 Hey friends today, we are hanging out at the Magic Kingdom Disney invited me out so I can introduce you to some Remarkable cast members and then also the Crystal Palace brought back their character dining So we're gonna ride some rides eat some food and have a beautiful Magic Kingdom kind of day Anyhoo, let's go do this It is absolutely gorgeous out today The temperature is in the high 60s and it's like the perfect day to come to Magic Kingdom I woke up this morning. I saw the weather and I was like, oh, yeah, it is a Magic Kingdom kind of day Like I said in the beginning of the video Disney invited me out so I can introduce you guys to some Remarkable cast members and we're gonna get a chance to talk to them and hear some of their stories and learn a little bit about them Also, I'm very excited to go to the Crystal Palace and see Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore and Tigger So it's gonna be an amazing day Our reservation for the Crystal Palace isn't for another hour or so so we're gonna have to come back But I am so excited that the characters are back and also they decorated for Halloween and fall they have pumpkins actually look at you got little pumpkins in the planters pumpkins in the planters We're gonna make our way over to Adventureland so I can introduce you to our first cast member we're gonna talk to you today and She is a jungle cruise skipper one of the best roles I feel in Walt Disney World and she's gonna share with us some of her stories of being a cast member being a Jungle cruise skipper and then maybe we'll go ride the jungle cruise afterwards. So I'm very excited Here is Kenzie from Sycamore and she is a jungle cruise skipper, but you have many roles, right? What is your favorite role? Not to be biased, but I feel like jungle cruise is where I belong like it is Very fun to be out there and telling jokes all day I'm getting you know getting to take guests out into the jungle and have a silly goose time is Mostly a silly goose time. I love that. That's awesome. What other roles do you have? so I'm also over at the Haunted Mansion and I do the guest flow team in Liberty Square sometimes. Oh That's very cool. Well, what is your favorite joke or line to say as a jungle cruise skipper? That is a hard one, but I think my favorite would have to be when you enter the elephant pool There is some beautiful Visual gags done by Mark Davis, of course, so we have the classic two elephants that are right in front of A bigger elephant turned around so we get to say it's two babies bathing under a full moon Silly goose. I like it. Very cool Have you do you have a special memory where you got to make magic or you had magic made for you? Absolutely, actually my favorite magical moment. I ever got to experience I had a magical moment task Which is something we need to do sometimes where they kind of send us out in the land to try to find a family that We can make a magical moment for. So I was given a Pirate coin and I went over into Caribbean area trying to find someone who is like very into pirates I can make a magical moment for take them right on a pirate to maybe take them right on the jungle I'm gonna end up finding this little kid who was decked out in all Pirates gear I even got Captain Jack Sparrow to be in on it with me. So Captain Jack gave him this coin We made it seem like it was this big event like the hidden coin of you know, whatever the Caribbean So he gets to use that to like Go and brave Barbosa on the ride and he ended up being like super cool Jack asked him what his pirate name was he goes by Mr. Bones or Captain Bones and he had like this whole back story of Captain Bones And then we got to have him come down here and go out on a jungle cruise with me and like even the whole crew Down here. We got them to like be in line for when Captain Bones came down He like walked along and I was like making sure that they knew who was boss and we took him out in the boat And he was a hoot like he just like got so Neeming. Wow. Captain Bones is my favorite kid ever. That is like probably one of the coolest magic moments I've ever heard of awesome. That is so cool. Thank you. Kenzie. Thank you for being a cast member. Thank you for making magic I hope you have a great day Bye Kenzie is a rock star and it was so awesome for her to share her stories with us and to be able to say that you Are a jungle cruise skipper and work at the Haunted Mansion that is incredible. I mean I want to be at that point one day I think that is absolutely amazing and Captain Bones If you got to see this that is so awesome that you got a shot out there And now I think we can actually make our way over the jungle cruise and go for a little cruise So thank you Kenzie. That was really amazing and you're you're really wonderful Here comes our boat looks like we're gonna be on the Nile Nelly the Nile Nelly I wish we can ride with Kenzie, but I think she left for the day So we're gonna have to keep our eye out for the elephants because she said that was her favorite Let me know in the comment section if you were a cast member What would be your dream role like where would you want to make magic at would you want to work at a certain attraction in a Restaurant or at a show let me know what yours is. Let me know in the comment section I think that's a fun thing to ask and now it's time for a little jungle cruise I can tell