WEBVTT 00:12.803 --> 00:14.644 [SPEAKER_00]: And welcome to very amusing. 00:14.904 --> 00:19.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn field theme park journalist. 00:20.266 --> 00:25.128 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Carly Waisel and we are dialing up the shenanigans this week. 00:25.549 --> 00:28.150 [SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of guide episodes that I've scheduled for like 00:28.730 --> 00:30.011 [SPEAKER_00]: the next two months. 00:30.371 --> 00:35.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, I think I've laid this out on here, but my child is going to preschool in September. 00:36.035 --> 00:42.300 [SPEAKER_00]: When that happens, I'm getting exponentially more hours of child care than I have had the past two years. 00:42.740 --> 00:44.582 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have like truly 00:45.442 --> 01:12.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Like a day and a half more than I used to have where I have time to like, I don't know, like see a friend or like finally buy sneakers because mine are wearing all the way through like I have so much free time just over just around the river bend that I'm so close to and then once I hit that we are just I'm gonna be pummeling you with theme park advice we're talking updated guys we're talking big research episodes like those are coming but you know it's summertime and until then we're just gonna have fun so I did toss aside an episode again 01:14.373 --> 01:17.654 [SPEAKER_00]: that we could do just a fun silly one that is actually extremely helpful. 01:18.034 --> 01:39.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I think sometimes some of us end up in a position where we're at theme parks casually a lot maybe you move and you become an annual passholder maybe you look at the ticket prices and you become an annual passholder and you just end up spending a little more free time at parks or maybe you have a day where you have lightning lanes and you have a day where you don't and you're kind of trying to figure out what you should do on the days where you're not bound to arrive return schedule and that 01:40.358 --> 01:48.665 [SPEAKER_00]: is what we're doing this week, just a little easy Disney episode, real cool, because this is how I'm approaching the trip that I am. 01:48.685 --> 01:56.011 [SPEAKER_00]: I just, or by the time you listen to this, I will have just done a little Disney world trip, and then you're doing one more on the other end. 01:56.151 --> 02:00.154 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going on a cruise, I'm excited, packing for it, not fun, I am getting through it. 02:00.495 --> 02:05.038 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like truly, it's like an ADHD escape room to pack. 02:05.957 --> 02:09.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all who know, no, it is very, very difficult, but we are getting through it. 02:09.839 --> 02:20.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, if I could pack easily, and I could form an editorial calendar, I would be thriving, but I can't, and so I will just, you know, power up my strength, which is being cookie on a microphone. 02:20.824 --> 02:22.945 [SPEAKER_00]: As for that, I really don't think anything else is happening. 02:23.345 --> 02:24.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Happening in my life. 02:24.967 --> 02:26.128 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's about it. 02:26.608 --> 02:27.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I'm about to travel. 02:27.890 --> 02:30.612 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing a big trip, so okay, so basically here's the trip. 02:30.973 --> 02:37.039 [SPEAKER_00]: By the time we're listening to this, I will have spent the weekend at Chicago visiting family, Grandma's ninety-fifth birthday to turn ninety-five. 02:37.139 --> 02:38.580 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom's mom isn't that excited? 02:39.141 --> 02:41.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm hopping at Disney World for a couple of nights. 02:41.743 --> 02:45.786 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm going on a Royal Caribbean cruise which I'm extremely stoked about by the way. 02:45.866 --> 02:49.788 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually was going to do a ton of research about the layout and I thought, you know what? 02:50.168 --> 02:56.673 [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably better if I just go in and just be wild by it in person because I want to give you genuine reaction and genuine advice. 02:56.693 --> 03:04.177 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to go in as though I know everything already because then I might like lose some things through the cracks and giving you my full take on what it was like. 03:04.197 --> 03:05.018 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going in fresh. 03:05.258 --> 03:07.840 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going in fresh and I don't really know what to expect and it's very exciting. 03:08.160 --> 03:14.002 [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that cruise, I'm spending one last day at Disney World to just kind of decompress before I fly home the next day. 03:14.142 --> 03:20.143 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you will hear about that next week, but until then, that's the travel that I am packing for. 03:20.403 --> 03:24.224 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm trying to do it in one suitcase, and it's very tricky, but I am committed to it. 03:24.264 --> 03:28.385 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if I pulled it off my next week, but anyway, this is our easy Disney episode. 03:28.646 --> 03:29.806 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna hold you any longer. 03:29.826 --> 03:33.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Stay tuned for some great deals from Mouse Man Travel, and then I'll see you on the other side. 03:53.348 --> 03:53.949 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back. 03:54.369 --> 04:00.534 [SPEAKER_00]: This week we are attempting to make Disney World and Disneyland an easy place to visit. 04:01.117 --> 04:18.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a tall order, but is an annual passholder on both coasts who is also kind of a drill sergeant with a schedule whenever I visit, I have seen it from both ends, the stressed end, and the calm end, and I've really come to cherish those easier, free flowing days that I tend to have at the parks. 04:19.101 --> 04:23.283 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, we can talk about lightning-lane strategy until we are blue in the face. 04:23.623 --> 04:24.244 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know what? 04:24.784 --> 04:29.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes having an open-ended day at a Disney park is peak joy. 04:29.827 --> 04:33.889 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to help encourage you to carve out a little time in your trip to just... 04:34.869 --> 04:35.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Be there. 04:35.831 --> 04:43.500 [SPEAKER_00]: I keep winding up on these very casual Disneyland days or like, cobbling together a last minute Disney World visit with a handful of goals but no real schedule. 04:43.801 --> 04:50.369 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm here to tell you it is possible to have a great time without writing the star attractions that are invoked at the moment. 04:50.749 --> 04:58.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind is great, but you know it else is great, not having to be anywhere to specific time on your vacation. 04:58.795 --> 05:02.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Because really, what's better than being in a park and just enjoying it? 05:03.139 --> 05:08.523 [SPEAKER_00]: So this week, I'm going to take you inside the dark ride that is my brain when going to these places. 05:08.863 --> 05:16.089 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little like that, do a tipping point in spaceship Earth where it's cavernous and slightly dusty and Lord knows what's under those tarps. 