The Disney Experiences Showcase at D23 - Our Unfiltered Thoughts!

Our initial reactions from Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase at D23 2024. From the Monsters Inc. land at Hollywood Studios, to everything announced at Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, and Disney California Adventure, the panel had a ton of news to unpack.

Plus, a short rant about Epic Universe and our thoughts on a fifth gate at Disney World (at least for right now).

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Music. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the yellow shoes Podcast. Today is Sunday, August 11. As we're recording this, we're going to try to get this up for you as soon as possible. So that may mean that editing might not be perfect, or, you know, there might be little things that we normally try to get out that we might just keep in just to get this up ASAP. But it is d 23 weekend right now, and we just got the biggest amount of announcements that I probably could honestly think of last night at the parks and experiences horizons panel, I guess you could call it. And we just want to go through everything with you guys today and last night, we did tune in to a live stream that somebody put on YouTube. I don't know if that's Kosher or not, but plenty of people were live streaming it so, but Disney was not. So we ended up just turning it on, finding it, and watched it live with everybody. And so we stay up to like, one o'clock in the morning watching it, since we're here on East Coast time, and wow, it honestly, I mean, we have our thoughts about it, but overall, I'm pretty content. Yeah, I mean, I think they had to come in and, like we were saying beforehand, because we initially weren't even planning on watching it all, and then we just couldn't find anything else that we wanted to watch. So we were like, You know what? We might as well just like, see what's going on. And based on last D 23 I didn't expect them to, like, have anything substantial to announce, even though they needed to. And I was really, honestly, like, we were both talking about it, it's hard to impress us at this point with anything Disney. And I think we both were pretty impressed. Yeah. I mean, I will say, as I was actively watching it, I feel like, well, reflecting on it. Now, I think what they announced, like, I ended up being content with at the end of the day, but as we were watching it, I was like, okay, like, let's move this shit along. Like, if you watched it, like live for any reason, like, if you have to watch it live, you'll know what we're talking about. And even people who were there were, like, saying the same thing. So the whole like, bit, like, in the first, like, 75% of it was that they're like, it's a musical journey. And literally, everybody, we're 45 minutes in the live stream at this point, and like, jack shit has happened. And I'm like, okay, announced any Yeah, like, they literally the first like, I think I didn't like, I haven't, like, looked at the timestamps, but probably, honest to God, 45 minutes plus into it, they announced, literally nothing. They're just singing and doing all, like, it's just like, oh my god, okay, let's get this shit moving. And I was like, this is not gonna be good, because they're clearly like, stalling. Yeah, they're stalling because they don't have anything to announce. And honestly, I still think they were stalling because they, I think too, for a lot of these things, then they ended up just like, kind of cruising through them because they don't actually have that many details. And they're just like, Okay, well, like, we're gonna rattle these things off and then we'll keep moving on to kind of like, distract you from the fact that we really gave you no information, but it'll satisfy you, because we're gonna, like, break into the song after right? And honestly, I don't even know what happened. Like, part of it, I think, too, is, like, obviously people are live streaming on their phones and things like that. So audio is not the best. Plus, you're in this, like, big arena where things are echoing. And, like, not everybody has the best seats. Like, sound is off. But like, honestly, some of the performers, I was like, this state, they were really bad. Like, this is not good. Like, oh my. Like, really bad. Were really, really good, yeah. But honestly, I feel like war was bad than good. And I was like, okay, like, Yeah, I think I can't remember everybody, but I'm pretty sure, like, the only people that were actually solid were Megan, trainer, Rita Ora, that one girl, I can't remember her name, but she was really good at the end. Like, she was younger. Oh, she the Dead Pool girl. I felt bad too, because I feel like her, like, whole, like, like Her singing was, like, kind of, like overcast by the shtick, but like, she was a really good singer. I have no clue she was, but like, I don't know. And plus, it was hard because, like, we were watching it, like, on like, somebody's recording. So like, we couldn't, like, see the performances as well. Like we were more just, like, looking at the screens the whole time, so if they weren't, like, zooming in on them, but I don't know, I just feel like there's so many, even like Pentatonix, like, did not sound good. And like, like, I mean, I'm not like, the biggest Pentatonix fan in the world, but like, I listen to them during Christmas time, you know what? I do my due diligence. I give them my you know? Like, I give them what they need. Like, when it counts. And I was like, Oh my God. Like, that was like, not good, but that's besides the point. And I don't know, but I just think the whole, like, like, a lot of the songs, like drug out. And I was like, Okay, let's wrap this shit up. Okay, like, unnecessary. That whole aspect of the whole thing was completely unnecessary. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, we have a lot to talk about, yeah, so we should probably just get into it without me bitching too much. But again, I feel like that was mainly my biggest complaint with it as a whole, was that, like they were stalling, and, like, some of the stuff, they didn't give us enough information, but they're like, everybody just shut the fuck up and sit down. Okay. And so the whole idea with all of this too, was that they were like, these are not like blue skies ideas. These are things that are actively happening, that we are actively breaking ground on, that we actually have in the works. So technically, from what they're saying, this should all actually happen. But, you know, we've also been told shit before and things not happen. So like, obviously, take anything Disney says with a grain of salt, I'm speaking in all this, in the re in the like, idea that it's actually all gonna happen, yeah, and I think I'm a little bit more optimistic, because they've fired well that in within the last year, they're like, we're dumping a ton the Money, basically guaranteed. So it's like, okay, so I think the manpower behind it, right? Gotcha. So we're gonna start off grant has this all bullet pointed for us. So I'm just gonna start from I'm not gonna, like, go in a specific order necessarily. I'm just gonna go in the order that he has these written down. So Disney Cruise Line. And obviously this isn't necessarily an order of it being announced. I think, honestly, most Yes, like backwards, it's just kind of hodgepodge. But I think you did organize it by, like, Disney World versus Disneyland versus I tried a little bit, but it was mainly how I saw the summary articles after the fact to try to make sure we didn't forget anything. Yeah, so Disney Cruise Line announced that there will be four new ships setting sail. They're still in development, but those, those will be setting sail from between 2027 and 2031 this doesn't surprise me. That's basically all the information we were given. Yeah, nothing else specific. We were trying to look at the art, but it kind of like yeah, all the ships looked the same. It's kind of hard to tell, but overall, I just pray to God it's not the same layout as the wish. That's all I want. That's all I want is for to not be the same fucking layout as the wish my arch nemesis, okay? And hoping, well, I'm figuring that it's gonna be a totally different design. Yeah, all four of those ships will be the exact same design. Yeah, exactly. I think they're all gonna reflect each other and all be like sister ships. But I'm hoping to God, that they take all the reviews from all the ships as a whole and morph them together to create something everybody can enjoy. Yeah, another thing they did announce is that on the Disney destiny, which we just got tons of news about, like, what, a week or two ago, that's the ship that's gonna be like heroes and villains sort of a