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Disneyland Handcrafted - GEEKS CORNER - Episode #799
Jan 21, 2026
Welcome to Geeks Corner! This week, the Geeks have only two topics to talk about from the realm of Disney and positive stuff. The first topic is about the upcoming expansion of the timeline at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland. The Geeks cover this comprehensively before pivoting to the second topic. The second topic is the upcoming documentary Disneyland Handcrafted. The geeks share their thoughts about this new Leslie Iwerks documentary ahead of its arrival on Disney+ and YouTube on January 22, 2026. We hope you enjoy this episode of Geeks Corner and join the conversation in the comments! We'll see you 'round the corner!
THE WEEK IN GEEK
Darth Vader Coming to Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as Part of Expanded Timeline https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/darth-vader-coming-to-disneylands-star-wars-galaxys-edge-as-timeline-expands/ GUIDE: Where to Find Characters From Different Eras in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Expanded Timeline at Disneyland https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/guide-where-to-find-characters-from-different-eras-in-star-wars-galaxys-edge-expanded-timeline-at-disneyland/ The Force is Strong With Changes Coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/the-force-is-strong-with-the-changes-coming-to-star-wars-galaxys-edge-at-disneyland/ Leslie Iwerks Gives Gift to Disney Fans with Disneyland Handcrafted https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/leslie-iwerks-gives-gift-to-disney-fans-with-disneyland-handcrafted/ Disneyland Handcrafted Podcast Discussion with Adam Bankhurst https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/disneyland-handcrafted-disney-and-positive-stuff/ Disneyland Handcrafted: The Magic of Creation https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/disneyland-handcrafted-the-magic-of-creation/ Disneyland Handcrafted - Mr. Daps’ Review https://dapsmagic.com/2026/01/disneyland-handcrafted-mr-daps-review/
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Welcome to Geeks Corner. I'm Mr. Daps. And I'm Katie. Over there. You are. Yes, you are. And did you know that Disneyland Handcrafted
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was put on hold after development phase? And because of this, it almost wasn't
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made. You actually do know this, but I did know that. Um, yes, cuz you were at the event that I was at, and that made for a fun night.
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But we're going to talk about that in just a few minutes. Before we get into all of that, what should people do, Katie?
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You should go to places, I think. Oh my gosh, there's a frog in my throat. Uh,
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you should go to YouTube. We didn't do this last week. So now,
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anywhere you're watching. Yeah. Any You should subscribe. That's what you should do right here, right
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now. Why not? Uh, you should also go to Dabsmagic HQ at patreon.com/dapsmagic
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or dabsmagic.comdapsmagic hq. Is that what I heard?
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Dapshqdabshq. I should make like a little sorry lower third thing.
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Yeah, you sure should. And then also go into the comments and uh share what you're watching
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or share where you're watching. What? No. Weird. Give us uh Sorry, I'm rusty,
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guys. Whatever. uh share something in the comments. We do a section towards the end called
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comments comments. There you go. And it has been a very big week in Disney news, Disney and positive
1:43
stuff news, but we're not going to get into everything because we could just keep going forever. Andy does want to make his own uh opinions known about
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them apparently. So, we'll see how that goes. But first off,
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perhaps most exciting Uhhuh. Not most exciting, but it's up there. Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.
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Oh boy. They're expanding the timeline. They're adding new characters. They're they're changing up shops and props and maybe
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even Oga's Cantina. Um, yes, they're bringing the original trilogy characters
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and storyline into Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, which means you will now when you go to Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, you could
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find characters anywhere from the original series. Well, I should do this numerically, huh? Anywhere from six
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through nine of the Skywalker Saga along with characters of the Mandoververse.
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And that's going to be interesting. Also, they're going to be in regions of
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Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. So, I made this cool little handy dandy graphic thing,
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and as you can see, it goes from east to west chronologically. So, the oldest
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stuff is on the east side of Galaxy's Edge, which is where the Galactic Civil War or the original trilogy would be
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found. So, that's where you're going to find your Han Solos, your your Princess Leia, your Chewbacca, your um Darth
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Vader down in what's currently the the First Order camp or Stormtroopers even uh which tried to
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arrest me on Sunday, but these were First Order. I was like, well, different stormtroopers. Stormtrooper.
