For the first time in forever. Oh, God, what'd you what'd you
do with that money, John? Money.
Come on, you got to finish it. What has happened?
I don't know. I don't.
Know. Say, I don't understand.
What did you do with that money? What did you do with that money?
Huh. What are you?
What is he talking about? Guys help me.
I don't. I don't have a clue what's
happening right now and. All I wanted from.
This was that I fight. I did get my Nintendo Switch
too. That everyone's been.
Asking So did I, so did I, Eric, I'm sorry, I'm for.
Hold and I'm more excited to know about that.
So if anyone yes, I got the Nintendo switch too.
Panda's got 1 Jeff's got one. No, we've not played together
yet because I've only played it like twice because I've been, I
haven't been home for a month so and I did not take it with me,
although I should have taken it with me.
I was thinking that I, Derek, would say all the money from
your singing, 'cause I didn't sing well.
It's exactly what it was, you as the perfect softball.
You were singing Frozen. I then say, Oh my God, what did
you do with that money? And you say, what money?
And I say the money your parents gave you for singing lessons.
And everybody bursts out laughing.
Crying. But no, that didn't happen.
It just turned into, look, I got a Mario Kart on my watch and
I've got this and everything else, so yeah, same thing.
That's too funny. I can't.
Joke's gone wrong. Joke's gone wrong.
Hey everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of The DVC
Show. I'm your host, Paul Krieger,
joined as always by my lovely wife, Amy Krieger.
We've got John Sicari, OK, Big fat panda in the house.
Welcome home everyone. Amy just gave us an earthquake
by kicking the camera over here. But the one the only Derek de
Boer. I know.
Happy Monday, everybody. Our dear, dear friend Jeff
Haslam, DVC fan, contributor, Jack of All Trades People gave
you a lot of titles in the most recent I did.
See that I I prefer the Honorable Jeff.
Haslam, I saw that one. That was a good one, the
Honorable Jeff. May it be known that you are
now. Truth that you know.
You are now the Honorable Jeff Haslam.
Hold on. Wait.
I can fix it. Let's see.
Jeff Haslam. The Honorable Jeff Haslam Save.
Perfect. There we go.
That is your name now. How do I change that?
Because there's some things I want to say about Jeff.
Where do I go? On We don't give you that much
power. You already derailed us from the
beginning of this show and I still don't understand what we
were talking about, but yet here we are and we hope that you
enjoy joining us for all the craziness that we come up with.
I also want to just throw out that when we do those cold
openings, it's literally like a 5 minute pause right before we
go into the show so none of us have really recovered from what
just happened. Amy is either frozen or stunned
based off of the expression on her face.
Just hungry. Just hungry.
Oh, it's it's way too early to be hungry.
We got another show after this one.
So no, no hunger pains. Sometimes when Derek starts
talking, I immediately look for my parachute just in case I need
to get out in a hurry. And some reason you're still
there, I know. Go 'cause you're honorable.
Well, Jeff, you're going to be happy that you stuck around this
week because you're do we're doing the one thing that you
claim we never do, which is Part 2 of our best of Disney and DVC
show. I don't think that we've ever
done a Part 2 in any of our show histories.
We we have a backlog of about 20 that we need to do, but we're
going to slowly chip away at them.
And here's the first because so many of you chimed in when we
did our first Part 1 sequel, the best Disney MDVCA lot of you
shared your favorite pizza, your favorite boat ride.
Did we do boat ride? No, no animatronic.
That was it. It was an animatronic.
Feels like the sound. No, because no one's going to
pick that as their favorite boat ride.
You never know. You don't know what people are
going to pick, the Internet went.
Wild and there. It goes.
That is the only reason I did Part 2 of this show.
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You feeling hot? It's summer.
It's time for hotness, right?
It's red, it's hot and it's a deal.
So yeah, this is the the return on Jan, July, the 15th, Jan,
July edit that out. Nope, on July 15th.
It is the grand return of our red Hot deals promotion, easily
the biggest promotion we do the whole entire year where sellers
have agreed to list their listings at 10% below the
current market value. There is no negotiation, no
haggling, no back and forth. So these things fly off.
So make sure you have our free phone app so you can get
notified when we get them because they go incredibly
quickly. Last summer when we did the
promotion, I mean, hundreds and hundreds of these listings were
sold. People would always ask, hey,
you bringing back those red hot deal promotions, What's going on
with that? So yes, July 15th it starts.
Make sure you have our phone app or sign up for our morning
newsletter. And if you see one you like,
just get it. There's no negotiation.
So boom, get on there, make that offer, put down Derek from the
Dropbox. I'll get it, and I'll reach out
for you and be your point of contact the whole entire time.
So yes. And you can do that today
because today is July 21st as of the show going up.
So you can tell we always maybe fill me is a little bit ahead of
time, so. Remember with Derek, red and hot
is good. Otherwise it could be infected.
Check it out. See, I was going to say, I feel
like we need a a music video to Derek, you know, HOTTOGO red hot
deals for you. I don't know.
I like it. I like it.
Land there. I'm so happy for that short
already between between panda and and then you and you're
perfectly framed up so I can just cut it.
It'd be great. It makes itself.
That is going to be an ad right there.
Yeah, that's that's the whole purpose of these hour long shows
is so Paul can make really embarrassing shorts of us.
Truly, that's the whole. Purpose.
Where's your pipe, Derek? Still got it handy.
Still probably on the desk right next to next I was about to send
right next to Buddha Chewbacca. So we are booing.
Boobacco. Never mind boobacco.
Nope, nothing's saving us now. Here we go.
Folks, thanks for tuning into Part 2.
Part 3 will be up next month. Thanks for.
Coming, we are doing Part 2. We had a whole list of, you
know, best of Disney DVC topics that actually Amy came up with
that we didn't get all the way through the last time because we
had so much fun talking through some of these decisions.
So you're still laughing about Bubaca, I know.
But can you tell us the first topic of the night so that we
can, yeah, kick this show off and the people that Fast forward
to this point can start listening to the real content?
Let's start with the best boat ride.
And no, it's not AWA. What is that ride called?
Navi River. Navi River Journey.
Awa, is that what you called it? The song is, isn't it AWA?
Yeah, I don't do it like Panda does it.
I love that. Derek is reenacting monsters
unchanged. It'll.
Just be a greatest hits, it'll be a AW followed by a good
chunk. Jeff, save us the Honourable
Jeff Haslam, What's your favorite boat rod is?
It even a competition or is it pirates?
Because for me it's. It's part it is.
It absolutely is Pirates. Remotely in my top runnings at
all. Really.
No, that was the that was my choice for sure.
Pirates. Yeah.
I am wasn't even on my radar. 100% living with the land.
