The Greatest 80’s Store EVER - A Nostalgic Denver Day At Hammond's Candy Factory & Train Convention
Denver Nostalgic Day April 2024
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Saturday April 6
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2024 it is a lot different experience
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weatherwise today than it was yesterday
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here in Denver a lot cooler a lot colder
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a lot more clouds in the sky piping hat
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caffeinated beverage here with Jim who
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has alerted me that he is going to take
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me somewhere extra special has not given
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me any spoilers where we're going to go
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nothing yet so we we're going to start
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here and you're going to you're going to
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take me somewhere where you going to
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where you going take me can I talk to
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your folks let me talk I want to tell
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them where we're going okay all right
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I'll wait over here to get in the car
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just wait over there for a second don't
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don't tell Adam don't tell Adam but what
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I got in mind for him is I think I'm
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going to take him to a a candy factory
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that's been around Denver for about a
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hundred years Adam you're taking me to a
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candy factory did you know that we were
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standing in front of the Candy Factory
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you're taking me here right here 100
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years we're going to see him make
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chocolate and candy canes I thought we
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were I want to see some trains maybe
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later maybe later I'm going to give you
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a candy candy back camera back all right
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but I do want some
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candy join me shall what I want to know
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is how did I how did I not notice this
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classic vehicle the whole time we were
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waiting to leave Hammond's cand how did
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I not see this candy factory up there
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you think they've ever taken this thing
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over any sweet speed bumps sweet jumps
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look at the flat tire there we do have a
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speed bump out
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here pretty dang cool
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get a look at them them working there
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cutting candy
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really oh if you guys want
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kettles after they're done pour the
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candy on to the cooling Trace they do
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let it sit for about 5 minutes
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they then add all that food coloring and
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begin making the outer part of the candy
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the outer part of the candy we call it
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the
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jacket for peppermint sometimes if they
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have extra chunks of candy they do from
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the oops they do pour that into the
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court if I could ask everybody make
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their way back down here for me
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please if everybody can make their way
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back down here for me please here on the
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screen they are making some ribbon candy
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the clove ribbon candy that's on that
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back table behind they're flattening it
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and then they then put it on a tray
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flatten and then move it to another
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machine on the other side to make the
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ribbon
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effect sorry
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guys they do use scissors that weigh
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about 2 lb they made a full steal take
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about 3 to eight Bates a day Bates P of
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either 700 candy can or
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1,000 and then it does go round and
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around because if she happens to miss
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one it goes back around to her she's
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hand sealing them with that machine the
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other lady right there is hand packaging
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them you can find some of these items at
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Target Trader Joe's some other places
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those the two main on those were the big
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ones yeah all over the US except in
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Central Florida
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yeah yeah they don't have a they don't
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have anything in Central Florida pan
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handle they show them this little area
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oh the oops area this is the oops
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area oh these are all the mistakes they
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the look at that I don't know why it's a
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mistake back outside now it is getting
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gustier whoa we got a hat down we got a
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hat down so I ended up getting a press
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pin dis I've been collecting the Disney
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ones they had four different options I
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ended I got the candy van and you ended
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up getting candy candy cane you got that
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and then I also got a little baggie full
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of some
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items you got some peanut brittle just
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like George McFly would have had and
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then you got some other items in there
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turtles turtles very nice I let me dump
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this a penny in there drop that in there
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check it out I guess candy cigarettes
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now are our bubble gum the bubble gum
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play we're kind of curious to see what
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those what those are like we'll open one
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of those up and I'll chew on the chick
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of gum I also got the lemon drops those
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look good I didn't want to go too deep
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down a rabbit hole of anything that was
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like too horribly you know sweet yeah
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but I think lemon drops and candy
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cigarettes work good gummy gummy
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cigarettes just taking my smoke drink oh
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went
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F how does that work I do not condone
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smoking but I do condone chewing gum I
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just dropped it on the ground 5
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R I think it's fine it's Colorado the
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ground is is uh
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Frozen it's really
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puffing this works with the mustache
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right sure
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does I'm just going to walk around town
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all day with
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the what' you get well I forgot it was
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in my pocket as a thank you for going
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through the tour they give you one of
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the peppermint candy canes that they
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just made in the the back room have made
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it under the freeway here into this
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parking lot going to be attending the
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Rocky Mountain train show this looks
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like a fake facade Rock right here look
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at this like a themed Rock of some sort
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yeah today it goes till 5: tomorrow goes
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till 4: those are the hours right there
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yeah wind is kicking and it's cold so
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you got cold weather and the wind chill
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feels like it's like
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12° seeing all this makes me want to put
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together my own miniature train Town
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look at this one see the steam engine
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coming off of that
