A Very Interesting Theme Park Question

On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, strange things are afoot at the parks and it brings up a very interesting question to get asked...

Episode Transcript

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From the theme park Capital of theWorld, Orlando, Florida. This is
the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this on the radio? Why
does everything gotta be so messy onthis station? Anyway? Here's your hosts,
Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris. Welcome to the Theme Park Podcast.

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Stickerman. Here, there's Jimmy D. Hey, what's going on?
Pillows? And Scott Harris. Promocode, Scott Harris, use it on
all of your Black Friday deals.A little tardy for that. When you're
even past. Oh my deals continue? Oh your deals can see season of

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season of deals. Baby, it'sthe season of Scott Yes, basically,
Dickerman. To be fair, Ijust ordered a Black Friday deal on Amazon
exactly. The still seem to bekicking along. There's there's a few out
there still. Yeah. I justgot a note of gation from them on
Black Friday Deals. Yeah, theychange a notification to Cyber Monday on Monday,

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and then Tuesday went back to BlackFriday deals. We're back to Black
Friday, guys. Cyber Monday gotThanksgiving in the deal. I guess right.
That's all the same a single day. Anybody anybody see any reports from
theme parks on Thanksgiving because I don'tfeel like that's a big theme park day
like I feel like Christmas. Yeah, you know, fourth of July,
Shore A lot of other days arebig theme park days. But I feel

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like Thanksgiving, just like everything elseThanksgiving gets, is mostly forgotten. It
no, no, no, BecauseI've worked at theme parks before, it's
dead early in the day and thenusually around one to three o'clock that's when
it gets busy. And are peoplebuying turkey legs? Do you feel like
even after they've already eaten turkey forthe day. I believe this is not

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I believe at Disneyland in Anaheim,California, there is now a limit on
the amount of turkey legs you canbuy. Well, that's because the FDA
stepped in and said one can't havethat much sodium without you being responsible for
homicide if you give them, ifyou're overserved turkey legs, nobody knows what's
gonna happen. It can't be good, though. I just want to I
just want to know. It's like, are people re selling turkey legs?

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Wait? Is there black market turkeylegs? That's what I'm saying, Like,
is somebody rolling in there and gettinglike ten of them, then putting
them on like I don't know,dry ice, and then putting them on
an airplane to someplace. So whengoing on. When I worked at Islands,
there was a stand. There wasa stand. One of the stands

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that I worked at was the fruitstand in Port of Entry, and it
sold turkey legs and corn dogs.People would come up and ask for them
to be wrapped up in wax paperas if they were taking them home,
not to eat right away, butto take them home for future consumption.
Okay, that's an odd name forthe fruit stand to have turkey legs and

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corn hucks. By the way,it also silled fruit, so that the
fruit fruit also was We just calledit the fruit stand. I don't know,
like, I don't think it hada name on the map. It's
official name. Okay. At onepoint in my life I ate one of
those turkey legs, But now asan adult, I look at it and
I am horrified at the thought ofeating that. I mean, it's like
ninety nine percent sodium, right,I don't even think legally turkey anymore.

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Double I would have to take doublethe private sect just to you know,
get halfway through it. It's likethe Maraschino cherry of turkey legs, Like
it started out as a turkey leg, but it is no longer legally a
turkey leg anymore. This actually grewon a turkey. We can't call a
turkey leg. We have changed itso much that it is no longer technically

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a turkey. I do like Maraschinocherry though. They're way way better than
this crappy real cherries. You hurtmy feelings for a second there. I
love them. I love them.It's nothing like a regular cherry though I've
never had one. A Maraschino cherryhouse. I don't like. I don't
like. I don't like cherries.I feel like you're a Shirley Temple kind
of person. Oh my god,you have had a Shirley Temple. No,

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I haven't. Your middle name isShirley Temple. Like I like cherry
flavored things, I have a Ihave a twelve pack a Mountain Dew right
in that fridge behind my laptop.Well these are these are like that,
but just a food form. They'renot like I can't believe as a kid,
you never got a special trip outto Red Lobster or did a Shirley
Temple with that little sword going throughthe Maraschino cherries. I didn't go to