05:16.349 --> 05:22.533 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little spooky scary like that, like all the lights going out, but we're gonna find our way through at the end, just like we do on that ride. 05:22.894 --> 05:37.345 [SPEAKER_00]: So whether you have a last minute trip ahead or just kinda wanna keep a mental list of things that are easy to access between lightning lane reservations, consider this your non-guide guide to my favorite things at Disneyland and Disney World that require no planning. 05:38.019 --> 05:40.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Starting with the C's. 05:40.881 --> 05:43.042 [SPEAKER_00]: The C's and Walt Disney World. 05:43.282 --> 05:45.904 [SPEAKER_00]: We are sleeping on the C's people. 05:46.204 --> 05:48.725 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think no, I just sent this about Disney's animal king to the lodge. 05:48.765 --> 05:51.147 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm very animal centric this month. 05:51.187 --> 05:52.307 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that's about. 05:52.627 --> 05:54.469 [SPEAKER_00]: But we never talk about the C's. 05:54.769 --> 05:55.949 [SPEAKER_00]: We never praise the C's. 05:56.109 --> 06:03.654 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet this is an entire area of Epcot that is just a bona fide incredible aquarium. 06:04.134 --> 06:10.236 [SPEAKER_00]: It's apparently the ninth largest aquarium in the world, and it's included with your park admission? 06:10.696 --> 06:23.540 [SPEAKER_00]: There is so much to look at and do in this area of Epcot, and if you really think about it, like going to an aquarium is a whole separate trip, a whole separate ticket, and here it is part of your day. 06:23.560 --> 06:29.142 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the aquarium near me, like the good aquarium, the one in Long Beach, is forty-five dollars a person. 06:29.522 --> 06:35.988 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you kind of look at it through that lens, doesn't it feel like you get a bonus attraction with your Epcot ticket? 06:36.008 --> 06:37.970 [SPEAKER_00]: And they have their own dark ride? 06:38.550 --> 06:44.035 [SPEAKER_00]: If this was in another city, like if I lived in a city with the seas on its own, I would go every three weeks. 06:44.455 --> 06:45.656 [SPEAKER_00]: I would be going nonstop. 06:45.897 --> 06:48.439 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, there's always something new to discover there. 06:48.679 --> 06:54.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, did you know there's a scuba experience in that nearly six million gallon aquarium? 06:54.443 --> 06:56.625 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't need park admission to do it? 06:56.885 --> 06:58.566 [SPEAKER_00]: I do think you have to know how to do scuba. 06:59.007 --> 07:04.671 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to look into it too much because then I would be really, really enticed to learn scuba and I don't like being underwater. 07:04.731 --> 07:05.551 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just not for me. 07:05.591 --> 07:06.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like the breathing apparatus. 07:06.792 --> 07:07.433 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not my vibe. 07:07.653 --> 07:13.998 [SPEAKER_00]: But how freaking cool that you can just go and scuba dive in a tank at a theme park. 07:14.598 --> 07:16.699 [SPEAKER_00]: It's called dive quest if you're familiar if you're not. 07:16.999 --> 07:29.984 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess I've just been sleeping on it because my only memory of being inside the tank is one when scuba Mickey swims which I've never seen with my own eyes and oh my god I wish I could and then also because whenever I think of the tank in the seas all I think about 07:30.424 --> 07:45.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the memory of the tank all it rouses in my brain is that moment in full house where they went to Disney World and then they recorded inside the tank Not because that would be a dream come true that they would never let any mere mortal do only Uncle Jesse But how cool that you can go in that tank as a person? 07:45.871 --> 07:54.235 [SPEAKER_00]: They got they got Mary of a jellyfish Which was very fun when Pearl was little like they've got manatees They've got so many creatures there and we're just kind of like oh yeah 07:54.535 --> 07:59.701 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever, like, I think it's because the lighting is dim in there that it's not beloved as much as it should be, but the seas. 08:00.021 --> 08:01.162 [SPEAKER_00]: We gotta stop sleeping on the seas. 08:01.262 --> 08:02.323 [SPEAKER_00]: How cool that that's there? 08:02.344 --> 08:04.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, incredible. 08:04.206 --> 08:05.287 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's really incredible. 08:05.747 --> 08:14.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Next up on my list of favorite things to experience a Disney that requires no planning, a quick service restaurant with a good view of water. 08:14.977 --> 08:19.280 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the goal, and that is the dream, especially at Walt Disney World. 08:19.701 --> 08:24.384 [SPEAKER_00]: A restaurant inside a theme park that's easy to order from, and has a stellar view. 08:24.664 --> 08:25.385 [SPEAKER_00]: What else could he want? 08:25.765 --> 08:27.827 [SPEAKER_00]: What else could you want? 08:28.127 --> 08:33.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Because, well, I really like eating Columbia Harbor House this salmon, and Satouli Cantine's bowls with whatever I put. 08:34.032 --> 08:36.894 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I always want to get chicken, and I'm gonna go be even, and I can never decide. 08:37.494 --> 08:42.375 [SPEAKER_00]: I like eating at those places, but nothing beats the view and the beans. 08:42.455 --> 08:44.876 [SPEAKER_00]: It's somewhere like La Contina, they say it at hell. 08:45.256 --> 08:47.757 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know, I'm always talking about the beans. 08:47.857 --> 08:53.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's the cheapest protein filling snack that you can get at the theme parks, but you know what? 08:53.618 --> 08:54.619 [SPEAKER_00]: This place is shady. 08:55.139 --> 08:55.979 [SPEAKER_00]: It's covered. 08:56.179 --> 08:57.059 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Epcot. 08:57.379 --> 08:59.980 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the perfect rest position and also the perfect 08:59.980 --> 09:00.821 [SPEAKER_00]: perfect restaurant. 09:01.061 --> 09:05.404 [SPEAKER_00]: For new walk around Epcot and you're like, oh my lord, I am very hungry and it's very hot. 09:05.484 --> 09:06.065 [SPEAKER_00]: I need food. 09:06.585 --> 09:13.190 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I truly think this is just the best option because when you're sitting there, oh, you just get to take in the glory of Epcot. 09:13.230 --> 09:14.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, eaten, you little snack. 09:14.832 --> 09:16.293 [SPEAKER_00]: Also their menu is really good. 09:16.553 --> 09:18.614 [SPEAKER_00]: They have like mac and cheese for a picky kid. 09:18.835 --> 09:20.456 [SPEAKER_00]: They have like really good Mexican food. 09:20.676 --> 09:22.678 [SPEAKER_00]: I just really, I just really think it's great. 09:22.918 --> 09:23.718 [SPEAKER_00]: I just really think it's great. 09:23.758 --> 09:26.661 [SPEAKER_00]: And they'm okay, so you know, I'm never, I'm never gonna not go somewhere with Kso. 09:27.061 --> 09:29.363 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not the only restaurant fulfilling this destiny. 09:29.803 --> 09:35.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Flame Tree Barbecue, Disney's Animal Kingdom, has unbeatable views. 09:35.651 --> 09:40.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no mad lounge is relaxing and nice and comfy, but it's hard to get in there now sometimes. 09:40.958 --> 09:47.667 [SPEAKER_00]: You can just waltz up to Flame Tree Barbecue and get fancy french fries with the gorgeous view of the water, and a view of ex-Fanette in Everest. 