 Yeah. When we went a couple of years ago, it was hyperspace mountain. Then I heard they changed it back to space mountain again for a while. But it makes sense that they would want to make it hyperspace mountain again with all the Star Wars stuff launching. Absolutely. And especially for all the people that can't get in the Star Wars land right now. Let's see. We've got more Star Wars over here that's older and not as good as the stuff you want to see over there. Real quick question then. You were able to go, were the concessions like the food stuff that you could get a galaxy's edge, was it available or is that still? 90% of it was available. There were a couple of kiosks and stuff that were closed, but they had like the food, they had merchandise and the build your own lightsaber and the droid that we'll get into more in the technical aspects of that. They were all open. And I was thinking like at a preview how crowded it was, and it was only about half full. I can only imagine what it looks like now. Yeah. So on the food, is it just... Hold on, Roger. We got a real close to showtime. We want to remind people that starting Monday, June 3rd, the live stream will be on Twitch, twitch.tv slash Good Day Internet. There's a chat room in there as well. We will still be putting the show on YouTube, but you want to... I mean, we'll phase it out to help people along. But you want to starting on Monday, be at twitch.tv slash Good Day Internet to watch things live. YouTube will still have Daily Tech News Show video there. Daily Tech News Show video will also go to the RSS feed. But if you want the full Good Day Internet video, you got to go to twitch.tv slash Good Day Internet. All right. Is everybody ready to do some Daily Tech News show? Yo, estoy listo. Cool. Cool. Cool. Yay. Yay. All right. Here we go. In three, two... Snuffles supported independent tech news directly for five years. You can too. Be like Snuffles. Become a DTNS member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Snuffles is really what they signed up as. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 31st, 2019 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. And from Studio Fila and I'm Sarah Lane. The only place I'd rather be more than here is the Galaxy's Edge. I'm Len Peralta. Speaking of edges, I'm on the edge of the L.A. County Empire. My name is Roger Shane, the show's producer. And joining us today from Comedy Film Nerds, Chris Mancini back on the show. How's it going, Chris? Oh, it's going great. It's great to be here. Well, Chris, you got to go into Galaxy's Edge, the new Disney Land experience. And there's a lot of technology in there, I guess. It's amazing. And not everything was even online. And but what I saw was like next level next generation theme park for sure. We're going to talk to Chris about that a little bit later in the show. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Uber's first earnings report since going public reported an adjusted $2.26 per share on revenue of $2.76 billion in line with the analyst's expectations. Uber reported a net operating loss of $1.01 billion. Overall revenue rose 20% on the year with ride hailing revenue growing at 9% and Uber Eats rising 89%. That's me. Sorry about that. Blackberry Messenger has ceased operations as of Friday. It is survived by BBM Enterprise now available for personal use on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. So poor little out for Blackberry Messenger. Google owned DeepMind is now focusing on multiplayer games in a paper published by Science. DeepMind researchers explained how they designed an AI system that was able to master capture the flag mode in Quake 3 by using AI agents playing with or against human opponents. DeepMind used data from 450,000 rounds of capture the flag totaling four years of gameplay completed over just several weeks. And Gao Feng, a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry announced the ministry will create an entity list of its own of unreliable companies in China that don't follow market rules, violate contracts or block cutoff supply for non commercial reasons or severely damage the legitimate interest of Chinese companies as well as posing a risk to national security. The government would take necessary measures against those on the list with further details promised soon. All right, let's talk a little bit more about Amazon kind of a part two of yesterday's Team Mobile Sprint merger story. Exactly. Reuters sources say that Amazon is interested in acquiring the prepaid virtual carrier Boost Mobile. Boost is currently owned by Sprint, which recently committed to spinning off the service into an independent company as part of its merger plan with T-Mobile. Amazon is reportedly interested in Boost because then it would have access to the post merger T-Mobile network for six years. The company is also reportedly interested in acquiring any spectrum rights divested as part of the merger. Potential bidders informed Reuters that Boost Mobile could cost up to $3 billion, which Amazon can afford. Yesterday, we talked about how T-Mobile and Sprint might get approval for their merger from the Department of Justice if they could help create a fourth competitor for the merged entity. I was going to say, isn't that the same price they paid for the Lord of the Rings? Yeah, to Amazon, they're like, oh, you know, Lord of the Rings series or create our own phone network. Not a big deal. So the question yesterday was, why would Sprint and T-Mobile do this? But the reason is to get the merger and this would be a way to make some money by selling a little bit of spectrum to Amazon, giving Boost Mobile, which is not a carrier independent network, it uses the Sprint