[SPEAKER_00]: And welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn fueled theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Carly Wiesel, and if you can do a quick favor from me, can you just check under the bed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you look maybe under the couch or in the closet because where did summer go?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where did summer go?
[SPEAKER_02]: Go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe that we are sitting here on the EVE truly on the EVE of D23 because it's mid-August and we are finally here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has been two years since the fan bananas that kicked off and we are back because we are about to hear what we're going to do on vacation for the next 5 10 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're about to find out how we're going to spend our free time and what we're going to enjoy.
[SPEAKER_00]: for the future, and that is so exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything kicks off kind of low key tomorrow, but really Friday is the first day of the expo portion, and that is when things kick into high gear, and we're about to find out, so much, so before we do, I just wanna put a little, but a few things on the board.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanna throw some stuff against the wall, and hopefully most of this will stick.
[SPEAKER_00]: because these are my predictions.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are what I am, a juror list.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is when I'm thinking we might get out of this expo and I want to get excited about some stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to prepare us for some others.
[SPEAKER_00]: And really, we're just going to bond and have like a talk around the campfire roasting s'mores about what our future holds.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stick around, I'm going to make some big swings in this one, but hopefully I'll be proven night in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully stick around.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have so much more ahead and again, stay tuned because I'm going to be yelling every detail of all of this over the weekend until next week's episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: So follow me online if you don't already and brace yourself because there's there's gonna be a lot to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stick around.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be right back.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: welcome back.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is so much that I have to tell you in this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been a little anxious because our podcast comes out on Wednesdays, the media preview for D23 is on Thursday and so I'm kind of like we're down to the wire posting this right before, but I'm going to give this a little bit of save the best for the last scene because I have put my whole butt into these predictions.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really feel so strongly about them and I cannot wait to share them with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are, after all, my educated guess is as a journalist who was covered D23, I believe five times.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this will be the sixth time I am reporting on news coming out of D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everything about to say, I do not have any intel on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I specifically have not been poking around looking for intel because these are things I want to be able to talk freely about and hypothesize without feeling like I know something and am lying or doing a little dance around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel very strongly about the choices that I've made here today, and I'm standing in my truth in my power, and I'm actually pretty impressed by how right I think I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, disclaimer, as a journalist talking about stuff like this, these are predictions.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are guesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not take this as actual factual reporting, but instead, deeply educated, hypothesizing based on my own reporting and others as reporting, which will be sourced throughout and linked to in the show notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: because there are some things I do know and I'm not going to mention them here because that's no fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not my beans to spill, the beans will be spilled eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will begin with things that we know we are going to get news about and then we'll get into the fun bit, which is when I, in my bones instinctually feel like we're going to get and trust me, there are some wild cards that you're going to want to stick around for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's what we do know, starting with Walt Disney World.
[SPEAKER_00]: The big projects on the horizon are land, theme to Disney villains, and cars, and magic kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: A monster's ink-themed land at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Tropical America's, the new in Ponto, Titan Land at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are very much under construction, all four of them, so I'm expecting we'll get some actual attraction news to get us more hyped for these openings.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a refresher, Monstropolis is backstory.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is a wild word to say, monstropolis is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Monstropolis's backstory was announced in early June, framing the land within the guise of it being human day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Short for humans, understand monsters are nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine hearing was working over time on that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to the Disney Parks blog, this will be part celebration, part cultural exchange designed to introduce humans to life inside monstropolis while helping monsters discover that humans are not so frightening after all.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will be getting hairy houses, the glob theater, that's so fun to say, say it glob.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're alone in your car, you can say it no one knows glob, glob theater, and the iconic door coaster.
[SPEAKER_00]: But details have been really slim about what these experiences will actually be beyond initial renderings and top-level details.
[SPEAKER_00]: I anticipate we're going to get a lot more from this space, especially to get us hyped about that door coaster.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's also the somewhat confounding, a cars themed land that is overtaking the rivers of America, or as I put it, an idea so absolutely baffling that it's simply has to rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: They wouldn't go through with this, if it wasn't going to be incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you can't take a swing that big and bungalow.
[SPEAKER_00]: And under the tutelage of Michael Hungen, who I trust?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who I trust have gone on the record to say that I trust this man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget how good the new carousel of progress will likely be and how recent refurbves have been pretty excellent for the most part.
[SPEAKER_00]: With Michael at the helm, I just, I don't know why I have faith that this will be the wild card we all love when it does eventually open.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember when they said they were going to close Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure?
[SPEAKER_00]: And we all fully rioted.
[SPEAKER_00]: We freaked out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Guardians opened and we were like, never mind that never happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: We love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I think this situation may be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Car's land has to be good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Disney historically does a really good job with spaces that are inspired by the wilderness or national parks like a bang-up job, actually, think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they've never actually, you know what, they've never done a poor job with something that's national park themed, so I have a lot of faith in it just for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, we won't know until we see more of it, and I'm hoping we do get that at D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now as a refresher, this area, Piston Peak, will have two attractions.
[SPEAKER_00]: One will be a kind of rally road race with motorcross routes in a dirt track.
[SPEAKER_00]: seemingly making it feel like you're really outside racing, which sounds cool, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that this is easily lampooned.
