three two hi everyone it's a sad day there's a ride that's closing at universal uh we're in
the parking garage right now they raised the price of preferred parking Disney's price for
four preferred parking is fifty dollars a day the Universals has now raised it to 60 dollars now it
saves you around like five minutes of like walk time that's about it but 60 dollars is kind of
crazy now one of the perks with my annual pass i have the top tier annual pass totally worth it
but you get prime and preferred parking included so every time i visit i get to park there instead
of paying 60 dollars so it's a perk if you have an annual pass but your standard guess
60 bucks is kind of a lot now i'm walking in right now and it's very slow now this is like
the weird off time where it's mardi gras doesn't happen until february so there's not too much new
that's happening universal they are closing my second favorite ride here at the park the mummy
it's going down from refurb for a very very long time we all remember what it looked like
last week a madhouse uh disney is still kind of a mad house from what my friends have told me
looking pretty good right now to visit january there's no one here all the christmas decorations
have been taken down now you know it's a slow day when minions is only a 25 minute wait okay i feel
like disney needs to have themed stroller parking signs because that's just too good oh sadly the
tribute store has all been closed up until mardi gras season and they'll have a new tribute store
but they still have the giant christmas tree here you can still see earl's little hidey hole right
there all right let's hop into the film vault see if they have any merchandise they always
have some of the best like retro merch in here because they have a bunch of these like back to
the future they're not pops but they're just kind of like vinyl figures i've never seen this before
do you have one of well part two bit part two doc brown but these are really highly detailed vinyl
figures these are really cool part two biff on his hoverboard that's pretty cool and then you got
part one doc brown cindy of part one marty mcfly he's holding the camcorder checking his watch
and he's got a skateboard too and then they also have martin mcfly for part two on this little pink
hoverboard so these are 45 dollars kind of pricey but they're really cool and highly detailed so
they have the whole selection right over here and then they also have a bunch of die-cast models of
the delorean part three part two but where's part one we have a sign guitar by michael j fox it's
only uh two thousand dollars i like this license plate holder but the jaws kind of ruins i think
if it just said amity island surf shop and nothing else i think it'd be great now i've always wanted
to get one of these but they're the little die models elusive four universes see the universal
arches got the minions on the back you got bruce and then you got the universal globe oh my gosh i
noticed another one this is so good you can even get studio tram that you can build as a metal
puzzle this one is 35 though now if you're ever in the need for some boxers if you've had a little
accident they have them here they have a like a slimer very interesting 25 for a pair of slimer
boxers and then they also kind of have just the ghostbusters logo on a green pair now they finally
have the ecto one from ghostbusters after life hey we all remember the madhouse that it looked like
last week there's like one family all right now big changes have happened at the universal
studios annual password allowed now every month universal would have sometimes magnets for their
annual pass holders and little buttons that they would give out to like little easter eggs or
rides that they have here and uh they've gone away with them which is kind of sad that was one of my
favorite parts of being an annual password you come every month gives you a reason to come and
get a little new little button but they've taken it away so universal responded with
password buttons of magnets are not available at this time however we look forward to providing our
uoap family with other exciting offerings soon i don't know why they got rid of them it's
they've been doing it for years it's uh everybody loves it if you're an annual pass holder everybody
kind of wears the lanyard and as a badge of honor they have all their buttons around their lanyard
and uh they're getting away with it it's kind of sad i wonder what new offerings they're gonna have
anyway of the magnets on the buttons what can they replace it with that's kind of like collectible i
felt like that's kind of a step in the wrong direction so i hope universal brings those
little buttons back because they mean a lot to the annual pass holders coming to the lounge
every single month and picking up your new one now the whistling world is pretty busy but you know
honestly it's always busy i'm loving this it's like so relaxing last week because we were just so
stressed to be anywhere here in the park here it's like hey going to ride it's like 10 20 minutes get
some food this is a great time for like the annual pass holders and locals to come and visit ride
some rides have a good time and not have to deal with that madness that's going on at disney still
now over here is where the american express lounge was now it's just kind of a vacant little lounger
