End Of The Night at EPCOT in Disney World After Dark - No Lines or Crowds / Quiet Theme Park Moments
Disney World EPCOT after dark
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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the
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power pole mickey well i say today's but
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technically this evenings
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and that is quite the sunset that is
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being bestowed upon my
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eyes tonight will be the fourth and
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complete
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of the four walt disney world parks
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after dark
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series that i have been doing over the
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you know pepperdine over the course of
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the last week and a half two weeks
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epcot center i'm on my way
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current time a few minutes prior to 8
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p.m
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just a couple minutes prior to 8 p.m the
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park closes at 11
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so by time i get there probably about 8
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30 by time i get to the gate
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now this is interesting even at three
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hours prior to close well three hours
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and
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six minutes prior they are still
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charging for parking here
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i wonder where the cutoff is i don't i
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mean i have to pay for parking because i
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have an annual pass but
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yeah even this late they're still
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charging for parking
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at 7 57 pm
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should also be noted this is the only
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one of the four parks
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that i had that had to go through the
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parking turn styles or the parking
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little stations here because i arrived
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only an hour and a half before closing
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this one i'm arriving three hours before
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closing so
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that's why there's this little bit of a
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bat looks to be
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pretty full parking lot out there not
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completely full but
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kind of full i have placed my vehicle
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here at the forefront of create
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46. looks like it's been painted over it
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might have been
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create 45 at one point no i think it's
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always been 46.
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that's tough to tell there's my shadow
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all the way back here i could park a
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little bit closer
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but i opted not to it's gonna be easy to
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find my
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find my spot it still is at the 35
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we flip this around and do the intro
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welcome everyone adam the woo here still
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at the 35
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capacity in fact it was very difficult
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to even get a reservation
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tried for a few hours throughout the
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course of the day there's kind of an
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impulse
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to complete this series tonight but i
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got it
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one popped up on the app boom
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epcot center which is what i refer to it
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as spaceship earth back there in all its
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glory
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inviting you to join me as i head in
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and side note it's not an hour before
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close
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it's technically by time i get through
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the gate it'll probably be two and a
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half hours before so so a little
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asterisk
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on this one but you know what heck it
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it's the last one
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it's happening when i say the last one i
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mean of this
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shortly before closed series not the
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last time i'm gonna
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show up to this amazing theme park here
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at walt disney world
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just the last one of this four part
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series current
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four part series by the way the monorail
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has not returned for the epcot loop yet
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and if it does it's not allowed to go
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over 15 miles per hour
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according to this painting on the
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sidewalk oh check out this official
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epcot parking truck and check out the
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official
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world of micah who just parked yeah
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if you had to if you were a betting man
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when would you say the monorail's gonna
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come back
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not tonight just gotta follow the little
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washboards here for park entrance
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another thing that's not being utilized
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is the brand new
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tram circle which was built prior to
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you know this current situation over the
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construction wall you can see one last
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glimmer of the sunset and it's very
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interesting too
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after walking in the front check out
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this this is the projection
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beam that goes on to
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spaceship earth over here where the
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fountain used to be and club cool and
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all that
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and communicore which no longer exists
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look at this
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magnificent sphere this is around not
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the backside of water but the backside
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of
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spaceship earth the front side looks
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just
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as majestic with the new flags
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the spires on the fountain well not
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really the spires where they called the
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the crystallized pieces the three of
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them
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right there in the middle like it was
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back in the 80s they are back
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it's interesting too the extended queue
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kind of wraps around there
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also i think they put this up because
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you know the building that was
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communicore is now gone
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and that's where the lights would shine
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from you're right would that be your
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thought on that as well
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yep you are so right i think the weight
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i think the wait times will probably
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diminish a little bit as time goes on oh
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yeah but i was looking at the app and
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the land
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it's only five let's go let's do it it's
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time to live
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with the land when all this is completed
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it's going to be it's going to be a
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whole new theme park at least
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future world section of it that's for
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sure yep from here you can see the queue
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is pretty much completely empty and if
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you look closely the sign
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does say five five-minute wait it's a
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walk-on
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and micah just noticed pointed out that
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the picture here on the front where it
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says a boat ride
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to a better understanding of the land so
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i remember this back in
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the 90s maybe even early 2000s well late
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90s early 2000s there would be a guide
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on board of the boat itself and that has
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been
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that that has been removed maybe two
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decades ago
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it's got to be the next stop because
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that guy's wearing an umbro shirt oh
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remember
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umbro umbro was very popular like soccer