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Red Lobster for the first time untilI was nineteen years old. You were
robbed, You were robbed? WasI was? I that the old Red
the old Red Lobster. That wasan event. You got trussed up,
you were going up there. Therewas a ship in the freaking thing it
was. It was something. Oh, I've just been by not having a

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Shirley Temple. Did I really missout? No? You did because as
a kid, that was like yourspecial drink. You know, if you're
fancy adult is drinking a Martine,a Martini you're knocking back of Shirley temp
or a Virgin Dackery. Yeah.Yeah, it's good stuff. Should we
get into theme park talk? Yeah, I got a big I got a
big question. I got a big, big question because these are two related

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things that happened at theme parks,one here in one in California. Okay,
all right, So Hollywood Repride Rocketone of Jimmy's favorite rides because I
enjoy that because it goes over MPs. His favorite stage at Universal Orlando Resort
for that alone. Stage, forthat alone, Jimmy, you should ride

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the ride. Yeah, and youget to pick your own music limited selections.
Now, do you still have thecheat code? TVD? Okay?
TVD mainly where the rest of thisstory goes? Okay? All right,
So you know how it has likea vertical shit chain lift. That's what
makes it awesome. It got stucklast week. I've been stuck on that

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thing before or not, like onthe chain lift, I've been stuck on
rip red Rocket and it's not superfun. Was that fun being stuck on
any ride? Did it get stuckon the vertical bar? Yes? So,
like how far up were they Thefirst car was cresting over, not

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looking down, but it was stillvertical, but just the beginning of the
arch. That's probably not a greatplace to get stuck. It required the
fire department. See I've never hadto do that where you have to get
like evacuated out of there. Yeah, Fritz did that one time on Everest,
But I've never seen did they haveto like get him in like the

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bucket or I don't. I've I'vescoured the internet. All I've seen is
that the fire department was involved.All is if I'm on the ride and
I need to be egressed off,you're gonna have to be a bracas me.
I don't want to know what's goingon. I don't want to see
it. I don't want to seeit. Honestly, if I was in

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that situation, Scott, I wouldbe like, I'm just gonna release the
harness and fall. It's just like, I'm I'm not gonna handle that.
Well, this is a sign forGod. Goodbye, goodbye friend. No,
just leave me. When the Monorail caught on fire in the eighties,
they busted out the windows and climbedon top of the monorail. Whoa,
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna letthe fire take me because there's no

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way I'm gonna be able to climboutside onto the roof. I am super
impressed that people did that. Inever heard that. Yeah, that's terrifying.
Well, you know how it haswheels on the sides, Yes,
like pull a pull on the Ithink one of the one of the tires
went flat and it started rubbing againstthe concrete and eventually ignited. Gotcha,

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that caused a fire in the cabin. And then if you Google search monorail
graveyard. It'll show you like abunch of old monorails out in a field
somewhere, and you'll see the burntout one in that picture. Oh wow.
And so the people busts to thewindows out and climbed to the roof
of the monorail. Yeah, theywere just people were a different breed back
then. They were just tougher.They were tougher. Yeah, yeah,

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Oh, I'm definitely way softer thanlike those eighties parents. The time I
got trapped in a monorail, Ithought we were gonna have to like pop
a window out or something. Thatjust kept going through stops and we're like
gods out here. I got trappedon pirates, but that's not a bad
thing to get trapped on. Lockedin a monorail is weird because they just
keep stopping and everybody else gets offand all the other trains, but your
train doors were sealed shut. Theyat least keep moving around. They did,

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but they couldn't get out the ideaof being evaped from the gondolas,
like especially if you're over water,and they oh yeah, like a zip
line, Yeah you can zipline mydead body down. Oh yeah, that's
one at a time thing they haveto like get to you put the ladder
up and just climbing down the ladder. Oh my god, forget it.

