 Welcome to Adam Does Movies Live. It's Tuesday, January 23rd. I had to look because I've been on vacation. If you wanna call it that, more of a celebration of life, survival, of really family and togetherness. I took my wife and two children, ages 14 and 11, to the nexus of hell, the center of pain and anguish and anxiety and hopelessness. I took them to Universal Studios and Walt Disney, World Magic Kingdom and Epcot. It's been a treat seven days. Well, for six days, six days at the parks, four at Universal Slash Islands of Adventure, two at Epcot and Magic Kingdom and two days at Disney is worth a lifetime at Disney. I've been before. This was a recap, a rehash, a remaster, a revisit, whatever you wanna call it. Let's get into some, a little bit of news, some housekeeping before I begin. First off, it's great to be back. I haven't done a live stream in a while and even when I started doing the live streams in 2024, they felt a little off. Like I was still cleaning up from 2023. This is the Phoenix Reborn revolutionized, rising from the ashes again anew and hopefully with it, we get a lot of fun this year. Wanna thank everyone who's watched these live streams and joined me, it's been a project. It's come a long way, I think. So let's talk about some of the things coming up. The big one, some of you know already, kaboom. I'm gonna be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida. When am I gonna be there? I don't know, January, February 1st, I think. I'll be there February the second through the fourth. Those dates might not be right. I wrote everything down except for the dates. Does it say it on the sign here? Let me look. Let me hide. It does not, perfect. I will be at Megacon most of the time. I'll be doing three different panels with Sean Chandler, Cody Leach and a couple other influencer creator things, whatever you wanna call them. One of them is a reactor. Another one does reviews with his wife. They seem like good people. It'll be a good time. Friday, I'm on one panel at 4 p.m. It's gonna be movie hot takes. If you watched me this last year, you are familiar with some of them that I had. I don't know if they'll be brought up or not. I did not set these lists. I am just a participant. I was invited by Sean and Cody. I'm gracious that they had me come along. It's my first con. I'm excited. I'm nervous. But I'm pumped and I'm gonna be there. And hopefully one or two of you can be as well or all of you would be preferred. But I understand a plane ticket, paying to get into the event. It's a lot to ask. But I would love to see some of you in person. It would be fantastic. Let's get through this. Friday, 4 p.m. hot takes. Saturday, 1 p.m. has the comic bubble burst. That's the topic, has the comic bubble burst. I feel like we can go a lot of ways with that. Hopefully we do. I'm excited for that conversation. And Sunday, we cap things off with the 1 p.m., the scary state of horror movies. As you know, I don't consider myself like a horror guy. I'm just on the panel as a, I maybe just a different perspective. A poor man's horror enthusiast, a common folk blue collar moviegoer that can maybe throw a couple of ideas this way and that. I don't know, it'll be funny the way. Tomorrow, I have two videos going on the channel. A polished version of what we're gonna be talking about today, which is the state of these theme parks, the nightmares, the pros, the cons, the whole kit and caboodle, that's going on tomorrow. I also have a second video on this whole Oscar nomination nonsense going on. I put together a top 10 list, because that's what YouTube likes, top 10s of the biggest surprises, the biggest shutters, the biggest, just whatever in general, whatever we can come up with for words. So things that I thought were a little interesting about the nominations for the March 10th Oscar, the Oshkosh awards, the Oscar awards. Thursday of this week, I have a video coming out on my channel goals for 2024. You gotta do it. You have to do it every year. You have to have an idea of what you wanna do, where you wanna go, and hopefully you can make it happen, happen. And on, what, Thursday? Friday, I have a movie review coming out, I imagine. I'm gonna go to a movie Thursday night. I don't know what it is. I don't think anything new came out. But I know anyone but you is really kind of popular, made over $100,000. It's an R-rated comedy, rom-com type of thing. It looks like shit. I'll go to that and review it. Seems like that's what people are into, so I might as well give people what they want. Last and absolutely not least. And it's kind of related to Megacon. A massive shout out to Jan Rose and her husband, Jonathan, I believe is his name. I'm terrible with names. I don't think he ever really comments on the live streams, Jan does. That's a husband and wife situation. They met me at the three broomsticks at Universal Studios. I put out feelers. I said, hey, if anybody's around, kind of last second, but I'm gonna be in the neighborhood, come meet me, we'll talk movies, or we'll just hang out for a bit. They jumped on that grenade and I did meet up with them and I said, hey, I need some food. Why don't we eat? So we grabbed dinner at the three broomsticks. I had some sort of a half a chicken deal with corn. It was good. I had some butter beer. We talked, we laughed, we hugged, we cried. We didn't cry, but it was a good time. And it was really awesome putting a face to the name. So shout out to Jan, shout out to Jonathan or celebrity name, Jonathan, if you must. I really hope that's his name and I didn't botch it. It's probably like Greg or something. But thank you guys for watching and for taking time to come meet with me. They are pass holders, so they didn't like have to buy a ticket to get into the park. They told me ahead of time, they go all the time, they can get in and out. Everybody knows them, not a big deal sort of thing. Otherwise I would have met them outside the park. All right, I think that's enough and we can get started. I should always start by appending the super chats are appreciated. I have racked up because of my irresponsibility as an adult and as a parent and as a man and as a father and a husband and a provider. I have racked up probably around six grand in debt because of this whole fiasco, this trip that I went to. So if we could offset at least 5% with super chats that would be great. Really showcase what a pathetically irresponsible person I am by paying me. That would be a useful tool for me to get better. It's good education right there. Okay, let's get into this. Let me get this off the screen. We can just get full screen here. I got Hogwarts in the background. Oh, where do we even begin? I was going to have, I was going to prepare like a bunch of notes and a whole set list of things I wanted to cover. I noticed I'm really, we can move this camera down a little bit. I don't need so much headspace. And now the camera is going to fall and it'll be a whole thing. But for right now, we're just going to mess with it. That's probably fine. I was going to prepare a set list. I was going to go through the food, the audience, the attractions, the lines, all that, but I feel like I'm better when I just kind of go off the cuff and riff about it. So I'm going to go off the cuff and riff about it. And if you have anything you want me to bring to the table, super chat, because I don't look at the regular comments. I'm too good for the regular comments. You guys talks amongst each other about how ugly my shirt is or whatever you want to say, that's fine. Universal Studios, E.T. And then we'll talk, we'll go from there. Okay, so my family and I went to Universal Studios at the beginning of last year, just over a year ago. We went to Universal. We had, I think, three days at the park, maybe just two. I think it was two days at the park and four days at Disney, or it was three and two. It doesn't matter, who fucking cares? I went to Disney with the family most of the time and then we went to Universal a few days. Disney was a disaster. We didn't really like it. We didn't hate it because we enjoy having fun. But Universal was amazing. It was like the greatest thing ever. We had never been before. Going to the Wizarding World was fantastic. What's going on? What? I love when you come down and just completely derail me. It's fantastic. Okay, my wife said it's four and three like it matters it all. We went to the Wizarding World and we were infatuated with its magic, its wonder, its splendor, the giant castle, the amazing rides. Didn't get on Hagras, which really killed me, but we also didn't want to wait in line for three hours. That's how long it was, three hours to go on that ride. We were also told that January is the time to go. It's cooler out in Florida. People are at school, they don't have time off. They took it off for Christmas, go in January. Things are a little calmer, things are a little cheaper, there's deals going on and that was a good tip. It was still busy but not unwieldy. It was not unmanageable. And so I was able to like kind of go through the park pretty freely, see everything that the Wizarding World had to offer, go on the Hogwarts Express from park to park, which is fantastic. And it was just an all around amazing time. Fast forward a year later, not quite so magical anymore. That said, we didn't have a bad time. I chalk it up as a win, but a win with a whole ton of caveats. A win that maybe is a loss all the same. We could have gone on a cruise, spent half as much money and come out on the other side just fine, if not better. I don't go into things with the chip on my shoulder, believe it or not. I'm typically a very positive individual, very happy individual. So I can make the best out of a bad situation. And what we walked into was a pretty bad situation. The park, as in Orlando Studios and Islands of Adventure, you get access to both of them. And they're hooked together by the train ride that takes just a few minutes. It's fantastic. As long as there's no line, if there's a line you wait, you get on the train, you go to the other park. You get access to those if you go through like some sort of a deal. So we had a deal where we stayed at, what was the name of this freaking resort? It was, doesn't matter. I'll figure it out, it'll come to me. It was like a retro theme park, there was a retro resort, a cabana bay. We stay at Cabana Bay, which is this retro old school, very, I think, old theme hotel. And it was not kept up very well at all. The room smelled, it was inconsistently hot and cold. And we found out by day three, it's because there was a giant hole in the bottom of the door where there's that little rubber flap that kind of secures things. So like insects and rats and whatever could literally walk right through if they wanted to. The gates where you use your little key entry card busted. Half of them weren't open when you use them. They were just old and not maintained. At one point, I freaking Jason Bourne ran up the side and jumped over the top so that I could open it for my wife and myself because there was a little area to kind of parkour around Jackie Chan that thing. Otherwise, we would have had to walk down like half a fucking mile just to you turn back to get to the laundry room because we did, we did some laundry. We were there long enough. We didn't want to pack too many clothes. And so yeah, even on vacation, I'm doing laundry. Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, kill me. The food at Cabana Bay sucked and it ran about 30 bucks a plate. You get a slice, you get a little personal pizza. That's gonna be about 25 bucks. You get a bacon cheeseburger with some fries and a drink. That's about 30 bucks. You walked away, a family of four, it's about 90 to $100 a meal. This was a massive leap from the previous year we went there. I'm talking like a 30% jump it felt like. When we went last year, the prices seemed kind of decent compared to South Carolina where we were living at the time where the prices here seem to have gone way up as well because there's so many people that moved into the state including us that we've ruined it and they can price hike everything. So yeah, the food situation was bad. And I will also say from like a dietary restriction needs, Universal was pretty terrible and Disney was fantastic. The one highlight I will give Disney over Universal is they treat you well if you have an allergy, if you have a dietary restriction to dairy or if you have a gluten allergy, there's typically a secondary menu they offer or they have a chef come out and they'll help you, they'll hook you up and they're very kind about it because they're paid to be kind about it and they do a good job pretending that they like you even though they probably despise you and that's fair and I respect that. Slept like shit, don't think I slept more than three hours a night and it certainly wasn't a consistent straight through three hours. I never hit that REM cycle, I never hit REM. Kids are tossed and interning. It's just an ugly situation at the park. By day three, I'm completely drained. Lindsay's completely drained and we just kind of powered through it. So we had four days at Universal. Now here's the real rub. Universal has this brilliant deal where they give you two free days. So you buy two days at the parks and you can go back and forth and you get two days free. But do you? But do you? They're wise enough to know that after two days you kind of did everything you needed to do. You went on all the cool rides, you went to some of the cool attractions and what do you have left to do with for the third and fourth day? Spend money, buy merch, go to the restaurants that you were thinking about going. It's a brilliant way to get you back in the gates to spend a lot of money and it worked. It worked like a charger. In 2024, it's gonna run you $9. Nine fucking dollars. So a family of three, because Lindsay doesn't drink it, that's 27 bucks right there. That's basically 30 smackaroos and I was hell bent on getting drunk on butter beer. So I was popping two, three, four a day on solo. That's 120 bucks at some points, just on me. Oh no, I'm sorry, not just on me. On me and the family, three, six, nine, 120. No, yeah, that's me and the two kids. So on just me, nine, 18, 20, that's 36 bucks a day, 40 bucks a day. You compound that over four days. That's 160 dollars just for me. I don't drink, so maybe that's not that big of a deal to a guy that goes and hits the bar on a Friday night and puts them back. That might be part of the course, but holy shit. Universal's making some good money off of the wizarding world. I'm not sure if I wanna jump back and forth between these two parks. I think I'll stay focused on Universal first and then we'll move to Disney. But let me jump into a super chat so I can drink some water while I read these off, make sure they're short for appropriate. Shot out of a cannon, hack the movies. Hack the movies, AKA Tony. I went to Harry Potter Town twice last year. I like Harry Potter Town, that's good. Still mad they got rid of Dueling Dragons. I don't know what that is. I don't know what Dueling Dragons is, but I'm sorry for your loss. The only rides I'm familiar with is Hagrid's Motorcycle Fantastic Fest, the school tour where you go through Hogwarts, hanging there and there's like awesome video and that's my favorite ride, one of my favorite rides. And Buck Beak's dipshit roller coaster tycoon adventure for babies. Buck Beak's ride should be burned to the ground. Buck Beak sucks. I don't wanna see his stupid roller coaster. Buck Beak doesn't suck, that's not fair, but his roller coaster does. Perm from the top rope for $10. Thank you, Perm, because support. Glad you survived the screaming Disney babies. Yes, if you don't know, I have a video already on Walt Disney World and the out of control baby slash stroller slash Karen mom situation going on over there. Check out that video, it's a good rant. I haven't ranted in a while, that felt good. Alex Douthright for $5, thank you, Alex. Stayed at Cabana Bay with my dad last year. The food was horrible. The bowling alley was cool though. Thank you, Alex, yeah, the food is atrocious. The bowling alley did look cool, but you have to pay for it. It's not a perk, it's a price tag. Everything costs money, everything costs money baby, including the bowling alley. They do have a, now Cabana Bay does have two pools that they pride themselves on. Only one of them was open. The other one was under construction and that's kind of a theme that's gonna run through Universal and Disney as we push through this. Let's get down to business. Hogwarts slash the magical wizarding world of Harry Potter. The highlight of last year was the low light of 2024. The park was manageable, 30% increase as soon as you walk through Diagon Alley. As soon as you pass Hogsmeade, you're dead on arrival. The population bursts, it's insane. There is nowhere to walk. You get maybe an hour or two at Park Open to make it manageable, but after that it's game over and the alleyways are kind of small. The shops are even smaller. There's nowhere to move around and everything is so overpriced and you just basically all you can do is shop. That's it, that's all you do is shop and go on rides. So let's get to the rides. Actually, let me back up, beep, beep, beep. The park is great. I wanna say that first and foremost, it's not Universal's fault that so many people are going to the park, all right? Let's put that out there. And I will say the stroller baby situation at Walt Disney World not near is an issue at Universal, not even remotely in the same league as Walt Disney when it comes to the stroller baby situation. Universal Studios has a ton to offer. I like that park better than Islands of Adventure, even though Islands of Adventure arguably has better rides. If we break down these parks, which I will do now in their entirety, you have Islands of Adventure, which has the garbage doctor's zoo section, which should be lit on fire. It takes up a very large portion of this theme park. I don't know who it's for. Do children know Dr. Seuss anymore? Does it need an entire dedicated section? Maybe just a ride, maybe just a call out, a small little island for Dr. Seuss, but not an entire giant area and no disrespect to Seuss, a legend in his own making, a visionary, right? But theme park, I don't think so, Tim. I don't think so. Being a Minnesota boy myself and being a MOA family member, a proud MOA goer, we used to have peanuts, not to be confused with penis. Peanuts, Charlie Brown, Snoopy. This was the big thing at Malv America in the theme park. It was all themed after Charlie Brown. There was Snoopy rides and the parks and all that. And eventually Malv America's like, you know what? I don't think the kids are hip Charlie Brown anymore. So we're gonna go ahead and watch this out. We're gonna put this parks staple thing in place for a little bit, a placeholder. And then boom, it turns into Nickelodeon universe. I'm young. So Nickelodeon universe has been at Malv America now for, I don't know, 15 years. I'm not sure how long it's been. It's been a long time, maybe longer than that even. But it was Charlie Brown first. So when I look at the theme park on Islands of Adventure, I just kind of scratch my head because you have this huge Dr. Seuss area. And then you have a massive comic book area, this old school comic book area with like Archie and Betty Boop and Rocky and Bullwinkle and all these fucking characters that nobody under the age of like 35 knows. And they take up huge areas and it's cool. It looks great. But I just feel like it's outdated as hell. And believe me, when we get to Disney, when we get to Magic Kingdom, that's gonna be no walk in the park, okay? And even the other comic book section that's got Wolverine and the Hulk and everything, that also has a dated feel to it as well. And I understand it takes millions upon millions, if not billions of dollars to modify and update all this stuff. It's not an easy task. And they can't close down the parks for this. But a big chunk of it feels a little outdated on Islands of Adventure. And there's just not much to do over there that's that captivating. You go into that Archie style retro comic book area, you have a Popeye ride, which is a water ride and pretty lame. And you have this like downhill kaboom, kablooey. That might be Rocky and Bullwinkle. I think that is, even if it's not, oh, it's Dudley Dewwright. This Dudley Dewwright, remember Dudley fucking Dewwright? That's a water ride. My kids love that ride. It is fun. I enjoy it. I think it's good. Could maybe be updated and modified for the future. But regardless, those are really the only rides over there in that big ass area. We then move our way to a more modern section, which is Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's a massive property. We got Jurassic World, it keeps going. This area is pretty sweet. It contains one of the shittiest rides at Universal and not shitty on its face. The Kong ride, the King Kong ride is this virtual tapestry where you go in a bus, you put on 3D glasses, and you look around at all the, whatever, all the fucking CG visuals. Kong's fighting the T-Rex's or the V-Rex's, whatever they're called in that movie. What's more funny, there's some branding stuff that I appreciate from both Disney and on Universal. On the Universal side, this ride is Peter Jackson's King Kong, but they market it as the newer monster versus Kong. It's Kong Skull Island, there's something like that, is what the ride is. But it's very much Peter Jackson's King Kong inside the actual ride. So they modified the outside, but not the actual ride itself. Regardless, it breaks all the time. In fact, the four days we were there, it was never running for more than 35 minutes. I swear to you, this shitty thing was broken so much, it was impossible to get on. And I didn't really care to go on it anyways. I went on it last time a couple of times. So it was no luck. I think it's the only ride my family did not get on in the four days we were at the park because it just didn't work ever. It's embarrassing that your ride is broken that much. Outside of that ride, there's some dumb ass meet the raptors thing. I don't even know what it is. So maybe just ignore me here, but I'm pretty sure it's like an animatronic or puppet meet and greet with dinosaurs, clearly aimed at kids. And then there's another pretty decent section that's also for children, which is just a big playground that they can climb the trees and go on the Pterodon ride. I don't really know what's happening there. It just seems like a complete waste of space. And I say this as someone that firmly believes that children under the age of five or at least children that aren't able to walk on their own and hold their emotions in check for the most part should not be going to theme parks. So stop catering to them. Of course, to them it's just good business to do it because that brings the parents in and the grandparents and it's just smart marketing, but from a park going standpoint, it's miserable for everyone else. Again, we'll get there with Disney. Jesus, if I can make it that long, I'm gonna talk myself to death. I have a mega con to prepare for. The big attraction, there's two actually, but one of them I have yet to go on because I go in January and it's down in January. It doesn't go back up until late February, early March is what I'm told from the workers when I asked. There's a Jurassic Park water ride from the old school movie and I'm super bummed I've never been able to go on that one. I'm sure it's great. The other one though, that's freaking awesome is the Raptor ride, the Raptor, I don't remember what it's called, the Raptor coaster thing. It doesn't matter the names. Basically it's a fast freaking roller coaster ride and in the line, you get to see Chris Pratt's Owen talking to you digitally on a video. You get Claire in the mix. You get the scientist woo. This is the biggest compliment I will give Universal and it is a massive one. They know how to make rides, that break, but they also know how to just make great experiences. They get the actors, they get the characters, they set the stage. When you're waiting in line in a Universal line, you are actually part of something. When I'm in most of the lines at Disney, I'm standing there sweating with a bunch of other cows waiting an hour to go on a crappy ride that's 90 years old with Universal, I'm already in it. I'm standing there being talked to by a character from the movie or I'm watching the Hulk. I'm watching a Bruce Banner type individual go up onto this machine and turn into the green giant. There's just stuff to look at and do when you're in line. It's so much better. Now it is still a line, don't get me wrong, but I find it is far more valuable from a production standpoint and from my time. I don't have a problem being off my phone and just kind of looking around and waiting. Now a lot of people do go on their phones and that's fine, but I think that they do a good job with the waiting game. And then once you're on the ride, it continues. So usually they set a story