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Stormtrooper. Yes. Um then in the middle area, which is the marketplace, which is basically
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where you find them today, you're going to find the characters of the New Republic. So you're going to find your your Mando and Grou, your Ahsoka Tano,
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your Boba Fett, which is funny because if you change his outfit a little bit, he could also be in the Galactic Civil
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War area, but he's not. No. Then you keep heading west. I don't know
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if it's actually west on Batu, but for Disneyland, it's it's west, I think. Um, and then you get to the Age of the
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Resistance, which is where you would find Ry
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and Ray. Um, that's the only one that's been announced, but throughout the
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basically anywhere you might find Chewbacca cuz in my head, he fits in all of these.
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Uh, R2-D2. Yeah, all of these. So, you know, they they will be wandering around as well.
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So, to answer Chris Glass's question, assuming we get the prequels one day, where would you squeeze in Jar? The answer is also everywhere.
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And we don't know where Jar Jar's story end, do we? That's why I'm saying Jar goes everywhere. For all we know, Jar Jar just keeps on
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going. So, Misa and the Mandalorian. Best best bet is Galactic Civil War.
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Maybe maybe he was a general for the the Rebellion. We don't know. Maybe he was one of those senators that just didn't
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do anything. And then when they're making the new uh the new republic, he just keeps being a senator and doesn't
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do anything. And then he turns out he's not there when the planet's blown up. So he actually makes it into the age of
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resistance as well. So maybe he's like Chewbacca. Maybe he's just an Ogas. I like the idea of him being like Chewbacca where he could go anywhere. Um
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that was what I was pitching. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there there we go. And and I'm sure if Yie were on, she would
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love that, too. It's true. Um anyway, this is a fundamental change
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in how Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is operated kind of because Disneyland has
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already been incrementally changing and adding more eras with with the New Republic stuff um or the Mandoversee.
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What do you think of them completely unlocking though the original trilogy?
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It's about time. Honestly, I think and it's something that you and I have talked about since the land opened. Um,
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there's just so many people that just don't get it. It's like, oh, it's Okay, let's let's throw Sonic branding
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aside. Let's throw all of that. Mhm. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And you need
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to know this, too. Star Wars Land, a a guest who's not done their research,
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whatever, they go, "Oh, boy." At Disneyland, they built a Star Wars Land.
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What would you expect to see at a Star Wars Land? Darth Vader. Darth Vader. Darth Vader.
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Darth Vader. Chewbacca. Maybe Han Solo. Like you're expecting classic Star Wars.
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And Princess Leia. Did you say that? I did not. Okay. Princess Leia. Uh, and like you expect to see the
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Millennium Falcon. You expect to see maybe a Death Star. You expect like these are things that you like expect to
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see. And then you're like, "Oh," and you know, they did those new movies. Maybe there's like uh one of one of them Ray
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Skywalkers walking around. Sure. And we saw actively the amount of people that
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were so like, "Wait, where's even on the opening day, where's Darth Vader?" Like there was obviously a lot of super
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fans there on the opening day that knew exactly what they were getting into, had watched every video that Disneyland had
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or Disney had released and knew this is the era we're getting into. But there
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were also many like, "Oh, I thought there'd be Darth Vader." Or, "Oh, I thought Obi-Wan Kenobi would be here." Which I think would be a wonderful
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addition if you're soliciting advice. Uh, Disney, can you imagine Obi-Wan Kenobi walking around the Millennium
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Falcon? What What are we thinking? Are we thinking like Kenobi era? Are we thinking old man Kenobi? What are are we
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thinking prequels era? There's not a ton of options by what's
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given to us. Those are three options. We have Galactic Civil War and everything beyond
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that. He's he's a ghost. So, it's old man Kenobi and you get an old man to play him and it would be amazing.
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Um, you just get old man Kenobi easy. Yes. But, uh, but as time has gone by,
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I've continued to like I like to go in and take pictures of the characters there. And one of the things I notice
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very frequently is with the the new characters, you see younger dads and
8:02
their kids or younger parents I should say and their kids excited about
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Mando, Ahsoka, Kylo Ren. Um, everybody's excited about Chewbacca. Like I even on
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Sunday I was in the park and and I saw lots of young families and kids excited
8:22
about the characters in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. I saw everybody excited about R2-D2 cuz why wouldn't you be?