thing. And you know, that needs a toll on an episode of me having issues with that. But one thing that they have done, right, finally, they all did announce that they are going to have Hercules as a stage show on the ship, which has been needed for years. Yeah, well, I'm excited about that. I mean, technically, back in the day, they did have a Hercules, the musical emphasis muse in the beginning, Nicole, if you saw that, if you got the honor to see that while it was on, it was literally my favorite show. When I was a kid, I was obsessed. And it was kind of like them. It wasn't like just the story of Hercules. There was like other stuff. Like, it was like a theater is putting on Hercules. So it was kind of like multiple layers to it. But this is just gonna be like Hercules, um, so kind of like how Frozen is on the ship and tangled. It's not gonna be like a matrix thing, if that makes any sense, kind of like the golden Mickeys is and stuff like that. And stuff like that. This is just gonna be straight out Hercules. So I am optimistically excited about it. I am a huge Hercules fan in multiple ways. So that's one thing I am looking forward to me too. I mean, will I ever go on the Disney destiny? Probably, but I won't necessarily be happy about it, moving on, because that's cruise line, okay, that's not the that's like small potatoes. And the grand scheme of all this, we're just gonna go right into Disney World News. Since, honestly, Disney World was popping off, I'm shocked, because I feel like Disney World at D 23 always gets like the least amount of like announcements Well, or the most amount, but, like, least subsequent, yeah, the last few years it's been all international parks getting, like, all the really cool stuff. Yeah, I agree. I think now they're trying, finally trying to put money into Disney World. And kind of what grant you had said was that they would have put more out for Disneyland, but since they are just now getting all the permits and things like that for that expansion, like, that's my assumption, yeah, I don't see, like, just not able to happen quite yet, like, any concrete plans for anything, because we all know the history between Disneyland and the City of Anaheim, and like, the community there, and like arch nemesis, they all hate each other. And, like. But like they also can't live without each other, so it's kind of like that's the only thing reason I can think of that nearly as much it's the enemies to lovers trope. So I think they're still figuring all that out. So we do have tons of announcements for Disney World. One thing that I'm pretty sure nobody had on their bingo card was a Monsters Inc land is coming to Hollywood Studios. Now, tons of people said, Oh, this idea of the laugh, or like, the door room coaster, has been a thing for a long time. I personally never heard about it, but I don't know. I also maybe don't play too much into, like, a lot of theories and like things people have heard through the grapevine, like, I mainly just like, take on what is like, actually said by Disney themselves. So I've never heard of this, but a lot of people said they have. But construction is to start in 2025 according to Disney, and it's going to be the first suspended roller coaster at Disney. And supposed to be like, you're going through the Laugh Factory, and you're going through where all the doors are, and it's looks really, really cool. And I'm so excited for this. And it's Disney's first suspended roller coaster. And I know growing up, like, those were my favorite type of coaster. So this one, like, I think out of all the announcements, is what I'm most excited about. Plus, like, we're getting a whole land surrounding it, which will be really exciting. And I don't know, I'm thrilled, because Monsters Inc was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I think that was like the first Pixar movie that I really like, fell in love with, because Toy Story came out, the original Toy Story came out, and Toy Story two, like, when I Well, the original Toy Story came out before I was born, and then Toy Story two, I think, came out the year I was born. So, like, I mean, obviously I'd seen those and whatnot, but Monsters Inc came out when I was, like, three, four years old, so that was like, prime time for me to be watching things like that. And I really, like, I looked like a lot like Boo, and I was, like, told I looked a lot like Boo as a kid. So I think that, like, just really stuck with me. And I just loved Monsters Inc. And then they, like, never came out with second one, but of course, now they have the Disney plus show, which I think, like, did fairly well. We tried to watch it. It wasn't for us, not that it was, like, bad, but just like, wasn't for us. But I am so excited about this, and the fact that we're getting the whole land is exciting. I think the main question on everybody's mind is, like, so what's gonna go at Hollywood Studios? Yeah, and like, Well, I think before we talk about that is like, I think the big reason that going to Hollywood Studios is so painful is that everything's a an E ticket attraction and everything, it's just the wait times are very, very long. So honestly, the more attractions the better. Yeah, I agree. So I think, because the thing is, typically, as rides get older, like you, like less people want to ride them. But that really hasn't been the case. I thought it was you, because rock and roller coaster and tire Ferris still draw a ton of people, right? But then there's things like Smugglers Run that's one of the newest rides in the park, and even a year after it opened. I mean, now we're Pat like, a few years later, but even a year after open, 30 minute wait. Like, it just doesn't, like, which part of it does have to do with, like, how fast you're cycling through people, but it's advanced Star Tours. Everybody like, yeah, and I don't feel like there's enough attractions to still spread that crowd out. I agree. And I think Didn't they say one of the two attractions is going to be like, geared towards kids, or am I just going out? I think that's I don't know if that's necessarily true, but I'm assuming it will um, because since this coaster is going to have a height requirement, I'm only going I would have to assume that they're going to do something that's more family friendly, that there's no height requirement for which I think is much needed in Hollywood Studios. So I'm really anxious to see what they have in store for that. And I think it'll be really, really cool, and I hope it gets done efficiently. And my I think a lot of people are theorizing like, where is this gonna go? A lot of people are like, Muppets is gone. I genuinely don't think they have enough room for Muppets. I don't either, and I say that mainly because, like, one time we were evacuated off a rise the resistance, and we came out at Muppet vision. So, like, I think people don't realize, like, the rise of the resistance is basically all in Muppet vision, yeah, or all of them up at land. And I think, and I know that they could relocate or build a new one, but I think getting rid of one of the very few quick service options at Hollywood Studios whenever you can go on the other side of the park and get rid of launch bay, which is just a warehouse and like some other filler attraction in that cars show, yeah, more room over there. Like, that makes so much more sense. I really think it's gonna go where launch bay is, slash, like, I do there, that's what I really think where it's gonna go. And people are like, well, they're not gonna get rid of the Little Mermaid. Like, I'm not saying they're getting rid of Little Mermaid. I don't think they're gonna get rid of Disney Junior dance party. I don't think they're getting rid of the Little Mermaid. I think they're gonna get rid of launch bay. And further back, like, they have area back there and warehouses and things of that sort. That's personally where I think it's gonna go, just space wise, plus, like, I think we all can admit at this point, like, why is Star Wars drug throughout this damn Park? Like, let's pack it up. Everybody. Like, let's pack it up. Okay. I think launch bay was, like, after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, they're like, Oh, this is cool. And then it just stuck around because they have nothing to, like, half the shit in there, because they used to have, like, displays in there and stuff. I feel like a lot of that's not even there anymore, or it's just been the same for years. So we haven't been relevant at this point. And honestly, they have so many little corridors and little crap in Galaxy's edge. If they want to set up a formal Meet and Greet spots for anything, which I don't know if they would again, they can easily do that over there with no problem. So, you