up. There's a storyline going into the ride and even the worst ride in Universal, not counting Kong for being broken, but just an all-around terrible ride fast in the furious supercharged has such an incredible presentation for such a pile of shit. It really is a great reflection on the movies themselves. You go to this piece of crap, you walk through a chop shop, you get into the center area and there's an actress there playing a mechanic who knows Dom and all the other Toretto's and everybody else. And she has this back and forth banter with some of the actors on screen. So of course it's rehearsed. She pauses at the right spots and talks and she's probably done this thing 9 million times and hates herself for it, I would. Regardless, she's put it in the work. You then go to another waiting room that features another actor who's talking to Dwayne Johnson. And then finally you get on the ride. It's a bus. I can't get over it. All right, what is fast in the furious known for? Muscle cars, hot women, explosions. What should we do for the ride? Let's put them on a bus. How stupid could you possibly get? Why are we not driving a super fast car? Probably because they already have that with the Transformers ride, which is freaking awesome. And also a spectacle. You got Optimus Prime in the mix, Peter Cullen's talking to you. You got some arbitrary generals setting up this situation. You're going with Bumblebee and Megatron's there and Starscream and I'm a nerd, but I loved it. These rides are so much better pound for pound than what Disney offers now. There's a Minion section on the Universal Studios side. It's big and it makes sense. It's marketing to new generations and people that are like 20 and my age even. I like the Minions, I like Despicable Me. Branch that shit out. They have a new ride that's top five worst for sure. It's terrible. You have a toy gun and you shoot at characters on a screen. It's basically a video game and you're on a conveyor belt, so you're sitting here. Oh yay, this is freaking awesome. How fun. I'm aiming over there. My cursor's pointing the other direction. There's no feedback on the weapon. Kind of like the Men in Black ride, which some people for some reason like. I think that rides fucking trash. No feedback at all when you hit something. You don't know what you're shooting at. You don't know what's going on. What else do we have to offer on islands before I move on though? So we got Dr. Seuss. We got some comic book stuff. We got Jurassic Park. We have the Olympus section, which is basically dead on a ride. It's kind of dead now. There used to be a feature there that I went to last year before they closed it down. This was what we did last January. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible. It was kind of cutesy. There's an actor who you're trying to get away with. You're like down in Atlantis, I think, and you're going from treasure room to treasure room. And it's kind of an Indiana Jones-esque run from the Boulder situation. It's charming in its own right, but now it's gone. So you have this big area with one of the easily the best restaurants in Universal. I forget the name. I just call it Olympus. That's not what it is at all. I love it. We eat there every time, but I don't know what they're going to do with this section now because there's no ride and it just kind of exists for the restaurant and for this really fantastic background setting. Because you have the giant God titans and it looks fantastic. We got a Super Shab before I go any further. $2 from King Cold looking sharp at him. It's the ET. Thank you, King. It's the ET. I had to, you know, it was a little brisk when we went. It was rained a little bit off and on. So I had to get a sweatshirt, which I just don't usually have to wear in the South ever. And so I thought, what do I got to do to get a decent sweatshirt here? And I found ET and he reached out to me and he was like, Adam, Adam, by the way, the ET ride, we'll get to it. Okay, we got to finish Islands of Adventure. So Islands of Adventure, the last area outside of kind of a forced Arabian section that's weirdly out of place, I think leads into Hogwarts. So you have the giant castle, which is freaking amazing. It looks awesome. You got a butterbeer station. You got three broomsticks and you got the rides, the three rides I mentioned before, two of which are phenomenal highlights of the park. My go-to rides at Islands of Adventure. We got Hagrid's ride, if the line is 45 minutes or less. Velocicoster, I remember the name now came to me. The Hogwarts, whatever school, quidditch adventure. I love it. I eat it up. Hulk. The Hulk roller coaster is awesome. It does kind of shoot its load in the first half. The intro is amazing. If the music's working, which it did 20% of the time I went on it, epic music blasting in your ears and you're off to the races, it's a great ride. So I think those four or five really solidify how fantastic that experience is. And I'm sure if I had that Jurassic Park water ride, I'd throw that in the mix too, but unfortunately I've never had that luxury. Off on the Orlando studio side, which I prefer because I like the overall themes better and as a movie guy, it gives me more variety. You have the Hogwarts stuff still. You got Gringotts Bank and that has the escape from Gringotts really great ride. I love that thing. It's on par with the Hogwarts one. It's more updated. It's got better visuals. You got Bellatrix Lestrange in the mix. You got Voldemort himself. He who shall not be named. You got Ben. I believe it's Ben Weasley. Kind of getting his time to shine. I think he has more time in this ride than he does in the entirety of the film franchise. He's in the mix. I met my buddy and his family there. One of the days it was just this awesome coincidence that they happen to schedule a vacation the same weekend we were gonna be there. And we had talked about it previously. So it was a really fun surprise when I found out he was going like a month out. And so we met at the park one of the days and the ongoing joke we had because rides broke down so fucking much was that Rupert Gringotts or whatever his name is Ron Weasley actor is working at the park. And so he keeps going on the speaker. He's like, Hey guys, listen, it's Rupertts. We got a bit of a mess back here but hang tight. I'm working on it. I'm in the mix where we're getting things going. So it just kept going on. Every time we went somewhere where there was a long line like Rupert's working behind the food counter serving food and I don't know, we thought it was funny. Hey, it's Rupert, Ron Weasley. He may know me as yeah, I'm here. I'm at the parks. I'm doing it. Orlando side of things has Gringotts. I think that's the only ride in that Harry Potter section. It feels maybe a teensy bit bigger because it's got the whole back alleys and it's got some different shops. It's definitely more touristy on it. But then that leads into you have the outskirts which have men in black and then there's the Simpsons which is fantastic. I love that whole area. Even though there's only really two rides one of them's a lame little kitty alien thing. And the other is the 3D Simpsons. I'm sorry, it's not 3D. You don't need glasses for it. I don't think. No, you don't need glasses but it's one of those kind of mine ride type of things. We're just sitting in a car with everyone else and you kind of get jerked around a bunch. I'm not huge on it being that ugly 3D Simpsons model like the hidden run and all those old video games. I wish they would have found a way to do the 2D style animation. Like you're seeing in films now like Spider-Man and Ninja Turtles. Perhaps they can upgrade it at some point. I think it's due for an upgrade because it definitely feels weird as you're going through the lines looking at all the clips of the classic show and even the custom created 2D animation for the ride itself to then jump into the ride and have it be that ugly 3D look. Regardless, it's still a pretty fun ride. Delorean is sadly the only representation of back to the future that I saw. It's just a sad Delorean car sitting by itself. Unless you count a terrible Doc Brown impersonator who's walking around, he was really bad. It's nice to see Doc, but not like that. Not like this, not like this. And I think it's the same actor that's on standby for Shaggy at the park because you'll see the mystery incorporated gang. He's a better Shaggy than he is at Doc if it's the same guy and I think it is. Moving on from the Simpsons area, what do we have? Oh, okay, so you have the Minion stuff and then you have, this is another weird one. My kid's favorite ride is this rock and roller coaster, gripping and rip it or something that's called. Last year, there was an awesome selection of songs with some deeper cuts. I'm Blast and Paralyzer by Finger 11 while going on an awesome roller coaster. I'm having the time of my life. I throw on a little no doubt at some point. I throw on, I mean, there was a lot of awesome songs. This year, there were four. Something by Abba, which not really pumped, I like Abba, but not really pumping me up for a roller coaster ride. Freakin' black parade, which takes a full minute or so to even get going. So the roller coaster's done before the song even kicks in and Humble by Kendrick Lamar. What is happening? What is going on? This ride prides itself on having all this music and it had three or four tracks. Still love that ride. I think my kids went on it 10 times in the four days we were there. You move on from that and here's the weird one. Jimmy Fallon. There's a Tonight Show ride and Jimmy Fallon's all over this thing. Merchandise with him. He's fully ensconced in this ride. He jumps in a car and this ride's way better than it has any right to be. It's very polished. It's very quick. It's another stadium seating kind of one where you're just getting moved around and it feels like you're going places, like up to the moon. I do have issues with it though. I feel like if you're gonna do a Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, maybe have some other celebrities thrown in for fun? Because the whole point of the Tonight Show is that he has big guests like Taylor Swift and he's got Ben Stiller and he's got Jim Carrey and he's got Zendaya and whatever. He's got everybody. So it was weird to go on the ride and it's really just, it's just Jimmy Fallon and the roots on occasion. And it also kind of is weird to go all in like that on an actor, especially in this whole post-Me Too movement where you can get canceled for anything to just fully brand themselves. Jimmy Fallon ride is pretty bold, little odd and I prefer Conan O'Brien. So it would have been nice to get a Conan O'Brien ride or it would have been cool to have a, kind of a throwback to all the hosts and not just Jimmy Fallon. And what happens when he's gone? Do they rebrand the whole thing with the new host? A lot of questions, a lot of questions, but still a decent time, still a decent ride. The mummy is the last, I think that's the last big ride that I can think of. I didn't mention the shitty doom tower drop on the other end of the park. That's the lamest crap. The mummy is awesome. I didn't remember it being that great last year, but I went on it like three times in a row because there wasn't much of a line. It's mostly in the dark, you're down inside of a pyramid, there's torches, there's heat, it's dropping you backwards, it's crazy town. It's an awesome ride, great experience. So the overall thoughts on Universal, I'm sure I missed some stuff, but I'm talking fast and loose and we haven't gotten to Disney yet even. I really liked the parks. Four days was too much. I think three days or two would have been far better. By day four, we were so checked out that I was just kind of vlogging everything for the video tomorrow that's gonna be on the channel that I highly recommend you watch because it's a good, it's a very fun video. I did enjoy that day probably the most outside of the one where my buddy and his kids were with because it felt a lot more chill. So I'm taking this whole thing from the standpoint of I'm a dad with kids and a wife. If I lived in Florida, I mean, one of the reasons we moved to South Carolina is because we're close to Disney. It's a five and a half hour drive and we don't have to pay for plane tickets and stuff and we like go into these parks or we did kind of. If I was a resident in Florida, an annual pass seems like a no-brainer. It doesn't look like it's that much money for Universal. Disney seems like it has 18 different