Dark Universe Details, Pride Nite, and CommuniCore Plaza

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Okay, from our studios in Los
Angeles and Tampa. This is Green Tag

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dep Bark and thirty. I'm Philip
and I'm joined as always by my co

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host of Scott Swinson of Scott Swinson
Creative Development. Scott. We finally had

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the announcement that we have been waiting
for, at least I've been waiting for

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Dark Universe. The details of Dark
Universe have been revealed to us and I'm

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just my little black heart is so
excited. This might be my new happy

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place. I'm gonna sit back and
let you fanboy out, So go on,

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you do you do? And then
we'll talk you do you do?

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You do? You? Okay,
So basically we have here. I'm going

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to link to two different stories.
One is from a Trash's magazine that gives

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you aerial pictures of so you can
see how it's actually looking in. One

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is the official media release, but
the media release says that created by the

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award winning Universal Creative Team in partnership
with Universal Pictures, Dark Universe blends the

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iconic stories of unearthly legends like Dracula, the wolf Man, frankens Stein's Monster,

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the Brided frankens Sign, and more. With a new generation of monsters

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and characters, including doctor Victoria Frankenstein, the great great granddaughter of the infamous

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Henry Frankenstein, who has continued his
misguided experiments. As guest venture through Darkmoor,

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the ravaged village within Dark Universe,
they'll encounter the creatures and subjects of

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those experiments within a first of its
kind theme park environment that offers family friendly

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fun while also pushing the boundaries of
intensity in a way that only Universal could

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achieve. The details about the land
basically, we're going to get a dark

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Ride, We're going to get a
smaller coaster, and then we'll have the

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makeup experience and the meet and greets, plus the food venues, and the

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dark Ride is one that I think
we've known about for a while because we

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know people that have been working on
it. It should it should be really

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cool and and and we're very excited
for it because you know, just having

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noticed. But we finally have the
official storyline though that has been released by

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Universal, and so the Dark Ride
storyline is that Universe of Orlando's most terrifying

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attraction yet the state of the art
Dark Ride takes guests deep into the catacombs

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of franken sein Manner, where doctor
Victoria Frankeisin conducts her twisted experiments. In

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a vain display of her genius,
she invites guests into her laboratory to witness

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a demonstration of her ability to control
monsters, but her plans go awry when

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her attempts to control the most dangerous
of monsters, Dracula, fails, unleashing

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a horde of enraged monsters. Guests
are then thrust into an intense ride through

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the darkness as they try to evade
the grass of the Wolfman, the Mummy,

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the Creature from the Black Lagoon,
the brides of Dracula and others,

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and of course that's the dark ride. Then we have Curse of the Werewolf,

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which is the coaster, and then
we have the Dark Moor Monster makeup

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experience, and then the Meet and
Greed area. The makeup experience sounds very

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similar to the one that we talked
about previously that they were testing at Universal,

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and at that time Scott said that
it's probably testing to put it in

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dark universe, And here we are, it's going in dark universe and the

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you know, the food I don't
want to you know, read the whole

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pressure these you guys can read it. But I'm excited most about the the

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Burning Blade tavern because if you look
at the concept dart, looks like there

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might be like actual fire that burst
out of it, similar to the dragon

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in the Harry Potter area where you
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cool because it's like that iconic like
wind meal, you know from the the

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Frankenstein a set where it's just kind
of up there and then you're gonna be

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able to eat inside of it and
have some fire burst out. So all

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the concept art, you all should
take a look at. We know some

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folks that were involved in it,
and it looks great. It looks phenomenal

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and you can start to see now
the buildings of it. And but obviously

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I'm just excited as everyone I think
is. I'm most excited for the Dark

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Ride. The last thing I'm gonna
say just two small things because I'm you

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know, those of you that know
me, I'm never only positive, unfortunately

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it's my character flaw. But anyway, we dark more so the only thing

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I was like, So for those
of you you know, okay, dark

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Moore is actually the name of a
city and a campaign in Dungeons and Dragons.

