Is that a Roosevelt shirt, Paul? It is a Roosevelt shirt, Derek.
We're not sponsored by them yet, but heck, we we should just talk
about them more. And Jeff's got a new Roosevelt
shirt on there too. It's like an addiction every
time I. Do me too.
Oh, is that *? Wars, Yeah, it's the Star Wars
one. It's look.
At you happy belated me for those bed sheets when I was a
kid. That is exactly when I got that
text from Roosevelt saying this is the collection that comes out
tomorrow. Normally I'm like no more, no
more. I, I looked and I go, Oh my God,
those are my bed sheets. And that first thing when they
said it was live, I went on grabbed my size 'cause they sold
out like really, really quick. So yes, they're.
Do you have things on your bed sheets going up?
I had like just plain. We need to.
Poo. Oh, OK.
I guess I was boring then. There you go.
Well. Hey yours have any dishes on
Nepal? What was that?
Does yours? Does yours have any Disney on
it? It does.
It's it's Stitch. There's Stitch on my sleeve over
here. So it's very subtle, very subtle
nod. But that's, yeah, those are the
ones that I gravitate to. That's why I like, I like Jeff's
too, because it's like a subtle nod to Disney.
I think there's little hidden Mickeys in there.
Tiny Mickeys. Yeah, Tiny Mickeys.
Well, hey, if you're listening to this show, go like tag us in
something on social media with Roosevelts and, you know, maybe
they'll send us like one of their dog bandanas one time as
like a gift, just like, you know, Red Baron Pizza sent us a
key chain one time. Who knows?
You know, it doesn't hurt. We've given them a lot of money.
I would definitely between us, we're, you know, paying
someone's salary. So you look annoyed.
I'm not annoyed. I was thinking in my head how
it's among us because there's three between US 2 and that's
what was going on in my head. But I wasn't going to correct
you because. Oh, it's it's the few several
battle all over again. You.
You better leave all of this next.
Thursday or Thursday? Oh, the next Thursday.
Oh my gosh, don't even get me started on that.
Sorry. Hey everybody, and welcome to
this week's episode of The DVC Show.
I am your host, Paul Krieger, joined as always by my lovely
wife Amy Krieger, Sales Executive for the DVC Resale
Market, Derek de Boer. Hey now, happy Monday everybody.
The Honorable Jeff Haslam. Hey dude, I like the new hey
dudes. Like it's, it's very fitting.
Somebody's going to. Sponsor us whether it's
Roosevelt's Red Baron. Hey dudes.
Yeah, I was somebody, I mean, but we've, we've named
everything that we've essentially been wearing except
our underwear at this point. My shirt from Amazon.
Fabletics, if you want to, if you want to sponsor me
Fabletics, go right ahead and do so.
But. I like to drive Porsches.
Well, hey, it's good to have the band back together.
Sorry that we left you all with a rerun last week, which it was
great in the comments to to figure out how many people
thought it was a rerun, but also how many people were just like,
this is a great new show. And also I think it was our best
performing show of the last four.
So we're for the next three months, it's going to be nothing
but reruns here on the DVC show. No, we're just kidding.
Right here on DVC Fan. Constant repeats of older
content and also if we say the words 2042, Derek's convinced it
gives us about a 25% ratings bump.
Yeah, that's the name of this show.
Disney NEWS UPDATE and what's going to happen in 2042?
Well, we're super excited to be here this week.
We do have some BBC and Disney news, I think to discuss.
Since the last time we've all been together, we've all been a
little bit everywhere. Me, Amy, Jeff and his Amy, Jeff
and Dan, we were all in a cruise recently.
We're on Star of the Seas with Royal Caribbean.
Derek, you've been up in the Midwest somewhere.
I've been, I never want to hear anyone say that I don't go to
the parks or anything like that. After the last legit two weeks,
I've checked in and out of three different Disney hotels.
I've been to 4 Disney parks. I had dinner at Cake Cake and
I've been on a fireworks cruise and I went and saw Air Supply
with Jeff. So that's that's huge.
What were the three resorts? Polly.
Grand Floridian. And Port Orleans Riverside.
Ohio Riverside. That's right.
That was great, loved it. Happy belated 30th wedding
anniversary to Derek and his wife Annie.
They got to celebrate that and you got to actually go back to
the the pavilion, right? We did, yeah.
Disney was kind enough and we went back to the scene of the
crime where we did it, you know, on that exact day, May 13th, 30
years ago. On that day, I gave him like a
couple months beforehand. I reached out to them and did
some tracking on, you know, shooting them an e-mail, telling
them my story, saying is there any way that we can just come in
if you don't have a wedding going on, obviously, and you
could just let us take a look around, take some pictures with
our phone. So someone there was incredibly
kind and was able to meet us at a certain time and we got to go
in, take some pictures, see exactly where everything
happened, talk to them. And The funny thing is, as we
were waiting, 'cause people that were getting married the next
day, we're doing like a quick run through.
So we were at Franck's, which is that wedding store that's, you
know, right next door to it, waiting for for them to finish.
The family walks in, we're sitting in chairs and they look
at us and we say hi guys. And the guy goes, I watch you
every single week. Hey, there's no joke.
It was at the wedding pavilion on a random Wednesday at like
9:30 AM inside Franks and one of our incredible viewers.
So I'm sorry I can't remember your name, but I'm sure you had
the most incredible. Wedding Congratulations to them
who got married obviously like the next day.
Was it the next day? The very next day we saw them
walk in from our balcony room at the Grand.
And so he told us it was like a 930 wedding.
And then we actually set our clocks and said let's go see
everybody walk in. And we saw the bride and groom
and all their friends come in. It was it was awesome.
So it was, it was a beautiful day and a beautiful evening.
Yeah, it was great. So.
That's awesome. And then Jeff, you got off, you
got off the cruise ship and then beelined it for Utah.
I did, yeah. We had a family reunion back in
Utah. It's good to be home, say that.
We've been home since the cruise.
Our house is now back in order after a bagel brawl, a butt
incident with one of our dogs, and a carpet incident with one
of our dogs. So yeah, life is back to normal,
but it's good to all be back together.
And this week we're talking Disney and BBC News, a little
bit of everything. We've got some new DVC
incentives, Halloween party tickets, Muppets rock and roller
coaster, welcome home weeks, leadership shake ups at the
Disney parks, and more. Before we get into it, this and
all of our DVC fan content is brought to you by Key Holder
Vacations and the World of DVC. You guys show enough love for
them all the time. I want to do my own plug though
this week for two different things.
The DVC fan forums forums.dvcfan.com.
We have about 2500 of you already signed up and joining us
in the forums having some amazing conversations.
It's not just Disney Vacation Club.
Also, we know that you are listeners.
Our viewers are not just Disney Vacation Club members anymore.