Oh it's like no, compared to pirates.
Yes. You don't know what's going to
happen on that ride. Someone could jump off and grab
a cucumber at any moment. Or go back for his phone.
Or go back to his phone. Yes that.
Forget that. Recently happened that just
happened. I do love living with the land
and it is one of my favorite rides.
It's so peaceful. I love looking at all the
vegetables and stuff and I don't know.
But I love the one. I love the shrimp that's in that
one tank. He's always by himself.
He's just like he's in timeout. Just one shrimp in the tank.
Just kudos to you, Mr. Shrimp. That's why I come and ride that
ride all the time. I, I, I do love, I just love the
peacefulness of the ride. I do love the, the idea that a
lot of these things are grown there now.
I don't buy the idea of like, oh, we're using this ingredient
in these food booths. No, you're not.
You're making 7000 of that food a day and you've got 2 corn
stalks in the middle of this greenhouse that I don't, I'm not
buying that one anymore. But I, I will also just give a
shout out to the Behind the Seeds tour that they do there.
It is probably one of the cheapest behind the scenes
opportunities that you can do at Walt Disney World.
And I do think it's cool just to walk through there.
And at least the last time we did it, you did did get to try a
cucumber. So I was before the cucumber
debacle though. So I don't know if they still do
that on that tour, but you got a little piece of a cucumber.
And the glimmering greenhouses and the.
It is the best at. Christmas it is the best.
Christmas is it is. Cool, you have to ride it at
night. Speaking of the best, at
Christmas, the boat ride that I would pick because I knew you
would pick living with the land is Small World at Disneyland.
I love it has the best facade. They light up at Christmas like
you wouldn't believe. And then the just the small
world holiday inside all the Christmas lights.
It's just so pretty. And one of the things also, and
the reason I like that one better than the one we have
here, besides the exterior, is that they have a lot of the
little characters hidden throughout, you know, in their
like place of origin where they belong.
And I always like to go through and try to guess the country
because some of them are really obvious and some of them are
more difficult. I think so, yeah.
In in their place of origin, where they belong.
Ariel, don't be coming over to the western area.
You belong in the sea. Stay there.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Amy Kay and I did that on our trip to Disneyland.
That was fun. We were trying to figure out
which one was. Which?
Some of them are really hard though.
Panda, you were Team Pirates as well here on the boat ride.
Yeah, and there and I completely, but there's a reason
for it. I just thought of the boat ride
itself. It does start off nice and calm.
You go through a lot of smells and sounds, then you get the
hill and then you're in the middle of this fight with the
explosions around you. I kind of like that it evolves
and that boat ride to me just seems to be the best of the.
Best wait, what are the smells must.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The, the, the bleachy sulphury,
bad water smell, Yeah. Now the mildew, the mold and the
mildew is part of it. Since Amy pulled Disneyland into
this conversation, are we talking Pirates Disneyland or
Pirates Disneyland? Pirates.
Disneyland wins much more, yeah. For sure.
Good answer. Good answer, Derek, what's
yours? The boat ride to get to your car
on the way home. No, I would say easily.
It's got to be pirates. I mean, it's a no brainer.
And the fact that I'm still shaking with anger that you
think going through like a grocery store produce anywhere
even close to one of the most iconic rides that Disney has
ever built. I don't care what coast you see
it on. I've only seen it on the East
Coast. So that's it.
But yeah, it's Pirates. It's a no brainer.
It's got a great queue. It's got, it's one of those
things where if you go to the Magic Kingdom, you feel like,
like, for me, it's like spaceship Earth.
Like I can't go to that park without doing that ride.
I feel like you have to go on Pirates.
And it's still that little bit of like, I don't know, like
excitement, you know, it's like you get on it and you're like
this and then you forget how big is this hill?
Is it like a big hill or a tiny hill?
And you come down and go around the corner and again, all the
smells and the sights and the firings and the shoot, it's just
really, really cool. It's, yeah, it's, it's an
iconic, an absolute no brainer. Followed by a close second,
which would be the Mexico Boat Ride, simply for nostalgia
purposes of my first ride, you know what I mean?
And it's one of those where I know the ride has a name, but I
think for everybody it's known as the Mexico Boat Ride.
So whatever the. Name.
I call it Mexican. It's a small world.
Our COO Drew calls it the Secret Ride.
When we do our company retreats, he says, do you want to go do
the Secret Ride? And it's a secret because it's
in, it's kind of buried back in the Mexico pavilion.
But it's also a secret because anyone that goes with him on
Secret Ride gets a Margarita. And so that's the best part of
Secret Ride. So so.
The boat in front of me, the boat in front of me had too many
tequilas. And do you know where they're
using Donald as a pinata and he's hanging there?
I heard them in the boat in front.
Oh my God, they're hanging Donald.
And it was pretty funny. I will say that the smells are
arguably better on the Mexican boat Rush.
It smells like tacos in there. Because you got the restaurant.
Yeah, I it does. I don't.
Think that's the reason? You're smell.
I feel like that's equal. That's an equal smell.
I love the smell of Mexican food in the morning.
All I've been thinking about since since Derek called living
with the land like a grocery store is like, could you imagine
just like going through there and like doing your shopping as
the boats going through and like I'll take I'll take a banana.
I can't believe nobody, nobody picked Tiana's.
No. Oh I don't think of that as a
boat ride cuz. It's so you're in a boat.
It literally is in a boat. I honestly thought that I
thought Amy K was gonna pick Frozen because I've seen her
ride that ride and the joy that that brings to her.
I hate when it gets me wet. And the Jungle Cruise we didn't
even pick, but that would have been my second.
Oh boy, that that Carmudgeon that left you show 1.
In Disneyland, ask Paul how much he loved that line.
We were, we were on the other. I was actually pin trading with
the other Jeff and I got a text. Did you text me?
I think you texted me and said come back to Jungle Cruise and
immediately at that point I should have just said no because
in my head I was like, why come back to Jungle Cruise?
Like honestly, Jeff, the main reason I came back is because I
thought that maybe there was a fan of the show that wanted to
meet us or someone was there that you ran into.
No, no, no, no, you wanted to ride that rod.
Like that was the decision that was made.
We cancelled a fat, we cancelled a a lightning lane to ride that
rod. No, we.
No. No, no.
Yes, we did. Amy Templeton wanted to ride
that ride and she advised me to text everybody.
I'm not taking the blame for this one.
OK, not to get completely off the rails, but there was this
goofy, there was this op-ed. It was just basically like an
editorial article from some Orlando based news station.
It was on Facebook today and it was like the 10 most miserable
places in Orlando. Did you see it?
OK, totally stop. Did you see that?
The line, The line in Jungle Cruise is one of them.