network right now and it would use the combined network of T-Mobile and Sprint afterwards, but it would allow Amazon to develop it. I guess the question is, do we want Amazon to get into yet another business where our data is flowing? I mean, it makes sense that Amazon would want to try this. Amazon famously tries all sorts of things and, you know, not everything is as successful as some of its most successful ventures. But in many cases, cases it is, I was following the story this morning on Twitter and there are a few people who were sort of like, why would Amazon have to go through this process? If Amazon wants to get into wireless networks, do they need something like the Boost network? I understand that, you know, you got your six years and everything, but it's like, it's almost as if Amazon could take another track and do this from scratch. This is actually a pretty easy way to do it, though. You just buy an existing MVNO and boom, you've got a network, you start signing people up while you build out your own infrastructure that you have more control over. So why not? As Chris pointed out, for the price of a Lord of the Rings, boom, you got yourself a network. Yeah. And, you know, the thing about Amazon too is they're already in the house. You know, the call is coming from inside the house. I mean, everyone has like Amazon accounts and, you know, as everything becomes more and more almost like under one umbrella, you know, it kind of makes sense that these companies are, you know, one company is doing literally retail content and, you know, mobile communications. It kind of makes sense in a, not in a great way because of competition, but you can see why, like, all right, well, we're in this. Why don't we get into this because they cross pollinate. And that friend in our chat room points out that Amazon uses LTE-enabled Kindles and they used to run on the Sprint network. I don't know if the current ones do or not, but that would be another, you know, pieces, you know, that they wouldn't have to worry about. Foursquare's first acquisition ever is Placed, P-L-A-C-E-D, which it bought from SNAP, S-N-A-P. Terms weren't disclosed, but Are these made up companies or are these real? SNAP and actually Snapchat. They're real. They're for sure real. And apparently Placed is real as well. Terms weren't disclosed, but Place Founder and CEO David Shim will become President of Foursquare after this. Placed was previously Foursquare's biggest competitor, letting Blank Brands track the physical impact of a digital campaign or ad. Foursquare's competing product called Attribution will now be known as Placed powered by Foursquare, so they just merge them together. Foursquare CEO Jeff Gleck said, we believe location should only be shared when consumers can see real value and visible benefits driven by location. We remain dedicated to elevating the industry through respect for transparency, user control, and instituting layers of privacy safeguards. So in other words, as we get bigger and better at tracking where you actually are while you're using your apps, don't get creeped out, please. The funny thing about Foursquare and That's a better tagline, by the way. It really is. The funny thing is that, you know, there's so much, there's so much worry these days about, ah, you know, the apps are tracking you and you don't know it and blah blah blah. Foursquare and Swarm and various products within the company are built on, you willingly say, I'm here right now, I'm going here right now, I've been here before. That's part of the fun of the app, if you enjoy the app. So in this sort of landscape of, you know, a lot of folks being, you know, paranoid with good reason about this kind of tracking data, it's interesting that the two biggest companies that do this are now one company. Yeah, and it's not only consolidation, but it's consolidation over tracking. So Foursquare is heading over backwards trying to reassure you about this, but because the idea is you're using an app and you're near a store, you're near H&M, and the H&M app suddenly says like, hey, we see you're near a store, get 20% off, walk in right now, stuff like that, or you're using an app that has nothing to do with the store and you see an advertisement for it and you realize you're near the store and you walk in, that's the kind of stuff placed by Foursquare, placed powered by Foursquare, is going to try to do. And as we know, people love being tracked, they have no problem. And Amazon's probably going to buy them all anyway, so it doesn't matter. But you know, it's the kind of thing too, whenever I use my GPS on my phone, there's nothing that drains the battery quicker. So, you know, there's nothing better than to get your battery life sucked out from localized advertising. That will be even better. Agreed. The Wall Street Journal sources say that Apple will soon begin limiting third-party tracking in apps that are in the kids section of the app store. The information is reported in a piece by Joanna Stern about 80 apps she tested, all but one of which included third-party trackers from marketing ads or analytics purposes. Mac Rumors points out that there are no controls in iOS, at least currently, for limiting the tracking features that are used by apps. So that would be a good thing to add for sure. Yeah, do you worry about this with kids? I have my kids' phones locked down, so I know they can't add apps without me, so I know what they're putting on. But at the same time, I don't know exactly what's going on in every single app, if it's getting data or what kind of ads it's putting in. So, yeah, absolutely. I'd love to see a little more control on that for kids. I'm sure we'll find out more about this on Monday. Apple's