March 19, 2025 • 54 mins
The 90s was a defining decade for Disney, creating cherished characters and stories that still influence the parks today. We dig deep into the remaining 90s-era attractions and experiences across Walt Disney World to guide nostalgic millennials on where to recapture their childhood memories.
• PhilharMagic in Magic Kingdom provides the strongest collection of 90s movie scenes and music in one place
• Journey of the Little Mermaid and Enchanted Tales with Belle celebrate Disney Princess classics from the early 90s
• Toy Story Land in Hollywood Studios pays homage to the groundbreaking 1995 animated film
• Festival of the Lion King in Animal Kingdom brings the beloved 90s soundtrack to life
• Character meet opportunities with Powerline Max, Rafiki, and others connect guests with 90s favorites
• Sunny Eclipse at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe represents quintessential 90s audio-animatronic entertainment
• Dinosaur's pre-show features Felicia Rashad (Claire Huxtable) in a deep-cut 90s connection
Next week, we'll be revisiting each park to determine if the attractions are over, under, or properly rated – get ready for some passionate opinions!
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello and welcome to Circula Parks podcast episode
number 195.
Today we are discussing 90snostalgia.
Currently in the Walt DisneyWorld parks.
There is far too much to seeand do.
We are here to help guide youthrough, but before we do that
(00:41):
we must talk Disney merch.
So this week at DisneyStorecom,for $99.99, there is this,
cross the finish line, ahead ofthe pack, wearing a fun,
fashionable twill racing jacketby Our Universe that is sure to
(01:03):
warm you up.
It's Toy Story themed.
It's got all sorts of Toy Storylogos and Woody and RC art and
95 Champions banner on it.
Heavyweight twill racing jacketwarm, fill, pierced design with
color block styling.
Full zip front with snap at topand flap cover the sleeves.
(01:25):
It's got like splash of art atthe cuffs, embroidered Toy Story
, pixar, ball, space Ranger,sheriff badge, pizza Planet on
the front and again you haveArcee and Woody on the back.
So keeping it kind of 90sfashion style themed.
So I thought that this would bethis week's Disney merch.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I was going to say that sounds very 90-ish.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The 90s was a decade of very loud designer stuff.
Not that it's bad, I'm justsaying like everything was loud
and in your face.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
A little out there, a little bright yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Remember the old starter jackets?
Yes, you weren't cool unlessyou had a starter jacket.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
oh, you're showing it to me, I'm showing you the oh
yeah, no, that's very 90s.
That's very 90s nascar-ish,yeah looking yeah, it's a little
much for me even back then likeI didn't like all of that right
like and I wouldn't get thiseither, but I was like, okay,
what is kind of theme to?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
what we're talking about and yeah remember the uh
tommy hill figure made theoveralls popular again oh yes,
and then you weren't cool unlessyou had just like one strap
hanging off right, yeah, it wasa time it was a time some of the
stuff's coming back too, sosome can, some should not right.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, you know, yes, but but yeah, so that's this
week's disney merch, all rightso thank you everybody for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Episode number 195 I'm zach I'm britney and we
still got allergies here intennessee.
Yes, they don't go away we didget some rain yesterday, I did
feel a little better yesterday.
Yeah, not today, it's okay sowe're apologizing ahead of time
when you hear us coughing in thebackground.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I think once all the trees get bloomed, I think we'll
Maybe, because right now, whatare those?
The dogwood trees and stuff areblooming and everything.
They're just like ugh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But we're not getting worse, but we're not getting
better.
So it's just like yes, the sameright, but just enough to be
aggravating, but it's like oneday we have them and then the
next day they're gone.
Right, and then it's just goneoh, when, when the allergies are
over, yeah yeah so hopefullythe next few weeks they'll be
yeah gone.
Well, if you're just new to theshow, I'm zach we already said.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We already said that, sorry we got on a tangent.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So our goal here every week is to take you to
walt disney world and break yourweek up.
Helps us kind of just get todisney every week.
We can't go all the time.
We live in tennessee, in middletennessee.
We go as much as we can.
I go more often for the bookwriting, but that's slowing down
slowing down.
We've.
(04:04):
I think we're not in the laststretch, but we're getting
pretty close.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like one more trip, one more trip Specific for that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So when I'm writing about it, I want to write about
the music you're around and yoursights and the smells and the
sounds and all that, and youcan't really write about that
unless you're in that area,right?
So I take notes when I'm there,and it's a very different trip
than when we go as a family.
Yes, y'all would not have fun.
(04:33):
No, I'm sitting around with aniPad taking notes and just yeah,
yeah, doing all that, but yeah,so our goal is that and to help
you have a better Walt DisneyWorld vacation or Disneyland.
We talk about Disneyland sometoo and we just really just want
you to have a great vacationand we hope to bring some joy to
(04:53):
your week.
That's all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, and it brings joy to our week too.
So, yeah, again, when we'redoing this episode it's more
like 90s nostalgia currently inwalt disney world parks, but
think back to that time frameand the movies and shows that
were out.
So think like goofy movielittle mermaid, beauty and the
beast, aladdin, lion, king,pocahontas, hunchback of notre
(05:19):
dame, or notre dame uh, hercules, toy story, tarzan emperor's
new groove was that in the 90sas well.
Okay, uh, duck Hercules.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Toy Story Tarzan.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Emperor's New Groove Was that in the 90s.
Yes, okay, ducktales, darkwing,duck, nightmare Before
Christmas, hocus, pocus, allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So the Emperor's New Groove probably had the biggest
90s cast ever Right and no onereally knows about that movie.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Like it was John Goodman Puddy, David Puddy from
Seinfeld, about that movie.
No, Like it was John GoodmanPutty, David Putty from Seinfeld
, who's the safety announcer forSWORD.
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I can't think of his name, oh I can't think of his
actual name either, and not DanaCarvey.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, Dana Carvey was in the was in the Emperor's New
Groove, like you couldn't getmore of a 90s cast than that
right there, so it's one of myfavorite movies.
I think it's very underrated.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're wrong.
It came out in 2000.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
2000.
Well, you know we're talkingabout things that happened in 89
.
Here too, A little bit thatgets lumped into the 90s.
So you know I'm a zennial.
I don't consider myself amillennial.
I was born in 83.
So I relate myself a millennial.
I was born in 83.
So I relate more to the early90s than the late 90s because I
(06:30):
was in that middle school tohigh school, transition in like
95 96 where it wasn't cool tolike disney stuff anymore yeah
so, and I'm more early mid 90s,right, but you're still a.
You were still like a disney kid, though yeah, I wasn't I went
full hardcore skateboarding andright like opposite of
counterculture or I went.
(06:51):
Yeah, yeah, so I I'm nowappreciating more the late 90s
type of stuff like a goofy movieyes I did not enjoy them.
Now, as a dad, I know I lovedit.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now as a dad great movie we'll.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I loved it Now as a dad.
Great movie.
We'll get into that a littlebit later.
I have some thoughts andopinions on that movie later on,
but we'll get into it when weget to a certain park.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, sorry, I was double checking a couple of the
movies I had mentioned, but I'mgood.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You're good.
Yes, hercules was 90s.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I was trying to remember if hocus pocus was like
right before the 90s or not,but it was in 93, 93, yeah, uh,
so yeah, we're gonna.
There's not a lot of 90s stuffleft in the parks there's not
now.
There used to be and maybetouch on that I feel like
there's more 80s stuff, the 90snow, especially in a couple of
other parks right, okay.
Okay, that's what I think.
Yeah, but anyway, all right,where are we going to first?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let's do 90s in Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All right, I've got one deep cut.
I know you probably got a lotthere, so I'll let you take
control here.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, the first one where you're going to really
revisit a lot of those movies Imentioned is PhilharMagic.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Great, great, great.
Cannot recommend this showenough.
Yes, great show.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you know some might be thinking a show really,
but it takes you through somany movies, and not just from
the 90s, early classics as well.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Peter Pan yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah and more, and they've added some extra scenes
to it too, about a year or twoago the coco scene edition.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I was skeptical about how it's going to be.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, they did it so well, it'sso good, it blends right in.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I just I love it yeah , but yeah, I mean, and it takes
you through.
You know the the Lion King,aladdin on the flying carpet,
little Mermaid, beauty and theBeast with Be Our Guest.
You know several scenes fromdifferent movies, so that one
just jumped out to me right offthe bat, because I think that,
(08:58):
for Zach, is when he realizedthis might not be a one and done
Disney trip after all, it wasthe Mickey Mouse March.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's what got me.
That is what got me because Iwas immediately taken back to
being nine years old in mygrandmother's wood panel den
watching the Mickey MouseClubhouse with Justin Timberlake
, christina Aguilera and BritneySpike.
I was immediately taken backright then.
That's where it took me andthat's when it got that
childhood out of me and I waslike oh yeah, oh okay, now I get
(09:34):
it right right.
I have a fun fact about thisshow, though.
Okay, I just recently learnedagain I'm doing a lot of
research on Fantasyland rightnow because I'm writing about
Fantasyland so I'm doing likereally deep dive research into
it.
The show before mickey'sphilhar magic was a broadway
style lion king show oh reallyand it paved the way for the
(09:58):
broadway show that is currentlythe lion king in animal kingdom.
No, oh, oh, the actual broadwayBroadway show was born from the
show before Mickey'sPhilharMagic.
The Lion King show inPhilharMagic is an ode, is a nod
to the past show that was here.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh interesting, that is very interesting.
I didn't know that yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But this is a great show.
It's a great 90s nostalgia,with Be Our Guest and Brittany
talked about it.
It's just, it's so well, sowell done.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It is, it is and you know it, like I mean, we saw
that what mid-afternoon when wewere there on our first trip,
you know, and we were kind oflike, eh, really we want to go
watch this, but it did it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was great.
And this is also a nod to whatWalt Disney originally wanted
Fantasia to be.
Fantasia well, walt was wayahead of his time for most
things, right.
He wanted Fantasia to be like a4D experience before 4D was
(11:04):
even a thing, right.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So Fantasia is all about what you see when you hear
music.
Right, that's what Fantasia issupposed to be.
But Walt also wanted, likemusic players in the theater,
and the technology just was notthere.
He wanted a splash in your facewith the mop scene.
Right, stuff like that.
(11:26):
This isn't also a nod to?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
what he wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Originally Walt wanted for Fantasia.
Okay, so that's why theFantasia scene is in.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It Is in it, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah and again.
So don't you know think, oh,it's just a show, it's fun, it's
a great show.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Adults, if you're.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Around our age.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm in my 40s.
I'm not going to talk aboutBrittany's age I'm almost there.
You will love it.
You will love it, yes, and yourkids will love it too.
Our kids love this.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, it's funny You've got donald duck acting a
little like donald duck ofcourse acting donald ducky and
at the end there's a littlesurprise too.
So so yeah, it's, it's a funtime and takes you back, so um
what's next on your list?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
well, I said that one , so you I don't want to take
one that I know you're gonnahave okay, so next on my list is
journey of the little mermaid Ididn't have that on my list
because I knew you would haveokay, so, so, this is Little
Mermaid ride.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's, you know, one of those.