And I was like, Yep. And then it was like the parking
lot at Trader Joe's in Winter Park.
I was like, Yep. Can't wait to go there next
week. One of them was right on the
mark that. That parking lot Winter Park is
crazy. So Jungle Cruise Line was one of
the one of them. So that was pretty funny.
All right, all right, that was all I got.
What's next? So the next is, of course, the
best Mexican food. That's a good Segway.
We're just talking about that. We're professionals at at
Segwaying. I think there's one option here
on property at Disney but I want to know.
Well, Jeff hates Mexican food, so his opinion?
I'll go first because I don't like Mexican food, so I want to
say the Margarita stand in Mexico.
Yeah, of course that's a good pick.
That is like, I mean they have solid if they did more small
bites, I think that would be a knockout hit because the
margaritas are arguably then you're not going to get a top
shelf Margarita there like you would at Cava.
But they're good. They're not bad.
Which? Which Which Margarita place are
you talking? About he's talking about chosa.
Chosa. Yeah, it's.
Not is that. Much.
Before you go in the building like outside across from the
quick service. Those things that are like been
sitting in those machines like for 8 days.
OK, I wouldn't get the machine one.
I typically get one on the rocks, but.
OK, just go inside to la Cava. I mean, what are you doing?
Get a real I don't want to wait 17 hours for a Margarita.
I want to be on to the next drink.
Derek, what's your favorite? So I know what everyone's going
to say, and it's a place that I've never been before and I
have to look up the name because I hear that everyone says it's
absolutely phenomenal and fantastic.
And now I have to go find where it was here on my list.
So everyone's going to say Rosa Mexicano.
That's what I'm going to say. Never went so I'm just going to
go with the restaurant inside Mexico right by the water with
the tacos wafting and you sit and watch the boats go by.
They they made it better for a while.
I mean, it used to be great like years and years and years ago or
you used to get quesa fundido that they used to make at like
legit they would come to your table, literally make it and
like do the cutting of the things and fold the tortilla,
doesn't lay them out in front of you.
It is hands down my like, you know, death row meal that if I
could go back and have that, they don't do that anymore.
So now they just kind of give you the fundido.
Then for a while they made the tables like 6 inches from each
other and that place was terrible.
Like you were on top of the family next to you.
They've seemingly added some separation that at least I've
noticed so people can probably correct me if I'm wrong, but now
it was good. We went there a couple of months
ago for dinner. And I didn't have high
expectations, but I enjoyed it. So in terms of until I get to
Rosa Mexicano, which I know everyone adores, I'm just going
to have to go with the old. Supply.
You're talking about la Hacienda de St. in Hell?
Is that how you pronounce it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it
is La Ha Santa. Yeah.
Right. OK.
Yeah. We, we've not been there for a
while. I used to love that restaurant.
I I agree that it's not as good as it used to be, but it's been
a while since we've been there, so I'd like to go back and try
it. I do the.
Ambience of that restaurant. It is fun to sit there, but it
kind of reminds me of Blue Bayou, which also doesn't have
good food, but the ambience is is fun.
Oh, you're talking about you're talking about the one inside the
the temple, right? Yeah, of course.
Oh, I. Can't.
I don't think the one you, I thought you said buy the water,
but I was thinking the one. Right, that's not the one I
want, isn't it? I'm.
Talking about the boat inside you're.
Talking about the St. in Hell Inn.
OK, yes, the one by the boat. OK, sorry.
The one wasn't the 1 outside. Yeah, there is one outside.
I didn't like that one at all. Oh, that was my.
Oh my God, the la cant isn't it La cantina?
La Cantina is the quick service, La Hacanta is the the table
service attached to it. Both sit on the seven or seven
seas. Look at you.
No, Oh my goodness. The World Showcase for you.
That that quick service, the barbacoa beef tacos with the
beans and the rice is for I. I could eat it every time.
It's great. Yeah, I'm talking about Mexico
boat ride next to the Mexico. So what's funny about those two
is the 2 quick, the two table service ones get mixed up so
much that if you go on Yelp, you'll find pictures of the
other ones mixed into the reviews because nobody knows
which ones which. So yeah, St.
Anhill Inn is inside the Mexico Pavilion next to the boat ride.
La Hacienda is outside near the World Showcase Lagoon.
But it doesn't matter because none of those are nearly as good
as Rosa Mexicana. I think Paul would agree.
Where is Rosa Mexicana? It is inside the Is it the swan
or the dolphin? The swan, The swan.
It is in the Swan. Fin.
Pretty sure it's. In the dolphin.
It is. You know, you know, we could
find out easily. Pretty sure it's the dolphin.
And oh look, I think you're right.
What is it called La Rosa? Rosa Mexicana, it is so good
there. They do all the things.
They have a huge menu. They have a lot of crafted
margaritas. They do tableside guacamole.
It is so the guacamole is the best guacamole I've ever had.
They have a lot of really good dishes.
My favorite things are they have quesadillas.
You can get a shrimp quesadilla, you can get a lobster
quesadilla. So they have just a lot of a lot
of Taco options, a lot of enchilada options, other types
of things. If you're more into like just
like a chicken dish or a steak dish or whatever, it's very
good. Now it is a little pricey, I
guess, but like I guess all of Disney really is and it is
considered a signature, one of the signature restaurants over
there. But every time we've been there,
it's been excellent. My only wish is that they
brought back the trio of enchiladas.
They used to do a trio. One had their traditional sauce,
one had a mole, and one had a Verde sauce on them.
The presentation was beautiful. Now they've only moved down to
2, so you have to. It's like choosing if you got 3
kids, choosing your favorite 2. Like I want to try all of them.
I want all three. Please give me all three.
But yeah, that is definitely. Yeah, and then just one quick
nod because we've not gotten the try yet, but a lot of people
have said that Maya girl over at Coronado Springs has been really
good, has been much improved. I really want to try it so it.
Has been getting rave reviews from a lot of people I've never
eaten so. No, I'll see that.
Nosa is the dolphin. The dolphin took a while.
Yeah. All right, moving on.
I want to skip around a little bit so we're not.
Picked you're running this show. I'm just along for the ride
tonight. I'm going to ask what you think
is the best ride queue. The best ride queue.
Best ride? Queue Derek.
Easy, easy. And why is it, why is it
Expedition Everest? It's an absolute no brainer
walking through that queue knowing how involved Joe Rody
was in that ride and in that queue itself.
All of the stuff from, you know, actual expeditions all
throughout Asia, all that. It's just the coolest, best cue
in all of Walt Disney World. So easy done.
Expedition Everest, That's it, that is.
A strange choice. What else is there?
Honest to God?
What? Guardians.
What? No.
Listen, no, no no not not.
The pre shows the cue has yeah, what's his big city?