know, that's not really a relevant issue. So I don't I personally think it's gonna go back where launch bay is, but I guess only time will tell. And that's the whole thing is they, they're never gonna tell you where shits gonna go, except for whenever they discuss Indiana Jones, which we'll get to later, because that was already a given, that Daniel land was on the chopping block. But they're never gonna say it there, because then they're gonna get rides in the streets. No matter what, no matter what, they're gonna get rides in the streets, yeah, which is fine, yeah. And I'm sure part of it too is some of them, they're not even 1,000% on where things are gonna Yeah. And the thing is, too, as soon as permits filer filed for this shit, like it's gonna come out, like, not through Disney themselves, but through somebody. So we'll find out sooner rather than later. I think, yeah. And I'm just hoping, because they're saying 2025, for a lot of this, I'm hoping instructions, instruction, right? So I'm hoping that, based on the timeline that they gave us for animal kingdom, that we'll see things starting to open in like 2028 2029 Yeah. And I'm a bit more hopeful for well, like with Monsters, Inc, like this roller coaster like that. They're not necessarily developing as much new technology for as something like rise the resistance. So with this, it's like, they're gonna probably buy a roller coaster from a roller coaster builder. You know what? I mean? It's gonna be pretty straightforward, and then it's just gonna be all the like, pretty things that they're gonna have to, like, right do. So I don't know. Hopefully it'll go pretty quickly. I'm just curious if they'll bring that like, I forget what it's called, like, hide and seek, whatever. I don't know what it is, but it's like a monsters. Inc, ride where you, like, look for the monsters with a flashlight. It's in one of the Asian parts. I'm curious if they'll bring that there as, like, a, you know, a slower ride. But also, we already have Toy Story mania in that same park, so I don't know if they'll do something similar or not, but who knows. I'm just curious what the other attraction will be. Because I think they said too, I think they did, but it's so hard making that up. Yeah, it's so hard to keep track. But moving on again, I don't want to spend too much time on any of these things. We have so much to talk about. We are getting cars at Magic Kingdom, which is another thing I don't think anybody even speculated, not at all. I was shook to my core, um, and so this is going to be as part of the Beyond frontier land, or beyond reimagined section of frontier, but I they haven't said anything. Where else are you gonna put it? I know, like, even if, okay, a lot of people are like, they're gonna close um, Tom Sawyer for this and like, fill in part of the like, even if that's like, that's my theory, yeah, that's fine. But like, that's still like, the beyond Big Thunder. Let's like, let's be for real. They probably weren't gonna, like, actually gonna keep Tom Sawyer forever? No, yeah. So this is going to be interesting. So there's gonna be two attractions. One's gonna be like, um, not the same ride, but like, similar to radio Springs Racers slash test track. But the whole thing with all of this is it's not going to be Radiator Springs at all. It's going to be like them out and in the west and like, you know, kind of like, um, the shorts that they have on Disney. Plus, now I don't know what it's called, but, um, it's not going to be taking place in Radiator Springs. So we are not getting Radiator Springs at Magic Kingdom. So Magic Kingdom, which I understand that they don't want to do play things. But also wish you getting Raider springs at Magic Kingdom, even if it wasn't the same rides in it. But oh well, I'll take what I can get, and then one's going to be a more kid center ride, which I feel like is just going to be very similar to Tomorrowland Speedway, except for, oh, hop probably like something like, like the Luigi ride, or maybe it's like a track. Okay, I didn't, yeah, so construction for that supposed to begin in 2025 as well. And a lot of people are butthurt because they're like, well, that's not part of the frontier, and there's cars, and it's supposed to be. Covered by which, okay, I understand that completely. But the thing is, none of you bitches were saying that whatever they opened Tiana's. So if you didn't give a shit about them bringing Tiana into the frontier, don't say shit now, okay, yeah, and I'm a Tiana stand, so that's besides the point. I'm not like but that ship has sailed. Everybody, we're not like arguing about all just frontier land in name only at this point, because none of it's really cohesive. So yeah, because first of all, for Tiana, both the location nor the timeline makes sense for the frontier. This isn't the Oregon Trail. Everybody like, you know what I mean. So that ship has sailed of staying with the theme of the frontier. Which is fine, yeah, which is fine. I think it up. Don't start bitching about that. Whatever. We could have bitched about that three years ago when they announced Tiana's Bayou adventure, right? So that being said, Just stop. Okay, um, next announcement for Magic Kingdom. So much for Magic Kingdom. Villains, land is coming to Magic Kingdom. So this, they didn't say a start date. However, he said, overall, these things will be starting at least in the next five years. Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. But I'm excited. I'm excited. Okay, this is one that people have been asking for, for they wanted a park, right Park? But whenever they did the whole blue sky about beyond Thunder Mountain, they were like, maybe a villains land. And everyone was really, really excited. So I also maybe in Kanto, and I was like, and nobody was bitching about that either, about it not making sense with Frontier, but again, whatever. But I think out of anything, the villains land makes the most sense for Magic Kingdom. Your magic kingdom. I think it's gonna be really, really neat. I think it'll be really cool too. And I honestly feel like they're gonna find a way to be able to connect it with both the like beyond frontier like area. And I think they'll be able to somehow connect it back to fantasy land. I really hope they can make some sort of entrance via fantasy land, because I feel like that makes sense story wise, yeah, um, but also, I don't think making a dead end land is very efficient, because, like, Frontier land right now is essentially a dead end land with Tiana and Big Thunder. Like, there's no like, you know, you can't loop back to anywhere from that. You have to come back out of it. So I feel like, if they just are going to continue that, keep going back, that's going to be really inefficient crowd wise. Yeah. But I feel like at the same time, too, with everything Disney's recently been doing. It's like, if they have land somewhere and they can put it like, no matter how inefficient it is, then that's what they're gonna kind of do, yeah, so we'll see. But I think they would be able to connect it back to front or to fantasy land, like, I think they'd be able to figure something, yeah, um, but there with this is supposed to be two major attractions. They didn't say anything about what they are in the concept art, there's looks to be a roller coaster. So I'd be shocked if they don't end up doing a roller coaster in one way or another, but I'd be honestly shocked too, that if things don't look totally different than whatever this initial concept art true, but I still feel like they they're gonna do some sort of sort of roller coaster. I think it's like villains, like, obviously it's Disney, so it's still like geared towards, like geared towards like everybody, but like, this is for the Disney adults at the end of the day. So I feel like they're gonna do some sort of roller coaster. And honestly, I think, um, they should make it like drop, like the Hagrid coaster does. If you guys have been on hagrids at Universal it like drops, Google it. Um, I feel like that would be really cool. Because I just feel like I don't know the energy that they're going for, yes, and I think because they also said how they'll be, like, dining in this land and shopping, which, like, obviously it's Disney, so of course there's going to be food and merch. But I think if they would do a villains character dining experience, it would do really, really, really well, yeah. I think that would be really neat. Yeah, I think it'd be or since they're now in the area of era of doing these lounges at parks, if they would do some sort of villains lounge, that could be really cool as well, or both. Who knows. So I'm curious to see what speculations people have about that. I feel like, though location wise