What is it called when they'reconstantly moving?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Omnimover.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, so it's an Omnimover type ride, so most of
the time the wait isn't too bad,but there are times where we
have waited a little while,where, like, the ride has gone,
gone down for a few moments andeverything.
But for the most part it's anomnimover type ride and it takes
you through the scenes a littlemermaid, like you know, under
(12:52):
the sea, and when she um, isbeing turned into a human and
losing her voice with ursulascariest animatronic ever and
then obviously, like the, givesme nightmares.
The boat scene with Prince Ericand all that.
It basically takes you throughthe movie.
So it's one that, like it,might not be the best ride, but
(13:15):
when we have skipped it before,I missed it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I was going to say that this is not a must ride for
us, but when we don't ride it,I'm like we should have ridden
it.
Yeah, you know, know, and thequeue is great the queue is the
queue is awesome.
They did such a great job withthe knots, the 20,000 leagues
under the sea and the hit, thetwo most infamous, infamous,
infamous, hidden mickeys are inthis attraction yeah, and
(13:39):
there's a lot of details in thequeue that you just don't
realize really setting well inthe queue.
I'm sorry not in the attractionum details in the queue that you
just don't realize reallysetting Well in the queue.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I'm sorry, not in the attraction, really setting the
tone, you know, for getting youto be under the sea.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to say the Magic Carpets of
Aladdin.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, in Agrabah.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, you know it's the Dumbo type ride in
Adventureland, but it's.
I think they could do so muchmore with this area.
I think so too and they're justnot.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I kind of wish they would.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I kind of wish they would too.
Yeah, you know they need tohave like carpet around like
something right, yeah like.
I feel like they just kind oflike.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I mean, you do get to meet characters here from time
to time, right, but it could beso much better.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, and it does fit in with.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Adventureland it does , and you know you might get wet
when you're on the ride, watchfor spitting camels.
Yep, or even before you get onthe ride.
So yeah, I feel like the areawhere Aladdin Magic Carpet is
definitely could be better, butI'm glad that they are giving
some kind of nod to that movieOne.
Yep.
Is that all you have to say onthat one?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's all I got to say.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, Another one.
Enchanted Tales with Belle.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
See, I knew this one is what you want to talk about.
I want to say you love acertain thing.
I love the pre-show.
I guess it's a pre-show themirror that turns into the door
and I think maybe the bestspecial effect in all of Walt
Disney World.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right it is crazy.
Yeah, and I mean, and even thewardrobe and everything, just it
really truly does a great jobof making you feel like you're
visiting certain scenes from themovie and you know, if you've
been listening to the show longenough, like Beauty and the
Beast, little Mermaid, aladdin,lion King, like those are the
(15:27):
movies that I grew up with and Ireally, you know, kind of
gravitate towards Belle and soso, yeah, definitely, if you
were young in the 90s, this isan attraction that I say.
You know, if you, it might notbe on your list, if, if it's a
one and done trip, that's theonly time you're going to go,
(15:47):
but if you have a chance to goback, I definitely say add this
to your list definitely do it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, it's a great show yes, all right, you got
anything else I do, do you Ihave one more go ahead.
I want to end with my last one,though, so you go ahead, okay,
because I have two more.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay continue All right.
Buzz Lightyear Space RangerSpin.
Oh yeah, because Toy Story cameout in the 90s.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I always forget the Toy Story was like was it 95, 96
?
Yeah, it was 95 or 96.
Yeah, Always forget that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So, in Tomorrowland you have Buzz Lightyear Space
Ranger Spin.
It's a lot like toy story maniain hollywood studios, um, but
buzz lightyear gets like centerof attention here and uh yeah, I
mean like this is where, for me, I started kind of distancing
myself from watching a lot ofdisney movies and stuff gotcha
(16:37):
so I so sometimes, when I, whenpeople say toy story.
I'm thinking it's more like2000s and stuff, but really the
first one came out in the mid90s.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So it's hard.
It's hard to think, like wrapyour mind around that Toy Story
came out 20, 30 years ago.
Yeah, 30 years ago, toy Storycame out.
Yeah, yeah, almost.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, so, but, yes, so, don't forget about Buzz
Lightyear, because that is where, if you were one that really is
obsessed with toy story, ormaybe that's when you were five,
six, seven years old and thatwas one of your first favorite
disney movies, you know, uh,you're going to see buzz
lightyear and some buddies outin that area.
(17:19):
So, okay, what's your last one?
Well, it's probably your lastone too, no, no, I have another
one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well, it's probably your last one too.
No, I forgot, I have anotherone.
I guarantee you it is not mylast one.
You're not going to take mylast one.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I guarantee you that.
And I forgot.
I have another one too.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So another one is the parades.
That's the one I almost didn'tsee.
Okay, because you're going tosee a lot of these characters
from these movies in the parades, from the different princesses,
in the movies that I'vementioned, depending on the time
of year, like at Halloweenparties you're going to see, you
know, like Nightmare BeforeChristmas and Hocus Pocus, at
(17:56):
the parades and stage shows.
You know, talking aboutHalloween, not just focusing on
the main characters, but thevillains you're going to see
from some of these movies, likeJafar, for example, for Aladdin.
So, keep in mind, parades mightnot be like something that pops
out when you think 90snostalgia, but you're going to
(18:16):
see a lot of these charactersfrom these movies from the 90s.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, all right, what's your last one?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The fireworks, happily ever after.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Okay, is that?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
not what you were going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No.
Oh, okay, I'm saying Iguarantee you you do not have my
last one on your list.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So the happily ever after fireworks, basically same
as what I said about the parades.
You're going to see scenesprojected from some of these
movies that we've been talkingabout and the music that's being
played, that one song fromHercules oh, what is it?
Because you always get.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Go far.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What is it?
What is it?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It really hits you in the emotions.
Oh, hercules songs, what is itcalled?
It's going to drive me crazy.
Oh, go the Distance.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Go the Distance.
Yes, Such a great song.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yes, so it has a really good buildup in this
fireworks performance as well,but again, you're going to see a
lot of these 90s charactersprojected on the castle and on
Main Street and some of the themusic from the movies that we
love and including.
Go to this, go the distance.
I'm not huge on hercules, butthat song is really really good
(19:32):
yeah, no, really good, yeah, sogood all right, so what's yours?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
we're going to tomorrowland now.
Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland Now.
Tomorrowland is going back.
I feel like when you go intoTomorrowland now you're going
back to 80s nostalgia, which isweird because it used to be very
90s-ish, Like the columnsaround the people mover used to
(20:01):
be very big and kind ofobnoxious and very 90s ish
looking right right there usedto be a lot of just in your face
stuff in tomorrowland andthey've, they've kind of they've
gotten rid of a lot of the thethe styling, but I but that's
what made it though right rightlike the music is still kind of
(20:22):
very 90-ish right.
Like the electronical stuff.
Yeah, but I feel like they gotrid of that and now I feel like
we're back in the 80s kind of,with like Space Mountain's very
80 retro, right For sure.
Yes, tomorrowland People Mover,you feel very 80-ish.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, but it's relaxing.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No, I'm not saying it's not I love it, but I'm just
saying a lot of the theming Ifeel like has gone very bland.
I want that in your face inTomorrowland.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
I just feel like maybe theyjust almost don't know what
direction to take it now that weare technically in the future
from when it was built.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, it's just so hard to envision what the future
looks like now, because itmoves so quick.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It does move so quick , but I think I might know what
your last one is now.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So my last one is we're going to.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is it a scene on a certain attraction?
It is not a scene on a certainattraction you have no clue, so
I might have to add another onethen okay we're going to cosmic
ray starlight cafe oh, that isnot where I thought we were
going, okay and we're going tothe performer.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Sunny eclipse he's not the 90s sunny eclipse made
his debut at cosmic raystarlight cafe in 1994 oh well,
excuse me.
Okay, I thought he was thereand if you were born in the
early 80s, like me, you grew upgoing to Showbiz Pizza and what
did they have?
Musical and audio animatronics,right.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
They're a little scary.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This reminds me Sunny Eclipse on a much better level,
reminds me of the Showbiz Pizza, musical stuff Of the showbiz
pizza.
I can see that Musical stuff sohe is with the logo in the back
and the piano and all that.
Is that not Scream 90s?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
right there, it does, but I wasn't thinking that
though.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Of course you're not thinking that.
No, that's what you got me herefor.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Sunny Eclipse.
If you're going to eat atCosmic Rays, sit in the dining
area.
Where he is it sit in thedining area where he is, it's a
funny show.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm not saying do it every time, we don't do it every
time, but occasionally.
I think this summer we will,because we have the quick
service dining plan.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Probably.
Well, I don't know, there'ssome other places, other places,
okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, but I love Sony Eclipse.
He is the 90s nostalgia whenyou see him nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
When you see him, you're like, oh yeah, no, he's
definitely from the 90s, yes,all right, I can see that, but I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Initially I was thinking 80s, but no, I can.
I can see, so the scene in uhthat you're thinking about and
that's what I'm trying to lookup carousel of progress.
I'm thinking that it is a 90sscene.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yes, like that final, final scene, and that's the one
that they updated, like what?
Two years ago or so.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, I think that needs to be.
I love the Carousel of Progressand I don't want them to change
the turn of the century, or the30s or the 50s.
I don't want them to change the40s, whatever.
I do not want them to changethose.
But that last scene, I thinkcould be updated some.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I would want them to change those, but that last
scene I think could be updatedsome.
Yeah, I would be okay with that.
So that's what I was trying tosee it does.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm not seeing where it actually says the year that
it should be um, it's like early90s, yeah because the
technology in the, the, the vrgame, that's very 90 ish, right,
you know, the, the oven, likethe, the architecture of the
kitchen with, like the skylightand the pans hanging above the
90s and the island there waslike that's very 90s ish as well
(23:51):
yeah, because that's where Ithought you were going.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You didn't see sunny eclipse in there, did you, did
not?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
that was not on your bingo card, huh not at all all
right, we went on the hollywoodstudios, which used to have a
ton, yes, a ton, and it is mostof it's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It is.
It's sad.
This was hard.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
This was hard to come up with.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, I mean, I have some.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I've got three.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Because I knew you would come up with the big one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Well, so I don't know if you can meet them all the
time.
Maybe this is where our friendErica can correct us next week.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
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We're going to talk about hermore in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yes, but I know at least at times you can meet
Goofy movie characters here,like Max dressed as Powerline.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yes and Goofy together.
Yes and just Max with Goofy.
Movie characters here like Maxdressed as Powerline.
Yes and Goofy together.
Yes and just Max with Goofy.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes, yeah, but the big thing is as Powerline,
because Goofy movie you knowthat's what it was about in the
song eye to eye and all of that.
So that was one that jumped out.
I have not had a chance to do acharacter meet and greet, but
if I saw that Powerline wasgoing to be, or Max's Powerline
(25:12):
was going to be, available for ameet and greet on our next trip
, I would probably get a picture.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
One have fun with that.
I'm not doing meet and greets.
You can?
I know I'm not saying don't doit, go for it.