You decide to tune in to us for other stuff for some reason or
another, but we can talk about your park plans, all that kind
of fun stuff. The Roefer Monster even has an
account in there and it's posting weekly, which is still a
little bit weird. And Derek get into gets into
some occasional arguments with them.
But also bbcfan.com had some updates recently, didn't it?
Oh yeah, I was. I was like, what is he going
with this? Where's he going?
I don't know because we don't plan any of this so.
It's written down. So when we launched the forums,
it was decided that we would be ad free and we were so excited
about that because it just makes everything just easier to
navigate smoother. You don't have ads popping up,
you know, you, you know how that goes with with a lot of
websites. We just got such a good response
from that that we decided to take it a step further and
dvcfan.com, which is where you'll find our we.
Have a website by the way, just in case you didn't know.
Full it always is full of news updates and really helpful
articles and you know, editorial pieces and and anything you can
think of. We have some really great
contributors over there. Those of you that might have
remembered Lauren de la Cruz, she is a a great writer over
there for dvcfan.com among others.
This guy, obviously I, I throw some stuff up there once in a
while, but dvcfan.com is now completely ad free Google ad
free. So you'll see a few things from
our, you know, company, but nothing like.
Yeah, really based off of user feedback and also personal
feedback of trying to navigate that site with Google Ads
popping up all the time and experiencing other news or
Disney news or other related sites that constantly have ads
running all over the place. And you're like, you don't know
whether or not you're clicking on the X and then you
accidentally click on the ad. And then now you're getting ads
for whatever that thing is for the next 12 months.
And then at some point you give in like I do and you buy it,
which is just another mistake because then you're just going
to keep getting the ads because you've now given the money.
It's just so much smoother, well organized, easier to navigate.
So yeah, we're excited about it. And wonderful.
So dvcfan.com, if you don't know that we have a website and you
want some Disney news, you can actually subscribe to updates
right there. Every time we post an article,
it'll pop into your inbox or forums.dvcfan.com.
Come over, sign up and join us for the fun there.
Eric has a question. I do, I want to make a statement
because I was talking about DVC fan and all the different blogs.
I have to say that there's not a day that goes by that I'm not
talking to Gus over at the DVC resale market where they'll ask
a question about one topic or another.
And I will go to dvcfan.com and I will do a search based on
their topic. And I would say 99.9% of the
times boom, there is a perfect well written blog for me to
share that, you know, with whether it's a member asking
about what happened, you know, what's the difference if I have
two different use years or someone says what's maybe the
easiest resort to book at seven months or less or what's this or
what's that? DVC?
It was perfect. In fact, I used it when just
about two weeks ago I was at Pawley Island Tower with Annie
and the boys. And we knew that there were
fireworks that night. And something in my brain
clicked because I was like, I swear to God, I think Lauren did
a blog about which of these garden terraces right at Pawley
Island Tower was the best one to watch the fireworks.
Sure enough, I I went to one without reading the blog 1st.
And I was like, this can't be the good one.
And I looked up the blog and I go quick, we got to go up and we
went to the other one. And I go, this is the one I was
hoping for. So I, I wrote an e-mail to
Lauren that night and said thank you so much.
That blog worked out perfect. So yeah, any topic under the
sun, we got you covered. A DVC fan.
It's, it's amazing how you know, seven years of writing and
stuff. We have so many articles over
there and yet in my head, there's still 7 million other
topics that we still have left to to cover.
And Derek said specifically 99.99% of the time because he
recently did get a question, which is the .1% of the time,
which is how much is a 1934 wheat penny worth?
And I've not written that one yet, but that was a question
sent in to Derek de Boer. And sorry we did not have the
answer to that, but we are actively researching to see how
much that penny might be worth for you.
Yeah. And that's probably going to
wind up being the one sponsor we get is wheat pennies.
You guys, you guys get. Pennies were worthless.
It wasn't that like the whole thing.
I don't know. I you know more about pennies,
apparently, than we do. I know that we don't make
pennies anymore and. Like they're becoming a penny,
but I always remember them. Not my mom.
My mom likes pennies or not pennies.
She likes coins. She collects coins.
And I just always thought, I don't know.
Kudos to those of you that suffer through the 1st 10
minutes of these shows. We got a lot of news to.
Cover tonight, but. We're going to, we're going to
pivot to Jeff. We may not talk about news today
at all. Well wheat pennies are worth 3
to $0.05. I just googled it.
Oh. I didn't.
You could double your investment.
Don't know why we're asking DVC resale agents that question, but
hey, here we are moving on on to the news that you've all come
here to maybe talk about in no particular order.
And I do want to preface this by saying next week's show is going
to be all about Lakeshore Lodge and everything that we know so
far and all of our speculations and everything because we do
know there's been some updates related to Lakeshore Lodge.
Head to dvcfan.com, read those articles.
We've unpacked kind of the concept art and the other
information that has recently been shared.
And we expect probably every 2-3 weeks that DVC and Disney is
going to be peppering some more Lakeshore Lodge information out
there. But we're not going to touch it
in this show. We're going to do a whole show
for it next week, which I'm sure will age well.
And Disney will put out all the new more information on it.
And then it'll be aged in about 3 seconds flat.
So that always happens to us, but we're going to talk about
every other piece of news that has happened in the Disney and
DVC space recently. Try to kind of speed blow
through as much of this as possible.
First one in no particular order is that 2027 Disney dining plans
have been released. And the surprise announcement
with the 2027 Disney dining plans is that we now have a
third dining plan added back. This was pre COVID, a normal
thing. It's the Deluxe Table Service
dining plan, but now it's back. That one's the one we used to
get. It is the one we used to get and
in looking at the cost of it, I'm just kind of like, holy moly
that's bonkers because the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan is
$163.01 one one wheat petty a night.
This. Is actually like 1/3 of a wheat
petty. While children is 4685 per per
person per night for that deluxe dining plan.
And you might be asking what does the deluxe get you as
compared to that regular one? That's a great question.
So three different options for 2027.
We've got the Quick Service Dining Plan, giving you 2 quick
service meals per day and a snack and a resort mug.
Table Service Dining Plan gets you one table service, one quick
service and one snack and a resort mug.
And then last but not least, that Deluxe table service, 2
table service meals a day, one quick service meal a day, one
snack, and the resort mug and. So when we used to purchase this
deluxe dining plan pre COVID, it was different.
It was 3 meals period a day. They could be table service,
they could all be table service, they could be quick service,
whatever and two snacks. So it's actually, they knocked
down one of the meals to quick service and they removed a
snack. And it's, it's a lot more money
than I remember it being, but yeah.
I want to preface the following conversation with the fact that
we are going to purchase the Disney Dining Plan in 2027.
We are going to do the regular table service dining plan, I
believe during the weekend that we do the Dopey Challenge for
marathon weekend in January. So we're going to talk all about
that probably in January and give our full thoughts on
whether or not it's worth it. And what I can tell you is that
a spreadsheet has already been run.
