September 10, 2025 • 60 mins
Oh, bother. Get ready to climb into your personal honeypot with our favorite silly old bear. No not that one, I'm talking about Max Zaleski as we take a ride on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh!
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Greetings and welcome to anotherepisode of Wild Mouse.
I of course am your host Taylor Bartle and I am joined once
again making his third appearance on the show, making
him a Wild Mouse All Star. Please welcome back Max Zaleski.
It's me and I definitely did notforget that this podcast was
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happening. Yeah, if you're a premium pass
holder and you listen to July's premium pass episode and you
heard Max make fun of me for forgetting about the episode,
well, today it was Max's turn. To be fair, to be fair, I had an
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alert go off that said, hey, youhave 5 minutes before your
podcast starts. And I was like, great.
And then I had somebody come to the door and then I, for
whatever reason, started making dinner for no, no apparent
reason. And then about 5 minutes ago I
was like, wait a minute. I think I was going to do
something. Yeah, yeah, I my brain, man.
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It's it's something sometimes. I want to kick off this this
podcast. I know that you just said that
I'm I'm an All Star. So thank you so much.
You know who isn't an All Star? Who?
Hulk Hogan rested pissed bozo. Oh yeah, anyway.
Anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, we're not here to talk
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about Hulk Hogan because he doesn't.
He's. Tangentially related to theme
parks. Sure.
I mean, I, you know, did a bonusepisode on WWE's unrealized
theme park. Oh yes, this is true, you did.
Yeah, also, his name is Terry. Can we stop with the Hulk Hogan?
I like I've I've not seen a single death announcement.
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Call him Terry Valea. Yeah, well, you know that that
Hulk Hogan was a piece of shit. But Terry Bollea, you know, if
you separate the art from the look, you know who who isn't a
massive piece of shit. Is it a silly old bear?
It is a silly old bear and his friends in the 100 acre woods.
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That's right, friends and and family.
Today we I said family on purpose.
Don't worry about it. Family.
Today we are talking about the many, many adventures of Winnie
the Pooh because this is a ride that operates in four different
parks. Although we are mostly going to
be talking about the Disneyland version specifically because
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it's the only one that Max and Ihave ridden.
You don't know, I could have been to the Shanghai Disney.
Have you been to Shanghai DisneyMax?
No, but I could have. Have you been to Disney World?
Yeah, I, I, I went to Disney World before I went to
Disneyland. OK.
Did you go on this there? Yes, but it's been.
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One week since you looked at me.16 years.
OK. It's been a long time.
So OK, so Max has ridden it in Disney World but it is mostly
fresh in his mind in Disneyland.I have only ridden a Disneyland
1, I did not ride the Disney World one when I went and I have
not been to Asia in any way so yet maybe.
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Yet maybe asterisk? Yeah, we'll see.
But so The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The first one was in Magic Kingdom following the success of
the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Heard of it? Hey, we've done that one.
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Yeah, Disneyland actually was going to make a whole new land.
I think we talked about this in the Roger Rabbit cartoon spin
episode. And, you know, it obviously
eventually became Mickey's Toontown, and one of the rides
they wanted to have was a Winniethe Pooh dark ride.
And it was going to basically beRoger Rabbit's cartoon spin.
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In fact, it actually turned intoRoger Rabbit's cartoon spin
because originally you were going to be much like the many
adventures of Winnie the Pooh. You would get in a honeypot, but
the honeypots would spin kind oflike, you know, the teacups.
But the ride was ultimately cancelled.
And like I said, the space was used to make Roger Rabbit's
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cartoon spin. Seven years later, over down in
Florida, there was a plan for a Winnie the Pooh attraction in
the Magic Kingdom, and they decided to use an existing
structure, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.So that's kind of sad that this
overtook Mr. Toad's Wild Ride inFlorida.
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Oh, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a dope ride that I definitely rode
in Disneyland. Be fair, everyone wants Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride. That's true.
But yeah, in Florida, where thisoriginally opened it, they
turned Mr. Toad's Wild Ride intoWinnie the Pooh.
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The ride was retained during a Fantasyland expansion and in
2020 or sorry, in 2010, it received a new cue resembling
the 100 Acre Wood and they called it Who's Interactive Cue.
Oh bother, it's cute because it rhymes, I guess.
Sure, but I don't really want tobe interactive with any with
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Disney's poo. They should have just called it
the poo Q. Or the mini adventures of Winnie
the Q. Sure, Yeah, they could call it
that. But Poo's Interactive Q, or the
PIQ is the cool kids call. It incorporates a playground.
Incorporates a playground with Children's Games, allowing
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members of a party to play whileothers hold space in line.
No, I don't like that. Every one of your party should
be in line. Agreed.
These, these, these people who are like, ah, don't worry, I've
got, I've got, I've got the restof my group.
And then they have like an entire school, like like school
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room of friends who are like, I'm just going to ride.
And now you're waiting for 180 minutes because this ride, the
the queue for this ride and a lot of the other Fantasyland
rides are monstrous. Yeah, and.
Fucking children. Few things annoy me more at a
Disney park than people pushing their way through the queue.
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Being like, oh, my group's up there, my group's up there, I'm
meeting my husband up there. It's like, no, you're not, you
liar. You lying liar.
That's why I like solo queue rides.
Like I, my, we went and rode Expedition Everest probably like
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30 times in a row between a friend and I and we were like,
well, we'll, we'll, we'll go do it together once.
And then they were like, this ride is dope.
And then we just went and we literally just walked out of the
exit and then into the single queue and just wrote it probably
30 times within the next three hours.
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It was crazy. That's awesome.
So good. Yeah, Expedition Everest is
sweet. My girlfriend's dad went on it
and he did not know that it wentbackwards and he was not a fan
of that aspect of it. Oh, but that's like, that's like
the best part of it. I know.
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Anyway, yeah, the Disneyland plan was shelved in 1999, which
is actually when the Magic Kingdom one opened June 5th,
1999, so it just recently had its 26th anniversary.
But you said that out loud. How dare you?
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Unlike Florida, California does not have a lot of room for
Disneyland to expand, so they decided they were going to
replace an existing ride. Fantasyland, which would make
the most sense, was ruled out because it contains the least
amount of space. So what was then called Critter
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Country was ultimately chosen since I guess Winnie the Pooh
and his friends are critters. They are critters, it's true.
It kind of makes sense. Matt Mercer.
OK. Critical Role to.
DND. Never mind.
Not a big fan of the the awful horror movie critters.
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Hey now, it's just as good as gremlins.
There we go. It is absolutely not you.
Shut your whore mouth. It's better than Ghoulies, I'll
give it that. Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
They'll get you in the end. And you?
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But so Critter Country consistedof a whopping 3 rides, Splash
Mountain Country, Bear Jamboree,and Winnie the Pooh, and somehow
Winnie the Pooh is the only one still standing.
Well, like Splash Mountains, technically the.
Structure's still there. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's just called somethingdifferent.
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Yeah, and they've also renamed. It is the same ride, although as
me and Rob and Miriam debated, we think it's faster but.
Huh. But that critter country has
since been renamed the Bayou Country, which you know.
Oh, for the the frog and the thethe.
Princess and the Frog, yeah. That one, thank you.
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Yeah, which makes the Winnie thePooh edition very curious.
Yeah, 'cause you know, Winnie the Pooh, not, not like a Creole
French, you know, Cajun deal. Winnie the Pooh is definitely,
definitely none of those things.They're pretty sure the 100 acre
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wood is not in the Bayou. No.
Isn't it like up north like in like Connecticut or something?
I think so. Something like that.
Yeah, all. Right.
So I actually misspoke because they replaced Country Bear
Jamboree with Winnie the Pooh. So Winnie the Pooh and Country
Bear Jamboree never existed at the same time.
I was, I was about to say my, mymom was very upset that they
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took away the country bear Jamboree because it was like her
favorite as a as a kid. And I was forced to sit through
it any time that we went to Disney.
And I was like, huh, this is interesting.
But mainly because one of the moose's names was Max.
So. Yeah.
And in fact, in fact, actually, Max was a deer.
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Melvin is the Moose. Whatever.
And buff the stuffalo. Whoa, that's a good one.
Buffalo, You. Have Buffalo Cuffalo.
Speaking of which, did you hear Buff Bagwell got his leg
amputated? Yes, from he's had been having
problems. Ah, the Hundred Acre Wood is in
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fucking England. Oh, that's makes the most sense.
Ashdown Forest in Sussex, England.
In it. Anyway, in it Tuesday anyway.
Anyway, the heads of Max the Beer, Melvin the Moose and Buff
the Buffalo are actually mountedinside The Many Adventures of
Winnie the Pooh. That's horrifying, given that
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Winnie the Pooh, like they're act like, sure, you could you,
you could suggest that they're not really real animals, but
they are real animals, which means that the heads of those
animals are like their friends and they're corpses of their
friends. Yeah, basically it's, it's like
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if I put your head up on my wall.
Yep, not scary at all. So the budget of the attraction
was set for $30 million, most ofit dedicated to reformatting the
Country Bear Jamboree show building into a ride.
It's kind of crazy that, like Country Bear Jamboree was just a
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show and they're trying to get into a ride.
Yeah, but it was like it was, the space was huge because if I
remember correctly and to be fair.
To be fair, it. It had been a very long time
since I've seen the Country BearJamboree in Disneyland.
I remember that space being verylarge.
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I I mean, it must have been it's, yeah, this is not a long
ride. I guess it's 3 minutes and 15
seconds. It's not a short ride, I guess,
but but it's not doesn't take upa lot of space.
Yeah. The Disneyland version opened in
2003, received large promotions by park management, and lines
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were long at first but quickly dropped off.
Disneyland was planning to have a media event scheduled for
April 11th, 2003, but then just didn't.
Hey, never mind. Don't.
Don't worry about that. Yeah, don't, don't worry about
it. It it it's a little weird that I
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don't remember and I have AI have a difficult relationship
with Winnie the Pooh. I don't remember.
Like was this around the time that the Tigger movie came out?
I don't. Recall what when the Tigger
Movie came out? So I don't know.
That was that was 2000. OK, so it was at least a little
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closer because I was going to say like, look, why?
Why do a Winnie the Pooh ride when it wasn't like super
relevant since the late 70s early 80s?
I I guess like the like they they they had like the mini
adventures of Winnie the Pooh like the the TV show too that
was big on Disney. It it feels weird that they did
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this as a ride rather than like a walkthrough.