I'm not doing meet and greets.
You can?
I know I'm not saying don't doit, go for it.
I'm not going to be doing themeet and greet.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Okay, but you can take the pictures.
We'll see about that, but I'mthe cast member, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Anyway, I have thoughts on the Goofy movie.
Okay.
All right, so I'm really biginto communication right.
Oh, I know, right, oh, I knowwhere you're going with this.
It's a movie, though.
Okay, can go ahead.
This home it's a movie, right?
So we're currently watchingcobra kai right now, right, yeah
(25:51):
, we're almost done with it.
Watching that as an adult,you're like gosh, just stop it,
just like say this or clear thisup.
Like all this stuff could beavoided if you had just talked
about it, talked about it yeah.
In a Goofy movie in thebeginning.
If they were just honest witheach other about what they were
(26:11):
wanting to do, I am more thanwilling to say Goofy would put
their trip off until after theconcert at what's-Her-Name's
house.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, or find a way to combine both, but they would
need to communicate.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But I'm sure Goofy would have put the trip back
right, yeah, and if Max wouldhave communicated to Goofy that
hey, I'm not going to drop outof school and join a gang and do
all this stuff and this is allthat I really did, I bet you
Goofy probably would be reallyproud of him.
I know I'd be proud of my son.
To do all of that for a girlNot just for a girl, but for
(26:56):
entertainment that takes a lotof talent, right there.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So I feel like the miscommunication that none of
them wanted to talk to eachother in the beginning could
have saved this whole mess Right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And that's what we try to communicate with our kids
with, so we don't end updriving across country when we
don't need to and driving a caroff into the Grand Canyon and
losing everything.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Right, Just saying Communicate yes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Communicate.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
so that's something and don't listen to your
horrible coworkers like Goofyand oh gosh, what's his name?
His boss?
Oh pete pete, don't listen tohorrible co-workers.
They'll lead you down the wrongpath yes, so that was on my
list too okay.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But yeah, so I I'm just I'm glad that when in just
the last couple of years they'vereally brought goofy movie yes,
back into because our age groupare the adults with the money
now that's true, so true.
So they want to attract us,they want to bring us with their
kids.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Walt Disney World is not just for kids.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's for adults and kids to have fun together.
Yes, so they're appealing toour age group more and more now
too.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They are.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that's why we're the ones with the money now.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We are, so I went what is we're?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
the ones with the money.
Now we are.
So I went what is one of yours?
This is one that's borderless,90s Okay, but gets lumped in
with 90s.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
One of a great movie.
We recently rewatched it asadults and it came out in 89.
89.
Yeah, very different movie asan adult.
Yes, I understand it a lot morenow and I can 89.
(28:38):
Yeah, very different movie asan adult.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, I understand it a lot more now and I can't
believe this was touted as akid's movie.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, because I was even like oh, oh, okay, but it
is still very, not very,prominent in the park.
But there are parts of the parkthat still pay homage to who
framed our drive.
But there's a big billboardacross from Echo Lake, looking
towards Tower of Terror andabove.
Oh, what's that all-you-can-eatbuffet Hollywood?
(29:06):
And Vine.
There's Eddie Valiant's officewith his letters on the window
and then the outline of RogerRabbit flying through the window
.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So I think they're still really cool nods.
And originally, who FramedRoger Rabbit flying through the
window?
Yes, so I think they're stillreally cool nods.
And originally, who's from the?
Roger Rabbit was supposed tohave a much bigger influence in
Hollywood Studios or MGM backthen but it just never came to
fruition Right, but I doremember when I went.
That's when who's from theRoger Rabbit was really big and
Dick Tracy was really big.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And there was a lot of like Toontown stuff around
MGM.
I don't remember much but Iremember like the steamroller I
remember that prop being in MGMwhen I went and a lot of just
theming towards Roger Rabbitstuff when I was there.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I forgot about the Dick Tracy stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, when you look at my, when I met Mickey and
this picture on our desk.
I'm wearing a Dick Tracyt-shirt.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, when he was, how old were you there?
Seven, eight, god no Like six.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Six seven.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, yep, yep.
So, so, yes, and, and what hesaid?
I mean, it is noticeable, thereis signage in the window and
everything and everything.
So you just got to be lookingup Yep, yep.
So another one, that well, Ihave one, two, three, four,
possibly five, but I'm not sureabout this one.
(30:26):
Okay, so again another showthat kind of encompasses a lot
of characters Fantasmic.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So it's the nighttime show, or one of their nighttime
shows, because they also do aprojection show on the um
chinese theater yes, but at aseparate location in the park.
They have phantasmic, and kindof like what I was saying
earlier when we were in magickingdom is you're going to see a
lot of these characters indifferent scenes of this show
(30:56):
from movies that came out in the90s.
So, um, phantasmic.
I haven't seen it as recentlyas I would like, but we saw it a
very long time ago, in 2019,and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I think we need.
So we tried to watch it lastyear and then something happened
with one of the stunt actorsand they immediately cut the
lights right and was like theshow's over.
Yeah, and you were like what Iwas like he could have possibly
been hurt.
I know, but I was like I we'refinally gonna watch it again,
and then like I think one of theactors got like that was
(31:31):
swinging, got caught in theropes or something they cut it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
we don't know, yeah, we don't know, but they cut it
real quick.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah and turn the lights on and you couldn't see
the stage.
I was like, well, that's notgood, but I think this trip in
the summer I think we need to doit Possibly.
Because it is a really goodshow.
Yeah, I remember liking it.
I just don't want to get wetthis time.
Right further back, when we hadstarted to watch it last year,
(32:00):
and then all that happened, butyeah, yeah, so, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Um, what is going on?
Well, because I was like we'refinally here and then.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So I'm sure you're not the only one that had that
reaction.
We're like the one time.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, yes, so, but it is great.
Uh, again, a lot of scenes.
You've got, you know, mickeyand his sorcerer's hat, all of
that stuff.
It's.
It is an awesome show.
Uh, you know, obviously wehaven't seen it every time we go
, but it is we're seeing whenyou can.
So, um, now another one.
Well, how many more do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I just got one.
You keep going.
Okay, you can keep so toy storyland see, that's the main thing
, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
So it's the whole land.
You know you've got slinky dogdash, the you know roller
coaster.
You've got a toy story mania,or pew pew as we call it because
of our youngest, how he stillcalls it that even to this day.
Um, you know you're, you're inandy's backyard, you're heading
into his room on one of therides.
(32:56):
You know you're doing the alienswirling saucer.
So again, mid 90s is when ToyStory came out.
So that whole land just is verydetailed, very, very detailed
as far as each attraction goes.
You know you have the talkingMr Potato Head and the Lion Q at
I want to say Pew Pew, but ToyStory Mania, so yeah, so again,
(33:20):
the whole land is going to have90s nostalgia from Toy Story.
I have you want me to keepgoing?
Okay, all right.
Also, they have a very similarBroadway show there Beauty and
the Beast.
I didn't think that it wasgoing to be as good as it was,
but when we saw it a couple ofyears ago I was very impressed
(33:43):
with how they did the show.
I would say it's definitelylike a smaller version of the
bigger Broadway show and theydid a great job with it.
Zach was even impressed with itas well.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It was a really good show.
I was very impressed with it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
yes, yeah yes, also, this one is currently not open
and we have not seen it yet.
It hasn't opened back up sinceit closed for COVID, but there
is going to be a Little Mermaidmusical show there.
And so again, early 90s, youknow 89, 90 time.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I heard there's a really big Ursula in there.
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh my goodness, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
She has like 45 chins and they all move at the same
time.
That is scary.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So when I talk about Little Mermaid, it came, it's
one of those that came out in1989.
However, it was really popularin like 1990 as well.
So, all right, 1989.
However, it was really popularin like 1990 as well.
So, yes, what you said aboutUrsula may be in that musical
show.
I don't know.
I'm hoping maybe it will beopen when we're there this
(34:50):
summer, but there's been no date.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm out.
I know All right, we're goingto one more place.
Well, I have a question on oneknow All right, we're going to
one more place.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Well, I have a question on one thing.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, go ahead.
We're going to another show.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We're going to Indiana Jones Stump Spectacular.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
See, I wasn't sure about the date.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So it opened in 89 and it is based on the Riders of
the Lost Ark, which opened in83.
But I think when you think oflike 90s MGM studios, this is
the only thing, left from theoriginal MGM studios, right,
right, so it's still got that90s vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh, I agree.
Like I had it on my list andthen when I looked at when the
movies came out I was like, oh,never mind, I'm wrong, but I was
picturing 90s, yeah it's, itwill Well.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It opened in 89 based on the movie in 80.
Raiders of the Lost Ark, but itstill screams that 90s vibe.
I think, yeah it just it hasn'tchanged much.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, and how they?
Because in the 90s and early2000s and stuff.
This is how Hollywood studiosor back then, MGM studios was.
You had these yeah stunt showsand behind the scenes and all
that.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, that's what the whole park was supposed to be
about right right and uh.
Yeah, I just think it's a greatshow.
Remember watching it as a kid.
Our boys like it from time totime.
Don't always watch it, but theylike the explosions and then
you know the cool stuff on.
I think it's a fun show.
So to me this is 90s nostalgiafor me.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Okay, I can see that because, like I said, I had
started to put it on.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, yeah.
So what's your?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
question.
So because I don't know, Ihaven't ridden the attraction,
so I don't know the songs thatare on this attraction if they
are from the 80s or the 90s.
Rock and roller coaster.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's all of Aerosmith songs, so it ranges from the
80s to 90s to early 2000s.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, so that was my questionable, because I'm like.
Aerosmith you picture like mid,late 80s, but also they had
some big hits in the early 90sthey did yeah.
But I wasn't sure what all youhear on the attraction yeah, it
changes, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I don't think when I think 90s, I don't think
Aerosmith.
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
When I think 80s, I think Aerosmith in the 80s, I
don't which they early 90s.
They were really popular.
I just don't really think.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
They weren't as big Aerosmith?
No, they were.
Yeah, but you picture 80s.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I picture more 80s when I think Aerosmith, but yeah
, definitely in the 90s.
I love Rockin' Roller Coaster.
It's time for it.
It's time.
You know, nobody knows whoAerosmith is anymore.
Besides, people our age, likeour boys, have no idea who they
are Right, no clue.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I mean like looking up some of their songs like
crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
That's early 90s, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Living on the Edge early 90s.
But again, since I haven'tridden the attraction, I was
like, okay, are they playingthose?
Are they playing older songs?
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
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All right, the next park was, Ifeel like, the hardest park to
it was a little difficult.
So you got like 70s and 80snostalgia in the park.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, and I think part of what I put on here is
probably more in no 90s really,and then like new stuff, right,
there's no like yeah, in betweenwe're going to epcot I've got
one okay, like and this is adeep cut well, I have four, but
I think three of them arequestionable because I wanted to
(39:57):
go back to um Miss Judy DameJudy Dench, right, she's a
narrator on Spaceship Earthright.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I think of her from the Bond movies like Golden, not
GoldenEye, but uh, was she inGoldenEye.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I don't know.
