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My name is Andrew and I'm joined today by the guy who will take your wife to Disney
Sean.
As long as you're paying.
And rope drop judge JJ.
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In today's episode, the Geeks share their non-negotiables while vacationing at Walt
Disney World.
Okay, so today we are going to share what we believe our non-negotiables are.
This would be something that we must do every time we go to Disney.
And I know for at least my list, I define that as like a vacation, not that I'm going
for one day or two days, like I'm going for like a week.
Right.
If it, a Disney trip doesn't feel like a Disney trip unless I've done this thing.
Well, so are you, so are you saying that going down for a short two or three day trip, these
don't apply?
I think there's some flexibility for some of it.
But I actually think most of mine, most of mine are pretty much must.
Yeah, actually, you're probably right.
Most of mine I probably would do anyway.
Yeah.
But if I'm not staying on property, I'm not going to do one of mine or a couple of mine.
Like if I'm staying, say with Michael or something like that, then some of these wouldn't apply.
But yeah, for the most part, I guess we would do these all the time.
All right, so I'll start us off with our first one.
And mine is, I don't think I'm on vacation until I put that magic band on.
And I know some people don't like magic bands, right?
But this was a surprising take for me.
This was, yeah.
This is like.
I always thought the magic bands were so dumb.
I don't even wear a watch.
So like wearing a magic band is like a challenge for me.
Like the thing I like the most, the thing I liked the most about the magic bands was
getting them in the mail always signaled that your trip was like two weeks away.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was because you would always when they did them, when you booked your trip,
you would pick what color you wanted.
And that was always exciting because I have like, I mean, from the six or seven trips
I went on that we used magic bands for.
I have a different color from every, I have like red, blue, green, yellow, orange.
I have all the ones.
I even have the boring gray one, but they would come like two weeks before your trip
and it would always be like, oh, so exciting.
The trips in two weeks.
But I just, I never really actually liked wearing them.
Mostly because I also wear, I also wear an Apple watch or at the time I was running like
a Fitbit and I felt like I was double wristing.
And that's always kind of.
So I double wrist all the time.
I have a, I have an Apple watch and I, yeah, I like wearing that.
But the magic band, there's something like special about it, something unique about it.
Like I kind of, I like to have one, I have one specific for every park I go to.
So like I have a magic kingdom one.
I have a Epcot one.
You're a geek.
Wow.
You're really into the magic.
I'm into the magic band.
I do not like the magic band plus though.
I don't, I don't think they are worth it at all.
Oh, the ones that like line up and.
Yeah.
They don't really do much.
They, they, the fact that you need to charge them is annoying and you know, they're more,
way more expensive.
I'd rather keep to my old ones.
I mean, mine, mine from 2018 are still working.
So yeah, I've got one from 2020 that still works.
Yeah.
JJ, what about yours?
Okay.
I'm going to start off with, if I'm going to Disney, I want to go to Epcot.
I know that's not everybody's favorite park, but I think I need to be the advocate for
it.
I love Epcot.
Epcot must happen.
Some of the rides that I care about going on the most are in Epcot and Future Worlds.
I want to go on Soarin'.
I want to see the Bendy Eiffel Tower.
I want to go on Spaceship Earth.
Now with Guardians open, you gotta go on Guardians.
Does it matter when you go to Epcot or just you have to go at some point?
Just at some point.
Okay.
Just at some point.
I don't care what day of the trip it is.
If it's in the plan, I'm happy.
Some people are very particular about like going to a certain park first.
That's me.
Oh yeah.
I hate to call it a non-negotiable because if the people I'm going with have wanted to
do some different things, but if I were doing it, for me, it doesn't feel like a Disney
trip unless day one is at the Magic Kingdom.
Getting to Disney and the first day you're going to Magic Kingdom and you're walking
down Main Street and seeing the castle.
That's to me, it feels like, I've done trips where we do the Magic Kingdom on the fourth
day and it always feels so weird.
We do like Hollywood Studios first and then we do Animal Kingdom and then a day later
we go to Magic Kingdom and it just feels like we've been here for half a week and we're
just seeing the castle for the first time.
That's what you have to see first.
I kind of agree with that.
I like to end on Magic Kingdom too because I like to end on the most quintessential Disney
experience and that would be the Magic Kingdom.