Yeah. Especially because like country
bear jam to be to be honest, Country Bear Jamboree sucks so I
I get it. Tony's going to be mad.
Well, whatever. I had no affinity for Country
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Bear Jamboree. I don't remember if I ever saw
Country Bear Jamboree to be honest with you.
I like the big fat bear. He he was cool, but I think he
sang about there was blood on They sang about blood in that in
that song It was. Very weird blood on the saddle,
right? Yeah, Blood on the Saddle, which
is like, that's not, that's not wholesome.
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A lot of Western movies are about like, you know, bad things
like killing Indians. Yeah, shooting people and.
Gambling and being liquored up. Banging whores?
Yep, ladies of the night, they prefer.
Well, OK, Is that what they prefer?
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I I don't know. Anyway, over in Hong Kong the
ride opened September 12th 2005 and it was the only dark ride in
Fantasyland and also only the third dark ride in the whole
park, the the other two being Buzz Lightyear, Astro Blasters
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and Space Mountain. Space Mountain still scary.
I mean, I love Space Mountain. Yeah, it should be scarier for
you because you're like 8 feet tall.
But like, yeah. Have you?
Have you, have you been on the ride when all the lights are on?
That's terrifying. No, I've never been on when the
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lights were on. Oh my God.
So for whatever reason, the one in Disney World was broken like
like all the dark stuff was broken for like an extended
period of time during one of thetimes that we were there.
Like it was down for like a month and Disney was like, well,
we need something to we need to do something.
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So like like they repurposed it and they were like you can watch
or you can ride space mountain with the lights on as like a
like a behind the scenes kind ofthing.
And it was terrifying and not fun at all.
It was very scary. Well, yeah, the big appeal of
Space Mountain is that how dark it is.
Yeah, and that you could die at any time.
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I don't know if that's part of it, but over in Shanghai, the
bride opened June 16th, 2016. So there's a pretty big gap
between Hong Kong and Shanghai as opposed to all the others.
Similar to the Magic Kingdom version, but mostly identical to
the Hong Kong version in But here's here's a funny story in
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2018 I was. About to bring it up, yeah.
OK, yeah, in 2018, according to the Business Insider, I don't
know how many people remember this, but there was a whole
thing where everyone was comparing the general secretary
of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping.
They were comparing him to Winnie the Pooh.
Yeah, yeah. There was all these rumors that
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Winnie the Pooh was going to be banned throughout China.
Which is crazy because his shirtis red.
Yeah, Pooh's clearly a commie. That's what I'm saying.
But I mean, at least as of 2023,the rides are still open.
To the best of my knowledge, they still are.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I remember likearound that time period, you
know, all, all of those jokes and like the Disney subreddits
were like, are they going to, are they going to, you know,
couch out to, to the Chinese government?
And I guess Disney told them to shut the fuck up.
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Disney was like, it's just a silly old.
Bear. Yeah, it's a silly old bear.
Easy down there, poo. Oh, bother.
Oh, bother. So like I said, we're going to
talk mostly about the Disneylandversion, and it's interesting
because it's actually the most unique from all the others.
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The official description from disneyland.com says get lost in
the pages of a A Milne's classictale as you glide through Pooh's
most memorable adventures as youas you glide through.
Pooh. Board your beehive and get swept
up in a gust of wind with Piglet, Gopher E or Kanga and
Roo. Band together with Tigger and
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friends to stay afloat in a torrential downpour.
Celebrate sunny days and togetherness as Pooh finally
gets his paws on some honey. This visual extravaganza filled
with Disney songs is sure to delight Cubs of all ages.
And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down otters.
Yep, very gay. Twinks Super.
Gay. Yep.
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So real quick, I want to talk about the other three versions
just cuz like I said, they're they're all pretty similar.
The biggest difference between those and the Disneyland version
is that in the Disneyland version you ride in a beehive
and in all the other versions you ride in a honeypot.
Yes. No idea why no.
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I think it's because the California version were very big
fans of Austin Powers. You think that's why?
OB hive baby. That.
Was good. No, it wasn't.
It was terrible. So you get in your honey pot and
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you enter the 100 Acre Wood during a rather blustery day,
which of course is based on the book Winnie the Pooh and the
Blustery Day. Yep, very so, so imaginative.
And you see Piglet holding a broom while being spun around,
Pooh is holding onto a balloon while trying to reach for honey,
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and Eeyore is just patronizing Pooh.
Brew starts to be blown away, and Kanga holds on to him.
We see Owl in his home. Everything is scattered about.
And there there's actually a picture of of Toad here.
So they kind of, yeah, little wink wink, nudge, nudge.
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Which means that they all exist within the same universe.
I am waiting for the multiverse for Disney movies.
Mr. Pooh's wild ride. Mr. Pooh's wild ride.
It's all It's a small world after.
Nope. After poo, it's a small world.
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After poo, you're small anyway. Anyway, the ride passes a giant
storybook page and Tigger bounces out and he goes and the
ride vehicles, the ride vehiclesactually begin to bounce, which
I don't think that happens in the Disneyland version.
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I, I don't believe so, mainly because it's mainly because it's
like a longer, it's a longer cart in Disneyland.
It's like a six seater or like athere's like 3-3 tiers of poo of
Piers. Wow, pews, 3 tiers of pews.
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There we go. Pews that that was very hard to
say. Whereas the honey pots are only
two by two. OK, I mean it.
Well, no, I was going to say it could be because they repurposed
Mr. Toad, but that didn't happento Mr. Toad either, so I don't
know what I was talking about. Yeah, Taylor.
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Tigger bounces up and down at one point before the ride moves
on to Poo's home, and then Tigger has pinned Poo to the
floor. What sexy as he tells them all
about heffalumps and woozles? Which in at least in the.
Disneyland version is a fucking nightmare.
It's a banger. I mean, yeah, the song's great,
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but just the visuals are just like, Oh dear God, what have I
awoken into? Yeah, some of those dark rides
are like, legitimately scary. And especially for kids who are
like, you know, 5 or 4. I saw more kids writing, like
running out scared for those rides than I did for like, you
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know, Tower of Terror or or whatever.
Let's because they they're too small for Tower of Terror.
Shut up, Taylor. Let me be right.
OK, the ride moves around some very strange objects.
A purple woozle lights a heffalump.
A purple woozle lights a heffalump.
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Like on fire. Yes, I need a giant smoke ring
to come from its trunk. Oh yeah, and they use a they use
a cool smoke smoke ring thing tomake a make a cool smoke ring
that comes at you, which is pretty though.
Yeah, and a giant Hefalump has holes that reveal the way out of
the Hefalumps and Woozles scene.As the guests continue through
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the scenes to dancing, Hefalumpsand Woozles simultaneously
change colors and patterns on the wall.
A harp playing Hefalump is playing her harp made out of
honey. Giant balloons fly up in the air
and two watering cans pouring rain on the riders indicate the
end of the Heffalumps and Woozles scene.
Can I posit a question? Sure.
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I think that honey is a substitute for drugs.
It seems that way when it comes to the heffalumps and woozles
for sure. It's like this is written in
like, you know, I don't know when the, the, the books were
written, but like the movies were made in like the late 70s
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and everybody was high back then.
So like this definitely is like,hey, we can like subliminally
sneak in some, some some drug, some drug analogies here.
Yeah, it definitely seems like it 'cause the Heflumps and
Wizzle scene is like it's got bright neon colors and it's got
all this weird shit that it definitely feels like it's
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supposed to be like an acid tripor something.
Indeed. Yeah, so after the half lumps
and wuzzle scene, the vehicle arrives in a room painted with
rain and cloud patterns. As Thunder and lightning go off
and then re enters the 100 acre wood which is experiencing the
rainstorm, the ride vehicles begin to float.
I do remember this part in the Disneyland version.
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Eyor complaints about the wind and rain go for squirts water
out of his mouth. Kangaroo, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl
attempt to save Piglet from floating away and the ride
vehicles move to find Poo flyingaround a wing to the wind.
The hell does that mean? Blowing to the wind or no?
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He is being blown and that is owed to the wind.
So like. That.
Is a reason for it. I, There's a really cool effect
that happens in this ride and I can't, I can't pinpoint I, I
can't pinpoint exactly where it happens, but there's a big
storybook page and I bet now it's, I bet now it's just like
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projection mapping, but they have water that, you know,
digital water like float down and splash onto the page and the
letters start to run and the. Letters.
Themselves like run down the down the path of the water.
It's a really cool effect that, you know, when I was young was
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like, I don't know how they did that.
And now that I'm older, I'm like, I sort of know how they
did that. Yeah, so the Disney World and
Shanghai and Hong Kong versions.This was actually the last time
that Paul Winchell voiced Tigger.
Yes. So that's neat, he.
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Was a ventriloquist. Did you know this?
I don't, I no, I did know that actually.
He was old. Sure.
Yeah, one of the versions in Asia, I think it's Shanghai,
like who is like flocked and like almost realistic looking
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and it's really kind of jarring.I don't, I don't like that.
Yeah, I I mean, he's, he's a cartoon.
Make him look like a cartoon. Yeah, I don't need any.
Do not. Actually, they already did this.
They did like a live action Winnie the Pooh, right?
Movie, right? Like it was like.
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OO7. It's called blood and honey.
Blood and honey, yeah. Haha.
No, but like Disney did one where like Christopher Robin was
real and all of the the the the critters were like CG but like
felt CG. So is.
This Is this the one with Ewan McGregor?
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Yes, that one. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that, that was a good retelling of the story.
Yeah, although that poo looks a lot like the like old old books
style. Yes, yeah.
They don't know what they're doing.
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They have too many poos. They're constipated AO anyway.
Or they have diarrhea. Ah yes, yes, Walt Disney, famous
for his diarrhea. Yep, from all that chili.
Instead of from all the chili, make sure you sign up to the
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premium pass to hear all of hearabout us talking about Walt and
his love of chili. That's right.
Good plug. OK.
So moving to California where we're going to focus most of our
energy here, the many adventuresof Winnie the Pooh.
The entrance is right across from the entrance to what is now
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Yeah, yeah, it's like real
close. To the point where I'm pretty
sure I have walked past this many, many times without even
realizing it was there. Rude.
But the entrance is just kind ofthis, like, I don't know, Barn,
Yeah. Yeah.
