Saying Goodbye To Tom Sawyer Island & Magic Kingdom Riverboat - Big Changes Coming To Disney World
Goodbye To Tom Sawyer Island
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here to a
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very humid it's not hot well it is hot
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Monday September 16th 2024 but not as
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hot as it has been the last two months
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that I have not been here plus is kind
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of overcast but bad that humidity is
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starting to seep into my bones I'm
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt Big
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Thunder Mountain Railroad right there
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it's kind of hard to read it because the
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font is in the form of a like a a metal
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band which I've never worn this shirt I
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got into convention a couple years ago
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just been sitting in my well a year ago
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been sitting in my closet it's
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appropriate because I'm going to be
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heading to Magic Kingdom where right on
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the cusp of Big Thunder there's been
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some news about rivers of America going
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away at least a percentage of the rivers
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is going away and very strong rumors
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maybe even what probably confirmed that
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the Liberty Square Liberty Bell
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Riverboat is going to be a race from
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existence Frontier land is going to look
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completely different in the future than
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it does right now
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I'm going to go over to the island Time
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s island take the raft over there
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because who knows as I am going to be
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leaving town in a couple days day or two
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give or take a
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day that maybe the rafts will not be
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going back over to the island maybe the
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island will be shut down I got to get
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over there and say goodbye to ur Island
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and the river
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boat join
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me shall you amazing when you're gone
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for 2 months how things progress very
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quickly they were doing construction on
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this when I left they got it all fixed
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up last time I was here there was a
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cyber truck that was in the Hue of
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silverish and gray now there is this
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black one here darker color
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one it has
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morphed changed style well same
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style this is not my car but then the
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charging stations are here they were
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they were fixing up the look at the the
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new school charging stations all nice
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and new right there and then
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this which is like a relic of the P look
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at that thing it's like holding on for
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dear life oh yeah good to be back under
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the
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archway been a
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while been a while not a long while but
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a while the
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kingdom
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of magic look at those clouds the cumula
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Nimbus I am not a meteorologist but yeah
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a fun word to say cumula nimus and I'm
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probably saying it incorrectly
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truthfully I think I'm going to
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walk could take the tra but I think I'm
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going to walk no no no no
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Mommy I hear birds
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chirping any time I see birds I think a
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Hitchcock will be proud and I think a
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peach dragon
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look at those
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clouds I kind of hope it rains I kind of
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hope it rains I haven't seen a lot of
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rain it was really uh lightning stormy
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at the punk in the park thing the other
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night rained a little bit but very very
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sprinkles and then it
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stopped give me some rain ah yes it's
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also good to be back home at my home
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park have a huge soft spot for the
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Anaheim Parks Walt's original Magic
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Kingdom but I love Disney
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World love
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it I love Anaheim also don't get me
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wrong but just something about being
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here living a few minutes away having a
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home and celebration knowing that I'm
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going to be around these parts for a
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heck of a long time I talked about this
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right after the d23 announcements and I
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honestly don't mind the fact that they
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are going to be doing what they are
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doing in Frontier land here I'm excited
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about what's beyond Big Thunder Mountain
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and villains land all of that and I kind
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of don't mind that changes are coming I
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know a weird
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noise I Pro a lot of people probably do
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not share my cinnamon on it but I'm fine
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with it if I want to see Rivers if I
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want to see the island if I want to ride
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a river boat I go over to Anaheim it's
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kind of nice to have two different
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things on both coasts I don't want an
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exact replica
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of Disneyland here just my opinion but
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saying that does not take away from the
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fact that I am going to miss what is
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there currently have a lot of memories
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there been coming here my whole life so
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yes I definitely have some
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Nostalgia for that section but there's a
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lot of things I've had Nostalgia for to
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Disney parks that they've gotten rid of
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so I'm kind of used to it by now there
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he is the one and only heavy metal
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Mickey I wonder if he missed me as much
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as I missed him probably not cuz it's an
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inanimate object but yeah also think
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about the fact that there are going to
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be new attractions in a spot that is now
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only open the Island's only open like 7
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hours a day like 11 to 5 11 to 6
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sometimes 10 to 5 7 hours but now you're
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going to have something in the future
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that's going to be open from rope drop
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to close 8:00 a.m. to midnight sometimes
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8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. to
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10: I think it makes sense all right
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this is something you do not see too
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terribly often in fact I don't think
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I've ever caught both the Magic Kingdom
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monreal pulling in and then the Epcot
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loot monre pulling in at the exact same
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freaking time it doesn't sound like it'd
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be anything that exciting but I just
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like uh I just got I got really it
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really freaking excited to see that that
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is how much I love seeing the monor rail
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when something rare like that happens
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yes I'm a
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nerd although I will say I do enjoy
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seeing it from the ground level more
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than riding on it especially when it's
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busy you're kind of crammed in there
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like
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sardines things kind of popping back and
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forth yeah I definitely love it from the
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ground level seeing it visually more
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than more than riding on it I do like
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riding on it but not as much as I love
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seeing it kind of partitioned off this
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is as far down as I can go from here you
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see the raft going across you see the
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worker right there got the Rope right
