Derek is so excited to talk about the Epcot International
Festival. Festival Food, I don't even know
what I was calling it there. Food and Wine Festival, that
thing, he's so excited about it. He put on Spaceship Earth.
Look at that. Someone needs to go back in time
to see how many cold openings I've talked about Derek's shirt
or just shirts in general. We've got Derek, he he is pumped
for for Food and Wine festival. Amy is over here forgetting that
we were going to talk about Food and Wine festival tonight.
She has not done any of her homework.
And the most hilarious part of all of this is the fact that
only me and Jeff Haslam though, that we're not even talking
about Food and Wine festival. This is Jeff's.
Random questions. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
the DVC Show. What, Are you serious?
I'm pretty, I'm pretty excited about this.
Everybody and welcome to this weeks episode of the DVC Show.
I'm your host Paul Krieger, joined as always by my lovely
wife Amy Krieger. Trying really hard to look
things up right for the show. We've got John Sicari, Big fat
panda. Welcome home and the.
Only person that I feel is going to be mad about this, which is
Derek de Boer, because he's he he, he was fully prepped, fully
planning for all of this. And then R1, the only honorable
Jeff Haslam, who will be running us through this lovely journey
tonight. I, I, I'm sorry everyone, but I
did do a last minute pivot because I realized when we were
kind of doing all this, I was like framing out what the next
month looks like. And I was like, this show will
not be out until after food and wine starts, after we probably
have been to food and wine. And so I I, I pulled a little
audible, talked to talked to good old Jeff Haslam.
And I said, Hey, you got some random questions because
everyone absolutely loved Amy's random questions.
I'm not sure that Amy loved the thumbnail, but not at all.
Let me just tell you, you know people.
How much time did you give Jeff? There's your thumbnail to come
up with these. The whole day we we made this
plan what like 9:00 to 10:00 in the morning 9.
O'clock. Something 8:00 Yeah, it was
early this morning. And that was.
Time. I don't know.
He's got he, he said he had a list already from from his mind
from our last episode. So all right, Derek, just tell
us something that you really excited about for food and wine
so that we can just get that out of your system.
I was yeah, let me get it up please.
Again, I changed clothes for this so I need to make sure I.
Want to close for everything? Now that you guys don't want to
do it anymore, you're going to have to edit it because I just
deleted my whole entire list that I had because once you said
you're changing it. Now I can't get straight to the
trash can. Oh, I can't find the damn list
have. You ever seen the name of the
old guy that drags the computer to the recycle bin?
That's exactly what I think we just witnessed in real time.
100%, just ask your questions, Jeff, just get on.
Oh boy, I don't. I see.
I thought it was good that I was leaving this show for last
tonight because I was like, well, we're not going to want to
talk about but now. But now I'm pretty sure Panda's
Panda's excited he was not here for Amy's random questions.
Listen, Jeff can talk about dead ladies of the evening under the
bed. I'm excited for whatever's
coming out of his mouth. I it's we're not going.
To get that risque, I promise. But I think they're good.
I mean, it was a little bit last minute's notice.
And despite what Paul said, I didn't have a list in my head.
In fact, I listened to Amy's list this morning to make sure I
didn't do it like a repeat because we can't have that.
But these are obscure, but I think fun so.
We'll see. If you go back to that other
show that we recently recorded, you'll remember that Derek said
he doesn't like it when we play on stuff.
So as angry as he seems right now, he's he's super happy on
the inside. So.
I predict this is a very popular show watch.
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you with your questions this. Is like the blind leading the
blind here a little bit, but let's dive in.
Let's go something easy. We'll keep a Disney Vacation
Club related. All right, let's do this.
What change would you like to see Disney Vacation Club do on
the next iteration of hard goods refurbishments?
Oh. That's a.
That's a deep one. I know.
And we do talk about refurbishments so much like it's
I don't. Know, I think I found my list
with the fry basket and a couple of Ipas.
Oh, that one looked good. Anyway, sorry Jeff, what was
your question? My question was which means
would you like to see Disney Vacation Club make on the next
hard goods refurbishment Panda? I I think this is hard goods.
I want a Keurig in every room. Is that hard goods, Keurig?
Keurig, Keurig. They've kind of been bouncing
back and forth either way. So yeah.
I want to, I need to bring my pod so I know it's going to work
and I don't want to be surprised.
Maybe there's a Keurig, maybe there's not just Keurig across
the board. Let me be happy.
I'll be happy. OK, what?
About you. Well, I.
Mean, I don't know if it's a hard good, but it's one that
I've been talking about forever. It's probably not a hard good,
but it's they got to redo the Boardwalk pool, the main pool at
the boardwalk. It's probably not a hard good
refurb, but they need to redo that pool.
That pool has not changed in like 30 years.
They just have to do so much more with it.
It could be so much better. So my choice is.
I feel like they took out the clown and replaced it with the
Keister coach. Do you?
Want that to come back. Is that what you're asking for?
The clown. I would love the clown to come
back because it had personality. Like yeah, some people were
freaked in his nightmare fuel, but for other people it still it
added personality to that area and that pool as big as it is,
it's just blah. Like especially, you know,
there's no 0 entry, the kids pool area.
Don't get me started on that, you know, 6 inch, it's like a
toilet. It's just like nothing like you.
Spend a lot of time. Over there, oh, it's got some
old like ceramic elephant that like peddles water like from its
nose and it like goes into the tiny.
I love. That the area just needs to be
for a resort. As awesome as the boardwalk is,
they need I don't mind if you keep every coffee maker.
Sorry panda just get just redo the pool area.
It needs to be redone. And Derek, just for the fun of
it all night, I'm just going to pair your answers with a, with a
dish that you had on your list. So you said the fry basket.