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It's it's everybody's excited about Chewbacca and that that went through all
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age groups. And then there was one one interaction out of dozens I watched with
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an older group that was probably all retired and there was four of them and
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clearly had no clue who Kylo Ren was but decided they were going to try to interact with them anyway.
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Oh, that's fun. It didn't go so well. Oh, yeah. Um cuz there it was just like two different languages happening and they're like
9:02
using references from wrong periods and and Kylo Ren is saying look Kylo Ren
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does and it just was not connecting and it was very funny and they had fun with it but it it just it it didn't work. Um
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that was also the other piece that was and and listen
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was doing what Disney does best and they were I'm looking at my camera. Okay, let let me have this moment with my people.
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All right, have your camera. So Disney did what Disney does and they were like we're going to tell this
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intricate story that is deeply woven in this that the other but also there is
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definitely a problem of so we are time locked specifically between the eighth and the ninth film. Um Kylo has not
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broken his mask yet. Um General Orana is still around. I was like, throw it all
9:55
out the window. I I just want like which is not Star Wars. Like you can tell Star Wars basic
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General Aana and then over there I can see Princess Leia and I will have the best time of my life. Okay. Like it was
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even as a a fan of Star Wars, if you could call me that. Um, even as a fan of
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Star Wars, it was sometimes confusing for me or just almost felt like putting
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it in a box where I was like, "Oh, that would have been so cool, but can't because the time lock." So, I loved it when it came out.
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Uhhuh. Because it fit with the time that we were at with new Star Wars movies. And I
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was like, "Okay, I get this. I think it's a good way to incorporate the new the new Star Wars movies." The trick
10:38
being is I quickly realized and I like to watch guests is exactly what I was
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saying is it wasn't connecting with all of the ages and clearly Disney has recognized as well as well. But um I think it's a fantastic
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thing for them to do. Like it's it's a good way to I'm not going to say retcon this, but it's a good way to make it
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more accessible to all people in a way that you don't have to completely
11:04
rebuild the land and make it Tatooine or Endor or something. Um which is already
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very familiar to people. I like it being a blank slate blank slate land. And if you've read some of
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the books, it's not basically every character has gone there. Like they've they've built in some
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backstories for, you know, Darth Vader and Anakin are there or Anakin's there at one point. I
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think Darth Vader's there. I mean, Anakin and Darth Vader. I actually think
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Padme was there because you know what Padme's favorite drink is? That's right. Aldderani and Teal wine.
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Yes. And so there's there's lots of connections that that build into the world and and fit with Batu. And it'll
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be fun to see how this is received at Disneyland.
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And then if anything is a pre or previous history is
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any indicator I should say is we will start seeing changes like this coming to
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Florida at some point too. Especially if it's as popular as I think it like I expect this to
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revitalize. Not that it needs revitalization cuz on Sunday I was there and the place was packed. Yeah. Like anytime there's
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characters out, people love it and there was people getting all the three different or different types of I guess
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I only saw two um of of the milks and everybody was lining up to get their
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last shot at Ogas before it closed today. and like there is a lot going on and um so it'll be interesting to see
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how it it's it's received but I predict it's going to be received very well and
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then I would tend to guess you're going to start seeing this in um in Florida as
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well at some point just because I I think there's going to be money to
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be made and honestly I'm surprised if I was to go on my like weird business analytical
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side uh it's surprising to me that Florida did not. Thank you. Surprising me that Florida didn't do this first. Uh
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because Florida uh really they don't do anything first in in Star Wars. It's always been us.
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Well, yes. I meant more in the their uh the guest base at Walt Disney World is
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more tourist based. Oh, yeah. I agree with that completely. I just think they've they've they don't like to change things as often cuz I was
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you can't make experiences experiments. No, I agree with you on that. I was just saying something. Yeah. Anyway, I would have thought that
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this would have happened in Florida first because it's like you have all these guests that are coming for this once in a-lifetime trip and it's like,
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oh, they're maybe going to be the people that this appeals to the most as where Disneyland is a lot of annual passholder
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base. But I think that's the exact reason they're not. Okay. Is because it's a once in a-lifetime thing. And so if you're going expecting
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one thing Yeah. and then they're testing something like on the off chance that this
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actually doesn't work for some reason, which would would shock me. Like that would that would
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blow me away. Um then the damage is like, oh, some regular guests that come
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multiple times a year or tourists that also come quite frequently. Well, they
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can go to it next time. And um and I think there's not as much risk
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here, which is why we got Mando first, which is why we got we're also closer to where a lot of the stuff is made, so
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that probably Anyway, I was just We're going to move along because we are going to get on to the main part of the
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show tonight, which is quite exciting. Disneyland Handcrafted comes to Disney
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Plus and YouTube in just two days. Hard to believe it. We saw it almost two weeks ago.