But I do agree with going there first.
If you went to other parks first and then you went to Magic Kingdom halfway through,
it kind of feels like your trip is shorter because it didn't start really until Wednesday,
you know, when you've been there since Monday.
Yeah, I guess I don't really think of it that way.
I'm usually just so excited that I'm there.
So my next non-negotiable is when I'm staying on property, having the Disney Resort TV on.
And this is the one that shows you all of what you could do in Walt Disney World, brings
you on all the rides.
Who was the woman that was the star of that and then she's gone now?
Stacey.
It was Stacey for so long.
They had someone in the early 2000s, I think her name was Chrissy or something like that,
and she was different.
But yeah, Stacey.
Not important, Stacey was the one.
Stacey was the one, yeah, Stacey was awesome.
I have no memory of Stacey.
No, of just of what do you call it?
The hotel room TV.
He's just watching Diner's Drive.
Are you serious?
Yeah, no.
Well, I'm not usually in the hotel room long enough to sit down and put something on TV.
No, I mean, I get in there or in the morning, like when we're getting ready, like I turn
on the TV to get some noise in the room and I put that on.
I guess this kind of stems from, and we'll do this another time when we go into like
our backstories, but my family would always stay in Fort Wilderness in a trailer.
Like we would have a trailer.
And so we had the smallest TV ever in there, but it was all antenna and there was nothing
you were getting except for Disney's TV.
A camp trailer, a camp trailer.
Like an RV.
Yeah, an RV.
Yeah, I just feel like you made it sound so like we stayed in a trailer.
Yeah, no, a trailer that you trail behind your car.
But like in Fort Wilderness, you camp, right?
Right, right, right.
It was a trailer.
That's what they're called.
It wasn't, well, we had an RV for a couple of times, but a trailer.
It was a trailer.
Okay, my next one is, I'm sure everyone's going to agree with this.
If you're staying there with any length of time, pool day.
Yeah.
Gotta have a pool day.
Yeah.
Especially after a Magic Kingdom day.
The day where you walk the most.
Epcot kind of walk a lot, right?
Yeah, but Epcot's like-
And you drink a lot.
Epcot's kind of segmented in a nice way where it's like-
There's a lot of stopping.
Yeah, you like walk a couple hundred feet and then you stop and you hang out in an area
and you like-
Magic Kingdom, you're walking back and forth so many times.
Back and forth.
Hollywood Studios is similar.
Also it's related to another one of my non-negotiables, but I'll talk about that a little later.
Why?
Why I like it after a Magic Kingdom.
I think we all agree.
My day at the Magic Kingdom, just two weeks ago, 26,830 steps, walked 12.84 miles.
Wow.
Yeah, I want to hang out at the pool.
You need a resort day after that.
Yeah, thank you.
What about your Epcot day?
Epcot day, the next day, 22,091 steps.
All right, so not as many.
4,000 less.
Yeah.
1.87 miles, so two less miles and about 2,000 less steps.
I think a resort day is definitely needed after Magic Kingdom or Epcot too.
Epcot, I guess it also depends how much you drink.
You might be a little-
Worse for the weather?
A little rough.
Yeah, the next day and maybe you want to sleep in that day.
You don't want to rope drop that day.
Right.
But you could sleep in, I would say you could sleep in and be the nightcrawler of Animal
Kingdom the day after Epcot and be okay.
I think you could be the nightcrawler of Animal Kingdom and have a resort day.
I like to pair those up a lot.
Oh, just go to Animal Kingdom at like three o'clock?
Yeah, or even later even.
Well, you have the season pass though, so that's a little different than burning a whole
day, a whole day pass for two or three hours.
Yeah, very true.
Even though you probably could do the whole park from three to six.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah.
And they don't close at six very often anymore, I feel like.
I think they're always open to like eight or nine, right?
I think it depends on the time of year.
Summer, yeah.
Summer might be like eight, but I know in the winter it's like six, seven o'clock, the
latest.
Yeah.
Sean, what about you?
What's your next?
Very simple, very easy.
Gotta get a Dole Whip.
Okay.
Oh, I'm gonna piggyback right off of that.
That's one of mine too.
But more specifically, Dole Whip Float.
I like the juice.
It makes it a little more tart.
Gotcha.
But yeah, Dole Whip.