09:48.127 --> 09:51.809 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we simply, by the way, we have to be appreciating Animal Kingdom from what they've given us. 09:51.849 --> 09:54.211 [SPEAKER_00]: You heard AJ talk about it during our interview. 09:54.271 --> 09:59.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Animal Kingdom is unbelievable and we just, I just think we have to love it a little more. 09:59.434 --> 10:01.255 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a tweet that I retweeted. 10:01.295 --> 10:02.736 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not re-exing. 10:02.756 --> 10:03.636 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no way to say that. 10:03.877 --> 10:12.322 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a tweet that I retweeted at this point like a week and a half ago where someone was like, if they can get a nighttime show in there with drones, this park will be spectacular and perfect. 10:12.362 --> 10:12.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just agree. 10:13.342 --> 10:14.323 [SPEAKER_00]: I think Animal Kingdom is like, 10:14.703 --> 10:38.085 [SPEAKER_00]: to need to design ninety percent of the way there just needs a little more to push it over the edge to make it undeniably like unequivocally the best theme park anyway the view there fantastic just a way to experience Disney without stressing about being anywhere at any certain time you can just roll up you can get food and it's not gonna be that long of a way I mean you never really need to plan ahead to go to these places 10:38.165 --> 10:43.710 [SPEAKER_00]: There couldn't be a wait, but it's a crushingly long, and I find that to be so special. 10:44.331 --> 10:47.234 [SPEAKER_00]: An additional shoutout to, oh, I don't like to say, Yorkshire? 10:47.254 --> 10:51.258 [SPEAKER_00]: I once said, Yorkshire, I think, and my British friends laughed at me. 10:51.618 --> 10:54.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Yorkshire Country Fish Shop is another similar place. 10:54.901 --> 10:57.124 [SPEAKER_00]: I always wind up in Mexico, so I don't always end up there. 10:57.384 --> 11:00.327 [SPEAKER_00]: But also, views, snacks, Epcot, glorious, glorious. 11:00.767 --> 11:01.688 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what else I love? 11:01.909 --> 11:03.230 [SPEAKER_00]: That also requires no planning? 11:03.831 --> 11:07.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Outdoor, character, mean, greets, and Disney worlds in Disneyland. 11:07.696 --> 11:11.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it just feels like the last glimpse of Retro Disney will ever get. 11:12.323 --> 11:20.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Seeing a character just out on the street with the commoners feels like you popped a VHS into your parents TV and we're watching your old theme park memories. 11:20.788 --> 11:26.272 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, truly at a time when the international parks have hours long waits for certain characters. 11:26.292 --> 11:28.493 [SPEAKER_00]: I am Duffy and Friends, please bring them here. 11:29.093 --> 11:33.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Disney World somehow actually stuck to not having lightning lanes for character meets. 11:33.416 --> 11:34.497 [SPEAKER_00]: which is incredible by the way. 11:34.557 --> 11:36.159 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe that they took that away. 11:36.199 --> 11:37.720 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, yeah, no more lightning lanes for that. 11:37.760 --> 11:39.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Just roll up and see characters when you want. 11:39.903 --> 11:40.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they stuck to it. 11:40.964 --> 11:42.185 [SPEAKER_00]: They still do, and that's amazing. 11:42.565 --> 11:44.848 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are plenty of characters in Disneyland, which we're about to talk about in a second. 11:44.948 --> 11:49.873 [SPEAKER_00]: But there is just something that is more magical about meeting a character of risk. 11:50.453 --> 12:02.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Like seeing a princess rogue in the wild breathing the same humid air that we breathe as mere mortals is bananas and yet they're out here doing it every day on both coasts. 12:03.158 --> 12:06.720 [SPEAKER_00]: It is straight up Disney magic no planning required. 12:07.295 --> 12:09.797 [SPEAKER_00]: I like, I don't praise this enough, truly. 12:10.117 --> 12:27.549 [SPEAKER_00]: Princesses in Epcot are particularly special in my opinion, because they really, like if you think about it with your theme park hat on, they kind of bridge the gap between the real life inspiration for these pavilion ends and the stories, the fairy tales that they come from, it's like it's reality and it's fantasy all in one. 12:27.849 --> 12:31.912 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love that you can get the thrill of seeing a character even if you don't wait to meet them. 12:32.032 --> 12:33.733 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just always a delight to go, oh! 12:34.213 --> 12:37.896 [SPEAKER_00]: They're so-and-so when you're just paling around Epcot. 12:38.337 --> 12:39.198 [SPEAKER_00]: And it Disneyland? 12:39.218 --> 12:40.158 [SPEAKER_00]: No, brother. 12:40.239 --> 12:42.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't even get me started. 12:42.661 --> 12:46.004 [SPEAKER_00]: What an incredible way to experience characters at a theme park. 12:46.324 --> 12:47.685 [SPEAKER_00]: The amount of characters. 12:47.705 --> 12:54.892 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking random rare characters I've seen simply while parking my stroller outside of its small world is wild. 12:56.726 --> 13:01.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do I ever wait and line to meet Mickey Mouse inside Tomb Town when I can just see him on Main Street? 13:01.848 --> 13:03.048 [SPEAKER_00]: In Natural Lightning! 13:03.068 --> 13:05.009 [SPEAKER_00]: I love seeing them in the wild. 13:05.089 --> 13:07.089 [SPEAKER_00]: It's where the animals belong. 13:07.429 --> 13:09.810 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love it so much. 13:10.130 --> 13:13.471 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean Disney World, you typically have to enter a building to meet Mickey and Minnie. 13:13.531 --> 13:19.553 [SPEAKER_00]: But Disneyland, you honestly just roll up any time basically before lunch and everyone will be out. 13:19.993 --> 13:22.175 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you can walk to fantasy land and see more people. 13:22.395 --> 13:25.017 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can go over to DCA and like boom there there again. 13:25.037 --> 13:29.500 [SPEAKER_00]: You can just like meet goofy on your way to walk back to the parking garage to drive home. 13:30.161 --> 13:32.863 [SPEAKER_00]: It is straight up magic. 13:33.303 --> 13:35.585 [SPEAKER_00]: And just to really, really emphasize it for a second. 13:36.005 --> 13:46.689 [SPEAKER_00]: As many of you know from social media, I bought a height chart, like a retro Disney World height chart, so that Pearl can measure her height, which was advised to me by many people when I was basically, let me start over. 13:46.989 --> 13:51.631 [SPEAKER_00]: I posted a video and was like, oh my god, I have a toddler who now is awake and understands that rides. 13:52.251 --> 13:54.334 [SPEAKER_00]: are exciting and she wants to go on them and she's not tall enough. 13:54.634 --> 13:59.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, let do I do parents of what do I do and they all were like get a height chart hanging up on the wall. 13:59.221 --> 14:01.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can measure their height and you can plan accordingly. 14:01.664 --> 14:09.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Bought a height chart Disney World height chart Pearl like walks up to it is obsessed with it measures itself at least three times a day, but she is about thirty 14:10.215 --> 14:24.150 [SPEAKER_00]: four inches high and it has this big like Disney World character collage on it and so right where she puts her head is right where this big figure of the genius from Aladdin and she keeps being like who is that who is that who is that how do I see him? 14:24.510 --> 14:27.831 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, girly, we've seen him parking or stroller. 