I think of her from um, but Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I think of her from.
She may have been, but I don'tknow.
I'll look it up.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But you picture those movies in her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
The Bond movies with the newer guy.
Why am I going?
I don't know.
Casino Royale.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, but that's not the name, that's 2000s.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
But I picture her from those movies.
You know what I mean.
I picture her from like thosemovies.
You know what I mean.
Yes, so, but so I was like, ah,spaceship, earth isn't really
90s nostalgia, it's more like80s.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Daniel Craig.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Daniel Craig.
But it's more like 80snostalgia than 90s, right?
Yeah, so it's not really 90s.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I know, I know so.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I was she in Golden Age.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Look it up I'm looking it up okay, well, while
he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
So I put on um like a character meet and greet uh,
dining experience uh, which isin world showcase in the um
norway pavilion, akershusakershus yes something like.
Yes, and you meet so manyprincesses there, including some
(41:19):
from the 90s like Ariel andBelle, just to name a couple, so
that is Our youngest.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
got real shy around Ariel.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
He did for whatever reason, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
He's not the shy one.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
No, but he was very shy and cheeks turning red and
everything with Ariel.
So, but that is one that I canfeel comfortable about.
And you're meeting some otherstoo.
They're not all just from the90s, but there are a couple of
princesses from late 80s, early90s films that you get to meet
there and, of course, throughoutthe park.
(41:52):
There are different times ofday in different locations where
some 90s characters, likedifferent princesses, do show up
.
Um, you might not think thatand think 90s nostalgia, because
sometimes they just show uprandomly and sometimes they do
have times listed for whenthey're going to be in different
locations.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
So judy dinch was in Goldeneye as M in 1995.
So I'm throwing Spaceship Earthin there.
She was M in Tomorrow NeverDies and the World Is Not Enough
in those Bond movies until 2002when Diner of the Day came out
so.
I'm throwing Spaceship Earthinto 90s nostalgia because of
Judi Dench.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, I put.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Spaceship.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Earth as questionable , not for her, but just I know.
Even the updated technologypieces and stuff are more like
80s, that's definitely, you knowum, the outfit, everything, but
I, I don't know, I think forsome reason it still gives like
that 90s vibe.
Yeah to me, um, even witheverything else.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Thank you, Judy Dench , for saving that for us.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yes, my other two questionable ones, and one of
them, I think, is still more 80sas well, I put the Imagination
Pavilion.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, it's very 80s still.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, and again, I was just trying to like what's
in Epcot and then I didn't knowif the American Adventure like
was that?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That was an opening.
Okay, so then no, that's 80s,that's very 1700s.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
So your character meet and greets and then you're
dying.
You know whether it's dining atAkershus or throughout the park
meeting some of thesecharacters, and then we're
throwing Spaceship Earth inthere.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I've got one Okay Club Cool.
Okay Club Cool started out asice cool station.
Now they still had thedifferent flavors from around
the world, right?
For coca-cola, yeah for coke,but outside, very 90 ish, was a
snow pusher uh, what do theycall them?
(43:57):
Like the snow like.
When I lived in color Colorado,they pushed all the snow up on
the mountains.
The snow cats they had a snowcat coming out of this huge like
ice cave thing Very 90s ish,right, I guess, and it was
called the Ice Cool Station.
So, that's how Club Cool.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
You're tying that in, tying that in.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Gotcha, I told you.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, because I've got one struggle Maybe there
tying that in, Tying that inGotcha.
I told you we're trying, yeah,because I've had with struggling
.
Maybe there's something we'renot thinking about.
That's right smack dab in ourface.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Well, everything's been redone though.
That is the thing.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
It has been updated quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Let me see if I can find the ice cool station image
here Well we don't know whatyou're doing.
That's it.
Oh yeah, that's very 90s.
90s google ice cool station andgo to photos and you'll, yeah,
you'll, you'll see, yeah, so,yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
So that's what we have for epcot.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
You know if you can think of others let us know yeah
, definitely let us know um, butwe're leaving epcot and going
to animal kingdom our favoritepark and this one was kind of
tough too, kind of I've got asuper deep cut here, but I'm
gonna go first.
Okay is.
(45:08):
Is it's tough to be a bug stillopen or is it closed now?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
um, it's, either is it today or tomorrow's the last
day we're going with.
This has to be a dog it's on mylist because at the time that
we're recording this, it onmarch, 16th sunday.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
It was an opening day attraction for animal kingdom
and this actually came outbefore the movie even came out
in theaters.
So this was used to promote.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
It's tough to be a bug in the theaters yeah so yeah
, that's some good 90s nostalgiathere yeah, its final
performance will be uh, hold on.
You said today is what today'sthe 16th yeah, so um well,
that's not right then for thefuture listeners.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
March 16th it's tough to be a bug closing march 17th
so today's the last day, becausetomorrow will be closed, right
yeah rest in peace.
It's tough to be a bug.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yes, but definitely, you know, and like sorry, like
you were saying, it was, youknow, an attraction before the
movie came out and that's howthey used to do things, you know
, now we're used to it beingflipped.
So when Zach talks about someof the history of some of these
attractions and and I, it cameout first, but that's how they
(46:22):
used to do it.
So, um, but yeah, tough to be abug again at the time of this
recording it was.
It's still showing today, butuh, definitely 90s.
Another one is festival of thelion king I want to go back to.
It's tough to be a bug oh sorry,do you think you were just
staring it?
Speaker 2 (46:34):
has a long wait time.
Oh, I'm gonna look it up.
Talk about festival lion king,which I agree it's on my list
too.
I'm gonna look it up.
Talk about festival lion king,which I agree it's on my list
too.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I'm gonna look it up right now because animal kingdom
will be closing right now yeah,I could see tough to be a bug
having a long wait today.
Normally you're just waitingfor the next showing, correct?
But uh, today being the lastday I think it was this weekend,
probably this last week, evenit probably had longer wait
times.
Um.
Festival of the Lion King.
Again, lion King came out inlike mid-90s.
(47:02):
Festival of the Lion King great, great performance.
You know.
It's got songs, pageantry,puppetry, you've got fire.
It's like 30, 40 minutes long.
It's a really good show to gosee.
Definitely recommend seeing it,especially now that it's back
in all of its glory, becausewhen it first returned after the
(47:24):
pandemic it didn't have all ofthose pieces, but now it does
again and it is an amazing show.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
It is a great show.
Love it, love it, love it.
Alright, it's tough to be a bug.
Usually 10 minute wait, right30 minute wait.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Which is long for that.
It is long for stuff to be abug.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yes, because usually it's just 10, 15 minutes waiting
on the next showing.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, so you're waiting on two shows.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yes, basically, basically.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, yeah, all right , we are going to I'm going to
kind of combine two into one.
Okay.
We're going to Dinosaur, whichopened in 1998 as Countdown to
Extinction, and it was changedto Dinosaur in 2001 or two to
promote the movie Dinosaur,which flopped.
Maybe that's when they started.
They stopped promoting moviesbefore they came out.
Maybe, Maybe, maybe.
(48:11):
But we're going to go to thepre-show with Dr Helen Marsh.
You know, in the pre-show, yes,she is played by felicia rashad
.
Felicia rashad famously playedclaire huxtable on the cosby
show right, which aired until1992.
Yes, deep cut right there forthe 90s, for the night.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
There's your 90s nostalgia right there but when I
mean when I saw her on the inthe pre-show, I was that's who
you, who you think of I wasimmediately like it's Claire.
Yeah, Immediately went thereExactly.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yes, so there's your.
My 90s nostalgia deep cut.
Claire Huxtable in Dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
And that's all you have for Animal Kingdom.
That's all I got for AnimalKingdom.
That is all you have.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Because you were going to talk about Rafiki.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Yeah, but there's more.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
You even mentioned it the other night at dinner
pandora is not 90s no no, okay,I'll come back to it in a minute
maybe that's why I didn't putit down, because I think I know
you're gonna say okay so, um, Ihave a couple more.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
So next I have, you can meet timone and rafiki.
Yes, and I think they meet atthe conservation station.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
And so I have heard that Rafiki like is an awesome
meet and greet.
I have heard several people saythat that's been one of their
favorite interactions.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
He reminds me kind of of Yoda.
Yeah, the way he speaks andjust how wise he is.
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, and just how wise he is.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, but I've had severalpeople say that and I knew a lot
of people that were just therefor spring break and I think two
of them had mentioned lovedmeeting Rafiki.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
We haven't yet to do that we have.
I might hang out with Rafiki.
Yeah, yeah, I might would.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
So, and then Timon's Timon, you know Timon's goingon,
you know so.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Timon's going to be Timon.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yes, now, this is the .
The next thing is what Ithought you were going to
mention, because we've seen thischaracter walking around and at
from DuckTales and DarkwingDuck and, I think, another show
too.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
He is no longer able to be meet and greet in the park
.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
No more.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
When I looked on the website yesterday when I was
doing this, he was no longerlisted as a meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
So what I've learned is that may be the case that
they're no longer listed, butyou never know when they're just
going to pop out, walk around,maybe stop for 10 minutes and do
some pictures.
So this is.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
we'll go ahead and say Launchpad McQuack, the pilot
from oh why am I Tailspin,tailspin.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
That was the one I forgot.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Also the pilot in.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
DuckTales, ducktales, and he made appearances in
Darkwing Duck too.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, and you can also see him sometimes with Scrooge
mcduck.
Yes, big part of my childhood,because these were early 90s
cartoons and I watched them allthe time.
I just had a brain moment whereI forgot the names of the show.
Right, I got too much bradleyaround that's why you have me
but when I looked on the website, it was no longer.
(51:17):
They were no longer listed asmeet and greets.
Well, they met in the dinosaurarea and maybe that's why?
Speaker 1 (51:23):
maybe because they're redoing that whole area yeah,
but I could see, I don't knowagain, just in the last several
years, like in the times that wehave been at the parks and
stuff there, we have seen maybewe haven't went and met them,
but we have seen.
Maybe we haven't went and metthem, but we have seen
characters that usually don'thave a designated place still.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
Like Launchpad walking around.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Yeah, still walking around, or again just sometimes
setting up like, oh okay, he'sgoing to be here for a few
minutes.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
And then when they were doing the flotillas which I
am so mad they got that was thecoolest thing.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, and they got rid of was the coolest thing.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah, and they got rid of the flotillas.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
I know they had them just until like what last?
Speaker 2 (52:05):
year, about a year ago, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And that was a way that you could see characters
during the pandemic withoutactually like meeting them, but
they were still on the river.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Let me tell you, sitting at the deck in Nomad
Lounge and watching Launchpadand Scrooge go by while having a
Tempting Tigers peak, peakright there.
Yeah, Let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah, they were on there.
You could see Pocahontas andMiko the raccoon and a few
others.
These aren't 90s, but you couldsee Doug and what's his name?
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah, no name.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Kevin, yeah, no, not Kevin.
Kevin's a big bird on theflotilla Doug and Russell,
russell, thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
You can still see them in the parks now.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yes, yes, but again they're not 90s.