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WKA theme
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train and the LEDs are R for 20,000 plus
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hour so likely a
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lot and if if LED would to go out you
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can basically take the cover please do
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not flush while the train is in station
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this to be the same size ones they have
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at Epcot near the Germany
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it little church there this one's coming
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in hot wow he
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really I love the smoke coming out of
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the stack
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man pop culture stuff over here you got
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the weirdos got the Swamp Thing
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figurines you got old Frankie
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Frankenstein's monster
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here
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Phantom
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the King
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Kong Cat in the Hat Wolf Man Hunchback
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all the universal monsters including the
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mummy even got some classic car alerts
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going on over here miniaturized
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form cash or check only no credit
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cards not many people carry checks
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around anymore
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though didn't you just watch that I just
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rewatched gone with the win last week 4H
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hour a 4H hour
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epic oh she did yeah I just rewatched it
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yeah I watched it quite a few I realized
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after rewatching it that both the main
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characters yeah aren't good people oh or
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weren't yeah oh Scarlet yeah Scarlet
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wasn't a nice person right yeah I heard
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that plus she was uh her personality she
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had a split personality yeah great movie
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though oh
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yeah you ever seen it you ever seen the
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never saw oh never saw it's an
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undertaking it's 4 hours you remember
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this one did you ever see that show car
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show yeah we were just talking about her
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remember her in The Candy
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Factory no that's Lucy theed I don't
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have any Lucy dolls they're hard to find
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they go right away oh I remember that
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the one she made out of the curtain she
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made this dress out of the curtain
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you're right and she saw it in the
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window she said oh I saw it in the
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window and I just had to have well this
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is the this is the Gone With the Wind
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doll that's the Carol Bernett spoof doll
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right interesting yeah yeah and it's the
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really cool Barbie 50th Anniversary yeah
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okay the bamboo lb all right this is
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Collins Booth he makes all these 3D
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print 3D print carnival games carnival
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rides I should
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Sayid you got the drop tower over
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here State Line Customs is that your
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that's your yep I'm on I'm on Facebook
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nice love
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it parade coming through what kind of
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car you think it is I know what kind of
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car that is a little ding buggy it is
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look like
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yours there's a parade roll maybe that's
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you at the front of the parade
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wow me and you both of us right
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there be kind of cool taking that out
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today
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though look how that little crane right
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there is Shifting around too you the
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workers in
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I never really thought about the whole
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scale thing like once you commit to a
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scale for a project you kind of got to
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stick with it oh my gosh I just lost it
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there is a Disney L I wish I can you can
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you explain how my face just was when I
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just walked over here right now look at
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this rivers of America right here have
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the boats going over to time stor Island
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now called Pirates lay that supposed to
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be the matter horn I may that maybe I
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don't know if that's supposed to be the
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m is that Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
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right there no it's actually not Big
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Thunder Mountain Railroad that is the
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old mind train through Nature's
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Wonderland I believe with the rock
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tilting back and forth then you got the
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Mark Twain down here Frontier land it's
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not ex not precisely how it is but the
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ghost flying around close enough you got
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Haunted
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Mansion oh where's he going he's just
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climbing up the Raptors there he's
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getting the he's getting out of here
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look oh there's the matter horn right
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over there there's the matter horn look
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at that dude the matter horn and there's
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actually the Bop sl's going around
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inside it and then I'm guessing that's
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supposed to be the Montreal going
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by okay that's interesting there's a
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pirate ship boat going like you see at
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Six Flags they do not I don't know do
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they ever have that in Disneyland I
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don't think they ever did they did have
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the pirate ship which got destroyed in a
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storm jungle through oh my Lord this is
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awesome got Dumbo down in there flying
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around multiple Dumbo you got the
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teacups you got the Mickey fun
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wheel again it's not exactly in all the
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know it's not it's not exact as far as
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where it's located in the park per se
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got small world there it's a train that
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goes behind it there's the monreal going
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by zipping by if you look in there you
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can see the Bob sleds from the B
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horn inside the Bob wonder if Harold the
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yeti in
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there the backside
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of
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water O2 H
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O2 all right this is very very well done
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very impressive very very impressive I
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was not expecting something this awesome
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to be I mean the trains are awesome too
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but when you have a miniature
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Disneyland pretty good
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walk through front tier
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lamp there the Golden Horseshoe right
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there Tiki Room over
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there don't think there's anything on my
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right so this is from J's
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bond majest from his majesty Secret
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Service go on that
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tunnel the gond is going up the side of
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the mountain speaking of
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Disneyland Lego versions of Disneyland
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land or at least a Disney park you got
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the train station right there you got