for that, nobody's really like, I think it's more the jury's just out on, are they gonna get rid of Tom Sawyer Island or not? Other than that, I feel like there's no other really question of, like, where that's gonna go, since they kind of discussed options for adding on to Magic Kingdom already. Yeah. And I don't think there's really anywhere else to get rid of anything else other than Tom Sawyer's Island. No, if that, well, I don't think that there's enough room, even if you knocked out, like Storybook Circus, circus at all. So that will be interesting. I'm curious too, though, if they'll end up like that stupid railroad, like, just reopened. Like. We gonna make another stop there. Like, are we? Do we really have to do this? Like, you know? So I don't know what's gonna go on with that, but we shall see. Our next announcement for Disney World is the tropical America's Animal Kingdom is now a go. So they had discussed this last D 23 for replacing diner land USA, and it is now a go. And so there's gonna be a village called Pueblo Esperanza. It's 11 acres, which really isn't that big. Yeah, it's well like because they tossing the numbers out, and I don't know what to compare it to. So, yeah, I just think about an acre being the size of football field, I know, but it's just not big in the first place. So it's not like, I'm like, when magic kingdom's like 100 acres, 11 acres, um, but construction will begin on it later this year. They did say they're going to do it in phases. So it's not like they're going to like, close dining, or they're not going to close like dinosaur tomorrow, or anything like that. I mean, I'm sure they're going to start like they've already leveled where, probably is. And I'm sure it's gonna go back farther than that. Like, I don't think they're just gonna, like, use the area that's already developed there. So I'm sure they're gonna start on that stuff and then do it. I bet they close basically everything except dinosaur and the quick service over there, yeah, and then go from there. So they're gonna have one of the largest quick services at Disney hacienda. Well, it's a hacienda, a hacienda, okay, so I have a lot of like food from Latin America, yeah. So it's gonna be like a mix of Latin American foods, which, honestly, like Animal Kingdom is in desperate need a quick service. Oh, yeah, honestly, please, Disney, if you're listening, please make inside seating like, I'm begging you, it looked like this was gonna be a big, like, covered, good. No, not covered inside. I mean, air conditioned, I don't know, but like, it was at least, like, not outdoors, because it's too damn hot for that shit. Okay, yeah, and animal kingdom, I understand we're supposed to be in all these places that aren't here. But my ass trots over the restaurant stores every damn time just to get some AC okay, it does. And, you know, I understand, like, there's, like, the Pandora restaurant, which everybody loves, which, like, you know, I go there every once in a while I really do, like, you know, most time I feel like I go there. I feel like, though, at Animal Kingdom, I am forced to pick to where to eat based off of air conditioning. Yeah, I'd love to eat flame, tree barbecue. I really would, but I'm just it's really hot, 90 degrees, and there's no ass cheeks are sweating. I'm not sitting outside, okay? Or if there are fans, and they don't work, but it's like a fan just blowing around the 95 degree heat. That's not exactly helpful. And it's, you know, six feet above my head, that's, that's not helpful, okay? But I think the the type of food, too, Animal Kingdom definitely needs, and I'm sure it's going to be delicious, yeah, because Disney does, I mean, I know it's going to be beyond just Mexican food, but Disney does Mexican food pretty Mexican food pretty well, yeah. So yeah, I'm excited about that. And they did announce three attractions for the area. So one obviously replace dinosaur. That's going to be Indiana Jones. It's going to be a new story based on Mayan temple. And so if you've been on Indiana Jones in Disneyland. This won't be, it'll be the same type of attraction, like, the same attraction, like, you know, like dinosaur is kind of, like you're in a vehicle off roading sort of thing. But it's not going to be the same story, which I am excited about. So it's not going to be copy and paste, yeah, and like, even if it was, I'd be excited, because I love the, like, Indiana Jones ride is one of my favorite rides. Oh yeah, me too. But overall, I'm excited that's gonna be a new storyline, just because I figured we could use it. And they also announced there's going to be Encanto, the madrigal house. I don't know shit about Encanto. I don't really care about Encanto, to be honest with you, don't bring out the pitchforks everybody. I don't want to tell you I'm nervous because I don't want it to be just like a screen ride. Yeah, I don't think it will be. Well, it's gonna, well, I'm saying like, it's gonna be a bunch of screens and, like, a few animatronics, and that's what a lot of people are nervous about. Yeah, it looks like it's gonna from the concept art, which, you know, who knows if this is going to be accurate or not, it looks like it could be like a trackless ride vehicle, um, and if it's trackless, there's gonna be a lot of screens. Yeah, I don't know. I think that there's a potential for it to be really cool, yeah, so we'll see the jury's out on that one. But you know all the bitches loving conto, so they got what they wanted. Okay, now, everybody, leave us alone. And then they also announced they're doing a carousel. And it kind of has a story behind it, where it's like hand carved this man's favorite like, who lives in the village, his favorite Disney characters. So I think that'll be a cute spin on it. I think there's definitely a need for more. Family geared rides at Animal Kingdom. Well, especially if you're getting rid of like, that kid, right? Like Triceratops spin like, you're gonna need something to replace that. Yeah? So I think this is a good choice. Yeah, one thing I have a question about that they didn't, haven't mentioned yet. So right now, in dining land, they have like that, I don't the dig site and stuff like that, it's kind of like a playground for kids. I am wondering if they will either keep that, or at least, because I think it could go really well into the theming there. It could go well into the Indiana Jones theme, that sort of thing. And, like, I think they'd have to renovate it a little bit. But I'm wondering if they're going to keep that or just ditch it all together. I thought they keep it because I just think it's a good thing for kids to have to do. I think it's like, a good idea. Plus, like, especially within Kanto, being over there, it's gonna draw a lot of families with kids and plus the carousel. Like, I think they just need to keep things in that park for younger children. I agree, but I think that scrap it, I just don't even know. Because, like, I feel like that's not necessarily useful space, though, like, you know what I mean, it's not necessarily taking up a ton of space. Yeah, I guess that's true, but who does so? We'll see what happens with that. Obviously, if they did keep it, they'd have to, like, re theme it a bit, and stuff like that. But I do think that would be cool to keep because I feel like doing it like Indiana Jones themed could be, like, really neat. Yeah, it would be fun. So another announcement for Animal Kingdom is the tree of life is getting a new Zootopia movie in it, so it's replacing it's tough to be a bug. Sayonara, bitch. I i threat so much. I hate that shit. I can't remember last time I was on it trauma from a young child, horrible trauma. I hate that shit. Sayonara, I love Zootopia. So this is great. Yeah, Zootopia is great. So then that opens next winter. So it'll probably more to be like january, february of 2026, but, but still, but still that, I and that. So that'll be good. I think it'll get a new lease on life. Animal Kingdom deserves a new lease on life. Not sad to see it's tough to be a bug go. I don't think really anybody is, except for that bitch who, or who, over the years, has DM me countless times to sign a fucking petition to save flick. Bitch. I don't care about flick, so I won't be signing the petition to save flick. I'm sorry if you're listening to this, if you're offended about that, but I don't give a fuck about flick, to be honest with you, I've never liked A Bug's Life. It's always traumatized me. So anything that we can remove A Bug's Life from Yeah, like, let's just in that movie as a whole. So I think we're finally, have we finally moved into Disneyland. Oh, well, no, Disney World. There's a few other things, but I don't know. We're just gonna go in order of this. So Sorry buddy. We're jumping around a little bit Disneyland. So this, we knew some of these things we knew, but we're just growing upon the fact, kind of like the tropical Americas thing at Animal Kingdom. So the avatar land of DCA is a go. It is going to be inspired by the way of water the upcoming fire and ash and other upcoming avatar films, five years never knows when to stop. Yeah. And according to the D 23 Expo, one of the most iconic stories of all time, in case you didn't know is avatar. Oh, and it's timeless. I came out 1015, years ago. I don't think this is one of the most iconic stories of our generation, but of all time, not all time. Yeah, when it's just a rip off of Pocahontas, but I don't know. I haven't seen the second one. So it's just space Pocahontas, it really is, but, um, that shook me to my core. But I honestly do not care. Okay? I mean, I love flight of passage, okay? I love to totally canteen. Pandora is beautiful. You know? I think it'll look really cool. I'm more so excited because there is the potential, which, obviously this is not confirmed nor denied. And also, we don't have a name for this traction, I don't think, but there is the potential that this ride could be like the pirates ride in Shanghai. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google it. Google the Pirates of the Caribbean ride Shanghai. Disney. It is the craziest shit you'll have ever seen in your life. Like, if you thought Rise of the resistance was crazy, this is crazier. It's like, that's that ride alone makes me want to go over to Shanghai Disneyland. And, I mean, I think it excites me more on a Shanghai level, because I care more about Pirates of the Caribbean than avatar, but I'll take what I can get. So that's the only reason I am curious about this is, if that's what it ends up being. Plus, I'm curious. I'm like, since this is going to be a whole land, are we literally just getting that ride, or we gonna get like, another ride? I have no idea. So also, like, where do they have room to put anything? Well, they already planned this, I know, but still it's gonna be, like, behind i. Uh, I don't know, behind Avengers campus or something. I don't really know. That's not my problem. So that's their problem. Does it make sense for California? No. Does anything at California Adventure make sense anymore or from its conception? No. So it's a free game. They're also doing a CoCo ride at California Adventure this, I think we're saying goodbye to Monster sing everybody. I think everybody's kind of realized that that they're gonna say goodbye to Monster Singh for this, which is fine, it's gonna be a boat ride. So I think it's gonna be a very traditional Disney sort of thing. I'm also nervous that this is just gonna be a bunch of screens and a few animatronics. I think it's gonna be like frozen, yeah, which is basically just screens, the animatronics. But so whatever. I mean, I don't care, or not care about Coco, so I just think this will be interesting, because if this goes well, then who knows, maybe one day, it'll replace the three covid euros, even though grant, and I've talked about that, and that would be a logistical nightmare for them to replace. And I think that's more so why? The reason that rides still there is because they don't really know what to do, how to do it, because they'd have to break down walls and stuff, because that queue holds 12 people. Like, you couldn't put anything that draws a crowd there. You'd have to, like, really reconfigure everything. So, I don't know. Plus, like, the boat ride itself isn't very long, so, you like, it would just be a whole cluster of chaos. But I think the main reason I'm excited about this is, A, something new, and B, the music and Coco is really, really good. So I think it's, like, totally pretty, right, you know? So I think if it's all really geared towards, like the music, then it'll be a really fun ride. So that'll be interesting, say the least. Work on that doesn't begin until 2026 so see you all in 2028 2029 with that probably, yeah, especially with how long drawn took, yeah. So another announcement coming from Disneyland. This makes me so emo, everybody. They are, for the first time ever, creating an audio animatronic of Walt Disney, and they are going to have a like stage show, essentially, kind of like great moments with Mr. Lincoln. That's Walt Disney, a magical life of Disney. If you've never seen great moments with Mr. Lincoln. It's basically call of presidents, but like, just Abraham Lincoln. But that was, like, Disney's first, like audio animatronic crazy thing was great moments with Mr. Lincoln that's still out on display at Disneyland. And so now there, it seems that they're going to be making it a rotating theater, because their initial, I think, like after the initial run of this show, they're going to play in rotation with great moments of Mr. Lincoln, is what they said. So this is opening in 2025 so it's soon, and I'm so excited. Said that it's like the whole show, like the bit is that it's supposed to feel like you're going into Walt's office and just chatting with him as he's developing the idea of Disneyland. And like, talking about his life, and like, yeah, career, and like, what Disney Land is able to do for people, like in the years ahead, and all kinds of stuff like that. So I think it's gonna be really cool. It's gonna be very emo. And this is Disney's response to not being able to give Disneyland back carousel progress. So, but no, that's gonna be, it's going to give everybody chills. All the Disney adults are going to sub, including myself, that's going to be such a slay. Um, good for them for that one and all, and the fact that it opens next year, yeah, wild. But that's because it's, like, literally, it's one audio animatronic, like, yeah. But still, you know how Disney takes forever to do anything. So theoretically, it shouldn't take long, um, but I am curious. I'm like, so when are we gonna get a new something for Epcot American adventure pavilion? Because let's wrap that shit up, everybody. Yeah, probably never. So news, phone, Avengers campus. We knew that they were going to be extending adventures campus, but they have announced they're actually doing two new attractions rather than just one. I don't know shit about Avengers. I don't really care about Avengers. All I know is the one ride vehicle they announced looks a lot like the spider man ride at Universal. That's from 1998 but there you have it. Avengers fans take one's like an egg scrambler, and I think it's like a cop out just to say there's another ride. But yeah, it's doubling the size of the land. Universal does? Yeah, you know what? I know it is. Disney can play that game too. Yeah. Other things that they announced that are Avengers adjacent, Shanghai announced a new Spider Man coaster. There was not much news for the International parks. I think they just got such big overhauls that they're like, Okay, well, we're tapped out. And then new Spider Man attraction at Hong Kong Disneyland, as well as for Disneyland Paris, they announced that there's going to be the frozen land that's going to open in 2026 because, you know, they are rebranding the Disneyland Paris. What's it called? Now, is it Disney, Disney Studios, yeah, Disney Studios, Disneyland, Paris, Adventure World, or is it just Disney's Adventure World, Disney Adventure World, Disney World. That sounds fake, Okay, everybody, yeah, it sounds really bad. It's giving Spy Kids. It's giving the amusement park in Spy Kids. That's fake. It sounds not real. But honestly, it was a shit show to begin with. So honestly, honestly, whatever I I don't know, like, I feel like that whole situation over there, I don't know to tell them. So name, whatever you want. Well, and it looks like the area that Frozen is at, like, I guess there's a model at D 23 people said it looks really, really empty, but it's this big lagoon, and I think it's so they can expand and put new lands in over the next 30 years. Yeah. So it probably won't be done for 30 years, but at least it'll be like, Oh, here's something new that's coming out, and then five, like, five years later, here's something else that's new and here's something else that's new. So yeah, they need it over there, yeah. But you know, they should do something like that at Disney World, because that makes sense. Yeah. And another thing they announced at Disneyland Paris, which I am kind of confused by, is they are doing a Lion King attraction. And I'm still kind of confused if it's like because they didn't necessarily say a Lion King land, I don't know. No, they said it new Pride Lands area, okay, so I don't know what this is exactly gonna be, but, um, there's going to be a log flume ride based off of the Lion King. Is literally Splash Mountain. But the