tiers and it's very convoluted, but Universal, if it was just me going and maybe a wife or a girlfriend or whatever, shit, that just seems like a fun time. Like you just fuck off after work and walk around the park for a couple hours, maybe grab a butter beer and that's it. Hell, I would, it would be a dream of mine because I love working out of the house. My day job is a developer and designer for a web firm. I'd love to take my computer. A big thing I liked doing was going to like the Mall of America and working, but I lived a long ways away. So I didn't do it often. It was very rare actually. But if I lived by the park and I had an annual pass, I'd go there and I'd find a spot and I would just work for the day and just take in the sights and the sounds. And to me, that's fun. I don't know, I'm weird like that. I like to be around people but not necessarily interact with anyone. It's like the illusion of being part of society without actually contributing anything to it. Yeah, Universal overall, I like it still. I think it's definitely someplace people should go. I do fear and it's so hard to know because we had done it last year and everything was fresh and new and we had those rose color glasses on. Everything was magical and great. And this time around, it was just all been there, done that. They hadn't really changed anything about the park. It's all kind of the same. Even the attractions haven't changed. They still have the drummer guys on the construction site. The Born Identity thing was the only thing I didn't really get to last year besides Hagrid's ride. And that blew me away. If you haven't done the Born Identity, Indiana Jones type thing where it's inside and it's a big theater and there's actors and digital stuff going on, that was so impressive. I was blown away by that 10, 15 minute presentation. I don't know how long it was, but it was really good. Really good. So overall hasn't completely dropped the ball or lost me. They just, they're not really doing anything new in the parks per se, but I know they have a massive new theme park, Epic Universe coming in 2025. And so that kind of tells me, you know what? I'm gonna hang off and maybe I'll go back to these parks, 2028, maybe 2027, give them a couple of years to get the kinks out and get all that massive rush of people out of the parks. It's always gonna be busy. That's just how it is now. And it sucks from the Hogwarts side of things because it's so busy. And I went at the latest time of the year. I just fear that people aren't gonna get that awesome experience I had anymore, but I got it, I guess, so fuck you. All right, we got Jan Rose, perfect timing, out of a cannon, $5. Universal Islands of then, short for adventure, is my fave, short for favorite, Forbidden Journey, my favorite ride. Was Forbidden Journey the one that they got rid of, Jan? I imagine it was. You don't need to super chat again. I'm just gonna assume I'm right. Love Universal. Even with the food, customer service, ride problems, it's fun. Jan brings up a good point. I think the customer service at Universal, it wasn't terrible, but the people, not near as chipper as they are at Disney. There really is something to be said about the way they freaking assault their customer service, the way they tell their employees, you have to put a smile on, customers write, they're paying a ton of money, make it magical if you can, damn it. I'm impressed by Disney staff. They're very good. Universal wasn't terrible, but they did definitely feel a little bit more schlubby, a little bit more like, oh, when's this day gonna be over? All right, let's move on to Disney. Let me take a drink quick. Super chat anything in about Universal, if you want, I'll read it off while I take a little break. I wish I had a little Kramer, Merv Griffin set thing where it could go, dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee. And we'll be right back, sort of a thing. So my wife texted me while I'm drinking water. Don't forget my nightmare on Gringotts ride broke down right before they shoved us off. Oh my God, my Lindsay's so traumatized by this stupid thing. Okay, yes. I mentioned the rides broke down a lot. A lot, ridiculous amount, honestly. And Lindsay, who's my wife, who's scared of rides, I give her props. She goes on more than she can probably handle to her benefit, but she goes on Gringotts, her favorite ride at Harry Potter Planet, and it breaks down the one time I'm not with her, because our friends were with, she went with some of them. And the ride broke down while she was on the rails part where the troll is supposed to throw you to the other track. It's just not moving. And I think it was out for a few minutes, if even, but every second is like an eternity. The ride's gonna break, it's gonna fall over, whatever. So I felt bad for her, of course. And it's too bad that it had to happen, but we would experience several malfunctions at both Universal and Disney in our six-day stint. So it was not uncommon at all to have a ride, stop while you were in the middle of going on it. It happened several times at Disney as well. Okay, let's get there. Last year, we went to three of the four Disney parks. Or did we go to all of them? Shit, we went to all of them. Last year, we went to all the Disney parks. No, I'm digging that back. We've been to Disney two previous times. So this will be our third time going as a family. And I've been there like five times, because I went there twice. One says like an eight-year-old and again as a teenager with my family. And then we took our kids to Disney and we went to all four parks. We went to Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. It was universally agreed upon that Hollywood Studios sucks ass. It's got all the Star Wars stuff. It has the Toy Story crap. It has some random attractions like the Fantastic Tower Drop and the Aerosmith ride. It had my favorite ride on the planet there and they killed it, which was the great movie ride. I think it was called, I forgot the name. It's been a long time, forgive me. But basically it was a slow moving ride where you went through a bunch of popular franchises like Alien, Singing in the Rain. Like just random stuff would show up with real actors and it was really well done. And I think now it's a Mickey and Minnie roller coaster thing. I don't know if it's any good. Probably will be pretty cute. We opted not to go there because the park is so freaking small. And since it has Star Wars for some reason at this park, the smallest park with the most popular franchises, Toy Story and Star Wars, everyone goes there. And we opted not to go there because when we went, it was the hottest crap. You couldn't move. The bathroom lines were around the freaking building because there's not enough of them. It just was so awful. And then my buddy went with his family a year later and he had nothing but horror stories. They waited for hours to go on some Buzz Lightyear ride only to have it die before they got on. So they lost out on two hours and had nothing to show for it. This happened on several attractions. They would get in the line for a long time only to be dismissed without getting anything back for it. No refund, no fucking gift card to get some food. You're just shit out of luck. So imagine dropping thousands of dollars on plane tickets because people come from different countries. They're all over the globe to go to Disney World. You spend all that money only to get rained on or sit in the hot 100 degree weather in a line for hours only to have rides broken all the time. Again, if you are a resident in Florida, it seems like a no-brainer to have a pass to the parks. And I think most people do at this point, but fuck, for anyone else, it is a nightmare waiting to happen. I have to be incredibly lucky when it comes to theme parks because the fact that I've managed to go now four or five times to these places and not have terrible scenarios, at least one of them, that's kind of a miracle. Because when I talk to other people, they have some of the worst stories ever. We did have one little issue that came up, but I mean, it wasn't enough to destroy the entire thing. But let me get into the parks we went to. Animal Kingdom, not great to me. It's really, it smells, because you got the animals. It's very, for some reason, humid and sticky at that park. I don't know if it's because it's so open or whatever it is. A lot of people, it's not a very big park and the attractions are very minuscule. You have a dinosaur ride from the movie Dinosaur. Remember that? That's kind of cool, I guess, but it's kind of tucked away in a corner with a bunch of kitty shit. And then you have the Pandora stuff. Pandora looks fantastic. There's two rides at Pandora. Really, there's one because the other, because the slow-moving Navi River Raft ride is so dumb, so completely pointless. I don't know what the hell they were thinking making it. You're on a boat raft thingy and you just slowly move and they have the music like the, and it's just the blue people, the Navi running through the woods and once in a while stopping and winking at you and that's it. That's the whole ride. What a dumb thing. The flight of the Navi or whatever that one's called though, that is one of the greatest rides I think ever created. You're on these cool bikes that are supposed to be one of the dragons that you assimilate with and you are flying over water crests. There's creatures jumping all over. It's this beautiful 4D style interactive speed chase and it's so good. And you are going to wait and wait and wait for it. But don't worry, Disney has you covered. Let's get into this part. Let's get into the real majesty of Disney in 2024. Couple of years back to maybe just a year ago because I feel like I didn't use this. I did use this last time. Within the last couple of years they got rid of their whole lightning past system or whatever it used to be called. I can't remember what it used to be called. What they have now is this genie service. It is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen in my life ever. I'm not being hyperbolic. This thing is trash. What it does is you fire up the app and Disney plans out your day. Oh, you're at Epcot? Let's magically make your day and all your wishes come true. So the genie app fires up, you pick the things you're interested in and then it looks at all of them and it says, fuck you, fuck you. Not gonna happen. Go kill yourself. Throw those out the window. And it's like, you chose this. Enjoy, I did not choose that. What are you talking about? And it'll say, go on this at nine o'clock and then at 1130, go here. And then at one, go here. And every time it puts one of these on there it gives you a little bit of an indicator of how much time you're gonna take. And it's always average or heavy. Average for Disney is 75 minutes. That's average. Heavy is an hour and a half plus. I think I saw a low on that magic list maybe in the first hour of Park Open and that was it. Then there's the lightning lane sort of thing that you get but not really cause it's bullshit. They give you the opportunity to lock in a fast pass experience. So when it opens at seven, it'll show you what's available to lock in and spoiler alert, it's always some dirt crap ride that's at one or two in the afternoon. If you lock in at one or two in the afternoon you are locked into that ride at that time. And so if something else opens up you can't go to it because you'll lose that spot. But if you don't choose to use that spot you're not gonna get any anyways because after about 20 minutes they're all gone and you don't get a lightning lane at all. So it's just a stupid pointless service because the parks are so overpopulated with people there's nothing they can do. This was also brought to my attention before I completely miss out on it. Kids three and under get into the parks for free and eat free. Are you out of your fucking mind Disney? Why do you hate your guests? This is why every mother and father bring their 14 children with and they're RV style fucking strollers. It's absolutely insane. And to that point, I always go to grocery stores and other places and see the first few rows of every lane filled with handicap spots. There'll be like 20 handicap spots. And I always think to myself, these are never used. There's like three of them used at the most. Why do you need so many handicap spots? Disney has answered that question for me because one out of every 20 people at the Disney World Parks is in a rascal. Is in a small, all-terrain vehicle cruising around the park. It's so