1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,720 Just so that you all are aware, we we did a last minute pivot on 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,560 the shows that we were going to record today. 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,680 So we were going to do the best and worst changes to Disney 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,640 parks over the years. So you can see, like, Derek 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,640 hovering off screen right now because he planned his entire 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,360 wardrobe in advance, and now we're going to film the best 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,600 changes to Disney parks over the years, and he doesn't know 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,240 whether or not to keep the shirt on or change shirts. 9 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,800 I think I'm going to keep it on because then it's consistent. 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,880 Or do I change it because this shirt will be associated with 11 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,680 negativity because I wore it on the negative show, so maybe I 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:34,560 should wear something more. I'll be right back. 13 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,040 At least he's wearing pants. That's a win. 14 00:00:48,150 --> 00:00:49,750 Hey everybody. Welcome to this week's episode 15 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:52,310 of The DVC Show. I am your host Paul Krieger, 16 00:00:52,310 --> 00:00:54,830 joined as always by my lovely wife, Amy Krieger. 17 00:00:54,830 --> 00:00:57,950 Hello, Sales executive for the DVC resale market, Derek de 18 00:00:57,950 --> 00:01:01,320 Boer. Hey now, happy Monday everybody. 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,280 The Honorable Jeff Haslam Hey everybody, and for anyone that 20 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,560 is a visual viewer out there, and I apologize to those audio 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,120 listeners out there, Derek has changed his shirt. 22 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,040 If anyone was playing the home game between. 23 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,600 You. I love that. 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,680 Between the intro of this show and. 25 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,120 On the 50th anniversary. Yeah, I like it, The baseball. 26 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,920 The 50th anniversary. Was that one of Disney World's 27 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,360 best or worst moments? That could be debated for about 28 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,640 an hour. Yeah, probably. 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,000 Oh, I'm going to add something to my list. 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,400 OK. Well, in case you guys tuned in 31 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,640 last week, if you didn't head back and check out our best 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,680 changes to Disney Parks over the years, you will quickly realize 33 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,920 that as that show progressed, we realized that we were going to 34 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,320 talk for about an hour about all of the negative things. 35 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,920 So probably positive wise this will be a 15 or 20 minute show. 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,080 No. And I thought, I thought, I 37 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,240 thought the show last week that we taped like 20 minutes ago, I 38 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,920 thought the show last week was not really that negative. 39 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,000 I think overall you can tell that we still love Disney and we 40 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,680 still love the product and we simply talk about things that 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,680 say, hey, we don't understand why this isn't still the same. 42 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,680 So I don't think it was that negative. 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,600 I'm gonna, I'm gonna put in like, comments from all the 44 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,720 people that said we were overly negative right here at this 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,480 moment when Derek's talking. Like. 46 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,200 As long As for this episode, you put the same comments about how 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,520 we're Disney apologists and never call them on the carpet 48 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,320 for anything because that happens too so. 49 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,720 Yeah, yeah, a lot of. Yeah, you got I, I, I do hope 50 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,560 you all know, like comment on our videos because we love it, 51 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,080 whether it's, you know, something that we actually love 52 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,280 or it's something that makes our group chat. 53 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,680 And for all about you that think we're mean to Derek, I'm sorry. 54 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,840 If for everyone that thinks. He brings it upon himself. 55 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,440 I'm just kidding for. Everyone that thinks that we are 56 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,960 mean to Derek you, I feel like, you know, have you ever truly 57 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,640 had a like family friend, someone that deep where you can 58 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,000 joke about it? Because I feel like if you 59 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,320 don't, if you're not on that level with your friends, like 60 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,240 realize that we all don't just sit here once every three weeks. 61 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,840 Like, we do things together. We hang out together. 62 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,040 We. Yeah. 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,720 If if I hated them, would we be doing this? 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,800 I know. Oh my gosh, that is such an 65 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,400 iconic photo. That's true love, ladies and 66 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:34,120 gentlemen. That's. 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,160 What the show is about the Lady in the Tramp style? 68 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,600 Sharing is caring. That was right before I had to 69 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,880 take Derek to the hospital for a diabetic coma and he didn't even 70 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,320 was a diabetic before he drank it so. 71 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,960 I don't want to spoil your video, but what would? 72 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,040 There was another picture where you had a lineup of Coke 73 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,920 beverages and Derek working. Just really sad. 74 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,680 God, that was so much, that was so much fun. 75 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,080 That is our Never Have I Ever with Jeff and Derek series that 76 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,880 if it's not out yet, it will be coming out soon and we. 77 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,080 We're still trying to decide whether or not it's rated PG or 78 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:17,040 PG13 before we put it up. I'm pretty sure so, well, we got 79 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,519 so carried away last week. We're continuing the thought 80 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:21,480 process of last week's show into this week. 81 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,600 Last week we did the worst changes that we've seen at 82 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,160 Disney Parks and Resorts over the years. 83 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,920 And I think we had a great conversation. 84 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,160 And as Derek said, we did. We did I think keep it very 85 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:33,840 mild. We could have probably gone off 86 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:36,840 the deep end a little bit further than we did, but we 87 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:39,120 tried to think of things that were a little bit outside the 88 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,560 box. And this week we're talking 89 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,680 about the best changes to Disney parks and resorts that have 90 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,880 happened over the years. Because equally speaking to what 91 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,120 has been negative, there's been a bunch of positive changes to 92 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,720 the parks and we don't want those to be ignored. 93 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,800 Before we get into it. This and all of our content as 94 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,560 always, is brought to you by Key Holder Vacations and the world 95 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,440 of DVCDVC resale market. 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And give us. 107 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,480 My first one, the new enhanced security screening when going 108 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,720 into the parks, Disney Springs, That is one of the best things 109 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:54,160 that came out of the pandemic. So easy, so streamlined, and 110 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,440 it's gotten better. Like overtime it's gotten even 111 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,120 better. Like I'm able to bring like my 112 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,160 external chargers and things and it doesn't go off. 113 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,680 I just think that that's so much easy and Disneyland needs to get 114 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,840 with it because they're still over there searching every nook 115 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:13,120 and cranny of every bag, every little tampon holder that you 116 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,160 got like they're in it so. Jeff got a lot of those. 117 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,840 Disney World has done a great job. 118 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,560 Love the security that came about what that was like 5 years 119 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,920 ago now but. And when we're talking about 120 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,680 being mean to Derek and you guys thrown me under the bus, I 121 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,840 listened to the totality of our Key Holder Vacations Live show 122 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,240 that I only could hear bits and pieces of because I was in 123 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,200 Raglan Rd. Man, I'm the one that should be 124 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:43,040 sad drunk and he doesn't ever come out of his room and he's 125 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,680 gonna dance. I don't know. 126 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:48,280 I need new friends. I had, I had completely set up 127 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,680 during that entire live stream. I expected one or both of you to 128 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,560 actually call into the show because you permanently have the 129 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,800 link that we use for this. I had it all set up for you guys 130 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,680 to do so like I was very disappointed. 131 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,960 You didn't give them any like heads up, like hey, you could 132 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,240 call. Normally I don't have to. 133 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,200 Normally they just they they come up with their own. 134 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,400 I would have if I felt you could have heard me and I could have 135 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,360 heard you, but I was trying to listen at Raglan Road and I 136 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,320 finally just turned it off after my second comment. 137 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:16,880 I was like I. Right. 