And based off of the rough math, it does look like it will pay
off if we eat all of the food that we have put into said
spreadsheet. And that ultimately is where I
land when it comes to dining plans is that eating is slightly
a full time job. But I want to Derek, Jeff, give
me your thoughts. Is the dining plan still worth
it in certain situations? And what do you think about
adding back this new Deluxe table service option?
I'll go first. Is the kids free thing still
happening? Gone for 2027.
It is defunct for 2027. I will say, I'll put in
parentheses and say as of now, because you know, if bookings
fall a little bit short, then there's always a possibility we
could see them at it back. Yeah, I I just don't think it
is. We've done this math so many
different ways and I just don't. You just really got to want to
eat like, I don't know, especially with the deluxe and,
and like Amy and Paul, we used to do that too.
And we'd come if you're doing table service and you're doing
dining reservations, you know, as as Derek and I found out when
we went to Beer Garden for Air Supply.
We. Had to wait quite a while for
our table to be ready. So you're you're talking a
couple hours for each meal three times a day.
So that's six hours out of your however many hours you're
spending in the park. I just, I don't know, it just
feels like all you're doing is sitting at a restaurant rather
than out enjoying the resort during your rides, enjoying
attractions. So for me, not anymore.
I know there's a lot of people out there that love it.
It's kind of like the drink package on Royal Caribbean that
we just did. I didn't need to buy it, but I
didn't want to think about the bill at the end of the week.
So for the convenience, I get that part of it, but I'm out for
dining route. Nope, not for me, Derek.
Yeah, No, I agree with Jeff wholeheartedly that I think, you
know, and what's interesting to me is when Amy said that that
new one that they brought back, you know, of course it's like,
well, we removed one full service meal and we, you know,
took away as credit. And it's like what?
It just sounds like the classic, you know, we listened to our
guests and what our guest said was they just have too much
food, you know, I mean, nobody said that.
So it's just to me, it's just they're shaving away.
They're charging more money for it.
And I think most importantly on vacation, I mean, this is me.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my dining meals, meaning I
don't know, you know what, where I want to eat dinner.
Sometimes. I don't want to be at Epcot and
say, Oh my God, do you remember? We have to huff over to the
Magic Kingdom because we made reservations because we paid,
you know, $200 a day to get this.
So now we're going from park to park to park and all that.
The one that makes sense to me is maybe like the quick service
one, because like Jeff said, it takes a lot of time to eat.
I mean, like especially at a sit down restaurant that it's nice
maybe to have one. But I think that one that's like
what, two or three sit down meals a day?
It just sounds excessive. So no, I'm out.
I, I want to say it was the Disney Dish podcast where I had
heard this with Len Test and Jim Hill and we recently had Eric
Hersey on who helps helps with those podcasts and edits them.
But I think there was a comment on that on that show that was
talking about the occupancy rate of table service restaurants
around Walt Disney World property post pandemic, post
COVID and how that's been significantly down.
And originally they thought it was because they didn't have the
dining plane. Then they brought the dining
plane back and now that continues to be the case.
And I think this could be an attempt at them looking at at
trying to get. Seats people in those seats in
those table service restaurants, but I'm not sure that it's going
to be effective in doing so because you've turned the day at
Disney into how much can we cram into that day?
And that's why people are are turning to quick service more
often because it's like, we're not going to take that three
out. Like if you did the table
service, you're talking about A2 hour dining experience twice a
day. That's four hours of your day
that you're taking to sit down in a restaurant.
Now, if you're ADVC member and you come here very often and,
and it's a different type of trip, 100% get that.
And maybe it's, maybe it makes sense to you.
And as Jeff said earlier, I completely get the people where
it's like, you just want to set it and forget it.
It's paid for, it's done. I don't want to think about it,
but yeah, I, I just don't, I, I, I wonder kind of the, the true
motive behind why we're bringing it back.
And, and, and one last statement on the dining plan for me, and
this is the hill that I will die on.
I think the moment that thing was introduced, and I've talked
about it before, Disney food quality overall went down.
There's no way that anybody can dispute the food.
Before the dining plan was infinitely better than once the
dining plan came because I think what they looked at it as a
corporation and said, perfect, we got all these people, they've
already prepaid, you know, they're what?
Yeah, just give them whatever, It's fine.
When the first question they ask is, you know, are you on on a
dining plan again? I'm sorry.
I think it could make a difference in your service.
I think it always makes a difference in your food that I
would love to go back to where there was no dining plan.
But that's that's just me. Well, and if if what you said
Paul is true about having empty seats and they want to get get
butts in those in those tables, then maybe we go back to free
dining or way discounted, you know, would you say 163 dollars
or something for? For the deluxe staples.
Yeah, we 6201. Listen, Disney is great.
We all love Disney, but there is no food on property, none that
is worth that kind of money. It's a theme park at the end of
the day. I know there's a lot of foodies
out there that think Disney has a lot of great food.
I can guarantee you I can find you a better meal for cheaper
within 10 minutes of the property.
That is not what we're not talking about gourmet dining
here. We're talking about you have to
buy it 'cause you're there. I don't know.
I it just seems like if that's really the problem, there's
there's some profit margins that could be wiggled to to fill
those seats rather than we should charge $75.00 for chicken
Nuggets. Exactly hundred 163 bucks
that'll that's take that money and go buy 2 pieces of cake at
the cake steak shop. I will say that with the deluxe
dining plan, I think that that gears towards because what we
used it for was we took two of our credits and use it for
signature dining most nights. But again, like if if you're,
you want to be in the parks and stuff, you don't want to be
sitting down to a fancy signature restaurant every
single night, you know what I mean?
So. And we're even like, so we're
even doing what you said, but doing the regular dining plan
when we do our Dopey challenge in January, because we're, we're
combining 2, I believe for artist point so that we can go
see Dopey and yeah, and everything the final day.
So like we're still doing that same concept.
I don't know it just it's one. Thing on that too really quick.
We should move on. But to use two table service for
a signature dining that's just a character mill.
I don't think that's fair. Sorry, Artist Point does not
qualify as a as a 2. Yeah.
Moving on in our NEWS UPDATE, there's a lot of exciting
updates coming to Walt Disney World as of this show going up
and summer 2026 speed round real quick through everything that is
opening up. So we've got Rock and Roller
Coaster starring The Muppets, which has already opened on May
26th or will be opening as of this show going up.
I think so. Right around that same time,
Rock and Roller Coaster starring The Muppets reopens.
Sauron Across America also returns on May 26th as well.
That's that new Sauron version for America's 250th anniversary.
Bluey is headed to Animal Kingdom at Conservation Station
on May 26th. And then also a couple smaller
ones that have already occurred have been we've got Buzz
Lightyear has reopened at the Magic Kingdom.
We've got new experience that a couple times already.