You like that fry Flight over. At that time.
I mean, that's a good dish. I'm, I'm it's ever since it
first came on the menu recently, like what, four or five years
ago? It's a go to for sure.
Good portions, good price, good. Pairs well with a beer.
Walkable. Walkable like easy to hold in
your hand so it's not like. On these fries, yeah.
It's the only one he remembers from the list that he believed.
So that's that's where we're at so far.
An overhaul of balconies. So I want Dizzy to get out
there. I want to uncover like the 10
years of grime that are sitting on some of those balconies.
Beach club, I'm looking at you couple other ones and put down
like a nice like a tile floor or something and then sweep it
every day so it doesn't get grimy because some of those
balconies. Spider.
They don't, they don't like redo them even when they do a refurb,
you know what I mean? The balcony will be exactly the
same. They need to get out there and
degrime it. Degriming the balconies change
the. Spider.
Some of those resorts, that patio furniture, especially the
resorts where it's like £500 chairs, like they're just these
big giant heavy steel waffle chairs.
Polly has nice balcony chairs. Polly is the best, yes I agree.
Their their refurb did a good job there.
Mine is like functional meats. I think it will help these
refurbishments hold up more. When you come down here on
vacation in a Disney Vacation Club room, deluxe studio, a lot
of people shove 4 to 5 people in there.
You walk into that room, there is one luggage rack in the
closet. Have at least three of those in
the closet or start to build it. And they've done this in a
couple locations, but build in space where you could open that
luggage up because some people are unpackers, but some people
live out of that suitcase. And you're normally having
people ask the question, where am I going to put this suitcase?
And if they have to ask that question, they're probably going
to put that suitcase someplace that they shouldn't be put in
that suitcase and it's going to cause some wear and tear to that
room. So I think if you answer that
question or at least just invest in some more of those luggage
racks that you have in the closet and have at least maybe
two or three in each room, you're going to probably cut
down on some general wear and tear to those rooms and also
give us some more places for our luggage.
But we're not on Packers. So I guess I don't know.
I'm not. We do on cruise even if it's a
week to. Yeah, it depends on the time.
Like if you're somewhere for five days, would you unpack?
I would depends two days now. Yeah, that's longer than a
weekend. I'm putting stuff in drawers.
That's that's me longer than two nights I'm.
You guys are nuts. You always put stuff in drawers.
Even if it's two nights, you would.
Where is John? I don't care if it's for like 4
hours, I'm going to take the stuff out of the suitcase, put
it into a drawer. I want to feel like I'm on
vacation. I want to because if I have to
stare at my suitcase the whole entire time, I feel like, Oh
yeah, that's right, we got to leave, blah blah, blah.
So it's a, it's a mental thing. That's why I've.
Been miserable for the past 20 years.
That tracks for me. I want an electrical redo every
room. I want the light switch to
function the light that it should, I want actual outlets
that function with USB situations and I want ATV that's
like from the 21st century. Like that I can stream not only
Disney Plus. Disney Plus should be automatic
in every room, first of all. There's no.
They shouldn't be given that for free because it's the best
advertisement there is, because you're not going to be able to
get through all three seasons of The Mandalorian on your weekend
stay at DVC. But if you start it, you're
going to want to finish it when you get home.
But who knew? HBO, I should be able to get all
of that. So that that's my my refurb.
Derek, I want to go to you first with this next one, and then
we'll go around the room after that.
But I know you loathe Disney's Hollywood Studios like I know
you loathe. I want you to add a land to
Hollywood Studios that would make you rethink hating it quite
so much. Oh man, that's a tough one.
That's a hard 1. So I think that it would have
been a better fit. And I think we've talked about
this Jeff on other shows that why villains land is going in
near frontier land and the magic.
I I just think they should have just put a whole villains land,
put it all at the studio. So that would have been my my
first choice. But in terms of a whole other
land, you're probably talking then like a whole other IP.
I think that there's, you know, some maybe not enough love.
I mean, I'd love to say wall-e, but I don't know how much of A
land you could quote UN quote make of it.
So I think maybe I think inside out, like to me is is very
underrepresented in the parks that I think there's only a meet
and greet where you can like go see that sad lady and like
that's all there is. Like that's it.
Like like I feel like that movie was so good and so creative that
there has to be something to do with Inside Out.
But yeah, that's my my two cents.
I mean, I still wouldn't go to the park, but I mean at least.
Paul, what about you? What's the problem at Hollywood
Studios is that it's a hodgepodge already, so I feel
like. Just keep that.
Up. Thank you.
Yeah, you just double down on it
for the most part and. That's exactly why I picked
Hollywood Studios is because you could really fit anything in
there. So, yeah, so I think the thing
that they're developing in other places internationally that
would be the easiest win is a frozen land.
I it, it, it is again, of all things, maybe a little out of
place, but I, I feel like it would get more people over there
and get more people excited about being there and spend more
time in that park. Because I still would argue that
Hollywood Studios is 1/2 day park, even though they've done a
lot of recent expansions to it. I am pumped for Monsters Inc but
you could argue again like is it a capacity growth?
I guess it is with the door coaster.
It is. It is a little bit of a capacity
grower, but it's not like humongous because we took away
some stuff at the same time. So adding an entire new
dedicated land to that park. I think Frozen would be an
obvious IP that would be a win. But I hate also just can my
answer also be something new, Something that goes back to the
original days of imagineering where we took a risk on some.
They'll never do it, so don't don't waste my breath over it.
But. Panda, what about you?
I'm. Thinking of what they could add.
I would love something cocoa. I would love like the Magnolia
bridge that they go over and seeing the pinata flying animals
or something. But some cocoa area with a ride
that would make me enjoy it more OK.