Yeah, I'm more of a fan of the, just the...
In the bowl.
In the cup, yeah.
What about getting the alcoholic version at the Polynesian Resort?
I did that.
I don't think I've ever done it.
I did it at...
Actually, they do it at Disney Springs too.
Oh yeah?
Right in front of the volcano.
Right in front of the volcano, there's a Dole Whip shop there, and they'll put some rum
in there.
See, this is my problem with Dole Whip.
And like in our last episode, or one of our previous episodes, I put down Dole Whip as
I would get rid of it.
And it's just, it's too many places.
It's everywhere.
Well, it is everywhere, but I will...
That's why you'd get rid of it?
Well, it's not special anymore.
I don't know.
I don't think it tastes good enough.
Well, you can get a Mickey ice cream bar anywhere, and people still love those.
But it's shaped like Mickey.
My Dole Whip's not shaped like Mickey.
Your Dole Whip's shaped like a Dole Whip.
Oh, I could put a couple of pineapple spears on the side and make them look like Mickey
ears.
Actually, that would be a great idea by Disney.
They should do that.
Charge it four more dollars for your Dole Whip.
Oh, let's Mic-ify it.
Now you're talking.
That's the best idea you've had all day.
You know what's also everywhere, but I still love it?
Popcorn.
This is a weird one.
This is a weird one for me.
It feels like a movie theater thing, but I do.
Because it's not different popcorn.
No, it's Pop Secret.
It's just like normal.
It's actually worse than movie theater popcorn, probably.
But there's something about eating popcorn and getting it from, especially the one right
before you exit Magic Kingdom.
Magic Kingdom.
Yeah.
I like to get it at the end.
You can put it in your mouth in a hot summer day.
Is that the one where you can mix in the candies and stuff with it?
I don't think you could do that.
I think it's just a regular...
There's a spot in Magic Kingdom where you can.
I think it's just that...
I might just be at the confectionary.
Oh, yeah.
So at the confectionary in the back.
Yes.
There's a back section.
You can mix the popcorn in with stuff, which is so up me and Sam's alley.
We'll do that at the movie theater sometimes.
We'll put those cookie dough bites in with the popcorn.
Fun.
But with that, you can't use your bucket and get it for $2.50.
Oh, okay.
So I want the cheap snack, but something that will keep me going when other people don't
want to stop.
And also, you got the top on it.
It's easy to carry.
It's fine.
You're carrying around a popcorn bucket all day?
Well, I connect it to the shoulder straps of my backpack that I wear.
So it hangs off and hits my...
Hits kids.
Hits my...
Let me get this straight.
You got a popcorn bucket hanging off your backpack.
Two of them usually, actually.
Is it a fakeman bucket?
No.
I'm never going to do the same thing with you.
But when I'm there with my sister and her kids, we have a kids bucket and we have an
adult bucket.
Was there booze in the adult bucket?
I don't know.
When you go to Disney World, just you and Emily, you're wearing a backpack?
Yeah, every time.
So I guess that's kind of a non-negotiable...
I mean, because we bring in Advil, Toms, Gas X, all the necessities.
All the hits.
My gosh.
All the necessities of 36 plus of age.
Also, Emily always likes to carry around a small sweater because sometimes you go into
restaurants and it gets a little cold or you go into a movie, one of the theaters gets
cold.
Another change of shirt.
It's a place to put your sunglasses if you don't need them.
Having a small backpack is good.
I'm not talking about a backpack that we took in middle school that was filled with books.
You know what I mean?
Not that big, but something small.
Interesting.
I'm not on my radar.
Not a backpack guy.
No.
Whatever can't fit in my pockets, I don't want to bring with me.
This is going to the parks with my wife, but I'm always happy.
So it's funny.
Like, she'll make me...
I want to go back.
Say it.
Say what you mean.
It's her idea to bring it, right?
But I always benefit from it.
So once we're in the park, I'm always happy to have it.
Sure.
I want to go back.
Okay.
I'm going to go for...
Okay.
I'm going to go for my next one.
When I go to Magic Kingdom, I need to rope drop it.
I can't quit the rope drop at Magic Kingdom.
It's the most important rope drop.
Actually, the rope drop at Hollywood Studios is pretty important too.
But the rope drop at Magic Kingdom is really important, mostly because a lot of those rides
I wouldn't wait an hour on, but I still want to go on them.