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It's a pretty famous campaign, so
it's like a I'm not so,

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I'm not sure what happened there.
Did they do a deal with D and

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D or did they just think they
invented it? But it actually is a

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name of a city. Are they
paying royalties? I don't know how that's

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gonna work, so so that might
be changing. Maybe it could change in

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the future. I did. The
only reason I know is because I played

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that campaign, you know, when
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had a little bit of deja vu
when I read that release. And then

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the only other thing I'll say about
The Dark Right is, as much as

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I love The Dark Right, it's
going to be incredible. Scott and I

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have talked about it before, but
that concept of, like, you know,

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the repeatability kind of breaks the story
narrative. Right. So if you're

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going through and she's showing you the
lab and then the monsters like break free,

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that's kind of like an instance where
it's not as repeatable because it,

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you know, if the Horde breaks
free every time you go in, right,

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it kind of breaks the storyline of
the area where the Hordes are constantly

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breaking free. I mean that doesn't
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Okay, Scott, what do you
think? Well, you know,

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I am excited, not quite as
excited as Pilla, but I too am

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excited about this, about this realman
epic. And I think for me from

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an industry standpoint, the thing that
I'm looking at is when I first and

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I'm discovering this as I'm seeing them
do the the releases of Land by Land

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by Land. Originally my concern was
that this that epic was a park that

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was too niche, that was too
focused on a specific, on specific target

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audiences, and there wasn't enough for
everyone. However, what I'm learning is

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that is exactly what it is,
and that's exactly what it should be,

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because you know we talked about for
example, when they were talking when we

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when they released the how to Train
Your Dragon area, or when they released

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when they've released information on each of
these areas. They are very specific,

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they are very target audience, they
are very niche market. And what they're

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doing is they're playing off, or
appears to me what they're doing is they're

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playing off the rabid fandom of these
niche markets. You know, That's why

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I was I just didn't want to
say anything and let Philip just go because

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he's he's all about this particular land, and that's great, That's exactly what

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it should be. One of the
things that I think is is also interesting

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is they're in their in their media
announcement, they talked about riding the line

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between the full dark experience and something
that is still family friendly. I'm curious

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to see how that's going to play
out. One of the things that Universal

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has all they've always been the bad
boy of theme park, certainly here in

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Florida and and pretty much worldwide,
I would say, so, I'm curious

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to see how much they pushed that
envelope and it's you know, it's all

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the all the Disney files are going, oh crap. Universal got their their

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Villain's Park in before Disney did,
so you know, we'll see how that

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goes. The other thing that I
think is interesting to point out in this

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particular with this particular element of the
park is that this is one of the

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few ips the Universal actually owns.
They're not leasing this one, they own

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it. So yes, they're going
to want it to be successful simply because

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they are going to want to continue
to I don't know, perhaps do future

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films television shows based on Oh,
I don't know, Victoria Frankenstein, I

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don't know what do I know?
But but as far as the as far

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as the repeatability, you know what, the The Haunted Mansion has been the

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exact same story since it opened and
people still go back to see it.

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And it's because it is so robustly
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way that that you always notice something
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different. Pirates of the Caribbean is
exactly the same way. These are classics

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and if you can if you can
have those classic moments, great. The

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one thing that would, you know, would make it interesting is if and

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the technology is there because I've ridden
it in other parks, if when when

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the when all hell breaks loose and
all the creatures escape, if one car

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would follow one one monster, another
car follows another monster, and then they

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all come back together for a final
story, that would be really cool.

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I mean, it would be a
much more complex version of say the Scooby

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Doo ride in in in Abu Dhabi
uh at at Warner Brothers World, so

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that it would have some variety that
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cool, but is it necessary.
I don't know if it's done really well.

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I think that you know, as
you say, Philip, it's going

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to be your new happy place and
and you'll love it, you know,

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the the the fanboys, I won't
I won't pick on you this time.

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The the super fanboys and fangirls and
fan people will love the fact that they'll

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be able to go three two one
go. It'll it'll become sort of a

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rocky horror picture show version of a
dark Ride. I think I think you're

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gonna actually get people who can call
it out and then things will happen and

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they'll feel, you know, super
empowered. So I think the idea of

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Epic Universe as it seems to be
rolling out is let's dive deep into these

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niche markets. Let's do them in
a way that it's going to be the

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reason. It's going to be the
tipping point to go to the park,

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and then they'll enjoy the other stuff
as well. Does that make sense?