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And uh it is still stuck in my brain. But before we get into Yeah. And the music, too.
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We could we could do an entire episode. And we we'll do that once it's in the land. We'll talk about that. But uh we
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got to experience an incredible night at the Walt Disney Studios seeing the blue
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carpet premiere of Disneyland Handcrafted. And we're going to show you the trailer real quick. We're going to also comment on it of things that we
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noticed. And um sports casting but not sports. Yes. Maybe this is the first try with this. We will see. We don't have our
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jackets though. We need the jackets. But anyway, let's see how this goes and works cuz we're also testing uh
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technology. Yeah. Oh, it's working. I think.
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So, if you can't hear us, this is this is what you're seeing at
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not the first scene. It's not. No. I thought it was going to be and and
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there's other stuff before. We won't we won't spoil it too much, but um I will say the beginning surprised me.
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the beginning surprised me as well. This is a really crazy not to be like
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acting like I'm a director doing commentary but like this is the really crazy shot to me because like you look at that
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and if you know where that building is you're like wait but how is this how does Disneyland
15:57
get here? And it's interesting that we just saw Walt and the guy from ABC because we really don't see talking
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heads at all during this and that was kind of an interesting thing as well. I also thought that the
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creation of the BM was absolutely like yeah I know that they pushed all that dirt making physical
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burn out but like watching describe this great part also I knew this is not a good idea
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if you're from OSHA just don't watch anything that's happening definitely get into that
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uh just like also the thing that I'm amazed by all
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the time let's visit Disneyland now I think we've now seen the entire ity
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that you see Walt on camera as a talking head in this Yeah, pretty much documentary was a
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great You don't see a lot of him as a talking head. Not as a talking head, but they show the clips from You see stuff like this. You don't see
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him. They show the clips from a few. Yes.
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Pressures were tremendous on everybody. We all live down there and we work.
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Don't look. Uh, most people in Hollywood thought Disneyland would be a Hollywood spectane to see these things that are
17:10
still alive and well in Disney. Most people and I'm just going to give you a quick
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pitch is clock and I are working on a photo next episode that's going to be loosely related to this.
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And I will say the approach of how you see things at Disneyland will change
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once you have seen this documentary. Yeah. And um and and that goes from
17:34
things in Fantasy Land to Main Street to Frontier Land to
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Tomorrow. Like all of the original lands, you now notice something very different
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or you approach it in a very different fashion than when you you did before you've seen this. Yeah. My favorite was uh uh Galaxy's
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Edge and then a close second was DCA. You know what? They don't even show us making or they don't even show them
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making the parking lot. I want to see making of the parking lot.
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I don't know. That's a really good question. We'll come back to that during comments. Um Oh, boy.
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But yeah, we don't see the parking lot being made. I don't think we do see uh No, you don't. We do see shots of the parking lot.