And there's a big sign that saysthe mini ventures of Winnie the
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Pooh and it's got Poo and Tiggerand Piglet and Eeyore and Roo
and a clock that says 5 minute wait because it's pretty much
always a 5 minute wait. Yeah, that's right.
Is not very is not very popular,which is sad.
Yeah, I think we went on it thislast time because I I think we
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were over there to go on Tiana'sand it had broken down.
So we were like, well, this is here.
Yeah, yeah, definitely one of those things where you're like,
I can go on this a couple of times before my, you know, Fast
Pass is ready. I know.
That fast pass. Doesn't really exist I guess
anymore, but. It's lightning rain now.
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Well, look back in my day, Taylor.
If you start talking about how fast pass used to be free, I
swear to God. It did.
It was free. I know it was, but I don't need
to hear about it. Hey Taylor, the first time that
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you went to Disney, did you still have to pay with tickets
or? Probably.
Because you're old. I mean, they definitely weren't
on your phone, no. No, yeah, no, no.
Like like the rides. Oh, no, yeah, yeah.
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My mom had a whole bunch, like abooklet of old tickets that she
never used. And I'm like, man, this is this
is like worth like $40 back then, which is a lot of money.
And they might be worth something now.
Might be able to sell them to some Disney adults on eBay.
Yep, very Yep, that's true. Disney adults.
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It's very weird. Yeah, but so the the queue to
Winnie the Pooh, the Winnie the queue, if you will.
Yep, thank you. Is there's really nothing to it,
like it's extremely short and not just in like time, but in
space, there's not a lot of areathat's covered.
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You really just kind of walk through some, you know, wooden
post fences and I some like green area off to the side and
then next thing you know you're in front of the ride.
Also, this is a very weird thingis that this, this dark, this
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dark ride which has slow moving,you know, buggies or whatever
you want to call them, you get on it outside, which is very
different than every other dark ride.
And I think the only other dark ride that goes outside is, well,
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Splash Mountain.
Well, that one doesn't really count.
You're already because it's in the water.
There's not there's. Anything.
There's not like, there's not like a lot of electronics on
board the the thing. So if it like rains, I know that
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California doesn't like rain a lot, but like if when it when it
does rain like I think that would probably be a problem,
right? Probably, yeah.
I would imagine they probably shut this ride down if it rains
too hard. You don't see that happen with
Haunted Mansion, I'm just saying.
No, you definitely don't becauseHaunted Mansion is all inside.
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Yes. And it's you'll be you'll be
waiting. You'll be waiting in the rain.
But yes. What so you get in your beehive?
Pro tip, most leg room is in thefront.
Yep, they made a point to tell my brother that this was the
only ride that was like get in the front.
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Yes, you long legged lot get up front.
Yep. So you climb into your beehive
and you head into another barn. There's a different barn.
It's not the same barn. And there's these, these really
cheaply made, at least looking doors, like they look like barn
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doors, but they're just painted.And I'm like you.
Think it's like on purpose though.
Is it supposed to look like you're going into a like a book,
Like a storybook? That's like the the vibe that
I'm getting. I suppose, yeah.
They're just painted to look like, you know, they have the
big wood straps across them, straps, big wood planks across
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them like barn doors do. Then they're also painted with,
like, foliage and leaves, and itlooks very fall and fun and cute
and adorable, all that fun Winnie the Pooh stuff.
And you go through two of these doors and then you go through
three. I don't know if you call them
doors, but they're the same basic function, but they're just
leaves. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK. My, my memory is coming back as
you're talking about it. And I'm like, Oh yeah, I can
sort of remember that. Yeah, yeah, You know what I'm
saying? Yeah.
So yeah, then you enter 100 AcreWood and it's a a very blustery
day and we. See.
Yeah, we see Roo flying away. Panga's holding on to a scarf or
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something to make sure Roo doesn't fly away.
Winnie the Pooh, he's got a balloon and he's, he's floating
away. And yours, It's just screaming.
Just just screaming I. Mean that's what it looks like
is happening. And Piglet is he's he's holding
on to a broom, which I don't think would help you.
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I think the broom would just flyaway too.
Brooms are not that heavy. Yeah, but Piglet is also not
very heavy. Piglet's he's he's a wee guy,
yeah. He's a, he's a, he's just a
little guy. He's.
Just a little guy and then you go around the corner and this is
it's just raining now. I do remember when you.
Pouring down rain. Yeah, I do remember when you
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first enter and it's that very blustery day, there's actually
like big fans just blowing ya and not, not in a sexy way.
Not even in the fun way. I I went to Disneyland and all I
got was blown by Winnie the Pooh.
I got blown by Winnie the Pooh. I don't think I can make that
shirt. Maybe.
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Pretty sure I'll get a cease anddesist on that one.
Hey, he's he's, he's in the, he's in the, he's in the public
domain now, so. You're that's true.
He is in public domain. I forgot.
Get fucked, Disney. OK, so yeah, then it starts
pouring down rain and this is all done with projection mapping
and lighting effects. They obviously don't dump water
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on you, but they should. They they should.
Tigger looks like he's trying tosave poo from floating away on a
chair. I guess it's it's must be
flooding. That's.
Piglet. What I say?
You said poo. Yeah, piglet poo is poo is
upside down in a honeypot that fat.
He's in. He's, he's, he's, he's nose
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first in the honeypot. Yeah.
That that must be the Gopher spitting the water there.
Yap yap yap. Eeyore is trying to save Kanga
and Roo, who are floating on an umbrella with Rabbit, and Tigger
is creeping in the bushes. He is creeping in the bushes.
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He's he's yeah. Dislike.
Like what? I I no, I no, I was saying like,
what is he doing? Yeah, but yeah.
He's he's, he's like a creepy, ah, a Tigger again.
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And then you say, damn, now, yeah, I don't know where this is
supposed to be, but all of a sudden, Tigger pops up out of
the ceiling. Tigger's just creeping around
throughout this entire ride. I'm guessing this is inside
Poo's house. Yeah.
And then there's this cool kind of Pepper's ghost effect, where
Winnie the Pooh is flying above his own body.
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He's just disembodied and then he flies into the darkness and
this is so cool. It is the.
Coolest part of the ride? Yeah, and it look, it looks real
too, because of the way that they have the the Pepper's goat
lit, like lit. And then when they do the
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projection mapping, because he is so high contrast against the
the utter darkness, it looks like a real thing is floating in
front of you. It's really cool.
Yeah, it's really well done. And he flies off into the
nightmare hellscape that is the Effer Lumpsen Woozle's room.
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Yep, Yep, Yep. Like I said before, bright
bright neon colors, black light,everything.
There's a multi colored tigger in here.
There is honey everywhere. Just painted the walls with
honey. Yeah, lots of mirrors.
And if you've been on any, like the Disney rides, you, you
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understand what they're doing. They're using the, the cool UV
lights and, and all of the UV paint to make everything pop.
Really, really like against the dark, you know, because it's a
dark ride and all of it is is lit in such a way that
accentuates all of the like all of the perspectives and
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everything. So everything has this very
otherworldly, very trip esque like, you know, on ecstasy or,
or or acid, you know, once againeluding back to drugs.
But it it it definitely feels like a trip.
Yeah, and like you said, there'smirrors kind of like behind a
lot of the props. So it's kind of this weird thing
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where you're looking at one thing and all of a sudden you
see something out of the corner of your eye and it's actually
you. Yeah, no, the ugliest thing.
Then there's this this rude boy Heffalump here wearing his like
black and white checkered overalls and pork pie hat.
Very, very 60s coded for sure. Yeah, and he's got it.
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Looks like he's got an umbrella made of honey.
That's not going to work, silly.Silly old The Heffalump.
You're just going to get sticky.Yeah, everything's got to be so
sticky in this room. Yeah, which is weird.
Given the black light, you'd think it would be glowing like
crazy. Yeah, who is in a hot air
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balloon inside a a honey pot that is just overflowing with
honey? I am 90% sure that is where the
main woman bear comes out from during the country bear
Jamboree. That is like the same the same
space that she would come out from.
That makes sense. This part is really trippy.
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There's like, I guess it's a biggiant heffalump, but it's like
super long. Like it the wall turns into the
heffalump, but there's a part ofit that's cut out, as in the
shape of a woozle, and behind itis just like a spinning.
It must be some kind of spinningdisc or something.
And so even though the Woozle isstill, there's all these polka
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dots and triangles and differentshapes spinning around behind
him, making it look like he's this weird trippy psychedelic
thing. Yeah, and this is like directly
out of the the the 1977 film like this, this, this feeling of
of surrealism and once again a adrug trip like that that was
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pulled directly from the movie. Yeah.
Are these giant jack-in-the-box guys from the movie?
I don't remember them. I don't remember them, but
perhaps there's. Two giant Jack-in-the-box
woozles who look very similar tothe weasels from Rodger Rabbit.
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At least the the crazy ones. They're woozles.
Yeah, they're not weasels. They're woozles.
Heffalumps and woozles boom boomboom boom boom boom boom.
Yep, that's how the song goes. Yep.
There's two giant watering cans pouring water onto a heffalump
with a flaming candle on his head.
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And then there's a I, I, I guessthat's another Woozle who's
dressed like a marching band leader, and he is lighting the
candle. Yep, he's lighting the candle,
but there's no band to, you know, there's no band to
conduct. But right behind him, there's a
there's a there's a Heffalump, asmaller Heffalump who is playing
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a harp made out of honey on her trunk.
Yes, right next to another Heffalump who is just drowning in
honey. Drowning in honey.
RIP. How do they come up with this
shit? Lots of drugs.
I was going to say drugs. Drugs.
That's the answer, yeah. Yeah.
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So there's the harp playing Heffa lump and then just so much
honey. Just the walls are dripping
yellow with honey. Yeah, it's like a cavern.
It's like a cavern of cavities. And then Poo is just coming out
of the wall with his face and his hands covered in honey.
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Yeah, he's he's stuck. Silly old bear.
And then finally, like as we're exiting this area, there's some
Hefa bees, I guess they're called that are just like
heffalumps but with bee bodies and they can fly and they have
Pixie dust for some reason. Because drugs, Taylor, we've
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been over. This So then you you leave this
area and you go back to Pooh's house.
Pooh's bed is empty for whateverreason.
There's an empty chair and it's Pooh's birthday.
I or something? Is it?