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now here but yeah I'm thinking like what
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about new sight lines that might happen
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you know it's a possibility that we get
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some uh different effects some different
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sideline views that are added in to what
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is already here with the water I can't
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imagine the water going completely away
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I don't think the water's going to go
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100%
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away I could be wrong but kind of
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crossing my fingers on that that we get
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some new sideline views it's a
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possibility right and I got to be honest
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it's been a while since I've been over
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to this to S as I I mean I've been over
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there A lot of times but it's definitely
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not something I do every single time I'm
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here in fact here's the Tom Sawyer
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explore your map I can't it's been a
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while since I've been over there in fact
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I think maybe one of the last times was
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back when Aunt Paulie's Refreshments was
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still open and that's been closed
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for a little higher above the castle for
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a while
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now we're on our way
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is that supposed to be headed Mickey
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right there how did I never noticed that
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before
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sorry dark caves and mystery mines and
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Bottomless Pits this is the place for me
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you love this windmill though you can
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see it from a few different points
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Frontier land which is kind of
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nice people behind me were just talking
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to each other they go you know I don't
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think I've ever been over here so people
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are definitely coming over here now that
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they know it's closing which is probably
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part of the
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reason why it's going away I mean
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Nostalgia is a big
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thing pretty much rules my life
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Nostalgia but I also understand
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understand progress little seating are
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area right here pretty dang nice you
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kind of Overlook see Big Thunder off in
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the distance I was just to Disneyland
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recently and they have their area really
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doesn't have much open at all let's see
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but the caves here are oh this is
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like okay wow I forgot this even existed
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in
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here into the cave this is uh
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dark very very dark in here okay getting
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a little bit of light am I like hhn
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right now
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me this is so freaking
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dark I forgot this was even in here
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feels really good in here though they
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got AC kicking look at
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this totally forgot this existed in
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here it's a face
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see the eyes the mouth the
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nose it's like a tripping Hazard through
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here
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honestly
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wow
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dark it's a really good low light camera
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it's actually really
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okay back out towards the light ooh look
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at the oh look at this view that's nice
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look at that Mansion right there
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beautiful
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beautiful I feel like if it was easier
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to get over here more people would
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frequent it and or know about its Beauty
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look at the sight lines though from the
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island so a lot of this if not all of it
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is going to be
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got rid of but I imagine some of the
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water features will remain again I'm
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hoping for the
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best nice view of mansion right there
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it's been years since I bet over here I
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go to the one at Disneyland a lot more
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I'm there pretty often I would say every
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fifth sixth visit I go to the island at
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Disneyland
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here honestly rarely If Ever I don't
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know why weird right
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I'm definitely going to miss the sounds
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of the river boat though the sounds is
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going to be one thing that I'm really
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going to miss here's the barrel Bridge
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entrance last time I was at Disneyland
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this was not
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gosh holy
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goodness that works the calf muscles
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it's secluded Island here in the middle
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of Magic Kingdom for now not too
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secluded but secluded
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enough I'm going to over film a little
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bit of this just to show some of these
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sight lines that are going to be going
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away got a used to Surf food here a PES
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no more however oh look at this this is
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kind of neat these refreshment probably
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Coca-Cola
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machine leave on the front porch of Miss
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P's oh yeah it is a cooc
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machine look at that kind of a neat
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theming yeah Vibe check here definitely
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awesome definitely an awesome spot to
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just sit but then
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again how many people are coming out
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here to set a few stay away from the
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water do not feed the Wildlife you got
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some snakes you got some Gators danger
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in the area oh oh this is kind of neat
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too this is where uh the the the the
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picket fence or the wooden
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fence what is that
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noise this is where the wooden fence was
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painted this piped in sound is that a
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real animal or is that a a youth
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screaming I don't know Tom loves
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Becky this is a nice touch you always
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see this from the river boat I
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definitely
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spend
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87,000 times more over on that Shore
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than I do this one yeah I'm guilty of
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not coming over here enough in fact I
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don't even recall that you could go
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inside of here this is where the water
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wheel is on this other side and I
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noticed before heading over here that it
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was not turning I was noticing it was
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not turning there's the the new country
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bear overlay over there Country Bears is
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well still there but now it's called
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musical jamere yeah usually for many
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many years just never stopped running
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that was always kind of a fun fact that
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this water wheel was always continuously
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going but now there's an oh my goodness
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look at that hello is that you making
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all that racket up
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there okay A little uh light the eyes
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are lighting up on that
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owl very cool very very cool predates
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Wizarding World with the owls I would
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imagine that the owl was in here first
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before the owls of Wizarding World
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appeared but yeah this water wheel just
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sitting and who knows it you know what
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honestly the water wheel will probably
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never run again because why would they
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fix something when they're getting ready
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to like tear it out