And then Big Thunder Mountain Railroad has reopened with the
kind of its updates at Magic Kingdom also.
We've all gotten to experience these in some capacity.
Jeff is going to make a video over viewing all of these new
things. But Jeff, I'm going to start
with you. Which of these things are you
most excited for? What?
What has caught your eye? By the time this video goes up,
we will have experienced most of these.
I know Jeff ran back to his house and changed his shirt and
sat down. Because you just did Soren
today, correct? I did, and you forgot the one
I'm actually most excited for. I did Smugglers run Millennium
Falcon with the Mandalorian and Grogu We.
Were just. Talking about this.
It really, it really depends on what seat you get, whether or
not you're excited, because if it, if you're an engineer,
you're still going to be really disappointed.
So. The rumors that I have heard is
everything is way more interactive, that you have a way
more control with the buttons, with the even the Gunners have
way more responsibility. I'm here.
They're a human. Responsibility.
We just wrote it and I felt like I I felt like I had a lot of
responsibility as a gunner. I had to hit that button so many
times. She laughed and she was like, I
better be jacked after this. You know you can just hold it
down, right? What?
You don't have to. I don't have to just keep going
like this. Oh my gosh.
And then when it bounces around and you're accidentally hitting
the wrong button and Oh my gosh, I didn't know I could just hold
it down. Yep, you can not anymore, not
after Friday. So this, this is a this is a a
new thing that Disney is doing. I'm excited about because it
actually launches the same day as the movie.
I already have tickets for the movie.
We're going Friday night and IMAX 7:10 PM.
Really excited. But yeah, no, actually, to be
honest with you though, and Derek is going to hit me on the
side of the head, but I really enjoyed Soren.
I really did. I think, listen, everybody has a
Soren type attraction now. Vegas has one.
New York City has one. All the theme parks in Europe.
Ever since Disney invented this technology, it just spread like
wildfire. Yeah, but what they did with
this new attraction, or I shouldn't say new attraction,
this layover is give us another thing that they can switch out.
Sometimes they bring California back, sometimes it's the world.
Now it's America. And I could see them doing this
around the 4th of July every year moving forward.
Swap out these movies it kind of it for me was a hybrid
experience of California and around the world not as much
CGI, but a nice overview of of these areas that that they're
visiting. They kept the music the same.
You know, I I thought it I thought it was great is it
spectacular? No, but it's great.
It's something different for a while and I think that's great
and I love, I think I said this in one of the very first shows I
was on. Not everything that Disney does
needs to be an E ticket attraction.
The biggest discrepancy between Disneyland and Disney World for
me was Disneyland invests in their rides.
They're constantly refurbishing them, constantly updating them.
Sometimes Disney World goes 20 years.
I'm looking at you figment all these things that we're talking
about adding in Zootopia and and some of these other things the
country bears. This is Money they didn't need
to spend. We can argue about whether
they're better or worse now or then, but at least they're
saying, you know what, Nobody has been in this theater for a
minute, let's give them something else.
And I really like that. I'm really excited to see Soren.
I'm excited to see it it. Gave me the patriotic feels.
It really did. Yeah, don't think I'm hating on
it. I only sent you that comment
when you know someone has to be the first to post it on YouTube
and they watch it. Of course, watching in person is
way different than watching a YouTube video.
One thing I will say, which I found kind of odd and I don't
want to go down a sore and wormhole, is that when they show
Hawaii, it just to me a synergy moment.
Why on earth didn't you like zoom in on Aulani?
Like it just seems strange, like, you know, I mean, I'm not
asking for non-stop Disney synergy, but that wasn't not
true. But no, I'm super excited.
I always love to do Soren. But buzz, we did buzz when when
we went with the kids to the Magic Kingdom at night.
That is a trillion times better. It is fantastic.
It's not even people liking it to men in black.
That's at universal. Not even close.
This is so much better. You can move your pistol around,
you could see exactly what you're shooting.
It's such an upgrade that I loved it, loved it, loved it,
loved it. I love that it includes your
score on the photo at the end too.
We have bragging rates. Yeah.
And gives you kind of the side by side comparison with who
whoever you're running with. I will say honestly that I've
ridden Buzz Lightyear more now post refurbishment than I ever
did pre and that that's still a number total of three times in
my life. But that's two times that I've
done the new bus and I would go back and do it again.
We we, I waited for it last week when I was in the parks and
yeah, it was, it was fun. And it's easier, like you said,
Derek, much easier to track. The guns are much easier to hold
and you can move around like, yeah, it just All in all, a much
better attraction. No one said it yet, but I'm most
excited for Muppets Rock and Roller Coaster.
There's been a lot of stuff coming out, specifically today
as of us filming this show on Wednesday, May 20th.
A lot of videos, a lot of photos.
I don't know if you've ruined it for yourself or not.
I'm not going to say a lot on this show about it because I
want you, you guys and the audience to be able to
experience it for themselves. But seems like a knockout of
park home run. And the the the theme with all
of this is that all of these seem to be relatively simple
overlays that just inject a new level of excitement into these
attractions. The Soren thing, that should be
something that's being replaced every five years, like at least
like just refresh it, show other parts of the world, show other
parts of the US, very simple. You know, I, I just don't think
that there's a lot that needs to go into that.
Same thing can be said about, you know, Millennium Falcon.
The fact that that overlay has taken this long.
Like there's been rumors for years that they built like 3
different versions of that attraction and now we're just
now getting the Mandalorian and Grogu version, which is a
completely other new version. So there's probably someone
sitting somewhere on other versions of that attraction that
we've never seen. Probably.
So, yeah, all of that, all of that to be said, it just seems
very, very easy for them to do these things.
But very excited for Rock and Roller Coaster, hoping that we
get into to ride it this weekend.
If not, we'll have to get over there next next week when it
actually opens because I am. I'm very, very excited about
that. And Statler and Waldorf, That's
all I have to say. The fact that that happened, we
put it into the universe a long time ago.
We did. I'm not.
I've not spoiled anything for myself, so I am.
Well, you hate The Muppets to begin with.
So, yeah, but even like Soren, I, I've seen one image which I
was excited about because it's actually a landmark that we're
gonna go see this year in October.
So, but that's all I've seen and I've so I've not really been
looking at anything. Is anyone going to think so?
I'm still the opposite, like the second something hits I'm like,
yes, I would like to do a 34 minute walk through the new
queue for the Rock and roller coaster and I'm looking at all
the Easter eggs and I'm looking at this and show me inside the
studio. I love seeing stuff.
Derek's the first person to send us most news.
It's true. Or videos or.
Like, I'm not, I'm not watching it.
I'm not looking at it yet. Yeah, you know, text.
I don't know Big Thunder yet. We haven't read that, so I don't
know. I've tried to.
Yet I tried to, but it rained. Welcome to Florida in the
summer. But yeah, that that happened
last week also. Yeah.