WWDC coming up. We'll get all kinds of details about iOS and macOS there. Meanwhile, engineers at the University of Toronto have developed a more energy-efficient and, therefore, economical way to convert carbon dioxide into products like plastics or jet fuel. The idea is to capture carbon and use it for something else. The existing way... It's carbon in the wild. It's very elusive. It really is. It just floats away. The existing way involves forcing CO2 through an alkaline liquid solution to create carbonate, solid, which is then turned into a solid salt, then that's heated to prepare it for transformation with a bunch of other chemical processes into the end products. But the new method uses a new electrolyzer design to turn the carbonate straight into something called syngas, which is much more complicated to make on the other way. This is a cheap, efficient way to do that, and then syngas can be turned into plastics, jet fuel, etc. The team demonstrated the ability to convert carbonate to syngas at an overall energy efficiency of 35% and the electrolyzer remains stable for more than six days of operations. So this is still a test, but it's potentially a way to take something that people want to do to remove carbon from the atmosphere and do it in a way that's more cost-efficient, which is always the biggest hurdle in a lot of these environmental technologies. Yes, Sarah? Well, no. I mean, it sounds great. All right. So, okay. So, sure, let's say this all works. In what way will this improve our air quality going forward? Well, that's a really good question. A lot of math needs to be done on the other end of, okay, if I'm making more plastic, what does that cause to do, you know, what does that do to the environment? Or is it just we'll make plastic that we would make anyway, but we'll make it this way, which removes carbon dioxide? If you're making jet fuel, you're making jet fuel that is going to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when it's burned. So, are you making more jet fuel, or does it have an appreciable effect? I mean, the idea behind it's good, which is let's take carbon dioxide out and let's turn it into something useful, but not all of these things are going to be as good at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as others. So, we just need more plants, is what you're saying? Yeah. Can we turn these directly into plants? Yeah. Smarter plants. Let's all wear face masks, problem solved. Plastic plants could probably be made out of some gas, I'm sure. But yeah, this is actually a pretty exciting advance on a line that a lot of people think at least will be a plank in the ability to counteract the increasing amount of carbon dioxide. Yeah. And no way am I like, ah, that doesn't sound like it's a good idea. It sounds great. These are one of those science stories where I'm like, okay, but how does it like affect our daily life? Yeah, it's probably, you know, in other words, you might be able to buy some plastic items that get to say like this item was made by removing carbon dioxide from it. Sure. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. TheRot.com reports that app researcher Jane Munchen-Wong noticed a new feature in Spotify called Social Listening. If you scan a code from a friend, you'll then be able to play songs at the same time as them and tracks to play next and control playback. Everybody's doing it at the same time. You're listening to the same stuff. Once you're connected, your friends will show up on a list that you want to join them with in the future. You can also share links to connect with friends instead of requiring a code to be scanned if you so desire. So we talked about this in the pre-show as a sort of a feature looking for a need. I mean, Chrissy, do you just do do you look at this and go, oh yeah, I've wanted to listen to, you know, playlist with Graham. I'm never gonna say that. This screams to me like a couple developers had nothing better to do and money needed to be spent. You know what's funny? I was on a plane recently and there were two girls in front of me. They were like, one had one earbud and one ear and they were sharing same earbuds. They're listening to whatever they're listening to and they're singing and they're laughing. They know the lyrics and it was like it was so cute. And so that's what this is supposed to conjure up, right? Like the fun of listening to music that you love with your friends. But I feel like we've been trying to do this for years. You know, like do you want to watch the same TV show at the same time with your friends on Twitter? Well, there were some third-party apps for that. I don't know where they are now. Yeah, we used to have that when we had broadcast television on certain times that aired. We turned out we didn't like it as much as being able to watch it whenever we wanted. So now we need all these apps and technology to go back to be able to watch something at the same time. And so many times like Blu-ray and Xbox have done the like watch with your friends and everybody goes, oh, that's a cool idea, but people don't do it. And this is music, so maybe it's different. But I feel like the situation you're talking about, Sarah, is the one that people want. I want to be next to my friend listening to the same thing and interacting in person. Not being in the same place, I think removes some of that need. Although I've definitely been involved in role-playing games like World of Warcraft where people are all listening to the same music being piped into the chat channel or vent or something like that. And everybody has fun doing that. So maybe there's something more with music. I think what you're talking about too, if you're like sitting next