But anyway, these were on theflotillas.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
And then I think, like Timon and Rafiki were on
the flotillas and stuff too,yeah so, but yeah, it is what it
is.
So hope you enjoyed this strolldown memory lane I know we have
so.
Thank you so much for joiningus you're struggling here
struggling here.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Talk about next week britney oh, next week we are
going to discuss and revisit aseries we did a long time ago.
In each park, are theattractions over, under or
properly rated?
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Get ready for lots of yelling.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
You're going to hate us afterwards.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
Maybe, maybe not.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
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Yes, talk to you soon , thank you.
Hello and welcome to Circula Parks podcast episode
number 195.
Today we are discussing 90snostalgia.
Currently in the Walt DisneyWorld parks.
There is far too much to seeand do.
We are here to help guide youthrough, but before we do that
(00:41):
we must talk Disney merch.
So this week at DisneyStorecom,for $99.99, there is this,
cross the finish line, ahead ofthe pack, wearing a fun,
fashionable twill racing jacketby Our Universe that is sure to
(01:03):
warm you up.
It's Toy Story themed.
It's got all sorts of Toy Storylogos and Woody and RC art and
95 Champions banner on it.
Heavyweight twill racing jacketwarm, fill, pierced design with
color block styling.
Full zip front with snap at topand flap cover the sleeves.
(01:25):
It's got like splash of art atthe cuffs, embroidered Toy Story
, pixar, ball, space Ranger,sheriff badge, pizza Planet on
the front and again you haveArcee and Woody on the back.
So keeping it kind of 90sfashion style themed.
So I thought that this would bethis week's Disney merch.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I was going to say that sounds very 90-ish.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The 90s was a decade of very loud designer stuff.
Not that it's bad, I'm justsaying like everything was loud
and in your face.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
A little out there, a little bright yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Remember the old starter jackets?
Yes, you weren't cool unlessyou had a starter jacket.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
oh, you're showing it to me, I'm showing you the oh
yeah, no, that's very 90s.
That's very 90s nascar-ish,yeah looking yeah, it's a little
much for me even back then likeI didn't like all of that right
like and I wouldn't get thiseither, but I was like, okay,
what is kind of theme to?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
what we're talking about and yeah remember the uh
tommy hill figure made theoveralls popular again oh yes,
and then you weren't cool unlessyou had just like one strap
hanging off right, yeah, it wasa time it was a time some of the
stuff's coming back too, sosome can, some should not right.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, you know, yes, but but yeah, so that's this
week's disney merch, all rightso thank you everybody for
joining us.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Episode number 195 I'm zach I'm britney and we
still got allergies here intennessee.
Yes, they don't go away we didget some rain yesterday, I did
feel a little better yesterday.
Yeah, not today, it's okay sowe're apologizing ahead of time
when you hear us coughing in thebackground.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I think once all the trees get bloomed, I think we'll
Maybe, because right now, whatare those?
The dogwood trees and stuff areblooming and everything.
They're just like ugh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But we're not getting worse, but we're not getting
better.
So it's just like yes, the sameright, but just enough to be
aggravating, but it's like oneday we have them and then the
next day they're gone.
Right, and then it's just goneoh, when, when the allergies are
over, yeah yeah so hopefullythe next few weeks they'll be
yeah gone.
Well, if you're just new to theshow, I'm zach we already said.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
We already said that, sorry we got on a tangent.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So our goal here every week is to take you to
walt disney world and break yourweek up.
Helps us kind of just get todisney every week.
We can't go all the time.
We live in tennessee, in middletennessee.
We go as much as we can.
I go more often for the bookwriting, but that's slowing down
slowing down.
We've.
(04:04):
I think we're not in the laststretch, but we're getting
pretty close.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Like one more trip, one more trip Specific for that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So when I'm writing about it, I want to write about
the music you're around and yoursights and the smells and the
sounds and all that, and youcan't really write about that
unless you're in that area,right?
So I take notes when I'm there,and it's a very different trip
than when we go as a family.
Yes, y'all would not have fun.
(04:33):
No, I'm sitting around with aniPad taking notes and just yeah,
yeah, doing all that, but yeah,so our goal is that and to help
you have a better Walt DisneyWorld vacation or Disneyland.
We talk about Disneyland sometoo and we just really just want
you to have a great vacationand we hope to bring some joy to
(04:53):
your week.
That's all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, and it brings joy to our week too.
So, yeah, again, when we'redoing this episode it's more
like 90s nostalgia currently inwalt disney world parks, but
think back to that time frameand the movies and shows that
were out.
So think like goofy movielittle mermaid, beauty and the
beast, aladdin, lion, king,pocahontas, hunchback of notre
(05:19):
dame, or notre dame uh, hercules, toy story, tarzan emperor's
new groove was that in the 90sas well.
Okay, uh, duck Hercules.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Toy Story Tarzan.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Emperor's New Groove Was that in the 90s.
Yes, okay, ducktales, darkwing,duck, nightmare Before
Christmas, hocus, pocus, allthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So the Emperor's New Groove probably had the biggest
90s cast ever Right and no onereally knows about that movie.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Like it was John Goodman Puddy, David Puddy from
Seinfeld, about that movie.
No, Like it was John GoodmanPutty, David Putty from Seinfeld
, who's the safety announcer forSWORD.
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I can't think of his name, oh I can't think of his
actual name either, and not DanaCarvey.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, Dana Carvey was in the was in the Emperor's New
Groove, like you couldn't getmore of a 90s cast than that
right there, so it's one of myfavorite movies.
I think it's very underrated.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're wrong.
It came out in 2000.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
2000.
Well, you know we're talkingabout things that happened in 89
.
Here too, A little bit thatgets lumped into the 90s.
So you know I'm a zennial.
I don't consider myself amillennial.
I was born in 83.
So I relate myself a millennial.
I was born in 83.
So I relate more to the early90s than the late 90s because I
(06:30):
was in that middle school tohigh school, transition in like
95 96 where it wasn't cool tolike disney stuff anymore yeah
so, and I'm more early mid 90s,right, but you're still a.
You were still like a disney kid, though yeah, I wasn't I went
full hardcore skateboarding andright like opposite of
counterculture or I went.
(06:51):
Yeah, yeah, so I I'm nowappreciating more the late 90s
type of stuff like a goofy movieyes I did not enjoy them.
Now, as a dad, I know I lovedit.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now as a dad great movie we'll.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I loved it Now as a dad.
Great movie.
We'll get into that a littlebit later.
I have some thoughts andopinions on that movie later on,
but we'll get into it when weget to a certain park.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, sorry, I was double checking a couple of the
movies I had mentioned, but I'mgood.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You're good.
Yes, hercules was 90s.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I was trying to remember if hocus pocus was like
right before the 90s or not,but it was in 93, 93, yeah, uh,
so yeah, we're gonna.
There's not a lot of 90s stuffleft in the parks there's not
now.
There used to be and maybetouch on that I feel like
there's more 80s stuff, the 90snow, especially in a couple of
other parks right, okay.
Okay, that's what I think.
Yeah, but anyway, all right,where are we going to first?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let's do 90s in Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
All right, I've got one deep cut.
I know you probably got a lotthere, so I'll let you take
control here.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, the first one where you're going to really
revisit a lot of those movies Imentioned is PhilharMagic.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Great, great, great.
Cannot recommend this showenough.
Yes, great show.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you know some might be thinking a show really,
but it takes you through somany movies, and not just from
the 90s, early classics as well.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Peter Pan yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah and more, and they've added some extra scenes
to it too, about a year or twoago the coco scene edition.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I was skeptical about how it's going to be.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, they did it so well, it'sso good, it blends right in.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I just I love it yeah , but yeah, I mean, and it takes
you through.
You know the the Lion King,aladdin on the flying carpet,
little Mermaid, beauty and theBeast with Be Our Guest.
You know several scenes fromdifferent movies, so that one
just jumped out to me right offthe bat, because I think that,
(08:58):
for Zach, is when he realizedthis might not be a one and done
Disney trip after all, it wasthe Mickey Mouse March.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's what got me.
That is what got me because Iwas immediately taken back to
being nine years old in mygrandmother's wood panel den
watching the Mickey MouseClubhouse with Justin Timberlake
, christina Aguilera and BritneySpike.
I was immediately taken backright then.
That's where it took me andthat's when it got that
childhood out of me and I waslike oh yeah, oh okay, now I get
(09:34):
it right right.
I have a fun fact about thisshow, though.
Okay, I just recently learnedagain I'm doing a lot of
research on Fantasyland rightnow because I'm writing about
Fantasyland so I'm doing likereally deep dive research into
it.
The show before mickey'sphilhar magic was a broadway
style lion king show oh reallyand it paved the way for the
(09:58):
broadway show that is currentlythe lion king in animal kingdom.
No, oh, oh, the actual broadwayBroadway show was born from the
show before Mickey'sPhilharMagic.
The Lion King show inPhilharMagic is an ode, is a nod
to the past show that was here.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh interesting, that is very interesting.
I didn't know that yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But this is a great show.
It's a great 90s nostalgia,with Be Our Guest and Brittany
talked about it.
It's just, it's so well, sowell done.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It is, it is and you know it, like I mean, we saw
that what mid-afternoon when wewere there on our first trip,
you know, and we were kind oflike, eh, really we want to go
watch this, but it did it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was great.
And this is also a nod to whatWalt Disney originally wanted
Fantasia to be.
Fantasia well, walt was wayahead of his time for most
things, right.
He wanted Fantasia to be like a4D experience before 4D was
(11:04):
even a thing, right.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So Fantasia is all about what you see when you hear
music.
Right, that's what Fantasia issupposed to be.
But Walt also wanted, likemusic players in the theater,
and the technology just was notthere.
He wanted a splash in your facewith the mop scene.
Right, stuff like that.
(11:26):
This isn't also a nod to?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
what he wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Originally Walt wanted for Fantasia.
Okay, so that's why theFantasia scene is in.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It Is in it, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah and again.
So don't you know think, oh,it's just a show, it's fun, it's
a great show.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Adults, if you're.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Around our age.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm in my 40s.
I'm not going to talk aboutBrittany's age I'm almost there.
You will love it.
You will love it, yes, and yourkids will love it too.
Our kids love this.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, it's funny You've got donald duck acting a
little like donald duck ofcourse acting donald ducky and
at the end there's a littlesurprise too.
So so yeah, it's, it's a funtime and takes you back, so um
what's next on your list?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
well, I said that one , so you I don't want to take
one that I know you're gonnahave okay, so next on my list is
journey of the little mermaid Ididn't have that on my list
because I knew you would haveokay, so, so, this is Little
Mermaid ride.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's, you know, one of those.
What is it called when they'reconstantly moving?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Omnimover.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, so it's an Omnimover type ride, so most of
the time the wait isn't too bad,but there are times where we
have waited a little while,where, like, the ride has gone,
gone down for a few moments andeverything.
But for the most part it's anomnimover type ride and it takes
you through the scenes a littlemermaid, like you know, under
(12:52):
the sea, and when she um, isbeing turned into a human and
losing her voice with ursulascariest animatronic ever and
then obviously, like the, givesme nightmares.