I don't think Seven Dwarfs, Mind Train, or Peter Pan is worth an hour wait, but sometimes
I want to go on them.
Right?
So I have to rope drop it.
It's certainly not worth $15 to buy an individual item.
Right.
It's not worth buying a cut the line pass.
Yeah.
So I need to rope drop Magic Kingdom, but I also want to see the fireworks at night.
So if we're doing a Magic Kingdom day, I don't necessarily care about what we're doing in
the middle of the day when it gets crowded and stuff.
We could leave, we could go back to the hotel, we can resort hop, we can go to get a drink
at Enchanted Rose.
We can do whatever.
But I want to be back for fireworks at the end of the night.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good.
Can I suggest Geyser Point?
Right.
Yes, exactly.
It's a great place to go to in the middle of the day.
100%.
How do you get there?
You got to take a boat there.
You got to take the boat.
You take the boat.
Not the boat that takes you back to TTC though.
Right.
Welcome aboard, folks.
All right, Sean, how about you?
I don't really have many others because I don't know, like I said, the non-negotiables,
I tend to try to keep an open mind.
But one place that I always love going in Disney World is in Disney Springs and that's
Raglan Road.
One of my favorite bars, really my favorite bars ever, but one of my, if not my favorite
bar on Disney property is Raglan Road and always go there at least for, try to get a
meal there, but at least have a Guinness and a whiskey at Raglan Road.
Always a staple of one of my Disney trips.
I think I'm going to piggyback off that and just mention that Disney Springs is on my
non-negotiables.
I want to go to Disney Springs.
I want to have a drink.
I want to look at the hot air balloon and look at those car boat things and see how
much money they're charging for it and debate if it's worth going on and then decide that
it's not worth going on.
But I want that option.
Yeah.
I want to sit there and I want to think about it.
And you want to do the math on it.
Oh, you got to do the math.
Someone's got to.
I agree with that too.
I love the boat dock at Boathouse.
Oh yeah, because you get to watch, that's a great spot at the Boathouse, the bar on
the water there.
And you can just watch those car boats go and you go, is it worth $120 for three people
to go on that thing?
Nope.
No.
But.
No.
Fish and chips at Raglan Road is great.
What's the outdoor area?
It's like Cookies.
Cookies of Dublin.
Cooks.
What's Cookies?
The East Island.
Oh.
Well, that's stained in the episode.
There's no way to cut around that.
Yeah.
They got some great, great fish and chips there.
I usually get the fish and chips at Epcot, but at the Yorkshire.
Yeah.
I actually think, does Disney just do fish and chips good.
Because that's really, it's really good at Yorkshire slash Rosenkrant.
And it's also good at Raglan Road.
Yeah.
Another thing that I need to do at Disney Springs, my family, we love the Christmas
Ornament Store.
It's got everything you can think of there.
One of the times I was there, my fiancee Sam, she was like, I want an Oliver and Company
Christmas Ornament.
It was there.
It was amazing.
So we always go, we try to see if there's something unique and cool.
Yeah, some hidden or rare finds.
Rare finds.
Yeah.
I also, I want to see the volcano go off.
I know it's a little silly, but I like it.
If you're close enough, you can feel it.
Oh yeah.
Well, if you go get a Dole Whip there with some rum in it, it's right in front of that
volcano.
You're going to see that go off.
And then, I mean, the Legos.
I love looking at the Lego statues that are all built.
I think those are great.
Do you ever go in a Lego store?
I have a few times.
I'm not a real Lego guy.
I'm not going to go do a Lego set.
Yeah.
It's just cool to watch what they can build.
Yeah.
See what they can do.
Yeah.
I like seeing the statues on the outside more.
Yeah, see the dragon in the water.
The dragon.
Oh yeah, the classic.
The statue.
Yeah.
The Chewbacca with the crazy Chewbacca's ass.
The Lego Chewbacca.
He's got a dump truck butt.
Are you ass shaming Chewbacca?
No, I'm not complimenting it.
Caked up on a Tuesday.
Okay.
Well, you said it, Chewie.
Okay.
So, my next one is going to be, anytime that we go into a resort or a park, we always go
to a gift shop.
So if we go to the beach club, we will always go to the beach club gift shop.
We won't always buy anything.
