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Which Way Do We Go? - GEEKS CORNER - Episode #804
Feb 25, 2026
Welcome to Geeks Corner! This week, Mr. Daps and Caitie Bear let the viewers decide where the show goes. It's a "choose your own adventure" format of Geeks Corner that they are calling "Which way should we go?" Check out the full episode below, join the conversation in the comments, and tune in live on Tuesday nights at 8:30 PT for Geeks Corner live with Mr. Daps and Caitie Bear! We'll see you 'round the corner!
Episode 804 Highlights
Disneyland Resort: A Seven-Decade Vision
Mr. Daps shares insights from a recent four-and-a-half-hour meeting with Thomas Mazloum, President of the Disneyland Resort. The conversation focused on several key takeaways for the future of the park:
Long-Term Strategy: Disney is shifting from decade-long planning to a massive 70-year vision for the resort.
Back to Basics Hospitality: There is a renewed focus on interpersonal "magical moments" and streamlining the guest experience to make visits simpler and more accessible.+2
Targeting Young Families: Upcoming entertainment, such as Bluey’s Best Day Ever at the Fantasyland Theater, signals a shift toward immersive, family-focused experiences over traditional passive stage shows.+2
Toy Story 5 Trailer Reactions
The team breaks down the newly released Toy Story 5 trailer. Key discussion points include:
Screens vs. Tactile Play: The trailer explores the conflict between technology and traditional toys.
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0:18
Welcome to Geeks Corner. I'm Mr. Daps. I'm Katie. And did you know that the button's not
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working? There we go. That John Cles was considered to voice Slinky in Toy Story
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during the development phase. You know, I did not know that. That completely changes the movie. Like
0:36
you start thinking of the Well, think about it. Yeah, I'm thinking like John Cles is Q, John Cles is Monty
0:44
Python, all of that stuff. Like that's a completely different like I can't imagine taking the same approach to
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Slinky that they took if it was John Cles, which is probably why he didn't end up doing it. That's probably true.
0:55
It is interesting when you start thinking of the choices that they made on character
1:01
voices in different movies. If they just made slightly different like let's say they even switched Woody and Buzz.
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That's true. Like it dramatically changes the personalities of the characters. You know who Slinky Dog should have
1:15
been? Peter Faulk. No. Although I could see Mr. Potato
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Head. Mr. Potato Head absolutely could be Peter Faulk. One more thing.
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Um what should people do, Katie? Uh you should go to wherever you are. You should go into the chat.
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Um, we have a a thing at the end called comments comments. You should subscribe to us. Wherever you are, hopefully
1:41
that's here, but who's to say? Uh, and also go to dabsmagic.com/dapshq.
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We have a post show to this show. Uh, there's also a secret option that you
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might not know about just quite yet on this show that our DAPs HQ members got
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to be a part of. So, Oh, yes. They got double votes if they chose to use them. All right. Well,
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tonight is the which way should we go episode of Geeks Corner, which means you get to choose what we are going to talk
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about. And as we go through the show leading up to comments, comments at the end, we are going to let you choose what
2:17
you would like to hear us discuss. So, the first thing you get to choose from by putting either a plus or an and and
2:24
sign in the comments is, would you like us to talk about my meeting with Thomas
2:29
Masloom, who is the president of the Disneyland Resort, which I spent about four and a half hours, I think, on
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Thursday with him, or would you rather hear us talk about the Disney adventure
2:41
arriving in Tokyo, which was basically last night or today if you were um in
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the United States? I Okay, so we have an and I already see hopping up. Oh, and I was gonna say plus
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you never I don't get to say I'm on the show. You can vote. I do. I get to vote. Everybody but me can vote cuz I put it
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together. So I feel like like it's it's and if you voted in uh DPS Magic HQ,
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then that actually you can vote twice, which is a perk. And we'll do this again if it works. Okay, we got two pluses
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plus the plus in uh Daps Magic HQ. We're getting we're getting some traction
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going here. It looks like Oh, this is this is like All right. So, this is the trick with this.
