i'm never gonna
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argue with riding the people mover get
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all the people moving oh and look who i
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bumped up in here on the escalator whoo
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tim tracker is this an escalator this is
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a yeah this is an escalator right here
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this is you are escalated you're
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escalating up forward
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as well so you're going to get a view at
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you're going to be going to view a tron
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also open you're hoping to yeah
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i'm hoping to get it i just ran into
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that phone i just ran into that pole
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tell me watch out for those things i'm
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going to knock the whole building down
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all right i'm crossing my fingers if we
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cross our fingers together we might get
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lucky enough to see tron
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operational it's something i didn't
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realize oh wait you were going to say
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something one of my biggest fears just
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happened the line up here stopped with
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the moving
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walkway oh
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they slammed it and stuff
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that's one of your biggest fears yeah i
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always thought people were gonna run in
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like start smooshing up up here
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so one of your biggest fears is the ramp
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is
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the moving and the coast
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the cones are your biggest fear yeah
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look that one is inflated and this one's
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not okay tim was telling me on the way
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up that
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they're not going to remove those tarps
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they inflate them and that is the roof
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line look at the one on the left
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and it's like it's bubbly and the load
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on the right is kind of like so that's
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going to be the roof line yeah all right
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place your bets are we going to see the
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launch of tron by going by it and this
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is going to be awesome when it opens
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look at this beautiful
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beautiful attraction can't really see
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much but we're just passing by
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through the track of space mountain it's
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like eerily quiet through here
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oh except for that grinding noise
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we're heading back now out into the
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light
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go towards the light
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i guess the real question now is
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if they've been testing it
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when will it open
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in time for the christmas holiday
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maybe before
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and with that i think i'm gonna start
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making my way out
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and on the way out needed a little
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hydration got myself a little water here
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as well
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leading heading on out of the park
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heading right by up close
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and personal obviously there's this gate
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between me
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other than that only a few
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feet of chippendale
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there's mickey
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the big cheese
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there's no one on that and i
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decided just to walk back to my car i
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gotta say hi to heavy metal mickey oh i
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should wait here patiently
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this would be a good place to end the
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video
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that's gonna do it they were cones
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for
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today
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covered a lot
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first arrived here at ttc
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took the epcot loop monorail over to
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epcot center
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and then back over here
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to get a couple angles
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of the tron coaster testing
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a nice day relaxing day
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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is over