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Yeah. But you don't see the parking lot being made. And I will say the way this is
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structured is very fascinating cuz it's chronological from basically a year
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before leading up to opening day. And there there's a few things that they play with before and at the beginning at
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the end. But um but you literally do see blank slate as we just saw in this
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trailer up to hey this is your land Disneyland. Come on in. like they're
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they're showing it off. And um
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this was an interesting approach to how to do this because they don't use
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talking heads. Like they don't have the interviews that are from like they didn't go and say,
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"Hey Bob, you were there. Can you talk about 70 years ago?" Instead, they went
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and they found a bunch of old clips that were either used or not used back in the day and used those to narrate this
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documentary. And so, you would hear people talking over what was happening in front of you and telling the story,
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but you didn't see them like sitting, you know, the stereotypical, the camera slightly offc center and you're looking
19:31
at the producer as you talk. What was the thing that they did the documentary for? was Disney where
19:36
they're all on the 33 balcony and they're all slightly offcentered. Was it It's in uh Link. It's in Opera House
19:43
right now. They're using clips on it. Yeah. But yeah, it's that they're the balcony. Rivers America's behind them. They're
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slightly off center. They're like, "Yeah." So I think that but they do it on everything, you know. I'm sure it's an Imagineering story. I'm
19:55
I'm spacing it at the moment, but um but they didn't do that for this and and they don't like there's a couple moments
20:02
where they actually show clips from television. great, but like those weren't really the stars of it. They
20:08
were more of of moments and times that showed, hey, this is where we're at in this process. And what they did show is
20:16
not only Disneyland being built, but also how they filmed this. So, you
20:22
actually see the tower where some of the hyperlapse cameras were at that they had
20:29
to go through and update every once in a while. And and it was weird going back to Disneyland right after seeing this
20:34
because I was standing in the hub and I'm like, "Yeah, about here is where that tower was." And and then you think
20:41
like, "This is before there's a Partners statue. This is before there's a Matterhorn. This is before so many
20:47
things that we're familiar with in Disneyland." And so before like all of Tomorrowland
20:53
today's Yeah. I mean, like the rocket's back, but um um yeah, the rocket's back there, but um
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but it's very weird to look at all of these familiar but weird things because it's not it's not quite right. Like
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things have grown, things have developed, and and that's a very fun thing to see happen over the course of
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seven decades. And then um I think another big part of this documentary is
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I think most people know the financial risk of Disneyland and most people have a
21:28
recognition of like oh it was built really fast. Yes. I don't think there's a a
21:35
in the front of your mind recognition of how close this thing was to disaster.
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There's not even when you've heard the story a million times of oh the high heels were sinking and like you're like which which
21:47
yeah that's don yeah but you know you hear those stories
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all the time and you're like oh haha but like water versus you know bathrooms that's a
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that's a better version these are the stories you've heard a million times
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um but what I took away and I I think I referenced this in the article I wrote
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is really the infrastructure of uh Disneyland was built in like 6 months.
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Everything aesthetic was built in like three. It was so fast. And that's like cuz they were like
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there's it goes into the breakdown of how far we are how far we are out from opening. And every time me knowing how
22:33
the story ends, I'd go, "Oh, they're not gonna make it. Oh, they're not there. That's there's no
22:38
way." Because like what you see in front of you in Disneyland Handcrafted, it
22:44
makes no logical sense other than it was a bunch of people that were working
22:49
basically around the clock to make this thing happen. Well, and it shows the power of a strong
22:55
vision with a passionate leader with with lieutenants around them that
23:00
may not understand or believe in the vision, but they believe in the man or the person. So, they're pushing forward and
23:06
then that just trickles out and and honestly, what is it? Is it the which World of Color? Is it the current? No,
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it was the one before it uh World of Color one where it's about the trickle effect or the ripple effect. And it
23:18
really is that kind of a thing of Walt's influence just out and about and reaching the front
23:25
line, whether it's it's, you know, somebody doing electric or somebody painting or whatever,
23:32
making bricks, you see so many different elements of this. And um and then and then you just
23:40
realize that if they don't meet the deadline of opening in July, the funding
23:45
dries up and then the park doesn't happen. And technically, I mean, it sounds like it would go into
23:51
being owned by the bank or or ABC. like there's there's a lot of things that if
23:59
you don't hit that deadline, there's so many other things that could
24:04
go wrong with not just Disneyland, but the company and Walt going broke again
24:10
and you whatever. And and that was fascinating to see just the domino
24:15
effect of like, oh no, this has to happen. And then also just hearing how
24:20
they deal with with these problems and some of them they kind of just go me and
24:26
and they don't deal with them. They just keep pushing forward and and you know at one point they talk about Roy where it's
24:31
like oh don't deal with or don't bother Walt with problems bring them to me and and that was fascinating and just
24:38
hearing all of these different little pieces of the puzzle that make this work and it really is a fantastic
24:44
documentary. Um, one other thing that that has to be recognized and talked about and we've talked about it before
24:50
in several times I think now is all of the audio for the videos unless it's
24:58
talking was recreated for this film and because
25:03
all of the video was shot without any audio. Yeah. And and so Leslie I works
25:08
who just did a phenomenal job went up to Skywalker Sound and in one of the
25:13
interviews I heard her say it sounded like they did this in like a day or two.