with a restroom so i wonder if they're going to turn that maybe into like a top-tier annual
pass holder lounge that might be kind of cool i don't know let me know down in the comments what
are your thoughts what do you think universal is going to offer as like a new perk for the annual
pass holder because i i love those buttons man remember last week when the line was wrapped
all around the outside queue now it's just it's a 20 minute wait which is technically a walk-off
the pharaoh stilt walkers are out intimidating everyone okay so by the time you're watching this
that is closed and you won't be able to ride for probably like six to nine months or say in late
summer is what they're expecting now we're gonna do pretty much a full track refurb so bring it all
new track uh the biggest rumor is that they're gonna be removing all like the brendan's one
more cup of coffee which is literally one of my favorite parts of the entire ride redoing kind of
the pre-show and the whole story so i want to experience it one more time hopefully it
doesn't get removed hopefully they just update the footage and everything and kind of like you know
make it look better but let's go all right let's just take a second to appreciate the
parking stroller sign that they have in front of the mummy so pretty much you're first going
to enter in through the museum of antiquities the backstory is like they're currently filming
sequel to the mummy revenge of the mummy you're like on its set so you're gonna see different like
film props and concept drawings before you kind of see these tvs and the tvs are kind of explaining
what's going on so the tvs are kind of talking about there's like a fictional curse that's going
on but it ends up kind of being an actual real curse so you kind of see all these different
accidents that are happening in the background now brendan fraser is kind of skeptical and refuses to
wear the magi symbol which protects you from the curse that the crew and locals are convinced will
protect them from the curse so brendan steals a crew member's magi necklace the guy's name
is reggie because the craft service tables have refused to serve brendan his coffee because he
doesn't have the magi symbol around his neck it's just kind of like a back and forth of brendan not
believing and different people like the lady who has the creepy voice from the poltergeist
talking about how real the curse is and that you need to watch out for it and just bad things keep
happening now with reggie not having his magi symbol to protect him and he's still on his
never-ending quest to get brendan a cup of coffee things don't go well for him and let's just say
he goes missing they do have this little section that has a lot of fun little easter eggs hidden
in it revenge of the mummy wrap party happening and a lot of like fun items for sale if you want
to take the time just pause it and read everything one of my favorite little easter eggs is they put
brendan's actual cup of coffee order on here uh we're gonna be showing that and doing a full
review of his coffee order at a later date for a video but it's just a lot of fun a lot of charm
now once you kind of like enter into the queue a q morphs into a 1940s dig site inside of an ancient
tomb so they have a lot of cool like artifacts and everything and then you ride the ride
are you insane get out of here the curse it's real there's no place to drive
silence with your souls i shall rule for all eternity
religions
where are you
your destiny
death is only the beginning
thank you
okay the day is not over uh that is the end of universal right now we're gonna go home kind of
talk about things and then um alice and i had a little fun adventure for new year nice stuff to
show you guys brief little intermission let's kind of talk about the mummy ride before we go on with
our little new year's celebration the house and i had um i'm sad that it's gonna be going away
for so long it needs a refurb so from what i've heard is they're gonna do like a major overhaul on
the track system and the brake system and kind of update a lot of things now that happening
they're probably gonna be taking away the story of like them filming and with brennan fraser and
everything because not too many people really understand the story there used to be a giant
extended queue the extended q got turned into the tribute stores and the locker system that
they have there now so a lot of that development that you would learn by watching the tv monitors
is lost on most guests um when you first enter into the building they have like two tvs which
kind of describe the story but it's not long enough to understand the story so a lot of
people get to the end of the ride and brendan's yelling about a cup of coffee and they're very
confused so i understand why they're gonna choose to kind of like replace that story
i hope it's something new and exciting though and sneak a cup of coffee easter egg in there
they did a lot of updates on projections last year which looked great excited to see what this
new version of revenge of the mummy is gonna be later in the year all right so now it is time to
go on uh to our little new year's celebration so i hope you guys enjoyed it alright guys it
is new year's we we're gonna go to like a new year celebration but you know we're just gonna
have a nice dinner we're at disney's boardwalk right now where are we going chattori alforno