[SPEAKER_00]: They literally paved paradise and put up a freaking dirt parking lot I get.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it also kind of sounds like an outdoor Indiana Jones.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm choosing to be positive.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is in semi-original character, which we don't really have to get into, because, okay, here's the deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes when I'm talking about cars, I look at some of these cars with the eyes and I start to think too hard about the world of cars, like, is gas their blood or pipes their veins?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is their lifespan?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I get very overwhelmed, very quickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there is this one character named Ranger J Autobahn Woodlord,
[SPEAKER_00]: which is confusing, because that's also a human character, but here he is a car.
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did he transform?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this like a wicked part to situation where everyone becomes a creature?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this Justin O'Maj, and that's why the name is the same?
[SPEAKER_00]: But he kind of looks like the human.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I did not research this further because my head is already spinning, thinking too much about the cars universe as living things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we will know when we see it and I hope it's in clarity on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: From Joshy tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: because again, we've gotten basically little to no visuals about this land as a whole, but it's big and like seemingly lush from that cartoon map they released.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray, I pray there are as many waterfalls and plants as they said they're going to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm hoping this does become the sleeper hit I believe it will be because Lord knows this went over like a brick through a glass window when it was first announced.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to give a special thanks to Disney Food Blogs coverage of this because they have kept me up to date on
[SPEAKER_00]: They have done an incredible job tracking it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Highly recommend if you're looking for more cars details.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, there's Tropical Americas, or as I call it, the land formerly known as Dinosaurs AJ Gen.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you happen to walk through the walls when this land was halfway through, it's like like half-baked closure, it was a maze.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just a wall, like truly a wall of mazes to get to Dinosaurs.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was full Halloween Hornet maze, it was so weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now it is shut down, it is fully on its way to becoming, what I think will probably be a great addition to Disney Animal Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Disney Animal Kingdom Disney California Adventure that no Disney's Animal Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry my voice forgot about the apostrophe and I know At the time when all of this was being announced we had so much news at last E23 think about it
[SPEAKER_00]: All of this stuff was announced.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was mind-blowing.
[SPEAKER_00]: When this first was announced, a lot of us were like, ah, no, I'm happy to be vision anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Getting rid of the title, or getting rid of Irversa of America.
[SPEAKER_00]: I almost can't even breathe because I just gaps too many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how much news there was.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now I feel like the proverbial dust has settled of all of these news reveals and all of it feels quite normal now.
[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't update at the end of April that just basically gave a WDI helm to insight into the real locations they were pulling inspiration from for this land.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's going to be a wood carved style carousel in Indiana Jones redo of dinosaur and Casita from in Conto with an attraction where we'll be invited into celebrate Antonio's gift, the ability to talk to animals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Has anything ever yelled synergy more than a character that can talk to animals, get and ride an animal kingdom?
[SPEAKER_00]: We, people who love synergy, who love to see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is slated to open in 2027, but more importantly, is the only one of these four massive projects that has an opening year time to it, villains, which we'll get into, cars, and most trouble is does not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's likely we will probably get the most information out of tropical America's at D23 simply to get people hyped and ready to plan their summer if that 2027 date is still on track.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if it opens in summer 2027, they would want to open in summer sometimes they do a late summer, which means September, but I'm sure if they want to capitalize on summer traffic, especially considering they're going to want to open this as early in 2027 as possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there is the land that is furthest off in the distant future.
[SPEAKER_00]: Villains land at Magic Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is next to nothing about this land that we actually know about.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we can glean some stuff from intermittent reporting that has happened over the past few years since D23 2024.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know there's going to be an e-ticket in villain's land.
[SPEAKER_00]: They won't open this land without a lightning-lane single-pass attraction, which drew Taylor, friend of the podcast, reporter at the rap, has said so many times on the record that he has heard from sources.
[SPEAKER_00]: But whilst federal reported earlier this year, that film characters that appear in the land will include from Snow White, Peter Pan, and Aladdin.
[SPEAKER_00]: which I think is maybe the first time those details were mentioned on the record.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm pretty curious to see if the major ride for this land is a mash-em-up of those IPs villains, like Avengers style, baddest situation, or if they're going to focus on singular films in different areas throughout the land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Want to give a shout-out right here to the mouselets, by the way, who remind me that that detail was buried in that WDIPs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I fully forgot about it until they mentioned it, and everything clicked in my head, because that's like the only time anyone's mentioned anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do hope we get a first look at the rides, but I am hoping for a few other Disney world things more than I'm actually looking forward to any villains-land ride details.
[SPEAKER_00]: Carousel Progress and Magic Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you know, if you've listened to old episodes, I saw some imagery about what's going to be in the future version of this attraction that has not yet been made public.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping that those renderings and maybe even more images are going to be shared as part of this park's presentation, because it'll give better context to what the changes will be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that we know Kerosela Progress is closed, RIP this version, and the bargaining phase is essentially over.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be a really good time for them to share those visuals publicly because I think they'll be pretty well received.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also hoping in someone anticipating that the D23 presentation on Saturday night will also include some hotel refurbishment news.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure how likely that is to be displayed on the main stage because this is a big show.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if hotel room reduced kind of fit the bill for something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as part of that meeting, I went to where I saw those carousel renderings.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also saw renderings for the new little mermaid refurbves of rooms at art of animation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those images as far as I know, because I looked for them and could not find them, have not been made public yet either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Disney's boardwalk shared details recently about Hurley Burley, the hybrid lounge I would call it, coming to the old Jelly Rolls space, but we are all waiting with baited breaths for what the quick service restaurant will be at Disney's boardwalk, and I know they will get an incredible reception in the room if they announce it, so I'm really hoping we get that as part of the presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some other random stuff I'm hoping we get updates on, play Pavilion, give us something related to play Pavilion and wonders of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is, I bet, a 0% chance we're going to get the experience that was promised years ago, but a fully built building, sitting dormant.