We usually never buy anything.
But at least browse.
Just to see if there's anything unique.
Because we also have a saying that if you see it, buy it.
Because you never know when it's going to be gone.
More than likely, it's the only time you're going to see it.
How many times, I don't want to say it's a lot, but you're in a park and you're like,
oh, they'll have that at World of Disney.
And then they don't.
Yeah.
It's like park exclusive merchandise.
Yep.
Yeah, I have the only piece of Disney actual merch that I wear consistently is a shirt
that I got from the Norway Pavilion.
Sean, you might be very happy to know that.
I've never seen it again.
Yeah.
Never seen it again.
Should have bought two.
Triples makes it safe.
No, triples is best.
I've got one last one.
Okay.
My last one is, I want to have a really good meal.
And I preferably would like it at a resort that I'm not staying at so that I have a change
of scenery.
I love visiting a different hotel lobby.
You know, if you're staying at Pop Century, you're staying at Porter Wien's.
Maybe take an Uber ride over to Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Get to see a really cool lobby.
You get to have a nice meal.
And I think it just really heightens the magic for me.
It was when you get to see a really epic hotel lobby.
Wilderness Lodge is another great lobby.
Polynesian is pretty good.
Grand Floridian is very classy.
Kind of a nice vibe when the piano player is going in the afternoons and stuff.
Yeah.
But yeah, I like to visit a, I like to, you know, go to a different resort.
Yeah, I would put this on my list too.
We always do resort hopping to some extent and usually trying to turn it into some type
of crawl, right?
Like a monorail crawl or a Skyliner crawl.
Six best ride in Disney World.
Skyliner.
So you got to go on one of those too, right?
Like some type of Disney transportation that's not the buses.
Yeah.
You know what?
I think that's a good one.
The going on the monorail or the Skyliner is definitely like, now it feels like a trip.
Right, right.
And so resort hopping, I definitely have that as well.
If I'm in Hollywood Studios, baseline every time I got to go there at least once.
But you have to go to Hollywood Studios.
No, I don't have to go to Hollywood Studios.
Although I don't know, I don't know the last time that I've been to Disney and didn't go
to Hollywood Studios.
Well, if it was only a two day trip, maybe you wouldn't.
I don't know.
I think at some, most times we'll, we'll choose Epcot and Hollywood even over Magic Kingdom
if it's like a two day trip.
We'll go through phases.
I think it depends on the trip, right?
Yeah.
And depends who you're going with.
I'll skip Magic Kingdom sometimes if it's a short trip.
Yeah.
I'm fine with that.
And depending on when the last time you were just there was.
Yeah.
Right.
I think Epcot's the only one that's like, I'm going for one day.
I gotta see, I gotta see that beautiful Epcot ball.
You gotta thank the Phoenicians.
That too.
Yeah.
And then my last one is taking a picture in front of the castle.
Oh, I do that every-
It's an obvious one.
Yeah, it is an obvious one.
But my wife and I have like a collection of the year picture frames, like the small ornament
picture frames that have the year on it.
And so we, it's going back to 2018.
So we want to make sure we always have a picture in front of the castle and buy one of those
frames and-
That's really nice.
Yeah.
I like that a lot.
Wholesome.
And we do that to combat the rest of my personality.
Okay guys, instead of a game, do you mind if we try out a new segment?
I would love to.
Ooh, a new segment.
Okay.
I'm calling this new segment Progress Reports.
Well that's progress for you.
All right guys, this segment is called Progress Reports because as geeks, we are on a quest
to earn straight A's in podcasting.
We believe in our scientific experience that to achieve this, we're going to need to go
over your feedback and discuss what you're enjoying, what we've missed, and what you
want to hear more of so we can be the best Walt Disney World podcast we can be.
Also, my mom said if we get on the Dean's List that she's going to take us for Ice Cream
Sundays and buy me a new book about roller coaster block zones.
You'll probably be able to get a Dole Whip because they're everywhere.
Oh, I'll be perfectly happy with that.
And just as a blanket reminder, if you have any feedback for the show, ideas for new episodes,
any additional input that we may have overlooked, please reach out to us on any of our social
media channels.
We are at ReedyGeeks or shoot us an email.
It's reedygeeks at gmail.com.
So Andrew, do you want to take us and read some of these reviews from the Apple Podcast?