concept art looks like the CGI, like live action stuff. Yeah, that's but then they kept saying based on the 1994 Yeah. So, like, if you're gonna make this live action literally, leave us alone. Let us like, just forget it. Just forget it. Okay, it's like the story from Simba as a cub TO THE LION KING or something. So I don't know if they're gonna make this the CGI version. Don't talk to me if they're gonna make it the animated version. Okay, great. My biggest thing, I'm just confused why it had to necessarily be a long flume ride. I just that doesn't really make sense to me with any part of the weird lines. That's weird. I did petition to grant and said that if they were going to make a log plume ride at Disneyland Paris, for some reason, Disneyland Paris, I've never been there, but for some reason, they have all the face or not face fur characters, if you will, for the Emperor's New Groove out constantly. I don't know what fanbase. Apparently, there's a big fan base for the embers new groove in Disneyland. Paris specifically that we somehow don't deserve in the US. I don't know, like we don't deserve the fur characters here, supposedly, but they have them there. So if there's that big of a lure there of the embers New Groove, what more of a sleigh would it be to do an Emperor's New Groove log flume ride. We're about to go down a huge waterfall. Yep, bring it on. Literally, what could be more perfect, the little roller coaster part of Splash Mountain, slash challenges by you adventure the wrong level. Literally, what could be more perfect? Okay? Honestly, I think if Eartha Kitt was still alive, we would have had an Emperor's New Groove sequel. And so all I can ask is, Disney, can you at least put something embers new groove in the villains area of Magic Kingdom? Yeah, I hope so. But the log flume ride would be such a good idea. But obviously that is not happening, but still confused of what a log flume has to do with the Lion King. Is that Mufasa shoving or not? Mufasa scar shoving us off the edge of the clip? POV, your Mufasa, that'd be really weird. And then you get trampled by the wildebeests. So back over to Disneyland, California. Tiana Bayou venture is going to be opening on November 15. People are like, it's it's done, but it's just, I think they're trying to figure out, because apparently, Disney still can't build shit without it being broken at the same time, even though it's brand new, because at Disney World, they've experienced a lot of outages with the animal audio animatronics and Tiana's Bayou adventure, causing the ride to shut down numerous times a day. Not sure what's the issue with them. And as you know, this is tales, oldest time for Disney. You know this goes rides, the resistance, this guy, you know, everything they've opened in the past 10 years. Okay? And we're just lucky that when we wrote it, it wasn't, yeah, we got broken down, yeah, um, but they're finally gonna open it in November. They also announced two new lounges coming to Disney World, one we already knew about, the pirates inspired one at Magic Kingdom. People like, there's like, rumors, like, two weeks ago, they're like, Oh, they're not doing it anymore. And I'm like, No, they are. But like, why would they tell you first of all? And so they did confirm it, so that is happening, and they didn't say where, though, because at first everybody thought it was gonna happen Tortuga tavern, but then people are now speculating gonna happen, right? So right outside the pirates ride, I don't know. I still think it's gonna happen. Tortuga tavern. Does it really matter? No, no, I don't think it does. But they're also opening a new lounge at Spaceship Earth. So this was formerly, like, the GM, like, GM, right? Yeah, GM lounge. GM Lounge, which is, like, for private events, like, you'd have weddings there, um, corporate events, stuff like that would happen there. It's right above Spaceship Earth. You can, like, see there's, like, Windows on spaceship Earth. If you're this one, I'm excited, yeah, if you're like, on the side of World Showcase looking at Spaceship Earth, you can see all the windows up there. That's where it's gonna be. So those are both playing to open next year. So quick turnaround on those. I mean, you're never gonna get to see the inside of that shit at Spaceship Earth. That's gonna be booked and busy. Yeah, so that's gonna be unfortunate, but it is what it is. And honestly, I don't know I'm I like how it's gonna be pirates the Magic Kingdom. I am just a purist in the sense. I do not believe in alcohol Magic Kingdom. But you know that ship sailed when they opened Skipper canteen, I just hope that they keep that shit inside there, like I just really hope they don't let people exit with alcohol. I'd assume that it'd be inside if they're billing it as a lounge and they want, you know, I'm just hoping they don't let people, like, walk out with it after like, but I think, though it's like every other like, like, August, cantina and stuff like that, they want you to buy a $30 drink in a special glass, and you're gonna be there and you're gonna stay there. Yeah, so I think that's, that's just my biggest fear. I'm like, don't let that because, sorry, that's not what Walt would have wanted. No, I know you, but she's a lie. And say, well, oh no. And not just about alcohol, other things too. Oh, what would No, he wouldn't okay. And also, slay to is it like Roy? Junior, junior, junior boy, the third showed up to D 23 unlike some other Disney's we know who on a yap about the company, this man showed up has been helping, helped with the animatronic of Walt. So this is Walt's great, great nephew. Just nephew. Great No, great nephew, yeah, great nephew. I think great, great to be Walt's great nephew. So salute to him for showing up wearing fucking Mickey ears. That's a sleigh. He was happy to be there. He was happy to be there also with all of these, I just need to say too, how, whenever they like the beginning parts of all of this, watching this live, I would just they would say something. I'd be like, pass or like, approved, you're good. Like, keep like next, approved, good. I am the board of directors. Okay, so where are we at? I lost my spot. Oh, man. Okay. Reimagine Test Track is opening back up in 2025 yay. We were hoping for, we were assuming, but yeah, until we get, actually get something we and the thing is, too we could actually get up in 2026 or 2027 because you know how that should always gets pushed back. Um, one thing that's exciting is that they're going to be adding new adventures to, uh, featuring the Mandalorian and grogu to Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run in 2026 I didn't really think about this because, you know, they do all these overlays for Star Tours, but Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run is the same thing. But, like, they never said that, like they would potentially do that. So this is cool. I don't think that was in their cards so quickly after it opened. Oh, I agree. And I think they were all shook to their core whenever, a year into opening, you could get on that ride in a 30 minute wait with no problem. Yeah, and I really like that ride, but to know, a lot of people don't, because, like, unless you're the pilot, then you just can't see shit, right, or you're just like, stressed out the whole time. And I think maybe for me, it's, like, it doesn't matter if I'm in the back because I'm taller, so I could still see everything, but like, if you're shorter than, like, obviously I get it exactly. So I think that's good that they're doing that it's always nice to be able to keep, not that that's an old ride, per se, but like, it's just nice to keep things fresh as they can. Oh, yeah. So it's easy. The one thing I'm Well, I'm excited, honestly, for basically all this, which is groundbreaking. Be honest with you, but the one thing I have begged for and petitioned for for years is for Disney world to have a nighttime parade again. And we are finally getting at everybody, and it's coming next summer. It's called Disney starlight. It looks such a sleigh. I'm so excited, so excited. I just, I think I just have a lot of nostalgia with Disney nighttime parades. Because as a kid going to Disney, my family were big nighttime Park people, and I always remember the Electrical Parade. And so I like, I'm so excited for this. And then when we went to Disneyland for the first time we saw paint the night, which was so good, yeah. And that's like, I have a lot of memories of Disney parades, like, whenever I went as a kid, like the one time that I went as a kid, but it was all afternoon parades and so, like, I remember Illuminations, but that's pretty much it. So when we saw paint the night, I was floored. Like. Was the best thing that I've ever seen in