14:27.891 --> 14:30.211 [SPEAKER_00]: He's just been flopping around Disneyland. 14:30.551 --> 14:31.352 [SPEAKER_00]: He's just there. 14:31.772 --> 14:33.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Just, you know, out in the street. 14:33.832 --> 14:38.333 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm so excited to show where there's like this character without planning without any effort at Disneyland. 14:38.693 --> 14:44.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, truly the no plan character meet and greet is phenomenal and needs to stay forever. 14:45.375 --> 14:55.166 [SPEAKER_00]: And while we're on the topic of deeply underrated things that bring you so much joy like you are out in the breeze out in the world with absolutely no planning required at all. 14:56.238 --> 15:02.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Casey's corner outdoor tables with live music at Disney World and refreshment corner outdoor tables at Disneyland. 15:02.260 --> 15:04.981 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just so Disney. 15:05.241 --> 15:17.305 [SPEAKER_00]: It's so Disney sitting outside one of these little retro spots enjoying live music maybe having some french fries and their play in piano all day and magic kingdom too. 15:17.305 --> 15:19.167 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the point hourly between twelve and six? 15:19.648 --> 15:20.709 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't realize it was that often. 15:20.729 --> 15:24.833 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little chairs, a little decor, the ragtime music. 15:25.154 --> 15:27.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Also did you know you can make requests? 15:27.917 --> 15:29.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I completely forgot about that. 15:29.538 --> 15:33.423 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like somewhere in the, I feel like my twenty eighteen brain was activated when I realized that. 15:33.723 --> 15:38.929 [SPEAKER_00]: I mostly just sit there dumbfounded and I'm like, and I let all the kids make all the requests, but I didn't want to make a request. 15:39.569 --> 15:40.209 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would play. 15:40.249 --> 15:43.050 [SPEAKER_00]: It's very like Billy Ignor, name a woman for a dollar. 15:43.110 --> 15:46.531 [SPEAKER_00]: I would not be able to think of a name or anything. 15:46.991 --> 15:49.892 [SPEAKER_00]: But still, you can make requests. 15:50.312 --> 15:53.393 [SPEAKER_00]: And these people are playing all day. 15:53.733 --> 15:57.294 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just feel like so often online Disney fans. 15:57.334 --> 16:03.236 [SPEAKER_00]: When we're chan, when we're talking about the parks in twenty twenty five in this period of change and growth, we're like street misfear. 16:03.356 --> 16:04.576 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't take our performers away. 16:04.956 --> 16:08.018 [SPEAKER_00]: don't take them away because those are kind of soft costs. 16:08.078 --> 16:12.740 [SPEAKER_00]: That's something the parks can cut without permanently affecting what is on the ground at the theme parks. 16:13.101 --> 16:17.303 [SPEAKER_00]: But maybe we're not also praising the things we do have enough. 16:17.763 --> 16:22.146 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is what I'm trying to do here today because while a coaster is fun, so much fun. 16:22.726 --> 16:30.350 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, man, sitting and interacting with a talented musician as they're plunking out music is classic Disney at its finest. 16:30.610 --> 16:31.831 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can enjoy it for truly 16:32.191 --> 16:35.912 [SPEAKER_00]: No additional money unless you came and get a hot dog or something like that, which is kind of inevitable. 16:36.252 --> 16:37.233 [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't have to plan. 16:37.373 --> 16:38.193 [SPEAKER_00]: You just show up. 16:38.433 --> 16:42.974 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can check a schedule, but you're not planning the stuff at home and you're making a grid about your trip. 16:43.394 --> 16:44.575 [SPEAKER_00]: It's bliss. 16:45.035 --> 16:46.135 [SPEAKER_00]: It is easy. 16:46.475 --> 16:48.476 [SPEAKER_00]: And it brings you so much Disney. 16:48.856 --> 16:49.176 [SPEAKER_00]: joy. 16:49.236 --> 17:03.806 [SPEAKER_00]: If the little things like that that I've really come to love the most is an annual passholder and honestly the days that I spend just spending like five minutes or so, ten minutes enjoying that enjoying the space that I'm in instead of rushing between ride ride ride ride ride ride. 17:03.826 --> 17:09.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the days that I leave the happiest and it's just something I want to impart on others. 17:09.509 --> 17:20.258 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you were headed to Disneyland, just know that the piano player is not listed on the main site on Disney World as kind of listed as an attraction, but in Disneyland it's on the schedule for entertainment. 17:20.338 --> 17:31.247 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's listed as Main Street piano player, but there's times throughout the day you can check there when you go, and it's essentially the joy of listening to the dapper dance without getting your scalp burnt by the midday sun. 17:32.027 --> 17:43.155 [SPEAKER_00]: We are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with the rest of my non-guide guide to things that are so easy to see and do at Disney Parks, but are high yield when it comes to joy. 17:43.596 --> 17:45.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Stick around, we will be right back. 18:03.612 --> 18:04.232 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back! 18:04.472 --> 18:09.813 [SPEAKER_00]: We are starting strong in our second half of fantastic Disney things that require absolutely no planning. 18:10.313 --> 18:18.175 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we are starting with Fantasmic at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and only at Disney's Hollywood Studios. 18:18.835 --> 18:26.297 [SPEAKER_00]: I adore this show, but the absolute headache that it takes to see that Disneyland is kind of a non-starger for me. 18:26.937 --> 18:27.899 [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot sit. 18:28.279 --> 18:33.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Chris Cross Apple saw surrounded by people for an hour waiting for a water show to begin. 18:33.867 --> 18:41.598 [SPEAKER_00]: I just, the way I feel is that I have now lived this long and spent this much money to be physically uncomfortable. 18:41.678 --> 18:46.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Which yes, I know the entire state of Florida refused everything I was just saying because I will go to Disney World. 18:47.205 --> 18:49.027 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going in the summer because it's hot everywhere. 18:49.347 --> 18:51.069 [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of my outlook with global warming. 18:51.450 --> 18:57.457 [SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to like sitting in that compact space, just sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting, I just don't want to do it. 18:57.877 --> 18:58.999 [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't want to do it. 18:59.059 --> 18:59.860 [SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like 19:00.260 --> 19:09.726 [SPEAKER_00]: If we are charging people to skip the line, if we are charging for convenience while also charging a pretty penny to go to these parks, I shouldn't be spending that time just sitting and waiting holding a spot. 19:09.746 --> 19:10.906 [SPEAKER_00]: I should be doing something. 