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What? If we're going to talk about this because you weren't there, you have to ask the questions.
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Oh, no. This is the weird moment where I have to like become the interviewee instead of
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the interviewer, which is usually my Okay, this this is a runaway. I'm seeing
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lots of pluses. Sorry, Chris. Um, I will talk to you about uh Disney Adventure the next time we hang out. I promise.
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Um, there's no losers here at Geeks Corner. There's just not first. So, what would you like to know?
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So, what was your general takeaway from your meeting with Thomas? First off, I will say this was all off
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the or not off the record, this was all uh on background, so I can't give any
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specifics about who said what during uh No. What was your general takeway? But my big takeaway is there's a vision for
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the Disneyland Resort that's much bigger than we've had in previous years. Like much much bigger. Like instead of
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one decade or two decades, we're looking at seven decades. Like there's a really big picture thing happening. Um two, I think
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there's a huge focus on hospitality that I think is very important. And for those
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that have been around for the last six years, I think we've seen ups and
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downs with that. And there's a definite focus that comes from the top of making
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sure they get hospitality right. And with that, my flip side is like I kind
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of hope that he doesn't get promoted to Disney Experiences chairman. Yeah. Because I want to keep that focus local
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because I do think it's very important for the future of the Disneyland Resort. And uh let's see three.
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Um I think the hospitality thing is being applied in ways that you wouldn't
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traditionally ex expect. Okay. So yes, there's the hospitality of guest
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interactions of magical moments, but there's also the the the hospitality
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portion being taken into account of like how can we make the visit to the Disneyland Resort simpler? How can we
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make sure that guests can get on more attractions through maintaining um
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maintaining our attractions or being proactive with things that we know they're going to need or even something
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as as kind of out of the box as like supply chains for attractions, their
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individual, you know, wheels or what, you know, like making sure that they have the things
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that not only are needed for regular maintenance but also for the the surprise maintenance moments. And uh I
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think all of that is needed. And I think it's also interesting because we're seeing this across multiple companies.
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It's not just Disney that's like, "Hey, we need to get back to the basics." And Disney's basics are telling stories in a
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way that makes people feel like they're wanted to be there. Mhm. Like there's the hospitality component,
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but it's not just, hey, you're in this really fun, nice place. You're also experiencing and being a
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part of the story. And so, um, that's that's the Disney difference. And I
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don't think I heard the word Disney difference. Um, but that was the general
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thing that was coming out of this is like, oh, the Disney difference is important again. And I think that got lost along the way a little bit because
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of world events and pandemics and oh we actually need people to just show up and
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work, you know, like there was a lot of things that kind of took away from that. Any other questions with this? My follow-up question, what do we have
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in the coming space to look forward to at the Disneyland Resort? So you've got the uh Monsters Inc. Mike
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and Sullie to the rescue is staying around for another year. And really that comes down to a bigger picture focus on
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how can they make the Disneyland Resort more accessible for young families. Um
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not just families, but young families. And I think that had also been kind of lost along the way of like, oh, let's go
7:30
with more adventurous rides. Let's go for higher thrill rides, you know, whatever it is. And I think
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maybe it wasn't one of those like it wasn't an intentional slight and I don't even know if it was an a slight
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completely but I do think that when you focus on trying to compete with other companies that in my opinion are
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inferior you kind of lose your focus on like at the end of the day Disney has
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always been about families and you know think about the origin of Disneyland.
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It's Walt wanting to be able to hang out with his daughters and having a an entertainment enterprise that that you
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could go and do these do these things. And um and so I think what we initially
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have to look forward to is we have you know Monsters Inc. we have the Blueies Best Day Ever coming to Fantasy Land
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Theater which is that going to be for me and you like we're gonna enjoy it but is it focused at us? No.