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right the sounds of the river boat I can
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still hear it off in the
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distance yeah all the signage is going
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to go away as well the Scavengers Fort
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is what this is
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called I yeah now that I'm kind of
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standing here and hearing all those
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sounds I think the sight lines is
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definitely a big issue but I think a
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bigger issue for me is going to be the
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sounds that are going to go away I think
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I'm going to miss the sounds even more
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than the sidelines
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get up close to the windmill behind this
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foliage
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this is so freaking good look at this so
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freaking
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cool turning around there making the
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windmill
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work we got to peek out this window see
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the blades there as they go
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by oh that's beautiful that
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is that is really nice
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these oh
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I don't know if this is the same one I
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already went through I do love they have
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AC
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in look at
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this yeah it's definitely a bummer this
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is going
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away oh yeah I definitely have not been
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through here today
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oh it's like one of those like
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equilibrium rooms where you kind of walk
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sideways little trough down there oh
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there's some
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a moment a moment of
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uh quietness here
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best remove
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them I think that's the current current
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motto of the corporation
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what have we got you best remove
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them I'm going to go over here now to
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Fort
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Langhorn Indian
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Territory rifles Roost and papy's
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fishing
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there Big Thunder over
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there ooh I hear a howl wolf off in the
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distance over at the Haunted
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Mansion you could have a heck of a
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picnic on this island if you really
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wanted to there it is langor there
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honey yeah the one in California is not
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open it's been shuttered and shut for a
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long
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time which is interesting because the
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one that's closing here is still open
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has been the one out there is remaining
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open but there's really nothing to do on
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that there's more to do on this one and
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this is the one that's
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closing I mean dare I say this is the
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better of the two islands
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currently but the one that's going to be
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gotten rid
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of this is the escape Tunnel right
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there there's the rifle Roost
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house no way no freaking
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way you on
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duty you're supposed to be guarding the
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fort
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Langhorn what happens if someone tries
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to get in here like
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me
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huh do you know sad ey Joe and not
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oh my gosh his chest is actually moving
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that is
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good look he's
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snoring can barely see it his chest is
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actually moving he's
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breathing I'm kind of disappointed in
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myself that haven't been over here for a
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while my apologies sir continue
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dreaming okay yeah this is a shame this
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is going away definitely a shame that
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this is going away it's also a shame
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that I have ignored it for so
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long I just forgot how good it
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was my
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gosh I slept on this island for so long
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well I didn't really sleep on it but you
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know I mean I slept on it wasn't I
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didn't pay as much attention as I should
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have in the last 20 years I went on this
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a lot when I was young but my adult life
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I just kind
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of ignored it feel bad
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this going down the stairs
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now it is kind there are some tripping
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hazards now I will I can see modern day
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might cause some
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issues seems like uh the more time goes
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on the more accident prone people
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are Escape Chunnel get me out of
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Escape yeah I did
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little tight corridors
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too
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tight it is
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Tiny yeah look how narrow these walkways
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are tiny
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all
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right that was
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awesome all right here's the problem and
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I use that word Loosely here is the
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issue I
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have with this particular spot I love it
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in fact I think the reason I was not
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over here as much is how difficult it is
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to get into Magic Kingdom like just
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pulling parking lot going from TTC
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taking the Montreal taking the fairy
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boat across you kind of add all that in
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here and you're on a time crunch trying
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to get a lot of attractions done and all
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that it does not the vibe of this which
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is awesome I mean this is right up my
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alley when it comes to what I enjoy I
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love the theming of this era the
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frontier land era similar to how knot is
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notb Farm is and the old school Disney
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stuff but I think the reason I do it
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more at Disneyland is because you know
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sometimes you stay on Harbor Disneyland
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hotel you're in the park in a few
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minutes par the parking structure is
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very inconvenient but it takes so long
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to get in here and there's four other
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Parks there's so much to do you're in a
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time
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crunch and then you got to take this
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across so you can't just walk in here
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you really have to make a insane
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commitment to get over here to
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relax and not that I'm using that as an
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excuse but I think that factored into
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why me and probably a lot of other
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people never never came over here as
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much as we should have we failed you
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Island we failed you and I'll be
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completely
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honest as good of a time as I had over
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here and I will probably be back to
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Magic Kingdom quite a few times
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hopefully before this shuts down I
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probably still will not come over here
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every single time I'm in the park I
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might come over here a couple more times
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if I'm lucky enough if the rats are
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still running they might not be when I
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get back but I still can't see myself
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coming over here every
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visit again just that's the facts now
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the river boat that is an entirely
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different story can ask pretty much
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anyone that that knows me that has been