138 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,600 He did go radio silent after that so. 139 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,720 I agree with the security though. 140 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,720 It's it, it blew me away how long it took us to get to that 141 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,280 level of technology. Like I, I felt like we should 142 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,040 have gotten there a little bit quicker than we did, but now 143 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,400 that we're there and you see it popping up like at all different 144 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,760 places. Oh, I was at the Pirates game 145 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,400 the other day. Yeah, it's so nice. 146 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,160 And, and so the, the technology is improving drastically and 147 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,280 it's great. And, you know, you kind of learn 148 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,640 the little nuances of it, like hold your umbrella straight out 149 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,840 in front of you as you walk through. 150 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,800 Yeah, just so nice that I have to get searched at, you know, 151 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,800 every time and and it just get you in the park faster. 152 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,920 It does, Yep. So moves moves people quicker 153 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,960 through the system. Derek, take it away with our 154 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,360 next best change. I got a lot but so I would 155 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,120 rather cover a quantity verse quality, but I'm going to start 156 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:11,680 with one. Believe it or not that you may 157 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,680 not expect to come from me. Maybe not the most, as they say, 158 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,240 tech savvy person in the world, but I asked Annie and I asked 159 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,880 her this exact same question about hey, what's gotten better? 160 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,480 And she goes without even missing a beat. 161 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,320 She goes dining reservations. She goes to technology, the book 162 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,120 dining. She goes, I don't know if you 163 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,600 remember, I'm like, I probably don't. 164 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,280 She's like, there's no more. Remember when we used to have to 165 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:42,400 call four O 7 WDWEINE to book everything and you'd have to 166 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,159 wait, you'd have to get a hold of somebody. 167 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:46,600 You'd have to go through and say, well, this isn't available. 168 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,640 What about this blah, blah, blah. 169 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,440 She's like, that's a huge plus. She's like, make sure to remind 170 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,920 people that, yeah, maybe they're not going to get every single 171 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,640 thing they want, but it is a lot easier to book your dining and 172 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,160 you could see what's available. You could play with it in real 173 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,040 time and then click it and book it and done. 174 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,080 So that's my. Into branch off of derricks too, 175 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,360 adding the two hour cancellation window 'cause it used to be. 176 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,880 Was it a whole day or two days, or? 177 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,240 4 hours. It was 24 hours, you had to 178 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,760 decide and now you have until two hours that you can cancel, 179 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,200 which is better, you know, if you make a last minute change or 180 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,080 you want to be a little more spontaneous because we've 181 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,400 cancelled things before and decided to do other things. 182 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,640 And then that gives more for people who you know, let's say 183 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,360 we're going last minute, let's look more availability now for 184 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,720 others, you know what I mean? So I love that that new 2 hour 185 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,040 cancellation window it's. Funny because that was actually 186 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,600 number one on my list. Not that it's easier to book 187 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,680 dining, but the two hour cancellation thing because you 188 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:49,040 if you have kids or grandkids and they're prone to meltdowns 189 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,120 or it's just too hot. Like there was nothing worse 190 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,400 that you know, you'd booked this thing three months ago and then 191 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,840 you'd pay off and your kid has had it. 192 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,160 I've had it and you're like, well sorry folks, we got to go 193 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,440 to do the Epcot Death March because we booked chefs to 194 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,080 France at 4:00 and they will charges that we don't show. 195 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:07,680 Yeah. So. 196 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,960 It's so nice. It's so much nicer. 197 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,520 Jeff, keep it. Keep it going with your first 198 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,880 best of the night. Yeah, and I'm going to say, and 199 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,280 this is going to sound interesting probably because a 200 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:22,360 lot of people maybe don't agree, but I like that while we're not 201 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,880 getting a lot of expansion, they are addressing some of the 202 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:31,120 things that have gone bad with the rides and and the ones that 203 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,040 aren't getting a lot, they're they're rejuvenating a lot of 204 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,280 older rides. I'm thinking country bears. 205 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:41,360 I'm thinking the fact that they took the weird wild mouse roller 206 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,120 coaster out of Dinoland and are giving us on Konto and you know, 207 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,760 Zootopia got an I what I feel, and I know I'm in the minority 208 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,640 here, but I feel like it's a nice upgrade compared to it's 209 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,440 tough to be a bug. You know, they are spending some 210 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:58,360 money rejuvenating some rides that desperately needed it. 211 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,680 Now I'm looking at you figment. We're not done yet, but I do 212 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,160 feel like there's especially some money that they maybe 213 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,080 didn't have to, you know, fro for example, they replaced the 214 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,960 weird creepy projection heads with with act animatronic. 215 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,480 So I I like that they're they're at least attempting to make 216 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,200 things better. Yeah, Big Thunder should be 217 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,400 opening soon, right? Yeah, it's open to summer. 218 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,880 Yeah, Yeah. So that's going to be coming 219 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,120 with it's whatever it's new thing is they, they didn't fully 220 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,080 say that we're getting what was in Disneyland. 221 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,760 So kind of wait, wait to see what the full, what the full 222 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,680 effects look like. With that, I would I would just 223 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,080 kind of take that a step further and say ride technology in 224 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,080 general and kind of where we've seen the evolution of what is 225 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,600 capable of a ride go. And that moves us into what my 226 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,840 first best of the night would be, which is the evolution of 227 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,840 the concept of immersive lands. Now there's there's a blessing 228 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,840 and a curse. And if you listen to last week's 229 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,320 show where we talked about, you know, innovating and 230 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,080 imagineering and everything at the end of the show, this kind 231 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,440 of picks up where that left off left off. 232 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,880 But the ability to walk into your favorite movies has been 233 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,800 such an evolution in theme parks. 234 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,080 And I think no place have we seen it done better than Epic 235 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,480 Universe so far on the Universal side of things. 236 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,360 But Universal started that trend even before Epic Universe with 237 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,160 the the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. 238 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Then we saw it evolve into Pandora and the land of Avatar, 239 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,400 and now we're seeing it evolve further. 240 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,280 You've got cars land out on the West Coast and then coming very 241 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,200 soon of truly a lot of things that are coming to parks. 242 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,080 One of my most exciting is Monsters Inc land at Hollywood 243 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,960 Studios, and I think that's where as Disney evolves, there's 244 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,240 a little bit of that disconnect of you have Piston Peak, which 245 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,560 is not Cars Land, but really how they're, it's kind of 246 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,280 Frontierland. That's where it gets confusing, 247 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,200 where it's like, if you want to double down on IP and you want 248 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,320 us to walk into these immersive experiences that we've grown up 249 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,880 with fully, let us do that. You know, I, I wouldn't even go 250 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,000 as far as saying like Toy Story Land does it, but some of these 251 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,640 other ones really do it very well. 252 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,400 I'm not going to take us down into the argument of Galaxy's 253 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,960 Edge because, you know, it was the attempt. 254 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,960 And I still think there's a lot of positives that come from 255 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,800 Galaxy's Edge, but the ones that are really wins are Pandora. 