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kids
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in the 90s i never noticed till now but
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it's not there's not a lot of light in
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here and it looks as if under
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like behind the on top of those
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streamers there
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they have enclosed they put something
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blocking
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the windows you can see there you can
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see a little bit of the windows with uh
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the moonlight shining through but i
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don't ever remember
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those little like wooden planks do you
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like this right up here being projected
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what is that right there on the side
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oh there's another blotch over there too
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it looks like a heart from here yeah the
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shape's like a shaped like a heart
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oh there's another one down there going
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into
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awesome planet yeah from this angle you
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can see where the windows are and you
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can really see where the definition of
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the blocked
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windows you know it may have always been
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that way i just never noticed
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huh and usually i will take the
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escalator but the escalator
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is not quite operational at the moment
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so
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gotta hoof it down the stairs themselves
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it's always nighttime in here but fun
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fact is now nighttime
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outdoors as well so it kind of coincides
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my eyes are kind of adjusted too so i
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can see a little bit better
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sometimes daylight outside it doesn't
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adjust your eye zone adjusts through
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here i can see everybody
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showing the root system here of the
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trees
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and looks like we got this whole front
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boat to ourselves there's no one else in
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the front
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section of this boat now heading over
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towards the waterfall against these
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alligators and some some other creatures
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i don't hear the waterfall the water
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falls off
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the waterfall which is usually right
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behind me is turned off
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there is no waterfall we go into the
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desert landscape
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over here from one one landscape to
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another
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we'll get thirsty get real thirsty in
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the desert
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we need to wet my whistle parched
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going up on some buffalo here with their
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hooves
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the mighty hooves of the buffalo as they
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stay in the spiel
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yeah i think also the the dog up here
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used to be on pirates
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back back in the day the same dive from
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pirates up on the porch
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all right now this always kind of
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reminds me of bio dome and a mix between
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the willy wonka boat ride
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i don't know i just always think of that
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and there is no sun retrieving through
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the top of the dome
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none at all it is completely nightfall
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out there i always like going through
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this area there's a few different hidden
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mickeys
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being kind of spot towards the end i was
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like looking for hidden mickeys
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got some catfish down there oh there we
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go there's a little hidden mickey there
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and right up there there's a hidden mini
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it's not a hidden mickey that's minnie
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and there's another hidden mickey
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you can kind of see right right there if
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you look very very closely now we're
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going out of
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what looks kind of like a heating
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element and into a more
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traditional illuminated section ah there
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we go there's a hidden mickey made out
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of cabbage or lettuce
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yeah there he goes right there he kind
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of kind of see it as well i'm on a
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hidden mickey roll
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right now i'm just like just looking for
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hidden mixing the other hidden mickey oh
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those aren't moving
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down here you can see all the gurgling
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of the water as we go down
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the boat ride they are making some sort
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of announcement back there wonder if
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they're evacuating the land
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we just missed it if they are now i do
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believe at this hour
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the up to all the the colors are
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changing up there in the pyramid at the
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lounge
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journey to imagination dvc lounge which
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i can sometimes go up inside
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of now that i'm dvc member but at this
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hour you know it's like 9 15 already
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they do i think it's seven
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they cut off any admission to go up
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there you can see the the coloration
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kind of changing
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as well as over here is the pvc fountain
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it's a fountain that i think is made out
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of pvc and the
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upwards waterfall you can see under the
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under the beauty of the lights there
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now in the future we'll have a good
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monorail
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angle going by as of right now no
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see how it goes from the bottom it
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projects itself
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upward so instead of a you know a
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waterfall
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usually will go downward this
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it just goes straight up
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to the pvc fountain for the pvc
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pyramid on top of the fountain yeah
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that's the pyramid
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as well as this
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is a pyramid oh i can see a star up
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there
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off to the side that is a beautiful
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very relaxing a little bit of mist
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you can feel the mist coming off of the
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water yeah
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it's already nice and cool out here but
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it's extra cool yeah
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pretty nice
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before october first we will we will
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have
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before the anniversary of walt disney
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world the 50th anniversary we'll have
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the monorail bath
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from over here you can see there really
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is no line
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for figment to meet figment of the
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journey to imagination attraction
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and a side note i mentioned this before
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but tucked away the back
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of the attraction itself are some
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restroom facilities that play some of
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the original epcot
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early 80s music yeah i guess i was i was
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right in assuming
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that living with the land something
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happened because that little star means
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it went down 30 minutes is for soaring
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yeah land is down and when i walked in
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there was hardly anybody in line for
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spaceship earth
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now it's 40 minutes because a lot of
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guests are exiting way back to the