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Storybook Land you even
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have oh that's the whale down there
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there's the canal boats this must be the
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teacups right here the
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carousel
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Dumbo Castle over
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here back behind the castle I guess this
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would
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be fantasy land down in here the train
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station is a
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redo it all Disneyland there's a Main
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Street this is the angle you need to
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look at it from as if you're entering
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the ticket old ticket
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boost look at
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this awesome I was very impressed by the
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other miniature this is next level also
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did you see who's greeting us right here
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is it it's well I thought it was going
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to be Walt but it's Colonel Sanders with
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a chick yeah yeah it's the
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colonel it's the colel down there
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got steo Willie got regular
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Mickey this thing is moving right here
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look at this look at the speed of this
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thing coming in
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hot now look at this going around the
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track here
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inside a miniature from like a movie set
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looking at at the right angle you
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wouldn't even
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know this was a
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miniature I want to put a penny on the
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track and Crush oh
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listen I already did that Adam look it
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flattened it flatten the penny flat the
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they provided chairs just sit here enjoy
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the obio just hang out right here listen
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to the sights the sounds and
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smells model trains it's like a 4D event
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is that is that 4D sights sounds smells
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I guess we're not Tak feel we picked up
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some
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cars all right back outside now just
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showing the US flag and the Colorado
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flag up there just how Gusty it is at
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the moment and as the day progresses
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it's going to get even windier a lot of
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wind warnings for today and tomorrow
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here in the greater Denver area so you
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ended up getting something that's the
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best
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look what I got you ended up getting
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that uh I got Wheezy
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wieners how much was that
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$4 there it is that's the start of my
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train
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set now I have the rabbit hole begins
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again all right we ended up taking a few
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mile drive over to this place called The
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Renaissance woo walking out into the
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wind the Renaissance hotel which looks a
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lot like the Contemporary Resort
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in fact it even has the little area here
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in the middle you can almost picture the
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Montreal going in here not exactly like
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the Contemporary but look like that same
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era yeah to say It's windy it's
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definitely the truth I was say I was
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going to say it's an understatement but
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I guess it's more of the truth that it
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is windy so if you look at it from here
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definitely has that contemporary Vibe
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with the A-frame building right there
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get a little closer over here you said
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so this used to be next to where the
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airport used to be the airport this used
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to be a Denver airport in town here and
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then they moved it whatever 20 m 30 mil
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outside so the airport was like over in
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here yeah really so this is built maybe
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for the airport
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hotel there it is just in the middle of
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a neighborhood huh middle of a
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neighborhood yeah they had to move the
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airport out of out of town because I
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guess the mountains created a lot of
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wind shear for Landings and takeoff
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so they wanted to get it further out is
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what I've always heard where those are
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reduced out
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there yeah I do feel like I'm in
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contemporary getting ready to go down to
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the lower level look out these windows
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over at Bay Lake if you were going down
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you look over here you'd have you know
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the Kempo Cafe and all that I don't know
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just kind
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of storm
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drain out whatever passing this rug
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store going to hit a 80s and 99s shop
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over
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here called yo 99s and something 80s
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5280s 5280s
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5280s all right yeah 5 5,280
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5280s that's a mile
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5280s oh look at that P Playhouse
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there's Cherry all right first thought
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upon walking in here is holy cow this
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place is out of control freaking amaz
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real like mayor Goldie Wilson I mean
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this place is like it's insane how much
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stuff is in here Ren Stimpy down here I
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got some bozos I got the talking pee
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Herman doll over here in a box a lot of
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peew playhouse stuff got some Care Bears
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of course the rancor up there Star Wars
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you got Jaa right there got the
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Furbies up top man this place has
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literally has everything this might be
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one of the probably the greatest 80s
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shops I've ever been look at all the
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Masters of the Universe you got down
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here just like I mean just everything
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through scattered through Mor Mindy up
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here you got some Happy Days of f Elvis
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there a Michael Jackson got all the WWF
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figures from back in the deck ET look at
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all this Mr T right here that is Spuds
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McKenzie right there for
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$229 you got the like the disco light
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bouncing around off the walls here got
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all the different hats you got a bunch
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Denver paraphernalia as well t-shirts
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it's pretty expansive place with all
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kind of nicknack knick-knacks and
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souvenirs and pretty much any kind of
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collectible card from that era they have
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it here Andy Griffith growing pain
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Supergirl Batman even some I hadn't seen
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I didn't realize Howard the Duck had his
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own cards over here Harry and the
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Henderson had his own cards
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Rocky 4 right here Ivan Rocky 2
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right over here too a bins right up
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there all the old the older versions of