my life. And we were lucky we even got to see that, because I don't think, I think it ran for two or three months. Yeah, so this I'm really, really excited for. And you know what I actually just thought about is so they actually didn't, they didn't announce a replacement for festival fantasy. Oh, I don't know what's going on with that. Say I, if you're a professional fancy I, I don't mind it, but I think over it 10 years, Okay, we're done. I think it's time for anyone for sure, let's move on. Just because you fixed the fucking dragon doesn't mean we have to drag this out any longer. I just like, I don't think that, like, because I've seen it so many times that it doesn't do it for me anymore. Well, I just like, don't really care. So I don't really think about it. One thing is, you in the same breath, Disneyland's gotten like five parades in the same time frame that we've had one amazing, same Parade, which is insane. So I was the one with just saw magic happens. Yes, oh my gosh. So good. So please, just like, Yeah, bring that energy over to the East Coast, yeah, I beg you, we need a new parade at Magic Kingdom, like a daytime parade. So I don't know they need to do something, but the thing is, too parades are something they announce all the time, and they without, like a conference or anything. So I'm not gonna put it out of the question. Um, it might not be till like 2026 at this point, since they're doing this next year, but I'd love to get a new parade sometime soon. And honestly, I'd love to see parades in other parks sometime soon as well, like in the early 2000s when there was a parade at every park. Yeah, bring back the stars and motor cars parade. Oh, I love bring back the jam and jungle parade. Bring back that double decker bus to Epcot. Bring it back. I loved the tapestry nations parade, yeah, I've got that was so cool with the stilts and stuff, yeah? So bring it back. I don't know how you're gonna do it, but do it okay. And honestly, I'm shocked that Disneyland, in no regard, got any announcements for any night time shows, any parades, anything. And considering this is now going to be the 70th anniversary of Disneyland, well, they hit it and announce anything, yeah, John St Louis came out something, sang and, like, did a bit announce the 70th, and then, like, they're, like, coming soon with no details, which was really odd, isn't the 70th? I think next year, yeah, next year, because of 55 Yeah. So, I mean, I'm sure they have stuff up their sleeve for that, but I'm just shocked. They didn't announce anything, but they did also announce new nighttime spectaculars for Disneyland Paris, that starts January of next year, and then Tokyo starts September 20, so literally next month. So lots of nighttime entertainment look forward to. I'm so excited for that magic kingdom. One, it's going to be an absolute fucking nightmare, considering how much of a nightmare the Jerome show was at Disney Springs. I mean, obviously that's, like, open to the public, so it's very different, but, like, the logistics, I'm not looking forward to, but I am excited to see it nonetheless. Yeah, I think it's one of those things. It's like, I will suffer through for a parade, I just can't suffer through for fireworks. Yeah, I agree. Because I feel like, with parade, you can, like, sit down and, like, just camp there and eat a snack and like, yeah, yeah, it's not a big deal, yep. But I think that's like, everything I went through that pretty quickly. I feel like, Yeah, we didn't touch on any of the stuff that they announced movie wise. But honestly, it was a ton of secret ground breaking. What I do want to briefly touch on, though, is the fact that so many people, they should open the fifth gate, they should open a fifth gate. Do you realize like it would take so much more than so many people act like it would to open a fifth park there? Well, I think they don't have the land for it like I think my main thing is, they're looking, you know, 50 years in the future. I want to make sure that they can expand how they take whatever everyone else is tapped out, yeah, and B, if you want something, you know, they're trying to solve a short term problem with profits within the next five years. And if you open up another gate, like, with the way that Disney operates and their level of detail and attention and how their budgets work, like you're not going to see anything for a decade, yeah, or it would be half assed, which, like, right? You know, like, realistically, like, this is what we're gonna get because, and, well, I'm not like, for or against a fifth gate. I just like, I don't know. I would prefer them expand the parks now than them open another park as a whole, just because. And the only reason people are saying this is because of epic universe. That is the only reason. But in my personal opinion, which I know a lot of people will probably disagree with me on this. I still do not see universal as a main competitor to Disney World. I think they serve, for the most part, two different types of people. Just because a lot of locals and cast members go to both does not mean the average Disney attendee goes to both by any means. Ends. I mean, I've only been there a few times in my lifetime. I've only been there once. Like, will we go again once epic universe opens? Yeah, probably not. Like, right after it opens, but probably soon ish after. But the only reason people are saying that is because of epic universe. And honestly, I think epic universe is just a hodgepodge of shit that they threw together, which, like, I'm not saying that certain parts of it won't be cool. I'm not saying, well, that's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying it won't be successful. But for people to act like epic universe is, like, well planned out, whatever. No, it's not okay. They have the most random shit. Who asked for a How To Train Your Dragon area of a park, yeah? What's kind of odd, like that shit makes no fucking sense. Like, what are you talking about? Why build a whole minions land that you've built made a million movies off at this point, when you can build, I guess, How to Train Your Dragon part? Like, what? And universal. I mean, I think too, you know, this is just my opinion. Universal and Disney are competitors because it's just two different you know, I think recently, Universal's had some successes with things like the velocicoaster and things of that sort. But at the end of the day, half their shit is still screen rides, everybody and they're not good screen rides. I think the big thing is in like Disney, if something is outdated and not like, well loved, because, like, if something is like, people would ride, if they got rid of it, then they don't touch like, right? But with something else, like, like diner land, where it's kind of just been like, abandoned. Universal would keep it and not touch it, because there's a lot of pieces of their parks that are, like, outdated, but they like, are like, well, there's a ride here, so we're gonna count it. And like, people are like, they're gonna pretend people are happy with it. And Disney goes in and tears it down and puts something brand new and keeps their parks up to date. And universal, instead, is like, well, we don't have room, so we're going to just open up a brand new well, like, not to mention, a lot of people think universal in Hollywood's a complete shit show. They're just building up a universe to be like, okay, just like, ignore all the shit that we have issues with in our both Orlando and our Hollywood theme parks, like, and all these rides that are just screen rides. I think too, it's like my whole issue is, you know, our like, little extended family we travel with, so, like us, my parents, my sister, her husband and their two kids. Okay, good. Age gap between everybody we have a baby through my parents are, you know, 60s and about to be 70. Like we could not take them to universal and everybody be happy, right? My mom wouldn't be able to ride a lot of stuff because she gets motion sickness. The kids could barely ride shit, because right? Requirements and stuff isn't as insane, to be honest, even like Cat in the Hat, I don't even know far a six year old nephew the cat. Why is there a height requirement for a fucking cat in the hat? Rides the cat in the fucking hat, bitch. It's a dark ride to the Cat in the Hat. Like there's just things that universal that don't make any sense. And like, we were talking about this, how, like the whole, like, coloss continent area, first of all, that whatever fever dream attraction that they finally fucking closed there. What was that even called? I don't even know what it was called. You know, it was weird. Okay, I went on that the first time we were in this universal together, we were like, What the