No, I don't think it's his birthday.
He's just happy because he has friends.
I guess the the banner doesn't say happy birthday, it just says
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Hooray for poo. Yep, that's what you say after
you've been constipated. Yeah, once you finally go,
you're like, oh, Hooray for poo.Yep.
Why does Rabbit look 1000 here? 'Cause he's been putting up with
Winnie the Pooh's shit for so long.
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So yeah, we've got Rabbit, Piglet, Poo and Tigger 2 and
Owl, and they're just having a big old party.
They're eating a big slice of chocolate cake.
Owl is just waving at people that are already in the room.
Hello, welcome to Not My House. And then we go into a room
marked Honey storage. There's a statue of Owl that
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says From Owl. OK.
Amazing. A pot of honey filled with
carrots from rabbit. That sounds like a gross
combination. Yeah, unless it's like carrot
cake. Sure.
Yeah. But it's just a bowl of honey
and carrots. That's true.
And again, these are these like,big swinging doors that we had
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at the beginning of the ride. Also, you know they're at the
beginning of every single CountyFair haunted house ride.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause it's big and dramatic when they swing open.
Yeah, there's a Are we sure it'snot Poo's birthday Because
everyone gave him presents. I don't think it's, I don't
think it's Poo's birthday. Well, ER just gave him a bunch
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of jars of honey that all have ERS tail on them.
It's a weird thing. Which makes them sentient
honeypots, by the way. I suppose so, yeah.
Given what we know about the critters in the Thousand Acre
Wood. And then I don't know what, I
don't know who this last one is from.
It's just, oh, it's from, from Tigger.
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Yeah. And then there's some balloons
painted on the wall. Each balloon has a character
painted on it. And then it's, ah, wrapped right
back into the bright California sun.
Yeah. And there's spilled honey
everywhere. Right as you come out, you see a
better ride. It's crazy.
You're you're, you're on this slow ride and they're like, this
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is what you could be doing. Yep, as you see people screaming
as they go off that last hill, you're like, that looks fun.
Why am I stuck on this right? Let me off this damn thing.
And then of course, once you exit, you go right into poo
corner. A gift shop.
Yep. It is not a restroom, it is a
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gift shop. Yep.
Although. Poo poo.
Corner sounds like it should be a restroom.
Yeah, cheers for Poo. It's just like everything else
in in Disney. It's really well themed.
Obviously the lights are, you know, beehives and they have
those lights and all that good stuff.
Yeah. If this was Paris, it would be
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all full of stitch. Is.
Is this a reference I'm not getting?
Oh, when we went to Disneyland Paris, every single gift shop
was full of Stitch. It didn't matter what what it
was a gift shop for, it was justthere was at least one wall
dedicated to Stitch. I had no idea that the French
loved Stitch so much, but because he's awesome, we got off
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Buzz Lightyear and the whole gift shop was Stitch.
Better movie I understand. Sure, yeah, I mean aliens,
right? And yeah, you've got all yours.
You know, your stuffed poos and your Donald ducks.
And there's Stitch. There's Stitch.
Oh my God. I'm glad this video does an
extreme close up on this stuffedpoo.
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That's $45. Stuffed to the brim with poo.
I can't. I can't.
I can't believe how dirty is this, this, this.
You know how filthy this gift shop is?
It's covered in poo. It is covered in poo.
You can get a $35 poo T-shirt, you can get some poo ears, you
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can get a Piglet T-shirt for $35.
You know, overpriced Disney stuff.
What a crock. All the T-shirts are $35.
We get it. OK, Yeah.
Congrats. And that is the Many Adventures
of Winnie the Pooh. Fun fact, the theme for the ride
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was done by Danny Elfman. Very weird poll that they got
from him, especially because like this didn't come out like
around any of his big movies or any of the things that Disney
was helping him make. So it's just like whatever, you
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got his phone number. Yes, everyone has his phone
number. Yeah, the voice cast is most of
the people that did most of the movie.
Sorry, most of the movies. Jim Cummings does do some double
duty here because once again, wewe talked about Tigger only
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being only being voiced by Paul Winchell in the the Magic
Kingdom, Hong Kong and Shanghai versions.
But Jim Cummings does the voice of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger in
the Disneyland in the Disneyland1.
And Winnie the Pooh. Yes, obviously.
Because yeah, Jim Cummings is Winnie the Pooh.
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Yes, he is. Oh, Baba.
Yep, and that's that's the story.
So why did you decide you wantedto talk about this one?
Oh, I think I might have mentioned it before.
All of my brothers and sisters have have Winnie the Pooh
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nicknames Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet.
And it's because all of them arefrom like the same family.
And then I was born out of wedlock because let's go and I
never got a nickname. So I love Winnie the Pooh even
though it's like a sore spot forme because I didn't have a
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nickname from all from from my dad.
So other than bastard. Well, little bastard, to be
fair. True.
Yeah, that's true. I also really like, I like that
it's silly nonsense. And it's about Anna.
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Like Anna, anthropomorphic animals where some like a kid
like a a kid interacts with them.
Which is pretty interesting, especially given like the time
frame when at least the movie was made.
But yeah, I I just remember Winnie the Pooh being one of my
favorite Disney properties back when I was a kid, up until Lilo
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and Stitch and Hercules came out.
So is this still like if you were to go to Disneyland
tomorrow, would you make time toget on Winnie the Pooh?
I would probably make time because it's like a nice like
little nostalgia bump and and all that good stuff.
But I don't think it would like,I wouldn't if it was down, I
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wouldn't be bummed. I'd be like, all right, well,
whatever. I can watch a video of it being
done and I'm right there becauseyou're not going to like it's
not a high thrill ride. So you're not seeing anything
blurry. Right.
Yeah, this, like I said, this isnot one that I will go out of my
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way to ride. It's one that I usually kind of
forget is there. It's very strange to me that
it's in Bayou country now. And much like Eeyore, he would
say thanks for noticing me. Yep this whole ride feels very
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adult. Maybe I just have a dirty mind
but like you said the whole hef lumps and wizzles area is just a
really serious drug trip and thethe honey being everywhere just
screams someone blew their load all over the room.
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Sure, it's dripping down the walls like it's it's disgusting.
It is it. It's definitely drugs and honey,
like, man, honey is so especially the way that they
have it depicted, 'cause it's not like it's droopy and drippy
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like a certain bodily function. So I'm like, oh God.
So if you go into it with that mind, you're like, Oh my God,
it's everywhere. It's viscous.
Yeah, so viscous. Yeah, it's gross.
It is gross, but the ride is, you know, fun and fair.
And Winnie the Pooh is awesome, and he's just a silly old bear.
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I do think that the effects in it are extremely well done.
Like I said, when you first enter and it's, it's the windy
day and you get the, the blast of wind, the gusts of wind in
your face. And just like the rain effects,
you know, obviously there's not real water, but there's the look
of it and you get the sound effects.
And all that. Yeah.
Yeah. And then like we talked about
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the floating poo that's and likeI should have worded that
differently. Well, and, and anytime Disney
uses Pepper's ghost, I'm always happy because that could be
something that they could easilydo with a, a screen or whatever.
But no, they're, they're, you know, they're going back to
their their old school roots anddoing something practical, which
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is a a lot of fun. Yeah.
And like you said, it makes it look a lot more corporeal.
It makes it look like this thingis actually floating in front of
you as opposed to just being on a screen.
And you're like I can can clearly tell that's just a flat
2D image floating next to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And and like I would have to do a lot or a little bit more
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research. But unlike, unlike the Haunted
Mansion, which are actual like 3D mannequins that are doing the
Pepper's ghost effect, I am unsure if this is a screen
Pepper's ghost effect with Pooh where he when he's floating up,
when he's sitting down and like the Pepper's ghost effect is
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there. But it would be interesting to
see if that if, if that's like avideo or if they just have like
a rotating, you know, pendulum of of poo going up and down that
is tied to, you know, the cart, the cart movements and such.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I wish they could move
this ride to Fantasyland. It would make so much more sense
(55:30):
there. But I don't think that's really
a feasible thing. No, you know.
Moving an entire ride. No.
And like, you know, what else are they going to put there?
It's not, you know, it's not in the big, you know it's not, it's
not a very big ride. So like, what, are they going to
bring the fucking Country Bear Jamboree back?
(55:51):
Obviously not. No, Pull your finger out.
Of your ass or or they could do something with like Brother
Bear, a movie that they don't talk about at all ever.
They could. They probably won't.
Sad movie. Yeah, they're I don't.
I think most people at Disney want to forget that Brother Bear
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exists. Very rude.
For whatever reason, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm
just saying like you said, they don't talk about it so.
They they do not talk about it. There is also a little poo meet
and greet area over here, so if you you know if he's there and
you got some time to kill and you want to meet a silly old
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bear, this is the place to do it.
Yes and you can I think you can also meet obviously you.
I think the most the most popular 1 outside of poo is
Tigger. Tigger shows up all the time.
I had don't think I've ever seenTigger here.
I've seen Tigger just kind of walking around.
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But yeah, I imagine this is probably the place to go to find
him as well. Indeed.
All right. Well, before we go, you got any
parting words about Winnie the Pooh, or anything else for that
matter? Winnie the Pooh's great.
If you have kids and there's you're going to give them
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nicknames. Make sure you give a nickname to
all of your children and not just four or five of them.
Otherwise, maybe when your kid is in his late 20s and early 30s
he'll have a mental break. Who knows?
Yeah, go, go ride the ride. It's it's fun, especially the
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the Heffalumps and Woozles, if not only for the music.
Yeah. And it's going to be a short
line, so. Yeah, you.
Hey, you need to get out of the heat.
Get it? Go see some poo.
Yeah, they they'll be big fans in there that'll blast you in
the face. Blow poo all over you.
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Yeah, you know, with the poo. With the poo hits the fan.
Nailed it. I'll give you that one.
I will give you that one. Thank you all.
Right. Do you have anything you want to
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Greetings and welcome to anotherepisode of Wild Mouse.
I of course am your host Taylor Bartle and I am joined once
again making his third appearance on the show, making
him a Wild Mouse All Star. Please welcome back Max Zaleski.
It's me and I definitely did notforget that this podcast was
(00:40):
happening. Yeah, if you're a premium pass
holder and you listen to July's premium pass episode and you
heard Max make fun of me for forgetting about the episode,
well, today it was Max's turn. To be fair, to be fair, I had an
(01:02):
alert go off that said, hey, youhave 5 minutes before your
podcast starts. And I was like, great.