Who's the who's the star of Guardians?
What's his name? Come on.
He comes on and talks about Epcot and he's so excited to go
on Horizons. It's pretty funny and there's a
lot of little Easter eggs and videos throughout the queue.
I like, I like that. I think I I like the way.
It starts off and goes up and spins around and goes to a
different place. Just today I'm pretty sure I
want. To see that queue as this is
going to be an hour wait. That's the only thing I've seen.
I just saw a post today about that cue and how it was the most
unnecessary cue in all of Walt Disney World.
Pretty sure so. No, you.
Have to hang out and watch some of the videos.
Watch some of the videos that go on in it.
It's pretty funny. Jeff, what's your best one?
Hands down, bar none, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the
Forbidden Eye at Disneyland. That is the best cue.
See, I hated that cue, Yeah. There's so much to look at and
so much to see and so much detail.
I don't remember it, I just feel.
Like it's dark and it's never ending.
You can. You can download the thing on
your phone and translate all the hieroglyphics if you want to.
You can look up and see the. Bats.
That's cool. I didn't know that.
I just can't get over. How do you not think Expedition
ever? Is that cute?
Because it looks like Fort Wilderness campgrounds, you got
people's dirty laundry hanging up on the thing and it.
It depresses me because the Yeti isn't working as it's supposed
to otherwise. Yeah, that is a cool.
Fake Yeti poop that we're going to pretend looks real.
Yeah, if you start reading some of the stuff for like looking at
it, then you just get more and more confused as you're walking
through the queue, I feel. Like, oh, I, I'm with Eric.
I do love that queue. Is that your pick?
No, it's not my pick, but I, I do love it.
And I used when I taught middle school, we did a unit on
expedition Everest in our reading class.
And so we learned about what all those things meant.
And the laundry is actually like, what are they prayer
flags? And anyway, my, my favorite is
one that I almost never go in because I hate waiting that
long. But if I could just walk through
it, I would pick the Peter Pan cue in Magic Kingdom because it
is actually a really cool cue. Yes, forgot about it.
Yes, 100%. I go back and forth a little
bit, but we have, we've only walked through this once very
quickly and not gotten to take in all the Easter eggs with it,
but I hear so many good things about it.
Mickey and Minnie's runaway railway in Disneyland.
Disneyland that. Queue is supposed to have so
many hidden little First off, if you're a Hidden Mickey fan,
they're everywhere in that ride in general.
But there's so many nods to, you know, historic movies that have
been done. And I just think it's it's
supposedly very, very cool. Can I, can I just go Disney
adjacent real quick and just say Mario Kart?
Bowser's challenge. Oh yeah, that's so cool.
Because it is the, it is the queue where I, I, I did not get
enough of it the last time when we wrote it.
And I was just like, I just want to sit here and take in all of
my childhood as I'm walking through this because that epic
universe that's that was super cool.
Yeah, OK, that was a good one. All right, How about another
food? And I think Panda is going to
have strong opinions. The best Italian on Disney
property. Oh, we have to.
We have to defer to Panda first on this one.
So yes. It's it's really hard to find
good Italian. I don't I don't think there is
good Italian. I think there's good pizza at
Pizza Ponte When? They what is right?
What is the most tolerating Italian at Walt Disney World?
OK, if I get like if if I go to Maria and Enzo's and they do it
right. The rice bowls are great, the
arancini is great, and their sauce is pretty good.
Their sauce is orange. Yeah.
You're the only time I was there when I told him.
I I yeah, I knew Jeff was going to say that no matter what I
said. Maria Enzos and.
The whole Internet has too rusted in flames.
There is no good Italian, but I mean, Maria Enzos is at least
owned by the same people as Vienopoli.
You know, it's the patina group. Sometimes they they do write for
some things, but some not. No, I disagree.
There is good Italian. There's not great Italian, but
there is good. Italian Where is the good?
Where is the good? The same as Crafted Italian at
Disney Springs. I had pieces of rubber coming
out of my meatball that were unshewable.
I did not like it. So much is.
That because of the tooth problem or?
No, this was years ago. Other people, too, said the
meatballs were inedible. It might have gotten better, but
Taralina's not on my radar. I We were there for the first
time recently. It was it was a decent
experience. I won't rank it.
Do we want to say ours together? I.
Know we're going to say the same thing. 123 Illino.
Yeah, again, I'm not Swan and Dolphin.
I keep forgetting about that. That was a good place.
If Swan and Dolphin's doing anything right, it's their food
game. Their rooms are just a standard,
you know, Mary Hot hotel room that is pretty rundown, but the
the food choices they're outside of.
Outside of the shellacking from. Outside of shoeless.
Which is gone. Which is gone, which they're
replacing with just another shellacking that we're all still
paying off on credit cards, I think.
But yeah, amazing. We've we've gone there several
Times Now. I they like just the entire who?
Who names a restaurant? I'll come on, it's a horrible
name. I don't think it means the same
thing. No, it doesn't.
But it's still the word. It's still a connotation.
It it doesn't make me want to go there.
Let's go to the restaurant. Though you get some
complimentary limoncello at the end of your meal.
The Rigatoni's amazing, the focaccia, the bread service is
good. Their salads are good.
Yeah, I love El Molino. I I didn't tell you, you know.
What? OK, hold on that, That Rigatoni
up in Topolino's, I know it's not really an Italian restaurant
quote, UN quote, but that Rigatoni, chicken Rigatoni at
Topolino's is the bomb. Is that gone now too though?
Yes, I think it's no, I think it's different.
They I think they changed. I know that they changed the
Rigatoni up at Topolino's. I'll look it up, but Derek,
Derek, I'm sure. Oh no, I mean I was going to go
go with the obvious which is whatever the place.
Via Napoli for pizza is fine, but a hot take that I will say
is honest to God. I loved the chicken parm as I
sat outside at Tonys Town Square.
Right there looking at the Christmas tree.
Eating the chicken part was actually really good.
And you had a glass of what? Maybe it was the ambiance or
whatnot, but I don't know. I thought it was really really
good. I would happily eat there again,
not inside Tony's town Square. It's just really depressing
inside the place. I just hate it.
But wait for a. Food is for the dogs.
Yeah, wait. Wait outside.
Sit outside when it's nice at
night, you can get a drink, you can have your food.
The food tastes statistically like 70% better when you sit
outside of Tony's 100%. I still want to try it Panda
unfortunately. Here's my problem with
Topolino's. They get rid of everything
that's good. It is a pop I.
Still see? It is a restaurant.
Well, so they changed it so. That restaurant died after
COVID. Let's just put it out there.
That restaurant never recovered from that.
This that's, I don't that's. Not like the same.
So that's on the menu right now. That's that's the current.
