The End Of Walt Disney Studios At Disneyland Paris - Huge Park Changes With Upcoming Adventure World
Goodbye Walt Disney Studios Park
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Sunday, December 14th,
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2025.
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Just walking out of my accommodations
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here at the Hotel Cheyenne, the Disney
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Hotel Cheyenne that is adjacent to
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Disneyland Paris. Today I'm going to be
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going to the second park, not the
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Disneyland Park, but the Walt Disney
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Studios Park,
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which is right across
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from the original park. Now, this park
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will be changing its name in March, the
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end of March of next year. So, this will
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be my last time going into that said
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theme park while the name still has
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Walt's name on it.
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It's going to be becoming Disney
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Adventure World with a couple other
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lands opening up, Tangled, Frozen, etc.
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Lo and Walt at Disneyland Paris. And I'm
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kind of curious what's going to happen
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to the partner statue, which is not at
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Disneyland proper. It's at the Studios
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Park. Will they move it?
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Time will tell. I think it's about 40.
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It's mid-40s out here right now. Feels
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cool, crisp, and completely awesome.
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Perfect for a Walt Disney Studios
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visit. My last Walt Disney Studios visit
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before the name change. Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here. I'm
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inviting you to join me. Shall we? Yeah,
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it's like low 40s right now. Nice. The
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balloon's not running at the particular
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moment. Maybe a little bit later, but
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right now the balloon is grounded. And I
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will not be here for the opening of the
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new name next year. The world of Frozen,
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World of Tangled, and all that. No
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international travels in 2026. All US.
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Maybe in 2027 I can get over to the to
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this park or these parks. Yeah, 45 to be
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exact. 45°.
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Going to get up to 46.
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Sunset at 5. So mid-40s all day. Very,
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very nice. No Starbucks in either one of
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the parks, including Walt Disney Studios
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park that I'm about to go in. So, I
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grabbed it at Disney Village on the way
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over, which is basically their Disney
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Springs andor Downtown Disney that you'd
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have at Anaheim. And as I'm kind of
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walking up towards uh the earful tower
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towards the entrance of Disney stu what
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is currently Disney Studios Park they
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have already removed Walt Disney's name
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of the Walt Disney Studio Park off of
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the top of the water tower the earful
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tower that is like a beacon letting you
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know that you're about to head into a
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studio park kind of similar to how MGM
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Studios
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out in Orlando before it became
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Hollywood Studios. that had the Earful
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Tower and it was there for a few years
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under Hollywood Studios and they removed
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it.
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But yeah, end of a end of an era here.
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Obviously, I have no core memories early
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on in life of being at this one, even
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though I did love Hollywood Studios and
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I love studio stuff in general, you
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know, like Warner Brothers and Universal
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Hollywood and things like that when it
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comes to studios. Always have a soft
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spot for anything that has does
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production, all that. But now it's going
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to be Disney Adventure World. It's
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interesting. They're keeping the Disney
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name, but they're dropping the Walt. So,
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in California, it's Disneyland. In
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Florida, it's Walt Disney World because
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Roy wanted to honor his brother Walt and
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forever to be remembered that it was
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Walt's dream to create the theme parks
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and all that, starting with the Anaheim
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version and Walt's original Magic
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Kingdom of Disneyland. So, it's it's
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interesting they don't just call it Walt
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Disney Adventure Park and they just they
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dropped the Walt. Again, I'm kind of
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kind of curious if they're going to move
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the partner statue over to Disneyland
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Paris proper because in front of the
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castle, it's the only one of the Disney
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parks that I haven't seen that doesn't
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have a partner statue in front of the
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castle. that I've only been to one
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international park, Disneyland Paris.