And then I had somebody come to the door and then I, for
whatever reason, started making dinner for no, no apparent
reason. And then about 5 minutes ago I
was like, wait a minute. I think I was going to do
something. Yeah, yeah, I my brain, man.
(01:26):
It's it's something sometimes. I want to kick off this this
podcast. I know that you just said that
I'm I'm an All Star. So thank you so much.
You know who isn't an All Star? Who?
Hulk Hogan rested pissed bozo. Oh yeah, anyway.
Anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, we're not here to talk
(01:52):
about Hulk Hogan because he doesn't.
He's. Tangentially related to theme
parks. Sure.
I mean, I, you know, did a bonusepisode on WWE's unrealized
theme park. Oh yes, this is true, you did.
Yeah, also, his name is Terry. Can we stop with the Hulk Hogan?
I like I've I've not seen a single death announcement.
(02:14):
Call him Terry Valea. Yeah, well, you know that that
Hulk Hogan was a piece of shit. But Terry Bollea, you know, if
you separate the art from the look, you know who who isn't a
massive piece of shit. Is it a silly old bear?
It is a silly old bear and his friends in the 100 acre woods.
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That's right, friends and and family.
Today we I said family on purpose.
Don't worry about it. Family.
Today we are talking about the many, many adventures of Winnie
the Pooh because this is a ride that operates in four different
parks. Although we are mostly going to
be talking about the Disneyland version specifically because
(03:01):
it's the only one that Max and Ihave ridden.
You don't know, I could have been to the Shanghai Disney.
Have you been to Shanghai DisneyMax?
No, but I could have. Have you been to Disney World?
Yeah, I, I, I went to Disney World before I went to
Disneyland. OK.
Did you go on this there? Yes, but it's been.
(03:25):
One week since you looked at me.16 years.
OK. It's been a long time.
So OK, so Max has ridden it in Disney World but it is mostly
fresh in his mind in Disneyland.I have only ridden a Disneyland
1, I did not ride the Disney World one when I went and I have
not been to Asia in any way so yet maybe.
(03:48):
Yet maybe asterisk? Yeah, we'll see.
But so The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The first one was in Magic Kingdom following the success of
the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Heard of it? Hey, we've done that one.
(04:08):
Yeah, Disneyland actually was going to make a whole new land.
I think we talked about this in the Roger Rabbit cartoon spin
episode. And, you know, it obviously
eventually became Mickey's Toontown, and one of the rides
they wanted to have was a Winniethe Pooh dark ride.
And it was going to basically beRoger Rabbit's cartoon spin.
(04:30):
In fact, it actually turned intoRoger Rabbit's cartoon spin
because originally you were going to be much like the many
adventures of Winnie the Pooh. You would get in a honeypot, but
the honeypots would spin kind oflike, you know, the teacups.
But the ride was ultimately cancelled.
And like I said, the space was used to make Roger Rabbit's
(04:51):
cartoon spin. Seven years later, over down in
Florida, there was a plan for a Winnie the Pooh attraction in
the Magic Kingdom, and they decided to use an existing
structure, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.So that's kind of sad that this
overtook Mr. Toad's Wild Ride inFlorida.
(05:14):
Oh, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is a dope ride that I definitely rode
in Disneyland. Be fair, everyone wants Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride. That's true.
But yeah, in Florida, where thisoriginally opened it, they
turned Mr. Toad's Wild Ride intoWinnie the Pooh.
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The ride was retained during a Fantasyland expansion and in
2020 or sorry, in 2010, it received a new cue resembling
the 100 Acre Wood and they called it Who's Interactive Cue.
Oh bother, it's cute because it rhymes, I guess.
Sure, but I don't really want tobe interactive with any with
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Disney's poo. They should have just called it
the poo Q. Or the mini adventures of Winnie
the Q. Sure, Yeah, they could call it
that. But Poo's Interactive Q, or the
PIQ is the cool kids call. It incorporates a playground.
Incorporates a playground with Children's Games, allowing
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members of a party to play whileothers hold space in line.
No, I don't like that. Every one of your party should
be in line. Agreed.
These, these, these people who are like, ah, don't worry, I've
got, I've got, I've got the restof my group.
And then they have like an entire school, like like school
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room of friends who are like, I'm just going to ride.
And now you're waiting for 180 minutes because this ride, the
the queue for this ride and a lot of the other Fantasyland
rides are monstrous. Yeah, and.
Fucking children. Few things annoy me more at a
Disney park than people pushing their way through the queue.
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Being like, oh, my group's up there, my group's up there, I'm
meeting my husband up there. It's like, no, you're not, you
liar. You lying liar.
That's why I like solo queue rides.
Like I, my, we went and rode Expedition Everest probably like
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30 times in a row between a friend and I and we were like,
well, we'll, we'll, we'll go do it together once.
And then they were like, this ride is dope.
And then we just went and we literally just walked out of the
exit and then into the single queue and just wrote it probably
30 times within the next three hours.
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It was crazy. That's awesome.
So good. Yeah, Expedition Everest is
sweet. My girlfriend's dad went on it
and he did not know that it wentbackwards and he was not a fan
of that aspect of it. Oh, but that's like, that's like
the best part of it. I know.
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Anyway, yeah, the Disneyland plan was shelved in 1999, which
is actually when the Magic Kingdom one opened June 5th,
1999, so it just recently had its 26th anniversary.
But you said that out loud. How dare you?
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Unlike Florida, California does not have a lot of room for
Disneyland to expand, so they decided they were going to
replace an existing ride. Fantasyland, which would make
the most sense, was ruled out because it contains the least
amount of space. So what was then called Critter
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Country was ultimately chosen since I guess Winnie the Pooh
and his friends are critters. They are critters, it's true.
It kind of makes sense. Matt Mercer.
OK. Critical Role to.
DND. Never mind.
Not a big fan of the the awful horror movie critters.
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Hey now, it's just as good as gremlins.
There we go. It is absolutely not you.
Shut your whore mouth. It's better than Ghoulies, I'll
give it that. Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
They'll get you in the end. And you?
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But so Critter Country consistedof a whopping 3 rides, Splash
Mountain Country, Bear Jamboree,and Winnie the Pooh, and somehow
Winnie the Pooh is the only one still standing.
Well, like Splash Mountains, technically the.
Structure's still there. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's just called somethingdifferent.
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Yeah, and they've also renamed. It is the same ride, although as
me and Rob and Miriam debated, we think it's faster but.
Huh. But that critter country has
since been renamed the Bayou Country, which you know.
Oh, for the the frog and the thethe.
Princess and the Frog, yeah. That one, thank you.
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Yeah, which makes the Winnie thePooh edition very curious.
Yeah, 'cause you know, Winnie the Pooh, not, not like a Creole
French, you know, Cajun deal. Winnie the Pooh is definitely,
definitely none of those things.They're pretty sure the 100 acre
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wood is not in the Bayou. No.
Isn't it like up north like in like Connecticut or something?
I think so. Something like that.
Yeah, all. Right.
So I actually misspoke because they replaced Country Bear
Jamboree with Winnie the Pooh. So Winnie the Pooh and Country
Bear Jamboree never existed at the same time.
I was, I was about to say my, mymom was very upset that they
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took away the country bear Jamboree because it was like her
favorite as a as a kid. And I was forced to sit through
it any time that we went to Disney.
And I was like, huh, this is interesting.
But mainly because one of the moose's names was Max.
So. Yeah.
And in fact, in fact, actually, Max was a deer.
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Melvin is the Moose. Whatever.
And buff the stuffalo. Whoa, that's a good one.
Buffalo, You. Have Buffalo Cuffalo.
Speaking of which, did you hear Buff Bagwell got his leg
amputated? Yes, from he's had been having
problems. Ah, the Hundred Acre Wood is in
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fucking England. Oh, that's makes the most sense.
Ashdown Forest in Sussex, England.
In it. Anyway, in it Tuesday anyway.
Anyway, the heads of Max the Beer, Melvin the Moose and Buff
the Buffalo are actually mountedinside The Many Adventures of
Winnie the Pooh. That's horrifying, given that
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Winnie the Pooh, like they're act like, sure, you could you,
you could suggest that they're not really real animals, but
they are real animals, which means that the heads of those
animals are like their friends and they're corpses of their
friends. Yeah, basically it's, it's like
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if I put your head up on my wall.
Yep, not scary at all. So the budget of the attraction
was set for $30 million, most ofit dedicated to reformatting the
Country Bear Jamboree show building into a ride.
It's kind of crazy that, like Country Bear Jamboree was just a
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show and they're trying to get into a ride.
Yeah, but it was like it was, the space was huge because if I
remember correctly and to be fair.
To be fair, it. It had been a very long time
since I've seen the Country BearJamboree in Disneyland.
I remember that space being verylarge.
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I I mean, it must have been it's, yeah, this is not a long
ride. I guess it's 3 minutes and 15
seconds. It's not a short ride, I guess,
but but it's not doesn't take upa lot of space.
Yeah. The Disneyland version opened in
2003, received large promotions by park management, and lines
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were long at first but quickly dropped off.
Disneyland was planning to have a media event scheduled for
April 11th, 2003, but then just didn't.
Hey, never mind. Don't.
Don't worry about that. Yeah, don't, don't worry about
it. It it it's a little weird that I
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don't remember and I have AI have a difficult relationship
with Winnie the Pooh. I don't remember.
Like was this around the time that the Tigger movie came out?
I don't. Recall what when the Tigger
Movie came out? So I don't know.
That was that was 2000. OK, so it was at least a little
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closer because I was going to say like, look, why?
Why do a Winnie the Pooh ride when it wasn't like super
relevant since the late 70s early 80s?
I I guess like the like they they they had like the mini
adventures of Winnie the Pooh like the the TV show too that
was big on Disney. It it feels weird that they did
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this as a ride rather than like a walkthrough.
Yeah. Especially because like country
bear jam to be to be honest, Country Bear Jamboree sucks so I
I get it. Tony's going to be mad.
Well, whatever. I had no affinity for Country
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Bear Jamboree. I don't remember if I ever saw
Country Bear Jamboree to be honest with you.