[SPEAKER_00]: in Epcot is everything around it has been updated feels weird it feels weird at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping for something for this building something that's maybe lightly nostalgic, but honestly I pre just boosts the old educational aspects of Epcot with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm a gambling man, I'm gonna say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, I'm gonna go in our room here and I know that I sound, I sound, I sound like, I know, I know what I sound like and I'm just gonna say it, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just gonna say just let me help this.
[SPEAKER_00]: When tropical Americas finally opens, they will have multiple e-ticket attractions running in the park.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will have two in tropical Americas.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will have flight of passage and I am hoping that they take that as their window to close expedition Everest for a lengthy update and to finally finally fix the Yeti.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't fix the Yeti when Pandora the World of Avatar opened, and honest to goodness if they don't do it now, there may never be another time, and if there is another time, it won't be for probably another decade.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will have multiple popular lightning lane enabled thrill rides open in the park.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will have banner attractions that people are desperate to go on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't like a- it's not like being content right is going to be a comp for something like Navi River journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be two rides, one thrill, one ice in family, because it's in content.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are going to be rides of people are really, really wanting to go on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I do think it will be the time to close Everest to fix the Yeti.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, they'll never find another time!
[SPEAKER_00]: Just fix the Yeti.
[SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of, Christ Almighty, can we get a nighttime show at Disney's Animal Kingdom that empty amphitheater is such a freaking bummer?
[SPEAKER_00]: And if tropical America is going to breathe so much new life into the park with that land and all it has to offer, give us a reason to stay late at night and to give you more money for more operational hours for lightning lanes on the inconto ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: You feel me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep the park open later.
[SPEAKER_00]: something in that sad empty area.
[SPEAKER_00]: A couple more things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Mickey shorts theater is closing a Disney's Hollywood Studios on August 9th, which I don't know where I am in space and time that already happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: The making short theater in Disney's Hollywood Studios is closed and I don't know what that means, but it means something, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it mean something?
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it might mean something and last but not least I'm I'm I have a very watched this space inkling about grand fiesta tour
[SPEAKER_00]: I did vote this most likely to close by 2028 in our Disney Superlatives episode with Drew Taylor, and while great points were made by him, particularly that the queue could not support much more, the ride may or may not be able to be expanded.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a ride that once again, I just want to emphasize it's for you if you listen to the podcast you know what I'm about to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, you know, if you listen to Scott Guston episode, you know what I'm about to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a right that once again, put a freaking plant, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: My microphone doesn't even wanna hear me all that high.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plants in for one of the characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: They replaced a Disney character with a botanical plant and nobody had corporate bad at an eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: They literally lived with the land and nobody took umbridge with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the board isn't low, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's basically you tell a door level on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'm keeping an eye on this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just in case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if they can replace a character with a plant and nobody cares, I would say that that ride doesn't have a lot of longevity in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember, they have to deliver on news.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because D23 moved to this panel to the Honda Center.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a separate ticket.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't part of the convention.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't at-and-a-hem convention center.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a nighttime show.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are live streaming it on Disney plus now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm expecting a lot of big news and expecting that they will, in fact, reveal a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before we get into Disneyland and, oh, so many alerts on my phone, sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ben took care of many things I had to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you to my sweet husband while I gap about Disney parks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we will get into Disneyland and my semi-cycotic predictions in a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: But first, let's talk about Disney Cruise Line.
[SPEAKER_00]: The massive news at D23 that I was shaking from in 2024 was that Disney Cruise Line was uping its fleet to 13 ships total.
[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, we have the seven classics plus the Disney adventure over in Singapore, which brings the total to eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Disney believe we know will be the ninth ship, which comes in 2027, which means we have four new ships that are somewhat question marks to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Disney has stated regularly that this fleet will clock in with all 13 ships by 2031.
[SPEAKER_00]: It even says so on their experiences website at the time of recording this.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, but, but, but, but, new details were released during the earnings call last week, which in further, we're actually going to get these ships by 2030, with three, three new ships slated for 2029.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, remember, Disney believe the 9th ship comes in 2027.
[SPEAKER_00]: In 2029, an Oriental Land Company ship, which Disney is categorizing as ship number 10, the 10th ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll launch, but so will ships 11 and 12, scheduled for 2029 and late to 2029, respectively.
[SPEAKER_00]: With ship 13 slated for late calendar year 2030, that means we're just a few years away from this fleet fully doubling from just a few years ago, which is bananas as a Disney cruise line fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: If last time we got the earth shattering news that this many ships were coming, I'm expecting we get more specifics about the future of the fleet at this presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: All we currently know are vagaries about these newer ships possibly being smaller, which hasn't been reported on widely, but I really struggled to find the source of all that information in many of the search results that I combed through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still, if these ships are indeed different from the wish-class ships, I'm hoping to hear some real intel about what those will actually be like from Joshi Dhamara.