Amy Krieger. All right, so I, if you would
ask me this before the Monsters Inc, that would have been my
answer. I I'd wanted Monsters Inc for a
long time. One thing that I think is
missing a lot from the Disney World parks that we have some of
in California is Big Hero 6 and we have San Fran, San Fransokyo,
right? We that's like the dining area
now of DCA. But we don't have any real like
Big Hero 6, like land ride. I love Baymax, so I've always
really liked that movie. So I'd like to see more of that.
Oh can I? Can I have a third too?
Yeah. It's your show.
We just worked here. Bluey.
That's not Disney. No, but they're licensing it.
Are they really? Yeah.
A nice Kitty land is a solid
choice. I had that on my list, yeah.
I'm I'm changing my I'm totally changing mine because I want an
actual Star Wars land on the movies that people know and the
movies that people love. So I would love something like,
not some mystical little place in between where pirates go and
land and characters you don't know and they're trying to wedge
them in somewhere. I'm talking about get me like
Hoth get me, you know. Tatooine.
Yoda, yeah. Tatooine, Yoda's house, all that
crap. Just give me that so I can walk
in and maybe see the characters that I love Star Wars for.
Like, I don't want to see random people where I'm like, who is
that again? Oh, that's so and so she's in,
you know, one of the 16 novels that came after this movie or
whatever. No one cares.
Just give us the real Star Wars that people love.
That's. Rancor Monster Experience Ride
yeah, yeah, there's. So like, give me Jabba the Hutt,
then I go to the please. Well, Derek, when you're hungry
after after you leave Hollywood Studios and you head over to the
Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, what's your next
dish that you're going to be grabbing there?
Pickle Milkshake. So there is something called
that I saw on the list. It's new this year and forgive
me, I'm going to butcher the name Gozoyas.
Goyas, I've been looking at the Goya menu.
That it's something called Goyas of the Galaxy and there's two
different ones Again, I had them written out until I deleted it
when I heard the show got cancelled.
But they look really good. They look really good.
They look like I had to ask my son what they are.
I'm like, what are these things? He's like, they're kind of like
pot stickers, kind of like dumplings.
But they look good. They had good flavors on them.
So yeah, Goyas of the Galaxy. Yes, there's a Buffalo one.
It's like Buffalo chicken and blue cheese.
There's a French onion soup on. I'm really excited about that.
And then there's a street corn all.
Right. Well, we don't care.
Next question. Oh, I didn't say mine, so I'll
say mine. I have two One that the
villagers will come with their pitchforks and one that won't.
The one. Which one should I do first?
The one that I. Think everybody could be on
board with is a wreck it Ralph, you know, enter the video game.
OK, that would fit. Super Nintendo World up at Epic
Universe. I think that could be a cool
with the with the Penelope or Penelope, whatever her name is,
Kart racing. But, and I, I'm going to catch
so much hate for this and I'm going to get hate from the
people on this call, but The Simpsons.
No. Stop talking.
It's my turn. Teacher has the floor.
Three things about The Simpsons. Number one, it would fit very
nicely at Hollywood Studios. It's not intruding on Mickey.
It's not intruding on anybody else, right?
It can have its own little Springfield with all the things
#2 it's the third watched show on Disney Plus.
There is a following. It's right behind the
Mandalorian and the Descendants. OK, so it is Uber popular.
It is the longest running comedy series of all time.
It's going on what is 30th season and they just planned
another thousand episodes or 200 episodes to make it to 1000.
Trust me, once people get over themselves it'll work, but I
don't. The comments are going to kill
me. I don't doubt that people will
get it. Like I I agree that people would
definitely flock to it. It's just Disney legal.
I don't think will ever be, you know, I think that's where we're
always up roadblock, but. They're still making them.
They're still on TV, you know. Yeah, but being on TV and being
being in the park where Mickey Mouse is right down.
The road could do Family Guy too then.
We'll watch the Epcot, the Epcot episode and then come back to.
It's been a really long time since since I've seen The
Simpsons and it's not on the like.
I know it's kind of on the same level as Family Guy, but not
quite as no not. Yeah.
So I don't think it's as.
I don't know if the word is that offensive that I'm looking for.
In some circles it's. Not the offensive humor.
Yeah, it's not I. Actually, guy in South Park,
it's not American Dad. It's not any of those.
It it's it's satire. Satire Can't, No, I can't say
that word. Anyway, I think it would do
well, but that's neither here nor there.
All right, let's go back to DVC for a minute.
I've got 62042 expiration resorts, 6 resorts expiring in
2042 right? Boulder Ridge, Vero, Hilton
Head, boardwalk and beach club. Which one would you save and
which one would you be the first to bulldoze?
This is a two-part question. Oh, that's easy.
So saving in its current form. Yeah.
Bulldoze and start over, Amy, you said it's easy, you go.
What? What are the options?
To do. It's.
Boulder Ridge, Vero Beach, Hilton Head, Boardwalk Beach
Club. They get them all.
Yeah, unless you're skipping Old Key West because it it's an
extended. Yeah, we're not going to count
old Key West because that. One, so the five, OK, OK, I'm
going to for sure keep Boardwalk and I'm going to get hate for
this, but I'm going to bulldoze Boulder Ridge because, you know,
if I look at everything, we already got one.
We got, we've got a DVC. You know, we can, we'll keep
Copper Creek. Yeah, we'll keep Copper Creek.
So we still have DVC over at Wilderness Lodge.
I'm not losing any other resorts.