to someone you want to listen to the same thing, I think the next generation of iPhones is going to have Bluetooth enabled where it'll send the music to multiple AirPods at the same time. So I think that'll kind of have the same effect. Yeah, it's probably something we'll hear about on Monday as well. Yeah, I think we've all gotten used to this appointment viewing, listening, whatever it is. We're all on our own schedule and that's great. We feel like we have more control than we ever had in the past unless you're talking about Game of Thrones or something where you got all watched at the same time. But I like this in theory. I really sat down and tried to think about, okay, well, when would I use this though? Really? Like when is it so important that I'm listening to a playlist with a cherished friend of mine who's not next to me? And I'm not sure I can come up with a lot of scenarios and it's not because it's not a good idea, but again, I just think we're sort of beyond that. We will all be doing this for DTNS Prep from now on. I'll be creating a playlist that all of us will have to listen to. Does it include Gloria? It's just Laura Branigan's Gloria over and over. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. So Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is open now in Anaheim, California. But you can't go unless you already have a reservation. That's the case, right, Chris? And until June 23rd, you have to have a reservation. Yes, and they sold out like within, I think, hours of them becoming available. I mean, the only way you could get one now in that time frame is you have to stay at one of the Disney hotels. So that's your backdoor hack is to try to get a reservation at the hotel and then you can get in. But again, good luck with that because I think that's already been hacked as well. Probably. It's not coming to Orlando until August 29th and it's set in Blackspire Outpost on Batu. Chris, you've got a chance to walk around, right? I did. I got to see Preview and it was amazing. And one thing I want to start with is that because it was a preview, the technology was actually locked down. So we had to go in, put our phones in a bag and then keep them in our pocket for the entire time. And it was like going back a decade in time. You're in a theme park and you're waiting in line and no one is looking at a device. And it was really, really surreal. Like, oh, people are waiting in line. They're talking to each other, making eye contact. This is insane. So, and a lot of the stuff on Galaxy's Edge that technology wise isn't even online yet. That's what's really incredible. Like I was talking to a friend of mine who works there and he was saying that it's going to be rolled out gradually and the press release is because there's so much that isn't there yet. Like there's only one ride available right now. The Millennium Falcon smugglers run and the other ride Rise of the Resistance isn't available yet. But the technology in this entire land is amazing. One of the things that you notice as soon as you go in is that just because there's one ride it doesn't matter. The entire land is the attraction. So you can spend your time just exploring every little nook and cranny of the land and that's what's really going to be entertaining you there. Like right now there's four hour windows that you have to go for the reservations but we were there for five hours and we didn't even see everything. I mean that's how large it's 14 acres massive. It's a massive land but I'll start with the Millennium Falcon ride because that's the one that's open right now and the new technologies that are in it. You know we've all been on Star Tours where you actually go in and it's a motion simulator and the ride can change depending on what videos get picked. Which is interesting but this takes it to like a next kind of level thing where you have six people in a in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon and there's roles that you play. There's two pilots there's two gunners and two engineers and each person has something different to do like the two pilots are in the front and one of them goes left to right and one of them goes up and down so they have joysticks although I will say the pilot on the right has the best job because he gets the lighter the light speed lever so when they say jump to light speed you get to pull the lever and actually go to light speed. So it sounds a lot like space team did you ever play space team on mobile? I have not played space team no. Space team is you get a bunch of people and you can do it around kitchen table or at a restaurant or something and everybody gets a different thing and they have to shout commands to each other to get them to do it because everybody has a different role. It sounds like kind of that or that Star Trek simulator kind of situation. It's definitely got elements of that the thing if I did have one little criticism of it because in that those different roles some are not as interesting and entertaining as the other so if you're waiting in line for this ride for like a couple of hours and you get like say the engineer you're not going to enjoy the ride as much as say as you or the pilot because you're the pilot you're moving the ship up and down left and right the engineer basically when the pilot screw up and they damage the ship then you're pushing buttons to repair the ship and the gunners on each side they each have turrets but you can actually pick if you want automatic or manual and the automatic the guns will fire high middle and low whereas manual they'll go you have to pick high middle low as you fire them the biggest thing that I think could be improved upon and it would be a simple fix is the