[SPEAKER_00]: Long story short?
[SPEAKER_00]: All you need to know is that
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I would have gambled it all on us getting Disney believe details top to bottom in this presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I know for a fact, we are getting those after D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: more information about Disney believe will be coming out this fall with a live stream reveal scheduled for October 7th.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have missed that news.
[SPEAKER_00]: It like popped up as part of a quick video announcement from DCL.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I know firsthand we will be discovering specifics from that ship around that time because I will be at that live stream reveal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know some things that I'm not sure if I can talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the shape of it though, it seems like there will be some very fun reveals as part of that process.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, wink wink watch this space and be sure to put that 107 date into your calendar if you are a Disney Cruise Line person.
[SPEAKER_00]: What we do know is that properties from Zootopia to encounter to Snow White and Frozen and Moana are mentioned, but we don't know where they will be placed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be going full homeland pinboard prior to that reveal, so stick around and honestly pray for my sanity when I bust out my big old guessing spreadsheet from when I did justice for the Disney destiny.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got so much more to talk about, including Disneyland, Abu Dhabi, and my absolutely unhinged predictions that I feel in my gut to be true.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stick around, we will be right back.
[UNKNOWN]: Thanks for watching!
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back.
[SPEAKER_00]: If there was one segment of this weekend's presentation that I'm most curious about, it's Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a lot of scattered ions in the fire from Disneyland forward details to whatever the heck that cocoa ride is going to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's dive in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Joshy D shared an infographic during the financial call recently of all the big projects in progress, which I think means there are 100% going to be discussed at this big experience as panel in Honda Center on Saturday night.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what was on deck for Disneyland Resort according to that infographic?
[SPEAKER_00]: a Coco themed attraction, and then Dr.'s campus expansion, and the Avatar Experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, baby, that all began to use a nice try, but you'll bird to everyone who has convinced Avatar had been scrapped in favor of Zootopia, even if I too wish it to be true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Avatar is a terrible choice for Disney California Adventure, and does not belong there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what do I know?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just imagined Keyholder, a Disney Park's expert of working journalist, a California resident, and someone who just isn't sure not the River Journey was successful enough to build an entirely new land across the country in that same vein.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many wonders will this Avatar Cavern hold?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's to be determined.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I do think we will get our first look at it during D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: The real packing term in the room, though, is Disneyland Forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: The park expansion plan to give the resort what it needs most.
[SPEAKER_00]: affordable matterhorn macaroons.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The answer is land land.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are boxed in over its Disneyland Resort and looking for a way to break out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this may actually do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been burned before and many of you have to.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've oowed an odd at the parking bridges and the luxury resort hotel they almost had with the model rail right inside it I still mourn that to this day We could have had a luxury hotel in downtown Disney wouldn't that have been nice?
[SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't that have been really freaking nice?
[SPEAKER_00]: we've seen renderings all over the place that have gotten us jazzed and for what?
[SPEAKER_00]: We still don't know how to tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping that at long last we will get a better grip on what the actual long-term future of Disneyland Resort will be because Downtown Disney's transformation is nearly done.
[SPEAKER_00]: That place does feel different now, it really does.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there are even more changes ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Big Picture is still on the table, the long-term change at Disneyland Resort is not finalized.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am all ears waiting and ready to receive that news.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Let's jump back real quick to the first thing we know we're going to get.
[SPEAKER_00]: A Coco themed attraction.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you, mm-hmm, connect the dots.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can see how, well, I don't know, a test inside Pirates of the Caribbean, maybe, I don't know, a test for something like Ernesto De La Cruz and a Coco ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: That animatronic uses epic games' unreal engine, which don't forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: As far as I know, I'm bad at financials and I stay away from money whenever possible, but I do believe Disney invested 1.5 billion into that company in order to acquire an equity stake.
[SPEAKER_00]: Follow the money people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Always follow the money.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, whether or not the in-ride, trial, human skeletal face projection from curious, curious coincidence will reappear in the ride that famously features human skeletal beings, we will have to wait and see.
[SPEAKER_00]: But considering we know so little about the Cocoa attraction coming to DCA, I think we'll get some info about it for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: And last but not least, of the guaranteed three, we have the long-awaited expansion of Avengers campus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's wild to think this has been in the works for so long, so long.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, wherever you are, stop unless you're driving or running.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop and think, what year do you think Avengers camp has opened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does your body say 2023?
[SPEAKER_00]: wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 2021 and it was massively delayed when it opened then.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure I was wearing a mask outdoors at that socially distanced preview.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god the pandemic was long, but we have been waiting for an e-ticket expansion for more years than that and finally we're about to get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to Orange County Register back at the end of June, Disney is already staffing those attractions with leaders, which means it's not far off.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to double down on that, that article was done in partnership with Disney.
[SPEAKER_00]: It that means the story wasn't fully reported as it was more of a sponsored content seeming situation, so they want us to know that ride is coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Opening details are almost certainly going to drop at that D23 panel, which is great because two, two, new rides at DCA is going to unburden the lightning lane load on other attractions in that park to a huge degree.
[SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully selfishly make monsters think easy to get on before it ultimately closes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so annoying to get on that right now it takes forever and it shouldn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: And shut it!