256 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,760 It still takes my breath away to walk in there and see the 257 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:43,160 floating mountains, you know, and it, it's just, that's why 258 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,280 I'm so excited for Monsters Inc, because you're going to have 259 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,560 that same feeling of just walking into exactly what, you 260 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,080 know, in your head from those movies and images that have been 261 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,400 painted over the years. So I think that's a big win. 262 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,360 And I would just encourage Disney to do more of that if 263 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,720 that's the direction that they want to go in 'cause that is the 264 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,520 easy money maker. That's the thing people are 265 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,960 going to resonate with. I think Encanto's going to do 266 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,920 very similar with Tropical Americas, so. 267 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,720 Absolutely. It's funny because I know you 268 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,200 you kind of took a little dig at Toy Story Land. 269 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:17,840 So I was just here with my sister. 270 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,960 She's never been to Disney World, never been to Florida. 271 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,560 We did four straight days in the parks. 272 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,880 Rope dropped off fireworks every single day. 273 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,640 All four parks at the end, all four parks. 274 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:33,080 OK, yeah, I'm but. If this is like this is like the 275 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,880 fifth time this month he's done this though. 276 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,880 Well, it's it's the second time, but yes, I have been very parked 277 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,120 head lately for sure. At the end of the trip, I asked 278 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,720 her, I'm like, all right, from somebody that goes all the time. 279 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,680 I want to hear from somebody that this is their first time. 280 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:50,880 What were your highs? What were your lows? 281 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,600 What did you love? And Toy Story land was her 282 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,160 favorite land out of all of them, which was shocking to me. 283 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,200 And I said, all right, I got to know why, because it's widely 284 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,200 considered not she goes. I just, I, I don't know, I love 285 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,160 Toy Story. The fact that they went to the 286 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,720 effort of shrinking you down all the little elements with the 287 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,160 Lincoln Logs and the Tinker toys and the dominoes and the Uno 288 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,440 cards, She says. It just, I was overwhelmed. 289 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,160 I thought it was really cool. I thought it. 290 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,840 And she says, I also really like Star Wars Land, but it's the 291 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,520 same as Disneyland, which I thought was weird. 292 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:24,840 I was expecting something different. 293 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:30,280 We're like, yeah, us too. And but she also really did love 294 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,960 Pandora. So it was, it was kind of fun to 295 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,760 see it from somebody that doesn't come with any kind of 296 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,640 frequency. You know, what I think I'm a 297 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,800 little bit tainted by is that growing up as a kid at Hollywood 298 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,760 Studios, there was the Honey I Shrunk the Kids Land. 299 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,520 And that is, in my mind, what I want Toy Story Land to be to a 300 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:57,120 certain degree. I mean, you had the giant Lego 301 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,560 brick. You had, you know, the Ant that 302 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,280 you could, you know, take a picture on. 303 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,000 I have a picture on that Ant somewhere. 304 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,680 And the giant blades of grass and everything like that for me 305 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,600 is where the bar is. And we just never, we didn't get 306 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:16,280 there with Toy Story Land. So I think that's that's where 307 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,680 some of like the nostalgia in me comes, comes out and sort of 308 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,000 says no. I I don't disagree at all, but 309 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,080 you sure loved it. She's wrong. 310 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,880 No. And Hollywood Brown Derby was 311 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,080 her favorite restaurant that we ate so. 312 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,400 Wow. Take us around for another loop. 313 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,640 Let me pull my list back up. OK for me. 314 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,720 See, I have a lot. I'm going to say the Disney sky 315 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,720 liner, so. That made my list. 316 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,080 Yeah, so, gosh, I can't. How long has this sky liner been 317 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,080 around? Now I feel like. 318 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,080 Decent number of years. Yeah, so, but I remember when it 319 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,160 wasn't. And so just it makes staying at 320 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:06,200 certain resorts a lot more easy. You know, I've always, I love 321 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,680 being able to get places without having to get in a car or a bus 322 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,599 or you know what I mean? Like those sorts, the things 323 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:16,720 like if it's walkable or even something like the skyline or 324 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,440 when you just feel like, I don't know, it just feels like less 325 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,800 hassle for some reason. And so I just, I love it. 326 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,079 I love that you can get to Hollywood studios in Epcot, you 327 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:30,320 know, easily from each other. I love that you can get to the 328 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,440 certain resorts, but also it just looks really cool. 329 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,200 Like I love it. I hope, I hope they expand it. 330 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,520 I I think there's a lot of potential there. 331 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,800 Scenic wise, you're never bored while you're riding it. 332 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,480 Like, you're right, yeah. It's so cool to see the parks 333 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,120 from that angle that you'd never really get to see him. 334 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:51,800 Like as you cruise by by Hollywood Studios or you cruise 335 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,840 by Epcot, you're kind of looking at it from up above. 336 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,200 Like that's a very rare angle that you ever get to see the 337 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,320 parks from, so. Yeah. 338 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,280 And that's not that system is very common in other places now 339 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,320 that we've, you know, been traveling a lot more. 340 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,640 We've seen it in Alaska, they have it in Europe and it's 341 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,560 they're the same gondolas and everything. 342 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,160 So I feel like I feel like they could expand it. 343 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,800 Yeah, I guess that's the $1,000,000 question is like is 344 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,320 it saving money the way that they thought or or you know, are 345 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,040 they not expanding it because there's something we don't know 346 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,600 about the maintenance and stuff that's actually costing more 347 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,320 money, but. It's definitely increased the 348 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,920 value of, you know, they they charge more and justify it for 349 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,880 like pop century and you know, Caribbean beach and so. 350 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,920 I I think it's what put Riviera on the map like. 351 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,600 Well, true. Yeah, that is true 5. 352 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,240 Percent and and if they could do it to Animal Kingdom Lodge, my 353 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,360 God, that would be such such. Game changer, right? 354 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,080 Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah. 355 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,000 Yeah. DVC annual dues will subsidized 356 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,560 probably half the cost, so there you go. 357 00:18:55,760 --> 00:19:01,160 Right, it's a no brainer. Derek, what's one of your other 358 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,480 best changes to Disney Parks and Resorts over the years? 359 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,640 All right. I'm going to say, and not just 360 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,920 because I went with Jeff last week, but I think Disney 361 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:16,080 Springs, Disney Springs is a trillion times scientifically 362 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:20,080 proven, a trillion times better than when it was just quote UN 363 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,560 quote Downtown Disney and you had Pleasure Island and then you 364 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,960 had that, you know, West side with Cirque du Soleil. 365 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,040 I think now that they made it that kind of cohesive story of 366 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,520 Disney Springs, which has a great story too. 367 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,720 So if you ever want to do research on it, for those people 368 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,080 that say, Oh, I miss the old Disney Village marketplace, it's 369 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,160 still there. Like that's still there. 370 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,920 Oh, I miss Miss Pleasure Island. No, you don't. 371 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,720 Nobody honest to God miss Pleasure Island. 372 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,440 You have memories of it, maybe fuzzy ones, but you don't really 373 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,240 miss Pleasure Island. So the fact that that area right 374 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,760 there has great restaurants and shopping. 375 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,880 It's got the boathouse, you know, one of the best 376 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,200 restaurants in all of Disney. And then you could stroll over 377 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,680 to the West side and they've got great stores and shopping. 378 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,800 It's just to me, it is so much better than what it used to be 379 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,840 like. That is a place that as a local 380 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,040 again, I know some people always say, well, you guys are. 381 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,400 Local, it's different. Even when I wasn't, I love going 382 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,160 to when it was, you know, the Disney Village Marketplace and 383 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,800 then it was Disney Springs and then it was your whatever, 384 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,640 Downtown Disney. I still love it and I love it 385 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,480 even more so I think what they've done, added the amount 386 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,000 of amazing restaurants and shopping. 