So hopefully soon we'll anyone. Excited to go try to get on the
train and go see Bluey that has a virtual my grandkid.
Or it'll be popular. No that my grandkids are they.
I went and saw them while I was in Utah last week and or this
week, whatever day it is anyway and I told them that the bluey
was coming to Animal Kingdom and they are very excited.
I feel like that's like going to be the sleeper chaos one of all
of these openings next week. They know it's coming too,
because there's a virtual queue and, and let alone the fact that
you've got to get on the train and the train goes and then.
Yeah, you got to get everybody back.
That's that's going to be. That that train situation is
going to be a nightmare real fast.
It's not going to be good from like a PR perspective.
Like I think they're going to get a ton of great PR with, you
know, Muppets and soaring across America and with bus and stuff.
This, like you said, Paul, it's, you know, no pun intended,
because you take a train, it's going to be a train wreck.
Like I feel like there's so many people that you could fill that
Rivers of Light theater for anything with Bluey.
If it's like a Bluey dance party or if it's just Bluey standing
there doing nothing, you could fill that whole theater with
people that will want to watch it.
The fact that now you're got to do a virtual queue and then
you've got to wait for a train and then take a train to go see
Bluey. I just think it's going to, I
think it's going to be bad. That's just my opinion.
So what you're saying is they should have done kite tales and
made them bluey? From your lips, if any if if we
can get kite tails to come back now you you just grabbed a Diet
Coke and a popcorn. You just sat there and just
watched them crash these. Kites into the stands.
That was the that was my best animal Kingdom day.
I know I had ever ever experienced but.
One other thing that was fun to see when I was in the parks with
my kids a couple of weeks ago, it's fun to see the sorcerer
Mickey Hat back over there at the animation.
Studio, we saw that, yeah. Yeah, and the walls came down on
the padillion. Yep.
Now you can actually walk around down there.
I don't think any of the exhibits or any of the other
stuff is open just yet. That's also, I think coming on
the 26th or as of this video going up.
This either goes up on the 25th or 26th. 25 is Monday.
Oh yeah. So it'll go up tomorrow it.
Memorial Day, it's open. Up tomorrow and happy New Year
Day, everybody. Yeah.
But yeah, so a lot of exciting things happening here to kick
off the summer at Walt Disney World.
And we'll definitely have some videos and reactions to all of
it. I know Jeff's already been
anxiously at work trying to collect all of that video.
And we tried to convince Amy to go to the parks by herself this
coming Friday, but she refused, as much as we really just wanted
to see that that. Point I was I was I was leaning
towards it if Sauron was open, but then I realized Sauron's not
open now until Tuesday. I'm sure someone will let you
on. No, the DVC one's on tomorrow.
I know it's not on Friday. Just be Amy Krieger.
Yeah, that's not how it works. Friday is like I don't, I don't
even think they're it's open on Friday at all.
A. Few other yahoos?
Nope. You're not allowed to.
And I just want to go on record and say while Amy Alone in the
parks is really great content, you never have to go alone
because I will always meet you there.
Yeah. See, I would just tell Jeff to
come. Still be fun to just see you
walk walk around that would. Which Mexican restaurant should
I go to? No, Jeff hates Mexican, so we'd
have to go get sandwich. No, no, that would be you by
yourself. That would be what that I know.
I told Paul that's what I would do.
I was like I would just go get like tacos at the quick service
and ride *. Can you just make a video then?
Amy eats Disney tacos 2042 and it'll.
And talks about 2042. While eating tacos.
Dude people would watch that so
much. That would get so many views.
You're welcome. Moving on in our news, spring
2026 DVC incentives actually recently dropped.
So these replace the winter and early spring incentives and
noticeably across the board I would say that these incentives
were weaker. So we're talking about direct
sales incentives. So if you're looking for a new
direct contract and don't want to deal with Derek or the DBC
resale market, this would be the the avenue that you had head
down. It's not.
Like point for Derek for having the paddle.
Yeah, it's like he knew it was coming and and he was ready for
it. But Lauren Del Cruz over on
bbcfan.com did a great article about these incentives and put
together an article across the board.
They seem to be a little bit weaker than the incentives that
came before that heading into this kind of late spring, summer
period. But noticeably a couple things
that were kind of interesting, $1000 annual pass holder
discount. So in my eyes that kind of
points to, we want some some add on points to happen over the
course of the next few months because normally a lot of the
DVC members out there already are those that probably are also
annual pass holders. So we want them to be adding on
points, $1000 isn't a big thing. So I can't see it actually
making someone make the leap into DVC for the first time, but
I could see some people may be adding on some contracts because
of that. Also Disneyland Hotel, they have
included the opportunity to get 4/2 day Disneyland Park Hopper
tickets as part of that purchase.
That does replace the developer credit, so it's either you take
that extra cash off of your purchase or or you trade that in
and you get these tickets. So make sure you do the math.
Make. Sure that one or the other which
is which is the better bang for your buck there when you're
actually looking to add on or purchase a new contract at
Disneyland Hotel And then Animal Kingdom Lodge had some
incentives that were launched as part of the spring promotion and
these ones they did just always are mind boggling to me.
And I, I kind of said this to you all in the show notes, but
I, I was kind of like. Is this because it just got a
refurbishment and a lot of people are just asking questions
about Animal Kingdom Lodge, so why not try to sell some points
here while we can? I mean, the big take away for me
is that even at the best incentive rate, it's bringing
the price down to $187.00 per point.
And right now resale is like 115 I.
Think is like an average for animal Kingdom right now or 110
maybe. Yeah.
So $8080 per point less on the resale market.
I mean the only thing you really gain by going direct is the
ability to use that at some of the newer properties.
But you do have a lower, you know if you if you buy there,
you do have a lower expiration date and those points are going
to expire sooner. So those were going to my key
takeaways from the direct incentives.
Anything, no, I mean, if you, we always say this, if you are
planning to buy direct anyway, then then definitely look at the
incentives. If you're not sure like oh, I'm
worried they're going to have better incentives when these
expire, then buy right on the cusp where you know, if there's
better incentives that come out within that 10 day rescission
period, you can resend and rebuy with the new incentives.
So. Derek, what points are you
buying direct coming up? I already bought my boardwalk
points in 1999 for like 60 some dollars a point so.
Don't say that that just that's like a bullet straight to the
heart. Yeah, I know.
That hurts. That's true, That's true.
But no, I mean, that's, you know, I mean, yeah, it's just
more, more incentives and more and, you know, more reason.
I, I just think that at the end of the day, Paul, it's, it's
like you said, they're gonna talk about animal Kingdom and
offering promotions to it and throwing it at guests just
because then those guests might find that fascinating and they
might do that. But again, who won't?
Are the guests like our viewers that take the time and listeners
that do the research? You know, if, if, if you don't
do any research, if you don't take the time to look, you don't
realize that. Oh my God, I could buy Animal
Kingdom for, you know, on average it's like 110, a $111.00
a point versus whatever Disney's special that they're offering,
and I'm sure they're offering it under that.