[SPEAKER_02]: as a refresher.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just home already up because I was so upset about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a refresher, those rides coming to a vendor's campus will be an e-ticket simulator which takes passengers through the marks, through the marvel multiverse, a ride that we've heard about that I'm honestly not going to believe is real into my feet or walking onto the attraction and start flight lab, a robotic arm thrill ride which reminds me I definitely need to catch up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe to understand how Robert Downey's
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like Marvel multi-plicity.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's Iron Man, but then he's also Dr. Dr. Doom, Dr. Dr. Doom.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's his name, Dr. Doom, Doom, Dr. Dr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Strange, not a doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Dr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Strange was a doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Doom, not a doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Dr.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, do you see how confusing this is?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have one kid, and then you can't keep track of the MCU.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really, I haven't even seen Wonder Man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, is he a doctor?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but I need to catch up before this land opens, because I honestly have no idea what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And last but not least, I've said before that we are do for a name change to Disney California adventure.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we might get that at this D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if not at this one, we've got to be getting it at the next one.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's basically everything we know is going to be covered at D23 for the domestic parks.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will get into Tokyo and Hong Kong and Paris is part of the show, but honestly, as like flights and travel get more expensive and my daughter gets harder to adjust to a sleep schedule, this evening those parks feels like a far off reality for me and because of like honestly like the economy like going to these foreign parks is not
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not always easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have I have a child and it's hard and I miss the foreign parks and I can't go in a lot of people are going a lot and I'm just not one of them right now when it's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I am just centrally focused on reporting about what is in our own backyard that's not why we're not going to touch too much on that in this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lion King Land coming to Disney Adventure World in Paris, a name I will never get used to, is almost certainly going to be discussed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hong Kong and Shanghai's Marvel expansions will be part of that as well, I assume, and also an expansion to a foreign park that has been reported on by one outlet but has flown completely under the radar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just take that note with you and do a little research if you'd like, that's all I'm going to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I am most curious
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need to submit many people are going to be you, hootin' and hauler it?
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't want to risk any public booze, so maybe they won't even talk about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what, verbiage will they even use to discuss it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I look forward to hearing about it while sucking down a 32-ounce diet soda and editing 15 videos in real time from my two phones while I'm sitting there sweating for my clothes working.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not all that's going to happen at this D-23 presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've covered all the real stuff, the meat and potatoes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into the chaotic soft-served dessert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I have promised you something special.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have five ideas that I am blindly confident about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I feel a little reputation tailor's version about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could this end in complete clownery?
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I feel pretty good about these educated guesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: enough to see them on the record on my podcast in case they do hopefully come true and then I could say, I told you so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Starting with number one, I very strongly think that we're going to get the return of some throwback hotel perks for Walt Disney World.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know there is an unbelievable joke tweet online that I think about once a day and laugh alone to myself about how the whole presentation is just going to be them revealing the magical express and then calling it a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I genuinely psychotically think something along those lines may happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here is why Disney hotel rooms are not being filled.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to the podcast with ads from MEI Mouse fan travels Becky, oh my gosh, you know that there have been more promotions this year than we've probably ever seen before.
[SPEAKER_00]: deals we haven't seen in millennia, essentially.
[SPEAKER_00]: Diehard Disney fans are finding the hotels not worth the money any longer, and so they need something to draw those people back.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have been, if you remember, quietly been doing suitcase transfers and value resort hotels.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I did that realize they have expanded that beyond Southwest Airlines.
[SPEAKER_00]: They now include both American and United Airlines.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is for suitcase transfers at all three All-Star Hotels, pop century and art of animation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know what that means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Essentially, in the old, in the olden days, when school was uphill both ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: You used to go to the airport?
[SPEAKER_00]: Check your luggage, put a luggage back on it, and it would arrive in your friggin' Disney World hotel room.
[SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't have to wait at the carousel.
[SPEAKER_00]: In extra hour at MCO, don't even think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You would board your free bus, have your free magic band, and go to your room and feel like friggin' royalty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, on the way back, you could check your bags at your friggin' hotel and they would bring them to your airplane for you, like you're some sort of celebrity flying private.
[SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't see your bags from when you gave them to the hotel until when you got home to your home airport.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was magic, and they have low key been doing this at some Disney hotels with a large handful of airlines.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, just knowing that they have expanded it to other, cause I play LA XL places, or is that a different era, anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: LA, I usually fly American United or Delta.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the fact that they are doing this and I did not realize it almost makes me wanna book a value specifically to have this perk back.
[SPEAKER_00]: So imagine if this was a full-blown perk at all the hotels again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that I have a kid, I wouldn't have to hand carry her pack and play everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: This would be freaking huge.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think don't know what their contracting situation with mirrors is like and what they're how much money they're making now directly from people booking versus when Disney contracted them out from magical Express.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I would love to see some version, some new updated version of Disney Snatch Cool Express added onto your rooms.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect it to be free in this economy, in this economy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think we can still channel a little bit of the magic from the past.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if it was a subsidized trip on mirrors express or if they rebranded against an e-magical express?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if it was $10 a person?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if it was $25 a room?