he's an African elephant The baby's underneath the full moon Okay, guys ready jungle cruise was so much fun and it was awesome when the little girl was yelling out elephant So the skipper I think her I think it was skippy at a skipper alley She kept on asking everyone to yell out their favorite animal noise and the one little girl just kept on yelling out elephant elephant literally hysterical As soon as I got off the jungle cruise I got a notification that it was time to check in and here we are a crystal palace of buffet with character We're gonna actually see Winnie the Pooh in there. We're gonna see Tigger and we're gonna see Eeyore We're gonna have some food one of my favorite things is the fact that they have tons of Walt's favorite food items like Walt's favorite dishes in here and it's 59 99 a person Mainly because it's a character dining buffet and I've been here before and I love it And I'm just excited to see the characters After dinner, we're gonna go meet some more cast members And I'm excited because I think we're gonna be talking to a caretaker at the haunted mansion And then we're gonna ride some rides and still enjoy our day at Magic Kingdom That's me And just like that we are at our table. I'm gonna give you the grand tour show you the buffet all the amazing food I'm not gonna dive into like too much detail because I've done videos in the past here It's all about the characters today. Like I'm so happy that they're back. Winnie the Pooh is my mom's favorite character So I'm gonna say hi to him for her and also I love Eeyore But I love Eeyore so it's gonna be fun, but we're gonna head up to the buffet and get ourselves a plate The crystal palace is just so beautiful like the inside I love it in here and and I've been here for when it first I was actually here the last night the parks were open and then I came the first day it reopened Then I came again the first day it went back to the buffet And now I'm like a week and a half late till when the characters come back But it's in full function in the full way. It was meant to be Looks like we got some country fried chicken with black pepper gravy honey Tabasco sauce and this is one of Walt's favorite Number of Walt's mashed potatoes and Walt's green beans with bacon and onions all of those are everything I like So we're gonna grab some right now Look at this piece right here. Oh Much too good Grab a little Walt's mashed potatoes scoop see potato Then we've got some mahi mahi some rice look at all this food everything looks amazing This looks like something new. I think it's shrimp creole, but look at them shrimps in there I'm all about the shrimp in business and grab a couple of them add them to the plate Give me some shrimps and then also I love these rainbow carrots. Look at these Laced rainbow carrots everything looks phenomenal and also some grits We also have oven roasted chicken and Italian sausage with peppers and onions I'm all about the peppers and onions and sausage here Oh boy This is much too good. This is everything. I love right here They used to have chicken wings on the buffet, but I think they took those away and one of my favorite things though Is the prime rib they actually have a carving station with prime rib and it is so phenomenal We'll definitely be back up to get some of that time rib and they also have some pork loin too I got a full plate, so I can't really get anything else. I also want to try Walt's chili Walt's chili is right there. We're gonna be a lot of food. We're gonna eat. We're gonna get a lot. I Don't want to go too hard because I don't want to get full because we're gonna hang out Magic Kingdom afterwards But there are a lot of things on this buffet that I love and the price changed because when I came last There was no characters. I think it was like $39 a person now It's like I said $59.99 that character price tag is heavy and that's everywhere I mean, it's a universal price either at any of the character dining in fact I think Some of them are more expensive like I'm pretty sure storybook dining is more expensive than $59.99. I'll have to check that But let's dive in Just look at this plate We've got the chicken with the country gravy and the hot honey Tabasco We've got some rainbow carrots some shrimp Creole some sausage and peppers and some of Walt's mashed potatoes Look at that Me personally, I feel like this is my favorite buffet. I mean, I know a lot of people don't like it They want to see like special things on the buffet, but you give me prime rib Fried chicken sausage and peppers Walt's mashed potatoes Walt's chili all on a buffet I am all in and like I said they used to have wings on the buffet And also they have the shrimp Creole a lot of things I love and I cannot get enough of these rainbow carrots Looks like our first character is here. It's piglet. Look at that. I piglet. How are you? Are you having a good day? Yeah It's a friendship day Well, I'm so happy to see you here again. It's been a while and oh, yeah, I like I like your ears Yeah, and it's very good and the food's great Thank you piglet my mom says hello She told me to tell everyone so I have to make sure to tell all of the friends that my mom says hello Can we have a picture? Yeah. All right I'm sure some of you guys think it's kind of corny that I say hi to the characters for my mom Let me tell you something my mom is probably sitting