Listen, we don't do this a lot, so this is a very limited time
opportunity for you to own. We've just refurbed these rooms.
They look incredible. Here's some new slides and
pictures of them. But again, if you take the time
to do the research, you realize, OK, I'll, I'll buy these resale,
you know, for $110 a point. I'll still use the same member
website. And I need to stress that just
for like a few seconds because I get asked that all the time.
When you buy resale, you're going to use the same member
website. You're not going to use some
again, dark web website that takes you through the back door
of the DVC site. You're literally using the same
member website. It's the same member phone
number to call to book. You get the same free parking.
You get the same extra magic hours.
Disney. Disney's the one that emails you
when your contract is closed. You get an e-mail from Disney
saying, hey, congratulations, your account is all set up.
Here's your points and loaded. So it's just important to know
you're not treated any differently.
And I'm super excited to report because we're in what may right
now, back when we did months and months ago when they, you know,
here's the new $500 Disney, you know, buyer transfer fee,
whatnot. I had said, you know, my goal is
that it would help speed the process up.
And I will 100% say, and I thought maybe I was going to
wait to kind of talk about it, but Amy and I, I know I've
talked about it at length because we will literally like
e-mail each other saying, Oh my God.
I, I just had a guy that bought 4 weeks ago.
They've already closed, they've already got their points in
their account. So my main take this is I'm so
happy that Roefer seems to be going a lot quicker.
You know, back towards the end of 2025, it was like 30 days,
maybe 25 days or whatnot. I think the average, Paul, you
did a blog on it. I think it's around like 2
weeks. Like for Roefer and even Disney,
closing your account once it closes for them to load the
points, it was taken before like 4 to 6 weeks.
I've had people like within like four or five days like to have
their points loaded and in their account.
So I think anyone that was on the fence of like, what's this
$500 fee? Is it going to do anything?
I've had the most happy buyers because the process has been so
much faster than even they expected.
We'll still tell you 60 days because God knows Disney could
say we listen to our guests and the points loaded too quickly.
So we don't want to do that. So I still plan on 60.
But it's like wait times for a Disney ride.
Like, hey, look, Space Fountain says an hour.
No one's going to be upset if it's 30 minutes, so I'm very,
very happy with how quickly Disney has been in 2026 so far.
It has been much improved. There's some things that you,
you're, you're not, you don't complain about spending more
money for. And this is, this is kind of one
of them because it was the biggest pain point for a lot of
people. Because a lot of I, I, you know,
honestly a lot of first time buyers, they get in, they don't
understand the product and they think, oh, I'm going to use
these. You know, originally it would be
like, oh, I'm going to use these points for this vacation that's
four months away. When you factor in availability,
so many other things like, you know, you had to kind of tell
those people that, yeah, that's not going to happen.
That's impossible, that that's still pretty impossible.
But like depending on that time window, it's definitely less
than it used to be just because the process has has speed up
significantly. So are you guys ready for some
Halloween? Yeah, I guess it's.
Me. Why would we be?
Why wouldn't you be in May? Because it's already halfway to
Halloween and Mickey's not so scary.
Halloween Party tickets are out and the dates have been
announced for the Halloween party this year.
Halloween night. If you were looking to go then
that's already sold out. That's the early 9th.
Oh yeah, it is. Yeah.
Halloween night is sold out, but the party starts as early as
August 7th this year and I, I could have, I got on board with
August 15th. I, you know, we would put up our
fall stuff and I could get in to mid August.
Yeah, August 7th, though I can't mentally get there.
I am really struggling. It's only like 2 months.
Away it is like a month for my birthday.
Yeah, I. And I'm not, I'm not able to go
on August 7th because I think we have tickets for Jolly Wood
Nights if I'm not. Very, very accurate.
Yeah, we're at the early preview of Jolly Wood Nights.
On. That on that night, no, this
Mötley Crüe is going to be going on Friday, September 18th.
Which reminds me, I need to buy tickets for that.
So if you're thinking about the Halloween party and you need to
buy your tickets. Also, unwatched magic.com/DVC
fan, this year they're offering you the ability to save up to
$15 off Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets.
So head over there, get your tickets early because a lot of
these dates, especially the closer you get into October and
Halloween, not only do they sell out, but they get more
expensive. And I was very shocked that some
of these party nights exceed like, you know, $200.
Yeah, that's, it's expensive. That's.
An expensive cost, but you know, I always say don't really think
of it just as a Halloween party because if you are coming here
during this period and you just want a really cool night at
Magic Kingdom and be able to ride a lot of rides and get on
them a lot easier. In a lot of cases this might
make more sense than buying that daytime ticket to Magic Kingdom
gets you in gets you less wait times for the rides because most
people that are headed to the parties are not necessarily
hitting the rides hard. It's more about the characters.
It's more about trick or treating.
It's about the parade, it's about the shows, all that kind
of stuff. Are you you excited to go back
and. I, yeah, I for some reason I
forgot it's been 2 years since we've done a Halloween party.
So yeah, it's always one of my favorites.
I love the fall, you know, even if we go in August, it won't
feel very fall, but in September it's probably pretty warm too.
But I love the the decor on Main Street.
I love just the way, you know, Magic Kingdom comes alive in a
different way when the Halloween party starts.
So and I always have fun with the trick or treating.
Jeff, ready for Halloween? Have you thought about our
costumes at all yet? I'm just gonna put some thoughts
into it, but I'm not ready to say yet what my suggestions, no.
Spoilers no. Spoilers.
No. Just the four of us.
There's a lot of options for for four people.
And I don't know. Is Annie coming?
Derek? Amy wants to know.
So six of us. Oh, yeah, We're gonna do some
stuff. We're gonna do this.
I love Halloween. I love Halloween.
So. This is my scared face, yeah.
And I know you guys well enough to know that you're not going to
go all out, but I have some Disney bounding ideas for us.
I'll do it. I'll do.
Whatever you want. I have a thought too, so we'll
have to. Cool.
Wow, this is the most. Told you about the.
Planning that has gone into a Halloween costume.
I know in recent memory. Hey, look, I dress exactly like
Roxanne. Last time you did, I had the
same shirt, the same shorts Derek put on.
The hair looks similar. Derek put on a T-shirt that was
Prince Charming, so that was. That is true, I guess.
Who weren't on the. Show comfortable one Who was the
most comfortable 1 the whole night?
This guy right here. He was the only one not shedding
I think mine. Was it was very hot.
Mine for Max was a hoodie so. Yeah, it was.
So that was. Not a good choice, but at least
it was a short sleeve hoodie. So because that that is what
Max. Jeff, Dan, Amy and I won
Halloween last. Last you did it was very shoes.