insane. And they're so privileged. If you're in their way, it's just... If you could kindly unwedge my wheel, I'll be on my way. It's so insane. And I have to believe that 50% of them, maybe more don't need the rascal, but they choose to purchase the rental so that they can cruise around and run people over and just sit there and be useless. I have no words for what a shit show Disney has become. And I don't think it's really ever been that magical past the 90s. I remember taking my kids when they were younger, Olivia, I think her first time going was nine and Connor was six, which I think is the appropriate age. Six I think is about as young as you could get. Unless your kid's a little less garbage than Connor that you could probably get away with a four year old but anything less in good luck, you're playing Russian roulette with your life. And you're ruining other people's experiences because your kid probably is being a garbage child and ruining it. They gotta be able to walk on their own and not take up so much damn room because these parks are so overrun now with strollers and rascals. There's just no getting around anything. And so the lines get even more long because you're waiting for people to move slowly through them. It's asinine. The last type of lines situation we have to get to is the virtual queue. This is a newer thing. This is just such a special, special time in the world that we live in. Let me jump into the super chat really quick before I get into the virtual queue. The blind mask for $5 says, I was able to knock off everything I wanted to do in both parks back in September of 2021. I'd say it's overall a better time than Disney. So blind mask is on universal. Yes, blind mask is absolutely correct. If you are thinking about going to the parks, hands down universal is so much better for your money and it is cheaper and it is just overall a much more pleasant experience. You can get on the rides. I think the average wait time for the lines, keep in mind this wasn't the weekend, the weekend I'm sure is far worse, but I never waited more than 45 minutes for anything. This was of course, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And even on Thursday, it was a lot, it was busier for sure, but it was still manageable on Thursday, even though most of the rides didn't work at that point, which was remarkable. There were some rides that just never even opened on that day, they were just gone. Okay, virtual queue. If you didn't like waiting in lines before, Disney has you covered. Now you can wait in virtual lines to get into real lines. Let's jump into Epcot. Epcot, I talked about Animal Kingdom, I talked about the garbage that is Hollywood Studios. We went to Epcot because we love Epcot. It's massive, it's a huge park, little tough to navigate because there's a giant pond in the middle. So you have to ring around the Rosie to get to some of the stuff, or you could take a ferry. I've never taken the ferry, that might be convenient. It seems like it's not. Almost would be nice if they had a bridge that went across this whole thing, but I lament. It's a great park, and you can get some good steps in. And if you're a Pokemon hunter, that probably works well to your advantage. You can hatch some eggs, you can incubate, you can find stuff, it's a good time. We went there with a few things in mind. We didn't give a shit to go on the frozen ride. We've been on that a couple of times. It's for babies, it's fine to do once. It always has a stupidly long ride, wait time. I wanted to get on Ratatouille. It's a newer ride, and I wanted to get on Guardians of the Galaxy. Those are the big attractions there. Ratatouille did not have a virtual queue, and we were able to get in there pretty early on when the park opened. Ratatouille's fantastic. Easily one of my favorite rides that Disney has to offer now. Ratatouille takes a page out of Universal, and it combines physical properties with virtual properties. So you get in the cart, and you go on this little Remy adventure with the mouse as he's cooking Chef Remy. And you're small, you know, because you're at his level. And so they have physical objects of food and of counters that you're actually going under. And at one point they have these giant wheels spinning because you're under one of those tables. The thing was so good. And it's not a fast, exciting ride by any means, but it's spraying some water at you when he's splashing something out of a dish. The furnace goes and there's real fire. They just, they did such a great job with this. And it really did remind me of Universal rides. So I thought, okay, Disney's learning, they're adapting. And the same can be said for Guardians of the Galaxy when I eventually got on it at like five o'clock. It might've been later than that even. How the virtual queue works is you have to get in it at 7 a.m. or I think there's a second one at 1 p.m. for this ride, for Guardians of the Galaxy. At 7 p.m. I hit the sign up for the virtual queue and was rejected. That's how many people were already in the virtual queue for Epcot at 7 in the morning. When you could first do it, it was done before it was even 7 o' one, before it was even 7, 10, like seven o'clock and like 10 seconds. It was closer than 10 seconds. At 1 p.m. I was able to successfully get into the queue with my three kids, with my two kids. Lindsay was not gonna do this one. So after you're in the virtual queue, it gives you a group number. We were group 110 or something. And so from there, you have to just keep an eye on the app while you're doing other things. And you can kind of chart how far along it is. And eventually your group will get picked and you have a one hour window to get into the line. A real line. So a digital line to a physical line. How fun. The physical line took an additional one and a half hours. It doesn't tell you that though. You have no idea how long it takes. And when you get up to the ride, there's no counter up there. Like this is gonna be 90 minutes. There's nothing. You go in, you go in dark. And so we went in there with no knowledge. And it just, it went on forever. We're like, when is this fucking ride gonna come up? This was miserable. And so by the time I got to the ride, yeah, of course I was a little underwhelmed. It is a great ride. It's very polished. It's very slick. I liked that the actors are involved. It had a universal feel to it, but not an hour and a half. I mean, give me a, this is ridiculous. Nothing should take a two minute ride should not require an hour and a half wait in line. That's so stupid. This virtual queue thing is garbage. The genie service is trash. The parks are overrun with people and babies and strollers. The prices are out of control. That's the final feather in the cap for Epcot and Disney Magic Kingdom. We're hungry. My wife can't eat dairy. I have celiacs disease. I can't have gluten. My children most likely have one or two of these allergies. We're keeping them away from gluten. It's their choice whether they wanna have it or not. But they're opting to listen and avoid it if possible. Connor less so than Olivia. Olivia's like very strict with it. Connor's like, I'll don't it. I'll have a pizza. I'll have this, I'll have that. Everything's fine. But he'll play ball if we want him to. Anyway, there is a place inside of like the fly over California. There's a few different attractions inside this building at Epcot. And there's a restaurant in the back. I don't remember the name of it. It's like garden something. It's a buffet style restaurant where you sit down and you get a meet and greet with Chippendale and Mickey and different characters to kind of like wandering around this little rotating slow moving restaurant. And you get this awesome breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins, waffles. And it's all gluten free and dairy free by the chef which was freaking great. What wasn't so great was the $250 that it cost me when all was said and done. $250 for a buffet breakfast. That was the second most expensive meal of my trip. So remarkable. We liked it. It was good food. It was the best food we had the entire time. It was just fun seeing the characters. $250 fun? No, no, it wasn't that. But there's a much better price tag coming up. Overall, Epcot was still a big win. It was great seeing my friends again. They joined us for that one. Oh God, I gotta talk about one more ride. Oh my God, this ride was so fucking bad. Okay. We gotta talk about the rides at Epcot. They're out of control, terrible. It's so embarrassing that Disney puts these as rides even. There's a Beauty and the Beast sing along in France, appropriately so. When you see Beauty and the Beast sing along on the outside of an auditorium, I imagine what jumps to mind is, maybe it's a theatrical performance by some live actors. If not that, maybe it's a custom made theatrical experience that's maybe 15 minutes long. If it's not that, maybe it's something completely unique and different that I haven't thought of, that they would put at a theme park. It's none of those. What it is, is a horribly animated and voiced Lafou, the dumb character that Gaston's friends with, giving you his side of the story of the original Beauty and the Beast movie. These are done with what I imagine are Adobe After Effects animations, where he's just kind of like barely moving and it looks very crude. The background's completely boring and generic. And he's just kind of cropped into these random little moments from the movie. And it'll be like, oh, I'm over here doing this now. And then it'll, it will jump cut to one of the songs. And then sweet and almost kind. And he was singing, and then and then and then. And they will play a chunk of it. They won't even give you the entire song. They will give you just a small little glimpse of it with the words underneath. Then it's back to Lafou, or La-bo, Shy La-bo, whatever the hell that character's name is, Lafou. And the fool is what it means. And then we're off to another song for a little bit of time. This was such a piece of shit. And I remembered it from last time, so we didn't go this time. Two more experiences that are so laughably bad. I can't believe they take up space at this part. Illumination is represented with a three video magical experience in 3D. So what you get are three Pixar shorts that you get to sit down and watch. Oh, cool. Three Pixar shorts in 3D with some like super smell and magical stuff going on. Now, there are three Pixar shorts that you can watch on Disney Plus now that you've already seen probably in 3D if you went to them in theaters. One of them is that awesome Mickey Mouse 2D, 3D hybrid where he's blowing through the screen and stuff's flying around, the steamboat willy thing. Another one is Piper, which is that hyper realistic bird that runs on the beach. And then the third one, I don't even fucking remember who cares. I've seen them all. So we're sitting here watching something that's free on Disney Plus. If you're paying for that stupid service, what the hell? They couldn't come up with some custom videos unique to Epcot? I honestly thought, and I know this is crazy, that it was gonna be a behind the scenes thing at Pixar. I thought we were gonna go on a 15 minute tour of Pixar and they were gonna show us how they make this stuff. And then the campus and meet some of the creators and then maybe we get a short after that or maybe they introduce one. I just couldn't believe how lazy this was. And that brings me to the final feather in this crap, which is, oh my God, what is his name? My boy Figment. Figment is the mascot of Epcot. He's this annoying purple dragon who is very imaginative. A figment of your imagination, if you will. He has a ride there. I didn't realize that there was a ride there last time, so we jumped on it. It was a very short line, which means it's gonna be good, of course. On a Friday, when you have a wait time of five minutes and everything else is already averaging out in an hour, you know you're in for a really good time. So we go into the line and the first thing I notice is there are three posters on the wall. One of some British dude I've never seen or heard of, he may be very popular or prominent in Europe or maybe he's just an older generation. I don't know what he is, fine. The second one is of, oh my God, what is his name? I'm completely flubbing, flubber, flubber, flubber. Robin Williams. Robin Williams is on here. The late Robin Williams RIP, poor one out. And then the third one, who's the one I'm actually spacing on, is a God from, honey, I shrunk the kids. Oh