You know what I mean? I know it's, I know a lot of
people love Boulder Ridge, but it's actually probably my least
favorite. And it's just, it's not because
I don't like it, it's just that I have so many other resorts
that I love more. I'll get I'll get equal amount
of hate with you. I'm with you with keeping
boardwalk. I don't think you can improve
upon that. Although Derek wants the clown
slide back. But I would bulldoze Beach Club
and I would start over because you had a great concept but you
made it so 10 people could stay there.
Yeah, that's true. So start over, improve upon it,
make the make the lazy river even bigger, make Stormalong Bay
even bigger, and then build yourself one of these 900 room
monstrosities that you're building over at at Fort
Wilderness. Not that big.
And and really do do the same concept but make it better.
Mm hmm. Derek coming at you.
So I'm with Amy, I'm going to get rid of Boulder Ridge.
And it's not that I don't love it, but it's already there.
So if I have my choice of staying, do I want to stay in
Boulder Ridge or do I want to stay in Copper?
Well, I prefer to stay in the main building, although I do
love the Boulder Ridge separate little, you know, lobby and
their little atrium area, all that.
But no, you still have the original main part of Wilderness
with Copper. So I'm going to go ahead.
You can go ahead and get rid of Boulder Ridge and then I'm going
to keep a resort. I believe it's called Vero.
Vero Beach, I believe it's called.
Yes, it's a Vero. It's a no brainer.
You keep Vero Beach. I'd be fine with every other DVC
going away as long as I can still have my own beach resort,
my own place on the beach. Vero Beach stays forever and
ever and ever. Panda.
I had this before Amy said it. I would have said definitely
keep Boardwalk and get rid of Boulder Ridge.
Boulder Creek, Boulder Ridge, I don't know what it.
Is order Ridge Creek? Boulder Creek Ridge.
Yeah, and I, I'm actually with Derek, I would keep Vero and I
would absolutely bulldoze Beach Club.
And I know people love that resort.
The whole thing needs to redesign.
The halls are like a maze, the balcony sometimes they're
sometimes non existent. They're grimy too, the
balconies. Is that what was in your head
when you were thinking of? Give us.
Yeah, we need something better there.
Let's see. Well.
We're shutting down for the night.
Derek's lights are going out. That's it, folks.
That's how long we've been here. I was just wondering how much
longer do I have right now? Yeah.
So we've been taping for now three hours.
It's usually a three hour mix. There we go.
Well, we'll survive with you in the dark for the rest of this
you. You zoned out halfway when I
told you that the the food and wine was cancelled.
Any IPA that you take and enjoy on your, you know, balcony at
Vero Beach. Yeah, there's a new one and I
can't remember because again, that's why I cut and pasted it
and put it on a Word document that I deleted because there's
one in the Odyssey. There's a new one in the Odyssey
that I can't remember what it is.
It's got a really long name, but it's in the Odyssey and it looks
like a good IPA. But again, you, you really can't
go wrong. Since we're talking beer, just
stick with Canada. Just get La Fin Dumond in
Canada. It's a the festival glasses are
always like so small. They're like this La Fin Dumond.
You can get a good size glass. It's like a 10% beer on.
It's the best bang for your buck that you can get left in DuMont,
Canada. Thank you.
Yep, and I believe that you were Speaking of the Boulevard
Brewing Company Space Camper Juice Nova Super Stellar IPA.
Wow, that is a name. I.
Did not expect that many words to be shouted.
I am excited just to see the can.
Yes, as compared to like 2. The next one down is BrewDog 95
Tropical session IPA. Like an IPA name will never be
the same. Yeah, until you've had a Blvd.
Brewing Company Space Camper Juice Nova Superstellar IPA.
How do they fit that on the can? That's exactly what I'm excited
to find out. All right, all right.
Ready to? Go back into the parks here,
Soren. Everybody likes Soren.
Soren's a good ride. What's the country you wish
they? Or I guess it could be a state.
What? What's a scene that you would
add to Sauron? Oh.
So I have to think about what we what we have.
So it's all it's like we have like Germany and China and
Arizona. Fiji.
We have Fiji well. Here, it's Fiji.
Flying over key. And I want more mountains, more
overwater bungalows. Like a longer he wants.
More I want longer Fiji. He wants the smell ingrained in
his nose. Yeah, when they're when they're
paddling, right. Yeah, yeah.
But. But you need, we need mountains
like Jurassic Park. You know, mountains.
And I would do Alaska. Oh, that's a good one.
Wait, yeah, like a glacier? Like in like a fjord with a
glacier, Yeah. Well, wait, don't we have that
with the polar bear on the ice? That's Greenland.
That's as much Fiji then as the current.
Norway. I want to see Norway more.
I still like fjords. OK.
I like that. I like all those.
That's great. Anybody, Derek?
I know I'm hurting myself. Yeah, I don't have any.
I don't have any specific places that come to mind but I I loved
when they did sworn over California.
I would love to see us go and do like a sworn over America and
have more places around the US highlighted.
I think you could highlight a lot of cool cities, Like just
take us and swoop us in between some skyscrapers in New York
City. Yeah, or like New Orleans or.
Yeah, just really to highlight more.
OK, wait, wait, Jeff, hire bio reconstruct once a month to do
like a update on what's coming like, you know, over the Encanto
area of the studio so we can see the updates of what's coming.
That's not a terrible idea. I mean they charge when I drive
for like a. They they won't do it.
For helicopter ride for a couple 100 bucks so we could just make
a ride where you do it forever. Yeah, show me the villains land
area. Let's go fly over it.
That's cool. Mm.
Hmm, Derek. Nothing.
Oh God. So I mean, they they have so
much like open air, mountainy watery scenery that I think
maybe like a it's like a big city thing like you guys
mentioned, like maybe a like Tokyo like to go in and out the
streets of like a busy city, I think might be kind of cool, I
think, but. Yeah, ABI.