19:11.227 --> 19:24.935 [SPEAKER_00]: And whether it's, I mean, the debate of paying for a lighting later, not whether I'm dining, whether I'm in a ride or just enjoying the atmosphere, I should be doing something that feels enjoyable and sitting and waiting and not moving and holding a spot does not feel enjoyable. 19:25.575 --> 19:28.136 [SPEAKER_00]: It does not feel enjoyable, and I'm here to enjoy myself. 19:28.276 --> 19:31.058 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here to put the vacation back in a Disney vacation. 19:31.298 --> 19:36.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I do not want to sit and hold a spot for a parade, but especially fan-tasmic. 19:36.440 --> 19:37.080 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to sit there. 19:37.100 --> 19:39.621 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing to look at, and I don't want to do it. 19:39.781 --> 19:42.363 [SPEAKER_00]: And fan-tasmic is obviously very special at Disneyland. 19:42.403 --> 19:43.943 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not a knock on that show. 19:44.564 --> 19:48.345 [SPEAKER_00]: There have been changes to it that I don't entirely love, and we have not gotten into in-depth. 19:48.665 --> 19:49.486 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw it with my friend 19:50.046 --> 19:52.750 [SPEAKER_00]: Jeffrey, I've seen friend of the podcast comes up every week somehow. 19:53.431 --> 19:59.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I Jeffrey, but we saw together and I was kind of like, wait, I don't think I look, I don't think I'll love these changes, but that's not what we're talking about now. 19:59.979 --> 20:00.680 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're talking about. 20:01.061 --> 20:05.686 [SPEAKER_00]: We are talking about fantastic at Disney's Hollywood Studios, which I ride for. 20:06.247 --> 20:13.910 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a robust nighttime show at Walt Disney World that is easy to see with actual seating. 20:14.410 --> 20:17.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, like, I am seated for this. 20:17.391 --> 20:26.974 [SPEAKER_00]: It could obviously be just a screening of like a promotional sizzle reel from the nineties playing on those water screens, and I'd still be like, wow, and a convenient concession stand. 20:27.334 --> 20:28.555 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for fan tazmic. 20:28.855 --> 20:40.899 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope none of this makes me sound like I'm aging and like I did recently up my right and all used to nightly because I wake up and my face is dry and my joints inexplicably hurt when I get out of bed and they hurt until I walk two miles like warm them up. 20:41.419 --> 20:45.180 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I am aging even though I am a younger person. 20:45.640 --> 20:47.681 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just this is not that perspective. 20:48.021 --> 20:53.803 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just my perspective is someone who now more deeply understands the way we all visit the parks. 20:54.263 --> 21:02.825 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a good number of years where I was going solo doing whatever I wanted to do, and now I'm visiting with a small person who takes up all my focus. 21:02.905 --> 21:13.888 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen both sides of it, and I've come to the conclusion that Fantasmic, a Disney's Hollywood Studios, offers everything you want out of a nighttime experience at Disney without any of the annoying parts. 21:14.368 --> 21:16.429 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, let's call it what it is. 21:16.829 --> 21:22.652 [SPEAKER_00]: A beautiful, magical evening performance that only requires you to, like, kind of get there early. 21:23.052 --> 21:27.975 [SPEAKER_00]: You can be nearby and just go, oh, do you want to check out Fantasma tonight and walk over and you are good. 21:28.395 --> 21:28.915 [SPEAKER_00]: No fuss. 21:29.455 --> 21:30.156 [SPEAKER_00]: No planning. 21:30.376 --> 21:31.036 [SPEAKER_00]: No main street. 21:31.536 --> 21:34.238 [SPEAKER_00]: Put it out of blanket and sit and hold those spots for two hours. 21:34.558 --> 21:37.039 [SPEAKER_00]: No being shoved in a little corral and main street. 21:37.299 --> 21:41.281 [SPEAKER_00]: No pushing your way out of the hub wondering if you will ever actually make it out. 21:43.062 --> 21:50.646 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know I sound like an old-fuddy-duddy right now, but return on investment is so important to me at this point in travel planning. 21:50.706 --> 22:02.813 [SPEAKER_00]: It's when he's twenty-five, when trips cost money, when they keep sapsed your energy, when there's so much going on and we all need a break from the world, the ROI of FANTASMIC. 22:03.413 --> 22:04.275 [SPEAKER_00]: delivers. 22:04.635 --> 22:18.937 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm saying that is someone who clowned on this show for years, but the truth is Epcot's current nighttime show doesn't totally wow me and Disney's Animal Kingdom has not that at nightfall when it comes to an actual nighttime performance. 22:19.369 --> 22:26.832 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got a love that we got, not having a plan at all or experience discomfort to see this show is heaven to me. 22:27.232 --> 22:38.116 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, bench seating isn't great and they do like shove weight to many people in those rows, but pro temp when I go, or when I've been in the past, probably three visits, we go and we're like, oh, we'll just sit like the back, back, back, back empty empty empty spot. 22:38.156 --> 22:41.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Cause everyone's trying to get front, everyone's trying to get up close to see the characters. 22:41.657 --> 22:45.279 [SPEAKER_00]: We sit in the back in my experience and I'm sure it fills it busy times. 22:45.599 --> 22:48.720 [SPEAKER_00]: That area doesn't really get filled and then you have like a, you know, 22:49.280 --> 22:52.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Your view is a little bit worse, but you have room when you are free. 22:52.823 --> 22:55.886 [SPEAKER_00]: And when I'm there with the child, that is the ideal place to go. 22:56.326 --> 22:59.309 [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of easy to do things that require no planning. 23:00.310 --> 23:02.111 [SPEAKER_00]: Disneyland's fantasy land. 23:02.692 --> 23:08.717 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the gem, the golden option for not planning and having a great day. 23:09.979 --> 23:17.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we just talk about how lucky we are that this was built so tiny that there's legitimately no infrastructure or room to ad lightning lane? 23:17.844 --> 23:26.150 [SPEAKER_00]: It has been announced that we have a Peter Pan attraction and a core American Disney theme park that has no way to pay to skip the line because 23:26.710 --> 23:27.151 [SPEAKER_00]: They can't. 23:27.551 --> 23:27.972 [SPEAKER_00]: They can't. 23:28.292 --> 23:28.693 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't. 23:28.913 --> 23:29.994 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no room for it. 23:30.034 --> 23:33.258 [SPEAKER_00]: You just have to wait like it's a carnival in nineteen ninety two. 23:33.278 --> 23:35.080 [SPEAKER_00]: It is amazing. 23:35.261 --> 23:39.706 [SPEAKER_00]: And while the rides are quaint and it sometimes feel like they were built out of cardboard. 23:40.047 --> 23:42.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Disneyland's fantasy land is kind of the equivalent of 23:42.990 --> 23:45.111 [SPEAKER_00]: ordering a bunch of sides for dinner. 23:45.471 --> 23:50.732 [SPEAKER_00]: You do a little bit of this and a little bit of that and then some of that and you really feel like you did a lot on your day. 23:51.272 --> 23:57.514 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know we all get really amped about thrill rides and the most intimate attractions and the newest thing and the newest restaurant. 23:57.914 --> 23:58.814 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the same way. 23:59.074 --> 24:00.915 [SPEAKER_00]: It's my job to cover the new stuff. 