387 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,240 It's your way of getting a Disney fix and a little bit of 388 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,200 Disney magic without having to go to a park. 389 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,880 So I love Disney Springs, so thank you. 390 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,040 Yeah, that is a good one. It's just, and you know, it's 391 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,760 nice that you don't need a park pass or a ticket or even to pay 392 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,600 for parking, parking. I can't believe they've gotten 393 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,720 away with that. I say that every time I drive 394 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,800 there. I'm always like son of a gun. 395 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,960 I can't believe they're not charging. 396 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,160 For Park, don't give any ideas. I know it's crazy. 397 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,960 We'll go there more often and we'll shop and spend money and 398 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,800 eat more often in there, you know, without having to pay for 399 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,520 parking. Oh, yeah. 400 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,960 I remember growing up that was such like just a hodgepodge area 401 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,800 that I just never understood, like Downtown Disney. 402 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,600 And of course, like I was this little kid and was like, can't 403 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,200 go over there. That's Pleasure Island. 404 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:25,040 I'm like, why? But yeah, it's just there's, 405 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,000 there's. And I think it's really elevated 406 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,720 the dining. And that's kind of been a theme 407 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,600 that we've really come back to. It has some of the best, Yeah, 408 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:32,760 yeah. Jeff. 409 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,760 Yeah, I'm going to say night time stuff. 410 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,760 You know, they've invested that. The best thing that they ever 411 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,360 did was bring happily ever after back after they took it away 412 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,680 from us for a while. That was my sister's favorite 413 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,800 thing that we did all week long, Happily ever after. 414 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,640 We did actually the dessert party for that, so that we 415 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,960 didn't have to sit there for three hours and get a good spot. 416 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,400 We spent the 100 bucks and had the desserts and watched the 417 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,360 fireworks front and center. I just the fact that they 418 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,400 reinvested some more money into Fantasmic and added some of 419 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,200 those scenes and and took away the stuff that wasn't working. 420 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,920 The even the something as simple as the, the, the projection 421 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,160 mapping on Grauman's Chinese Theater with what is it the 422 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,000 world of Wonderful world of Disney? 423 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,680 I don't know. I we finally saw Starlight, the 424 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,400 new parade. Why we are waiting for the 425 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,840 fireworks to start. There's a lot more to do at 426 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,400 night. That kind of went away for a 427 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,640 really long time. Now. 428 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,520 Is Starlight as good as the electric light parade? 429 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,080 No, but it's something. It's something that gets people 430 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,000 out of the lines and back interacting with their family 431 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,120 without looking at their phones. I, I don't know, I just, I'm, 432 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,400 I'm really happy with nighttime entertainment right now. 433 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,080 I still wish Animal Kingdom would bring something back, but. 434 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,680 No, I do. We should have talked about that 435 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:58,440 on there on the other show because I loved Rivers of Light. 436 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,840 I loved it. I didn't love Rivers of Light. 437 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,560 Oh, it was so cultural beautiful. 438 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,640 And the boats in the. I loved kite tails. 439 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,640 I did love kite tails. Kite tails Best thing. 440 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,400 It was a hoot. Yeah. 441 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,000 We loved sitting on the end when they used to crash him, you 442 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,280 know? Crash him right into the stand. 443 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,280 Loved it, yeah. If I if I could buy that Big 444 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,640 Blue, they were. So funny too. 445 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,040 Just giant. Raping over our house every 446 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,520 single minute of every single day. 447 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,080 I don't know where to go from there. 448 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:37,360 Do you have? One I do, I have I have actually 449 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,360 several of of mine have been taken. 450 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:42,840 I had Disney Springs transformation on here. 451 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,680 This one people will either hate or love, but I will just say I 452 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,400 love me and Epcot Festival and and I think that doubling down 453 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,440 on Epcot festivals has been the best decision that Epcot has 454 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,600 ever done because honestly, we were there I think in between 455 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,680 festival periods and you do have that moment of walking around 456 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,320 going. I really don't know what to do 457 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:04,840 with myself. I. 458 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,920 Miss not high festival. No, I like Go. 459 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,280 I will say, like it does, it does take away from immersing 460 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,520 yourself in the countries and really exploring what every 461 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,360 country has to offer. And if you've never done that at 462 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,640 Epcot, I highly encourage you to do so. 463 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,760 But once you've done that, once you're, you know, once you've 464 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,080 been there, done that, got the T-shirt a couple times. 465 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,360 The Epcot festivals, they just really are what brings 466 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,920 excitement to it. That being said, I do think that 467 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,040 Disney needs to like maybe reinvent some of these and bring 468 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,280 some of the things back that they've taken away from festival 469 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,000 every year. But the rumor that had me so 470 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,800 excited about a year or two ago was the idea of in that little 471 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,440 gap period in the summer, they were going to do like a barbecue 472 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,520 and brew festival. Like make it like rock'n'roll 473 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,880 barbecue and brew festival and just slip that into that gap 474 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,480 period. You'll have more money. 475 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,400 For me, that's the truth, no? I agree with you. 476 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,160 I went, I don't remember. I think it was in between, it 477 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,640 was last year, it was in between flower and garden and food and 478 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,320 wine and I got bored pretty fast. 479 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,040 I'm like, oh, there's nothing to eat. 480 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,160 If there is, you could. Go to a. 481 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,000 Restaurant like? Go to like a kiosk and talk to a 482 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,360 guy. No, I don't want to just go 483 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,040 through the thing. I want a beer flight. 484 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,000 You can't get a beer flight outside of a festival. 485 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,000 Right, we haven't yeah, that's true. 486 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,760 You can't get a beer flight or like sample a type things. 487 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,640 I the festivals are great. I love them, but I just miss we 488 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,040 I don't well, I don't remember being there in between a 489 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,800 festival for so long and I miss just being able to walk through 490 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,040 well showcase without it being so crowded and congested. 491 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,960 But. Yeah, but Amy, you would never 492 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,320 use your snack coupons at Moonlight Magic if it wasn't a 493 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,600 festival. That's true. 494 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,560 I would be struggle busting to use them. 495 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,240 That is true. She'd just have 3 powerades, 496 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,240 that'd be it. That'd be her night for sure. 497 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,000 How about we change it to the the bluegrass and BBQ brews? 498 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:07,920 I'm fine with that. I. 499 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,280 Don't care what kind of music you bring in, but yeah, that's 500 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,160 different. That's cool. 501 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,800 Let's do it. Yep, you had me at brew. 502 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,800 Derek's like you had. Me at brews, who's got who's got 503 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,840 another best I do, I do go for it, Derek. 504 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,160 I've won mine is the Disney Vacation Club resorts. 505 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,320 And I say that because I was thinking when I joined, you 506 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,200 know, back in like whatever, like the late 90s, I basically 507 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,040 had four resorts that I could use my points for, right? 508 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,720 I could use it for the Boardwalk, which is what I 509 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,360 bought. We had old Key West, you had 510 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:48,120 Bureau and you had Hilton Head. So the fact that in all the 511 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:54,160 years since then that we've got this incredible portfolio of 512 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,800 resorts that I say all over the world, you know, stretching from 513 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,200 Florida, they're Hilton Head and you got Hawaii and you got a 514 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,760 couple Disneyland. That to me, it just is amazing 515 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,160 because I would have been happy with my DVC resort back then if 516 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,720 they told me and said, hey, you know what, this is it, you got 517 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,040 these four resorts, you still want to buy it. 518 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,280 And I'll be like, yeah, that's totally great. 