ABI would be cool. All right, all right.
What's yours? Oh, sorry.
Salt Lake. Mediterranean like South of
France I can would be cool. Greece would be another cool
one. Anybody.
I was surprised Derek didn't say Santorini.
Yeah, I was waiting for. It right, Derek?
With the grease, yeah. I'm thrown off this whole show.
Australia is Australia is not one I'd like to see that it is,
is it? Oh, we do see Sydney.
I want, I want like. But Outback would be cool
though. And you know.
Koalas. Koalas.
Not Sam worms. OK, we're going to take a vote
on this one. You want another Park one or
another DVC one? DVC.
What's your dream for the Lakeshore Lodge restaurant?
What would you like to see it there?
If they don't do the Princess and the Frog nonsense, what
would you like to see as a restaurant in Lakeshore Lodge?
Asian. What?
I want, I want Asian. I want like Chinese food.
I know it doesn't fit. I'm just telling you what I
want. Fine, I never mind.
I want something on par with Southern, like homecoming level,
you know what I mean? Like southern food, good fried
chicken, BBQ like, but elevated beyond.
Because right now all they have in terms of like, BBQ over at
Fort Wilderness is quick service.
Unless you're doing hoop Dee Doo.
But yeah, good. Barbecue would be good, like a
real good BBQ. That's where I, my, my mind went
BBQ first, but then I was like, well, you've got Whispering
Canyon like. Yeah, but I'm talking like
that's. Not like super good BBQ.
Like something like top notch. So.
Yeah, upscale BBQ. Yeah.
In my head this would be a fun concept, but we know that Jeff,
you mentioned the original theme here was supposed to be Princess
and the Frog theme Dining. I think it would have been cool
if they had built Tiana's Place and really given you the Tiana's
Place dining experience. Now the problem with my thought
is I know how Disney would react if they did that.
They would get rid of Hoop Dee Doo because you're that's,
that's the experience that in my head I'm thinking of is you kind
of have like you've come to Tiana's place, you're here,
she's going to feed you dinner. And then there's going to be a
show and there's going to be songs, everything like this.
The Disney, the, the Disney we know today and the people that
write the checks are going to be all on board with that idea.
But then they're going to go, well, that's more live actors
and we're right next door to Hoop Dee Doo and that's been
here forever. And what storyline does Hoop Dee
Doo have that ties to a night? I'm, I'm just being devil's
advocate in my head, but I know that that's the reaction.
So I cancel my idea. They can just leave it, no food.
Just give us some fishing poles. We'll get some fish out of the
lake and it'll be fine. Pecos Pecos bill could be
Tiana's place. They could really do it the
right because Pecos bill right now is.
Yeah, but I want like the, I want like the cool experience
where there's like a lot of band playing like.
That would be a good idea. And there's a lounge where?
You, yeah, but to me, that belongs in Port Orleans.
And I don't care if it's a moderate look at, look at
Coronado. They've got some good
restaurants over there. They need to do that.
This is a nature themed resort and Bambi's going to be in the
main lobby and Panda wants BBQ or whoever wanted BBQ.
That was me. He wants Japanese.
Well you can BBQ Asian fusion. Wow.
Derek, save us. What do you got?
I say you got to keep it. I don't want another fancy
restaurant. Like I don't want one where
here's, you know, $60.00 steaks and all that.
I I don't want one where you have to dress up.
And I think Amy touched on it like a little bit of BBQ mixed
with, like, Art Smith's place. I can go to get thigh high
chicken biscuits. That's what I want.
I don't even care if you put another Art Smith in that place,
it would be go over like gangbusters.
So I think for a restaurant, I don't want another, I don't
know, pretentious, Like, yeah. You want casual?
Here's your here's your pick from one appetizer, pick from
one entree, pick from one dessert.
I pray to God it's not like that.
I think for a resort of that size, just get something casual.
Just something casual, but something good.
And BBQ is severely lacking at Disney.
And I'm not talking about, yeah, you can go to Woody's, Andy's,
Toy Story basement house and go get, you know, platters of
terrible BBQ. No one wants that.
I'm talking about like real good BBQ.
That would be a good place to do it.
Derek, was there any good barbecue on that menu for the
Epcot International Food and Wine Festival?
Not that I saw, but there was a beer in Japan, Paul, that was
brand new. I believe it was some kind of a
Apple IPA, if I'm not mistaken. It was in Japan.
So I did have that on my sheet, which I was very intrigued by
because. Normally.
Normally, yeah, I don't really do anything in Japan.
You know, the frozen beer they had there was kind of cute.
It was like a novelty. But.
I believe you're Speaking of the brew Lando Brewing Fuji Apple
IPA. Hey Fiji, Fuji, we went full
circle. Bada, Bing, Jeff, take us away.
OK so currently in the world showcase Mexico, France and I
can't read my own writing. Frozen.
So Norway are the only pavilions that have a ride.
We don't care about shows. Add me a ride to your favorite
pavilion. I've had like a million thoughts
about this 'cause I feel like if you're, if it has to be based on
the IP that like the movie's based out of, you've got Snow
White is Germany, you've got Pinocchio is Italy, you know
what I mean? So like, there's a lot, there's
a lot of options there, but it needs to be like better.
Like when I think of Pinocchio, think of that terrible ride at
Disneyland. I hate the Pinocchio ride.
It's just so creepy. So like, I feel like you could
go it. Really is.
You could go with that older original IP, keeping the like
the country that that movie originated from intact, but do
something cold. So I would say Pinocchio in
Italy and or what's the dog movie and Oh my goodness, Lady
in the Tramp. Is that in Italy or Lady in the
Tramp or Snow White something in Germany?