So it is now a red wine Brandy braised chicken.
That's not the same as it was before.
It's 'cause it has broccolini in it, which I'm not.
I'm not a big fan of broccolini. It's like.
It's like a little, it's like. The worst parts of the broccoli.
Like nobody likes the stick so let's make them longer.
I hate broccolini pancetta. Maybe you can get them a living
with Elena. Black truffle.
So it is different. So I can't promise you it's that
same flavor that you had before. But yeah, here's my here's my
quirk with them. You've got this restaurant
that's got all this pasta decor, you know what I mean?
You've got like, they have actual pasta hanging, don't
they? That's been hanging you've got.
You've. Got lights?
One dish. Yeah, you've got lights.
They look like noodles and you have one pasta dish.
I'm with you, yeah. Where did?
They need a. Lobster.
Ravioli. Lasagna.
Yeah, yeah. What happened to the cheese
cart? They used to have a cheese cart
too. That's gone now.
So I I can't go back there until they they.
Used to. There's there's pictures of the
epic pork tomahawk that they used to have, Yeah.
That was not that. Anymore like that was a
highlight of the of what they had there.
They they've just really scaled back that menu and unfortunately
it's not a place that I feel like is recovered.
The other thing that they did there not like derailing us from
Italian, but they had an American, I would still say
probably arguably one of the better character breakfasts on
property, but they have slowly scaled back what's included in
that character breakfast. So they've increased the price
and scaled back what you get for that price, which is kind of
knocked it. We will.
I hopefully I'm trying to get us a reservation in the next week
or two to try that again and see how it is so we may have.
Breakfast there with Mary Dowd Litigg So it is the best
breakfast ever no matter what they serve.
Well, that is the company. Yes, the company would make that
make that amazing. So all right, how about the the
best cookie? Oh, it's not available anymore.
Cookie. It was the carrot cake cookie
from the Writer's Stop. What is the writer's stop?
Oh yeah, it's where, it's where the what's the bar that's there
now? Over by Muppet Vision.
Baseline. Yes.
That's where baseline it was, yeah.
Or is now, yeah. They had a carrot cake cookie
that was to die. Oh, he's going back like.
It's all over the answer. I know, I know, I haven't had a
good. Day What is the best cookie that
exists today at Disney World? Today the Snickerdoodle at
Summer House. Is a good answer.
I'm going to, I'm going to say the NUM NUM cookie at studios.
Also a good answer. That is a good answer.
Fantastic cookie. Fantastic cookie, but Disney?
Uses the word cookie. Usually it's more like a cake.
The joy about even the cookie that Jeff said and the joy about
my cookie is you don't have to wait in the line.
I knew those even for. 8 days like you.
Do at the. Price Gideon's blocks of sugar
that you know. No way you can just get up and
get your cookie and get out. If there's any.
Gideon's is not a cookie, that's a cake.
If there's any take away from this section of the show, it
should be that none of us picked Gideon's for the answer to.
This question, a lot of it is accessibility.
It's just you're right, you know?
Though it's just not no. Even if it was.
Readily available anymore like I feel like it's time was there
and it has passed, but once you've had a couple times.
Down the street to crumble, then go to Gideon's.
Yes, it's a mound when they just shove stuff on.
It and with summer house and that whole like you can walk up,
just walk right in to that cookie counter and you have a
huge plethora and they just we've not been able to try it
yet, but I really want to summer house just did the viral.
What's the viral cookie that's out there that has pistachio
inside or? Oh, is it the Dubai?
Dubai cookie yes, they just did Dubai version of the version buy
chocolate cookie and that is on the menu there as well.
I don't yeah you just can't go wrong with that.
I, I the only other time that I'm excited to get cookies on
property is during the festival of holidays at Epcot.
Love the black and white cookie that they have.
Love I, I would love to just, you know, just do the entire
cookie stroll. I've always said I want to bring
like plastic zip lock bags or like that.
Actually last year I'm pretty sure they sold a storage
container that you could actually buy so that you could
go around and it had like Mickey and Minnie on the side of it and
it was like a lock and lock and you could buy that.
Do the cookie stroll if you didn't want to get diabetes
walking around Epcot that day. Yeah, if you do like Gideon's
and you don't want to wait in that long line, I there are some
summer house cookies that I think are just as good, similar
the sea salt chocolate chip. I think, you know, it's that
under baked chocolate, you know, chunky chocolate chip that they
have at summer house I think can can tide you over instead of
having to wait in line at Gideon's.
The cinnamon roll cookie at at summer house tastes a lot like
the coffee cake cookie at Gideon's.
So there's some similarities there.
But but also with Summer House, you get a DBC discount.
So whether you're sitting at the restaurant or you go up to the
counter to order, be sure to use your annual pass or DVC
discount. My favorite cookie is the almond
cookie at Summer House. If you love the taste of almond
extract, which I love that flavour, this is an amazing
cookie. So, all right, how about the
best nighttime show? Oh please.
Easy. All right.
Well, Derek, what do you think? Fantasmic.
I mean, it's a no brainer. It's a no brainer.
It's fantasmic. It's plus you, even when you
watch it and you get to the theater like before it starts,
you have this excitement because you're everybody seating, which
is so nice to just be able to sit like in an actual seat.
And you got the excitement of the show's gonna start.
And then it comes and then Mickey's dancing.
And then for God's sakes, and the boat comes out and all the
characters are on it and everybody's openly weeping.
It's just the. Greatest openly weeping.
Mickey's Dancing, no. I I agree 100%.
Anybody that knows me knows that that is my favorite show.
It is Disney storytelling at its finest.
It is costumes, it is props, It is floats, it is stunts.
The update they did when they added all the the characters in
the middle. My only complaint, and it's a
small one but there's that part inside Fantasmic where all the
villains have their time but it's all on the screen other
than the snake. They should have taken what they
did at the new villain show and just plopped that in the middle
of Fantasmic. And it couldn't have been.
It would be. Or they plastic Jafar hands has
got to be lying around somewhere they can go.
Exactly. Yeah, for a couple.
Minutes and go to town. Yeah, but yeah, it no question.
And I love that they have a merch stand and they just added
a bunch of new merch, new Fantasmic shirts, the snacks,
the drinks, everything about that experience is perfect.
Yep. My biggest complaint of that
show is the people that go to leave 2 minutes before it's over
and ruin it because they're all getting up because it's hard to
get out of that theater. I really wish they'd make some
sort of announcement. That's it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Please wait till the show's over before
you exit. Because that crescendo at the
end where he comes on top of the mountain, that's it.
I've just got the chills. And I am sometimes, Derek,
openly weeping. Yeah, it's great.