24:00.955 --> 24:02.775 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm very new focused. 24:03.175 --> 24:07.916 [SPEAKER_00]: But the truth is, when it comes to a Disney trip, sometimes it's quantity over quality. 24:08.316 --> 24:10.237 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's ease over effort. 24:10.597 --> 24:18.899 [SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that fantasy land Disneyland is like locked in time here is brilliant and easy and glorious. 24:19.479 --> 24:25.721 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, no matter what changes in the way we visit these parks, it's gonna be easy forever forever. 24:26.181 --> 24:27.622 [SPEAKER_00]: They can take away the skyway. 24:27.862 --> 24:33.423 [SPEAKER_00]: They can take away the people over, but Disneyland fantasy land is forever. 24:33.863 --> 24:39.745 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when you come to that area, you can just access the parks the way you were supposed to years ago. 24:40.245 --> 24:46.168 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is perfection, walking through that land a little harder, a little more challenging. 24:46.408 --> 24:48.189 [SPEAKER_00]: There are strollers everywhere. 24:48.449 --> 25:00.935 [SPEAKER_00]: But generally speaking, when it comes to packing a lot of punch in a small area and experiencing different rides and things without having to plan or check a schedule or do anything beyond physically going to the line, it is easy at its finest. 25:01.918 --> 25:06.779 [SPEAKER_00]: Another easy place that I gotta keep on your radar, spot I gotta plug? 25:07.739 --> 25:13.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Muppets dining and regal eagle smoke house in the American Adventure Pavilion at Epcot. 25:13.781 --> 25:14.641 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I like it here? 25:14.661 --> 25:16.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Not particularly. 25:16.761 --> 25:17.842 [SPEAKER_00]: Is the reefing good? 25:18.642 --> 25:19.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Not quite. 25:19.502 --> 25:23.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Could use a lot more muppets, but will I spend my money here going forward? 25:24.083 --> 25:29.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it is the only permanent presence of the Muppets at Disney World at the moment. 25:30.429 --> 25:33.571 [SPEAKER_00]: And as nauseating as it is to say that, it's true. 25:34.012 --> 25:39.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I don't really like a pulled meat, but I will learn to love meat to keep this place thriving. 25:40.237 --> 25:45.421 [SPEAKER_00]: And while we will be getting a Muppets coaster, I know we better be getting the best exit for the gift shop we've ever seen. 25:45.561 --> 25:46.942 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, we need more Muppets merch. 25:46.962 --> 25:48.063 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more Muppets. 25:48.443 --> 25:49.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Give us more Muppets. 25:49.304 --> 25:58.031 [SPEAKER_00]: But if we currently don't have Muppets in a permanent way, if I have to eat some burnt ends to feel like I am close to my favorite franchise of characters, so be it. 25:58.551 --> 25:59.191 [SPEAKER_00]: I will do it. 26:00.172 --> 26:06.878 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to quickly pause and I guess break form of the episode to give a few shoutouts to places that didn't have quite make it on the list. 26:07.318 --> 26:11.082 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, a section section at Disney's Animal Kingdom. 26:11.402 --> 26:16.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Disney World still has the paintings you somehow, and I just think we need to mention it once a year. 26:16.146 --> 26:19.289 [SPEAKER_00]: Just casually need to be like, y'all remember those paintings you back there? 26:19.309 --> 26:20.790 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't go there. 26:20.970 --> 26:21.631 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why. 26:21.711 --> 26:25.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess because you have to take a train, it's kind of like Kony Island when you live in New York. 26:25.654 --> 26:27.316 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, hmm, one day I'll go there. 26:27.496 --> 26:31.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know the hot dogs cool, but you never actually make it there that often. 26:31.439 --> 26:34.983 [SPEAKER_00]: To me, that is the section of Disney's Animal Kingdom. 26:35.263 --> 26:39.066 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're an animal kingdom in the next year, and you're like, oh, bone yards closed. 26:39.587 --> 26:40.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like these walls are up. 26:40.668 --> 26:41.328 [SPEAKER_00]: What should we do? 26:41.648 --> 26:42.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget about it. 26:42.709 --> 26:43.470 [SPEAKER_00]: I got how good goat. 26:44.011 --> 26:44.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Why not? 26:45.031 --> 26:49.756 [SPEAKER_00]: We've also got the unmentionedables, like country bear, musical jambory, and people mover. 26:50.276 --> 26:53.719 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the most preach to the choir stuff we've ever dealt with here. 26:53.879 --> 26:57.221 [SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to this podcast, you probably love one of those if not both. 26:57.622 --> 27:06.729 [SPEAKER_00]: But also, people move around like, rarely is there a way to experience a thrill ride as someone who isn't riding it, like young, short, older. 27:07.449 --> 27:13.434 [SPEAKER_00]: People who get ill on rides, like no matter who you are, if you're scared of them, no matter what, you can pass on through space, man. 27:13.734 --> 27:14.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that fun? 27:14.315 --> 27:16.256 [SPEAKER_00]: It gives you a little teaser of the land. 27:16.296 --> 27:17.017 [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's really 27:17.337 --> 27:20.080 [SPEAKER_00]: It's really neat, but also we all know if that's what we don't need to talk about being moved over today. 27:20.821 --> 27:28.109 [SPEAKER_00]: So there is one attraction that is hanging on there that goes almost entirely undiscussed. 27:28.389 --> 27:37.159 [SPEAKER_00]: There is one we do not talk about enough and is perhaps the only thrill ride you do not need to at least think about any plans for at all. 27:37.619 --> 27:38.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And that 27:39.203 --> 27:40.084 [SPEAKER_00]: is Star Tours. 27:40.504 --> 27:44.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm really like an emerging Star Tours tan after all these years. 27:45.147 --> 27:51.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Something about after Galaxy's Edge opened, I just started to appreciate Star Tours a little more in a little more, in a little more. 27:51.110 --> 28:06.780 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm not voluntarily going on millennium falcon until they change the story or until they change the fact that a stranger can control how your entire ride vehicle moves and I love rides of the resistance, but it's a doozy to get on and requires, ugh, so much planning. 28:07.300 --> 28:08.381 [SPEAKER_00]: But start tours? 28:08.941 --> 28:13.205 [SPEAKER_00]: It's perhaps the easiest thrill ride to get on at a Disney park. 28:13.585 --> 28:14.786 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm actually looking it up. 28:15.087 --> 28:17.709 [SPEAKER_00]: And thrill data says it is on average at Disney World. 28:17.789 --> 28:18.670 [SPEAKER_00]: Start tours at Disney World. 28:18.790 --> 28:20.371 [SPEAKER_00]: A thrill ride at Disney World. 28:20.771 --> 28:22.653 [SPEAKER_00]: On average, twelve minute wait. 28:22.913 --> 28:25.754 [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, right, that is continually refreshed. 28:26.334 --> 28:32.257 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is just a clutch ride to pop on whenever you're like at Disney's Hollywood Studios and like, what should we do? 28:32.697 --> 28:33.