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I have a Bluey sweatshirt. What are you talking about? I know, but like it's it's not
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Bluey and Bingo are for me. The target for Bluey is not us. We're just a happy
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we are a happy second level that enjoys it also. Yes. And and so I think you have these things
8:44
that changes the way that Disney has traditionally done entertainment. So
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maybe instead of a Mickey and the Magical Map, you now have Bluey's Best Day Ever. Maybe instead of, you know,
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Aladdin the musical, you have Viva Nabi Dodd. And they're really making an effort to make entertainment accessible,
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something that that kids can kind of be immersed into and you can really feel like you're a part of as opposed to
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being passive and watching. And uh that's kind of actually probably a
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bigger change than we've realized because it does fundamentally change the
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approach of Disneyland Resorts um entertainment strategy because it is
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more about being immersive. It is about connecting and having memorable magical
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moments as opposed to being oh this is the best stage show ever. Mhm. And and when you think about this from a
9:40
bigger picture in a hospitality standpoint, most of the magical moments that you have when you go to Disneyland
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or Walt Disney World or whatever theme park of your choice or or I guess cruise ship,
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most of the moments that you bring back with you though that you you have as a core memory are often connected with a
9:59
personal experience. It's not I saw this really great show. It's a maybe during
10:05
this show this one little thing happened where I connected with a performer or maybe it's I was at a a spot in the
10:12
Disneyland Resort and this cast member turned this really terrible experience into this really amazing experience or
10:18
maybe this one um princess decided to take a little bit more time with with my
10:25
kid and make it a magical moment. And and so I think Disney has really leaned into the connection component and by
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Disney I mean Disneyland Resort because that's what this was covering. And so I think Thomas Masloom has really honed in
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on if we can make magical moments by interpersonal connections,
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we can make a more hospitalitable environment. We can up our guest satisfaction rate. And then at the end
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of the day, this is a business. we can improve the business of the Disneyland Resort and and that's important because
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as much as we like to think that Disneyland is a place that we just go and enjoy and
11:04
and it's magic and you know fairies and pixie dust. Yeah. It's also a business and if the business
11:11
doesn't go well the park does not stay there. And and that's something to keep
11:16
in mind is as Disney fans because as much as we like things the way we like them, um we also need to always be
11:22
looking to the future of like well our future generations going to like them, our current younger
11:28
generation's going to like them. And and so one of the things that they talked about for a focus for the business was
11:35
that they're really focused on keeping current guests happy, keeping future guests or like keeping future guests
11:41
funneling in, and then also the glue that holds all of that together as cast members. And I think when you nail those
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three demographics, um the future of the Disneyland Resort looks really awesome. All right, we're already halfway through
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the show, so well, third of the way, but yes. Should we head on to the second? I I think we sure should.
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Okay. Um, just to answer Chris's question, keys did not directly come up because it was a bit of a
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a more magic keys or the five keys. Magic Keys did come up.
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I was like, we could go into maybe we'll do I mean, if there was enough interest, we could
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do a Adapt Magic HQ Q&A, I think. But, um,
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I'm I'm thinking the five keys is probably what Chris means. And I think it was the conversation was a little bit
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higher than that other than the Q&A portion of it. And so it was really more about concepts and connecting than
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specifics. And there were stories told, but it was it was a little bit more of a
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bigger picture conversation. Right. Beautiful. All right. Number two for you to vote
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on. Do you want us to talk about the Toy Story 5 trailer? Vote with a pound sign.
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Or Anaheim Ducks Day. vote with the at sign. Is that the at sign? At
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at Yeah. Um, we we have seen and experienced both of these.
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Yeah, we sure are. They were very definitely definitely different. Five keys and five magic key tiers. Uh,
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yeah. So, I'm going to say I'm going to say at Okay, we got
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Chris, I'm so sorry. I feel like I see I'm kind of I'm not voting against
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you. I'm not gonna say what I'm leaning toward. Your vote. Uh so magic keys we did talk
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about I I will save that actually if you go listen to my podcast on DAPS magic Disney and positive stuff. You can hear
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uh a little bit more of the specifics about this uh Toy Story. Toy Story. We
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have an already vote for Toy Story and one for Anaheim Duck Days. Another It looks like Toy Story is winning to me.