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be way more financially appealing than booking mirrors out, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And if they branded a Disney, keeps you inside the bubble, which is advantageous to Disney themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, if they're sitting around in a conference room asking themselves, what is a way we can increase guests staying at Disney World Resort?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is a way to have these people come back and stay with us again without having to actually build anything?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how it makes sense, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they've already kind of started Loki bringing it very quietly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if they brought back the perks that I love, if they brought back the reason that they sold us on staying at Disney World hotels in the first place, if they brought those back, I'd absolutely be more inclined to stay with Disney.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is an actual business reason now to encourage these perks to come back, to encourage people come back and book a Disney World Hotel, and this may be just the thing to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, I think we're going to get news about Disneyland's tomorrow land, but not in the way that we want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me explain.
[SPEAKER_00]: The number one ask among fans, which I say loosely, but I'm a lie a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: The demands are allowed.
[SPEAKER_00]: The number one thing we California's are asking for is an update to Disneyland's tomorrow land, and it's not unfounded.
[SPEAKER_00]: You walk through that place and it's giving dead ball.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the entire
[SPEAKER_00]: it's such a bummer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think something is coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: They know that they need to update this space.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here's how I think it's going to be rolled out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we'll get a kind of we're building two Star Wars Galaxy's Edge surprise clapping cheering moment during this presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Possibly, at the end of the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some sort of end of show moment, like, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: New tomorrow land is coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it'll be a kind of setup for change that is years off in the future.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a world where so few people went this summer because of the World Cup, are they really gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars on refurbing rocket rods?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they know we want New tomorrow land.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've heard our cries.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we won't get actual change until
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think a little bit of this too could be the Olympics at play.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Olympics are coming to Los Angeles in 2028.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means an absolute slog of people making their first ever visit to Disneyland Park.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't close down that entire land.
[SPEAKER_00]: They needed for capacity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if the Olympics is a limited window of like four to six weeks of people coming in for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe the Paralympics are right after the Olympics, but if I'm wrong, then that is a longer window, but I'm pretty sure they're right after.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did set up to volunteer, not to brag, and I'm pretty sure if they said the Paralympics were it after.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm wrong, I apologize, but I'm pretty sure it is that kind of six week window.
[SPEAKER_00]: And while tomorrow land is a priority for us locals, huge priority.
[SPEAKER_00]: For guests around the world, they don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: So announcing it now and shelving it until later, kind of appeases everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know, I'm taking a big swing here saying we're going to get it, but it's not going to happen yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a big guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once those big DCA projects are complete, it makes sense that they would undertake a big Disneyland project after and what better than to reclaim this space.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they're going to be changing autopia anyway, if they have empty room to make it something to be proud of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're gonna get the Star Wars restaurant.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're gonna get the Star Wars supper club restaurant that was promised to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is blind faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wrote this down weeks ago and then I opened my phone last week and the mouselets, who I adore,
[SPEAKER_00]: said the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like that's a sign, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of us being on the same wavelength of thinking we're going to get this restaurant.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't for years, you know, I assume budget there just wasn't a need when they were trying to open Star Wars Galaxy's edge to go through with the supper club, especially when they had Star Cruiser.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think there's actually a lot of financial sense for why they would do this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, it would be a cash cow, it would be a cash cow.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's only so much you can do to make ogres cantina still exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as somebody who visits these parks a lot, to me it is really lost its luster.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no urge to go in there even with someone who hasn't been, but something like this, I would consider a destination, dining, destination dining event.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second of all, they planned for this restaurant.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do believe they still have the room for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were supposed to build it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was actually when I was most excited for it, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you haven't heard about this, there was supposed to be a themed restaurant, like a table service restaurant, characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a supper club.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was supposed to be a whole event.
[SPEAKER_00]: and we never got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they took some of that and I think they threw it in Star Cruiser, but now that we don't have Star Cruiser, I do think there is an audience for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And third of all, Star Wars needs an in-park boost.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not seeming like the Mandalorian overlay on the letting Falcons Mugglers run is actually doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: People like that ride better.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that ride is so much more improved to the Mandalorian overlay, but it's not resulting in fanfare.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not pulling people in from all around the park to go check out the hot new Mandalorian baby Yoda overlay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not doing enough to move the needle to get people to the park.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, especially with the door now open to both resorts tying into the old trilogy of films, they could actually make good on the promise of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and give people a reason to come back to the theme parks.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is still such a lack of droids and alien life, which makes this land feel so barren.
[SPEAKER_00]: And originally, some of that special stuff, some of like feeling like you're one with these creatures, was behind a payball at Star Cruiser.
[SPEAKER_00]: Having this, and a more accessible price, but also as a more accessible experience, could kind of be a win for everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: My pie in the sky grand hypothesis number four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want a complete restructuring of lightning lane.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want a scrapping.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to start a new and I know we've done that three or four times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think there is room for improvement.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that they're planning on launching some sort of planning tool later this year, the details of which I, I have not heard anything of and it's August.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm kind of waiting to see what that is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we will, we will get some of that at D23's presentation, but now would be a really great time to adopt the lightningly systems that they have at parks overseas.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dream would be for them to break open lightning lane multi pass, to not bake you into a $35 charge.