gunners don't get a joystick and a reticle that you would have on a normal like space simulator they based so basically you're looking to the left and figuring out which buttons to press instead of actually looking at the screen in front of you so it takes your attention away from the actual ride whereas the pilots are looking straight ahead and they're moving up and down and left and right so that's one of the things I would say that might have been can should be changed or designed a little bit differently but you know that those are little little complaints aside it's an amazing experience and it's an amazing ride and it's scalable and it's also customizable like how many years were we screaming like oh my gosh I wish they would put a new video on Star Tours this one they can put stuff in and out on the fly like different missions and the way you react to the missions and you could play the same mission and be pilot gunner or engineer and it'll be a different experience and it sounds like a big arcade game really it is it's a giant arcade game but then it also tracks your progress and if you have your iPhone and you have the data pad that it actually turns into it'll actually track the credits that you'll have won on the ride like if you do poorly you might owe money to Hondo because you've damaged the money in Falcon if you do well you might turn a profit and he'll respond depending on how well you do now there is one effect that I didn't notice and I did ride the ride four times but uh when you get out and if you damage the Millennium Falcon a lot like say you do really poorly apparently like the lights will flicker like in the hallway when you get out like there's all these different little technological interactivities that there were some that we didn't even notice but even like little touches like you come out of the ride queue and it looks like there's these giant fans spinning like to get the air out of this giant warehouse when you look a little closer they're giant screens so there's little effects here and there you're like okay well then that means they could change or they could make that and they could do whatever they want on a lot of these things there's lights and sounds and you know sometimes where you're you're in the Millennium Falcon holding area there will be like a short circuit then one of you can go to the side and like hit a button and it'll stop like there's all these great little touches but from what I hear too with the datapads that weren't available yet you have to download the Disney play app before you get there and this is the one thing they're not telling so if you're on your way make sure you do this download the Disney play app before you get there because it's so big when you get to the land it won't download without Wi-Fi so there's going to be very disappointed people that didn't download it before they got to the part that's a good tip yeah TechRidge did a write-up on Smuggler's Run apparently it runs on the Unreal Engine uses a real-time rendering system for multi-projection feedback across the five screens just inside of the ride itself the cockpit is powered by a single box machine with eight Nvidia Quadro P6000 GPUs in a Quadro SLI configuration and it felt more like seven but okay and apparently TechRidge says that the work Disney did on the engine to make the ride work was sent back to Epic Games and will inform how their engine ends up handling multiple GPUs in the future there's no question because it's such a an innovative ride and structure like it's all of those things that you know you've kind of seen before but put together in a different way and take into the next level but you're like oh this is this is what the future of these type of rides are going to be for sure because even just the little details in the cockpit you feel like you're in the Millennium Falcon even though you know there's a screen in front of you it doesn't matter you get so immersed in the ride it just it feels real there probably ought to be guides to tell people you know swap if you like this you want to be in control swap to become a pilot because there might be somebody who's like that's too much pressure I just want to be an engineer that's something I feel like they could work on there one of the ways you can do that is not necessarily with the cast members that help you because before you get in you basically get these cards that have your roles on them so they pass out six cards randomly to you and your crew and then that's where you can kind of swap out and when I want to be pilot I want to be engineer I want to be gunner so I would say it's actually in a pretty good order like the pilot's the best the gunner's the second the engineer's probably the you know the least fun I'm a little suspicious that they made you put your phones away when that's an integral part a lot of the stuff I've read has been that when you have that Disney play app running and it gives you your credits that will also tip off cast members that you did the Millennium Falcon and how well you did yes and that you know that that I've read about too like if you go into the cantina they might find you and say all right well who was just on the smugglers on I hear you almost crashed the Falcon like that's definitely part of it and there's also interactivity like why you're waiting in line when you have the Disney app and it turns into a a data pad you can scan cargo crates and find out like what's in them like things like that you can activate droids and there's a lot of areas like like I said we did the previous and not everything was online like I don't even know how to describe them they're like just kind of show areas you could call them like you know you