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What was the double vote in uh Toy Story? Okay. Yeah. Uh I'm pretty sure. Let me check.
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Uh uh. Yep. Toy Story was the vote. So, we're gonna like this is this clearly
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actually it's closer than I thought it would be. So, the Toy Story 5 trailer came out this week and of course it was
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while I was driving to an undisclosed location in Burbank that I'm not allowed to talk about because it was completely off the record. And um but if you were
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to go to Flower Street, you might figure out where I was at. Um I didn't say anything. I just gave
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hints. But Toy Story 5 trailer came out. We have watched it. Yeah.
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What did you think of it? Looks better than Toy Story 4.
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Yes. But what did you think of it for real, right? Well, yes. As a standalone movie. What? I'm excited to Well, you can't take it
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as a standalone. First of all, I'm excited to see The Gang Back Together. I'm excited to see Woody and Buzz and
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Jesse. Every time I hear The Gang Back Together, I think of Solo: A Star Wars. Meanwhile, all I think of is um Phineas
14:50
and Ferb. Dude, we're getting the band back together. Yeah, that's that's fair. Also, do you Anyway, um I'm very excited. I
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think that this feels more true to the characters. It feels like we're seeing
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like to me there was almost that moving truck moment of Woody and Buzz totally
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getting off the wedding uh moving truck moment. Yeah. Um, which to me is like
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core childhood memory of um like Toy Story the original
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and that moving truck scene. Um, also Toy Story 2 and the there's a Toy Story
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one the the fast food boxes with the Oh, yeah. That's a cute moment. Yeah. Okay. That's what I grew up on. Um,
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leave me alone. Thank you, Ethan. No, I was laughing at a comment. But um I think that this feels more
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promising. I also think that there's a bit of a red herring with the um
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technology piece because I think that Do you think it's going to be like Toy
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Story 3 where the good guys the the bad guy or you know it's like well yeah or the bad guys is the good
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guy or whatever. Yeah. Whatever. because um I think that technology especially
16:03
now has its uses and there's actually positive things that can happen out of
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technology. Um I mean I feel like with this movie at the end of the day they all have to come together and be like oh we're all friends and we can live harmoniously
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cuz there's people that use technology for like communication devices and things like that. Like I don't think
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that the end all beall is that technology is evil. Okay. I think it's going to balance creativity
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and technology. Um, but I did think I I quoted it in the article um that I wrote
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about the trailer. Um, Woody says something along the lines of like toys are for playtime or toys are play things
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and technology is everything. And I do think that that is a very interesting
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direction. So, I'm going to actually pull in a conversation that was had
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at the previous event. So, the Disneyland President event is we had a conversation that I actually
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thought was very interesting about how to balance screens,
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okay, with what's live in front of you. Okay. And there's a definite conversation happening right now of of experiencing
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Disneyland Resort in screens and being stuck to the app versus experiencing
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with your family and friends what's right in front of you. I kind of think this is Toy Story F or four.
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Yeah. And I think there's four. Five. Yes. Yes. Four is Woody breaks up with his
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correct. But um but I definitely see the correlations there of I think we're
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still figuring out what that healthy balance is. And one of the things that
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was brought up is as much as people love being able to access everything through
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their their phones and whatnot, families also come to Disneyland to be
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with each other, to experience things together, to look at things together, to to be in that burm, to be connected with
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each other. And even thinking of DAPS HQ last week, if you'll pass me that. Um, during DAPS
18:06
HQ last week, I built this lovely shuttle and there's something to be said
18:11
for the physicality and the experience of something that's real and not digital
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and that you can play with. And this might go on the wall if I can figure out how, like, you know, like we might put
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it up there. But, um, and that was my Valentine's Day gift, ladies and gentlemen. I think there's a
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a definite uh I don't know if discussion is the word
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or balancing act or whatever is what's the
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what is that correct level of screens versus practicality
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and and even if you look at like what they just did with uh Frozen Ever After in Florida.