519 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,280 So the fact that there's so many different resorts and again, 520 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,200 what I love, there's a resort for everybody out there. 521 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,360 So what I might not like or be my cup of tea, Bay Lake Tower. 522 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,200 That doesn't mean that others all around the world don't enjoy 523 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,560 it. And I love that for for them. 524 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,440 So I love that we've got resorts on the monorail. 525 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,040 I love them. We got them near Epcot. 526 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,920 I love them. We've got stand alone resorts. 527 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,880 I love them. We got tiny resorts. 528 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,720 I love that we have huge resorts. 529 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,280 So for me, I love the fact that we have so a DVC, great 530 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,920 portfolio to be able to pick and choose from. 531 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,400 So thank you. That's a good one. 532 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,480 That is a great. One and actually that was on my 533 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,840 list as well, so. Now we now we just need another 534 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,680 park to put all these people in because we've got too many rooms 535 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,440 filled with too many people all going to the same 4 theme parks. 536 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,720 Yeah, I wish there was more success in the parks that are 537 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,320 outside or the resorts that are outside the parks. 538 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,480 Like, I wish they had seen more success in like Vero and Hilton 539 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,640 Head and Milani with selling them because I would love more, 540 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,480 more Disney at other places. You know Disney's ski lodge, 541 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,080 Disney in the Caribbean, or Yeah. 542 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,000 Yeah, that was yeah, that's a great best essentially is is I 543 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,680 think those those were wins even though they didn't resonate the 544 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,640 way that we expected them to. Even even a more recent win in 545 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,120 the Disney vacation Go Spears is Disneyland Hotel. 546 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,920 Like that was a big win for the West Coast in adding more DVC 547 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,360 and making DVC accessible out there. 548 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,360 And I still think it's going to be a huge win long term for for 549 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,920 that resort, especially as we look forward to Disneyland's 550 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,920 expansion in the coming coming years and everything. 551 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:04,360 So yeah, Amy, what is another one on your list of the best? 552 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,600 OK, I'm going to save that one for the for the end. 553 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,200 So I'm going to say so. So back to like the mobile 554 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,280 mobile type things and I'm just going to group these together. 555 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,200 First, magic mobile. The fact that you can, you know, 556 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,760 we talked about this tiny bit on the last show, but the fact that 557 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,640 you can use your your Apple Watch and your phone. 558 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,920 And if you forget a magic band or you know what I mean, you 559 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,200 always have your ticket, your annual pass. 560 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,040 You always have that stuff with you because most people always 561 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,320 have their phone and their watch. 562 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,000 I love that. It's just so convenient. 563 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:44,840 And back to the mobile app, mobile check in for resorts and 564 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,960 dining. So instead of having to wait in 565 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,120 a line with my luggage or instead of having to wait, you 566 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,400 know, to get into the restaurant, I can just check in, 567 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,200 you know, Moberly, and then not even have to stop at the front 568 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,520 desk. And I think that that's just, it 569 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,520 helps eliminate, you know, your time being spent doing things 570 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,680 that you don't need to do. And also, like sometimes we get 571 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,160 our room is ready before we even leave the house. 572 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,320 And it's just nice, you know, just drive straight there to go 573 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,240 right to your room and not have to like worry about all the 574 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,520 extra stuff. I also love how, like the the 575 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,440 RFID technology is now kind of built into the phone. 576 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,400 So you used to have to go to the front desk to like, scan your 577 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,600 magic band so that it would work. 578 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,520 But now your phone actually does that for you. 579 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,320 Yeah, That is to link your magic band. 580 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,640 You can do it that way. Also the ability to open your 581 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,200 door from your phone is working a lot better than it used to 582 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,280 when it first rolled out. It used to be very hit or miss 583 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,960 and I'll take what you said a step further and say mobile 584 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,720 ordering for quick service restaurants. 585 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,480 That is just a tremendous game changer because now you're not 586 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,800 having to stand in a line for 30 to 40 minutes. 587 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,880 You can sit down on a bench and take your time and not be in a 588 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,480 super rush to make that order. Place it at your convenience, 589 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,200 tell them you're there. Like it just. 590 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,560 It really simplifies that entire. 591 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,440 And then back to them correcting those sorts of things. 592 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,560 They also corrected using your magic mobile for parking 593 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,480 scanning, you know, to see if you're staying at a resort or if 594 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,360 you're having annual pass. Now I do is stick out my watch 595 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,600 and and it works. And that used to not be the 596 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,400 case. So, you know, constantly 597 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,440 improving that technology, making it better. 598 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,160 This is a win for all of us. Technology's magical. 599 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,800 I'll go next because mine actually I had it's the exact 600 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,960 same thing. It's the app but none of what? 601 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,520 Well, I did have mobile ordering, but none of what you 602 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,520 said was on my list of app technology. 603 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:47,800 I actually love Photo Pass now much more than I used to for a 604 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,720 few reasons #1 there's a lot of options all over the parks, even 605 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,560 at some of the resorts now you're starting to see Photo 606 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,400 Pass, but like the magic shots can make that really special. 607 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,200 With my sister here this week, we don't ever have pictures 608 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,760 together. So we did everything. 609 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,720 We did them all. The fact that you can see your 610 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,600 family and friends on there and I can look at, oh, Jeff and Dan 611 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,920 went and got lightsaber pictures again, or, you know, Space 612 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,080 Mountain. I like that kind of interaction 613 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,760 and that overlap, but the fact that you can just add it for one 614 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,000 fee onto your annual pass just makes it way more accessible as 615 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,040 far as I'm concerned. And then I just, I don't know, I 616 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,080 love the fact that there there's all these things that the phone 617 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,400 can do that the Magic Band doesn't do that they should do. 618 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,200 Like the Duck Tales thing at Epcot. 619 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,080 That's just a thing that's free that that when the kids get 620 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,080 bored as you're eating and snacking around the world, you 621 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,840 can still see all the countries, but give them 10 minutes to go 622 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,200 and solve the puzzles at the UK or the pirate treasure map at 623 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,240 Magic Kingdom. I guess that's Magic Band, but I 624 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,440 think it probably could be in the phone really easily. 625 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,240 You know, just there's a lot of things that that app does that 626 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,200 we don't give them credit for. And. 627 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,280 I just the photo pass lenses and all those kinds of things I just 628 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,400 think of are are really neat. Yes. 629 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,920 And the fact that we can see that right now on our app is, 630 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:16,240 yeah, that's cool, yeah. I'm glad you didn't pull up the 631 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,600 Magic Kingdom one in front of the castle because. 632 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,160 I didn't get that far this one. This one took the cake as how 633 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,680 quickly could I pull up a photo of you from your recent 634 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,360 adventures? If you could find the one like 635 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,360 so I had my sister and Amy on either side of us in front of 636 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,960 Magic Kingdom. The nice guy that was taking our 637 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,960 picture says Kay. Now look at each other and I'm 638 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,880 in the middle and I'm trying to go wait. 639 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,240 I can't look at both of them And I ended up with this picture of 640 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,640 me cross eyed. It's phenomenal. 