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Well? Also, because reasonably we
talked about this before, this tipping point,

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like basically it potentially could unlockhole new
market for them, because the tipping

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point is not just you know,
getting like, you know, people to

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come to this individual thing because they're
so passionate about the one area. It's

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also it tips into giving them a
full vacation of just Universal because you're you

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know, if if they if you're
like, oh, I love the Dark

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Universe, I would never go to
Orlando except to do Dark Universe because I

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love monsters. Okay, you show
up, but then they're going to upsell

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you into seeing the other Universal parks
and they're going to give you a discounts.

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You're like, well, I might
as well since I'm here, and

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then you stay on property, so
you get close and you can walk in

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and so then now you can have
a whole trip versus you know, just

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going for Dark Universe. But it's
like the lead it's almost like a lead

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generator. We call it marketing.
So you're like, you're using these niche

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things as a lead gen magnet to
get them in. This sounds remarkably familiar

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to something else The Universal has done
and had great success with Wizarding World of

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Harry Potter ti gon Alley. It's
it's the same. Yeah, They're they're

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building upon their successes, which I
think is really smart. Now, whether

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it is dark universe or not.
That is your niche. That's not important.

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What is important is that they are
really targeting those niches. Like How

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to Train Your Dragon, which has
a remarkably odd after we reported on that

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last time I did a little more
digging, has a remarkably odd and very

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diverse following because it's a it's a
lovely story if you like stories. It's

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dragons, which of course appeals to
everybody, and it's family friendly, which

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makes it Some moms and dads aren't
afraid of it. So it's it's super

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cool. All the gaming, you
know, the gaming stuff, yes,

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the Potter stuff, yes, but
they're all very niche and it's you know,

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to your point, Philip and I
think we're saying exactly the same thing.

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It's it's gonna be the well epic
universe. It's a new park.

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I'd really like to go. Oh, they have a hot land. A

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land that's what. Oh, I
got to go see that. You know,

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it's it is. Uh, it's
not going to be a park where

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everything is for everyone. I think
it's going to be a park where certain

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areas are for specific demographics. But
while you're there, you're gonna check the

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other stuff out too, ye and
I and I think that's gonna be I

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think that's going to be a very
interesting and you approach. I Like I

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said, I think they're building off
of the success that they have had because

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not everybody, I know it's hard
to believe, but not everybody is a

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Potter fan or was a Potter fan
when when Wizarding World first opened in Orlando,

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and but it was enough to create
you know, six figure bonuses for

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all the people who work there,
so it was clearly a success. And

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I think this sounds like a whole
park that's being built that way. And

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I do like also the kind of
the depth. I think to your point,

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I think they it's almost like a
nod that they like, they know

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it's a niche thing because it's really
like, if you break it down,

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it's one dark ride and then one
like mini. It's like small kid coaster

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type thing, which I think you
could arguably say does not a land make

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right. But you know, the
monster makeup like it's one of those things

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where I think the Rabbit fans would
like go be all excited and then they'll

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eventually buy the makeup package and then
they'll eventually do the meet and greets.

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So it's I think it's this thing
where you have these like extended levels to

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it where like the casual person probably
is not gonna do the makeup thing,

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but that's not what it's for,
right, just like the Olive Andanders wand

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thing. You know. Yeah,
it's it's really this depth where you can

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you can unlock more at the land. You know, for the people that

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live there and are going to go
multiple times, they can do one day

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where they get done up as a
monster and then just take pictures of themselves

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to hang out and you know,
interact with guests. I mean, and

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I think that that whole concept of
of letting the guests have fun and then

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thereby entertain other guests is a thing
they learned with Potter with the again the

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wands and the roves and the magic, and you know, I think that

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is very powerful when you can basically
crowdsource your entertainment and every ren fare ever.

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So yes, it's it's it's LARPing. It's LARPing on a very on

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a very basic, basic, basic
level. And and I think that you

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know where we were talking about where
Galactic Star Cruiser wasn't able to make that

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leap. It looks like Epic just
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it doesn't matter that it's a a
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a place or a two places to
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entire day walking around taking photos,
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that, you know, part of
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building and if they can if they
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the number of attractions is going to
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going to be important. And you
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on this show or even back in
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where I literally stood behind people in
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in and were sobbing, sobbing because
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chance to visit Hogwarts. And I
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what, you still haven't this is
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of world building that was enough for
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they hadn't had their first butter beer, they hadn't bought their wands.