fuck is this? Like? I thought I was gonna be kidnapped or some shit. That was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced my life that takes up so much space, which obviously they finally now closed it. But that whole land, quote, land is still there, and all there is there's a restaurant. Like, their use of space is insane. Like, it's not efficient whatsoever. And then they try to, like, build screen rides, to try to make up, first, the little amount of space they have, but then they're not good. And then, like, for a long time, they're like, Oh, this is the Jurassic Park area, the ride or area of the park. But then it was just one ride. They now finally built velocicoaster. But what 25 years later, like, I don't know. And like the Harry Potter rides, like the one the Forbidden Journey That shit aged horribly. Aged horribly in terms of, like, the structure of the ride, not smooth whatsoever. When we wrote it, the screen was just so blurry I couldn't even tell what was going on. It's nauseating. And then, even then, they build going on alley and still only build one ride in it. Yeah, that one, at least, is significantly better. But I think the best ride still is Hagrid. I don't know. I still think, like, it's nothing compared to, like, distance, right? Like, you know, it's still just a bunch of screens, but this time it's on a roller coaster, right? Like, you know, so I don't know. And like, transformers, screen ride, Spider Man screen ride, oh, Fast and the Furious. Screen ride. Jimmy Fallon, who asked for a Jimmy Fallon ride? Literally, nobody, nobody asked for Jimmy Fallon ride, minions screen ride. Rest in peace to Shrek, but that was a screen ride too. But then the new minions ride, that also replaced that also a screen ride, but now you just stand on a people mover at the same time, like everything's a screen. Mean, yeah, everything's a screen, except for the handful roller coasters, which I'm glad people love roller coasters. I like the roller coasters at Universal as well. I'm not being a hater to that, but everything else is the Kong ride. Oh, my arch nemesis. Oh, my gosh, no. Like, I don't know. So all these people who are forcing Disney to look at Universal as a competitor and make Disney panic is honestly crazy to me at this point, and I'm intrigued about epic universe, but you know, I'm gonna have to see all the rides and make sure none of them are cop outs, which I know some of them are gonna be cop outs anyway, so whatever, at least they're finally actually listening to people about Nintendo World and being like, Okay, we're gonna, like, make this stuff a little bit better, but honestly, they're still building that Mario Kart ride, which was a huge disappointment to a lot of people, yeah, but at least Donkey Kong ride, which will be cool third time that they're building, yeah, and that's well, and that's why, like, I'm happy that Disney's realizing, before they really started doing it too much, that copying and pasting the same ride doesn't always work. Doesn't work. And it's like, if you want to do the same IP, but do something totally different, go for it, yeah. Because, like, universal, they just copy and paste everything across all their coasts. And, like, my thing is, like, you wonder why no one wants to go to, like, I don't really have any desire to go to Universal Hollywood because, besides, like, the back lot tour, because everything's the same, yeah, so that's like, but I'll go out to Disneyland once every few years, because it's totally different. I can't wait to go to the international parks. But, like, I didn't even realize there was an international universal park until, like, Mario came out. Yeah, and there's like, multiple and I had no clue, because, like, nobody talks about them, and they're the same. And so like, and if you enjoy universal, like, I'm like, that's not an insult to universal as a whole. But it's just the people who are trying to act like, just because there's both, like, they have them in Orlando and Los Angeles area, that they're competitors. Like, I just don't see it that way. I really don't, because I think they catered to two different groups of people, and universal was well aware of that up until recently. Now they're trying to be like a family park, but I remember all as a kid, oh, we're for the big kids. We're for the you know, like, that was, like, their whole shtick was that they were more for, like, older kids. And, you know, because Disney was quote, baby and universal wasn't. But then now they're realizing they're missing out on a huge market. And you know, what do you do? Yeah, and I think that's like, back when universal was starting to do that, then like, Disney panicked. It opened Hollywood studios, and it was kind of like they had no clue what was going on, even though I've always loved Hollywood Studios. But like, it was kind of like that was their answer to universal. Then universal opened is an adventure, which was also like, kind of a nightmare during, like the opening times of it. And now universal, yeah, adventure, that's what I mean. Like there's a lot of stuff that, instead of renovating it, they're opening up. Opening up a third gate, yeah, because, or we'll pay them a fourth because their water park counts, which, to me, it doesn't so but, like, that's how universal, like, they have the budget to do one or the other, yeah? And Disney's choosing to renovate and keep things fresh, which I think they have the luxury to do, because they have four huge theme parks. And I think that's smarter to keep things like refreshed than try to open up something that you don't want to hire for the infrastructure for Yeah, or can't, you know. So keep things Yeah, because if Disney was to open up another theme park, they'd need more hotels, they would need 1000s of more cast members like it would just on just over the last you know. Think of it like there hasn't been anything since animal kingdom. And that's what been what 26 525, years over. So it's like they have everything down to a science. From like this is how long a bus should take from here to here. This is all the transportation that's available once you throw a whole other, like, anything in there, yeah, it completely blows up every 25 years of research. Yeah, that's half the time that Disney's been in existence. Yeah. So it's like, that would just be detrimental, a nightmare. And whenever they're trying to, like, gain money that I don't think that's well and, like, I'm already nervous for epic universe, because, from my understanding, you're gonna have to park at the universal parking garage and then be bussed over to Epic universe. I think it's gonna be like, that's gonna be a nightmare. Sorry, that's going to be a nightmare. I think it's gonna be a lot more of an I think the only reason that people are asking for it is because all we've seen from Epic universe is essentially concept art. So it's like, I think once you actually get in there, like, of course there's, it's going to be neat because it's new, but I think once the initial like, excitement wears off, it's going to be a nightmare. And, like, I don't think it's going to be what universal like, thinks that it's going to be, yeah, for them. But, I mean, I'm curious. I'm mainly curious about. All the universals, monsters area of that me too, bull park, but I don't know. I would never go there within the first year of opening, yeah, or at least, at least the first six months, like, because I just like, know how that shit works. Yeah, it's gonna be really, really busy. So I don't know that's just my kind of two cents on people being so butthurt about a fifth gate and trying to all in the name of epic universe, you know? And it's just to me, those serve two like, obviously things overlap. But let's be honest, the majority of people who are going to universal and Disney World on a regular basis are locals and cast members. That's about it. Yeah, it's not even all locals. It's mainly cast members. Yeah, well, it's a fraction of everybody. So, um, at the end of the day, I'm, I'm really excited about everything that Disney announced. So as long as they don't go out on any of it, cancel a bunch of stuff next year, quietly, like, if all of this actually pans out, I think that it's a really, really solid expansion to what we already have, which is really solid, like a wide variety of people, too, right? So overall, much better than the last D 23 Yeah, definitely. But I think that is all we have for today. You guys, thanks again for listening, and let us know your thoughts on D 23 this year, what you're most excited for? Some if you're not excited about something, let us know, because you know we're all for an unsolicited opinion around here. 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