I like the big fat bear. He he was cool, but I think he
sang about there was blood on They sang about blood in that in
that song It was. Very weird blood on the saddle,
right? Yeah, Blood on the Saddle, which
is like, that's not, that's not wholesome.
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A lot of Western movies are about like, you know, bad things
like killing Indians. Yeah, shooting people and.
Gambling and being liquored up. Banging whores?
Yep, ladies of the night, they prefer.
Well, OK, Is that what they prefer?
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I I don't know. Anyway, over in Hong Kong the
ride opened September 12th 2005 and it was the only dark ride in
Fantasyland and also only the third dark ride in the whole
park, the the other two being Buzz Lightyear, Astro Blasters
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and Space Mountain. Space Mountain still scary.
I mean, I love Space Mountain. Yeah, it should be scarier for
you because you're like 8 feet tall.
But like, yeah. Have you?
Have you, have you been on the ride when all the lights are on?
That's terrifying. No, I've never been on when the
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lights were on. Oh my God.
So for whatever reason, the one in Disney World was broken like
like all the dark stuff was broken for like an extended
period of time during one of thetimes that we were there.
Like it was down for like a month and Disney was like, well,
we need something to we need to do something.
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So like like they repurposed it and they were like you can watch
or you can ride space mountain with the lights on as like a
like a behind the scenes kind ofthing.
And it was terrifying and not fun at all.
It was very scary. Well, yeah, the big appeal of
Space Mountain is that how dark it is.
Yeah, and that you could die at any time.
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I don't know if that's part of it, but over in Shanghai, the
bride opened June 16th, 2016. So there's a pretty big gap
between Hong Kong and Shanghai as opposed to all the others.
Similar to the Magic Kingdom version, but mostly identical to
the Hong Kong version in But here's here's a funny story in
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2018 I was. About to bring it up, yeah.
OK, yeah, in 2018, according to the Business Insider, I don't
know how many people remember this, but there was a whole
thing where everyone was comparing the general secretary
of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping.
They were comparing him to Winnie the Pooh.
Yeah, yeah. There was all these rumors that
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Winnie the Pooh was going to be banned throughout China.
Which is crazy because his shirtis red.
Yeah, Pooh's clearly a commie. That's what I'm saying.
But I mean, at least as of 2023,the rides are still open.
To the best of my knowledge, they still are.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I remember likearound that time period, you
know, all, all of those jokes and like the Disney subreddits
were like, are they going to, are they going to, you know,
couch out to, to the Chinese government?
And I guess Disney told them to shut the fuck up.
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Disney was like, it's just a silly old.
Bear. Yeah, it's a silly old bear.
Easy down there, poo. Oh, bother.
Oh, bother. So like I said, we're going to
talk mostly about the Disneylandversion, and it's interesting
because it's actually the most unique from all the others.
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The official description from disneyland.com says get lost in
the pages of a A Milne's classictale as you glide through Pooh's
most memorable adventures as youas you glide through.
Pooh. Board your beehive and get swept
up in a gust of wind with Piglet, Gopher E or Kanga and
Roo. Band together with Tigger and
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friends to stay afloat in a torrential downpour.
Celebrate sunny days and togetherness as Pooh finally
gets his paws on some honey. This visual extravaganza filled
with Disney songs is sure to delight Cubs of all ages.
And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down otters.
Yep, very gay. Twinks Super.
Gay. Yep.
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So real quick, I want to talk about the other three versions
just cuz like I said, they're they're all pretty similar.
The biggest difference between those and the Disneyland version
is that in the Disneyland version you ride in a beehive
and in all the other versions you ride in a honeypot.
Yes. No idea why no.
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I think it's because the California version were very big
fans of Austin Powers. You think that's why?
OB hive baby. That.
Was good. No, it wasn't.
It was terrible. So you get in your honey pot and
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you enter the 100 Acre Wood during a rather blustery day,
which of course is based on the book Winnie the Pooh and the
Blustery Day. Yep, very so, so imaginative.
And you see Piglet holding a broom while being spun around,
Pooh is holding onto a balloon while trying to reach for honey,
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and Eeyore is just patronizing Pooh.
Brew starts to be blown away, and Kanga holds on to him.
We see Owl in his home. Everything is scattered about.
And there there's actually a picture of of Toad here.
So they kind of, yeah, little wink wink, nudge, nudge.
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Which means that they all exist within the same universe.
I am waiting for the multiverse for Disney movies.
Mr. Pooh's wild ride. Mr. Pooh's wild ride.
It's all It's a small world after.
Nope. After poo, it's a small world.
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After poo, you're small anyway. Anyway, the ride passes a giant
storybook page and Tigger bounces out and he goes and the
ride vehicles, the ride vehiclesactually begin to bounce, which
I don't think that happens in the Disneyland version.
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I, I don't believe so, mainly because it's mainly because it's
like a longer, it's a longer cart in Disneyland.
It's like a six seater or like athere's like 3-3 tiers of poo of
Piers. Wow, pews, 3 tiers of pews.
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There we go. Pews that that was very hard to
say. Whereas the honey pots are only
two by two. OK, I mean it.
Well, no, I was going to say it could be because they repurposed
Mr. Toad, but that didn't happento Mr. Toad either, so I don't
know what I was talking about. Yeah, Taylor.
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Tigger bounces up and down at one point before the ride moves
on to Poo's home, and then Tigger has pinned Poo to the
floor. What sexy as he tells them all
about heffalumps and woozles? Which in at least in the.
Disneyland version is a fucking nightmare.
It's a banger. I mean, yeah, the song's great,
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but just the visuals are just like, Oh dear God, what have I
awoken into? Yeah, some of those dark rides
are like, legitimately scary. And especially for kids who are
like, you know, 5 or 4. I saw more kids writing, like
running out scared for those rides than I did for like, you
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know, Tower of Terror or or whatever.
Let's because they they're too small for Tower of Terror.
Shut up, Taylor. Let me be right.
OK, the ride moves around some very strange objects.
A purple woozle lights a heffalump.
A purple woozle lights a heffalump.
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Like on fire. Yes, I need a giant smoke ring
to come from its trunk. Oh yeah, and they use a they use
a cool smoke smoke ring thing tomake a make a cool smoke ring
that comes at you, which is pretty though.
Yeah, and a giant Hefalump has holes that reveal the way out of
the Hefalumps and Woozles scene.As the guests continue through
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the scenes to dancing, Hefalumpsand Woozles simultaneously
change colors and patterns on the wall.
A harp playing Hefalump is playing her harp made out of
honey. Giant balloons fly up in the air
and two watering cans pouring rain on the riders indicate the
end of the Heffalumps and Woozles scene.
Can I posit a question? Sure.
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I think that honey is a substitute for drugs.
It seems that way when it comes to the heffalumps and woozles
for sure. It's like this is written in
like, you know, I don't know when the, the, the books were
written, but like the movies were made in like the late 70s
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and everybody was high back then.
So like this definitely is like,hey, we can like subliminally
sneak in some, some some drug, some drug analogies here.
Yeah, it definitely seems like it 'cause the Heflumps and
Wizzle scene is like it's got bright neon colors and it's got
all this weird shit that it definitely feels like it's
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supposed to be like an acid tripor something.
Indeed. Yeah, so after the half lumps
and wuzzle scene, the vehicle arrives in a room painted with
rain and cloud patterns. As Thunder and lightning go off
and then re enters the 100 acre wood which is experiencing the
rainstorm, the ride vehicles begin to float.
I do remember this part in the Disneyland version.
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Eyor complaints about the wind and rain go for squirts water
out of his mouth. Kangaroo, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl
attempt to save Piglet from floating away and the ride
vehicles move to find Poo flyingaround a wing to the wind.
The hell does that mean? Blowing to the wind or no?
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He is being blown and that is owed to the wind.
So like. That.
Is a reason for it. I, There's a really cool effect
that happens in this ride and I can't, I can't pinpoint I, I
can't pinpoint exactly where it happens, but there's a big
storybook page and I bet now it's, I bet now it's just like
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projection mapping, but they have water that, you know,
digital water like float down and splash onto the page and the
letters start to run and the. Letters.
Themselves like run down the down the path of the water.
It's a really cool effect that, you know, when I was young was
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like, I don't know how they did that.
And now that I'm older, I'm like, I sort of know how they
did that. Yeah, so the Disney World and
Shanghai and Hong Kong versions.This was actually the last time
that Paul Winchell voiced Tigger.
Yes. So that's neat, he.
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Was a ventriloquist. Did you know this?
I don't, I no, I did know that actually.
He was old. Sure.
Yeah, one of the versions in Asia, I think it's Shanghai,
like who is like flocked and like almost realistic looking
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and it's really kind of jarring.I don't, I don't like that.
Yeah, I I mean, he's, he's a cartoon.
Make him look like a cartoon. Yeah, I don't need any.
Do not. Actually, they already did this.
They did like a live action Winnie the Pooh, right?
Movie, right? Like it was like.
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OO7. It's called blood and honey.
Blood and honey, yeah. Haha.
No, but like Disney did one where like Christopher Robin was
real and all of the the the the critters were like CG but like
felt CG. So is.
This Is this the one with Ewan McGregor?
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Yes, that one. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that, that was a good retelling of the story.
Yeah, although that poo looks a lot like the like old old books
style. Yes, yeah.
They don't know what they're doing.
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They have too many poos. They're constipated AO anyway.
Or they have diarrhea. Ah yes, yes, Walt Disney, famous
for his diarrhea. Yep, from all that chili.
Instead of from all the chili, make sure you sign up to the
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premium pass to hear all of hearabout us talking about Walt and
his love of chili. That's right.
Good plug. OK.
So moving to California where we're going to focus most of our
energy here, the many adventuresof Winnie the Pooh.
The entrance is right across from the entrance to what is now
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Yeah, yeah, it's like real
close. To the point where I'm pretty
sure I have walked past this many, many times without even
realizing it was there. Rude.
But the entrance is just kind ofthis, like, I don't know, Barn,
Yeah. Yeah.
And there's a big sign that saysthe mini ventures of Winnie the
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Pooh and it's got Poo and Tiggerand Piglet and Eeyore and Roo
and a clock that says 5 minute wait because it's pretty much
always a 5 minute wait. Yeah, that's right.
Is not very is not very popular,which is sad.
Yeah, I think we went on it thislast time because I I think we
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were over there to go on Tiana'sand it had broken down.
So we were like, well, this is here.