can't actually go into them but there's droids there's a land speeder but they're all set up for actors and cast members to come in and actually put on little shows like to make it like a living breathing environment like we're just standing in front of a ship and you know Kyla Wren walks down is like looking for a rebel you know spy like things like that to make it like living and breathing where you know in a normal Disney park okay well this is the character interaction you have to wait in line you see Winnie the Pooh in the woods and then and that's it but it's not like that at all this makes you feel like you're actually in the outpost there's no mickeys there's no minis there's no Disney branding at all there's no line to take a picture with Kyla Wren you just stay out of the way no no no and Chris you said you you went through this five times right four four times okay so from the first where you know everything's new and exciting and you know to the fourth time where you're starting to kind of okay there's some unique things that are happening what I mean for for a you know a family let's say my family goes to Disneyland and and just does it the once do you do suggest that you need multiple rides yeah and the and it's I have to say it's set up that way specifically yeah and for a multiple kind of rides through because okay well I was the gunner but I'd really want to try the pile and I want to see what the end sure and you know it changes on how well you do like depending on you know you're chasing a train how many cargo containers you could steal for Hondo so the actual you know because one of the things that kids like to do and I used to do when I was a kid too well I just want to play it again to see if I could beat my score so that's the other reason to kind of try it again and it's also it's built into everything like there's a piece of video games there's a piece of motion simulator there's you know there's a piece of you know a flight simulator and all those pieces are just so really seamlessly put together that it kind of creates an experience because when I first heard like oh isn't this just going to be Star Tours and I'm learning a Falcon cockpit and it isn't that at all the only the only thing that's the same is that there's a screen and a place to sit everything else is different Well thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit unsurprisingly Star Wars was part of our subreddit this week you can submit stories and vote on others at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com if you hang out on Facebook good news for you we have a group facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show let's check out the mailbag let's do it friendly neighborhood Bill self-described Bill wrote in and said yesterday Roger mentioned that there were three to four cross-platform play anywhere games or actually around 75 titles under that umbrella it's mostly Microsoft published games but a few third party titles are in there including Resident Evil 7 Marvel versus Capcom Infinite and Middle Earth Shadow of War there are a bunch of great indie titles in there too people may want to check out Tacoma and Moonlighter All right thank you friendly neighborhood Bill appreciate the the extra information there before we go we got to check in with Len Peralta who has been busily trying to figure out how he could possibly illustrate today's topic Len what have you come up with and you better believe it was a little bit crazy for me to do this is my mind is blown I'm trying to figure out how to get there one that's once it opens up in Orlando and I guess what really got me is that this is something I've been trying to do since I was a kid my son's age seven years old right ride them you know ride the millennium Falcon and this is going to be me or everybody else who's going to go fly the Falcon of the Galaxy Galaxy's Edge you know just trying to play it cool as best they can that's pretty much everybody is trying to just play it cool and they go to the Galaxy's Edge so I don't know one of the things that's great about this picture too is it actually shows that like you know the actual Millennium Falcon is there like before you go on the ride you're just blown away like oh my god this is what it looked like in my head the entire time life-sized Millennium Falcon that will make no matter what age you are if you're a Star Wars fan walking close to that will make you feel like a kid again I know and that's going to blow you know I'm trying to make plans to go out there when it opens in Orlando but this piece actually is going to be in my online store at lennproldstore.com also if you're a Patreon backer at the $5 level you have this right now it is there at my site and you can download it and print it out and get ready to get your tickets Galaxy's Edge when you go excellent thanks Len and also thanks to Chris Mancini so good to have you and let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your wonderful work absolutely it was great to be here you can hear me every week on the comedy film nerds podcast and I have a new comic book out right now from star burns press it's called long ago and far away if any of your viewers remember I was on a while back kick starting it probably about a year and a half to two years ago it is finally out now it 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rebel area and it's like in a forest and you see a life-size x-wing too with you fucking ray walking around I mean it's literally 14 acres where you have like an outpost you have the first order and then you have the rebel areas so you can spend hours and hours and hours there I mean it's really hard we need to get to the get to the game I did not