The boat scene with Prince Ericand all that.
It basically takes you throughthe movie.
So it's one that, like it,might not be the best ride, but
(13:15):
when we have skipped it before,I missed it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I was going to say that this is not a must ride for
us, but when we don't ride it,I'm like we should have ridden
it.
Yeah, you know, know, and thequeue is great the queue is the
queue is awesome.
They did such a great job withthe knots, the 20,000 leagues
under the sea and the hit, thetwo most infamous, infamous,
infamous, hidden mickeys are inthis attraction yeah, and
(13:39):
there's a lot of details in thequeue that you just don't
realize really setting well inthe queue.
I'm sorry not in the attractionum details in the queue that you
just don't realize reallysetting Well in the queue.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I'm sorry, not in the attraction, really setting the
tone, you know, for getting youto be under the sea.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to say the Magic Carpets of
Aladdin.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, in Agrabah.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, you know it's the Dumbo type ride in
Adventureland, but it's.
I think they could do so muchmore with this area.
I think so too and they're justnot.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I kind of wish they would.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I kind of wish they would too.
Yeah, you know they need tohave like carpet around like
something right, yeah like.
I feel like they just kind oflike.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I mean, you do get to meet characters here from time
to time, right, but it could beso much better.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, and it does fit in with.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Adventureland it does , and you know you might get wet
when you're on the ride, watchfor spitting camels.
Yep, or even before you get onthe ride.
So yeah, I feel like the areawhere Aladdin Magic Carpet is
definitely could be better, butI'm glad that they are giving
some kind of nod to that movieOne.
Yep.
Is that all you have to say onthat one?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's all I got to say.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, Another one.
Enchanted Tales with Belle.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
See, I knew this one is what you want to talk about.
I want to say you love acertain thing.
I love the pre-show.
I guess it's a pre-show themirror that turns into the door
and I think maybe the bestspecial effect in all of Walt
Disney World.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right it is crazy.
Yeah, and I mean, and even thewardrobe and everything, just it
really truly does a great jobof making you feel like you're
visiting certain scenes from themovie and you know, if you've
been listening to the show longenough, like Beauty and the
Beast, little Mermaid, aladdin,lion King, like those are the
(15:27):
movies that I grew up with and Ireally, you know, kind of
gravitate towards Belle and soso, yeah, definitely, if you
were young in the 90s, this isan attraction that I say.
You know, if you, it might notbe on your list, if, if it's a
one and done trip, that's theonly time you're going to go,
(15:47):
but if you have a chance to goback, I definitely say add this
to your list definitely do it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, it's a great show yes, all right, you got
anything else I do, do you Ihave one more go ahead.
I want to end with my last one,though, so you go ahead, okay,
because I have two more.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay continue All right.
Buzz Lightyear Space RangerSpin.
Oh yeah, because Toy Story cameout in the 90s.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I always forget the Toy Story was like was it 95, 96
?
Yeah, it was 95 or 96.
Yeah, Always forget that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So, in Tomorrowland you have Buzz Lightyear Space
Ranger Spin.
It's a lot like toy story maniain hollywood studios, um, but
buzz lightyear gets like centerof attention here and uh yeah, I
mean like this is where, for me, I started kind of distancing
myself from watching a lot ofdisney movies and stuff gotcha
(16:37):
so I so sometimes, when I, whenpeople say toy story.
I'm thinking it's more like2000s and stuff, but really the
first one came out in the mid90s.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So it's hard.
It's hard to think, like wrapyour mind around that Toy Story
came out 20, 30 years ago.
Yeah, 30 years ago, toy Storycame out.
Yeah, yeah, almost.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, so, but, yes, so, don't forget about Buzz
Lightyear, because that is where, if you were one that really is
obsessed with toy story, ormaybe that's when you were five,
six, seven years old and thatwas one of your first favorite
disney movies, you know, uh,you're going to see buzz
lightyear and some buddies outin that area.
(17:19):
So, okay, what's your last one?
Well, it's probably your lastone too, no, no, I have another
one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well, it's probably your last one too.
No, I forgot, I have anotherone.
I guarantee you it is not mylast one.
You're not going to take mylast one.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I guarantee you that.
And I forgot.
I have another one too.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So another one is the parades.
That's the one I almost didn'tsee.
Okay, because you're going tosee a lot of these characters
from these movies in the parades, from the different princesses,
in the movies that I'vementioned, depending on the time
of year, like at Halloweenparties you're going to see, you
know, like Nightmare BeforeChristmas and Hocus Pocus, at
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the parades and stage shows.
You know, talking aboutHalloween, not just focusing on
the main characters, but thevillains you're going to see
from some of these movies, likeJafar, for example, for Aladdin.
So, keep in mind, parades mightnot be like something that pops
out when you think 90snostalgia, but you're going to
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see a lot of these charactersfrom these movies from the 90s.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, all right, what's your last one?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The fireworks, happily ever after.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Okay, is that?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
not what you were going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No.
Oh, okay, I'm saying Iguarantee you you do not have my
last one on your list.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So the happily ever after fireworks, basically same
as what I said about the parades.
You're going to see scenesprojected from some of these
movies that we've been talkingabout and the music that's being
played, that one song fromHercules oh, what is it?
Because you always get.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Go far.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What is it?
What is it?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It really hits you in the emotions.
Oh, hercules songs, what is itcalled?
It's going to drive me crazy.
Oh, go the Distance.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Go the Distance.
Yes, Such a great song.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yes, so it has a really good buildup in this
fireworks performance as well,but again, you're going to see a
lot of these 90s charactersprojected on the castle and on
Main Street and some of the themusic from the movies that we
love and including.
Go to this, go the distance.
I'm not huge on hercules, butthat song is really really good
(19:32):
yeah, no, really good, yeah, sogood all right, so what's yours?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
we're going to tomorrowland now.
Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland Now.
Tomorrowland is going back.
I feel like when you go intoTomorrowland now you're going
back to 80s nostalgia, which isweird because it used to be very
90s-ish, Like the columnsaround the people mover used to
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be very big and kind ofobnoxious and very 90s ish
looking right right there usedto be a lot of just in your face
stuff in tomorrowland andthey've, they've kind of they've
gotten rid of a lot of the thethe styling, but I but that's
what made it though right rightlike the music is still kind of
(20:22):
very 90-ish right.
Like the electronical stuff.
Yeah, but I feel like they gotrid of that and now I feel like
we're back in the 80s kind of,with like Space Mountain's very
80 retro, right For sure.
Yes, tomorrowland People Mover,you feel very 80-ish.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, but it's relaxing.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No, I'm not saying it's not I love it, but I'm just
saying a lot of the theming Ifeel like has gone very bland.
I want that in your face inTomorrowland.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
I just feel like maybe theyjust almost don't know what
direction to take it now that weare technically in the future
from when it was built.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, it's just so hard to envision what the future
looks like now, because itmoves so quick.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It does move so quick , but I think I might know what
your last one is now.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So my last one is we're going to.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is it a scene on a certain attraction?
It is not a scene on a certainattraction you have no clue, so
I might have to add another onethen okay we're going to cosmic
ray starlight cafe oh, that isnot where I thought we were
going, okay and we're going tothe performer.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Sunny eclipse he's not the 90s sunny eclipse made
his debut at cosmic raystarlight cafe in 1994 oh well,
excuse me.
Okay, I thought he was thereand if you were born in the
early 80s, like me, you grew upgoing to Showbiz Pizza and what
did they have?
Musical and audio animatronics,right.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
They're a little scary.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This reminds me Sunny Eclipse on a much better level,
reminds me of the Showbiz Pizza, musical stuff Of the showbiz
pizza.
I can see that Musical stuff sohe is with the logo in the back
and the piano and all that.
Is that not Scream 90s?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
right there, it does, but I wasn't thinking that
though.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Of course you're not thinking that.
No, that's what you got me herefor.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Sunny Eclipse.
If you're going to eat atCosmic Rays, sit in the dining
area.
Where he is it sit in thedining area where he is, it's a
funny show.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm not saying do it every time, we don't do it every
time, but occasionally.
I think this summer we will,because we have the quick
service dining plan.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Probably.
Well, I don't know, there'ssome other places, other places,
okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, but I love Sony Eclipse.
He is the 90s nostalgia whenyou see him nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
When you see him, you're like, oh yeah, no, he's
definitely from the 90s, yes,all right, I can see that, but I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Initially I was thinking 80s, but no, I can.
I can see, so the scene in uhthat you're thinking about and
that's what I'm trying to lookup carousel of progress.
I'm thinking that it is a 90sscene.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yes, like that final, final scene, and that's the one
that they updated, like what?
Two years ago or so.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, I think that needs to be.
I love the Carousel of Progressand I don't want them to change
the turn of the century, or the30s or the 50s.
I don't want them to change the40s, whatever.
I do not want them to changethose.
But that last scene, I thinkcould be updated some.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I would want them to change those, but that last
scene I think could be updatedsome.
Yeah, I would be okay with that.
So that's what I was trying tosee it does.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm not seeing where it actually says the year that
it should be um, it's like early90s, yeah because the
technology in the, the, the vrgame, that's very 90 ish, right,
you know, the, the oven, likethe, the architecture of the
kitchen with, like the skylightand the pans hanging above the
90s and the island there waslike that's very 90s ish as well
(23:51):
yeah, because that's where Ithought you were going.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You didn't see sunny eclipse in there, did you, did
not?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
that was not on your bingo card, huh not at all all
right, we went on the hollywoodstudios, which used to have a
ton, yes, a ton, and it is mostof it's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It is.
It's sad.
This was hard.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
This was hard to come up with.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, I mean, I have some.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I've got three.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Because I knew you would come up with the big one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Well, so I don't know if you can meet them all the
time.
Maybe this is where our friendErica can correct us next week.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
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We're going to talk about hermore in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yes, but I know at least at times you can meet
Goofy movie characters here,like Max dressed as Powerline.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yes and Goofy together.
Yes and just Max with Goofy.
Movie characters here like Maxdressed as Powerline.
Yes and Goofy together.
Yes and just Max with Goofy.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes, yeah, but the big thing is as Powerline,
because Goofy movie you knowthat's what it was about in the
song eye to eye and all of that.
So that was one that jumped out.
I have not had a chance to do acharacter meet and greet, but
if I saw that Powerline wasgoing to be, or Max's Powerline
(25:12):
was going to be, available for ameet and greet on our next trip
, I would probably get a picture.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
One have fun with that.
I'm not doing meet and greets.
You can?
I know I'm not saying don't doit, go for it.
I'm not doing meet and greets.
You can?
I know I'm not saying don't doit, go for it.
I'm not going to be doing themeet and greet.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Okay, but you can take the pictures.
We'll see about that, but I'mthe cast member, okay.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Anyway, I have thoughts on the Goofy movie.
Okay.
All right, so I'm really biginto communication right.
Oh, I know, right, oh, I knowwhere you're going with this.
It's a movie, though.
Okay, can go ahead.
This home it's a movie, right?
So we're currently watchingcobra kai right now, right, yeah
(25:51):
, we're almost done with it.