25:19
That's nuts. And and so they did all the fully and and we got told this before we saw this.
25:25
So that's why I'm telling you because now you were you were cursed with this blessed burden that we were cursed with.
25:31
You will now be watching and listening as you see this documentary when a bell
25:37
rings or when a uh uh u the spike is
25:42
driven into the railroad. Like you're going to start noticing these things and you're going to notice how one how well
25:47
they line up. Two, how natural they all feel. Whether it's the bell on the Mark
25:53
Twain or the different sounds of spikes as different people hit different spikes
25:59
for the railroad. like it's incredible attention to detail and and that's
26:04
really where I came from away from this going yes this is Disneyland handcrafted
26:09
because Disneyland was handcrafted but you could easily say the same thing about this documentary.
26:16
Yeah. I mean there there are two options you could go down here. You could be Mr. Daps and you could be like so uh
26:22
thinking about it the whole time and you're like wow um this is amazing how
26:28
they did this. I can't believe that the sound wasn't here originally. Or you could be me and you could be um the
26:34
thing that Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby says the best thing a woman could be and that is a beautiful fool. Okay, I
26:40
forgot immediately and I was like, "Wow, wow, this sounds so good." And then it
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was about like halfway through the film that I went, "Oh, that's right. None of this audio is original." And then I immediately forgot again and I was like,
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"Wow, Railroad Spikes." And then after the movie was over, I was like, "Whoa."
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Um, so it's okay guys if you forget and you're like, "Wow, this is amazing." Or
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other possibility, everyone's just smarter than me and that's okay. Uh, I just get very wrapped up in things very
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easily. Okay, totally fair. I mean, there's a lot to be wrapped up in and and honestly, you
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could talk hours about this. And I think it's one of those documentaries that you can watch over and over and over again
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and pick up more things each time because there were so many good quotes I heard during this
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um you know, quotes about perseverance and and vision and p I said perseverance
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and just like innovation, innovation and and vision. like a TED talk for leadership.
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It is. And then there's also all of the terrifying moments that we just won't cover on this because I'll let you
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discover them on your own. And and then just stuff that maybe we've seen this
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much of the clip in a Disneyland show or what. Like there's there's quite a few clips. I don't know if it's quite a few,
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but there's a few that you're like, "Oh yeah, I've seen this." But then you're seeing it in context of a bigger portion
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around it. You're like, "Oh, I haven't seen all this." And and that's a really fun thing to see. And and so I think
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everybody that I've talked to about this, I've told them, so I'm gonna tell you, is I would like to watch it at least 12 more times. U at least because
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I just think there's that much to garner out of it and to pull out of it. And I think it's one of those those
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documentaries that probably will become almost like a Disney 101. Like if you're
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a Disney fan, you will have seen this. And this is one that you want to see early because it really is so
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foundational, especially the Disney park story. And um and I think that's
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something that's that's really special and a gift to us as as the Disney community. And then for historians as
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well, just to see this moment in time where you get to see something this
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iconic built with with all of its ups and downs. It's like there there's things that you see on this that, you
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know, maybe a Disney of 20 years ago would not show, but the Disney of today
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is showing. And I'm very thankful for that because they are showing warts and all. And and some of that is the like,
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oh, this this, you know, this isn't so safe or this isn't so perfect or but it will be because you know where it's
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going and and I think that's a great thing. But now we're getting to the fun part of the show, especially tonight
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because I feel like with with Disneyland handcrafted, there's gonna be quite a few questions. So feel free to ask them because it's time for
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comments. Comments. That is right. It is time for comments.
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So, uh, we're going to go through I saw a few questions popping up in here as we were talking. I'm going to back up.
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Well, we and see if I could find what I was like we talked about galaxy edged
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floor, but there was more. So, um uh let me make sure I go back. Um we we so we did
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answer the jar jar question. There we go. Um here we go. Uh could you do a
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projection and interact like how they do with turtle talk or crush your monsters ink glass floor? Being immobile instead
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of roaming is a problem though. Oh, for uh for Galaxy's Edge. Yes. But for um Obi-Wan
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Obi-Wan Kenobi, so Force Ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi, I think you totally could. Um
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even if it was just in the way that they're doing Bard, right? You know, like how Bard projects things. Oh,
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you could you could kind of play with that and maybe project him during one of the shows or something. Galaxy Edge original character, Bard.