know it was so large was something else raised to make way for this parking lot space away or something it's a great question they've been a little vague on where they found the space I mean the two things that they did lose is the petting zoo and the barbecue which guess what no one misses I didn't even realize the petting zoo was still there exactly yeah no one did and so but I then they must have found more space somewhere because also they said that there's also room for expansion which I don't know where that that will basically go but the one thing I will say that I didn't get too much into the the tech of it is is the way that the immersion takes you into the Star Wars land where everything else goes away there's no Disney there's no Anaheim there's literally nothing everywhere you look or see is something Star Wars related I thought oh there's going to be a store with like you know stormtroopers with Mickey ears or something like that and none of that there they literally made it so even the shops there would be only things that would be sold at the spaceport wow yeah it's really what were the bathrooms like here oh gosh that's hilarious that you should mention that the bathrooms were this mix of like retro and futuristic but they were aged so it looks like their old spaceport bathrooms and uh I might as well I might as well be complaining yeah is that a good thing no because apparently people were complaining that they were dirty and not hilarious cool because they you know everything looks aged like the like the spaceport has been after a while it's it's tough it's tough to purposely age a bathroom and be like come on it's cool that's right or it's entirely too easy yeah yeah it's easy it's easy to do it it's harder to sell it they did their job a little too well and it broke up a plate that's crazy that's right well we've got some title suggestions that show about that chat realm dot net I think the one I definitely want to go with is Star Wars Galaxy's technology edge that's that's a really good one but I also like made the G force be with you don't get creeped out please is suggested let's see what else we got four square replaced snap get it because placed curious George is tracking your kids yeah yeah I like going with Star Wars Galaxy's technology edge because that really does say what the show yeah on yeah and for a good day internet Roger do you have a separate title you want to use yeah let's see what do they Len runs for the edge last dance on the two I don't get that yeah Len runs for the edge yeah that's a good one there you go all right Len runs for the edge what was the food like Chris the food was theme park food dressed up in Star Wars theme all right I mean I wasn't really expecting a lot because I really feel like there's a certain level that they can't go past as far as like trying to please the most basic pallets but you know we had like the Ronto ribs or whatever was called it's just basically spare ribs with like a blueberry muffin but they there wasn't a ton of food options there was one counter service restaurant and then there was one place that you could get like wraps like for breakfast but that that was pretty much it like I was surprised like the cantina you could only get alcohol there and like you know just like bar nuts or something like that like they didn't have any food in the cantina this was a media preview right this was there was yeah there were previews all week just a lot of it was people that work there like cast members could bring some friends and family okay I was I was assuming if it was a press preview that's why they only wanted to serve alcohol but maybe did they did they have some blue milk they did they had blue milk and green milk the line was too long and then you know we kind of ran out of time but we we didn't get it we were a little sad that we missed the blue milk and the green milk by the way blue milk and green milk have no milk in them there's no dairy actually yeah yeah there I think it's a mix of coconut milk and a bunch of other things but yeah there's there non-dairy blue and green because because green milk to me I would originally be like oh it's bad right yeah but if there's no actual milk involved coconut milk sounds actually pretty good originally I thought they would have just done like a quick it would have been like you know yeah you know like a blue blueberry quick or something and they mix it in it's like oh there's a blue bantha I have to say spare ribs and blueberry muffins yeah interesting combo yeah yeah then they had like there was like a one veggie plate and like a shrimp plate but the the food was definitely limited but I think that's something that again like well we'll we'll start with this and then we'll expand when we have to because it's gotta be yeah in a menu yeah for the preview night did and I know they had talked about having cast members sort of approach you and give you like a like a like a mission or something that would any add stuff in play or no and the one of the reasons was because the the app stuff wasn't online you need the Disney play and your phones for that but that's definitely going to be part of it and one of the things that they're thinking of because of crowd control is they may not want to put everything online right away because they need to get people out in four hours and they're you know if you have like like I said that none of that stuff was on and we spent five hours in there easily so I can't imagine you know I I want to see the news reports today about how they're getting people out in four hours because people are not going to want to leave yeah I mean does it just mean you can't get you can't get a ticket for the smugglers run after your