my God, it's gonna dry, I gotta look it up. Honey, I shrunk and Ghostbusters, the kids. Oh my God, what is his name? Normally I wouldn't do this, but I'd have to think about it and get it because it's cheating for me to look it up, but because I'm live. Rick Moranis, Jesus, Rick Moranis, okay. Rick Moranis, Robin Williams, British guy. They're all on these different posters with just plain white backgrounds. And it says, meet the professors or the people that work at the laboratory. And so I'm thinking to myself, as this awful garbage ride is going, where we are slowly touring this imaginatorium where figment is being annoying as shit and he's talking about the different senses in the most lazy way possible, in the back of my mind I'm thinking, okay, we have British dude on the video and he's interacting with figment. So at some point in time, we're gonna see Rick Moranis, which is awesome, I love Rick Moranis. And at some point in time, we're gonna see the late Robin Williams circa 1980 or 1990 or whatever the hell this thing was made. He's gonna be there and I'm gonna get emotional feels and I'm gonna see something unique to this attraction that many people haven't seen before. And so that's really special and he's nowhere to be found. Rick Moranis is nowhere to be found. This is British dude in figment through and through. What a complete garbage waste of time this ride is. Terrible, awful attraction. And that's the majority of Epcot rides. You don't go to Epcot to go on the rides, which is weird that they put Guardians of the Galaxy there, it's kind of weird that it's there. I get why Ratatouille's there. Guardians of the Galaxy, like what, what do you, why is that there? Epcot's about the different cultures. You go to Japan, you go to China, you go to Europe, you go to America, you go to, I don't know what else to hell, Canada's there and you try their foods and you try their drinks and you look at a little bit of the shops with the different cultures. It's very fun to just get around, go around and the art stuff is going on right now and I'm a big art guy. And so I like seeing the paintings, it's fantastic. I don't know why Guardians is there, but the ride was fun. Fucking hour and a half wait though, wasn't. Overall, Epcot's still solid, still great. If I didn't have kids with, it'd be even better. If you just are a couple or you're even going Han Solo, it's a great time. It's another place where I'd love to set up shop at the laptop outside and just take it all in as long as it's not a gross humid day out. But right now it's peak time to go. And so Epcot, yeah, we really enjoyed our time there even with all the stupid rides and waste of time lines that we sat in and the insanely overpriced breakfast. I chalked it up to a win. Magic Kingdom is not a win. Magic Kingdom is just, it's bad. It's bad, it's bad. There's no magic left in that park. And I felt truly terrible for the people that went there on a Saturday. We picked Magic Kingdom because we have a five and a half hour drive, six hour drive back. So we thought, okay, this package came with two parks and a resort stay at whatever the movie, I don't remember the name of it, movie resorts. There's the sports resort. There's the music resort. And I think it's the all-star movies or something. That's the one we were at. And I'm honestly bummed we didn't get to spend more time there because it was actually a cool resort and they upgraded the rooms. The rooms were very nice. The fake hardwood floors, the beds were soft. They weren't hard as rocks like Cabana Bay. I got a good night's sleep. I was very impressed with the service. The staff was great. It was clean. There was movies playing outside. The pool was open and warm. You had Fantasia, Mickey Mouse. It was really cool. And the food court was much better. The food was much better. So I really liked that place. I honestly could have just stayed there for the day. They set up the resort in a way where you don't have to go to a park. You could just chill there and have your kids swim, taking a movie at night, eat at the food court. There's plenty to do. It was, I liked it. So we stayed there. We get up early. I get up early to get in that dumb Tron ride because there's a new Tron ride at Magic Kingdom. It's basically the only ride to go on there. And so you have a virtual queue at seven. And I got into that bad boy. But I know in the back of my mind, we have to leave around one or two. That's why we chose Magic Kingdom because we thought, all right, my wife loves the haunted mansion. It's a pretty easy one to get in on if you get there early. We'll do Pirates of the Caribbean. It's right by there. It's a dumb ride, but it's cute and fun. And then whatever else we can do, we'll do. So I get in the line for Tron. I'm number 86 in the queue. I figure, all right, there's probably a one o'clock queue as well. So we're probably safe to get in before that. No, no, no. We were not. We did not get called upon and we had left the park at this point. We gave up until 4.30 p.m. We signed up for it at seven, not called upon until 4.30 p.m. What a nightmare. Welcome to Saturday at the park. We did get on the, we did get on the haunted mansion. It did kind of have issues two times. Once that start up, it didn't go right away. And then at the end, we were stopped for a good 30 seconds, but then it moved along. We were able to get on Pirates of the Caribbean. This ride is hilarious. Much like the rebrand they did at Universal on Kong, they did the same thing with Pirates of the Caribbean. Since this ride's all this dirt, like everything at this park, there is nothing in there as far as story. It's just a bunch of drunken pirates having a good time. But then the movies come out, they're massively successful. So Disney, instead of upgrading the ride at any decent capacity, they do the bare minimum and just shoehorn Captain Jack Sparrow into random sections. He'll be like popping out of a barrel or he'll be just kind of like hiding around a corner doing his weird little Mick Jagger thing. And then they added a big section at the end where he's just chilling like a boss in a throne with his treasure. They made a little kind of story around it half-assedly, but it's so funny because the entire ride, you just hear guys randomly be like, bring me Captain Jack Sparrow. Captain Jack Sparrow's after the gold. We have to stop him, mateys. It's just so dumb. And it's kind of funny because of it. So I eat that up. I thought that's hilarious, but imagine if Disney actually put in some work. It can make a really cool Pirates of the Caribbean ride. It's kind of done. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ha-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. You could be in a pirate ship simulation. Peugee, peugee, on the high seas. Cannonballs are going by. Oh my God, there's so many cool things they could do with it. Johnny Depp's in the mix. You got Kira Knight, Kira Knightly's character from the movie. Maybe you got fucking Davy Jones in the mix. Captain Jack Sparrow with the tentacles. Oh, it bums me out that there's just so much Disney could do, but there's just no way they'll do it because they're making billion, literal billions of dollars at their theme park every single year because so many idiots like myself continue to go there and give them thousands of dollars on trash. We go on those two rides. Oh, side note, this is a drop the ball moment, but I never even talked about ET. I wanted to talk about it. I love that ride at Universal. It's about as old as the Pirates of the Caribbean. You're on this ghetto ass bike and you're kind of like soaring through the sky. It's really cheesy. These animatronic characters like stop and it's recreating the scene where ET is obviously flying the bike away. Alliette and you're trying to get away from the authorities. Steven Spielberg introduces this ride on some ghetto ass old school TVs in the corner. He's like, oh, hi, I didn't hear you come in. I'm Steven Spielberg. And he walks in from the woods. He's like, oh, hey, I'm Steven Spielberg. I made ET, I'm the director. And then they animate in this really terrible version of ET next to him. Ah, Steven, phone, and Steven's pretending to talk to him. I love it. It's so dumb. And you go through the line, this is so funny. This is so funny. You go through a line and there's a person on both sides who you tell your name to and they give you a little punch card. And then when you get up to the ride, you hand this card to the person working there because at the end of the bike ride, ET is going to be there and he's going to go, he's going to go, goodbye, Adam. Goodbye, Connor. Goodbye, Olamia. So good, so stupid. They force a line for this dumb antiquated thing that no one's impressed with and it almost never works. When we went on it, we went on it twice because I love it because it's so dumb. And it's just, there's some charm to it. There's something really charming about this ride and fantastical and bizarre and it's quirky and I love it. We go on this ride twice. And last year we went out like three times because they eat it up. And I don't even love the movie, but I had to get the sweatshirt. And I'd say one out of the five times, it said my name, right? One time I was Aaron, one time I was Alam. The last time we went on it, our names weren't said at all. I'm pretty sure he was saying the name of the cart before us or the cart after. Who knows? Why are they still doing the name thing? You could just bypass that completely and lose nothing because ET is still there like, meh, or just haven't seen nothing. Just, you could take a sample from the movie. Who knows? It's so funny though. Okay, we got one more from Jan Rose here before I continue, $5. Thank you, Jan. Love Epcot the most, but not sure how long we'll have Disney passes because Universal is better and has HHN. What's HHN? Also, what are you going to wear for Megacon? I'm sorry, I don't know what HHN is. I got to think about that. Jan, I don't know what HHN is. I'm like, how do I make your mother? No, that doesn't work. How to train your dragon? Home alone? I don't know what HHN is. I don't know what I'm going to wear for Megacon. I don't have a lot of wardrobe. I'll probably wear, I got a Jurassic Park shirt there when I was there last time, a red one with some white graphics. That's pretty cool. I'll definitely wear the one you maybe saw in a previous video with the creature from the black lagoon. He's chilling out. He's got some 3D glasses and popcorn. I'll definitely wear that on horror day on Sunday. Horror day, not horror day. I'm not doing that, although that would be fun too. Oh, Halloween horror nights. Thank you, Jan. I was actually thinking that on my brain, but my mouth did not work to say it. Halloween horror nights, yes. Universal does a thing where they set up like eight pop-up tents, maybe more, maybe less, give or take, and they're themed around different scary movie properties. They had a Last of Us tent there. They had a, I think, a Halloween tent pop-up. Apparently amazing. I didn't go, I wanted to, but it didn't happen. Okay, now that I derailed myself with E.T., I was talking about Magicless Kingdom, Tragic Kingdom, if you will, which was a great album by no doubt. Easily their best album, I would say. Maybe you can make an argument that Rocksteady is as good, but I think you'd lose that argument. Although Rocksteady is a great album, I digress. Magic Kingdom, yeah, we went on Haunted Mansion, we went on Pirates of the Caribbean. Okay, okay, let me back up the truck. Park Open at Magic Kingdom is a complete joke. So you get an hour early access at Universal Studios on the Islands of Adventure side, only as far as I know. At least that's how it's always worked for me. It's possible they switch off days or something, but every time we do it, it's Islands of Adventure only. You get an hour early access to islands to certain areas of the park. Basically everything on the right-hand side. So crappy Dr. Seuss world that no one wants to go to, the Olympus stuff, and then you have Hogwarts, which is the big thing. So you could get in line for Hagrid, you could get on the Castle ride, and you can actually get to the Jurassic Park stuff over there as well, so you can get on Velocicoster. Basically you get all the popular stuff that you wanna go on. Let's contrast that with Magic Kingdom. What they're offering for you is a 30 minute early access to Tomorrowland, the shittiest part of the theme park arguably. Tomorrowland has Tron, which is a virtual queue, so that's nothing. It has