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Just go wait and wait and wait. 28:33.858 --> 28:34.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Just go wait and wait and wait. 28:34.698 --> 28:36.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Boom, you'll be out of Star Tours momentarily. 28:37.459 --> 28:43.442 [SPEAKER_00]: And while there are plenty of things I can add on this list, mostly me walking in a circle eating caramel corn from where there is. 28:44.242 --> 28:53.166 [SPEAKER_00]: There is one last thing we need to discuss when it comes to an actual attraction that's pretty good that you should keep in your arsenal on those days where you have time to fill. 28:53.666 --> 28:58.928 [SPEAKER_00]: And that last but not least is journey of water inspired by Moana. 28:59.368 --> 28:59.968 [SPEAKER_00]: You know? 29:00.769 --> 29:08.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody is out here designing for global warming and I have to tip my captain Disney when they actually do something about it. 29:08.793 --> 29:12.898 [SPEAKER_00]: The entire area surrounding it, when they reopened it, they perhaps forgot. 29:12.958 --> 29:22.288 [SPEAKER_00]: It was located in Florida, but here, journey of water, they remembered that people are boiling hot and need to cool off in a scenic, beautiful way. 29:24.230 --> 29:25.491 [SPEAKER_00]: really delivered on this one. 29:25.611 --> 29:26.471 [SPEAKER_00]: And I had my qualms. 29:26.911 --> 29:29.973 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not anticipate that I'd be supporting this well after it opened. 29:30.413 --> 29:47.220 [SPEAKER_00]: But now as a mom, I can recognize that when the playground in Epcot is so hot to the touch of the dangerous, and you have a kid who desperately needs to run around and cool off, the, oh, I don't know, concrete expanse of four parks with no little to no shade is just not doing it. 29:47.701 --> 29:50.342 [SPEAKER_00]: And journey is so clutch. 29:51.182 --> 29:53.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Splashpads for people who don't frequent these spots. 29:54.485 --> 29:56.686 [SPEAKER_00]: They're so, ugh, to me. 29:57.107 --> 29:58.388 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like them. 29:58.588 --> 30:03.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Outside of a swimming environment like if we're at the pool and there's a splash area fine, it's in the wheelhouse. 30:03.351 --> 30:07.114 [SPEAKER_00]: But if I'm in like regular clothes, I have a backpack with electronics. 30:07.494 --> 30:14.960 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to be like, you know, in sneakers trying to navigate not getting wet while my child wants to pummel herself with blaster level explosions of water. 30:15.360 --> 30:17.342 [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't prefer it. 30:17.802 --> 30:26.386 [SPEAKER_00]: But here, journey of water, it's truly for all ages, for all people, because it's beautiful, and it's interactive, and you don't have to get soaked. 30:26.626 --> 30:28.387 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you want to, you can! 30:28.647 --> 30:30.107 [SPEAKER_00]: They have that too! 30:30.668 --> 30:40.632 [SPEAKER_00]: I originally was not to down with this idea, and even its placement felt a little weird, but being there in Epcot in that area just feels like an exhale. 30:41.663 --> 30:44.186 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope you agree with me too. 30:44.986 --> 30:46.768 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoyed this episode. 30:46.928 --> 30:53.695 [SPEAKER_00]: It really came out of me figuring out what I was going to do on my upcoming Disney trip and realizing I only wanted to keep things chill. 30:53.955 --> 30:55.797 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to keep things very chill and very light. 30:55.837 --> 31:01.823 [SPEAKER_00]: And I really say I had this hit list of things I do on both coasts on those days when I don't have many plans. 31:01.903 --> 31:05.046 [SPEAKER_00]: And many of the things that I like to do are the things that I just told you about. 31:05.586 --> 31:09.773 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know we're all biased towards new things, since the big intense thrill rise, I get it. 31:10.153 --> 31:19.046 [SPEAKER_00]: But truthfully, the memories I keep racking up, the photos, the videos, the moments I shared with friends and family, they just end up being in these places. 31:19.146 --> 31:21.390 [SPEAKER_00]: They all come from me just being there. 31:21.710 --> 31:34.216 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to make sure I emphasize that because there is so much that you can spend money on on your trip to get lightning lanes and to park up constantly and to kind of upsell upsell upsell and do as much as you can, which is my default and I recognize that. 31:34.576 --> 31:41.719 [SPEAKER_00]: But also just being there, just walking around experiencing the atmosphere, hearing live music and being able to walk right into something. 31:41.779 --> 31:50.163 [SPEAKER_00]: That is, is something that I do think can factor into you having a wonderful trip so, so hugely and importantly. 31:50.843 --> 31:53.127 [SPEAKER_00]: It was lovely to chat with you about this. 31:53.167 --> 32:00.638 [SPEAKER_00]: You have any thoughts or anything else I might have left out that you love to do on a casual day, casual Disney day and either park, please let me know, call under the church hotline. 32:00.939 --> 32:06.387 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope this, you know, made your next Disney trip a little more cold. 32:06.487 --> 32:07.588 [SPEAKER_00]: We're just a little calm. 32:07.608 --> 32:08.448 [SPEAKER_00]: We deserve it. 32:08.748 --> 32:09.709 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going at vacation. 32:09.749 --> 32:12.230 [SPEAKER_00]: We shouldn't come back from vacation being like, well, I need a vacation. 32:12.510 --> 32:15.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though Disney is fun and I like to do that, there should just have a little chill. 32:15.311 --> 32:18.673 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like the park equivalent of going to the hotel to swim. 32:18.993 --> 32:21.194 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the, that's the energy I want while I'm at the park. 32:21.494 --> 32:23.535 [SPEAKER_00]: The energy I want while I'm at the park. 32:23.755 --> 32:27.257 [SPEAKER_00]: The energy I want while I'm at the park. 32:27.477 --> 32:31.839 [UNKNOWN]: And these things, maybe we'll deliver. 32:31.879 --> 32:32.339 [UNKNOWN]: They too. 32:41.699 --> 32:47.621 [SPEAKER_01]: Today Carly, this is Ryan, and Bellevue Nebraska, and I have got an Epic Universe question for you. 32:47.721 --> 32:53.543 [SPEAKER_01]: So my family and I are going down in mid-December to attend the Orlando Enformer Meetup event. 32:53.683 --> 32:57.525 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you're familiar with that, but it's like an after-hours thing at the two original parks. 32:57.725 --> 32:58.385 [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing. 32:58.645 --> 33:00.226 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the main focus of our trip. 33:00.796 --> 33:04.519 [SPEAKER_01]: But we are flying down so that's Friday and Saturday evenings. 33:04.619 --> 33:08.702 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to fly down on Wednesday and go to epic on Thursday. 33:09.022 --> 33:14.706 [SPEAKER_01]: Spend all day there really hit it hard as much as we can just with the understanding we're not going to get everything done. 33:14.846 --> 33:19.630 [SPEAKER_01]: My question to you is should we add on express for Thursday? 33:20.203 --> 33:37.325 [SPEAKER_01]: and still just attend that day, or no express that attend all the answers day, and then also by to take it for Friday, but knowing we would have to leave the park at around one, maybe two PM, to go get ready for the Orlando and former meet up event. 33:37.929 --> 33:38.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of torn. 33:38.930 --> 33:41.010 [SPEAKER_01]: I think right now I'm leaning towards express. 