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Holiday Highlights at Walt Disney World Resort
Sep 21, 2025
In this interview, Mr. Daps learns about the highlights of the holidays at Walt Disney World Resort from Lisa! #hosted #waltdisneyworld #wdwmagic2025 Don't miss Daps Magic's official weekly YouTube show Geeks Corner here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF91C7183BAB676B Visit Daps Magic: https://dapsmagic.com Join Our Patreon Community: https://patreon.com/dapsmagic Daps Magic was created by a very special group of Disney Fans who had a dream for a place on the internet where people young and old could share their love of Walt Disney and his legacies in a safe and fun atmosphere.
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[Music]
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Happy holidays everybody. It is Mr. Daps
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here and we are at Walt Disney World
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with my friend Lisa where we get to talk
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about one of my favorite seasons in
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Disney parks period and that is the
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holidays as you may have guessed. Lisa,
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what do we got going on at Walt Disney
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World during the holidays?
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Yes. It's the most magical place on
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earth during the most magical time of
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the year which is my favorite holiday
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season as well. Yes. Uh, so first and
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foremost, like the decorations are
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amazing. If you need any like design
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inspiration or Christmas photo
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backdrops, like
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that's what I was like, get those
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Christmas photos.
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Bring the kids out, bring your friends
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out. You can get like, you know,
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portrait photo. You know, this is, you
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know, who needs a studio? You can just
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come to Disney. Huge, larger than like
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Christmas trees, the garland delights.
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At night time, everything lights up.
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It's fantastic. I love it.
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Beautiful.
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It's beautiful. Yes. And then over at
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Magic Kingdom, um, so we have some
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separately ticketed holiday events that
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like Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
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at Magic Kingdom. We have Disney Doll
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Jollywood Nights, which is kind of like
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the glitz and glamour over at Disney's
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Hollywood Studios. But one of my
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favorite things over at Magic Kingdom is
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every night um we do like kind of like a
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castle lighting ceremony. We have hosted
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by our favorite um Arendelle princesses
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or queens, Anna and Elsa, depending on
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where we are in their story. Um, but
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they do Frozen Holiday Surprise, which
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essentially is like a little stage show
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in front of the castle to light it up
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for the night when we come into those
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darkness hours and it's just a really
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fun way to kick off the night.
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Yeah, we've only been doing it a couple
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years now and it is very fun. And the
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snow geese, do you remember the snow? So
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Olaf, you know, Elsa made Olaf and then
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when she caught a cold, she sneezed out
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the snowgies. They get to make an
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I know my Frozen lore very well. Uh, and
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then they they get to make an
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appearance, too, for the holiday season,
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which is very fun. Yeah. Part of the
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show. Yep.
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Uh, speaking of decorations, Disney's
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Hollywood Studios.
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Yes.
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Gorgeous.
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Yes. I love those cuz they're kind of
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like retro. It's kind of like the
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vintage retro glitzy glamour Hollywood,
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but like maybe Hollywood in like the
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50s. Um, you know, my mom has walked
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through it. She's like, "My my mom had
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these decorations."
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I was going to say my grandma.
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Yes. My grandma. Yeah. And she's like
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And she literally was like, "Spot on. We
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have this decor of just I love it." So,
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a really fun vibe,
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which is one of the best things about
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Jollywood Nights is because I feel like
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everybody shows up in their Sunday best
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or whatever you want to call it.
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Christmas.
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Exactly. And then they have these little
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like pockets of like themed parties. So,
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there'll be like a Latin street fair or
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like the Brown Derby gets turned into
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like a jazzy nightclub like with, you
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know, a jazzy Christmas nightclub. Love
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it.
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It's It's lovely. Yes.
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And it has fantastic entertainment. I'm
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assuming Mickey's uh Very Mary has
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Yes.
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fantastic entertainment as well.
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Yep. Yep. Fireworks, parade, stage show
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for a very merry Christmas party.
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Cookies and cocoa throughout the park.
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Snows on Main Street, like super
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magical, perfect for the family, great
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for little kids. Disney Jollywood
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Nights, a little bit more adult, a
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little bit more older crowd. Um, great
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cocktails, great food and beverage. They
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have some dedicated um, exclusive
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entertainment shows as well, hosted by
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the Muppets. Everyone loves the Muppets.
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That's my favorite.