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That doesn't mean that though. Doyou think those people that busted out the
windows of the monorail got like agolden ticket to come back for for all
eternity? You know, I don'tknow. I would, I would want
to. There's got to be somekind of policies they have. There's some
lawyers that have set up a spreadsheetthat if an accident of this caliber happens

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an act of God, get thiskind of Yeah, there's like certain like
compensation levels. The forever pass,all right, so back to back to
ripbride rockets, So that happens.So that happened. Meanwhile, on the
opposite coast, an individual at Disneyland, uh, decided to go around the

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world. Because it's a small world. It's very easy, very easy to
do. But he decided to dothis. Oh natural, He was naked
in a children's ride. Mind you, it's a small world because that is
that is for the little ones forthe most part. And like the story

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ends with him falling crotch first ontothe track, escorted out of the park
permanently banned. I can only assumeyes, wait, like wait when you
say escorted out of the park andpolice department, I believe they take over
in that situation. That was thereport that I saw. I have not

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like I had seen corroborating like atarp over him or like, I don't
know. I don't know. Thereports that I saw was that he was
escorted out of the park. ButI don't know if that means out one
of the cast member side doors orwhat. But I believe in those situations,

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it is not Disney security that takesover. It is police departments take
takeover. Wow. Yeah, Ican see that. You know what,
if this happened in the eighties,like like Jimmy was talking about with the
monorail, that guy would have gottena baton bath. Not anymore. They
just take him peacefully in cuffs probablyat least yeah, probably in cuffs,
hopefully covering all sorts. Well,hopefully the cuffs are in front, and

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they put a jacket over his hands. Yeah, drugs had to be involved.
I can only assume. I mean, drugs had to be Well,
it's gonna either be drugs, mentalinstability, or some kind of protests.
Do not believe it's a protest becausethere's no sign or no message. I

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don't like It's a Small World andit's talking of togetherness. I'm gonna get
naked and walk through the ride.This is definitely drugs. Did you ever
see the Simpsons episode where they goto Itchy and Scratchy Land and they make
Lisa drink the water inside It's aSmall World and then she has an acid
trip? Yeah, thank you.I think that this might be that situation
where he's like, I'm going torecreate the Lizard King situation and he just,

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you know, did it? AllI know is all I know is
Jimmy. If you since you're abig fan of It's a Small World,
you should watch the Imagineering documentary becausethere's like a whole like thing about it.
You should watch the number is itNumber one or number two movie of
all time? Box office returns.You should watch that movie on Disney Plus.

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I told you I will watch itwhen it is playing at wah wah
gas stations and four minute increments thatlittle player window while you're pumping your gas.
Look, I will say this aboutthe situation in California, and it's
a small world. I am sohappy to hear that happen in California and

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not Florida, because we constantly arethe bad rap over here on our side
of this our side of the country. And for once, some Florida kook
ended up at the wrong ended upat the wrong Disney California man is there
at Disney getting naked, and it'sa small world. Recreating a Simpsons episode,
I can only assume. Do youwant me to find out? I

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just checked the police report. He'sfrom Winterhead in Florida? Are you serious
now? I'm oh? I like, I mean, I wanted that.
I weirdly wanted that to be true. That to be true. I know
me too, so so which wouldyou rather experience them? Would you rather
experience being stuck on that that rideor enjoying a night's trip with your family

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and seeing a naked man going throughIt's a small world after you paid two
hundred dollars to be there each Whenam I getting stuck on the ride?
Is it like the last thing I'mgoing to do? Or is it like
first thing? I'm getting beaten downby the sun. Because it's at the
highest point of the day, wedon't know when it actually happened, right,
it happened at night. Okay,so it happened to night, So

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okay, it happens at night.You're definitely getting tickets for another day.
You're definitely gonna get tickets for anotherday. It's the end of your night.
You've enjoyed the entire park. Youdo have the inconvenience at the end
of being stuck on a vertical liftfor a indetermined amount of time. Yeah,
but free tickets the next day mostlikely. Yeah. Or that that

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trip down, Yeah, that tripdown is gonna in the dark. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I mean ifyou're in the bucket, if you're
in the little cherry picker bucket.I don't know if a cherry picker can
go that high. And I betyou the small world people got free tickets
too, so I pick your poison. I can't imagine that scenario. They

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got a free ticket to see Wishhair we got a few aconds. We
just got a couple extra here.You can go see Wish now, lucky
you maybe not. I Wish didnot do well in the box office as
I understand it. I'm not wellreviewed either. I think the worst reviewed
movie they've had since nineteen eighty something, is what they said it was.