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here with me I would go on the river
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boat almost every single time I was in
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the park love the riverbat love it going
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to miss that more than the island yeah
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definitely going to shed a a little bit
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of a a tear
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inside when this bad boy goes away what
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are they going to do with this thing are
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they going to like ground it somewhere
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are we still going to be able to go on
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it are they going to scrap it what are
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they going to do with the Liberty Bell
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the Liberty Square riverbat when it's
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all said and done is it completely going
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to be gone I am going to miss this
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thing so much in fact I kind of like
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going on this more than I like going on
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the Mark Twain at Disneyland and the
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reason for it it was more of a relaxing
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longer trip around the rivers this
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Rivers hello this Rivers is a lot
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longer at least it was now we could all
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be wrong and maybe maybe the rivers will
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stay and it'll just be shortened a
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little bit but yeah I'm going to I'm
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going to go on this
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right back on the raft head back to the
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mainland also the main reason from what
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just kind of makes sense that they are
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going to have to remove part of the
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river is because of what's going behind
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Big Thunder Mountain which is going to
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be a villains land and other things and
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in order to get back
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there really would be quite the
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bottleneck of people to walk all the way
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deep past Frontier land with way over
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here and have a walkway which they
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probably will have a walkway but they're
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also going to have another accessible
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walkway going this way I mean it just
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makes sense you can't have all those
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people multiple thousands of people
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every day trying to get down around one
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entry
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point I'm sure they probably get rid of
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the mik Mike F uh section two where's
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take a look at this it's like a little
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wooden miniature boat of one of the
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little rafts right up there right isn't
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that one of the rafts I think it is
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right up there in the raft there's like
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a little Easter egg of sorts a little
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not a Hidden Mickey but a a little in W
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you know I really like the theming here
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of this little dock that's kind of
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submerged in water that's a nice touch
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the theming is definitely on point I
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mean Disney always does well with that
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the old school vibes
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yep I mean I might get back over there
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before it shuts down
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but I don't know if I will I just wanted
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to make sure I got over there before
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before they Clos it who know they
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haven't announced when but it'll be
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soon I should be able to see what's
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going to be behind Big Thunder railroad
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all right rolling
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around has we move them
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yeah so hypothetically this could be a
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walkway at some point right through here
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somewhere just I don't know for sure but
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yeah I would imagine it be like a
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walking
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path going over to what assuming is
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going to be the villains land over there
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all in that tree area right there where
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the train tracks are now well this train
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will still be there in some
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facet least I hope so
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all those
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future back there's one of the rafts
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right
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there also this bridge is train bridge
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turns to let boats through here on a
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mechanism that's a Revol Ving
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Bridge the Indian village got to wonder
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if this will
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stay oh yeah the old wheel
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keeps on turning just like
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progress just look at all this green
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space through
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here kind to miss the
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rivers definitely miss the rivers of
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America here more than the
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island like the island I definitely the
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the river boat is going to be uh going
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to be going to be a bummer wi this goes
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a for langor that's the exit I came out
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of right there also got steamy hot
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boiling water precipitating down upon
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myself right from up there that is some
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hot
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water all right did the circle around
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rivers of
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America I'll probably do the river boat
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again hopefully the river boat stays
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here for a little while into ear into
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the till till the of the
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year I take the train out of the park
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from Frontier land station around so
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Tiana is now open formly Splash Mountain
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take a look at this little uh little
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garden down here with the plants and
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like I guess an external queue that's
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right down here overlooking the island
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the rivers is like way over there there
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and then right there you have Tiana's
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Bou Adventure pulling in the station
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number two the Lily
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Bell
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nice all right what lies behind Big
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Thunder
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railroad got to wonder if this little uh
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River area will be here if the river
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boat's going away they won't need
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it all this wooded area we
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gotone all of it a change in
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scenery they just built this little area
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I don't know 7 eight months ago just
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about out of the
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all right got take the Montreal now back
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to TTC Express Montreal transportation
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and Ticket
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Center again I said it earlier
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definitely enjoy seeing the monal from
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down low but when you're riding on it
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with this many people it's not that
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enjoyable inside those compartments
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heading out now
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glad I popped into both those spots
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again I have no
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idea how soon or how oh get the double
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going to get tram and monal going by
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look at
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that mon rail up top tram going by you
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never know when they make announcements
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and news things like
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that sometimes you got to strike while
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the iron's hot you
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avoid Maybe it being closed the next
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time you're there there goes a van too
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look at the van going by there goes
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random
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van hey that's going to do it for today
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if I reached out and touched that is the
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sun is so permeating right now probably
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scalded my
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fingers see you in the next video the
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Vlog heavy metal it's made out of metal