Watching that as an adult,you're like gosh, just stop it,
just like say this or clear thisup.
Like all this stuff could beavoided if you had just talked
about it, talked about it yeah.
In a Goofy movie in thebeginning.
If they were just honest witheach other about what they were
(26:11):
wanting to do, I am more thanwilling to say Goofy would put
their trip off until after theconcert at what's-Her-Name's
house.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, or find a way to combine both, but they would
need to communicate.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But I'm sure Goofy would have put the trip back
right, yeah, and if Max wouldhave communicated to Goofy that
hey, I'm not going to drop outof school and join a gang and do
all this stuff and this is allthat I really did, I bet you
Goofy probably would be reallyproud of him.
I know I'd be proud of my son.
To do all of that for a girlNot just for a girl, but for
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entertainment that takes a lotof talent, right there.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So I feel like the miscommunication that none of
them wanted to talk to eachother in the beginning could
have saved this whole mess Right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And that's what we try to communicate with our kids
with, so we don't end updriving across country when we
don't need to and driving a caroff into the Grand Canyon and
losing everything.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Right, Just saying Communicate yes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Communicate.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
so that's something and don't listen to your
horrible coworkers like Goofyand oh gosh, what's his name?
His boss?
Oh pete pete, don't listen tohorrible co-workers.
They'll lead you down the wrongpath yes, so that was on my
list too okay.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
But yeah, so I I'm just I'm glad that when in just
the last couple of years they'vereally brought goofy movie yes,
back into because our age groupare the adults with the money
now that's true, so true.
So they want to attract us,they want to bring us with their
kids.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Walt Disney World is not just for kids.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's for adults and kids to have fun together.
Yes, so they're appealing toour age group more and more now
too.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They are.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that's why we're the ones with the money now.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We are, so I went what is we're?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
the ones with the money.
Now we are.
So I went what is one of yours?
This is one that's borderless,90s Okay, but gets lumped in
with 90s.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
One of a great movie.
We recently rewatched it asadults and it came out in 89.
89.
Yeah, very different movie asan adult.
Yes, I understand it a lot morenow and I can 89.
(28:38):
Yeah, very different movie asan adult.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, I understand it a lot more now and I can't
believe this was touted as akid's movie.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, because I was even like oh, oh, okay, but it
is still very, not very,prominent in the park.
But there are parts of the parkthat still pay homage to who
framed our drive.
But there's a big billboardacross from Echo Lake, looking
towards Tower of Terror andabove.
Oh, what's that all-you-can-eatbuffet Hollywood?
(29:06):
And Vine.
There's Eddie Valiant's officewith his letters on the window
and then the outline of RogerRabbit flying through the window
.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So I think they're still really cool nods.
And originally, who FramedRoger Rabbit flying through the
window?
Yes, so I think they're stillreally cool nods.
And originally, who's from the?
Roger Rabbit was supposed tohave a much bigger influence in
Hollywood Studios or MGM backthen but it just never came to
fruition Right, but I doremember when I went.
That's when who's from theRoger Rabbit was really big and
Dick Tracy was really big.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And there was a lot of like Toontown stuff around
MGM.
I don't remember much but Iremember like the steamroller I
remember that prop being in MGMwhen I went and a lot of just
theming towards Roger Rabbitstuff when I was there.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, I forgot about the Dick Tracy stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, when you look at my, when I met Mickey and
this picture on our desk.
I'm wearing a Dick Tracyt-shirt.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, when he was, how old were you there?
Seven, eight, god no Like six.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Six seven.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, yep, yep.
So, so, yes, and, and what hesaid?
I mean, it is noticeable, thereis signage in the window and
everything and everything.
So you just got to be lookingup Yep, yep.
So another one, that well, Ihave one, two, three, four,
possibly five, but I'm not sureabout this one.
(30:26):
Okay, so again another showthat kind of encompasses a lot
of characters Fantasmic.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So it's the nighttime show, or one of their nighttime
shows, because they also do aprojection show on the um
chinese theater yes, but at aseparate location in the park.
They have phantasmic, and kindof like what I was saying
earlier when we were in magickingdom is you're going to see a
lot of these characters indifferent scenes of this show
(30:56):
from movies that came out in the90s.
So, um, phantasmic.
I haven't seen it as recentlyas I would like, but we saw it a
very long time ago, in 2019,and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I think we need.
So we tried to watch it lastyear and then something happened
with one of the stunt actorsand they immediately cut the
lights right and was like theshow's over.
Yeah, and you were like what Iwas like he could have possibly
been hurt.
I know, but I was like I we'refinally gonna watch it again,
and then like I think one of theactors got like that was
(31:31):
swinging, got caught in theropes or something they cut it.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
we don't know, yeah, we don't know, but they cut it
real quick.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah and turn the lights on and you couldn't see
the stage.
I was like, well, that's notgood, but I think this trip in
the summer I think we need to doit Possibly.
Because it is a really goodshow.
Yeah, I remember liking it.
I just don't want to get wetthis time.
Right further back, when we hadstarted to watch it last year,
(32:00):
and then all that happened, butyeah, yeah, so, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Um, what is going on?
Well, because I was like we'refinally here and then.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So I'm sure you're not the only one that had that
reaction.
We're like the one time.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, yes, so, but it is great.
Uh, again, a lot of scenes.
You've got, you know, mickeyand his sorcerer's hat, all of
that stuff.
It's.
It is an awesome show.
Uh, you know, obviously wehaven't seen it every time we go
, but it is we're seeing whenyou can.
So, um, now another one.
Well, how many more do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I just got one.
You keep going.
Okay, you can keep so toy storyland see, that's the main thing
, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
So it's the whole land.
You know you've got slinky dogdash, the you know roller
coaster.
You've got a toy story mania,or pew pew as we call it because
of our youngest, how he stillcalls it that even to this day.
Um, you know you're, you're inandy's backyard, you're heading
into his room on one of therides.
(32:56):
You know you're doing the alienswirling saucer.
So again, mid 90s is when ToyStory came out.
So that whole land just is verydetailed, very, very detailed
as far as each attraction goes.
You know you have the talkingMr Potato Head and the Lion Q at
I want to say Pew Pew, but ToyStory Mania, so yeah, so again,
(33:20):
the whole land is going to have90s nostalgia from Toy Story.
I have you want me to keepgoing?
Okay, all right.
Also, they have a very similarBroadway show there Beauty and
the Beast.
I didn't think that it wasgoing to be as good as it was,
but when we saw it a couple ofyears ago I was very impressed
(33:43):
with how they did the show.
I would say it's definitelylike a smaller version of the
bigger Broadway show and theydid a great job with it.
Zach was even impressed with itas well.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It was a really good show.
I was very impressed with it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
yes, yeah yes, also, this one is currently not open
and we have not seen it yet.
It hasn't opened back up sinceit closed for COVID, but there
is going to be a Little Mermaidmusical show there.
And so again, early 90s, youknow 89, 90 time.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I heard there's a really big Ursula in there.
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh my goodness, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
She has like 45 chins and they all move at the same
time.
That is scary.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So when I talk about Little Mermaid, it came, it's
one of those that came out in1989.
However, it was really popularin like 1990 as well.
So, all right, 1989.
However, it was really popularin like 1990 as well.
So, yes, what you said aboutUrsula may be in that musical
show.
I don't know.
I'm hoping maybe it will beopen when we're there this
(34:50):
summer, but there's been no date.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I'm out.
I know All right, we're goingto one more place.
Well, I have a question on oneknow All right, we're going to
one more place.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Well, I have a question on one thing.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, go ahead.
We're going to another show.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We're going to Indiana Jones Stump Spectacular.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
See, I wasn't sure about the date.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So it opened in 89 and it is based on the Riders of
the Lost Ark, which opened in83.
But I think when you think oflike 90s MGM studios, this is
the only thing, left from theoriginal MGM studios, right,
right, so it's still got that90s vibe to it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh, I agree.
Like I had it on my list andthen when I looked at when the
movies came out I was like, oh,never mind, I'm wrong, but I was
picturing 90s, yeah it's, itwill Well.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It opened in 89 based on the movie in 80.
Raiders of the Lost Ark, but itstill screams that 90s vibe.
I think, yeah it just it hasn'tchanged much.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, and how they?
Because in the 90s and early2000s and stuff.
This is how Hollywood studiosor back then, MGM studios was.
You had these yeah stunt showsand behind the scenes and all
that.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, that's what the whole park was supposed to be
about right right and uh.
Yeah, I just think it's a greatshow.
Remember watching it as a kid.
Our boys like it from time totime.
Don't always watch it, but theylike the explosions and then
you know the cool stuff on.
I think it's a fun show.
So to me this is 90s nostalgiafor me.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Okay, I can see that because, like I said, I had
started to put it on.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, yeah.
So what's your?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
question.
So because I don't know, Ihaven't ridden the attraction,
so I don't know the songs thatare on this attraction if they
are from the 80s or the 90s.
Rock and roller coaster.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's all of Aerosmith songs, so it ranges from the
80s to 90s to early 2000s.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, so that was my questionable, because I'm like.
Aerosmith you picture like mid,late 80s, but also they had
some big hits in the early 90sthey did yeah.
But I wasn't sure what all youhear on the attraction yeah, it
changes, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I don't think when I think 90s, I don't think
Aerosmith.
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
When I think 80s, I think Aerosmith in the 80s, I
don't which they early 90s.
They were really popular.
I just don't really think.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
They weren't as big Aerosmith?
No, they were.
Yeah, but you picture 80s.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I picture more 80s when I think Aerosmith, but yeah
, definitely in the 90s.
I love Rockin' Roller Coaster.
It's time for it.
It's time.
You know, nobody knows whoAerosmith is anymore.
Besides, people our age, likeour boys, have no idea who they
are Right, no clue.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I mean like looking up some of their songs like
crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
That's early 90s, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Living on the Edge early 90s.
But again, since I haven'tridden the attraction, I was
like, okay, are they playingthose?
Are they playing older songs?
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
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All right, the next park was, Ifeel like, the hardest park to
it was a little difficult.
So you got like 70s and 80snostalgia in the park.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, and I think part of what I put on here is
probably more in no 90s really,and then like new stuff, right,
there's no like yeah, in betweenwe're going to epcot I've got
one okay, like and this is adeep cut well, I have four, but
I think three of them arequestionable because I wanted to
(39:57):
go back to um Miss Judy DameJudy Dench, right, she's a
narrator on Spaceship Earthright.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I think of her from the Bond movies like Golden, not
GoldenEye, but uh, was she inGoldenEye.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I don't know.
I think of her from um, but Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I think of her from.
She may have been, but I don'tknow.
I'll look it up.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But you picture those movies in her, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
The Bond movies with the newer guy.
Why am I going?
I don't know.
Casino Royale.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, but that's not the name, that's 2000s.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
But I picture her from those movies.
You know what I mean.
I picture her from like thosemovies.
You know what I mean.
Yes, so, but so I was like, ah,spaceship, earth isn't really
90s nostalgia, it's more like80s.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Daniel Craig.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Daniel Craig.
But it's more like 80snostalgia than 90s, right?