Yeah, yeah, definitely one of those things where you're like,
I can go on this a couple of times before my, you know, Fast
Pass is ready. I know.
That fast pass. Doesn't really exist I guess
anymore, but. It's lightning rain now.
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Well, look back in my day, Taylor.
If you start talking about how fast pass used to be free, I
swear to God. It did.
It was free. I know it was, but I don't need
to hear about it. Hey Taylor, the first time that
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you went to Disney, did you still have to pay with tickets
or? Probably.
Because you're old. I mean, they definitely weren't
on your phone, no. No, yeah, no, no.
Like like the rides. Oh, no, yeah, yeah.
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My mom had a whole bunch, like abooklet of old tickets that she
never used. And I'm like, man, this is this
is like worth like $40 back then, which is a lot of money.
And they might be worth something now.
Might be able to sell them to some Disney adults on eBay.
Yep, very Yep, that's true. Disney adults.
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It's very weird. Yeah, but so the the queue to
Winnie the Pooh, the Winnie the queue, if you will.
Yep, thank you. Is there's really nothing to it,
like it's extremely short and not just in like time, but in
space, there's not a lot of areathat's covered.
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You really just kind of walk through some, you know, wooden
post fences and I some like green area off to the side and
then next thing you know you're in front of the ride.
Also, this is a very weird thingis that this, this dark, this
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dark ride which has slow moving,you know, buggies or whatever
you want to call them, you get on it outside, which is very
different than every other dark ride.
And I think the only other dark ride that goes outside is, well,
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Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Splash Mountain.
Well, that one doesn't really count.
You're already because it's in the water.
There's not there's. Anything.
There's not like, there's not like a lot of electronics on
board the the thing. So if it like rains, I know that
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California doesn't like rain a lot, but like if when it when it
does rain like I think that would probably be a problem,
right? Probably, yeah.
I would imagine they probably shut this ride down if it rains
too hard. You don't see that happen with
Haunted Mansion, I'm just saying.
No, you definitely don't becauseHaunted Mansion is all inside.
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Yes. And it's you'll be you'll be
waiting. You'll be waiting in the rain.
But yes. What so you get in your beehive?
Pro tip, most leg room is in thefront.
Yep, they made a point to tell my brother that this was the
only ride that was like get in the front.
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Yes, you long legged lot get up front.
Yep. So you climb into your beehive
and you head into another barn. There's a different barn.
It's not the same barn. And there's these, these really
cheaply made, at least looking doors, like they look like barn
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doors, but they're just painted.And I'm like you.
Think it's like on purpose though.
Is it supposed to look like you're going into a like a book,
Like a storybook? That's like the the vibe that
I'm getting. I suppose, yeah.
They're just painted to look like, you know, they have the
big wood straps across them, straps, big wood planks across
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them like barn doors do. Then they're also painted with,
like, foliage and leaves, and itlooks very fall and fun and cute
and adorable, all that fun Winnie the Pooh stuff.
And you go through two of these doors and then you go through
three. I don't know if you call them
doors, but they're the same basic function, but they're just
leaves. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK. My, my memory is coming back as
you're talking about it. And I'm like, Oh yeah, I can
sort of remember that. Yeah, yeah, You know what I'm
saying? Yeah.
So yeah, then you enter 100 AcreWood and it's a a very blustery
day and we. See.
Yeah, we see Roo flying away. Panga's holding on to a scarf or
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something to make sure Roo doesn't fly away.
Winnie the Pooh, he's got a balloon and he's, he's floating
away. And yours, It's just screaming.
Just just screaming I. Mean that's what it looks like
is happening. And Piglet is he's he's holding
on to a broom, which I don't think would help you.
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I think the broom would just flyaway too.
Brooms are not that heavy. Yeah, but Piglet is also not
very heavy. Piglet's he's he's a wee guy,
yeah. He's a, he's a, he's just a
little guy. He's.
Just a little guy and then you go around the corner and this is
it's just raining now. I do remember when you.
Pouring down rain. Yeah, I do remember when you
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first enter and it's that very blustery day, there's actually
like big fans just blowing ya and not, not in a sexy way.
Not even in the fun way. I I went to Disneyland and all I
got was blown by Winnie the Pooh.
I got blown by Winnie the Pooh. I don't think I can make that
shirt. Maybe.
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Pretty sure I'll get a cease anddesist on that one.
Hey, he's he's, he's in the, he's in the, he's in the public
domain now, so. You're that's true.
He is in public domain. I forgot.
Get fucked, Disney. OK, so yeah, then it starts
pouring down rain and this is all done with projection mapping
and lighting effects. They obviously don't dump water
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on you, but they should. They they should.
Tigger looks like he's trying tosave poo from floating away on a
chair. I guess it's it's must be
flooding. That's.
Piglet. What I say?
You said poo. Yeah, piglet poo is poo is
upside down in a honeypot that fat.
He's in. He's, he's, he's, he's nose
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first in the honeypot. Yeah.
That that must be the Gopher spitting the water there.
Yap yap yap. Eeyore is trying to save Kanga
and Roo, who are floating on an umbrella with Rabbit, and Tigger
is creeping in the bushes. He is creeping in the bushes.
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He's he's yeah. Dislike.
Like what? I I no, I no, I was saying like,
what is he doing? Yeah, but yeah.
He's he's, he's like a creepy, ah, a Tigger again.
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And then you say, damn, now, yeah, I don't know where this is
supposed to be, but all of a sudden, Tigger pops up out of
the ceiling. Tigger's just creeping around
throughout this entire ride. I'm guessing this is inside
Poo's house. Yeah.
And then there's this cool kind of Pepper's ghost effect, where
Winnie the Pooh is flying above his own body.
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He's just disembodied and then he flies into the darkness and
this is so cool. It is the.
Coolest part of the ride? Yeah, and it look, it looks real
too, because of the way that they have the the Pepper's goat
lit, like lit. And then when they do the
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projection mapping, because he is so high contrast against the
the utter darkness, it looks like a real thing is floating in
front of you. It's really cool.
Yeah, it's really well done. And he flies off into the
nightmare hellscape that is the Effer Lumpsen Woozle's room.
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Yep, Yep, Yep. Like I said before, bright
bright neon colors, black light,everything.
There's a multi colored tigger in here.
There is honey everywhere. Just painted the walls with
honey. Yeah, lots of mirrors.
And if you've been on any, like the Disney rides, you, you
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understand what they're doing. They're using the, the cool UV
lights and, and all of the UV paint to make everything pop.
Really, really like against the dark, you know, because it's a
dark ride and all of it is is lit in such a way that
accentuates all of the like all of the perspectives and
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everything. So everything has this very
otherworldly, very trip esque like, you know, on ecstasy or,
or or acid, you know, once againeluding back to drugs.
But it it it definitely feels like a trip.
Yeah, and like you said, there'smirrors kind of like behind a
lot of the props. So it's kind of this weird thing
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where you're looking at one thing and all of a sudden you
see something out of the corner of your eye and it's actually
you. Yeah, no, the ugliest thing.
Then there's this this rude boy Heffalump here wearing his like
black and white checkered overalls and pork pie hat.
Very, very 60s coded for sure. Yeah, and he's got it.
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Looks like he's got an umbrella made of honey.
That's not going to work, silly.Silly old The Heffalump.
You're just going to get sticky.Yeah, everything's got to be so
sticky in this room. Yeah, which is weird.
Given the black light, you'd think it would be glowing like
crazy. Yeah, who is in a hot air
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balloon inside a a honey pot that is just overflowing with
honey? I am 90% sure that is where the
main woman bear comes out from during the country bear
Jamboree. That is like the same the same
space that she would come out from.
That makes sense. This part is really trippy.
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There's like, I guess it's a biggiant heffalump, but it's like
super long. Like it the wall turns into the
heffalump, but there's a part ofit that's cut out, as in the
shape of a woozle, and behind itis just like a spinning.
It must be some kind of spinningdisc or something.
And so even though the Woozle isstill, there's all these polka
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dots and triangles and differentshapes spinning around behind
him, making it look like he's this weird trippy psychedelic
thing. Yeah, and this is like directly
out of the the the 1977 film like this, this, this feeling of
of surrealism and once again a adrug trip like that that was
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pulled directly from the movie. Yeah.
Are these giant jack-in-the-box guys from the movie?
I don't remember them. I don't remember them, but
perhaps there's. Two giant Jack-in-the-box
woozles who look very similar tothe weasels from Rodger Rabbit.
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At least the the crazy ones. They're woozles.
Yeah, they're not weasels. They're woozles.
Heffalumps and woozles boom boomboom boom boom boom boom.
Yep, that's how the song goes. Yep.
There's two giant watering cans pouring water onto a heffalump
with a flaming candle on his head.
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And then there's a I, I, I guessthat's another Woozle who's
dressed like a marching band leader, and he is lighting the
candle. Yep, he's lighting the candle,
but there's no band to, you know, there's no band to
conduct. But right behind him, there's a
there's a there's a Heffalump, asmaller Heffalump who is playing
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a harp made out of honey on her trunk.
Yes, right next to another Heffalump who is just drowning in
honey. Drowning in honey.
RIP. How do they come up with this
shit? Lots of drugs.
I was going to say drugs. Drugs.
That's the answer, yeah. Yeah.
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So there's the harp playing Heffa lump and then just so much
honey. Just the walls are dripping
yellow with honey. Yeah, it's like a cavern.
It's like a cavern of cavities. And then Poo is just coming out
of the wall with his face and his hands covered in honey.
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Yeah, he's he's stuck. Silly old bear.
And then finally, like as we're exiting this area, there's some
Hefa bees, I guess they're called that are just like
heffalumps but with bee bodies and they can fly and they have
Pixie dust for some reason. Because drugs, Taylor, we've
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been over. This So then you you leave this
area and you go back to Pooh's house.
Pooh's bed is empty for whateverreason.
There's an empty chair and it's Pooh's birthday.
I or something? Is it?
No, I don't think it's his birthday.
He's just happy because he has friends.
I guess the the banner doesn't say happy birthday, it just says
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Hooray for poo. Yep, that's what you say after
you've been constipated. Yeah, once you finally go,
you're like, oh, Hooray for poo.Yep.
Why does Rabbit look 1000 here? 'Cause he's been putting up with
Winnie the Pooh's shit for so long.
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So yeah, we've got Rabbit, Piglet, Poo and Tigger 2 and
Owl, and they're just having a big old party.