Lady in the Tramp is definitely not in Italy.
It's not. They go to an.
Italian restaurant, but it's actually in America.
Oh no, you know, I've never seen it.
Oh my. God, ever Never watched it.
Yeah. Wow.
All right, back to Pinocchio in Italy.
That's what I got. I'll go.
Yeah. Now I'm going to go with, I
think a criminally underused land at Epcot, which is Morocco.
I think that's such a cool, cool land.
And the fact that that all the cool stuff that they really used
to have there, especially that restaurant was great.
And it had like belly dancers, you know, now it's like an AP
lounge. I mean, that to me is just, I
don't know, it's embarrassing because it's such a really cool
themed land to kind of walk through.
So I think how they haven't or try to come up with again, if
money's no object, some kind of magic carpet Aladdin ride in
Morocco would be cool. Love that.
Thank you. Thank you.
Panda. He looked like he maybe had
something. You know, I keep, I keep trying
to come up with something original, but I can't because I
feel like Epcot needs something big, something exciting.
They were supposed to do a Mount Fuji in the past behind Japan,
and that's just where my mind keeps going, I think.
And then I know it's there, The room, a nice big White Mountain
behind Japan with some really good coaster experience.
I don't know a lot about Japanese lore, but there's got
to be something to to hang onto for that coaster or something.
Something original. Not just a regular Matterhorn,
something different, but a coaster type ride in a Mount
Fuji. That'd be cool.
Yeah. Amy, you mentioned earlier
bringing more like Big Hero 6IN, so I feel like you could tie
that into the the World Showcase somehow as well.
This one is, is strange for me to say because I feel like
people hate on it, but I think over in like the UK area could
we have like a newer like Peter Pan ride that is like super cool
where we're flying over everything because.
Where you don't wait two hours of fly over cardboard.
Yeah, I I don't know why that ride does so well, because it.
Oh. It's horrible.
It it's just a getting out of the heat maybe thing, but it is
always so busy. But I think like you could just
take it and make it so much better with the technology that
we have today. This summarize my thoughts on
change in general in Disney parks, which is not a popular
one. But I'm also like, as technology
improves, yes, we should and improve things and we should
make it better than it was before.
And we can we can pay tribute to what was there before, but we
can also make it like 100 times cooler at the same time and be
something that we actually do ride every time we walk into
that park versus walk by and go 85 minutes.
No, I ain't going to get in that line.
That's that's because it's a rite of passage for every single
parent out there. And you all know you have to
take your kids or they take your parenting license away if you
don't take them on Peter Pan. And it's everyone's first.
I did it with my kids. It's one of their first, you
know, kind of quote UN quote, other than it.
It's a small world. They're versed like ride that
they get to go on and it's flying over London and looking
down and having your kids say, Oh, look, look, and then you're
still feeling the need to try to recreate that moment every
single time you go back. Look someone's hair tie.
The Peter Pina Fantasy Springs is pretty impressive is.
That where? In fantasy springs?
Oh really? Is it Japan?
Where is Fantasy Springs? Yeah, I think.
It's Japan. It's impressive, yeah.
Yeah. Even your Winnie the Pooh,
though, puts ours our cardboard. For sure.
Well, and I was gonna say I kind of went the same direction with
Paul to the United Kingdom, but instead of Peter Pan, I went
Alice in Wonderland. The amount of fun we had on the
original Alice in Wonderland in Disneyland, which is tiny.
Yeah. They expanded that with some new
tech and stuff, would be cool. Yeah, and the new ride is great,
Yeah. There's.
Plenty of room there for it. Like over in France or not
France. Sorry Germany or or Italy, I
don't. Know or just give us Mary
Poppins that you took away like. Yeah, that'd be fine.
Oh, I would. I would.
Also. I know that.
I think Panda who brought, was it Panda that brought up Coco in
Hollywood studios? I'd like to see Coco in Mexico,
but not taking away the three cup neros because I still love
them. So give me some kind of Coco
ride. Yeah, you mean the animatronic
cavaleros or the ride itself? The ride Yeah, I like the.
And based off they're not going to.
It's classic, but they're. Not going to add 2 rides and
based off I just wish they would keep those animatronics.
Based off of the comments of our last random question show, you
know, double down on Remy apparently because we were all
in the minority and Derek can just take a victory bow right
now because I like everyone. I agreed with DARE.
I mean like they're just, they like spray French bread smells
right on you during the ride. You just have to hand Amy bread
and actually what I get, one of her favorite things at
Disneyland is to go through the the bread store place and.
Get a free I was gonna do that, but then you bought you bought a
whole. Loaf bought an entire entire
Mickey loaf of bread when we were there, and I always wanted
to, I always wanted to say I bought in one of those giant,
enormous breads. And special, special shout out
to the person who made the YouTube comment about Remy that
everyone that watched that segment is now Dumber because of
everything that I said. So I applaud you.
It's my favorite YouTube comment of all time.
I didn't see that. It's the you're rambling
incoherent rambling. We're all Dumber.
How are we doing on time, Paul? Oh, we're doing wonderful.
You probably got about two or three more, I'd say.
OK. My light's going to go.
We all hate. Disney sequels and Disney Plus
series for the most part, but what Disney IP do you think
would be served well with either a sequel or its own series?
Don't say it, it'll ruin it. No, no, no.
This won't ruin it. This would be awesome because
they did this. They did this kind of, and we
liked it with some other like we loved monsters at work.
We thought monsters at work loved.
Monsters at work. Because it highlighted other
monsters in the area. So all you've got to do is
double down on what you did good with Wally before you made the
the Bernie short a long time ago and it was money.