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Yeah. They went from rear projected screen faces to oh no we're giving you physical audio animatronics. And it's an
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interesting thing to see is because I do think a couple years ago as Bailey's mentioning it was all about screens and
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digital and 3D and 3D virtual and augmented reality and all of
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this stuff. And now there's definitely a shift to oh no I want tactile. I want real. I want to see this movie in front
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of me like looking even the the Walt Disney and Magical Life. Yeah. Like I want the real
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and and so it'll be interesting to see how this movie
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because I think that's what this movie is going to be about is how does this movie approach it? How
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does this movie um deal with it? And then the other thing
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I'm questioning is how does this movie deal with aging toys? Mhm.
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Um because even even LEGO is moving forward and adding, you know, their
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smart whatever. I don't know what I think. I want to play with it first and see what I think. But um but like one of the
20:07
things I noticed, and this is just a practical production standpoint.
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Woody and Jesse sound old. Wow. But I'm not This is not a complaint. This is just a their voices have clearly
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aged since the last movie, especially Jesse, but also Woody. Like those were the two I noticed the most. And then
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there's also new voices. But I was going to say leave Admiral Null out of this, but that's Incredibles. That's not
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But like it's an interesting thing to think is like you can't keep going indefinitely with this. as much as
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people would love like you really do have to
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address mortality of toys or whatever it is and move it on to the next level. So, I'm curious with
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that. That was actually what I walked out of the trailer thinking is like, oh, they really need to address what the
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next level of toys is going to be, which is kind of what they started to do in Toy Story 2 with the sewing up Woody and so on. Again, hate to be the
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timekeeper. Time to move on. All right, next. Move on. Do you want to talk about Olaf teaching
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drawing with an O or Celebrate Gospel in case you can vote with a C?
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I'm going to say C for Katie. Oh, you're going to go with Celebrate Gospel, huh? Versus No. So, so sorry. O.
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I'm so sorry. I got so confused. I'm like I totally thought you were going to vote for O if I were putting
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money on. I meant O. I'm so sorry. I got confused. It's okay. It's okay. Um, oh Chris,
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um, you voted with the winning team last time. You know what? There's no winners and losers always here. We got two for C.
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Um, we are tied currently. We need another vote. Um,
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Katie's making What was the vote in P? Okay, so there it goes. So, we're back
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to uh Olaf. So, I think this is an interesting story mainly because the
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premise, okay, O is taking the lead, so we're going to stick with this. Olaf will be basically taking over the
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animation academy and it'll be a animatronic or audio animatronic
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in Disney's Yeah. Hollywood Studios. But you can only like
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if this is remotely successful, you know, it's coming out here. And the
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premise of this is is Olaf is leading this class, but he doesn't actually know
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how to draw. So, he brings his friends in from Disney Animation and they're on the screen and they're a video and they
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teach how to draw versus and he follows along or whatever. Um,
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I have some thoughts on this. Can I Can I lead off on this one? Sure. I love the premise.
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Okay. I think it's great to think of Olaf. Like, it's cute. It's an adorable story.
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Yeah. Animatronic Olaf. Love it. Part I don't like.
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There's not I would bring in a live artist with audio animatronic Olaf
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as opposed to Eric Goldberg as as opposed to awesome trailer. Like phenomenal artists,
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legends, but you need timing to work with the people
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in the room. Mhm. A live action or live action. A live artist can do that.
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Yeah. Um you need to have that human connection for repeatability.
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And then I also just think there's a
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organicness that comes with art that
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you know classes change how they do it each time. And I think when I've watched them on
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Disney Plus or or YouTube where they've done similar things, I'm like, "You go
23:56
too fast." Or you go, "Okay." Because the artists here at Disney California Adventure are
24:02
pretty good at looking at the room and being like, and being like, "Oh, you guys are still figuring out how big an orange is." And
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um it's true. We know, Daps. Um we know.
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So I'm I'm I have mixed feelings about this. And I really do think you need the live artists. And I also think if for no
24:21
other reason to inspire young artists that want to become the guy on the stage or the girl on the stage,
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you need to have that that possibility. Go ahead. We'll keep this short since we're running out of time.