Yep. Do you have a different one than
Fantastic? Well, so I personally, the the
show that has always resonated with me the most and had the
biggest emotional pool has always been happily ever after.
That is just like based off of like when more so when you were
really falling in love with Disney and that show came out
and it was just so special for us that like I will never not
enjoy watching that show. Speaking of Fantasmic, you and I
argue this all the time and we get torn on this.
I will give the nod to Walt Disney World now because they
still have a dragon and our argument has been where the the
seating component. But I will say that when they
had the dragon, Disneyland was the superior Fantasmic.
I don't like the seating situations, too stressful I.
Agree. And that's why that's why you
use a fast pass or do a dining package so you don't have to
deal with that. But there is something about
Disneyland that intimate it's in your face, that big pirate ship.
And it's right like, it's right there like.
It's right there if you spent $80 a piece at Blue Bayou.
That's fine. Otherwise.
I was watching, we were recently back home and Wheeling and I was
watching my mom. She was out like tending to the
garden and she has our butt pad that we got.
I know they don't do that anymore.
They don't, but you used to get a butt pad and it has fantasmic
all over it and she was using it as she was wedding the garden
that day so. I have so I have a love hate
relationship with happily ever after because I do love the
show, but I also like I I judge some things based on it's like
accessibility and things like that.
So I think it's very hard to watch happily ever after when
you're in the park. A lot of times, especially if
you're shorter, you're watching it over someone's shoulder kid
or you're trying to watch it through someone's phone who's
holding their phone up recording it.
And that's why I've never loved it because I find it hard to
watch. But caught and I'm not into the
new show, but if I had to pick my favorite show, it would have
been illuminations. Love Illuminations, love the
music, love the message, and I love that there's just so much
space around the world Showcase lagoon that if you're anyone
that takes any amount of time to wait can have, you know, a front
row seat basically to the show I.
Could you imagine if Epcot brought back Illuminations and
and redid it made it better Illuminations 2 point O they
would be right in their own money because nobody's staying
really right now for the for the new show, not in the droves they
were bring back the music give us.
A better show and we and I loved Harmonious, but it just there
was too much clunky pieces out in in on the water all day long.
Yeah, I wish that they would redo eliminations.
I'll be honest, Harmonious never bothered me.
Like I did not get the complaints that people had about
that show, like the fact that we got Luminous as the follow up to
that. I would rather have harmonious
back. Like and I'll and I'll take the
barges and I'll take the tacos. What now?
What I never fully understood is why those weren't mobile because
essentially the same things that they're bringing out now for
Luminous are very similar, maybe a little bit smaller in size.
But you could have figured a way to make that a mobile barge like
that. And that would have solved, you
know, most people's complaints about that whole thing.
And you could have, if you made a globe move and spin around
World Showcase Lagoon, you could have made the Stargate, you
know, move during the day in some capacity That that that
part of stuff I never got. But at the same time, the fact
that Luminous was the follow up to that.
And yeah, better than Epcot Forever for sure.
That was but the kites, the kites made that show that was
great they. They stopped doing those, didn't
they? They did because.
Go back to my list. Little chaotic there.
Can I do an honorable mention while you're going back to the
list? Yeah.
Please say Rivers of light. The 50th anniversary of
Disneyland. There was one called Remember
Dreams Come True, and it was the best fireworks show that
Disney's ever done. It was it was nicknamed E
tickets in the sky and it was all the soundtracks from it's a
small world, Indiana Jones Star Tours.
They even had the please stand clear of the doors.
You know, they they did all of the Disney ride soundtrack.
They got to pirates. They put a big pirate flag up on
the Matterhorn, and it was like the castle and the Matterhorn
were pirate ships and they were shooting fireworks at each other
and oh. That's cool it.
Was really really cool. You should go YouTube it when
you have time. Yeah, I always like Mickey's mix
magic, but that's that. That was the more recent one.
No one liked that show, but I thought, I thought the beat of
it was. I thought the song was great.
It was a banger. I don't know what just happened.
I don't think my wife's ever used that word.
All right, let's do the best Epcot Pavilion.
It's only one I didn't write down an answer to because it's
too hard. Everyone's like clenching Panda.
What do you think? I do think it's Mexico.
I do. I don't know why.
I just think it's because there's the pyramid and then
you're it's night time inside. You've got the tequila cave, you
got the restaurant. And then you do have the boat
ride that goes through and you can wave to all the people and
say wait till you see your bill and you it's I do, I think it's
the best. I do think it's the best
pavilion. I do.
Derek, what do you think? I'm going to go UK, UK easy.
I just love that feel like it's always a rite of passage because
we've always stayed over there at the Boardwalk when we became
Disney Vacation Club members. So it was always the country you
first start at, right when you come in, you know, from from the
back entrance and you go at the time they used to serve, you
know, bass beer. So you go get a bass beer and
then you shop right. You start in that first store on
the right and it's just like a rite of passage and you just
kind of snake your way all the way through all the stores and
you pop out through the back. Sometimes There used to be that,
you know, really great bands that would play in the back.
They still do from time to time, but no one's ever back there.
So it's just a super kind of chill area.
And then you go into the other side where there's a little bit
more stores and then there's, you know, some overpriced, you
know, herring bone tea sets or whatever, but it doesn't matter.
You got you got a beer in your hand and you're walking around.
And way back when they used to have people come out and do they
were almost like kind of Monty Python esque skits and like, you
know, sketches with like people would around and involve the
audience participation right there in the middle of that
courtyard. So for me I just think it's it's
the UK, but Mexico's a super super close second, followed by
the African trading outpost is a closer.
That that tea Hut is great, Derek, If you haven't been, it's
just a great place to get stuff. Yeah.
Honorable Jeff. It's really hard because it
depends on what we're talking about from a beauty or an
aesthetic point of view. I want to give it to China.
Those gardens with the walkways that go, the big buildings that
are colorful. You go inside, you get the
Shanghai Disney preview, but I don't ever go there.
My favorite to walk around. I would have to go with Derek
and say United Kingdom. It has the best French fries, it
has the best bar, and it has the best shopping like Monty Python,
Beatles, Rolling Stones. So I guess it depends.
And if we're talking about food, then it's Japan.
But I'm gonna, I'm gonna settle on United Kingdom.
Good call. I think it's always just like
wherever you always have the most fun or the most memories.
For me, that's the Germany pavilion.
I remember us watching the fireworks from the Germany
pavilion one time. And that, that trombone like,
and the ducks fighting like that is like ingrained in my, my
memory from like just a, just a good experience.
But also it's like where if, if we're walking around Epcot,
that's where you always lose me for some reason.
Because just like Derek said, I end up going into the Carmel
Kook or whatever you call it, going into that store, then
going through all the other stores that wind back that that
side. And then I normally come out
with a beer and then I Mosey over to the other side and then
I wind my way through the stores on that side.