Do a little do a short series on Disney Plus of just some of the
random robots that you. That would be cool.
For 5 minutes in Wally and I think that that would just be a
great short series on Disney Plus.
Yeah, and. I think, yeah.
I love that. Also on the monsters at work.
We love that. I love Doug Days.
Doug Days is good. Never.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is so cute.
It's all about Doug and Carl. And his real dog Isms.
Yeah, Oh my gosh, she's so cute. I got to think for a minute.
So. All right while you're.
Thinking go, go ahead. The kid with Carl, the kid with
Carl would be great. Just further adventures of where
the house goes on the balloons, Yeah.
Or his like, or his entire like Boy Scout experience, like, like
going to going to Boy Scout camp meetings and everything and
doing yeah, doing like, yeah, the whole series is like every,
every episode you earn a badge for for some, for something.
I don't know. Derek.
So I'm not going to go with a with a animated one or like a
Pixar 1. I just want more episodes of the
Is it called behind the attraction that that series?
I love so good. I think it's so funny and how
it's done. It's kind of irreverent, so it
doesn't take itself too seriously.
So it's not like some here's just a history of of the ride.
I just want more episodes of that show because God knows you
could do it on so much stuff. So yes, that's what.
I want. I love that.
You know what would pair good with that?
Derek is a pickle milkshake. Oh what?
Sorry. I said, you know what would pair
good with that, Derek is a pickle milkshake.
And and the new juice beer, the cherry lime shofahafa.
Oh no. That sounds really good.
There is another one, Cherry Lime, coming to the Germany
pavilion this year. I want to.
Try it. Oh, sorry, sorry, Jeff, I I've
gone with this bit, so I'm just doubling down.
Go ahead. Very.
Good, Amy, you didn't say yours yet.
Just. Think, OK, I want I want more
rummy. So at the end of Ratatouille, he
like they had their own little Ratatouille restaurant and I
want like a just a series of a couple episodes of how things
are going in that restaurant. Love it.
Yeah. And I would choose not for a
series, but for a full sequel. I want The Who Framed Roger
Rabbit 2 that we never got. God bless that they.
Could do. And they could sprinkle in some
of these newer animated things that if they could ever get the
licensing, like I don't know how they did it last time because
the original had Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera and a whole
bunch of other. But you could throw in all kinds
of stuff, DreamWorks and The Simpsons and you could do a lot.
It could be fun, but it'll never happen.
It'll never happen, never. If someone gifted you 100 points
at ADVC Resort that you don't already own, which one would you
choose? Oh, it's a good one.
Is it just 101 time? Yeah, we have a lot of follow
up. Questions one time or a related
contract? They're yours forever till the
contract expires. Oh, I get 100 point contract.
But it's at, you can't already own there.
OK, I'm good. OK.
Yep, Fort wilderness. I will take 100 points of Fort
wilderness since it's the newest property and I yeah am I getting
it resale or direct? Oh, I don't know.
Sure. OK, yeah, I'll take 100 direct
points to Fort Wilderness, please.
OK, Because that gets me in like the new evolution because I feel
like we're going to eventually have to buy into the new vet
evolution just because of what we do for a living.
But. Can I can I wait for Lakeshore
Lodge to be ready? Sure.
That's going to be my answer there's.
Not a lot of hard and fast rules here.
Change my answer. All easy sports, yeah.
Go ahead. Polynesian 100%.
I'm going because I don't book
more than seven months out. So I'm going Saratoga Springs,
Saratoga Sprink, because I just want points for points sake.
I want points to use them anywhere within that seven month
window. What's available a month from
now? Saratoga all the way.
I don't want to stay there, Saratoga, but I'm going to use
my points there to stay elsewhere.
OK. Saratoga just screams of America
Derek and so does the Gulf Coast style seafood roll at the
Flavors of America booth. It is a warm seafood roll with
it says warm water lobster. I don't know what that means.
It's not cold water lobsters from like the Caribbean.
Rock shrimp, lobster bisque and a Sherry cream on a toasted
brioche bone. It sounds how much is it?
Great question. Don't know how many prices.
Is that in the booth that's in that like America courtyard
that's permanently now? Yeah.
I like that booth. They're actually doing a lot
better 'cause last year that booth was terrible and they
finally brought back like the seafood roll and.
I don't know about you, Derek, but I'm excited to pair that
with the Pumpkin Cheesecake Blonde Stout.
I thought I saw that but then I thought do I want pumpkin
cheesecake stout when it's like 95?
Like that just sounds like. OK.
But this is running through November.
So we I mean we can do that. We can do, we can have that
pumpkin spout. We can kind of like a date night
and. You heard it here, Derek and
Paul date night. Derek and Paul.
Date night. Disney date night.
Yeah, let's go. We'll go.
Live on patreon.com/DVC fan only because that's like our new
favorite pastime is to just go live on Patreon.
Well, I found out how cook. Breakfast with Amy.
We have not done that. The Rhodesio beef stick looks
pretty good. That's not what it's called.
But what? Did he say beef stick?
I think I'm a skewer. Beef Skewer fans is walking away
from that. It's not.
It's not even in the America Pavilion, is it?
No. Well, you know where it is.
You're really. Beef, Beef.
Hold on, it's a fires of flavor. Flavor of fires or fire
breathing dragon flavors. Oh yes, flavors from fire.
They still got the corned beef thing on that they.
Do they do they do? Jeff, what was the, I don't even
remember the last question you asked this, but what was your
answer? No, we're we're ready for the
next question. We did you answer your question,
I said Polly. Oh, OK.
Yeah, yeah. Take us away, give us, give us a
give us a doozy to end the night on.
Yeah. Follow up, Rodizio.