four hour window how how else do they get rid of you I think it's wristbands and they want you to I think they got a higher more stormtroopers I'm not sure and you get escorted out thrown out by the first order also I mean June 24th you've had too much fun it's time for you to leave when June 24th comes around and this thing is just open like that I feel like that's going to be a mess too I would I was so happy I got this preview because I was thinking oh I'm not going to be able to go near this for a year yeah because the Florida one hasn't even opened yet this is it want to see Galaxy's Edge this is the only place in the world to see it you know it's going to be a victim of its own success DTNS road trip yeah I think I think so I think it'll be the kind of thing where you know people are literally going to go to Disneyland just to go there and then I don't see it they need to build out just a separate Star Wars Park well I'm sure that discussion is happening today so I've been like why didn't we we should have look at all these people why didn't we just make another park yeah because I keep seeing it compared to the Harry Potter land at Universal right but it sounds like it's just way beyond oh yeah I think every one of those Imagineers walked around the Harry Potter Park and like all right how can we take this to the next level and that's they're like okay take this take this use this but the giant similarity was that there's no outside branding there's no other you know you don't even know you're at Disneyland anymore like yeah but that's what's incredible like when you're in Harry Potter land you forget you're in Universal that's true you don't see the rest of Universal anymore and everything around you is Harry Potter themed and everything it's just like you know I go in the bathroom in Harry Potter land and it's not aged right yeah yeah it looks like a bathroom so we'll talk to you in the toilet yeah those are the little things yeah we'll see you know how how boarding more lights everything that's that's like the Harry Potter wand thing on steroids because the one thing is free you just go in and one child gets chosen to have the wand select them and then everybody else gets shuttled to the store to buy their own wands pretty much whereas the lights everything that's on that's crazy oh yeah and you can't even go in the store unless you're gonna buy one so the there's literally like I think you can go in if you're with somebody who's gonna buy one but that's it because you have these basically work stations where you build your lightsaber but it's also partially a show they put on the show as you build it so they have to really limit the capacity now the droid factory is a little different you can kind of go in and shop and there's different things to buy but when you get to the droid it's $99 and then you have a conveyor about you pick the pieces you want you put it all together like it basically is a build a Star Wars build a bear it's a yeah well they used to have the build a droid in the Star Tours area but it was like little plastic pieces you put together and made a figurine out of the this new one is actually a remote control droid you get a remote control droid and you can actually pick its personality you could pick like rebel or or first order and then you can change the personality chips and there's all sorts of things you could do they're all rolly they're not like Sphero BBA droids are they there's a mix you can either get a BBA or a an R2 I guess they call it the R2 line or whatever it is but yeah you actually want to get a BBA for sure that's crazy this sounds like a trip for me in like the next two years when this is like this is like only now when you've gone away this is like next level merchandising before with the original Star Wars release it was action figures blanket t-shirts and stuff now it's like you can customize your product that you're buying right like it's not just an off the shelf experience just I think it lends a lot more to it also makes it price here but and there's also a lot of like quote like Star Wars collectibles like helmets and things like that like you go into this one area that's supposed to be like all the rare merchandise you get the holocrons and things like that and they're all very very pricey but you'll never see a t-shirt with like Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker on it you want like any type of merchandise either Black Spire Outpost or like Droid Depot like you're actually in that area like what a shirt might look like there like we got like a throw blanket that just said Black Spire Outpost that's all that it had on it so and even there's a toy area where it looks like the toys have been made like on the planet like they may be like a wooden Jawa's or like things of things of a little what are like little plushes of like Rey and the other characters but you won't like find like but they look like they were actually made there and then they've got like you know I caught the cosplay store like if you want to dress like a Jedi or anybody else that's where you can get everything there there's like one booth that has everything that you could use to dress up so locally sourced Batu yeah yeah it's like it's like an Etsy on the edge of the galaxy yeah and like all the rebel stuff was closed so I didn't get to see what they had but I could only so I'm like oh man this is a whole this is a whole kiosk guys you know I didn't get to spend money on this is so something for next time you had something for you to spend money on next time yeah we're gonna say goodbye to the video folks thanks for watching everybody audio folks though stick around we're still recording and then there's more to come