And yeah, I just, I just enjoy being in that pavilion.
And it's beautiful at night as well.
Like it's just. Just so the furniture trains
are. Are is really cool?
Yeah. So yeah.
And and the bathrooms are right there too, which is.
That's a bonus. You know some of these don't.
You know, some of these don't have good bathrooms.
Train right? It is really, it's really tough
because you know, I think France Pavilion so pretty.
There's some things I really love about American Pavilion,
but I think that like aesthetically, my favorite is
actually Norway. And I just I like, I do like the
frozen ride. I like the Oh my goodness, what
is it? Kringala Bakery?
I like some of the things inside there.
And I really love the store because I like the Helly Hansen
jackets. But I don't know, I just I love
Norway and the the way it looks. And good call, because it is
Disney law that you have to take a picture with that giant troll.
Yes. You have to do every single
trip. Can I just take this a step
further and ask if there would be a country that you would add?
No, you're not allowed to ask that.
I'm not, no. Why?
Because that's on a list for something else.
Moving on. OK, let's do the best
merchandise, which I I are we talking like the best
merchandise. It's been out like, like I love
Spirit jerseys because you added that one.
No, I don't know that. The last thing I said was, you
know, so. I was, I thought it was when you
sent out the list the best merch.
And I was talking with Annie too.
She goes, you need to get clarification like are they
talking about the best merchandise location like to
shop in Like oh, I want to go shopping.
I would love to go shopping at this.
OK, let's say the the what is the place you find yourself
buying merchandise from the most?
What is that place that always just has some cool merch that
you are you are wanting to purchase?
Go, Derek. Boutique at the Polynesian.
Not only. Yes.
Not only is it the best, just in terms of just how it it it, it
hasn't succumbed to like so many of the, you know, regular
merchandise places where it just feels like it's just random.
Here's your Marvel section. Here's your Pixar section.
Here's your Elio section covered in dust.
Here's all this stuff that like no one care.
It's still super, super well themed.
They have a great collection, which is key for me in a Disney
gift shop of non Disney merchandise.
So they've got some really nice, like Tommy Bahama stuff.
They've got great decor like for your home, for your house.
That's where I got my Polynesian lamp.
So yeah, Tiki is, that's a deep cut right there.
Yeah, I said boutique has everything you, I mean, it's
that feeling when you check into the Poly and you know, I go and
check in and Annie, I know she's making a beeline for the
boutique. It's just a great all around
perfect gift shop. I'm with Derek.
I got the lamp, I got the pineapple with the serving
dishes. I love that.
You could get the macadamia nuts, the Hawaiian host cookies.
Yeah, it has not succumbed to the genericness.
Yes. All right.
I'm going to go marketplace Co-op at Disney Springs.
Is that still there? Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, that's how I went in it and it changed a lot.
Two of us have these shirts on in this show currently.
That is where you can find some of the specialty Roosevelts that
they are putting out in the parks right now.
And if you use your DVC discount, it's cheaper than
buying a Roosevelt shirt online, so that's a big win.
I also love the fact that that store is constantly changing so
during the 50th they had some very cool exclusive kind of off
the beaten path 50th merch in they recently did.
I think it was like a couple years ago.
They did like a Disney Cruise Line.
Yep, the pop up, pop up. Yeah, and they've done run
Disney, too. And they've done run Disney and
just how you walk around the coop and there's a little bit of
everything. So got like a little bit of
clothing. You've got the kitchen section.
They're the best kitchen section too.
You've. Got, you know, some lounge flies
and other things like that. There's an art section, they've
got the magic band or the phone case design studio in there.
They got dog stuff in there. So it's and, and it's just, it's
not overwhelming like say a world of Disney would be, but
there's just enough unique stuff where I know at least there it
reminds me of Disney style and, and what that really used to be,
which was like, this is where I'd go to find something that's
unique, a little bit a bit different and not the, the
average everything merch that that someone's going to buy.
So. You, you, you Paul, I, I can't
sorry, I can't agree with you more.
I'm telling you we went to Disney Springs on Sunday.
When Annie said, OK, well I'm going to go into the world of
Disney Store. I said I will be right out.
Here waiting for you. I don't even want to go into the
world of. Disney Store, but.
A Co-op store, I will go in every time.
And I think what's cool about it is that, yeah, stuff changes,
you know? So yeah, like you'll see this is
going to be here one month and you come over here and
everything is all different. So I agree 100%.
Hundred. Percent yeah, World of Disney
everyday is like shopping at Times Square, Macy's at
Christmas, like it's just wall to wall people all the time.
Jeff, what's your favorite? Yeah I was actually going to say
the marketplace Co-op as well. I got this mug from some friends
for Christmas. It's one of my favorite mugs
I've ever gotten. I saw that in an outlet for $5
recently. Great.
But no, it's it's just a collection.
I love the dog stuff. I almost buy my dogs new outfits
every time I go in there. It's got a little bit of
everything. It's right across from the
Margarita stand, which is like a locational benefit.
But yeah, I I love it. Probably an honorable mention
would be I do like when it's at full, like working the Pirates
of the Caribbean shop at the exit of Pirates.
I do buy a lot of Pirates is my favorite so.
But yeah, Marketplace Co-op was my choice.
OK. How much?
How much pirate merchandise can you buy?
Yeah, apparently more than you. Can get.
Did you have an answer to that question?
No, honestly, I so I thought about I I really do like the
gift shop in Jumbo House just because of the size.
That's a good one. And just, it's just a cool one
to look around. What's weird though is that I I
agree that is a larger gift shop and it has a lot of stuff, but
when it comes to like Animal Kingdom Lodge merch, I feel like
I always find more or I find something at the really tiny
Kadani store that I'm going to buy.
This is something. That's like where the most the
DVC members are concentrated anyway.
But I will say I will give an honorable mention to the gift
shop at Olkey West in Saratoga because they always are the ones
that seem to have the DVC stuff first.
I don't know, I just always, it always seems that way.
OK, what about the best buffet on Disney property?
Oh my God, these are so easy. It's so easy.
If anybody answers this question and doesn't say BOMA, you're not
on the next. Show it is it is, Boma it is.
It is. Yeah, this is for the variety.
There's some stuff there that if you want to be adventurous, you
can be. If you want your chicken Nuggets
and Mac and cheese from the kids plate, it's also available.
The breads. The dessert let's Let's remove
boma that would have. Been my answer too.
I love Boma. What is your #2?
No, I know mine. Go ahead, Derek.
Like if I'm going to do a buffet and I can't go to Boma, but I
still want kind of a cool experience with good food, I'm
going to say Crystal Palace. That wasn't.