Yeah, so reviews on Apple Podcasts in particular are really, really helpful for other people
finding us.
You know, the algorithm does its job and will put you closer to the top when they search
for Disney podcasts, things like that.
So we really appreciate these reviews.
The first one comes from Mom Fleet and she writes, entertaining and engaging.
I've listened to a lot of Disney podcasts and I've tried and I got tired of travel agent
ones.
These guys don't have an agenda, which is refreshing.
Their banter is enjoyable and the trivia at the end was fun.
We'll keep listening.
That's really good.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mom Fleet.
And actually, I don't think that was any of our moms.
I mean, it probably could have been.
I don't think so.
I don't think my mom knows how to work the podcast.
No, I don't think so either.
I had to actually subscribe to my mom.
So the next one.
Yeah, the username is really confusing on it.
Okay.
It's just a series of letters.
I have a feeling that it might be like a translation issue or something because it's not, it doesn't
say anything.
Right, right.
Okay.
That's pretty good.
Great content, a great program for those new to Disney or longtime fans.
Content is funny and keeps you on your toes.
Very nice.
I love it.
That is great.
And that is very helpful for us.
Thank you so much, guys, for the review.
Okay.
Let's move on to some of the direct feedback we've received.
Sean, do you want to share some of that?
So people apparently want to know more about us, which is surprising.
Yeah, I didn't think anyone would care at all about us.
I know.
I thought everyone just wanted to hear about the parks, but maybe that's something we should
do soon in the future.
Maybe do a little bit of the background on who we are and why we like Disney as adults.
They call those origin stories.
Yeah, yeah.
We could take some time in an episode to highlight one of the geeks at a time or something like
that.
We could also do-
Instead of boring everyone with one whole episode about Justice.
Yeah, no, no.
We can't just do one whole episode.
I think that would be too much.
That would be too much.
But also, we'll get on socials and post about us on socials, too.
Maybe do a write-up on each of us.
Oh, that'd be fun.
We could post some pictures from when we were younger and went to Disney.
Oh.
I'll call your mom.
She'll send me some pictures.
Leave the mothers out of this, all right?
My fiance also gave us some very valuable feedback.
She asked me, what's edutainment?
You know what?
She has a point.
We probably need to define some of these theme park nerd terms for people.
Just to answer the question, because obviously I ignored her and said, I'm going to save
this for the pod.
I didn't just tell her the answer.
This was like three months ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
She told me the second she heard the episode, she said, what's edutainment?
It's like, we'll go over it on a podcast.
Anyway, edutainment is basically what it sounds like.
It's the combination of education and entertainment.
It's entertainment that's meant to educate you.
So it's kind of the combination of the two words together.
Nice.
And maybe we should do that.
I think it would be a fun series to do on TikTok or Reels where we just pick a couple
different terms and define them.
Yeah, explain what they are.
Yeah, just so that everyone knows.
So one thing we've heard from a bunch of people is that they're going to the parks for the
first time.
What should they do?
So sometimes these are people that is their first time ever going and sometimes it's their
first time going in a long time.
And Disney World changes.
Right.
And also if you went when you were five, your memory of it isn't going to be the same, accurate
or even what you like today as an adult.
Right.
It might not be a good idea to rope drop the carousel because you were five.
But you can rope drop the carousel of progress, right?
That's progress.
I think we're going to move now on to some specific feedback we got from certain episodes,
maybe things we overlooked.
Sean, do you want to talk about some of the stuff from our best cues episode that happened
only a couple of weeks ago?
Emily from Long Island.
Any relation?
No.
You apparently left out the seven dwarf mine train from the queue, which I have a specific
bone to pick because I had that in my list.
I don't love the ride, but I think it's a great cue.
And I was out voted Emily from Long Island.
So know that I'm with you.
I support you and your decision.
I hear you.
I see you.
I'm with you.
I see you from Avatar, but Andrew says you're wrong.
No, no, no.
I, you know, I don't remember what we chose instead of seven dwarfs mine train, but it
is a very good, it is a very good cue.
It's a good cue.
And I believe I was one of the ones that kept it off the list.
I'll take, I'll take that.
I think it only has that one section of like things you can turn.
There's a lot of normal waiting and that line gets so long that the queue area that they
made and themed isn't long enough for the lines that the ride gets.