33:41.150 --> 33:46.812 [SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, just hit it hard on Thursday to as much as we can and just know that we'll be back one day. 33:46.832 --> 33:53.315 [SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like that might be a better value versus paying for a full part ticket for Friday and leaving early. 33:53.435 --> 33:54.435 [SPEAKER_01]: But let me know your thoughts. 33:54.475 --> 33:55.376 [SPEAKER_01]: I really appreciate it. 33:55.596 --> 33:55.876 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 33:56.670 --> 33:59.013 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the kind of strategy I live for, Ryan. 33:59.293 --> 34:08.225 [SPEAKER_00]: Deciding between a day and a half at Epic Universe and a day with skip the line privileges is like, oh, it's like the perfect SAT question for my brain. 34:08.625 --> 34:11.990 [SPEAKER_00]: But to even start this conversation, we have to first discuss pricing. 34:12.490 --> 34:17.875 [SPEAKER_00]: On the exact dates that you're going, that Thursday will be a hundred and fifty-nine dollars for a ticket to Epic Universe. 34:18.235 --> 34:22.859 [SPEAKER_00]: The Friday that day you think you might add is a hundred and seventy-four dollars per person. 34:23.260 --> 34:32.228 [SPEAKER_00]: You also sidebar can't get multi-day tickets to Epic Universe, like even if you want a five-day ticket to Universal Orlando and it will only give you one day at Epic Universe. 34:32.268 --> 34:33.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Let the people in! 34:33.809 --> 34:34.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Let the people in! 34:35.050 --> 34:37.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, those are the different prices for hard tickets. 34:37.754 --> 34:40.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Express Pass is pricey. 34:41.398 --> 34:47.566 [SPEAKER_00]: It is going to be two hundred dollars per person per day on top of your park admission. 34:47.827 --> 34:48.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Have they seen me economy? 34:48.648 --> 34:49.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Two hundred dollars? 34:52.803 --> 35:00.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, in the situation you're in, the price for express pass is pretty comparable to the price of an additional day ticket. 35:00.948 --> 35:11.634 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, to let everyone know, I reached out to this caller to ask who they were traveling with, young children, old children, a bunch of adults to try to see what the situation was, and they are traveling with two teens who love thrill rides. 35:12.114 --> 35:26.783 [SPEAKER_00]: So in your situation, what I would recommend is to indeed purchase the Express because while it is twenty five dollars more than a second ticket, also wild that you can either skip the line or spend an entire day at the park. 35:27.303 --> 35:28.424 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess it's just how it is now. 35:28.824 --> 35:34.926 [SPEAKER_00]: It will ensure that you get more done in that first day than you may have even gotten done over a day and a half. 35:35.267 --> 35:37.348 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's what I want you to keep in mind if you do this. 35:37.868 --> 35:41.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Express is not a guarantee that everything will go perfectly. 35:41.409 --> 35:46.091 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of outdoor rides can close and implement whether, especially if there's lightning. 35:46.532 --> 35:48.412 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're going in December, which is good. 35:48.452 --> 35:49.573 [SPEAKER_00]: You should be pretty okay. 35:49.593 --> 35:51.634 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not in the rain zone that we're currently in. 35:51.974 --> 35:53.475 [SPEAKER_00]: But make sure to check the forecast. 35:53.555 --> 36:04.385 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you are facing a similar dilemma with ticketing, make sure that you prioritize the best outdoor thrill rides, which are stardust racers and hiccups winged gliders accordingly. 36:04.445 --> 36:12.413 [SPEAKER_00]: So if anyone's listening to this, if you're traveling during this time when it might rain, there might be lightning, there might be thunder, make sure to prioritize the outdoor rides so that you can get on them. 36:12.953 --> 36:17.379 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, though, StarDust is better at night, so if the weather is fine, I would try to save that for them. 36:17.779 --> 36:19.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing we have to discuss. 36:19.561 --> 36:25.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Express does not work on the new Harry Potter Ministry of Magic Attraction. 36:25.409 --> 36:26.190 [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of bogus? 36:26.270 --> 36:29.274 [SPEAKER_00]: For two hundred dollars, it should, honestly, it should. 36:29.554 --> 36:31.416 [SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't take this moment in time. 36:32.177 --> 36:41.905 [SPEAKER_00]: I am not the go-to person for strategy about how to wait in line for that ride because one, I've been on it once, I've been to this place once, and two, I don't care about it. 36:42.046 --> 36:46.830 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm never going to be recommending you spend hours waiting in line if that's what the situation is. 36:47.150 --> 36:59.120 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I will recommend for you, especially because your trip is in December, you know, that's many months away, I would check closer to your visit for any updated strategy about when you should probably get in line for the shortest line possible. 36:59.540 --> 37:05.965 [SPEAKER_00]: If your visit wasn't as like gung-ho about thrill rides and more about experiencing the parks, I would have said to do two days. 37:06.045 --> 37:07.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, jury it around. 37:07.326 --> 37:07.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Hang out. 37:08.087 --> 37:10.829 [SPEAKER_00]: I am actually, mmm, spoiler alert. 37:11.009 --> 37:13.111 [SPEAKER_00]: I am going back to Epic Universe sometimes soon. 37:13.191 --> 37:14.512 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna tell you mine, but it's a better soon. 37:15.172 --> 37:32.939 [SPEAKER_00]: And I am planning to do just that to see what it's like to go there and not do all the thrill rides and see if it really is worth the ticket price because a lot of people, you know, people who don't go on these big intense rides or even people with children who can't aren't tall enough to go on them will be experiencing epic universe in a very very different way from the standard guests. 37:32.999 --> 37:35.500 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very excited to check out what that is like. 37:36.280 --> 37:39.061 [SPEAKER_00]: If that is the type of trip you're going on, I would not be recommending Express. 37:39.181 --> 37:42.803 [SPEAKER_00]: But because you are pretty focused on rides, like, you're in it. 37:42.863 --> 37:43.883 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to do it. 37:44.243 --> 37:50.766 [SPEAKER_00]: I think because you are open to paying more and you're deciding between the two, my call would be to pay for Express. 37:50.886 --> 37:57.589 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you can relax and recover the next day before your Orlando and former events, which by the way, I've never been to, but they sound fantastic. 37:58.029 --> 37:58.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Have so much fun. 37:58.951 --> 37:59.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, December. 38:00.254 --> 38:05.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, to be in dark universe, to be there when it's coldish. 38:05.886 --> 38:06.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm so jealous. 38:06.828 --> 38:08.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Have so much fun and let me know how the trip goes. 38:13.955 --> 38:16.416 [SPEAKER_00]: They're show! 38:16.536 --> 38:22.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you 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