Yeah. You'll have to put a photo in of
that. I will put up a photo in of of
us in all of our Halloween attire from from the last time
we did this. So excited to head back and do
Halloween again. It still blows my mind that
we're talking about it right now, but here we are.
And it's going to be here before you know it.
Also going to be here before you know it.
The Epcot Food and Wine Festival dates for 2026 were announced.
Party starts day before your birthday, August 27th and runs
through November 21st. So that's what, almost four
months for Houma of of Food and Wine Festival.
August and September. October, November.
Three months. Three months I can't do math.
That's why she does loans for a living on air financial.
But OK, hear me out. I want to get your I I want all
of your thoughts here. Oh, I got oh, oh, OK.
I, I Derek. Derek, you can go next.
Of all the Epcot festivals, this is the one that's going stale
for me. Yeah. 100%.
Yeah, Derek, why do you agree? Oh, it's 100%, it's fine.
But four months? My God, you don't need it.
Four months. Three, I did the math.
Run 3. Three months, fine.
It's still too long. Especially when the best
festival at Epcot, Festival of the Arts is what, like a week
and a half? I mean, that's what it feels
like to me. That is the best festival.
Even the holiday they want can be stretched out.
It's just Food Lion just goes on way too long.
And I'd be fine if it was three months, if they added back those
seminars, if they added back that Festival Hall, that in the
Wonderful Life Pavilion where you could go and watch seminars
and you could do your shopping in there for festival
merchandise, you could see guest speakers, all of that.
So it made you want to go, you know, once and twice and spend
all day there because hey, let's hang out here.
Let's watch this guy. Let's come back and watch this.
But after that, I mean, that's not there anymore.
So it's just the same stuff for three months straight.
And again, I don't think the food is I I've never had
anything at at the food and wine fest that I'm like, Oh my God, I
hope they bring this back or I hope they bring that that back.
It's just, I don't know, it it's just too long.
And yeah, I agree with you 1000 thousand percent, Paul.
Yeah, Jeff. Agree.
Disagree. I do agree.
And you know, you look at flower
and garden, even some of those booths, or maybe it's only a
couple switch up their menu a couple times throughout that
short window of time. If if food and wine did
something like that, I think it would be better.
But still, it's a really long festival and I just don't feel
like it warrants it anymore when you have so many other ones like
we've talked about a summer festival for.
Yeah, as long as I've known you guys, you know, it's facing
around the 4th of July with barbecue and and American food
and. Barbecue.
Yep. Exactly.
And while we're at it, like we just got done talking about
Sauron, have that coincide with the festival.
The International Food and Wine Festival can be your Sauron
around the world. Your 4th of July festival can be
your Sauron across America, your flower and garden.
I don't know, but you know, do some other things besides just
the boost because let's face it, the MERF is pretty much the same
every year. It's either going to be Figment
or Orange Bird or Remy, you know what I mean?
Like we have a lot of IP, Disney has a lot of IP that we could do
some different things with. And I really think they're
missing the boat having festival.
The holidays only be like what is it 10 days or something?
It's short, yeah. It doesn't start till the 21st.
You can start that way. Cool international holiday
things that you could cut food and wine in half and extend.
Yeah, that's all. The holidays should start
November 1st. Yep, I agree.
Go through Thanksgiving, go through.
I'm all for as many months of the Christmas holidays as
possible. Yeah, I miss.
I miss being able to walk through Epcot without a
festival. It's almost impossible.
There's so few windows. We never even make it.
We live here and we never make the windows.
Yeah. Show yourself out.
Yeah, I would like just to be able to open like walk through
without run, you know, running into people or I don't know.
I don't know. I'm I get it, I get it from the
crowd point of view. I get it from the crowd point of
view, but it's really boring when you walk around like.
I want. Something you could do your own
festival? You could go to a quick service.
You could go to a quick service and get different little snacks
from the different countries. No, but then it looks so weird
because you're walking. It's not like the boos go away
like the boos are just. There, but they're that is true.
They're still there. But they're like shuttered up
with plywood on them, like a hurricane's coming.
It looks weird like. Halloween signs on on the front.
Spirit of Halloween. I don't know.
I, I agree with Derek, you know, bring back some of those things.
Why? Why don't you partner with Food
Network? Bring in like some fun Food
Network stars. Oh my gosh, and have mow people
down to watch Bobby Flay. Down.
Wow. We're going to unpack that after
the show. Maybe there's going to be an
after show where Amy confesses her love for Bobby Flay, but
yeah, so there you go. But here's the thing, we're all
going to go back to it. We're all going to do it again.
We're all going to spend money there multiple times this
summer. So yeah, that's why it keeps
coming back. And we hope you enjoy it
because, you know, it's food, it's wine, it's.
Fun. There you go.
They should really snip that for a commercial for for food and
wine. I I was really excited by this
next one. No one else is really going to
be because I remember when I read through all the things last
year. But 2026 Welcome Home weeks are
back for Disney Vacation Club and this is Derek's eye roll
says it all. But for the 35th anniversary, I
felt like they they did some cool things here and I don't
know why, but. Terrace is just a Disneyland.
At least for me, we've been through this.
I feel like you don't remember. Discount.
Okay, but wait, we went through this.
You and I are going to get to experience a lot of these this
year because we're going. To be.
There it is, okay. God, God.
That we're actually going to go to Disneyland and be able to do
some of these things and even get to experience some of the
Aulani ones. But great article up over on
dvcfan.com, there is an extra quick service mobile order
discount out in Disneyland. There's table service, 40% off
dining that matches the annual pass holder table service
dining. There's free sweet treats.
Jeff, you and I are just going to plan a week and we're going
to go to Disney Springs every day and we won't have to eat for
the entire week because I think between all of these, there's at
least free ice cream, there's a free doughnut, there's free
movie snacks. No, wait, those are at resorts.
Never mind, there is. I'm trying to find all of the
ones Lucy Springs. It's up.
You passed it up a long time ago.
Yes. Yep.
I was surprised. Bear with us.
Go back down. Down, back down.
Keep going down. Keep going.
Down, down, down. It's right there.
Oh, OK, there we go. Yeah, I was trying to read it.
I just saw the Donuts and I got excited.
There's Donuts on Wednesday. There is complimentary ice cream
at Eat on Thursdays. Fridays complimentary half and
half appetite. What does that mean?
I think they're just going to give you like a thing of the
half and half Creamer and you drink it on Fridays at Frontera
Casino. Frontera.
Complimentary pretzel at Polite Pig on Mondays and then
complimentary DVC slushy on Tuesdays at City Works.
So there is something every day except weekends, I think.
Yeah, all right, say. Less you just tell me and I will
be there. We're, we're going to go every
single day, take full advantage of all of our free things for
the welcome home week. And you know what?
We're not taking care with his eye roll about.
No Donuts for you. It's not an eye roll.
Hey, like like Jeff said, anytime Disney does stuff that
they don't have to do, I will applaud it.