[SPEAKER_00]: but to have you pay per ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would take away some of the stress of having to be in the park and constantly rebooking overseas at some parks they have an option where you can book a bundle.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can book four or five specific rides, maybe a family pack, maybe a throw pack, so that you can get all of the throw rides you want, or all of the family rides you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of being stuck with a product, there requires you to do days of work just to get on rides.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there is a better way we can do this, and I am hoping that they use their own technology that they use at other parks overseas to make it happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And number five, I want to get something deeply unexpected from the Toy Story universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I find it odd, the Toy Story, a film franchise that was just praised in the earnings call for bringing in over $4 billion at the global box office, and over 2 billion hours streamed on Disney Plus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's bananas, that that film franchise, currently operates a land that doesn't even have a proper gift shop.
[SPEAKER_00]: How is that possible?
[SPEAKER_00]: We took in synergy top to bottom morning till night and I can't even go inside Al's toy barn make it make sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping they find a way to expand upon and hopefully improve toy story land because from one of the rare lands completely themed to a single film franchise it could be so much better.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they have been plusing it, they added a sit-down restaurant, which Loki no one seems to care about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I've ever seen one positive review.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone seems to be like, it was fine, it was okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they added the food stand, which was a welcome addition, but it needs something more.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they are touting the Toy Storys or franchise that's just going to go on and on and on and has made this much money at the box office, not even talking about the toys.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should have an air-conditioned space to go in and shop to our hearts content at a minimum.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope we get that or some other whack-a-do toy-story surprise at Disney World.
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I going to look like an absolute fool if you don't happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I look like a genius if they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I better.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whatever you do, friends, family, hold hands with whoever is closest to you, and line up your prayer circles because of the Hyperion Theatre sits empty until 2028, I genuinely do not know what I will do with myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do not know, wasted space, bring back a show, what are y'all doing with you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stick around to make sure to follow me because there will be a lot of coverage of all of this on social media and following next week.
[SPEAKER_00]: I may, if I have time, I will post a little podcast recap.
[SPEAKER_00]: I may not, it just depends on kind of how the cookie crumbles, how the gejosh from our old cookie crumbles.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how the carrot cake cookie crumbles, except it doesn't, because it kind of will be pie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and these are my thoughts, and I hope some of them are true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope some of them come true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just can't believe it is time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is D23.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've waited two years for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope we get some great news.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope everyone has a great time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, if you see me say hello, please.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to say hi in person.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it's D23, baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything can happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Early, long-term listener, for a term sure was about my installer.
[SPEAKER_01]: My name's Ben, and I have what feels like a busy identity crisis.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a Walt Disney World Pass folder, a former Magic Kingdom Pass member, and I've spent honestly an amazing percentage of my adult life about Walt Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: And somehow I've never been to Disney land.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, it feels blasting that's just saying it out loud.
[SPEAKER_01]: My best friend's manner coming out for D23,
[SPEAKER_01]: with our first real Disney land base on Monday and Tuesday before a D.B.B.B.Bash.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know the useful advice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't compare it to Orlando, appreciate Walt's Park, soak up the history.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a more curious about the things that kept Disney World veterans completely off-guard.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the attraction that's secretly better?
[SPEAKER_01]: Which stack is actually worth the height?
[SPEAKER_01]: And what little Disney land traditions or details are easy to miss if your Disney brain is permanently wired for Walt Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: Basically, what's your Disneyland starter pack for a first timer?
[SPEAKER_01]: We probably know this while Disneyland rode a little too well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for all the last.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully, I'll make it through my first Disneyland trip without instinctively looking for the people mover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to California!
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know your trip started a few days ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and I spoke separately.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody in the audience worry about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for anybody else who is listening to this podcast on the eve of their D23 Disney Land trip, I just want to share a hit list of all the things that were asked and give you as you requested your Disneyland Starter Pack.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is such a nice way to put it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that, because this is my early advice of a Disneyland Starter Pack.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, basically, if you were coming from Disney World, you've had a lot of Disney World experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything here is going to feel small, small, small.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the quaintness is what keeps people coming back.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why going from Disneyland to Disneyland to Disney World can be very overwhelming because of the sheer scale in size, but going Disney World to Disneyland is peak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you're coming here and you're like, oh, so quaint, it's a doll!
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, it's just so magical to be so, so small and so contained.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are way more attractions at Disneyland Resort that don't take lightning lane, which is a blessing and probably very refreshing for you from how much time you spent at Disney World.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I want you hand in hand with that, recommend that you don't sleep on anything in fantasy land.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a level of quaint that you may never see again at a Disney park.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do all of the little rides that entice you, do them to your heart's content, and they will deliver for you, especially because you are used to a very different fantasy land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter Pan's line is crazy long.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I cannot in good faith recommend that to you because you might be waiting there for over an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at least do things like Snow White, Mr. Toad, Pinocchio, any outdoor stuff if it's not too super hot out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like those lines never get too long and they're so sweet and so like they almost feel like a state fair, oh sorry, I got an alert that I'm supposed to be recording my podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am good for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, not about myself on the back, but I did my job today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, anyway, okay, muting everything
[SPEAKER_00]: So, with all of those rides, we're never going to see things at this tiny scale again, and I think they're all going to just give you, just give you like a little, it's just going to be so exciting for you, especially coming from someone who spent time in Magic Kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are so many single-writer lines across Disneyland Park in Disney California Adventure, they have a list of them on the website.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use those, use so many of them enjoy, truly enjoy, it'll help you get through so many more things during your day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, traditions, things that can be easy to miss, there isn't Disneyland sleeping beauty castle walkthrough.
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll blow your mind to how small it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I have vertigo whenever I do it, so I don't really do that much.