at home in her recliner Watching this video on her iPad right now and smiling. I guarantee it I guarantee it. I love you mom and I know you want to come back So if you come back down We're gonna come here and we're gonna eat and you're gonna see Winnie the Pooh and all of their friends at the Crystal Palace just throwing that out there Tonight there is actually a Mickey's not so scary Halloween party and I ran into my friend Jacob. Look it. This is awesome You look for Dora you got the Roosevelt on you got the hat I actually have that hat too, and I love it and I have that shirt the shirt is phenomenal You got the glasses. Oh, you know, they're not even prescription glasses Wow There's not even lenses in there. No way. I thought there were lenses. I love it. Oh, wow. Well, you made my day Thank you so much man. I appreciate it. Yeah, nice to meet you. See ya How amazing was that he's dressed up like me and I thought he was just wearing glasses There's not even lenses in there He literally put glasses on to match the look and I love that so cool. What a great day Everything I've eaten so far has been exceptional the sausage the rainbows. I ate all the shrimp I haven't dived into the chicken yet I should be getting there soon because I don't want it to get soggy I wanted to have like a little crisp and it's looking like it is still. Yeah, so we're good But I think ticker is coming. Oh One of the worst things that could happen during a character dining is the character come over the table and you're a Mid-bite and he can't say anything or if you do say something you're like boom boom boom boom boom. So we need this quick There he is there is ticker. I'm so excited to see you. I've been very excited. I saw you from the outside Yeah, I saw you outside like you stand out. You definitely It's the stripes. Yep, but I'm so happy to see you again. You're one of my favorites My mom says hello. Gotta gotta let you know. She's a big fan and Yeah, I'm excited to see you. Oh You're the best Seriously, thank you. Can we do a photo? Yeah. All right back to the chicken business. It is amazing It's not hot because it does say like a hot honey sriracha, but it's not that hot at all And I love it very very good Walt would be proud Hi, you're Are you having a gloomy day today? No That's a good day. It's a friendship day. I love it. I like to go to your gloomy place sometimes It's a good place to go and be gloomy, but I love it. Thank you. We are you're my favorite I'm so happy that I got to see you today Seriously making my day my mom says hello Looks like we're clear to head back up to the buffet before food comes over I want to get some prime rib and show you the salad bar and then also the kids section because I like to get food too And then don't forget we still got dessert and there is a lot of dessert and one of my all-time favorite desserts here Here is the kids buffet and I like how they have it down low like it's a natural kids buffet And we got some chicken nougnougs mac and cheese Cheesy pizza bread and then miniature beef quesadilla and then over here We've got the salad section in the bread section and they got the good pretzel rolls Which I'm going to grab one of those to eat with my prime rib And then they got a nice selection of salads and all the different dressings and then over here You got peel and eat shrimp all you can eat peel and eat shrimp. Isn't that cool? I like it But we came up here for the prime rep and I don't want to load up my plate until I get the prime rib on there and the weather The red wine on you a you Will do some prime rib a little bit of both look at that We enjoyed everything so far. I saw you later earlier. Oh, yeah, I was waiting to come back And they didn't have room for the prime rep, but oh That's the way Savory peach chutney on both sides of me my friend. He's chutney. I'm all about that On game, thank you Will do I almost miss Winnie the Pooh. I got to make it back to my table. Hi Winnie seeing a little bit I had to rush back to the seat cuz I couldn't miss Winnie the Pooh and I seen him like I was watching him I was watching who from the buffet like waiting to see if he'd come by the table And then I walked past them and I wish word. I'll see you soon Winnie and he looked at me. He looked at me So he's coming Oh Winnie literally just got to my table and then left. I think he's going to do his dance. I missed him by a second I rushed back over he literally made him right here and then he has to leave, but he'll be back around He's coming soon I think they're actually going to do their friendship dance or friendship march The hip hip hooray The hip hip hooray was really fun, I love that now because Winnie the Pooh They did their hip hip hooray. They're gonna go away for a little bit and then they'll come back out So we have time that we can try Summer waltz chili right here. Look at this It tastes like Walt Disney The chili is phenomenal now, we're gonna take a little prime rib here and we're gonna let our prime rib sit in our Aju this is the way There we go. It's gonna sit in here. Let it just sit for a little bit Here we go Soaked up all that Aju and it's ready to go. I love prime rib. It is so good And this one is to die for There is Pooh bear So happy to see you my mom is a big big fan gotta say I am too But my mom loves Winnie loves you loves you And I'm so happy to be back here. I hope