They don't have to do this. They don't have to do welcome
home weeks. You know, I I think my problem
is that they added into the whole package of trying as part
of trying to convince you to spend $250 a point to buy direct
is because you can go to polite pig and get a, you know, 1/2 and
half pretzel or whatever you said it was.
So that's my only problem with it is I feel like you nasty if
you're going to plus up your perks to buy $250 a point direct
and make them worth something. But overall, for those that are
able to take part and enjoy these things, I applaud you and
I'm excited for you. We're getting near the end,
folks. If you've bared with us this
long, we should give a giveaway or something because I don't
know how you made it. I don't know how we've made it.
But last couple things on our news lineup list, a little bit
of a leadership shake up at Disney resorts and parks.
So Jeff Vale announced his retirement recently from being
the president of Walt Disney World and recently announced was
kind of a shake up and move of some people.
So Joe Schott is going to become the president of Walt Disney
World. Natasha Rafalski is moving over
to be the VP of Disney Signature Experiences.
That is where Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club,
Adventures by Disney, all those live in Signature Experiences.
And then Christoph Murphy was promoted to the president of
Disneyland Paris. That is the role that Natasha
Rafalski actually had. Some of these names should be
pretty familiar. When we did our CEO recap, when
Josh Demaro was announced, we actually were kind of rumouring
who was going to take his position.
And you can kind of just see all of this shuffling and, and
everything of all of these people.
Anyone super surprised by any of these announcements or anything?
I mean, it's all the kind of the names that we all thought of
when it comes to all of these, I think.
Yeah, the only surprise for me was that Derek wasn't one of
those names, but they stopped answering our calls, so.
I think I the one that was just sort of shocking was Joe shot
for me because he had recently taken the signature experiences
role when Thomas Maslin moved previously, I believe, out to
Disneyland. So when he when Thomas Maslin
left that role, he went to Disneyland.
He was there briefly before he was elevated to Josh Demaro's
old role overseeing all parks and resorts.
And yeah, he just wasn't there long.
So that it kind of a little bit of a revolving door there at the
moment. None of this really seems to
have had a large impact on Disney Vacation Club.
You know, Bill Dirksen is still at the helm of Disney Vacation
Club. He's probably still steering
that ship and guiding the vision of what he wants that business
unit to look like. Obviously, he'll report up to
Natasha Rafalski moving forward, and it'll just be a question of
is there any changes as a result of that?
But yeah, really early to tell. They're not even in their
positions yet, I don't think. I don't know if that fully took
effect just yet or if it's coming up within the upcoming
month. I don't.
I don't really remember that. Last but not least.
Just a couple. Oh, sorry, sorry.
I was just going to throw in just one comment too, that I
think for the general population, I mean myself
included, that I think anything that happens with Disney, no
matter what, no one's going to be like Joe shot curses.
I can't believe you did that. It's not.
It's going to always come down to Josh tomorrow.
That's it. That's what 99.9% of the public
will know that when anything happens, Josh tomorrow's going
to be the face. Whether something succeeds,
whether something fails, it's going to be Josh tomorrow.
It's not going to come down to the new president of Disneyland
Paris. It's not going to come down to
the new president of Walt Disney World.
It's going to come down to Josh tomorrow.
That's the name and face of the company.
These other people are incredibly important behind the
scenes, but honestly, it's Josh tomorrow.
That's it. Always going to be Bob Capek's
fault. Yep.
So. Quick fire.
Just a couple things that have come up in the past couple days
that I wanted to touch on. Last week we did our our
actually throwback episode that did really well on things we
wanted Disney to bring back. One of them we were talking
about revolved around airport related things like luggage
transfer and it was just announced that the transfer is
expanding. So they have been doing luggage
transfer. I think it's been exclusive to
Southwest at the at the value resorts.
It is now expanding to include American Airlines and United
Airlines. So things are moving, things are
moving in the right direction. It's good.
Let's just. Does that include spirit?
Yes, they will take your bags, but I'm not quite sure where
they will end up at this point. Houston Park pass reservation.
This. This was huge for me.
Park Pass Reservation. Can now be made within the My
Disney Experience. Yeah.
Why that linked out for so long to a website?
Can you now see who they're made for too in the app?
I need to look. I haven't gotten that far, but
I'm just thrilled by the. Fact I am.
I'm thrilled you don't have to get.
Login then again. If you're confused and think,
oh, I was making them in the app, you were in the app, then
you were clicking the button, then it was actually taking you
out of the app into a web browser, and then you had to
login again. And then, yeah.
So this is so much better, yeah. Big win there and then and the
magic behind the Polynesian Island Tower premieres June 10th
on Disney Plus. This came out of left field with
some announcements for some things that are going to be on
Disney Plus, but pretty cool to be able to see some of the
behind the scenes that went into the making of it.
Learn a little bit more about the the nature elements and
everything that really inspired the Polynesian Island Tower.
So be sure to tune TuneIn on June 10th for that.
I think that doesn't, I think we've hit most of the the, the
news stories. Anything I've forgotten, ladies?
Gentlemen, I just wanted to comment on what Amy said about
the app and the reservations. So no is the answer to your
question. I can see my reservations, but
if I want to click the details it still takes me to the website
to. Show me who's.
On that, I'm sure it's coming. It's probably coming I.
Think I saw aren't we getting another season of Imagineering
or behind the attraction? Behind the attraction we are.
Yes, yes, it's coming in June. June.
Yep. Cool and and the the
Imagineering series is that they've been doing recently on
YouTube are also over on Disney plus now.
So a lot of, you know, cross promotion between Disney Plus
and what was on YouTube, but Imagineering really has elevated
what they're showcasing across the board with all of these
recent new rides experiences. What do we think about the
rumors about the Super app? Have you guys heard about this?
Yeah, I'm, I mean, indifferent. I don't know.
Listen, I just want one thing, super, one thing.
Yeah, the app, that's going to be Disney Plus and the park.
And Disney Cruise Line I. Just hope they call it Disney
super app or something like. Here's all I want from that.
You know how at the end of the year you get the YouTube, then
it says you watch DVC fans 7233 times?
I just want to know how many times I wrote Haunted Mansion.
That's all I want. I want a year in review for all
the things I did for Disney. That would be.
Cool. And badges.
Give me some badges like Royal Caribbean does because you
really want them. Amy loves a patch or a badge,
that's for sure. Well, hey, thank you for
suffering through this along with us folks.
It was, it was a roller coaster of a show, haha.
Rock and Roller Coaster is now open as of tomorrow again for
with The Muppets and it's going to be chaos, but that's going to
do it for this week's episode of the DVC show.
We hope you enjoyed it and go ride some rides, do all these
fun new things. Have a great summer.
But we will see you next Monday. Happy Memorial Day.
Give me your feathered penny. It's a week.
I was waiting for that joke and I blew it.