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Yeah, he's great. Yeah. I don't know. Um All right. So, when do we expect? We did do that one. Uh, it could bring in
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Thrawn and we can make Pandora avatar jokes at him. I'm sure he'd love that.
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Um, I don't know if that would go well for us. Like that that might be a problem. Uh, let's see.
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Uh, also I broke the news. Bailey said that when she told somebody at her work, they gasped. I've got to break the news
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uh to somebody that works with me that has a close connection to the land. Uh, she had a similar reaction.
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Mhm. like she literally went, "Oh my gosh, finally." Um, do you think we'll ever get a movie
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this nostalgic made for DCA?
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It will really depend on I don't know that there's footage. There is. I'm sure because I think I've
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seen footage of cameras in the land. Um,
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and I I would guess there is somewhere. Um, the part that I would wonder is
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we're at a very unique time in the Disney company's history and in the next few weeks, months, whatever it's going
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to be, we're going to get a new CEO. And it'll depend on how that CEO runs
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things, how he he or she empowers people underneath them, and if this is viewed
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as something that's important as the DWalt Disney Company moves on. So, this this documentary really happened and it
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kind of goes back to what we were talking about with uh did you know is this was originally being developed for
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Disney Plus after the Imagineering Story. As happens, a pandemic comes along,
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things close up shop, budgets dry up, whatever, and this kind of gets shelved
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for a while. And and it kind it just it didn't have anywhere to go. And then
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through one of those happen stance chance conversations, Leslie Eyeworks was talking to a guy named Jason Recker
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who uh oversees a lot of digital stuff for Disney Experiences and said, "Hey, I
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have this thing we were working on, but it's it's not going anywhere." And so he asked to see it. She sends it over. He
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says, "This is great. It needs to happen." And so this actually came out of Disney experiences and not Disney
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entertainment which I find fascinating. But I like that they empowered Jason to
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do this or Jason was felt empowered to do this and then made it happen. I like that Bob Iger and Josh Demaro were open
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to seeing this project move forward and then seeing it being put on on Disney
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Plus and YouTube. My hunch is it was always destined for YouTube because we're seeing a lot of programming going
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onto YouTube from whether it's experiences or Imagineering or whatever. But um but there's a lot of things that
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lined up correctly with the right people in the right place at the right time. And so for a a DCA version of this to
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happen, you would need all of those things to happen as well. And you would
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also need to have a person with a vision and a passion for
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it, which Leslie Eyeworks clearly has for this. And and I don't know if like
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there probably is that person. I just don't know who it is. You took the fun question and you made it analytical.
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Sorry. What do you think? What I was going to say is I hope that they would because this would be real
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housewives level drama, guys. I'm talking the imagineers think all the other ideas are stupid. They're putting
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in things. They're like, "This is my thing over here. This is my thing over here." But my controversial take, oh
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gosh, I don't know that they could make this documentary anytime right now
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because I don't think there's a current happy ending to the DCA story because
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what the L or what the park set out to do was a California adventure in the
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state of California. It was, "What if you could experience all of California in one day?" Great idea.
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Awful in uh execution.
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What is it now? There's an Avengers Land might be in
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California and Pixar's based in California. And also,
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uh, we still have that Italian restaurant that we have from 1.0 and Jump Jellyfish.
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I don't know. I don't know that there's a a big enough arc to say
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anything. Mhm. You know, like what are you going to say? And this is the corner where we tore out the Muppets. That's sad.
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I don't know. Anyway, um I I don't know. Like anything like this has to be in the
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future. Like, and that's it wouldn't be made today. I I think that's a safe thing to say because they're still
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making and remaking uh DCA. But I could also make the counterargument that
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they're making and remaking Disneyland and you could make many of the same arguments of like, oh well, what happened with Tomorrowland? Or oh, what
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happened with Critter Country? You know, like there there's been moments like this in every Disney park.