641 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,080 But anyway. There it is. 642 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,560 That's yeah, that's 100% it is. That one I could see his cross 643 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,680 eyed from. I could see his cross eyed from 644 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,600 a cross eyed million miles. While while he's looking for 645 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:07,040 that, I also want to add this, you're right, the price of you 646 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,520 know, magic or Oh my gosh of photo pass, especially when you 647 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,800 compare it like if you're on a cruise ship and you're looking 648 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,679 at the photo packages, it's like 200 plus bucks for like 30 649 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:18,760 photos. You know what I mean? 650 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,840 And you have to have the actual photo. 651 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,800 Like who wants the photo? I just want it on my phone so I 652 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,480 can show my friends and family I'm not. 653 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,120 Right, yeah. And the fact that we can walk 654 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,120 into a park and if there's, you know, we can get hey, let's get 655 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,679 in line and get a photo or hey, you know what I mean? 656 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,080 I love that And and yeah, I it's such a good that's. 657 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,239 One of those things where it, it always still blows me away how 658 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,199 much you've got Universal versus Disney. 659 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,679 And yet one company does something really well and the 660 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,320 other one's like, Nah, we're still. 661 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,880 Going to make I hate I hate universe picture and and you got 662 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,719 to look at it once you get off the rug. 663 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,920 I mean, it's directly behind me. Here is our picture from the 664 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,280 ministry ride. I do agree Disney does photos so 665 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,360 much better than anyone. Still spent the money. 666 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,440 They're even better because like Guardians, it automatically goes 667 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,200 in Tower of Terror. There's nothing you don't scan 668 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,560 Tower of Terror. I guess you do, but a lot of 669 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,400 them Pirates is one that just ends up in your account of that. 670 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,720 You don't have to sit and fight your way to the front and they, 671 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:22,840 you know, bring that to all of them. 672 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,360 Splash Mountains is the worst because people never get out of 673 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,720 the way but. Hey, hey, we just did that 674 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:37,400 amphibic car at the boathouse at Disney Springs and we look, you 675 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,120 look shifty. That's one descriptor. 676 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,640 Couldn't focus on when I was supposed to. 677 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,120 Yeah, that's. Great. 678 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,360 That's a shifty Jeff. Yeah, go ahead Derek with your 679 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,600 your amp. No amp, we're just going to back 680 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,120 up what everyone's saying. Because then Jeff and I got off 681 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,200 our little car boat and of course they want to sell you a 682 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,480 photo package. And Jeff found out that it was 683 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,320 included with what he already had and he saved us like 684 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,400 $87,000. I mean it would be good. 685 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,960 And then the next day. What they wanted to charge was 686 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,080 kind of crazy, and I leaned over and I told Jeff as they were 687 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,960 taking the pictures before we left. 688 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,240 I'm like, do not. We're not buying a picture when 689 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,080 this is done. We're not buying a picture. 690 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:23,800 No. What? 691 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,280 He said before we get on, he's like do not let them take our 692 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,560 pictures. I don't want to fight with them 693 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,880 after about buying it. Don't and we didn't have a 694 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,800 choice. I'm like, get in the car, take a 695 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,240 picture, but yeah. So is that that's normal? 696 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:40,600 So if you have photo pass then you get the photos 697 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,960 automatically? Yeah, OK. 698 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,520 And then I was in the body show you have. 699 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,200 To go to the counter and scan your. 700 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:46,960 Phone. OK. 701 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,520 And then I was like, hey, Derek. Yeah, even I can see him. 702 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,920 And I showed him to him the next day. 703 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,240 So yeah, that's it. Yeah, stay tuned for that video 704 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,480 if it's not come out already. It'll be coming out very, very. 705 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,400 I'm excited to see it. That is that is that is going to 706 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,960 be a a gem of Derek and Jeff afternoon date at Disney 707 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:06,760 Experience. I'm starting. 708 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,480 To have regrets about deciding to do this series with Derek 709 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,840 because I'm pretty focused. When I go into whatever I'm 710 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,520 going to shoot, I've got it kind of storyboarded out in my head 711 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,080 and I know what's happening and derricks like a drunk toddler. 712 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,000 He's like, no, let's do it this way. 713 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,360 And like Sweden's walking down the road like, and it changes 714 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,680 the whole thing, which is really fun. 715 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,240 But I'm like, how am I going to edit this? 716 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,600 I don't. Know editing that is so true 717 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,440 that's so true because I have my own ideas and I was like listen 718 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,840 So what about this and how about if we flow from this to this I 719 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,880 go but you do what you want because you're doing all the 720 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,560 work on it you're. Doing all that. 721 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,280 That's Derek Slayer saying I have really good ideas with. 722 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,360 All the fancy editing behind the scenes, but here's what we 723 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,440 should do. So. 724 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,480 Eric, give us another best on your list. 725 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,840 Oh God, yes, I do have another one. 726 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,000 I want to say that that is still the best will always be the 727 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,680 Disney cast members. So I think no matter what park 728 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,760 you're in, I think a great Disney cast members, which 729 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,720 obviously almost all of them are, can make your whole entire 730 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:15,760 trip. You know, it's some of the best 731 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,000 stories that you'll always hear from people have from their trip 732 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,280 may not involve, you know, riding pirates for the 10 733 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,080 thousandth time or Haunted Mansion again, blah, blah, blah. 734 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,560 It's Oh my God. Do you remember when we 735 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,520 interacted with so and so or do you remember with our waiter 736 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,640 that we had at this restaurant or Jeff just told the story? 737 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,120 I can't remember what show it was where he went to to Beacon 738 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,680 Barrel. And you know, one of the cast 739 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,960 members there helped elevate his whole experience. 740 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,760 So I think whether it's in the parks, whether it's in the 741 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:47,600 resorts, whether it's in the restaurant, cast members truly 742 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,040 are the ones that make the difference. 743 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,040 So that will always remain consistent, thank God. 744 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,760 For sure. And while we're on that subject 745 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,440 of that and the app, if you have that cast member that did 746 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,320 something that made your trip a little extra special, they've 747 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,680 made it really easy in the app to give a cast compliment. 748 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,560 And that does benefit them. Yeah, in in ways that we don't 749 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:09,320 know. Yeah. 750 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,160 So if you, it doesn't. Take about a second. 751 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,280 Yeah, if you can try to remember their name and where they were 752 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,800 from on their badge, because that makes it easier. 753 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,240 If you don't know that, you can tell them where you were and 754 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,720 like what time it was. But yeah, cast compliments. 755 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:26,920 I was looking to see. So if you're on the app and you 756 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,960 hit the little hamburger menu, it's all the way at the bottom 757 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,600 under Help and feedback. So cast compliments. 758 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,960 Always a good idea. I want to take us back with one 759 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,680 that's on my list and it's Disney Vacation Club related 760 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:46,600 because there are still people to this day that think it's the 761 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,760 only way that you can book a reservation. 762 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,920 But when Disney Vacation Club first launched, you had to call 763 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,160 to make every single reservation. 