Yeah, so it's not really 90s.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I know, I know so.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I was she in Golden Age.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Look it up I'm looking it up okay, well, while
he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
So I put on um like a character meet and greet uh,
dining experience uh, which isin world showcase in the um
norway pavilion, akershusakershus yes something like.
Yes, and you meet so manyprincesses there, including some
(41:19):
from the 90s like Ariel andBelle, just to name a couple, so
that is Our youngest.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
got real shy around Ariel.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
He did for whatever reason, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
He's not the shy one.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
No, but he was very shy and cheeks turning red and
everything with Ariel.
So, but that is one that I canfeel comfortable about.
And you're meeting some otherstoo.
They're not all just from the90s, but there are a couple of
princesses from late 80s, early90s films that you get to meet
there and, of course, throughoutthe park.
(41:52):
There are different times ofday in different locations where
some 90s characters, likedifferent princesses, do show up
.
Um, you might not think thatand think 90s nostalgia, because
sometimes they just show uprandomly and sometimes they do
have times listed for whenthey're going to be in different
locations.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
So judy dinch was in Goldeneye as M in 1995.
So I'm throwing Spaceship Earthin there.
She was M in Tomorrow NeverDies and the World Is Not Enough
in those Bond movies until 2002when Diner of the Day came out
so.
I'm throwing Spaceship Earthinto 90s nostalgia because of
Judi Dench.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, I put.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Spaceship.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Earth as questionable , not for her, but just I know.
Even the updated technologypieces and stuff are more like
80s, that's definitely, you knowum, the outfit, everything, but
I, I don't know, I think forsome reason it still gives like
that 90s vibe.
Yeah to me, um, even witheverything else.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Thank you, Judy Dench , for saving that for us.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yes, my other two questionable ones, and one of
them, I think, is still more 80sas well, I put the Imagination
Pavilion.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, it's very 80s still.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, and again, I was just trying to like what's
in Epcot and then I didn't knowif the American Adventure like
was that?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That was an opening.
Okay, so then no, that's 80s,that's very 1700s.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
So your character meet and greets and then you're
dying.
You know whether it's dining atAkershus or throughout the park
meeting some of thesecharacters, and then we're
throwing Spaceship Earth inthere.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I've got one Okay Club Cool.
Okay Club Cool started out asice cool station.
Now they still had thedifferent flavors from around
the world, right?
For coca-cola, yeah for coke,but outside, very 90 ish, was a
snow pusher uh, what do theycall them?
(43:57):
Like the snow like.
When I lived in color Colorado,they pushed all the snow up on
the mountains.
The snow cats they had a snowcat coming out of this huge like
ice cave thing Very 90s ish,right, I guess, and it was
called the Ice Cool Station.
So, that's how Club Cool.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
You're tying that in, tying that in.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Gotcha, I told you.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, because I've got one struggle Maybe there
tying that in, Tying that inGotcha.
I told you we're trying, yeah,because I've had with struggling
.
Maybe there's something we'renot thinking about.
That's right smack dab in ourface.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Well, everything's been redone though.
That is the thing.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
It has been updated quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Let me see if I can find the ice cool station image
here Well we don't know whatyou're doing.
That's it.
Oh yeah, that's very 90s.
90s google ice cool station andgo to photos and you'll, yeah,
you'll, you'll see, yeah, so,yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
So that's what we have for epcot.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
You know if you can think of others let us know yeah
, definitely let us know um, butwe're leaving epcot and going
to animal kingdom our favoritepark and this one was kind of
tough too, kind of I've got asuper deep cut here, but I'm
gonna go first.
Okay is.
(45:08):
Is it's tough to be a bug stillopen or is it closed now?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
um, it's, either is it today or tomorrow's the last
day we're going with.
This has to be a dog it's on mylist because at the time that
we're recording this, it onmarch, 16th sunday.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
It was an opening day attraction for animal kingdom
and this actually came outbefore the movie even came out
in theaters.
So this was used to promote.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
It's tough to be a bug in the theaters yeah so yeah
, that's some good 90s nostalgiathere yeah, its final
performance will be uh, hold on.
You said today is what today'sthe 16th yeah, so um well,
that's not right then for thefuture listeners.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
March 16th it's tough to be a bug closing march 17th
so today's the last day, becausetomorrow will be closed, right
yeah rest in peace.
It's tough to be a bug.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yes, but definitely, you know, and like sorry, like
you were saying, it was, youknow, an attraction before the
movie came out and that's howthey used to do things, you know
, now we're used to it beingflipped.
So when Zach talks about someof the history of some of these
attractions and and I, it cameout first, but that's how they
(46:22):
used to do it.
So, um, but yeah, tough to be abug again at the time of this
recording it was.
It's still showing today, butuh, definitely 90s.
Another one is festival of thelion king I want to go back to.
It's tough to be a bug oh sorry,do you think you were just
staring it?
Speaker 2 (46:34):
has a long wait time.
Oh, I'm gonna look it up.
Talk about festival lion king,which I agree it's on my list
too.
I'm gonna look it up.
Talk about festival lion king,which I agree it's on my list
too.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
I'm gonna look it up right now because animal kingdom
will be closing right now yeah,I could see tough to be a bug
having a long wait today.
Normally you're just waitingfor the next showing, correct?
But uh, today being the lastday I think it was this weekend,
probably this last week, evenit probably had longer wait
times.
Um.
Festival of the Lion King.
Again, lion King came out inlike mid-90s.
(47:02):
Festival of the Lion King great, great performance.
You know.
It's got songs, pageantry,puppetry, you've got fire.
It's like 30, 40 minutes long.
It's a really good show to gosee.
Definitely recommend seeing it,especially now that it's back
in all of its glory, becausewhen it first returned after the
(47:24):
pandemic it didn't have all ofthose pieces, but now it does
again and it is an amazing show.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
It is a great show.
Love it, love it, love it.
Alright, it's tough to be a bug.
Usually 10 minute wait, right30 minute wait.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Which is long for that.
It is long for stuff to be abug.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yes, because usually it's just 10, 15 minutes waiting
on the next showing.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, so you're waiting on two shows.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yes, basically, basically.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, yeah, all right , we are going to I'm going to
kind of combine two into one.
Okay.
We're going to Dinosaur, whichopened in 1998 as Countdown to
Extinction, and it was changedto Dinosaur in 2001 or two to
promote the movie Dinosaur,which flopped.
Maybe that's when they started.
They stopped promoting moviesbefore they came out.
Maybe, Maybe, maybe.
(48:11):
But we're going to go to thepre-show with Dr Helen Marsh.
You know, in the pre-show, yes,she is played by felicia rashad
.
Felicia rashad famously playedclaire huxtable on the cosby
show right, which aired until1992.
Yes, deep cut right there forthe 90s, for the night.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
There's your 90s nostalgia right there but when I
mean when I saw her on the inthe pre-show, I was that's who
you, who you think of I wasimmediately like it's Claire.
Yeah, Immediately went thereExactly.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yes, so there's your.
My 90s nostalgia deep cut.
Claire Huxtable in Dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
And that's all you have for Animal Kingdom.
That's all I got for AnimalKingdom.
That is all you have.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Because you were going to talk about Rafiki.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Yeah, but there's more.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
You even mentioned it the other night at dinner
pandora is not 90s no no, okay,I'll come back to it in a minute
maybe that's why I didn't putit down, because I think I know
you're gonna say okay so, um, Ihave a couple more.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
So next I have, you can meet timone and rafiki.
Yes, and I think they meet atthe conservation station.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
And so I have heard that Rafiki like is an awesome
meet and greet.
I have heard several people saythat that's been one of their
favorite interactions.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
He reminds me kind of of Yoda.
Yeah, the way he speaks andjust how wise he is.
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, and just how wise he is.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, but I've had severalpeople say that and I knew a lot
of people that were just therefor spring break and I think two
of them had mentioned lovedmeeting Rafiki.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
We haven't yet to do that we have.
I might hang out with Rafiki.
Yeah, yeah, I might would.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
So, and then Timon's Timon, you know Timon's goingon,
you know so.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Timon's going to be Timon.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yes, now, this is the .
The next thing is what Ithought you were going to
mention, because we've seen thischaracter walking around and at
from DuckTales and DarkwingDuck and, I think, another show
too.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
He is no longer able to be meet and greet in the park
.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
No more.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
When I looked on the website yesterday when I was
doing this, he was no longerlisted as a meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
So what I've learned is that may be the case that
they're no longer listed, butyou never know when they're just
going to pop out, walk around,maybe stop for 10 minutes and do
some pictures.
So this is.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
we'll go ahead and say Launchpad McQuack, the pilot
from oh why am I Tailspin,tailspin.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
That was the one I forgot.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Also the pilot in.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
DuckTales, ducktales, and he made appearances in
Darkwing Duck too.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, and you can also see him sometimes with Scrooge
mcduck.
Yes, big part of my childhood,because these were early 90s
cartoons and I watched them allthe time.
I just had a brain moment whereI forgot the names of the show.
Right, I got too much bradleyaround that's why you have me
but when I looked on the website, it was no longer.
(51:17):
They were no longer listed asmeet and greets.
Well, they met in the dinosaurarea and maybe that's why?
Speaker 1 (51:23):
maybe because they're redoing that whole area yeah,
but I could see, I don't knowagain, just in the last several
years, like in the times that wehave been at the parks and
stuff there, we have seen maybewe haven't went and met them,
but we have seen.
Maybe we haven't went and metthem, but we have seen
characters that usually don'thave a designated place still.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
Like Launchpad walking around.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Yeah, still walking around, or again just sometimes
setting up like, oh okay, he'sgoing to be here for a few
minutes.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
And then when they were doing the flotillas which I
am so mad they got that was thecoolest thing.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, and they got rid of was the coolest thing.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah, and they got rid of the flotillas.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
I know they had them just until like what last?
Speaker 2 (52:05):
year, about a year ago, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And that was a way that you could see characters
during the pandemic withoutactually like meeting them, but
they were still on the river.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Let me tell you, sitting at the deck in Nomad
Lounge and watching Launchpadand Scrooge go by while having a
Tempting Tigers peak, peakright there.
Yeah, Let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah, they were on there.
You could see Pocahontas andMiko the raccoon and a few
others.
These aren't 90s, but you couldsee Doug and what's his name?
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah, no name.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Kevin, yeah, no, not Kevin.
Kevin's a big bird on theflotilla Doug and Russell,
russell, thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
You can still see them in the parks now.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yes, yes, but again they're not 90s.
But anyway, these were on theflotillas.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
And then I think, like Timon and Rafiki were on
the flotillas and stuff too,yeah so, but yeah, it is what it
is.
So hope you enjoyed this strolldown memory lane I know we have
so.
Thank you so much for joiningus you're struggling here
struggling here.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Talk about next week britney oh, next week we are
going to discuss and revisit aseries we did a long time ago.
In each park, are theattractions over, under or
properly rated?
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Get ready for lots of yelling.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
You're going to hate us afterwards.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
Maybe, maybe not.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
All right.
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Yes.
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Yes, talk to you soon , thank you.
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