That would be my second type too.
I just love, and especially if you can get breakfast, it's just
something about eating in there and the characters and Winnie
the Pooh and the whole gang knowing you're at the Magic
Kingdom and you've got all day and you're eating, you know,
churro waffles and you've got the whole day in front of you.
I'm, I'm just never a big fan of like dinner buffets, except for
Bulma. So I love a good breakfast
buffet. So if I'm going to do 1 and
spend the money on one, it's going to be the Crystal Palace.
Honorable mention to Hollywood and Vine.
I've gone twice and I was surprised at how good the food
was. I I was like suckered into it
because of kids, but I thought the offerings I thought were all
really good. Chicken was really good,
meatballs a whole bunch. Of stuff.
My my thing about Hollywood and Vine is because it's a character
buffet, the price and it's literally, I think we said this
on our when we covered it for the show.
You sit down and it literally feels like you're sitting down
at a Denny's. Yeah, like the lack.
Of steaming inside that restaurant.
Yeah, I'm just going by the food, but yes, then.
Trying to get to your food, like I think Amy caught it on camera.
Minnie hit me in the face with her ear.
Nowhere to walk. In.
That it was hectic. It was hectic, yeah.
Madness I I think I would have to go with Crystal Palace as
well. Yeah.
I I, I, I agree with Crystal Palace.
We had excellent breakfast there.
Obviously Bone was our favorite. I've always liked breakfast at
Tusker House. Yes.
I've always thought we've never been there for dinner, but
breakfast has always been pretty good there.
I I can't. About that one.
I can't justify like I can't justify going there that often.
No, I haven't been there in years.
But I have enjoyed and, and again, for me it's, it's just
about weighing the quality of the buffet versus the atmosphere
versus does it have characters. I think Boma just, you know,
again, just wins hand down, hands down on value across the
board. Was it, is it Storytellers Cafe
at Grand Californian? We did go there once that that's
it. If you are out on the West
Coast, I think that's a good buffet option if you're out
there. And yeah, go ahead, Derek.
No, I'm just going to make a very important point.
Can we all agree that hands down, the most overrated buffet
is Chef Mickey's? I mean please can we all I've.
Actually never eaten there. It's just.
It's chaos. It's chaos.
Here's pure chaos. It's.
Chaos. Here's where the floor is
covered in like, scrambled eggs and everything.
The characters look annoyed. The kids are all jacked up and
it's just, oh, that place just. Yeah, and do you know what else
is said? We all went to nice Vegas art
fair. What was that?
We all went to 1900 Park Fair, which should have had the crown
of buffets, and it's just we it's not even on our radar at
all. That's a missed opportunity.
And so, and here's the other missed opportunity.
And I, I think this is across the board Disney with a lot of
these buffets. I want to go back and try this
because I, we've never really done it as a buffet, but I would
like to go to the Germany pavilion in Epcot and do that as
a buffet. But even moving backwards to
Chef Mickey's, both that and Chef Mickey's we did emerging
out of the pandemic and they had gone to the family style where
it was bring out these big platters.
I preferred that so much to a buffet.
I thought that that and, and it was, it blew my mind that all of
these restaurants moved back to the buffet concept because I
think you can control waste better.
I think you can control, you know, the volume of food
production. All of those things can be fixed
and cut down on and probably you're making more per person
like Disney, you love money. Like I feel like those things
can easily be fixed by having that family style concept.
And I just, I thought the food was better.
I thought it just helped the atmosphere.
We did Chef Mickey's when it was like that.
I thought the food was was decent as compared to the chaos
of doing it as a buffet. I like the all the options,
though. I like family style is so you
know, it's very restrictive. Like here's what you get.
You know, I mean, I like to choose.
Pause. Pause looking at it from a
business. When Amy hits a buffet, that
plate. Is I like?
I like to try everything. Yeah, yeah, Especially on a
cruise ship. She.
Right. Listen, I get my money's worth.
You mess around. Yes yes you you get me to a
breakfast buffet and if the waitress like if I have to tell
the waitress like 6 times yes I would like more eggs that would
just make it annoying because I love to fill I eat an unhealthy
amount of scrambled eggs when I'm.
Adding Oh my God, same thing. I want to go to a particularly
with these guys, we should go to BOMA.
Buffet eggs because I don't know if they're real.
Eggs, not the. When we went to Boma, Jeff looks
at the pancake and goes, ah, pancake.
And it was, it was the funniest thing.
I cannot look at pancake ever the same.
There's a video. Of that out.
There, Yeah. And Panda going they must.
They love the animals here, but they're frying them up in the
back. All right, how about the last
one? All right, I'll pick a good one.
Wow. We've been talking right now.
The best Magic Kingdom land as it as it currently exists.
I'm going to go Adventureland just because I like the theming
of it. I, I love the trees.
I like Tomorrowland's a concrete jungle and Frontierland is just
a walkway to get from Tiana's to Haunted Mansion.
I I I'm going to say Adventureland.
And see, I'm going to say Tomorrowland because I, I love
the thought of Tomorrowland. If only Disney could get it
right. You know, I, I think that that
that land could be so much cooler.
The fact that you have literally an empty stitch ride that like
cast members use as like a break and then you still have Monsters
Inc is still there, those two huge spaces.
And throw in the fact that you still have that gas guzzling
Tomorrowland Speedway taking up an obscene amount, and oh, it's
not right. Not right.
All right, Eric. What do you say, Liberty?
I'm gonna in terms of actual theming itself when I'm in it
and I know it's there's not much going on, but to me it's Liberty
Square that it just has a really cool vibe.
It's got a great feel. I know there's not much to
actually do there, but it's cool.
And I learned a lot when I went with Jeff and the the whole gang
when we went to the Halloween party and I learned about, you
know, looking on the streets and all the details and all the
lamps on the trees. So I think in terms of like
theming itself in the actual Magic King, I mean, some people
will say, oh, Fantasyland, no, it's not.
I mean, maybe the new part of of Fantasyland, but a lot of it's
just big buildings and whatnot. So I think in terms of at the
Magic Kingdom, once you're in it, in terms of detailed
theming, for me, it's Liberty Square.
Liberty Square because of the Haunted Mansion but I agree with
the theming. But if it's the Haunted Mansion
my favorite attraction it that's it.
Liberty Square because of that. I've always liked Frontierland.
I don't know why, and I love Big Thunder.
Big Thunder is my favorite attraction there.
So I have to go with Frontierland.
And I like when you walk through, you're kind of hearing
like bluegrass music and. And yet again, I will just say
any of these lands as a Disneyland version far superior
to the world version, I feel like personally.
And you've got New Orleans Square out there, which I think
it's a pretty cool addition. So OK, not for Amy Krieger.
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