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parking lot that's the last thing they
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go on
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just about 9 30 now and since it is only
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five minutes for a journey to
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imagination
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heading in going through the queue line
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and gonna board
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one of these ride vehicles the omni
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mover and go in and say hello to
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two figment one of my favorite you know
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figment for a long time
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well i guess kind of still is well not
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really but when the park first opened
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was the face kind of almost the mickey
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mouse
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of epcot where he really didn't have a
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lot of mickey and donald and goofy
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so much at epcot but figment was kind of
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the face it was he was going to kind of
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be the mickey mouse of sorts
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of epcot center and this goodie's still
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around all these years later
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now the other characters have been
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integrated into into the park but you
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know
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figment's still here let's not forget
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about figment
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you just his all you need is a little
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imagination and he'll be right
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beside you
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i do go on that attraction quite often
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it's not not quite the same as
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how it was back in the day before they
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changed it up
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the original version definitely a little
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i favor that one a little more
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but one thing i will say about figment
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he still holds on to his roots
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and is still using a corded telephone
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he hasn't even stepped into the
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generation of cell phones
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you gotta respect them for that gotta
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respect them the jumping water is not
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working
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and sometimes aren't there isn't there
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water out of it coming out of these two
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i think so i think yeah well i think it
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just goes straight up i don't think it
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goes from one to the other
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kind of like the ones over there do but
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this usually
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will have water as well you can see
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spaceship earth over there in the
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distance if you look over across the
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lagoon you can see the
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illuminated barges for the new fireworks
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water spectacular show
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that will be rearing its head most
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likely for the 50th anniversary of walt
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disney world
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in october as well maybe before also
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walking through world showcase gonna do
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the loop and then end with test track
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right at closing that's the game plan
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anyway i think we can make it all the
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way around world showcase before
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before test track seals up the queue
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about 20 years ago i would stand right
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over here next to this gazebo and watch
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the british invasion beetle cover band
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back in this area and they made some
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announcements at d23 that this section
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was going to be
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cherry tree lane but i wonder if that's
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still going to happen
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maybe it might still but they've kind of
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put it on the back burner
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you know with the current situation but
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it'd be neat if this area became cherry
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tree lane
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at some point and even from this angle
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very
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impressive oh you can see the
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well it's kind of obscure that the taco
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bar just kind of obscuring
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spaceship earth because that's why you
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can't see all the spaceship earth
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but look at the lights illuminating
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shining up to the heavens off of
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spaceship earth they're at the entrance
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and have the pyramid over there and the
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volcano and there's no one in line
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for the grand fiesta tour we got to get
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over to test track though
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i've done this a bunch of times but i'm
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not going to do it today i'm just going
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to or not
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this evening i'm gonna head over to test
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track but i didn't want to see the
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volcano
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from a distance oh yeah look at that
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thing they suppose there's a hidden
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mickey up there
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in the in the the lava without the lava
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but the smoke that's emitted from it
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oh definitely sounds like test track
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is roaming around the side of the former
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world of motion
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attraction yep same with the same same
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building because now it's test track
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before it wasn't very very quickly
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just got to go over this bridge get in
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line get in the queue
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now during this time they are not
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utilizing where you make your own car
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you can't design your own car
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through here it's just used as the still
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an extended queue but yeah you can't
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so we will not be making our own car
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okay going forward
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all right out the door oh there's
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another one down there whoa whoa
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this is nice i got the camera front
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facing for a change
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oh there we go
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after this one
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and with that it is now 1105.
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the park is officially closed for the
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evening
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and with that should stay
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that's gonna do it for today
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oh yes epcot center
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even though it's just referred to now as
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epcot but they have brought back the
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all capitalized epcot
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as opposed to the capital e all small
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letters pcot
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which kind of how epcot was all capitals
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and then center was capital c
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and then enter lower case i'm just kind
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of rambling a little bit but
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they bring it back a little bit of the
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old school which is nice
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because i do love this park and a good
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way to close out the after dark
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last hour series even though this was
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not the last hour we were here for two
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and a half hours
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not the last hour but the other three
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parks magic kingdom
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animal kingdom and hollywood studios we
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were there for the last hour and a half
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here
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last two and a half hours the completion
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of all four parks
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walt disney world just before close
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is done and with that the vlog
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is over also i've reiterated this many
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times and i will again
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i do miss the monorail on the epcot loop
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something is definitely missing without
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it here
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and that's something is the moderator
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i agree