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Since I don't remember what the moviewas, but it was something terrible I
didn't even know Disney made. Uh, okay, it's the first. It's
the first. Disney has not hada billion dollar movie since twenty nineteen.
They said the best performing movie forthem this year was actually Guardians. Yeah
it was, which was probably theirbest movie this year. I mean,

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there is a sect of people thatwill never ever watch that again, including
my wife, because I will neverwatch that movie again. Okay, Scott's
right there with her, like,yeah, they couldn't get into the I
mean, it's a very good movie. I just will never want to watch
it again. Yeah, they did. I will say this. They did
have finally, Well I don't knowif it's finally, if it's even good

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or bad. They had a villainthat had absolutely no redeemable qualities. There
was nothing good about this guy.You could always see with their other villains
like Okay, maybe you know,I can see how they could see this,
but this guy had literally no redeemingqualities. This good movie but a
sad movie, very sad for alot of people, including Scott at Yeah,

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their other Big Grocer was The LittleMermaid. Oh yeah, that was
that did well too. And theother one that did well was The Fire
and Water one Elemental Elemental Elementally,Yeah, that was the having legs at
the end. That's the thing.Everyone is immediately writing off Wish, just
like they did with Elemental. Mmhmm, yeah, Elemental did. They

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had a strong comeback. It didn'tstart out great, but they had legs.
And if you look at what's comingout for the rest of the year,
it is very plausible that Wish canjust keep chugging along. Yeah,
there's there's there's no children's films comingout, family films. I should say,
there's a Diary of a Wimpy KidChristmas movie, but I can't tell

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if that's theatrical. Uh, it'snot gonna do good Wonka with show Okay
that people are saying, Shallamage's doinggreat. They say he's good in that.
That's what I've heard so far.There's a movie called The Iron Claw.
That's Oh, I'm seeing that.It's about the van Erics. That's
a family friendly movie, right,No, but that's an Opening night Go

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and see that one. That's athat's a Christmas night movie. For you.
Oh, I know that's a Decembertwenty second, so right before Christmas.
Yep, that's I'm there. That'sthe movie. He'll spend Adobe Cinema,
right, Yeah, there's there's thestory of the van ericson. There's
nothing because like Trolls already came out, so like Wish just got the slot
right now. It could pull itoff maybe maybe, or it doesn't.

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What about God god Zilla minus one? Yeah? Is that it rated R
film or it's it's it's rated Scottwants to be the day one showing one.
Okay, all right, that's myguy. I'm in for it.
I'm in for it. When realquick, before we get back to the
theme, when is Dune Part twocoming out now? Because it's suposed to

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be out this month, but nowit's not till like February or March.
March actors, Thanks, guys,really appreciate your stupid strike. Hey man,
it just means we're gonna get abunch of great movies next year instead.
That's true. Hey, there's abunch of good movies coming out this
year. Still still uh yeah,the Iron Claw Ferrari. I'll go see

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Aquaman two because the first one wasfun. I'll see it as well.
We saw the trailer actually, whenwe went to see Napoleon, and they
literally showed Amber heard for half asecond in the trailer. She was like
a flash that went behind the screen. There's Wonka, there's the Emma Stone
movie, Poor Things. What's thatabout? It kind of looks like a

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modern retailer era, irreverent retelling ofFrankenstein. Okay, that's interesting. John
John Wu's got an new movie calledSilent Night Christmas Movies. It's yeah,
it's got Joel Kinman in it.And I thought we canceled him. No
Kinman, no dial was no dialogue. Oh really, it's an action movie

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with no dialogue. I thought we'dlike Kineman. What happened with him?
I thought he was Okay, No, he's good. I think I don't
think he did anything. Yeah,I don't. I think, yeah,
don't. You don't stop casting expersions. I don't think he did anything.
Yeah. I just remember at thetime Dickerman was like a good thing.
They killed him off in uh suicidesquad just in time. I don't recall.
I don't remember. I like Kinnemand I hope, I hope nothing