you're having a great day I seen your hip hip hooray parade and that was fantastic. It was very very nice and The food is amazing friendship day is the best. I love it. Well, thank you, Winnie. Oh You're awesome Now let's head back up and show you guys that the desserts and one of the desserts is the Butterscotch popcorn and it's one of Walt's favorite desserts and I love it It's one of my favorite desserts too, so I'm definitely gonna be getting some of that Here are the desserts and of course we've got the Butterscotch popcorn I mean the Butterscotch pudding and it comes with popcorn definitely get one of those we got a blueberry dome Strawberry shortcake a s'mores tart which is over here and then we've got French silk cupcake and I think that's it Yeah, and also we have some hot stuff over here, too. I think they have like a hot apple cobbler and some cookies Literally all those desserts and all I got was the Butterscotch pudding. It is so good. I love it they even serve this over at the Firewood dessert party, but you can actually get this during the Firewood dessert party and I love it We are just about finished here at the crystal palace But before we go I wanted to show you how cute the little restroom waiting area is Look at this little sign right here, and then they have the restrooms here and look at this. I Love it in here. Isn't it so nice Look at these little couches I call it a restroom waiting area because I don't know what else to call it They get the men's room and the woman's room right there. So what are you doing here? The crystal palace was phenomenal so good and all the characters were great It's so nice to see them back. It's so nice to see everything coming back You know what I mean? I think they announced the Norway character dining is coming back and then also they Talked about Kona coming back and another one and I kind of just noticed there was a squirrel almost crawling up my back there So I lost my train of thought but anyways now we're gonna go meet another cast member I'm trying not to move, but I am surrounded by squirrels. I got squirrels to the front squirrels to the back This one's got an acorn in its mouth. You ever see a squirrel eat before? Here is Fletcher from Michigan, and he is a haunted mansion caretaker How did you end up going from living in Michigan to being a caretaker here at the haunted mansion? Well It's funny. I was actually supposed to stick around and study animation for a little longer But my brother just graduated his college with musical theater, and he wanted to come to Disney He said he didn't want to do it alone. So he kind of dragged me along Yeah, I ended up here, and it's a great time. That's awesome What's one of your favorite little details about the haunted mansion about the haunted mansion? Oh, it was the first one ever built here in Disney World, and I think that's pretty cool. Yeah first ride ever built I don't know that's a that's a good question I think my favorite thing about the mansion is when you're in the stretch room The very first like the pre-show and you disappear and you reappear and there's this second where full-grown adults Forget that you just walked they just believe in magic for like two seconds pretty much the coolest part that is really cool That is awesome Have you ever had a magical moment either happened to you or did you have an opportunity to make a magical moment for someone else? Yeah, so actually it was funny just yesterday actually I was standing out at Greeter where you're just talking to guests and This family comes up. They're like we park our mom right here. I'm sure they're little old ladies sitting in her wheelchair Um, I was taking it back. I was like if you want to park your mom here I guess you can me and this little lady talked for an hour and a half about all sorts of art She's from Indiana. She was a fine artist. I'm an animator, so we just like clicked and it was fun I just talked we exchanged Instagrams really that is that is literally a magic moment right now That yeah, she's gonna remember that forever, and I'm sure you already do too. That is so Mrs. Look at that. That is so awesome. What what would you say is your favorite thing about working for Disney about working for Disney? Well, it doesn't hurt getting into the parks for free. Yeah, go to the parks whenever I want is a really good time Honestly for me. I'm a really big into storytelling. That's why I went into animation I think Disney does a really cool job with that. There's like fitting the theme. I like being on stage versus backstage and Really having the overall story that people are being told as they go through the parks like passes through time and like Overall stuff like that that makes any sense. No, I I get it totally well. Thank you Fletcher Thanks for being a cast member. Thanks for making magic, and I hope you have a great day. Yeah. Yeah. See you So Fletcher is awesome I mean that is so cool some of the stories he was talking about and also he had a whole bunch of different like Keys and a pocket watch all for his costume And it's really cool how hot and mansion caretakers get to like kind of add to the experience and dress up as long as It's a part of the theme and one of the things he had was a bunch of keys And he said he likes walking around the stretching portrait room And you can hear his keys like jingle as he like walks around