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DCA and Walt Disney Studios have just had a few more of them. I was going to say I just don't think that like I also don't think we would
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get this for Walt Disney Studios Paris. I think we could soon. That one I actually see earlier than DCA because I
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think there's more interest in that um from the local Disneyland Paris team. I
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could see something like that happening, especially when they're on the like the 5year or
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even one-year anniversary of Disney Adventure World being a thing because now you have a park that's that's
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relatively complete. I would be fascinated by an entire one of these for the Disneyland Paris resort
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because I think everything from the strikes with Euro Disney to renaming it to Disneyland
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Paris to like all of these things I would find fascinating like I would watch
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it'd be interesting to see how deep they got into those too. But you do need a storyteller like Leslie Eyeworks%
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that's going to show the like, oh, these are the struggles. These are the the the wins and the because I think
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the challenges of the story are what make the the ending so great. Like the
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fact that the the success that much better. Yeah. And um and that's really any good story.
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Like if you don't have a good obstacle that you've overcome, well, who cares how it ends up then
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because then it just it's just whatever. So, I think that's where this could happen. Um, looking at Do you think they
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could ever screen it in the park? They could. I actually do think they could. My guess is it would be a D23 event or a Magic
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Key event or something special because I think it's about an hour and a half
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long. And so, I don't think it would be one of those things where it's like, oh, we're just going to do previews of this
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throughout the day in, you know, the Magic Eye Theater. Like, I don't think that would happen. But I
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could see them being like, "Oh, Disneyland 75th anniversary. We're going to do a Magic Key showing of this. Sign
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up for it." Or or D20 or a Disney Plus perk. You can sign up for it and you can
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get a discounted Disneyland. Like I could see there's certain ways that they could make this happen that would fit
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their business model of of not only sharing this with more of the world but
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also um bringing more people into the parks and making that a destination point in
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the night. All right, we hit the we are good questions. Well, there's more. Oh, there's more.
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It says new comments. Oh, new comments. Um I'd love a physical release of these document
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next. Excellent question, actually. No, I think Walt Disney World should get one like this next.
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Really? I I would be very intrigued to see one for Walt Disney World next that really got into the Roy Disney elements
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of it because I think uh so often that gets overlooked and yes, you hear how
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important he was into carrying on his brother's legacy, but I think he's also
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one that we could we could and should recognize and honor a whole lot more because um if it
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weren't for him, we don't have the Disney of today. And I think you could say that about most of the CEOs that
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have um that have taken on that role through the years, like with with one or
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two exceptions, maybe just one. And um but uh that's the one I would do next.
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And then I'd do Disneyland Paris. You keep getting so like reflective tonight. So I was just like I also think
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2.0 would have been the right window for a DCA doc because uh DCA 2.0 0 was this
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like utopian version of California Adventure. Uh Bugs Land still existed.
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Um there was still paper fastpass, but I don't think you can do 2.0 without 1. Like I think you need the 1.0.
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No, we're we weren't saying how I just said I don't think there's a success story. I think that say you made this
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documentary in 2012 or 2013 or 2014 and you say this is the land we started
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with. This is the creation and this is how we built 2.0. H maybe like yeah but now it feels weird because
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since 2.0 we now we're at like what 2.5 2.8. Well and really you want to see what happens with two Ford but
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correct that's never going to stop like that that is the challenge. Um, Disney C would be fantastic as well, but but once
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again, that one I actually think you would almost need
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like you almost need the foundational piece for all of these because then you can build on them. And
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I mean, you think of Disneyland Paris and how they decided to use real stuff
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to build the parks as opposed to plaster, you know, like there's so many
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interesting foundational stories that teach lessons that were learned later. So, I almost feel like you need to do
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that and they kind of covered some of them in Disney the Imagineering Story. So, I don't know. like it's it would
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really come down to like what's the story that that needs to be told and is it is it pivotal in the
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story of the Walt Disney Company because I think one of the things that this one does is it really shows how it's a pivot
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point in Disney and not just you know
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not just uh Walt Disney's life but like how it is that point where uh really the
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the main focal point at that point in Disney's history pivots from studios to
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now there's these two focal points of parks and studios and then it just keeps going and parks keeps growing and now
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parks are bigger than studios and and that's kind of amazing. All right, we will talk more about this on Daps After
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Dark if you would like. We are running out of time. So Katie, what should people do? Should go to dapsmagic.com, check out
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42:26
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like my This is your 500th episode. Congratulations. But that is all the time we have for you this week. We will
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see you around the corner. Bye.