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Um I agree fully. Um I think that part of the fun of
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um Animation Academy is like So here's everything you said. 100% agree. The
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part that I love is at the end when the person who taught Yeah. You all
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when you hold it up and they Yeah. You all hold it up and the person that taught the class is like, "Oh, I see
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this and I see this." And like sure, it's kind of like a good night, Jimmy. Good night, Mr. Dabs. Good night,
25:04
Katy Bear. Like, yeah, but it makes you feel special. And it's And I will go back because I'm already
25:11
doing this. Sure. Let's go back to the original topic. It's all about human connection. You cannot have a communic human
25:18
connection with a video and an audio animatronic. And as much as I love going and seeing Abraham Lincoln and Walt
25:24
Disney in the audio animatronic form, there is not a human connection. And that at the end of the day is always
25:31
going to be the fault of those thing. And and I think that's always the strength of what they're doing with the
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new uh entertainment strategy of immersion is there's human connection,
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there's human moments, and there's also the variable of because it's human, you
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don't entirely know what's going to happen. So I guarantee you with this Olaf approach, at some point
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you will have experienced every version of it, which in Florida maybe is okay.
26:04
unless you're local. But like I I do think there's something to be said for
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like I'm going to say the the Masloom effect or the Masloom era is I think you need to focus on that human approach and
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that human touch and in I'm sure it's way too late to change things. But like
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well and I'm thinking if I were in control I'd be like hey we need to make this more personal. And I'm
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thinking of our friend Lindsay who goes in and she takes her iPad and she does Procreate for the animation,
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which I've thought of doing since I saw she did it. That's very valid. Like I I'm not very good at it, so I
26:40
might as well be able to erase real quick. But that's something that you could also just as easily do at home if it's a
26:46
pre-recorded video. And and it's it's way more fun to have the artist engaged and like tracking and
26:54
it is a skill. And I I truly hope that at least at Disney California Adventure,
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we get to keep our live artists. I think we will just because I think there's more Magic Key holders than
27:05
annual passholders going through that experience. How on earth would we do ducks day if we can't just draw random ducks?
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Have to record Austin or Eric again. Um, all right. Last topic to choose from.
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What would you prefer? Which way should we go? DCA Food and Wine. Vote with a D. Or Epcot Flower and Garden? vote with an
27:26
E. I had to come up with different ways to like make this easy to see in the
27:31
comments. So, um, let us know what you think. We do have a vote already. And I'm sure
27:37
after tonight, if we do this again, there will be more votes in Daps HQ because people are like, "Oh, I can
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predetermine this." I really enjoy choose your adventure geeks corner. Oh, good. I'm glad.
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Chris, are you just a contrarian? I will say I'm not against this. Uh E.
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Another E. Okay. The thing is you're not against any of it. You made the order. You You determined the choices.
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Yeah. But I try to be pretty unbiased when I'm picking things. D E. Oh my gosh. There's a lot of votes
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for E. But there's two votes for D. There's three votes for E, which means D is currently tied, which means you get to
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pick. Oh, D wins because Cassie just added. Thanks, Mom.
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All right. Uh, we'll see if one more comes in as we're pulling. What were you gonna vote for?
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I already said D. Oh, okay. So, that that's a double win. Okay. That's why I said thanks, Mom. All right. Disney California Adventure
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Food and Wine Festival begins in about a week and a half. And
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there's some interesting things on the menu this year which I my big picture
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approach slashthought to this is they're trying to make things accessible
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but they're also trying to make them interesting which is a very tight needle to thread. Like that's
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that's a small needle to thread and I think they might have done it this year. Yeah. Um, what do you think of the menu
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that we saw today come out with the food guide? What are you most looking forward to? And, um, how do you think they're
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doing with food and wine? I'm personally most excited about uh, the entertainment. Two things. I love food and wine. So,
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that's automatically super exciting. Um, the thing I'm most excited for, the
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msubi fried rice. I'm so sorry. It's a repeat. Um, un I totally thought you were going to say
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the other one. Okay, go ahead. Unfortunately, I dream of that msubi fried rice.