and that that is so amazing and Yeah, very cool. Very awesome Haunted mansion is one of those roles where I would absolutely love to do so both seeing a Skipper and a caretaker and actually She was actually a skipper and a caretaker which is mind-blowing and now I think we're gonna go ride the Haunted Mansion hop aboard a doom buggy and Have fun I am so excited to ride the Haunted Mansion Especially after I was sitting there talking to Fletcher about some of the cool details and facts and I just like looking at it Look at it. Isn't she a beaut Clark? Time to hop aboard one of the doom buggies. I wish Gracie would hop in her doom buggy And eat this one Awesome was that we actually get stopped in the graveyard So I was able to stop and focus in on some of the animal Animatronics and that was really cool. I love I love getting stopped in certain areas of Haunted Mansion I just like staring and looking like you know what I mean I'm obsessed with animatronics So like being able to just stare at them without having to move fastly as you go by that was very cool And now it's time to make our way back down Main Street. We got one more cast member to talk to and Then I think we're gonna call it a night Can we just take a second and appreciate how the Sun is hitting the castle right now? Isn't that gorgeous and then we've got the pond here. You can see the reflection of the castle Look at that. What a beautiful day today is honestly. I'm loving the weather. I'm loving the Sun It's perfect a perfect fall day at Magic Kingdom The next cast member we're gonna go meet is at the front of the park because she is with guest relations And that is something really awesome I mean, we've got to you know talk to a skipper from the Jungle Cruise and a caretaker at the Haunted Mansion But guest relations is really Deep like that's a big big role So I'm very intrigued to hear some stories that she's gonna share with us and we're gonna head up to the front of the park and meet her now Alright and here is Katie from Kentucky and you work guest relations, right? Well, that's really awesome. So how did you end up going from Kentucky to working for Disney? My family but I actually got to come for my new trip in high school and whenever we were there We got to go on a backstage tour of the safari and animal kingdom and the cast was talking to us about how Disney hires from Every background every job every opportunity. There's so many different things that you can do here And I was like, okay, that's where I'm going And so I went to college at the University of Kentucky and then I did a college program down here I love that. What's your favorite Disney ride? If I have to pick one, I would say probably Guardians of the Galaxy Really? Going new school here? Controversial I know I mean no guardians is a great ride though. Absolutely love it And what is your favorite thing about living in Florida moving down working for Disney? And that's what I think is exciting Coming into work every day, and I have the opportunity Do whatever I want as far as like make magic for the guests and help them have you know a magical time a magical vacation That's what we're all about. So it's really making magic. Yeah, I love that. What what is your favorite making magic moment? I love making magic with the guest experience team because I'm actually out in the park And I can see what issues are kind of happening in the park So it's nice to you know kids crying because they really want to get on a ride I think they'll put them on that ride or if they're crying because I spoke about form I can get them in a pop form, you know, I'm free to do as much as I can for the guys I have like very small limitations. I love that. That's the best. Well. Thank you, Katie I appreciate it so much. I hope you have a great day Katie from Kentucky was really cool great to hear some awesome stories She got to make some magic and Guardians of the Galaxy is her favorite ride and that's really cool I mean, it's a really awesome ride I do love Guardians of the Galaxy and overall my whole entire day today has been fantastic Getting to meet all of these cast members and hear a little bit of what it's like to work for Disney You know, eventually that's my goal in life I want to I want to retire and I want to work for Disney I said this from the beginning back in the days even when I was just a restaurant manager a cook I wanted to Move to Florida work for Disney be a monorail pilot or boat captain and that's what I want to do I mean end game is that that's my end game. So a lot of people, you know You know, a lot of people always ask me what am I gonna do? I mean, I really, you know, can't make videos or blogs forever I mean, I will keep on making the videos as long as people keep watching them You know what I mean, and I'll probably keep on making them even when people stop watching them but overall where I want to see myself in You know years to come is here and the place that makes me happy working in Disney World and I'm excited for that day. I think it's gonna be great I I'd be happy like I said monorail is probably my dream my dream job my dream my dream role is definitely probably the monorail and It's really awesome to talk to some cast members today So thank you Disney for inviting me out and I really hope you guys enjoyed the video because I Enjoyed making it and we'll see you next time Bye