They're eating a big slice of chocolate cake.
Owl is just waving at people that are already in the room.
Hello, welcome to Not My House. And then we go into a room
marked Honey storage. There's a statue of Owl that
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says From Owl. OK.
Amazing. A pot of honey filled with
carrots from rabbit. That sounds like a gross
combination. Yeah, unless it's like carrot
cake. Sure.
Yeah. But it's just a bowl of honey
and carrots. That's true.
And again, these are these like,big swinging doors that we had
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at the beginning of the ride. Also, you know they're at the
beginning of every single CountyFair haunted house ride.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause it's big and dramatic when they swing open.
Yeah, there's a Are we sure it'snot Poo's birthday Because
everyone gave him presents. I don't think it's, I don't
think it's Poo's birthday. Well, ER just gave him a bunch
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of jars of honey that all have ERS tail on them.
It's a weird thing. Which makes them sentient
honeypots, by the way. I suppose so, yeah.
Given what we know about the critters in the Thousand Acre
Wood. And then I don't know what, I
don't know who this last one is from.
It's just, oh, it's from, from Tigger.
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Yeah. And then there's some balloons
painted on the wall. Each balloon has a character
painted on it. And then it's, ah, wrapped right
back into the bright California sun.
Yeah. And there's spilled honey
everywhere. Right as you come out, you see a
better ride. It's crazy.
You're you're, you're on this slow ride and they're like, this
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is what you could be doing. Yep, as you see people screaming
as they go off that last hill, you're like, that looks fun.
Why am I stuck on this right? Let me off this damn thing.
And then of course, once you exit, you go right into poo
corner. A gift shop.
Yep. It is not a restroom, it is a
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gift shop. Yep.
Although. Poo poo.
Corner sounds like it should be a restroom.
Yeah, cheers for Poo. It's just like everything else
in in Disney. It's really well themed.
Obviously the lights are, you know, beehives and they have
those lights and all that good stuff.
Yeah. If this was Paris, it would be
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all full of stitch. Is.
Is this a reference I'm not getting?
Oh, when we went to Disneyland Paris, every single gift shop
was full of Stitch. It didn't matter what what it
was a gift shop for, it was justthere was at least one wall
dedicated to Stitch. I had no idea that the French
loved Stitch so much, but because he's awesome, we got off
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Buzz Lightyear and the whole gift shop was Stitch.
Better movie I understand. Sure, yeah, I mean aliens,
right? And yeah, you've got all yours.
You know, your stuffed poos and your Donald ducks.
And there's Stitch. There's Stitch.
Oh my God. I'm glad this video does an
extreme close up on this stuffedpoo.
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That's $45. Stuffed to the brim with poo.
I can't. I can't.
I can't believe how dirty is this, this, this.
You know how filthy this gift shop is?
It's covered in poo. It is covered in poo.
You can get a $35 poo T-shirt, you can get some poo ears, you
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can get a Piglet T-shirt for $35.
You know, overpriced Disney stuff.
What a crock. All the T-shirts are $35.
We get it. OK, Yeah.
Congrats. And that is the Many Adventures
of Winnie the Pooh. Fun fact, the theme for the ride
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was done by Danny Elfman. Very weird poll that they got
from him, especially because like this didn't come out like
around any of his big movies or any of the things that Disney
was helping him make. So it's just like whatever, you
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got his phone number. Yes, everyone has his phone
number. Yeah, the voice cast is most of
the people that did most of the movie.
Sorry, most of the movies. Jim Cummings does do some double
duty here because once again, wewe talked about Tigger only
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being only being voiced by Paul Winchell in the the Magic
Kingdom, Hong Kong and Shanghai versions.
But Jim Cummings does the voice of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger in
the Disneyland in the Disneyland1.
And Winnie the Pooh. Yes, obviously.
Because yeah, Jim Cummings is Winnie the Pooh.
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Yes, he is. Oh, Baba.
Yep, and that's that's the story.
So why did you decide you wantedto talk about this one?
Oh, I think I might have mentioned it before.
All of my brothers and sisters have have Winnie the Pooh
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nicknames Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet.
And it's because all of them arefrom like the same family.
And then I was born out of wedlock because let's go and I
never got a nickname. So I love Winnie the Pooh even
though it's like a sore spot forme because I didn't have a
(50:35):
nickname from all from from my dad.
So other than bastard. Well, little bastard, to be
fair. True.
Yeah, that's true. I also really like, I like that
it's silly nonsense. And it's about Anna.
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Like Anna, anthropomorphic animals where some like a kid
like a a kid interacts with them.
Which is pretty interesting, especially given like the time
frame when at least the movie was made.
But yeah, I I just remember Winnie the Pooh being one of my
favorite Disney properties back when I was a kid, up until Lilo
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and Stitch and Hercules came out.
So is this still like if you were to go to Disneyland
tomorrow, would you make time toget on Winnie the Pooh?
I would probably make time because it's like a nice like
little nostalgia bump and and all that good stuff.
But I don't think it would like,I wouldn't if it was down, I
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wouldn't be bummed. I'd be like, all right, well,
whatever. I can watch a video of it being
done and I'm right there becauseyou're not going to like it's
not a high thrill ride. So you're not seeing anything
blurry. Right.
Yeah, this, like I said, this isnot one that I will go out of my
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way to ride. It's one that I usually kind of
forget is there. It's very strange to me that
it's in Bayou country now. And much like Eeyore, he would
say thanks for noticing me. Yep this whole ride feels very
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adult. Maybe I just have a dirty mind
but like you said the whole hef lumps and wizzles area is just a
really serious drug trip and thethe honey being everywhere just
screams someone blew their load all over the room.
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Sure, it's dripping down the walls like it's it's disgusting.
It is it. It's definitely drugs and honey,
like, man, honey is so especially the way that they
have it depicted, 'cause it's not like it's droopy and drippy
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like a certain bodily function. So I'm like, oh God.
So if you go into it with that mind, you're like, Oh my God,
it's everywhere. It's viscous.
Yeah, so viscous. Yeah, it's gross.
It is gross, but the ride is, you know, fun and fair.
And Winnie the Pooh is awesome, and he's just a silly old bear.
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I do think that the effects in it are extremely well done.
Like I said, when you first enter and it's, it's the windy
day and you get the, the blast of wind, the gusts of wind in
your face. And just like the rain effects,
you know, obviously there's not real water, but there's the look
of it and you get the sound effects.
And all that. Yeah.
Yeah. And then like we talked about
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the floating poo that's and likeI should have worded that
differently. Well, and, and anytime Disney
uses Pepper's ghost, I'm always happy because that could be
something that they could easilydo with a, a screen or whatever.
But no, they're, they're, you know, they're going back to
their their old school roots anddoing something practical, which
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is a a lot of fun. Yeah.
And like you said, it makes it look a lot more corporeal.
It makes it look like this thingis actually floating in front of
you as opposed to just being on a screen.
And you're like I can can clearly tell that's just a flat
2D image floating next to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And and like I would have to do a lot or a little bit more
(54:45):
research. But unlike, unlike the Haunted
Mansion, which are actual like 3D mannequins that are doing the
Pepper's ghost effect, I am unsure if this is a screen
Pepper's ghost effect with Pooh where he when he's floating up,
when he's sitting down and like the Pepper's ghost effect is
(55:10):
there. But it would be interesting to
see if that if, if that's like avideo or if they just have like
a rotating, you know, pendulum of of poo going up and down that
is tied to, you know, the cart, the cart movements and such.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I wish they could move
this ride to Fantasyland. It would make so much more sense
(55:30):
there. But I don't think that's really
a feasible thing. No, you know.
Moving an entire ride. No.
And like, you know, what else are they going to put there?
It's not, you know, it's not in the big, you know it's not, it's
not a very big ride. So like, what, are they going to
bring the fucking Country Bear Jamboree back?
(55:51):
Obviously not. No, Pull your finger out.
Of your ass or or they could do something with like Brother
Bear, a movie that they don't talk about at all ever.
They could. They probably won't.
Sad movie. Yeah, they're I don't.
I think most people at Disney want to forget that Brother Bear
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exists. Very rude.
For whatever reason, I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm
just saying like you said, they don't talk about it so.
They they do not talk about it. There is also a little poo meet
and greet area over here, so if you you know if he's there and
you got some time to kill and you want to meet a silly old
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bear, this is the place to do it.
Yes and you can I think you can also meet obviously you.
I think the most the most popular 1 outside of poo is
Tigger. Tigger shows up all the time.
I had don't think I've ever seenTigger here.
I've seen Tigger just kind of walking around.
(56:56):
But yeah, I imagine this is probably the place to go to find
him as well. Indeed.
All right. Well, before we go, you got any
parting words about Winnie the Pooh, or anything else for that
matter? Winnie the Pooh's great.
If you have kids and there's you're going to give them
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nicknames. Make sure you give a nickname to
all of your children and not just four or five of them.
Otherwise, maybe when your kid is in his late 20s and early 30s
he'll have a mental break. Who knows?
Yeah, go, go ride the ride. It's it's fun, especially the
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the Heffalumps and Woozles, if not only for the music.
Yeah. And it's going to be a short
line, so. Yeah, you.
Hey, you need to get out of the heat.
Get it? Go see some poo.
Yeah, they they'll be big fans in there that'll blast you in
the face. Blow poo all over you.
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Yeah, you know, with the poo. With the poo hits the fan.
Nailed it. I'll give you that one.
I will give you that one. Thank you all.
Right. Do you have anything you want to
promote while you're here? Hey, my name is Max Max in the
PNW. You can find me everywhere at
Max in the PNW and that's Blue Sky and Instagram and such.
(58:25):
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I also run a little thing calledUFO Unconfined Fight Offerings,
hoping for a return in Septemberor early October.
That is big gay fights down in downtown Everett.
Every single dollar goes to the Trevor Project.
So follow us at UFO under score PNW, or if you just search
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UFOPNW, we'll show up. So that's me in a nutshell.
No, this is you in a nutshell. Help.
I'm in a nutshell. Bloody nutshell.
Look at the size of this bloody nutshell.
That's. That's that's a second Austin
Powers reference I've gotten into this episode.
Yeah. How'd you do that?
I'm just that good. It's true, he is just that good.
(59:11):
OK, thank you for joining us. Go get your poo and we will see
you next time. Thank you for listening.
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