yeah he said it right now i've been to chattoria alforno before oh my gosh i
got a christmas tree over here all right now here we are trattoria alforno okay here we go
all right we just uh finished we're gonna pull around i didn't like do it four of you in there
because he next to all these people i didn't want to be that obnoxious person talking to a big
camera while people are trying to eat okay we pull off the side now we'll do a full rundown of my
experience in there alright so for our appetizer we got the pizza pepperoni plum tomato sauce with
parmesan now for 20 i was expecting you know kind of a california grill pizza kind of tasted like
cece's pizza kind of like elevated a little bit i wouldn't get it again all right the pizza we'll do
like a 6 out of 10 on the pizza very mediocre now worth 20 okay so then we also got pretty much just
chicken parm so it's going to be breaded chicken breast chicken parmesan provolone with a rustic
tomato sauce now this is great i've had it before super juicy and tender and the pasta is great nine
out of ten on that dish now they had two special holiday items um that we did so first off we
got the oak grilled chard crusted new york strip it's got a truffle gnocchi with it balsamic with
brussels sprouts now it's always kind of hitting this with steaks on property this one was it was
a miss kind of flavorless not too much going on not super tender not worth 42 i think i'll do
like a 6.5 out of 10 on this on the steak so then allison got the tiramisu tiramisu looked great
i took a bite of it we'll do like an 8.5 on the tiramisu and then the specialty holiday dessert
that i got was the chocolate cherry bomb brownie based chocolate crunch mousse cherry filling
with the amarette pancada um decent dessert uh do like a 7.5 don't get the pizza
don't really get the steak i really enjoy the service and the atmosphere the holiday stuff just
didn't land sorry i didn't do like in restaurant review i just didn't want to bother the other
people around okay let's explore the boardwalk a little bit it's popping i love it it doesn't
feel dead like how it used to be it feels alive and back to normal look right across the way you
can see fireworks going off all the carnival games are back up and running the boardwalk is
finally alive now right there's the flying fish sadly it's still closed but they've brought back
the bike rentals here on the boardwalk for the longest time everything's just kind of
closed it's like back and alive and popping and it feels normal and i love it now harmonious is
going on right now so now the epcot fireworks are going off we're hopping into the beach club
real quick look at the gingerbread carousel that they built all right so they have a ursula horse
and then prince eric has a horse i love all the detail that they put on each one of these horses
that's so good and then ariel and little scuttle down there and then king tried and they have a
horse off the side here for sebastian flounder there's so much detail on these things holy crap
okay if you get a chance go look at those the carousel it is breathtaking and beautiful and
the bakery and culinary team did an amazing job there's so much detailed easter eggs hidden in it
so
they said they started building that gingerbread house in august oh my god i don't even imagine how
many man hours the cast members created something truly breathtaking in there now the espn club is
still close but they changed the signage it's looking a little janky right there with the e
but it says happy 50th anniversary wdw ugh boardwalk ice cream don't waste your time
here it's not very good it's just like grocery store briar's ice cream it is popping over here
so they have the christmas tree in the center and they have a dj playing disney music for everyone
okay so we got back alice and i didn't want to like venture into a park and things are just
madness and there's so many people down here so uh we chose a different route that we watched
ripley's believer.live was dropping the world's largest hairball with a countdown now my hair is
on that hair ball um so we uh watch that for the ball dropping they're counting them down
there is hoss my hair is on that thing three two one even hair balls hit the floor now
oh he's there happy new year so glad 2021 is over uh we have a lot planned for 2022 kind of booking
all of our trips right now and planning out what the different videos are going to be like for the
next year so hopefully we're going international we'll see the rewind video for this year is
dropping tomorrow uh january 14th at 3 p.m uh if you don't know what the rewind video is
i literally spend like 30 hours going through every single one of my videos finding
clips and i make a giant compilation video that's like three minutes long
if you've ever edited anything before you will appreciate how long this thing takes
uh but i think it turned out pretty well this year i'm excited for you guys to see it so yes
3 p.m tomorrow i hope you guys enjoy it so on that note if you enjoyed this video hit that like
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you up to date on all things theme park and universal hi guys i love you all happy new year
truck's not doing so good down there it looks like all these little gingies are
so happy that they're like celebrating like murder with another little gingy