Yeah.
So you sit and you're just like half under some like umbrella in the Florida sun.
I don't know.
There's a lot of waiting in an external area to get into the good part.
But it is nice.
It's well themed.
So I'm not going to say, you know, your opinions wrong or bad.
I'm just going to say Sean's opinions wrong.
And you're apparently saying Emily from Long Island.
No, Emily's opinion is correct.
It's Sean's opinion that's wrong.
Interesting.
So the next one we have is from Lori from Long Island also.
And she said you left outriders resistance, basically just that, just so we left it out
and no, we didn't leave it out.
We purposely didn't pick it.
Right.
Yeah.
And again, I'll take, I'll take the blame for that because I waited on that line for
two and a half hours one time.
And let me tell you something, when you start at Muppet Vision 3D and you have to go through
all this nonsense and you're in this cave and then finally you start to see some theming.
Sure.
Is it great in the parts that they show you?
Is seeing an X-wing and the stormtroopers, isn't that technically part of the line?
Cause it's like in between the pre-shows.
Yes.
And that's incredible.
But the line is so long that no amount of theming can help make it elite.
In Lori's defense though, right?
In Lori's defense, it's incredible.
And it's the most impressive thing Disney's ever done.
And that's the ride, the ride, the whole thing, the pre-shows, the every, like, yeah.
So, and you're outside, right?
You're outside and there's not much theming, but that's the whole point.
It's supposed to be an unsuspecting secret base, right?
There's a waterfall, so there's a water feature, that's nice.
You go into a cave.
Then there's a lot of callbacks and hidden Easter eggs for the new trilogy.
Yeah, there's little like weapons and like flight suits and all sorts of cool stuff.
But by that point, I'd been waiting on the line for like an hour and a half and I don't
want to look at the Easter eggs.
I'm like, yeah, okay, it's been an hour and a half.
Let's get on the ride.
Yeah, and it doesn't like move fast enough that like you're just staring at that stuff
for so long.
You're like, okay, you know.
I mean, they knew it was going to be a slow wait.
They literally put seats on the like, there's like rows of benches in those queues.
It's a little rough.
And we also, we ended, like we decided that the end of the queue was the pre-shows, right?
Well, yes, but I think that's our mistake because we also then included the boiler room
part of Tower of Terror.
So she's got a leg to stand on, but we stand by it.
Yeah, yeah.
But we hear you, Laurie.
And thank you for your feedback.
We will be better.
Tom says Muppet Vision is a great queue because of the amazing pre-show.
Well, I agree that Muppet Vision 3D is a perfect thing and it should never change ever.
But pre-shows are not part of the queue.
Pre-shows are not queues.
Pre-shows are pre-shows.
Right.
Well, yeah.
And maybe this is a sign that we should do a pre-show episode.
Oh, best pre-shows.
Best pre-shows.
Yeah, I like a best pre-show episode.
I feel like if you're not standing in a solid line, right?
Like if you're not like, you know who's in front of you, you know who's behind you, then
you're not in a queue.
Yeah.
Let's move on to a different episode that we got some feedback on.
That one was controversial.
Yeah.
People really came for us.
But we stand by it.
Our list is the official list.
So let's move over to the Bowlin on a budget episode.
We got some feedback from Tom that says, how could you leave out Rock and Rollercoaster
from Mount Rushmouse?
How could you leave out Rock and Rollercoaster from your Mount Rushmouse?
Yeah.
And I would say I love Rock and Rollercoaster, but it's not as iconic as the other stuff
there.
Yeah.
There's only room for four things on a Mount Rushmore.
It's fun, but it's not like...
I don't think of Rock and Rollercoaster when I think of Hollywood Studios.
It's not the first thing that comes to my mind.
I do, but it's not the first thing.
That's not one of the first four.
So I don't think I was a part of this episode.
You were not a part of this episode.
We made our Mount Rushmouse for Disney's Hollywood Studios.
We actually never invite Sean.
He just shows up sometimes.
It's a guy on couch situation.
Yeah.
It's not cracking the top four for me.
I don't know what my top four is, but I mean...
If you were to Spitfire your top four.
Rise of the Resistance, Midway Mania.
It doesn't have to be rides.
It could be anything.
It could be park icons.
It could be...
Buildings.
It could be food.