764 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,960 And I would never have bought the product if that was still 765 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,800 the case when I when I came in. Because that sounds like a whole 766 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,840 lot of work, but there's no people in this club and a part 767 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,640 of this the vacation club that think that you have to call 768 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,240 every single time that you make a reservation or make a change 769 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:16,840 to a reservation or do anything or even check DVC availability. 770 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,880 But the the introduction of the interwebs and the ability to 771 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,880 check availability on the website and book a reservation 772 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,720 on the website and even most of the technology on the website 773 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:31,960 and bless the chat on the website because that saves you 774 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,960 call. Has been a lot better. 775 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,200 Yeah, been a. Lot better they've, I believe 776 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,040 that they've upgraded kind of the chat engine that they're 777 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,640 using on the website. So it's I actually just had to 778 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:47,200 do a chat earlier today and it was a lot easier to do So just 779 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,960 that ability to make booking easier for a DVC member. 780 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,880 It just, I feel like we should just call this the best 781 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,120 technological improvement show because that's the trend that 782 00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,280 we've been on. Good, Derek. 783 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,200 I can tell you, just adding on to that is I remember when I 784 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,000 became a Disney Vacation Club guide forever ago, they 785 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000 obviously have, you know, files on every single family that they 786 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,160 talk to and maybe put notes of conversations they've had so the 787 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,320 vacation guides can remember who they've talked to and whatnot. 788 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,080 So I remember because I was already a member, because we 789 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,960 joined, then I became a vacation guide like 10 years later. 790 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,080 And then I thought to myself, I'm like, I got to look up 791 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,040 myself. Like I want to see, you know, 792 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,680 what did they say about me? And I go in there and I type in 793 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,240 the notes and I look up, you know, Derek Bohr and it goes 794 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,120 into the whole thing. And there was a conversation 795 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,680 from I think it was in like the late 90s, like maybe 97 or 796 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,360 something like that and said Derek called in, wanted to know 797 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,520 if we had a website, which of course we do not. 798 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:49,200 I don't know if we ever will because there was not a DVC 799 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,880 website at that time. Like you, like you said, you had 800 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,680 the call and that's back in the days when if you if you wanted 801 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,600 info, there was no online stuff. It was like we're mailing you 802 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,840 what they called like a dream book and they were like 803 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,000 hardcover books that you could learn about the club. 804 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,440 But yeah, they've come a long. Yeah, waivers. 805 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,160 Call 1-800-800-9800. So yeah. 806 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,640 Even even from the time that we've joined, like the amount of 807 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,640 like paperwork that someone requesting information receives 808 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,840 is a whole lot less. Like now it's like put in your 809 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,960 put in your address and receive a free key to the magic and you 810 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,240 get the key and it has AQR code. It just sends you online rather 811 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:31,000 than sending you 75,000 pieces of paperwork, right? 812 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,280 But they do make sure that you acknowledge that you've read the 813 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,560 75,000 pieces of paperwork still. 814 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,160 So that's always that's always a fun one. 815 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,720 Jeff, what else has made your list? 816 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,720 I want to say this is going to sound weird but I think the 817 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:48,760 Murphy beds if we're going DVC route. 818 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,600 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good, that's a big one as. 819 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,800 Far as as making those rooms a little more livable rather than 820 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,360 having to throw suitcases under queen beds and stuff. 821 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,720 I just, I like that you can fold it up and it's the couch, but 822 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:04,680 then you fold it down and there's charging ports inside 823 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,320 and reading lamps. I just, I do, I think the Murphy 824 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,360 beds, the refurbishments in, in general now we know that there's 825 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,840 been some misses, but as a whole, I would say the 826 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,640 refurbishments that we've seen over the last seven years have 827 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,760 been a good win. Especially for the studios, 828 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,760 they've just really increased the livability of those rooms. 829 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,720 Like you can convert it from 2 beds into kind of a bedroom 830 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,200 living room situation and have the ability to some of the 831 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,600 coffee tables like pull up so that you can actually sit on the 832 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,560 couch and you know, use that as kind of your office for the day. 833 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,000 I've, I always say I'm more inspired to work from a Disney 834 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,280 Vacation Club room than anywhere else in the world. 835 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,720 So, you know, just put me in one of those rooms and I'll be twice 836 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:49,240 as productive as I am today, so. Yeah, no, I agree though. 837 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,480 Like you're getting a real mattress versus do you remember 838 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,720 when we slept on the couch bed at Jambo House for a whole week? 839 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,840 Yeah, so because we love our moms and gave them the bedrooms. 840 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:09,400 Yeah, you could feel the bar. So I have one more that before 841 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,440 we if before you end, but. Yeah. 842 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,640 I have a question I want to go around the room with, but I'll 843 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,560 let you shoot us off one more and if you guys have any more, 844 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,200 we can do that. But I do have a question to go 845 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,360 around the room with. OK, I just want to do my last 846 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,720 one because I think it is the best thing to come out of the 847 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:26,320 50th. They kept it. 848 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,200 I love it. I love seeing it. 849 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:29,760 I bet you know exactly what I'm going to say. 850 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:34,040 The technical term for it is called Points of Light, and that 851 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,440 is when they put the lights on spaceship Earth and for and 852 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,200 furthermore, doing the, the music that the, you know, the, 853 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,520 the songs and things that they do with it moving around during 854 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,320 the festivals, especially Rainbow Connection. 855 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,560 But yeah, I love, I love Points of Light. 856 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,480 I'll even say that they've kept the technology at all of the 857 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,920 parks to a certain degree. The Tree of Life still does its 858 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,560 nighttime shows. Those were introduced really I 859 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,400 believe around the 50th. Hollywood Tower of Terror still 860 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,880 does overlays. Yeah. 861 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,000 They don't do some of the specialty stuff that they were 862 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,680 doing on the the castle. But yeah, I mean, you still get 863 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,680 it with the projections that they're doing for happily ever 864 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,480 after and other stuff. But Oh yeah, it that's just 865 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,160 where we're going with the with the technology is great, except 866 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,800 for that one light. Everyone knows where it is. 867 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,760 Oh my gosh, right. The top middle right. 868 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,640 When you're coming in the park, yeah. 869 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,800 Kudos to it. It likes to be different. 870 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,360 It wants to be just a little bit outside the box. 871 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,720 I mean, don't change it. There has to be the one, but 872 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,840 that's a that's a big one. Any other best of from you guys 873 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,560 before I ask a a question around the room? 874 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,880 No, I'm good. I think we've covered it. 875 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,120 Super quick one that's kind of an intangible one, but again, 876 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,600 it's I discussed all this with Annie. 877 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,240 It's what's gotten better is all. 878 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,320 You'll always have the nostalgia, like for me, 879 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,800 attractions come, attractions go, but it's the memories that 880 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,880 you make with your families that I think the ones that you're 881 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,560 able to make at Disney and on Disney vacations are just some 882 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,000 of the best memories that you'll ever have. 883 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,480 And I, I think, you know, as it, you know, changes and as your 884 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,680 life changes and, you know, maybe if you have kids out there 885 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,160 and you've gone to Disney, taken Disney vacations with your kids 886 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,320 when they were, you know, babies and maybe toddlers and then 887 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,680 cringy teenagers and then adults. 