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So, I can't speak for all of them, but
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it's interesting how this one is over at
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the Studios Park, because they really
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wanted to honor honor Walt and, you
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know, his love for making movies and all
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that, which is why the parks exist, you
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know, because it all it all stemmed from
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that. So, good to see what the future
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holds. And when I come back in future,
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maybe when I come back in 2027, I'll see
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I'll see how it how it's looking then. I
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am looking forward to seeing Frozen,
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Tangled, and the Lion King, Splash
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Mountain version of Lion King they're
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building. It's going to be fun. I'm
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going to see if I can get a view of the
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new land that opens in a few months from
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this little drop tower right here. See
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if I can peek into the new land that was
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opening at the end of March. There it
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is. Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop. And if
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you're in a certain spot, if you're
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looking this way, just kind of luck of
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the draws. They do assign seats, but I
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might get lucky enough to peek over into
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the new Tangled Lion King area and
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Frozen area of Arendelle.
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But you got to get one facing that way.
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If not, be facing towards the sorcerer's
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hat, which is cool, too.
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Hey, pretty good view from this angle
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actually.
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Hollywood Tower there.
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There it is. The brand new land. All
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right, I'm going to board the tram to go
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to Catastrophe Canyon. used to be a
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backlot tour of some sort, kind of like
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MGM had, but now it is a cars road trip.
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And I kind of wonder if they're going to
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get rid of this cuz they're no longer
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going to be a studio. So, got to do
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Catastrophe Canyon to get throw back to
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my MGM H MGM days back when Catastrophe
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Canyon was part of the studio tour. This
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is about the closest thing I can get to
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the back tour at formerly MGM Studios. I
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lost my mind on this thing. First time I
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rode this back in springtime, the first
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time I visited here, but I got to do it
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again. I loved Catastrophe Canyon.
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in Orlando and they still have the same
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same tram vehicles, the tram same tram
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ride cars. So, we'll throw back to the
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studios days again. You never know if
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this will last with the expansions of
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Adventure World coming up. It's prime
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real estate, right? It's called Cars
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Catastrophe Canyon now, not Catastrophe
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Canyon, 40 ft ahead.
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>> This brings back so many core memories
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for me from early '90s. MGM Studios.
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Got to ride this as many times as
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humanly possible when I'm in Paris cuz
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this is like really brings me back to my
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younger years. You know, it's crazy. 91
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92 93 94 going to MGM Studios countless
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times. Love that version of the park.
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Let's enjoy some old school catastrophe
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right now.
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Little bit. It's like shaking now. It's
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almost like an earthquake coming through
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the canyon. Oh yes. Let's go. All they
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did is they just repainted the
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18-wheeler. They just repainted it for
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what it used to be. I got the fire going
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on. Whole thing's tilting and sliding.
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Here it is.
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Oh yeah. Where am I right now?
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Feels like I'm in Orlando.
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Circuit 1991.
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>> [screaming]
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>> Oh, I just got a little mist.
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Yeah, mid-40s. And that mist coming in,
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that'll wake you up a little bit if the
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coffee didn't do it that well.
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And just like that, let's go to the back
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lot. Let's see the earnest house, the
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empty nest house, Golden Girls house.
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If only. And over down in the Paris area
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near Ratatouille, I noticed that
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Ratatouille is down for construction.
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Kind of wondering if they are going to
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convert it like they did in Orlando from
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3D to 2D. So they no longer have Ratachi
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open. They have the walls up. Maybe
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they're maybe they're fixing it up. Then
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again, they probably wouldn't have walls
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up. They just have it saying that the
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ride was closed cuz with the 3D thing.
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I'm not sure if they put the walls up.
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Either way, Ratatouille is not currently
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open at the moment. I wasn't able to
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ride it last time, which was which was
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pretty awesome. Was able to do that.
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Also, the fountain is turned off and
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they have some flowers in there.
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Something you never see in Florida
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because doesn't get cold enough in
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Florida to turn a fountain off. It won't
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freeze.
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>> I have six major road trips I'm going to
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do next year. All USF, again, no
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international. One of those six probably
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going to do anywhere between two two
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weeks to a month for each of the road
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trips throughout the course of the year.
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And one of them in the middle of the
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year, well, close to the middle of the
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year, give or take a couple months, is
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going to be Route 66. Kind of kind of
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fun to go through the Cars Road trip,
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which was the overlay of Catastrophe
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Canyon. Now, cars, catastrophe canyon,
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and also to walk through this area,
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which is all themed around cars, which
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the first one is based, well, I think
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most of them are, but the first one
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especially based on Route 66. So, yeah,
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a little Route 66 over here in France.