[SPEAKER_00]: It makes me very dizzy because it's so tight.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's kind of a must just to see it because again, all these things through the lens of a Disney world person, you won't believe like, this is just here.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many things that are just there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels so old school and will be so delightful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure to walk if you're facing the castle to the right past the snow white statues.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you know, you know, it's such a blissful little path that can be easily missed if you aren't looking for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a show at Fantasyland Theatre.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a Rapunzel show, and there's a beauty in the beast's show, and I'm really into them right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you catch it just for a moment, it feels kind of like you just stumbled upon people rehearsing in the park.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a brilliant pianist.
[SPEAKER_00]: The music is always great, but it's something that's so low-key, but delivers some old school Disney magic that I think you in particular will love.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am so sorry, quick correction.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not the Fantasyland Theatre.
[SPEAKER_00]: As soon as I said those words, my whole body was like, you're wrong!
[SPEAKER_00]: So I apologize for anyone else with that reaction.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is called the royal theater.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in fantasy land, but it's to the left of the castle.
[SPEAKER_00]: They post the show times throughout the day, but there is a tangled show, and there's a beauty in the beast show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they rotate back and forth.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not entirely sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just like, there's just bench seating.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some kids sit on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a life performance.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just funny and good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just really special.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those things that I hope stays around forever, because it's just so special.
[SPEAKER_00]: Car's land has a nightly activity routine show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean shows show is a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They knew We're around dusk.
[SPEAKER_00]: They turn on all the lights in radiator springs.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is super special You can ask a cast member around what time it might happen at but if you're standing Kind of in the center of it you will see people gather for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very nice It's very nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very cute if you happen to be there, but I wouldn't stress yourself out getting there if you can't get there in time
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to Tom Sawyer Island, but I want you to know it's still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Conversely, you will not catch me on a canoe, not now, not ever, especially not in this heat, but if you're curious, knock yourself out and definitely look into Patrick Begora, I believe that's I'll I Google to fact check in my friend Ryan Bergara, who does, oh my god, what is the bag guys going?
[SPEAKER_00]: For your amusement, oh, my brain came back to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ryan came up and I was like, that can't be right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's Patrick, something, Patrick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Patrick, Bagora.
[SPEAKER_00]: Patrick, Bagora, not my friend, Ryan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Little man of Disneyland looked that up.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something that I for years didn't even know about until AJ from Disney Food blog and my friend Heather, like both learns that I didn't know about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they sent me the little golden book of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, I want you to just discover it for yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, look at up, seek it out over by Indian and Jones adventure.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I think that's like the most stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can look up at the, at well, it's apartment from Main Street.
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't really do it for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It does a lot of people go in the fire station and I think that's fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like, that's not crazy different for you anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: First snacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are all insanely expensive now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard for me to recommend a chorotoffie or Matterhorn macaroon, which I would always tell people to get.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're closing in on $10, which I just think is not worth it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're there with people, you guys all want to split it and taste it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That makes sense, but it's so much money that I, I'm struggling with recommending the foods I used to recommend.
[SPEAKER_00]: but the fresh dipped corn dogs really are that girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: The cookies at Harbor Galley came out really strong in the price increases and if you're going with people that is a great snack to have, you can each have a cookie up for a reasonable price and then you can put the rest in your bag.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's wonderful to carry around throughout the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the bread bowls are legit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like to go to aunt, aunt, aunt cast cafe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I struggle every time I say that I don't love aunt cast cafe because they're basically like fresh off the boot and bakery line.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're worth they're so fresh there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can also go inside the boot-end bakery.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is quirky for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a sour, no bread factory.
[SPEAKER_00]: All hail DCA.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can go in there and get a free slice of bread, which is kind of dumb, but it's also fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like dumb fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just go and get a little slice of bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have a wonderful trip and to anyone else coming to my home theme park.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have a great time, have a great time this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope to see you there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, I can't believe it's all happening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey honey, it's mom.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to take Pearl to the Paw Patrol premiere.
[SPEAKER_01]: She is obsessed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know because I repopped for books to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every night, that's all she wants.
[SPEAKER_02]: Paw Patrol books over and over.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as you saw, I have about 300 children's books.
[SPEAKER_02]: She used to want sesame street books, then cars and know them off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've put, called McQueen, Netflix, and Andrew McQueen, the designer.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember then, then, like, who?
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, then she likes Frozen, she likes the Frozen books, all of them Elsa Anna, and then Peppa Pig, and now Paw Patrol.
[SPEAKER_02]: She loves them so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: She must have been over the moon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I equate that to me, me, and Jean Stamos.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was out of my mind, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, main topic, Laura Saul.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is a legend.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's been working on scary stuff since 1998, well, well, well.
[SPEAKER_02]: But she got started.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd rest you up as far as I can get into that for Halloween.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the best costume ever who was so great.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I am the on-skirt of Halloween Horror Night.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am not a gory girl.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't see Freddy, Halloween movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't see exorcist or anything scary.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like how Laura used to be scared, but not anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: She got over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll never get over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get vegetables.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wake up screaming.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, I just can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll sit on the bench.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll watch everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: just to see them again.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's it for me and the candy, of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love you so much currently.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a great episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love you, Pearl, and I love you, John Stamos.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye bye.