888 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,240 And then to see everybody grow is, I think what Disney has and 889 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:38,040 what they're able to do, I think can't be replicated anywhere 890 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:39,360 else. I'm sorry. 891 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,880 I, you know, Universal's great epic is super cool, but I, it 892 00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,840 just, I don't think we'll ever have that same emotional 893 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:54,640 gravitas per SE that Disney does, and only Disney can do. 894 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,360 So that's me. That's great. 895 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,200 I feel like we should have a word of the night gravitas. 896 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:01,880 That was just like the word of the day. 897 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,280 I feel like for this show that was didn't, that was the word 898 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,520 through through that conversation that I didn't 899 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,640 expect. It's the only I like. 900 00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:17,200 To go off it's like and everything but so my question 901 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,680 that I did not prepare you all for, but just curious if anyone 902 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:26,880 has any thoughts related to this is when we think through some of 903 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:32,040 these best changes to Disney parks and we think forward 904 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,480 taking us all the way back to the show that we did two weeks 905 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,520 ago. Or if you're us two hours ago, 906 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,520 which is Disney's about about to embark on a new adventure. 907 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,800 You have Josh tomorrow moving in as CEO. 908 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:49,280 You have Thomas Maslin moving in as head of YEAH, Parks, chairman 909 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:54,600 of Parks and Resorts. What is the next best change 910 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,600 that could come to Disney Parks and Resorts? 911 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,960 If you could name what that next best thing would be? 912 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,680 Go ahead, Derek. Stop raising the prices. 913 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,880 Just, I mean, truly, I, I, I know you have to have increases 914 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,240 on various things from time to time, but I think if there's a 915 00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:18,560 #1 complaint that I hear and I think anybody that when they 916 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:23,960 talk about Disney is it's just gotten too damn expensive, you 917 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,480 know? And that to me is something that 918 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,760 I think that they can combat like they can combat maybe if 919 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,680 they've got some rides that aren't working 100% or maybe 920 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,440 this line is too long or what not. 921 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,960 But when you're constantly raising the price of food, when 922 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,440 you're constantly now charging for fast passes, when you're 923 00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,120 taking away things that used to be free and now charging for 924 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:49,960 them, I think something they can do is not just stop, just stop 925 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,360 doing that because I think the amount of good press you'll get, 926 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,520 Go Google it. How many, how many stories from 927 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,920 media outlets all over the world can you find that says Disney 928 00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:03,600 World has gotten too expensive? There's countless of them. 929 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,040 So I think for them trying to combat that would be a huge, 930 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:09,000 huge plus. They're they're, they're never 931 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,840 going to reduce prices, but stop overcharging and stop charging 932 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,720 for stuff that used to be free. Well, and it's kind of like I 933 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:20,120 said in the last episode, you know, it's it you keep raising 934 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,240 the prices, you're pricing out the families that got you to 935 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:25,960 where you are. And if you're only going to 936 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,480 cater to those that can afford it, Meanwhile, bringing home a 937 00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,760 $35 million a year salary and Kylo Ren doesn't work every 938 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,760 time. Like all those things just kind 939 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:37,360 of aren't In Sync with each other. 940 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,280 You know, the people that would come and, and, and like my 941 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,480 family, we would do Disney once a year. 942 00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:47,160 We would spend an ordinance amount of money on that one trip 943 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,640 because we could. Now it's gotten so expensive to 944 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,600 even get in there that the other stuff that we used to spend 945 00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,640 money on, the fireworks parties, the the merchandise, the 946 00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,960 souvenirs, you know, you might get one Mickey pretzel for the 947 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,960 week rather than one every day. You're missing what got you 948 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:12,040 there because the, the extreme wealthy that can afford to do 949 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:16,480 $450 fast passes are going to do that once and then they're going 950 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,320 to go do something else. They have that ability where 951 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,000 people love Disney. They want Disney to be 952 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,560 accessible. It's always been a family, you 953 00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:29,640 know, park it. It's making it really hard 954 00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,080 because my kids take their kids to Disney because I brought them 955 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,880 to Disney and my parents brought me to Disney. 956 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,640 Teenagers and and and Gen. Z this they like the experience, 957 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,520 but they like it Once you're not, you're leaving the 958 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,360 nostalgia behind. I've kind of feel like with with 959 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,400 making it so expensive because you can't build those memories 960 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,240 as frequently. It's a one and done for a lot of 961 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:53,760 families, if that. So I kind of agree with Derek. 962 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,880 That wasn't what I was going to say, but that's I agree with 963 00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,120 Derek. Mark, Mark the day Jeff and 964 00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,080 Derek agree. Exactly. 965 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,360 Re say the question again, it's what the. 966 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,800 Question would be what? Is the next good? 967 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,920 What's the? Next best change they could do 968 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,360 to Disney Parks and Resorts. Not necessarily change, but I 969 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:22,960 think that they have to go full in and knock out of the park 970 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,800 what they have in hello, what they have in progress. 971 00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:32,440 So Monsters Inc land needs to be a home run, Radiator Springs, 972 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:36,160 you know, Piston Peak needs to be a home run, Tropical Americas 973 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:41,560 needs to be a home run and villains land needs to be a home 974 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,320 run. And so we we shouldn't walk in 975 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,800 and see like, oh, it was supposed to be like this, but 976 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,800 they had to cut it back. And you know what I mean? 977 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,040 I want to see like, wow, that's, that's really amazing. 978 00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,800 This is the response to Epic Universe and it has to be 979 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,160 everything that people are and and there will still be doubters 980 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,720 and I'm sure that we'll be on this, you know, show kind of 981 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,080 saying, Hey, I wish this was there or that was there. 982 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:08,960 That'll always be the case. There will always be critiques 983 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,520 of what they do, but they're just has to be the jaw-dropping 984 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:16,520 aspects of things that everyone is expecting for the sheer 985 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,040 amount of money that they're going to spend. 986 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,800 And I will say for mine, which kind of summarizes most of 987 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:28,440 these, which is for every 10 things on the balance sheet that 988 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,560 makes sense that you know, are going to make you money, do one 989 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,320 thing that is a bit of a risk, challenge yourself. 990 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:42,560 You know, believe in what has been true to the Walt Disney 991 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,200 World Company or the Walt Disney Company for so many years, which 992 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,560 is that you can, you can do amazing storytelling, you can 993 00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,320 create amazing things. Trust in your ability to do 994 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,320 that. And at least every once in a 995 00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:01,400 while, take that risk. And I guarantee you, yeah, some 996 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,480 will fail. It's, it's the, it's the motto 997 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,080 of don't be afraid to fail. Some of them are going to fail, 998 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,960 but that's OK. Some of them are going to be so 999 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,120 much bigger and better than you ever could have imagined. 1000 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,360 And I think we've seen that in the history of the parks. 1001 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,320 And I hope we continue to see that in in the future as well. 1002 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:25,040 So that is going to do it. I hope you kind of stuck with us 1003 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,800 for these two episodes. They were fun. 1004 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,240 They were fun shows to record, you know, both on both sides of 1005 00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:32,280 the fence. So hope they were as fun to 1006 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,920 listen to, watch and enjoy as they were for us. 1007 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,960 But that'll do it for this week's episode of the DVC show. 1008 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,880 We will see you next month. See everybody? 1009 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,160 See, it's next Monday because it's the Monday that's coming.