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Route 66 is very, very popular. Even
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even in Paris, and there's a telephone.
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Yeah, really looking forward to the US
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travels. Kind of wanted to go out with a
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bang as far as the end of this year with
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international. I think I've had a pretty
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good almost a month I've been gone. just
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shy of a month. By the time I get home,
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it'll be a month. And Route 66 will not
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be the first US trip I'm doing just
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because of weather, you know, flying to
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Chicago in January. But I do have a
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January trip right after New Year's
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plan. Going to be doing a extensive road
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trip then and then five other ones
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throughout the course of the year of
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2026, all US. And I'll probably be
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driving almost like the family right
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there that's spinning around. Well,
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they're all spinning around very
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drastically. Hopefully I can drive uh
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rental car better than better than that.
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But we'll see. We'll see how 66 and and
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the other road trips. 66 is just one of
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six massive road trips I'm doing next
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year. So 666 one of six 66 that I don't
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know. You can see the sorcerers cap
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there which is an homage to the Burbank
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Studios, Walt Disney Studios in Burbank
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and Disney Hollywood Studios in Florida
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near my home. They're putting be putting
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one of these up. I don't know if it's
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going to be that big though, but they're
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putting one of these up too. And
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underneath the sorcerers cap is they're
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doing an anim animation academy. But
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take a look at this. There's the Disney
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Adventure World miniature of what it's
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all going to look like in the middle of
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next year. I think end of March. And
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according to this miniature, it looks
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like the Earful Tower is going to stay.
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They're just going to put Disney
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Adventure World on the top of it. And
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all back there is all the new area right
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back in that little particular. And it
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looks like the sorcerers cap is going to
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make the cut also. And as well catastro
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or cars catastrophe canyon is still here
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on the model. So, and that's pretty much
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Splash Mountain or Tiana's Bayou
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Adventure, but it's going to be a Lion
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King themed one, newly built, so it's
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not going to be an overlay of the old
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Splash, but basically it's Splash
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Mountain. Here's the backside of
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Arendelle here. And then you got the
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whole Tangled area right [music] up
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here. Yeah, that's going to definitely
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definitely be pretty good for this park
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to be honest. Wanted to spend a little
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time in probably one of my favorite
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buildings at the Walt Disney Studios
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Park, which is the entrance and the
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exit. In fact, you cannot get in the
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park or out of the park without going
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through the building that looks as if
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it's outside and it's dark and the neon
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is always on. Always good to see some
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some neon and it has that old Hollywood
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vibe. I went to the Hollywood Gardens
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quick service restaurant and got a
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burger. It was very very busy. Probably
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because the traffic flow through here is
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just so intense of people coming in and
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out, park hopping back and forth. It's a
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very entrance, very interesting entry
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point into the park itself, walking in
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and out. So, I had to sit underneath the
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neon entryway, which reminds me a lot of
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Great Movie Ride. Had a great movie ride
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vehicle would go underneath it. Kind of
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reminded me of that. And then I just
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kind of perused around was looking for
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merchandise. I ended up finding a couple
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different items. One is a new shirt that
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is for Walt Disney Studios Park, which
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I'm sure is going to be obsolete within
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the next few months. So, went ahead and
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grabbed that. Also got one or two pins
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that are that are for the studios park.
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Doesn't say studios on it, but it's
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Mickey. Well, I'll show you. I'll show
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you in a little bit when I get back to
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my room. But just kind of perused
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around. Spent a lot of time in the main
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hall, the main entry point if you will,
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which is stage one. Like when you're
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first walking into the park, it's stage
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one. you walk through that which is just
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to the right as you're walking into the
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park or to the left when you walk in the
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park and to the right of the park when
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you're exiting stage one which is where
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they have all the neon the Hollywood
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Gardens Theater and a merchandise store
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etc.