Derek is gonna Derek is gonna love this question so much.
If you could make a video game out of any Disney movie that
hasn't been done, what would you choose?
Oh God, why would I like that question?
Because you give us crap about Mario Kart all the time and our
Nintendo Switches. That's true.
Ah boy, that's a I'm going to have to think I don't boy a
video game based on it. I'll go first this time to kind
of give you an idea of what I'm thinking of.
So they did this on the original Nintendo.
They did this on the original Nintendo.
But I, I want an updated version where it's a platformer similar
to Super Mario Brothers or Sonic or whatever, Donkey Kong,
whatever your choosing is, but it's Mickey Mouse through all of
his eras. So you start at Steamboat Willie
and you go through like the Ghost Ones and the band concert
and you progress all the way to the new terrible, terrifying
Mickeys. But you like Fantasia, you hit
all the highlights and as you progress, that's in my mind.
That's kind of what I was thinking of.
I I remember playing a Mickey game, I think it was on maybe
Xbox or something. It was super cool.
It was like Mickey and it was all black and white and then you
like painted stuff. What?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're called Epic Mickey. Yeah, Epic Mickey.
Yeah, I'd like to do a Roller Coaster Tycoon equivalent of
Disney Parks. So like you, you control you,
you get to make all of those decisions.
Like you decide how much your annual passes are and whether or
not lightning lanes are $79 apiece.
And and you see how your revenue does can be an it's an
educational game. Folks, Yep, I still play Roller
Coaster Tycoon all the time. Yeah.
That's a good. One, does it work well for the
switch? I was actually looking at it the
other day. I don't play it on the switch.
I play it on my PC but I play I haven't the mobile version.
There's a mobile version on my phone that works.
Great, I thought about buying the the switch.
Switch 2 version don't lie. You liked some roller coaster
taken. I've never played it.
It's great you were more of a Sims.
Girl, I did. I like to build the houses.
You never like live out the life.
It would just be house. No, I built, yeah, I had a
everyone had this cheat code that gave you unlimited money,
so I just used that and I just built houses.
That's all I like doing. How's our household decorating?
How's our householding up to those dreams?
It's. All right, we're not quite not
quite a swimming pool or anything like like my Sims had.
My problem with video geeks is I'm terrible at them and I don't
like conflict. So sometimes when my mom plays
Fortnite, I'm like, look how pretty the trees are.
Like why can't you just walk around and enjoy the nature and
the scenery? This is part of her new kind.
Of trying to shoot people. But she can't look away like
it's it's part of her new pastime is to just watch me play
Fortnite sometimes and and she just oh, that's pretty go to the
snow area the. Fall trees, yeah.
It looks can you do a Can you make a snow Angel?
Can you build a snowman? So I would just want something
where you could just walk around and it's very lifelike and
you're in the parks and like, maybe you can have like little
tasks, but I don't want any conflict.
I don't know, bad. Oh, you're gonna, you're gonna
love Villains, Land, No conflict.
You're going to love. It no, you've got to have one.
That Amy Krieger shout out to our good.
Friend Phil that I know listens to this show 'cause he texts me
every Monday or Tuesday when he finally does.
But he enjoys Farm Simulator and that's all I can think of as
Amy's just talking about calm and serenity.
It's just. Farming.
There's this one, this video game.
I wanna live power wash and it's called Endless Ocean and all you
do is like swim around and look at fish.
That's what I wanna do. That's.
Pretty cool they. Actually had a game like you're
talking about Amy, that you got to design your avatar and go
wandering through the Magic Kingdom and like you went to
pirates and. I saw that, but wasn't it very
cartoony? Yeah, it was terrible.
I want like realized. It well I.
Could feel like I'm in the park. Yeah, All right.
I throw it out-of-the-box in this one and I haven't fleshed
it out, but I know you could. Jeff.
Not on me now. I mean, like when you think
about it later, a Muppet Show video game and there's different
little mini games which are pieces of the show and depending
upon how good you are, that's how the audience likes the show.
But a Muppet video game Muppet Show video game can.
Waldorf and Statler yell at you when you do bad things.
Yes, Yeah, that'd be perfect. I can we double down on that
idea just a little bit and can we just take the concept of like
Mario Party and inject Disney characters?
Like I think that would be cool too.
Or if you just wanted to do Panda's version with just
Muppets characters, like I think you could make a lot of cool
mini games and and fun fun things like Mario Party.
Yeah, yeah, I love that idea. Also a Mario Kart, but each
Disney character has like their own abilities would be cool.
You could be cool. Infinite numbers of characters.
Infinite. Derek, are your taste buds
tingling? Yes, I am hungry, Paul.
I'm dying of hunger. Please.
That's. Great.
Well, we're going to end this show.
But also, in case you cared, the Epcot International Food and
Wine Festival is already started.
It started on August 28th and it runs through November 22nd.
So you got plenty of time to get all of these amazing foods that
we've not talked about tonight because we pivoted and we we did
Jeff's questions instead. But I think I stand behind what
Pandas said at the top of this show.
This is going to be our most viewed episode ever.
And it's mainly because of this plug that I put at the end,
which is that if you've got a spare screen on your computer,
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It'll boost those view counts and boost all of that.
So just just find a spare device and just run the DVC show.
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Panda. And A and a lug and you get a
luggage tag as well. Let us know your answers to
these questions in the comments because that's the best part of
this entire entire random questions.
And I think Panda or Derek, you're going to be up next with
our random questions. So start start compiling your
list because you'll be ready. You'll be asking the next one.
Derek, you already deleted your list, so it's in your trash can
on your computer somewhere. That'll do it for this week's
episode of the DVC Show. We'll see you all next Monday.