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It was solid. It was so good. I love spam masubi. I love fried rice. I love spicy mayo.
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All of that as Katie approved. The other thing that I think is very important to
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touch on is I am a very picky eater.
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Like you can attest to it. I've gotten a lot better in the last like 10 years that you've known me, but I'm not great.
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This is accurate. Yeah, it baby steps. Yeah, thank you.
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It's true. Like, it's it's baby steps. It's a process. I would have guessed 10 years ago that Brussels sprouts would be one of my
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favorite food. Go ahead. What are you looking forward to? But no, like the that you haven't tried before. Oh, that I haven't tried before. Like I
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am strangely intrigued by this this chicken and waffle mole taco. Like I
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don't know what like to me this is the weirdest chicken mole is hit or miss for me.
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That's where I'm intrigued by it. Like I'm like this could be the hit of the festival or maybe the worst thing we've
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ever eaten. And then I think there was some like nachos or something too. Like the chicharó nachos.
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Those also. And then also the ramen mac and cheese. Those are the three
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say I'm with Johnny on the ramen mac and cheese. I love a mac. I love the mac moments at the booths. They're usually
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fairly I'm just very confused by the thought of ramen mac and cheese. Noodle noodle cuz ramen mac noodle
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noodle. So are they putting macaroni with ramen noodles and cheese? Like I I'm curious
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how it makes it ramen. I just realized I never had the duck boki in lunar. It's fine. Um me
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realizing I'm having like a mental breakdown. Too late now. I know. But um I I I don't I don't
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actually know what's going on with the ramen mac and cheese. I But but that's why I want to try it. Those are two things I love.
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Yeah, I love ramen. I love mac and cheese. That might end up being the hit of the
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festival this year. I think it's also it's one of those things like the uh quesabidia egg rolls is it's like that
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is the crossover where it takes something people are very comfortable with and it introduces a new flavor or
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idea or what have you. I mean it's mac and cheese. How can go wrong? Your girl.
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And there's some returning favorites that look really good, too. I just felt like they're returning so we can't hit them
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too far. And we will be covering the opening day of this. So, uh, if you want it, we will do a sip and saver pass or
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whatever we end up getting. If you guys insist, I'll eat stuff at food and wine. We will we will make a video and you can see firsthand reactions to what we're
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doing. So brave for you guys. Um, but I'm looking forward to this. I'm looking forward to I kind of want to do
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a one of the um demonstrations again this year
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because they there's some fun ones at Soma Terrace. There's also the free ones over in Hollywood backlots that are a
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lot of fun. Doing one. I don't know. I haven't looked yet. I love like that. That would be very fun. But I
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think we should make some efforts to do some of the activities are coming along with there might be a certain band that
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we really like returning a couple of times and we'll have news up on that when it becomes official and public,
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you know. So, uh, be sure to subscribe to Dap's Magic for that so you don't miss any of that fun stuff as well.
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I was just thinking everybody wants to be a cat. That is so weird. It's where it's at. All right, we
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have reached that point in the show where it is time for
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comments. Comments. That is right. It is time for comments.
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If you have anything that you'd like us to respond to or you just like to say that you'd like us to read aloud, as
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long as it's appropriate, now is your I was like, whoa, dabs. You know what? I was walking into that
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and I'm like, hm, this could Boris. Yeah, Boris.
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Did you just say Boris? I said Morris. Oh, okay. Um, was quoting Beauty and the Beast. Oh, I thought you were I was thinking
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Radar Springs Racers. Slow down. You ain't racing yet. Yeah, that's where I was like, where did
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this go? He came in here raving mad. Slow down. Yeah. Anyway,
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not Morris. Um, anyway, now is your time for comments. We will
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reply to them and it will be hopefully wonderful. Uh, thank you. Let us know
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what you thought of this version, this format of Geeks Corner. If
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you like it, let us know in the comments. We'll do it again. If you hate it, we will never bring it up and we'll pretend it never happened.