the Go-Karts, which aren't really Go-Karts, the speed highway, I don't know what they're called. It is such a dumb, pointless ride. You sit in these stupid cars, they're on a metal track, so all you can do is smash back and forth for about two feet on each side, and you can kinda bump the person in front of you, and that's it. You're all slowly moving in the same track though, so really all you're doing is once in a while hitting someone, if they slow down, you all go the same exact speed, so basically you're all just slowly moving on the track to the end, and you're not supposed to bump each other, you get in trouble for that. Really, it's completely pointless. You could move faster in a wheelchair. I've seen people move faster in a wheelchair. If you're on a rascal, you are having a better time than the people on those cars. So to recap, a race car ride that you don't wanna go on, the virtual queue that you can't go on, and then Space Mountain, and I think the Monsters Inc Laugh Factory's over there, which there's never a line for that, so what a waste. Space Mountain was not working when I got there, and they don't say the ride's having problems or it's malfunctioning or anything. They just say it's not prepared right now. I can't remember the term they used, but this woman's out there, and I go, can I go on Space Mountain? She's like, it's not prepared or something. I'm like, oh, okay, so this was a complete waste of my time. Great, I'm glad I got up for literally nothing. And so that was the experience at Gate Open at Magic Kingdom. So then I hauled my ass back to the other side and go to the haunted mansion, because the gate's open by then, takes 15 minutes to walk across the damn place. We went on those rides. We went on, it's a small world after all because I wanted my children to feel the pain and anguish that I felt growing up the one time I went there, and it's terrible. It's an atrocious ride, it's miserable, it's haunting, and it goes on forever. It's by far the longest ride, I think in park existence, it never ends. The song never ends, the creepy dolls never end, and the fun never starts, so it's kind of ironic. Peter Pan's over there. Fun fact, I've never been on Peter Pan, never had a desire to go on the ride, and I've never seen the line or the queue for that less than 90 minutes. I don't know what's going on with that ride, but it's always the longest fucking wait time ever. What else does Disney Magic Kingdom have to offer? It's got Dumbo, which is just nothing but slow-moving fat elephants. It's got teacups, which are slow-moving rotating teacups. It's got an Aladdin magic carpet, which is a slow-moving magic carpet in a circle. It's got an aerial under the sea adventure, which we're really playing with the word adventure. It's this slow ass moving animatronic ride that's garbage. None of this stuff's good. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a baby roller coaster. There are three attractions that used to be really cool and popular, and those were the mountains. You had the Splash Mountain, which is no longer available. That's being rebranded, I believe, Princess and the Frog. Space Mountain, which kind of runs on sticks at this point. You feel like you're gonna die going on that ride, so I didn't really care that I didn't get to go on it. And Thunder Canyon, I think it's called. That might not be right. That's not right. Whatever the train roller coaster is, and that one's good, that was also not working or it wasn't available when I went. So two of the three roller coasters, really, for adults were not available, and the fourth one was locked behind a virtual paywall. And I say paywall because you can actually pay $15 as a single rider to get into the queue. Isn't that a great time? And hell, if I was a single rider, I'd probably do it because everything costs $30, so $15 seems like a steal of a deal. Let's talk about the greatest thing that I did, the greatest purchase I made. And I say this with a giant amount of irony and self-awareness, but also kind of, I wouldn't say I regretted it. And that's crazy to say because this is a ridiculous amount of money. We went to the Beauty and the Beast luncheon. We got in and we were told after getting in the door that it's a three-course meal, which already says to my mind, yep, this is gonna be a $250 meal. You get an appetizer, you get the primary meal, and you get a dessert, and there's four of us. This place was great because you're in the magical Disney ballroom from Beauty and the Beast. You're in Prince Adam's chambers, and I always thought it was funny that it's never Prince Adam, okay? Where are we at in the timeline of Beauty and the Beast? I see the beast walking around still, post-Belle marriage. Did she prefer the beast? Did he turn back somehow? Did he go to the Gypsy woman and say, hey, listen, this relationship is not working. She wants a beast of a man, not this pathetic Adam guy that I normally am. Yes, he is Prince Adam, and I'm happy about that because Belle is my princess of choosing. And honestly, for the amount of money I paid at this lunch, I'm pretty pissed off that Belle didn't make an appearance. A cameo would have been fine. I saw the beast fucking five times he comes rolling out. By the fifth time, I'm like, I'm trying to eat, dude. I'm trying to eat. Our meal was the best of the Disney experience. I thought it was fantastic. They had everything was able to be dairy-free or gluten-free. They made a lot of awesome exceptions. It was really great. The guy hosting us, the guy serving us was fantastic. I love this guy. He was awesome. And he got a nice $70 tip for me. Normally I don't leave $70 tips, but when your meal is over $400, you kind of have to. Yeah, that lunch cost me just shy of $500 for the three-course meal. And that was kind of the last straw that broke the Adam's back. I said, you know what? I think it's time to leave. I think it's time to go. We did, however, make one swing over to Disney Springs because we drove almost six hours to Disney. It was like four o'clock and the traffic was kind of bad. So I thought, let's move over to Disney Springs and see what they have to offer. We liked it when we went there last time at night. Holy hell. Disney Springs on a Saturday. You might as well put yourself out of your misery because that was nightmare fuel. Nowhere to park, wall-to-wall people. The stores were overcrowded. The line to go in the Lego store, you heard me, line to go in the Lego store was around the building. We somehow managed to stay there for maybe a half hour because my daughter, her birthday's coming up and we were gonna let her do some shopping. But my God, has Disney become a absolute cesspool of overpopulation? And I know Florida itself has grown by leaps and bounds as far as population, South Carolina has. All a lot of the East Coast has because people all collectively hit a midlife crisis, myself included, when COVID hit and we thought, we don't have to work and live in these terrible, cold conditions. Let's go somewhere warm that's relatively cheap and we can afford. And ironically, we all moved here so the prices have gone sky high and they're no longer cheap. Joke's on us. Yeah, Disney Springs was terrible. I'm sure if you went like Monday through Thursday, it would still be very manageable, but oh my God, on a Saturday afternoon, why do people go? Why did we go is what I asked myself. I didn't tell you my one nightmare story and I'm gonna leave it with this. So if you have any final super chats, please put them in. I'm putting in the work. I would appreciate it. The night after we went on Guardians of the Galaxy at Epcot, it was probably, it doesn't matter what time it was done. I think it was around seven. We got off the ride and we parted ways with Epcot. It was very pretty. It was nighttime. The giant ball lit up all sorts of colors. It was very pretty. It was very impressive. Absolute work of art and creation and creativity. We have to jump on our bus. These things are supposed to come every 15 minutes. We wait around for 30 minutes and the bus is nowhere in sight. Several buses have shown up though for All Star Resort, which is just down the road from us just around the River Bend, Pocahontas. So when this bus rolls up, number three, I kind of popped my head in and the driver's like, you guys can get on because the line now, since we got there to get to the hotel had grown significantly. So this bus driver picks us up. It's 95% full of people that are going to the movie park and there's one or two people going to the actual All Star sports complex. We get on. We sit down in the back. I'm in the middle. I got Olivia to the right of me, Lindsay and Connor. And then a few other seats with other random people. We are tight in there. People are standing now. A woman comes up by us. She's got two fucking babies. They're probably, I don't know, one or two years old. I have no idea what kids are anymore. I've moved past that in my life, trying to figure out ages. They're very young. They shouldn't be out. It's past their bedtime at this point. At seven o'clock, they should be getting tuckered into bed. They should be relaxing. They should be overstimulated out of the park with thousands and thousands of people. They shouldn't be going to the park in general, but whatever, that's for each parent to decide. All I know is this woman made a grave mistake and it's one that I was gonna have to pay for. Because when I see a woman with two kids, or if I see an elderly person or just really a woman in general, because I feel like chivalry doesn't have to be dead, I give them my seat. So this woman comes up here with these two babies. They say, hey man, why don't you sit down here? And so then there's nowhere for me to go. So I kinda walk down the steps and hold onto a rail down below. We are on this bus for a full hour. We're going three miles down the road and it takes an hour because we have experienced what is Friday night gridlock in Florida where the bus, for some reason, Disney doesn't have private roads. So the bus has to merge onto the highway and then off again to get down into its little side road to go to the resort. These roads are shared by the general public and everybody's come into the parks Friday night and Disney has a gate at the front that has to check each individual driver's license before they can enter the different park resorts. So this backs up everyone onto the highway. I've experienced asshole drivers in South Carolina. It's known to have some of the worst drivers on the planet. Florida, oh my God, they run us into the ground. We're a joke compared to them. These guys cut off this poor woman driving the bus every single chance they could get. One dude shot out of a cannon, tries to like side swipe the bus to get into a spot. She's not edgy, she's not letting him go. And after a few minutes of him trying to finagle his way in, he just flies up and then straight jet engines across a car goes over the shoulder and goes around. These people have lost their minds. They've lost their minds. To make matters worse, what I thought at the time was being a nice gesture turns out to be a complete nightmare because that woman that sat down between my child and my wife, her babies have been crying the entire time. Loudly crying, hysterically crying for a full 60 minutes. And so now I'm kind of the asshole because I left them. I abandoned my family to their own will. But to be fair, this woman would have been standing up next to us with the crying babies anyways. It's not like I made anything worse. If anything, I maybe gave them a bit of relief. And also to be doubly fair, my wife and kids could have also stood up and maybe moved down the bus next to me. Or to be triply fair, the fat ass in the back that's taken up three seats to himself could have maybe scooched over so that she and her kids had a spot to sit. There were a lot of opportunities on the table and none of them were utilized. So I'm standing over in the side with my dick in my hand with a guy holding onto his baby for an hour. At one point the kid was getting restless. He goes down, that accidentally clips him with his shoulder, that kid starts crying. This sets off a domino reaction of like four or five different children on this bus in perfect unison, in perfect harmony, crying their hearts out, kill me now. Every second's an eternity when a baby is crying. So imagine a full 90, imagine a full 60 minutes on a bus already dealing with the frustration of traffic and not moving even an inch every 10 minutes. Okay, that was my one