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happened there. Yeah, I hopeso too, because I loved him as
the gerbo cop. Oh yeah,I never did I see that RoboCop.
I think I need to see that. Still, I didn't see it.
I thought it was good. Ilike it. I'm gonna you throw a
RoboCop on anything, I don't care. I just watched a four part RoboCop
doc on a streaming service called screamBox last week. How do we have

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two whole a streaming services? Now? I'm here for it? Did you
wait? Did you buy this one? Or did you do free trial?
Free trial? I had to finish. I had one. I had one
day left to finish a robo doc. Yeah, squeeze it in quick.
Yeah. I actually I went toOCPA headquarters in Dallas. When I was
there, Uh, there's this greatstory where Peter Weller always refers to himself

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as Robo and he's demanding oreos andhe's shouting at people Robo wants oreos.
Okay, could I quickly we havewe have three minutes. I could I
quickly run through the news. Ohsure, I guess if you want to
talk about theme parks, that's fine. Did you guys see the bronze statue
of Walt at Epcot. Now,yes, that's one of them. Okay,

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let me, let me okay.So, yes, there's a bronze
statue of Walt. And just likeit was planned, it's got a great
vista of a wall behind it.They chose just throw a wall behind that
you can kind of see Spaceship Earth. But it went from him sitting on
steps to him sitting on a bench. Oh okay, So people aren't happy

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with this location choice. I'm wonderinghow long before there's a rope around this.
It's not even open to public.It doesn't open to the public as
Wild December fifth. So you cantouch it, yeah, you can,
like you can can you sit nextto Walt? Yeah? And Walt is
off center so that you can likeput more people around it, and like,
oh, it's kind of like,uh, Millhouse over the Simpsons area.

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It's like Millhouse in the Simpsons areaand you can sit with him.
That's kind of cool. Just intime for Christmas, Hatbot Ghost is gonna
be at Haunted Mansion and Magic KingdomJared Leto potentially if you want to see
that movie, I mean, isit his voice? It's just there it's

(21:59):
just allowed. Okay. Yeah,is it ared Leto's laugh or is it
the joker's laugh? Or is itwhatever else you played? Laugh? It's
they already have original dialogue, yeah, recorded for the Uh. The hat
box goes from a California, Sothe public just use that. Okay.
Your corn dog Place will now openat Boardwalk in twenty twenty four. Okay,

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so it's all corn dogs, blueribbon corn dogs, must be special
corn dogs. Yes, brown backample Hills. Oh my god. Yes,
I may or may not have beenthinking about going to get a kitchen
sink the other day. You can'tmiss the ice cream in that place.
That's good. I know two peoplethat will help you with it. Do

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you think you could finish at Dickerman? Absolutely not on your own. No,
I could not, but you couldn't. But you just worked our way
through. Like the peanut butter one. We did that one, and that
was that was a challenge in itself. I can't imagine what the kitchen sink
looks like because the ragger serving thereis two people, and two people generally
can't finish it. Did you everdo that? Have you done the the

(23:06):
the Bavarian at AMC theaters. No, it's kidding. I bring my own
food into theaters. It is noteasy to tackle, by the way,
Oh your foods very quickly. Loungefly bags. You know that AMC Theaters
is selling a lounge fly bag basedon Nicole Kidman's outfit from the pre show

(23:30):
video. I really fly bag morethan that. Yeah, that is brilliant.
I can't believe how infamous that openingscene has become. Are you kidding
me? I stand up and putmy hand on my chest. That's my
pleasure of allegiance. Now I willsalute honestly, you know that is an
appropriate thing to do in that trailerthere comes on, everybody should stand up

(23:52):
and take their hat off. Maybewill next time. They will do that
next time. And very quickly youcan see Shrek's swamp at Universal or stew
dis Orlando, so a little odeto Shrek as they have closed that area
and are bringing up the minions.No, no, no, no,
this is over in the new ShrekLand, next the new DreamWorks Land.
Oh I didn't even know that.Okay, well that's cool. Yeah,

(24:15):
good. Welcome back Shrek. Itwas a short dismissal. Welcome back,
correct the company, Shrek all right, Scott. If people want to find
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(24:37):
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