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Um, you know, these things don't have to live on forever other than on the internet and on the playlist and on the
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website and it's all on the internet. So that's fine. Nightmares. Sure, that too. But uh I do not see any
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comments coming in. So we'll see if Indiana's currently knocked out.
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There we go. Um buddy, he does not want to say hi to his
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adoring fans. I'm so sorry. um as Indiana's agent.
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I should have made a a um another graphic that was like, "If you want this
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type of show again, press this and that." Um after the recent changes to Snow White no longer being less scary,
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which is the most frightening Disneyland attraction. Fantasy Land doesn't say Disneyland.
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Fantasy Land. Fantasy Land. What do you think it is, Mr. Toes? I I agree with you. You go to jail.
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You go to hell. And you get you go to hell. You also get attached by train. Yeah.
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Like Yeah, there's there's a lot going on with that. Um Andy says, "Hi, Grandma. He misses you."
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He said, "Be his Valentine." Yeah, that's I feel like that's kind of a no-brainer. Unless you're scared of
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heights. And then Peter Pan. I was going to say so I actually was going to say Mr. Toads easy
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followup. Yes, I am Indy's mamaager. I'm his pageant mom. The followup. Um,
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Pinocchio. Oh, Pinocchio is a little bit scary. I think Thank you, Johnny.
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That one is Pinocchio's uky spooky, especially now that it's like dark. It's like kind of scary.
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Well, the funny thing is is it's not dark. Like, it's the same darkness it's been forever. They've just lightened up.
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Everything else is so light. Yes. And I'm I am really curious like when does Pinocchio get the love
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that that Snow White guy polishes it up. And honestly, when does Mr. Toad get the love?
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Yeah. When did the Willows is such a fantastic story. Um yeah, the monster
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monster. You know what? You can tell Annie that when Mr. Daps was a little boy that scared him, too. Um,
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you can also tell Annie we'll protect her from Monstro, from Maleficent, from
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anything bad that'll ever a whale of a tale and it's all true.
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For a tattoo um, yes. Uh, I think those are the scariest.
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I mean, Pinocchio. No, Toad is scary. No, Toad does scare. Like I
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Toad's ukie spooky and it's hot. When you go to hell, it's hot. I think they're pretty close, though.
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Pinocchio is super scary because it's like, oh, children went to jail
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and turned into donkeys. Like, that's a little bit scary, too. Smoking. I mean, they don't smoke in the
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attraction, but do we think Pinocchio will continue on like
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indefinitely? Or is it one of those ones that will eventually be like, "Hey, let's throw in a Disneyland incontto
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ride or Disneyland for like because I could see them throwing in another
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dark ride for a fantasy attraction. Not Tobacco Row, baby.
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Okay. Um, hi Pumpkin. He just talked to me. Hi, kiddo. Um,
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so I think if you didn't find Mr. Toad scary when you were a child, I actually
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think that you're broken inside. Okay, that's crazy. You got hit by a train, sir.
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And Mr. Daps loves trains. You know who else loved trains? Who else loved trains?
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Walt. Walt. Walt loved trains. And in this attraction, I was hoping that was the right answer.
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And in this attraction, no. See, I can see I could I could actually
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see Tangled replacing Pinocchio. I went on a Tangled attraction. Here's the problem is
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I think Pinocchio has a better chance today than it did like five or six years ago when they're like, "Oh, we're not
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even going to show smoking on any of our movies anymore." Like, um,
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I do think you could see a world where they just replace it because I do think
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it has enough that is kind of in the non-D Disney
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whatever. Did you notice I noticed the other day and I walked through twice just to make sure I wasn't
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imagining this. They don't have and I need to do this again maybe on Sunday.
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When You Wish Upon a Star is no longer playing underneath the castle as you walk through into Fantasy Land.
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I haven't seen that in a while. You remember how like you'd hear Jiminy Cricket sing it there? Not singing it
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there anymore. I haven't heard that in a while. Yeah, it's kind of sad. All right, we
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are running out of time. We will continue conversations on Daps HQ. Katie, what should people do?
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