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that by creating these niche markets,
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target very dedicated fans, they are
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screw things up earlier with the dark
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exactly because you are that much of
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not know that, and nor does
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there's there's there's a city called Columbus
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wasn't like a I mean, this
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to me. Yeah, you know, you're right, Yeah, that's exactly

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right, because I'm not I am
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I'm not quite as drilled down as
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know, well, okay, so
let's move home, move on, because

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because you could talk about this for
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for the sake of our audience,
we shall move on. So in

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the the whole theme though of kind
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know, and creating an environment where
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entertainment and then thereby entertain other guests
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exactly what happened at Pride Night year
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This year. Disneyland brought back it's
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it, and it was one of
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that you could enter in as early
as six pm and the official event ran

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from nine pm to one am.
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of those things where it's supposed to
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Et et cetera. This year they
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was the eighteenth and the twentieth of
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entertainment and decorations and whatnot, except
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you just think about it, it
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entertainment for these Disney after dark events, the entertainers really only get one rehearsal

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for them because some of them are
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know, how many times are you
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for something. It's a few nights, right, So generally the live entertainment

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is not like incredible because they only
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their second rehearsal, basically the of
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year sold out again, and the
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a the guests. Again. I
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too, but you know, for
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people showing up in outfits and people
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just guests just doing it on their
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people walk down them and take pickture. I mean, the guests. The

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amount of how excited the guests were
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event in terms of what they brought
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it, the vibe. Time and
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to people out of the blue,
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been to Disney in the past X
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because they didn't feel like they were
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just a lot of it's a whole
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this case, the live entertainment was
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dark event. And you could tell
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community and B that they had rehearsed
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shows incredible and like I can't it
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was incredible and just every It's like
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performer is high fiving people and being
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really talking to the crowd and working
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was an incredible event, but again
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guests than what Disney did. Disney
Moore set the stage and then allowed the

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opportunity for the guests to take it, which is actually a huge shift in

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the way that theme parks used to
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parks had to control every single moment
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show for a very long time,
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is give people the opportunity to play, and therefore it becomes contagious. That

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play becomes contagious. Now I've seen
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many many videos of the cavalcades of
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this, and if the if the
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the LGBTQ plus community, they certainly
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of the reason that you saw the
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it in the videos is because they
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enthusiastic. It wasn't just a job, it was something they only get to

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do. For two nights. It
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important enough to them that they wanted
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I think it's interesting. I can't
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machine going back to the time when
Disney was like, uh, gay people,

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la la la la la la la
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it. But they also recognized that
the LGBTQ plus community, and this was

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before it was called the LGBTQ plus
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they wanted the money, they wanted
the loyal attendees, but they didn't

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feel comfortable sanctioning an event. So
this goes back to the days of what

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I would what I would call the
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local community would decide which was going
to be Disney days, which were going

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to be gay days at Disney.
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way you would identify yourself as either
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would be to wear a red shirt, which means that you could not find

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a single red shirt in any of
the gift shops. And the it got

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to the point where Disney would actually
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non sanctioned Disney event. However,
it has been identified as gay days,

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so you and your family may see
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say who are how did they phrase
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their same sex partners? I believe
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then. So, you know,
kudos to Disney for, you know,

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for actually embracing it finally, And
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but it's it's not anything new that
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the Disney product, and so Disney
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the amount of rehearsal that they do
for other things, and they have to

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take it on their own. Even
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that I was working at, they
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one of the singers sang a love
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love song to a woman in the
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in the audience and the audience went
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you were saying, the energy was
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to offer, but the audience response
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a great takeaway is to recognize if
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right people there to whether it is
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specific community, then your entertainment value
and the energy in your experience will just

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skyrocket if you can set up set
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tools and toys that they need,
and get the hell out of their way

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that guests can have a good time
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that's a great takeaway. I would
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it again, I'm not sure if
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and it's very different. One to
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this year they replaced the Muse photo
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the Muses that was a I think
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men, two women, and they
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guys sang the women parts, and
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that that drove the crowd bananas,
you know. And then they're in their

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cavalcade, which honestly was just like
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really low effort by Disney, but
the cast made it spectacular. You

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know, the managers that kind of
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aren't, you know, walking in
whatever, so they were allowed. You

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could tell they were allowed to kind
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saw people in sequined blazers, hot
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not costumes because you could tell they
were not at all dressed the same or