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I know, right? Very fun. Also very like
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Hollywood glam. Um there's a Nightmare
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Before Christmas show there as well,
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which is awesome.
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Very fun. And uh the Tiptop Club, which
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is another kind of one of those jazzy
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parties, which is the the um Hollywood
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Tower Hotel, Tower of Terror, gets
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transformed, like transported back to
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its heyday prime, and you kind of get
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that Yeah. that vibe.
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It's very magical. Uh both parties
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definitely worth checking out.
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Then you also do other fun things
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throughout the resort.
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Yes. One of my favorites is Epcot
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International Festival of the Holidays.
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Epcot always has an amazing festival
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going on and during the holidays. Love
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it. So, of course, international is your
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place to um experience all different
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cultures across the world. And
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I got to meet Barn Santa.
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Oh, did you meet Barn Santa? That guy is
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good. Did you see him like playing his
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little flute? Oh, he's funny. Yeah, he
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he's a little mischievous, too. But you
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have like how Santa or how how the
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holidays come to life in each of those
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countries. You get to hear about it in a
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very authentic way. The holiday
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kitchens, you get to eat the food. It's
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so good. And then of course there's the
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Candlelight Professional which we host
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nightly uh twice a night I think
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typically and and it is the story of
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telling the Christmas story hosted by a
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celebrity narrator huge choir orchestra.
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It is to the nines a really moving
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impactful
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Christmas story
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and for lots of people that is their
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holiday tradition at Walt Disney World
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is you go and you see candle light and
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then also one of the parties,
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right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And
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then also during the days you can find
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stuff like I think uh animal kingdom
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sometimes does.
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Yes. They have something called like the
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merry menagerie which are these
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beautiful little puppets like artistic
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wintry puppets that are throughout.
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They're like great ambiance. They have
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um the tree of life awakenings. So you
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think of like the um animals that are
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carved into the tree of life when when
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it's night time. We have some
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projections, magical projection
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technology that they spring to life in a
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very wintry seasonal fashion,
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which is super exciting because you
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think of all of these things happening
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day and night at at evening, I guess, at
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Med or at Animal Kingdom. And you can
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couple that with better together will be
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open. Did I say that right?
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Yes.
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Zootopia. Better Yes. Z day. Yes. Uh oh.
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That opens November 7th. So just in time
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for the holidays. Yes. Inside the tree
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of life. I'm so excited for Zootopia.
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So perfectly.
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Yes. Yes, there's always a good reason
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to come visit us here at Walt Disney
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World.
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And uh do we hit all four parks? We did
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hit all four.
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Uh yep. Yep. Oh, and sunset season
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greetings at at Disney's Hollywood
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Studios. I love So that's not part of
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the That's every night, but you don't
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need the extra ticket for that.
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That's magic.
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Yes. It kind of like lights up what that
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is.
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Yes. So Sunset Boulevard, you know, at
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the very end of it, you got the Tower of
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Terror and they again are magical
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projection technology. Lights up the
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Tower of Terror to a very holiday theme.
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You see a lot of different characters
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and stories. So think like Mickey's
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Christmas Carol. It turns into like a
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Denzian cottage. Um the toys from Toy
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Story like come and it take over and
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it's like the toy hotel.
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Isn't there a gingerbread one too?
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Yes, the gingerbread. Love it. I always
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want more gingerbread after lots of
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version. The Muppet. Yeah. It's got all
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all sorts of Do I remember snow music?
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Yes. And then so the whole kind of like
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Sunset Boulevard is, you know, brought
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to life with this ambiance. It's like a
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show but kind of like just continues on
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throughout the night. It's very fun.
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Love it.
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And then all the the resort hotels get
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decorated. houses. Gingerbread houses.
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Yes.
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And Disney Springs goes crazy as well.
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Holiday shopping at its finest.
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Exactly. So,
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no shortage of holiday magic.
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And what it all comes down to is Walt
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Disney World is the place to come for
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the holidays. Uh, is there any place
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people can go for more information?
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Yes. Disney World.com/h holidays is
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going to help be your onestop shop to
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see find out everything that's happening
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across the parks and any special offers
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that might be out there.
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Love it. And you can also go to
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Dapsmagic for all of your Disney and
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positive stuff. We look forward to
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seeing you in the parks. Happy holidays.
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