It could be drinks.
I did the Chinese theater.
I did...
I did Ronto Raps.
He did Ronto Raps.
Hmm.
That changes things, I guess.
I thought it was just going to rides, but...
But even when it was rides, it wasn't even what you're talking about.
It wasn't.
Yeah.
No, it was probably Tower of Terror.
Right, Tower of Terror, the Minion Mickeys.
Maybe, but yeah.
If Rock and Roller Coaster cracks the list, it's at number four, but it's probably floating
around five or six if I was really thinking about it.
It's just so old and dated.
The ride mechanism is fun, but yeah.
Right.
And I mean...
It does scream 90s.
And Aerosmith was an old band when we were kids.
Right.
Yeah.
It was one of the earlier episodes, I was like, yeah, I mean, I love Aerosmith.
And then Sean quickly says, you don't love Aerosmith.
I guess you're right.
No, you're right.
I don't.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Wait a minute.
I love that idea.
So Steph writes, what about Gertie?
That's a good call.
Gertie is an icon.
At Hollywood Studios?
Yeah.
On the lake, the little dinosaur that you can buy ice cream out of, a Mickey premium
bar out of, right?
Yeah.
That was a good call, Steph.
I think we all kind of overlooked that.
And I especially love Holiday Gertie, where they put a little Santa hat on her.
Oh yeah, they put a Santa hat on her.
I agree.
I think one of us should have put Gertie on there.
Identify!
Cognitores.
Definitely not Arnido.
Go, go, go!
So Tom also says that only an animal would wear flip-flops or crocs in public that's
not a beach.
Well, I'm going to just tell it to you straight, Tom.
I am an animal.
I've worn flip-flops around the parks before.
Yeah?
How do you?
Even when JJ was saying this, I was like, I cannot see myself going 26,000 steps.
You dress like the ultimate Disney dad.
Yeah, he's wearing New Balance sneakers.
Socks kind of up to the ankle.
Moisture wicking polo.
I know, yeah.
Cargo shorts.
Wearing a polo in a park is like...
Yeah, cargo shorts with a backpack.
Yeah.
He's a Disney dad.
You never know if you're going to meet Bob Iger.
All right?
You've got to be presentable.
Bob Iger's coming nowhere near you.
And I would look like an animal in front of Bob Iger, and no issues.
Let's move on to some omissions that, again, came from this highly disputed Best Cues episode.
And I'm going to start with my own feedback, something that I forgot to mention, which
is absurd because I never mess up.
But in the Ratatouille cue, what you're doing on the cue is you're shrinking down to the
size of a rat.
And then when you leave, you'll notice that the tiles are gigantic, and then they slowly
get normal-sized again.
Oh, that's so cool.
And you're turning from rat-sized back to human-sized.
I never noticed that.
I've never noticed that.
I've written it twice in the last two months.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
That's really cool.
I like that.
Yes.
So apologies for having left that out.
Still on a great ride.
Well, listen, if you can pump red smell into anything, I'm there.
Yeah.
Ah, Emily from Long Island again.
I think you should read Emily from Long Island for your next time.
Yeah.
Okay.
So the best part of the Little Mermaid cue is that it takes you from the shore to under
the sea as you go through the cue.
And that's so true.
We didn't mention that.
Because Little Mermaid was on our best cue list.
Yeah.
I think that Little Mermaid is what took over Rise of the Resistance.
Really?
Yeah.
Which, back now, just doesn't sit very well with me at all.
Well, we would have put Rise of the Resistance as number eight, because Little Mermaid was
eight.
Because Little Mermaid was eight.
So whatever was on the outside looking in would have been swapped out.
I guess so, yeah.
Well, wait until you hear about this, Sean.
You're outside, right?
And you're outside kind of like Rise of the Resistance, in which it has a water feature
and it looks like you're going into a cave.
And as you walk through the cue in every room, it's like you're getting deeper and deeper
and deeper into the sea.
And it's really cool.
And then you hop on your clamshell and you...
And you go and visit Ariel.
Yeah.
That wraps up the very first edition of Progress Reports.
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Has the ability to do better.
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Did he get that right?
Are you taking his job?
Oh, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did I get that wrong?
No, I think I got it.
No, you nailed it.
Oh, got it.
That's perfect.
Okay, Sean, you want to take us out?
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