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whatever. But again, those little
touches where you're like, oh, they

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must have been allowed to wear something
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the normal Disney look for this event, and they stepped it up one hundred

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times and then they were excited.
I've never seen so many managers so happy,

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right, and then just to engage
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the last stats I heard, and
I don't whether they're still true or not,

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but somewhere between thirty and forty percent
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the LGBTQ plus community. And at
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and I don't know that's gone up
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Disney as a company has always been
very accommodating to the community and is at

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you know, at the very least
strong allies for the community. I will

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say that the one video I've seen
that has just made me smile every time

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I see it is and I don't
remember what the character's name is. I

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think it's Clara bell the Cow.
Clarabel, Yeah, the cow. Yeah,

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yeah, she was. She was
amazing, amazing, and and I

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am making a gross generalization here,
but I would guess that the friend of

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Clara Belle, who was making certain
that this moment happened, was having the

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time of their life, because you
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correct, And and it was and
it was so much fun to watch,

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and it has The video that I've
seen has gone viral. I'm sure

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there are others out there, but
in the you know, in the rainbow

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pleated skirt, it was it was
just it was a moment, and it

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was a moment to see a Disney
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out the character that they were given
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yes, you can't fake enthusiasm.
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fake you know, especially with the
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if there's a way you can get
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it will help you and give them
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and squeeze in a before we're so
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With this happened last week. We
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try and get in here. So
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back up, and inside you're gonna
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seasonal celebrations as well as Meat,
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a stage live entertainment, and then
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new garden area that's that's lit up
with colors at night and then you can

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foreshee during the day a few I
got to see it by accident on the

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day that it opened. I didn't
know it was the opening day of it,

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and I was just there. I
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fun? My very quick notes is
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where you have live entertainment. So
anything is live entertainment, it's going to

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be a plus in my book.
I like that there's a new stage now

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that is right by Spaceship Earth,
so they can put more generic things there,

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tied or whatever. I think that's
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so many times, but I do
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have natural shade, and this new
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people. So I could see how
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maybe doing like a concert at night
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behind the singers the Spaceship Earth,
and then you can sit on the turf

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and hang out when it gets cooler. I see this as a vibe that

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they're trying to build. It does
look very It is pretty sterile. Let

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me just say, like the communic
core area is pretty sterile. I know

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that's the biggest complaint about it.
But also even if you know the community

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core area is the hall, right, it looks kind of like a mall

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hall or like a hospital hall.
It's pretty. It's pretty sparse, you

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know, it's pretty like it's pretty
like, oh, you guys could have

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bought this at Costco kind of a
thing. But it the only thing I

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will say an argument to that is
again, guests can go in there and

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sit when they are going to have
a heat stroke, and for that reason

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I give it a plus. Like
anything you can do to help provide areas

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where guests can hide during the hottest
parts and then provide natural shade a plus.

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So I'm given it an a even
though it looks like it could have

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pop up from Coper Well. But
here's the thing it is. Yes,

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it is creature comfort, which we've
talked about the importance of for quite some

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time. It make it so that
guests can can find find shade when they

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need to find cool when they need
it. It is also a blank canvas

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that can be utilized in a bunch
of different ways. So instead of having

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to do a complete rebuild of something
that you can only change out once every

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seven to ten years, now you
can change out things seasonally and you have

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the infrastructure to do it, which
I think is a very intelligent way of

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doing things. And just like we
talked about, it is world building.

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It is building a place where people
can come together, gather, rest,

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reflect on their day, either as
a family or meeting other families, and

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it creates an environment where the actual
element of entertainment are the guests themselves,

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whether they are sitting there and relaxing
and reminiscing about their day or planning what

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tomorrow is, or planning what the
rest of the night is. You know

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who knows. I once again have
not been there yet, but I have

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seen I have seen several videos,
and it looks You're right, it looks

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a little sparse. But to me, that just means they've got the infrastructure

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to build upon and it should be
in my hopes and ever changing, ever

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evolving experience. Speaking of an ever
evolving, ever evolving experience, we need

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to evolve away for another week and
we'll come back with a whole different idea

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and whole different plans, and by
that I mean Philip will write some really

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cool notes for next week. Again, guys, I can't tell you how

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much I appreciate you all listening to
us on behalf of Philip and myself.

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This is Green Tag Theme Park in
thirty and we will see you all next week