nightmare thing of the six day park event. So not terrible, but man, was that bad. Sometimes I really hate parents, I guess is the bottom line. And I really hate Disney for excusing bad, for not only excusing it for rewarding bad behavior by allowing these people to bring their kids in free of charge. Charge the babies the same price, nay, charge them more. Charge each little baby $300 entry fee. And we will see the park's dwindle down from the babies. And I can't imagine Disney's gonna lose that much money at the end of the day. If anything, they might encourage more people to come to the park that are adults and will spend more money than the mom that's shuckling around three or four kids by your ankles, just trying to get through the day. Everybody wins. Universal somehow has figured this out by I guess maybe having more adult themed stuff, but they all have things to work on, that's for sure. If it were up to me, I would tear most of Magic Kingdom to the ground. I would burn it down or I would highly rebrand. There's so many properties that are not utilized at all by Disney. Where is Big Hero 6? Tomorrowland's a joke. No one even knows what Tomorrowland means. It's supposed to be futuristic. Give me something futuristic. You have a janky-ass old school race car track. Rip it out. I want Big Hero 6. You draw on a massive audience with that property. What about Wreck-It Ralph? Where the hell is Wreck-It Ralph? I want a ride. Maybe it's a tower drop. Maybe it's some sort of a ride through the circuits into different retro video games. Maybe you're on a roller coaster shuttle like you're going through the cable and once in a while you pop out to an area that's like Pac-Man and then you shoot through the roller coaster cable again and then you pop out to Street Fighter and then I mean, there's so many things you could do. The sky is the limit for Disney. Why is Aladdin a freaking magic carpet ride? Just a sad, slow-moving carpet. This should be a cave of wonders, virtual coaster where you are on like a fake magic carpet going through, lava's breaking through, a boo is on the side of the rocks, grabbing that crystal, that emerald. Aladdin's with you as you soar out. It could be beautifully animated. Ratatouille did it right. Let's start doing it with some of these other properties. Where's the Lion King? Where the fuck is the Lion King? I want to stampede in the gorge sequence. There's just, why is the little mermaid something? Your herky, jerky, janky ass pile of crap ride. Give me some under the sea beautiful stuff. I just, I can't with these people. There is so many opportunity. And again, they have the money. They're making hand over fist. Put a whole entire section of the park under construction. Rip it to the ground. Blow it up with TNT. Keep the rest of the park open. These idiots will still go. You don't even need to drop the price. Just let them go. They're not missing out on anything in Tomorrowland anyways. Rip it out, start over. Or how about go to the back of the park where you have these dumb rides that people are waiting 90 minutes for like Peter Pan upgrade that crap. There's so many properties. Open up a new theme park. You own Fox Studios. You could have a home alone giant building or a house. You could have the house from home alone where people walk through and buy a bunch of Kevin McAllister merchandise. You could have a section that's alien or predator. You can have an entire jungle section of your park that's got these cool properties. You can have the Terminator. You have all of this. Won't all of this Disney? Figure your life out. I'm done. Rant aside. All right. Super chats would be great. I'm done with this. I think I said everything I needed to. You get what you make out of anything in life. What you put in is what you get out. I wanted to relive the magic that we had last year. I did not. Did I have a bad time? No. Did I have a great time? I wouldn't say that. But I definitely have fond memories looking back. I don't have any bad will towards Universal. I did not like Cabana Bay. I'm sure at some point it was a great place to stay. But it's not updated anymore. They seem to not put any of the funds into fixing it up. The rooms are atrociously outdated and uncomfortable. Universal itself needs to maybe figure out how to funnel people better into Hogwarts and these different Harry Potter sections because right now it's a little too overrun and it just isn't as fun as it used to be. The park itself, perfectly fine. I do think Islands of Adventure is weird with what they have chosen to focus their properties on. Also, The Bourne Identity being one of the big shows is also a bizarre choice to me because The Bourne Identity, I don't think in its heyday was ever like that popular. You have Mission Impossible going on their seventh or eighth or ninth movie. Maybe get that over there. I know that's a Paramount picture property but you can get Paramount signed on. They don't have their own theme park. You could maybe put some funds into that. Update some of your stuff though because I'm still saying a year ago I'm still seeing the same shows that I am now. And I think that's unacceptable. When you're paying that much money you gotta put in the work. Okay, let's go to the super chats. If we have any more and I'm calling it, we have one more from Shane Lee, 88 for $5, just silence. Maybe there was a super sticker or something attached on YouTube. I don't see it. I'm gonna put out the vibe for a second. Take some water, hang out for just a tiny bit. If any super chats come in, that's great. If not, that's fine too. Oh, my throat is dry and parched from the yelling. We got a $5 super chat from the Blind Mask going again this September. Any advice for either parks or which hotel to get? I assume you mean for Universal. We stayed at, shit, I can't remember. Let me see, Universal Resorts, Orlando. The place we stayed at the previous year was actually pretty solid. And it was a good, it was a cheaper hotel, nothing amazing by any means, but it was clean. Let's see. Yeah, we stayed at Universal's Endless Summer Resort. I believe it was Surfside Inn. We were hoping to try out Dockside, but for some reason, the lady we went through, I don't know if she just found a better deal with Cabana Bay, so we didn't do Dockside, but they're basically the same resort, I think, kind of just in different areas. I would recommend Surfside Inn or Dockside Inn. I think you stayed at Surfside. Very clean, the rooms were nice, they're cool, easy to jump from Surfside to the parks. That was a good time, definitely would go back there. And again, these aren't like premium amazing hotels, but they got the job done. Any advice for either parks? Obviously, you do get the one hour early access to get into Islands of Adventure. Now, the rub here is the park opens at eight for early access people and then nine for everyone else. Eight o'clock translates you to getting up at probably 6.30 a.m. Get yourself a coffee and get your ass on the bus. If you're going from Dockside or Surfside, plan on it taking 15 to 20 minutes just to get onto the bus and get over there. And then you have a good, I'd say 20 minutes to get from that shuttle through the security section. Security's pretty light that early in the morning. We actually tried going a little later on the last day and oh my God, I didn't realize there was massive lines to get through security. So definitely get to the park at gate open at early access and you'll have an easy time getting through security and then you have to walk down that long pavilion obviously to get to the park but you'll have no problem doing that then. One other thing that I didn't realize, we made this mistake both years in a row since we went through like a person that represents Disney and Universal like a third party who can find you better deals. We didn't have like the official tickets. We just had the email confirmation. If you do it through someone, you actually have to go up to the ticket booth and have them print out your tickets or I don't know how else you do it but that's how we had to do it. And both years we forgot this. So we stood in the line waiting for that early access gate to open and then we got up there and realized, oh shit, we don't actually have any sort of identification on our phone outside of an email confirmation. So we had to get out of our line, go to another area then go back in. So we lost like 10 minutes of early access and prime spots in line to go on rides. So just make sure you have those cards somewhere on file. Robbie214 for 499 says, hey, I don't have God here later but we'll watch tomorrow. I just wanted to show support. A mission impossible party in Universal would be sick. Oh man, it would be so awesome Robbie. Even if they just swapped out the born identity stage performance, just imagine Ethan Hunt them recreating the kind of the drop down into the terminal room accessing the computer files. They could really kind of chronologically go through the movies at some of the major set pieces. The campy John Woo motorcycle fight on the desert could come up. I'm telling you that born thing is really impressive what they do. So they'll have a real actor pretend fighting like two or three other real actors but then the entire background is digital. Only occasionally will there be something in the foreground for him to hop on like a building to swing around or he'll be on an actual motorcycle sideways and the screen will be going. So it'll look like he's driving next to the screen. And it's so cool because they will rotate his motorcycle. It's standing still, but they will rotate him at the same exact time is that screen is moving in three dimension. So it will look like he's actually curving around a road kind of like how they do a lot of the new Mandalorian and some of those new effects. I was blown away by it. And so seeing them taking that and doing it with Mission Impossible or John Wick. Imagine John Wick, that could be so great. But born, the born movies are fine. It's just kind of weird, weird thing to use. All right, Kyle Nelson for 199. Thanks Kyle. How much was the Wi-Fi and bottled water? I assume you're somewhat joking. There was no charge for Wi-Fi at the hotels or the parks. The Wi-Fi was surprisingly free as far as I knew. Bottled water, you're gonna pay about $350, $4. I did notice some of the kiosk prices were different. And I think, don't quote me on this but there are two restaurants on the Harry Potter side. There's the three broomsticks and then there's the, it's not Hogsmeade I don't think. Maybe it is Hogsmeade. Hogsmeade, we'll go with that. I don't know, is that the name of the town? The town Hogsmeade. And then there's the boar thing. I'm conflating a couple, whatever. There's two restaurants. They both have the exact same menu but how they handle things are differently. So the three broomsticks you get in the line, you order and then you wait at a little station for your food to be done and then you take your tray and sit wherever you want. At the other restaurant, I'm gonna look it up because now I'm getting annoyed unless someone has answered it already. Let me see if someone's answered it. No, they haven't. Hogsmeade, thank you, Blind Mask Hogsmeade. At the Hogsmeade, you get in line, you order your food but then a person actually assigns you a table to sit at and I think butter beer or another drink come with your breakfast. And I don't believe the price reflects the difference. I think it's cheaper to eat at that one than it is the three broomsticks. I might be completely off base but I think that might be the case. Ryan was not intended but I hit it. That said, I like the three broomsticks better. Brian Babin for $10. Thank you, Brian. What up, Adam? Brian, not, I mean, not much. I'm back in the swing of things. We're talking theme parks, the pros and the cons, mostly the cons when it comes to Disney. Although I do like Epcot a lot. You know, we're just getting back into the swing of things. I'm catching up on work since I took a full seven days off and I got a lot of stuff for the channel coming up that I'm excited about plus mega cons just around the corner. We're doing things, Brian. We're doing things. The blind mask just became a YouTube member. Thank you, the blind mask. And thank you for letting me know that people should be doing this. If you like my channel, if you like my content, you probably know that I do not do this full time. I have a full time job on top of this. And so memberships are very appreciated. 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