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Pretty happy I was able to get a shirt
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from the the the currently named park
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which is going to change in end of March
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March 28th 29th 30th end of March of
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2026. So, I ended up grabbing end up
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grabbing a shirt and I grabbed a few
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other things on the way out, which I'll
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show momentarily. And then you have to
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purchase a bag. It's not It's only like
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a euro or two for a bag, but no
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complimentary bags. And I'm just going
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to walk around as I've exited. And I was
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referring to stage one. That's stage one
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right over there where the water tower
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is. Just kind of a relaxing day and
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checking out the Walt Disney Studios
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park. Now, I'm going to go in of Disney.
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I've said this before and I'll say it
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again. The merchandise here is not as
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comparable and prolific and and there's
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not a multitude of merch in comparison
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to the to the US parks, but I'll go
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inside World of Disney and see what they
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got. Again, I like this Mickey right
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here. He's like just he's almost like
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he's saying just come on in over a
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Minnie right over there in the corner.
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See Minnie there. There was like this
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hot air balloon in here. You got Mickey
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on the side and Pluto kind of waving
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down at everyone that's spending money
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here in the in the Disney store.
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Thanks, pal.
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>> Yesterday I was in Disneyland proper
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Paris or Disneyland Paris proper not
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over at the studio park. Rope dropped a
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close. So today is going to definitely
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be a little bit more of a mellow day
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than it was yesterday. But I wanted to
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show this little model of the earful
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Tower up here. Says Walt Disney Studios
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Park up there. Be kind of cool if they
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left that just as like an homage. But I
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have a feeling I think all this is going
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to probably be removed inside the Disney
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store. the other Disney store, different
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store that I was just at. But I just
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love this. This is so great. You got
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director Mickey right up there. You got
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the earful tower. All of it just so
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good. There's Minnie in her Hollywood
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best over there to the side standing on
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a suitcase. Oh, dang. Every time I've
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been in here, I've always missed this.
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There's the castle and there's Donald
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and Huey Dewey Louie. All of them up
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there. Look at that. I never noticed
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that before. Making my way through
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Disney Village. Going to start heading
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back towards my hotel.
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Balloon never got off the ground today.
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Yeah, it feels nice and chilly. Feels
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good out.
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Love it.
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>> When I see this area right here, I keep
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expecting to see a friendship boat
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coming through, but I'm not at Disney
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World. No friendship boats here. No
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Skyliner here. No Montreal here.
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Oh my gosh, look at these fish. Holy
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cow. Looking at the ducks. I missed
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these gargantuan fish.
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Wow.
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This isn't a koi pond. This is like a
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river of some sort or a very prevalent
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waterway. And look at the size of these
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fish.
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Wow. Oh, look at them lurking underneath
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the the surface.
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Oh my gosh,
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these things are huge.
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These things are freaking huge.
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That's like nightmare fuel. What if you
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were to fall in there?
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I don't even know what kind of fish
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those are. Big ones.
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If they did have friendship boats
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through here, they should be glass
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bottom ones, so you get a nice little
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fishy view.
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Those are massive.
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I wish I had some fish food now. Give
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him a little treat.
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Hundreds of them in there. Hundreds in
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there. Seems like they're just kind of
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only back there, though.
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I don't see as many over here. Oh, yep.
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They're all in here, too. Never mind.
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Oh, yeah. They're everywhere. Hundreds
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of these massive fish.
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Who knew? I sure didn't.
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Yeah, back in my room now. Wanted to
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show the shirt that I purchased. Walt
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Disney Studios Park take 16. That's a
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wrap. Roll 0302.
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Director Mickey Mouse.
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I guess that would mean that's a wrap,
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meaning they're calling it a day on the
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name. And I also got some Disneyland
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Paris popcorn. Salted [snorts] popcorn.
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a bag,
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which isn't all that impressive, but
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these are cool. I got two of the Walt
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Disney Studios pin pins with Mickey
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with this little
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movie camera there. All right, that's
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going to do it for today. And that's
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going to do it for me
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ever going to the Walt D Walt Disney
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Studios park ever again. Next time I'm
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here, it'll be a totally different name.
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I'll see you in the next video. The vlog
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is over.