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the McNugget uh figurines right over
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here the first class right there even
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have the little Transformer s the Big
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Mac Transformer style going on over
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there even look at this right here look
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at this yeah dare I say this is probably
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the best greatest 80s store I've ever
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been in I've been in a lot of stores
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that have 80s themed stuff
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but this is next level I mean this place
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is just a treasure Trove of all things
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88s got some mored magazines here got
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some of the old Sons girl gives birth to
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a
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chimpanzee right over here as well I
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used to have some of these back in there
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these AR the these aren't super old oh
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you also got Charlton H here from
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original Planet of the
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Apes also there's Dracula over there
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there's the mummy a lot of the universal
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monster stuff kind of scattered through
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here there cubert a lot of Gremlins a
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lot of
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Mario I think I'm actually got I'm going
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to get I got the Mac tonight but I think
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I'm going to get a a Howard the
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Duck pack wow I nearly forgot about this
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movie baby which is the dinosaur movie
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right there I didn't even I totally
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forgot about the film but I didn't even
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realize they ever made playing cards for
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those as well look at this video City
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cards over here as well Wonder
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Woman Godzilla got nkotb over here New
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Kids on the blog Don Wahlberg right down
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there I got a whole assortment of new
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kids paraphernalia as well got Betty
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poop down here got some more Furbies
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Cabbage Patch dolls down there I didn't
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realize there was so many pop culture
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cards I mean I've seen a bunch of them
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at conventions but this is like this is
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like an overload of Pop Culture cars and
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of course I showed the Mr T a minute ago
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but they got night r
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Last Action Hero right over here a wacky
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wobbler of Mr T one of these little
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items puzzle forms Mr T lot of Mr T I
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purchased a few items oh there's the
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Noid down there the Noid Al all the the
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California
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Raisins down in there so I ended up
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getting also she gave me the uh Richard
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Donna Superman Clark Kent right here
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also got the Howard the Duck and I
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purchased the McDonald's toy as well o
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baby Herman there we got a baby Herman
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from I didn't even notice the Roger
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Rabbit stuff what did that do it was
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called what it a Super Jock Super Jock
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there it is right there okay what you
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would do you had a little ball hoop over
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here and he would have a basketball and
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you take your hand and he would shoot
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that basketball or there was a kicker
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and his leg kicked you would hit his
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head like that and he would kick a field
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goal Super
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Jock this place I have to say man I I
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said this moment ago but I'll reiterate
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what I just said I've been to a lot of
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places that have a lot of ad stuff this
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is like the most legit 80s store I've
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ever been in my life she do a good job
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it's insane how like SL places they'll
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just have a couple little sections of 80
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stuff this this is everything yeah front
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to back yeah I mean look how deep it is
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incredible chandeliers full of 80s
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goodness cassette types dangling from
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the roof wow this
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van yeah the uh Star Wars van oh you
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know what it was you would pull the rip
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cord out of here and that Center wheel
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would spin STP Racers I think they might
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have been called look at this Empire
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cardboard cutout middle section
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there yeah oh the baseball and Super
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Jock over there mhm he's got a
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bat so you got a lot of Ghostbuster
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stuff as well even down here you got the
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who you going to call buttons over here
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and then all the animated stuff you got
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the Ecto over there I like how they have
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it all kind of itemized together all the
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different great job organiz you kind of
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need to get one of these $19 but it's
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only for props so it doesn't work look
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at the hamburger telephone right here
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and you got the am wireless microphone
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you can transmit look at this you can
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transmit through any AM radio
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indicator you got the walkman's over
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here Nintendo I got one of these you got
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one I got super the old the old school
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yes not the Super original 85 all the
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Walkman the car
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phone wow right it's fake but it's cool
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old Motorola these freaking look at
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these man all right that was
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awesome
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5280s all right that's going to do it
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for today just wanted to show the couple
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things I got it being a fun time give
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got the little bubblegum roundups there
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the lemon drop are very tart very tasty
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and how are the
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duck I got you something oh you did oh
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nice Andy gri I know how much you like
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Andy Griffith I do and I know how much
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you like thre's company I love them both
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and then she threw in a free Super Man
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Cardis so basically I was going to say
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this earlier the gum in these is exactly
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how these taste is there a date on here
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oh
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1978 Howard has saved the Earth from
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seen that fil never saw it change it'll
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change your life Le Thompson's in it
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what's going on here oh is this I
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thought they were checklist oh here we
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go look at that oh Ferris ber Mr
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Mooney he smokes a cigar oh yeah Howard
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onck world all right I got to end this
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so I'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog you going to eat this gum I'll eat
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it is it where is it right here you got
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to do it I'll do it
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you don't need to put this on film
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though just
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listen oh my gosh all right look that's
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a little
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crumbling the Vlog is over